Bruno pulled out a clean empty baby food jar.
Bruno often ate baby food right out of the jar while training, so him having an empty jar wasn't that strange. But he smiled down at naked quivering Chad and seemed to grow bigger, as he held the jar and spoke.
"You see, Chad, you're falling like 100 million years off the evolutionary ladder. When you're your new size you will find the inside of this jar quite roomy. And in a few days or weeks, if you can avoid being eaten you'll have been properly conditioned to be my slave boy. Oh, we'll call you my boyfriend in public, but after you've spent some time as a slave in my ant farm, you will be grateful to be my human slave boy."
Chad's unintelligible scittering noises became a high pitch shriek than quickly disappeared into a high pitch whine as Bruno's giant baby food jar lid scooped Chad's six flailing limbs and segmented shelled body into the gaping maw of his glass prison. Chad tumbled a bit, but managed to stand on the slick glass surface. Bruno reached in a brown paper bag and pulled out a baggy filled with crumbs, sesame seeds and a raisin that he emptied into Chad's jar.
"Don't want you starving now, do we?"
He set the jar down while he collected the spray can, and Chad's possessions. He stood with his stuffed duffel bag, grinned down at the helpless ant 🐜 in his jar. He held the jar up to his eye, as he studied Chad the ant.
"Hm, did you know that there are over 12000 species of ant, but you just might be new species with a blond head and bronze body, just like your former human one."
With the duffel bag slung over his shoulder and the jar in his hand Bruno headed toward swim practice. He glanced at the clock on the locker room wall. He crossed over to the natatorium with its own swim team locker room. He was going to be on time for 4 o'clock practice. He made a show of looking around to see if Chad had accepted his invitation to join the swim team. Then shrugged telling teammates that it was Chad's loss. The whole time Chad stared out of his baby food jar prison looking through the mesh pocket on the end of Bruno's bag.