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Hey there insects~ loving all the support you've been giving me these past few weeks, been a huge help. Another Nanoverse story, hope you're all enjoying these! 

Emma’s work shoes clomped loudly on the floor, like a gigantic beating drum for the Nanos, who now ran in a mad panic for the door. Some of them had dropped their bags just to go a little faster. They beat on, each one imagining what terrible thing might happen if they were caught, or worse. They kept running, lead by Cedar in the front, when suddenly the shockwave of Emma’s final step made them all stumble. They recovered quickly and began running again, but in a moment their escape route was blocked by a wall of bristles as Emma began to sweep. The tiny scavengers ran in the opposite direction as the broom seemed to come at amazing speed, they all screamed loudly as they were pushed back again towards the crumbs, they're bodies launched this way and that; one of the men was unfortunate enough to be stuck in the jungle of bristles, unable to escape, each one almost like a tree to him and closing tight around his body. The survivors that didn't get caught got back to to their feet and ran in the opposite direction, away from the broom as Emma swept the same spot again, picking up what she missed. They only got an inch or two away when they heard Emma's voice from above.

“Ugh… Not ants again, god damnit,” she said obviously annoyed. She hated seeing ants in the restaurant, it never looked good for business and her manager always got mad at her for it, saying she was lazy and didn't know how to keep a clean dining area. Emma looked behind her and from side to side, the manager wasn't around, maybe she could get rid of them before anyone noticed.

Emma stopped sweeping and held the broom and dustpan to her sides. She looked down at what she thought were ants with a frown, it was always little things like this that caused her the most trouble. She raised the ball of her foot over a group of three that were running together. Unknown to Emma, what was under her sole were three terrified young women who were screaming as loud as they could, almost deafening each other as they ran and looked up at the massive black wall that was slowly coming down onto them. They ran and ran but seemed to be getting nowhere, the sole was still over them and coming closer every moment. Emma kept lowering her sole, she went slowly, wanting them to suffer for annoying her so (and because she had nothing else to do so she wanted this to last). The girls below kept running until one of them tripped on the smooth floor; the other two stopped for only a moment to help her back onto her feet. But it was too late. As they began to run again, Emma brought her sole down full force, crushing the girls into nothing more than tiny bloodstains, snapping their bones. They weren't screaming anymore.

Emma lifted her foot again to make sure the “ants” were dead, they were usually pretty durable that it'd take more that a single step. To her surprise, she only found three tiny blood stains close together, almost forming one small puddle.
‘But… ants don't leave blood stains...’ she thought to herself. Emma became confused, if they weren't ants, what the hell were they?

The rest of the Nanos, horrified at seeing their friends getting crushed by the colossal cashier, ran even faster, but still barely traveling more than half an inch. They felt the ground shake again as Emma took a step back, their hopes raised, maybe she was leaving! But they soon saw her seem to collapse to her knees, dropping down uneasily in her tight pants. She set her hands on the ground, her right one coming down hard in front of Cedar and his friends, blocking their path with a massive wall of soft flesh that formed Emma's finger. They feel onto their asses from the wind created by her hand clapping against the ground. They peered upwards and saw their light partially blocked, now only seeing the giant teen's face, she had one eye shut to get a better view of them all.

“What the hell… Nanos? What are you doing here?” Emma asked before glancing over to the crumbs nearby. “Were you stealing food?”

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In case you're wondering, dear tiny readers, this is in fact illegal in the world. It's essentially the equivalent to eating and not paying for your food. Nanos are supposed to eat at nano sized restaurants to avoid something like this from happening, and because they obviously eat much smaller food than Giants, so portions and prices must be adjusted. Now as stated in other stories, laws concerning Nanos are generally ignored because of their size, and this is no exception. While restaurants can easily call the police, most places decide to either punish the tiny offenders accordingly ( such as cleaning between small cracks in the floor or equipment Giants can't reach) or simply treating them as actual ants taking food.
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“W-we were hungry!” Cedar yelled out when no one else answered. “We live just right outside in the tree! You… you just crushed three of us, man!”

“Huh?” Emma said slightly confused, until she looked over to the tiny stains by her wrist, “ooooooh, so that's what they were, that explains it.”

Cedar kept looking in horror, this was exactly what they tried getting away from. This girl just crushed three of his friends and just spoke of it so casually, it was horrific. Emma quickly broke the silence.

“Well serves you right for coming in here and stealing food. God, acting just like little bugs, what was I supposed to think you were?”

A sly smile soon spread across Emma's face as she said that last sentence.
“Riiiight, just like little bugs~.”
She quickly stood up but kept her eyes trained onto the cowering group. She held her hands on her hips dominantly before playfully raising the ball of her foot again, twisting it around as she spoke again.
“And what do we do to little bugs that come in and try to steal our food?”

No one answered, they knew what was going on, they'd all seen it before. The fastest of them quickly got up and bolted in a mad dash for the door. That is, until a massive shadow came over them.

“Oh that's right!” Emma said, bringing down her sole and crushing the miniscule runners, they didn't even have enough time to scream before their bodies snapped and were ground out, now leaving only more tiny stains. “It's my job to keep the dining clean, so that means CRUSHING any bugs I find~. Better run faster little buggies~
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