Pacing back and forth, Anna waited impatiently for her boyfriend to return to his room. The tall, brunette graduate student of half-Caucasian and half-Filipino origin stood there glancing at her watch. “What the hell is taking him so long?” she mumbled to herself.
As if on cue, she heard footsteps coming down the hallway. The bedroom door opened seconds later, and Anna’s boyfriend Chris entered the room carrying a box. “Alright I think we’ve got everything,” he said, placing the box down on top of his bed and leaving the door open.
Anna and Chris had met while attending college. Both had studied science and had a keen interest in biology. Chris and Anna both graduated with degrees in biology, and while Chris had decided to start teaching science at a local middle school, Anna went back to school to get her graduate degree. She has aspirations of becoming a scientist, possibly even an entomologist studying insects.
After getting permission to borrow a shrink ray from her professor’s lab, Anna wanted to try it out in the safety of Chris’ home. Chris lived at the apartment with his roommate Damian, who was currently out having dinner with his girlfriend Adeline. It seemed like the perfect chance to test out this piece of tech.
With thoughts of eventually using this to study insects in the field in her mind, Anna decided that tonight would be tonight. Even better, she knew that Chris had an old microscope laying around from their days in the lab together.
“Alright here we are,” Chris laughed, pulling the old gray microscope out of the cardboard box. “Haven’t used this bad boy in ages!”
“True that, remember looking at bacteria and parameciums back sophomore year?” Anna said, starting to reminisce.
“Oh yeah, watching tiny creatures getting dissolved in each other. All the stuff from the good old days,” Chris said, shaking his head. “You’re not getting that small are you?”
“Absolutely not!” Anna insisted, her eyes widening. “I’m not insane! And how would I even study bugs at that size?” she teased. “No, I'll be about a millimeter tall, you should be able to see me with the naked eye,” she said, handing the shrink ray to Chris.
His hands shook a bit as he grasped the shrink ray, having never held one before. “So, just press this and fire?” he asked, examining the device.
“Yep, one second,” Anna said, hopping up onto his bed and tying her hair back into a ponytail. “Okay, now I’m ready!”
Chris glanced down at the shrink ray again. “So….how do I set the size?”
“Baby it’s already set,” Anna said with a sigh and a smile, trying not to lose her patience. “You just need to pull the…..” she said, before she disappeared from sight.
“Oh…..damn,” Chris laughed nervously, not realizing how powerful the shrink ray was and how quickly it worked. Before his very eyes, his girlfriend had seemingly vanished into thin air. Chris new better though, and carefully approached the bed where he had last seen Anna.
Anna’s head was spinning and her stomach leapt into her throat as she shrunk. She had shrunken before, but only in the safety and controlled environment of the lab around other grad students. She just hadn’t been expecting to shrink when she did.
The ground started to shake around her as she got her bearings. Looking up, she observed the massive titan that was her boyfriend now standing there before her. “Baby I’m down here!” she began to shout jumping up and down, waving her arms.
“YEAH, YEAH, I SEE YOU DOWN THERE,” Chris laughed, pretending to be dismissive. “HOLY CRAP YOU REALLY GOT TINY!”
Chris knew better than to try and pick up his one-millimeter girlfriend, as he was almost guaranteed to crush her. Instead, he grabbed a microscope slide and carefully lowered it down on the bed towards Anna.
It took a bit of strength, but the piece of glass was thin enough for Anna to haul herself on top of, at least at the angle Chris was holding it at. She soon felt the slide being lifted through the sky as Chris brought it over to the microscope. “Hey careful!” Anna shouted, dropping down onto her hands and knees trying to prevent herself from sliding off the slick glass.
Anna’s cries went unheard by Chris as he loaded the slide onto the microscope. “ALRIGHT, LET’S SEE WHAT WE'VE GOT HERE BABE,” he said, leaning in for a closer look.
Chris’s jaw dropped as he stared through the microscope’s eyepiece. There, clear as day was his gorgeous girlfriend, only MUCH smaller. Everything appeared to be fine, he thought. “Babe, are you okay down there? How’s it feel?” he whispered.
Down on the microscope slide, Anna was in awe. She was totally fine right now, but her jaw dropped as she looked upward and saw the magnified blue eyeball staring down at her. “I’m good!” she said, before realizing she needed to give her boyfriend a thumbs up to communicate.
Chris took a deep breath, relieved that Anna was alright. He smiled seeing her have to close her eyes before falling backwards, just from his breath alone.
“Sorry,” he whispered. He watched for several minutes as his one-millimeter lover walked all around the slide. He could see her trying to communicate with him as she began waving her arms once more.
“Do you want to grow back to normal?” he asked as he started to reach for the shrink ray. He was surprised to see Anna shaking her head in an exaggerated manner.
“Alright, keeping you tiny,” he mumbled, trying to figure out what exactly Anna wanted.
“Hey, food!” Anna yelled, rolling her eyes. She saw the giant eyeball of Chris focusing in on her again. She waved to him, before lifting her hands near her face in an exaggerated eating motion, as if she had a sandwich or hamburger up to her face.
This seemed to drive the message home for Chris. “Ohhhhh, food,” he whispered, trying not to laugh. “Yeah I’ll take a look and find something for you. Be right back!”
The one-millimeter woman watched as her gargantuan boyfriend walked down the hallway out of his room. “Perfect,” she laughed to herself. She had wanted to get him out of the room for a little surprise, and this seemed to work.
Anna started to remove her shirt, pants, and sandals. She thought it would be hilarious if Chris returned to find her in her underwear. She heard the vibrations of Chris returning, and decided to lay on the glass slide in a sexy pose, now wearing nothing but her black bra and thong.
“Got you some food,” Chris said, holding a tiny morsel of food in his hand. It was a small piece of strawberry licorice, one that he had broken off. With his naked eye, he spotted the speck-sized body of Anna and set the torn off piece of licorice down next to her.
“Watch what you’re doing there, big guy!” Anna shouted, slowly backing away from the piece of candy. She was instantly struck by the very sweet odor, though at her size she could really tell how artificial and fake the strawberry scent was. She was also stunned at the size of it, as it was nearly a half centimeter long, several times larger than her miniscule body.
“Alright, eat up,” Chris said, leaning in to take a closer look through the eyepiece. “OH SHIT!”
Anna judged that from Chris’s excited reaction, he had seen what she was wearing, or in this case, wasn’t wearing. She smiled though she also managed to shoot an annoyed look towards the eyepiece with her hands over her ears. “Too loud!” she mouthed.
“Sorry, but damn you look sexy,” Chris whispered from high above her. He watched as Anna gave him a cute smile, before grabbing her breasts which were still contained in her bra. She seductively squeezed them before turning around and shaking her microscopic butt towards the eyepiece.
“I bet you like that, don’t you,” she whispered to herself. She was also really starting to enjoy this, it seemed to almost awaken something inside of her. Anna approached the giant piece of candy and leaned forward, pressing her miniscule body against it. Sticking her tongue out, Anna licked the enormous licorice piece, pleasantly surprised that it tasted better than it smelled.
“Holy crap this is hot,” Chris moaned, as he unzipped his pants. He couldn’t believe this, his one-millimeter girlfriend was giving him a strip tease through a microscope. Chris’s mind started to race with fantasies that could now become possibilities. The thought of being that size while getting a strip tease from an enormous Anna was also playing heavily in his mind.
Anna giggled hearing Chris unzip his pants. She knew what he was doing, but still trusted him completely. She knew that if he had decided to pleasure himself and finish on her, she'd drown. That possibility never even drifted into her mind.
From her perch on the microscope slide, Anna could see the monolithic form of Chris backing away. She could tell he was taking off his pants, and started to blush as the thought of seeing his enormous, girthy penis was now starting to cross her mind. The tiny woman was also starting to think of how amazing and romantic it would be for her and Chris to switch sizes, and for her to be taunting him at the tiny size. She was so caught up in these thoughts, she wasn’t paying attention to the approaching buzzing noise.
Attracted by the overly sweet aroma of the strawberry licorice was a common housefly. With Chris currently a few steps back from the desk the magnifying glass was on, there was nothing to scare off the fly and it quickly descended down towards the large reddish-pink piece of candy.
Anna started to hear the horrifying wing beats which created an incredibly loud, buzzing droning noise. She saw the shadow and screamed, stumbling backwards as a fly, several times larger than her body landed on the glass slide.
The giant inspect just stood there, rubbing its forelimbs together in what Anna could only describe as “unsettling.” She watched as the fly began to start to climb atop the giant piece of candy. “That’s so fucking gross,” she mumbled, thinking she was being quiet.
Anna was not quiet enough. Taking several steps with its six legs, the monstrous looking fly repositioned itself, until it was staring directly down at Anna with its large, beady eyes.
“Shit!” Anna whispered, looking down and realizing that after pressing her nearly nude body up against the piece of candy, she had a sticky residue coating part of her stomach. It hit her then she also smelled just like that piece of candy.
Beating its wings furiously, the fly propelled itself off the mound of candy towards the miniaturized woman. “Chris! Look down and help me!” she screamed, struggling to get to her feet. The fly landed behind her with an immense impact, one that knocked her back down to the ground. Turning around, Anna let out a primal scream as she stared up at the enormous insect, its trunk now starting to smell and taste the air around her.
Chris had been in his own world while this was happening. He had taken off his pants and was now only wearing a shirt. He held his penis in his hand as he started walking towards the microscope, excited to see his tiny girlfriend tease him some more.
“Get back!” Anna said, kicking at the ravenous insect towering over her. “Go away!” She continued to scream at the insect as it pointed its trunk-like proboscis at her. The fly made a strange gurgling sound as irl regurgitated a foul green fluid, the now coated Anna’s body.
“What in the fuck?!” she screamed, wiping the fluid out of her eyes. She knew from her studies that flies did this with their digestive acid, and while the temperature in the room rapidly cooled it, it still tingled on her skin slightly.
“Alright babe, let’s take a closer look at you!” Chris said excitedly, pulling up a chair and taking a closer look at his tiny lover. What he saw horrified him.
In the time he had stepped away, a monstrous housefly had descended and was now attacking his girlfriend. Before Chris even had a chance to react, he watched as the fly’s trunk descended down towards his girlfriend, who looked like she was covered in something. Before Chris’s eyes, his one millimeter girlfriend disappeared up the fly’s trunk.
“NO!” Chris shouted, as he swatted towards the fly. He missed, and the insect took off into the air, starting to hover around the room.
Anna was currently living through a nightmare. She was struggling to her feet to get out of the slime, when the fly had slurped her up as if she was nothing more than a meal for it. The tiny woman screamed as she was pulled through the flies body, slowly approaching its stomach.
Chris was desperate. He flailed his arms, desperately trying to catch that damn fly. Pulling his boxers up, he watched in horror as the fly took off down the hallway. He continued after it, as the fly entered the living room.
“Uhh, hey dude,” a voice said, causing Chris to freeze. He turned, and saw his roommate Damian along with Damian’s girlfriend, Adeline sitting on the couch. Both were laughing, seeing Chris in his underwear.
“Oh, hey,” Chris said, trying to act calm while he tried to relocate the fly that had just swallowed his girlfriend.
“Forget we were coming?” Adeline asked playfully. “Or are you just getting ready to see Anna?” she said with a wink.
This sent chills down Chris’s spine as he thought about the horrors Anna might be enduring. “Uh yeah, Anna,” he said, as he noticed a fly buzzing around, coming towards the duo on the couch.
“Ugh, shooo, go away,” Adeline said, swatting at the tiny insect while sitting on the couch.
Damian just shot her a confused look. “What? It’s just a fly,” he laughed.
“Yeah but it’s gross!” she responded.
“Yeah,” Chris jumbled, watching the fly come to a rest on the coffee table.
Inside the fly, Anna was starting to run out of time, entering the insect’s stomach. She did her best to kick and try to fight, which was part of the reason the insect had landed.
The duo on the couch watched curiously as Chris grabbed a tissue and started to slowly approach the fly. “I’ll get rid of it for you,” he said quietly, trying not to startle the insect.
Just as Chris was about to reach for the tiny invertebrate, an enormous foot slammed down in front of him. The room was quiet, and his jaw dropped while he stared, not sure what to do. The foot belonged to Adeline, what’d slammed it down on top of the coffee table.
“I got it!” she laughed, dragging her foot and the splattered remains of the fly along with it.
She looked at Chris who looked like he had just seen a ghost.
“What’s wrong with you?” she nervously laughed.
Chris started to feel light headed, and passed out right on the floor. He knew all too well what had just happened to Anna…..