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[Note: This chapter follows an alternate path that ignores the events of the previous one, but not the one before. Also recycled a bit of the initial part of the previous chapter since it's an alternate outcome of Zuemy's search, lol]


Due to her taking advanced and senior level courses, Zuemy had a fair amount of contact with senior students, and so, she actually knew Veronica's schedule reasonably well, at least enough to be sure that right now she'd have between 2 to 3 hours of study hall, which was perfect.

On the one hand it meant that once she found her she'd just have to tell her about the current situation and drop you off with her, but on the other, study hall was basically what most students dubbed "free hours" and could wander around the school as long as they didn't disrupt ongoing classes, but she was confident she knew where to find her, as her condition made her seek rather secluded or solitary places, though she was sometimes with her friends, and that'd unnecessarily complicate things.

Zuemy walked around, giggling quietly, as your tiny form stuffed away into her cleavage gave her pleasant tickles. It wasn't something you really ever paid attention to, but she had pretty large ones despite her small stature, though on a similar vein to Lillian, she mostly flaunted and showed off her big butt, which almost looked ridiculously huge on her small frame, though she had the thick curvy body to go with it.

The school was pretty large, even for the volume of students it served (roughly 800), sometimes it even got mistaken for a college campus, though the main building was close to what most traditional public high schools were like, but it occupied a fairly large extension of terrain, which was manifest in that it even boasted both a massive indoors gym, but also an outdoors one, and there was even a gigantic garden that almost qualified as a mini forest, with many kinds of trees, several of which even bore fruit, plus lots of soft grass and many wild flowers that weren't even intentionally cultivated. It made for a decent dating place, but it was large enough that students could even have a picnic-like lunch if they chose to, there were several tables and benches for that.

Zuemy got a gut feeling that Veronica would likely be somewhere in the school garden, as it was large enough that she could hang around by herself, and given her peculiar condition, she often sought large open spaces when she could help it, and it took some walking around, as it was indeed a very large space, but unfortunately she couldn't spot Veronica and her fiery red hair anywhere around. But, being persistent as she is, plus the fact that her credit score is so high she could miss entire months worth of class and still not put a dent in it, she didn't mind if she had to cut one class just to find her.

"Hmph, she's not here..." Zuemy huffed.

"Maybe she went to the library?" You poked your head out of Zuemy's generous cleavage.

"Maybe, but I think I would've heard her 'explosions' in the hallway back at the main building if she were there, plus the people fleeing in terror..." She giggled.

"Yet you want to take me with her" You sighed. You had tried arguing your way out of this one but Zuemy simply wouldn't take a 'No' for an answer.

"She's only a bit worse than Lillian, and she actually likes you! Which is more than what can be said about your so-called crush" She chuckled, making you blush. You didn't initially expect Zuemy to have figured out your crush on Jen, but then again she was crazy smart.

" 'A bit' you say" You snarkily remarked.

"If you don't believe me you could always judge one of Lillian's contests with her, she's been trying to take the crown from her for a while now" Zuemy giggled, ignoring your snark. You sighed in resignation and looked around. At your scale, the school garden was even more majestic than it was at full size, and you could pick the various floral scents that lingered in the air, and also enjoyed a fresh breeze you suspected was too small to detect at normal size.

After more walking around, Zuemy couldn't find a single soul in the garden, and as it was fairly early in the morning, it kind of made sense, but she wondered where Veronica went for study hall then. Just before she called it quits, she spotted a familiar figure, though not exactly the one she had been looking for. Zuemy gently pushed you into her cleavage so you'd be hidden from view and walked over to meet the person she had just found...

"Hello!" Zuemy casually greeted the brunette, who was wearing the school's PE uniform and looked like she was resting after having had gym class on the first hour.

"Hey!" Monique greeted back while fanning herself with her hand, she was definitely feeling quite hot, and the cool breezy winds in the garden brought her much needed relief.
"Fancy meeting you here. What's up?" She said, noting that Zuemy didn't seem to be a very outdoors kind of person.

"Well, I was looking for Veronica, have you seen her?" Zuemy asked.

"Nope. I meant to meet up here with her, I think she had History or Math today, and I've got no idea where she went after that, I thought she'd be here... I was gonna look for her but Coach Amber put us through the wringer, and in just one hours... phew..." Monique fanned herself a bit harder, she was feeling really hot, though one would have to wonder why she didn't change clothes right after PE class if she was that uncomfortable...

"Dang it!" Zuemy quietly huffed.

"You needed her help for something?" Monique asked curiously.

"To be honest, yes, and it was something pretty important too..." Zuemy then checked the time on her phone and saw a reminder notification on her lock screen.
"Oh! I forgot that I've got Science on the third hour, I definitely can NOT miss that one..." She said, but she saw she still had about 40 minutes left before it started, and she already meant to skip the previous class.

"I thought you had a pretty solid score on Science, what does it matter cutting just one class?" Monique asked.

"I know, but it's really important for some other reasons" She said, making the brunette raise an eyebrow for a moment.
"Hey, Monique, I think I need a pretty big favor from you" Zuemy then said.

"As long as it doesn't involve moving around a lot, at least for now, I'm game. What's up?" She yawned and stretched her arms. Zuemy giggled, she really could be the embodiment of laziness sometimes.

"Well, what I'm about to share is pretty crazy, you can't tell anybody but Veronica about this" She said in a dead serious tone that even got Monique to snap out of her overly lazy mood.

"Huh? This is starting to sound like a conspiracy" She said with a subtle smile.

"You'll see" Zuemy unlocked her phone and went through her gallery app to get the video she recorded earlier.
"Well, for starters, I guess I'll have to give you some context... you see, I invented a way to change things' sizes"

"Huh? Change things' sizes? As in, how?" Monique tilted her head, now even more curious about this whole thing.

"I think it's better that I show you" Zuemy then saw Monique's empty water bottle next to her.
"Can I borrow your water bottle?"

"Uh, sure. But I drank every last drop already" Monique chuckled as she handed it over.

"That's perfect, the less matter, the easier this is" Zuemy said, then she pulled out her shrinking gun.

"What's that?" Monique asked with a giggle from how silly the futuristic contraption looked.

"You'll see. Just one minute" She pushed a few buttons on the gun before she pulled the trigger and fired a blue beam that shrank the water bottle until it was about 1/3 of a finger's size.

"Whoah! That's real crazy!" Monique's eyes lit up, this had to be the most fascinating thing she had seen in months, or years.

"It's real. Come on, touch it" Zuemy said and Monique carefully picked it up, she even squeezed it between her fingers and noted that it felt almost just as sturdy as it was before.

"I think you could win the Nobel Prize or something if you show this" She laughed, still admiring the tiny bottle.

"I'll get to that later" Zuemy laughed a little as well "But there are a few things to fix before that"

"Oh? Is there any problem with the gun?"

"Not really... the problem is... something else... here" Zuemy then showed her her phone's screen and hit 'play'.

Monique was a bit confused, since the recording showed Blaise and Celeste in the hallway, with her asking him for help with something and leading him away, towards a dark and secluded area, though there was still enough light to see what transpired. She quietly gasped when Celeste sprayed him in the face with some kind of liquid and he began shrinking before her.

"Holy shit, this works on living stuff too?!" Monique said as the recording went on, with Celeste's rant about the torture she was gonna put him through using an unwitting Lillian. Zuemy nodded.
"What happened with Blaise though? It looked like Celeste was planning to do something mean"

"I managed to save him from her, but you were right, she was going to kidnap him and make him suffer"

"I see... but what does it all have to do with the favor you need?" Monique went for the million dollar question.

"Well, as you saw, Blaise got shrunken, and restoring him is gonna take some time. I was trying to find Veronica so I could leave him with her, but I couldn't find her... so, would you mind taking him to her?" Zuemy then fished you out of her cleavage and showed you to her, her deep brown eyes widened upon seeing your very tiny form...
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May 12, 2023