TF High Chapter One: A Small Problem


It had been a long swimming practice and Toby Smalls was wiped out. He sat in the locker room waiting for the other guys to leave before he came out to shower. It wasn’t so much the fact that he didn’t like the idea of taking off his clothes in front of other guys, though that was a close second.

It was more due to the fact that although being the same age as the rest of the swim team Toby Smalls was nearly a half foot shorter than anyone in the school. His parents and doctor assured him there was nothing to worry about, and that he would catch up later but that was almost a year ago. Nearly every day the other guys would make fun of him.

“Are you sure you should be on swim team smalls?” They would ask, “ After all the life guards might think a baby fell in.” Toby wasn’t one to argue so he had been hiding after practice for the past week. But today was different. When the guys came in this time they didn’t shower but began talking instead.

“Did you hear about that emergency over at GeneCorp earlier?” Chester asked the other guys. “Yeah I did.” Herb replied, “It was suppose to be a false alarm though, no biggie.” “I wouldn’t be too sure about that.” Joey pitched in, “I went by Principle Millers office right before her announcement today. I heard some pretty weird noises in there. I thought I’d take a look but before I could I saw something weird moving around.”

“Really?” Herb asked, “What was it?”  “How should I know?!?” Joey replied, “I split as fast as I could. I’m not staying here any longer I’m grabbing my stuff and ditching the rest of classes today. Anyone else up for it?”  “Sure.” The guys all said in agreement, “Hey has anybody seen that shrimp Smalls? Joey asked, as they began to walk out. “Finally a lucky break.” Toby thought to himself.

Toby walked to the shower and began to rinse off, “I don’t see why they have to be so mean to me.” he began saying half to himself, which was his normal way of venting his feelings. “I mean I know I’m a bit small for my age, but why me in particular? I’m a nice enough guy, and the same age as most of the guys. So why don’t I fit in?” Toby Slammed down the shower knob turning off the water. “Why do I have to be so small anyway? I mean they had to order “special pair” Of swim trunks for me.”

Toby steps out of the shower, and takes a quick drink form the water fountain. “All I really want is to have a normal trunk size.” As Toby starts to dry off, he is unaware that he is about to get what he wanted but not in the way he expected. His dark brown hair begins to thin and spread out across his back.

Toby’s skin begins to change to a shade of grey as he begins to feel a slight tingling on the tip of his ears. He wraps the towel around his waist, still unaware of the changes happening to him. That is until a sudden ach on each side of his jaw starts. As Toby raises his hand to inspect the ach he is nearly thrown back when he discovers his now grey arm as become several times its normal size.

“Wow! What…What the hell is going on?” He asks as the tingling spreads across the rest of his body. “Where’s the mirror I need to see a mirror!” As Toby reaches the mirror he sees that his face has turned the same shade of grey, and two small tusks are just starting to from. Suddenly the tingling suddenly becomes pain, and looking down Toby begins to understand why.

“I’m growing so big I won’t fit in the room in a few seconds!” Now rushing towards the door the changes come much quicker now. Toby’s arms and legs take on a wider rounder as they slowly merge with his hands and feet, causing Toby to fall to all fours.

“NO, NO, NO!” Toby starts shouting. “This can’t be happening!” Almost out to the door Toby realizes that he’ll have to duck to get through. As he does however his new pudgy-round body grows yet again. “Oh now I’ve done it.” Toby says, “I’m stuck in the door.

The final points of the transformation set in; a new tail appears from behind as Toby’s face begins to take a better shape for his now large head, his once human ears have now grown into large fan-like extensions, and his noise stretches into a perfectly average elephant’s trunk.

“Well I guess I got what I wanted” Toby begins saying, “ I got a regular trunk size now. This is so embracing, I’m just glad none of the guys are here to see this…” No sooner had Toby said the words than he heard Chester’s voice coming from the other side of the room. “Hang on guys I lost my lucky coin, Have you seen it?” “Where did you have it last?” Joey asked. “I think I saw it in the locker room.” Herb remarked.

As they walked into the room they couldn’t believe their eyes. They stood in front of Toby for a few minutes, jaws dropped in amazement. “What the hell?” Asked Joey “What’s and elephant doing in our locker room?” “Actually” Toby spoke up, in his now deeper voice, “I’m stuck in the doorway to our locker room. Would you mind going and getting me some help?”

“HOLY CRAP IT TALKS!” The guys said in unison, right before the fainted and fell over. “Well I guess being an elephant does have some advantages.” Toby said, “But how am I getting out of here? Hey guys could you wake up? I seriously need help, I’m stuck. Guys? GUYS?!?”

What is causing these transformations and what can the students of Travis Fortmasion High School expect to be coming? Find out next time when TF High continues…