Absolute Chaotix, Part One
Introduction
By JH, Mello, and That Guy Again
Sharon groaned and rubbed her eyes as she sat up. Had the last horrible day been all a dream? It was all coming back to her now with horrible clarity. She'd been sacked from her last job as a middle manager at DYNECOM due to "corporate downsizing", and, what with 7 payments left to go on her new house, had been DESPERATE for money--any money, short of doing illegal stuff. So when she saw the ad on the Internet about a local scientific research center that was paying people $20,000 just to participate in their experiments, Sharon had swallowed her misgivings and signed up.
The last thing she remembered after that was being placed in a glass tube--hit with some kind of strange ray...and the leering face of the main scientist as she loomed over Sharon--a hugely fat woman with long, wild orange hair and a nametag that read, "Dr. Julia Kintobor"...
...and then that was it.
Oh, come on, Sharon, she told herself irritably. Things like that only happen in science fiction. Come on. Be a good girl, open up your eyes, and you'll see that this was all a horrible nightmare and it's 6:30 on Monday morning, just enough time to get to work at DYNECOM. Not that that isn't a nightmare in its own way...
But it was no nightmare, Sharon discovered as she worked up the courage to open her eyes. It was horrifyingly real, all of it. And speaking of "downsizing"...
The Doll's House
By JH
Sharon was reduced to six inches high. Apparently, the company had planned for such a possibility, for a luxurious doll's house was all ready for her. It had all mod cons: full furnishing, carpets, electricity, even the plumbing worked. However, it had no roof, so Sharon had no privacy whatsoever. Anyone could watch her at any time. Though she could dim the house's lights when its clocks told her it was night, she could not turn them off completely. And they hadn't bothered to provide her with any clothes. Escape was impossible. The house had no doors or windows to leave by, and although she might have climbed over the wall, the whole house was kept within a large case of transparent perspex.
Often Sharon would look up from whatever she was doing, and see one or more large faces (as they now appeared to her) looking down at her. She wasn't sure which was worse: the lack of privacy or the boredom. Sure she had a miniaturised T.V, radio, and hi-fi, and even a miniature PC (no internet access, though, for obvious reasons) and even a library of miniature books, but all that soon began to pall. The only excitement she got was every couple of days, when someone would open the perxpex case, fish out her miniature refrigerator and replace it with a new fully-stocked one.
One day...
Bee-Yootiful
By Mello
Sharon shrunk some more, but only slightly. She was now about 4 inches high.
Then the WEIRD stuff happened.
Over time, she slowly began to grow soft, short fuzz all over her body, which was in black and yellow stripes, except that her limbs were all black. Speaking of which, limbs that is, she grew another pair of arms so that she now had six limbs. A horrible headache and backache that lasted for three days slowly turned out to be caused by a pair of WINGS growing out of her back and cute little striped antennae on her head!
The final touch was a long, pointed stinger growing out of her rump. Except for her face and hair, and the fact that she still had a mammalian figure and was warm-blooded, she was now a bee-girl!
And very cute too.
But not JUST cute. Also potentially dangerous.
Hmmmn, thought Sharon to herself, buzzing around the room, this new form has possibilities. Now I'm still small, but I'm not small and HELPLESS any longer! I can fly! And I have a weapon in this stinger here. It's much bigger than the stinger of a normal bee 'cos it's fitted to my larger body. I wonder how much poison it has. Enough to knock out or even kill a human, I wonder? Hmmn...
Just then, the man came by to replace her refrigerator. His huge hand descended into the dollhouse, and...
Bee-Sharon Feels the Buzz!
By That Guy Again
Bee-Sharon was poised to driver her stinger into the giant hand of her tormentor when a bit of high-school biology came back to her. If bees sting something large like a person, their stingers get pulled out and they die!
Sobered by that fact, she decides to escape first and get revenge later. As the hand grabs her fridge, she beats her wings and zips out through a gap in the window!
By the time the lab-coated man looks up, Sharon has flown up into a vent! Reveling in her freedom and new-found wings, Sharon explores the vents for hours. But then something catches her eye and she enters a room to investigate.
She finds:
Which Will She Choose--Door Number One, Door Number Two, or Door Number Three?
By Mello
Sharon suddenly realised that she was not only no longer in the laboratory--she was no longer on EARTH!
At least, this sure didn't LOOK like Earth. She was standing in the midst of a totally barren, featureless plain that extended in all directions and the horizon VISIBLY curved down away from her, meaning that the world she was standing on was a much, much smaller sphere than Earth. Yet somehow she wasn't falling off into space. Also the floor/ground was covered with a large checkerboard pattern. And the sky was totally, absolutely, jet black, with NO stars, moon, or anything at all.
Oh, and did I mention the portals? There were three of them in front of her, glowing and pulsating an eerie blue colour. Each one also had a sign over it. The one on the left had a crisp breeze blowing out of it and a simple, elegant cursive sign that read, "The Ice Cap Zone". The one in the middle had fiery letters that said "This Way to the Lava Reef". And the one on the right said, strangely enough, "Welcome to Carnival Island!" Since they were the ONLY features of note in this barren place, Sharon figured she'd better go through one of them. Anything would be better than staying here.
Or would it?
CHOICES
1. She decided to enter the Ice Cap Zone. She'd always been a fan of snowboarding..
2. Nah, she'd never liked the cold. How about Lava Reef, that sounded exotic...
3. Those BOTH sounded too dangerous! Let's go to the Carnival!
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