It was a really long and hot day as Cody shut closed the door to his house behind him. As the cool air refreshed his sweaty skin, he sighed as he made his way over to his living room to catch some tv.
Recently he was out in the summer heat with some of his friends, one of them had just got this cool new video game system and was the talk of the circle. While this friend was showing off, most of the other kids, including Cody, were trying to hide their envy with various means of success. Cody wanted that video game system, but knew that his parents couldn’t afford to get it for him, and although he really liked that friend he was more than a little bit jealous of him.
Oh, well, Cody thought as his feet flip-flopped their way into the living room, nothing I can do now but watch tv and not think about the system.
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The portal gave you a view of the top inside of Cody’s house that was absolutely massive. It almost gave you an image of watching a movie at the theater, but this was a hundred times better.
You watched as the he portal showed Cody sit down on the couch, grab the remote from the coffe table that was in front of the couch, and turn on the tv. Then he slipped off his flip-flops and put his barefeet on the coffee table.
The view transfixed you, but you do not know why. Cody and the environment was on a massive scale in the portal, but you did not understand how this was. Maybe you could shrink the dimension of the portal a little? You look away and start messing with some of the machinery of the portal, hoping you could maybe fix the scale.
Looking at the portal while you crank the lever, you position the portal so that it was over his reclining legs, giving you a view of the carpet and his flips flops, then you look away and start calibrating the machine so that the dimensions could be a little bit more normal…
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Cody yawned as he stretched out his sweaty legs and put his feet on the coffee table. His mom hated when he did that, but she was at work right now, and she would be none the wiser. He turned his attention to the tv. It was some kidish anime about a cat that invented a shrinking machinge, boring, he thought as he changed the channel. This next channel had some super hero on it.
He smiled at the cartoon, but found himself getting bored. He was at that age were superheros were starting to peter out, and become replaced with the new best thing, something cool that Cody was still desperately trying to find out.
He glanced over at his flip-flops. They used to have the image of the same superhero that was currently saving the world on the tv, but the soles of his feet scratched away the image along time ago. Now its just some foamy plastic stuff that absorbs all his foot sweat. He crossed his legs to get a better look at the bottom of his feet. A little bit dirty, a little bit sweaty, and he could see bits of the foam of the flip-flops clinging to his toes. Cody scrunched his nose in disgust as he put his feet back on the table.
He changed the channel.
It was a commercial for the video game system.
Cody made an overdramatic yell.
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You look back at the portal. No matter how many times you recalibrated the machinery, the dimensions were still off. Cody’s living room still looked gargantuan.
Why is this? You think to yourself. While you were deeply pondering a possible solution to this problem, you were suddenly snapped back to the portal when you heard Cody suddenly yell. You look at the portal to see Cody suddenly move, taking his feet off the coffee table and look threatingly at the tv.
The grab a hold of the rims of the portal, to get a better look.
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“Dammit!” Cody was fed up as he saw the commercial to the video game system that should have been his. Without thinking he put his legs off the coffee table, grabbed the remote, and threw the remote towards the tv as hard as he could.
The tv was made to be childproof. The Remote? Not so much. Cody watched as something bounced off the top of the remote and went flying skyward while the remote’s body fell to the ground bellow.
Why couldn’t he have that system? His body was raging as he put his feet back on the coffee table and watched as the commercial ended.
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You watched as Cody threw the remote at the tv. You watched as the remote hit the tv. You watched as one of the buttons detached and went flying. Towards the portal.
You were a deer stuck in the headlights as you let go of the edge of the portal. The detached button flew right at you, and you did not move away.
It got closer and closer until it hit the portal.
The button was roughly the same size as the portal and when the button hit the portal something weird happened; it stuck to the portal for a few seconds. Then gravity took its toll and suctioned you through the portal and into the room. You screamed as you fell into the room, the pacing of the air around picking up as you fell. Looking down, you saw the living room from before coming closer. In these fleeting seconds you wondered where you will land; the coffee table or the floor? One thing stuck in your mind as you fell.
“COOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDYY!”
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As the commercial ended Cody thought he heard something calling him. Must be the wind, he thought as the next commercial aired, I have the house to myself.
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