Ruby and I got let out of 'detention' after another four hours of sitting there. We didn't even do anything, we just sat there. In complete silence. For four hours. I'm no stranger to having to be patient, but even I thought that it was just tedious as all hell.

When we finally did get let out though, it came with Oobleck yammering something about reading, and bolting out the door at the speed of sound. It made as much sense as anything else regarding our situation. But at least I didn't have to sit around anymore, stewing with questions I wasn't going to get answers for.

Instead, I could walk with them.

We left the building, and ambled around the grounds for a bit. Everything looked… wrong. Like someone and gone and sheered the edges off of everything. Then squashed it, dulled it, and somehow made everything appear as though we were in some sort of comic book or cartoon. That wasn't even getting to the people, that was just what was wrong with the world around me. Everyone was still pudgy, squishy, and all around deformed in a way that I didn't understand. When I woke up this morning, I'd thought I was just suffering from the after effects of the vodka flu. Instead, it was real.

How did we all get to be midgets in the span of a single night?

What sorcery had been worked that we were like this now?

Most importantly, who was I going to have to kill to get back to normal? Because when I got my hands on them, it wasn't going to be pretty.

"Sooo Six-" Ruby said "You doing ok?"

I looked to her, and wasn't able to suppress the twitch that rolled through me. I was absolutely livid, and looking at her only reminded me of it. Aside from the fact that she was now a pudgy midget, with an oversized head and face, Ruby still looked the same.

She was also acting the same, like there was absolutely nothing wrong with her.

"Just… dandy." I gritted "… you?"

"Oh, you know, just a little bored." Ruby continued, acting as though nothing was wrong "Wanna go play videogames? I just got a copy of the new Samurai Spirits game."

"… Sounds nice… But I really don't think now's the time."

Ruby's expression fell, and she gave me that sad, puppy-eyed look can bend steel. Somehow, the changes to her physiology only seemed to amplify this power. "Aw~, but it'd be fun."

Unfortunately for Ruby, while the bizarre changes to our physiology might've made her more powerful, I was to pissed to care. "Yeah, I'm sure."

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Ruby visibly slumped "Oh… okay…" She turned and walked away slowly, and I continued onward.

I began wandering beacon in earnest. I needed to see if there was any place that hadn't been affected by whatever was going on. But each path I walked was lined with plants, whose branches seemed to jell into a single solid mass. Each hall I walked, and building I searched looking too smooth and solid to be man-made. Like someone had taken a large mold of everything and cast it all to uniformity.

It was wrong, everything was wrong. The longer I kept my eyes open the angrier it made me. Sadly, I couldn't navigate by echolocation either. So being pissed and confused was my only option.

"I don't have any clue what's going on" I grumbled to myself "But I'm going to fix this. I'm going to put everything back the way it was or so help me I'm going to-"

"Excuse me?"

"Ack!"

I stopped grumbling and whipped around. I hadn't realized anyone had been coming up behind me.

It was Velvet, of all people.

Shrunk and pudgy like all people. Her ears also looked bigger. Surprisingly, and perhaps scarily, it made her look cuter.

She jumped back a little as I whipped around to face her. She probably hadn't been expecting me to turn on her so suddenly.

"S-sorry!" She squeaked.

"… I-it's fine, Velvet." I sighed, trying to release my frustrations "… What's up?"

"Umm…" She intoned, folding her arms behind her back "… I- I was wondering if you'd… umm…"

"Yes?" I asked, probably sounding a bit impatient. I immediately regretted it since Velvet visibly flinched, clearly aware I was in a bad mood.

"N-nothing!" She squeaked, then she turned around and ran. Leaving little more than a cloud of dust in her place.

"… What was that about?" I grumbled, turning back to my wandering. I felt a bit bad for scaring her off, but I had no clue why she'd stopped me in the first place either.

I continued down the corridors and halls of the academy for a few minutes more. But, honestly, nothing changed. Every inch of ground I covered seemed to be exactly the same as the last. It continued like that for sometime. Then I got sick of it, and wandered out to the front of the school. I needed to know how far this 'distortion' stretched. So the next thing I needed an idea of was distance.

Which meant, a trip to Vale was in order. If this reached out there, then I'd be at a loss, but beyond that I wouldn't actually be losing anything.

At the back of my mind though, I couldn't help but shake the feeling I was forgetting about something. I'd woken up that morning, and everything was like it was. But that wasn't right. I could've sworn it was normal when I'd fallen asleep last night. Though I'd also been blitzed out of my head if I remembered correctly. But I did distinctly remember the world not being as it was now.

Something just wasn't adding up.

I walked down the main path leading out front of the school. I walked past Ren and Nora on the way. The latter of whom was glaring at the former and holding a picket sign with the words 'NOTICE ME!" written in bright pink. Though when she saw me, she just gave a defeated sigh and trudged away.

'Poor girl, someday he'll notice.'

"Hey Six!"

I turned and saw Yang toddling towards me. The motion was actually closer to walking, but with how stumpy everyone's legs were, toddling seemed more apropos.

"Yang." I acknowledged.

She blinked and tilted her head. "You ok?"

"Fine, why?"

"Because you seem kinda… angry."

"I am not angry."

"… Yeah, you're angry."

"What do you want?"

Yang looked at me for a moment, then shrugged and planted her pudgy fist into her opposing palm. "I was gonna ask if you wanted to spar."

"I'm not in the mood." I said, and continued walking.

"Aw, come on!" She called after me "… You didn't have to smack me down like that!"

I started walking faster.