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As Craig tried to figure what he should change into next, the rustling of a treebranch outside his window suddenly caught his attention.
"Oh shit... a squirrel! I bet THAT would be cool!" The spirited teen laughed giddily as he quickly searched and selected 'grey squirrel'. With no lingering hesitation, the tenth grader slapped the enter key.
Just as before, his perspective warped; Only this time to a whole different degree.
“Woooooaaah!!” Craig gasped as he gazed across the now massive bedroom around him. He was amazed how quick and fluid his movements were as he darted up the side of the swivel chair and perched himself on top. It was like a vivid dream.
*CLACK*
His energetic optimism suddenly came to a screeching halt once he heard the sound of the front door slam downstairs.
“Wait....W-what the hell?? Who the heck?!......” Craig listened with building anxiety as the sound of footsteps began to ascend the staircase.
“Crap Crap Crap!!” Craig thought to himself as he quickly jumped up onto the desk from the computer chair.
He didn't know who had just come home, but he was certain their reaction to finding a random squirrel in his room wouldn't be a positive one.
Scurrying over to the mouse, Craig frantically grabbed hold of it with his two little paws. He just needed to exit out of the species list and access the manual reset option....
The sound of approaching footsteps down the hallway sent Craig into a panic. To the teen's dismay, his front left paw accidentally slipped and mis-selected a random species box as he attempted to drag the cursor upward.
[Commencing Alteration]
“Shit!! Nononono!!” Craig cried out internally as he tried to fix the mistake, but it was already too late.
The teen felt his body start to tingle as his vision went white.
The unknown visitor in the hallway ended up just walking right past the door.
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Craig suddenly found himself at the base of a huge unknown black wall.
“W-wait..what the hell is this?!” Attempting to back away, he immediately noticed that something was VERY off about his movements. For some reason it felt like he was walking on three.. four.....six legs..
The pieces all came together as the teen backed away far enough to identify the huge looming black structure.
"Oh god no..."
The 'black wall' was actually the right side of his computer mouse.
“Oh god.. I'm a... I'm a....”
There, on the computer screen under current transformation selection was ' Oecanthus fultoni'
http://www.itsnature.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/sienaz.jpg
“I'm a.....fucking bug....” a tiny green cricket to be exact.
Judging from the size of the mouse, he wasn't a very big bug either. Probably small enough to easily fit within the center of a dime.
The enormity of everything was almost disorienting as the tiny green bug continued to back away from the house sized computer mouse.
“God dammit, I royally fucked up this time...”
Turning his attention back to the now MASSIVE computer screen looming high above, Craig could only watch and wait as the reset timer counted down.
There was nothing else he could do. If he had trouble operating the mouse as a squirrel, there was no way in hell he could do it as a little bug.
“Alright..calm down.... just four more minutes. Just got to lay low and wait this out.”
The minutes seemed like hours as Craig silently watched as the timer ticked down second by second.
“Damn, I really got to be more careful next time. That was so fucking close..” Craig thought to himself as the countdown reached the forty second mark.
*clack*
To Craig's shock and horror, his bedroom door suddenly popped open.
“Hey, Craig can I use your comp-” Craig's ten year old brother Caleb popped his head in, only to find that the room was empty. Seeing that his older brother wasn't around, the dirty-blonde middle schooler casually let himself in.
“C-crap!” Craig panicked frantically as he watched his titanic younger brother approach the computer desk. Still unfamiliar with the movement of his new form, he awkwardly crawled as fast as he could underneath a crumpled stained napkin he had recently discarded.
It wasn't hard to grasp the danger he was in. He was a bug, and his brother was a ten year old boy. If he was spotted in his current form, things likely wouldn't end very well. All he could do was hide and wait for the timer to run out.
Happily hopping into the computer chair , the energetic kid promptly noticed that the computer seemed busy running some cryptic looking program.
"Huh... what kind of game is this??" The boy muttered to himself as he tried to make sense of the odd looking words and numbers.
Curious to find out, the middle schooler reached over and grabbed the mouse.
"WAIT! CALEB! GET AWAY FROM THERE!! DON'T TOUCH THAT!!" Craig watched in horror from under the napkin as his giant kid brother grabbed the mouse and started randomly clicking around the program.
"errr......this...... is boring..." The boy quickly concluded before dragging the cursor over to the close button.
Upon clicking, an error notification appeared.
[Closing this program will discontinue current reset timer, continue?]
“CALEB!! NO! NO! NO! STOP!!” Craig skittered out partially from the napkin as his little brother dragged the white cursor arrow down to 'yes'.
With only three seconds remaining in the countdown, the bored ten year old tapped his finger down with a definitive click.
The window abruptly vanished from the screen as the low hum of the emitter coil on the desk faded into silence.
Having exited out of the weird looking app, Caleb happily started up minecraft in it's place.
Meanwhile, the mortified little bug watched on in misery as the giant boy began to mindlessly help himself to a bag of potato chips that his older brother had left out on the desk. Caleb's loud monstrous munching was soon followed by laughter as the boy met up with his in-game friends.
Craig's mental state began a downward spiral as he started to fully realize how fucked he was. Trying to get Caleb's attention would almost certainly end badly for him. Even if he waited for his brother to leave, there was still no way he could possibly operate the computer in his current state. Just attempting to click the mouse would be impossible. No matter which way he looked at it....he was stuck...as a cowering insect.
"Oh shit... a squirrel! I bet THAT would be cool!" The spirited teen laughed giddily as he quickly searched and selected 'grey squirrel'. With no lingering hesitation, the tenth grader slapped the enter key.
Just as before, his perspective warped; Only this time to a whole different degree.
“Woooooaaah!!” Craig gasped as he gazed across the now massive bedroom around him. He was amazed how quick and fluid his movements were as he darted up the side of the swivel chair and perched himself on top. It was like a vivid dream.
*CLACK*
His energetic optimism suddenly came to a screeching halt once he heard the sound of the front door slam downstairs.
“Wait....W-what the hell?? Who the heck?!......” Craig listened with building anxiety as the sound of footsteps began to ascend the staircase.
“Crap Crap Crap!!” Craig thought to himself as he quickly jumped up onto the desk from the computer chair.
He didn't know who had just come home, but he was certain their reaction to finding a random squirrel in his room wouldn't be a positive one.
Scurrying over to the mouse, Craig frantically grabbed hold of it with his two little paws. He just needed to exit out of the species list and access the manual reset option....
The sound of approaching footsteps down the hallway sent Craig into a panic. To the teen's dismay, his front left paw accidentally slipped and mis-selected a random species box as he attempted to drag the cursor upward.
[Commencing Alteration]
“Shit!! Nononono!!” Craig cried out internally as he tried to fix the mistake, but it was already too late.
The teen felt his body start to tingle as his vision went white.
The unknown visitor in the hallway ended up just walking right past the door.
------
Craig suddenly found himself at the base of a huge unknown black wall.
“W-wait..what the hell is this?!” Attempting to back away, he immediately noticed that something was VERY off about his movements. For some reason it felt like he was walking on three.. four.....six legs..
The pieces all came together as the teen backed away far enough to identify the huge looming black structure.
"Oh god no..."
The 'black wall' was actually the right side of his computer mouse.
“Oh god.. I'm a... I'm a....”
There, on the computer screen under current transformation selection was ' Oecanthus fultoni'
http://www.itsnature.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/sienaz.jpg
“I'm a.....fucking bug....” a tiny green cricket to be exact.
Judging from the size of the mouse, he wasn't a very big bug either. Probably small enough to easily fit within the center of a dime.
The enormity of everything was almost disorienting as the tiny green bug continued to back away from the house sized computer mouse.
“God dammit, I royally fucked up this time...”
Turning his attention back to the now MASSIVE computer screen looming high above, Craig could only watch and wait as the reset timer counted down.
There was nothing else he could do. If he had trouble operating the mouse as a squirrel, there was no way in hell he could do it as a little bug.
“Alright..calm down.... just four more minutes. Just got to lay low and wait this out.”
The minutes seemed like hours as Craig silently watched as the timer ticked down second by second.
“Damn, I really got to be more careful next time. That was so fucking close..” Craig thought to himself as the countdown reached the forty second mark.
*clack*
To Craig's shock and horror, his bedroom door suddenly popped open.
“Hey, Craig can I use your comp-” Craig's ten year old brother Caleb popped his head in, only to find that the room was empty. Seeing that his older brother wasn't around, the dirty-blonde middle schooler casually let himself in.
“C-crap!” Craig panicked frantically as he watched his titanic younger brother approach the computer desk. Still unfamiliar with the movement of his new form, he awkwardly crawled as fast as he could underneath a crumpled stained napkin he had recently discarded.
It wasn't hard to grasp the danger he was in. He was a bug, and his brother was a ten year old boy. If he was spotted in his current form, things likely wouldn't end very well. All he could do was hide and wait for the timer to run out.
Happily hopping into the computer chair , the energetic kid promptly noticed that the computer seemed busy running some cryptic looking program.
"Huh... what kind of game is this??" The boy muttered to himself as he tried to make sense of the odd looking words and numbers.
Curious to find out, the middle schooler reached over and grabbed the mouse.
"WAIT! CALEB! GET AWAY FROM THERE!! DON'T TOUCH THAT!!" Craig watched in horror from under the napkin as his giant kid brother grabbed the mouse and started randomly clicking around the program.
"errr......this...... is boring..." The boy quickly concluded before dragging the cursor over to the close button.
Upon clicking, an error notification appeared.
[Closing this program will discontinue current reset timer, continue?]
“CALEB!! NO! NO! NO! STOP!!” Craig skittered out partially from the napkin as his little brother dragged the white cursor arrow down to 'yes'.
With only three seconds remaining in the countdown, the bored ten year old tapped his finger down with a definitive click.
The window abruptly vanished from the screen as the low hum of the emitter coil on the desk faded into silence.
Having exited out of the weird looking app, Caleb happily started up minecraft in it's place.
Meanwhile, the mortified little bug watched on in misery as the giant boy began to mindlessly help himself to a bag of potato chips that his older brother had left out on the desk. Caleb's loud monstrous munching was soon followed by laughter as the boy met up with his in-game friends.
Craig's mental state began a downward spiral as he started to fully realize how fucked he was. Trying to get Caleb's attention would almost certainly end badly for him. Even if he waited for his brother to leave, there was still no way he could possibly operate the computer in his current state. Just attempting to click the mouse would be impossible. No matter which way he looked at it....he was stuck...as a cowering insect.