"Well this is a fine mess we've gotten ourselves into." Kanaya said, her hands on her hips. Karkat stood next to her, his eyes wide and terrified as he stood overlooking the edge of the table, which was now the size of a football field to him. The drop to the bottom was a good ways down as well.
"Did I not wwarn you guys about that thing?" Eridan said on the other side of the table, which was regular sized to him.
"NOT THE RIGHT FUCKING TIME AMPORA." Karkat shouted, clearly having some sort of freakout.
"I'll be sure to make a note of this when we get back to normal." Kanaya said, tapping her foot.
"IIF we get back two normal..." Sollux chimed in as he hovered down to the floor. Karkat found himself extremely jealous that he could not fly as well.
"Come on Karkat, it's not that big of a drop!" Aradia said as she followed Sollux.
"YEAH THAT'S EASY FOR YOU TO SAY!" Karkat growled. "UGH!"
He found himself almost tripping over the edge. He quickly regained his balance.
Terezi was all the way across the room, inspecting the device as best as she could, which meant a lot of licking. Sollux flew up to her. "Uh, TZ, II don't thiink iit'th gonna get fiixed by doiing that..."
Terezi stops her licking and turns to Sollux. "Well this is the only thing I can do at this size!" She said with a grin. Sollux ignored her and flew around the device, looking for a way to access it.
"Why'd we even briing thiith thtupiid thiing here?" He groaned, not finding a way to tear it apart.
"Cuz we wanted to help Kanaya with her spacey powers, duh!" Terezi replied.
"And I think we can say that, in fact, it did and didn't help at the same time." Kanaya muttered. She crossed her arms and looked back on the table. Eridan was the only one who refused to participate in the experiment. He didn't trust the device that was made from "magic" rather than "science".
"Yeah but iit wath made out of who knowth what. How are we thuppothed two fiix iit wiithout knowiing anythiing about iit?" He turned around to glare at Gamzee.
"Bro I just threw a bunch of spacey stuff into that motherfucking magic mixer miracle machine thing." Gamzee said with a shrug. He didn't seem too perturbed about the fact that he was only a few inches high now.
"Just give it a whack and see what happens!" Vriska yelled to Terezi and Sollux.
"Haha okay!" Terezi said as she prepared to smack the machine. Sollux intervened, however. "Let'th not do that..." he said with a frustrated sigh. Terezi pouted at him.
"WHO FUCKING CARES HOW IT WAS MADE?!" Karkat yelled at nobody in particular. "JUST FIND A WAY TO REVERSE IT!"
Sollux sighs again. "Fiine. You lot try two fiix iit and thee how far you get!" He floated back over to the table and landed down.
Vriska took this as an invitation to jump off the table, landing on the wooden floor with a very small thump. She glanced back up at the table. "Anyone who's not a total loser can follow me!" She grinned as she ran towards the machine to join Terezi. The others were hesitant at first, but soon followed suit.
Sollux wandered up to Eridan, who hadn't moved from the other end of the table. "You're not goiing two help?"
"I ain't goin anywwhere near that thing." Eridan replied bitterly. After seeing his friends get shrunk, he wasn't about to start testing fate.
"II gueth II could thee why..." Sollux looked back at most of the group now fiddling with the machine.
Eridan stood up, turning around to head out the door. "Waiit where you goiing?" Sollux asked as he flew after him.
"I don't knoww, just somewwhere awway from that machine. I don't trust it..." he muttered. Then he stopped just outside the door in the hallway. "...Wwhy are you followwin me?" He asked Sollux. He received a shrug in return. "II don't really want two be there eiither."
Eridan rolled his eyes, but sighed. "Fair enough..."
The two of them wandered down the hallway in silence, eventually finding another room far enough away from the room with the shrinking device. They both decided to go in.
It was a simple room with one desk and a chair. Eridan quickly went to claim the chair, not that Sollux was really planning to claim it himself. He simply flew over to the table and sat down there, crossing his legs. "Tho...now what?" He asked.
"Wwait until they'vve got stuff fixed I guess." Eridan shrugged.
"What iif they need uth for whatever reathon?"
"Ara can fly too, she can come get us if they really do need us."
"True..."
The two of them sat there in silence for a while. They didn't really have anything to say to each other. That is, until Sollux spoke up.
"Hey man, do you miind iif II thee thomethiing real quiick? II'm...II'm kiinda curiiouth about thomethiing..."
Eridan blinked in confusion. "Uh, I guess? Wwhat did you wwant to see?"
Sollux stood up and walked slightly closer to Eridan. "Could you jutht...lean down here a biit...?" He seemed a bit nervous about something.
Eridan didn't really see anything wrong with that, so he obliged, leaning down slightly so that his head was about level with the table.
Sollux moved closer, somewhat cautiously. It was pretty weird getting this close to someone who was about ten times your size.
Eridan was starting to get suspicious as Sollux moved even closer. What was he planning to do? His question was almost immediately answered when Sollux grabbed onto his upper lip and lifted it, showing off his razor-sharp teeth. "Wow..." Sollux said.
"That's wwhat you wwere curious about?" Eridan asked, almost toppling over Sollux as his mouth moved.
"Iit'th kiinda weiird II know but...iit'th really fathciinatiing...II mean, jutht beiing at thiith siize..."
Eridan blinked. Then a small smirk crossed his face. "You wwanna see more?" He asked in a low tone.
"H-huh?" Sollux seemed to be surprised by that question. "Well...maybe...jutht a liittle biit..."
"Do you havve a thing for mouths or somethin?" Eridan asked, still smirking.
Sollux fumbled. "K-kiinda...iit'th jutht thethiing II've alwayth been curiiouth about...liike, what would iit feel liike..."
Without any warning, Eridan sticks his tongue out and licks Sollux, said tongue was as big as Sollux himself.
"ARGH!" The tiny troll yelped as he tried to brush the saliva off. "What wath that for?"
"You said you wwere curious about mouths." Eridan reminded him. "So I just gavve you a...taste of it." He smirked even more now. Sollux stuck his own tongue out at him.
He was supposed to be mad at Eridan for pulling that, but something in Sollux clicked. He wanted to find out more.
"Tho...what do II tathte liike?"
Eridan raised an eyebrow. He hadn't been expecting that question, and it was a serious one at that.
"Wwell, uh..." he pauses to remember exactly. "Wwell Ter wwas wwrong about wwhatevver flavvor she described you as..." he starts, "because you don't really taste like anythin. Maybe a bit of swweetness but other than that..."
"Really? II tathte thweet?" Sollux asks, his eyes lighting up. That was...kinda cool to know in a weird way.
"Yeah, I mean, it wwasn't really that bad or anythin..." Eridan says as he recalls more of the taste. It was really strange to think about, but he decided he wouldn't mind another taste if he could, but he figured Sollux would probably blast a hole in his tongue if he tried that again.
"Um...okay...thiith ith gonna be really weiird, but could you jutht...open your mouth a liittle biit...?" Sollux asked as he nervously fidgeted with his hands. He didn't know exactly why he asked, but curiosity had taken him over now.
"Like this?" Eridan asked as he opened his mouth slightly, enough for Sollux to look inside.
"Yeah, that'th perfect!" Sollux said as he peered inside. Everything looked slick with saliva, including the sharp rows of teeth. Sollux could see them extending back, he sure had a lot more than what he was expecting.
"Uh, Sol..." Eridan spoke up, trying not to move his mouth much.
"Yeah?"
"You're gettin awwful close there..."
Sollux paused. It was then that he realized that he had been slowly moving closer and closer, until he was leaning over the bottom row of teeth. He hesitated before speaking again. "II uh...II kiinda want two get clother..."
"Howw close?"
"..." Sollux wasn't sure he wanted to answer. "Liike...uh...all the way..." he said quietly.
"So basically wwhat you're sayin is...you wwant to go inside my mouth?" Eridan asked, not really believing what he was hearing.
"B-bathiically...yeth..."
"You're not gonna like...blast a hole in my mouth or break my teeth or anythin like that are ya?" Eridan asked, not sure if he trusted another troll in such a vulnerable place.
"W-what? No! II'm not planniing anythiing liike that! II jutht want two thee...what iit'th liike..."
Eridan hesitated a bit more. Then he decided that if Sollux wanted to do something weird like that, why not let him? He would have full control of the situation anyway in case he were to try and pull something. "Alright. Go ahead. Just wwatch the teeth." He warned.
Sollux practically leapt into Eridan's mouth, avoiding the sharp teeth just fine. He landed in the middle of his tongue. The muscle was somewhat firm but very soft. He poked at it and lightly grabbed the edge. Eridan responded reflexively by trying to move his tongue away. It felt way too weird having your tongue grabbed. Sollux didn't seem too perturbed about this and adjusted himself on the tongue's surface.
He inched back a bit, closer towards the opening of the throat. He gazed around at his new surroundings, teeth looking like stalactites and stalagmites in a cave. A very damp and warm cave. He messed around with the tongue some more, flipping it over to see where it attached to the jaw. Then he stood up, reaching up to Eridan's pallets and rubbing them gently, trying to figure out the textures.
"Uh...Sol..." Eridan's voice came much louder for Sollux now that he was actually in his mouth. "Yeah?"
"You're...makin me really hungry right noww..." He was starting to get used to Sollux's mildly sweet taste, and it was becoming harder and harder not to actually crunch down and start eating him. He quickly brushed that thought aside though.
"Oh..." Sollux hadn't thought of that. That could be bad if he was swallowed, though he had never really learned how that whole system worked and was curious about that as well. And he could always just fly away if he had to. Yeah, he could still be pretty much safe...
He sat back down on the back of Eridan's tongue, scooting closer to the throat. "You mean liike thiith?" He said smugly.
"Sol I'm serious, I can't help any reflexes!"
Sollux ignored him and slid closer. "You mean II tathte good?" He smirked.
Eridan didn't want to answer that question, mostly because it was true, he was starting to taste really good. It also didn't help that he hadn't eaten for a while since getting the experiment stuff together had taken most of the day. He was starving, and Sollux was right at the threshold of his throat.
Sollux scooted even closer. "How about now-"
But before he could finish his taunting, Eridan's reflexes kicked in. Muscles bunched up and pushed Sollux down the gullet with a swallow. He slid down quite a way before landing in the stomach.
"Oh fuck, oh fuck!" Eridan panicked. He looked down at his abdomen. "Fuck Sol are you okay?!"
Sollux stood up. The inside walls were covered with slime and gently pulsated as Eridan breathed. From inside, Sollux could even hear a faint heartbeat, or whatever the equivalent was for a seadweller's cardiovascular system. It was nice and warm inside, kinda like a cave but squishy.
"Don't worry dude II'm fiine!" Sollux called. He had already distressd Eridan enough, he could probably be nice now.
As he walked around the walls jerked and shifted. "What're you doiing that for?" Sollux asked.
Eridan was squirming in his seat. "S-stop wwalkin around so much! I can feel evverythin and it's freakin me out!"
Sollux laughed. He guessed it was equally weird for the both of them. He sat down and the stomach walls relaxed again. He couldn't help but feel rather peaceful in this place. It was quiet and warm, even if it was a little slimy, it seemed like a nice place to relax and get away from everything in the world.
"Uh...Sol..." Eridan's voice interrupted Sollux's thoughts.
"Yeah?"
"Howw long are you plannin to stay in there?" He asked, poking his belly.
"Dunno, how long doeth diigethtion take?"
"Dunno..."
"Well thometiime before then II gueth." Sollux said simply. He laid down on the soft tissue and closed his eyes.
Eridan sighed. "Sure, wwhy not?" He stood up from the desk. "Wwell then you're coming wwith me."
He walked out of the room and down the hallway. It was probably time to check on the progress of fixing the machine...