Micro May Day 29: The Size-Off
Story by Xialdeim on SoFurry
This story's prompt was: A contest held outside. The 5th annual male size-off begins.
"Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to the 5th annual male size-off! This time we are focusing on shrinking. After the last year's growth contest had a powerful finish that ended up destroying the planet it was held on!"
The crowd lets out a cheer, and the announcer continues
"That is why we always hold them on a planet with no native life because they tend to get galactic. Enough about last year. Let's have our contestants."
A huge group of men takes to the stage, and the crowd goes wild.
"For those that don't know, here are the rules: Contestants will be giving a size goal; anyone that can reach it will be knocked out. The rounds will get harder and harder until all but one are knocked out. If two or more are still standing after the 5th round, the shrink-off will begin, and both of them will shrink until one of them no longer can. Now let's start!"
The crowd goes wild once again before the first round starts.
"The ability to change size is like a muscle; you can train it to do more. Let's warm up with our first round!" A man comes out and holds a baseball bat to the ground.
"Match the size!" The crowd cheers again wildly, and the contestants all start shrinking. Pretty much all of them meet the goal, outside a few that pull a muscle. "Wow, that is why you stretch before working out, folks! Better luck next time. Let's give a hand to everyone that made it this far!"
The crowd started to clap to mark the end of the first round.
"Now the next round starts." The same man from before comes out, this time with a glass cup.
"Match the size!" The crowd and the announcer cry out. This round knocks out a lot more men as they find it harder to reach this goal. 20 out of the starting 50 are left.
"Things are heating up as we lost half the contestants. Let's give them another round of applause for them!"
The crowd claps as the next round starts. This time, it is a leaf that is about half the size of the cup.
"Match the size!" A few more get knocked out, but most still meet the goal.
"Wow, we still have 15 left! The next two rounds are going to heat things up!" The next round gets set up as a dime put on the leaf.
"Match the size!" Only 5 are left in the end. "Let's move on to the last round!" A small ant is brought out next. Only 2 remain after this round. Only two men remain. A green dragon man and a moose man, both burly builds and clearly well-trained for the task.
"One more round of applause for our finalists!" The crowd goes wild again. "Now we will get our last two contestants set up." They are both picked up and set on a new stage. "This is a set-up to a super powerful microscope and hooked up to a feed so you can still see no matter how small this action gets! Now for the final match: 3! 2! 1! Shrink!"
Both of them shrink as fast as they can, both of them getting so small they can't be seen by the naked eye and show no signs of slowing down. Everyone watches in awe as they start to shrink so much they are starting to get out of focus even in the microscope. Soon there is nothing left to see, and everyone is stunned.
"Uh, I guess it is a tie?" The announcer says. They were never seen again, but over a hundred years later, people still debate who truly won that day.