Ty told the teensy tiny Lisa in his hand, "I'm going to make a change to you, and then I'll explain everything." He concentrated for a moment.
Lisa said, "I felt something. What did you change?"
"Let me explain what happened, and then I'll explain the change. I wanted to do it ASAP, because it's important and I don't want to forget. Of course, if you don't like it, I'll undo it, but I think you'll approve."
Lisa nodded, so Ty continued. He explained how she'd darted away and hidden, almost as soon as he transformed her into a mouse.
"I remember being afraid, and the urge to run and hide, but I didn't know what I was afraid of. I was afraid almost the entire time I was a mouse, which made this transformation a whole lot of no fun."
"For me, too, "Ty agreed, "and I'm sorry about that." He went on to explain searching for her, and how she ran into her own room, and then how he couldn't find her. He explained how he'd tried to transform her to a tiny human, but couldn't when he didn't know where she was. And his idea for using a live capture trap.
Lisa shuddered at even the thought of a normal spring mousetrap. "Thank goodness you thought of that!"
"So after a while, you got caught in the trap. I transformed you to the tiny human form, but you weren't you. You bit me!" He showed her his injured finger, and she was horrified.
"I don't remember that at all. I think I'd remember biting to defend myself! So my mind was fucked up? Again? I thought you'd solved tbat problem!"
"I decided that I needed to enter your mind again," Ty explained. "Things were even worse. It wasn't recognizable as a control room at all." He explained what he found, and Lisa's look of horror intensified. "So I was completely at a loss as to what to do. I thought I'd really screwed the pooch this time. I was so agitated that I couldn't do anything but pace your room, trying to think. But I couldn't come up with anything!"
Lisa was staring up at him. She wrapped her tiny arms around one of his enormous fingers, hugging it tightly. "But you thought up a solution! I'm so proud of you!" She kissed his fingertip.
"No," Ty said, sadly.
"What do you mean?" Lisa demanded, starting to look horrified again. "I'm here, so you obviously _did_ solve the problem!"
"Not exactly," Ty said. He described what happened as he had continued pacing.
"ANOTHER mouse?!" Lisa exclaimed.
"Yes," confirmed Ty. "So I set another trap, caught you, and transformed you back. And here you are!" Ty smiled, for the first time as he explained.
"But if I'm the SECOND mouse you caught?" Lisa didn't continue the thought.
Ty carried her back to the traps, and gently set her down, where she saw... herself. Another teensy tiny Lisa, in a mouse trap, covered in peanut butter, sleeping. "So that's just a mouse?" Lisa wondered.
"I guess so," Ty said. "And I suppose it's cruel to have transformed her into a tiny human, and to keep her that way." Before Lisa's eyes, the Lisa in the trap transformed into a mouse.
"What will we do with her?" Lisa asked. "Keep her as a pet?"
"I don't think that's a good idea," Ty said. "Wild mice carry diseases, though I could probably cure those, but I don't think they take well to captivity. And it's probably not a good idea to release her anywhere near your house, as she'd likely just find her way in again. I think we should release her far away. Maybe in a park. But somewhere near human habitation; if she's always lived near humans, she might have trouble surviving fully in the wild."
Lisa said, "That makes sense. Can you teleport us to a suitable park?"
"Now?" Ty asked.
"No time like the present," Lisa said.
Ty asked her if she was going to restore herself to normal size.
"Not until I have to," she said. "I didn't enjoy being a mouse, but I do enjoy being tiny."
"OK," said Ty. He set Lisa down on the bed, quickly dressed, turned the alarm clock back to normal, picked up the trap, and was about to teleport, when Lisa interrupted him.
"I want to come too," she said.
"I thought you wanted to stay tiny," Ty answered, puzzled. He put down the trap.
"The two aren't mutually exclusive," she said. "Pick me up and put me in your shirt pocket."
"I don't know," Ty said. "The outside world would be a dangerous place for a tiny human."
"I trust you to protect me," she said, confidently.
"Alright." He picked her up carefully, wished some suitable clothing onto her, and put her in his shirt pocket.
"I like it," she said. "It's like this pocket was made for me."
"Or vice versa," Ty said.
"Though I'm disappointed that you won't let me explore public nudity," Lisa pouted. "I mean, we can't have anyone see me at this size, so it hardly matters whether I'm clothed."
"Lisa, it's early in the morning," Ty replied. "I don't want you to be cold!"
"Always watching out for me," she said with a smile. "Love you!"
"Love you too!" Ty said. He picked up the trap again, and suddenly they were in a park, the horizon only just beginning to lighten before the coming sunrise.