Pulp Fiction
Kwa and Lartse enter Olly’s world.
“Are you sure that’s gonna work, Microbe?” Lartse stopped lapping for a moment. “Well, yes, Master, if I’m the one writing the story.” “You better be right, or else…” Kwa slightly squished his toes, which was enough to send a message to his Microbe. “Do we need to prepare?” “No, I just need to…”
Without transition, the world around them was blue. The exact shade of blue that Kwa had drawn over and over and over. He instinctively reached out his hand; the pillars were as soft to the touch as the lines of his art were to the eyes. Which meant that, if he looked up…
“Which one should it be, Master, his sole or his face?” Kwa turned around, almost startled. Lartse was leaning against a carpet fiber, same size as him, looking nonplussed. “What do you mean?” “I’m making it up as we go. Should we start with him stepping on us, or him finding us?”
Kwa hesitated for a moment. “…I want him to find us. I want this big doof to grab us and make us his toys. I want to make him feel big.” And sure enough, when he raised his head up to the ceiling-sky, Olly’s big red eyes were all he could see.
Even Lartse was surprised by how perfect Olly looked. The “real” deal was somehow even better than Kwa’s character design and art skills had allowed him to create. It would not be fair to call it a dream come true, for the brain cannot imagine such magnificence.
The two tinies’ train of thoughtless admiration was stopped when Olly’s voice boomed over them. “Who are you?” He sounded surprised in the way someone would be when finding a $100 bill in the street. He fully laid down on his belly, happily kicking his feet up in the air, to take a closer look at the newcomers.
Kwa was still too shocked to speak, so Lartse replied instead. “This guy here made you. And he did a damn fine job. Me, I’m usually his tiny slave, but for this story we’ll be equal beneath you.” A grin of delight spread across Olly’s face. “I’m not entirely sure what you mean, but I’m hearing words that I like. So, you like being tiny, and you came to me specifically?” “YES!” Kwa belted out as his first words. “Do whatever you want to us!” “We’re gonna be fine,” Lartse added, “this is all just in my brain. The moment I end the story, we’re back in the real… I mean, in our world. Just have fun with us.”
For some strange reason, Olly did not feel concerned for these two crazy tinies. There was something in Lartse’s voice that reassured him, that made him feel on top of the world. If that talking piece of lint said he couldn’t harm them… He wouldn’t get such an occasion a second time, and before any thought could form in his mind, he knew what he was going to do.
Even Lartse flinched when the gigantic digits grabbed the both of them at once. They nearly passed out when Olly rose to his feet, and again when he dropped his butt on the sofa. He let them tumble into the palm of his hand, level with his deep-cut abs.
“I would love to eat some tinies, you know, get a good taste of power. I can’t, unless I can retrieve them safely. But if you guys say you’re gonna be fine anyway… You’re not kidding, right?” Kwa and Lartse looked up, past the mountainous torso of their current master, right into his beautiful eyes. “We came here to please you,” they said in strange unison. “Great! Then climb up into my mouth. First to get there gets a reward!” He unceremoniously dropped them in his lap and reclined, his arms crossed behind his head to cockily show off his buff body even more.
Without missing a beat, Kwa shoved Lartse aside and started scaling Olly’s abs. He figured that, being barely as tall as each muscle, they could reach Olly’s chin in a matter of minutes, so even the smallest edge could ensure the win. He couldn’t help but hornily admire his creation — how soft yet firm the ground was under his touch, how imposing each row of hills looked atop the previous one, how the landscape strangely grew bigger and bigger as he was climbing…
Lartse easily overtook Kwa and made sure to squish him under its foot before reaching for the last row of abs, just as a reminder of who was in control of the story. In fact, now that it thought about it, having Kwa stuck to its sole for the rest of the climb would be pretty fun. Something about being between a rock and a Lartse place… Its slutty Master definitely wouldn’t mind.
Going past the canyon between Olly’s pecs peaks, around his towering neck to reach and climb Olly’s fiery hair and sideburns, Lartse finally set foot on Olly’s chin. It couldn’t help but quiver, being so close to him, so close to the end… And again, those red eyes staring straight into its soul.
“You made it! And I didn’t even have to tell you to hurry up. If you could have stayed longer, I’d have Eric learn a thing or two from you… Is your buddy close to the finish line?” Lartse took a few steps forward and wiped its sole on Olly’s lip, peeling off Kwa right at the pearly gates of heaven. Olly let out a chuckle, which sent Kwa plopping onto his tongue. “I see how it is with you two! Oh, there’s so many ways I could toy with you… You’ll come back another time, right?” Lartse nodded. “Well then, get in here!” Olly exclaimed before extending his tongue. “…And my reward for coming first?” “I ha’n’ ha’ ’ime for thinking, ya clim’ed ’oo ’ast!”
Lartse dared not protest and threw itself onto the red carpet. Olly’s mouth closed, plunging the soon-to-be-snacks in complete darkness. Only a few flashes of light came through when Olly spoke again. “I wanna get a good taste of you first, then I’ll send you on the way down. Enjoy the ride, you’ll tell me all about it next time!”
Olly sucked on his snacks, rubbing them against his palate to squeeze some delicious struggling out of them. This was the first time he could really go all the way; he wanted to savour it, but he was also impatient to feel them forced down his tight throat… He was craving this power too much, and impatience took over. Just one swift gulp, with no more effort than he would have used for a piece of candy, and they were gone. He sighed with pleasure and closed his eyes, trying to picture what their journey would be like.
Lartse landed first in the pool of stomach acid, closely followed by Kwa who had strangely regained his “normal” size on the way down. It was empty and hungry, as Olly hadn’t had breakfast yet, so it quickly started making work of what little food it had just received.
“It won’t hurt too much, right?” Sure, it was all just a story, but the pain that Kwa was suffering still felt visceral. “We can hang in there just a bit and then we’ll get back to the real world.” “As soon as I say it ends, it ends.” Kwa sighed with relief at Lartse’s words. “But… I don’t want it to end.” Kwa cried with anger. “What do you mean?!” “I mean we’ll keep digesting here forever. You made your bed, now die in it.”
Kwa fell to his knees, both from the shock of the betrayal and from the weakness in his burning legs. The splash of acid made his entire body go numb from pain; yet he couldn’t help but notice that his skin, though it was completely reddened, had not dissolved at all. “Wh- What? Why?” He tried to stand up, to punch at his disobedient Microbe, but nothing in him had the strength or the will to fight. He didn’t want this. He didn’t want this. He didn’t want… He didn’t know…
“Come on, you like it here. You’ve always craved this, the powerlessness, the helplessness. Even the betrayal is something that turns you on. Keep pretending, it only makes it sweeter for the both of us.”
Olly stood up and gave his belly a couple slaps on his way to the kitchen. “Time for breakfast! Those two runts should be gone back home by now… too bad they won’t get to share a meal with me. Maybe next time?”