Illustration by Charlize Lucy Winslow, Character design by Rebecca Chisam
Medusa Gaines isn’t skilled in the art of interacting with humans.
If you asked her sunshiney secretary, Ellie Acosta, she’d likely say this is because she treats everyone like a lab rat; a specimen to be studied.
Medusa disagrees.
She treats them like lab chipmunks.
As an up and coming research scientist at Specnet Laboratories, Medusa much prefers studying eastern chipmunks than your everyday average lab rats. They're natural loners. Medusa understands that.
But when Ellie accidently causes an important Specnet experiment to go awry, Medusa and Ellie find themselves quite transformed… literally. They're about two inches high, fuzzy, with stripes down their backs.
In other words, they're accidental chipmunks.
To survive as prey in a foreign forest, the two girls are forced to work together to even last a day.
As time ticks on, struggles to return to their human forms persist, and secrets of Ellie's are revealed, it seems that Medusa’s dreams of a loner life are rapidly coming to a close. But maybe, just maybe, having a friend isn't as bad as the stoic scientist hypothesized.