You went to the kitchen and made a glass of chocolate milk for yourself, though you hadn't decided on what to eat. As you sipped it, you checked your phone, realizing that it was Saturday, which you appreciated, you weren't quite in the mood for a school day, but then, a notification popped out in your phone, it was a calendar reminder you had set up yourself!
The last few months had been quite the wild ride, but somehow, you had forgotten about it, at least for now because of your apparent brain-lag, but you remembered that Zuemy told you that she, her sister and mother had finally realized their dream, one you were quite aware of, as Zuemy for some reason like to confide in you those ideas of hers, which apparently were also shared by her sister and mother...
Long story short, they made an actual shrinking gun, and Zuemy got you a custom made model that had a self-rechargeable battery, it was less a gift and more some form of compensation, as you unwittingly served as her guinea pig, having had to endure many crazy shenanigans while reduced to the size of an ant, or perhaps even smaller.
And, as brilliant as Zuemy was as a scientist, she wasn't quite the best at keeping track of small things, which meant you were forced to wander around the school and survive without getting squashed like an insect... Which resulted in more encounters with titanic girls than you needed for one lifetime. You had to escape from Toxic Lily's claws, avoid Emily's persistent search for you, somehow survive Veronica's atrocious gas as well as Monique's massive swamp ass... You had a kinda traumatizing experience with Arianna and Lulu's attempts at making you feel better may have made things worse...
You had to interact with quite a lot more people than you usually did on a daily basis, and not all of it was that bad... Romina proved to be quite honorable and supportive, albeit she retained her obsessive rivalry with Lillian. The so-called "Snickers" was a nicer girl than everyone thought, if they actually bothered trying to talk to her and not treat her like a ghost.
Eventually, you made it and got found by your friends, but had to endure more than a fair share of big butts with Lillian and Cindy, though to be fair, you also got some nice up close and personal moments with Jen, which might have made the entire ordeal worth it. However, your relationship prospects, while they improved in some way, they also got more awkward, with Veronica resuming and restating her desire to date you, as well as finding out that Yamile also wanted something more than just friendship. You felt that things with Cindy got a little bit ambiguous but you hoped she stayed more innocent, and got meaningfully closer to Jen, which was what you valued the most.
In the end, Zuemy FINALLY helped you, restoring your size, but also, she gathered a lot of useful data, as the shrinking experiment had implanted a kind of chip that recorded about everything that you experienced while shrunken... You were pretty mad at the time, but she demonstrated that she learned from all of those mistakes and "made it up" to you by making a custom gun with many cool features that only the most premium models would have, as they were going to be commercialized a few months from that day on.
The gun she gave you was a neat looking black instead of the tackier silver and gold colors. The gun was made with stronger than military-grade materials, guaranteeing that it wouldn't break or malfunction under any circumstances. It also possessed the ability to shrink itself alongside its user, something the cheaper models wouldn't have. Another useful safety measure Zuemy implemented was the ability to track its user via an implanted microchip, which in your case, recycled the one from the previous experiment, in other words, you could practically recall the gun to your hand at will if for whatever reason you lost it, though it required it to have a decent battery charge to activate that function.
And speaking of batteries, Zuemy designed a powerful self-recharging battery that not even the premium models would have until a while later. This was to make sure you weren't left permanently stuck at whatever size, though after shrinking, it usually needed to recharge for some time, which depended on how much you shrank yourself.
When she "gifted" you this gun, as cool as it was, you were really questioning why would you even want to shrink yourself again... but you found out that it became less scary now that you were more or less in control, though you still didn't feel entirely safe when shrinking around certain people. Zuemy herself "helped" you to get over your leftover fear from the previous shrinking episode, and even enlisted your friends' help, which you weren't entirely happy about, although, once again, Jen made your suffering worthwhile, and she seemed to like it quite a bit.
A few months later, the guns began to get commercialized, and much to your surprise, they proved to be quite a hit, especially with people your age. Since the shrinking made the person highly resistant, no serious accidents were ever reported, though soon stories of people who got trapped under feet or butts, like yourself, started to pop up, but became a new kind of comedy rather than a traumatizing tragedy. You even wondered if the world hadn't gone crazy yet...
You learned about some other safety measures Zuemy or her family implemented to the guns, like the inability to be used against their owner due to various smart recognition systems, thus, it wasn't possible to steal someone's shrinking gun and use it against its original owner, though nothing really stopped the person from getting one of their own and using it... but for some reason, that never seemed to cross anyone's mind. The fad exploded and quickly went viral, and it was adopted as a fun & comical thing. Perhaps this greater visibility, and how obvious it'd be if someone did something bad were what discouraged people with malicious intent from embracing this technology.
In any case, things got really interesting, though, despite how widespread it seemed to be, shrinking guns were actually quite expensive, even the cheapest models, so, not THAT many people possessed one yet, at least in your city, or in the part of the city where you lived people weren't that rich, though it also may have had to do with having more of a young people appeal, thus, working adults didn't display as much interest in the device until quite a bit later.
One of the new interesting and fun developments was the emergence of some Youtube podcasts, TV and radio shows that talked about shrinking, the tech that made it possible and stories about it, most of them funny in nature, although you weren't sure all of those were truly funny, some you found a bit weird, but that might be because of the less than pleasant experiences you had before...
But, getting back on topic, one program in particular, which was both on Youtube and the radio, called the MiniCast, one of the earliest if not the first of such programs, announced an interesting contest for those who wanted to make a quick buck and were in possession of a shrinking gun. You realized this was an easy way to win 20,000 dollars and signed up for the contest right away, and marked the date in your phone's calendar, which happened to be today...
The last few months had been quite the wild ride, but somehow, you had forgotten about it, at least for now because of your apparent brain-lag, but you remembered that Zuemy told you that she, her sister and mother had finally realized their dream, one you were quite aware of, as Zuemy for some reason like to confide in you those ideas of hers, which apparently were also shared by her sister and mother...
Long story short, they made an actual shrinking gun, and Zuemy got you a custom made model that had a self-rechargeable battery, it was less a gift and more some form of compensation, as you unwittingly served as her guinea pig, having had to endure many crazy shenanigans while reduced to the size of an ant, or perhaps even smaller.
And, as brilliant as Zuemy was as a scientist, she wasn't quite the best at keeping track of small things, which meant you were forced to wander around the school and survive without getting squashed like an insect... Which resulted in more encounters with titanic girls than you needed for one lifetime. You had to escape from Toxic Lily's claws, avoid Emily's persistent search for you, somehow survive Veronica's atrocious gas as well as Monique's massive swamp ass... You had a kinda traumatizing experience with Arianna and Lulu's attempts at making you feel better may have made things worse...
You had to interact with quite a lot more people than you usually did on a daily basis, and not all of it was that bad... Romina proved to be quite honorable and supportive, albeit she retained her obsessive rivalry with Lillian. The so-called "Snickers" was a nicer girl than everyone thought, if they actually bothered trying to talk to her and not treat her like a ghost.
Eventually, you made it and got found by your friends, but had to endure more than a fair share of big butts with Lillian and Cindy, though to be fair, you also got some nice up close and personal moments with Jen, which might have made the entire ordeal worth it. However, your relationship prospects, while they improved in some way, they also got more awkward, with Veronica resuming and restating her desire to date you, as well as finding out that Yamile also wanted something more than just friendship. You felt that things with Cindy got a little bit ambiguous but you hoped she stayed more innocent, and got meaningfully closer to Jen, which was what you valued the most.
In the end, Zuemy FINALLY helped you, restoring your size, but also, she gathered a lot of useful data, as the shrinking experiment had implanted a kind of chip that recorded about everything that you experienced while shrunken... You were pretty mad at the time, but she demonstrated that she learned from all of those mistakes and "made it up" to you by making a custom gun with many cool features that only the most premium models would have, as they were going to be commercialized a few months from that day on.
The gun she gave you was a neat looking black instead of the tackier silver and gold colors. The gun was made with stronger than military-grade materials, guaranteeing that it wouldn't break or malfunction under any circumstances. It also possessed the ability to shrink itself alongside its user, something the cheaper models wouldn't have. Another useful safety measure Zuemy implemented was the ability to track its user via an implanted microchip, which in your case, recycled the one from the previous experiment, in other words, you could practically recall the gun to your hand at will if for whatever reason you lost it, though it required it to have a decent battery charge to activate that function.
And speaking of batteries, Zuemy designed a powerful self-recharging battery that not even the premium models would have until a while later. This was to make sure you weren't left permanently stuck at whatever size, though after shrinking, it usually needed to recharge for some time, which depended on how much you shrank yourself.
When she "gifted" you this gun, as cool as it was, you were really questioning why would you even want to shrink yourself again... but you found out that it became less scary now that you were more or less in control, though you still didn't feel entirely safe when shrinking around certain people. Zuemy herself "helped" you to get over your leftover fear from the previous shrinking episode, and even enlisted your friends' help, which you weren't entirely happy about, although, once again, Jen made your suffering worthwhile, and she seemed to like it quite a bit.
A few months later, the guns began to get commercialized, and much to your surprise, they proved to be quite a hit, especially with people your age. Since the shrinking made the person highly resistant, no serious accidents were ever reported, though soon stories of people who got trapped under feet or butts, like yourself, started to pop up, but became a new kind of comedy rather than a traumatizing tragedy. You even wondered if the world hadn't gone crazy yet...
You learned about some other safety measures Zuemy or her family implemented to the guns, like the inability to be used against their owner due to various smart recognition systems, thus, it wasn't possible to steal someone's shrinking gun and use it against its original owner, though nothing really stopped the person from getting one of their own and using it... but for some reason, that never seemed to cross anyone's mind. The fad exploded and quickly went viral, and it was adopted as a fun & comical thing. Perhaps this greater visibility, and how obvious it'd be if someone did something bad were what discouraged people with malicious intent from embracing this technology.
In any case, things got really interesting, though, despite how widespread it seemed to be, shrinking guns were actually quite expensive, even the cheapest models, so, not THAT many people possessed one yet, at least in your city, or in the part of the city where you lived people weren't that rich, though it also may have had to do with having more of a young people appeal, thus, working adults didn't display as much interest in the device until quite a bit later.
One of the new interesting and fun developments was the emergence of some Youtube podcasts, TV and radio shows that talked about shrinking, the tech that made it possible and stories about it, most of them funny in nature, although you weren't sure all of those were truly funny, some you found a bit weird, but that might be because of the less than pleasant experiences you had before...
But, getting back on topic, one program in particular, which was both on Youtube and the radio, called the MiniCast, one of the earliest if not the first of such programs, announced an interesting contest for those who wanted to make a quick buck and were in possession of a shrinking gun. You realized this was an easy way to win 20,000 dollars and signed up for the contest right away, and marked the date in your phone's calendar, which happened to be today...
But what kind of contest was this?
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May 12, 2023
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