7. The Program

“Why are you after us, Kelsey?” Simon blurted out. Using her name was the last thing he could think of. “What did we do that you want us dead so badly?”

                 The Huntress blinked. “How do you know my name?”

                 “You went to our school. You dated Tommy. Alexis ate you but you somehow survived and now you’re working for some government conspiracy group.”

                 The Huntress shook her head, confused. “I don’t know anyone named Tommy. I’ve never been to school. My whole life I worked for the Program.”

                 “The Program?” Jenny asked, still holding up the sheets to cover her breasts. She looked very confused by what Simon was saying. What was all this talk about people being eaten?

                 Kenner drew his silenced pistol. “Enough, you’re telling them too much!”

                 The Huntress smirked. “They know nothing. We’re just being cautious by killing them.”

                 “No,” said Kenner. “They founded a little club dedicated to finding out the truth behind the shrink rays.”

                 “Shrink rays?” Jenny asked. “Simon, what the fuck is going on here?”

                 “Enough!” the Huntress said. “Get out of the bed and put on some underwear. You first.” She aimed the shrink ray at Simon. He complied. Kenner looked away but the Huntress licked her lips when she saw his exposed crotch. She threw a glance at Jenny. “You are one lucky girl…”

                 After still being so close to the naked Jenny, Simon couldn’t control his boner. He was so hard right now it almost hurt, but he managed to pull on his boxer briefs. Jenny was next, sliding out of bed and trying to cover her vagina and her boobs, each with one arm. She picked her thong off the ground and pulled it up with both hands, giving both Kenner and the Huntress a look at her hanging breasts as she leaned over.

                 “Nice,” Kenner said, discretely trying to fix his pants.

                 Jenny reached for her bra, a short distance away. “Nope,” said the Huntress, eyeing the beautiful girl with a yummy look. “I like the view.”

                 Jenny looked almost sad and ashamed, but more worried than anything else as she backed up and covered her breasts with her arms, starting to hyperventilate. Simon felt for her. This was disgusting. They had to find a way out of this. But how?

                 “Now get real close,” the Huntress said. Simon scrambled across the bed and hugged Jenny tight, feeling her skin against his making him feel immediately better. She leaned into his chest as he rubbed her arms, feeling the fine blond hairs along them. “What a cute couple,” the Huntress said, then fired.

                 They were miniaturized down to half an inch in a split second. Simon had been down this route three times before, but for Jenny it was entirely new experience.

                 She was terrified. “What? What the fuck just happened? Did she shrink us? Simon, what’s going on?”

                 “Relax,” he said. “I’ve been in jams like this before.”

                 “Before?” she said. “When?”

                 “I’ll explain later,” he said.

                 The Huntress loomed over them and scooped them up in her gargantuan hand. Jenny let out a shrill scream and clutched Simon for dear life. Then they looked up and the Huntress’s beautiful face as licked her lips.

                 “Just eat them and lets go,” Kenner said.

                 The Huntress stared down at the cowering, terrified kids. She thought for a moment. “Nah. I think I’ll save them for some fun.”

                 “What?!” Kenner exclaimed. “We don’t have time for this.”

                 “Come on, we’ll feed them to some other girl and it’ll be sexy!” the Huntress exclaimed. “You’re such a downer, never letting me have any fun.”

                 “And you’re always acting like a teenage girl,” he said.

                 “Technically, I am,” she smirked.

                 “No,” Kenner said. “You’re a lot younger.”

                 “You’re not my father,” she scoffed. “You’re not even my superior. Now get out of here before I think about eating you too. Your job is done. I’ll take it from here.”

                 Kenner’s face went red like a tomato. He looked like he was going to blow up. Then he let out a deep breath, regaining his composure. “Fine,” he said, turning towards the door. “Command isn’t going to be very happy about this. Neither is the Director.”

                 The Huntress – Kelsey, whatever her name was – looked down at Simon and Jenny and licked her lips. “You know what?” she said. “I think I might eat one of you right now. Just because you look so tasty.”

                 She reached down and plucked Jenny up in her fingers as her stomach rumbled. “You look delicious pudding-pop,” she cooed.

                 Jenny screamed at the top of her lungs. “Simon, help me! Don’t let her eat me!”

                 But Simon could do nothing as the Huntress held him tightly in her fingers. He felt like a half-inch ant waiting to be crushed. “Jenny, hold on!” he cried out, but there was nothing he could do as the giantess opened her lips and carried the girl he loved towards her gaping maw.

                 It was his fault, he realized. Jenny was still screaming and crying for him, but it was as if he couldn’t hear her screams anymore. He realized she was already gone, to be digested in the Huntress’s belly. He killed her and he knew it. He indulged in the temptation of forbidden sex and now she was going to pay for it. He should’ve just kept it in his pants, he thought.

                 And now he was forced to watch, as the giantess dropped Jenny into her jaws like a little piece of candy and closed her mouth, licking her lips slowly. He could imagine the poor, topless girl in the dark, dank cavern of the Huntress’s mouth, crying and waiting for the one-way trip down into the giantess’s digestive track.

                 He didn’t want to think about what came next, but his ears heard it loud and clearly.

                 The Huntress gulped.

^^^

Claudia pushed her sunglasses onto her forehead as she leaned back into the pool reclining chair, letting the sun tan her olive, salty skin that was not covered by the bikini as it dipped towards the horizon beyond the distant mountains. There was another hour or so of daylight at least, she thought, leaning back and looking out across the pool. The back of the hotel was right next to a sloping desert hill. She thought about what lay over that hill, just as she thought about what might come for her future.

                 She loved Tommy and knew he loved her dearly too. He would be heartbroken if she cheated on him, especially with another girl. Then, suddenly it hit her. The reason she felt she had been drifting apart from him lately wasn’t because of him.

                 It was because of her. She, Claudia, was the one to blame.

                 And it was because of that bitch Karey. She’s turning me into a lesbian, Claudia thought, leaning all the way back, her face looking as if she were sick with the thought as she glanced up at the blue sky. Claudia knew these weird feelings she was having were the root of all the problems she had been having lately. Of course, it had been a weird few days. Someone was trying to kill them and she thought she would be relaxing at some fancy San Francisco hotel by now, ready to sleep with Simon when the night fell and their lust burned with erotic passion.

                 A smile came to her face as she thought about having him inside her. Without him, she felt empty, hollow. Then a gurgle erupted from her gut and she realized she was hungry. No wonder she didn’t feel right. Whenever she was worried, sad, or just didn’t feel right, Claudia liked to eat. It made her feel better to have a nice belly full of snacks. She enjoyed eating and loved going to restaurants like Cheesecake Factory and Olive Garden because she loved snacking on the bread and filling herself up with the big portions. As a result, despite her slim frame, her tummy had a nice soft layer that wasn’t that noticeable unless compared to Jenny, who had a very slim abdomen without being bony or scrawny (Claudia had long accepted that Jenny had the perfect body or a close to it as anyone she had ever known). She would frequently burp and pretend like no one saw it throughout middle school, even though everyone joked about her and her appetite, but in high school she embraced her eating habits and burping as part of who she was.

                 But she knew, deep down, that the feelings she had felt for Karey were not who she was. Those thoughts needed to be contained, repressed and hidden forever. But a small part of her questioned whether or not those feelings were a fraction of who she was. As Karey had said, she could be bisexual without being a full-on lesbian. She could love both cute guys and cute girls.

                 Her stomach rumbled. She put a hand on it and groaned. A nearby hotel employee saw and came over. “Excuse me, miss,” she said. “Are you feeling okay?”

                 “Yeah,” said Claudia, rubbing her empty belly. “I’m just hungry, that’s all.”

                 “Oh, we just started extending room service to the pool area,” the lady said, pulling out a menu. “We can have anything on here delivered right to you.”

                 Claudia’s tummy rumbled again just from reading the menu. “I’ll have some of this, this, this, this, and this.”

                 The lady laughed. “Hungry girl, aren’t you?”

                 Claudia patted her stomach. “Just wait till you see me when I’m full.”

                 “Okay,” she said, pulling out a notepad. “What did you want again?”

                 Claudia read off several items that suited her fancy. The lady said they would be out shortly and asked what room she should charge it too. Claudia told her and the lady was off.

                 She suddenly felt better and rubbed her anticipating stomach. She could almost already taste the food.

                 Claudia leaned back and licked her lips at the thought.

^^^

Simon was crying, weeping, wallowing. He couldn’t believe it had come to this. But the fact was undeniable. Jenny had been eaten by the Huntress right before his very eyes. And now he was next. But the giantess had said she wanted to save someone for feeding to another girl. He hoped she picked Claudia. It would be fitting for him to end inside the stomach of the sweet girl he had cheated on only for all of this to happen.

                 The Huntress smacked her lips above him. “Mmm, mmm, she sure was delicious!” she said.

                 Simon couldn’t stop crying. Then something occurred to him. It sounded there was something in the Huntress’s mouth still. Then, as he watched, the giantess dished her fingers into her maw and fished out the terrified, topless teenager – now drenched in saliva – and plopped her back into her hand next to Simon.

                 He ignored the goop all over her and kissed her full on the lips, hugging her tight. “Oh God,” he said. “Jenny, I thought you were gone. My life, everything – it was all over!”

                 The giantess just chuckled at the tiny humans in her palm. “I really got you there!” she said. “Bet you didn’t see that one coming!”

                 Suddenly, two hands appeared behind her, pulling tightly wound linen, almost like a rope, around the Huntress’s throat like a garrote. It was Kenner, and he pulled her back in a choke hold as she struggled. Before he and Jenny fell off her hand, he saw that the bedsheets were gone. Kenner must have rolled them up to use as a weapon.

                 Then they were falling.

                 Down, down, through the air.

                 “Put out your arms!” Simon yelled to Jenny as they dropped towards the carpet. “The air resistance will slow us down!”

                 She did as she was told. Together, they landed safely on the floor and started running away from the Huntress, who kicked and wriggled as Kenner held her tight. They watched up in awe and amazement at the struggle before their eyes. The Huntress was starting to go purple, grabbing up at Kenner in an effort to stop him, but it was to no avail. He was a professional. He had done this before and never once had he failed.

                 In her final moments, the Huntress looked down at the carpet where her prey had escaped, the only prey she never caught, in a contorted mix of anger and shock. Then her head lolled back and her arms and legs twitched briefly.

                 The Huntress was still.

                 Kenner let her lifeless body slide to the ground, then he looked up.

                 “Oh shit,” Simon said. “Run!”

                 Kenner lunged for them. The carpet was a light color and their mostly-naked white bodies stood out. The government agent’s left hand caught Simon and hoisted him up into the air.

                 “Simon, no!” Jenny cried.

                 “Keep running!” Simon called after her.

                 Tears streaming down her face, she kept running. But Kenner’s massive right hand got her a moment later too. The giant man brought them up to face level.

                 “I’ve got you little fuckers now,” he growled. He glanced over at the hotel room’s bathroom, and then slowly turned his head back towards them, a mischievous grin on his face. “I hope you like potty humor,” he chuckled. “Cause all the problems you’ve been causing me are about to go down the drain.”

^^^

Karey moped about on her way to the front lobby. Another failed try with an impossibly cute girl. Even though she was bi and could fall in love with members of either gender, she always had had a secret preference for girls. She didn’t know why. Perhaps it was the forbidden nature of a same-sex romance, or that she had performed things with guys around all four bases many times back at the motel on her foster father’s orders and meeting an amazing girl was just a break from the filth of men.

                 She knew not all men were bad though, and not all girls were nice, thinking of how cruel it was that Jenny and Simon were having sex despite already being in great relationships. She found both Tommy and Claudia attractive and secretly wished for a threesome. She got all horny imagining giving Claudia a hand job while sucking Tommy’s dick at the same time.

                 Karey headed outside to get some fresh air and another look at the town. She liked Palm Springs, and not just because it had been the first place she had seen outside the motel for so long, but because it had a nice, tourist-filled atmosphere to it. It was welcoming and peaceful. It was a getaway. An escape. And after all she had been through, even before the motel, she needed this.

                 But out of the corner of her eye, she spotted a car that belonged to no tourist. Her heart started beating faster as her head turned, a tight knot forming in the pit of her belly. It was Kenner’s car, and where Kenner was the Huntress would be too. “Kelsey, you bitch,” she muttered.

                 It had been fate that brought them to her again. And now other people were in trouble. She doubted Kenner and Kelsey knew she was here, but if she didn’t act fast, she knew that the Huntress’s real targets would becoming a tasty meal soon. Turning on her heel, she sprinted back inside the lobby.

^^^

Kenner put both kids in one hand and flicked the bathroom light on with the other. He walked over to the porcelain throne and threw open the lid. Simon and Jenny closed their eyes.

                 “I’m so, so sorry you had to become part of this, Jenny,” he said.

                 “Simon, I just really want to you…I love you, and whatever happens, I’m just glad I got to spend the afternoon with you closer than any other boy I’ve met.”

                 Kenner dangled them above the seat, the water basin waiting beyond. “Drop goes the weasel,” he grunted.

                 Just then, there was a loud zap and Kenner was miniaturized. Simon and Jenny fell again, shifting their weight so that they narrowly dodged the toilet on the way down and splayed their arms to lessen their impact on the tile. It was still a rough landing, though. The two teens tumbled across the hard floor and groaned. It felt like be bruised for a week. As Jenny moaned, Simon at least took comfort in staring at her beautiful breasts. He got lost in a trance staring at them and got hard again.

                 Jenny glared at him. “Really?”

                 “Sorry,” he said. “It’s just…you really are beautiful.”

                 She didn’t have time to blush. They turned around to see Kenner, now the same size as they were, stumbling towards them. “I’m going to kill you little –”

                 Suddenly, he was plucked off the ground by an arm. They looked up to see the Huntress holding him in her hand. She had a red line around her throat. “Silly Kenner,” she said. “You shoud know it takes a long, long time to actually strangle someone to death. All I had to do was go limp and slide into unconsciousness and you thought you had won.” She scooped up both teens in her other hand. “Now that there’s no rush, I’m going to have fun with all of you.”

^^^

The lady had brought out a fold-up table to put all of Claudia’s food on a little while ago, then wheeled it all out on a cart. There was a nice club sandwich, some chicken fingers, a burger, a bunch of fries, some mac and cheese, and a few other side platters as well.

                 “I’m sure this will fill your empty stomach,” the lady said. “Are you sure you can eat all of this? I mean, we’d hate to waste food.”

                 “Don’t worry,” Claudia said, taking a big bite out of a chicken finger. She chewed as she talked. “I’ve eaten way more than this before.”

                 “Okay,” the lady said, then walked off.

                 Claudia leaned back and devoured the rest of the chicken tender, feeling mashed lumps of boneless meat travel down her gullet. She picked up the club sandwich and began to eat.

                 The Huntress emerged from the door leading inside a moment later and looked around. What she was perfect. It was a beautiful girl in a bikini lounging around and eating a whole bunch of food on a table beside her. She couldn’t have asked for anything better.

                 “This is where we go our separate ways,” the Huntress said, looking down at the three little people in her hand. Then she walked over to where the cute girl was and pretended to look casual.

                 “Mind if I eat a fry?” she asked, pretending to be friendly.

                 “Go ahead,” the girl said, finishing her chicken sandwich with a large gulp. She reached for some mac and cheese and began shoveling it into her mouth hungrily.

                 The Huntress grabbed a fry and then dropped the three shrunken people onto the plate. She turned and headed back for the door. Now she could take Kenner’s car and make up a story about how he accidentally got shrunken and eaten by the girl in the process, but now none of that mattered.

                 The hunt was over.

^^^

Everyone slowly came to their senses. Simon looked up to see his girlfriend, his real girlfriend, pigging out on a buffet beside her. All three of them were on the menu and Claudia didn’t even know it.

                 “Oh my God!” Jenny said, hyperventilating. Simon had to remind himself that this was still all very new to her and a very traumatic experience. “Claudia is going to eat us!”

                 “No,” Kenner said, brushing himself off. “Just you.” He drew his now-shrunken silenced pistol.

                 “Please,” Simon said. “We all need to work together to get out of this.”

                 “Not happening,” Kenner said. He fired.

                 Pulling Jenny close, Simon turned and half-ran, half-climbed across the mountain of French fries that they were on. Kenner’s gun made pfft noises with each silenced gunshot, a bullet blasting out part of the fried potato material all around them.

                 “What do we do?” Jenny said.

                 “Just keep running!” he responded. They rounded a corner of the mountain, more a mound of fries Simon realized, and crouched low. He could hear Kenner approaching.

                 “Think Kenner,” he called. “How are you going to get out of this?”

                 “Simple,” Kenner replied. “I’m going to kill you, complete the mission, and use my emergency transmitter to have them come collect me when I’m done. I’ll just tell them that the Huntress went all haywire, ran off just like the last one did.”

                 “The last one?” Jenny called, still confused by all of this.

                 “Why, the one that went to your school,” Kenner said. “I believe you knew her as Kelsey. If she was your patient zero for tracing the shrink ray back at the party incident, when all of this really started happening, didn’t you even wonder where she got it?”

                 Of course, Simon realized. It was the missing link. He had suspected the government had something to do with the shrink rays, especially after they had sent assassins to kill him, but he never realized that the reason why Kelsey, the original Kelsey, had obtained one might be tied a conspiracy too.

                 “She made off with it,” Kenner said, still coming closer. “That’s when they transferred me to Malibu to keep an eye on you kids, but they decided to just watch and see how it changed hands. Watch what happened when one of those things got lost out in the field. But now that’s over. It’s time for me to end this fucked up experiment once and for all.”

                 “Who are you people?” Simon asked.

                 Kenner chuckled, reloading his gun. “You’ll never know.”

                 He leapt around the corner but teens were already running. Simon and Jenny leapt across the gap between the French fry plate and the plate where the burger sat awaiting its trip to Claudia’s stomach. They tumbled down onto the plastic surface, dodging little bullets that shot overhead.

                 Jenny looked up at the burger. “I’ve got an idea. We climb it?”

                 “Are you crazy?” he said. “What if Claudia starts to eat it?”

                 “Then we jump off.”

                 Kenner’s gun clicked. Empty again. “Damn it!” he cursed, starting to reload it again. Now was there chance. They got up and ran to the other side of the burger. Jenny grabbed some lettuce and Simon began climbing up from a tomato, his feet nearly getting stuck in the melted American cheese.

                 “Hurry!” Jenny called, already getting to the top. Simon nearly slipped and fell off, but Jenny grabbed his arm and helped pull him up. She was stronger than he had realized, which was a good thing.

                 “Thanks,” he said.

                 “Don’t mention it,” she said, smiling.

                 For a moment, he forgot about the danger and everything that had happened. Simon was just happy to be sitting her across from the girl he truly loved. And the fact that she was topless certainly made things more enjoyable.

                 Just then, a hand appeared on the other side of the burger. Kenner hauled himself up, panting and sweating, his face red with rage again. “You fucking kids!” he hissed, raising the gun again.

                 Claudia polished off the last of the mac and cheese, letting out a soft burp as she did so, then put down the empty bowl and fork. She closed her eyes and reached out towards them. Kenner froze and for a moment though that she was going to grab the burger, but then her hand veered off to the fry plate.

                 But Simon was already moving. He tackled Kenner flat onto his back on the bun, the gun tumbled away across the sesame seed peppered surface. But the agent was stronger and flipped the boy, still only in his underwear, onto his back and began to choke him.

                 “You’ve caused me so much stress over the past several months,” Kenner hissed, almost spitting out the words, “that I’m gonna enjoy fuckin’ you up.”

                 “You’re the only one get fucked up now, Kenner,” came Jenny’s voice behind him. He turned. She was wielding the gun.

                 “Give that back to me you little slutty bitch!” he howled.

                 Jenny smiled. She held the gun in her right hand and lowered it as she rubbed her breasts sensually with her left hand. Kenner’s eyes were helplessly drawn to her chest, that hard feeling coming on his pants as –

                 She threw the gun while shouting “Go fetch!”

                 Just like a dog, Kenner leapt after it. It skidded over the edge of the top bun and fell into a little cup of dipping sauce for the fries. It looked like a sour cream and onion dip and was right next to a marinara cup. But then the next thing he knew, Kenner was sliding over the edge too, face first plunging down into the dip after his weapon. He barely had time to scream before he dove in.

                 Simon and Jenny ran to the edge and looked down.

                 “He went after it just like a bone,” she said. “Who’s a bitch now?”

                 Kenner surfaced a moment later. It was like he was in a hot tub full of onion dip. He was covered in the white substance from head to toe. “You fucking kids!” he screamed. “I’m going rip your throats out and –”

                 Then they all turned. Claudia swallowed another mouthful of fries and reached for more. She picked up a handful and then casually dunked them into the onion dip cup. Kenner screamed and tried to dive down, but he was scooped up on top of the fries that Claudia then brought to her mouth.

                 Simon looked away as his girlfriend opened her jaws wide, but Jenny looked on in horror as if she couldn’t believe this was happening.

                 Kenner reached out his arms and cried “Noooo!” but it was no use.

                 Claudia stuffed the fries into her mouth and moaned with how good it all tasted. She chewed a little, barely enough, and then sent it all down esophagus in one gigantic gulp! They could still hear Kenner’s screams dwindling as he traveled down the girl’s throat.

                 “Oh my…,” Jenny said, covering her mouth. “Claudia…Claudia just ate him! She just ate someone!”

                 “It happens,” Simon said, scratching the back of his head.

                 Claudia rubbed her tummy, which gurgled as everything splashed in. Then she reached for the burger.

                 “Oh shit,” Simon said. “Run!”

                 They ran for the opposite edge and jumped a moment before Claudia lifted the burger off the plate and brought it towards her mouth. They landed and tumbled off the plate before coming to a rest on the table top.

                 “I can’t believe it,” Jenny said. “She didn’t even know that she just swallowed someone and –”

                 Just then, they heard loud thumping noises and turned to see giantess Karey walking towards them.

                 “Hey Claudia,” she said. “I was wondering…”

                 “Go the fuck away,” Claudia said, then went back to eating her burger.

                 “Okay,” Karey said, her eyes drawn down to the table. She spotted them and smiled, quickly grabbing them off the table and stuffing them in her shorts pocket before they knew what was going on. “See you later.”

                 “See you,” Claudia said, then went back to moping and eating her massive meal to take her mind off other things. Suddenly, she put the burger down and placed both hands on her stomach as she glanced down at her belly button. She was starting to get a really bad tummy ache and not just from eating too much. It felt like something didn’t agree with her in there.

                 It must’ve been something she ate.

^^^

The next thing Simon and Jenny knew they were being taken out of Karey’s pocket and placed on a hard wood surface. A countertop. Then Simon realized where they were.

                 They were back in Karey’s room. The giantess stood over them with her arms crossed.

                 “Please, don’t eat us!” Jenny cried.

                 “Relax,” said Karey. “I’m on your side.”

                 “You know what’s going on?” said Simon.

                 “Not much, but you deserve to know.” She closed her eyes and sighed, then began.

                 “I was a test subject for a top-secret government project known only as the Program. All I know is that they were experimenting with shrink ray technologies and a bunch of other things, like cloning. They had a line of clones all named Kelsey. Kelsey-1, Kelsey-2, Kelsey-3…you get the point. The one you know as the Huntress, the one who has been trying to kill us is Kelsey-2. The one who escaped with a shrink ray and went to your school was Kelsey-5. Kenner had blown some other operation so they sent him to observe and track the shrink ray in Malibu to see what would happen as other girls got hold of it once Kelsey-5 was KIA.”

                 Simon nodded. It was all starting to make sense. For Jenny, not so much.

                 “I don’t know if I’m a clone or not,” Karey continued, “but I do know that they used for genetic testing. Starting infusing me with some other DNA, I’m not really sure what. I don’t know what their endgame was, but one night I was able to escape into the night. I traveled here to Southern California and put myself into the foster care system, made up a story about how I was abused and they gave me that guy out in the desert with the motel. He treated me like shit, had me abused all to make a quick buck, but it was nothing compared to the tests they put me through at the Program. The injections…” She shivered, then regained her composure. “All I know is that my name is Karey. That’s what I’ve kept with calling myself because that’s all I’ve got.

                 “You – your families, your friends – are all in danger now. The people behind the Program are very powerful. There’s still so much we don’t know, things we need to learn if we are going to uncover the truth. You’ve barely scratched the surface and they sent one of their deadliest assassins after you, imagine what they’ll do next?”

                 “How did you find us?” Jenny asked, still shaken by the whole experience.

                 “I noticed Kenner’s car out front and ran up here to check on you. I looked out the back window and saw the Huntress by the pool putting something in Claudia’s food. She loves feeding people to others. It’s a weird fetish she has, although normally she likes to eat them herself. It’s weird, but leaves no trace of the bodies. Anyway, I ran down the stairs and out back to find you and there you were. Where’s Kenner?”

                 “He tried to kill the Huntress, so she shrank him too. Claudia ate him,” Simon explained.

                 Jenny shivered. “I can’t believe it. She doesn’t know that she ate someone! I don’t think we could tell her,” she said, shaking her head. “Claudia can never know.”

                 Simon felt bad. Jenny had eaten plenty of people too, some of them good and some of them bad. Like back at the Christmas party, when she swallowed Francine.

                 “So what now?” Simon asked.

                 “I need to come with you back to Malibu,” Karey said, thinking out loud. “It’s not I’ve got anything better to do and you’ll need my help in solving this conspiracy.”

                 “Okay,” Jenny said. “And how do we get back to normal size again?”

                 “Ah,” said Karey, turning and rummaging through her bag. “This is why I needed to pack my things.”

                 She pulled out another shrink ray, this one with an orange streak. “I made off with one before I left,” she said. “Thought it would come in handy.”

                 With a single blast, she resized the two of them and they sat nearly naked on the counter. Karey scooped Jenny’s bra off the floor and tossed it to her. “You look good,” Karey said. “Both of you. I’d love to do a threesome with you, but I think that what happens in this room stays in this room. Tommy and especially Claudia don’t need the heartbreak of learning that you two had sex. So once we leave this room, it’s over unless you guys can break it off formally and gently.”

                 “No,” said Simon, looking at Jenny. “We’ve had our fun. Now we need to get back to reality.”

                 Jenny nodded, but gave him one last kiss on the cheek.

                 A few minutes, with all of their clothes on, they walked down the hallway. Simon made a right to go down the stairs as Jenny walked back to Tommy’s room. He looked back one final time at her.

                 She smiled.

                 He smiled back.

                 Then he entered the stairwell and he heard the door shut behind him.

                 It was over.

^^^

The foul stench rotted the inside of his nose and Kenner came around. He opened up his eyes and lashed out viciously. He was blind. There was nothing around him that was visible. Then he realized. He was not blind, it was just very, very dark. Faintly, very faintly he could make out the walls of the girl’s stomach, churning in the darkness.

                 It was very full and cramped in here. Everything was sloshing around like a horrific cross between a trash compactor and a stormy sea. Kenner was thrown to and fro, tumbling around in bits of chewed it, liquid splashing at his skin and burning with the heat of a thousand suns.

                 He screamed. Acid, he was being digested slowly by the girl’s stomach acids.

                 “Get me out of here!” he screamed.

                 He wouldn’t let those damned kids win. He wouldn’t let that Huntress bitch escape after doing this to him. He wouldn’t let his carrier end after failing the mission that was going to get him out of that boring-as-fuck Malibu hellhole.

                 “Nooo!” he yelled into the gurgling darkness. “Get me the fuck out of here!”

                 He bellowed at the top of his lungs, then was knocked off his feet by a chunk of mushed and partially digested club sandwich. The stench was choking him, clogging his throat with its vile odor and making it hard to breath. He couldn’t scream anymore. He could only wheeze in out and he sloshed around, just another little morsel of food that Claudia ate. Just another bite to be forgotten in the many bites that high-metabolism teenage girl ate every day.

                 But after the long minutes stretched into what felt like hours then days of being batter and crushed back and forth, he began to accept that there was nothing he could do. That it was all over. But what really upset him the most was that he wasn’t going to die as Special Agent Kenner, badass field operative taken out in the line of duty. He was going to die as Detective Kenner, dipshit police officer who practically flunked out of a top-level government conspiracy and got outsmarted by two half-naked kids fresh off of fucking each other’s brains out and a bikini-clad hot girl with a taste for French fries and onion dip.

                 Then the mushed contents of her stomach crashed over his head and he was lost in the deep darkness as he was crushed in from all sides and the gastric juices continued to melt through his flesh until there was nothing but bones to be ground up by the grinding rhythm of Claudia’s digestive track.

^^^

She opened her mouth as a loud “Buuuurp!” came through, but covered her mouth and looked embarrassed as the lady from earlier came over to clean up the plates, all of which were empty.

                 “My, my,” the lady said. “You must have quite the stomach ache.”

                 “Yeah,” said Claudia, looking down at her distended belly. “But it’s nicer than having it empty. I’ll be fine.”

                 “Okay,” the lady said. “I hope your tummy feels better.”

                 “Thanks,” Claudia said, looking down at her stomach again. What a loser, she thought. What a waste of time and money to come down to the pool and stuff her stomach when there were people starving all over the world. She realized she was just a self-pitying cry baby. But she couldn’t keep the negative train of thought going but the bellyache was overpowering. She groaned as it glorped and gurgled, trying to process the massive meal she had ingested. Then she smiled. This was exactly why she liked belly stuffing. It forced her to take her mind off of other things.

                 Then she looked over her shoulder and saw Simon coming out in his shorts and red shirt, looking sexy as ever as the afternoon sun hit his face and light brown hair on the way over. “Hey!” she said, starting to get up.

                 He’s going to think I’m an idiot. He’s going to think I’m a worthless wreck of a girlfriend, she thought.

                 “I’m guessing you don’t need dinner!” he joked.

                 “Yeah,” she said, a hand on her tummy. She let out another light burp. Simon laughed. She did too.

                 “You okay?” he asked.

                 “Yeah, something I ate was giving me indigestion, but my belly must’ve taken care of that because now all the ache feels like it’s because my stomach walls are stretched out so far. Just meaning I ate too much and that’ll go away in a few hours,” she said, almost laughing.

                 Simon scratched his head. He was pretty sure he knew what had given her that indigestion…

                 He walked over and pulled her close. “Hey, I’m sorry it feels like we’ve been drifting apart these past few days, but I’ll make it up to you once we get to San Francisco. It’ll still be a fun March Break. After all, we still have all week left!”

                 “What about those people trying to kill us?”

                 Simon laughed. “We’ll give it another day or so, but I don’t we have to worry about them anymore. At least not for a little while.” He glanced down at her gurgling, protruding tummy, then up at her gorgeous face and into her eyes. She smiled and he smiled too.

                 Then her lips were against his and it was exactly like he felt a few days before this mess all got started, in love with his girlfriend and no one else. It felt like things were going to get back to normal, at least for a moment. But deep down, he still felt something for Jenny. And even though he tried to repress that thought and shove it away, something told him that this relief wouldn’t last long.

                 Trouble always had a way of catching up with them.

                 But damn it, here on this pool deck with the sun setting into the distance, with a beautiful and nice girl making out with him in her bikini, and an enemy defeated, he just wanted to enjoy it all while it lasted.

^^^

Somewhere in the Caribbean

Two days later

The midday sun beat down of the Huntress’s neck as she sat at the table for two. No one occupied the chair across from here, but she was not without company. Her latest target was currently in her cocktail glass, splashing around with futility in her margarita. She smiled.

                 The Huntress always liked toying with her prey. But soon she would send him on his way to her stomach and then be on a way of her own, a new assignment. Some other mess to clean up.

                 It wasn’t too busy of a café around her, but it was nice. She was sitting outside, watching people go buy on the street and palm trees swaying the wind. The café was situated near a cliff and the ocean crashed on the rocks below. She could see cruise ships and other vessels of in the distance.

                 She herself was wearing a bikini top, a sea-shell necklace, and short shorts and flips flops. She had Ray Ban sunglasses on to complete the slutty-American-tourist look.

                 Just then, her phone rang. She answered.

                 “Hello?”

                 “Huntress, have you taken care of the target?”

                 “We having lunch right now, as a matter of fact,” she stated, swirling her glass and watch the little man splash.

                 “Good. Before we put you on your next mission, the Director just wanted me to let you know that your report of the California case is inaccurate. You said you saw Contact K and the two teenagers eaten alive, correct?”

                 “While, we haven’t heard from Contact K but surveillance spotted the kids in San Francisco. They arrived last night.”

                 She felt her stomach clench up. They had escaped! But how?

                 “It’s gets better,” the voice continued. “Test Subject K-267 is with them.”

                 That explains it, the Huntress thought. She had made off with a shrink ray and could resize them. Then again, the Huntress realized that she really should have paid attention more to who was in the car. Normally, she did a much more thorough job but this time she had been caught up in the thrill of chasing teenagers that she let her…preferences get ahold of her. Next time she would be more professional. They would not escape her clutches again.

                 “When do I go get them?” she asked, eager to get back after them like a cat spotting a mouse across the room and readying to pounce.

                 “You don’t. We have other, more pressing matters that are better suited for your…methods and expertise. There’s another asset in place back in Malibu. They will take care of things when they return from the vacation. They need time to relax so we can regain the element of surprise. Besides, they never really knew much anyway. They’re not anywhere near being close to the truth. They are not a priority, at least for the time being. I’ll let you finish up your work there and then contact you shortly for your next assignment.”

                 They hung up.

                 Kelsey-2 swallowed. Her prey had never escaped before. And now they weren’t even giving her a second chance. All of her hatred was channeled towards those kids, the “Rays Club” as the file called them. She wanted nothing more in the world to see them destroyed. Command would always have more assignments for her, but this was personal. She needed to strike back and finish her hunt.

                 She thought there for a moment, taking in the tropical scenery and the humid air. Then an idea came to her. The Huntress didn’t need orders, she could find her own quarry and then get back on track later. A little side trip as a rogue agent. This could be fun.

                 Kelsey-2 smiled to herself. Then she smirked at the little man treading in her cocktail.

                 “Please!” he cried. “Don’t eat me!”

                 “Down you go,” she said, and shot the remaining contents of the glass into her mouth, swallowing the remains of the margarita and her target along with it in a single gulp. She allowed herself a burp and rubbed her exposed tummy. She threw some cash down on the table and turned to walk off into the crowds of the sunny day.

                 The hunt was on again.

THE END