Sister Amelia stared gleefully at the deluxe shrink ray gun in her hands, gleaming metallic and humming softly. She had finally finished building it after months of secret tinkering in the garage. And now she could finally get even with her annoying brother Tommy!

Amelia crept into the living room where 12-year-old Tommy was sprawled on the couch playing video games, oblivious. "Bang! It's shrinkin' time, dweeb!" Amelia declared as she took aim and fired. A bright purple beam struck Tommy square in the chest. He started shrieking and shrinking down, down, down at a rapid pace until he was no bigger than an ant!

"Wha-what did you do to me??!" Tommy squeaked in terror, now miniscule in the cushions.

"Shh don't alert Mommy yet, twerp. I'm not done with you," Amelia cooed. She scooped up her shrunk shrunken brother and carried him into the kitchen. Amelia gently placed Tommy down on the cold tile floor and then darted off to the hallway, shrinking down to insect size herself with a few zaps of the ray gun.

The two siblings scurried across the kitchen on tiny feet, skittering around the baseboards. Soon they heard the click-clack of their mother's wooden high heels on the hardwood as she approached, still unaware of the two normal-sized children now reduced to creepy crawlies scuttling by her feet.

"Mommy, Mommy!" Tommy tried to cry out, but all that emerged was a tiny squeak.

"You'll pay for that, Tommy!" Amelia caroled as she skittered towards him...

Their mother Linda stepped into the kitchen wearing a sharp business suit and stunning white wooden platform heels, ready to start getting dinner on...

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