It was a beautiful sunny morning as 17 year old Stanley Stevens awoke from his sleep. The sun beamed through his bedside window, basking the teen with warmth.

After a quick yawn and stretch, Stanley quickly remembered what he had planned for the day. The teen grinned as he ran over to the box under his desk which had just been recently delivered through mail.

Piling their combined money together, Stanley and his best friend Todd had ordered a shrinking device, a band-new technology recently developed. Legally, it was only supposed to be made available for certified doctors and scientists, but the hugely popular tech had quickly grown it's own online black market.

Just as he had finished setting up the small candle sized device on his desk, Stanley's cellphone rang.

"Hey dude, I'm about to head over" Todd's voice could be heard through the phone.

Both teens had been excited to test it ever since they learned about it months ago. The idea of shrinking and exploring daily every-day objects equally fascinated them.

"Just make sure you're wearing snow shoes and a coat before you leave your house!" Stanley advised 

"Wait what? Dude, It's the middle of summer..."

"Trust me, just do it..." Stanley interjected plainly.

"....Okay then.." Todd disconnected, a little confused but curious.

—-

Knowing that his friend would arrive soon, Stanley began to continue his preparations. The teen had been brainstorming all night, trying to figure out fun things they could do while in a shrunken state.

Running out of his room and into the kitchen, Stanley opened the freezer and grabbed a quart of vanilla ice cream he had hidden away towards the back.

As he made his way back to the staircase, he caught the attention of his younger brother, who had been playing video games in front of the living room TV. The boy was wearing a baby blue tee shirt with white cargo shorts and socks.

"Why are you dressed like that?" Toby asked, rightfully confused by the coat, gloves, and snowboots.

"Oh..uhh.. I'm doing a greenscreen project for school upstairs.."

"Oh...okay..." Toby was about to turn back to his game before he noticed that his brother holding something.

"You bought ice cream??" The twelve year old eye'd the carton swaying within Stanley's grasp.

"Uhhh, yeah" Stanley quickly muttered, as he continued to make his way towards the staircase.

"Can I have some??" The boy asked excitedly, placing down the controller and turning completely around.

Stanley stopped for a moment.

"Uhhh, not now, I'll let you have the leftovers later. I'm sharing it with Todd when he gets here....he's ....uhhh, helping me."

"Awwww, okayyyyy" Toby looked momentarily disappointed before returning to his video game.

Just as Stanley was about to continue up the steps, he stopped again.

"Oh.. and um, the project we're doing is going to take some time, so would you mind not bothering us for a while?"

"mmm... okay, whatever...." Toby muttered with no further interest, already totally focused on his video game again.

—-

After making the short, awkward walk over to Stanley's house dressed in winter gear, Todd eventually made it to the front door.

Upon knocking, he was greeted by Toby, who stared puzzled at the over dressed teen.

"My brother's upstairs" The boy mumbled with disinterest as he turned around to get back to his game.

"Thanks bud" Todd ruffled the younger boy's hair as he walked past him.

Toby grumbled at the condescending gesture and continued on his way back to the living room.

Just as Todd was about to ascend the staircase, Stanley ran into him at the bottom.

"Alright, you gotta tell me, what is this about?" Todd asked.

"Just follow me..."

The two had been best friends since they were ten. They were even born a day apart from each other and were equally about the same height.

The awkwardly dressed teens walk up the staircase to Stanley's room. Todd looked around with a bewildered stare. Nothing seemed too out of the ordinary, other than a strange veiled object on Stanley's' desk.

Okay, so you remember how you said you always wish you could swim in a pool of pudding?

"Yeah..?"

"Well... how would you like to SLED in a BOWL of ICE CREAM!!" Stanley unveiled a medium sized bowl of ice cream.

As Todd stared at the seemingly regular bowl of ice cream, he noticed a small device sitting not far away from it.

"Wait... is that?" Todd's heart began to race

"YUP!" Stanley grinned. "Just came in the mail yesterday!"

"Wait a minute... so you mean.."

"YEP" Stanley laughed to himself.

"The thought came to me last night. Just imagine it dude! Sledding down a giant mountain of ice cream!"

Todd stared at the bowl with fascination.

"Lets do it...." the teen grinned from ear to ear just imagining it.

"But how are we gonna get in? Todd asked the moment the thought came to him.

"Okay, so, We'll sit on the edge of the desk when we shrink and once we're small enough we'll use this mini staircase to get up and into the bowl" Stanley opened his palm to reveal a small flimsy set of stairs that looked like it was made out of candy wrappers.

"We're gonna be small enough to use THAT!?"

"Yeah, from what I read online, it shrinks you to around rice sized..."

"Ookay.., how do we get OUT?" Stanley looked concerned as he made note of the curved sides of the bowl.

"Dude, relax, I thought of everything" Stanley smiled as he picked up strip of vanilla waffer, placing it in the ice cream to act as a ramp for when they decided to get out.

"Okay fine... but maybe we should consider a few more things before we-"

"Dude, don't be such a worrywart! it will be melted by then! This ice cream isn't going to wait for us!" Stanley groaned impatiently.

"Hmmmm," Todd paused for a moment as he thought about it.

"Oh common! How many people could say they've sled on a mountain of ice cream before!" Stanley whined.

Todd sighed before finally giving in to his friend's incessant pleading.

"ALLL RIGHT, you've pulled my arm......, lets do it!" Todd couldn't deny that it was an exciting idea.

"YES!!!" Stanley grinned, pulling his best friend over to the desk.

Both teens sat on the edge of the desk, each on a different side of the bowl.

Todd grabbed Stanley's hand over the bowl, as Stanley pressed his thumb on the small metallic area on top of the device. There were three consecutive beeps followed by the flashing of a green light on the device. Instantaneously a single shock pulsed from the metallic plate and was sent through Stanley's thumb and into the two awaiting teens. That was all it took before both boys began to shrink rapidly. They dwindled so fast, that their hands were practically torn from each other as the bowl next to them became an impassable monument before their very eyes.

Once his size was stabilized, Todd could do nothing but stare in awe at the room around him, specifically the bowl that now loomed over him like a large building.

"STANLEY!!!" The teen called out.

"TODD I'M COMING AROUND THE FRONT" Stanley's voice could be faintly heard from behind the bowl.

A few inches away was the mini staircase, which now almost looked a bit TOO big for them.

After Todd took a moment to inspect it, Stanley had finally reached him, huffing and puffing.

"Wow *huff* that was a longer trip than I thought...."

"Yeah, and check out your 'staircase'" Todd jested, as he pointed his thumb over his shoulder.

"Woah.... I guess I should have made the steps a little smaller...."

Hesitantly, both boys walked over and began to climb over each step, slowly making their way higher and higher to the rim of the bowl.

As they finally reached the top, they stood in awe at the magnificent view of the mountain of ice cream before them.

"I sculpted it myself to make sure we'd get a good ride out of it!" Stanley beamed with pride.

"Well, I gotta say, you certainly are an artist...." The sheer magnitude of the landscape took Todd's breath away.

"Hey, why did you add those chocolate sprinkles?" Todd asked as he noticed various areas covered with blots of sprinkles."

"Meh, I thought it would make it look more authentic..." Stanley shrugged.

" 'Authentic' ? Really?" Todd laughed.

"HEY! Don't tell me that 'THAT' doesn't look like the icecream mountain of your dreams!"

"Okay Okay....calm down Da Vinci" Todd loved getting a rise out of his easy-to-tease best friend.

"Wait, where's the waffer?" Todd suddenly realized he couldn't see it.

"Oh, that's on the other side.." Todd answered plainly.

"WHAT? How are we gonna get in??"

"How else?" Stanley lowered himself into a sitting position on the inner ledge of the rim.

"You've gotta be kidding me right?" Todd asked nervously.

"Oh common, It will be like one of those water park slides!" Stanley assured.

"Look, the ice cream at the bottom will soften our fall and everything!"

Todd leaned over the edge and gulped as he stared down at horrifying plunge.

"...Are you sure about this....?" The teen's legs shook as he took a seat next to his friend.

"I'm telling you man... just think... WATER SLIDE!!" Stanley grinned.

Todd took a deep breath and imagined himself at the top of a huge water-slide.

"Alright dude! This is it! You ready for some ice cream?" Stanley turned to his friend.

"Okay... I'm ready....Lets do this on three..." Todd answered.

"1....2.....3 !!!" Both boys screamed with excitement as they pushed themselves off the ledge and plummeted. The smooth curve of the bowl quickly made contact with their backs half-way down, causing them to slide into a huge dune of ice cream at the bottom.

There was total silence for a moment as both boys pulled themselves out of the creamy vanilla scented goop. The two friends made eye contact with each other and began to laugh hysterically as they attempted to stand up, falling over and getting more heavily covered.

"DUDE!!!! LOOK AT ME MAN!!" Todd raised his arms, which he had used to stop himself as he collided with the ice cream; both were now smothered with thick layers of ice cream."

"YEAH? Dude, THAT'S NOTHING LOOK AT MY BACK!" Stanley turned around, showing that his entire back was covered with white.

Todd reached down as Stanley still had his back turned and picked up a glob of the ice cream, tossing it right at the back of his friend's head.

"YOU ASS! That hit my neck!" Stanley reached down and made his own poorly constructed glob.

A ice cream-ball war ensued that ended with both boys almost completely covered with creamy frozen vanilla.

Realizing that he had yet to actually taste it, Todd licked a bit from his glove.

"Wooooah! DUDE. Did you taste it yet? It's AMAZING"

"Yeah, I got a taste of it when you threw it straight into my face..." Stanley rolled his eyes.

"Now come on, I put a sled further up" Stanley pointed towards the enormous peak that loomed uphill.

"We gotta hurry before this changes from a mountain to an ocean!" he added.

Not wanting to waste any more time, both teens began to scale the vast expanse of vanilla. Todd jokingly compared them to a Eskimos traveling in the winter tundra.

After about two minutes of climbing, Todd pointed towards something.

"There it is!" The teen hobbled over to a sled-sized brown slab.

"Wait........is this?...." Todd asked suspiciously

"Yep! I carved it out of a Hersey's bar!" Stanley boasted almost smugly.

"Dude...this is awesome!" Todd laughed at the genius absurdity of it.

"Well....Ready to sled down a mountain of ice cream?" Stanley grinned as he placed the 'sled' down against the flat glistening surface of the creamy mountain face.

—-

Meanwhile downstairs, Stanley's younger brother Toby continued to play his videogame, still normal sized, and totally unaware that older brother and his best friend were now small enough to be accidentally stepped on.

The boy's gaming was suddenly interrupted by a grumble from his behind his lower shirt.

"Mmm, I wonder if mom brought home any snacks..." Toby's sweet-tooth called to him as he rubbed his belly. As the twelve year old began to consider what they had left in the fridge, his eyes lit up as he remembered the ice cream his brother was holding earlier. Pressing pause, the boy lifted himself up off the floor and trotted over to the staircase.

"STAN, CAN I HAVE SOME OF THAT ICE CREAM NOW??" Toby shouted up towards the staircase.

Being answered with only silence, Toby began to climb the stairs, making his way towards his brother's room.

Upon reaching the door, Toby started to knock, neglecting to remember that his brother had asked him to leave them alone.

The boy attempted to push it open, only to find that it had been locked.

Pressing his ear against the door, he was again, met with nothing but silence.

"Hmmmmmm...." Toby hummed to himself as he pulled out a trading card from his pocket. After a sliding the card between the inner lock and jimmying the doorknob for a moment, the door simply popped open. It was a trick the boy learned on youtube, and was a skill he had since used multiple times in order to sneak into his brother's room while he was out; mainly to dip into the 'secret' stash of candy that Stanley had hidden under his bed.

The boy poked his head into the room, confirming that there was no one else inside.

"Where did they..?." Toby was about to leave and close the door behind him before noticing a bowl of ice cream sitting across the room on his brother's desk.

The boy inhaled with excitement as his mouth began to water. Exactly what he was in the mood for...

—-

Both teens slid to a halt towards the foot of the mountain, laughing their heads off and eager to get up and go again. As the boys slowly made their way back up the back-side of the mountain, Todd noticed that his feet were beginning to sink deeper as the time went by.

"Maybe we should call it quits after this, it seems like it's really starting to melt now..."

"Yeah I guess after this we should j-...."

Stanley cut himself off as a large sprinkle fell onto the plane of white a few 'inches' left from where they were standing.

"...Where di..." Stanley began to ask before two more fell not far behind them.

Suddenly as if they had just witnessed the beginnings of a storm, chocolate sprinkles began to rain around them.

"D-dude.. how are you.." Todd asked bewildered.

"... I'm not, I didn't... oh god..." Stanley tilted his head up to find the source.

Both teens looked up to see a massive hand pouring sprinkles onto the mountain.

They stood paralyzed as the giant head of Stanley's little brother peaked over the summit of the mountain, his tongue poking out from the side of his mouth as he continued to 'decorate' the bowl.

—-

-A few moments earlier-

Quietly, Toby trotted over to the desk, his socked feet thumping across the carpeted floor.

He was quick to assume that his brother had left the bowl for him, like he had (sort of) promised.

("I guess he forgot to tell me before he left.....") the boy thought innocently to himself as he looked over the contents of the bowl with great intent. He was excited to see it was vanilla; his favorite.

Pulling over a nearby stool, Toby took a seat as he noticed a nearby can of sprinkles.

Now he KNEW that this was going to be a GREAT bowl of ice cream.

—-

-back to present-

The energetic fifth grader stared down at the yummy looking ice cream after giving the sprinkle can a good shake, dotting nearly the entire surface.

Toby LOVED sprinkles.

—

"TOBY!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!? STOP!!" Stanley yelled up at his titanic younger brother.

"Dude, I don't think he can hear us, we should just get out of here" Todd tugged at his friend's arm worryingly.

"Yeah, alright, lets go...." The teen turned.

Just as the boys began to run down the face of the ice cream....

"Ooo! He even left me a vanilla waffer!" Toby gleamed as he reached for the small waffer sitting against the side of the bowl.

"No! Toby Stop! We need that!" Both teens raised their arms and called out helplessly as the giant hand grabbed their only method of escape. The boy was simply too big to notice the tiny voices as he popped the waffer into his mouth.

*MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH* "Mmmm~" Toby smiled widely. Having just kick-started his tastebuds, the eager little league soccer player now reached for a nearby spoon placed not far away from the bowl; not realizing it was only supposed to be used to sculpt the 'mountain'.

Having enjoyed the nice waffer treat, Toby was now ready to really dig in!

The tiny teens watched in a panic as the massive spoon quickly dipped under the peak of the ice cream, taking off the entire upper layer with a quick movement. Quickly and effortlessly, the hungry boy brought the spoon up into his open mouth.

Toby hummed as he savored the first spoonful. Quickly gulping and ready for another.

From that moment, scoop after scoop began to ascend into the sky, depositing portion after portion of the mountain into the growing boy's all-consuming maw. As Todd ran, he lost both of his boots in the thick melting ice cream; Not only a few moments later would he witness the entire area of ice cream he had left them in get spooned up and devoured. They were so small and insignificant, that the boy's taste-buds didn't even pick up on them.

After reaching the wall of the bowl, both teens attempted to scale it, only to find that their efforts were in vain. At their size, the sides of the bowl were as tall as a city apartment building and totally vertical towards the top of the rim.

"Dude! We have no choice, we need to get his attention NOW!!!!" Todd yelled as he turned around and began to run back towards the now down-graded 'mound' of ice cream.

Stanley attempted to follow, but quickly found that he had now sunk waist deep into a particularly soft portion of the melting ice cream.

"DUDE WAIT! I'm stuck!!" Stanley yelled with alarm. The outer edge was quickly becoming a creamy moat.

Todd, who was now half-way up the mound turned around, only just realizing that his best friend was still struggling back towards the wall.

Just before he was able to run back down, the spoon dipped right under the layer of ice cream he was standing on.

A soft gurgling could be heard from Toby's abdomen as his stomach began to digest the first half of his dessert.

Todd screamed in terror as his view of the bowl around him fell and was quickly replaced by the face of his best friend's younger brother.

For a moment as Toby brought the spoonful towards his mouth, he thought he noticed something moving on top, but quickly shrugged it off as simply being a sprinkle sliding down the melting ice cream.

Todd watched stunned as Toby's wet lips parted, as his mouth opened wide. The gooey ice cream infused saliva coated and dripped across the massive den as a blast of warm air flooded outwards.

As the shadow of the -once- little kid's mouth fell over him, the sprinkle sized teen finally lost it. Todd turned around and began to crawl away from his encroaching doom as tears began forming in his eyes.

"STANLEY! SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!! HEL-"

'Ommf~" Toby slapped his lips closed around the metal utensil before slurping off the lump of yummy ice cream as he pulled out the empty, saliva-coated spoon.

Stanley stared on in horror and disbelief as he watched his kid brother gulp down his best friend. The boy's massive face smiled down at the bowl as his throat bobbed faintly, already beginning to reach down for another scoop.

—

Having not noticed a single difference from any of the previous spoonfuls he had consumed, Toby went right back for another. .

Stanley continued to struggle, just attempting to keep his upper body from sinking into the white creamy abyss.

Fortunately, none of his brother's subsequent scoops were anywhere near him as Toby began taking care of the last traces of the mound. Where a mountain once stood was now simply a mushy wet puddle of ice cream and sprinkles.

Stanley was totally exhausted and couldn't struggle more if he wanted to, all he could do was pant helplessly in three feet of the melted ice cream.

To Stanley's relief however, Toby finally looked like he was finished. The giant boy stretched his arms up high over his head and sighed with contentment.

Stanley made a different kind of sigh and he began trying to figure out how he was going to proceed from here.

Before he could continue his thoughts, Stanley suddenly felt the pool of melted ice cream surge forward.

Frightened and confused, Stanley looked up to see Toby lifting the entire bowl up to his lips, beginning to tilt it forward; it was a habit the boy had learned from his older brother.

"N-No! WAIT!!" Stanley could do nothing as a surge of white liquid rushed past him, carrying him towards his little brother's impossibly massive face, specifically his mouth, which was now guzzling down what looked like thousands of gallons of melted ice cream.

Stanley tried to grab on to something, anything, but there was simply nothing but a few idle sprinkles to grab on to, all of which were headed in the same direction.

Just as all hope seemed lost, and the puckering wet lips came closer and closer, the bowl was suddenly tilted back to it's original level.

Stanley slid back down the side of the bowl until colliding with a leftover sprinkle.

"F-finally..." Stanley wiped his eyes of the creamy substance as he lay physically and emotionally exhausted on the gooey surface at the bottom of the bowl. As the older teen lay there, breathing heavily, he at least knew now that the worst was over.

However, Stanley didn't yet realize that Toby seemed to have ONE LAST order of business.

Stanley began to scream as he saw Toby's giant tongue press down into the bowl a few yards from his position, licking clean a line from one side of the bowl to the other with one sweep.

Stanley was jolted in all directions as the bowl swung around in the boy's hands as he attempted to gather up ever last dripping of ice cream and sprinkles he could see.

After licking up every other area of the bowl clean, Toby eyed the one final blotch of ice cream with two 'sprinkles'. Without even realizing he was finally making eye contact with his brother, he brought his tongue down in front of the target and began to swipe forward.

"PLEASE! NO!! TOBY!! IT'S ME IT'S YOUR BROTHER!!! I'M RIGHT HERE!!!! I'm RIGHT..."

The massive tongue came closer and closer until making contact with the splotch.

As Stanley whole body adhered to the enormous warm surface, he watched as the world around him receded into darkness as Toby retracted his tongue back into his large vacant mouth. All he could see beyond the vast pink sponginess was the dark entrance of the boy's throat glistening as it undulated in the fading light.

"TOOOOBYYYYYY!!!—"

Just as he closed his mouth shut, ready to gulp the last bit of his dessert, Toby could have sworn he heard an incredibly faint, oddly pitched scream. But just as he had before, he safely assumed it was just his imagination...

*gulp*