One fine Spring day, Lincoln Loud was being visited by his longtime friend Ronnie Anne in Royal Woods. They were celebrating the 12-year anniversary of their friendship. As a special activity, the two had decided to go on a little camping trip together, just the two of them. Once their campsite was all set up, they grabbed a blanket and a basket full of food and went off to find a separate, private spot to have a picnic.
Eventually, they came across a huge open field that was full of all different kinds of flowers. It was a beautiful sight with so many colors mixed together as far as the eye could see. "Wow. Check out this place," said Lincoln excitedly. "This would be perfect for a picnic. Let's find a good spot."
As they started walking through the field, Ronnie Anne's nose started to itch really bad. "Are you okay, Ronnie Anne?" Lincoln asked.
"Yeah. All this pollen is just really starting to get to me. Guess I didn't bring enough allergy meds for this," she explained. "But don't worry. I'll be fine. I'll just be sneezing a lot is all."
"We can find another place if you want."
"No, seriously, it's fine. In fact, why don't we split up so we can find a spot faster."
"Well, okay then."
And so Lincoln went left and Ronnie Anne went right. They were barely five feet apart from each other before Ronnie Anne let out a loud sneeze, to which Lincoln called out "Gesundheit!" and she replied by quickly thanking him.
Little did Lincoln realize that he was being watched by something very tiny and very sneaky hiding in the grass. It followed his every move as he wandered around looking for a place to lay out his picnic blanket, keeping an especially close eye on his footsteps. It watched as he stepped closer and closer to its target spot. And then, all of a sudden…
BOOM!
Lincoln was caught in a huge cloud of blue particles and quickly found himself losing consciousness. He fell forward and blacked out.
When Lincoln woke up, his head was throbbing as he slowly opened his eyes. He looked around saw that he seemed to be surrounded by gigantic flowers. "Wha… What the heck happened? Where am I?" he asked himself out loud.
"Yes!" a voice shouted, startling the young man as he turned to face its source. It was some sort of strange, short yellow goblin-looking creature with goggles and insect-like wings that it used to hover in place, yellow particles floating down from its body as it did so. It stared at Lincoln with wide eyes and a big smile. "It worked! My experiment worked!"
"Huh? Wha-w-what are you?! Who are you?! Where am I?!" Lincoln stuttered in fear.
"Relax, relax. No need to freak out," the creature told him. "You're still in the same place where you were before. You're just way, way tinier now."
"What? Tinier?! What are you talking about?!" Lincoln stood up and looked around in panic. He soon realized that the reason why the flowers were so tall was because he was now the size of a bug. "What did you do to me?!"
"I used you to test my latest invention. It's essentially a landmine full of miniaturizing pollen particles designed to shrink any oversized trespassers like you down to our size so we can deal with them face to face. And it worked! You're now exactly the size of a Pollenite!"
Lincoln was barely paying attention to what the creature was saying since he was too busy frantically trying to process his sudden situation, but as soon as he heard that strange new word, he got a lot more curious. "Wait, a what?" he asked.
"A Pollenite! That's what I am. The name's Speckle." The creature introduced himself by extending his hand for Lincoln to shake it. Lincoln hesitated at first, but he returned the handshake anyway.
"Uh, hi. I'm… I'm Lincoln."
"Nice to meet you, Lincoln. We Pollenites are tiny magical creatures who make our homes in the flowers like the ones you see here. But you are now the first human who's ever made contact with one of us. You're welcome, by the way. Now follow me and I'll show you to my village. It's not far from here. You're gonna love it."
"Whoa, whoa. Hold on a minute. You shrunk me and now you want me to follow you to your village? Dude, I'm supposed to be on a picnic with my friend right now. She's gonna wonder where I am."
"Don't worry. I'll have you back to normal before she even realizes you were gone. I just need a chance to prove to the others that my invention actually works. Now come on."
Seeing that he didn't really have any choice in the matter, Lincoln followed the strange little creature to his home, wondering how Ronnie Anne would react if she saw what had happened to him.
When the two of them arrived at the village, it was the most incredible thing Lincoln had ever seen. There were houses built into the flowers that towered over him like spires, and dozens of little yellow creatures just like Speckle buzzing and roaming all over the place, sprinkling pollen everywhere they went. The creatures also had small animals like dragonflies and field mice to assist them with things like transportation. It was like something out of a children's fairy tale.
"Welcome to Pollenville!" Speckle announced, causing more people to look in their direction and gasp in shock at the strange new visitor. Lincoln could hear them murmuring to each other.
"What is that?"
"It looks like a titan."
"Why is it so small?"
"What's it doing here?"
He and Speckle were approached by an older-looking Pollenite with a mustache and fancy-looking suit who didn't look very happy to see them. "Speckle, what have you done this time?" he questioned accusingly. "Why have you brought this strange… thing into our midst?" Lincoln took slight offense at being called a 'thing.'
"This is a titan, Mayor Ragweed," Speckle answered. "His name is Lincoln. I shrank him myself… with my mini pollen landmine! See? I told you all it would work!"
"You idiot! You've doomed us all!" Mayor Ragweed said angrily. "No titan has ever discovered our home before and now that this one knows where we are, he can lead all of his gigantic friends here to destroy us."
"Whoa, whoa. Calm down there, Mayor," Lincoln interjected. "That's not my style at all. Look, this is all just a big mistake. I was just minding my own business looking for a spot to have a nice picnic when all of a sudden, this guy's pollen bomb exploded and turned me into a pipsqueak. So if somebody here would be so kind as to grow me back to my normal size, I'll just be on my merry way and never bother you guys again. Sound cool?"
The mayor acted like he was pondering this idea for a minute. "Hmm. Actually, I was thinking we'd just lock you up in jail for the rest of your life."
"What?!"
"Guard, take him away."
Just then, two large and burly Pollenites showed up and grabbed Lincoln by the shoulders. Before they could drag him away, however, a voice spoke up. "Stop!" it shouted. The voice belonged to a slender female Pollenite who fluttered in and stood between the mayor and Lincoln. "You can't just lock him up. He didn't do anything wrong."
"Thank you, Polleen," said Speckle.
"If you're gonna lock anyone up, it should be Speckle. It was his invention that caused this."
"…Ouch. That is cold."
"He's a titan, Polleen. The less of them stomping around crushing things, the better," the mayor insisted.
Suddenly, as if on cue, there came the sound of loud, booming footsteps accompanied by an equally loud, booming voice. "Lincoln! Where are you?" Lincoln would know that voice anywhere. It was the voice of his friend Ronnie Anne, looking for him. He knew he had to get her to notice him somehow, so while the Pollenites were standing around in fear, he surveyed his surroundings for anything that could help him.
He spotted a dragonfly standing alone, hitched to a wagon full of what looked like seeds. While everybody was distracted by panic, he slipped away from the guards and made a break straight for the large insect. Lincoln mounted the dragonfly, grabbed hold of its reins, and gave it a swift kick in the side. "Haya!" he cried, causing it to take off into the sky.
The dragonfly flew around rather haphazardly as it took Lincoln a little while to figure out how to control it. He held on for dear life as he got tossed around like a sock in a windstorm. Luckily, he got the hang of it pretty soon and managed to gain control of his rapid-winged steed. "Alright. I think I've got this now. Now let's see if I can get Ronnie Anne to notice me." He spied Ronnie Anne walking through the field just parallel to the village. With a hard tug of the reins, Lincoln turned the large bug to fly straight towards his giant friend.
As Ronnie Anne kept looking around, she rubbed her nose as the itch in her sinuses started to flare up again. "Ugh. Stupid allergies."
Lincoln flew straight towards her face and called out for her, but just as he was about to get close enough, she turned her head in his direction and lifted her elbow up to her face, getting ready to sneeze. "Uh-oh," Lincoln said quietly.
"ACHOO!"
Ronnie Anne sneezed so hard that the force from it caused Lincoln and the dragonfly to spin out of control, but the shrunken boy was not about to be deterred. He quickly regained control of his steed and straightened them both out. "Come on, buddy. We're not giving up that easily," he said. He was determined to get Ronnie Anne's attention, so he flew straight at her head again.
The two of them buzzed around the giant girl's head with Lincoln calling out her name, trying desperately to get her to notice him. However, the only thing she noticed was an annoying little bug that wouldn't leave her alone. She started swatting the air with her hand to get it to go away, not realizing that her tiny friend was riding on the back of it.
Eventually, her hand made contact with the bug and knocked it clear out of the sky, with Lincoln jumping off at the last second and landing on top of her head. He slid down her face and grabbed onto the end of her nose for support. Now it was impossible for Ronnie Anne not to see him and as soon as she did, she was absolutely floored. "L-L-Lincoln?! I-Is that you?!" she asked in shock.
Lincoln smiled awkwardly as he was finally able to look her right in the eyes. "Eh-he-he-heh. Hi, Ronnie Anne," he said.
Unfortunately, the shock turned out to be too much for her. Her body started wobbling as she began to lose her equilibrium. Lincoln panicked as he held on and tried to talk her down. "R-Ronnie Anne, no. No. Don't pass out. Stay with me. Stay with me!"
As she clumsily stumbled around, the tiny Pollenites down below ran from her gigantic footsteps. Then they ran for their lives as she fell backwards and landed with a huge earth-shaking BOOM! The Pollenites slowly converged on the scene, watching with caution to make sure that the colossal stumbling titan was truly down for the count.
Meanwhile, Lincoln was trying to wake up his friend and make sure she was okay. "Ronnie Anne? Ronnie Anne, wake up! Wake up!" Suddenly, he heard the Pollenites start to celebrate.
"The titan is dead!" one of them shouted.
"Lincoln has slain it!" another cried out happily as the other all cheered.
"What? No, she's not dead. She just passed out. Look. She's still breathing," Lincoln clarified as he pointed to her chest that was still rising and falling. When they all saw that, they stopped cheering.
"Well, in that case, we'd better inspect her for any weapons before she wakes up," Mayor Ragweed decided. "Everyone, search that titan!"
Suddenly, every Pollenite in the village started crowding around the giant unconscious girl, squeezing their way into every part of her clothing and body in search of anything dangerous. "Guys, Ronnie Anne is my friend. Trust me, she doesn't have any weapons," Lincoln said, trying to get them to back off.
Four Pollenites used their combined strength to pull Ronnie Anne's phone out of her pocket. One of them pushed a button on it and it started blaring out a song by 12 is Midnight at top volume, making everyone cover their ears while screaming in agony. "It's some kind of deadly sound attack!" said the mayor before Lincoln came over and shut it off.
The tiny creatures continued to search all over their giant intruder's body. Some covered the insides of her clothes while others scavenged through the vine-like strands of her long, dark hair. Speckle flew up onto Ronnie Anne's chest area, where he gaped at the large, deep cave that was her enormous cleavage. "Whoa! This titan has a really impressive set of mountains," he said in a really perverted way. "Dibs on searching there." He then dove head-first into the space between Ronnie Anne's breasts.
"Hey! Dude, get out of there, you little creep!" Lincoln yelled at him, but the horny little pixie didn't listen to him.
All of a sudden, the Pollenites heard a loud, deep growling sound and started to panic. "Listen to that horrible roar! It's awake and it's very angry!" one of them shouted.
"Run for your lives!" yelled another. Once again, the ignorant little creatures were all freaked out and screaming like crazy.
"Whoa, whoa! Everybody calm down!" Lincoln called out, trying to calm the fearful creatures. "That's not a roar. It's just Ronnie Anne's stomach growling." Everyone stopped panicking and looked to see that he was right.
"But if she's hungry, then that means… SHE'S GONNA EAT US ALL WHEN SHE WAKES UP!" And of course, that got everybody screaming again.
"GUYS! She is NOT going to eat you! So please settle down and stop screaming."
Just then, Lincoln heard Ronnie Anne groan as she started to wake up. "Ronnie Anne?"
"Oh man, my head," she moaned as she slowly sat up and held her aching head. Even sitting down, the Pollenites and even Lincoln were all amazed at how much she still towered over all of them.
"Hey, Ronnie Anne!" Lincoln called up to her.
"Lincoln? Man, I had a weird dream where you really, really small for some reason. Like the size of a…" Ronnie Anne stopped talking when she realized that her friend was nowhere in sight. "Uh, Lincoln? Where are you?"
"Down here!"
Finally, the girl looked down and saw that she was surrounded by tiny yellow creatures that looked almost like bugs, which by itself was weird enough, but then she saw something even weirder. Her friend, Lincoln Loud, the same size as one of those bugs, and looking up at her. She bent her head down for a closer look to make sure she was really seeing this and once she was positive that this was real, her eyes widened and she gasped in complete disbelief.
"Lincoln?!" she exclaimed, the wind from her voice knocking him off his feet. "What the… how the… what the heck happened to you?!"
"Don't worry. I'll explain everything. But first, you need to calm down, okay?" the shrunken boy instructed.
Ronnie Anne sat up and took a deep calming breath through her mouth (since her nose was still a little sensitive thanks to her allergies). "Okay. I'm calm now," she assured.
"Great. Now, Ronnie Anne, I'd like you to mee the Pollenites," Lincoln said as he gestured to all the little pixie creatures around them. "They're creatures literally made out of pollen. Can you believe that?"
"Uh… hi?" Ronnie Anne said as she smiled and waved awkwardly, still feeling very weirded out by this whole thing.
"And Pollenites, I'd like you all to meet my very good friend Ronnie Anne." Suddenly, all of the Pollenites' fear was replaced with curiosity. None of them had ever seen a titan this close before. They started buzzing around their new giant guest excitedly. Ronnie Anne laughed as their tiny fluttering wings tickled the bare parts of her skin. A bunch of them even floated right up to her face to greet her directly, which made both her and Lincoln a little nervous.
"N-No, stay back. Please," she tried to warn them.
"Uh, guys? You shouldn't crowd her face so much," Lincoln said. But the overly excited little pixies didn't listen to them. "She's a little-"
Right on cue, Ronnie Anne's nose to started to tickle from all the pollen in her face. "Ah... ahh… ahhh… ACHOOOO!" Her giant sneeze created a gale-force wind that blew away all the Pollenites around her face and scared away all the other ones checking her out. When she saw the fallout from her sneeze, she felt really guilty. "Oh man, I'm so sorry. I'm just really allergic to pollen."
"We'll be sure to keep that in mind," said Polleen.
"Okay, Lincoln. Now would you mind telling me how in God's name you got so little?!" Ronnie Anne demanded. Lincoln then proceeded to tell her everything from him stepping on the pollen mine, meeting the Pollenites, trying to get her attention, all the way to her fainting. "Well, where's this Speckle guy? The one who shrank you?" she asked.
"Oh, uh… he's… he's in your, um…" Lincoln pointed to the front collar of his own shirt, trying to give her as subtle an answer as he could, as he was a little embarrassed to answer. Once she realized what he was getting at, her cheeks turned red and she peeked down the front of her shirt. There, she found one of the weird little Pollenites sitting rather comfortably in her cleavage.
"Oh, hi. I'm Speckle," he greeted her with a wave.
"GET OUT OF MY BOOBS!" The tiny round creature did as she ordered and fled the comfort of her massive bosoms.
"Well, now that that's all taking care of," the mayor said, "I suggest you two pick up and leave this village forever before I change my mind about locking you up again."
"Oh no. I'm not going anywhere until somebody grows me back to full size," Lincoln insisted.
"Yeah, I can't take him home with me looking like this," Ronnie Anne agreed.
"Don't worry. I'm sure I can cobble together a device to make you full-sized again, Lincoln," Speckle assured the shrunken boy. "The only downside is that it's gonna take me a little while to get everything together."
"How long?" Lincoln asked.
"At least twenty-four hours."
"Great…"
"Well, then I guess it looks like you're gonna have to spend the night here," said Ronnie Anne.
"But where am I gonna stay?"
"You can stay at my place," Speckle offered. "I've got room for one more."
"I don't know. Ronnie Anne, why can't I just go back to the campsite with you?"
Lincoln's question was answered when his colossal friend unleashed another sneeze that blew all of the petals off a nearby daisy. "My house!" cried one of the Pollenites.
"Oops…" Ronnie Anne said guiltily.
Lincoln realized that if her allergies were gonna keep going off like that, then he probably would be safer with someone his own size. "On second thought, I will take you up on that," he told Speckle.
"Great!" Speckle exclaimed.
"Alright, fine. But one night only," the mayor insisted. "And the second you're back to your normal height, you'd better be gone right away."
"Don't worry. I will be," Lincoln promised.
"And in the meantime, I think I'd better get out of here before I accidentally sneeze anyone else out of house and home," Ronnie Anne said. "I'll be back to pick you up tomorrow. See you later, Lincoln."
Lincoln waved goodbye as he watched his friend leave him behind in a miniscule town made of flowers populated by weird little pollen people. If this didn't qualify as the weirdest day of his life, he didn't know what did.
