After enduring the relentless pursuit the teenagers had inflicted on him with the gigantic lens of the magnifying glass, tiny Mr. Smith felt the world was being terribly unfair when he heard Joe tell Tommy there were lots of easy ways to get rid of a bug.
Hoping they'd recognize a gesture of pleading, he got on his knees, shouted their names and begged them to recognize him.
Tommy placed the magnifying glass on the tabletop. "Not as fun as zapping them one at a time," he said with obvious disappointment.
"Bugs must be stupid," Joe said. "After you chased it all that time, it isn't even trying to get away from you."
Tommy squinted at the speck-sized creature and chuckled. "So dumb it deserves to die," he said.
"No!" The little man leapt to his feet. He needed to get away from the giants.
"Here's what you need," Joe said and reached for something hanging from a hook on the wall near Mr. Smith's fridge.
Gazing from the vast surface of the table, the shrunken scientist watched as Joe handed Tommy the cheap yellow and black plastic flyswatter that he'd purchased at a dollar store to deal with the occasional household pest that wandered into his home.
He kept running, but he didn't appear to cover much ground. Of more immediate concern, he was approaching the edge of the table, but if he turned back, he would place himself in easy reach of the two teenaged titans.
A glance back over his shoulder saw the flyswatter held aloft in Tommy's enormous hand.
"Damn! He's going to try to swat me!" The scientist screamed and ran toward the edge. Flinging himself into open space would give him a one in a million shot at survival. Getting swatted by the massive yellow and black construction of cheap plastic would spell an immediate "game over" to his misadventure.
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