As the strange pink fog finally cleared in the basement, Rick stood on the bottom step of the basement staring at his naked body in horror. With each passing second he was lessening more and more. A small spec of dust next to him soon looked like a large rock. With horror, he could see small black insect-like creatures moving below his feet. Mites, he realized, horrified.
Soon the spec of dust next to him loomed like a boulder, Rick let out a pitiful cry for help far too late as he shrank to microscopic proportions. As his cries soon vanished, so too did the chemist, until he was nothing more than an invisible dot on an invisible dot, trapped in a scary new world.
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At the same time as Rick was shrinking away in the basement, Tabitha pulled up into the driveway in their red SUV and emerged with a brown bag of groceries. The basement windows were open and a strange pink mist was pooling around the driveway. Completely oblivious to the consequences, the attractive blonde Tabitha coughed as she inhaled some of the pink fog and continued inside. Rick must be working on his latest concoction, she rolled her eyes.
Once inside, she set down her keys and kicked off her heels before carrying the bag of groceries to the table and setting them down. Upstairs, Brendan was blasting music, downstairs she knew better than to interrupt her husband's experiments. The basement door was closed and locked, that could only mean do not disturb.
Tabitha sighed, took off her coat, and set it down on the chair. She proceeded to put the groceries away. Oddly, when she went to put the cans up in the cupboard, she found she had to stand on her tiptoes to reach the top shelf. Standing a statuesque 6'0" even, this confused her immensely, but in her mind she didn't really think much of it.
The sliding door suddenly knocked and Tabitha turned to see Brendan's best friend, Kevin. The perverted girl crazy pothead who favored a leather jacket and long black emo hair. She walked over and let the teen in.
"Brendan's upstairs, Kevin." Tabitha pointed. Odd. Standing in front of the young boy, he looked a lot taller. Perhaps he had gone through a growth spurt.
"Thanks, Tabs." Kevin flashed her a cheesy smile, and then looked on, confused. "Hey, did you lose weight or something?"
Tabitha shook her head, annoyed at how her dress was slipping down her thigh. "I don't think so, Kevin." Weird. He looked even taller. No matter, she had to put the groceries in the fridge.
"Right, check you later!" Kevin nodded, seeing Brendan's mom dismiss him. As he walked out of the kitchen he paused around the corner and looked back, raising an eyebrow as he saw Tabitha's baggy clothes. Something wasn't right... he stood in hiding and watched her.
As Tabitha finished with the fridge her alarm bells went off. She was now standing just a little taller than the countertop, staring up at the microwave in reverence. Her dress slipped off all together, falling down her waist, and with a gasp Tabitha stepped back in horror.
She looked up again, and found the countertop was out of her view.
"Oh my God..." She gasped. Her mind made the connection. Weird pink mist, everything was getting bigger. Her clothes were falling off. Rick! She wheeled around and was about to make a run for the basement door, but as she turned Kevin stood in her path.
"Well, well..." The teen grinned. "Hello, Mrs. Jones."
"Kevin!" Tabitha cried, finding herself no larger than a child. "Please! Help me! We've got to get rick! He's in the basement!"
"Sure, Mrs. J." Kevin knelt down, and put his hands on the shrinking woman's shoulders, holding her firmly in place. Her blouse pooled around her tiny body. Kevin paused, leaned in close, and smirked deviously. "But only if you kiss me."
Tabitha gasped, tried to pull away, and realized how helpless she was. She gulped. "Fine, fine." No point resisting. She bent forward and gave the giant teen a small peck on the lips. "There, now let's..."
"You call that a kiss?" Kevin laughed, watching as Tabitha became a little over two feet tall. He put his hands under her arms and easily picked the tiny woman off the floor.
"Kevin!" Tabitha screamed. "No! Stop! Please! We need to get me help! Fast!"
"I don't know..." Kevin grinned, feeling Brendan's hot mother squirm and shrink in his hands. "Looks like it's slowing down."
Indeed, the shrinking was slowing and stopping. Tabitha gasped as she watched, struggling in Kevin's huge hands that now encompassed her torso. She stopped shrinking, roughly the size of a barbie doll.
"Hmmm." Kevin grinned, staring at the tiny woman. "This is pretty cool, no?"
"Kevin!" Tabitha struggled, knowing the boy had the hots for her. "Please! Don't do anything rash! Just... just, please. Help me get Rick!"
"Kiss me." He repeated. "Only nice this time."