Marie’s heart raced as the events in front of her felt like they were unfolding in slow motion. There she was, trapped within a sticky cocoon of bubble gum and stuck to the wall of her own bedroom. Her giant boyfriend was directly in front of her trying to communicate with her, but Marie knew that would not last for long.
Behind Dan, Marie’s jealous cousin Emma was holding the size-changing device. Marie had been careful to camouflage it as a lamp so it wouldn’t fall into the wrong hands. However, those hands currently belonged to Emma and she seemed to know exactly what she was doing.
Emma didn’t waste any more time, she aimed the ray directly at Dan and fired it. The ble beam struck him from behind while he was still focused in on Marie.
“Hang on babe, let me take a closer look,” Dan muttered, oblivious to the timer counting down. Dan leaned forward with the magnifying glass and saw his girlfriend now looking like she was in distress. “Wait, what’s wrong?” he asked, as it appeared Marie was trying to scream at him hysterically. It definitely looked like she was trying to warn him about something.
“Are you saying Emma?” he asked, realizing that’s what she was shouting. He turned to face Emma, his eyes widening as he saw the shrinking device in her hand.
Just as Dan was about to question her, he dwindled down rapidly onto the floor. His head was spinning and he was nauseous enough that he had to drop to his knees and close his eyes. He was aware that he had been shrunken and knew that Emma was behind this. He could hear what sounded like cackling from Emma and felt the floor shake as she approached him.
“THIS ALL COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED, ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS CHOOSE ME,” she said in a condescending tone towering over the shrunken man. Two giant fingers reached down and plucked him up into the air, rapidly bringing him up towards her face, so quickly Dan’s ears began to pop.
This was all taking place right in front of Marie, who was panicking, shouting like a mad-woman for Emma to leave him alone.
“You look soooo yummy, I could just eat you up right now,” Emma teased with a whisper, dangling the tiny man over her mouth, her long tongue slithering out, warm breath washing over his miniscule body. “But I have a better idea,” she said with a smirk.
Emma lowered her hand down all the way past her torso, down to her giant right foot on the ground. She scrunched her long toes in excitement, her light purple toenail polish glistening in the light. She dropped Dan as he was just above her foot, causing him to roll directly into the middle of it.
The tiny man was in a horrified aww as he looked up towards Emma’s ankle, then craned his head up, following her body up towards her head in the distance. He noticed she was still holding the shrink ray in her hand and smiling at him.
“I DON'T KNOW HOW THE VIEW IS DOWN THERE, BUT IT'S ABOUT TO BE A LOT DIFFERENT,” she laughed. She began to lower the shrink ray back down towards foot, letting it hover directly over Dan’s body. She fired carefully, making sure not to zap herself. The beam struck Dan directly, all the energy being absorbed into him.
Dan’s heart was racing. He knew Emma had just shot him a second time with a burst of shrinking energy, and that he could shrink down within seconds. He didn’t know how small he was about to get and he had no idea what to do. All he did was just stand there and wait for the inevitable.
Marie and Emma also watched silently, anxiously awaiting to see what would happen. While Emma was curious, Marie was mortified. Emma hadn’t messed with the settings since she shrunk, so she assumed it would shrink him proportionally. Marie thought back to when she became microscopic on Erin’s body, and had a horrible feeling it was about to happen again.
Dan’s two-millimeter body seemingly vanished into thin air, now totally invisible to the human eye. Dan had been hit by a beam at the two-millimeter setting, while he was already two-millimeters tall. He was now microscopic, an ant compared to an ant.
Down on the surface of Emma’s foot, Dan was looking around this new, alien landscape in shock and disbelief. If Dan hadn’t known he was on a woman’s foot, he’d have thought he was on another planet.
Emma’s pale skin stretched on endlessly in all directions. Despite Dan being right on top of her foot, he was so small that he couldn’t see the edges of it. He looked up, but couldn’t see Emma’s face. He just saw a blurry shape which he thought must’ve been her leg. “Well fuck, I’m screwed,” Dan mumbled out loud. There was a stale odor constantly lingering around him, and it was making him slightly nauseous.
Starting to walk aimlessly, Dan just wanted to keep moving, not really having anywhere to go. He began to walk past pores, which to him were giant caverns in the ground. He shuttered, knowing that if he fell into one of those he’d never be found or seen again. Beads of sweat the size of buildings were rolling past him, though these sweat drops were nothing to Emma, practically invisible.
While Emma normally stood five feet, five inches tall, now she was monolithic. Compared to Dan, she was now over eight hundred and fifty miles tall.
Walking over to Marie, Emma crouched down in front of her, cocky as ever. “Well, this thing sure is strong,” she laughed, using the magnifying glass to observe her tiny cousin. She grinned seeing Marie having a complete and total meltdown. “Relax, I’ve got an idea,” Emma laughed, pulling the gum off the wall.
After carefully removing the chewing gum from Marie’s body, Emma rolled Marie into the palm of her hand. “Look,” she said, demanding Marie’s attention. “I’m pretty sure Dan is the same size to you that you are to me. So let’s see if you can find him on my foot!” Emma grinned, lowering her tiny, shouting cousin down towards the top of her foot. “Good luck!”
As Emma released her grip, Marie fell the short distance on top of Emma’s foot. She frantically checked under her own bare feet, begging to God that she hasn’t accidentally crushed Dan already. She would feel terrible if she ended up stepping on him, though she’d feel even worse if she was dropped right on top of him.
After ensuring that there were no shrunken human remains splattered under her feet, Marie exhaled. “Okay, how are we gonna do this,” she mumbled to herself, before remembering that Dan could probably hear her. “Dan?! If you can hear me, come find me!” she shouted. “I’m going to be staying in this area, I don’t want to squish you, baby!”
Dan could not believe his tiny eyes. standing on the vast landscape of Emma’s foot, he had been observing cantons and crevices imperceptible to the naked eye. Now, there was another enormous being, though much smaller than Emma, who was standing high above this desolate wasteland.
Fleshy canyons and ravines, barely perceptible to the human eye shifted around him, with every tiny movement that Emma made. In the distance, he could see several drops of sweat, each larger than a football stadium, dotted the landscape around him.
Marie towered over this world wearing nothing but a blue sports bra and a pair of black yoga pants. “Alright, let’s start looking,” she said, getting ready to take a step forward when she was suddenly thrown on her ass. “What the hell…” she states tk say, before looking around. Emma was moving.
Emma walked across the room, each step preventing Marie from standing up at the risk of falling off the foot. Dan was too small to be affected, he didn’t even know Emma was moving.
“Forgot to tell you, Marie, I’m gonna go to the gym. Good luck down there,” she teased, before pulling a white ankle sock over her foot.
Marie’s heart sank as the sock slid over her, encasing her in darkness. Emma then slid her foot into a tennis shoe, and began walking out the front door of the apartment.
For Dan, almost nothing changed. He noticed it was getting darker around him, and the sky was now a strange, grayish color, but he still could not feel Emma’s feet moving. He looked off in the distance and saw his titaness of a girlfriend was now sitting down with her eyes closed. She looked sick.
If there was any good news for the tiny people inside of Emma’s sock, it was that her favorite gym was only three blocks from Marie’s apartment. Unfortunately, this was still a grueling experience, particularly for Marie. She was being hit by a double wave of nausea, partially from the motion sickness, and partially from the stale, putrid odor.
Checking into the gym, Emma immediately made her way over to the stair-master. It was a great way to both tone her ass and work up a sweat, which she thought would be a “fun little challenge” for Dan and Marie.
I’m the hot confines of Emma’s sock, Marie had motivated herself to continue her search for Dan. As sick as she felt, she knew that if she didn’t do something, Dan could be in a life or death scenario. “Alright Dan, I’m looking for you again, be careful around my feet!” Marie shouted, hoping that her tiny boyfriend was somewhere where he could hear her.
Worried about his giant girlfriend’s well-being, Dan had been traversing the terrain to reach her while she was sitting down. He had been making good progress, but froze when she stood back up to her feet. His enormous lover was walking directly towards him, but she hadn’t seemed to notice him yet.
“Dan, where are you?” Marie called out, hoping her microscopic boyfriend would find a way to reveal himself. She was doing her best to step carefully while scanning the ground for any signs of movement. However, the poor lighting inside the sock along with the motion sickness from Emma’s workouts was impacting Marie’s senses. She had no idea she was getting dangerously close to Dan.
The threat Marie posed was all too real for Dan. He could see she was rapidly approaching and didn’t make any indications that she saw or recognized him. Frantically looking for a place to run or hide, Dan noticed a small crack in Emma’s skin, and made a break for it. Sliding into the shallow and narrow canyon, Dan hunkered down as the earth-shaking footsteps of Marie intensified.
Dan looked down for a moment and realized he was ankle deep in liquid, which he soon deduced was sweat. “Well, that is fucking gross,” he complained.
The sounds of Marie’s footfalls grew louder. Her enormous shadow started to stretch across the tiny, organic ravine Dan was sheltering in. Then he saw his girlfriend’s giant body. She lifted one enormous foot and placed it down over the top of the microscopic canyon.
Dan was in darkness as Marie’s foot covered the tiny amounts of light above him. He didn’t know why, but she wasn’t moving. That was alarming in its own right, but then he noticed something else. The pool of sweat that had been ankle deep, was now almost knee deep. It was rising.
“God dammit,” Dan muttered under his breath, his heart starting to race in panic.
Marie had also stopped, not realizing her foot was covering up her boyfriend’s escape route from the pit he was in. Emma had been adjusting her sock, before pulling it off, the light momentarily blinding Marie, who realized Emma was now in a locker room. Before she processed anything else, Marie began taking in deep gasps of air, savoring the fresher scent.
It took several seconds before she realized Emma was now only wearing a towel. “Hope you’re doing alright down there Marie,” Emma whispered in a taunting manner. “Cause things are gonna heat up. We’re going to the sauna.”
Emma’s words filled Marie with dread, as the giant woman started to walk out of the locker room towards the women-only sauna. It was a short, uneventful walk, but one that still required Marie to remain still.
Upon entering the sauna and politely nodding to the three other women currently sitting in the steamy, wooden chamber, Emma threw a few spoonfuls of water into the hot rocks, enhancing the steam even more.
Emma got comfortable on one of the wooden benches in the corner. She rested her feet on the floor, as beads of sweat started to emerge all over her body.
In the tiny ravine of Emma’s foot, Dan was in a bad way. The sweat was seeping up from her skin, and was now already up to his neck. He tried to pull himself up back onto the surface of her foot, but Marie’s own foot being there meant he had nowhere to go.
It must’ve been Dan’s lucky day, as Marie got up and took a few steps forward. Wasting no time, Dan used what little strength he had left to haul himself out of the crevice like a seal flopping into an ice flow. The poor guy could just lay there, exhausted. His surroundings were incredibly warm, though he was too small to realize she was now in a sauna. His entire body was covered in sweat, and the fleshy surface he was laying on was getting more saturated by the second.
Meanwhile, Marie was losing her fight against light-headedness, as the heat was really getting to her. She crouched down to try and catch her breath, when she lost her balance on the sweaty skin and started to fall forward.
Dan saw the shadow overtake him as he just started to pull himself up to his feet. He turned and saw his enormous girlfriend, who appeared to be falling directly towards him.
The tiny guy didn’t think twice, and not being an idiot, ran to the side. Because of Marie’s sheer size compared to him, he manages to make it out of her path before she hit the ground. The impact of Marie falling face first into Emma’s foot knocked the much smaller Dan onto his own face, sending him tumbling.
After getting back up to his feet, Dan rushes towards Marie’s face, knowing this might be the best chance to get her attention.
“God dammit,” Marie mumbled to herself, beginning to do a push-up to get back to her feet. As she stared down, she saw what at first looked like a tiny bug, darting back and forth in front of her. Then the lightbulb went off in her head.
“DAN?! IS THAT YOU?!” she shouted, forgetting to watch the volume of her voice. When she saw that he appeared to be either waving at her or trying somehow to get her attention, that was all the validation she needed.
“HERE, I GOT YOU,” she said, hands shaking as she reached forward and plucked him up as carefully as she could. “ARE YOU OKAY BABY?” she asked, bringing her hand up to her face, trying to get a better view of her absolutely tiny boyfriend.
Collapsing in exhaustion, Dan sighed. It had been a hellish experience, but it was almost over. Now he just had to wait for the two of them to grow back.
“Okay, I’m gonna climb off Emma’s foot so I have enough space for us to grow back,” Marie said quietly. “Now we just….”
Marie’s voice trailed off as she fell forward again. She turned, and found herself totally submerged in liquid. While she was distracted, a sweat-drop, slightly larger than her own body, had flowed down Emma’s foot, slamming into her back.
Instinctively trying to protect Dan, Marie tightly clenched her fist, nearly crushing him in the process. She tries to hold her breath, her legs kicking up into the air as she rolled over onto her back.
I’m the palm of Marie’s hand, the sweat had seeped in, soaking and now threatening to drown Dan. Sure her fist prevented him from being swept out and lost, but it did nothing to keep him save from this disgusting liquid.
The sweat drop finally passed, washing over Marie and continuing to flow down Emma’s foot. The woman just laid there, exhausted and covered in more of the wretched fluid. “DANNY ARE YOU OKAY?” she shouted without thinking.
Dan was in just as bad of shape as Marie was in, coughing out tiny amounts of sweat that had nearly drowned him. On top of that, Marie had just shouted at him and practically burst his eardrums. Staring up at her giant nervous eyes, Dan weakley gave her a thumbs up, which he hoped she could see.
“Alright, I’m gonna put you in my ear right now for safekeeping,” Marie said. She didn’t know if Dan was protesting or not, but felt this was the best way to keep him safe. She had no other safe place to keep them, and felt that if she couldn’t focus on getting away from Emma they’d both be in big trouble.
“We both should be growing back soon,” she insisted, trying to reassure both him and herself. She expected they could grow back together, her growing back to her normal five foot, seven inch frame, while he would grow all the way up to two millimeters.
After carefully inserting Dan into her left ear, Marie steadily made her way towards the side of Emma’s foot. It didn’t take long, and though the heat was unbearable, she eventually made it. After carefully climbing off Emma’s foot, Marie made it to the wooden floor of the sauna.
Scurrying across the floor, Marie started to put some distance between herself and her enormous cousin, when she began to feel light-headed. “Shit, not right now,” she mumbled, crouching down in dizziness. Suddenly, the woman shot back up to her normal height in the middle of the floor.
Screams emitted from the three women leaning against the opposite wall, as a brunette seemingly appeared out of thin air. Marie doubled over, gagging and coughing. Her entire body was soaked in Emma’s foot sweat. She absolutely wreaked.
While the three older women were panicking trying to figure out what was going on, Marie heard someone snickering behind her. Emma was sitting there, biting her lower lip, trying to hold it together. “Hey cousin, you stink,” she said before laughing.
“Fuck this,” Marie muttered under her breath, bursting out of the sauna door. Everyone in the area stopped what they were doing to watch this crazed, wet woman running towards the locker room. She needed a shower.