Clark had managed to get nearly to full size overnight, and
the two of them had quickly packed their things and headed to the airport. What
they hadn’t expected was the cost of a last minute flight back to Allison’s
hometown. Allison had reluctantly made the travel arrangements, and as they
found a spot in long term parking she sighed, a small smile on her face.
“You know, I really hoped our first flight together would be
with you in my carryon,” Allison said with a small smile. “Or somewhere else…
somewhere airport security would never find you…”
Clark returned the smirk, “there’s always the flight home.”
…
The flight was a short and uneventful one, and Clark
listened to the hum of the engine as he thought over what Allison had told him.
Sadie had shrinking powers… was whatever gave Allison hers contagious? Was it a
virus of some sort? Or was something else at play? Neither of them had any good
answers, and as they’d waited at their gate Allison had sent a message to Dr.
Kendra at The Lab.
Clark had paid for a rental car, which they picked up
without hassle as they began the drive to Sadie’s apartment. Allison seemed
wistful as she looked out the window, and a slow drizzle started to pelt the
car with raindrops as they entered the city limits.
“I haven’t been back here since… well, I moved pretty soon
after graduation,” Allison said softly, watching the warm glow of the lights of
houses and strip malls pass them by.
“Do you miss it?” Clark said, following the GPS directions
through the wet streets.
Allison was quiet a minute, “not really,” Allison said
finally, “I miss some of the people, mostly my parents and Sadie of course, but
I didn’t get to live here, I was never in any after school clubs, I
never joined the YMCA, went swimming at
the local pool, hung out at the roller skate rink…” she sighed, “I was too
scared to do any of it, the only time I ever tried to be a normal girl here was
prom… and you know how that turned out.”
As if summoned like a ghost a high school appeared out of
the mist as they drove by, and Allison watched it as they passed on slowly, the
wet sticky sound of the drizzle covered asphalt on the tires of the car the
only sound as she saw her school’s mascot, painted on the side of the brick structure.
“I’m sorry it was like that,” Clark said quietly, watching
the building disappear into the wet fog behind them. He gave her a warm smile
as the windows began to fog, “for what it’s worth though, I’m so glad
you ended up moving in above me.”
“Me too,” Allison said, and in spite of everything, she
leaned over and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek.
“Careful, I’m driving,” he laughed as he dipped an inch.
“Before you, living there wasn’t any different than living
here,” Allison said, looking out the window again, “I was just locked in my
apartment instead of locked in my childhood bedroom… If this thing really is
happening to Sadie too, I don’t want her to live like that Clark, not even for
a day.” She sighed, her breath fogging the windows again as the rentals defrost
struggled to keep the glass clear, “Sadie was one of my only bright points of
light here… she had it all Clark, she was popular and pretty and had guys
tripping over themselves trying to date her, and she still came over to hang
out with her recluse of a friend when she could have… maybe should have, just
forgotten about me.”
“Don’t say that,” Clark said with a scowl, “you know that’s
not how-“
“Clark, if Sadie is suddenly shrinking people, there’s no
way it isn’t my fault,” Allison said, blinking a quick tear out of her eye,
“either I’m contagious, or it jumped to her somehow, but it started with me,
there’s no way in a million years it just randomly mutated in her too.”
Clark frowned, but didn’t say anything, and the two were
quiet on the rest of the ride up to Sadie’s apartment complex.
…
Sadie heard the knock and practically leapt up, pulling the
door open, “ALLISON!” she shouted gleefully, “CLARK!” she leapt at them,
catching Clark first in a hug since he’d been carrying their things up the
stairs. He grunted, feeling his height start to slip away as the suitcase got
heavier and Sadie seemed to get taller.
“Well, I guess it’s the real deal,” Allison said quietly as
Sadie parted from her. She quickly pulled her friend into a hug next, as always
Allison wore gloves and long sleaves, angling her head back to avoid skin
contact “you okay?” she asked softly.
“I… I’m just happy you guys are here,” Sadie said, looking
with a grimace at Clark’s shortened stature. She glanced around outside, then beckoned
them in.
“So,” Allison sighed, “you said you accidently shrank a guy
trying to rob a store?”
“Yeah,” Sadie giggled as Clark wheeled the bags in.
“Badass!” Clark said with a grin, “Allison hasn’t ever tried
to fight crime once, total waste of a superpower if you ask me.”
Sadie blushed, “It wasn’t like I was out looking for
trouble, it just sort of happened, I was as scared as he was…”
“Yeah, the first one’s kind of a doozy,” Allison said,
biting her lip. She shot an angry glance at Clark, “and waste of a superpower?
Really?”
“I’m just kidding,” Clark laughed.
Allison rolled her eyes, “you’re going to fight an action
figure for my amusement later, Mr. Superhero.”
“So,” Allison sighed, “obviously you need to get ready for
some… changes, to your lifestyle.”
“Gloves, got it,” Sadie said, beaming.
“There’s a bit more to it than that,” Allison said, eyes
downcast, “you… you’ve got to avoid events with a lot of people, anything where
you might have skin to skin contact with someone.”
“So, no concerts?” Sadie asked uncertainly.
“No dance clubs, no beach, no water parks, in fact swimming
should just be avoided unless you’re in a private pool,” Allison explained.
“Shit…” Sadie said, flopping backwards onto the couch, “I
guess I never realized how careful you always were…” She chuckled to herself
and pulled up her phone and there was a beep.
“What are you doing?” Allison asked.
“Deleting all my dating apps,” she muttered, “I’m guessing
I’m off the market now?”
“Well, you can’t exactly say, ‘warning I shrink people’ in
your profile…” Allison shrugged, “I can’t give you much advice on that front,
this guy,” she jerked a thumb at Clark, “he just sort of fell into my lap.”
“Actually, you fell on me,” Clark said with a grin, “then
you trapped me in a Tupperware container…”
“I’ll have to try that on the next guy who asks me out,”
Sadie said with a smirk, staring at the ceiling, “just toss him in with my
sandwich from lunch and then talk to him whenever I’m ready…”
“Sadie you’ve got to be careful,” Allison warned.
“I know, I was just kidding,” she said with a sigh, then
blinked, a few tears working there way through. “I… I don’t know what to do,”
she said, sniffing slightly, “should I quit my job? Do I need to just live
apart from everyone like you do?”
“No,” Allison said quietly, “I… I was wrong to choose that
path, and you shouldn’t either.” She glanced at Clark, who nodded, urging her
on. Allison sighed, “you’re going to have some adjustments,” she said, “but
you’ll be okay, you stood by me when this happened, and I’m going to stand with
you.” She leaned over and squeezed Sadie’s shoulder, handing her a tissue. “I’m…
I’m sorry,” Allison blinked away a tear herself, “this is all my fault.”
Sadie laughed through her own crying, dabbing her eyes, “Allison,
if this jumped from you to me, there wasn’t any way to know, I’m not mad
at you!”
“But-“
Sadie growled, sniffing loudly as she fought to compose
herself, “Allison! Listen to me! We don’t know anything about it, for all we
know the water in our town does this to people.”
Allison smiled a little, but from the way she turned towards
Clark he could tell she was feeling a little guilty.
“Well, what do we do now?” Clark asked, “should we call that
lab you’re always talking to?”
“Maybe,” Allison sighed, “we can do it tomorrow, for tonight
let’s just try to… relax, okay?”
“Yeah,” Sadie said, dabbing her eyes one final time and
handing the tissue to Allison’s outstretched hand, “that sounds good.”
“Let me just get the doll- HOLY SHIT!” Allison dropped the
tissue like it was electrified, and Clark gasped as he saw why, handling the
small cloth soaked with Sadie’s tears had caused Allison’s height to dip
slightly, and she looked up in awe at Sadie, who was now a few inches taller
than her as they sat on the couch together.
The three of them sat in stunned silence for a moment, then
Sadie giggled, “No fucking way! I can shrink you!” She turned, blinking the
final tears out of her eyes, “Clark, I can shrink Allison!”
“I can see that,” he said, still shocked.
Allison shivered, “from this side… it’s kind of unnerving…”
“You get used to it,” Clark and Sadie said at the same time.
Allison breathed out slowly, “Okay, Sadie, touch the tip of
my finger.” She held out her hand, the digit extended as Sadie did the same.
The two made contact, and before Clark’s eyes both women slowly began to get
shorter, their clothes getting looser. After a moment Allison broke the
contact, Sadie at around five feet tall and herself at somewhere a few inches
below that, while her clothes were loose she was able to keep them on.
“Oh thank god, you can still shrink me,” Sadie breathed.
“That’s an odd thing to be thankful for,” Clark said with a
wry grin.
“Whatever,” Sadie said with a grin, “Allison, you said you had
the dollhouse?”
“No, but I have some of your clothes,” Allison said with a
giggle. She snapped her glove on and licked the tip of her thumb, “hold still
Barbie.”
Sadie squealed happily as she began to dwindle, her clothes
billowing around her as Allison kept pressing the digit down, shrinking her.
The blonde’s face disappeared down her shirt, and for a moment Clark saw
nothing but Allison, reaching into the collapsing clothing and maintaining
contact. Finally, Allison withdrew her hand, wiping the smudge of saliva on her
own shirt as she grinned down at her handiwork.
A tiny head of blonde hair popped up in the pool of
clothing, and a newly doll-sized Sadie giggled as she stepped out of the ruins
of her outfit. Allison reached into her purse, pulling out an obnoxious red
polka-dotted dress that couldn’t be mistaken for anything but a doll’s outfit,
and gently she brought it down on her friend, who raised her arms up to don the
gaudy toy clothing eagerly.
“And there we go,” Allison said, pleased as she picked up Sadie
around the waist and placed her in her lap, “right back where Sadie belongs…”
She pulled a small plastic pink brush out of her purse next, and idly began
slowly running it through Sadie’s hair as the tiny blonde sighed in relief.
“You have no idea how good this feels after the day I’ve
had,” Sadie muttered.
“I have an idea,” Clark said with a smirk. His own play with
Allison usually took a different turn, but there was definitely something
slightly liberating about being tiny, forgetting the world’s troubles if only
for a little while, subject to the whims of a beautiful giant.
Sadie gasped suddenly, pointing across the room eagerly, “A-Allison,
can I shrink Clark?”
Allison suddenly had a mischievous smirk on her face as she
glanced across the room at him, “hmmm… I don’t know.”
“Oh come on Allison, I was in the gerbil cage just
yesterday!” he protested.
“But my dolly needs a friend!” Allison said, standing up and
holding a giggling Sadie out in front of her like a torch.
Clark made a sudden dive for Allison’s purse, surprising
her, “hey, what the-“ she started, but her eyes went wide as she saw him draw
the pill bottle out. She scowled, “No Clark, don’t you dare-“
He was chuckling as he quickly unscrewed the cap and
swallowed one of the countermeasure pills before she could say anything else. He
sat back up, giving her a smug grin as she fumed.
“What are those?” Sadie asked, pointing down to the pill
bottle.
“Anti-shrinking pills,” Allison scowled, “they resist the
effect a little bit, plus he won’t be able to go smaller than six inches while
they’re in his system…”
“Bummer,” Sadie giggled, “I was really hoping to send you all
the way down Clark, but… I guess I can have fun with a little toy that
comes up to a doll’s waist.”
Allison smirked, slowly lowering Sadie to the ground and
standing over them both, arms crossed as she watched the doll sized Sadie
advance on Clark. He scrambled backwards, grunting as his back hit the wall.
The sight was comical, the doll-sized Sadie in the obnoxious red dress holding
her arms out menacingly as she advanced on a full-sized man.
“Come on Clark,” Sadie teased, “let me do it! I want you to
be my first victim!”
“What about those guys at the gas station!?” he protested as
she closed in.
“Doesn’t count,” Sadie giggled, “It only counts if you’re
smaller than a ruler!”
“What kind of rule is that?” Clark said, fighting a laugh as
she slapped her hands on his exposed ankle. He felt himself start to shrink,
her excitement causing the chemical to increase potency as even the tiny
contact caused Clark’s clothes to rush against his skin, loosening as the
doll-woman giggled at his expression.
“Calm down Sadie,” Allison laughed, “you don’t want to
shrink him too quickly!” She walked over, standing over the two of them as
Clark’s head disappeared down his shirt collar like Sadie’s had a moment
before. She giggled and crawled up his loose pants leg, and Allison watched
with amusement as one lump in the clothing chased the other, which diminished
in size every time Sadie caught up to him, the cries of the chase muffled by
the tentlike clothing that hung over the two.
Clark gasped, light and fresh air filling his senses as he
scurried out his shirt sleeve, standing to his feet quickly and looking back.
Sadie was crawling through it like a tunnel, giggling as she stood up, just a
fraction of an inch taller than him, half a head or so at their respective
heights.
“Okay, you’ve got me!” he called, holding up his hands in
surrender, “I’m doll sized too, you win!”
He grunted as Allison’s hands wrapped around his stomach,
the powerful fingers squeezing into him as she lifted him and Sadie up like the
toys they were. Sadie gave him a smug expression from her place in Allison’s
other hand as she carried them to the table, setting them across from each
other.
“Just wanted to get you two up off the ground so I could get
a better look,” Allison laughed. “That pill didn’t buy you much extra time
Clark, I think Sadie’s shrinking is going a little wild since it’s still so new…”
She thought a moment, “We should really practice shrinking and see if we can
control it better, since we’re both going to be dealing with this…” she
grinned, “luckily we have an eager volunteer.”
“Eager?” Clark asked, crossing his arms and smirking.
“Eager,” Allison said with a wicked grin, her hand
coming up behind him and slowly forcing him closer to Sadie. He stumbled and almost
tripped as he was forced within arm’s reach of his fellow doll, who also had a
rather predatory expression on her face.
“You said you the pill keeps him from going below six
inches?” Sadie asked, rubbing her chin thoughtfully as she regarded him.
Allison nodded and Sadie raised an eyebrow, “Okay Clark, on your knees.”
He looked to Allison, who just grinned, “you better do it
Clark, you’re a toy’s toy for the night.”
He fell to his knees as Allison advanced on him, she lifted up
the skirt of the doll’s dress, revealing her glistening womanhood beneath her
trimmed blonde tuft of hair, “no underwear for dolls,” she reminded him.
He felt something press against the back of his head, and
with a start he realized it was Allison’s finger, forcing his head down between
Sadie’s legs as her other gloved hand cradled Sadie’s back. He began licking
eagerly as his face met the soft opening, and his face was quickly soaked with the
blonde’s juices as she moaned overhead.
“That’s it, good dolls,” Allison laughed, continuing to
grind his face into her womanhood, the red doll’s skirt hanging over his head
and her finger like a hood. Allison felt herself becoming wet too, watching Sadie’s
face contort in pleasure as she cupped the doll woman’s torso, providing
support as the work she was forcing Clark to do caused the blonde’s legs to
give out.
“Fuck yeah!” Sadie howled as Clark rapidly diminished. His
feet left the ground, and Allison’s blue latex clad hands gripped around him,
lifting him slightly and keeping him in contact with Sadie as he continued licking
at her, Allison’s powerful thumb hooking behind his head and keeping him in
place, slowly grinding him into the doll-woman as she breathed heavily, her own
arousal spiking at the display in front of her.
Sadie squealed, and then her thigh lifted up, wrapping
around both Clark’s head and the gloved thumb as her hips bucked against his
face, splashing him with her orgasm as he was brought down to his final height,
half her size. With another mewling sound of pleasure Sadie collapsed backwards,
panting as she hung limp from Allison’s hand.
“H-How’s that taste tiny?” Sadie taunted.
Clark just chuckled, “good, no hair to get tangled up in I
guess.”
“Hey, getting tangled up in the hair is the best part,” Allison
protested, separating her six-inch man from her doll sized friend.
“Things are kind of overgrown down there,” Sadie giggled,
seeing Allison’s flushed expression, “do you want waxing tips?” she teasingly
ran a hand over her own crotch, where the small tuft of blonde hair was soaked
through with Clark’s spit and her own juices.
Allison just rolled her eyes, “No, I’m au-natural and Clark
loves getting lost in there, and if you make fun of me again Barbie, I’ll go
find your wax strips under the sink and give you a full body right here in
front of him!”
Sadie smirked, pleased that she’d gotten on her friend’s
nerves, but said nothing.
Allison glanced at Clark, who had wisely stayed out of the “argument,”
and grinned, “now, would you like to go tour the forest?”
“Yes Ma’am,” he said eagerly, and he watched as Allison brought
him down to the hem of her pants. She released Allison, setting her on the table
as she used her free hand to unbutton her pants, revealing her pink panties as
she pulled at the elastic, opening the top. Clark was brought to the opening of
that chasm, and she sighed happily as he slid in, quickly becoming lost in the
very hair they’d just been discussing, darkness overtaking him as she let the
elastic of her underwear slip back into place. After adjusting him slightly,
she buttoned up her jeans, trapping him tightly against her in a way that made
her toes curl.
“Goodbye Clark,” Sadie said, a little awed as she watched
the scene unfold.
“Yeah, those pills really open up some new possibilities,”
Allison laughed. She leaned back in her chair, her face occasionally contorting
as Clark squirmed against her. “Now then,” she said, regarding her doll sized
friend, “tomorrow, we’ve got to make some decisions about this whole… thing,”
she said, waving her hand, “but for tonight Sadie? Just relax, let me take care
of you.”
“Thanks Allison,” Sadie said softly, blushing and smiling slightly
as she reached for the doll-girl again.
…
“We’ve got a problem,” Drake said as Vasquez pulled up in
the unmarked van.
Vasquez scowled, “what? Cops? A few calls and we can have
them off our back-“
“No,” Drake muttered, pointing across the street to Sadie’s
apartment, which he’d been monitoring all day. “The other girl, Subject A, she’s
up there, her boyfriend is with her too.”
“Shit, they must have come right over when she started
freaking out,” Vasquez muttered, glancing up at the light in Sadie’s window.
She grinned ghoulishly, “pays to have friends, right?”
“We should call it off,” he growled, “we’ve only got
containment for one of them.”
“Fuck that,” Vasquez laughed, “I’ve got four burn noticed
motherfuckers in the back suited up in biohazard gear, finding another team for
wet work is going to be a bitch, so get in the back and get your suit on
because we’re doing this tonight.”
…
Allison sighed, relaxing at full size on the couch while
Sadie sat happily in her lap. Clark, after a quick bath in the sink, had been
wrapped in a tissue-toga for warmth, and was happily perched in the breast
pocket of a pair of pajama tops Allison had packed. She’d regained the inches
she’d lost to Sadie earlier, but she’d made sure to keep the two of them what
she’d decided was “appropriately small” for the evening.
“So, Klingons, they’re bad, but they’re helping the crew in
this one?” Sadie asked, confused as she watched the drama playing out on a television
that was theater screen sized to her.
Allison and Clark groaned in unison, “it’s a matter of
honor,” Allison tried to explain, “like yeah, they’re rivals of the Federation,
but they’re not bad guys.”
“I don’t know, maybe I’m more of a Star Wars girl,” Sadie
muttered, “it’s easy to tell who’s good and bad in that one.”
“I can’t believe what I’m hearing,” Clark laughed, looking
down at her.
*BANG*
Allison jerked in the direction of the door, where a small
explosion blew the door lock open. She screamed, scurrying backwards and
grabbing Sadie as a group of men in biohazard suits flooded the room, guns
raised.
“Go go go!” a hispanic woman shouted, running to the front as
they fanned out. She spotted Sadie on Allison’s lap, then grinned, “thanks for
making her small for me, makes this easier!” she reached for Sadie, even as
Allison tried to keep her away in a panic. The other woman was stronger though,
and as Allison panicked, running her fingers over the biohazard suit looking
for any opening, she just laughed. The other men circled around, lowering their
weapons as Vasquez pried the screaming doll-girl out of Allison’s fingers.
“Who the hell are you!?” Allison cried, her eyes darting
back and forth nervously.
“Never you mind,” Vasquez chuckled, eyeing a stunned Clark,
who was perched in Allison’s jacket pocket. Before Allison could react her
gloved hand darted out, snatching Clark from her too. “Well looky here!” she
laughed, dangling the tiny naked man before the group, “looks like she has
herself a little boytoy!”
“G-Give him back!” Allison said, fear rising in her, “let
both of them go right now!”
“Well, I don’t need this guy,” Vasquez muttered, letting him
drop to the floor with a scream.
Clark grunted in pain as he hit the carpet, at this size the
fall wasn’t particularly dangerous, but it still hurt, as did the massive boot
that pressed into his back. Vasquez grinned, enjoying Allison’s look of shocked
horror as she threatened to crush Clark, his cries of pain echoing up to her.
“Here’s what’s going to happen,” she said, making contact
with Allison, “we’re taking your little doll here, and your little boyfriend too.
If you try to follow us? I’m going to be scraping what’s left of him off my
shoe, understand?”
Allison blinked away a tear, nodding fearfully.
“Good girl,” Vasquez said, winking at her as she lifted her
foot off Clark. She bent down to pick him up again, squeezing him harshly and
causing another cry of pain.
“ALLISON!” Sadie squealed.
Allison looked at the nightmare in front of her, her heart picking
up speed. She blinked away a tear, clenching her fists as some strange fire
rose in her stomach. She stood up, and the woman and her minions paused as they
noticed.
“Didn’t you hear me?” Vasquez snarled. She squeezed Clark
again, “or do you want me to snap his spine right here in front of you?” One of
the men raised a gun at Allison as she took another step forward.
“Allison, you can get us back later!” Clark called,
clenching his teeth and fighting through the pain, “y-you can’t-“
She looked around the room, her eyes lingering on Sadie and
Clark, her best friend and the man she… loved, yes, she loved them both really,
the bright points of light that faded against the rising fury in her chest. She
raised her head high, letting instinct take over as she glared at the woman,
safe from her power behind that biohazard hood…
“No!” Allison shouted, and around the room six figures cried
out in shock as their suits collapsed around them, billowing like tents as they
shrank to inches in size. Clark and Sadie cried out in surprise as they fell to
the floor, their falls cushioned by the piling biohazard suit. The guns clacked
to the floor next, and as Allison panted, exhaustion coming over her, the full
weight of what had happened started to sink in.
“Holy shit,” Sadie said in awe.
“Y-You didn’t even touch them!?” Clark said, looking at the
hills of piled clothing, small lumps squirming in them as the former wearers
struggled in piles of their own biohazard suits.
“I didn’t,” Allison muttered, blinking in shock, “it was
like… I was so scared, and then I was angry, and I just… I just wanted them
small!”
“This is… this is new,” Clark muttered, standing up. He
fought a nervous laugh, “so uh… are you going to start fighting crime now?”
In spite of everything, Allison tittered a nervous laugh, “we’ll
see, you can be my sidekick, the adorable and amazing Pocketboy…” She huffed,
walking over to the lead woman’s biosuit and snapping the visor open. She
reached inside, and there was a terrified yelp inside as she pulled out the
naked and squirming form of Vasquez, her gloved fingers coiling tightly around
the terrified woman.
“Hi,” Allison said darkly, “I believe you were threatening
to crush my boyfriend?” Allison glanced down at her feet, Vasquez nervously
followed her, and Allison smirked as she playfully shifted her foot back and
forth, as though she was grinding a cigarette, “it made me kind of mad,”
Allison said, hefting the woman back up and fixing her gaze on her enormous
face.
“I-It was just a job,” Vasquez said weakly.
“It was my friends!” Allison snarled, her spittle landing on
Vasquez and causing her to shrink a little further before Allison could wipe it
off. She took a moment to enjoy the terror of the woman curled in her palm,
then forced herself to calm down. “You are going to tell me everything,”
Allison said.
“N-No fucking way,” Vasquez managed, regaining some of her
fire.
“I think you’ll find I can be very persuasive,”
Allison said with a erratic giggle. Down below, by her feet, Sadie and Clark exchanged
nervous glances.