Loophole

Copyright by an350017 1995. an350017 is now known as Robin Goodfellow due to the demise of anon.penet.fi This story may be reposted or placed on electronic archives only with the author's permission. I'll probably give permission, but want to keep some control.

Chapter 1

On Monday evening, Albert made the most important scientific discovery of the century, and of his life. It was a discovery that was to lose him his job and his stature but to ultimately make him quite happy. On that Monday evening, he simply did not believe it. There were so many scientific reasons to believe that you cannot change the size of physical objects and expect them to behave in a fairy tale manner, ranging from chemical compatibility (how do atoms of different sizes combine chemically) to wavelengths of light (a small pupil in an eye shouldn't be able to let in the same frequencies).

If he was right, he seemed to have found a theoretical loophole in the laws of physics.

He went to work the next day determined to learn what he had done wrong. All day he spent examining his reasoning, but he couldn't find the error. Finally he decided that he needed another mind to help him.

Albert worked in the Advanced Development Lab of a major high tech company, and it should have been possible to find someone to help. Albert had come to the lab directly from getting his Ph.D. He'd never been in the "outside" world. When he first came, three years ago, there would have been several people that could have helped him.

Unfortunately, that scientist set unrealistic expectations, and had never produced a commercially valuable product. Larry was very quick on his feet and charismatic -- abilities Albert didn't have. But, he never examined a difficult issue all the way. He was smart, but not wise. Nevertheless, he had managed to fascinate the company's owners with his intellectual speed. They couldn't see that there was very little behind it. Most of the good scientist in the company had either left or were leaving in disgust.

Larry was the only scientist who might be able to understand the complex mathematics. Albert made an appointment. As Albert was presenting his work, he could see why Larry had so many fans. Larry seemed to be following right with him as he presented the work. He was elated by the end of the meeting, not only had Larry not found any errors but promised to help get support to push the theoretical ideas to practical completion.

Soon, Albert was part of a 100 person effort, code named Atlas. At first it was great fun, but there were some small practical drawbacks to the method, any enlargements would require tremendous energy, and would only be temporary. The amount of energy required would be equal to the maximum theoretical chemical energy that could be obtained from the extra mass. The law of conservation of energy still held, if you enlarged a teaspoon of gas to a gallon, burned it, and then later let it revert to a teaspoon, you wouldn't gain anything, because you'd have to put more energy into enlarging it than the gallon would yield. The energy would be returned when the item returned to normal size minus any energy that had been "used".

It was a heady experience to be a leader in one of the companies major strategic thrusts.

Larry wanted to build a machine that would make the enlargements permanent. Albert was sure that the loophole he had found would not permit that. But, none of the other scientists was willing to stand up with him against Larry. When Albert was with Larry, Larry would plunge into details, which he had an immense grasp of. They just didn't fit together.

Larry's plan required several complex components. Exactly what each component did kept changing. Every time Albert would challenge Larry's plan, one or another component would change, to match his specific challenge. Albert was convinced that the whole thing couldn't work together, but could never convince any one of the managers.

As 25 people were put on each of Larry's major component's confusion just grew. The game plan kept changing. It was just like all of Larry's previous projects. Larry had promised to deliver in 9 months, and two years went by. Albert wanted to go off and pursue his own plan. He was sure that he could build his device in a year, but since Larry kept promising to build his better machine in 9 months, he stopped Albert from getting any material, or even any time to build his own machine.

Sometimes the most perceptive people in an organization are the secretaries. The boss's secretary, Mary, believed Albert. Mary was young, and beautiful, but she'd been in the real world. She could see Larry for what he really was. She could also see who Albert was.

Mary started feeling protective of Albert. She could he see he was a painfully shy, brilliant boy who didn't have the kinds of ambitions many in the corporate world did. He didn't understand ambition in others. She made sure that Albert got access to the company owner, John Acer. Unfortunately, for all her coaching, he still made a hesitant presentation. At the end the owner looked him straight in the eye and said "Albert, I want to thank you for all your hard work. I know that you got us started down this path. I'll ask a group of our top technical people to review it. But, we've invested a tremendous amount of money in Atlas I'd rather not going to throw it away."

Albert was elated, he was going to be given a chance; Mary knew better.

The committee was established. It was put under a manager who had once been a promising scientist. But, he had chosen the management path. It was tempting to follow his scientific instinct's, but in the end, politics prevailed and Atlas remained the company's direction.

Albert suffered for another year being a team player. The boss was beginning to wonder whether all investments in Atlas had been wasted. The more pressure he put on Larry the more focused the project became on a direction Albert didn't believe in. Albert tried to make the plan work, but he kept thinking through how he would build a machine that he believed could work. He started to see that some of the components of Atlas might help him make a working machine if they could be put together with a new component. At nights he started to design his own machine Phoenix.

Four years after Albert had the initial insight he was almost ready to put Phoenix together. He needed to get a part from Atlas. He knew that Larry would never agree. He had fought so hard, but didn't know what to do next.

Mary had noticed that Albert had been animated for several months, and all of a sudden seemed deflated. She invited him to dinner. He blushed nicely when she asked if he was busy, but he eventually stammered out an acceptance. Over dinner he told her the story.

Albert didn't know, but Mary had keys to every room in the lab. As he was talking, she got a sly smile on her face, "How long is it going to take you to get the machine working once you've gotten Larry's part" she asked

"Oh, it really shouldn't be more than an hour or two."

"Well then, lets go to the lab, I've got a big dessert planned."

Albert didn't understand what was happening as Mary went to the refrigerator and wrapped something small in a napkin.

At the lab, Mary watched as Albert realized his dream. After an hour he put a penny in the machine and pushed a button. He pulled out a 50lb. copper barbell.

Mary asked him to show him how it worked. She had him turn his back. After a moment, she told him she had dessert, but she needed his help. She had turn the enlargement down, but she just couldn't lift the 100lb cookie. Even together they couldn't pick it up, but they could break it and pick up some of the 10 LB pieces. They feasted on one of them.

The next day started like an ordinary work day. Their 50lb copper barbell had shrunk back to being a penny, but they were still full from part of the cookie. Pieces of expanded matter that had merged with normal matter stayed expanded. At midday Larry came in and told Mary he had an emergency and needed to see the boss right away. Emergencies were Larry's strong suite, he had them quite often, so Mary didn't think much of it until she was told to get Albert right away.

She did, and when she opened the door she could tell there was a lynching about to take place. Larry was accusing Albert of destroying his part. He knew he needed a scapegoat, since he was failing and it appeared Mary had helped make Albert into a great target.

Albert didn't know how to deal with an attack from Larry. Mary though knew what she had to do. If Albert had known what she was going to do he probably would have tried to stop her, but he was preoccupied trying futily to save his job.

Mary went to Albert's lab, set the machine, and stepped into it herself. Ten minutes later, she was eight feet tall, and was a svelte 300 lb. She had to slouch the whole way back to avoid scraping the ceilings. As she got back to her office, outside the bosses and was thinking about what exactly she should do, she heard Larry say "Its 100 to one. No one else believes Albert's fantasy that he can do what 100 people can't. He's just disrupting the real direction. I want him out of here."

She entered the room, and sat on the same couch as Larry. Larry bounced slightly when her weight hit the couch. My God she thought, they're just like little boys, and they're fighting like ones. "Gee Larry, I think its at least two on Albert's side, I believe him" Patting his head "Or don't you think I'm entitled to a vote -- I'm only a surprisingly big secretary".

For once Larry was speechless. The more she talked the more she started to realize the advantages of size. Somehow her larger size was making her the leader in the room. It was as she was the only adult in a room full of children. They were not only looking up to her physically, but also were looking to her for guidance.

Mary seized the opportunity. "Boss, I think it's time to put this charade to an end. Obviously Albert knows more about the theory and operation of our new device. He should be in control of the scientific effort." The boss could only nod his head. "We don't really need this large a staff. Do we Albert?" He also seemed to be having trouble controlling his tongue, but he nodded. "Fine, then Albert will choose the scientific direction, and the boss and I should be able to handle any of the people contact."

"But where does that leave me?" Larry half squeaked.

"I don't know, but I'm sure you'll figure it out" Mary stated. She paused and added "I would think you should be able to find something to do, here or elsewhere." She was a bit amazed that she was on the way to firing Larry, but somehow her size seemed to let her lead the others. She decided to go for broke and see how far she could push it. "Two weeks ought to be enough time, but perhaps we should be generous, why don't you come back in three with a proposal? I'll make sure that we make time for you." She looked around the room, and said "I guess we're all agreed, lets go back to work."

After everyone else had left the boss's office, she walked over to Albert, and said "I hope that was all right with you".

He craned his neck upward, looking past her massive breasts to her face and said, "I've never seen a meeting so dominated by one person, you did a wonderful job. I only wish I could do as well."

"Thanks. Albert, I'm about to have a small problem." She said looking down at him, "Perhaps you could help."

"Anything" he replied. "What's the problem?"

"I'm not going to fit in my car and at this size I'm going to have some difficulty getting around".

Albert took her home, got a pizza, which they shared -- he had two pieces and she made a dainty meal of the rest. As he was about to leave Mary asked him, did he believe in kissing on the first date. He looked a bit dumbfounded and started to get red faced. So, she picked him up by the armpits, lifted him -- she'd been working out. He only felt to be about 40 lbs -- and she gave him probably the biggest, sloppiest kiss he'd ever gotten. After he left, she slept on the floor. In the morning she had returned to normal size.

Chapter 2

Next day seemed anti-climactic. When she came in her boss seemed to pretend nothing happened. They used to be friendly now he seemed be very distant. Things went along that way for several weeks. Larry did get a job at a different company. Mary was surprised that he left without a struggle. Mary started thinking that her temporary growth seemed to have affected the egos of both of these apparently secure men. Albert on the other hand, while still shy, seemed to be more comfortable, so long as she took the lead.

Albert was interested in looking at the issues of shrinking things, but the boss was focused on growing. Albert was able to make things stay large for several days, but that seemed to be a limit. Permanent growth seemed impossible whether it was Albert or Larry in charge, but Albert was able to get the timing of the return to normal size down to a science.

Acer became fanatical about ensuring that no-one other than Albert or Mary should know that the enlarging machine was successful.

Acer started to have a lot of meetings with architects. He was having a new office constructed, with its own entrance. He seemed fascinated with large sizes, and his office was no exception. He was having new furniture constructed, that was so large no normal person would fit into it. At his insistence, Albert made a second machine, which was installed in the separate entrance.

Once his office was finished, it became clear that he thought it would be good to enlarge himself every morning. The furniture was designed for a 7' 6" person. At that height, he could move through the ordinary corridors, but still towered over all his employees.

Mary couldn't believe the change. While she wasn't cowed by him, all of sudden their relation changed again. Before she had grown, they had occasionally flirted. It was innocent, and she enjoyed it. Then he had grown distant. Now he was back to friendly, but too friendly.

One day he announced that she was his assistant, and as such should also grow during the day. Thereafter she was to be the second tallest person in the company at 6' 3". That brought her to shoulder height with Acer, but she towered over most of the others. Somehow it did make scheduling meetings easier, people paid more attention to her. Unfortunately, it also intimidated most of her colleagues. Where once there was a free and easy atmosphere, the company seemed to suddenly become very quiet. People took orders more seriously. "Perhaps that's what Mr. Acer wants", she mused. "But I don't like it."

One day, he asked her to take dictation, and to sit on his lap. She refused. He got quite annoyed, and said "Everyone in this company is EXPECTED to do what they are told." Finally he calmed down.

Another day he started to talk about how turned on he was by her big breasts, especially when she had been enlarged, but he said he liked her better this way, since he could control her.

She got quite worried and talked to Albert about it. They discussed the fact that he had gotten quite autocratic lately and maybe he didn't expect NO as an answer on anything. He was the boss, and she couldn't exactly go to personnel and complain. She had no proof, and couldn't really go to the authorities. He was careful and never misbehaved when anyone else was around. Albert said he had an idea, but needed some time. No matter what she did, he wouldn't say any more.

The company's financial whiz seemed troubled. One day as he was leaving Acer's office, she heard him mutter "but it's not honest." She asked him about it. He said he didn't want to talk about it. In the past, she knew he had stood up to Acer, but now, as others in the company he seemed cowed.

She asked Albert about it later. He was one of the few people that seemed able to ignore her height during the day. He didn't know, but said "why don't you ask him more forcefully?" "What do you mean?" She replied. His answer was "Stand close and lean over him." They actually waited a few days until Acer was out of the office for the afternoon and set Mary's height at 6' 7". At that height she could be quite intimidating when she stood next to someone.

He started shaking. Finally he burst out, "I know it's not right, I just can't get him to listen". "What's not right?" She asked. His reply explained a lot about the company.

"The company's been burning cash and we owe an awful lot, more than we could normally borrow. Mr. Acer's got several matching diamonds. He expanded one and then used it as collateral to borrow several million dollars. When I asked him what he was going to do when it shrank, he laughed and said that's the beauty of matching diamonds. Every other day I have to "check" on the diamonds. I've told our creditors I want to make sure they keep the diamonds in a safe place. Actually I replace it with its pair, which has just been expanded. Each diamond is good for a week, but I'm being careful."

"It's true that diamonds the size and perfection he's apparently got are very rare, and no-one would expect two identical diamonds. On the other hand, if you wanted a matching pair the size of a splinter, it's not too hard to find ones that are close and then to shape them to be identical."

He further explained that the company was living on assets it was only pretending to have, and that was quite illegal.

Chapter 3

"Could you join me after work, Mary" Albert asked a week later. "I'd be glad to" she replied.

That evening he said "I have something to show you. " He pulled a tiny video camera out of his pocket and then pointed to a machine in the corner of his room. "Now I can shrink things as well as enlarge them. It's even better than that." He explained that enlarging required energy. When the object shrank back the energy was returned minus any that had been used. Shrinking gave up energy that was later used when the object returned to full size. If returning to full size requires more energy, he object won't return to full size until it the situation changes. That means we can keep an object small if it or a part of it is enclosed so that energy would be gained when it expanded. We can keep it small until we want to make it bigger.

"When I shrank the video camera, I also shrank the rod that's in the center of this metal donut. If the rod expanded, the donut couldn't hold it anymore and would have to break. That would require energy, in fact the way the physics actually work the amount of energy would be enough to melt the donut." He pushed the rod out of the donut. Suddenly the video camera and the rod started expanded. Within a second the video camera had become full size, and the rod became a bar about ten times bigger than it had been.

"With this we'll destroy our friend Mr. Acer". Albert explained the rest of his plan. Mary objected that it was dangerous, but Albert was adamant. "I knew you'd be worried, but let me show you how it works." Mary said "don't" but before she could stop him, he stepped to the machine and pushed a button. There was a small flash of light and then Albert was starring up at a 70 foot tall Mary, and Mary was looking down at a 4 inch Albert. Mary said "don't ever do that without telling me." Albert looked up and shouted, "Well, I don't think I could even push the button without your help." Mary could barely hear him. She lay down and asked him to repeat himself. He did and she laughed. "Mary could you put your hand down so I can climb on?" She did. He climbed on. He weighted less than her keys. She lifted her hand. As she did, Albert almost fell off. She closed her hand.

This was the first time Albert had shrunk. At first he was a bit disoriented. He looked at the room. He was calf deep in the carpet. He was still facing Mary. She was wearing heels and he was about as tall as the top of her shoes. He had made sure she was at the other end of the room when he had turned on the machine to ensure she wasn't caught in any of the side effects. Now she seemed to be over a hundred fifty feet away, as well as seventy feet high. When he spoke, he tried to shout as if to a person a long way away. To hear better she came closer. In a few seconds she had covered the half football field distance and he was suddenly near her massive face. He couldn't help but be afraid, although he knew she wouldn't hurt him. He climbed on her hand. Her fingers were about as wide as a step, but they were round and it was a bit tricky maintaining his balance. Finally he reached her palm. All of a sudden he was rising at rapid rate. He was 10 feet, 20 feet, 30 feet above the floor. He lost his balance. Her massive fingers started to close around him. He fainted.

She looked down at him, concerned that she had hurt him. Fortunately he recovered quickly. "Maybe it's more me that needs training at being this size, rather than you who needs to know how to handle me." "Oh poor baby." She leaned down and was about to kiss him, but thought better of it.

"Mary we do have to practice. Do what comes naturally. Just be gentle".

She kissed him gingerly, and the suction of her mouth momentarily picked him up from her hand. He was startled, but the pressure of her kiss was gentle and spread over much of his body. It was a bit like lying on her soft mouth, although as it was happening he was held from above rather than being supported below.

Mary noticed her kiss had moved him, and asked "Are you OK".

"Actually that was sort of fun. " He explained that she had picked him up with her mouth.

"Should I do it again?"

"Sure, but maybe we should have a safety signal. I'll hold my hand above my head, if I want to be put down."

They found that she could suspend him as long as she wanted. Their experimentation continued. Once she accidentally sucked him into her mouth. He wasn't hurt, but he did get wet. She shrank a bathing suit for him and asked him to change into it. He did.

Both of them were getting turned on. Albert was embarrassed and didn't mention it. Mary was afraid that Albert might think her kinky and get frightened, so she didn't mention it either.

She tried again sucking him into her mouth. While he was unable to resist the vacuum from her mouth, she began to understand what would hurt and what wouldn't, and she didn't hurt him. She could feel him with her teeth and still avoid hurting him.

The inside of her mouth was hot, moist, and smelled a bit like what you might imagine the inside of a mouth would smell like. He could tell exactly what she had eaten, and he found the beginning of a cavity. "I'll bet with a portable drill and some cement I could fix this and you wouldn't know -- a new method of painless dentistry. But, I wouldn't want to trust shrunken cement to last a lifetime."

Once, she breathed through her mouth while he was in it. His ears popped from the change in pressure. He told her what happened, and she decided to try a slightly different experiment. Albert soon found his body in her mouth, with his shoulders surrounded by Mary's lips. She breathed into her mouth. The pressure pushed the breath from his lungs. Her inhaling pulled his the breath back in. A bit of work and they realized she could easily become an iron lung.

Once while he was in her mouth, she thought she tasted a slightly salty taste, but since Albert didn't say anything, she didn't mention it. When she took him out of her mouth, his face seemed a bit flushed. His body was sufficiently small that even though the bathing suit was sticking to his body held by the moisture from her mouth, she couldn't be sure whether his private parts had changed shape. Albert certainly wasn't going to tell her what happened.

Mary had an idea, she asked Albert to lie in the palm of her hand and push as hard as he could with his legs against her fingers. At first Albert didn't understand why, he certainly wouldn't be able to overcome the strength of her fingers. She explained that if he pushed against her, she would get a better idea of how hard she could hold him without doing real damage.

A bit more practice and she could pick him up between her fingers. While he was disoriented a number of times, he only fainted once more. She wasn't sure whether he was hurt, and he awoke with his head outside her, while she played iron lung on the rest of his body.

That night Albert slept on the night stand on a sheet of tissue paper, on a mattress of some cotton gauze. Mary slept in Albert's bed. Mary was afraid to let him out of her sight. Albert got a rather large eyeful although she didn't take off her clothes until she was under the sheets. She was embarrassed, and he felt inhibited. In the morning, Mary had breakfast, Albert drank by scooping orange juice from a teaspoon. Soon the shrinking wore off, and he expanded. They went to work (after Mary went home) and tried to pretend nothing had happened.

Over the next few days they learned more about the what a giantess and her shrunken man could do. At the size of 4 inches he could climb her fishnet stockings. The stockings made a fairly nice ladder. But, stepping on a rope ladder and climbing 30 feet was fairly tiring. A bit of experimentation convinced them that even if he fell, a thick carpet made for a rather soft landing.

When Albert was shrunk to one inch, Mary could blow him around, literally. She could lie down, pick him up in her hand, bring him above her lips, and blow. He'd fly in the air supported by the force of her breath. With a bit of practice, she could blow him up so high while breathing out that she could quickly breath in before he fell. That way, she could keep him in the air continuously. The trip was a bit frightening but also exhilarating. It was a bit like sky diving over a terrain consisting of his friend. When she grew tired, she picked him out of the air like a feather falling.

They sewed a patch of cloth on the inside front of one of her skirts. The dress was made of a fairly heavy material and the patch couldn't be noticed even when Albert was sitting in the patch.

When Mary walked across the room, she didn't even feel Albert. Unfortunately he felt her massive legs bumping him repeatedly. The walk across the room didn't hurt him, but they were afraid it might if she walked further, or even worse ,absentmindedly crossed her legs.

Albert could be safely carried in her blouse, but he couldn't get out without being noticed.

They took an excursion to the stationary store. Mary bought some rather large paper clips -- they were large to her, to Albert they were a bit bigger than he was and made of massive iron bars. At home she bent them into a cage, not one he couldn't squeeze out of, but one that could enclose him comfortably some cotton balls completed his carrier.

Once Albert grew again, he soldered the cage, so it wouldn't fall apart. Mary could crush it if she squeezed hard, but certainly not accidentally.

Chapter 4

Next day Albert called in sick, Mary shrunk him some mountain climbing gear and a video camera. He climbed into the carrier with the climbing gear and several feet of thread that she handed him. She put the carrier into its holder in her skirt. She drove to work. At work, she hurried to the lady's room and checked to make sure Albert was all right. He was fine. He didn't mention that he rather enjoyed the trip, because the view was spectacular.

With Albert back in the carrier, Mary returned to work. Acer called her in to the office.

As soon as she sat down, Albert rappelled down the thread. He waded through the knee high carpet and hid under the desk.

"Mary, you look particularly attractive today" Acer said admiring her fishnet stockings, and rather tight skirt.

"Thank you Mr. Acer, but oughtn't we be getting down to business"?

"Come on Mary, I've asked you to call me John. Why don't you just sit down here on my lap and I'll give you a bit of dictation and we can be friendly."

"We've been over that before, I'll be happy to take dictation, from here."

"Come on, I know you'd be happy to sit on Albert's lap." Acer said, not realizing how Albert had just been sitting on Mary's lap.

"Mr. Acer, that's not any of your business and I'd rather you stop this, but if you continue, I'm going to have to do something about it."

"Come on, you can't do anything about it. No one would believe you, and if you made an accusation, no one would ever hire you again." Mary knew it would ordinarily be true, but these were not ordinary circumstances. She looked down at the bottom of the desk. She could barely make out Albert taping the whole episode. Ordinarily she would have left but she didn't want to abandon him. As she looked, he stepped out and waved her to leave.

Acer continued offering Mary promotions if she'd "behave". Albert got madder and madder at Acer, but realized all he could do to protect Mary was to continue filming the scene. Mary wanted to protect Albert, but didn't have a chance to pick up Albert. Acer kept moving closer. Albert couldn't make it to her leg, not to mention the safety of her skirt, without being noticed. Mary realized that the safest thing for Albert was for her to leave. If Acer saw Albert things could get nasty and Albert was hardly able to defend himself.

As she turned to the door, Acer grabbed her by the waist. Acer was a giant, but somehow, perhaps with the strength of panic, she slipped under and out of his grip. She opened the door and left. Acer followed, but when he noticed people in the outer office stopped following her and said "We'll discuss this later."

As soon as Acer had to leave for a meeting, Mary hurried in, and retrieved Albert.

"Now I want to do something in private". She put him in her purse and closed it, trapping him in the dark. He heard, but didn't see what she was doing. Shortly he heard the toilet flush. In a couple of minutes she opened the purse, picked him up again and asked if he had anything to take care of. He did. She put him on the edge of the toilet and turned around. She didn't hear what he did, nor could she notice anything after she turned back around.

That evening Albert took out the tape of the session with Acer. Mary enlarged it and they both watched her small/Imax screen size TV. Mary realized that while she thought she'd been protecting him all day, and she had been, he'd bravely been getting the information to protect her. She found herself becoming more attracted to what she was starting to think of as her shy and brilliant little man.

Albert asked that was Acer's normal behavior. She answered "Worse than normal, I usually manage to leave before he gets like that, but I guess I was a bit distracted."

Albert found it strange that Mary was making excuses for Acer, saying that Acer's behavior was somehow her fault for not leaving earlier. Albert had read about this kind of reaction from abused women. He pointed out to her how wrong Acer had been and that it was not her fault. It took a while, but as Mary rewound and rewatched the tape she began to understand what had been done to her. By the end of the evening, they both wanted to do more than merely have Mary sue him for sex discrimination.

He asked Mary if she could hold out a couple of weeks. She said "This has been going on for months, a few more weeks won't matter." Albert wanted to ensure that the machines in the company couldn't continue without him and that if he left it would look as though they had never worked. Mary was concerned that "too many have seen Acer at his seven foot size to believe that nothing was going on. They do own your invention. They can force you legally to fix them, even if you've left the company."

"Oh, they'll believe that something has been going on..."

He started studying glass making, and ordered a small kiln, a cubic yard of sand, and some chemicals. When it all arrived, he pressed a small lens into some clay to form a mold. The mold was fired in the kiln. He shrank the sand and chemicals, and placed them into the mold and melted them in the kiln to form a lens shaped small mass of glass. Some polishing made it into a reasonably good lens. Later the lens expanded to an eight foot wide lens. The lens was shrunk back with some more sand.

The additional sand was placed in a small flask. The sand couldn't expand without breaking the flask, which required energy not supplied with the shrinking process. The lens couldn't expand without everything that was shrunk with it also expanding. Thus, the lens wouldn't expand until they poured the sand out of the flask.

Albert quit. He was told that the company owned his invention and he'd be sued if he mentioned it. He said "I understand. You can be sure I won't tell anyone about it, without approval from the legal owners of the invention."

Albert couldn't risk being seen in the building, and disabling the machine undetectably was too complicated to explain. They found a different way of getting Albert to the machines.

After a few more days of planning and practice, they were ready. Mary shrank Albert with some sand, and the sand was placed in a small cup. Then she expanded him. Then he was shrunk again with some more sand that was placed in a second cup.

Mary brought the shrunken Albert in with the miniature lens. When Acer went out for a meeting, she emptied one of her cups. Immediately Albert grew. Albert disabled the expanding machines in the company. Then they placed the lens, now smaller than a contact lens on the floor, where it could expand. The enlargement wore off and he grew smaller again.

Chapter 5

Mary knelt down and picked up the diminished Albert, sticking him in her cleavage. It was faster to put him there than inside her hidden skirt pocket and she thought he'd actually be more comfortable. She was wearing a tight tee shirt with a U shaped cut that let her slip Albert in easily. The shirt while tight did not expose much of her breast and she didn't think anyone would notice him unless he popped his head up.

Albert saw Mary enter the room, and ran out to greet her. She covered the hundreds of feet between them in the time he moved about ten feet (to her he'd moved a few inches). Suddenly she was looming over him blocking his view of most of the room. Her fingers reached down, and gently, but irresistibly grabbed him. Her hand moved towards her chest, pushed the inches thick fabric aside and placed him between her massive breasts.

He was lying on his back supported by her tee shirt, looking up at her bra and chest. The shirt was stretched so tightly between her large mounds, and he weighed so little that he hardly made an impression on the shirt. Right above his head was a big lace bow tie, about two feet across. The space he was in was about 10 feet wide at the bottom where he lay on her shirt, and about two feet wide at the top where her breasts were at their widest and where they met her chest. The cloth curved up matching the shape of her breasts. He thought he could stand up straight but he noticed the headroom would get tighter as he moved around. The headroom would get wider but lower if he stepped up on her shirt either towards her head, where the light was coming from, or towards her feet.

In a moment she stood up. First he felt himself being pushed down against her tee shirt as her motion upwards increased in acceleration and then the cloth sprang back to its normal shape as she slowed and he found himself tumbling toward her chest as the floor came out from under his feet.

He tried to stand up, just as she breathed out. The shirt loosened, and he found his legs slipping down her shirt. She breathed in and they were caught. He leaned over to prevent himself from falling all the way down. Soon he was able to leverage himself up on the slightly slopping ledge formed by the cloth strung between the bottom of her breasts. The bottom of her breasts jutted out almost perpendicularly from her chest. The fabric of the shirt was stretched between them, and made an almost level surface.

After a while he realized he could lie on the cloth like a hammock, albeit one which was tipped slightly towards one side. He couldn't swing the hammock back and forth, but Mary did as she breathed and walked. When she breathed in the hammock came up as the cloth was stretched, and when she breathed out, it came back down. He didn't want to stand and risk slipping down her shirt. He knew she was wearing a tight belt and that he wouldn't slip all the way down, but he might get trapped in a sort of cocoon down there.

It was actually quite peaceful until she went downstairs. Mary was an energetic lady and always took the stairs. The bouncing might not have been so bad except that her breast jiggled. They were quite firm, and were held in by a tight bra. But they jiggled a bit. The jiggling was amplified by the fact that her shirt was stretched tightly between them, just as moving the end of a stretched rope a bit together and then apart will move its center much more than the ends are moved.

He managed to twist around, placing his feet on her chest with his back on the curve of the cloth. He was able to balance by using his legs to press upward on her chest with his back being pressed down into the cloth. Once he got his foot on the strap between her two bra cups, he was fairly comfortable, but was glad when he realized she was only going down one flight of stairs. Later when she ascended the steps she came up a more slowly, and while she was breathing just a bit harder -- he was the only one that noticed, he was more aware of what her body was doing than she was -- the bouncing was less, and he had gotten himself prepared for it as soon as he heard her open the door to the stairway.

Soon Mary went to the bathroom, saw that she was the only one in the bathroom, went into a stall, reached into her shirt and brought Albert out. He described his journey to Mary. She apologized for the bouncing and said she'd take the elevator while he was with her. Next she reached down to her skirt and said "I guess it's a good thing I haven't fixed the hem of this skirt." With that she ripped out a thread that had been hanging inside the skirt. She had Albert tie it around himself. She took off her shirt, so that they could work, she lifted him to her chest, and had him tie what to him was a thick rope to the bow in the center of her bra. When she took her hand away, he dangled from the thread. She left him dangling while she carefully put her shirt on over him. He was again supported by her shirt, but now he didn't need to worry about slipping down it.

With his support rope, the rest of the day he found rather peaceful, and he actually took a nap under her mammeries. When the work day was over, Mary went to her car, opened it, got in and put her seat belt on and drove home. She could feel Albert moving around between her breasts, but thought nothing of it as she drove.

When Mary had gotten to the car she bent over a bit to unlock the door. Albert had been napping, and suddenly found himself rolling toward the front of her shirt. As he rolled, the thread got a bit tangled. He grabbed the bow, and stuck one of his legs through the loops while he untangled himself.

Just as he got himself untangled, Mary put her seat belt, and shoulder strap on. She had never properly adjusted the shoulder strap, but had gotten used to it slightly squeezing her breast. What was a slight squeeze to Mary was enough to make her right breast spread. Albert was caught between her breasts. His leg was strapped in between them at their narrowest part. The pressure wasn't painful, it was a bit like being caught between two mattresses. If his leg hadn't been in the loop, he could have pushed his way out, but he didn't have room to free his leg. He might have pushed his whole body up, but he didn't want to risk tumbling out of her shirt. He did find that if he stood up straight his eyes would poke over the cut of the shirt and he could partially see where she was driving. He couldn't look to the sides because his view was blocked by the mounds of her breasts.

All things considered he rather enjoyed the trip. When they got home, he gave an abbreviated version of what happened to Mary. He realized that if he told her the whole story she'd be concerned, and he was afraid she might decide not to let him travel that way again. He could, of course, tell her that he liked the trip, but that would be too embarrassing.

Mary had gone back to Albert's apartment, since that's where all the equipment was. Mary kind of liked the thought of taking care of Albert. She had liked playing with dolls as a girl, and he was now kind of like a grown up doll. On the other hand she didn't want Albert to think she was strange, so she decided not to mention that she rather enjoyed the power trip he was giving her.

She was anxious to see the tape, so took off her shirt, cut Albert down from the thread he was dangling from, and caught him in her hand. Finally, he untied the rope from his waist, since she was afraid to get a scissors so close to his little body and she released the sand that had kept him at his current size, but he didn't expand. She got worried, and set him down on the table to talk to him. Suddenly he expanded. She asked him why he didn't expand immediately, and he pointed out that she'd been holding him at the time and he couldn't expand into the space her hand occupied.

Chapter 6

Mary wanted to go to lawyer right away. Albert suggested a college friend of his Stephanie. Mary made an appointment but had to wait a week.

Albert said that's ok, we still have some preparations we have to make. In that time he constructed a second machine. The second machine was smaller than the first. Albert placed the small machine inside the larger machine. First he shrank the smaller machine, and then he expanded it back to its original size. He took it out. Mary asked what was the purpose of what he'd just done. He said, "I set the original shrinking to last 10 minutes, wait until then and you'll see."

At exactly 10 minutes from the original shrinking, the effects of the shrinking wore off. The machine expanded to almost twice it's original size. Mary clapped her hands, but Albert looked puzzled. Mary asked why, and he said he thought it would get much bigger. It should have multiplied in size by as much as he had expanded it, and he'd expanded it three fold.

Mary asked why he wanted it to get that big. The machines were fairly heavy, and she was a bit worried about the floor. He agreed that might be a problem and he'd be more careful in the future, but still he didn't understand why it didn't work. Mary said "I've got a stupid question, where did the weight come from, isn't physics supposed to conserve matter and energy?."

Albert was lost in thought, but did mention something about a reservoir of weight. Mary asked how heavy the reservoir was, and Albert realized what the problem was, he'd used up the reservoir. There was a mass storage mechanism in the machine. When he expanded things, the mass of the storage device decreased, and when the item shrunk back, the mass of the device returned. The opposite happened with shrinking.

While they were talking the second machine returned to its original small size.

Albert tried the experiment again, but this time first he shrank some weights he had once bought increasing the reservoir. The second machine expanded to the size he expected. Mary stepped into the now spacious machine and asked Albert to make her ten feet tall. He tried, but she only grew to six feet, barely bigger than Albert. Again they hadn't charged the reservoir. The reservoir for what had been the small machine had gotten bigger, but hadn't been big enough to begin with to make Mary into a true giantess.

A bit more work was needed. They found that they could keep increasing Mary's size a bit at a time, if they shrank things in between. As Mary got bigger and bigger, she started taking all the heavy items in Albert's apartment and at Albert's suggestion shrank them. Albert couldn't lift them but quickly Mary weighed as much as and was as strong as ten Alberts. They got a bit carried away. By the time most of Albert's furniture was doll sized, Mary was so big she started to get worried about the way the floor was bouncing.

Mary went hungry that night, because there just wasn't enough food in the refrigerator to come close to satisfying her. The floor was hard, and Albert's biggest blankets didn't cover her. She had trouble sleeping, not because of the various discomforts, but because she was just so excited.

About dawn everything returned to normal size as predicted.

That morning Albert told Mary he had a favor to ask her. She said sure what is it? He started getting embarrassed. He seemed to have a hard time getting anything out. Mary thought it was cute at first. After a short while, she figured that maybe he was trying to get romantic. So, she came up to him and kissed him briefly. He started to blush and she asked is that what you wanted? He started to stammer, and said "No, but that was very nice."

He blurted out "Could I move in with you?"

She was amazed. She liked him, but he'd never been this forward before. She thought "Is that what one kiss does?" What she said was "Isn't that a bit quick, one kiss and we're living together?"

He blushed even more furiously and said "Oh, I didn't mean it that way... I'm going to need a place to hide and I wondered if you'd hide me?"

"Wouldn't that be the first place anyone would look?"

"Oh, I don't think anyone will go through all of your shoe boxes, and I promise not to eat much of your food."

"You want to stay shrunk the whole time?"

"Well, I'm going to have to hide, and that seems to be the easiest way to hide. Can I stay with you, I really won't be much of an imposition."

"Of course you can stay, but why do you have to hide?"

"In a few days, the expansion machines in Atlas are going to stop working. I'm the only one who understands them, and as you point out, I legally owe them all the ideas I came up with while employed there. They'll come looking for me, and if they ask, I'm no lawyer, but I think I might be legally obligated to help them. If they don't find me to convey the request to me, I don't see how I can be obliged to have read their mind. I don't want to help them, so I need to make sure they can't find me to ask my help."

The next day, they repeated the process of shrinking everything in Albert's apartment. This time they only expanded Mary enough so that she could help move the furniture. Once the furniture was shrunk, they put the small machine inside the larger machine. They shrank it, expanded it, let the shrinking wear off, and had a machine big enough to shrink what had been the big machine. They wheeled the formerly small machine into the bathroom. Mary put a cup of water in it, and expanded it. When it came out, she dumped 40 lbs. of water into the bathtub. She repeated the process until the mass reservoir was emptied, and the machine had become quite light. Albert stepped into the machine. Mary decided that she'd liked Barbie dolls as a girl and choose Barbie's height as just about right for Albert. After Albert became doll size, she expanded and dumped more water down the drain. She looked at her watch, and said "Well just in time." Five minutes later the machine shrank.

Mary gathered up all of Albert's possessions, and put them in a shoe box. She put the shoe box and Albert into a plastic garbage bag, and took them home with her.

This time, when she got into the car, she took Albert out of the bag, and set him on her shoulder. His mouth was near her ear, and they could talk the whole way to her house.

Chapter 7

Albert had a girlfriend, Stephanie, in college who had become a lawyer. Since then he'd lost track of her. He'd liked Stephanie, she was smart. It was Stephanie that Mary had set up an appointment with. Stephanie was a bit fanatical about women's rights, so Albert thought she'd be interested in taking the case.

When Mary she first contacted Stephanie on the phone Stephanie warned her that it was almost impossible to win such suits, as they came down to one person's word against the other. Mary said she had enough evidence that that would not be a problem, and they set up a meeting. When Mary showed Stephanie the tape, she became very excited, and asked how Mary had actually taped her boss without his knowledge. Mary explained that Albert had created some great little spying equipment.

Stephanie remembered Albert, "He was always so bright. He wasn't particularly good with people, but if you got to know him his mind was incredibly attractive, and he would go way out of his way to help a friend or a cause he believed in. He really turned me on, but I think he always thought I was a bit short."

Stephanie looked to be about 5' 2", Mary who was 5' 9" said, "Oh, I think Albert might think you are plenty big now." Mary, who had Albert, shrunk to 2", in a hammock strung between the cups of her bra knew that the somewhat short Stephanie would look like a 180 foot tall giantess to Albert. "Perhaps, but I saw him trying to glance inconspicuously at women while I was with him, and the ones that appealed to him looked a lot like you."

Mary said, "Let's discuss something else, he might be listening in. The spy equipment he has is really amazing".

"That's hard to believe, but I guess your boss will probably find it hard to believe the tape you have of him. Anyway, tell me about how you got your job."

Mary recalled that she'd had a rather hard life recently. Her parents had been killed in a car crash the summer after high school. She was going to start college in the fall, but it was too late to apply for a scholarship, and without her parents, she had no way to pay the bills, so she decided to work for a year and then go to school the following year. She had gotten into every school she'd applied to, so she figured that it wouldn't be hard to get a scholarship.

John Acer had come into her life at that time. She had gone to her high school counselor, who thought he had an ideal job for her. Acer had canvassed the local schools for secretaries who were young, smart and willing to please.

When she had gone to the interview everything seemed to go incredibly well. She would be one of Acer's three secretaries, at a starting salary of $60,000. She could hardly believe her ears. The salary seemed to be too good to be true, as she later found out, it was.

The head secretary, Helen, was a gorgeous blond, the second in line was a spectacular red head. Both were tall, smart and not much older than Mary. Within a week of joining the company, Helen quit. Mary could sense the tension between her and Acer. But, Acer always seemed to treat Mary well. She started to think of him as she had thought of her father. He seemed to really care about her.

The second secretary, Susan, became the first, and Mary learned a great deal from her. In the evening she took courses on secretarial skills and within a few months was proficient at short hand, scheduling, and a whole raft of other odd skills. The tension between Acer and Susan started to grow. At one point Mary asked her what was going on, but she started to cry and said she'd rather not speak about it.

At one point Mary overheard Susan setting up a meeting with someone from the Personnel Department. Susan came back from the meeting very upset. A few days later she too quit. Mary took her job.

All of a sudden, Acer changed from a fatherly attitude toward Mary to that of an abuser. He started by simple flirting, but quickly became more demanding. Mary didn't know who to turn to. Eventually she too went to the personnel department but they said they couldn't do much about the head of the company.

Mary had never had another job. Mr. Acer threatened that she'd never get another job. She felt she had to put up with the harassment. Then Albert came along and gave her the tape.

As Mary recounted her story, she started to weep uncontrollably. Stephanie came over and tried to comfort her.

Chapter 8

Albert listened to Mary's tale from his hiding place in her cleavage. He had never asked Mary about her background. He had thought she was smart, but hadn't thought about why she became a secretary instead of going to school. He was thinking about her problems when Stephanie hugged her.

All of a sudden he found himself squeezed between Stephanie's and Mary's breasts. He could only breath when the two women did. He had once thought Stephanie small, now she was crushing him without even realizing it. Breasts he once thought tiny were exerting an inexorable pressure on him.

Finally she let go. One of the sexiest things about Stephanie was that she rarely wore bra's, she didn't need much to support her small breasts. As Stephanie let go of Mary, her nipple brushed against Albert's hiding place and tipped him over. He had thought that he didn't need a safety rope when he was on his hammock. He now found how wrong he was.

Mary was wearing a short dress. He started tumbling down the front of her dress. As he tumbled he bounced from her hard abdomen to the fabric of her dress. He was able to plant his feet on the edge of her belly button, but he landed off balance, and couldn't stay there. The beginning of her pubic hairs broke his fall, but were too smooth for him to hold on to. Finally he managed to grab the edge of her panties. He could see the floor almost 100 feet below. He held on to the rubberized band with fanatical strength, although he couldn't get more than a finger's width into the top of the panty.

Mary calmed down, and said she wanted to "freshen up." She went to the ladies room, and entered a toilet stall without thinking of Albert. After all to her, he at his two inch height weighed about 1/200th of a pound, or about as much as a half teaspoon of water and she had just revisited some of the most disturbing events of her life.

Mary put her thumbs on both sides, pulled down her panties and then sat on the toilet. Albert all of a sudden felt his life line plunge downward. As he held on he was pulled downward by his hands, as his legs went up, and over. He was actually inside her panties hanging from the top of them. The cloth that covered her crotch had bunched up and had not been pulled quite as far down as the "top" of the panty as it was restrained by the elastic at her legs. He was able to rest his feet on this bit of cloth. Albert stared in fascination and horror as Mary released about 10,000 gallons of pee and big brown logs more than thirty feet long. All fell into a massive lake below him.

When she was done, Mary pulled up her panties, trapping Albert inside. He was kept there by massive elastic bands that he couldn't hope to open. Albert clung to the front of her panties. He was afraid to let go. If he fell to the bottom of her panties he might be crushed between her legs as she walked. There was a space between her legs that he might fit into, but he wasn't sure. Moreover, at some point she would sit down. He couldn't see out, and didn't know when that would happen, so he clung to the front for dear life. She went back, not dreaming of the display she had put on, nor imagining Albert's predicament.

"Feeling better?"

"Much better, thanks" Mary replied.

"I think this should be an easy case, but I'm a bit concerned about the tape. I assume Albert can testify that it is genuine? Or, was the spy equipment used without the companies permission?"

"I'm afraid that Albert can't testify."

"We can get around that problem I'm sure. I hope Albert's alright, he's so bright, but I always felt I had to take care of him. I'd really like to see him again."

"I'm sure he'd like to see you, I'll see if I can arrange it. He's quite fine." Mary said, still unaware of his peril.

Mary and Stephanie started to chat about Albert. As they talked, Mary realized how much she really liked the little guy. She resolved that she'd have to do something about it. He was just too shy to take the initiative, and to be truthful, it would be kind of difficult at his present size. While she was thinking about "doing him", she had no idea what her thoughts were doing to him.

As the conversation turned to him, at first Albert was a bit embarrassed. Then he noticed a musky kind of smell, and the atmosphere suddenly became more humid. Mary was thinking about him, and getting just a touch wet. The smell surrounded him. No man has ever smelled a woman with such an intensity. Her odor carried powerful pheromones which men are genetically programmed to respond to, but evolution has cut down on our sensitivity of smell to the point where the effect is hard to notice. But Albert could feel the full effect. He went out of control with desire. He didn't regain control until Mary and Stephanie turned to another topic.

Mary mentioned that she thought the company was about to go out of business. Stephanie pointed out that a company going out of business wouldn't be able to give her much, although she thought Acer could go to jail for his actions in physically grabbing her. Mary said that there was a patent the company held which was worth more than anyone believed.

As they talked, Mary related Albert's thought that his fundamental patent could probably be gotten in exchange for dropping the suit, if the ownership of the patent could be gotten into the hands of people who didn't believe in it. Stephanie said they had to make Mary's suit seem more of a threat. Perhaps with Helen and Susan, Mary's predecessors, they could launch a class action suit. If the company went broke, and the creditors didn't know what they owned, they might be persuaded to give up the patent. Mary could retain control of the patent but the other women would be partial owners. Stephanie also wanted her portion as commission.

Chapter 9

Mary thought about her suit most of the rest of the day. But, when it came time for dinner she remembered her resolve to seduce Albert. She thought at first that she'd have a nice romantic dinner. That was how she'd gotten most of her former boyfriends to come on to her. Then she realized that that might not be enough for Albert. She started forming a plan. It was a bit complicated by the fact that Albert would be with her as she acted on it. Mary still thought Albert was comfortable lying between her breasts and could see what she was doing. She was unusually pensive as she went about making her preparations, as she wanted to surprise him. Usually she would chat to him when she was "alone". He rarely answered as he'd quickly lose his voice shouting loudly enough for her to hear. He'd wait for her to pick him up and place him near her ear. This day, she didn't really want to tell him what she was thinking so she didn't try to pick him up.

Had Albert understood women and women's physiology better he would have known exactly what she was thinking about. But, he'd never spent a day in a women's panties before. Every time Mary thought about seducing him, she got just a bit wet. Just a bit wet to Mary caused Albert to feel like he was drowning in a sea of desire. He'd never gotten so horny. He was a firm believer in birth control, and was a bit worried about the consequences of his actions, which he couldn't work out scientifically at the time. In fact he couldn't think about anything rationally. He relieved himself over and over again. In fact, every time Mary thought about seducing Albert, she unknowingly did.

Mary got home, and started to put into effect her plan for seducing Albert. Again, as she planned it, she succeeded. She wanted to change into something sexy, but didn't want Albert to know what was going on. Given that he was with her, that was difficult, but she thought she could at least change everything not visible from her neckline (she still thought he was in her cleavage). So, she pulled off her panties, and discovered Albert already "inside her pants."

She picked him up and looked at him. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING THERE?" She asked in a voice that was a roar to him, although normal tone for her. He knelt down on her palm, afraid of her and put his hands over his head. "Oh come on, you know I wouldn't hurt you", she said in a somewhat quieter tone. He relayed the story, leaving out the issue of masturbation.

After he told her the story she asked if he was ok. He responded that he was but just a bit tired from the ordeal. She put him to bed. She made dinner, setting a place for herself, and a cotton ball for him to sit on. She still wanted to seduce him, so she changed into a sexy low cut dress. They had gotten used to having him eat at a height of 6". He was still sleeping when dinner was ready, so she picked up his bed, the cotton ball and gently put all into the size change machine. She boosted him to 6", carried him to the table. He still didn't wake so she picked him up, kissed him and said "WAKE UP, SLEEPY HEAD." He jumped up.

At this size she could smell him. She wrinkled her nose, and said "What is that smell?" A moment later she recognized it and said "Oh my God, that's me." She blushed when she recognized the cause of the smell. "I think we better clean you up or you won't be able to taste the food."

She took him to the bathroom. "What are you doing?" he shouted. She said "You'll see." She turned the water on in the sink, and closed the stopper. She felt the water as the sink filled and adjusted it a couple of times. Soon, it was filled. She asked Albert to get undressed. He hesitated, "Come on little man, you've now seen all of me and there really isn't another way of getting you clean." He still didn't move, but his face got red. She looked closely at his pants and said, "Oh ho, I think I can see the problem." His face just got redder.

"Come on, you got to see my reaction while I was thinking about you. It's only fair that I see yours to me." He didn't say anything but just looked confused. "You don't understand? Do really mean you don't know what that smell on you is? I guess you really don't know much about women", she said realizing that she was going to have to be even more forward than she had intended. "Well, just do what I tell you and maybe you'll learn. Come on, take off your clothes or I'll do it for you." She picked him up and put her in her palm. "If I take them off they may never be the same." Finally he turned around, so that he was looking at the tips of her fingers and took off his shoes, socks, pants and shirt, but he refused to take off his underwear. "Alright, I guess you don't need to take off your underpants. But, you'll be sorry".

Mary put a little bit of body lotion in one hand and dropped the other hand, with Albert into the sink/pond with the other. Rubbing her hands together, with Albert between them generated a nice lather, even though she was careful not to rub too hard. A slight dunking and Albert was cleaned and rinsed. "Now how did that feel?" "It was definitely weird, but not unpleasant. But, now I'm wet." Mary picked up her hair dryer, put it on its lowest setting, held it in one hand, and holding Albert in the other turned it on. She could see not only his hair blowing, but his whole body being moved in the gale that the blower caused. In less than a minute he and his underwear were dry. She could have cleaned his clothes the same way, but instead wrapped him up in a wash cloth, and brought him to dinner.

They still hadn't "unpacked" his furniture, so she pinched the expanded cotton ball until it made a reasonable chair for him, although it also slightly resembled a bean bag chair. The cardboard outside of a box of wooden matches made a large table for him. She set two skyscraper sized candles in between them on either side of him. She retrieved some shrunken utensils and plates for him and dropped them on his "table". She didn't have the dexterity to set them for him. She had learned that it was hard to cut his food small enough to be a reasonable setting for him. The smallest piece of lettuce was still ten times thicker than he was used to. So, she cut off a piece of everything, and smashed them between two spoons. The spoon then became his serving platter.

Finally, she opened a bottle of wine for herself, lit the candles with a match. The flame could have reached from Albert's feet to his thighs. She poured some wine into a large goblet that could have swallowed him up. She knew from long experience that Albert was not a drinker, so she filled a spoon with water, and when he wanted to, he dunked his glass in it to fill it. As they ate they usually talked. Usually Mary would initiate the conversation, but tonight she felt especially quiet, not quite knowing how to bring up the fact that she wanted to make love with him. Finally, she decided to blurt out:

"That certainly was a novel way of getting into my pants."

All Albert did was turn red. Then she asked "I get the impression you've been trying to get into my pants for a while, am I right?"

Albert turned redder. "Albert you really need to learn to relax. Maybe we should get you drunk." He had a funny expression on his face. A thought occurred to her. "You have been drunk before haven't you?" All he did was nod his head no. "Are you going to say anything again?" He didn't. "Well, if you don't say something soon, I'm going to get you drunk. It may be the only way to loosen your tongue." He still didn't speak, just kept getting redder in the face.

"Albert, do you know that I'm trying to flirt with you?" He turned beat red, and nodded yes. "You're just standing there, I can't tell whether you want me to continue. Do you want me to continue?" He nodded yes. "Would you like me to just take control?" Again he nodded yes.

"Hmmm, this should be fun" she said as she opened his washcloth and picked him up. "I think I should relax you, and the easiest way is to get you to have a drink, but since you aren't having anything to drink, I'll have to get you a bit drunk another way." She put him in the bath of wine in her goblet, swished him around and retrieved him after a minute or so. He had managed through it to keep his hair dry and she thought he may not have had anything to drink, but surely his skin must have absorbed some of the alcohol. She placed him on the table and said "Let's see what that did to you, walk putting one foot in front of the other." When he hesitated, she gave him a shove with her pinkie. He stumbled forward, and clumsily tried to get back his balance. "Alright I don't want you too relaxed, let me remove some of the wine." Again, she picked him up and licked him clean. She slowly moved her tongue from his feet to his chest. When she had removed all specks of red from his front, she twirled him like a popsicle, and started licking his back. "Maybe I can give you a message." She put him face down on her palm, and then started licking his back. "Does that feel good?" "Umhh, yes. Very good" he answered. "Oh, you're talking again, I guess that means it's time to move to the next step in the seduction."

Mary turned Albert over again and started to lick his front. Soon he had a little erection. "Good, now you're ready. You're about to get a BIG education in female anatomy." She closed her fist around him, and took him to her bedroom. When she got there, she placed him on the mattress, leaned over and took off one shoe, thought better of it, and put it back on. She walked over to her bookshelf, took out a cassette, inserted it in a boom box and said, "I once took a course in erotic dance. They told us that once we'd mastered the basic idea one of the problems was that not many men would be able to let us finish. They made a number of suggestions, but I don't think I'll really have a problem with you. Will I Albert?" He was still on the bed, to him hundreds of feet away, and she didn't hear if he answered, and soon the music started. Mary started swaying with the music, after a bit she turned around, and moved closer to Albert. "I guess we can make sure that you have the best seat in the house," she said as she leaned over him. She put both hands on either side of him, and moved her shoulders back and forth with the music, as Albert had little choice but to stare into her decolletage. After a bit of this, she turned around and took off her dress. Again she leaned over him, her bra filling his sky. Moving side to side over him, she slowly removed her bra. "Hmm, here's a new move, our instructor told us to unveil ourselves as slowly as possible. One of the tricks is to take off the bra without revealing too much." Albert noticed that as she removed her bra, she kept pushing it closer to him. He saw less and less of her, and the rest of the room. As the point of the bra was about to crush him, Mary's fingers reached over, inverted the cup, and placed it over him.

Mary turned around, and pulled the bra off Albert. He was looking at her back. She turned around, and bent over him. He found himself looking up at breast which were like spheres with a diameter as big as he was tall. They would weigh more than a ton each. As Mary continued to move to the music, her breasts would sway, occasionaly they would collide. Albert knew he didn't want to be in her cleavage as those two tons of flesh collided. Despite the element of fear, or perhaps in part because of it, he couldn't take his eyes off her and became very horny.

Next Mary started pulling down her panties. Sitting on the bed Albert was almost eye level with her crotch. He could just barely smell the scent which earlier had overwhelmed all his senses. As the panties were pushed past Mary's knees, she had to bend over more. Eventually, her breasts were within Albert's grasp. Partially to protect himself, and partially out of curiosity and desire he reached out for the nipple. He could just get one hand over the nipple, with his fingers over the edges. It wasn't like a normal size man holding a woman's breast in one hand, the nipple was hard. If Albert had been strong enough, he could have held on as Mary straightened up, but he wasn't. Far from hurting Mary, her only reaction was "Mmmm".

Mary climbed on the bed over Albert. Soon Albert was between her ankles, looking at a beautiful and brobdignanian ass, 15 feet in the air. Slowly it started lowering and gently spreading until her pubic hairs were brushing his head. He was almost trapped between her kneeling legs, with the only escape toward the edge of the bed. Her scent started to overwhelm him again. Before it did, her hand blocked off the last exit from underneath her and firmly grabbed him.

Mary gently (for her) removed Albert, moved to the middle of the bed, sat down, spread her legs, leaned back on one elbow, and placed Albert in the V formed by her legs. She let go of Albert, causing him to tumble before regaining his balance. "Oops, are you ok, little man?" Again he just nodded his head. "Now I'd like you to do something for me." She moved her finger, and pointed just above where two folds of skin met. "See this little bump? Can you grab it?" Albert moved towards it but couldn't reach it. Mary put her finger in between the folds, and Albert climbed on her finger, pushed his chest between her labia, and reached over his head stood on his toes and joined his hands over her clitoris. Mary removed her finger, Albert felt the now slippery skin press gently on him, and continued to hold on. As Mary lay down, her pelvis shifted, and Albert found himself being lifted into the air. Mary said, "Mmm that feels good."

Mary started to move about. As she did, Albert felt himself being shifted about as first one side of the crack he was in shifted up or down, and then the other one did. He managed to continue to hold on. He found he only had to support about half his weight holding himself on the cylinder between his arms, he could also use his legs to pry himself up between Mary's massive labia. He had to continually move around though, because everything he was holding on to was slippery. Albert was exerting himself, but he wasn't afraid. He knew Mary would take care of him, and the pressure on him was actually pleasant.

Albert continued to get a better grip. He thought he could fit into the large hole that was Mary's vagina, but somehow he didn't want to. He did manage at one point to get one foot and then the other into it, and push himself up. He found himself standing, with one foot on the inside of her vagina, the other out in space, balancing by holding onto a soft bar above his head. He was comfortable enough that he could start to enjoy the sensation as Mary's squirming mixed with his.

Mary could feel Albert's movements. She enjoyed the thought of her tiny, brilliant friend being enfolded by her body, but she quickly lost track of that as the gentle movements (gentle to her, Albert's whole weight to him) of Albert's struggles pushed directly against the most sensitive part of her anatomy. She came with ferocious intensity.

As Mary came, her legs pressed together. Albert felt himself being squeezed between her labia. His breath was pushed out, as he heard a loud "Oh, Oh, Oh." His foot was grasped and then squeezed out of the very slippery walls of her vagina. His penis was being rubbed vigorously with every shake and tremble of Mary's body. He came just as her orgasm began to subside.

With one final sigh Mary released the pressure on her legs, and Albert found himself sliding down too tired to continue to hold on. They both lay on the bed exhausted. A visitor would have thought Mary was lying alone, while Albert was lying in a hollow formed between her ass and her legs.

The next day Mary started wondering how to secure Albert safely. She was thinking about where to put him as she dressed. She could put him in her purse, but then he'd be in the dark all day. She could leave him at home in on the table, but insects might get at him. They didn't want to expand him, because while he might be able to move around for a few more days, they thought eventually the company would try to force him to fix their machines. As she continued to dress, she opened her jewelry box wondering whether she could leave Albert in there. To ensure that the box was spacious she shrunk Albert to 1/2 inch. She put Albert into the box. The smooth felt lining of the box wasn't soft, to Albert it was more like being on an array of very stiff fibers. He could barely move one of the fibers. But as he was walking around, he spied a large bent metal sheet. He could easily squeeze between the folds of the metal. At first he didn't recognize that he was in a fairly large earring.

With a bit of tape, Mary closed up the opening. Albert could sit inside the earring. It was an ideal solution. The sheet had holes in it, the size of Albert's head, and he could look out. All a normal size person could see of Albert was skin. His skin color was quite close to Mary's, and he wasn't at all noticeable. The real wonder was he could not only see out, but that even at this size, he was so close to Mary's ear that she could hear him speak, and no one else could.

Chapter 10

The next day Mary quit her job.

Stephanie filed Mary's suit in a court notorious for taking a harsh view of sex offenders. Shortly after she filed suit, the expanding machines at the company failed. The creditors started to try to collect the money owed them. The company was forced to offer to sell the size alteration technology in order to escape bankruptcy. The company got a supeona issued for Albert so that he could testify about the technology, but they were never able to find him to serve it.

A team of independent scientists was assembled to investigate. The morning they were to arrive at the company, Mary poured out the vial of sand controlling the lens that Albert had fashioned. What seemed like a lifetime ago, but actually happened only a few weeks ago in Chapter 4

The scientists didn't believe Acer's claim of a magical enlargement machine. They would prefer to believe almost anything else. Albert himself hadn't believed his calculations when he first came up with the idea, and there was no one at the company who could give them a scientific explanation.

The scientists discovered a massive lens in the company president's office. They assumed that that was how the illusion of expansion was created. Acer the head of the company insisted he was being framed. Acer had never thought that there was a use for anything other than expansion, never realized that the lens was now of normal matter having been previously shrunk, and insisted that the effect of expansion would wear off and the lens would become smaller. He thought that would prove his credibility. But the lens wasn't made by expanding a small lens, it was formed by shrinking it, so that it could be manipulated, and te big size was it's normal size. It never shrank, and the more Acer insisted that it would soon the lower his credibility with the scientists, never high after claiming that size alteration was possible, became.

The size alteration technology was thought valueless by the creditors. They were chuckling over it with Mary in the room. Albert suggested she defend him. She did. She said she didn't believe that it was all an illusion. Albert was just too honest for that. The creditor's lawyer figured he had caught a real sucker said, "Would you like the patent in exchange for dropping the suit?" Mary didn't want to jump too quickly, and said "Maybe we should talk about it". Mary's partners in the suit wouldn't hear of the deal. No matter what she said, they just wouldn't believe her. Finally a voice in her ear said "Ask Stephanie if this is covered by lawyer client privlege". She did, and Stephanie said that it was.

Then Mary heard, "Do you mind lending your earring to Stephanie?" Mary took off her earrings, and asked Stephanie to put them on.

"Mary, are you OK?, first you pursue this impossible idea and then you want me to put your earrings on?"

"Just do it to humor me."

"Alright, but let me wash them first."

"No, just do it."

Stephanie looked at Mary like she was nuts, but said "OK". Stephanie and Mary went to the Ladies room, so Stephanie could use the mirror. She put them on and all of a sudden heard in her right ear "I really like the mole on your left buttock". She jumped.

"That's quite a headphone you've got in the earring, that sounds just like Albert. But, he's gotten much more forward."

Again she heard "It's more than just sounds like me."

"So, Albert you can hear us? Mary was right it's unbelievable what you've been able to fit into the earring. But, why don't we go for the patents on the spy equipement, instead of this size change nonsense."

"You really don't understand what we've packed into the earring. I guess I'll have to show you. Could you take off the earring, and hold it gently in your hand. Look closely, and whatever you do, don't squeeze or drop it."

Stephanie held the earring in her hand. An insect crawled out of the earring.

"OH MY GOD" she screamed. She turned to Mary. "What is that thing. Why did you want an insect near my ear?"

Mary said "Look closely and keep your voice down. That's not an insect, that's really Albert"

"But that's impossible" she said as she looked more closely. "Oh my god, it's a little man". This time she said it more quietly.

Albert stood up and waved at her. Mary reached into her purse and handed Stephanie a magnifying glass. Using it, she could see that the little man was indeed Albert. Albert made signs that looked like putting a earring on, and walked into the earring.

Stephanie put the earring back on. She heard Albert say "Next we have to convince the other women. But, I think I'd like to be a bit bigger when I meet them. Mary has an enlarging machine in her purse, could you ask her to enlarge me?"

Mary had a small enlarging machine. It could make small things up to 3 inches big. They went back. Stephanie took off her earring, and gave it to Mary. Mary enlarged the earring to double its size.

Even with Stephanie and Mary saying it was real, Susan and Helen still didn't believe what they were seeing. Finally, Albert got out of the earring, go into the machine and folded himself up. Standing he was a height of one inch. Crouched he was a third of an inch. Mary increased his size eight fold. Now, crouched he was 3 inches, and barely fit into the machine. Standing he came up to 9 inches. He came out and stood on her hand.

Helen and Susan were both stunned. Eventually, they all held him, and started believing.

By then Albert had stayed in a shrunken state long enough to get used to it. Mary liked taking care of him, and he liked being small. He lived in a palace that felt as big as the outdoors, but was always temperature controlled. He stayed that way, and became Mary's biggest little helper as she used her new found power to altered the world.

Other stories in this universe may be written. But, help from others, or even additional story segments will probably be needed.