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The workshop was never cleaner. Billy and Ted did a great job.
Billy's dad would be impressed. Which he was when he came
home. But it didn't last long. After he commented on the great
job, he got right to work on his latest project, which he didn't
tell anyone about.
The boys went back to the house and played games. Then Ted got an idea. "Hey, Billy," he said, "Since I'm sleeping over we should do somethin' really cool." "Like what?" Billy asked. "Well, I thought we could-" Just then Billy's dad came rushing into the house saying that he had finished the new pop he was working on. He was happy because he had produced two glasses of this stuff. "Hey," said Billy, "Let's wait till my parents go to sleep and then sneak out to the lab and taste this new pop." "Yeah!" agreed Ted. After about an hour the parents were in bed and the boys snuck out to the lab. They found the purple pop on the desk. Each boy drank half a glass from one glass. They swallowed hard. "That stuff's awful!" "It won't make very much on the market!" The boys went in and went to bed. All night the boys had dreams of pain and tingling. Billy was the first to wake up. When he stood up (Which was surprising since he slept in a sleeping bag) he was shocked to discover that everything in his room was huge! He pinched himself to see if it was a dream, but it wasn't. He ran as fast as his small legs would carry him over to Ted's sleeping bag and found that he was the same size! "Too weird!" "But how did everything get so big?!" "I don't think anything grew. I think we shrunk!" "But how?" "It must have been dad's pop." "Well we have to get back to normal before my mom comes Billy!" "There must be an antidote in Dad's lab!" "It'll take us days to get there at this size!" "You're right. Unless…" "Unless what?" "If we could find some transportation, it would go faster." "What kind of transportation? We're three inches tall." "We'll think of something." The boys sat on a sock and thought. Then Billy spotted a remote control truck. "Let's use that!" "Are you crazy? We're three inches high! How're we supposed to drive the thing?" "We can both operate the controls from on top." "Okay, but how will we get it downstairs and out the door?" " We can roll it downstairs, and push it out the cat door." They rolled the truck downstairs and drove it to the cat-door. "Okay, now what?" "Help me push it through the door." Once they got the truck out the door, they drove it to the lab. There was a small hole in the wall by the door and the boys squeezed through. "Okay, Einstein, now how do we get up there?" said Ted. "Look, the table is old and the legs have big slivers stickin' out. We climb up the slivers and get the antidote on the table." It took a while, but eventually the boys got to the top. Then Billy spotted a box labeled "ANTIDOTES". With a little trying, they eventually got the lid off. "Okay. Now we find the one that looks like the pop." They found a vial that had purple liquid in it. Each boy took a sip, and they were back to normal size. "This stuff tastes better than the pop." "Yes, but do you wanna risk another sip?" "No, I guess not." The boys went back to the house. Just then, Ted's mom pulled up. "Well, I gotta go. I'll come over tomorrow." "Hey Ted," Billy looked to see no one was listening, "Dad and mom are going to a weekend conference tomorrow. We'll check out the lab. How about it?" "Why not? See ya tomorrow, Billy." |
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