No time for further thought as feet crunch closer, and voices a vast distance above your huddled half-inch form begin a discussion. Behind the pile of rubbish you assume that they can't see you, otherwise the talk would be taking a decidedly different tack...
"He can't have just disappeared!"
"I saw him run this way. And he's not here."
"A fire escape-?"
"Don't be daft. No one's that fast. Perhaps the manhole..."
While your two pursuers discuss your fate, you ponder which way would be the best to get away. You most certainly don't want to get into a gunfight with these guys now! Two full clips, but your bullets would do little more than annoy these guys.
You could wait it out, hoping that low-ranking dupes like the two knuckleheads haven't been informed of the watch's shrinking properties. They'll leave eventually, and you can proceed on your next course of action then. If they do know that you may be shrunken though, then that would be a bad thing to do.
You could dash away instead, hoping that they wouldn't notice, but again, if they do...
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