Sorry for the long wait. My computer died, so I had to wait to get a new one. Then I had a really bad case of writers block. But anyway heres the next chapter.

Chapter 4- Short Comings

Gadd, Bryce, Link, Colin, Illia, Malo, and May were sitting in Gadd's living room. Gadd was standing infront of a small table, which was covered with a long white sheet.

"Well my boys, I finished my latest and greatest invention!" Gadd bragged

"I'm a girl..." May said, but was ignored by Gadd. Again.

"Its called the Micro-Compactor!" Gadd exclaimed, happily, "It shrinks even the largest of things down to ant size!"

"And the point of that is?" May asked, obviously skeptical.

"Storage my dear girl." Gadd said, "Imagine, moving an entire houses worth of furniture in a shoe box."
"Did you just call me a girl?"

"Of course not, your one of my favorite grandsons."

"...Whatever..."

"Now, its 3:30, I'm going to drink some prune juice and spend the next three hours in the bathroom." Gadd said, happily skipping off.

Malo walked over and picked up the Micro-Compactor, which looked like a silver rifle with six green spots on either side of it. It also had a green button the left side near the trigger. The green spots on its sides lit up in a pulsating pattern starting on from the barrel to the trigger.

When the device entered Malo's hands Link, Collin, and Illia gasped, which made Bryce to get a concerned expression on his face, and May, well she wasn't really paying any attention to what was going on. Malo was swinging the Micro-Compactor around and pulling the tricker, shooting a strange green ray at things, shrinking them on inpact. In Malo's madness he hadn't noticed he hit the couch Link, Illia, and Collin were sitting on, and Bryce, who was trying to dodge the shrinking ray.

While all this was going on May was looking at herself in a hand mirror. She held it up, inspecting her hair when a bean hit the mirror, shrinking it, making May scream, and reflecting the beam back at Malo all in one go. May looked behind her to see Malo shrinking and most everything else in the room so that they were just barely visible.

"What in the world?" she asked as she watched Malo drop the Micro-Compactor and shrink down to the same size that Link and the others were. "I think this is bad..."

"This is indeed bad." Gadd said, appearing out of nowhere behind May.

"Waaaaah!" screamed the brunette as she punched Gadd square in the nose. Or alteast she would have it she hadn't gone through him and landed head first on the floor. "The heck?!"

"Tch tch tch tch, I thought you would be able to recognize a perfectly identical holographic replica of myself."

"Yeah, how could I ever get that wrong?" May asked, sarcastically, rolling her eyes.

"I'm going to my room, Ilia gave me a book I'm gonna read."

May walked upstairs to her room, making sure not to step on anyone who may have been shrunken. When she reached the bottom of the stair case, she turned and raised her fist threateningly to the Gadd Hologram.

With Link and co.

"Why is she leaving?" Illa panicked, "She's not going to leave us like this, is she?"

"Illia calm down, I'm sure she'll be back." Link said

"Yeah, May may act evil, but she's really a good person." Bryce added, "Sooner or later she'll get bored and try to get us back to our proper size. Lets just hope its sooner rather than later."

"What do you mean get bored?" Link asked, raising his eyebrow.

"Heheh... Well, May may be good, but she's, um, she's easily distracted. For lack of a better term." Bryce answered, "She'll come when she decides she's got nothing else she'd rather do."

"So Malo was right and she is an evil insane goober head." Talo said

"Goober head?"

"Malo is a baby. He may be a genius, but he's still a baby." Talo respoded.

"Regardless if what Bryce says is true or not, we can't count on May for help." Link said, "And I wouldn't put hope in Gadd either. He's, um, creepy."

"We should find the Micro-Compactor and try to use it to get us to our right sizes." Bryce said, "Talo was by the potted plant, so thats where we should go."

"Right, then lets go." Link said, and lead the mini-men off towards the Potted Palm and the Micro-Compactor.

As the group walked over the now continental living room floor they had to watch our for the grooves between the tile, since Illia and Talo fell into one, and had trouble getting out. They also were on the look out for killer dust bunnies, after one almost ate Collin whole. But the biggest thing they had to worry about was the Air Conditioner vent on the floor, that Link and Bryce fell into, and if a gust hadn't blown them back up they would have fallen into a whole they may not have been able to escape from. But despite all this they made it past the first few tiles and under the couch.

"Good, now we're half way there." Bryce said, resting by leaning on a couch leg. "Just half of the living room to go."

"We'll be there by sunrise if we walk all night." Link said

"Aw, but Link, I'm tired." Illia responded, "Lets go to sleep and go the rest of the way tomorrow."

Before anyone could say anything Bryce was lifted up into the air by a giant index finger and thumb. Soon after a massive, at least to the teeny tiny travelers, hand came down and grabbed the rest of them, and tossed them hard into a cup, which already held Bryce. From inside the clear drinking utensil they could see May was the one holding the cup. Unfortunately they didn't know if she was going to help them or hurt them.

She dumped the mini men on a table and grabbed the Micro-Compactor from the floor near Gadd's favorite potted palm. She pointed it at her friends on the table, and after making sure it was on the 'grow' setting, shot the beam at them, returning them all to their normal sizes. Once everyone stopped growing, she proceeded to throw the Micro-Compactor and hit Talo in the head with it.

"That felt so good!" She gleefully shouted, and went back to her room, leaving Bryce, Link and Illia to tend to the unconscious Talo.

"Hey, look at what was is Talo's pocket." Illia said, holding up a small metal cube with the word 'Gadd-Porter' on it.

"Well that explains how Talo got to us so quickly." Bruce said, "I cant' believe no one questioned it."

Meanwhile is the Mushroom Kingdom

A young boy in his late teens was walking down a path in the middle of the woods. He had scruffy brown hair and hazel eyes. He wore a blue hoodie sweater, with a white t-shirt under it, and blue jeans, and white sneakers with blue trimmings. He looked like he had the worst day of his young life.

"Stupid family, always treating her better than me." He muttered angrily, "I should just leave and never come back!"

He stomped his foot down on the path he was walking on, and the floor underneath him. He fell into what looked like an abandoned laboratory. He looked around and noticed a door in the middle of the room. He opened it and saw a massive and beautiful field through it. He walked around the door, and saw a forest on the other side.

"This is... interesting." he said, and walked through the door.

He found himself in a forest. He walked a little way and found a path leading to the field he was from the other side of the door one way, and to someone's home the other way. He decided to go to the house and ask where he was. When he got there he saw some purple monsters with white hair banging on the house. He decided to turn around and walk through the door before they noticed him. But when he did turn around he stepped on a stick, causing all the monsters to look at him. He slowly turned his head, his face contorted with fear, to see all the purple monsters staring at him. He decided it would be in his best interests to run away. Very fast. And thats what he did. Or he would have if he didn't trip over a squirrel. And before he could get up again they swarmed over him. And the worst part is, he never closed the door.

Well, thats it for now. Once again, I am sorry for the long wait.