Shrink Wrapped

And it didn’t take her long to get an invitation to see the great man at work. Scientific work that was still classified as being top secret, but work that nobody in his own government seemed to care about. Within a week Barkini invited the young girl up to his laboratories and inveigled her a pass. The plan being that he would show his invention if she would show her - charms. They had a deal.

Once inside his laboratory Barkini was quick to demonstrate how efficient his machine was, but then made a fatal mistake. Quite unintentionally he explained the controls to a woman who had a brilliant photographic memory and a perfect eye for detail. Then Barkini made a second, even more terrible mistake. He went and stood on the plastic collection tray himself, and the second he did that the blonde dropped a bombshell and hit the miniaturisation button herself. The last thing Barkini remembered was the beautiful smile of the lovely lady as she hit the lever that shrunk him down to the size of a polka dot. He never had the chance to see her download the desktop computers to her waiting associates. He never saw her plant the small explosive devise that would vaporise his entire laboratory. And he certainly never heard her speak as she carefully collected him on the plastic slide and placed his miniaturised self inside the plastic dish. But if he had heard her as she walked towards the exit he would h ave noticed she was humming a very old popular melody as she quietly celebrated the conclusion of a very successful mission.

And she felt she had every right to be pleased. This was surely something that would finally put her country on the map. And as she placed the dish containing Barkini inside her handbag, the last place any normal security guard was likely to search, the great man would have heard her say, "Oh look! It’s an itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dotted Barkini - that’s been shrunk for the first time, today…"

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