Backfire!
Family's New Shrink Ray
chapter 51
by
copier
· original author:
doreedo
Hearing the uterine walls rumbling, Lisa looked around hoping she hadn't just made things worse. Fortunately, the twin she'd aimed at (Melanie, she was pretty sure) didn't seem to be changing. That was... that was probably for the best. Lisa might've wanted to resolve this quickly and easily, but she wasn't going to bother firing the ray again. She knew better than to risk using what was essentially a damaged science project when it could potentially hurt the twin or Nicole.
Looking down at the shrink ray in her hands...
"Ugh... what the hell am I going to do now?" The shrink ray wasn't safe to use again. That much was clear to Lisa. It seemed to be pure luck that she hadn't shrunken herself. That would've been really bad- Lisa was pretty sure that shrinking herself from a backfiring shrink ray probably wouldn't have shrunken device with her, which would've effectively stranded her inside her sister's uterus.
Another rumble shook the uterus, this one so violent that Lisa once again dropped the shrink ray. Grumbling in annoyance as she fumbled about in the dark for the broken shrink ray, Lisa switched her phone's flashlight on.
"There you are! Come here!" Lisa grumbled as she scooped up the shrink ray, frustration clouding her mind. She'd hoped to be done by now. Or at least, done shrinking this twin and on her way to repeat the procedure on the other twin. She didn't want to be stuck in here (her sister's uterus all night! But right now it seemed like she was probably going to have to try and make some impromptu field repairs on a device that she knew barely anything about! This was going to be a long night...
Or at least it would've, had Lisa not noticed something now that she'd turned her flashlight back on. She'd turned it on earlier when she'd been aiming the shrink ray, plus she'd obviously needed it to guide her way through the tunnels of Nicole's insides- it wasn't like there was any sort of bio-luminescent surfaces inside of Nicole's uterus.
The point to this was that Lisa had been able to see where she was going earlier, and more importantly, the state of things inside of Nicole. When the shrink ray had backfired and zapped her (and having freaking sparks shooting right into her eyes) had half-blinded her. Her eyes still weren't doing to well, and were red, irritated, and watery, though Lisa was still able to at least see things around her as long as she kept her eyes squinted. It hurt too much trying to open them all the way. First things first when she was out of Nicole, she'd grab some eye drops and make sure there weren't any signs of electrical burns of any severity around her eyes.
The flashlight helped Lisa see where she was going, even though her squinted eyes were watering even worse from the lone bright light she was holding in front of her face.
*Thump*
"What the..." Lisa muttered. Damn it, visibility was terrible inside of Nicole. Had she somehow stumbled into another tube or something? No, that didn't sound right. So why had she just bumped her head on something?
Slowly turning around, Lisa shined her flashlight and peered with watering, squinted eyes at the sight before her...
And nearly had a heart attack as her heart leapt into her throat!
The embryo- what would become a fetus of Melanie- was right there in front of her!
And not just in front of her... smaller than her. A lot smaller than her!
Had... had she actually been successful? Lisa let out a sigh of relief, slumping back as exhaustion she didn't realize she'd been feeling bled out of her.
"Oh... I'm so glad that worked..." She sighed. Despite the injury she'd suffered, it didn't seem to have impeded her efforts to help her sister recover from this whole bizarre episode. Great, now she just to make the trek over to the other side of the uterus and repeat the procedure... on... Jason...
*Gulp*
Lisa gulped nervously as an ugly, frightened feeling wormed it's way into her gut. Something was off. But what? She couldn't quite place her finger on it. Her eyes were still stinging, but they felt a little better now. She reasoned that at least a couple of minutes had passed since the shrink ray had backfired. A couple of minutes for the embryo of the twin to shrink down...
Along with the rest of uterus, apparently. What the hell?!
If she'd been feeling an uncomfortable amount of anxiety just a minute ago, well, now she was in full blown gut-clenching panic! Alarm bells and sirens were wailing at max volume in Lisa's mind as she realized too late what was going on!
Using her phone to shine light on the embryo- and not just on the embryo, but around it, at the walls of the uterus- showed that it wasn't just the embryo that had shrunken. The section of the uterus that the embryo occupied- hell, all of the uterus- had shrunken around Lisa! What had... what had gone wrong?
Frantically swiping on her phone, Lisa checked again to see if she'd missed a panicked text or voice call from her sister.
Nope, nothing.
Which could only mean one thing.
If Nicole hadn't contacted her, then she hadn't felt anything change inside of her. Or if she had, it hadn't been alarming enough to warrant sending an emergency evacuation warning to her sister.
If no panicked 'GET OUT NOW' message had come from Nicole, then she obviously hadn't started shrinking around Lisa while her sister was still inside.
And if Nicole wasn't shrinking, but the embryo and Nicole's uterus were smaller from Lisa's POV, there was only one thing that could've happened
The shrink ray backfiring hadn't made the embryo or Nicole smaller, the backfiring shrink ray was making Lisa bigger!
Lisa swallowed nervously, her heart thudding in her chest painfully. This was... this was really, really bad. Now that she'd made the realization (and holy cow, she felt stupid having taken so long to figure it out,) things were feeling decidedly claustrophobic inside of this half of the uterus. Lisa realized to no small amount of panic that her body had already filled most of the available space she had left inside of the womb, and---
*Buzz*
Whipping out her phone, Lisa scanned the new text from Nicole.
<<What's going on in there? I feel some kind of pressure in there.>>
Lisa wasted a few more valuable seconds staring at the screen wondering how to respond to her sister's innocent message, before realizing abruptly that this was the absolute worst time to be texting somebody.
How many seconds- no, how many minutes had she wasted in here? She'd been fried by the backfiring shrink ray almost 10 minutes ago, and Lisa was certain that the shrink ray's effect on her had been wearing off slowly but steadily this entire time!
No other explanation made sense to Lisa's panicked mind. Whatever combination of chemicals, electricity, broken wiring, and whatever other components were in the shrink ray had reacted together in just such a way that it hadn't simply grown her, it was entirely unraveling whatever science was keeping her body shrunken down from it's normal height!
And all the while, she'd been sitting back doing nothing (like trying to escape) basking in her false accomplishment.
*Buzz*
Lisa was smarter this time, ignoring the second message from her sister. She didn't have the time to look at it.
'You're too late. You're too big to fit out of the cervix."
Lisa gritted her teeth and did her best to ignore the unwelcome thought that had popped into her mind. She did her best to creep away from the embryo, not wanting to injure the twin inside the fluid sac. There... there sure wasn't much room for her to maneuver...
'There isn't enough space for you to squeeze out of. You wasted too much time lounging around!'
Lisa narrowed her eyes. She wasn't going to, couldn't give up. So what if she'd wasted time? Better late than never, right? That's what Lisa hoped. She'd have to fight and squirm and squeeze with all her might to force her way out of the cervix. The only advantage her increasing size provided her was that the journey that had taken a half hour earlier was finished in seconds! The cervix was right in front of her!
And it was much too small for her to squeeze through. If she tried with all her might, Lisa might've been able to get her head and maybe one arm through- there was no way she could fit her shoulders through.
'This is the price of your recklessness. You delayed your exit too long and grew too large to fit out. Nicole will explode and it's all your fault!'
"Shut up!" Lisa yelled, feeling hot tears starting to squeeze out of the corners of her eyes. She was starting to feel awfully squeezed now. Her whole body was starting to press up against the walls of the uterus, damp, dark walls which were pressing against her, stretching to accommodate her slowly growing form.
The feeling was awful- Lisa could wiggle, but her body was being forced to curl up in a fetal form, the uterus lacking even enough space for her to stretch her legs. It was as if her whole body had been cramped into a wet, sponge-like bag, which was now drawing increasingly tight around her.
*Buzz*
Lisa let out a choked half-laugh, half-sob. Yeah, there was no way that Nicole didn't know that something was wrong by now. Her poor baby sister was probably panicking! Lisa had entered her sister at half-an-inch high, shrunken herself much more than that to traverse the uterus, and now...
Lisa was willing to bet that she was at least a full foot tall in size by now and still growing. She was stuck, her head pressed against Nicole's cervix, so close to freedom but completely unable to do anything.
This was it. Nicole, her wonderful baby sister, was going to pop open because Lisa had flubbed the plan so badly! That, or Nicole would survive (in extreme pain) while Lisa suffocated...
Looking down at the shrink ray in her hands...
"Ugh... what the hell am I going to do now?" The shrink ray wasn't safe to use again. That much was clear to Lisa. It seemed to be pure luck that she hadn't shrunken herself. That would've been really bad- Lisa was pretty sure that shrinking herself from a backfiring shrink ray probably wouldn't have shrunken device with her, which would've effectively stranded her inside her sister's uterus.
Another rumble shook the uterus, this one so violent that Lisa once again dropped the shrink ray. Grumbling in annoyance as she fumbled about in the dark for the broken shrink ray, Lisa switched her phone's flashlight on.
"There you are! Come here!" Lisa grumbled as she scooped up the shrink ray, frustration clouding her mind. She'd hoped to be done by now. Or at least, done shrinking this twin and on her way to repeat the procedure on the other twin. She didn't want to be stuck in here (her sister's uterus all night! But right now it seemed like she was probably going to have to try and make some impromptu field repairs on a device that she knew barely anything about! This was going to be a long night...
Or at least it would've, had Lisa not noticed something now that she'd turned her flashlight back on. She'd turned it on earlier when she'd been aiming the shrink ray, plus she'd obviously needed it to guide her way through the tunnels of Nicole's insides- it wasn't like there was any sort of bio-luminescent surfaces inside of Nicole's uterus.
The point to this was that Lisa had been able to see where she was going earlier, and more importantly, the state of things inside of Nicole. When the shrink ray had backfired and zapped her (and having freaking sparks shooting right into her eyes) had half-blinded her. Her eyes still weren't doing to well, and were red, irritated, and watery, though Lisa was still able to at least see things around her as long as she kept her eyes squinted. It hurt too much trying to open them all the way. First things first when she was out of Nicole, she'd grab some eye drops and make sure there weren't any signs of electrical burns of any severity around her eyes.
The flashlight helped Lisa see where she was going, even though her squinted eyes were watering even worse from the lone bright light she was holding in front of her face.
*Thump*
"What the..." Lisa muttered. Damn it, visibility was terrible inside of Nicole. Had she somehow stumbled into another tube or something? No, that didn't sound right. So why had she just bumped her head on something?
Slowly turning around, Lisa shined her flashlight and peered with watering, squinted eyes at the sight before her...
And nearly had a heart attack as her heart leapt into her throat!
The embryo- what would become a fetus of Melanie- was right there in front of her!
And not just in front of her... smaller than her. A lot smaller than her!
Had... had she actually been successful? Lisa let out a sigh of relief, slumping back as exhaustion she didn't realize she'd been feeling bled out of her.
"Oh... I'm so glad that worked..." She sighed. Despite the injury she'd suffered, it didn't seem to have impeded her efforts to help her sister recover from this whole bizarre episode. Great, now she just to make the trek over to the other side of the uterus and repeat the procedure... on... Jason...
*Gulp*
Lisa gulped nervously as an ugly, frightened feeling wormed it's way into her gut. Something was off. But what? She couldn't quite place her finger on it. Her eyes were still stinging, but they felt a little better now. She reasoned that at least a couple of minutes had passed since the shrink ray had backfired. A couple of minutes for the embryo of the twin to shrink down...
Along with the rest of uterus, apparently. What the hell?!
If she'd been feeling an uncomfortable amount of anxiety just a minute ago, well, now she was in full blown gut-clenching panic! Alarm bells and sirens were wailing at max volume in Lisa's mind as she realized too late what was going on!
Using her phone to shine light on the embryo- and not just on the embryo, but around it, at the walls of the uterus- showed that it wasn't just the embryo that had shrunken. The section of the uterus that the embryo occupied- hell, all of the uterus- had shrunken around Lisa! What had... what had gone wrong?
Frantically swiping on her phone, Lisa checked again to see if she'd missed a panicked text or voice call from her sister.
Nope, nothing.
Which could only mean one thing.
If Nicole hadn't contacted her, then she hadn't felt anything change inside of her. Or if she had, it hadn't been alarming enough to warrant sending an emergency evacuation warning to her sister.
If no panicked 'GET OUT NOW' message had come from Nicole, then she obviously hadn't started shrinking around Lisa while her sister was still inside.
And if Nicole wasn't shrinking, but the embryo and Nicole's uterus were smaller from Lisa's POV, there was only one thing that could've happened
The shrink ray backfiring hadn't made the embryo or Nicole smaller, the backfiring shrink ray was making Lisa bigger!
Lisa swallowed nervously, her heart thudding in her chest painfully. This was... this was really, really bad. Now that she'd made the realization (and holy cow, she felt stupid having taken so long to figure it out,) things were feeling decidedly claustrophobic inside of this half of the uterus. Lisa realized to no small amount of panic that her body had already filled most of the available space she had left inside of the womb, and---
*Buzz*
Whipping out her phone, Lisa scanned the new text from Nicole.
<<What's going on in there? I feel some kind of pressure in there.>>
Lisa wasted a few more valuable seconds staring at the screen wondering how to respond to her sister's innocent message, before realizing abruptly that this was the absolute worst time to be texting somebody.
How many seconds- no, how many minutes had she wasted in here? She'd been fried by the backfiring shrink ray almost 10 minutes ago, and Lisa was certain that the shrink ray's effect on her had been wearing off slowly but steadily this entire time!
No other explanation made sense to Lisa's panicked mind. Whatever combination of chemicals, electricity, broken wiring, and whatever other components were in the shrink ray had reacted together in just such a way that it hadn't simply grown her, it was entirely unraveling whatever science was keeping her body shrunken down from it's normal height!
And all the while, she'd been sitting back doing nothing (like trying to escape) basking in her false accomplishment.
*Buzz*
Lisa was smarter this time, ignoring the second message from her sister. She didn't have the time to look at it.
'You're too late. You're too big to fit out of the cervix."
Lisa gritted her teeth and did her best to ignore the unwelcome thought that had popped into her mind. She did her best to creep away from the embryo, not wanting to injure the twin inside the fluid sac. There... there sure wasn't much room for her to maneuver...
'There isn't enough space for you to squeeze out of. You wasted too much time lounging around!'
Lisa narrowed her eyes. She wasn't going to, couldn't give up. So what if she'd wasted time? Better late than never, right? That's what Lisa hoped. She'd have to fight and squirm and squeeze with all her might to force her way out of the cervix. The only advantage her increasing size provided her was that the journey that had taken a half hour earlier was finished in seconds! The cervix was right in front of her!
And it was much too small for her to squeeze through. If she tried with all her might, Lisa might've been able to get her head and maybe one arm through- there was no way she could fit her shoulders through.
'This is the price of your recklessness. You delayed your exit too long and grew too large to fit out. Nicole will explode and it's all your fault!'
"Shut up!" Lisa yelled, feeling hot tears starting to squeeze out of the corners of her eyes. She was starting to feel awfully squeezed now. Her whole body was starting to press up against the walls of the uterus, damp, dark walls which were pressing against her, stretching to accommodate her slowly growing form.
The feeling was awful- Lisa could wiggle, but her body was being forced to curl up in a fetal form, the uterus lacking even enough space for her to stretch her legs. It was as if her whole body had been cramped into a wet, sponge-like bag, which was now drawing increasingly tight around her.
*Buzz*
Lisa let out a choked half-laugh, half-sob. Yeah, there was no way that Nicole didn't know that something was wrong by now. Her poor baby sister was probably panicking! Lisa had entered her sister at half-an-inch high, shrunken herself much more than that to traverse the uterus, and now...
Lisa was willing to bet that she was at least a full foot tall in size by now and still growing. She was stuck, her head pressed against Nicole's cervix, so close to freedom but completely unable to do anything.
This was it. Nicole, her wonderful baby sister, was going to pop open because Lisa had flubbed the plan so badly! That, or Nicole would survive (in extreme pain) while Lisa suffocated...
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