[Mandrake]

Chapter 10 – Behind Enemy Lines

"Hey! Little cheerleader girl!" Faye shouted trying to get the attention of Vanessa, who was dozing off on the locker bench. "Give me back my boots!" She ordered as she buttoned up her business suit.

Vanessa became alert immediately, but hugged the leather boots defensively. "Please can I wear them?" she begged, "They fit so much better than my sneakers. You can wear those," she said pointing to her abandoned sneakers in the corner.

"I don't want to wear your smelly sneakers, I want my boots!" Faye said in frustration as she made a grab for the leather boots Vanessa was wearing. Vanessa held onto the boots tightly, doing her best to keep them on her feet.

"Faye! We don't have time for this!" Lucy said trying to get the girls to start. "Just wear the sneakers and we'll sort this out later."

"No!" Faye said angrily as she wrestled with Vanessa. "She's wearing my boots and I want them back! She even put them on while I was still in them. The bitch tried to kill me."

"It was an accident! I didn't know you were in the boot. How could I have known?" Vanessa struggled as felt her left boot start to come away despite her efforts.

"Faye, she can't kill you, you're wearing the body stocking," Lucy reassured trying to calm them down.

"I'm not so sure about that. You don't know what it's like being crushed and stomped inside your own boot," Faye said giving the boot one last tug and managing to pull it off of Vanessa's foot.

"Oh, you bitch!" Vanessa shouted upon feeling the cold air on her stocking foot. Faye smiled triumphantly, but her celebration was brief. In pulling her boot off she lost her footing, and her stocking feet slipped on the floor. She fell backwards with her feet in the air. Vanessa took this opportunity to get up from the bench and grab Faye's feet.

"This is what you get for being so rude!" Vanessa said as she tickled Faye's stocking feet.

"DAHAHAHAHAHA!" Faye laughed loudly and hysterically. It had been awhile since she had been tickled like this, but it was no less torturous than it had always been. Faye countered by grabbing Vanessa's stocking foot and tickling it as well. Vanessa fell forwards on top of her, also laughing hysterically. The two squirmed on the floor, tickling each other mercilessly.

"SHHHH! Someone's coming!" Beth whispered upon hearing footsteps from outside the locker room. The two girls stopped instantly and separated, but not before Vanessa managed to grab the boot back. The rest of the girls froze as the footsteps passed. It was one of the coaches, and he was unlocking the boys Locker Room.

"We have to get out of here now!" Lucy ordered. "Either wear those sneakers or you can leave in your stocking feet, Faye, but we have to go!"

"Okay, okay!" Faye said reluctantly, giving Vanessa a dirty look as she slipped back into the leather boot. Faye also donned Vanessa's sneakers, frowning when she realized they were a couple sizes too big.

"Coast is clear," Beth said peering out the locker room door. She signaled the others to follow her. Beth motioned the rest of them to move out of the locker room while Lucy made sure Lisa and Sarah were hidden from view in her pocket. Before locking the door behind her, Beth grabbed a few baseball bats that were leaning against the wall nearby. As they made their way out of the building, a few passing faculty members looked at them suspiciously, but, for the most part, paid them no mind. Outside, they breathed a sigh of relief.

"We got out of there just in time," Vanessa said looking at the clock on her cell phone. "It's 8:00, they'll be opening the girl's Locker Room now."

"And just in time for you to keep my boots a little longer," Faye said bitterly.

"Faye, just shut up and let's get back to the car. Are you two coming?" Lucy asked.

"Well I'm not leaving this little brat here until she gives me back my boots!"

"Are you going to the warehouse?" Beth asked ignoring Faye.

"Of course," Lucy answered.

"Then we're coming."

"Okay …," Lucy said gesturing towards the bats in confusion, "what's with the bats?"

"Well, if this doll collector has minions like you seem to think, than we should probably come prepared."

"I don't think that will be necessary, but bring them along if they make you feel better," Lucy said as she led the way to the parking lot.

"Beth, we haven't slept all night. We can't keep going like this forever," Vanessa complained as she lagged behind.

"Vanessa, you slept plenty in the drive to and from my house," Kevin countered.

"I know, but it's not the same thing as sleeping in a bed," Vanessa complained.

Beth turned to face her suddenly. "Vanessa, do you want to keep shrinking?" Beth demanded.

"No," Vanessa answered sheepishly.

"Than toughen up and let's go! You can sleep in the car." she ordered. But as they approached Lucy's car, Beth couldn't help but yawn. Unlike Kevin and Vanessa, she hadn't gotten any sleep.

"You drive, Lucy," Faye said, "I'm still feeling a bit light headed from the rapid growth." Faye and Lucy sat in the front, while Beth, Vanessa and Kevin sat in the back seat.

"Alright ... Beth, right?" Lucy asked. Beth nodded. "Should I plug the address into the GPS or can you tell us how to get there?"

"I should be able to guide you," she said fighting to keep her eyes open as she guided Lucy onto the main road.

Kevin, meanwhile, was playing with his iPhone. "I looked up the address on the internet," he said, "I can't find any information on it, or who owns it. Satellite pictures make it look huge though. It looks like it has its own runway."

"The Doll Collector's richer than I thought. I wonder who she really is?" Lucy asked letting the question hang as they continued to drive.

"So, Vanessa, can I have my boots now?" Faye asked after several minutes of driving on the main road. There was no answer. Faye looked back and saw all three passengers asleep. "Figures," she said shaking her head.

"Guess we better use the GPS after all," Lucy laughed, "Can you punch it in for me, Faye?" There was no answer. Faye was too busy pulling the boots off of Vanessa. It wasn't a difficult task. Vanessa was so short now that her feet dangled off the ground, and the boots were loose enough to just slide off. Vanessa moaned in her sleep when her toes were exposed, and she wiggled and spread them in surprise.

"Faye!" Lucy demanded. "Can you forget about your boots for a minute and help out?"

"Sorry!" Faye said reluctantly dropping the boots and grabbing the GPS.

"Put in 46 Junction Avenue."

"Got it," Faye said entering in the data. After finishing her task she immediately put down the GPS and what back to taking back her boots. But Vanessa had slipped them back on and was now sitting on her feet. "You little bitch!" Faye said, "I know you're awake so don't bother pretending your asleep. Give my back my fucking boots before I take them away by force and throw you out of the car shoeless."

"Faye, can't you just let it go?" Lucy said annoyed. "I don't want another fight over shoes breaking out in the car like last time with your sister."

"Let it go? How would you like it if some little cheerleader stole your boots?"

"You're going to get them back, let's just forget about it for now and finish our mission. Look, we're here already," Lucy said as they turned onto Junction Avenue. They were surprised to see how large the property was. The warehouse itself wasn't that big, but it looked very well maintained and modern. It looked more like a small office building than a warehouse. Behind it was a long runway that stretched for nearly a mile.

"I knew the doll collector was rich, but I didn't know she owned an airport!" Faye said surprised.

"Check to see if any of her minions are nearby," Lucy said as she parked some distance from the warehouse so as not to raise suspicions.

Faye pulled out her shrinker and began scanning the area. "There's definitely one on the premises, but there may be more wearing the doll collector's new pantyhose that we can't detect with our scanners."

"Then I guess it's time to send our little micronians on a reconnaissance mission," Lucy said poking at her pocket. Sarah and Lisa moaned, they had fallen asleep in their little pocket bags. "Wake up, little ones," she said, "We haven't had much sleep either and you don't see us dozing off."

"What do you want?" Sarah asked as she was lifted gently out of Lucy's pocket.

"We need you two to sneak into that warehouse and tell us if there's anyone inside."

"Why don't you shrink yourselves and find out for yourself?" Sarah complained as she was placed on the ground.

"Because you'll need us to be full sized to save you if you get caught," Lucy answered as she lifted a snoring Lisa out of her pocket. She tried putting her on the ground, but Lisa's legs were like jello and she refused to stand. "Come on wake up, Lisa," she said shaking her a bit. Lisa groggily opened her eyes as she stood reluctantly in front of the two giant women.

"If you see anyone, try to find out if they're wearing a polyphylon body stocking or pantyhose," Faye ordered.

"And how are we going to do that?" Sarah asked annoyed that she was being ordered around like a slave.

"Just do your best, we don't want you to get caught," Lucy reassured.

"And what if we do?" Lisa asked afraid.

"If you're not back in fifteen minutes, we'll assume you got caught and come and rescue you. We'll keep an eye on things as best we can from here," Lucy said.

"That doesn't sound too reassuring," Sarah said annoyed.

"Listen, do you want to stay a 6 inch doll forever?" Faye asked frustrated.

"No," they both said looking down.

"Then help us out! If we don't find out more about the Doll Collector we'll never get you back to your normal size."

And so, once again, the two tiny young women were sent on a secret mission, this time into what they thought was the Doll Collector's warehouse. Sarah bravely, but reluctantly, led the way while Lisa followed behind fearfully. They were entering enemy territory. It took them quite awhile to reach the glass door as their tiny legs couldn't get them that far too quickly.

"How are we going to open the door?" Lisa asked timidly as they tried to peer through the shaded glass.

"It looks like a sliding door, there's probably a motion sensor nearby," Sarah answered looking around, "there it is!" she said pointing to a small red light on the side wall just above their heads. "Stand in front of it and wave your arms," she said as she did the same. The door slid open suddenly, allowing them entrance.

They cautiously stepped into a large and luxurious lobby. Their tiny foot steps clicked as their little boots hit the shiny marble floor despite their small size. The girls tried to keep as quiet as possible as they tip toed passed a waiting room.

"Is anyone there?" a woman said from a nearby desk after seeing the door open and close. Lisa and Sarah froze nervously as the woman looked up from her desk. Fortunately, a potted plant had hid them from view.

"That's strange," she said with a distinct upper class English accent. She stood up and stepped out from behind her desk to investigate the cause of the door opening and closing by itself. From behind the plant Sarah studied the woman. She was very beautiful, probably in her mid twenties. She was short, probably about 5'2''. And she wore a black blazer over a white blouse and tie. Her hair was long and blonde. As she approached from behind her desk, Sarah saw that she was wearing very sheer white pantyhose under a black dress. Pretty black ballerina flats adorned her feet. Her shoes looked quite loose and slipped a bit as she walked. She was definitely wearing polyphylon. Whether it was a body stocking or pantyhose, Sarah couldn't tell.

"Should we look up her skirt?" Lisa whispered as she approached.

"That won't help, we need,to see under jacket … see if she has polyphylon on her arms," Sarah whispered back. But it looked as though they had no choice but to look up her skirt, because as she approached, her dress hung over the pot, and in order to avoid being seen the girls scurried between the pretty giantess's legs.

"What was that?" the young woman said stepping back surprised. It was all Lisa and Sarah could do to stay underneath her dress to avoid being seen. The girl scanned the floor carefully. She could have sworn she saw something move at her feet. She took a cautious step back again, and once again, Sarah and Lisa tried their best to stay under her dress. Lisa almost didn't make it, and would have been seen had Sarah not pulled her underneath at the last second.

"What are we going to do?" Lisa whispered fearfully, "We'll be found for sure."

"Just shut up and move with her feet!" Sarah whispered back.

"But how can we anticipate when and where she is going to move her feet to?"

It was a good question. Eventually, this giantess will take an unanticipated step that will expose them, and they will most likely be seen. Sarah looked around for anything that could help them out of this quandary. There was nowhere else they could hide if they ran out from under her dress. No matter which direction they ran they would be seen. It was clear they were going to have to stay under the dress until she stopped looking for them. Then she examined the young woman's left foot, in its pretty black flat dress shoe. There was a small gap between back of her foot and the heel cup of her shoe. Suddenly, Sarah had an idea.

"Grab her shoe, when she moves her foot, move with it in the same direction. But whatever you do, don't touch her foot! She's wearing polyphylon. If she feels the slightest tickle she'll find us for sure!" Sarah said grabbing the edge of her left shoe where the gap was furthest from her foot.

"Okay," Lisa said carefully grabbing the edge of the woman's right shoe. "I hope I don't get trampled." And after taking another step back, Lisa nearly was trampled, but thankfully managed to anticipate the movement and avoid it. The woman stood still for a long while examining the floor. Sarah and Lisa grew anxious, they peered above them and saw her pretty polyphylon clad legs extending upwards. It was not clear if they went further up into a body stocking or simply ended at her waste as pantyhose, but it was clear that she was not wearing panties underneath. This came as no surprise, of course.

Finally the woman started to turn around to go back to her desk. She was giving up! This was their chance to escape, but they had to wait until she turned her back on the door before they escaped from under her dress.

But as she turned around, a most dreadful thing happened. She had taken a step forward when she lifted her right foot a bit too high for Lisa. Lisa, not thinking quickly enough, neglected to let go of the back of the shoe, and when the young woman lifted her foot, Lisa's weight managed pull it down off her heel. With the shoe dislodged, gravity soon gave way and the woman's frictionless stocking put up no resistance as the shoe slipped off her toes and onto the floor.

"eeeeh, my shoe!" she squeaked in surprised when she felt her sensitive stocking foot hit the carpet shoeless. She turned around to retrieve her errant shoe and saw with astonishment, the tiny girl clutching the black flat. Lisa was frozen with fear. "Well … what you do you know …," she said smiling as she approached, "So you're the one who took my shoe off. And you must have been the one I saw scurrying under my dress earlier. I never thought I'd see another one of you sneak in here."

The young woman reached out and grabbed Lisa with one hand, and her shoe with the other. Lisa was so afraid that she put up no resistance as the young woman held her close to her pretty face. "I should punish you for trying to steal my shoe, you know, it's not a very nice thing to do," she said as she slipped the shoe back onto her stocking foot. Fortunately, she did not see Sarah, who was still hiding timidly under the dress. "Now, will you be so kind as to tell me who you are and why you are here?" She asked as she carried the petrified Lisa back to her desk.

Sarah had to think of something, and quick. She could have run off right then and there, but she knew that Lisa was in trouble, and she didn't want to abandon her. Grabbing hold of the woman's shoe again, she decided to exploit the only weakness she could think of. Once again, the woman was forced to step out of her shoe, the left one this time. But before her shoeless foot could hit the floor, Sarah threw herself underneath and the woman's descending sole and tickled her sheer arch with all the tickle energy she had.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA! WHAHAHAT THAHAHAHA HEHEHELLLL!?" the girl exclaimed as she nearly fell over laughing. Sarah had hoped that the young woman would drop Lisa and they could make their escape, but the woman's resolve was stronger than she thought. She stomped her foot hard, trying to crush her tiny tickler, but Sarah was quick. She rolled out of the way, but not before getting her foot caught underneath the woman's big toe. Sarah tried desperately to pull her foot free, but the woman's toe curled into a fist gripping her tiny boot firmly. Sarah looked up in fear and saw the woman smile. "You're not going anywhere," she said.

Thinking quickly, Sarah regretfully slipped her foot free of her boot and ran towards the door. As she ran, she passed the woman's empty black shoe. Angry that the woman had forced her to leave her boot behind, and also hoping that maybe she would drop Lisa as a result, she decided to grab the woman's shoe on the way out. "Hey! Get back here with my shoe, you little thief!" the woman shouted as she chased Sarah. But she did not let go of Lisa as Sarah had hoped. Sarah held the shoe over her head as she ran passed the door sensor so that it opened for her. Now outside, Sarah ran as fast as she could behind a nearby dumpster. The woman was close behind her, but surprisingly, she didn't step outside to follow her.

"Ooooh!" the young woman grunted in frustration as she poked her head out. "Please come back little girl! I won't hurt you. I just want my shoe back. I'll let your friend go too. I just wanted to know who you are. Don't leave me without my shoe, please. I'll give you back your boot if you give me back my shoe," the girl begged.


"Pathetic," Sarah laughed to herself. It was obvious she didn't want to set foot outside with her shoe gone. "She's probably a princessy 'wouldn't dare walk outside without shoes' type." Still, she had Lisa captive so she wasn't someone to be underestimated. She decided that it was best to get some reinforcements before returning to the breach.


"Hey, here they come," Lucy said nudging Faye who had fallen asleep in the passenger seat. Lucy got out of the car to debrief their reconnaissance team while Faye begrudgingly lowered her window to listen in.

"I see you brought a … shoe?" Lucy asked confused as she noticed the black dress flat being dragged behind the single shod Sarah.

"Call it compensation for the one I lost," Sarah said point at her stocking foot and standing the shoe up triumphantly like a trophy

"I see," Lucy said laughing. "And where's Lisa?"

"Well … she kind of got caught."

"Caught?! By who?"

"The woman who used to wear this shoe … how am I supposed to know who she is?" Sarah answered with her usual sass.

Lucy and Faye looked at each other and smiled, it was clear to Sarah they knew something she didn't. "Was she wearing polyphylon?" Lucy finally asked

"Yes, but we couldn't' tell if it was a body stocking or not. She was wearing a dress and a blazer, long sleeves covered it. She looked like a secretary of some sort. But she didn't seem all that surprised to see girls our size."

"So what made you think it was a good idea to steal her shoe?" Faye teased.

"She stepped on me! I had to take off my boot to escape and that kind of pissed me off. Plus, I was hoping she'd drop Lisa if she saw I was stealing her shoe. I don't know, I guess it was dumb. But it's your fault for sending us on these dumb missions in the first place!" Lisa said defensively.

"And I see that our judgment was better than I could have guessed," Lucy said taking the shoe from Sarah, "You have performed exemplary. Lisa's capture is unfortunate, but I'm confident we'll be able to rescue her. And by capturing this shoe you've not only given us the means to determine the type of body stocking she's wearing, but also everything we need to know about her identity, assuming she is wearing one of our body stockings. Faye, wake up Kevin, we'll need his help for this."

Kevin grumbled at first, but quickly became alert and inquisitive as he observed Lucy scanning the shoe with her shrinker. "What are you doing?" he inquired as he attentively watched and learned as the new functions she was performing on the device he had become so familiar with.

"I'm trying to learn all I can about the woman inside that building," Lucy answered smiling. "Besides telling me that she has expensive taste in shoes, this shoe can also provide me with a lot more detailed information about our enemy. By scanning it with my control device also I see she's wearing a white body stocking that she first donned five years ago. I've even isolated her DNA and her identity. Her name is Gwen Stacey."

"Gwen Stacey? Like in Spider-man?" Kevin asked perplexed.

"What do you mean?"

"Spider-man's first girlfriend was named Gwen Stacey."

"Umm, well, that's her name, not sure if it has anything to do with Spider-man. Here, Kevin, this gives you her GPS locations for the past five years. See if you can find out where she lives and get as much background info on her as you can," she said handing the device to Kevin who was eager to try out the new functions.

"Scanners still show she's the only polyphylon wearer in there," Faye said using her own shrinker.

"She's the only one wearing a taajian body stocking. There still could be more with the undetectable pantyhose that were designed by the doll collector. Did you see anyone else in there?" Lucy asked turning to Sarah.

"No, but we didn't really see much. Just the lobby area," Sarah answered.

"Well, that should be good enough. We can take her by surprise. Faye, set your control device for the polyphylon code I have sent to you. We'll shrink her at the first sign of trouble."

"Oh, awesome, you're gonna shrink someone?" Kevin said waking his sister and Vanessa up.

"Only if necessary," Lucy assured as she placed Sarah back into her pocket pouch. "You stay here and finish your background check. We'll need all the info we can get if we do wind up taking her prisoner."


Gwen Stacey gasped when the lobby door opened a second time. But this time she did not get up from behind her desk. She seemed to shuffle something into a drawer before sitting calmly before the new visitors. "How can I help you?" she asked at last as she eyed a security camera nervously. Lucy noticed that a red light had turned on near the camera as soon as Gwen greeted them. She was going to have to be careful not to reveal too much.

"Hello, Ms. Stacey," Lucy said upon entering. Lucy was somewhat taken aback that Gwen didn't seem to react in surprise to Lucy's knowing her name. But then Lucy chuckled when she noticed the plaque on the desk that clearly stated "Gwen Stacey" for all to see.

"Hello Ms. …"

"… Davis," Lucy said, thinking that it was only fair that she give her real name as well since she knew Gwen's.

"Ms. Davis, what can I do for you?"

"You have something of mine, I think you know what it is," Lucy said seriously.

"I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about. If you've come here to threaten me, I'm going to have to ask you to leave," Gwen said.

"Well, it turns out, I have something that used to belong to you," Lucy said, taking the shoe out of her pocket.

Gwen's eyes widened. She clearly wanted the shoe back, but she quickly regained her composure. "That doesn't belong to me and I don't know what you're talking about," she said as she started writing something down, as if acting uninterested.

Lucy just laughed. "Oh no? Well then do you mind getting up from behind your desk and showing me to the door?"

"I think you can find your own way out."

"I'm not leaving until I get what I want."

Gwen sighed and eyed the security again. Begrudgingly she stood up from behind her desk and approached. It was clear to everyone in the room that one of her black shoes was missing as her pretty red painted toenails showed clearly through the sheer white stocking she was wearing on her unshod foot.

"Not your shoe, eh? I think those toes say otherwise.

"Please," Gwen pleaded quietly as she approached, "just give me my shoe now and you can leave quietly."

"Is that a threat?" Faye said holding up her shrinker ready to turn the dial at any second. "Don't come any closer!"

"No! Wait!" Gwen pleaded before grabbing Lucy's hand.

Lucy felt Gwen's hand shrink instantly in her own and looked in astonishment as she held onto a tiny unconscious blonde beauty clad in only a sheer white body stocking. She had shrunk so fast that her clothes stood suspended in midair for a split second before collapsing empty in front of Lucy. Lucy held the tiny unconscious woman for a moment pityingly. "You shrunk her way too fast, Faye."

"I'm sorry, I got nervous. It looked like she was attacking you."

"She wasn't …" Lucy said noticing for the first time the piece of paper in her hand, "… she was trying to give me a message. It says 'I want to help you. I have your friend, but I can't tell you about her out loud. They've been listening and watching since you arrived. Give me back my shoe so that they don't get suspicious and ask questions. I'm not allowed to leave during my shift. I will return your friend to you at 5 pm and will tell you all I know.'"

"Do you think you should have read that out loud?" Faye asked.

"Probably not, but we have to find Lisa and get out of here. She's probably in that desk. I saw her hiding something in there," Lucy said rummaging through the desk.

Suddenly a crash could be heard outside. Faye and Lucy ran to the window to see the cause. A small group of women in masks were breaking into their car with bats. Inside, Vanessa, Kevin and Beth could be seen drawing back in fear. Before Faye and Lucy could react, a devastating blow was felt on the back of their heads and the slumped forwards, unconscious.

Chapter 11 - The BATtle

"So what do you think of them?" Beth asked from the back seat of Lucy's car.

"Who?" Vanessa asked as she tried to tighten her boots.

"Who do you think, dummy?" Beth said pointing at Lucy and Faye as they walked towards the ominous building.

"Oh, them, the tall one seems cool, but the Asian girls's a bitch," Vanessa answered.

"I mean, do you trust them? They seem to know an awful lot about polyphylon. Do you think they're leading us into a trap?"

"I don't trust anyone, especially after what we've been through. But I also know that I don't want to shrink anymore, and if these women really can help us, then I'm willing to take the chance."

"I know, I feel the same way … but, just in case, take one of these baseball bats. You too Kevin."

"Huh?" was all Kevin could say, he was too engrossed in using the shrinker's new features to pay attention as Beth distributed the bats she had taken from the locker room.

"Kevin, pay attention. Take a bat, just in case it gets ugly we'll need to defend ourselves. I know we can't be hurt while wearing polyphylon, but that doesn't mean we can't be knocked unconscious. The good news is, so can they."

"How do you know that?" Vanessa asked.

"My mother once … I'd rather not talk about it. Just trust me. Baseball bats will work against polyphylon wearing goons."

As if in reply to that comment, a baseball bat suddenly came swinging through the windshield of the car.

"EEEEEh!" Vanessa shrieked as several more bats came slamming down on the car windows.

"Oh my god!" Beth cried out clutching her bat. She turned to Kevin who was still playing with the shrinker. "Kevin take your fucking bat now, we're being attacked!"

The three passengers huddled together in the back seat of the car, careful not to get to close to the windows, which were collapsing in and spraying small bits of glass with each swing. Beth could make out at least four attackers, probably all women dressed in black ninja masks. "Fucking ninjas? You have to be kidding!"

"It figures they'd be using bats," Kevin joked, attempting to ease the tension.

"Aaaaah!" was all Vanessa could say as each swing of the bats sprayed more bits of broken glass upon her.

"Shut up and let's think of a plan," Beth ordered. "Those windows aren't going to last long; we'll have to be ready for them. I'm guessing they'll go for the locks as soon as they make a large enough hole. Be ready to whack their hands with your bat. I'll take this side, Kevin, you take the other. Vanessa, just try not to scream."

""GAAAH!" Vanessa screamed when the window next her shattered. Vanessa did her best to bat away the prying hands that tried to unlock the door.

"Ah you little bitch!" one of the ninja's said after getting wacked in the hand. She grabbed Vanessa's bat and pulled hard. Vanessa didn't let go and was pulled halfway out the window.

"Grab her, Kevin!" Beth ordered just as her window shattered. Kevin grabbed Vanessa's legs before the woman could pull the tiny girl of the car, but his grip slipped and soon he was only hanging onto her by her boots.

"Not my boots!" Vanessa shouted as she felt her feet slip out of them one again. "Kevin, you idiot!" she screamed. Kevin sat astonished as he watched little Vanessa, now under four feet tall, helplessly get pulled out of the car and out of her boots. Her toes panicked and wiggled in her thin pantyhose as she was lifted away and Kevin couldn't help but stare as she squirmed to get away from the woman's grasp as he held her empty boots.

"Kevin!" Beth shouted as she tried her best to swat away the ninja on her side, "wake up and help us." Just then Beth's bat was grabbed, and she too found herself in a tug of war. Beth grabbed the ninja's mask and tore it away, revealing a pretty dark haired Hispanic looking girl who could not have been older than 20. Realizing that her mask, was gone, the girl's face grew angry and, she pulled more aggressively at the bat. Kevin looked at the boots he was holding and instantly got an idea. With all his strength he threw the boot at the ninja's hands, forcing her to let go and retreat. "Nice one, Kevin. But watch your side!" Beth ordered just as one of the ninja's managed to open the door Vanessa had just been pulled through.

Kevin turned to see a bat swing right as his face, knocking him out cold. One of the ninja's had entered the car. "God dammit, I can't fight them from in here," Beth grunted in frustration as she swung awkwardly at the intruder. There wasn't enough space for her to maneuver, and she knew that it was only a matter of time before they came at her from both sides. Thinking quickly, she unlatched her door, and kicked it open just in time to knock one of the ninja's to the ground with the swinging door. Speedily, she leapt out of the car just before the one inside could grab her, and slammed the door right in the ninja's face. The door hit the ninja's head, and she too collapsed unconscious on top of Kevin.

"Two down," Beth said confidently as she faced off against her next opponent, bat in hand. It was the girl whose mask had been torn off. Beth sized her up. She was rather short, Beth was a full head taller than her, and she probably would have been shorter still had it not been for her large and expensive looking platform sneakers. Her young face also made her look rather cute and almost innocent. Nevertheless there was a toughness to her expression that let Beth know that this girl was far from innocent, and probably had been in a lot more scraps than Beth had. Beth knew that this girl was not to be underestimated. After sizing each other up, the girl swung her bat at Beth, but Beth was quick to dodge and counter with her own bat, knocking the ninja girl right out of her sneakers and flat on her back.

Surprised by the ease of her victory, Beth taunted her. "Did you kick your shoes off in a fit a joy?" Beth laughed as she saw the ninja's toes wiggle and spread in her sheer pink pantyhose. "Pink stockings? What kind of ninja are you?" But Beth didn't have long to gloat. The first ninja she had knocked out with the car door wasn't exactly out, and had snuck up and grabbed her from behind. This woman was quite strong. Beth tried her best to twist free, and she managed to tear off this ninja's mask revealing her long blond hair and pretty Nordic looking face. But Beth soon found it impossible put up any resistance once the woman's fingers made their way under her shirt and danced across her ticklish body-stocking clad ribs.

"EEAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!" Beth burst out laughing not expecting it to tickle as much as it did. The intense tickling, magnified by the sheerness of her body-stocking, seemed to suck the strength right out of her.

The ninja who had lost her shoes rose to her feet and approached her angrily. Beth knew she was in deep trouble. "You'll pay for knocking me out of my Adidas," the shoeless ninja said slipping back into her errant shoes. She eyed Beth's own Adidas sneakers. "Hmm, you have good taste in sneakers. I might as well add them to my collection." Beth noticed she had a thick high pitched New York accent.

As the ninja approached, the tickler allowed Beth to catch her breath for her moment while she restrained her in a headlock. Beth felt so weak and exhausted; she could do nothing to break free. She could hear Vanessa laughing hysterically in the distance and looked to see the other ninja carrying her towards the building while tickling her stocking feet mercilessly. "She'll have it easy compared to you," the New York ninja said as she grabbed Beth's ankle.

"No!" Beth begged as she helplessly watched her foot lift off the ground, "please, don't take my shoe."

"You made me lose my shoes, it's only fair that I return the favor," the girl sneered as she slowly removed the sneaker from Beth's quivering foot. She laughed as she exposed more of Beth's foot. "Green pantyhose? And you were making fun of my cute pink ones. Who wears green pantyhose, really?"

"Actually, this one's wearing a body-stocking," the other one said with a sexy Norwegian accent, "I love tickling her tummy through it.

"Body-stocking, eh? I thought the Mistress had caught all of the body-stocking girls already," the New York ninja said as she slipped Beth's sneaker off her spreading toes. The two ninjas smiled, "Wow, what a ticklish looking foot," the New York one said immediately before getting kicked in the face by said foot. She soon found herself on her back again, looking up at her pink stocking feet. She had been knocked out of her shoes again!

With her strength returned, Beth used the distraction to her advantage and flipped the ninja who had grabbed her over her back. Beth had tried to throw the ninja on top of the one she had kicked, but the woman behind her was more flexible than she had anticipated, and managed to counter the flip by curling around wrapping her legs around Beth's waste. Beth fell to the ground and found herself in a full nelson.

"Hold her tight, Evie, she's tougher than I thought," the shoeless one said as she once again retrieved her shoes. "Let's just knock her out and get this over with."

"I got her, Mindy," Evie said gripping Beth tightly. "Hurry up and finish her off, she's strong."

"Just a sec," Mindy said slipping back into her sneakers.

"You and your sneakers … you're always getting knocked out of them and then we have to wait for you to put them back on." Evie complained as she tried her best to keep Beth from struggling. "When are you going to learn how to tie your shoes!"

"Shut up, Evie, I do so know how to tie them. Watch."

"FORGET YOUR SHOES AND HURRY UP, I CAN'T HOLD HER FOREVER!" Evie ordered.

As Mindy approached with her bat in hand, Beth looked around frantically for anything to get her out of the situation. Looking down, she saw Evie's legs still wrapped around her waist. Evie was still wearing her black sneakers. Unlike the New York ninja, she kept them tied tightly. It was going to be tough to remove them, but she had to try, it was the only chance she had.

"Hey, stop that!" Evie protested as the sneakers were pried off her feet. Fortunately Evie's slick teal pantyhose made removing them easy. "My shoes! Hit her, Mindy!"

But Mindy had once again been knocked out of her sneakers, this time by Evie's shoe, which had been thrown right at Mindy's face. Mindy was now on her back again, with her pink stocking feet sticking up in the air.

Now it was Beth's turn to do the tickling as she mercilessly attacked Evie's delicate stocking feet. "Dahahahaha!" Evie laughed as she fell backwards and released her grip. Beth was now sitting on top of her, tickling her toes mercilessly. "Plehehease Stohahahahop!" Evie begged. She tried tickling Beth's armpits, but found that her hands were still under Beth's arms, but now trapped in a tight arm lock. Beth clearly had the upper hand now. "Hehehehelllpppp! Mihehehehehindy!"

"This is so embarrassing," Mindy said as she stared for a moment at her stocking feet. "You're really asking for it you know … first ripping off my mask, and then making me lose my shoes THREE times!" Finally Mindy got off her back and walked back towards her errant shoes, which were still standing where she had once stood before getting kicked out of them. "That's it, I'm tying them this time," she said as she fumbled with the laces.

It was taking her much longer to tie them than Evie liked. "Hahaha! Huhoohurry! Mihihihindeeheheee!" She laughed as Beth moved to her stocking clad arch.

"You're going to have to wait for that retard to finish tying her shoes," Beth teased as she tortured Evie more aggressively, "Looks like you'll be stuck here for a long time."

"Retard?!" Mindy exclaimed angrily dropping her untied shoelaces. "How dare you insult me, you green tighted twat!" And before Beth knew it, Mindy had grabbed her bat and was already winding up for the hit.

Beth gasped when she looked up and saw the bat descending onto her face. In that split second she knew she was done. It was too late to dodge or duck, too late to block. The bat was coming down and was coming down fast. And it was the last thing she saw before losing consciousness.


The first thing Mindy noticed was that her bat had missed, and missed horribly. Then she felt her sneakers start to come off … again. Then she felt herself falling, as if the momentum of the swing had sent her flying instead of sending her intended target flying. Then she felt her toes lose contact with her shoes. And finally she was on her back again, staring back up at her shoeless stocking feet. What had gone wrong?

"She shrunk!" She heard Evie shout, "Quck, Mindy, help me find her!" But Mindy was too dumbfounded to move. She just stared at her pink stockinged feet in confusion. How did this happen?

And then she heard Evie scream. And then she saw a bat coming at her face. And then blackness.


"Hey, Beth, wake up!" Beth heard Kevin say as he poked and prodded her through her sheer bodystocking.

"Heheee," Beth giggled, "Stop!" When she opened her eyes, she found herself in Kevin's hand. She was a little over 5 inches tall, and was completely naked, save for her body stocking. "Kevin! what have you done?" she asked shocked.

"I shrunk you. It was the only way to save you from that girl with the bat."

Beth shook her head as the events leading up to her losing consciousness came back to her. "Save me? I had everything under control," she said pompously.

"Oh please, she would have knocked your head off if I hadn't shrunk you in time."

"But I'm invulnerable in this thing. All she could have done was knock me out, which seems to have happened anyway."

"Did you really want to test that theory of yours first hand?"

"Oh, shut up Kevin, and get me back to my normal size. I don't feel comfortable with you holding me like this when I'm naked. Where are my clothes anyway?" Beth asked looking around confusedly. It was then that she noticed she was nowhere near the car. Indeed, she was inside a lobby of some sort. In fact, she was inside the building they were parked outside of. The enemy's building ... "Kevin?" Beth asked astonished, "Why did you bring me in here?"

"I wanted to find out where they took Vanessa. One of those ninjas carried her off in here. But now that I'm here I'm not sure where to go. That's why I woke you."

Beth looked at Kevin angrily. "So you thought it was a good idea to just waltz inside our enemies headquarters to find her?"

"Well, it's not like the car was a safer place to stay. Besides, who knows when those two girls will wake up. I didn't hit them that hard. Only enough to knock them out."

Beth thought for a moment. It was only then that she realised exactly what Kevin had done to save her. She sighed, "I guess you're right. Thank you Kevin ... for saving me. Who knows what they would have done with me once they knocked me out."

Kevin smiled, "You're welcome. I didn't think I had it in me," Kevin gently placed Beth on the floor and pulled the shrinker out from his coat pocket. "So you ready to grow back to normal?"

Beth looked around realising that Kevin hadn't brought her clothes. "Wait. You forgot my clothes didnt' you?"

Kevin's face turned red. "I'm sorry, I was in a hurry to catch up with Vanessa's captor."

Beth sighed again. "It's okay, I would have done the same thing. Besides, if you grow me back I'll only be knocked out for awhile again. And it's probably not a good idea to be unconscious in here. Maybe it's better if I stay small and try and find her. It'll be easier for me to sneak around."

"Good idea, and we can communicate through the shrinker," Kevin added, "but you might need help operating the elevator."

Beth considered this quandary for a moment before being inturrupted by a tiny voice "They didn't go through the elevator," the voice said from behind the reception desk. It was a female voice, with some sort of English accent. Kevin and Beth looked astonished when they saw a miniature five inch blonde woman clad only in a sheer white body stocking step out from behind the desk.

"Who are you?"

"My name is Gwen," she said politely as they approached her. She was very pretty, and seemed to have a kind face. "But we can introduce ourselves later. There are camera's all over this room, and I'm sure they've heard everything you said. It's only a matter of time before they send more goons after you. Your friend was carried off through that back hallway," she said pointing off to a small door near the elevator. "I think I know where they're taking her. I can lead you there."

"But how do we know we can trust you?" Beth said eyeing Gwen suspiciously.

"Open up the top left drawer on my desk," was all Gwen said in response. With curious trepidation, Kevin opened the drawer. His eyes widened when he saw a tiny Lisa, sitting Indian style inside. She looked up at him fearfully at first, but then gave a relieved smile when she saw who it was. "I kept her in there to keep her safe, before your friends shrunk me."

"Who's in there, Kevin?" Beth asked not able to see.

"It's one of the shrunken girls Lucy was carrying," Kevin said lifting her gently out of the drawer and placing on the floor in front of Beth.

"Lisa?" Beth asked, surprised.

"Yes it's me," Lisa said shyly upon seeing Beth naked again. "I think you can trust Gwen. I've overheard pretty much everything that's gone on in here since she caught me and she doesn't seem like one of the bad guys."

"She caught you ... and trapped you in a drawer, and you say we can trust her?" Beth turned to Gwen accusingly, "And just where are 'our friends' anyway? What happened to them after they shrunk you?

"They were captured too! But I overheard one of the captors say that they were taking them to Nylondon. There's an airplane out back. They're probably loading your friends on that plane as we speak. If we hurry we can catch them. Or at least get the hell out of here before someone catches us."

Beth and Kevin looked at each other quizically, still not sure whether or not it was a good idea to trust Gwen. Beth soon realised that they had little, if any choice. "Okay, we'll follow you, but I'm not sure what we're going to do when we get there. Kevin, carry us gently please."

Kevin grabbed a glass ashtray from the desk that looked as if it had never been used. He ushered the shrunken young women onto it and carried them to the door. On the other side of the door was a narrow hallway leading outside to the airfield. In the distance, they could see three people prepping a small plane for launch.

"Good, we still have time," Gwen said excitedly.

"Time for what?" Beth asked. "Kevin's the only normal sized one here. How are we going to rescue our friends?"

"Maybe we should just call the police," Lisa said somewhat fearfully. "We'll be caught for sure as soon as Kevin sets foot out there."

"If Kevin sets foot out there, yes," Beth said leaping off of the ashtray and onto the floor. "But if we go out without him, we could probably sneak on board."

"But why would we want to sneak on board?" Lisa gasped as she watched Gwen leap down after her.

"Well, you can stay if you want. But I'm not waiting for police, who will most certainly arrive too late, while Vanessa's being carried off to God knows where. Besides, this is our best chance of rescuing Niesa and the rest of them," she said as she ran towards the plane.

Lisa looked around fearfully as she watched them run off. She then looked up at Kevin unable to decide whether to stay or follow them. Reluctantly, she came to a decision. "Ohhh, I'm going to regret this!" Lisa said before finally leaping off after them. "Wait up!"

Beth and Gwen stopped and turned to wait for Lisa. "Kevin, don't communicate with me across the shrinker unless you hear from me first!" Gwen shouted back remembering there method of communication. "I don't want your voice to be blairing out while I'm trying to sneak passed some baddies."

"Got it, sis," Kevin responded giving her the thumbs up. "I'll gather as much intel as I can for you."

Beth nodded in acknowledgement before running down the corridor with Lisa and Gwen. The three tiny women ran as fast as they could out through the corridor and onto the airfield. It looked as if they had finished prepping the plane. The engines rumbled loudly as it prepared for take off.

"We have to hurry!" Gwen shouted as she led them towards the plane. Beth followed close behind with Lisa doing her best to keep up. The three girls managed to reach one of the plane's rear wheels before it started to pull forward.

"Quick, Lisa! It's starting to move!" Beth shouted as she and Gwen climbed up the landing gear.

"This is crazy! This is crazy!" Lisa said to herself as she ran as fast as she could toward the wheel. Beth reached out her hand and pulled her up. As the plane started to pick up speed on the runway, the three girls scurried up the landing gear and into the small compartment above.

"Are you sure there's enough room for us here? What if the landing gear crushes us when it's raised?" Lisa asked trying to catch her breath.

"Don't worry, we can't be crushed while we're wearing polyphylon," Beth reassured.

"Yeah, but don't expect this to be a comfortable trip," Gwen replied as the plane lifted off the ground. The landing gear retracted slowly, and soon all light was eliminated as the compartment closed. Kevin watched from below as the plane flew off into the distance with the tiny rescuers.