This fanfic is based on the Hamtaro Gameboy Advance games from Ham Ham Heartbreak to Ham Ham Games.
It will be told in the POV of Laura Haruna.
It will contain mild swearing. Rated T for Teen.
With this out of the way, let's begin the fanfic.
Chapter 1:
It was finally that time of the year. It was my favorite time of year ever since I had gotten into high school. It was summer time, which meant I could finally have some fun and hang out with Kanna and Travis... who I still got weary in the knees whenever I thought about him, even though we'd been a couple ever since we finally became official in 7th grade. I was now going to be in 10th grade and we were still in love. I was just deciding whether or not to invite him over, Kana, or both when I discovered something that was on the refrigerator. It was a note with an arrow pointing at a package that was on the side counter.
"I wonder what this is..." I said as I read the note aloud. "Dear Laura, your dad and I are going on a business trip out of state for an important invention expo. We think that you're old enough to look after the house while we're gone, so good luck. Oh, and one more thing. Your dad left a special gift for you on the counter. It's a special invention he made especially for you. It will allow you to turn into the size of Hamtaro and allow you to communicate with him! It'll be sure to be a fun time for you. Don't forget to feed Brandy!... Love, mom and dad," I smiled, my intrigue growing with every sentence that was spoken.
"Okay, I've gotta talk to Travis and Kana about this," I smiled as I grabbed the phone and called up Kana first, as she was my absolute best friend and fellow hamster lover.
"Hello? Who is this?" Kana asked when she answered.
"Hey, Kana? It's Laura," I smiled at her.
"Oh hey, Laura. How are you?" Kana smiled.
"I'm doing great! Hey, do you want to come over to my house for our first day of Summer Vacation? My parents are on a business trip so I have the house all to myself," I smiled with pride.
"No way! That sounds awesome! You're going to invite Travis too, right?" Kana smirked.
"That was the idea," I smiled back at her. "So can you come over?"
"Sure, I'll be over right away!" Kana smirked.
I then called Travis and did the same thing with him... or at least I tried to before he said that he had soccer practice. "Dammit... well, good luck with soccer anyways, hon. Can't let down the team, after all," I smiled at him.
"Sorry, Laura," Travis tried to apologize.
"No, don't worry about it. Besides, we can always have another day we can schedule," I smirked at him.
After we then bid goodbye to each other, I heard a knock at the front door and answered it, seeing that Kana had come over already. "Hey, Laura! Is Travis coming?" Kana asked.
"No, he had soccer practice, so he'll need to come over on a different day," I frowned. "Wanna see something my dad left me to have fun with?" I asked with wide eyes.
"Sounds like fun, especially if its your dad's invention," Kana smirked as I got the package and we went up to my room, which had changed a lot over the years. It now had posters of bands that I liked as well as a couple posters and trinkets that were hamster themed. But the biggest thing that changed was Hamtaro's cage, it now having a better lock than before and it being much larger... but even that couldn't hold him in sometimes. I noticed that he was in his cage and he had just woken up, which made me smile at him. He was still incredibly young for a hamster, around 1 and a half, but he was still adorable and he was my best friend in terms of animal companions... sorry Brandy, but you're silver medal.
"So what's this special invention?" I asked as I opened up the packaging and saw a small ray gun, it being as big as my hand with a small trigger on it as well as a setting of sorts. One setting had the picture of a hamster on it, the other had a picture of a human on it.
"Hmm... hamster sized, normal sized... is this what I think it is?" Kana asked with a smirk. I then got a devilish look in my eyes, set it to hamster setting and aimed it at Kana.
"Only one way to find out," I smiled as I pulled the trigger, a beam of light hitting Kana and her entire body, clothes included, all shrunk down to the size of Hamtaro, which was only about 5 inches tall!
"What the hell?! Laura! What'd you do to me?!" Kana exclaimed from the feet of the now-gigantic 'friend' she had.
"I wanted to test it first before I tried it on myself. Besides, you can't deny that it feels cool to be the size of Oxnard, right?" I smiled at her.
"I... okay, I will admit that it is quite cool that I'm small as a hamster. I guess that it really is a shrink ray," Kana smirked.
"Okay, now to use it on myself," I said as I looked at my mirror and hit myself with the ray gun by shooting it at the mirror. And when it connected with me, both myself and the ray gun shrunk at the same time, me smiling at the effect it had. "Sweet! I'm hamster sized now!" I smiled as I then looked over at Kana and saw that she was busy with something else. What would that be?
"Wha?! Hamtaro! What are you doing?!" I exclaimed as I rushed over to him just as he escaped his cage, him looking shocked when he saw me at tiny size and him immediately rushing behind my bed. "Hamtaro, come back here!" I said, hoping he'd be able to understand me.
"L-Laura?... Did you just talk to me?" I asked a cute voice ask from behind the bed, the owner being Hamtaro of course.
"Yes, I just spoke to you. Dad made me this invention... now tell me, what do you think you're doing?" I asked him.
"I was going to the Clubhouse... I thought you left when you suddenly disappeared, so I thought I was in the clear," Hamtaro admitted, me surprised by his statement.
"What kind of Clubhouse?... Wait a minute... how long have you been sneaking out of your cage without my knowledge?!" I asked in shock.
"I've been doing it ever since we moved here," Hamtaro admitted. I had to admit, this was pretty amazing on his part. He hadn't gotten caught once until today, for over a whole year. That was impressive. But I was still a bit mad at him.
"Okay, why don't you lead us to this Clubhouse you mentioned? It sounds like fun," Kana smirked.
"Yeah, why not? Besides, what good is being small if you're confined to one room?" I smirked.
"Exactly! Come on, I'll show you my secret escape route," Hamtaro said as he led us behind the bed and we followed him to the wall at the corner of it, revealing a small hole, obviously made by Hamtaro's teeth. We followed into it until we saw light on the other side, which is when me and Kana almost fell off the roof entirely because of the sudden incline of the roof tiles.
"Whoa! That was close... almost fell off there," I said as I caught myself before I could fall, Kana also looking a bit surprised at this. "So how do we get off the roof anyways?" I asked as Hamtaro led us over to the rain gutter, which had a long pipe that went down to the ground. "Not in there, please?" I asked.
"Sorry, it's the only way. Besides, it's very fun!" Hamtaro smirked as he jumped down the gutter and giggled on the way down, him popping out on the other side and landing on Brandy's head. "Come on, it's fun!" Hamtaro said, me eyeing the gutter with concern.
"Dare we?" I asked Kana, who answered by pushing past me and jumping into the gutter, her shouting like she was on a slide and her emerging on the other side and landing on Brandy's left ear, which made him open his eyes before he then closed them again.
"Still tired as ever, huh, Brandy?... Okay, I'm coming down," I said as I jumped down the gutter and smiled at how fast it was, especially from the rain we had last night. "Whee!" I exclaimed as I then popped on the other side and landed on top of Brandy's soft head, him yawning at that, which forced me to roll off the head and onto the ground. "Stay and be a good boy, Brandy," I smiled at him. He didn't care as he simply started to snore again.
"Okay, this way to the Clubhouse," Hamtaro said as he led us to a small hole in the ground and we ended up having to go down the hole and through some tunnels that had some makeshift lights in them, which made me immediately confused.
"How did these lights get in here? It's underground and in a tunnel built for hamsters, right? So how did this place get electricity?" I asked, wondering why that would be the case.
"Honestly, I have no clue. Boss is the one that made the lights in these tunnels and in the Clubhouse. He also replaces them on occasion, so you'd have to ask him," Hamtaro said, me confused at that.
"Boss? Who's Boss? Is that his name or is he your boss?" Kana asked for me.
"Boss is the original creator of these tunnels and he's a field hamster. He's a bit bossy at times, but he's got a good heart. He also made the original Clubhouse before we made it look better," Hamtaro explained. But that only raised more questions as we reached a door that was set up at the end of the tunnel.
"What do you mean 'we'? Who else is a frequenter to the Clubhouse?" Kana asked. Hamtaro then smiled and opened the door, us seeing that the Clubhouse looked quite impressive, especially being made by hamsters. It had tons of furniture, two different levels, a couple side rooms, a basket ride at the topmost area, carpeting, and even a ladder and a slide! It looked impressive, but not as impressive as the numerous amounts of hamsters that were in the Clubhouse.
The hamsters in question? Lapis and Lazuli were there, their owner being Maggie, another one of my friends. Oxnard was there, as well as Maria's hamster in Bijou, which was honestly shocking since she was a 'well groomed hamster' according to Maria. There was also a hamster reading a small book, a hamster with panda-like markings working on a type of furniture, a hamster that wore a bottle cap on his head, and I even saw Sandy and Stan, their owners being fitness people with Sandy's owner being a famous ribbon twirler and Stan's owner being the owner of a gym. There was also Pashmina and Penelope, their owners being some of the first friends at my school that I met that weren't Kana and Travis. And the one hamster that I was shocked by, especially because of her owner in question? "Sparkle?!" I exclaimed, getting all of the hamsters' attention and all of them looking shocked.
"W-What?! Is that Laura and Kana?! Why are they our size all of a sudden?!" the book-reading hamster asked in shock.
"Oi... looks like we'll need to explain," Kana frowned.