She looks at you expectantly, and you respond by tipping the formula slightly in your hand, letting a small drop land on your hand. You put the bottle down and rub it into the skin slowly, until it completely dissipates. Within a matter of seconds you feel the spot where you poured the formula start to tingle, and then that tingling sensation stretches all the way across your body. In a flash, you feel your clothes become slightly looser, and the world around you jump up just a little bit. You’ve shrunk a few inches! Freeman beams a bright smile at you and steps right up next to you, placing a hand on her forehead and matching it up with hers. She was about a half a foot smaller than you were at first, but her eyes light up when she realizes that now you’re the exact same height.
She holds the recorder up to her face again and says “Test number one is a complete success. One drop of the formula has reduced the subject by a noticable margin. More tests to follow.” She presses stop and stands with her hands on her hips, glowing with pride at her accomplishment. “Finally, all of the hard work has paid off. We finally have a formula that works! How do you feel?” You respond that you can still feel a bit of a tingling sensation, but otherwise you’re fine. Freeman taps you on the head and says “Not to worry, that should go away in a few minutes. What you should probably worry about though is getting some clothes that fit. You look like a kid playing dressup in those clothes now!” You look down and see that she’s right. Your pants are a few inches too long, draping across the floor, your shirt hangs a bit over your belt which now needs to be tightened, and your shoes are loose enough for you to pop your feet in and out. Freeman seems to be enjoying watching you react to your newly oversized surroundings at first, but you see the smile start to fade from her face. She looks you up and down and says “... Uh oh. This is unexpected”. You don’t know what she’s talking about until she steps back right up beside you and you find yourself staring at her chin. She’s taller than she was before… which means you’re still shrinking. Freeman looks confused and says “I don’t understand. We followed the procedure exactly, the calculations were correct, the chance of this happening is minimal… but not impossible.” She holds her hand up to her chin in thought, and the tingling sensation begins to take hold again. You fear that something’s gone terribly wrong and it’s only confirmed when Freeman says “We had successful tests on mice before i gave you this experiment, but there was one outlier. One of the mice didn’t return to it’s normal size after a while, instead it just… continued to shrink. We never found it.”
Your face goes pale and you ask her if you’re going to disappear too and she says calmly at first but then getting more serious “No! Of course not! Maybe not… I don’t know…. Probably.” She switches gears to damage control mode and says “Normally the process wouldn’t need an antidote, it’s supposed to wear off on it’s own, but you’re shrinking a lot faster than i was expecting, so we may have to counteract the formula with another compound.” She opens her notes and uses her index finger to quickly scan through the pages of previous experiments. All you can do is stand there and try not to feel the world get smaller around you, but now that you know it’s happening, your mind is playing tricks with you and you can swear you’re feeling everything getting bigger. Freeman taps the page she had opened to and looks up at you quicky saying “Okay. Well.... According to the notes we took from the experiments on the mice, they had completely shrunk to nothingness within...
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