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“Lisa Loud, video log, experiment 68, entry 103. To begin research for phase 4, I need to discover how human beings will react psychologically to the effects of the new substance- not only when applied to themselves but when applied to another. To this end, I’ve prepared room 5 with surveillance and placed a sample of the substance somewhere it is sure to be ingested. The video recording will be committed to this log in real time so as to preserve the results. As usual, I will observe remotely from my station in the garage.”
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Lola sat in her room, joined by all her favorite dolls around a table draped in an elegant cloth. She was doing one of her favorite things: having a tea party. Across the room, her twin sister Lana sat on her bed, surrounded by an assortment of wrenches and pliers. She was doing one of her favorite things as well: cleaning her tools.
“Why thank you Mr. Sprinkles, you look very nice today too,” Lola said, pouring a small amount of tea into her teddy bear’s little cup. “And how are the rest of you doing?” She continued to fill the cups of each of her dolls. “Very good,” she ‘replied’ after a short silence.
“Well, we have a very special brew today, with a new secret ingredient; only the best at my tea party.” She reached down and picked up her tiny toy cup. Extending her pinky, she put it to her lips and took a sip. “Huh, that’s an… interesting taste… What do you think, Mr. Sprinkles?”
“Wait, Mr. Sprinkles, how are you getting taller? How are you all getting taller? What the- what’s going on!?” Her dolls, the table, everything in the room seemed like it was starting to rise above her.
“Lola?” Lana asked, hearing her sister’s distressed voice. She looked over to her twin’s side of the room but couldn’t see the other girl anywhere. Confused, she slid off her bed and walked over to the tea table. “Lola? Where did you go?”
“I’m right here,” came the agitated reply. Lana looked down at her sister’s seat.
“Lola!?” she exclaimed. “You’re- How did you get so tiny!?”
“I was just sitting here enjoying my tea party when I just started to shrink all of a sudden!” The ‘little’ girl looked around, seeming very uneasy with how big everything else now seemed. Lana reached down and picked her sister up to examine her.
“Woah…” She said, rotating her around in fascination.
“Hey! Watch it!” Lana immediately stopped and held her sister still.
“Sorry. It’s just cool; you’re like Bitey’s size now,” she said, referring to one of her many questionable pets.
“Oh, no, you did not just compare me to a rat! And can you point your mouth in another direction? Your breath stinks!”
“Hey!”
“Well it’s true! You’re smelly enough at normal size. Now you’re like a filthy giant!”
“Mmnnn” Lana scowled and stuck out her tongue sourly.
“Eeww! Get your tongue away from me!” Lola yelled.
“MMNNN!” Lana stuck it out further, squeezing her eyes shut and making a taunting face while bringing her twin even closer. Petty justice would be served!
Then her tongue accidentally squished into Lola’s face. Lana gasped and immediately withdrew, realizing she had gone too far.
“LANA!” the tiny twin raged, “I swear if you ruined my makeup! Agh! When this is over I’m taking all your tools and selling them to buy enough cleanser and body wash to get all your spit out of my pores! And…” Lana just stood there, cringing slightly with guilt as her sister threw a tantrum in her hand.
That is, until she noticed the taste in her mouth. It was fruity and sweet, like candy. Was it some kind of makeup? Maybe something in her hair? Whatever it was, it tasted amazing! Enough to make the little girl quickly forget her guilt.
“Wow Lola… you taste really good,” she said abruptly.
“…What?” Lola asked, stopping mid rant and growing a confused expression. Lana’s expression changed too; her mouth falling open slightly and her gaze becoming distant.
There was a moment of tense silence, and then Lana slowly brought her sister closer to her mouth again. She seemed conflicted at first, but then quickly stuck out her tongue and gave Lola a hasty but deliberate lick.
“Cut it out Lana! That’s seriously weird and gross!”
But Lana barely heard her. The rush of flavor on her tongue had caught her completely by surprise, forcing a smile onto her face. It was almost overwhelming. It was the tastiest thing she had ever tasted! …She needed more.
“Lana, why are you looking at me like that?” Lola asked nervously. She noticed her twin’s tongue dancing excitedly around her teeth. But the girl couldn’t reply; she was at a loss for words. The only thing she could even think of doing with her mouth was filling it with more of that sweet taste.
So she did.
Suddenly, and perhaps without really thinking, she shoved her twin sister past her lips. Her eyes went wide as the sudden explosion of flavor hit, filling her whole mouth. Lola started struggling immediately, but every movement only put new parts of her body in contact with Lana’s tongue, adding to the already overwhelming experience.
Lana started sucking on her tiny sibling, idly rolling her around as a huge grin overtook her face. Lola started to shout in protest, but her sister probably wouldn’t have noticed the sounds even if they weren’t being muffled by her eager mouth. Instead, Lana began to hum out of pure pleasure, effectively drowning out all but the loudest of her sister’s shrieks.
Small drops of drool began to drip from her lips as she continued to savor the amazing taste, her eyes growing hazy. The overwhelming sensation in her mouth saturated her sense of taste to a point of vague exhilaration, where she couldn’t quite make out anything beyond the general presence of her sister’s inescapable flavor.
When her mouth was finally filled to bursting with joyous saliva, she did what she always did with any tasty morsel. She drew everything in her mouth to the back of her throat, and gave a big, glorious, gleeful swallow.
“… … … Wait…” The room was eerily quiet, and to Lana everything that had just happened in the last few seconds felt like some kind of weird, delicious dream. Did I really just…? An anxious, sinking feeling took hold of her guts. Though that might actually have been the feeling of her sister sliding down her throat. Just when she was starting to hope that everything actually had been a dream, she felt a very odd sensation in her chest as something moved around, and then she heard a faint, muffled voice.
“LANA!!”
“AAAHHHHH!” She screamed in panic. Within seconds, a handful of her siblings rushed through her door. Her ever vigilant and reliable older brother was the first one to approach her.
“Lana? What happened?” Lincoln asked.
“LolawashavingherteapartyandthensuddenlyshewasgonesoIwentoverand-”
“Whoa, whoa! Okay, the short version. Slowly.”
“I- I- I swallowed Lola!!” she blurted out.
There was a moment of silence as all the siblings looked at each other. They might have even broken out laughing if it wasn’t for the fact that Lana seemed nearly in tears.
“Lana, that’s literally impossible,” Lori pointed out.
“Yeah, how could Lola even fit down your throat? Is this some kind of gag?” Luan asked, including one of her unavoidable puns.
“No, guys, I’m serious! Just listen!” Lana gestured towards her torso. Lincoln looked at his little sister questioningly for a moment but decided to go with it. He kneeled down and turned his head, placing an ear against her chest, and listened for a moment.
“Someone get me out of here!”
“Ah!” He exclaimed and fell back on his butt. “Guys… I think she might be telling the truth.”
“What? No way? Let me listen,” Lynn replied. She walked over and put her ear where her brother’s had been.
“Lincoln? Lynn? Is that you?”
“Whoa, you weren’t kidding,” she remarked.
“Okay, you’re both literally crazy if you think our little sister is in Lana’s stomach,” Lori insisted.
“Why don’t you listen for yourself,” Lynn replied.
“Hold that thought,” Lincoln said. Running over to Lola’s side of the room, he dove under her bed and came back out a couple seconds later holding a megaphone. “Here, use this,” he said, handing it to Lana. She put it up to her belly and turned it on.
“Lola, it’s Lincoln. Can you hear us?”
“ALL THIS GUNK IS MESSING UP MY DRESS!” Lincoln winced and quickly reached out to turn down the megaphone’s volume.
“Yup, that’s Lola alright,” he said.
“But how is that even possible? How did this happen?” Lori asked.
“She was just having her tea party, and then all of a sudden she was tiny. And then…”
“And then you shoved me in your mouth and ate me!!” Lola finished.
“I’m sorry! I couldn’t help it! You just tasted so good!” Lana replied, sounding sincerely guilty.
“Oh you’ll be sorry once I’m done with you!”
“Calm down guys. No one likes an upset stomach,” Luan interrupted.
“Luan this is serious, how are we gonna get her out?” Lincoln asked.
“Easy, we just need to make Lana hurl,” Lynn answered.
“Eeww, you want me to be barf? No way!” Lola refused.
“Lola, where do you think barf comes from? You’re literally standing in it right now,” Lori pointed out.
“…EEEEEEEEEPPPP!” she squealed, flailing around as she realized her sister was right. “Okay, okay fine! Just get me out already!”
“Could you stop moving around so much? You’re giving me a tummy ache,” Lana asked meekly.
“Good! Then hurry up and barf already!” Lola demanded, moving around so much that the sound of sloshing was starting to come through the megaphone.
Lana’s face wrinkled a bit as she experienced some clear distress. A series of growing gurgles began to fill the room. The siblings looked on in nervous anticipation.
*URP*
“Ahh, much better,” Lana remarked. Everyone else sighed.
“Guys, how are we supposed to make Lana throw up?” Lincoln asked. “She fixes toilets for fun and eats worms daily.”
“Can you please not mention that while I’m in here,” Lola pleaded.
“Lincoln’s right. Lana’s practically un-barf-able. Maybe I should call a doctor,” Lori said.
“That won’t be necessary,” came a new voice. Lisa entered the room, holding a small vile of dark liquid. “This concoction will get our sibling to vomit, posthaste.”
“Phew, that’s a relief,” Lynn said as Lana was handed the vile. She eyed it distastefully before putting it up to her mouth and downing it as quickly as she could. It was unexpectedly thick, which probably would have triggered a weaker stomach on that fact alone, but she got it all down.
“Ugh! Gross, it’s falling on me!” Lola complained as the substance made its way down her twin’s throat to join her in the stomach.
There was a moment of tense silence as all the siblings waited for something to happen. A few quiet gurgles came over the megaphone, followed by a sudden, loud groan. Lana began to clutch at her abdomen with her free hand.
“Ooohh, here it comes!” she warned, before suddenly sprinting out of the room and down the hall. As she ran, the sound of Lola’s voice called over the megaphone.
“Wait! Not in the toilet! Not in the toilet!”
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“It seems safe to say that the shrinking serum works splendidly on homo sapiens. As expected, some normal sized persons can be expected to show general lack of respect to the boundaries of a shrunken counterpart, though this example may be due in part to my choice of test subjects.
“Side note: the serum seems to have the additional effect of making the subject irresistibly delicious. This property requires definite additional research and should be minded in future experiments.
“Corollary: experiment 42, for use in inducing emesis, continues to be very effective.
“Second corollary: the mind erasing device was required upon the completion of this experiment to prevent investigation by my siblings. Though it was noted earlier that this device should be used sparingly, so far no ill effects have been observed.
“Lisa Loud, signing off.”