Casey didn’t waste any time. Taking Brad she set him on her shoulder. Misty had left the bag holding their precious shrinkee provisions out in the open. Reaching in Casey plucked out one of young men inside. Her stomach grumbled arguing that one was just not enough. Ignoring it Casey put the bag away. She would have liked to cook up some eggs, butter some toast, and make a breakfast sandwich, but she was afraid that starting up a small fire would wake up Delia. She was surprised the girl had slept through her and Misty’s argument, they’d gotten rather loud.

The tiny reddish haired young man begged for his life. Casey held off, not because she was considering sparing him but because she wasn’t sure if she wanted to pleasure herself first. Casey decided to just eat him. She wasn’t really horny after last night, it would be a hassle to walk to the rather and clean him off afterwards, and she really didn’t have too much time before Daisy woke up.

The tiny man was sputtering like a baby.

“Okay you little bugger, quit whining. You probably ate shrinkees too before you shrunk.”

The man shook his head frantically, “No, never! I’m a vegan I swear.”

“Really? Good, because I don’t eat enough veggies. You might be healthy for me.”

“No, I’m not! Please, mercy!” he began to convulse between her fingers.

“Sorry, but I’m not the merciful type.”

“This isn’t right. Why is this happening to me?” The young man whimpered as Casey tilted her head back and raised him over her mouth, “Yeah yeah, life’s a bitch, deal with it.” Casey dropped the man and he plummeted straight down her throat.

Or at least he was supposed to. Instead he got stuck.

Casey gagged, that hadn’t been her intention, “Damn!” Casey choked out, she thumped her chest twice as if suffering from heartburn.

“What’s the matter, did he go down the wrong tube?” Brad asked, concerned.

Casey couldn’t form any words, she just pointed to her throat frantically. She was starting to look a little blue, “Don’t worry Casey, I’ll save ya!” Brad didn’t know what to do, he never learned the Heimlich when he was full sized and he sure as hell didn’t know what to do now that he was small.

He knew one thing though, and that was that it’d be a cold day in hell before he let his ‘little’ sister choke to death. Getting off her shoulder he maneuvered himself behind her neck. He had to get a bear grip around it to keep from falling to his doom. Pushing off he swung backwards a few feet and came forward planting them firmly on the back of her neck. Casey made a hiccupping noise but it seemed her meal hadn’t been dislodged. Swinging backwards he repeated his action two more times. Finally the young man, who’d been rolled up into a ball when he’d fallen and gotten lodged in the slimy narrow passage, was pulled downward to Casey’s stomach.

“Whew, thanks Brad.” Casey bowed her head in relief.

Brad carefully slid off her neck and back onto her shoulder, “No problemo kiddo.”

“I was planning on using you to clean out my ears earlier but you just bought yourself a temporary reprieve!”

“Lucky me.” He couldn’t tell from her smile whether she was joking or not, he wouldn’t put it past Casey to use him as a Q-tip.

"Yeah, well, we can put it off till tonight." She reassured

"....... Casey you aren't serious are you?" Brad asked, a little worried.

“Nah, I’m just messing with you.” Casey tried to thump him on the shoulder companionably but only succeeded in plastering him against her shoulder.

“Owwww! God damn it Casey!”

“Sorry.” She grinned sheepishly, “I forgot I can’t be as rough with ya as I used to.”

“Moron.” Brad muttered, smiling despite himself. He pulled himself up back into a sitting position.

“Hey, it could have been worse. I could have tackled you, you’d probably wind up as a stain on my shirt."

"That's true."

Casey plopped down on the ground, "Hey, check this out." Casey pulled out a set of season tickets for the Electabuzz games."

"I'd be surprised if you didn't have those on ya." Brad smirked.

"Viridian later today, you me, capische?"

"Of course."

".......... We can't just ditch the others though. I'll have to get Misty a ticket when we get there." It wouldn't be a problem. Just a year ago back when Brad and the 'original' Electabuzz team was still playing the stadium would be completely packed. They'd be sold out weeks in advance. Now though....... the Electabuzz were only a shadow of the team they used to be, Casey would be surprised if even a quarter of the seating would be taken.

Brad frowned, "Misty, and Ash too right?" Brad spit to the ground seemingly a hundred feet below him.

Casey sighed "Brad, we need to talk about what happened earlier this morning." she began.

"Don't even get me started Casey, I can't stand those two-"

"Just here me out. We're going to be traveling with them for a while so you don't need to became buddies with them but at the very least you could try to get along."

"I tried that already it's just that red haired monstrosity-" The two continued their discussion.

Not to far away, at the nearby river, Misty had decided to give him a bath so that he wouldn't smell like feet. It also gave her an excuse to run her fingers over his naked body. Ash was quite capable of washing himself but Misty insisted. He really couldn't object to her, not that he wanted to.