16. Some new technology by Da Boss
Amy let out a huge sigh in relief. Finally,
after months of issues with shrunken nursing staff being in every form of
danger, Amy had assisted in figuring out a solution. After many meetings
with the research and development department, Amy had assisted in brainstorming
the latest in shrunken medical submarine defense technology.
The idea
that she had pitched, and one that the tech team had managed to put into
development, allowed a miniaturized submarine to fire a sort of defensive beam
when facing total catastrophic dangers.
This was
not just some energy beam out of a standard science fiction movie. Rather
this actually used the pre-existing technology in the shrinking submarines and
just redirected it. The beam fired from the front of the sub channeled
the energy that allowed the subs to shrink, causing whatever was posing a
danger to the operator to shrink to a proportional size.
Amy was
ecstatic that the subs were finally getting some sort of defense. It
would require some testing and not all the subs would be equipped with it, but
at least it was a start.
There
was one major drawback Amy encountered while testing the new equipment.
After one of the technicians had Amy shrink the submarine down to a couple
millimeters long while she was inside of it, Amy was placed inside a Petri
dish. As a test, a large earthworm was also placed into the dish.
Amy knew it was harmless, but the massive, wriggling organism still freaked her
out and sent chills down her spine.
As the
giant worm slowly inched towards her, Amy did what she was assigned to do and
activated the beam. In seconds, the worm seemed to disappear right in
front of her, now the same proportional size a worm would be compared to
Amy. However, Amy immediately realized that the defense beam rerouted the
submarine's power. Amy sighed, realizing it had drained the power to the
sub. She grabbed her phone to text the technician she’d be small for a
while.
After
several more texts throughout the coming weeks, Amy was more and more confident
using the defensive beam. She still would operate the only sub fitted
with one, just in case the device either malfunctioned or the sub was stuck
small for too long. She did appreciate that she sub recharged eventually
on its own, it just took a while. It wouldn’t be long before she was
operating these with patients.
—
It had
been several weeks since Amy’s sub was equipped with the defensive beams.
In between her meetings with the R&D department and her training of new
nurses, she had managed to take the sub out for test runs with several
patients. She really hadn’t had the chance to shrink anything using the
beam though.
While
Amy was sitting in her new office typing a report, she heard an irritating
voice call out to her. “Hi Amy, I need you to check out a patient with
your little ship on the third floor.”
The
voice belonged to Dr. Felicia Prescott. A tall brunette in her late
thirties, Felicia Prescott had a bad reputation with most of the hospital
staff. She had a very dismissive and flippant attitude toward the nurses,
and even rubbed some of her fellow doctors the wrong way.
“Hi Dr.
Prescott,” Amy said, trying to mask the annoyed tones in her voice.
“What’s wrong with the patient?”
“She’s
got some weird rash right above her tailbone, I think it might be ringworm,”
the doctor said, not even looking up from her phone.
Amy
paused waiting for the doctor to say more. “Okay, why do you need me to
use one of the subs?”
Dr.
Prescott could not have paid less attention to Amy’s question. “Just
thought you could use more practice,” she said, immediately irritating
Amy. “Besides, the patient is cooperative.”
Amy
sighed. “Alright, let me tell Marge and let her know….”
“Don’t
worry about it,” Felicia interrupted. “I already talked with her, she
said you can do it.”
This
surprised Amy and immediately made her suspicious. She didn’t like people
going behind her back or over her head. Doctors like Felicia annoyed
her. They didn’t seem to realize Amy worked for the hospital, not them
specifically.
“You can
just shrink down here,” and I’ll bring you up, Felicia said with a
smile.
More red
flags were sent off in Amy’s mind. This definitely seemed weird.
“Alright, I’ll text Marge and let her know I’m going,” she said, pulling out
her phone and firing off a quick text. She wanted to make sure that
Felicia knew her boss would know about Amy’s whereabouts.
After
walking into an empty room, Amy re-grew her sub on the floor before climbing
in. “Crap, forgot to ask,” she muttered to herself alone inside the
sub. It dawned on her that she never asked Dr. Prescott how small she
needed her. “Screw it, if she doesn’t like it then too bad,” she
muttered. Adjusting a few dials, Amy and the sub soon rapidly dwindled
down towards the floor.
Before
Amy could fully get her bearings. The ground began to shake all around
her. Soon a giant blue athletic shoe slammed down in front of her,
knocking her on her ass in the cockpit. “God dammit, be careful!” she
screamed, while also cursing herself for shrinking before she could put a
seatbelt on.
The
giant hand of Dr. Felicia Prescott descended down, plucking up the five
millimeter submarine as if it was nothing. “YOU ALRIGHT IN THERE?” she
asked with a sarcastic tone in her voice. Knowing she wouldn’t get a
response, she stuck the submarine in her lab coat pocket and headed over to the
elevator.
With
nothing to do but wait, Amy could just sit around the cockpit as Felicia made
her way to the patient’s room. A giant hand soon entered the pocket and
pulled out the five-millimeter sub.
Temporarily
blinded by the light, Amy’s vision returned and she soon found herself staring
through the windshield at a massive middle-aged blonde woman wearing
glasses.
“Holy
shit,” she muttered, before laughing to herself. She had seen giant
people regularly for a long time now, but she still got startled when being
exposed to them.
“Alright
this is Sarah Alders,” Dr. Prescott’s booming voice rang out through the sub,
even though she was not shouting. “She came in for a checkup and I
noticed some irritation on her backside above her tailbone. I want you to
take a closer look at it.”
Amy
watched as the giant blonde woman started to blush. Without needing to be
told, Sarah adjusted herself and turned over. The hospital gown she was
wearing was open in the back, revealing her huge, white asscheeks to the
world.
Lowering
her hand, Dr. Prescott placed the tiny vehicle atop Sarah’s right ass
cheek. “Alright Sarah, try not to move around very much, we don’t want
Amy ending up inside your butt,” she said, drawing laughs from both herself and
Sarah.
“Oh
yeah, you’re hilarious,” Amy sighed from inside the submarine.
“Amy
I’ll be back in a little bit,” Felicia said as she started to walk out of the
room. She briefly stopped and looked back at the patient. “And Ms.
Alders ill let the receptionist know to direct your daughter up here.”
“Thank
you,” Sarah called out as the doctor walked out of the room. She put her
head back down and smiled, trying not to laugh or flinch at the slightly
ticklish sensation as the tiny submarine drove along her bare skin.
“This is
so stupid,” Amy breathed in annoyance. “Why couldn’t she put me closer to
the problem area?” There was nothing she could do about it at the moment,
and she continued her drive towards the reddish afflicted area in the distance
—
Brittney
Alders was regretting not paying more attention when she was on the phone with
her mom. Her mom, Sarah, had told her what floor to check in on but
Brittney’s mind has been elsewhere. It didn’t help that she had left her
phone at home before driving to the hospital. “Shit, I think she said
second floor,” she said out loud.
As the
twenty-year old blonde wandered the second floor, she couldn’t help but be
creeped out. It was pretty empty, and she hadn’t seen any other patients
walking around. She figured this must have been an admin wing or
something. ‘Better ask for directions’, she thought to
herself.
She
walked up to a door with an EMPLOYEES ONLY sign on it and knocked a few
times. She then pushed the door open before uttering “Hello?”
—
It was
important for Andrew to perfect this type of technology. The former
engineering student was one of the head techs at the hospital responsible for
working on the shrinking submarines. He had decided to come in on a
Saturday knowing the hospital would be much quieter, his bosses would not be
there, and he’d be able to get a lot done. He was obsessed with his
current project of perfecting the defensive beams on the subs, if for no other
reason than to impress Amy Lin.
Andrew
had been working closely with Amy for the past few weeks and thought she was
both a beautiful and intelligent young woman. He knew she’d be working
today, so he figured he’d make time to show her any improvements he could make
on the sub.
While he
was working, Andrew ran into a buddy of his, a security guard in his mid
thirties named Gary as he was patrolling the mostly quiet floor of the
hospital.
As the
two made small talk about their respective days, Gary’s curiosity about the
submarine had gotten the better of him. Sure, he’d worked in the hospital
for over a year now, but working public safety he’d never had the chance to
shrink down. Until Andrew offered him an opportunity.
Andrew
wanted to test out the defensive beam on an actual person. He pitched
Gary his plan of him shrinking down in the sun, Gary stepping right next to it,
and him firing at Gary. It seemed like a foolproof plan, as no one
besides them should be on the floor of the hospital today.
Despite
his hesitation and a little voice in the back of his head warning him not to,
Gary agreed to the test. Closing the door to the room with an EMPLOYEES
ONLY sign on the door, he shook his head seeing the room was full of spare
parts and machinery, with a full size sub in the middle of the room.
Watching
his buddy enter the sun, he saw Andrew give him a thumbs up through the
windshield, before the submarine reduced in size. “Holy shit,” Gary
whispered. He knew the sub would get smaller, but not THAT much
smaller. He assumed it would look like a toy or something, now he had to
look closely just to spot the tiny vehicle on the floor.
A text
popped up on his phone from Andrew, signaling he was ready to approach.
“OKAY HERE I COME,” he called out, his large, black steel-toes boots slamming
into the ground, sending vibrations all across the floor.
With his
heart racing, Andrew decided to wait till the very last second to fire the
defensive beam. It was a direct hit, striking Gary in the right
boot. Gary rapidly started to dwindle down in size until he was
proportional with the tiny submarine, approximately two millimeters tall.
Knowing
the now shrunken security guard would be confused and disoriented, Andrew
hopped out of the tiny submarine and rushed over to him. He saw Gary on
his hands and knees with his eyes closed. “Hey, you alright man?” he
asked nervously.
Gary
gave him a thumbs up. “Yeah, just a little dizzy,” he said, seeing Andrew
offering him a hand to pull him up to his feet. Gary was completely in
awe. He was standing in the middle of a room that might as well have been
a city to him.
“Holy
crap, how small are we?”
“Two
millimeters,” Andrew laughed. He smiled, always enjoying seeing someone
experience being shrunken for the first time. He made sure to alert Gary
that they’d be stuck small for a while after shrinking while they sub
re-charged.
Transfixed
by the world at this tiny size, Gary started to wander away from the sub.
Andrew called out to him twice, but thought nothing of it. He wasn’t
going far and there weren’t really any dangers in the room. Then he heard
a pounding on the door.
“HELLO?
ANYONE HERE?” an echoing yet still feminine voice called out. The door
slowly started to open.
Andrew
froze in shock, seeing what could only be described as a titaness standing in
the doorway. “Who the fuck is that?” the shrunken engineer
whimpered.
In the
doorway stepping in was a young, blonde woman taller than a skyscraper.
To Andrew she looked like she was about twenty years old, wearing a black
camisole top, low cut blue jeans, and a pair of flip flops. The giant
woman started looking around in confusion, before taking more steps, entering
the room.
“What
the hell?” Brittney muttered. She had no idea why the employee's only
sign was on the door, it just looked like a bunch of random mechanical junk was
laying around in this room.
There
were various pieces of machinery with blinking lights which Brittney glanced
at, paying very little attention to where she was walking. As she was
pivoting, getting dangerously close to the two shrunken men on the floor, she
suddenly felt something stick under her flip flop.
Lifting
her leg, Brittney frowned seeing a wad of white, mint gum stuck to the base of
the flip flop. “Are you kidding me,” she whispered, and slid her foot out
of the shoe.
The
giant woman turned and started walking in the other direction, towards the sink
in the corner of the room. She had no idea of the jeopardy she was now
putting the room’s two tiny occupants in.
“Gary
watch out!” screamed Andrew as loudly as his little lungs could muster.
He watched as his buddy tried to run out of the giant woman’s path, but to no
avail. Gary’s tiny body was replaced by a giant wall of
flesh.
Andrew
could just stand there with his jaw agape and eyes bulging out of his head,
seeing the giant foot obliterate the body of the security guard.
Taking
another step forward, Brittney paused. She felt something under her foot
and froze. “CRAP, THAT BETTER NOT BE MORE GUM,” she mumbled.
Lifting her foot, a scowl formed on her face. “GROSS,” she spat, not
planning on bugs being in this room.
Just as
she planted her giant barefoot back on the ground, her eyes spotted
movement. It appeared there was another tiny insect scurrying across the
floor.
Andrew’s
heart pounded in his chest. He desperately started to sprint back towards
the submarine, knowing that even with its low power it would still offer him
some sort of protection.
He
wouldn’t get far though. The ground shook behind him as Brittneys colossal foot
slammed into the ground. Knocked off his feet, Andrew’s momentum caused
him to roll a few millimeters, ending up on his back. He looked up and
saw Brittneys body towering above him, hands on her hips. She lifted her
foot high into the air above the tiny, cowering engineer. Several
miniscule pieces of dirt and drops of sweat fell, landing in the area around
him.
Andrew
let out one last scream before a mountain of flesh pressed down on his body,
grinding him into a paste. “God that’s gross, better wash up,” Brittney
said to herself.
“Hey,
what’re you doing,” a voice called out behind her, causing Brittney to jump up
in fright.
“Oh I…I
was….” Brittney stuttered, looking embarrassed while holding one flip flop in
her hands. She was staring right at a confused security guard holding a
large flashlight.
“Employees
only,” he said, pointing to the sign.
“Right,
sorry. I got lost,” she said, looking embarrassed. “Do you know where Dr.
Prescott’s patients are?”
The
security guard gave an indifferent shrug, clearly not caring very much.
He simply pointed to a directory list at the end of the hallway and told
Brittney to check that.
The
young woman slid her flip flop back on, though slightly annoyed the gum was
still causing it to stick, as she made her way down the hall with the security
guard keeping an eye on her.
—
“I don’t
think it’s ringworm, looks more like an allergic reaction or sensitive skin,”
Amy typed out in a message to Dr. Prescott. “She might just need a new
laundry detergent or something.”
Amy had
made the risky decision to step out of the submarine onto the giant woman’s
tailbone, directly above her giant asscheeks. She didn’t stay long, just
enough to get a look at the irritated area. She soon retreated back to
the safety of the sub and waited for Dr. Prescott to return.
Felicia
Prescott returned to the room shortly after receiving Amy’s message. She
told Sarah what Amy had found out and told her she’d be back in a few minutes
with a prescription.
“Hey
wait, what about me?!” Amy shouted watching the giant doctor walk out of the
room. She didn’t need the doctor to carry her back to normal size, but it
would make life a lot easier. There wasn’t enough space in the patient’s
room to grow back, so she’d have to travel down the hall and find an empty room
to do so.
Deciding
it would be easiest to traverse back the way she came, Amy began to pilot the
sub back up Sarah’s right ass cheek. It could save more of the subs power
if she could get airborne from a launching point, instead of taking off
directly from the ground.
While
Sarah continued to lay on her stomach waiting for the doctor to return, she
heard a familiar voice in the doorway of the room. “Hi mom, I found
you!”
“About
time,” Sarah said with a smile, seeing her daughter standing there in the
doorway. “What took you so long?”
Brittney
shrugged, embarrassed to tell her mother that she got lost because she wasn’t
paying attention. “Well I left my phone at home, there was traffic and
stuff,” she said, telling a partial lie before motioning to her mom's exposed
butt through the hospital gown.
“I
thought I had a rash or something, just some bad skin irritation,” Sarah said,
shaking her butt a few times with a smile while still laying on her
stomach. “The doctor should be back soon though, then I’ll be ready to
go.”
What
Sarah failed to realize was that when she briefly shook her butt, Amy and the
tiny submarine were atop her ass cheek, preparing to take flight. As the
giant woman moved, Amy’s sub was thrown from her body into the air, which
started descending down towards the floor.
“Shit!
Shit! Shit!” Amy shouted, frantically trying to regain control of the sun
and pull out of this nose dive. She saw the floor approaching quickly,
when she finally felt the sub cooperating. At the last second, Amy
managed to right the sub, which skidded along the floor before coming to a
rest.
Amy held
the controls with a death grip, her heart pounding in her chest as she tried to
catch her breath.
Suddenly
the ground shook in front of her. Before her, stepped the absolutely
massive body of Brittney, her right foot shaking the ground beneath
her.
Not
moving a muscle, Amy sat there in awe as the giant woman stood before
her. For some reason, she was only wearing one of her flip flops, holding
the other in her hand.
“Let me
see what’s taking so long,” Brittney mumbled, and turned back to the doorway to
look for the doctor. Sarah smiled, and turned her back towards the door
to stretch a bit.
Poking
her head out in the hallway, Brittney could hear several nurses and doctors in
a patient’s room across the hall. Something was going on there that
sounded important. “Eh, they’ll be back soon,” she muttered to
herself.
The
young woman took a step back into the room, her giant feet quickly closing in
on Amy’s tiny sub on the floor. The sub was reacting slowly, mainly
because of the emergency landing stunt Amy had just pulled.
She saw
the giant pair of feet approaching, when Brittney arched her foot slightly in
the air. This allowed Amy to see the underside of her bare foot, much to
her horror.
Amy had
no idea how but there was at least one red spot smeared on the bottom of
Brittney’s foot. This was all Amy needed to see to identify what it
was. Not all of the remains were ground into a red pulp, there was still
enough intact to be identified as a pulverized human body.
Not
thinking clearly, Amy started to shout inside the sub. Her mind was
racing as she tried to decide what to do. Then Brittney flinched
slightly, her bare foot coming closer to Amy.
Feeling
like she was out of options, Amy decided to take the drastic measure and
activate the defensive beam. It only took a second, but the five
millimeter sub rerouted its power and fired at Brittney.
Sarah
turned back towards the door hearing a quiet thud on the floor. “Brit?”
she said alou, seeing only one flip flop now laying on the floor. The
flip flop Brittney was holding.
Down on
the ground, Brittney was trying to process what happened. Her whole world
had started spinning and before she knew it, she was now smaller than a bug on
the cold, tile floor of her mom’s hospital room.
She
barely had time to react as a shadow started to overtake her. She looked
up and began screaming hysterically seeing the immense flip flop plummeting
down towards her. She had lost her grip on it when she shrunk and now it
was about to end her life!
The tiny
woman screamed and raw, the flip flop landing just behind her. As
Brittney sat on the solid floor, she stared at the giant shoe in
disbelief. “What? What the fuck happened to me?” she mumbled.
She had heard about shrinking technology being used in medicine from the news
but never really paid any attention to it. Whatever it was, it must’ve
been very real.
“Crap,”
Amy muttered, realizing what her sense of panic had done. Now she had to
deal with a tiny guest in the hospital, along with having hardly any power left
in the submarine. She was cursing herself for losing her nerve, she knew
she was trained better than that.
She was
now beginning to question herself. What if she hadn’t actually seen what
she thought she had? Maybe the young blonde had stepped on a bug or
something else. “Shit, better go get her,” Amy whispered. The sub
barely had any power left in it, and all Amy could manage was a pathetically
slow crawl along the floor of the hospital room.
Overwhelmed
by her current circumstances, Brittney slowly approached the giant flip
flop. It was laying face up, but the foul odor was still distinct enough
for her to smell. “Guess my feet do smell pretty bad,” she laughed,
trying but failing to calm her own nerves.
*THWACK!*
The
ground shook behind Brittney. The tiny woman turn, jaw dropping as she
stared at the goddess that was her mother now standing up out of the
bed.
“BRITT?
WHERE'D YOU GO?” the titaness asked out loud. She looked away for less
than a minute and now her daughter was gone. She walked towards the door,
unaware that each step brought her dangerously closer to her miniscule
daughter.
Brittney
whimpered and cowered behind the flip flop. She could only watch in awe
as her giant mother stomped past her, each one of those massive feet tipped
with blue toenails seemingly shaking the earth.
Poking
her head out of the door, Sarah saw Dr. Prescott walking back down the
hallway. “I’ll be with you in a few minutes for your prescription
ma’am. We had an emergency we had to deal with.”
“No
rush, have you seen my daughter anywhere?” she asked, growing slightly
concerned. It appeared Dr. Prescott was too busy to answer Sarah, as the
woman took off speed walking down the hallway, the same direction she
came. “Whatever, she’s a big girl,” Sarah laughed to herself.
Turning
back, she started to approach the flip flop on the floor of the room. As
she picked it up, she noticed the chewing gum stuck to the bottom of it.
“Well that’s why she wasn’t wearing it,” she mumbled. “But where….”
Sarah’s
eyes detected movement. She glanced down, and saw what appeared to be an
ant on the floor of her hospital room.
“Mom
it’s me! Help me!” Brittney screamed, barely able to muster any volume in
her cracking voice. “I…..I shrunk! Please!”
Sarah
just exhaled. She was already irritated this was taking so goddamn long,
then her daughter disappeared, now there were ants in her hospital room.
“Well, what can you do,” she muttered, and started to lift her size eight foot
into the air.
“Mom,
no!” Brittney shouted, falling backwards in shock. She kicked off her
remaining flip flop and struggled to her feet, starting to sprint in the other
direction.
“Oh,
it’s trying to run,” Sarah teased, seeing the two-millimeter creature
frantically try and escape. “Run little guy! You’re so close,” she
laughed.
“No!
Stop!” Brittney sobbed. Tears ran down the shrunken woman’s face.
She refused to stop running even though her feet ached.
A
massive tremor knocked Brittney off her feet. The tiny woman shouted as
she hit the ground and rolled to her back. Her eyes widened as she saw
her mom’s huge right foot right behind her.
“DAMN,
JUST MISSED,” the giant woman mocked, scrunching her does. Without mercy,
Sarah lifted that giant foot into the air once more, hovering directly over
Brittneys body.
Brittney
couldn’t even get out a word. She just continued to cry as her moms giant
foot rapidly descended.
It was
over in a second. Sarah planted her barefoot squarely on Brittney’s puny
body, completely pulverizing her.
As she
took a step forward, she noticed what looked like another insect on the ground,
this one slightly larger.
Inside
the “safety” of the submarine, Amy was at a loss. She had just witnessed
the woman she had impulsively shrunken get stepped on and obliterated by the
woman’s own mother. Now, this giant woman was looking directly at the
submarine.
The
giant woman placed her foot atop the tiny submarine, and started to press
down. The walls of the sub creaked and groaned, but its integrity held
....for now.
Sarah
was now thinking maybe this was a rock on the floor, as it was too solid to be
a bug, and she started to maneuver it in between her toes.
“Mrs.
Alders,” a familiar voice said, coming into the room. Sarah turned and
saw the doctor standing in the doorway holding an orange pill bottle and tube
of cream in one hand, and paperwork in the other. “What’re you doing?”
Sarah
blushed. “Oh, I thought I saw a bug, must be a rock or something,” she
said, reaching down and plucking it up in her hand. She was surprised
when Dr. Prescott held out her own hand.
“Can I
see it?” she asked. Sarah happily obliged, depositing the tiny vehicle in
Felicia’s palm. Amy watched, anxiety growing as she was brought in front
of the rude doctor’s face.
“I’m
glad you found this, it’s actually your LITTLE nurse Amy,” she said, and both
women began to laugh.
Amy just
sat in the sun, growing more and more irritated, wanting to return to normal
size. She knew it would be a while, as the sub was nowhere near
charged. She overheard Felicia telling the patient to use the medication
and Sarah saying she thought her daughter might’ve gone to the car to
wait. Amy shuttered upon hearing that.
“WELL
AMY, I’LL BRING YOU BACK TO YOUR OFFICE TO GROW BACK,” Felicia said, though she
started to lower Amy down towards the ground.
Amy
watched as the nurse slipped out of her shoe and started dangling the tiny
submarine above her now open sock.
“IN A
LITTLE BIT!”
Amy
started shouting in annoyance as she was deposited into the sock and started
sliding down Felicia’s ankle. It was going to be a long day….