2. Double Threat

Tommy slowly came to his senses. They were all on the lawn. Him, Simon, Drake, and the six soldiers from the Program. Towering over them in her orange bikini was the sexy figure of the Huntress. Her massive hand swooped down and scooped them up, bring them up to her beautiful face as she licked her lips.

            “You traitorous bitch!” Paxton shouted. “You were our top agent!”

            “Yeah, but then I got bored,” she said. “I needed to find a new…flavor…” She licked her lips.

            “Oh dear god, please don’t eat us!” Drake screamed. “I’m sorry for doing drugs, it’ll never happen again!”

            “This isn’t about that you stupid bastard,” Flynn, the British one, said.

            “I’m not going to eat you,” the Huntress said. “Well, maybe some of you…But only if I catch you. You see, we’re going to play a little game. Some of the girls are going to have an eating contest and I’m going to put you right in the center of it. If you survive that…maybe I’ll chew you up and give you a quick death instead of letting you digest alive in my belly.” Her stomach rumbled again.

            “I’d rather die honorably than play your fucked up games,” said the bald one.

            “Okay,” she said. “More for me.”

            So saying, she plucked the bald man from the group and dangled him above her open mouth.

            “Barnes!” Killian screamed.

            Barnes screamed as the Huntress let him go. He disappeared into her cavernous maw and she quickly gulped him down. They saw a lump go down her throat.

            “Mmm, yummy yummy in my tummy,” the Huntress said, rubbing her stomach. “Anyone care to join him?”

            No one said a word.

            “Didn’t think so,” she said. Suddenly she let out a “Burp!” and covered her mouth, surprised. “Oops, excuse me.”

            She walked back inside.

            Clutched in her palm, Tommy turned to Killian. “I know you were sent here to kill us, but the Huntress doesn’t care. She’ll kill us all. We should team up for survival.”

            Killian laughed. “The Program rewards loyalty, no matter what the cost. We have a mission and we’ll complete it and kill the Huntress too. But don’t worry, I’ll give you a quick death with my gun rather than let you digest alive in some girl’s belly. How’s that sound for a deal?”

            Drake was sweating like a pig. “Hey man, just let us go please. We didn’t do nothing wrong. We were just going to have some fun tonight, get laid with some hot girls. You know – high school stuff!”

            Simon shot him a look. “Drake, shut the fuck up before you get us all killed!”

            Drake gulped.

            The Huntress put them down on a table right next to the kitchen. Laid out before them was a vast smorgasbord of nachos, candy, soda, and more. It made Simon’s stomach rumble, but then he shook his head, reminding himself of the situation at hand.

            The Huntress walked away, leaving all eight of them at the table’s edge. Killian turned to them. “You have a 20 seconds head-start. I don’t want this to be a turkey shoot.”

            The other men chuckled.

            But by then Simon, Drake, and Tommy had already taken off full sprint towards the bountiful amount of junk food before them. “We can use the bags and bowls as cover!” Tommy yelled.

            “Guys, what the fuck are we going to do?” Drake said, scared shitless.

            “Just listen to Tommy,” Simon said as they continued to run. “Trust me, he knows his way around these types of situations.”

            Just as they took cover behind one of the several big bowls of nachos, they heard gunfire as Killian and his men began to shoot at them.

^^^

“Alright girls,” the Huntress said, walking back over to everyone else. “Who wants to join in on an eating contest?”

            “Count me in!” Emma said. She rubbed her belly seductively. “I can eat the most of anyone here!”

            Claudia smirked. Emma had beaten her once, but she had also bested Emma at an eggnog drinking contest. And even though Emma had been nicer to her these past few weeks because she took her under her wing after the cheating scandal was exposed, she knew Emma didn’t really like her. Jenny was the one she made fun of the most now. But Claudia still wanted to prove herself to Emma. And her best weapon against that was her stomach.

            She looked at Jenny now. The two of them hadn’t made eye contact yet, although Claudia had tried. It was their first time seeing each other since school ending, and over the past few weeks Claudia hadn’t said much to her. Jenny, her best friend for years, had betrayed her by sleeping with her boyfriend. And looking back on it, she didn’t really get why either. Simon was cute, but Tommy was hot. Emma was lucky to have him now, although she suspected he was just fucking her because she was hot and as revenge against Jenny and Simon.

            In fact, these past several weeks all felt weird to her. So much had changed. Their happier days from earlier in the year had suddenly evaporated. There was a hunger gnawing at the inside of Claudia’s tummy, and she realized that a good-old-fashioned eating contest between her and Emma would start to make things right again.

            “I can beat you,” Claudia said to her. “I’ve done it before, I’ll do it again.”

            “Is that so?” Emma said and smiled, her lip curling in contempt. “It seems I’ll have to remind you once more who has the best belly in school.”

            Claudia looked over her shoulder. “What about you Jenny? You’ve got a good appetite.”

            “Oh me?” Jenny said. She laughed awkwardly. “Nah, I think I’ll just sit this one out. My tummy’s been a little weird today.” She rubbed her belly. “I think I have a stomach bug or something.”

            Claudia doubted that was true. “Oh come on, it’ll be fun.”

            “Really, I’m good.”

            “It’s just,” Claudia said, “that I thought you would want in because I was in. Kind of like how you wanted in with Simon because I had him.”

            The room fell silent. Emma smirked again.

            Jenny froze. Then after a moment she gulped. “That’s not true,” she said quietly. She seemed sad.

            “Oh really, why’d you sleep with him then?” Claudia said, putting her hands on her hips. Emma was beaming like a proud mother. The other girls stood still. The Huntress remained off to the side, amused by the drama.

            “Because I love him!” Jenny shouted. “I liked Tommy a lot, I really did. But what I have with Simon now is more than just sexual attraction, it’s love!”

            “You are such a typical teenage girl,” Emma said. “Love, you say. That’s not what dating is about – not in high school anyone. It’s about sex.” Emma looked very confident as she said that. “That’s why I’m dating your ex now,” she told Jenny. “I’m the sexiest girl in school!”

            “Emma, just shut up!” Jenny screamed. “You’re just a lying, manipulative bitch. You don’t care about Claudia. You don’t care about any of your friends. You just took up the role of popular girl to fill the vacuum Caterina left when she transferred.”

            Emma smirked. “At least I have friends.”

            “Fuck you!” Jenny screamed. Then she stormed out of the room. A moment later, they heard the front door open and close.

            “I’ll go talk to her,” the Huntress said. And she moved to follow her.

^^^

The real reason Jenny didn’t want to participate in the eating contest had nothing to do with her stomach. In fact, she was kind of hungry and like the thought of stuffing herself and showing both Claudia and Emma who was boss. But as soon as Tommy told her the Huntress was here and she had seen Kelsey, (really her clone Kelsey-2), she had known they were all in mortal danger.

            When none of the boys returned from outside, but the Huntress did after she had gone to “get some fresh air”, Jenny put two and two together. She was reasonably sure that the Huntress had put them amongst the food on the table and that the whole eating contest was just a convenient way to dispose of them all. And she wasn’t about to accidentally eat her boyfriend and her ex, at least not today. She would be horrified if she ever ate someone at all, and as she thought that her belly gurgled.

            That’s why she stepped outside to call the only person she could call for help on this issue: Karey. She had been involved with the Program and was now their best asset to use against the conspiracy’s agents. She called her on her cellphone.

            “Yeah?” Karey said. Jenny could hear her munching on something on the other end.

            “It’s me, Jenny,” she said. “Listen, we have a Code Red. The Huntress is here at the Party and Tommy and Simon have been shrunken down. Emma and Claudia are about to have an eating contest and I’m pretty sure the boys are on the menu.”

            “Shit,” Karey said, swallowing something. “I was just pigging out at this burger place but I’ll be on my way.”

            “Thank you,” Jenny said and hung up. She sighed and looked up at the sky. “It’s going to be alright, Simon,” she said.

            “Why don’t you tell him that yourself?” came a voice.

            She spun around to see the Huntress holding a shrink ray just as the beam hit her.

^^^

The Huntress came back inside. “Sorry guys, Jenny said she was going to leave. She said she couldn’t handle it tonight.”

            Emma rolled her eyes. “She’s probably going off to fuck Simon.”

            The thought made Claudia tense up with rage. But then she calmed her nerves. She was over Simon. She was questioning her sexuality and experimenting with Karey and that was more than enough for her romantic life right now. Besides, she was about to show off to Emma how much she could eat. And even though Claudia resented the way the girl had treated her, she couldn’t help but think that Emma was cute.

            “Well, let’s get started then,” the Huntress said.

            “I’ll join in too, Kelsey,” Rachel said.

            “Wait, there’s one rule,” Claudia said, holding up her finger. “We all have to strip down to our underwear!”

            “I’m down with that,” Emma said, pleased that she could show off her body to everyone.

            Claudia watched her and Rachel strip down to their bras and panties. It made her feel so horny. They were both hot girls. “Here goes nothing,” she muttered and began to take off her clothing too.

            “Let the games begin,” the Huntress said. And she quietly dropped something on the table.

^^^

“What do we do man? What do we do?!” Drake yelled at Tommy. The gunshots were getting closer.

            “I don’t know,” Tommy said. “Let me think. Just shut the fuck up for now, alright.”

            Drake nodded and pretended to draw a zipper across his lips.

            More gunshots.

            “Okay,” Tommy said. “See that bowl of queso over there? Right next to the Fritos bag?”

            “Yeah,” Simon said.

            “We’re going to run for it. Ready? Three, two, one, go!”

            They rushed forward, sprinting across the table towards their next safe spot. Simon realized that Tommy was a genius. The black ops team was probably close to the bag they were previously at. Therefore, their view would be blocked by that bag and they wouldn’t see Simon, Tommy, and Drake running for their next spot of cover.

            They ducked around behind the small bowl of queso, which to them was still massive, and caught their breaths. “Shit,” said Simon. “This is crazy.”

            “You tell me,” said a voice. Simon and Tommy both knew that voice. It was sweet and feminine. They both turned in surprise to see Jenny there, hiding behind the Fritos bag. She looked terrified.

            “The Huntress got you too?” Simon said.

            “Great,” Tommy said, chuckling. “Just fucking great. I’m trapped between a giantess assassin who wants to eat me, a black ops team trying to shoot me to pieces, and above all I’m stuck here with my traitorous former best friend and my cheating ex-girlfriend!”

            “And me,” Drake said, beaming. Tommy shot him a look. “Sorry,” Drake said.

            “Can we argue about this some other time?” Simon said.

            “What black ops team?” Jenny said.

            “The people shooting at us a moment ago,” Tommy said. “The Program sent them here to kill us.”

            “And the Huntress?” Jenny asked, confused.

            “She’s gone rogue,” Tommy explained. “After the incident in Palm Springs she must’ve abandoned the Program and tried to hunt us down for fun, becoming a free agent. The mercenaries were going to kill her too, but she shrunk us down and now here we are fighting for our lives.”

            “Why won’t they team up with us to stop her?” Jenny asked.

            “Because they’re assholes,” Simon said. He couldn’t help but admire how beautiful Jenny looked, even as she was terrified and taking cover. The way her chest was rising and falling with each breath…it gave him a nice boner despite everything happening. And he thought he saw Tommy staring at her in a similar way, but more conflicted. He wondered if Tommy still had feelings for Jenny. He wondered if he was getting a boner too.

            They needed to resolve this tonight, Simon thought shaking his head. When this was all over and they stopped the Huntress, he knew that he and Jenny would have to come to terms with what they did and make it up to Tommy. And Claudia too.

            That was, if they could make it out alive.

            “What now?” Jenny asked. “I managed to call Karey. She’s on her way to rescue us with her shrink ray.”

            “Alright then, we just need to survive. Until then, follow my lead,” Tommy said. The three boys quickly dashed from behind the bowl to behind the Fritos bag, which was leaning against the bowl. “Alright,” he said. “Stay close.”

            He looked around the corner, back towards the bag where they had hidden before and around the table for any signs of the Program’s agents.

            “There you are!” came a British voice.

            The four teens spun around. It was Flynn, holding a knife in his hand. “I found them Jones,” he said. One of the other mercenaries, a buff African-American, stepped around the corner.

            “Killian said we need to save our bullets for later when we deal with the Huntress,” Jones said. “Knives only for these clowns.”

            “My pleasure,” Flynn said, running his gloved hand along the blade.

            “Run!” Tommy yelled.

            He led them around to the bag of the bag and then then started running up the slope.

            “What are you doing?!” Simon screamed.

            “Trust me!” Tommy shot back.

            They ran to the edge, with the bowl of queso below them. “Now what?” Jenny said.

            “Jump!” Tommy said.

            “Are you for real?” Drake said.

            “Yes!” Tommy said. Then he jumped off the edge and landed in the queso.

            “Man, this is really going to fuck up my Abercrombie shirt,” Drake said, and then he followed Tommy.

            Jenny and Simon looked at each other, then back down the slope of the bag. Flynn and Jones were rushing up towards them with knives in their hands.

            “We can do it,” Simon said, taking her hand. Together, they leapt off the edge and plunged down into the queso.

            The substance wasn’t like water. It was thick and gooey. It was hard for them to stay above the surface.

            “Simon!” Jenny called.

            Simon managed to make his way over to her and embraced her tightly. Even as gross as it was that they were covered in cheese, he kissed her full on the lips.

            “Would you stop it,” Tommy said. “You’re making me sick.”

            Simon spun around. “You’re the fucking idiot who made us jump into the queso pot,” he said.

            “Yeah, why exactly did we do that?” Jenny asked.

            “It’s like that scene in Honey We Shrunk Ourselves,” said Tommy. “When the girls almost accidentally eat them in the dip.”

            “Oh, I love that scene,” Drake said. “It was always used to turn me on. I mean, could you imagine would it would be like getting eaten by a bunch of giant hot teenage girls?”

            Everyone stared at him blankly.

            “Oh right,” Drake said.

            “But why recreate it?” Jenny said.

            “Because we can survive like they did in the movie and there’s no way that Flynn and Jones will follow us down here.”

            “Ello mates,” said Flynn above them, standing on the edge of the bag. “Lovely day for a swim, isn’t it?” Jones was right next to him, taking out his gun.

            “Now, I know the boss man said no guns, but we can take each of you out with one shot and spare us the trip of getting…shall we say, cheesy?” He laughed.

            “Or we could just let them get eaten by the girls,” Jones said, pointing.

            They saw the three giantesses in their underwear walking towards the table: Emma, Claudia, and Rachel. All stunningly beautiful. They went straight for the nachos.

            “Well,” said Flynn, turning back to the teens. “Have a nice trip!”

            Then suddenly a hand picked up the bag of Fritos. It was the Huntress. With one finger she slid Flynn and Jones over the edge and down into the bag. “Mmm, what a yummy snack,” she said. “I’ll save you for later.”

            She looked down at the queso and smirked. “Hey girls, use the queso. It’ll help the nachos go down even better!”

            “Oh shit!” Drake said.

            “We need to get out of here,” Tommy said. “Let’s move!”

            Emma and Rachel dipped their nachos towards the bowl. It was like a warzone, the impact of the nachos causing the whole pool of queso to shake. The girls then brought the cheesy nachos up to their mouths, shoving them in and chewing as their hands brought fresh nachos to dip and repeat the process.

            Tommy’s hypothesis about the movie was right. It was possible to dodge the nachos as they dipped. If they started scooping, Simon thought, they would all be doomed.

            Tommy reached the edge first, then helped Drake out. “Come on!” he said, reaching his hand towards Simon and Jenny.

            Simon was closest and grabbed Tommy’s hand. It was hard for Tommy and Drake to pull him out because of the gooey queso, but they finally did and he clung on to the edge of the bowl as all three of them reached towards her.

            She was just inches away. Then her fingers touched Simon’s.

            Then suddenly, the entire bowl shook and lifted as Claudia picked it up with both of her hands. The force caused the boys to all fall off and tumble back down onto the hard surface of the table.

            Simon quickly came to his senses and looked up and terror gripped him as Claudia brought the bowl full of queso up to her face. “No!” he cried.

^^^

In the bowl, Jenny watched as her best friend’s mouth opened up to reveal a cavernous dark space. She was completely unaware of Jenny, who must’ve just looked like a dark spot or some spice in the queso.

            “Claudia, please!” she screamed. She thought of all the good times they had had over the years, all of the fun they’d shared. It had all gone so well that when they both found new boyfriends at Cat’s Christmas party, it had seemed like the best thing in the world.

            Then she had fucked it up by sleeping with Simon. She ruined the perfect friendships she had had. Had it been worth it? she thought. Claudia didn’t even know she was about to swallow her. She didn’t even know about the Program or anything that had happened with the shrink rays. Of all the hidden truths she didn’t know, the only one she learned had been that Jenny betrayed her. The one truth that not even Jenny could face.

            Well, she was going to face it now, she thought. Tears were streaming down her face but she stopped screaming and crying, knowing it would do her no good in her final moments. She accepted in that moment that she had failed her friends. She had let down Simon by bringing him into this, she had let down Tommy by treating his affection like dirt, but most of all she had let down her best friend for years, Claudia.

            Jenny closed her eyes as the bowl tilted forward and she began to slide into the giantess’s open mouth.

^^^

Tears rolled down Simon’s face as he stared up in complete horror as Claudia gulped several times then slurped and finally dropped the bowl to the table. It landed nearby and rolled briefly before coming to a stop on its side against a soda bottle.

            Except for some cheese residue at the bottom, it was empty.

            Claudia licked her lips to get the last bit of queso out of the corner of her mouth and rubbed her smooth tanned tummy as it glorped, meaning that what she had just consumed was now settling into her stomach.

            “You bitch,” he heard Emma boom but it felt a thousand miles away. “How am I going to eat the nachos now without the queso?”

            But Claudia didn’t care, still closing her eyes and rubbing her belly. And Simon didn’t care either. He felt defeated, crushed, like everything he cared about had vaporized in an instant.

            All he could do was stare hopelessly up at his ex-girlfriend as she opened her mouth to let out a loud “Buuurrp!”

TO BE CONTINUED