Tweeg
and LB are shooting cannonballs at Gimmick's house... LB is giving
direction to his boss about where to aim the cannon, Tweeg decides to
follow his own instincts and again and again fails to hit his target.
Tweeg runs out of cannonballs and demands that LB go fetch him some.
QUOTE
LB-
You mean the ones laying around gimmick's house?
TWEEG
- Yes
LB-
None of which have ever hit gimmick's house?
TWEEG-
YES!
LB-Or even landed near Gimmick's house?
TWEEG-
YES! YES! YES!
Teddy
and Grubby enter Gimmick's house and announce they are back from
getting food. Gimmick is tinkering with a new invention, which he
actually says is more like a "new discovery".
Gimmick explains that, as he was looking at the crystals, he
decided to plug one of them into his new machine and it started to
work. He says the crystal turned his invention into a, eh, well, kind
of reducing machine. Gimmick explains that when he turns the machine
on, any target standing within a white circle he's drawn on the floor
will be reduced to a fraction of it's normal size. Gimmick says he
wants to try out the invention on living creatures since his
expiraments on non-living objects have been successful... the living
objects he has in mind are himself, Grubby and Teddy. Gimmick says the
reducine machine will be successful in shrinking anything not made of
bronze, copper or certain alloys. Grubby doesn't think getting shrunk
is a great idea at all and tries to sneak away. Teddy talks him into
it, Gimmick pushes the button and after a few moments the trio are as
small as ants. What hasn't shrunk, however, is the machine's remote
control. Teddy asks what the remote is made of... Gimmick thinks it
over... "Ah, bronze, copper, certain alloys..."
While discussing the remote,
the trio is confronted with- quite literally- a much larger
problem... Fuzz, Gimmick's pet fob, is after them. The trio hide inside
of Gimmick's couch.
Tweeg is still attempting to hit Gimmick's house with a cannonball. He
loads one despite LB's advice that it is too big for the cannon.
Hilarity ensues :)
The
trio are trying to find their way out of the couch when they notice a
hole big enough to escape out of. When they peer out, they are amazed
by how large everything in Gimmick's house is. Grubby is particularly
fascinated by how big the Strawberries they picked for lunch are.
QUOTE-
TEDDY- "Are You
Always Hungry?"
GRUBBY-
"Nope, just when I feel like eatin' something"
The
trio marvel at the size of grains of salt, the enormity of a mushroom
and even how large a pencil is now that they are so small (Try chewing
on the end of that, Grubby remarks about the pencil) Teddy says that
they should thank Gimmick for giving them the opportunity to view the
world in this new way.
GRUBBY-
"You're Right. Gimmick, thank you for giving us the opportunity to be
eaten by a Giant Fob"
Gimmick slips in a small patch of buttery substance on the table and
goes sprawling across it, knocking into a spool of thread in the
process. Gimmick grabs on to the end of the thread as he nears falling
off the table, luckily there is enough thread there to help lower him
to the ground safely, although the spool nearly takes out Teddy and
Grubby along the way.
Tweeg welds and repairs his cannon so he can begin firing at the trio
again. He puts the welding torch down for a moment, and it ignites a
barrell of gunpowder.
While Teddy and Grubby attempt to tape the string to the table so
Gimmick can climb back up, a giant housefly starts buzzing around them.
Gimmick happens to be sitting on top of his encyclopedia and looks up
"Fly". He tells Teddy and Grubby they should be able to distract the
fly with some ordinary white sugar. Teddy and Grubby manage to work
together to get the lid off of the sugar, and the fly quickly gets
preoccupied by dinner while the trio escape it's clutches.
Back at the tower, Tweeg
measures out his repaired cannon and calipers the cannonballs to make
sure they will fit. He puts one in and lights the fuse. The cannon
rocks back and forth and then fires straight up in the air, the cannon
crashes back down to the tower leaving a gaping hole in the Tower's
porch.
QUOTE -
LB-
"Well Tweeze, at least this time you hit something~"
Gimmick
is desperately trying to jump on the remote control button to allow the
trio to return to normal size, to no avail. Gimmick decides they should
use a spoon to catapult Grubby into the air and onto the remote, hoping
the added velocity will allow the button to be pressed.
Instead of landing on the remote, though, Grubby lands in Fuzz' water
bowl, awaking the sleeping giant.
Fuzz begins to chase Grubby and in the process lands on the remote,
returning the trio to normal size... and Fuzz to twice the size of them!
They
are unable to press the button before Fuzz moves out of the circle, and
another chase begins. Teddy manages to trick Fuzz back into the circle
and presses the button... and finally the adventure is over.
Exasperated from the failed attempts at hitting Gimmick's house with
his cannon, Tweeg goes down to the valley and manually throws a
cannonball at Gimmick's door. He cackles in delight at finally
accomplishing his goal.
