Suddenly, you and your crew started to roll onto the jar wall, but to your surprise, Chad didn't dump you out of it. Instead, all of you crawled along the side towards the lip...and into your new home.
You're inside what looked like a large glass fish tank, with high walls. At one corner, you saw what looked like a water bottle used for raising hamsters or gerbils. It's set low enough for the spout to be in reach. You saw a low plastic food trough, but you grew dismayed at its contents. The giants didn't know what you and your crew eat, so your food was a mix of mostly bread crumbs and hamster seed mix.
The substrate was a mix of shredded newspaper and paper bedding. You could see some random clumps of cotton littering the surface. The major structures in your home was a plastic house-shaped structure, a plastic hamster tube that led into a rectangular den of sorts, a hamster-sized plastic dome, and a massive discarded toothpaste box. Like abandoned statues, you could spot some random pieces of aquarium decor - a plastic rock, a sunken ship, and a massive figure of a man in a diving suit.
A hand hovered over the overturned jar and, after being convinced all of its occupants had left it, grabbed and lifted it away. You followed the source of the hand and saw Chad again. But he wasn't alone.
"Looks like they enjoy it." The voice belonged to a tanned fit giant with a good swimmer's body with some muscle definition, blue eyes, and long wavy blonde hair. You turned to see his face, which he noticed and gave a gaping smile and nodded. "Hi...yeah, hi..." His voice was loud, but to him, it was a whisper.
Chad chuckled behind you. "You've taken a shine to them, huh Brady?"
"Well, they're...kinda cute..." His eyes met yours and he smiled. "Hi..." This time, you answered with a smile and waved at him. Brady's face lit up in shock and excitement. "Whoa, did you see that bro?"
"See what?"
"Wait, lemme try again." He smiled and waved, like you did. "Hey, little bud..." You answered with a wave.
"Wow, he waved back at you. Did you teach him to do that?"
"No, he did it on his own. These little guys must be smart."
"Lemme try." Chad waved to you, and you responded the same way. "That's so cool!" Brady joined in the game, and you tried to answer them at the same time, your arm got tired and you stopped. Thankfully, both the giants ended the game.
"I think he's done."
"Yeah, let's let 'em rest a little. We'll check on them in a bit."
Both the giant youths stood up and lefy, but not without both of them standing in the doorway with smiles and waving hands. "See you in a bit, little guys!"
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With the massive diversions aside, you checked on your crew.
You find the main engineer pushing the cap of the water spout in a vain attempt to wash her face. Drew and the ship's pilot had emerged from the toothpaste box after a nap, with bits of bedding and cotton showing that they already made beds.
You approached the ship's doctor, grumbling as he tried slicing through the husk of one of the seeds to free the kernal. The fruit of his effort was big enough for a large meal, but he forced himself to cut bite-sized chunks from the kernal.
"How does it taste, doc?"
"The ship's rations were better, but it's edible." He got on his feet and approached the spout for a drink, only to get his face splashed. He cleared his nose before saying "I hope they'd give us something better than this..."
Drew interrupted. "Yeah. I could go for a pizza. Maybe we can ask them to give us some..."
The engineer grew indignant. "How 'bout a better idea. Why not ask them to get our ship fixed and get the hell off this rock?"
She's right, but at the same time, you've convinced yourself that all of you were in good hands - eleven pairs in fact. "True. They're giving us resources to help us survive here, and they're keeping us safe..."
"But they can just as easily kill one of us, whether they know it or not." The engineer crosses her arms. "I hate to blunt with you, Cap, but you should watch your back with these guys..."
"Hey, little guys, like your new home?"
A thunderous voice from behind you forced you to turn around and see it belonged to...
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