Chapter Text
It was hard to make sense of that latest adventure. Something about potions and different sized doors? At least if you picked right, you could leave of your own instead of waiting for the others. Jax grumbled about how easy the adventure was. He was too used to Caine’s shenanigans by now. Gangle followed Jax who was then followed by Zooble. Kinger was a great guesser. Ragatha had her doubts but he led them through. All that was left was… hm, where could that jester have gone? Did she answer those questions too logically? The portal closed so everyone’s out of the adventure, right?
Pomni could argue it was going to be a different adventure. The circus’s scale was somehow more massive than she remembered. Was it an optical illusion? She glanced at the lounging area. Yeah, no, she was looking at it correctly. She really is that small. That thing under couches that lifts the couch up? She was around that tall.
She walked all the way to her room to see if she could find anything to help the situation. There were only drawers with nothing in them, the bed, the number/letter blocks, and a unicorn horn. That last item was different. She tried rubbing it like she was trying to ignite a fire. Did it have any magical properties perhaps? “Well, it’s possible”, she said to herself as it did nothing. Sighing with defeat, she went out to the nearest room for help. Unfortunately, the closest across the hall from her was Jax.
The door wasn’t open but she didn’t need it to be. She wedged herself under and through. Stars lit the ceiling. Apparently he snores. The jester climbed the bed post and walked up to Jax’s massive head. She tapped him lightly to not wake him. He swatted at her like a bug. She almost fell off. She tried again more as a punch to get his attention. “Hrrn, huh?” The slits of his eyes slowly revealed their yellow neon color. A black moving square in the middle was looking for the source of whatever was bothering him. Pomni yelled beside him. His ears twitched at the sound. “Hello?” He was more careful in his movements as he searched around. He finally found the source of the noise. “Huh? Oh, huh. That’s.. that’s hilarious.”
He picked up the red and blue being by the back and held her up to his face. “You’re like a doll, not even! More like.. a dust bunny!” He swayed her back and forth giggling while she’s screaming from the movements. “Let me down!” The rabbit laughed. “You think you’re in a position to be making demands here? Ha! Yeah, I’ll put you down, just to stop your whining until I can think of something funnier to do with you.” He stuffed his circusmate into his front overall pocket. It wasn’t all the way but enough to be annoying. “Jax!” Pomni scrambled to pop her head out. “That’s my name.” She pounded at the animal in pink clothes.
“You know what I meant. You know I didn’t come to you as a prisoner but to ask you for help.” Jax’s rubbery gloved finger patted Pomni’s hat. “Aw, adorable. Wrong choice but adorable”. Pomni growled in response. “You’re the closest one so anyone else I would get squished by.” “And you don’t think I would do that to you?” She shrugged, “it was a risk I was willing to make”. “So, what, you want me to be your ‘savior’ or something?” Technically yes, in this case. “Would it make you feel better if I said ‘yes’?” Jax froze just for a moment, but that moment was a debate. “She’s so funny and helpless like this”, he thought. “But that means I’ll have to protect her and… wait, why do I want to protect her?” Leverage, he supposed. “What, you can’t handle little ol’ me?” Pomni interrupted his thoughts with teasing. Very obvious teasing. She was challenging him to her benefit. He scoffed. “Fine, if you want my help so badly, I’ll help you when Caine announces the next adventure. So sit tight, my plaything.”
He took her out of the pocket and played with her a little more, noting her almost plastic texture. “You know, I wonder what this feels like?” He said, squeezing her shoulder pads lightly. “In what way?” Pomni asked, confused about the question. “Maybe just a little..” Behind her, Jax opened his mouth and tossed her in. With a yelp, Pomni landed on the rabbit’s tongue. It curled, wrapping her, then shoving her from one cheek to the other. The jester tried to get an arm out to hit the bunny literally anywhere to make him stop.
He spun her around as fast as he could in response and let her lay flat. His teeth glowed. Behind her is an illuminated yet eerie smile. In front of her was a hole. Pomni pulled herself up with a groan, shaking off as much spit as she can. “Having fun in there, PomPom?” His mouth and tongue moved minimally but his words were clear. Either his ventriloquism was phenomenal or cartoon circus attributes to his avatar. Likely the second. “Or have you had a mouthful?” The tongue danced in front of her. She tried to lean against the sharp teeth to keep herself standing. The tongue lunged. She jumped out of the way and held on like a mechanical bull ride. Jax tried to shake her off but Pomni stayed on. Using her own teeth, she chomped on the body part. “Youch!” With a hard flick, the rabbit actually managed to fling Pomni back with his teeth catching her. “How rude. Tsk, tsk. I ought to teach you some manners, little lady”. A creek can be heard. The world around her, Jax’s head, rose quickly, sending her into that dark hole she was aiming to avoid the most. A yelp was the only noise she could make before being surrounded by the throat sucking her down. A loud gulp rang around her descent. She felt a part tighter than the rest. Was Jax trying to stop it?
That creaking noise was a ribbon topped with a comedy drama mask. Jax shot up from his bed, not expecting anyone wanting anything from him fresh off an adventure. He felt his prisoner fly back to his throat and instinctively grabbed it, partly to try to save her, partly to save his own face. However, he couldn’t do anything to stop his body’s instincts of sending the poor clown dressed girl down his body. He shivered. It felt so strange. But that wasn’t his focus right now. “Gangle! What do you want?” He regained his composure quickly as he felt Pomni enter his tummy. He was fighting off this feeling like he.. is enjoying her squirms in there? It’s like tickling but… he didn’t want to think about it right now. “I was wanted to ask if you knew where Pomni was-“ “I don’t!” “Well.. okay” “well, bye.” He slammed the door and sat, processing this new feeling.
Meanwhile, despite her trying to crawl back up, Pomni slides down, down, down the rabbit until a small pouch opens below her. She is unceremoniously thrown into the stomach. The top and floor was fleshy while the walls were rubbery. She heard his captor lie to Gangle. She started kicking the walls. She felt something a bit bigger than her size press against her thrashing. “Keep going..” She heard purring around her. “Jax! Just get me out of here!” She sat in a slump. The outside pressure pushed on her back. Jax could hear her crying. “Ugh, alright. Calm down, already.” He was trying to get her to slow her breath. “…thanks but.. I still don’t want to be here.” “You’re no fun, PomPom.” It wasn’t a tease so much as he was trying to make light of the predicament. It was his job as “The Funny One” after all. The predicament, however, was about to not be so funny.
The jester lightly punched Jax for his comment. A rumbling sound emitted beneath her. A glowing green goo started rising. “Geez, I know I was hungry but-“ his thought was cut off by Pomni’s scream. “Huh, what? We didn’t just calm down a minute ago? Fine, I-“ “No! It’s not that!” “What is it then?” “You’re digesting me!” “You- I what?” He cradled his underbelly and squeezed a little. Sure enough, he felt a bit of sloshing. Either his eyes widened or that black part shrunk in realization of what was going on. Oh no. He didn’t think this was something his cartoon body does. He wanted to scare her for fun but not like this!
He raced out of his room to Gangle’s, Pomni of course being shuffled about the stomach walls. He pinned the ribbons to the wall. “I will break your mask if you don’t do me this one favor that you don’t tell ANYONE about, got it?” The mask nodded. “Wha-what did you want, J-Jax?” “I want you to draw something so disgusting, it’ll make me hurl!” So that was his plan, Pomni thought to herself. At least she’s crediting her as an artist. “Okay uhh.. what do you consider ‘disgusting’?” “You’re the artist! Ugh, I don’t have time for this, just hurry!” Gangle pulled out her pink cell phone to call Zooble. Given their close proximity, no one felt the need to use them. “What’s going on, Gangle?” “I uhh was just wondering if a client in the real world asked you to draw something gross, what would you draw?” “…is Jax putting you up to this?” With a confirmation in the silence, Zooble continued, “I can head over if you want. It might take me a bit to get down from this hiding spot. In the meantime, draw the most realistic corn you can”. Gangle did just that and to her credit, it almost worked. Pomni felt a jolt upwards but nothing left the confines. She’s about halfway up her body in the liquid now at this point.
“Are you sick or something?” Jax glared at her with daggers, the same ones trying to hunt her down when she forced that maid dress on him. “No no, I mean, like, physically.” He calmed down, thought about the question. “In a manner of speaking, I suppose? Why? You got something for that?” “Well, I mean, if you ate something bad, I could just… uh.. get it for you? But like, don’t take my arm off or anything, okay?” Before Jax could make a remark, he felt the rubbing in his tummy again. He didn’t want that feeling to stop. It soothed him in a weird way. But he couldn’t have this feeling again if Pomni, well, yeah. “Ugh, fine. But close your eyes.” Gangle nodded and slipped her ribbon down Jax’s throat. It was so dry that the rabbit kept coughing but clenched his fists to try to tough it out and take down Gangle’s arm. Pomni floated up to the ribbon and escaped with it upwards, past the throat, past the tongue, and out of the mouth. “This is gross whatever this is,” Gangle remarked. She flicked Pomni towards the floor. Jax dived after her instinctively. “God, Gangle, be careful!” “B-but I-I didn’t know what it-“ He sighted, “I’ll deal with you later,” and stormed off.
There was either shaking from inside of Jax’s hands or Jax’s hands were shaking. Either way, Pomni was cold and covered in body liquids. He picked a secluded spot to yell for Caine. “Oh? Did Pomni not answer the doors correctly? Shame. She is a lot shorter than I remember. Let’s fix that!” With a snap, Pomni was her normal size. “You know, I thought water levels might be overrated but maybe we should give it a comeback in the next adventure, eh?!” With that, the tooth man disappeared. Pomni dizzily walked back to her room to lay down and recover from what all happened today.