For the briefest of moments, everything hurt. It felt like every bone in my body had been shattered and my nerves flayed. Like someone had stuffed me foot first into a wood chipper while I was hung over. If it had lasted any longer than it did, I would've been wailing at the top of my lungs.

But it was only for a second. After that, I just felt horribly hungover.

I cracked my eyes open and let the dull light of my closet filter through the goggles of my gas mask. Everything seemed to be in order, water heaters were boiling and the brooms were doing whatever brooms do when not in use. Vegetate, I guess.

'Urgh, the hell happened last night?'

With effort, I sat myself up right on my cot. My head was swimming and aching. Something had happened last night, but I couldn't remember what. I looked down at the floor and soon learned why. Littered all around my room were empty glass bottles.

'… oh yeah! I found Ozpin's secret stash last night.'

I smirked a little at the thought. I figured someone like Ozpin had to be hiding liquor somewhere. How could you run a school full of angsty and hormonal teenagers without an occasional nip o' the good stuff?

I'd helped myself to it and I regretted nothing. Even with the hangover.

But something still felt off and I couldn't quite put my finger on what. Even through my delirium everything looked to be about the same. Maybe the colors of everything seemed a bit more solid and flat, but I could chock that to the hangover. In the end, I wasn't quite sure why everything felt off.

I pushed myself off of the cot and went to get dressed. Looking at my small pile of clothes though, I noticed that my Uniform and Parkstroller outfit were already folded there. I looked down and noticed I was wearing my riot gear. I then also realized why everything seemed so different.

Someone had hacked my legs down into stumps.

Well, 'hacked' is a bit extreme. More like they'd removed huge sections of bone and left me of a more… stumpy stature. Nevertheless-

"What the hell!?" I shout, practically leaping into the air in surprise.

I pulled up my pant leg and began checking my stumps. I still had knees and, judging by the wriggling in my boots, Feet and toes as well. But my legs were smaller and pudgier than they should've been. Nothing felt missing or out of place, just smaller. Which wasn't unfamiliar, this wasn't the first time I'd had to deal with size issues recently.

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No, not like that, pervert.

Everything about me seemed to be proportional, but that didn't change the fact that I'd somehow shrunk. Again.

"Everything ok Six?" A voice asked from outside my door, it sounded like Ruby.

"Uh, y-yeah." I answer pulling my pant leg back down.

"Then hurry up, we're late for class!"

"O-ok."

'Crap, I can't go to class like this! There's no explaining how I turned from semi-normal to… this, in a single night.'

I began looking around the room for something to help disguise my new physical ailments. Unfortunately, I didn't have much in the way of prosthetics. After all, up until this point I hadn't needed to worry about being shrunk so small.

"Hey, what's taking so long?" another voiced asked from beyond the door. It sounded like Yang.

"Just a second!" I reiterated, scrambling to come up with some sort of stilts.

"We don't have time Six!"

"I'm-"

Before I could answer, the door was blown off the hinges by Yang. The ruined door to my room settled to the floor in pieces. Standing on the other side of the door was Yang, her fist outstretched and a smirk on her face. There was just one key difference from normal.

"What the fuck is wrong with your head!?" I shouted

The two girls standing on the opposite side of the doorway looked very much like Ruby and Yang. Same clothes, hair, eyes, everything. But they seemed to be suffering from whatever was affecting me. They themselves were shrunk down and made oddly pudgy. But there was another, even more noticeable trait. Their heads were nearly three times their ordinary size, with eyes and mouths to match.

"Hey! What's that supposed to mean?" Yang asked angrily

"Head! Legs! What the hell happened to you guys!?"

Yang and Ruby shared a look like I was crazy.

"What are you talking about? We're fine." Ruby answered

"But… but your heads…"

"What is taking so long!?" A shrill voice asked

Weiss sauntered quickly down the hallway, Blake in close pursuit. Both of them were suffering from the disease that had crept into the rest of us.

"We're late, let's go!" Weiss said, disappearing from view.

"W-wait up!" Ruby shouted, taking off after her deformed teammates.

"Let's go Six!" Yang said with a smirk "Don't want to be late to Oobleck's classes."

Yang took off after the rest of them and I just stood there. Staring through the door frame and wondering what the hell was going on.

'what the hell is going on?'

"Push Ren!" Jaune shouted from beyond the doorway.

"I am" The normally soft spoken Ren growled.

Through the door frame, I watched as Jaune and Ren slowly crept by. The reason why? They were pushing Nora, who was swollen up like a balloon and looked like she was dazed. She softly groaned and had this complacent smile on her face.

"I told you making all those pancakes was a bad idea." Ren said, still pushing

"Yea yea, I know. I thought she had a little self control."

Ren didn't bother to reply to that, instead he just kept pushing as they passed my doorway.

'… yeah, fuck today. I'm going back to sleep.'