Chapter Six; The Invasion of the Cryptics!
Sorry I didn't update much yesterday, I was having sort of a rough day. But today's an all new day and I'm feeling a lot better so I'll get a lot more done today I promise. So enjoy!
"Whoa, what the heck happened to us?" Peter asked as he and Nathan slowly got back up to their feet.
"To put it simply," Cassie began as she and her older sister walked up to them and held her thumb and index finger apart from each other in only a small distance of space. "We're teeny." She told him.
"Thanks a lot Cassie this is the worst thing that you've done to us!" Jane snapped at her.
"I'm sorry but it was an accident!" she cried.
"She's right, it's not like she did it on purpose." Peter pointed out.
"The Doctor can fix us, can't he?" Nathan questioned.
"Sure he can! Our father is the greatest scientist in the entire galaxy!" Cassie exclaimed excitedly before adding; "I think." Inside a small voice.
"He better! I've been seeing some very strange bugs around here lately, and I don't want to run into any of them when they can tear my head off." Jane said.
"What do you mean?" Peter asked her. "What kind of bugs?"
"I'm not sure but they have been really big and black with bright green glowing eyes. One time I saw one in the middle of the night and my hearts almost stopped." She told him. "They were the most terrifying creatures that I've ever seen."
"Uh oh." Peter began.
"What do you mean by uh oh!? You know that's the last thing that I want to hear coming out your mouth right now!" Jane snapped at him.
"I'm sorry it's just that those creatures that you just described were cryptics." He told her.
"I've heard about those." Cassie began. "Aren't those the cyber bugs that come out of your computer and resemble creepy crawlers?" she questioned.
"Yeah, it's all part of The Master's plot to take over the galaxy. And what better way to do it then to use the very thing that all humans down here use. That's why he created the virus. They start off as tiny ordinary bugs eating up all of your food and chewing through your walls until they grow to be the size of your house and then it's pretty much game over." He said.
"Peter I'm scared, what are we going to do?" Nathan asked him.
"Well first we have to get Dad to make us our regular sizes again, then we'll figure out a way to get rid of the cryptics." He said.
"While at the same time trying to avoid getting killed in the process." Jane said.
"Jane, that's enough." Peter warned.
"You're not the boss of me!" she snapped as she placed her hands upon her hips.
"No, but I am your brother and the oldest one here now so that makes me in charge. Cassie made a simple mistake so now it's time to forgive and forget." He told her.
"It's kind of hard to forget that when I'm an inch tall and a bunch of man-eating bugs are on the loose!" she hollered angrily. That's when suddenly they heard something whiz past them and saw a great black shadow move a crossed the room.
Cassie gasped and widened her eyes. "Did you guys see that?" she questioned as she hid behind her big sister.
"Yes, now get off of me!" Jane shouted as she shoved her away.
"That's it, everybody be quiet!" Peter snapped inside a whisper when suddenly he heard a low hiss and growling sound and he quickly spun on his heel to turn around and look behind him along with everyone else. Sure enough there was a gigantic spider with glowing eyes crawling towards them while showing them its sharp piercing teeth while it wiggled its eight limbs at them and drooled hungrily.
"Run!" he shouted as Jane screamed.
"No problem there." Cassie said as all four of them started racing down the hallway.
"Now what are we doing to do genius!?" Jane exclaimed when suddenly they saw movement up ahead.
"Watch out for Dad's feet!" Peter yelled as one of my shoes moved past them in slow motion.
"I sure hope the kids are alright." I said as they stopped and looked up at me and listened to what I was saying. That's when I suddenly looked down and saw the spider that had been chasing. "Ah, there you are you bloody bastard." I said as I reached for my newspaper and rolled it up into a long tube.
"Look out!" Peter cried as he pushed the overs onto the ground to avoid the smack that killed the spider.
"I can't believe it, I've been killing these things every five minutes. I just don't understand where they're all coming from." I said. "And I think they're the ones that have been chewing little holes inside the walls." I said when suddenly the doorbell rang. "Hold on a second," I began as I went to go answer it and saw a familiar face once I opened it. "Oh, hullo Maggie." I greeted her warmly.
"Hullo I'm looking for Peter." She said.
"He's in the girl's bedroom working on Cassie's science project." I told her.
"Well if it's Cassie's, then why is he working on it?" she asked.
"Well, actually, he's trying to fix it. It malfunctioned and shrunk his two sisters." I explained.
"Cassie built a shrink ray?" she asked with disbelief.
"Yeah, isn't it cool!?" I questioned her eagerly with excitement.
"Isn't that kind of dangerous?" she wondered as Mickey grinned and shook his head with disbelief.
"You obviously haven't spent much time around The Doctor have you? I mean he's taken on werewolves, dragons, demons, and other aliens. Compared to all of that a shrink ray is just kid's stuff." He told her.
"Yeah but that's the whole entire reason that I came over, look." She said as she handed me a printed out piece of paper that had a picture of a gigantic robotic snake on the top of it.
"Beware of the cryptics." I said as I read the headline aloud to myself.
"What the hell is that all about?" Mickey asked me.
"According to this it's about a computer virus that's function is to take over the planet." I told him.
"This has The Master written all over it." Maggie said. "And you know that the first person he'll send those things after is Peter." She told me.
"She's right. He's been trying to kill him ever since he was a baby to stop the prophecy from coming true." Mickey said.
"There has to be a way to stop it." Maggie said.
"There is, but it's kind of complicated. First of all we have to warn Peter and get the girls back to their normal sizes." I told her.
"I'll go check on him and make sure that he's alright." She said as she walked back towards the girl's bedroom. "Peter?" she questioned as she stuck her head in the doorway. "Are you alright?" she began. "Where are you? I need to talk to you." She said but there came no answer as the shrinking machine continued to buzz and Maggie scrunched her face up with confusion at the strange noises that it was making.
"What the devil is that rubbish?" she wondered when all of a sudden the laser light pointed at her and all of a sudden it fired its beam shrinking her down to size. Peter and everyone else started running towards her as she placed her hands up against her cheeks and started to scream with horror.
"Shh, Maggie, it's alright." Peter reassured her.
"Peter what just happened to me? Am I shrunk?" she questioned him reluctantly afraid of the answer that he would give her.
"Yes, I'm afraid you are." He told her as she tried to open her mouth but found that she couldn't let a sound escape it and fell over backwards onto the floor instead.