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| Micromania Prologue, Parts 1 and 2 (Comic Script) Page 1: Splash Page ****************** Caption: 150 years in the future, neutrino dissimilators have made miniaturization a reality. Because of alterations to the U.S. constitution, hardened criminals can now be sold as toys! Somewhere on California’s central coast, two junior high school girls are about to embark on a quest for captives! Page 2: 3 panels **************** Panel One: (wide panel) Caption: Prologue: Friday Night at Victoria's Caption: In a small town on California's central coast, Latina seventh grader Lacey Brolin and her older sister Piper and their friend Chloe were at their friend Victoria’s home. [The girls were in Victoria’s bedroom. Chloe, Piper and Victoria were in eighth grade, and they wore blue and gold cheer uniforms. Lacey wore the schoolgirl uniform the girls of Lockwood Junior High were obligated to wear, unless they were cheerleaders. Victoria had long blonde hair, while Chloe was half Filipina and half white. Lacey and Piper had tan complexions, with brown hair and hazel eyes.] Panel Two: (wide panel) Lacey: “Victoria, I thought we were the same age, did you skip a grade?” Victoria: “My mom had me in GATE in the fourth grade. That stands for gifted and talented education. I chose to return to school one grade ahead of kids my age because I’m too social to be stuck at home studying by myself with no friends.” Panel Three: (wide panel) Caption: They all had small transparent cubes, each cube containing a captive. The girls were crowded around Victoria's desk. Page 3: 6 panels ***************** Panel One: Caption: Victoria had a twenty sided icosahedron die in her hand, and rolled it onto her desk. Victoria rolled a 12, followed by an 8. Panel Two: Caption: The other girls had less luck, until it was Lacey's turn; she rolled twenty on the first roll. Piper: “Wow, Lacey! A natural twenty!" Panel Three: Victoria: “You win one of our captives, I have three, so maybe you should take one of mine." Panel Four: Caption: Lacey took one of Victoria's cubes, which contained a convict who had been miniaturized down to about an inch tall in height. Panel Five: Caption: Lacey dumped the shrunken captive out into her palm and smiled. Lacey: “I'm your new owner!" Panel Six: Victoria: “Swallow him! It's part of the initiation!" Page 4: 4 panels ****************** Panel One: Lacey: “I don't want to kill him," Panel Two: Victoria: “He won't die, captives are immortal" Panel Three: (wide panel) [Victoria held up a hand held device.] Victoria: “This is a neural stimulator, it can make you puke. Now, if you want to be in our club, you have to swallow him or we'll kick you out! If you want, you can order him around a little bit first, so he can get used to you.” Panel Four: (wide panel) Caption: Lacey held the shrunken man in her hand, and commanded him to march astride her arm to her shoulder and return to her hand, and he did. Page 5: 3 panels ***************** Panel One: (wide panel) Lacey held the shrunken man above her head, and slowly moistened her anxious lips. Panel Two: (wide panel) The other girls in the bedroom began chanting "Swallow him!" in unison as Lacey slowly lowered her captive toward her open mouth. Panel Three: (wide panel) Lacey: “Prepare to surrender to the belly of a sovereign seventh grader!" Page 6: 5 panels ***************** Panel One: (vertical one panel wide, two tier vertical deep panel) Caption: Lacey let go of her captive, and he dropped onto her waiting pink tongue. Panel Two: Caption: Lacey closed her lips, and forced him to the back of her throat… Panel Three: Caption: then swallowed! Panel Four: Caption: When he glided down her gullet, Lacey stood up and opened her shirt just enough to reveal her belly button, and stroked it with her other hand. Panel Five: Caption: Lacey and the other girls began laughing. Page 7: 4 panels ***************** Panel One: (vertical long panel, one panel wide, two tiers deep) Caption: Meanwhile, Lacey's inch-tall captive slid down her gullet and splashed down into her stomach cavity. Caption: He tried to hold his breath to conserve air as he swam around in her chyme… Panel Two: Caption: Luckily, he couldn’t smell the pizza Lacey had eaten for lunch earlier in the day. Panel Three: Caption: Though he was smaller and weaker than his mistress, his immortality would protect him from the savage depths of her stomach acids. Panel Four: (wide panel) Lacey: “I can feel him Tommy-knocking around in my stomach!" Caption: Lacey thought back to the events of earlier that week… Page 8: 5 panels ***************** Panel One: (wide panel) Caption: Part One: First Day of Junior High Caption: Two Latinas were seated on a bed in a bedroom. [The older girl was wearing her blue and gold cheer uniform, while the younger girl was wearing a schoolgirl uniform.] [The older girl said to the younger one:] Piper: “Now that you're starting junior high school, I need to give you some pointers." Panel Two: Lacey: “Like what?" Panel Three: Piper: “At school, you should drink bottled water." Panel Four: Lacey: “But if I brought a re-usable water bottle to school, I could fill it up and save money." Panel Five: Piper: “Then you'd look like a bum. Don't embarrass me, Lacey!” Page 9: 4 panels ***************** Panel One: (wide panel) Piper: “I'm on the cheerleading squad, and all my friends are really popular. Mom was given a million dollars for volunteering for that apex athlete experiment, and she gives us a lot of money.” Panel Two: (wide panel) [The two Latinas sat down for breakfast while their mother served them. Their mother was in her 30s, fit, and beautiful. She was wearing shorts that showed legs that were so muscular that she could easily be a professional athlete or power lifter.] Mrs. Brolin: “How do you feel about your first day of junior high school, Lacey?” Lacey: “I’m nervous, but excited, mom!” Panel Three: Mrs. Brolin: “Do you girls want me to give you a lift to school this morning?” Panel Four: Piper: “No, I want to take Lacey to Zucky’s before school.” said Piper. Page 10: 3 panels ***************** Panel One: (wide panel) They were walking to Zucky’s about twenty minutes later… Piper: “Lacey, do you still have that hundred dollar bill you got on your birthday?" Lacey: “Yes, I have it in my backpack.” Panel Two: (wide panel) Piper: “Then get it out and let's go to Zucky's. There's something you need to get before you start seventh grade today." Panel Three: (wide panel) They walked into Zucky's, a licorice and pop shop that sells other amenities. The girls entered, and Lacey noticed a cuspidor. Lacey: “Why would they have a cuspidor in a licorice shop?" Piper: “You've never been in here before?" Lacey: “No," Page 11: 3 panels ****************** Panel One: (wide panel) Piper: “This is the hang-out where they sell shrunken convicts. With a hundred dollars, you should have just enough to afford one." Panel Two: (wide panel) Caption: The girls looked through the window of the display area, and observed at least a dozen shrunken men who stood about an inch tall wandering around. Piper: “Pick one!" Panel Three: (wide panel) Lacey: “I'll take that Hispanic guy right there," Page 12: 4 panels ****************** Panel One: (wide panel) Caption: The man behind the counter used a vacuum device to suck the shrunken man Lacey selected, and he was forced into a transparent cube. Panel Two: (wide panel) Caption: Lacey handed the man the hundred dollar bill, and he gave her the cube. Panel Three: Caption: It had a bed, chair, and a desk. Panel Four: Lacey: “Can I take him out of the cube?" Page 13: 5 panels ******************* Panel One: Piper: “Of course! He's your property now." Panel Two: Lacey: “How do I open it?” Panel Three: (wide panel) Piper: “The cubes are made out of a virtually indestructible transparent carbon compound that the captives can’t escape from. They’re like artificial diamonds. There are tiny air holes for them to breathe. The top slides open like this,” Panel Four: Caption: Piper showed her how it was done, Panel Five: Piper: “Captives are too weak to do what I just did. For them, there is no escape from these cubes.” Page 14: 4 panels ****************** Panel One: (wide panel) Caption: Lacey dumped out the shrunken captive onto her open palm, and he walked across to her wrist, and up her forearm. Lacey: How cute!" Panel Two: (wide panel) Piper: “I'll buy a change of clothes for him, all food and water for shrunken people normally would have to be scaled down to their proportionate size, or the cells of their bodies can't process it. You could give them normal size water for a week, and they would die from thirst Panel Three: Lacey: “So we need to feed them?" Panel Four: Piper: “No, these captives are immortal, we never need to give them food or water." Page 15: 4 panels ****************** Panel One: (wide panel) Once the girls reached the junior high school, they went to the auditorium and sat next to each other. [Piper's friends Chloe and Victoria sat next to her on her left, and Lacey sat next to her on her right. When all the students were seated, a muscular man took the podium at the front of the stage. He spoke into the microphone.] Panel Two: (wide panel) I'm Coach Contreras, the eighth graders know me from last year. I'm going to talk briefly about the stature statute, and how it affects some of the students here. As most of you know, our civilization changed dramatically not too many years ago when scientists developed neutrino dissimilators that can shrink people." Panel Three: Caption: All of the students cheered when he mentioned the neutrino dissimilators. Panel Four: Piper: (to Lacey) He's about to explain the theory of miniaturization, that's what he did last year." Page 16: 3 panels ****************** Panel One: (wide panel) Mr. Contreras: “Dimensional singularities are opened inside the centers of each quark and gluon particle composing the protons and neutrons of the atoms being miniaturized, causing the quarks and gluons to collapse around the now-empty space because of the vacuum that forms. The excess matter is discharged through these dimensional portals and forced into another dimension. This causes a decrease in size, weight, volume and mass. Panel Two: (wide panel) Mr. Contreras: “The electrons remain normal sized. A dimensional membrane alters the strength of their charge so it corresponds with the decreased charge of the miniaturized protons, while simultaneously maintaining the proportional distance of the atoms from one another, while another dimensional membrane speeds up the vibrations of the miniaturized atoms so the shrunken person has increased thermal resistance, giving them the same proportional body temperature as at normal size. This protects a shrunken person from getting too cold.” Panel Three: Piper: “Now he's going to discuss safe handling of shrunken people," Piper whispered to her sister. Page 17: 3 panels ******************* Panel One: (wide panel) Mr. Contreras: "Most convicts are reduced to a scale of one over seventy-two, which would make a six foot tall man exactly an inch tall. That makes it easier to ensure that your shrunken captives get things reduced to their proper scale. They've been genetically engineered with an immortality serum so they won't need food or water." Panel Two: (wide panel) Caption: Congress even altered the eighth amendment so that shrunken convicts can be sold as toys. You can swallow them, or do whatever you want to them! Panel Three: (wide panel) Mr. Contreras: “But I wanted to mention an experiment that is currently under progress with the mother of two of our students, Lacey and Piper Brolin. Girls, could you please stand up so everyone can see you?" Page 18: 4 panels ****************** Panel One: Caption: Piper and Lacey stood, and everyone clapped. Panel Two: Mr. Contreras: “ADP stands for adenosine triphosphate, and it is a chemical generated by the human body to provide energy for movement. Panel Three: (wide panel) Mr. Contreras: “Every activity you undertake requires this chemical. There are currently three methods of adenosine triphosphate production in the human body, but scientists have found another way, utilizing shrunken people as fuel. No shrunken people will be harmed by this process, but their bodies will cause a synergistic reaction that will generate this chemical while the normal-sized host exercises, giving her more energy. Mrs. Brolin, Lacey and Piper's mother, has volunteered to be the host for this experiment, so she is serving our country and humanity! You'll see and hear about this experiment on the news very soon." Panel Four: (wide panel) Piper whispered in Lacey's ear: “We just became the most popular kids at our school!" Page 19: 4 panels ****************** Panel One: (wide panel) Caption: Part Two: Back to Friday night Caption: That Friday night, at Piper's friend Victoria's home, the older girls invited Piper's younger sister Lacey to join their pantheon, as the cheerleaders who are part of the popular crowd at their junior high school. Now that she had swallowed a captive in front of the other girls, Lacey was ready to puke him back up. Panel Two: Lacey: “Can you use the neural stimulator on me now? I think he's been in my gut long enough." Panel Three: Caption: Victoria pointed it at her, and Lacey instantly grabbed onto her abdomen. Panel Four: Caption: Lacey slouched over a large plastic bowl; her face becoming increasingly flushed. There was a subtle rumble as everyone looked on. Page 20: 4 panels ****************** Panel One: Lacey: “Here he comes!" Panel Two: Caption: Lacey started to vomit into a large plastic bowl that Chloe provided for her. Panel Three: (wide panel) Caption: When Lacey fished out her unhurt captive from the puddle of vomit inside the big bowl, the other girls cheered. Panel Four: Victoria: “You're one of us now! You're part of our pantheon!" Page 21: 5 panels ******************* Panel One: Caption: Each of the girls held a captive in their hands. Victoria: “My captive has a story to tell. Okay, slave-toy! Tell them about your experience!" Panel Two: [Victoria's captive spoke up while standing on Victoria's palm.] Victoria’s captive: “I was a police officer, and I was falsely accused of planting drugs in the vehicles of people I pulled over. I was framed by another officer!" Panel Three: (wide panel) Chloe: “My captive also has a story to tell. Speak to the group, my loyal slave!" [Chloe's captive stood on her palm and spoke to the group.] Chloe’s captive: “I had gone to the bank to pull some money out, I had a large amount of hundred dollar bills because I owed money to someone who was exploiting me. While driving on a highway, a money truck had an accident and a large amount of cash was strewn across the road, and people were pulling over and grabbing the money. I was pulled over and accused of taking some of the money, despite the fact that the denominations I had were hundreds and only twenties had come out of the money truck." Panel Four: Lacey: “We have to get you exonerated!" Panel Five: Caption: The other girls began laughing. Page 22: 5 panels ****************** Panel One: Lacey: "My Aunt Suzette is a lawyer, she can help them!" Panel Two: Victoria: “I'm not giving up one of my captives just because he was falsely accused of a crime, Lacey!" said Victoria. Panel Three: Chloe: “Me neither!" [with a wicked smile on her face.] Panel Four: Lacey: “Can you at least consider giving them a second chance?" Victoria: “I’ll do it,” Panel Five: (wide panel) [Victoria turned her attention to the captive in her hand] Victoria: "Slave-toy, the Andromeda galaxy is hurdling toward our own galaxy at 250,000 miles per hour. If you can convert that to kilometers per hour, I'll set you free!" Page 23: 5 panels ****************** Panel One: (wide panel) Chloe: “It's 402,336 kilometers per hour! I memorized the formula for converting from the Imperial system to the metric system." Panel Two: Victoria: “Interference! Sorry slave-toy, Chloe blew your chance at freedom!" Panel Three: Piper: “They're having a drop party tomorrow," Panel Four: Lacey: “What's a drop party?" Panel Five: “They drop captives in little parachutes from an airplane, and kids from nearby neighborhoods hunt them down. If you catch one, you can keep him." Page 24: 5 panels ******************* Panel One: (wide panel) Lacey: “If I can capture two of them tomorrow, and I give each of you one of them, will you try to get your captive set free?" Victoria: “Yes, I guess so," Panel Two: (wide panel) Lacey: “What about you, Chloe?" Chloe: “If you can find a replacement for my captive, I'll get my original captive exonerated, but until then, he's going to surrender to my teenage belly!" Panel Three: (one-third panel) Caption: Chloe lifted her captive… Panel Four: (one-third panel) Caption: then dropped him onto her waiting tongue… Panel Five: (one-third panel) Caption: and swallowed him! Page 25: 5 panels ******************* Panel One: (wide panel) Caption: Once he was safely within her belly, Chloe lifted her arms in victory, and the other girls cheered. For Chloe’s captive, there was no escape from the predominant Filipina. Panel Two: Caption: Her captive plunged down the length of her esophagus. Panel Three: Caption: At an inch tall, he fit very easily within the confines of Chloe's gullet and was soon dispatched to the depths of the belly of the fiery Filipina. Panel Four: He didn't remain there long, Chloe used the neural stimulator to vomit him up… [Chloe uses the neural stimulator on herself] Panel Five: Caption: he soon found himself plunging up and out and into a large plastic bowl. Page 26: 4 panels ******************* Panel One: (wide panel) [Victoria grabbed her captive and held him in her hand.] Victoria: “I like to role play with my captive. I have a fantasy I act out where he pretends to be a Lilliputian, and I'm a conqueror from Brobdingnag." Panel Two: (wide panel) Chloe: “He's an inch tall though, if you were from Brobdingnag, he would be half an inch tall from your perspective." Panel Three: Victoria: “An inch is close enough," [Victoria replied to Chloe] Panel Four: [Victoria then turned her attention to her captive.] Victoria: “Lilliputian scum, you shall do as I command!" Page 27: 6 panels ******************* Panel One: Victoria’s captive: “It is an honor to obey you, mighty one!I live to serve you!" Panel Two: Victoria: “You shall build a thousand statues in my honor, to appease me!" Panel Three: Victoria’s captive: “I would consider it an honor to do so! And when I've finished constructing your statues, what would be your next wish?" Panel Four: Victoria: “Then I'll command you to build a thousand more!" Panel Five: Caption: Victoria lifted her captive and dropped him into her mouth… Panel Six: Caption: Then she swallowed him! Page 28: 6 panels ******************* Panel One: Lacey: “Hey! That's not fair! He was very obedient to you!" Panel Two: Caption: The other girls laughed. Panel Three: Victoria: “It doesn't matter, I just love swallowing him. I've probably sent him crashing to my belly at least a hundred times, if not more. I've actually lost count!" Panel Four: Piper: “What was the longest you've kept a captive inside of your stomach?" Panel Five: Victoria: “One time, I fell asleep with him inside of my stomach all night. When I vomited him up the next morning, he was still alive!" Panel Six: Caption: The other girls laughed at this. Page 29: 3 panels ****************** Panel One: (wide panel) Caption: Part Three: Saturday Morning Drop Party Caption: Somewhere in the central California valley at a prison facility… Panel Two: (wide panel) Normal-sized prisoners sat and waited for their meal. A guard pushed a food cart with dozens of boxes of pizza. Panel Three: (wide panel) Guard: “Chow’s up!” Page 30: 4 panels ******************** Panel One: (wide panel) Caption: Chuck Ward and several other prisoners were given pizza to fill up on, as they dug in and ate, the guard spoke to them: “You need to fill up before the shrinking process because you will become immortal when you are miniaturized and will not need food for the rest of your lives. The only thing that can kill you is stomach acid. This is your last meal!” Panel Two: Chuck Ward: “I was wrongfully convicted,” Panel Three: Guard: “The judicial system is not known for making mistakes. You’d have a better chance of getting struck by lightning than being wrongfully convicted.” Panel Four: (wide panel) Chuck Ward: “The prosecutor wouldn’t let me take a mind scan to prove my innocence!” Page 30: The guard chose to ignore him and continued giving them instructions. “You are all going to a drop party as soon as you are miniaturized. More than likely, most of you will end up getting captured by some titanic twelve year olds or some tyrannical teenagers. Once you’re captured, you’re their property!” When the prisoners were done eating they were sent to the miniaturization chamber. Chuck and a group of about twenty prisoners were given parachutes to wear, and were standing around waiting for the inevitable. The sizing ratio was set to 1/72, so anyone exactly six feet tall would be reduced to precisely an inch tall. The circuit was closed and they were instantly reduced in size. Within an hour they were strapped in an airplane soaring toward California’s central coast. Earlier that morning, Lacey, Piper, Victoria and Chloe left their captives at home while they went to the drop party. Piper and Lacey were there, as well as Victoria and Chloe, and about twenty other kids. There was tri-tip being served by the sponsors of the event, and the girls had plenty to eat. The announcer told them to get ready, and a plane flew overhead. In less than a minute, shrunken captives in parachutes rained down on the children. Over twenty acquisitive adolescents stormed the area hunting for tiny people descending from the sky. Lacey captured one right away, she stood with her hands on her hips and a captive landed right inside her mouth. Most of the captives were captured within the first two minutes, but Chuck Ward was more industrious. There was an abandoned car, and he ran and hid beneath it. Piper and her two friends surrounded the vehicle. Since Lacey had already captured a shrunken convict, she stood and watched. “You’re surrounded on all sides by thunder children, you might as well surrender!” said Piper to the hiding captive. “Whose belly would you like to end up inside of, you have a choice between a pair of titanic twelve year olds, or a thundering thirteen year old!” said Victoria, including Lacey in the equation. “Why don’t you make it easier on yourself and just surrender to one of us? You’re going to end up in someone’s belly any way!” said Chloe. At that point, other kids started to surround the vehicle, some of them were boys. Not wanting to be part of a sausage fest, Chuck chose to surrender to Chloe. Lacey Piper, and Chloe had caught captives, but Victoria was unlucky. “Are you giving me the one you caught, Lacey?" Victoria asked. "I changed my mind," said Lacey. "I think you should try to win him from me in some sort of contest!" "I know just the thing!" said Victoria. Once they were back in Victoria's bedroom, Victoria had put up two targets used in dart games. There were numbers indicating points, with 100 in the center. Both targets were fastened to the wall of Victoria's bedroom. There were three shot glasses filled with liquid. One contained red liquid, one contained blue liquid, and one had green liquid. Duct tape was taped to the carpet about four feet from the targets. "These shot glasses are filled with corn syrup that has been mixed with food dye," said Victoria. "Whoever spits closest to the captive, wins him. Lacey's captive is taped to one target, and Piper's captive is taped to the other. You have to stand behind the duct tape." Victoria went first. She poured some of the red dye from her shot glass into her mouth, and swirled it around inside of her mouth. She stood a few feet away from the target, and spat. Her red-tinged corn syrup completely covered the captive. Next it was Lacey's turn. She took a swig from the shot glass, and spat blue colored dye onto the target, but missed the captive. "Victoria won that captive!" said Piper. "Now it's Chloe's turn with the other target and captive." Chloe took some of the green colored corn syrup and spat toward the target, and covered the captive with the green dyed corn syrup. Piper took a swig from the blue colored dye on the shot glass Lacey had used, and spat onto the target. She got close, but missed the captive. "Chloe won!" said Victoria. "We both have an extra captive each!" "Are you going to honor our agreement?" Lacey asked. "You need to get them exonerated of their crimes." Victoria held her newly acquired captive in the palm of one of her hands. "Slave-toy, I am your new mistress. Tell me, what was your occupation before you got miniaturized?" "I was a clown at a circus!" the tiny captive replied. "Can you juggle?" Victoria asked. The captive answered yes, and Victoria jumped for joy. "Do you know what this means? He can teach all of our captives to juggle, and we can have circuses where we can charge people admission to watch them perform!" "That's a good idea," said Piper, "and we could split the profits!" "Lacey, call your Aunt Suzette and tell her about my captive and his situation, we need to get him set free. Now that I have a circus performer for a captive, I can afford to give up my other captive." "I'll let your Aunt help my innocent captive get freed, too!" said Chloe. Over the next few weeks, it turned out that Lacey and Piper’s Aunt had too busy of a workload to take on the cases of the captives who had been wrongfully convicted. When their mom informed them of this after talking to their Aunt on the phone, Lacey made up her mind. “How old do I have to be to take online college classes?” Lacey asked. “Fourteen,” her mother replied. “When I turn fourteen, I’m enrolling in junior college classes so I can become a lawyer! I’ll get those captives exonerated, even if it takes me ten years!” To Be Continued |
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