You finally decide to press the "5" button.
With your right hand holding the back of the device and your left hand holding the top of it, your right thumb slams down on the 5 button. Suddenly, the top of device (where your left hand is) begins to glow green. Paralyzed with anticipation, you just sit under your bed covers and watch. After about 2 seconds, your bed falls from beneath you and a tingling shock wave is sent throughout your body - originating from where your left hand meets the glowing top of the device.
You feel like yelping in pain but you can't. You want to take your hands off but both of your hands are glued to the device. Then the pain and the glowing green light vanishes...
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THREE SECONDS LATER
... your body hits something hard but bouncy. A light from a distant place begins to fill your eyes again. As you recover from your painless fall, you take in your surroundings: a bluish, dimly lit, but smooth-surfaced cavern.Beneath your feet you find a fine mesh of some sort of net. To your right is a great blue-lit mountain of white, and to your left is... a cellphone.
Wracking your brains for memory, you instantly recall what you did a minute ago - you pushed a button.
The 5 button to be exact! "But what did it do?", you ask yourself. "The last place I was was on my bed... Then I must still be on my bed then... but blankets aren't covering me like i remember them..."
Being a nerd, it doesn't take long before you realize, "Jesus! I shrunk myself!"
After recovering from your self-inflicted shock, you realize that you're not the only one that's been shrunk - the device shrunk too!
"That's a pretty intelligent device," you say to yourself, "It knows that its user shrunk so it compensated my new size by becoming smaller too... or does it just shrink every time i press the shrink button?..." you wonder.
In the midst of curiosity, you aim the device (like a television remote) at the blanket overhead. Just tapping the 5 button lightly. The green glow is emitted again as you brace yourself for the shock...
... but it never came. You open your eyes just to see... a slightly small cavern.
Again, you are astounded by this discovery: for one: the device itself did not shrink. for two, there was no shock. And for three, the blanket isn't "your" size.
After a minute of fathoming, you decide to repeat the process again. But only this time, you're going to slam your thumb down - hard.
FLASH
Just as you expected - your blanket comes fluttering down from above. Almost perfectly proportional with you too!
You now lay down on your oversize bed in your oversized room with an undersized body under your perfectly sized blanket. You calculate that you are now about 5 millimeters tall by proportionally eye measuring how much times larger the piece of paper from the device it now. Excited that you, a puny (but intelligent) nerd, has gotten a new found power that you thought never existed. "Yet then again, what's the use of being smaller? Weren't I already small enough to get bullied by those gorillas?", you debate. But then, "...an elephant is afraid of mice... hmm... it must be because a mice can be small enough to be near invisible to a large elephant... and that a mouse could simply squirm up an elephant's nose and cause it extreme pain! I've got it!", you exclaim as you made a vital connection between you and an insignificant mouse. Compared to a normal sized human, you are the size of an ant (literally). So this method of revenge definitely should work on those gorillas!
"But then again... there's the girls... yes... exploring a girl would be nice for a change rather than being a full-throttle geek..."
After about an hour of making and finishing your plan for tomorrow with your new found power, you decide on how to get back to your regular size. "There must be a way to put things back the way they are..." you think, as you look at the piece of paper. Being the keen nerd you are, you figure out that the picture for button 4 is the exact opposite of button 5. And with that, you aim the device at your left hand again, and slam down hard on button 4.
FLASH
It hurts. But after opening your eyes, everything is just as it was before you first pushed the 5 button - you are back to normal size. Zapping the blankets back to normal size again, you fall into deep sleep.
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