Not a good day.

They ran down the corridor a few yards ahead of the lizard that had crashed through the flimsy partitioning. David couldn't believe his day could get any worse for not only had he just had his research grant frozen, but those boys down in the reptile modification labs had clearly succeeded. He had no funding and most of his students had just been eaten. At this rate there was no way that he'd get another grant for his botany project. Still he and Jackie had managed to keep one step ahead of the marauding creature so far. Leaping over a toppled water cooler they made it into the lift and closed the doors seconds before the lizard reached them.

"Up or down ?" Jackie was panicking and starting to hyperventilate. David hated having to deal with upset women and taking his lead from a Bogart slapped her across the face. She politely kneed him in the groin. His day was clearly not improving, but he was only incapacitated for a few seconds when the pounding of the creature on the doors distracted him from the balls of pain that his manhood had become. "Up!" It was all he could manage in what he hoped was a temporary falsetto voice. Jackie pressed the up arrow and the lift rumbled to life. Unfortunately it only made a few feet before it ground to a halt with the sound of twisting metal.

Cradling his crushed bollocks while trapped in a lift with a hysterical post-doc student with a carnivorous lizard outside in a building that was over run with the bloody things. Yep, things could only get better.

It was then that the doors started to creak open, to reveal the back end of a very large reptile. Silenced by her fear Jackie at least gave him time to think, unfortunately he couldn't think of anything useful. Clearly if the creature turned around it would eat them both, but if they tried to close the door the noise might attract its attention. The only option was to stay quiet. Yes he knew it wasn't the most heroic course of action, but quite frankly he didn't see any point in becoming a snack for a competitors experiment.

Jackie thought she was made of much sterner stuff and chose that moment to scramble out of the lift and try to run past the creature. This wasn't the greatest of plans because with a flick of its tongue she was caught and jerked back into the creature's mouth. It held her dangling out of its mouth, unconcerned about her screams. David wasn't sure what he was meant to do in this kind of situation, but he certainly wasn't daft enough to try and rescue her. Her long red hair brushed the floor which was at his eye level, her hands reaching towards him. Her puppy dog eyes were pleading for help in contrast to her screeching demands that he 'be a man' and help her. He almost overcame his common sense, but was saved by the creature gulping her down.

The creature settled down, its muzzle inches from the lift. Clearly it wanted to rest as it digested its meal. He was still trapped in a lift, the lizards were still outside, but his balls didn't hurt so bad and Jackie wasn't screaming in his ears. This was definitely an improvement. Of course he was now alone.

It was at times like these that he really missed Sam. They'd split up last month just because he'd had a fling with that P.A. , nothing serious, but Sam had this thing about fidelity. Now all he could do was dream about his favourite security guard. That got him thinking about where the security had got to. Here was a fairly obvious problem and they were nowhere to be seen. No doubt they'd have a good excuse if asked.

He'd been crouched in the lift for nearly an hour and had developed a desperate urge to pee. If he was sensible he'd piss where he was, but he wasn't going to subject himself to stereotypical taunts about being scared shitless. The creature was obviously asleep so he should be able to crawl past it. He took his shoes off and slipped them into the pocket of his lab coat, then pulled himself out of the lift. There was no response from the apparently sleeping reptile so he started to carefully walk away, now more concerned about not running into any other lizards.

What his expertise in plant genetics didn't tell him was that these lizards hunted by smell, and his aftershave was loud enough to wake even the most dopey creature. The thick tongue wrapping itself around his waist was bad enough, but being swallowed down in a single gulp was frankly embarrassing. Thus it was that he found himself following the path so recently taken by young Jackie, and he plunged head first into the thick acidic broth that sloshed around in the creature's belly.

For a brief moment he had thought that Jackie would still be here as she too had been seemingly swallowed whole, but he was still alone. Feeling around in the stomach he found her glasses, and her plastic security badge, but of the girl herself there were only a few slithers of bone and strands of hair that had managed to avoid digestion. If she had been consumed so thoroughly in less than an hour he held few illusions about his own fortunes. He had got out of the lift, he still didn't have a girl screaming in his ears, and he was no longer concerned about avoiding the lizards. Somehow his situation did not appear to be an improvement.

He was bathed in digestive juices up to his chest, so unzipping his pants he took a very long piss. At least he had been able to piss on his assailant, even if the lizard hadn't noticed. Holding his cock he thought of Sam once more and soon had something to distract himself with. He was mildly happy as he jerked off, unconcerned as his pants fell apart and balls lost their hair in their acidic bath, but his day dream of long afternoons with Sam were interrupted when his captor started to move.

After a while he could hear the sound of shouting coming from outside his captor, and the sensation of sudden movement as the creature either chased or ran from something. Then there was the unmistakable sound of gunfire. It looked like security had at last turned up. Pity they were firing at the creature that he was in, but then he supposed that being swallowed or shot wasn't much of a choice. He hoped that having their pets shot to pieces would piss off those boys in reptile mod, but with his luck it would probably help them. So here he was, in the stomach of a giant carnivorous lizard, being shot at by security while slowly being digested. Hard to call this one but it was just possible that things could get worse.

He'd almost exhausted his ability to jerk off when the creature broke into chaotic motion, followed by a thudding crash. His world was then in turmoil as the walls of the stomach convulsed, before all settled down and a shape crashed into the pool, splashing him with more digestive fluid. Then the acidic broth erupted to reveal Sam, his ex-lover. Her usually pristine blue uniform was now a gunky brown having been soaked in the mush that had once been Jackie, but he couldn't mistake that face in its halo of once blonde hair.

Whether it was surprise at being alive, or the shock of finding him already here, it was hard to tell. Whatever the reason she hugged him tightly and he found his ardour once more aroused. While she crushed his lips to hers, he tore off her skirt and sought more satisfying relief than his hand had offered. The feel of her breasts pressed against his chest was most welcome and for a while he was able to forget about the other problems they had.

He was still in the stomach of a giant lizard but he was no longer alone, he had his Sam back. All things considered his day was starting to look up again.

They lay together on a soft self of flesh as she lay back catching her breath and he gazed at her smooth features. Their arguments seemed so irrelevant now. It was times like these that made him realise that his pride had nearly lost his a great friend (and not a bad lay either), and as he adjusted her slightly askew tie it came off in his hand. The fabric eaten through by the creatures stomach acid.

Maybe now wasn't the time to be making long term plans.

With two of them here David thought he could get them out, and if his knowledge of reptilian anatomy wasn't too bad it might just work. Samantha wasn't wild about the idea, but as her last plan had resulted in her being swallowed alive she was willing to give it a go.

The first part of his cunning plan involved Sam bracing herself against the end of the cavity so that he could force the entrance valve above them open. Once that was done Sam was to crawl past him as he held the valve and proceed towards the mouth. He didn't have a detailed plan for that stage but was sure he'd think of something when the time came. In any case they'd both be out of the stomach by then.

Once the plan was put into place David's ignorance was soon demonstrated as no sooner had Sam wedged her feet against the soft walls than the mush that had been Jackie drained away. David would have liked to have claimed that he'd expected that, but in reality his expertise on matters botanical was of very little help. Unperturbed they carried on and he was soon able to force an arm between the muscles that blocked their exit, and by the judicious application of brute force managed to get his other arm through. Sam was trying to help him but the stomach was starting to excrete a nasty goop that was incredibly slippery, so he found he had to haul himself through the valve. The new stuff had coated the valve so that once his ass was through the pressure pushed him through like a cork out of a champagne bottle, leaving him wedged at the back of the creature's mouth.

He could hear Sam shouting below him, but her voice was too distorted by the thudding of the creatures blood in the walls around him and he couldn't make out what she was saying. Confident that he'd be able to climb back up again he let himself slide back down to the valve. Yet again his knowledge of reptilian anatomy had failed him as there appeared no way to open it from this side. It looked like the only was to get it open again was to try and trigger a gagging reflex, and that meant climbing back up. He couldn't hear Sam any more so knew that he had to hurry..

Undaunted he crawled back up the creatures gullet until he could see over the back of its tongue, and caught a brief glimpse of the outside world beyond the mouth. Then he was smacked in the face by a secretary that had obviously just been caught, and together they tumbled back down, past the open valve and into its stomach. When he surfaced in the acid broth that filled most of the cavity he realised that there was no sign of his Sam, except for a few blonde hairs and some bleached bones. He was learning a lot about this creatures digestive system now, but the lesson was too late for Sam.

The girl who'd just been swallowed was called Daphne, at least that was what her name badge said, and he seemed to recall seeing this cute little brunette before. He would have asked her about it, but she seemed to be in a state of shock. Being swallowed could do that to you. There must be something about being swallowed that excited people for as soon as she noticed him she immediately impaled herself on his swollen cock. Her action shocked him, not least because the stomach acids had made him hyper sensitive down there, but he went with the flow until she was satisfied.

Still he now knew how to get out of the stomach cavity, and he had a new girlfriend. All he had to do now was work out how to get beyond the creatures mouth, hopefully with Daphne. It was still a bad day, but starting to look up again. For after what he'd already been through there wasn't much more that could go wrong, was there? Here he was, no longer being shot at, a new girl in his arms and the know how to escape the dumb animal that had swallowed him. Yes, not such a bad situation all things considered.

The Sam soup hadn't drained yet so he probably still had time for another round with Daphne before they escaped, for he suspected that she might find him less attractive once they were out. He pulled at her blouse and as expected it came away in his hands to reveal her partly digested bra. This to fell away allowing him to explore her body more fully. Where Sam had been firm if a bit flat chested, Daphne was revealed to have a much fuller figure. Once more he mounted her, but his cock was less sensitive than before and he concentrated on a bit of tongue wrestling. He was quite distracted and almost didn't notice that the dark broth that had once been Sam was draining away. This meant it was time to go.

He'd left it a bit late as the thick corrosive secretions were already coating the walls of their chamber when he started to push at the valve. This time he had help as Daphne was tall enough to help him and they quickly opened the stomach valve again. He was confident of their escape and had no difficulty assisting Daphne to escape first, and so felt no surprise when Daphne reached down to help pull him out of the stomach. Yes, things were definitely on the up.

They'd both been coated by that digestive goop, but apart from some mild stinging it didn't seem to be a problem. At least that was what he'd thought but maybe his repeated dunking in the creature's stomach acid had desensitised him as Daphne seemed to be having a problem. She seemed unable to stop scraping at her skin in an attempt to get the stuff off, but of course as her hands were coated this wasn't very effective. He reached over to her where she clung above the other side of the valve and tried to reassure her that it would be all right. Once again his day took a turn for the worse as she slipped. She wasn't clinging to the walls as he was, being too busy scrapping, and when the fleshy tube they were in twitched she couldn't stop her slide. In a blink of an eye she was through the flapping valve that snapped closed behind her, leaving nothing but her plaintive cry to remind him that she'd ever been there. Soon, after several minutes of desperate shrieking, the world was once more silent, except for the steady thud of the monster's beating heart.

Once more alone, still inside a giant reptile (but not in its stomach any more), and coated in painful digestive acids. Well, he'd been in worse situations than this. So once more he started to climb up towards freedom.