As the door opened, Ken was expecting to see his aunt or hopefully one of the cousins he got along with better. Instead he came face to face with Kat, the only girl in the entire house that he didn’t get along well with. The braces-wearing pre-teen frowned as she saw Ken at the door.
Ken and Kat hadn’t always been on such bad terms. For the longest time, Kat took pride in teasing and picking on Ken, despite being the younger of the two. Ken had put up with it for the most part, since he didn’t see her too terribly often, it wasn’t too bad. However, as Ken started to see her more and more a reunions and holidays, her previously harmless teasing began to get annoying and as a result Ken returned fire with various insults, often about her recently acquired braces. As a result the tensions between you grew and Kat’s teasing became more aggressive.
“What do you want, dweeb?” She asked almost as soon as she opened the door, her eyes looking you up and down as if expecting to find the explanation written on your clothes.
“Hey, Kat, is your mom home?” Ken asked, trying to remain nice.
“Nope, she’s out getting groceries,” Kat answered, her eyes shifted down to Ken’s hand, “What’s with the toy?”
With her words, Ken suddenly became aware that he was holding the shrink ray. He really didn’t want Kat to be the one he trusted with the shrinking experiments. He struggled to come up with a lie, his tongue getting tied up in a knot.
“It’s a shrink ray,” Ken finally blurted out, hoping the truth would be too unbelievable for the 12 year old and she’d let him go on his way.
Instead he couldn’t be more wrong. He suddenly felt the sci-fi ray gun tugged out of his grasp, by the nabbing hands of Kat. She stood in front of him aiming the ray gun up at his head, giggling all the way. Ken backed away fearfully as he looked down the antennae-esque barrel of the gun.
“You don’t actually believe this thing works, do you? You moron!” Kat managed to say between giggles, “Here, watch!”
With that Ken let out a quick yelp and tried to move as a beam of green light was expelled from the device. However he was too quick and he felt a warm feeling as the energy pounded into his head. The teenager dropped to his knees before his younger cousin, clutching his stomach as nausea ran through it. He knew he was shrinking, shrinking down to mere inches in height before his bewildered cousin. After a few seconds, the sick felling passed from Ken’s stomach and he opened his eyes to find himself in the middle a vast unending plain of grey rock. In the distance, Ken saw two black pillars which he knew where Kat’s knee high socks. Tracing them up he caught sight of her tan skin, followed by a pair of a capris, and up to a purple t-shirt. He saw a glint of excitement in her eyes as her hand eclipsed her face in the process of reaching down towards him.
Still woozy from the shrinking, Ken didn’t try to escape as Kat’s warm fingers encircled his body and squeezed around him with a bit more pressure than necessary. The rush of adrenaline as Ken was raised off the ground helped bring him back to reality as Kat hoisted him in front of her face.
“Holy cow! This thing actually works!” She said excitedly as her blue planetoid-esque eyes darted back and forth between Ken and the shrink ray.
A smirk spread across Kat’s lips as she stepped inside the house, pushing the door shut with her foot. A few steps later, Kat flopped down on a couch in the family’s spacious living room. With her siblings playing in the backyard and her mother out shopping, the twelve year old was left along with the two inch tall seventeen year old, and she was loving the power she could exercise over him. Ken on the other hand, nearly crushed in the hand of this titaness, was fearful of what she planned to do with him, yet at the same time unsure he wanted to find out. He got his answer very quickly.
“Well, well, well, Ken….now that you’re a far more manigable size, I think…..”
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