Sasha beat Cassandra to the punch. "Me, me, me, me!" she squealed, jumping up and down, her hand raised. "Pick me."
"Okay," Nicole said. "What do you want to do? Shrink or grow?"
Sasha thought for a minute, then with a mischievous grin on her face, she replied, "Shrink!"
"Right then," Nicole said, opening the proper menu. "A couple questions first. This thing isn't just a point-and-shoot sort of thing, it has settings. So, first question, how small?"
"About a foot," Sasha replied, "twelve inches."
"Okay." Nicole made the proper adjustments. "Now, do you want your clothes to shrink with you? Or do you want to shrink out of them?"
"Hmm?" Sasha said, "that's a tough one." She thought for minute, clearly mulling over her options. Finally, she decided. "Let's shrink out of 'em," she said.
"Right." Nicole tapped through a few menus. "Final question. Do you want to do this inside or outside?"
"Inside," Sasha said. "Maybe in one of the bedrooms."
"Okay then."
Nicole saved the settings and the three girls went inside. Nicole led them upstairs and down a hallway to one of the smaller bedrooms. In the room there was a average-sized bed in the center of one wall, with a desk in the corner and two low dressers against the opposite wall. "This is one of the owner's daughter's room. Hence the pink theme to the room," Nicole explained. "The daughter's about 10 and has several barbie dolls that she plays with. Note the doll house on the floor there," Nicole swept her hand across the room, "and more importantly, lots of doll clothes."
"That's awesome," Sasha said. "Had I known this is what we were doing, I would've brought some from home."
"I don't know," Cassandra said, "being a shrunken woman, I'd have brought something kinkier than just ordinary doll clothes."
"Don't worry," Nicole said, "I'm sure that there's plenty of kinky, sexy stuff we can do with this thing."
"Awesome," Cassandra replied.
"Right," Nicole said. "Okay Sasha, let's have you stand in that open spot on the floor there."
Sasha did as instructed.
"And, let's make sure I've got the all the settings set properly," Nicole muttered. Then, a bit louder, she announced, "Here goes nothing." and fired the Reducer at her best friend.
Sasha sudenly vanished, her clothes holding their shape briefly before collapsing to the floor. Nicole lowered the gun and just stared at the pile of clothes for a few seconds. Cassandra kept looking back and forth between Nicole and the pile of clothes that used to contain her friend. "Did it work?" she asked.
"Let's find out," Nicole replied.
For Sasha, it was a weird experience. She was standing there one minute, then she was almost instantly smaller and riding the crotch of her skinny jeans while looking up at the top of her t-shirt and bra that were just hanging there in the air above her. Then everything colapsed as gravity took hold and she dropped to the floor. Luckily, the floor was carpeted, plus her clothes helped cusion the fall so what would've been the equivalent of falling about 15 feet didn't completely kill her. Still, she was a bit sore. If she tried this again, maybe she should try laying down of the bed.
Nicole and Cassandra carefully pawed through the pile of clothes and soon found their friend, fully nude and twelve inches tall. "Are you okay?" Nicole asked, gently lifting Sasha to her feet.
"Yeah, a little sore from the drop..."
"I wasn't quite expecting that, I guess," Nicole interjected.
"...but otherwise I'm fine," Sasha finished.
"So how is it?" Cassandra asked.
"It's so weird," Sasha answered. "And yet so cool. Everything's so big now. Otherwise, I feel fine, normal, just small."
Nicole set the Reducer on one of the dressers. Then she walked back to where Sasha stood and knelt down beside her and offered her hand to the doll-sized woman. Sasha climbed aboard and let Nicole gently, and carefully carry her over to the dollhouse. After she was back on the floor, Sasha spent the next half-hour playing in the dollhouse before suggesting that her friends set up a runway for a doll fashion show.
"Sounds like fun," Nicole said.
"I don't know," Cassandra said, "I want a turn at some point."
"You'll get one," Nicole said.
"And," Cassandra continued, "I want try out something a lot more sex-oriented than playing Dolls."
"Don't worry," Sasha said, "I want to get kinky too. I'm just having a bit of harmles fun first. You could always join me at this size and play along."
"Maybe," Cassandra replied.
"I totally plan on getting kinky before I get bigger," Sasha said. "I'm just playing it safe for a bit, in case of any side-effects."
"Fair enough," Cassandra replied. "So, let's get that runway going."