The P.R.V shrinks down as planned
Family's New Shrink Ray
chapter 36
by
copier
· original author:
jurto2
** BZAP **
Cindy was down for anything. She needed the spare cash for college, but most of all, she wanted a chance to get closer to Steve's tech. The redhead had a certain... kink, if you will. As her capsule shrunk under the power of the shink ray, the world outside of it got larger, larger, larger... The view nearly took her breath away. Her only regret so far was that Steve was only testing it first at golf-ball size for watertightness.
The giant approached the little spherical plastic capsule and carefully picked it up, inspecting its human cargo. Cindy waved enthusiastically back at him. With a nod, Steve carried it over to a bowl of water in the sink and tried to float the ball carefully on its surface to test the buoyancy. With its relative weight versus its displacement, it sank to the bottom, even with the breathable atmosphere inside of it.
* TING *
The little capsule bounced on the bottom of the bowl of water and settled there. Steve observed it carefully for any escaping bubbles. After a few minutes, Steve nodded to himself before recording the results.
He tested the vessel's communications by texting Cindy: "Ready for the emergency flotation test? Fire when ready."
The tiny girl gave him a thumbs up from underwater before pulling a bright red lever on the ceiling which ejected a tiny airbag on the outside, increasing the buoyancy just enough to get it to lift off the bottom and head for the surface.
As the golf-ball-sized contraption popped to the surface much like a fishing lure's bobber, Steve nodded again to himself and scribbled more in his notebook, jotting down, "Unfortunately, due to budget constraints, the emergency buoyancy airbag can only be deployed once before being repacked from the outside. Production runs may consider implementing an easily-resettable system"
Another text made her phone buzz: "Ready for the escape hatch test? Proceed when ready."
The redhead gave him a thumbs up before standing up, raising the seat and unscrewing the hatch on the floor. Steve had assumed that, given the float's position at the top, a hatch at the bottom would allow for entry and escape without filling the capsule with unwanted liquid. Cindy threw open the hatch, put her phone in her pocket, and dove into the water, surfacing nearby a few seconds later.
Steve grinned. "Good job," he said to the tiny test pilot, "hop back in when you're ready."
Cindy gave him a thumbs-up before diving down and entering the hatch again, climbing into the small plastic orb again before closing the hatch and twisting the hatch lock once again.
He sent off another text: "Ready for the last basic test? This will simulate the pressure at depth at the bottom of a swimming pool." Cindy replied back with an "Okay, I'm ready!" He carefully lifted the bowl out of the sink and took it over to a pressure vessel. The bottom of a swimming pool was about the highest pressure he could reasonably forsee the capsule taking, especially given its emergency flotation device.
Steve closed the pressure chamber and set it to work. Its tiny motor pumped air in until the capsule's water bath mimicked the conditions at the bottom of an average in-ground pool.
While waiting for the machine to reach its target pressure, he continued writing: "By my calculations and by virtue of the shrink ray and its target's density changes, the capsule should hold up equally well at a given depth regardless of its size."
As the machine reached its target pressure, Steve kept his hand on the pressure relief valve, careful not to let it all out too quickly lest he give the tiny girl the bends.
Cindy was down for anything. She needed the spare cash for college, but most of all, she wanted a chance to get closer to Steve's tech. The redhead had a certain... kink, if you will. As her capsule shrunk under the power of the shink ray, the world outside of it got larger, larger, larger... The view nearly took her breath away. Her only regret so far was that Steve was only testing it first at golf-ball size for watertightness.
The giant approached the little spherical plastic capsule and carefully picked it up, inspecting its human cargo. Cindy waved enthusiastically back at him. With a nod, Steve carried it over to a bowl of water in the sink and tried to float the ball carefully on its surface to test the buoyancy. With its relative weight versus its displacement, it sank to the bottom, even with the breathable atmosphere inside of it.
* TING *
The little capsule bounced on the bottom of the bowl of water and settled there. Steve observed it carefully for any escaping bubbles. After a few minutes, Steve nodded to himself before recording the results.
He tested the vessel's communications by texting Cindy: "Ready for the emergency flotation test? Fire when ready."
The tiny girl gave him a thumbs up from underwater before pulling a bright red lever on the ceiling which ejected a tiny airbag on the outside, increasing the buoyancy just enough to get it to lift off the bottom and head for the surface.
As the golf-ball-sized contraption popped to the surface much like a fishing lure's bobber, Steve nodded again to himself and scribbled more in his notebook, jotting down, "Unfortunately, due to budget constraints, the emergency buoyancy airbag can only be deployed once before being repacked from the outside. Production runs may consider implementing an easily-resettable system"
Another text made her phone buzz: "Ready for the escape hatch test? Proceed when ready."
The redhead gave him a thumbs up before standing up, raising the seat and unscrewing the hatch on the floor. Steve had assumed that, given the float's position at the top, a hatch at the bottom would allow for entry and escape without filling the capsule with unwanted liquid. Cindy threw open the hatch, put her phone in her pocket, and dove into the water, surfacing nearby a few seconds later.
Steve grinned. "Good job," he said to the tiny test pilot, "hop back in when you're ready."
Cindy gave him a thumbs-up before diving down and entering the hatch again, climbing into the small plastic orb again before closing the hatch and twisting the hatch lock once again.
He sent off another text: "Ready for the last basic test? This will simulate the pressure at depth at the bottom of a swimming pool." Cindy replied back with an "Okay, I'm ready!" He carefully lifted the bowl out of the sink and took it over to a pressure vessel. The bottom of a swimming pool was about the highest pressure he could reasonably forsee the capsule taking, especially given its emergency flotation device.
Steve closed the pressure chamber and set it to work. Its tiny motor pumped air in until the capsule's water bath mimicked the conditions at the bottom of an average in-ground pool.
While waiting for the machine to reach its target pressure, he continued writing: "By my calculations and by virtue of the shrink ray and its target's density changes, the capsule should hold up equally well at a given depth regardless of its size."
As the machine reached its target pressure, Steve kept his hand on the pressure relief valve, careful not to let it all out too quickly lest he give the tiny girl the bends.
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