It was four in the morning. It was the morning of your departure to the international science exhibit on the other side of the country. You told your adoptive mom that you were going to be gone way before she gets up. All of your stuff was packed up and in the closet to keep the space free in your room.
You were currently working all the final touches of your invention that you have kept under wraps. You didn't even tell your mom, or even let your younger sister get a peek at it. It was none other than the shrink ray, one of the most famous science fiction inventions, finally to become a reality. And it works too!
So far, the only test subjects have been either fruits, or old toys of yours. Each have been successfully shrunken down to half its size, and even down to a 1/2 inch, and back to it original sizes and properties. The only test subject you were eager to test out was a live human test subject. But you didn't want to chance risking hurting or killing someone from your own experiment. It would be disastrous!
With only about twenty minutes before you head out the door to go meet your taxi, you just had to test the shrink ray on yourself. You had to make sure it works. And after all your calculations and tests, your are 110% confident that it'll work smoothly.
You peer out into the hallway. You slowly open the door to you Haley's room, your eleven year old sister. You see that she is fast asleep, and see her friend Rebecca is also fast asleep on the floor atop her sleeping bag. You then check on your mom's room, and she too is fast asleep. You assumed she'd be up to see you off, but she wasn't. You tip toe back into your room and close the door. You feel confident this test won't awake them from their slumber.
After making the last adjustment, you lean back on your chair, and wipe the sweat off your forehead. (Even if it's still morning, the temperature outside had to at least be eighty degrees. Summers in Florida can be devastating if the rain lets off some.) You pick up the shrink ray controller and press the combination to unlock the features. You didn't want anyone using this thing on accident now. After unlocking, you fine tune the settings for your test.
"About half my size should do," you whisper to yourself. You continue to look at the ray and notice you haven't labelled it. "Heh, I should label this. Eh, after I do my test."
You stand up out of your chair, and walk to the center of your room, close to your bed. You whisper a small prayer to yourself before you aim the shrink ray at yourself. At the press of the button, everything becomes bright, and extremely blurry, then fades to black as you pass out.
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Everything was hazy as you came to. You were lying flat on your dark hardwood floor for over a few hours. As you stood back up (slowly, I might add) you thought to yourself, "Shit... I didn't know halving my size would be that bad. Wait!" You glance at your watch, and see that it is 6:20AM. "Damn it! I missed my taxi. They don't wait for anyone." You look up over to your door, about to yell for your mom that you missed your taxi, when you came in sudden shock.
Everything. Was. HUGE!
You did only halve your size, right? ... Right?!
Everything was not twice as big. Everything was gargantuan. And sadly that is an understatement. Everything seemed to stretch on for miles. Even from the center of your room, your dark blue walls seems to be a hazy white. Particles of dust that is not normally seen at normal size are floating everywhere you look. You worriedly look around for your shrink ray, but didn't see it anywhere. You look and look until you see it: underneath your bed, still at its original size.
You panickily sprint to it, running around various types of dirt and dust bunnies that come up to your waist. It was well under your bed, hidden from plain sight. What was once a regular handheld controller to you now towers over you. You have no choice but to climb it, but it's shape makes it near impossible. You use any skin friction you got to scale the momentous object. After nearly a half hour, you make it to the top. The run over to the screen and realize your mistake. Instead of setting it to 1/2, somehow as you went to press 2, you accidentally hit three as well and didn't realize it. You are currently 1/32 of an inch tall. This makes the shrink ray lying flat 180 feet tall, the equivalent of a 18-story tall building.
There was nothing you could do under your own power that could effectively use this shrink ray. You did not even think about this possibility. The only option you have to get to your adoptive mother, or even your sister and her friend that is staying over.
As you slide down your shrink ray, it does dawn on you that you need to get the attention of either of them. No one besides you know of the shrink ray. No one knows you are home; all of your travel bags are in the closet. Everything was against you. And if someone found the shrink ray, they wouldn't know what it is; it's not labelled. And it has an automatic lock that makes it useless for anyone who doesn't have the code. Even worse, if could be broken!
And to top it all off, you are pathetically tiny. Fleas are bigger than you are. Your mother and sister... If just the controller was 180 feet tall, you can only imagine how massive they are. Your eleven year old sister's small toe would be the size of a giant mansion, let alone her other toes. Any small slip, and you will become nothing with a tiny bloody smear on the floor that'll eventually be mopped up by your mom.
As you made it halfway to your door, you hear thunderous footsteps, and the floor shakes. Someone's awake and it's time to flag them down.
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