Chapter Five; The Malfunction

Alright just to let you know this story is probably going to end up being divided in two parts because of the length so this will probably be the end of the first part. Anyway, be sure that you all read my profile because I just made a pretty important announcement, and enjoy the next chapter and the rest of the story!

"That's funny, Jane seems to be taking a rather long time." I began. "I sure hope that she's alright." I said when suddenly dinner was served and the rest of us started eating our meal. Little did I know Jane was anything but alright.

Meanwhile, Jane had slowly started to stand back up onto her feet as she looked up and gasped with horror and astonishment while she brushed herself off. "What the heck just happened to me!?" she wondered to herself when she suddenly gazed up at the machine. "Oh,.. my,.. God." She said before she gave a great big shriek of horror at least that's how she thought it came out but to the rest of the world it wasn't anything but a mere chipmunk shrieking.

"No, no, no, no, no, no! This can't be happening to me! As soon as I get back to my regular size I'm going to turn that Cassie into a fly and make her live in a pond full of frogs for doing this to me! That is, if I ever do get back to my original size." She said worriedly as she continued turning her head and looking around her anxiously.

"You know, I'm starting to get worried." I began. "It doesn't usually take her this long to get dressed."

"She's a girl, it's nothing more than typical behavior." Mickey said but Cassie just simply grew a worried look on her face as she widened her eyes and stopped eating with her fork held high above her plate.

"Cassie are you alright?" I asked her out of concern.

"Uh yeah, I just have to go check on something real quick." She told me before she leaped up from the table and ran down the hallway into her room. "Oh no!" she exclaimed inside a horrified gasp when she glanced over at her machine and saw that the blanket was pulled off of it. She quickly lifted her feet off the ground and looked at the bottom of each one just to be safe.

When she realized that she hadn't accidentally flattened her sister she carefully made her way back a crossed the room looking at the bottoms of her feet with every step that she took. "I've got to find a way to reverse this thing." She said as she started turning the gears around and tried to pull the lever back but instead it got jammed. "Ah, nuts!" she cried.

"Cassie," I began as I stood up from the table and started walking down the hall back towards her bedroom. "is everything alright in there?" I asked her.

"Don't come in! I'm busy getting into my nightgown!" she cried.

"This early? It's not even seven-thirty yet." I told her.

"Grr! Come on you stupid thing!" she cried when suddenly she accidentally pulled back on it too far and hit her back against the red button. "Oh no." she said as she widened her eyes with disbelief before the ray came down on top of her and shrunk her down to the size of an ant.

"Aha! There you are!" Jane snapped as her "ahem" little sister appeared in front of her. She reached out towards her and leaped on top of her tumbling her over onto the ground while meanwhile I came into the room.

"Wait, stop." Cassie told her inside a hushed whisper.

"Girls?" I began as I started pushing the door open wider. "Where are you?" I asked them when suddenly I saw the machine had been uncovered. "Oh no, MICKEY!" I hollered on the top of my lungs before I hurried out of the room.

"What's going on? Do you want to stir up the whole entire neighborhood!?" he exclaimed.

"We have a big problem," I began. "or I should say a tiny one."

"What are you talking about?" he asked me.

"It's Cassie, she invented a shrinking machine and now she accidentally shrunk herself and her sister." I explained.

"Are you sure?"

"Well they both just went into their room and now I can't find them anywhere so what other logical explanation would there be?" I questioned him.

"He's got a point," Peter began. "you know Cassie and her science experiments."

"Exactly, so what am I supposed to do about this?" I wondered.

"Hey Nathan, do you have a magnifying glass that I can borrow?" Peter asked him.

"Yeah sure, come on!" he cried as he ran down the hallway unaware that Cassie had caused the machine to malfunction and it was now shrinking everything that got in the way of the laser beam, even the boys as they ran past the room.

End of Part One