Friendly Monsters

2 Problems

    Test Tube rushed out of the hotel, already feeling herself grow a bit taller. She had to get back to the lab. She could stay in there until figured out what to do.

She didn't know what the side effects of consuming a large amount of the concoction would do to her, and she was scared she would find out soon.

    As she was running, she heard a loud scream from the hotel, but couldn't be bothered to look back.

    When she arrived at her lab, she typed in the code at light speed, and got sucked up through the tube.

    When she got in, she quickly got to work. She had the vile of what once held the potion, and peered inside for the slightest drop she could alter into a cure.

    By then, she had already begun to grow even taller, and she her hands and feet were beginning to hurt as if something was poking them from the inside.

    She tried not to let that affect her work, as she continued to make the cure.

    But then, she started to grow dizzy. Her legs felt weak, and she fell to the ground.

"No no no no . . ." She mumbled, desperately trying to pick herself up off the lab floor.

But she couldn't do it, she was feeling dizzier and drowsier every second, and she soon fell unconscious, unable to do anything to help herself in the situation anymore.

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    "AAAAAAAH!!" Mic screamed. Taco covered her ears, trying to keep Microphone from ruining her sense of hearing.

"W-what's going on? Why do I look like this? Is this a dream? It has to be a dream," Mic sputtered rapidly, breathing quickly.

    Taco, coming back to her senses after Mic's earsplitting scream, ran to Mic, who was still growing taller.

    "We need to get you out of here!" Taco yelled, trying to speak to Mic from way down at her now paws.

    Mic, however, was too busy worrying to notice the tiny hard shell Taco. Taco realized this, and so she began to kick and hit Mic's foot, just hard enough to get Mic's attention.

    Luckily, the ceiling in the room was quite tall, but even at its height, Microphone was quickly approaching being too tall to fit in the room.

After a bit of kicking and hitting Mic, Taco finally got her attention. Mic looked down at Taco in horror.

"Took ya long enough," Taco started, "We need to get you out of here!"

Mic nodded in agreement, too scared to speak.

"We can't go through the door and risk getting caught, so our best bet is probably the window." Taco announce to Mic.

"B-but, I'm too big for the window!" Mic disagreed. She kneeled down so she was closer the window, "See?" She pressed a, what was now a paw, against the window. The window and her paw were nearly the same size.

Taco stared at the window, then came up with a new idea. "Then you'll smash through the wall. This place is already beat up enough, what's one more hole in the wall?" She spoke.

"What?!" Mic questioned. But, as much as she didn't want to do it, she knew it was basically the only way to get out unnoticed. ". . . Ok, I'll do it."

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OJ woke up with a startle, hearing a very loud scream. He only knew one object that was that loud: Microphone.

As much as he wanted to go back to sleep, he was the hotel manager, and that meant making sure everyone was alright. Even if it was the middle of the night.

So, he began his sleepy stumble towards Mic and Test Tube's room a few floors up.

The elevator was out of service, so he had to take the stairs, which he was not looking forward to. But alas, he had to check in on them.

He slowly made his way up the stairs, eventually reaching the floor he needed to be on.

That was when he heard a second loud noise. But this time, it wasn't a scream, it sounded like something being smashed. Bricks being broken.

This worried OJ more, and so he hurried to the door. He opened it right in time to see a giant object running away. And a giant hole in the wall of the hotel room.

OJ was mad about the wall, but he figured that could wait, as Test Tube nor Microphone were in the room.

By then, Fan and Paintbrush, who's room was next door, had come out of curiosity, wondering what was happening.

    "What's going onnn?" Paintbrush mumbled tiredly, half asleep.

    Fan, on the other hand, was not happy to see Test Tube's room in shambles, and her not in it.

    "W-what happened and where's Test Tube?" He spoke quickly, something he tended to do when worried.

"I-I don't really know the answer to either of those questions, all I know is there's a giant hole in the wall, and Test Tube and Mic aren't here anymore," OJ spoke as he rummaged around the room, hoping to find anything to hint at what had previously happened in the small room.

    "Can we help at all?" Fan asked, pulling on Paintbrush's arm, awakening them out of their sleepy trance.

    "I guess we should probably look around for Test Tube and Mic." OJ stated.

    Fan nodded and turned to start looking, dragging along Paintbrush to some other spot in the hotel, leaving OJ to go somewhere else in the opposite direction.

     What happened?