Desmond had done it. He had built the worlds first working electromagnetic shrink ray. Except he really didn't want to. He was trying to find a new way to make shoes smell less. And a shrink ray was a failure. He left it in the attic. To gather dust. Like all the other electromagnetic shrink rays he accidentally made.
Elsewhere in the Edgely household, Valkyrie was playing with Alison. All seemed normal.
"Ally, where's your blue bear toy? You know, the one that looks like a bear and is blue?"
"Gooble."
"The attic? What is it doing there?"
Alison did not answer, because babies could not talk. She just looked at Valkyrie with those big baby eyes...
"Fine. I'll go get it."
Alison smiled.
Meanwhile, in the backgarden of Crystal and Carol Edgley, Crystal and Carol were playing baseball. Crystal was tossing the ball at Carol's feet, and Carol was swinging like she was a ballet dancer. So another words, the twins weren't playing baseball very well.
A young boy with unfortunate ears called Jasper happened to be walking outside. He loved baseball. And he heard Crystal and Carol bickering over who was the best baseball playing.
"Baseball?!" he jumped, holding onto his ears to prevent a parachute effect. He leapt the ten foot tall fence in excitement and glowed when he saw the mint baseball and bat.
"Can I play?!" he asked ecstatically, being all cute and adorable.
Now Crystal and Carol are normally mean, but being mean to a small boy with unfortunate ears is just plain mean. So they'd never do it. Even if they were really mean, and they did say something mean to him, Jasper would use his true powers and end up playing baseball with their skulls as baseballs and limbs as bats.
But Crystal and Carol were nice, and said...
"Sure thing!"
After two hours of Crystal tossing the ball at Jasper's feet, he decided to say something.
"Could you, uh, oh never mind," he blushed cutely.
"Do you want me to throw it a little higher?" Crystal asked, smiling friendly and causing a few daisies to die.
"Yes, please, miss-ush," Jasper said with a blush and awkward leg twirl.
"Naww, I told you, you don't have to call me that."
"Okay, miss-ush."
Crystal smiled at Jasper's adorableness and tossed the ball. It was perfect. So perfect Carol dropped her chips and looked on in awe.
Jasper swung, and hit the ball, sending it rocketing into the distance with a comet tail behind it. If they were playing Mario Golf, the voice over man would have said "Nice shot!"
Crystal's and Carol's jaws dropped to a new low.
Valkyrie was rummaging around the attic. She has a gas mask on so she didn't inhale all the dust that was us there.
"Der's noddamn dlue-ear up dleer!" she shouted, not making much sense from inside the gas mask. She removed it for the benefit of the readers.
"There's no damn blue bear up here!" she repeated.
Just at the moment after the awkward silence that came from Valkyrie repeating something to herself, a baseball smashed through the small attic window and ricocheted everywhere. It landed on the button of the only working electromagnetic shrink ray. It whirred and clicked, and was inconveniently aimed at Valkyrie.
"Oh dear," Valkyrie managed to say, before being shrunk down to the size of a pea.
