"Holy shit! What happened here?" Gene stood at the door, mouth agape. He stared at the carnage inside the room. "My god man! You're covered in blood!"
Dick took a second to assess his situation. Not only was he covered in blood and viscera, the whole room was now similarly decorated.
"I'm happy to report my shrink ray was a success." The bloody man removed his goggles and straightened himself to full height.
"What the hell happened here!" the bystander demanded again.
"Well, I was fulfilling the dream of any microbiologist - I was observing the world at the cellular level." Dick made a face as something squished in his shoe.
"And...?"
"Well, I wanted to look at mammalian biology, so I persuaded that black lab that's always hanging about to swallow me in my observation capsule."
"Wait, that's John's dog."
"Sure, whatever. Anyway, I was observing the Colonic Crypts when all of a sudden my telephone rang. For whatever reason, it triggered my failsafe and I returned to my original size."
"So, that means..."
"That all this is, heh, our late 'Lassie'? Yes." Dick took his phone from his pocket and wiped the screen on a clean spot on his coat.
"What the hell, Dick."
Ignoring the rebuke, Dick began dialing. He smirked a little when someone answered.
"Hello, custodial department? Yes. Could you send someone over to clean up the lab?"
(written 10 July '17)
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