Engulfed in the beam from his shrink ray, Eric watched as the room seemed to expand. The walls seemed to lengthen and stretch all around him. The ceiling became more distant above his head.
"It's working!" Eric exclaimed.
The room continued to grow. His rational brain told him the room wasn't changing. He was getting smaller.
Suddenly, the beam of light fluctuated, fading, then suddenly growing brighter.
That shouldn't have happened.
The shrinking sequence ended with a final, unexpected burst from the shrink ray.
Eric was somewhat uneasy as he looked around. Everything had changed. The laboratory, its equipment and furniture, looked completely unreal. His distant desk rose from the floor like some mountainous plateau.
He estimated he was only half an inch tall. He hadn't meant to shrink that small. That final power surge must have caused an unintentional spike in the shrink ray's energy.
He stood still on the platform. He knew he had programmed the device to reverse the shrinking automatically. All he needed to do was wait. Once back to normal size, he could explore what had gone wrong.
The device began to re-start. He heard a loud hum that suddenly became a steady, ear-shattering whine.
"What the hell?"
Sparks showered overhead like a Fourth of July fireworks display. Then, just as the beam's focusing lens began to glow, it went suddenly dark.
Eric began to feel a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach.
Something had gone very, very wrong.
And he suddenly felt extremely insignificant.
The bug-sized man stared up at the distant control panel. To reach the controls would be a challenge equal if not surpassing the scaling of a vertical cliff.
Not that he would get the chance.
Suddenly, looking like some godlike titan, a visitor arrived in the laboratory.
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