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The story begins with [[Geek|geeky student]] Thomas Kirkland mustering up the courage to ask out the rather popular and [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|seemingly nice]] [[Complete Monster|Melissa Cruz]]. She miraculously agrees, and the following Saturday Thomas travels to her house to pick her up. Little does he know that she has no intentions of letting him leave. Turns out, [[Prank Date|she only accepted his date request for more sinister purposes]]; brandishing a shrink ray, she shrinks Thomas and throw him inside of her closet with other captives. However, he is rescued by a rival faction of captives who also managed to escape from her closet and lives a rather hostile life within the house's walls. Their leader, the arrogant Bruce Black, promised a way out of the house and to freedom, but so far he has made no strides towards that goal.

The story takes on a more gruesome light when it is revealed that Melissa takes delight in [[Cold Blooded Torture|torturing, maiming, and especially killing her small captives]]; she calls her twisted activities "Bugman Games", "Bugmen" being the name that she has given her shrunken captives. She is occasionally joined by the [[The Woobie|troubled]] [[Shrinking Violet|Sayuko Takei]], who reluctantly carries out Melissa's brutal wishes only to ensure that her brother Taro--who was shrunken weeks before the start of the story and is being held hostage by Melissa--remains unharmed.

The story takes on a more gruesome light when it is revealed that Melissa takes delight in [[Cold-Blooded Torture|torturing, maiming, and especially killing her small captives]]; she calls her twisted activities "Bugman Games", "Bugmen" being the name that she has given her shrunken captives. She is occasionally joined by the [[The Woobie|troubled]] [[Shrinking Violet|Sayuko Takei]], who reluctantly carries out Melissa's brutal wishes only to ensure that her brother Taro--who was shrunken weeks before the start of the story and is being held hostage by Melissa--remains unharmed.

Thomas must work with his comrades, and later Sayuko, to bring an end to Melissa's "games" and escape with their lives. The path to their goal will be filled with blood, sweat, and tears, but mostly blood.

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* [[Bonus Material]] - "Thomas' E-Journal".

* [[Break the Cutie]] - What Melissa is doing to Sayuko. {{spoiler|It eventually backfires in the worst way for Melissa.}}

* [[Cold Blooded Torture]]

* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]

* [[Complete Monster]] - Melissa

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|Cracking The Fourth Wall]] - Happens during Robbie's and Dawson's conversation in Chapter 33.

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* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] - {{spoiler|Thomas and Sayuko hugging after stopping Melissa and saving the captives that were still alive. "Thomas' E-Journal" also has one for its Christmas entry}}.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]] - Dawson and Matt's battle against Isaac and Garet (no, not [[Golden Sun (Video Game)|those two]]).

* [[~~Daddys~~ Girl]] - Melissa adores her father. {{spoiler|Much moreso than her mother, whom she lies about to others that she abandoned her or that she is dead}}.

* [[Daddy's Girl]] - Melissa adores her father. {{spoiler|Much moreso than her mother, whom she lies about to others that she abandoned her or that she is dead}}.

* [[Domestic Abuser]] - In Chapter 38, it's revealed that {{spoiler|Jenna's father physically abuses her mother}}.

* [[Dream Sequence]] - The beginning of Chapters 7 and 15; the latter of which involves Thomas and Melissa having a [[Pokémon (Franchise)|Pokémon]] battle, with them as the Pokemon.

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* [[Sick Episode]] - Chapter 29. Poor Sayuko... {{spoiler|[[It Got Worse|And then Melissa makes the trip over to Sayuko's house]]}}.

* [[Slobs Versus Snobs]] - Respectively, the Homeless and the Refugees. The Refugees are people who were lured to Melissa's house and shrunken; they are mostly young adults and mostly male, and they managed to escape from Melissa's closet and live inside of her house's walls ({{spoiler|for a while}}), hence their name. The Homeless are [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|exactly what they sound like]]; they were captured directly from the streets under the cloak of night. The Refugees managed to escape from Melissa's closet and create some sort of interconnected network within Melissa's walls, while the Homeless were left trapped inside of the closet. The Refugees look down upon the Homeless, while the Homeless despise the Refugees' arrogance.

* [[Spin Off]] - The story ''Hell Manor''; its events are alluded to in the epilogue of ''Bugman Games''.

* [[Spin-Off]] - The story ''Hell Manor''; its events are alluded to in the epilogue of ''Bugman Games''.

* [[Straight Gay]] - Shawn.

* [[The Stool Pigeon]] - {{spoiler|Ray, who tells Melissa about the Refugees and then leads them right into Melissa's waiting hands, doing so by playing on their strong desire of escaping}}.

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* [[Turncoat]] - {{spoiler|Ray, and later, Sheryl}}.

* [[The War Sequence]] - The majority of Chapter 31, which finally pits the Refugees and the Homeless against one another. {{spoiler|The Refugees win}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Where Are They Now Epilogue]]}} / {{spoiler|[[Distant Finale]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]]}} / {{spoiler|[[Distant Finale]]}}

* [[The Woobie]] - Sayuko. She is a shy young woman who suffers the loss of her parents in a drunk driving accident, and is then brought to America to live with her brother. Then, he gets kidnapped and shrunken by Melissa, and held as a hostage to make Sayuko participate in Melissa's gruesome hobby (which she reluctantly participates in because she loves her brother very much). The whole ordeal takes its toll on her; she closes herself off from others, her grades at school drop, and she can barely sleep and when she does she tends to suffer from nightmares that physically make her ill afterwards. {{spoiler|Even worse, had she and Thomas not initiated their plan against Melissa, Sayuko would have been next on Melissa's shrink list, and would have been killed along with Taro}}. {{spoiler|Her attitude gets better slightly after she rescues Thomas, but the reader can finally breathe a sigh of relief for the girl when they finally end Melissa's sick games}}.

* [[Your Cheating Heart]] - Bruce and {{spoiler|Claudia}}, and, in {{spoiler|Claudia's case, inadvertently led to the events of the story}}.