he zapped himself with the ray gun set to....
shrink.
Almost immediately, Alfie felt himself beginning to get smaller. Almost immediately, his clothing began to loosen. As he tried to leave, he found his shoes and socks were loosening on his shrinking feet.
Alfie felt his pants loosening. His bag of stolen goods seemed to be growing too, and getting heavier.
he stared at his clothes, and gasped. His shirt and coat looked larger than normal.
Of course, Alfie had failed to take into account that the gun had no effect on clothes.
He lay down on the grass in the park, and simply watched as his body grew smaller. His clothes slid, bunched in odd places, and basically looked like they were slowly consuming the man wearing them as his body grew smaller. And smaller. Then, smaller still.
his shoes and socks fell off his feet.
His head was pulled down inside the collar of his red and black striped shirt. "This is amazing," he said aloud, not quite sure if he was having a bizarre dream or not. He chose to believe it was not a dream because the sensations he felt were quite intense. He felt like he had been caught in a whirlpool that was pulling him down, down, down into something much different.
His head disappeared into his collar and the shirt collapsed, but the shrinking Joe tumbled into his slacks, ending in the left leg as he tumbled down the tunnel. Even while falling through the leg of his own pants, the shrinking continued at a now furious pace, but in the darkness he could no longer watch as the world seemed to expand around him.
he wondered how small he'd be when it was all over...