Still Shrinking
Story by CalexTheNeko on SoFurry
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Another human gets shrunk to microscopic sizes. He sure does like em small! I mean not that I would know anything about that? Right? Heh heh. >.> <.< Anyway for this story the character comes already shrunken but that doesn't mean he's done with the shrinking. It doesn't take long before he starts to shrink again until even tiny mice are giant kaiju.
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Still Shrinking
By CalexTheNeko
Fred groped around in the dark in a panic. The last thing he remembered was being bitten by a strange glowing bug while working in the backyard… Then had had been rather lightheaded and now here he was fumbling around naked in the dark. He was stuck underneath something… Some kind of fabric. He wasn't sure what it was but it gave him the chills thinking about how he would have gotten in this situation. Eventually as he fumbled his away along he could see light. He went towards it and emerged into the outdoors.
Fred was still in his yard. But it didn't look like his yard anymore. Blades of grass towered above his head like trees. He couldn't even see which direction his house was in beyond the grass. He turned around looking at what he had emerged from. He saw his own jeans laying discarded in the grass. He had crawled out of the pants leg which now resembled a dark cave from his point of view. He had shrunk. There was no possible explanation other than that. His own clothes were a testament to his change in stature.
Fred wasn't sure what to do. Suddenly finding yourself the size of a mouse wasn't something one usually prepared for. For now he decided the best thing to do would be to find shelter. He tried to figure out which direction his house was in. He wrapped his legs around a blade of grass and began to climb up. As he got to the top he could just see the outline of his house in the distance. It looked impossibly far away… But he had to go. He jumped down and began to walk. He hoped he could maintain his direction through this forest of grass.
After a few minutes there was a rustling noise. He paused as he looked around nervously. The blades of grass parted as a large furry figure suddenly came through. It was a mouse! And it was huge! The rodent's head was roughly level with Fred's.
Fred led out an audible gasp and fell over backwards away from the mouse. He felt his heart begin to race. As it did he saw the rodent began to swell in size. No that wasn't it… He was shrinking! Again! He was already half the mouse's size now!
This made Fred panic as he tried to climb back to his feet. As he panicked he began to shrink even faster. He turned to flee away from the mouse, soon only as tall as its legs, then its thighs, and then smaller than a single one of its paws. The mouse watched Fred with a curious look unsure of what to make of the tiny shrinking human. Fred wondered if mice even ate meat. He didn't want to wait to figure out. He ran as fast as he could… But as he got smaller the distance he could run decreased.
Blades of grass now looked more like buildings than trees. He spared a look over his shoulder. The mouse was still getting bigger. Fred was only about as big as one of the mouse's toes now. As the mouse walked forward towards Fred he could feel the impact of each of its paws hitting the earth. The tremors were enough to knock him down flat onto his stomach.
Fred whimpered. He feared for his life as the shrinking continued at the same rate. He crawled away from the mouse trying to hide in the dirt. Individual flecks of dirt were now giant stones to him. Soon what constituted a grain of sand was twice as big as his body. He turned back and looked at the enormous mouse. It no longer looked like a mouse. It looked like a monster out of a movie. He could no longer see far enough to make out its enormous body. Too many things such as city sized blades of grass and mountain sized pebbles blocked his view. He could only watch in horror as occasionally a massive paw slammed into the ground from above sending tremors in every direction.
Seeing no option for evasion Fred chose to hide. He dug himself down into the dirt as far as possible and waited for the mouse to pass. By now he was nothing more than a speck in comparison to the massive monster. He felt the trembling of the Earth which each step it took. Once a paw came crashing down next to him, creating a continent sized paw print just inches (no it would be a much shorter distance than that) from him. Eventually… The tremors started to fade. The beast of a mouse was moving on. After the ground finally came to a still Fred breathed easier. As he relaxed the shrinking seemed to stop.
He couldn't fathom how small he was. But staying in one place and thinking about it would only freak him out more. He tried to remember which direction the house was and start going that way. Walking was tough now. Every speck of dirt was a mountain. He found climbing was easy and effortless at this size but it made for a long journey.
And then he encountered something terrifying. He recognized it. It was the glowing green bug that had bit him. When he swatted it, it must have landed hear. Apparently he didn't harm it much. It looked something like a mosquito… But each hairy leg it had was a massive skyscraper. It's proboscis was now large enough to suck Fred up in an instant rather than just prick his skin. Then it had massive football stadium sized wings that as it flapped produced winds that lifted Fred up off the ground and threw him away.
The bug must have been angry after it was swatted. Fred supposed he could sympathize… But wait he had started shrinking when this thing bit him? This had caused it! Fear rose up in him. Was he now doomed to become dinner to the creature that had shrunk him? As he began to worry about this he began to shrink again. The mosquito meanwhile flapped its wings hopping around the ground. This time Fred was thrown upward into the air. He was so small he was completely helpless as he caught in the insect's updrafts. He flew high into the air for what felt like miles but was only millimeters. He wondered if he would die… And the shrinking sped up.
Fred had a realization at this point. Every time he started worrying, he started getting smaller. It must have been an adrenaline thing… But it was hard to stay calm when you were literally being thrown through the air by the beats of a mosquito's wings.
Fred was still shrinking smaller and smaller. Soon the mosquito was no longer a problem. Fred was so tiny that even fleas would have considered him insignificant. Soon he was no longer being thrown through the air on wind but simply found himself floating as if submerged in water.
He looked around and saw other things there with him. Blobs that moved on their own and had strange glowing bits inside them. He lost it at that. He knew he needed to stay calm but it was hard. He began to shrink even faster. Soon the blobs, which he understood were microscopic organisms, were bigger than him. Then they were much bigger. In moments a single one of those blobs was now bigger than the entire city Fred lived in from his point of view.
He did his best to run… Or in this case swim away from it. He tried to stuff the panic overtaking him deep down… But he was still shrinking.
The End