This choice: "Actually, you're staying with me until you grow back." • Go Back... (Minor spoilers for Tae Takemi's confidant)
Akira looked up at the enormous doctor, unable to believe what he just heard.
"So, you shrank me, and now you're kidnapping me."
Takemi scoffed. "Well, everything sounds sinister when you break it down like that. Look at you! You're a high school delinquent letting a back alley doctor perform tests on you so she'll sell you meds under the table. You really should have expected this to happen."
"I should have expected you to SHRINK me?!" Akira exclaimed in confusion. "Putting aside how... insane this is, how does this help you cure Miwa-chan?"
"I'll show you," Takemi said. She placed her hand on the exam table with the palm up, gesturing with her fingers for Akira to climb on. Akira simply stared up at her incredulously, and she sighed. "Little guinea pi... Akira, you can trust me. I haven't suddenly become a mad scientist here. I care about saving Miwa-chan, and I care about you. You've become a good friend to me these past few months. But I really can't let you leave my sight until the serum wears off. Secrecy of my research aside, the world is a dangerous place for someone your size. We don't want anything to happen to my best research subject, do we?"
Akira shuddered. Images danced through his head of being stepped on by the uncaring masses of Tokyo, or being eaten by an unaware Futaba as she devoured her curry, or being mistaken for a bug by Kawakami as she cleaned his room. Staying with Takemi was really his best option. He nodded to the giant doctor, who beamed in response and again gestured him aboard her hand with her fingers. He awkwardly clambered onto her palm, her warm, soft flesh feeling like a strange yet surprisingly comfortable bed, and braced himself as the world moved around him at terrifying speed as Takemi brought her hand up to eye level.
"So... why did my clothes shrink too?" Akira asked, genuinely curious now that he'd had time to process this situation.
"That's one of the things I hope to figure out," Takemi said. "But first, our main test. Have you ever seen the American movie Fantastic Voyage?"
Akira had seen the film, and he paled at what Takemi was implying to be in store for him. "I'm out," he declared, and he frantically tried to escape the doctor's hand, only to be foiled when she cupped her other hand around him, gently forming a wall.
"None of that," Takemi chided gently. "I promise these tests will be perfectly safe, my little guinea pig. Now, first things first..."  | Members who added to this interactive story also contributed to these: |
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