Chapter 10, Unshrinking Angelica and Finale
Stu and Didi headed down to the basement, where Spike and Spiffi continued to bark and growl at the tiny speck on the basement floor, which was Angelica.
"What is it boys?" Stu asked, patting Spike and Spiffi on the head, hoping to get the two dogs to calm down.
"Hmmm." Said Didi, as the dogs calmed down, and Didi looked around, to see something out of the corner of her eye.
"What's that?" Didi asked, staring down at the floor.
Stu stared down at the floor, noticing where Didi was pointing.
"Oh my gosh! A moving speck! And it's buzzing! I'd better get a magnifying glass and take a closer look." Said Stu, as he went over to a drawer in his computer desk, and pulled out a magnifying glass.
Then, he came back over to where Spike and Spiffi were, and looked through his magnifying glass, to see who was on the floor.
"Uh oh, it's Angelica! But, how…" Stu started to ask himself, as he looked around the room, to get some answers to his questions.
When he saw the sheet was no longer on his shrink ray, and he found Angelica's My Size Cynthia doll down in the basement, it was suddenly, clear to the inventor what had gone on here.
"I think I know what happened. Angelica used my machine without permission to shrink her Cynthia doll so she could take it to preschool after her parents told her not to." Said Stu.
"But what was all that fuss about Angelica and people at my Pampered Chef party complaining about ants?" Didi asked.
"When was the last time you saw the babies, before they came up from the basement and met your cousin Dillon?" Stu asked.
Didi thought about this for a minute, before answering her husband.
"You know what Stu? I didn't see the babies for a good while after Drew and Charlotte dropped off Angelica." Said Didi.
"Well Dil was the only one to go shopping for new clothes with Lulu." Stu commented.
"Stu, you don't think…" Didi started to say, before Stu chimed in and finished her sentence.
"Angelica shrunk the babies before she left for preschool, and after she returned, she blew the babies back up to regular size again, shrinking herself in the process?" Stu asked his wife.
"Mmmm hmmm." Didi replied, as she nodded her head in agreement.
"We'd better fix this problem right away. Deed, you take Angelica's My Size Cynthia doll upstairs, while I see to getting our niece back to normal." Said Stu, as Didi picked up the Cynthia doll and headed upstairs.
"Don't worry Angelica, it's uncle Stu to the rescue." Said Stu, as he started up the machine, making sure to stand behind it, so as to not accidentally shrink himself in the process.
Unfortunately, while Didi and Angelica's Cynthia doll went upstairs, Spike and Spiffi stayed behind. Soon, the Critical Mass button was blinking red, at which point, Stu hit the button. While this returned Angelica to her normal size, this caused Spike and Spiffi to get shrunk.
"Thank you uncle Stu, thank you!" Said Angelica excitedly, as she ran up to her uncle, and gave him a hug.
"You're welcome Angelica, but please do me a favor?" Stu asked.
"Anything uncle Stu." Angelica replied.
"Please don't play down here, unless I give you permission. While I mostly create toys, this invention just happened to not be one of them, and I'm sorry Angelica, but after all of the trouble you've caused today, it looks like time out for you." Said Stu, as he took his niece's arm and drug Angelica up the stairs.
"But uncle Stu, I did unshrink the babies." Said Angelica.
"Maybe you did, but you shouldn't have been playing with my invention in the first place. You're lucky you and the babies didn't get seriously hurt." Said Stu, as he got Angelica upstairs and sat her down in a chair next to the front door.
"Now you will sit here for the next ten minutes, and think about what you've done." Said Stu, as Angelica gulped and sat there in silence, not wishing to get herself into anymore trouble that day.
Just then, Didi came back into the hallway.
"So, is the attack of the shrink ray over? Is it ready to be packed up and sent off to the Smithonian, where it can do no more harm to our kids, or the rest of us for that matter?" Didi asked.
"Not exactly. There's still a little problem to be fixed." Stu muttered.
"What? What is it Stu?" Didi asked.
Stu led his wife back down to the basement, where they spotted two tiny specks scurrying around the basement floor. Stu peered through his magnifying glass to determine if what he did was correct, and upon spotting Spike and Spiffi through the magnifying glass, he reached his conclusion and approached his wife.
"Honey, I shrunk the dogs." Said Stu.
At hearing this, Didi fainted to the basement floor.
The End
Author's Note: Well there you have it. Another story completed. Hope you all enjoyed it, and be looking for more stories, coming dsoon!