With the sun shining down and a gentle breeze blowing about, it was the perfect day to get some fresh air. For Natalie Morris, a young woman home for the summer before going into her senior year of college, it was the perfect day to go for a picnic. She had made plans with her longtime boyfriend from all the way back in high school, Armando, and everything had seemed to work out perfectly.
Sitting there in the shade, the young couple had poured themselves two glasses of cheap red wine, and began unpacking the charcuterie they had prepared.
Taking a sip of wine, Natalie brushed her short, dyed black hair out of her eyes and rested her head against Armando’s chest. The only slight disturbance right now was the sound of two younger children playing nearby.
The park was strangely quiet, but Brianna wasn’t complaining. The young mom of two wanted her two kids, Shawn and Cassie, to get out and get some fresh air. She even managed to rope her husband Jake into it, finally getting him away from virtual meetings he had been doing from home all week.
As she sat down on the bench, preparing her family’s own picnic, she could hear her two children nearby playing, while Jake rambled on about something. She tried to nod and pretend to be interested. Jake worked in a field engineering technology, and had been one of the driving forces and reasons why shrink ray technology was starting to become more and more available to the public.
After Jake had been a part of the team to develop and test the technology, the ray was now available for purchase, at an extremely high amount of money. Use on a person was still forbidden and very illegal, but Brianna knew that wouldn’t stop people from screwing around with it.
What the tall, brunette, stay-at-home mom did not realize was that her two ten-year-old twins were currently fooling around with their father’s shrink ray.
“Careful Shawn,” Cassie whispered, watching her twin brother shoot a rock and making it nearly invisible to the naked eye. “We’re gonna get caught and we’re gonna get in trouble!”
“Shut up, we’ll be fine,” the more confident twin snapped. “Mom and dad won’t know!” He could tell Cassie didn’t believe him and honestly, he didn’t even believe it himself. His dad usually kept the shrink ray on him at all times, and had only let his guard down for the picnic.
“Come on, give it to me, we need to put it back,” Cassie insisted, grabbing the ray and starting to pull it towards her.
“Stop, it’s gonna go off,” whined Shawn, struggling to pull the device back towards himself. Before either of the children could realize it, the device fired.
The shrink ray did not fire a beam of any particular color. It was a silent, clear beam, the only indication the ray had fired being the vibration it emitted. Both Shawn and Cassie were too caught up in their tug of war to notice the shrink ray vibrating.
“I’m having such a wonderful day,” Natalie said, leaning forward and taking a sip of her wine. “Are you, babe?” She paused, surprised that her question went unanswered. “Babe?” she asked, but it appeared Armando had vanished.
Natalie didn’t realize that as she placed her right hand on the ground next to her, she nearly obliterated her boyfriend. Armando had been struck by the shrink ray fired by those two idiots, and the results were instantaneous. Armando now stood an eighth of an inch tall, looking up in awe at his titanic girlfriend through the grass jungle.
“ARMANDO?” Natalie called out again, swiveling her head back and forth trying to figure out where her boyfriend had snuck off too.
“Nattie down here!” the tiny guy yelled, running up to the enormous hand Natalie had planted on the ground. He froze, feeling truly insignificant next to the giant digit that was her finger, delicately tipped with bright red nails from a recent manicure. As he tried to get her attention by pounding on the giant finger, Natalie rotated her hand slightly to change positions, nearly grinding Armando into dust as she did so.
“Shit! Way too fucking close!” Armando yelled. He then looked up and saw Natalie starting to shift he gaze back down towards him.
“Is that a….bug?” Natalie whispered, narrowing her eyes.
“You’re gonna break it, let go!” Shawn whispered angrily to his sister, annoyed that was still making a big deal of this shrink ray.
“No, you’re gonna get someone hurt! Let go or I’m telling mom,” Cassie snickered.
“Fine!”
As Shawn released his grip on the shrink ray, Cassie’s arm flung backwards. She stumbled and fired inadvertently.
Just as Natalie was lowering her head down to study whatever was tiny and moving in the grass, her entire world started to spin. Before she had a chance to scream, it felt as if her stomach was in her throat while she fell for stories. The horrible, nauseating feeling finally stopped, and she found herself confused and disoriented, resting on her hands and knees in a pile of dirt.
“Wha…what the hell?” she said groggily. As she lifted her head up, she saw a forest of green around her.
“Nat! Nat over here!” a familiar voice shouted. Turning her head, Natalie breathed a sigh of relief seeing her beloved boyfriend racing towards her.
The two embraced, with Armando pulling Natalie up to her feet. “What happened babe? Where are we?”
A look of dread was draped across the young man’s face. “Look around you, Nattie,” he said, his voice cracking slightly. The young woman did so, and her jaw slowly dropped. These giant green plants weren’t trees, they were blades of grass.
“We’re…we fucking shrunk,” she whispered. There was an awkward pause before she turned to him in panic. “How?!”
“No idea,” he said, shaking his head. Both had heard about the dangers of shrinking, but neither assumed it would ever happen to them.
“We need to get help!” Natalie insisted.
“From who?”
“That family that was over there, they might be able to help us!”
Armando threw his hands up in the air, slightly annoyed. “For all we know they shrunk us.”
“Well we really don’t have any other options right now, do we?!” Natalie snapped, putting her hands on her hips, before starting off through the jungle in that direction. “Come on, before they leave.”
“Honey, you gotta be more careful where you put these things,” Brianna scolded, causing Jake to roll his eyes but not say anything. “That could’ve been a disaster!”
“It could’ve but it wasn’t” he said quietly, though he knew she was right. Their daughter Cassie had just come to them with his shrink ray. Jake was embarrassed that he had misplaced it, but extremely relieved that she was able to refrain from using it. “I’ll be more careful in the future”.
While the parents were talking, both Cassie and Shawn nodded at each other, knowing they had dodged a bullet. Neither one of them had seen Armando or Natalie shrink, and right now were just counting their lucky stars that they weren’t in trouble.
For Natalie and Armando, they seemed to be making the best of the situation. Despite being only an eighth of an inch tall, the couple were both in good shape and able to cover the ground rather quickly. The stalks of grass provided enough shade to keep the sun off them, and they had been fortunate enough to have avoided any insects up to this point.
“Hey I think that’s them,” Armando said, realizing that he could hear the conversations of this giant family a bit more clearly than before.
“Still gotta find a way to get their attention though,” Natalie pointed out, then mentally kicked herself for not keeping a more positive attitude. “Can’t be that heard though.”
“Yeah, wouldn’t mind grabbing some giant food right now,” Armando laughed. “I am freaking starv….” paused, startled by the noise behind them. It was a rustling sound in the grass behind them, and whatever it was sounded like it was approaching.
“Armando what is…” Natalie started to whisper but stopped. She and Armando stood there, staring up at the giant sparrow in awe and fright.
“Don’t move,” Armando whispered, as if Natalie didn’t already know that. The giant bird cocked its head to the side, and the duo were unsure if it saw them or not.
Wings outstretched, the bird launched itself several inches into the air, before coming down right in front of the shrunken couple in an exaggerated hopping motion. Natalie closed her eyes and remained as still as possible, but Armando lost his nerve and took a few steps back.
The sparrow instantly turned, it’s eyes focusing in on its prey. Before either shrunken human could react, the bird lunged forward, grabbing Armando in its beak before throwing its head back. The tiny man screamed as the bird flapped it’s wings and flew off, having gotten its meal.
Natalie just stood there, haw agape trying to process what she had just witnessed. Her boyfriend whom she had been dating for years, was just carried off and eaten by a giant bird. Her knees started shaking and tears streamed down her face as she broke down.
Minutes passed before Natalie pulled herself back to her feet. Wiping the tears out of her eyes, she broke into a sprint, more determined than ever to reach that family’s picnic. She kept telling herself that she could grieve later, and that she needed to get help right now.
Weaving her way through the dense jungle, the shell shocked Natalie made her way into a small clearing. She stopped in her tracks, seeing the monolithic bodies of the family sitting before her. She couldn’t get over how absolutely massive the parents were. The mom must’ve been six feet tall for a normal sized person, but to an ant sized person she was practically impossible to process.
With a pool located right next to the park, Brianna had made sure everyone had a bathing suit to change into. While her kids and husband declined to put theirs on just yet, she had taken the chance to go to a changing booth and throw on a black bikini. Despite having two kids, Brianna made sure to maintain a great physique, and right now was making sure to show off her D-cup breasts. She knew for a fact her husband couldn’t take his eyes off them.
“Eyes up here, buddy,” she said in a teasing whisper. Shawn and Cassie had asked to be excused to go to the playground, and she was more than happy to let them.
“Sorry, can’t resist,” he laughed, before continuing to steal glances of them. “They’re too perfect to look away?”
“You better be careful or you might get punished,” she giggled.
Jake raised his eyebrows and smiled immediately. “Oh? And how would you do that?”
“Well we’ve got your shrink ray here, I could definitely put you in a timeout somewhere,” she said, leaning forward and trying her hardest to push her breasts together.
Trying her best to ignore the flirty remarks of the giant couple towering above her, Natalie managed to haul herself up onto their picnic blanket. The miniaturized woman continued to carefully jog across the uneven terrain, and slowly started to approach the giant leg of Jake.
The massive man was wearing a pair of tan cargo shorts, and Natalie figured scaling these would be the best way to get his attention. “Fuck it, here we go,” she mumbled to herself, gripping the fabric in her tiny hands and slowly starting to pull herself up.
As Natalie slowly made her way across the brown landscape, she began to drift off in her thoughts. Her mind obviously went to Armando, and thinking of what would happen once she returned to normal size. The only thing that snapped her out of her thoughts was the shadow of a giant hand coming towards her.
Jake continued to flirt with his wife, growing more and more excited by her dirty talk and the visual of her in that bikini. As she turned to do a quick check on the kids, Jake adjusted himself, trying to hide the erection growing in his pants. As he did this, he noticed what appeared to be a small ant on the right leg of his shorts.
Not thinking anything of it, Jake went to brush the insect off his pant leg. He didn’t freak out or make a scene, he just didn’t want ants crawling on him. He watched as the tiny creature was launched off his pants leg, right on top of his wife’s hot dog!
All Natalie could do was lay there on her back. Every part of her body hurt, and she was on the verge of blacking out. One thing that slowly started to bring her back to her senses, was the peculiar strong odor surrounding her. It was a smoky smell, one that seemed very familiar to her.
Through extreme pain, Natalie managed to sit up a bit to examine her surroundings. She saw strange white walls on either side of her, before looking down and seeing the unique reddish brown color of the surface she was on. “Are you fucking kidding me,” she whispered, before collapsing in frustration. Realization set in that the ant sized woman was on top of a greasy hot dog.
Jake had seen exactly where that insect landed, right on his wife’s lunch. Before he could warn her, she turned back to him and winked. Clearly still trying to tease him, Brianna opened her mouth wide and stuck as much of the hot dog into her mouth as she could.
Screaming hysterically, Natalie tried to pull herself away, seeing everything in front of her just disappear into this woman’s mouth. Deep down, she knew she had nowhere to go and that her efforts to crawl away were futile.
After Brianna swallowed her mouthful, she playfully licked her lips again. “Good thing you’re not tiny yet, I could just eat you up.”
Natalie could see what was about to happen. She saw the woman’s mouth open wide, and the sandwich she was on was being brought into it rapidly. Her screams went unheard as she entered the dark cave of this woman’s mouth.
Giving her husband a cute wink, Brianna chewed her mouthful, each bite just missing the tiny being trapped inside. Starting to swallow, she pulled the chewed remains into the back of her mouth and down her throat, dragging the tiny passenger along with her.
Passing through the sphincter into the giant woman’s stomach, Natalie screamed and flailed, plunging into the acidic lake below her. She screamed and gagged, re-surfacing and furiously treading water in the darkness. Her skin was starting to tingle. Getting desperate, she found a mount of non-digested food and pulled herself up onto it.
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“How’s the view down there, baby?” Brianna giggled. Her sunglasses were covering her eyes and she was now laying down on her back across the picnic blanket. Her kids were nearby in the playground, while her husband was currently the size of an ant between her giant breasts.
She couldn’t hear a word he was saying, just saw him walking back and forth trying to find a way to communicate with her.
“Better be careful, I could squeeze these things together and crush you,” she giggled, gently squeezing her breasts and exhaling. Feeling extremely relaxed, she closed her eyes, enjoying the peaceful afternoon.
Wanting to get a closer look at his giant wife’s spectacular body, Jake began to trek southward. He made it down to her stomach, directly above her giant belly button, and turned to admire the view.
Her breasts looked even more glorious, and he decided to get comfortable, laying down on his stomach. For a second, Jake thought he heard what sounded like a screaming sound coming from below him within his wife’s stomach. This was silenced by a loud gurgling that rattled Jake’s eardrums.
“Must’ve been nothing,” he said to himself, before he too started to drift off to sleep.