Honey I Shrunk the Pups Plot

[run_barry]

It's Saturday night and Barry and Cisco come in looking to hang out and see what Milliways might have to offer by way of entertainment.

They're laughing as they come in through the door before Cisco stops and points at the rats and the contraption they're carrying.

"Dude! Isn't that-- "

Barry looks and his own expression lights up, first in excitement, and then alarm. The brilliant blue flash that erupts from the dropped machine happens in slow-motion and Barry sees it coming right for them.

With superspeed he grabs Cisco and shoves his friend over the back of one of the couches just as the wave hits.

Cisco tumbles over the couch and onto the floor. When he picks himself up the couch is gone and so is Barry. Many of the nearby people also seem to have vanished, too, and Cisco looks around warily.

"Barry...? "

Taking a step forward there's a crunch underfoot. Cisco jumps back, startled, and looks down.

It's the couch.

And standing not too far away from it is a tiny Barry, jumping up and down and waving his arms.

All Cisco can do is stare.

"Holy Szalinzki... "


[tiny tag: Cisco Ramon]

[ooc: Two pups, one mun. Tag one or both, although the other will probably pop in at some point. More about them here.]

Comments

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato and Gabumon were really not expecting to become small(er) today, but now that they are they (well, Yamato) know exactly who to blame, and it's the one non-shrunk person in a six foot radius.

"Hey! Asshat!" Yamato yells as loud as his tiny, tiny lungs will let him. "What the fuck did you do?! Hi, Barry."

That last is added in a somewhat gentler tone, because they are comrades and being tiny.

[makes_the_toys]

Cisco drops down onto his hands and knees to peer down at the tiny trio, then lays a wounded hand to his chest.

"ME?! I didn't do this you-- inchworm."

Okay, as far as insults go that one wasn't great, but he's a bit distracted with his friend being just a few inches tall!

"Barry, you alright?"

[run_barry]

Well this is...

Barry has no idea what this is, and he's working on not panicking about it.

Turning to see Yamato and Gabumon he's both relieved and sorry to see them in the same predicament.

"It wasn't Cisco's fault," he says, trying to mediate. "It was an accident, but don't worry, I'm sure it'll get fixed."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"And yet you still get to be big!" Yamato snaps back. Beat. "Relatively speaking."

He glances down at Gabumon, who gives a quick nod and -- after a lightshow that would be a lot more impressive if it wasn't at 1/100th scale -- evolves into a rabbit-sized Garurumon.

Yamato clambers onto Garurumon's back, and they bound up Cisco's arm, onto his shoulder, and then up onto the edge of a table.

"This fuckin' place, I swear," Yamato grouses.

[makes_the_toys]

"Little boy, I will squish you," Cisco threatens, but when Yamato and Gabumon come at him he freezes and allows them to use him as a staircase up.

"Hey! I'm no one's escalator!"

[run_barry]

"A little help?" Barry asks, waving at Cisco.

Sure, Barry could run up the table leg, but Cisco is right there and full-size.

After he gets a hand up to the same table as Yamato and Gabumon, Barry starts walking the edge, looking around.

"I wonder how many others were affected."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Clearly you are," Yamato replies.

Garurumon glances around the bar, taking in just how many fewer people there seem to be now. Or at least how few giant people-colossi are roaming around.

"Looks like a lot," he says, after a moment. "Just about everyone caught in that blast."

[run_barry]

Barry's attention shifts to Garurumon and he might be staring a little.

One, because he's never seen this form before, but also because he can't help thinking of what older Yamato told him about what happened to Gabumon.

"It did happen pretty fast," he notes about the blast.

[makes_the_toys]

"I hate you," Cisco notes to Yamato, pulling out a chair so he can sit at the table the three of them are on.

He looks around himself, shaking his head.

"Man, Barry, you said this place could be crazy, but I didn't think it'd get shrink-ray crazy."

[sticktothemission]

Reaper's made it to the top of the armrest which affords him a view of the room. He doesn't actually know what happened to make him small but he recognizes Cisco enough to remember him as a smart, sciency type. Maybe he knows what happened.

How best to get his attention, though? He's doesn't think a shout would be heard from this distance, but maybe if he shadowsteps to the table near them...

He braces himself and teleports, disappearing and reappearing in a billowing cloud of black smoke. But tiny.

[makes_the_toys]

Cisco has located his friend and is giving Barry a hand up onto said table when the tiny puff of smoke appears.

"Bwuh-uh! It's a tiny Grim Reaper!" Cisco exclaims, jumping back a foot and cupping his hands around Barry protectively.

[run_barry]

"Wha-- BWAH!" Barry exclaims in turn, flinching back in Cisco's hands, but his surprise is more from having giant hands come down on him.

[sticktothemission]

"...hi."

Well. Attention got. And since it is part of his schtick...

"No business in the bar. Just wondering how you," he points at Cisco, "avoided getting hit with this."

[makes_the_toys]

That's not very comforting, and Cisco continues to eye the guy warily, but finally answers, "My friend here kind of... took the bullet for me," he says, opening his hands to reveal Barry.

[run_barry]

"Hi," Barry says, giving the other small person a tentative wave.

"Cisco, would you put me down?"

[sticktothemission]

Barry gets a nod of acknowledgement as Reaper crosses his arms at them both.

"You saw what did this then?"

[makes_the_toys]

Cisco pulls out a chair for himself on the far side of the table Reaper is on, then carefully sets Barry down.

"Yeah, it was a shrink ray machine that the rats were fooling around with."

[iprotectyou]

Baze spends a few precious second panicking at being tiny. He clamps down on that, and approaches Barry at a dead run, staff bouncing in his hand. It takes him a lot longer than he expects to cross the bar to the couches, having been over by the door.

"Barry! Did you see what happened? I saw a blue light, and then... this!"

[run_barry]

When Barry spots Baze on the approach he helps close some of that distance, speeding over and coming to a sliding stop in front of Baze.

"Hey, man, are you alright?" While looking Baze over Barry nods. "It was a shrink ray gizmo that the rats dropped."

[iprotectyou]

"Yeah, I'm fine, just tiny," Baze says, decidedly grumpy about the whole situation now that his panic has subsided. He'd fold his arms, but he's still holding his staff.

"Are you okay? And shrink ray? Where did the rats get one of those?"

[run_barry]

"Yeah, I'm fine. And I have no idea. Cisco and I recognized it just before it went off. Cisco's-- "

The ground underfoot trembles a little and Barry braces. Looking up, Barry is ready to grab Baze and run.

[makes_the_toys]

It's Cisco, who drops down into a crouch right beside the pair.

"You guys are so small. Barry, dude, are you alright?"

It's taking everything within Cisco not to reach out and poke either of them.

[iprotectyou]

Cisco's voice thunders in Baze's ears, so he flinches involuntarily. He clamps down on the lizard brain that demands that he meets this threat with staff drawn, and very carefully slings his bo on to his back.

"Why are you big?"

[makes_the_toys]

Cisco points at Barry.

"Barry. He took the shrink ray blast for me."

[run_barry]

Barry looks up at Cisco, relaxing when he realizes he and Baze aren't about to be squished.

"I didn't know what it was gonna do, exactly," Barry admits. "I just saw it happening and tried to get Cisco clear. If I had been faster I might've saved myself, too. Or maybe stopped the machine from falling at all."