The great regression

Twelve

Officer Patrick Hargreaves, or Pat to everyone who knew him got out of his patrol car and looked around at the facility in front of him.  The nurse who had told him such an unbelievable story got out of the passenger side and six more cops got out of three more patrol cars.  Even if the nurse was completely insane (which he thought she might be) this needed to be checked out, as they approached the front doors they could see that the entire place was in darkness and all doors and windows locked with shutters drawn, then one of the officers noticed a small light coming from an open side door.  When they reached the outside of the door Pat asked the nurse what was inside, but she didn't know as this was part of the building not used, Pat told the officers to be ready and they slowly went inside.  It was bright inside and the officers struggled to get their bearings for a second but then the door they had come through slammed shut and the clangs issuing from it demonstrated that it had auto locked, that was about the same time that Pat noticed that the only other door out of the metal room they were in was also locked, then a voice came over a speaker set in the corner of the room near the ceiling.

Isabelle spoke clearly into the microphone for the police to hear, she told them that they should not have come and then she told the nurse that she should be expecting what will come next.  The nurse didn't know how these tough police officers armed with guns could be overcome by the facility staff but she knew what happened to people who upset the facility owners and she started to cry.  Pat looked down at the crying nurse just before a strange sound started coming from the speaker, while some kind of gas was pumped into the room, and at the same time a new a strange light flashed into existence over them.  At first Pat didn't notice anything, then he saw that two of his police officers were struggling to hold up their guns, he also noticed that they seemed to be getting shorter.  "Nooooo, not me" called out the nurse as she quickly shrunk from her former adult dimensions to that of a toddler and then a baby, after falling to her bottom she then rolled over onto her back before a large puddle spread out under her as she wet herself.  Pat could see his officers in various states of infant regression which seemed to be the younger you were to start with the faster it affected you.  As Pat was by far the oldest he was only just starting to get weak when all of the others had been reduced to tiny babies on the floor.  Pat started to shout help and pound on the outer door, before he felt a warm wetness running down his legs, he had been late to be potty trained and as he looked at himself he thought that he must only be around 6 years old, his gun became too heavy and dropped from his hand before he fell back onto his bottom and then onto his back while kicking his now infant legs frantically in the air.

The machine was shut down and nurses filled in to pick up the eight new babies and quickly get them into diapers and transferred to the nursery.  Isabelle was extremely pleased with this development but was also concerned that these were police officers and would be missed, additionally they would have a record of where they were going so more police would be coming quickly and things would get out of hand.  Isabelle quickly went to her office and put her retirement plan into place, she knew that her associates would never get buyers in time to be able to sell the new infants that were former police and a nurse, she also knew that if she just packed up her things and left she could be wealthy for the rest of her life but her staff at the facility would undoubtedly tell the police everything they knew in order to reduce their own sentence, so Isabelle had a final plan to be able to get away without any risk to herself.  Isabelle had already moved all of her finances into a fake name and had the fake ID in her drawer ready for her escape, she also had the new transmitter speakers situated all around the facility as well as bottles of the regression gas and at a single electronic command the entire facility would be locked down and filled with both the regression gas and soundwaves to reduce everyone within to a new born infant both physically and mentally, Isabelle keyed in the secret code into her phone and sent the signal, she knew that she had around ten minutes to get out of the facility before it locked down and the process began.  Isabelle was leaving her office when one of her larger nurses stepped in front of her and hit her across the head with an iron bar, Isabelle went down and felt herself starting to lose consciousness, before she blacked out she heard the nurse telling her that one of the police was a cousin of hers and that the bad things Isabelle was doing needed to stop, the nurse then ran away most likely to call more police but Isabelle knew that they would not get here in time.