While the hot-tempered athlete erupts like a little Vesuvius, you start to sweat. You've been here five minutes, and any plans you had today are blown away by this brute in a beaker. You can't leave her here like this, and you don't want to drag her along with you as she is. She'd make sure you never had a moment's peace even at an inch tall. And though she's being a terrible annoyance with her ceaseless verbal assault, you don't want to go to the extreme and shrink her to nothing. Is she angry and abusive? Yes. But of course she is. She's still innocent in this mistake of yours.
You speak up, "Be qu- hey! Be quiet! Stop and let me talk, will ya? I want to undo this."
Antonia does cool, enough to quit hurling curses and pounding the unbreakable glass. She stares hotly at you, her eyes burning, "Time is running out, lightweight."
You admit that she is probably right. The professor could enter any minute now. Thank the gods of traffic if she's running this late.
"I need to get out of here. And I want you to get out too. I'll change you back to normal. It was just an accident. The gun went off. I didn't mean to hurt anyone."
"Yeah, you're lucky I'm not hurt, 'cause you'd get it ten times worse."
You lean in closer to the shrunken wrestler. Your voice echoes more assertively in the tube, "I'll do this, but you can't tell anyone what happened. You can't tell anyone about this."
Antonia shrugs, "Or what?"
"Or I don't, and you're stuck like this. That's the deal. Got it?"
Antonia, humiliated and steaming, stamps her foot, and replies reluctantly, "Fine. You'd better do it right now, and I'll consider not kicking your ass."
"Cut the tough girl bullshit!" you snap. "I'm trying to get us both out of here the way we came in, okay? What is your freakin' problem? Why are you-" you brush off the nerves and reach for the beaker. You insist she be careful as you tip over the container and allow her to walk out. "Sit down on the table there."
You flip the matter transposer's setting around and take aim. The trigger clicks and Antonia quickly starts expanding.
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