Cubix: Shrinking for Everyone

by Ruby Jewel Andrea

 

It was one of those rare days in bubbletown without Dr K ruining the peace. Connor, Abbey, Chip and mong had won a 3 night stay in the Grand-daddy of all toy stores.They also each recieved 900 dollars in spneding money. They had heard that not only was this store big but cheap, so 900 dollars could buy a lot of junk. However, they still had to do chores. It was nearly 10:00 when all their work was done so they hopped aboard cubix in airplane mode for fast transit. It was obviously not fast enough. They got to Toys 4 all just at closing time. They guard saw them and asked "You're the radio contest winners right, for you I'll open the doors." After promising for the thousandth time that any damage would be paid for and any messes would be cleaned, Connor saw the guard lock the door behind them. Connor saw this and said "My cousin told me about this. It's called a lock-in. we get to stay here until 4:00 PM Tuesday" They traipsed on, occasionally meeting a Watchix robot who left them alone. As they walked down the Barbie aisle, a green mist poured from the air conditioning vent. Chip told everyon that this substabce was absolutely harmless. It was just a reagent that preserved the antique toys. Further scans made by Cerebrix proved Chip's concluson. the substance was harmless to humans. Well, every other day the mist was harmless. Today, an electromagnetic surge from up the street exploded through the vents, changing the gas's molecular structure. the four kids breathed in the gas, and it was infused with the EPU's aboard the robots. All eight victims of this gas were knocked out. Connor awoke under a stifling mass of fabric. He would have suffocated if Cubix had not pulled off the pile. standing in open air, Connor looked down and saw he was surrounded by his own clothes. His geeky fashion sense had almost killed him. another glance downward proved that he was still in his boxer shorts. slowly, Chip and Mong rose from within the mountains of their clothing but abby was nowhere to be seen. It wasn't that she was injured, Connor realized "Abby's in nothing but her underwear just like us. She's embarassed". connor looked slowly around and remembered that they were in the Barbie doll aisle. He ran to the nearest box and opened it with cubix's help. there he found a yellow sundress, two knee-length skirts, three glitter blouses, and a pair of capri pants He put the dress on himself, gave two of the blouse and skirt separates to chip and mong and ran over to the pink and purple pile he knew to be abby's shirt and pants. He dropped a blouse and the blue capri pants down the through the collar of abby's shirt. A muffled voice from inside said "thanks connor!" and then there was a rustling of cloth as abby put her new outfit on. finally she crawled out of the leg of her human-sized pants and the first sight that greeted her was connor in the sundress and the other guys struggling to get the skirts on. Immediately changing the subject, she asked "Where's Dondon?" Connor answered "On a scouting mission with cubix. They're going to find food and if they can, some guy clothes over the GI Joe aisle". Cerebrix intoned "All ken doll and GI Joe figures were sold in the holiday rush" abby saw that the guys would be wearing barbie doll clothes till tuesday.

Across town, Connor's dad recieved the report from Hela that the kids won a lockin at the toystore. He wasn't worried. "Those kids are more responsible than I am sometimes, they'll be alright" Since he was usually the voice of reason, the other parents didn't worry either.

"Success" Dondon cried as Cubix helicoptered in with a humongous pizza. To a human, it would be a normal sized lunch. to the now six-inch tall kids it was a meal fit for four princesses. Two minutes after they each had a chunk of stuffed crust, they had cubix fly the pizza box to a safe place. he came back and hefted a dollhouse to the ground. This would be their home until tuesday. As they walked into the dollhouse, another gas poured through the vents. This was a gas that located anything out of place and sterilized it till there was nothing left. The kids watched with some measure of trepidation as their life-sized clothing was nearly eliminated. All that remained was tiny shards of fabric, just barely big enough to be ribbons for their hair. The gas cleared and abby ran to the boxes of clothes and pulled in all that a girl might need. She then made three more trips to alternating boxes so that "Outfit envy" wouldn't set in. Then she stood up in the dollhouse with all of them present and said "Well girls, we promised no mess so each day, this dollhouse will be cleaned. You should each have new names. Connor will Connie Anne, just call him Connie, Chip will be Chelsea, and Mong will be May. again, as the only real girl here, I can help you with your clothes until you understand how they work." Then she showed them their clothes and each one took their new outfits to one big room shared by them all. Connie first thought he should object but saw no use because Abby kept saying 'We're all girls here." Each one put on a different colored nightie and fell into fitful sleep. Only abby had sweet dreams as she thought of how she'd get revenge on the boys for all the times she'd been teased. Connie had a nightmare about being a japanese schoolgirl under a type of Ranma curse. however, instead of water changing her to a male form, Hot water would turn her into a baby and cold water into a teenage girl. an added scare in this dream was that warm water made connie a seven year-old girl.Chelsea's nightmare was that the big computer she had been asking for would not let her gain access. the computer not because the password was wrong but because of "Inaprropiate gender" May's nightmare was by far the worst. Hamburgers were piled high around her. but as she reached for each one, a hand would pull it away and say "You can't eat that young lady, you're on a diet." the nightmare progressed to where the diet was over and she reached for a hamburger. again came the hand and said "you can't eat that in the dress you're wearing." Instead of being changed so hse could eat the burger, she was shuffled between dresses of increasing degree of femininity. they all woke up.

The robots were on guard just in case anyone came by. However, no one would. For thtough a strange fluke in time, three human days was the equivalent if three weeks to the doll-kids. For the first time ever, Cubix said four words without the aid of his LCD screen. "This is really bad"

 

 

 

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