Paige would have stayed with Ratchet for as long as she could, but eventually he was recalled to Cybertron again. She had regained her health by then with only the slightest permanent loss of movement in some of the fingers on her left hand. That wasn't the worse of her problems because when she hit her normal height of 5'8, it didn't take her long to realize that she was still shrinking. She cried into her pillow the whole night after because she now knew that she was going to disappear like Ant Man. She didn't want Ratchet to mourn her so she made her goodbyes the next time she saw him. She was only 5'1 at the time.

Using Fowler's connections, government scientists placed her in a small sterile room so that she could be monitored as she continued to shrink and so she wouldn't come to harm. As the days went by, feet became inches and the details of the pores in the floor became clearer. Her clothes were left behind and she ended up in her original underwear and her flats again as it was the only thing that still shrunk with her. She was finally placed in a clear plastic container that was set up like a dollhouse, but eventually she shrunk so much that she couldn't use any of the miniature furniture. One day the scientists could no longer detect her even with a microscope and figured that she was finally gone for good. For Paige the adventure that had started with a blinding light ended with pitch darkness.

Xxxxxx

Paige woke to see a smooth speckled surface beneath her. She lifted her head as she heard a loud booming voice say "Rusty, did you find the meteor?"

"No, I found them," responded a younger voice though equally as loud.

"Is there a back door to this place because you might need one," said a third voice.

"Talking robot car," said the first voice again.

"Uh, huh," agreed the younger.

Paige pulled herself to her knees and looked around. Tall clear windows the size of skyscrapers took up one wall. She was sitting on a flat smooth surface that stretched before her, but dropped off on either side a distance away. She quickly pulled herself to her feet. Near her were two towering vessels. The closest was filled with large white cubes and the other had large brown flakes. They were saltshakers, she realized in horror. She was barely half the size of them. She looked over at the towering giants that stood near a huge door wondering if she'd sounded like that when she was that big. She looked up to see the familiar face of a gigantic yellow bot appear in doorway. Suddenly she was knocked off her feet by an impact that rocked the building and the glass in the window shattered making her grab her ears to block out the noise. "You have got to be kidding me," said Paige.