Lisa was currently in her room working on her latest invention, with Lincoln reluctantly agreeing to be her test subject for her experiment. Lincoln stood in front Lisa's device waiting trepidatiously as she prepared to use it on him. To his shock, Lisa's machine appeared to be a small ray gun jutting out of a dome.
"Um, Lisa. Are you sure this thing is safe?" Lincoln asked anxiously.
"Fear not, male sibling. I assure you my new invention has been perfectly calibrated, it won't have any negative side effects." Lisa answered, but Lincoln wasn't convinced.
"Okay? So, what does it do?" Lincoln inquired.
"That's what we're going to find out. Now, Lincoln, before we begin, I'd like you to ingest this little tablet." Lisa handed Lincoln a small blue tablet with a white cross on it, which looked harmless enough.
"If you say so." Lincoln complied and swallowed the tablet, which didn't taste as bad as he thought it would. "Now what?"
"Now we can proceed with the test." Lisa replied, much to Lincoln's dismay.
The 4-year-old genius then booted up her machine as it powered up and rotated on the dome until its nozzle pointed directly at Lincoln. The white-haired boy quivered as the device was about to fire at him. He knew better than to trust Lisa with his safety during one of her crazy experiments, but it was too late for him to back out once Lisa prepared to fire it.
"Here we go!" Lisa exclaimed, pushing the button that activated the ray.
Lincoln flinched in fear as the ray blasted him with a beam of blue energy that engulfed his entire body. He was struck with a tingling sensation as he saw everything around him suddenly change. As the ray enveloped him, Lincoln saw everything in Lisa's room expand in size, making him realize what was happening to him.
To his shock, Lisa's device was actually shrinking Lincoln in size. His intelligent little sister watched excitedly as her brother continued to dwindle in size, feeling a great sense of pride at the success of her machine. The experiment soon came to an end once the ray dissipated, leaving Lincoln reduced to at least 3 inches in height.
When it was over, Lincoln gasped in terror at how drastically his surroundings changed. Everything in Lisa's room from her desk to her and Lily's beds now towered over him. He gulped anxiously as he regretted trusting Lisa in the first place.
"You've gotta be kidding me! I shrunk! I can't believe this!" Lincoln ranted, his anger put to rest once he felt the floor shaking and looked ahead to see his gigantic little sister approaching him.
Lincoln fell on his back as Lisa stopped in front of his minuscule form with a smug grin on her face. "Hello, big brother." Lisa said in a teasing tone, much to Lincoln's annoyance.
"Lisa, what have you done to me?!" Lincoln shouted. "Look at me! I'm only an inch tall!"
"Actually, my observations show that you're approximately 3 inches tall." Lisa corrected, which didn't help much to ease Lincoln's anger.
"Whatever. Now that you're done with your experiment, I demand you make me big again!" Lincoln shouted, standing in front of Lisa's brown shoes.
"Hmm. Actually, Lincoln, I think I might keep you like this for a little while." Lisa said, suddenly blushing as she realized she just made a pun like Luan. "Oh, pardon me. I seem to have punned. Guess Luan's rubbing off on me here."
"Lisa!" Lincoln grew even angrier and kicked Lisa's shoe, which only resulted in him feeling pain in his foot, much to her amusement.
"Oh, Lisa!" Lola called from out her door.
That was when another one of Lincoln's little sisters entered Lisa's room. Lola came through the door and walked into Lisa's room not noticing her tiny brother on the floor.
"Oh, come on!" Lincoln grieved as Lola stepped toward him. Since she was older, she looked slightly bigger than Lisa.
"Lisa, have you seen my hairspray?" Lola asked. "I hope you're not using it for one of your crazy experiments again."
Lincoln had no time to move out of the way as Lola unknowingly lifted her foot over him. His pupils shrunk with fear, unable to move as the pink pageant princess lowered her right high-heel shoe on top of him.
*STOMP!*
Lola stopped in place once she realized that she stepped on something. "Huh? Eww! Did I step on a bug?!"
She then raised her foot and grew surprised seeing what, or rather who, she stepped on. "What the? Lincoln, is that you?"
Lincoln laid flat on the floor in an imprint of Lola's shoe, watching as she reached her hand to him and picked him up. Surprisingly though, Lincoln didn't seem to feel any pain from Lola stomping on him as she lifted him up to her face.
"Hi, Lola." Lincoln greeted awkwardly.
"Lincoln? How did you get so small?!" Lola asked in shock before she saw Lisa's smug face and realized what happened. "Lisa, what did you do to Lincoln?!"
"Thank you, Lola." Lisa replied, much to their shared confusion.
"For what?"
"For helping me conduct my test for this shrinking process." Lisa then explained how she wanted her test to be performed. "You see, I planned to use my shrink ray on Lincoln to see how small he'd become. But, before I fired the machine on him, I administered a specially-designed tablet that helped to make his body more durable and impervious to any kind of bodily harm."
They were both confused by Lisa's use of expert vocabulary until it became clear to Lincoln. "Oh, I get it. So that's what that tablet was for. No wonder I didn't feel any pain when Lola stepped on me."
"I'm really sorry about that, by the way, Linky." Lola apologized.
"It's okay, Lola. Now that that's settled, Lisa, I'd like to be big again. I would rather not be this size anymore if you catch my drift."
The moment he said that, Lincoln felt that same tingling sensation overtake him again. Lola then dropped her diminutive brother in surprise as he started glowing with a green energy aura before growing back to his original size in the blink of an eye.
"Hey, I'm big again. Thanks, Lisa." Lincoln said, but Lisa was just as confused as Lola was.
"I didn't do anything, Lincoln. I think you did that on your own." Lisa said.
"I did?" Lincoln said. "How? All I did was ask to be big again."
"Fascinating." Lisa commented. "It appears my machine might've had one side effect on you after all. Lincoln, try thinking of shrinking again."
"Why? I have no idea how I did it the first time." Lincoln said, but he complied anyway and thought really hard about shrinking again.
In no time at all, Lincoln instantly shrunk until he was the size of a doll again. He looked up in shock as he stood between his two towering younger sisters again, with Lola and Lisa both smiling in adoration at the tiny boy at their feet. He then thought about growing back and instantly returned to his normal size.
"Linky? How are you doing that?" Lola asked, but Lincoln still had no answer until Lisa explained it.
"It appears my device actually gave you the ability to shrink and grow back to your original size at will, elder male sibling. You're not only indestructible but capable of altering your own size whenever you desire."
"Whoa, I'm like that shrinking superhero from DC Comics now! This is awesome!" Lincoln exclaimed.
"Wow, Linky. You can be tiny and adorable any time you want now? That's amazing. I've got to tell the others." Lola was about to leave the room to spread the word until Lincoln stopped her.
"Actually, Lola. Why don't we keep this between us for now. The last thing I want is all of my sisters fighting over who gets to keep me when I'm small." Lincoln said.
That's when they heard Lori calling Lincoln from downstairs, reminding Lincoln that he was on babysitting duty today. "Oh, that's right. I have babysitting to do now."
Lincoln thought about it and realized he might be able to do something with his newly discovered powers. "Maybe this whole shrinking thing won't be so bad. I could really do something with it when I'm babysitting."
"That would be great, Linky. I could really use a new tea party buddy." Lola said.
"We'll see when I get back, Lola." Lincoln said.
He was about to leave Lisa's room when he wondered if he was going to get a babysitting job or not. He went downstairs where his older sisters were preparing to leave for their jobs. When Lincoln asked if he could get one, Lori told him who he's going to babysit.   indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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