It was a Friday night in small town Mooreville, Illinois. Mooreville was a quiet and peaceful town. Not much went on. Everyone knows everyone, and since not much goes on people are all they have. Unless your name is Dr. Reynolds. HE used to be a doctor but decided to stop and pursue his dream. His dream was to build a shrink machine and for the past 2 years he was working on it. His wife Jane, always told him he could never build one and that he was crazy, but he tried anyways. Well that Friday night his wife was outside enjoying the stars when she heard…
“Praise the Lord. I finally got it to work. Jane hurry, come down here!”
She then went downstairs and she saw their dog Ginger shrunk. Ginger was about 51 pounds at normal size, but she was now 20 pounds. She was about half her normal size.
“What the heck did you do to Ginger?” Jane asked.
“I just finished my shrink machine and I wanted to test it.”
“Why didn’t you use a plant or something else? Anything but our dog.”
“Don’t worry sweetie, I can bring her back to normal size.”
“Well change her back right now!”
“Fine, fine I will change her back right away.”
After about 10 minutes Ginger was back to normal size. She ran up the steps out of the basement to meet Jane. She was glad to see her dog back to normal size. Now that she knew her dog was fine she could relax and go to bed. She knew her sister Emily was bringing over the kids tomorrow morning. Emily had two great kids and every now and then Emily had to go out of town for work. Sarah and Jimmy loved going to Uncle Bill and Aunt Jane’s house. They would also get whatever they wanted and they loved it. But this time they will be encountered with an extremely crazy adventure.
“Kids get up!” Emily yelled up stairs. “I need to be at the airport in 2 hours.”
“Mom it’s really early,” Sarah said. Sarah was the older of the 2 kids. She was entering 5th grade this school year. After losing their father when she was 4, her and her little brother Jimmy, who was 2 years younger, has always been excited to go to Uncle Bill’s house. He was like their father now since their mom decided not to marry again. Bill was the only male in their life. So any chance they could go over, they were excited.
“Jimmy, mom said it’s time to get up,” Sarah said.
Jimmy gets up and starts singing. “It’s time to go to Aunt Jane and Uncle Bill’s. Fun, fun, fun all the time.” Jimmy was always happy to go to their house. The kids got ready then went downstairs.
“Are you ready to go?” their mom asked.
“Yes mommy,” they said.
They all loaded into Emily’s car and headed to her sisters house. It was about a 20 minute drive to Mooreville where they lived.
When they pulled into the driveway, Aunt Jane was sitting on the porch with Uncle Bill. They got out and the kids ran to the porch.
“Aunt Jane, Uncle Bill we missed you!” Sarah said.
“Well I’m glad you guys are here. We will have a lot of fun this week. Well let’s get your bags and say buy to mom”.
The kids got their bags and said bye to their mom. She told them to be good, but they always were good for Aunt Jane and Uncle Bill.
It was now dinner time and the kids, Bill, and Jane were at the table.
Bill started to say “I have something very cool to show you after dinner”.
“What is it”, the kids asked?
“I can’t tell you. You have to wait until after dinner”.
“Oh man, why Uncle Bill?” Jimmy asked.
“Because we need to eat now and play later”. Right after dinner we can go look at the surprise”.
“Okay,” said the kids.
After a great dinner, Uncle Bill took the kids to the basement. IN the right corner there was a machine.
“Holy cow!” Jimmy yelled.
“What is it Uncle Bill?” asked Sarah.
“It is a shrink machine. Anything you put in it, it shrinks it down. You can shrink it to any size you want. You could shrink it down so much the object is so small you can’t see it.
“Can you make things bigger,” Jimmy asked. Bill, “because I don’t like being smaller then Sarah. I want to grow and be taller.”
“No, sorry Jimmy. It only shrinks, but maybe I can figure out a way to make things bigger too.”
“No way,” Sarah added. “I don’t want him to be bigger then me ever.”
“Can we shrink something Uncle Bill? Please!”
At first he didn’t think it would be such a great idea, but the kids talked him into it. So he went upstairs. He came back down with a plant. Aunt Jane followed. He put the plant on the shelf. The kids said they wanted to shrink it down about 25% its normal size. So he set the dial to ¼ size and hit shrink. But then something went wrong. The rays came out and shrunk everyone. The kids, Bill and Sarah.
“Oh my God,” Sarah yelled. “What did you do?”
“I don’t know what happened. For some reason it shrunk us too!” Bill said.
“Well no crap Bill. We are tiny. How are we going to get back to life size? There is no way we can do it ourselves.”
“When does your sister get back?”
“She will get the kids Sunday, At 10 in the morning.”
“We will just have to wait until then. We could try and make signs and everything to clue your sister we are tiny.”
“How will we make it until then?”
“It won’t be hard, let’s start thinking of things we can do to get your sister to see us.”
So they started to think. They decided they would have to make some sort of thing outside so the kids’ mom knew to walk in. Since they got shrunk in the middle of the day, they still had the back door unlocked. They made a big sign that said, Bill shrunk everyone. Go to the back door, it is open. After they finished making the sign it took all 4 of them to carry it to the front door. On the way back they ran into their dog Ginger. Since they were small, Ginger decided to try and eat them. Bill, Sarah, and the kids ran for their lives. They made it to the bathroom and hide.
It was now about 10 at night. They just decided to sleep in the bathroom where it was safe. The kids’ mom would be getting the kids tomorrow.
It was Sunday morning now. Bill, Sarah, and the kids were woken up to the sound of what could be Emily. Them they heard, “hello, where are you guys? I saw the sign outside.” No answer.
Bill knew they would have to go out of the bathroom and get Emily’s attention. So they walked out and Emily saw them.
“What happened?” she asked.
“Well I made a shrink machine and I showed the kids, but it went wrong and we all got shrunk.”
“Can you be brought back to normal size?”
“Yes of course. Just take us in the basement.”
So Emily took them to the basement. Bill told her what to do and at the push of a button they were back to normal. The kids got their stuff and said bye to Aunt Jane and Uncle Bill.
After this adventure Bill decided to stop messing with the machine so no one else gets shrunk again. Life went on but now little Sarah and Jimmy can tell everyone at school the next day of their great adventure
