pitch invasion

Short story to come with a picture with the same name on my DA /sok06/art/pitch-invasion-888952784

[part 1]

Rita was coming to terms with the fact that summer had almost ended, but the weather was trying its best to prove otherwise. True, it wasn't as hot as July, or that terrible week in August, but it didn't make it easy for her to stay at home and work on such beautiful days, especially knowing that she would have to wait over a year to enjoy the beach again. She didn't live far from the beach, at least not in absolute terms. But the nearest place she could access required her to travel for over an hour, and she just couldn't afford such a long trip on a business day. She could always risk and try her luck on a regular beach, but she knew the dangers of this choice.

Since she'd contracted the shrinking virus, she would mostly work from home. Even though by law her firm was required to keep her in the same position, she was effectively demoted. She didn't even blame her company too much. At the end of the day, there wasn't much that she could do now that she was 1/20th of her original size.

She had waited for this saturday for the whole week. It had been a slow, terrible week and she just couldn't wait to lay off some steam. Luckily, the weather was still forgiving, so she and her best friend who was another unlucky shrinking virus victim, had decided to play some beach volley from the early morning. They knew that they wouldn't have troubles finding a few opponents at the tiny reserve beach. 

When the special bus dropped her at the beach, Lillian was already there to wait for her. She had taken the time to find partners for a few games, and after a little warmup they were already playing. The beach where they were was not one of the most exclusive ones, but it was cheap. Other tiny reserves were incredibly more expensive and full of people Rita would hate. Snobs, upper class shrinkies who considered themselves still part of the high society, even at a fraction of their size. The only problem Rita saw in this particular place was how close it was to regular beaches. True, there were laws protecting shrinkies, but the thought of having so many enormous people no more than 100 feet from her was unnerving.

The first game they played was against two young men. They were in decent shape, but they sucked at beach volley. She and Lillian destroyed them, and made them promise to buy them a round of drinks later that night. Not only they had warmed up for some serious play, they had already scored a date for that night. The next opponents were two girls who seemed  to know their way around the game. The two girls won the first match by only two points  and Lillian immediately proposed a rematch. 

This time, Rita was winning, but her advantage was not too high. She was highly competitive, so she was focused entirely on the game. She found herself so stuck up in tunnel effect that she didn't even notice when the sky darkened down upon her. She was surprised to see Lillian and her opponents flee the field, and just as she was about to ask what was wrong, something gigantic landed just a few inches from her, destroying the net underneath itself.

"Christ!" She screamed, having dodged certain death from an unnervingly small distance. "What the fuck!" she said when she realized what had happened. Two regular sized girls had stepped on the field, uncaring of whomever was occupying it. "Hey, you!" she screamed at the gigantic women, who seemed to ignore her. The one who had crushed the net seemed to be more preoccupied with the little pain under her bare foot instead of the tragedy she had unawarely averted. 

"Goddamnit Julia!" the distracted giantess said to her friend "Where are we?". Her friend looked around herself, then at her feet, and laughed. "Oh my god Sarah" she touched her friend's shoulder "I think we are inside one of those shrinkee reserves!". The one called Sarah checked behind the shoulder, and noticed they had missed the sign. She also laughed when she realized where they were. "Oh that's why there are so many tiny losers around!" she said, uncaring of those very people who could hear her loud and clear. "What do you say? We stay here? The rest of the beaches are too crowded" Sarah proposed. 

"You can't!" Rita tried to scream at the two bullies, but they kept ignoring her. With their flipflops in their hands, and backpacks on their shoulders, they looked for a free spot. The tiny beach was quite vast, even considering their clientele. The giantesses found a relatively free area, and set their stuff over there. They made an elderly couple move, even helping them move their stuff, but their apparent kindness didn't change the fact that they were abusing the power that came with their size. Rita convinced Lillian and the other two girls to go and say something, and even though it took them a few minutes to reach the spot the giants had chosen, they eventually arrived. Rita was strong in her conviction that she had the same rights as regular sized people, and managed to encourage her friends. 

When they reached the gigantic towels, the girls were putting sunscreen on. What made Rita even more furious was the fact that nobody else was trying to say something. This was an injustice, and needed to be settled. "EXCUSE ME!" She shouted at the closest one, the taller girl called Sarah. The giantess turned her head, curious to know why a shrinkee was bothering her. "Yes, honey?" despite looking much younger, she used a tone usually reserved for children to talk to Rita. The tiny swallowed hard in order not to scream bloody gore at the woman, and trying her best to keep calm said "You have to leave. This is not the place for you". Sarah gave her a surprised look, and smiled. "Aren't you being a bit umpolite?" she said, knowing very well how intimidating she looked. Julia observed the scene with curiosity. "I don't care! You can't stay here!". Sarah's smile faded. "Look" she wanted to convince the tiny "Every other place is packed. We're not bothering anyone, so we'll stay".

"You're not bothering anyone?" Rita kept shouting "You destroyed our field! You almost stepped on me for fuck's sake!". Sarah laughed again, this time more openly. "Oh right. The little volleyball girls! Sorry about that" her excuses didn't seem to be remotely sincere, but they seemed to be enough for Lilian, who urged her to go. "No, we need to settle this" Rita said, freeing herself from her friend's grasp. "Look, i know i ruined your little game" Sarah said "but i can still give you something to do to spend your morning well". At this point Rita's face was blood red in anger. "Me and Julia here need somebody to apply sunscreen to our backs, and it seems a perfect job for somebody as athletic as you four." Julia snickered when she heard her friend's cruel proposal.

Rita was at loss for words. She would have jumped at this girl's throat if she was her size, but there was nothing she could do right now. "That's it, i'm going to the police" she hissed, and in a fraction of a second, a gigantic hand snatched her from the ground. "Sure, you can go. But first your friends have to do something for us". Sarah then deposited her on top of her cooler. It was too high for her to jump down, and she was forced to stay there until somebody let her down. "Go on girls" Sarah said after squirting some lotion on Julia's back. "The sooner you finish, the sooner your friends gets down again". The three girls regretted listening to Rita's call to arms, but now they were put in the very uncomfortable position to choose between leaving their friend in the care of two gigantic bullies or humiliating themselves that way. "Get me down NOW!" Rita screamed to deaf ears. Lillian was the first to walk, and the two other girls quickly followed. It wasn't just that they wanted to help their friend, it worked as self preservation considering that they didn't know what the girls could to to them if they refused to obey.

[continue...]