Author's Note: Before we get started on yet again, another new story, I'd like to thank Sovietlolliepop and his story, The Rugtastic Voyage, for inspiring this multi chapter story. Also, while this story in terms of what characters get shrunk is more so based upon the film, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, the events of this story are more so related to the sequel, Honey We Shrunk Ourselves, which is my favorite movie out of the trilogy. Without further a due, let's get started!
Honey, Angelica Shrunk the Babies
Summary: When Stu recreates Wayne Szalinski's shrink ray after his gets damaged on the way to the Smithonian, disaster strikes when Angelica uses it to shrink her My Size Cynthia doll to take to show and tell at preschool, shrinking the Rugrats as well. Will the miniature sized babies, find a way to become regular size again?
Disclaimer: I do not own the original Rugrats characters, they're the property of their original creaters. I own Zack, while Peter is owned by TCKing12.
Chapter 1, Shrinking the Rugrats
It was a typical day in the Pickles' household. The babies were all having fun playing with their favorite star ball, while Didi was getting ready to host her first ever Pampered Chef party, as well as receive a visit from several of her relatives. Stu however, was quite busy finishing up his latest invention. He and Peter were walking out of the basement with beaming smiles on their faces. They walked into the entry hallway to find Didi looking for a few things in the hall closet.
"Well Deed I did it." Said Stu.
Didi turned around to face her husband.
"Did what Stu?" Didi asked.
"I've recreated Wayne Szalinski's shrink ray." Stu replied.
"A shrink ray?" Didi asked, putting a finger up to her lips, a bit confused.
"Yes. The Smithonian called the other day and explained that Wayne's invention was being sent to the Smithonian to be put on display next to a gramophone, when it arrived damaged. After not being able to get a hold of Wayne, due to phone lines being down in his area, the owner of the Smithonian called up Stu, and asked him to reinvent the shrink ray." Explained Peter.
"And Peter and I finished it this morning, and I have to say, this invention is going to put Pickles Industries on the map." Said Stu excitedly, as the doorbell rang.
Didi went and answered the door, to find Drew, Charlotte, and Angelica, along with a bunch of large toys standing there.
"Hello." Said Didi, as everyone came into the house.
"Hi aunt Didi." Said Angelica, as she turned her gaze away from Didi back to her mother, who was dragging in a Cynthia doll that was the height of Angelica.
"Mommy, can't I take My Size Cynthia to show and tell at preschool? Please? Please? Please?" Angelica begged.
"Angelica, we've been over this, the answer is no." Said Charlotte in a stirn voice, as her phone rang.
She picked it up and got involved with another one of her conversations with Jonathan, as Angelica turned to her daddy, who was carrying a dollhouse in one hand, and a karaoke machine in the other.
"Daddy?" Angelica asked innocently, looking up at her father with an eager expression.
"Princess, we've already been over this. These toys are for you to play with at uncle Stu and aunt Didi's while your mother and I are gone for the next two weeks. Now you be a good girl for them, and no taking these toys to preschool, understand?" Drew said in a stirn tone of voice.
Angelica smiled up at her father.
"Of course daddy, I'll be a very good girl." Said Angelica innocently, as Drew took her toys into the living room.
At that moment, Stu approached his older brother.
"Hey big bro." Said Stu.
"Hey little bro. How goes things?" Replied Drew.
"They couldn't be any better. Thanks to my latest and greatest invention, the shrink ray, Pickles Industries is about to go no place it's ever gone before." Said Stu.
"Oh, another one of your stupid inventions. What does it do? Set fire to the basement?" Drew asked sarcastically.
"Of course not. It's an electromagnetic shrink ray, it makes objects shrink down to miniature size. A regular sized human could go from their normal size, to only being three quarters of an inch tall." Explained Stu.
Angelica, overhearing this in the corner of the room, got a brilliant idea, as the babies ran past, playing with their infamous star ball, which went flying into the hallway and through the open basement door down the stairs.
"Uh oh Tommy, where did our ball go?" Chuckie asked worriedly.
"I think it went through there." Tommy replied, pointing to the open basement door.
"Then let's go get it!" Said Phil.
"Yeah! We can go to the basement, and have an aventure!" Added Lil.
"I don't know you guys. One time I went down there, and got stuck in a matress." Said Chuckie.
"I think it sounds like fun!" Said Kimi excitedly.
"Yeah, remember when we first met, and we helped rescue Tommy's screwdriver? I bet this will be fun!" Said Zack.
Chuckie took a deep breath and sighed.
"Oh all right, I'll go." Said Chuckie reluctantly, as the toddlers headed down the basement stairs.
"Hey! Wait for me!" Dil cried, as the one-year-old toddler tottled his way towards the basement door.
No sooner was he about to head down the stairs, when the doorbell rang again. Didi answered it, to find Lulu standing there.
"Good morning Lulu, what brings you here?" Didi asked.
"I thought I'd take my youngest grandson shopping for new clothes. You said yourself that he was getting too big for some of his clothes, and even some of the hand-me-downs from Tommy were getting too small for him." Lulu replied.
"Well, I would take him shopping, but I do have my Pampered Chef party this afternoon. Several of my relatives are coming, including my cousin Dillon, who little Dil here was named after." Said Didi, as she came over and picked up Dil, carrying him over to his grandmother.
Lulu smiled as she took her youngest grandchild from Didi's arms. Dil looked up at his grandmother, smiling and giggling.
"Don't worry Didi, me and the little bean will be just fine." Said Lulu reassuringly, as she left with Dil.
Just then, Drew came out of the living room and tapped his wife on the shoulder.
"Jonathan I'll call you back." Said Charlotte, as she hung up her phone and turned to her husband.
"Ready to go dear?" Drew asked.
"Yes, that business meeting in Hong Kong isn't gonna go nowhere without me." Said Charlotte.
"Neither is the currency convention in Paraguay. This year's theme is Goronni." Said Drew, as Charlotte left a duffle bag of Angelica's things on the floor by the front door, and the two adults stepped outside.
"Don't worry, we'll take good care of Angelica while you're away." Said Didi, as she closed the door behind her brother and sister-in-law, and headed off to the kitchen to get things ready for her party.
While all of this was going on, Angelica and her My Size Cynthia Doll, a three feet tall doll with all of her blond hair still on its head, similar to how Cynthia looked in the TV shows, wearing a long, pink, sparkly princess dress, were heading down the basement stairs. Soon, Angelica and her doll reached the bottom, where she started looking around for the shrink ray. Then, she spotted a white sheet. Realizing that this had to be the shrink ray, as her uncle would usually hide his latest inventions under a sheet before he was ready to present them, Angelica ran over to the machine and pulled the sheet off, placing her giant doll in front of the machine.
"Soon, I'll be able to take My Size Cynthia to show and tell at preschool, and nobody's gonna stop me." Said Angelica, as she cackled to herself.
At that instant, Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, Zack and Kimi were walking by, looking around for Tommy's ball, when they ran into Angelica.
"Oh, hi Angelica, what are you doing here?" Zack asked, rolling his eyes at the four-year-old blond.
"Nothing that concerns you dumb babies." Said Angelica.
Just then, Tommy noticed what Angelica was standing next to.
"Uh, Angelica? Were you about to use my daddy's latest invention?" Tommy asked.
"Maybe? What's the purpled haired two-year-old gonna do about it?" Angelica asked teasingly.
"Angelica I don't think we're spose to play with that." Said Chuckie.
"Yeah, and that includes you." Zack added.
Angelica put her hands on her hips and stared at the babies.
"In case you forgot, I'm in preschool now. That makes me a growed up, in which case, I can use uncle Stu's latest and greatest invention. Now out of my way." Barked Angelica, as she turned back towards the shrink ray and started pressing random buttons.
Soon, the machine was fired up and glowing lights were coming from the machine, as well as a loud motor noise. One of the buttons labeled Critical Mass started blinking red, and Angelica pressed the button. All of the sudden, her My Size Cynthia doll shrunk, but also, so did the Rugrats. Not realizing that she had caused more damage than it was worth, Angelica started looking around for her shrunken doll, when she saw what appeared to be tiny ants wandering all over the floor.
"AAAHHH! Ants!" Angelica screamed, as she ran up the basement stairs in terror.
She got up to the top of the stairs, when the doorbell rang. She ran to the door and answered it, to find Lucy and Susie standing there.
"What's wrong Angelica?" Susie asked.
"There's… Ants… In… Uncle… Stu's… Basement…" Angelica cried in panic.
"Ants? Oh how silly. Didi keeps this house as clean as a whistle. I highly doubt there's any ants down there. Now come on kids, you're gonna be late for preschool." Said Lucy, as she took Angelica and Susie by the hand, and lead them outside of the house to her car.
Back down in the basement, the babies were all running around in panic, now the size of crumbs, as they saw the gigantic world that lay before them.
"What are we gonna do Tommy? What are we gonna do?" Chuckie asked.
"Calm down Chuckie." Said Tommy.
"Calm down? Calm down? How can I calm down I am smaller than a ant." Chuckie cried.
"We're smaller than ants?" Phil asked.
"Neat!" Lil exclaimed.
Just then, Zack turned to Phil and Lil.
"Uh, I wouldn't get too excited about this." Said Zack.
"Why not?" Lil asked.
"Well, in the short time I've known you guys, and how much you like to eat bugs, you'd better hope we don't end up outside. Because now that bugs are twice your size, they might decide to seek revenge." Said Zack.
Phil and Lil gasp as they covered their mouths in panic at this realization.
"So how are we gonna make ourselves biggerer again Tommy?" Kimi asked.
"Yeah, we're too small to reach up to that machine." Said Phil.
"And if we're smaller than ants, then I doubt if anybody can hear us neither cuz I bet ya our voices are no louder than an ant's voice too." Said Chuckie.
"That's it!" Exclaimed Tommy.
"What's it?" Phil asked.
"Our voices. We've just gots to make them loud enough so Angelica can hear us. Then we can tell her she's gots to unshrink us." Suggested Tommy.
"And how are we gonna do that?" Chuckie asked.
"Hey! Remember that toy that Angelica has that when she talks into it, it makes her voice louderer?" Kimi asked.
"Her tapiokie machine! Yeah, I remember now. It does make voices louderer. All we've gots to do, is get to that toy, talk into it, and then, Angelica will hear our voices, and she'll unshrink us." Said Tommy.
"I don't know. Angelica only wants us to do stuff for her. She never listens to what we wanna do." Said Chuckie.
"Well we've gots to try." Said Tommy.
"And I don't know where her tapiokie machine is." Said Zack.
"Sure we do. I saw her bring it when uncle Drew and aunt Charlotte dropped her off to spend the nextest two weeks with me and my family. It's upstairs in the living room." Said Tommy, as he pointed to the stairs, which now appeared to be the size of a giant skyscraper to the Rugrats.
"But even so Tommy, how are we gonna get upstairs? They're the size of a building!" Panicked Chuckie.
And how would they get upstairs? Find out, in chapter 2!
Author's Note: As you can see, judging by Stu's comments about Wayne's shrink ray invention, this story obviously takes place after the events of Honey We Shrunk Ourselves. And just like Wayne used his machine to shrink his tiki man statue, well, Angelica wanting to shrink her My Size Cynthia doll, was a parody of this. Also the idea to make their voices louder also originated in the movie too. Figured I'd state this, in the event anybody reading this, has yet to see that movie, or hasn't seen it in a while. I watched it just the other day on DVD, which helped me come up with the ideas for this story. And as for Rugrats episodes referenced in this chapter, a reference to Stu-Maker's Elves was made, as that's when Chuckie got stuck in a mattress down in Tommy's basement. And a reference was also made to my story, Rugrats and the Gray Plague, as that's when Zack and Chuckie ventured down to the basement with Tommy, to get his screwdriver back. Also, as for the convention that Drew was heading to, in the event anybody didn't know, he's an investment banker, and Goronni is what Paraguay calls its currency. Thanks to Smart Guy for teaching me that fact, in the episode where T.J. is a contestant on Knowledge College. Be looking for more chapters, coming soon!