"Ok, so what’s this big project that’s so important I had to cancel my plans for the entire weekend?”

Rachel asked as she took off her coat and sat down to remove her boots.

“Be patient”, Sarah replied, “You’ll find out soon enough. For now just go sit on the couch and make yourself comfortable”, then added, “and I promise, it’s safe”

Rachel did as her friend requested. Sarah was always weird but over the years she had proven herself to be a genius and someone who could always be trusted. If she said something was safe then it would be safe. Of course, her definition of “safe” was a bit different than most people’s but it still meant she’d be unharmed and unchanged by the time the experiment was over. 
As she sat and waited she looked over at the rows of books on Sarah’s shelves. There were tons of physics, biology, and types of science books she had never even heard of on the bottom and about as much anime and fantasy DVDs on the top ones. Those she DID recognize. The two had spent many nights watching them, their mutual interest in science fiction and fantasy were what started their friendship. Sarah being an actual mad genius was just a bonus as far as Rachel was concerned.

She noticed a box labelled “Time Travel Stuff” on the top of the shelf and was about to ask what that was about (knowing Sarah it was very likely an actual time machine) when she emerged from her bedroom holding what looked like a portal gun from that game they played a lot of a few years ago. 

“Is that what I think it is?” Rachel asked, excited to be able to play with real live portals.

Sarah looked confused for a moment then laughed and said, 
“No, sorry. That tech’s still a bit out of my reach. Someday though”, as she lifted the gun and aimed it at Rachel.

“WHOA! What the hell!” Rachel shouted as she jumped up and out of the path of whatever it was her friend was about to shoot her with.

Sarah recognized her faux pas immediately and lowered it again, apologizing for scaring her friend. She always found it funny to see the 5’10 Rachel afraid of something she, a petite 5 feet even, was about to do. 

“What is this thing?” Rachel asked as she approached her, reaching out to grab it as she did.

Sarah pulled back but not so quickly as to imply she didn’t want her friend handling it at some point.

“You trust me, right?” Sarah asked

“You know I do”, replied Rachel

“So you believe me when I say that whatever this does it’s completely reversible?”
Rachel hesitated for a moment before answering. She did trust Sarah unquestionably but the fact that she said it was “reversible” raised some red flags so she asked, 

“What do you mean by reversible?”

Sarah seemed hesitant to answer and when she did she only cryptically replied,

“I mean anything this ray does to you can be undone”

That was still more vague than she would have liked but she knew her friend. When she was like this there was no getting any more details. She could either walk out and never know or let her do whatever it was she was planning and hope this wasn’t the first time she screwed something up.

Sarah saw her apprehension and added, 

“Come on. I can’t use this on myself because…” she mumbled some high level science stuff at this point knowing Rachel would never understand, but ended with

“…and it will be super fun!”

“Fine!” Rachel said, standing in front of her shorter friend with her arms outstretched, “Hit me!”

Sarah raised the gun, turned a dial, and fired it at her.


Although Sarah knew what was going to happen, she wasn’t aware how it would happen. A slow moving beam shot out of the barrel, much slower than a beam of light should be (she made a note to look into that), when it struck Rachel it paused then quickly spread to cover her entire body. For a brief moment her friend looked like a human shaped pillar of light. She watched in awe as the pillar slowly began to decrease in size. Since she only had it on stage 1 she knew the reduction wouldn’t be too much, but she smiled knowing that it would be enough to freak Rachel out. She decided she’d sit on the floor to make the surprise even better and waited.

From Rachel’s point of view it looked like Sarah was shining a very bright flashlight in her eyes for much longer than she felt it was safe. She tried to say something or at least move out of the way but she couldn’t. She was just frozen in this beam of light unable to do anything except wait and pray that this wasn’t THE light she was seeing. But her fears subsided as the light cleared and the world started to slowly come back into focus.
She was still unable to talk, she felt like she had to clear her throat but couldn’t just yet, but her vision was fully back and she saw Sarah sitting against the wall where she had been standing moments earlier and went to approach her. On her way she felt like it was taking longer to reach her than it should, almost like her steps weren’t covering as much distance as they should. As she got closer she was able to clear her throat and even that felt off. Her coughing sounded lighter, more delicate than it should. 
When she reached Sarah, who had just been staring the whole time and looking like she was trying to hold in a laugh she said, 

“Well? What exactly was that about? What was it supposed to do?”
Was it her or did her voice sound higher than usual? Like she just huffed helium. Not a lot though, just slightly. She shrugged it off.

Sarah was losing her battle with the giggles and reached out her hand then said, 

“Help me up and I’ll show you”

Rachel did as she asked, taking Sarah’s hand in hers and immediately noticing something was very off. What should have been a tiny little thing now felt at least as big as hers, maybe even bigger. Any doubts she may have had about what was happening with her were erased she Sarah stood to her full height, and Rachel was about eye level with her neck.

“Whoa!” was all she could muster looking up at her formerly smaller friend, now suddenly a giant to her, “So, you invented shrink ray, huh?”

Sarah smirked and said, “Sort of. One of the most noticeable effects is a reduction of mass. But it’s much more than that. Here let me show you”, as she lead the now four foot tall Rachel to the bathroom so she could get a look at the other less obvious changes. 
When they entered the bathroom, Sarah put a hand over Rachel’s eyes, both girls amazed at the size of the other. 

“Ready for it?” Sarah asked. 

Rachel, trying to sound irritated but not doing very well with her slightly high pitched voice said, 
“Yeah, I can’t wait to see what else you did besides turn me into a midget”.

As the giant hand was removed and Rachel got her first look at her new self, she didn’t notice much else besides the obvious height difference between the two.
But once she got used to that she did notice some more changes. 
Her hands and feet looked smaller than they should have been, even taking into account her reduced stature. 
Her breasts, which were normally an impressive D cup were nor more like C (proportionately, that is) and looked a lot rounder than they usually were.
Those changes were strange but not as shocking as when she looked at her face. Her head was now about one size too large for her body, almost as if it didn’t get shrunk enough while her eyes were actually slightly too big for her already oversized head. She looked up at the taller girl next to her and said, 

“Well, this thing’s a bust. You made me into some kind of freak”

Sarah just looked at her and said, 

“Do you really not get what happened to you yet? I suppose it’s still too subtle to notice”

With that she grabbed the small girl by the shoulders and turned her to face the mirror one more time while telling her to take another good look and list all the differences she saw in new form.

“Ok”, Rachel agreed, “Let’s see. For starters, I’m about two feet shorter…”

“1 foot, 10 inches to be exact” Sarach corrected her.

“Oh. Well, that changes everything then. I’m only slightly less than two feet shorter than I was just ten minutes ago! Thanks for that!” she replied sarcastically while sticking out her tongue. 
An image that when she saw in the mirror helped her recognize exactly what she was. Or more accurately, what she was on her way to becoming

“Oh shit!” she exclaimed, “I think I get it now. Am I…”

“…That’s right! You’re Chibi-Rachel now! Or at least, sort of chibi. This is just the first setting, there are actually four levels”.

“Four?!” Rachel asked, “just how small will I be at setting four?”

Sarah just smiled and said, “super small. And super cute”

Rachel was hesitant but had to know, 
“I’m afraid to ask? How small?”

Sarah shook her head and said, “Nuh-uh! No spoilers!”

Rachel, a bit annoyed to not know how much smaller she’d be shrinking before the night was over decided to let it go but insisted, 

“Ok, fine! But give me this one - over or under a foot?”

Sarah thought about it for a moment before saying, 

“Nope! I’m not telling. But let’s just say your final height won’t be the biggest surprise”

That intrigued Rachel, prompting her to say, 
“Ok then. Let’s do it”

She held out her arms and said, “Round 2”, as she closed her eyes in anticipation of the beam. When it didn’t come she opened them and said, 

“Well? What are you waiting for?”

Sarah squatted just a little to bring them face to face. An act that made Rachel actually feel smaller, and answered

“Sorry, cutie. The ray needs to recharge for about an hour between blasts. Plus, your body could use the rest. You might not feel it but your inner workings have changed quite a bit more than your outer”.

“What do you mean by ‘inner workings’?” Rachel wondered.

Sarah paused, then replied

“Well, it’s a lot of, what did you call my work, ‘mumbo jumbo’? But basically you’re not only cuter on the outside, your body is becoming cuter on the inside as well”

Rachel thought about this then asked, 

“So, what does that mean? I’m turning into a kitten or something?”

Sarah was silent, prompting Rachel to ask again, this time more nervously,

“Sarah. I’m not turning into a kitten, am I?”

Sarah just laughed and said, 

“No. Of course not. I’m trying to think of how to explain this to you in a way you’ll understand. No offense.”

“Yeah, why would I be offended by my giant friend who just shrunk me and is turning me into some kind of doll thing telling me I’m not smart enough to know what’s happening?” Rachel replied sarcastically.

“It’s not that, it’s just…” she paused, “… ok. It’s like this. As you know, chibis don’t actually exist in real life so when I programmed the ray to make the changes I had to go by what I knew from anime and other cartoons. Now, I could have just made the changes entirely cosmetic but then the human body would have trouble with the proportions and, um, other changes I planned on making so I had to change your internal structure as well.”

Rachel stopped her and asked, 

“So I’m not human anymore?”

Sarah sighed and standing up, reached down for Rachel’s hand which Rachel instinctively took and led her into the living room where the two girls sat on the couch. Rachel, though smaller, didn’t have any trouble climbing up, but she did notice that her feet were nowhere near close to the floor. The barely cleared the cushion with her back against the back cushion.

Sarah continued, 

“Technically, I mean if you were to go to a hospital and have an exam done, then I guess you could say no”

She saw the look of concern on her smaller friend’s face and quickly continued, 

“But that’s not a bad thing. All I’ve done is make your body capable of existing at the size and shape you’re going to be. Which I promise you is entirely temporary. In fact, you’re only going to notice one real difference at stage one”.

When she didn’t elaborate, Rachel spoke up
“And that would be…?”

“Oh. Sorry”, Sarah replied. “Your appetite is different now. The food your body needs in this form isn’t the food you body needed when you were big.”
Just then the doorbell rang, prompting Sarah to say “Ah, perfect timing! Would you be a dear and go get the pizza?”

“What? Like this?” Rachel answered gesturing down to her newly diminished form, “I look like a freak! No way!”

“Come on, it’ll be funny to see the guy’s reaction. Besides, you don’t look too freakish. You’re just a really short girl with a big head”, Sarah laughed when she said this while Rachel grudgingly grabbed the money from her hand and went to the door.

If Sarah was tall, this guy was a giant. He had to be at least six and a half feet tall, which at her normal height was impressive but like this was just amazing to her.

“Hi!” the delivery guy said, “that’ll be…” he paused when he saw this strange looking girl answer but quickly recovered to avoid being rude, “…sorry, that’ll be $21 please”. 

Despite his efforts at hiding it, Rachel was very aware of him checking her out. It wasn’t the usual way guys checked her out though, she didn’t feel like he was mentally undressing her like they usually did, it was more like he was trying to figure out what she was. “I knew it!” she thought to herself, “Of course people will stare at me. Stupid Sarah!” as she handed the guy the money, grabbed the pizza, and quickly shut the door with her foot. An action that reminded her of her reduced strength when the door barely shut halfway. 
She saw the pizza guy reach over and after one more glance at her, shut it for her.
She was relieved that was over as she carried the unwieldy box into the kitchen where Sarah was waiting, tears running down her cheeks from laughter.

“Very funny,” Rachel scolded her, “now take this thing, it weighs a ton and…” that was when it hit her, it didn’t smell very good either. She knew it was just the normal pepperoni pizza they always ordered but something about it just didn’t smell appealing at all to her, “…and it smells gross?” she finished in a confused tone.

“Ding ding ding!” Sarah declared, “that’s right!. Like I said, your body runs on different stuff now, which means you’ll have different tastes”

Rachel didn’t like the sound of that, and the fact that pizza didn’t appeal to her anymore even less, so she asked, 

“Then what do I like now? Baby food? I swear if it’s baby food, I’ll…”

Before she could finish Sarah grabbed a chair and stood on it to reach the top shelf, “I’m gonna miss my top shelf reacher for a while apparently”, she said, and grabbed a small box.
She brought it down and placed it on the table in front of Rachel, opened it and said, 

“Your welcome!”
She was about to ask what she was talking about when she peeked over the top of the table and saw what was in the box. Chocolate! And for some reason it smelled better than any chocolate she had even smelled before. She reached up, standing on her tiptoes, and grabbed a piece and took a bit.
It tasted even better than it smelled. She felt like it was the first time she had ever eaten chocolate before, there were tastes and textures she had never noticed before. 
She climbed up in the chair to get a better view of the contents and took another piece. And another, and another until the box was empty.
When she was done she expected to feel sick to her stomach but it was the opposite. She felt great! Like she had just got done exercising and had a healthy meal. It didn’t need to be said, but she said it anyway, 

“You made my body run on chocolate?! That’s awesome!”

Sarah, who had been watching the whole thing with a smile on her face, corrected her, 

“No. Not just chocolate. Sugar in general. If you thought that was good, you’d probably love a big spoonful of plain sugar.”

The thought of that sounded great to her and she was about to go get a spoon when Sarah put her hand on her shoulder and said,

“Not yet. The ray’s charged. Ready for round two?”

“Sure. But don’t you want to eat that… disgusting pizza first?” Rachel jokingly replied, adding “And if you knew I wasn’t going to be eating any whey did you order a large?”

“I don’t know, habit I guess. But I can eat in a minute. I want to get you into stage two first”

“Fine”, Rachel said, standing up and holding out her arms again, “Knock yourself out”.

Just as before, when Sarah pulled the trigger a beam of light engulfed Rachel, and just as before she watched as her form slowly dwindled. This time stopping at around three feet tall.

For Rachel it was pretty much the same feeling as before, only she was less shocked when the light cleared and the world was larger. She was surprised by how much more clearly she could see everything though. She had always had good eyes but now she felt like she could make out tiny details in things that she couldn’t before. She raised her hands to her face to rub her eyes and could only stare in shock at her much smaller her hands were yet again. And even stranger, when she rubbed her eyes she could tell they were clearly bigger than her hands. 
She looked down at herself and saw that her feet looked equally dainty and her breasts, while still large on her body, were even rounder than before. They looked more like balls under a shirt than actual human breasts, she curiously cupped one, which like her eyes, was much larger than her hand, just to confirm they were actually part of her body.

“Ok, this is getting weird”, she said, then quickly put her hand to her mouth in shock at how much higher it was. If she sounded like she had inhaled a little helium before, she definitely sounded like she inhaled a full balloon now. Once she was done with her self exploration, she looked over at Sarah, who was now officially a giant to her, and said, 
“Well? How do I look?”

Sarah, looking down at her couldn’t stop giggling and replied, 

“You look so cute! Come on, you have to see this”, as she reached down, much lower than before, and took Rachel’s tiny hand in hers. Feeling how easily Sarah’s hand swallowed her own only made her feel even smaller, but despite her apprehension she found herself almost excited for the next stage.
When they got into the bathroom Sarah closed the door and let Rachel take a look at herself in the mirror.
She knew her eyes were going to be big, but she didn’t realized just how big they were. They took up more than a third of her face. And unlike her normal eyes they were a bright green. She also noticed that her hair was a brighter shade of red than is usually was. 
Her nose also looked smaller than before, but she wondered if it was just being dwarfed by her massive eyes.
She couldn’t take her eyes off herself. Before she could pass for a normal person with some slightly weird features, but now there was no way she could do that. She looked like a cartoon come to life. It was strange seeing the tiny little thing in the mirror do exactly what she did. As she was checking herself out she noticed her neck, it looked like it was way too small for to support her head and for the first time she was nervous. She quickly grabbed her head in her hands in an attempt to provide more support and yelled up to Sarah, 

“What the fluff?! Is my head going to snap off if I turn it too hard!”

Sarah just started laughing, which made Rachel angry, 

“What the fluff is so funny? I’m worried about my fluffy head falling off and you’re…”

Then she realized it too and tried again,

“I said fluff! No, not fluff! FLUFF! Gobstoppers!”

Sarah was on the floor laughing now when Rachel finally realized, 

“I can’t swear?! Sarah, this isn’t fluffing funny!” but even she was laughing by this point and she walked over to Sarah, who even sitting was a little taller than her now.

Once she calmed down Sarah explained, 

“Well, I did say the point of this was to make you cuter, and swearing is not cute. So I edited your vocabulary”.

“That’s amazing”, Rachel admitted, “But a little scary. If you can alter my brain like this how do I know you won’t turn me into some mindless slave?”

Sarah still found the novelty of this cute little thing Rachel had become asking serious questions amusing, but she managed to compose herself enough to explain, 

“Because you’re my best friend and I’d never do something like that. And as for your fear about your neck, don’t worry. I promise you all of these changes are safe. You’re still you, just… cuter”

She stood up, and rustled the petite Rachel’s hair then said, 

“Come on, I want to eat that pizza before it gets cold. And I have more candy for you”

Upon hearing that Rachel rushed after her, her little legs going as fast as they could but still just barely keeping up with Sarah’s walking pace. When they returned to the kitchen Sarah saw Rachel struggling to get up into the chair and as cute as it was, decided to help her up.
She reached up under her arms and lifted Rachel up to her face. As she held her there she noticed that her head was actually bigger than her own. And those eyes! They were like small plates. 

Rachel, meanwhile was amazed at the feeling of being several feet in the air yet only being eye level to someone she knew was short. She realized that if this giant holding her like she was nothing was considered short then that made her absolutely tiny. 
Eventually Sarah placed her on the chair and grabbed a few books for her to sit on.

She then took the seat across from her and opened the pizza box. As soon as the smell hit Rachel, she recoiled in repulsion.

“Ewww! That’s disgusting! Did you have to make me so sensitive to this stuff?”

“Sorry”, Sarah apologized, “It’s an unfortunate side effect of your changes. But if it makes you feel better, I’ll put the box on the counter and only have one piece at a time.”

Rachel nodded in agreement, still half worried that her huge head was going to fall off with the slightest movement but knew she could trust her friend. But despite that, she had to ask, 

“Is my head going to get any bigger? And how about my eyes? I mean, if this keeps up I’m going to be just a head and eyes. It’s getting ridiculous”

Sarah laughed as she took her seat and said, 

“Relax. I know I said I want to keep these changes a surprise to you but since you seem so worried I’ll tell you this - your head won’t be getting bigger. Your eyes, probably a bit more but your head is going to stay the same size relative to your body. Does that make you feel better?”

She saw the look of relief on Rachel’s face and knew that she was happier now.

“And look what I have” she said reaching into her pocket and pulling out a bag of M&Ms.

Rachel’s face lit up as she reached as far as she could (which at her size was barely halfway across the table) and held out her hand. Sarah slid the bag over to her and watched as she joyfully tore it open and devoured the candy.

“Wow! That was even better than the last time!”
“That’s right, as your body changes more you tastes will continue to evolve”

Rachel contemplated that and commented, 

“If this gets much better, a Hershey Kiss is going to give me an orgasm”

and the two laughed.

As Sarah continued to eat she decided it would be a good idea to ask Rachel some questions about her experience.

“So Rachel, how do you feel about what’s happened to you?”

Rachel thought for a moment then replied, 

“Well, at first when I saw that you have shrunk me and I thought that’s all this was I was nervous but excited for the possibilities. I mean how cool would it be to be able to go swimming in a bathtub or spend the night in a dollhouse mansion? But then when I found out you were also changing me into…” she swept her arms down her body, “…this, I’ll admit I was a little peeped off *Gobstopper, I mean peeped! Fluff! Forget it!*, annoyed”
Sarah couldn’t help laughing at her tiny friend’s attempts to swear
“Anyway, I was annoyed and a little scared. I know you said I can trust you, and I do, but look at me. I’m not even human anymore, if something were to happen to you right now and I was stuck like this I don’t even know what I’d do. But as I’ve had time to adjust it’s almost pleasant.”
She paused as an idea came to her, 
“Hold on, are you making me like this too?”

Sarah nodded her head, 

“No. I swear. It’s possible that your large intake of sweets has made you feel happier and made this transition easier, but other than that you’re still you and anything you enjoy now you would have enjoyed before”

That made Rachel feel better and she continued, 

“I’ll admit, I’m pretty excited to see what happens to me next. Being like this is sort of fun. I feel like a living doll. You should really try it when my turn is over. Maybe we could even go together. Imagine how much fun it would be if we could play with dolls like we did when we were younger, only the dolls would be each other. And like I said, I’d love to go swimming in the bathtub. I’m starting to think I might be able to before this night’s over.”

Sarah didn’t say anything but the look she gave Rachel was all she needed to know it was likely.

“I could do without the voice though, I feel like a chipmunk and can only imagine how much squeakier I’ll be in the next stage.”

she looked at the clock, 

“That reminds me, isn’t the ray charged by now?”

Sarah looked up and replied, 

“I believe it is”

There was less fanfare this time, Sarah held Rachel down off the chair, backed away a few feet, and fired the ray at her. 

As her vision cleared the first thing Rachel noticed was that she was now about thigh height to Sarah, putting at close to two feet tall, which she was expecting by the rate she had been shrinking. She held her hands up in front of her, worried that they might be nothing more than little doll hands, but she was surprised when they were the same relative size as before. Looking down to her feet confirmed the same with them. She did notice that her breasts were smaller than before, but still as comically round. 
When she felt her face she could tell that her eyes were indeed bigger but didn’t see to have grown as much as the last time.
For the rest of the changes she’d need to look in a mirror.

“Come on!” Rachel said, surprised yet again that her voice was only slightly higher than before, “let’s go see the results!” she felt very good as she entered the bathroom, but she could swear she heard Sarah laughing even harder than the last times as she did. 
When she go in the bathroom she waited impatiently for Sarah to come in and close the door so she could finally get a good look at herself.

Other than her loss of height, she also saw that her eyes were indeed bigger but as she suspected not by as much as before. Her nose was pretty much gone. In its place was a tiny little nub. 
She looked up at her now much larger friend, then realizing she couldn’t see past her breasts from her height stood back a little so she could see her face and said, 

“What gives? I’m barely changed. Was this a dud?”

Sarah looked down and, still giggling a bit from before, explained:

“No, it’s done exactly what it was meant to. Admittedly, this is the least amount of external change. A big part of it was internal. Two things to be specific”.

Rachel looked herself over again, wondering what she meant by that. Sarah saw this and filled her in

“Don’t bother looking, I doubt you’ll notice while you’re standing still. Come on, follow me into the kitchen”

Sarah then ran off in the direction of the kitchen, which Rachel was a bit confused by but followed anyway. When she arrived she saw Sarah kneeling in front of the fridge holding her phone. She was recording her. Rachel wasn’t really too worried about anyone seeing her like this in a video, she doubted anyone would have thought it was real anyway, but she was still curious why Sarah had a sudden interest in making videos of this now. She went over to her and asked what she was doing.

“I have to record you doing this because you obviously have no clue you’re doing it. Here, watch”, she said as she turned the screen toward the tiny woman.

The video started out with Sarah recording the doorway to the kitchen. After a few seconds she started to hear her tiny little footsteps, and then saw herself come into the room. The first thing she noticed was how small she really was. She looked like a large doll compared to everything.
But that was the strangest part, she was skipping the entire way but as far as she remembered she had only walked.

“How did you edit this video so fast?” she wondered, “and why? I mean, sure it’s funny but don’t you have better things to do right now?”

Sarah gently took the phone from Rachel, stood up, and asked her to walk across the room. She did so and heard the beep of the phone starting and stopping recording.

“Great, now come back” Sarah said, still seemingly fighting an attack of the giggles.

Rachel did and Sarah sat on the floor so they could be closer in height. 

“Now, watch this video I just took”, she said as she showed her tiny friend.

To Rachel’s surprise, the ‘walk’ she had just taken was apparently actually more like skipping.

“What?! So I skip everywhere now and I don’t even realize it? Skittles, that’s just weird”, she said realizing her little verbal change was still in effect. “I don’t even feel it, when I was just walking I honestly felt like I was just walking”.

Sarah grinned and said, 

“I know. Isn’t it great!”

Rachel halfheartedly nodded. While she wasn’t too thrilled about this change, she didn’t feel winded from skipping and her vision somehow managed to stay stable the whole time. It was probably a feature of her new eyes. She asked Sarah, who was surprised to see she had figured it out, then remembered that there was supposed to be one other change she didn’t know about yet.

“So, what’s the other change you mentioned? Do I poop glitter or something?”

Sarah thought about for a moment and for the first time this night said, 

“I’m not really sure. I did make everything about your body cuter but to be honest that part never occurred to me. Maybe you do, do you have go? I can go get my niece’s training potty if you dont want to use…”

“EW! No, that’s GROSS!” Rachel said so loudly that her squeaky voice was more evident than it had been all night. “Besides, I don’t have to go anyway. So if it’s not that, then what is it?”

“I wasn’t sure if you’d notice this one. I know nobody ever notices their own smell but I figured since it was new to you you might be able to”, Sarah leaned in closer to Rachel and sniffed, “Your scent has changed drastically, you smell like cookies. Chocolate chip cookies to be exact”

Rachel held her arm to her nose and inhaled. All she could smell was what anyone who smells themselves could - nothing. 

“Aww”, she pouted, “I wish I could smell that, it sounds amazing”

“Yeah, sorry about that”, Sarah answered then as she stood up added, “So, what do you want to do for the next 20 minutes?”

Rachel thought about it then got an idea.

“Follow me”, she told Sarah as she skipped off toward the door. 

Sarah just watched in amusement as she watched this tiny thing she had known as her significantly taller friend just a few hours ago skitter around, leaving a pleasing aroma as she went. 
When she reached the door she saw Rachel struggling with her now ridiculously oversized boots. 
She looked up and asked, “Um, can you help me with these? They’re a bit, uh, heavy”. She was a bit embarrassed to admit she could no longer lift a pair of boots but considering the situation didn’t worry too much about it.
She watched in awe as her towering friend bent down and effortlessly lifted both with one hand.

“Ok, I have them. Now what?” she asked

“Put them over by the couch, I want to try them on” Rachel explained.

Sarah complied and then watched happily as Rachel skipped over to the couch and began trying to climb onto it. She watched for a few moments before giving in and lifting her up onto the cushion.
Although she was mostly used to being small by this point, being lifted by someone who was supposed to be so much smaller than her normally was still a bit weird to Rachel. Not unpleasant, just strange. She quickly shrugged it off and slid to the edge of the cushion where she saw the tops of her boots had flopped over and were too low for her feet to reach. 
Sarah, seeing what she intended to do, helped by holding them up while she slid her hilariously undersized legs into them. 
She slowly slid off the couch until she was standing in her boots as much as she could. Since these were knee high to her when she was big (she found it funny how she now thought of normal sized people as ‘big’), at her current size she couldn’t even reach the bottom of them. She was stuck dangling from the tops, a feeling that wasn’t very comfortable. She struggled to get out but started to fall over. Luckily Sarah had been watching the whole thing and easily caught her.

“That was dumb”, she jokingly admonished the smaller woman, “what did you think was going to happen? Those boots are almost as tall as you, of course they won’t fit”

“Yeah, I don’t know what I expected. I just thought it would be funny I guess” Rachel was feeling very comfortable as she was lifted to Sarah’s bosom and held like a baby there as she was carried back into the kitchen. 

Once back there, she was placed on the table, something she felt was a pretty clear hint that she was going to get very small with the next blast, and Sarah once again lifted the gun to point at her.

Before Sarah pulled the trigger, she warned Rachel, 

“Now, although the ray will be recharged in an hour like the other times I won’t be able to change you back for 24 hours. Are you sure you want to go through with this?”

Rachel bit her lower lip, a bit worried about this choice. Being however small she was going to be for the next 24 hours sounded a little scary but she’d come this far so she figured she might as well. She just had one question for Sarah, 

“Ok, just one question? How small will this last blast make me?”

Sarah did a few calculations in her head then answered, 

“I don’t know exactly, but between 5 - 8 inches”.

“That’s the biggest shrink yet”, Rachel said, “but fine. I’ll do it. Is there any chance you can join me?”

“Sorry”, Sarah answered, “one of us needs to be big for safety reasons”

“True”, Rachel replied then added with a laugh “then where will we find a big person? You’re pretty small too”

“Very funny pipsqueak. But I’ll tell you what. I’ll reduce myself to stage one so we’ll be closer in size but I’ll still be big enough to handle any emergencies”, Sarah raised the gun again and pulled the trigger.

Rachel was about to say something when she was engulfed in the beam. From Sarah’s point of view the same thing that happened the last three times was happening again, except that it didn’t go away once the shrinking was done but for Rachel things were a bit different.

While in the light she was more aware of her body getting smaller. It was a strange sensation, she could feel the table expanding beneath her feet while she stood still. She also noticed that her clothes were getting looser. This was weird since they had always shrunk with her before. In a matter of moments she had fallen out of everything but her now massive shirt but even that was gone soon enough. She was going to give Sarah crap for not telling her she’d be tiny AND naked for the next day.
Once she felt the shrinking stop she was expecting the light to subside but it actually got brighter. She started hearing a crackling sound and feeling some pressure on her back. Nothing painful, but uncomfortable enough to make her fall to her knees as it kept increasing. Finally, when she thought she was going to burst, it was gone. The crackling was still there however, and was actually louder, almost painful. She was beginning to worry something was wrong when that too stopped.

She lay there hunched over for several minutes before lifting her head and seeing that the light was finally gone and standing up. When she did she could see Sarah’s face at the edge of the table, looking to be about twice as tall as she was. Before either of them could say anything Sarah stood a large plastic pole next to Rachel that she immediately recognized as a ruler. She looked over and saw a number four just a few inches (to her) above her head.

“Oops!” she heard Sarah’s booming voice from way above, “Sorry, I guess I miscalculated a little. You’re actually just under four inches”

“Miscalculated?!” Rachel shouted up to the giant woman in front of her, “What else did you miscalculate? Will I be like this for a week? A month?” she lowered her voice for this last one, afraid to even say it out loud, “forever?”

She waited for Sarah to reply but she just sat there looking down at her in silence. The only thing she said, was

“oh no. I was afraid of this”
“Hello?! Are you going to answer me? Afraid of what?” Rachel demanded, getting a little irritated at being ignored. She grew even more irritated when Sarah burst out laughing instead of answering.

“What the fluff?!” she sighed at the reminder of her reduced vocabulary, “This isn’t funny. If you fluffed this up, what else did you fluff up?”
She stomped her foot for effect, which she didn’t think Sarah even noticed.

Finally Sarah regained her composure and said, still breathless from laughing so much, 

“I’m sorry. I shouldn’t laugh. I’m sure you’re nervous. Don’t worry, from what I can see everything else worked perfectly. There’s just one thing…” and trailed off as she stood up and left the room, reminding Rachel just how tiny she was when she saw Sarah’s massive form even taller than when she was sitting.

Rachel just crossed her arms and waited for her to return, getting more impatient as she waited.
Luckily she wasn’t gone too long and came back holding a vanity mirror and what looked like Rachel’s phone. She put the mirror on the table in front of her and said, 
“Well? What do you think?”

Rachel took a look and didn’t see any more drastic physical changes to her body, all the previous proportions were the same. She still had tiny hands and feet, medium sized round breasts, and a tiny neck.
When she saw her face she saw that her eyes were still huge, but hadn’t gotten bigger and her nose was as small as it was last time. 
She did notice that her hair was a much more vibrant shade of red, and when she turned her head to the side saw that her ears were pointed.
When she reached up to touch them she felt something else moving at the top of her head. Reaching up, she felt two thin, wirelike protrusions growing out of her head, like antennas. When she lowered her head to see them that’s exactly what they looked like. As she bent down she also noticed a flurry of activity behind her. 
Worried that it might be a spider or something equally dangerous to her, she quickly spun around only to see nothing there. 
Relieved, she started to turn back to the mirror when she saw the movement behind her again.
This time she decided to run instead of turning to see whatever it was that was after her. 

From her position Sarah was enjoying watching Rachel discover her new form when she suddenly started running toward the other end of the table at a much faster speed than she expected. She got quickly to be there in case she fell but was too late, in Rachel’s panic and lack of understanding of her new abilities she reached the edge and went right over before she even knew what had happened.

As Rachel was falling, thoughts of what Sarah was going to do for her funeral came to her. Was she going to be able to restore her so she could have a normal one? Or was she just going to get a shoebox and stuff her in that? “Who am I kidding?” she thought to herself, “a shoebox is way too big for me. Probably a cigarette box. Eww, I’m going to be stuck in a cigarette box for eternity.” And then she wondered if she’d even have a funeral. Would she want people to see her like this? Would Sarah just flush her?

It was around the thoughts of being flushed when she realized she wasn’t falling anymore. She looked down expecting to standing in Sarah’s hand even though she didn’t feel anything under her feet and saw that there was nothing there. She was somehow hovering in mid-air. That’s when she realized there was a strong breeze and a buzzing sound coming from behind her.
Rather than face a repeat of last time, she slowly turned her head and saw that the breeze and buzzing, and likely whatever it was she thought was chasing her, were all coming from the new pair of wings she now had.
Just as she made this realization she saw Sarah’s knees come into her view then watched as the giantess lowered herself until they were face to face.

“I’m so sorry”, she said, “I should have warned you. Well, surprise! you’re a fairy now”

Rachel had a hard time staying mad at her after hearing that. When they were little (well, in her case the more accurate word would be younger) they used to always talk about how cool it would be to be fairies. Flying around wherever you want with nothing to hold you down and being small enough to hide anywhere you wanted. She has some many questions for Sarah but before she could ask any, she pointed up and said, 

“Please, land on the table near your phone. I need to explain one more thing to you”

Rachel was surprised at how easily flying came to her after only a few minutes as a fairy. She quickly flew up and landed on her phone, so fast that Sarah hadn’t even begun to stand up. In fact, it felt like she was just finishing her last word and wasn’t even moving while she was already sitting on the edge of the phone. 
When she settled down she saw Sarah move again and actually heard the last syllable of the “you” she had just said. Sarah looked around, as she stood up and when she saw her new fairy friend sitting there like she’d been waiting for a while she said, 

“Wow, I knew you’d be fast but I didn’t realize you’d have super speed”

Rachel asked her how fast she moved but was ignored,

“So, what I was trying to say before is that I had to do something to your nervous system and motor system for you to be able control those wings and your flight. I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but you um, can’t talk anymore. I’m sorry, this was only a hypothetical possibility, I didn’t think it would actually happen”

“What do you mean, I can’t talk?” Rachel asked, “I’m talking right now”

Sarah looked down at her and replied, 

“I’m guessing you’re saying something about you talking right now. Here, listen to this recording I just made of that talking”

She held out her own phone and pressed the play button. After Sarah’s part, all Rachel could hear was what sounded like tiny little bells tinkling. She kept waiting for her voice to come but it never did.
Sarah noticed this and told her that that tiny tinkle sound was her voice. She had to make room in her brain for all the flight ability and that meant using parts of her brain that controlled her speech. She assured her yet again that it was all reversible and although she believed her, Rachel was pretty upset about this.

“You wiped out my ability to talk!” she shouted, forgetting that her words meant nothing to her now. She felt herself rising and realized she was now hovering in Sarah’s face but didn’t even think about that as she kept yelling at her. Finally, after several minutes of this she slowly lowered back to the table and sat back on her phone with her head in her hands.

Sarah, feeling very bad about this, pointed to the phone and said, 

“That’s why I got your phone. If you want to say something, just type it on the keypad”

Rachel got off her phone, and after several attempts at swiping with one hand, realized she was so small she needed two and got her phone unlocked and the message app started. When it was open she reached down to the keys, and again needing two hands, typed:

“WTF”

Sarah apologized some more but Rachel was back to typing,

“will this really be 1 day?”

“Yes”, Sarah assured her, “that I’m positive about”

“sure?” Rachel typed.

“Absolutely” was the reply.

Rachel thought for a moment then typed, 

“not talking sucks but still cool ”

Sarah was glad she was still happy. She saw Rachel typing some more, when she looked down the screen said, 

“how bout clothes”

Sarah had that part covered at least, she reached into her pocket and pulled out a small cloth napkin. She had cut it the day before to fit a person between 5 - 8 inches tall but figured it would work for a 4 inch one as well. She handed it to Rachel, who didn’t seem super happy with wearing a toga but made do with what she had. When she had it on, she bent down to the phone and said, 

“well how do i look?”

“You look the cutest you have all night”, and she lifted Rachel to her face and gave her a big kiss that covered her whole head then placed her back down.

“your turn” Rachel typed

Sarah asked what she meant and when Rachel pointed to the ray she remembered her promise to get smaller for her. She looked at her the clock and saw that there was still 10 minutes left. She told Rachel to have fun flying around while she got a few things ready, then left to head to the bathroom as she saw a tiny blur zipping around the kitchen then zoom by her head and disappear into the living room.
When she got into the bathroom, Sarah filled the bathtub with warm water and placed a small beach towel and washcloth on the floor in front of it. She also went into the medicine cabinet and brought any emergency first aid supplies she thought she could use down and put them under the sink. 
When that was done, she went into the kitchen and got all the sweets down off the top of the fridge and placed them on the table. She looked around to make sure she had thought of everything, then when she was sure she confirmed that an hour had passed and set the ray on the counter with a delay on the trigger, stood in front of it, and closed her eyes.

When she opened them again she saw that she could just barely see over the top of the counter. She estimated her height to be around 3 and a half feet tall, which made sense since she was smaller to begin with. 
She started out looking for Rachel but was distracted by the best thing she had even smelled in her life coming from the table. After she had climbed onto a chair she opened the frosting jar and dug into it her with small fingers. Despite her small size, she managed to eat a quarter of it in no time and was planning on eating more when she saw Rachel, looking slightly bigger but still tiny, land in front of the pile of sweets.

To Rachel, Sarah was still a giant obviously, but a less impressive one now. Especially now that her features were more out of proportion and cuter. She went over to the jar of frosting this mini giant was eating out of and climbed the side to get some herself. 
When saw Sarah saw this she laughed and picking her up, pulled her toga off, and stuck her in the frosting.
Standing up to her waist in chocolate frosting, which in her current state was like a drug to her, was more than she could bear and she reached down and began scooping large handfuls into her mouth as fast as she could. Which with her speed made Sarah seemingly freeze mid bite while little Rachel kept eating until it was only up to her knees.

When the little blur that was Rachel finally slowed down, Sarah saw that she had eaten way more than she figured such a tiny thing could eat so she plucked her out, her lower body now covered in frosting.
She held her in front of her face and carefully placed one leg in her mouth and gently licked the frosting off. While she did this she could her tiny giggles and tinkling coming from Rachel. There was more when she did the other leg, and even more when she cleaned the rest of her off.

When she was done, she held the naked fairy in hand, panting from exhaustion but looking very pleased, then dipped her in the frosting yet again for another round. 
This went on until the jar was empty and both women were feeling more energetic than when they started.

“Come on”, she said placing the tiny fairy on her shoulder, “We need to get cleaned up”.