Abi was making breakfast in the kitchen, rather hungry after Pip's 'lesson' last night. She didn't feel like questioning anything anymore. The whole alien girlfriend thing had lost its charm after a few days and now, all Abi wanted to do was eat her cereal and lie in bed.
Yet as she poured her off brand sugar coated flakes into the bowl, her little green friend came out and tumbled into the bowl. "What are you doing?" Abi groaned as she leaned down to Pip's eye level.
The Queen just shrugged her shoulders in response, answering rather flatly with, "I wanted to try you inferior human food."
"Can't you just call it food?"
"It is made by humans and inferior."
"Whatever..." The human sighed, pouring her milk over Pip and filling the bowl, not bothering to listen to the alien's complaints as she scrambled to get out. Abi had come to expect a certain amount of routine with her girlfriend, so waited a few moments for her to get out.
"Why haven't you used your lil' ray gun yet?" She questioned while watching Pip dry herself off, the alien muttering loudly, "Huh? What? Do you want me to?"
"No. Buuut... It's like your go to thing for your problems..."
"Have I truly become that predictable, human?"
"Kinda, yeah."
"Well then... Why don't you suggest what I do today. You obviously know me well." The Queen smirked while walking across the counter with an aura of confidence as she grew with every step. Once she was big enough, she leapt off the counter and grew to her full human size, flicking Abi's red mess of hair.
"Okay. Why don't you... Do something nice for a change? You have all this power and do absolutely nothing." Abi smiled before leading Pip to the window, where the two looked outside to see Pop idly sun bathing peacefully.
"Should I dispose of the minotaur?"
"What? No. She usually has such a hard time sleeping here... Why don't you make her a place to actually live in?" The human explained. Despite the fact that Pip could just ignore the idea and go back to her usual shrinking antics, the idea of her being predictable had struck a nerve.
"Sure. Why not." The Queen proclaimed proudly as she held spun her ray gun by the trigger.
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Hours had gone by, and Pop had still to wake from her midmorning nap outside. The minotaur did hear a few sci-fi noises going on, but just covered her ears with her hair and returned back to sleep.
Though what did finally grab her attention, was the sun being blocked out. With a confused yawn, she slowly sat up, every light movement making her body jiggle. "What in the...?" She quietly whispered, confused as to why the warm glow she had grown accustomed to was now blocked by a rather done up looking oversized shed. (Though it was practically a 2nd home by its sheer size)
The minotaur looked back to her home before eyeing up the building that had appeared from nowhere, opening the crudely painted door to find a comfortable looking room filled with all her favourite things.
"Beer. Hay. Darts... IS THAT A ######' GLOWY SIGN WITH MY NAME!?" She mooed in excitement. It was everything she could dream off in a room. It looked just like the bars she used to visit after work, but actually up to scale.
"You like it? Abi asked from across the room, lying against a large stack of hay to try and look cool. Pop just nodded her head in excitement, grabbing a drink from the 'mini' fridge. "Hell yeah! But what is it meana be?"
"Your room..." Abi said bluntly. The minotaur looked stunned before letting out a giddy squeal of excitement, rushing over and pining the woman in another bone breaking tight hug. "Thank you, thank you, thank you! Wait... How'dya pay for this? You're unemployed."
The human gave a playful look once she was free, running a hand over Pop's tail as it swayed. "I have my ways... And a girlfriend with alien technology."
"Oh... That is AWESOME!" The minotaur laughed, settling down rather quickly in her new room. Abi left her friend to her devices and stood outside the shed, jumping slightly at how loud Pop slammed the door.
"Does the Ruler like her new palace?" Pip questioned with a curious glance, reassured by a nod from her partner. "Yep, yep, yep. I mean, look at it. It's a minotaur's dream. But I gotta ask, how did you get all this stuff?"
Pip just ignored the question and went back inside, heading to her room. Abi quickly followed behind, now somewhat worried if Pip had just done something bad.
Once the Queen was back in the comfort of her bedroom, idly lying in her bed while communicating to her ship telepathically, Abi began to bug her for information.
"Where did you get all that stuff? You stole it, didn't you?"
But Pipsqueak let out a gasp, putting a hand to her chest with a mortified look. "You... You accuse me, A Queen, of stealing? I shouldn't even dignify that with an answer."
"Pip... Tell me now." Yet what sounded like tiny pleas for help were coming from a shoe box nearby. "Oh you didn't..." Abi grumbled, scrambling over to the box before Pip could stop her. Once she opened it, The human was met by the sight of a tiny store and its few employees.
"Okay. Don't get mad, but..."
"You shrunk the biggest store in this damn town during its closing hours last night, not realising that people still work later then you expected. Am I right?"
"Wha? H-How did you-"
"You're predictable..." Abi sighed as her attention shifted back to the store and its clearly frightened employees. Pip tried her best to explain herself, claiming no one would notice if a store went missing. Granted it wasn't like they had any neighbours to worry about, since they were a decent walk away from the nearest town.
"But a store!? You pre planned this just for what? Fun!? People will notice this, dude! You've gotta get rid of them!" Abi yelled in a panic. Pip on the other hand, gave a sigh of annoyance instead. "Fine... I'll get rid of them." She grumbled before snatching the box and chucking it on the bed.
"W-Wait! You can't kill them!" Her partner protested. Pip stopped for a moment before breaking out into laughter. "Thank goodness you said that now, wow. I guess I could just erase their memories and let them go instead. Less fun though."
"I EXPECT THEM OUT OF THIS HOUSE BY THE TIME I GET BACK! ...ALIVE!" Abigail practically screamed, scaring the shrunken people who cowered in the shoebox. With another sigh, Pipsqueak agreed and watched as Abigail left the room to calm down.
But once the alien was alone, a devious grin formed on her face as she turned to her tiny captives. "I'm going to be truthful ... You bugs are mine."
As she began trying to get comfortable on the bed and loom over her bugs, Pip accidentally pressed her finger against one of the miniature captives. The rest stared in horror as the woman was left as a red paste on the cardboard ground. Terror over came the remaining thirteen captives as they ran for their lives, scrambling around the box like ants.
The Queen let out a delighted laugh, it had been some time since she had gotten to crush someone like that, even if accidentally. "Whoops. Oh well, not the first time I've done that." She snickered.
"Hehe... Oh, actually." She snapped her fingers, flicking a bit of blood on her face without even realising. Pip casually ripped the roof of the store like a box of sweets, leaning down to get a better look inside the store.
"Hey, tiny mortals! I heard about these things called doughnuts. If you deliver your entire supply of them, I shall let the rest of you go!" She ordered with a grin. The remaining captives, all visibly terrified, quickly scrambled into the store and grabbed every pack of doughnuts they could find.
Pip was more then delighted as her captives had made a large pile of the snacks just outside the front of the door and scooped up the treats, putting them to the side. With a quick zap of her ray, she enlarged one of the treats to scale, admiring it in her hand.
But as she went to take a bite, a deafening noise of what was supposedly music surprised her. Outside, Pop was blasting some music on the larger then large speakers Pip had also stolen from the store.
"Damn it..." She groaned, regretting that choice now. But when she went to reach for her doughnut, she realised the screams of terror were mostly silent. Pip grabbed her snack and let out a small snicker at the tiny stains that covered the bottom of it.
She had accidentally crushed most of her remaining bugs under the snack. The front of the miniature store had mostly collapsed in thanks to the damage it had already taken, now only a single young woman was left, curled up just away from the remains in terror.
Pip just took a bite of her pink frosted doughnut without much care, watching as the remaining woman begged and pleaded for her life. The Queen was never actually planning on letting the people go, but seeing as she had accidentally killed most of them with a doughnut, it only felt fair.
After wiping a few blood soaked crumbs from her mouth, Pip decided to relax for awhile, eating her fill of sweets before she could be bothered to actually fix her mess.
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The next day soon came and as Abigail was pouring her cereal in the bowl, Pip fell out of the box again. "I'm going to say this now. Stop. Staying. In. My. Food." The human complained in a stern tone as she poured her milk over the alien.
Once Pip had gotten out and dried herself off, Abi had to ask the question she had been dreading since yesterday. "Did you get rid of that store?"
"Yep, yep, yep."
"Good. Maybe you're not as predictable as I thought?" She sighed as Pip followed her to the living room. The two sat down, watching TV that was quickly interrupted by Local 57 with breaking news, reporting that the local superstore, Solar Deluxe, had been dragged into a sinkhole.
"Hang on..." Abi muttered. The news continued on to say that there was only one survivor found, who said that she couldn't recall anything. "Woah, you humans sure do like to keep track of stuff." Pip giggled, casually eating a pink sprinkled doughnut.
"But the strangest thing is what looks to be giant crumbs have been found around the remains of the store. Maybe there are giants among us?" The news reporter quipped before the segment finished.
"Oh my god... You didn't..." Abi mumbled in disbelief, turning to her girlfriend, who was still munching away on the pastry. "What? You said I had to fix it, so I fixed it. Not bad, huh?" The Queen joked with a mouthful, spitting a few sprinkles at Abigail.
"You know what? I'm not going to ask. Just gonna assume you sorted it perfectly without issue."
"Good. And look on the brighter side of the star, I made Pop a shed. No more problems for you-" As Pip tried to reassure her girlfriend, the sound of music blared again. It was still early in the morning, and Pop was a rather active person.
"Oh yeah, why did you get Pop speakers? That's like, the one thing we don't have in this house. This exact reason." Abi groaned, taking a bite of her cereal as she turned up the TV. But Pip wasn't going to let that slide.
Abi watched as the Alien Queen left the room with her ray in hand and a determined look as she left to go and deal with the racket
"She's so predictable... And did she kill those people!?"