Michelle beat on the side of the balloon, trying to somehow cause it to pop, but to no avail. Apparently, whatever this “Corporation” was that had these two guys capture them, they had created these balloon prisons with thick enough walls to ensure against escape. Or more likely, she thought, we’re just shrunk so small that we’re not able to pop them. She slumped against the wall, slid down to the bottom, and drew her knees up to her face. The pack that the younger man had placed them inside was made of a mesh material, so some sunlight passed through. At least enough for Michelle to be able to see shadows, that is.
“Hello! Michelle! Sarah! Can anyone hear me?!?”
Michelle looked to her left and could see a faint shadow pressed up against the side of the balloon. She could see that it was Beth, banging on the side of her latex prison, trying to get someone’s attention.
“Beth? It’s Michelle. Are you ok?”
“Oh thank god,” Beth’s shadow nodded, “I can’t get out. I must be too small to pop the balloon.”
“I know,” Michelle replied, “I tried to pop mine too.”
“Its glad to know, I’m not the only one who couldn’t get out,” Sarah’s muffled voice echoed from above.
Michelle leaned against the wall of the balloon again and sat down, “So I guess we’re helpless now.” She rested her head on her arms dejectedly, “I heard them talking about a ‘Corporation’ or something.”
“Yeah, I heard it too, just before Mr. Big and Ugly tossed me into this prison. So it seems that we’re some sort of guinea pigs for a shrinking formula or something,” Sarah sighed, “God only knows what they’re going to . . .”
Michelle heard the sound of Sarah gasping, followed by a vibration in the walls of her balloon prison. As she looked up, she saw the outline of Sarah’s figure fall onto the floor of her prison, bounce once and lay still on her side. “Sarah? Are you ok?”
Just then she could hear the sounds of Sarah moaning and of latex squeaking. She looked up and gasped as the outline of Sarah’s figure grew smaller against the bottom of the balloon. However, she didn’t shrink for long. After a moment or two, her reduction stopped and Sarah eased herself up against the side of the balloon and sat down.
“Sarah?” Michelle asked tentatively, “Are you ok?” Sarah didn’t answer, and after a moment, Michelle could hear the soft sounds of Sarah crying. Listening to the sounds of her friend crying caused Michelle to sink into a depression of her own. Whoever these people were that had shrunk them, there was nothing that the three girls could do to stop them. She doubted that the ‘Corporation’, as the two men had called it, would let them go now that they had become subjects to whatever formula they had decided to test on them. In all likelihood, they would dispose of them after they were through doing whatever they had planned for the three of them. Michelle shivered, which quickly grew stronger as she rolled onto her side and curled up into a ball.
For a moment, she didn’t even realize that she’d begun to shrink again until the piece of cloth that she and Beth had fashioned from Sarah’s panties began to engulf her like a blanket. This only caused her to shake even more, too worn out to fight anymore, and too emotionally drained to even care as she dwindled to three inches tall. The balloon almost seemed to double in size to her until the last of the shrinking effects wore off and she lay wrapped inside the cloth. Gradually, she drifted off to sleep, dreaming of being home, normal-sized and wrapped in Brad’s arms, safe and sound.
Beth lay on her back, looking up at Michelle’s curled up figure above her. It appeared to her that Michelle had shrunk again until she was about the same size as Beth was. She shook her head, berating herself for being so stupid. She kept thinking that if she hadn’t fooled around with the shrinking effects, and had just let it happen, that she wouldn’t have shrunk this small, and might have been able to stop the two men from capturing her and the others.
No, she thought to herself, all it would have meant was that she would have been taller, and probably would have been carried away until she’d shrunk small enough to be put in a container like the others.
She actually didn’t mind being shrunk so small, at least not completely. She’d dreamt about what it would be like to be a faerie when she was younger. A childhood dream that faded as she entered adolescence, but not so much that she didn’t remember dreaming about hiding under rocks and flitting from tree to tree all day long. The only problem was that this was reality, not some childhood fantasy that she could wake up from. However, she liked how the shrinking sensation actually aroused her as a woman. It was the strangest thing, when she focused on the sensations, the shrinking process felt like someone was making love to her. Yeah, she muttered to herself shaking her head to break her train of thought, if you didn’t mind being shrunk to the size of a toy action figure and walk around naked. Gradually, the rocking of the bag began to lull her to sleep, and Beth dreamt of faeries who came to carry her away.