Quick little idea that popped in my head!
so you know how Jim gets shrunk in the furgolator? so now imagine if later on something happens and somehow a bunch of the trolls get shrunk. idk how it happens but ignore that part.
And so Jim finds his troll dads, and maybe a few others just teeny tiny, but the gnomes are threatening them so he has to take them out of Trollmarket and take care of them.
proceed silly shenanigans of Jim going around for like 24 hours with tiny Blinky on his shoulder and Arrrgh in his pocket while he goes to school.
Better late than never right ?
Actually ? I do wanna explore how it happens >:D !! So if my memory does not fail me, when the furgulator was introduced, they explained it was usually used to temporarily shrink materials. Maybe to transport them more easily ? It could even be a relatively new invention for trolls. Something created so they could move their stuff without being noticed by humans or other similar endeavors.
Anyway, they're using the furgulator to help with Arcadia's clean-up after the eternal night, by compacting the rumble and then moving it to the proper disposal place before it returns to the original size and weight. But there's something they forgot to account for.
When using a more āold-schoolā machine or contraption such as the furgulator (to not clunky). It's wise to let it have a cooldown period after using it a lot !! Especially if it's not used with frequency OR gotten regular maintenance. And considering how it looked in āGnome your enemyā that thing was definitely not getting oil-changes or gears greased.
So during a batch, the iron-maiden looking device starts overheating mid-way through, with cracks beginning to show and metal bending due to the build-up pressure of steam, letting the build-up out with an uncomfortable shrill. It would be a GREAT idea to turn it down before it gets any worse, or blows up on them for that matter ā¦.. except that there isn't a convenient button to stop this (there never is).
It explodes rather spectacularly, with a big flash of light and a lot of dust & smoke in the air. When all of that finally clears, thereās a small pile of rubble in the remaining smoking heap of the furgulator. Oh !! Blinky, Arrrgh and Draal also have been shrunk.
Like you said, it's the same deal as the last time it was used on a living being. 24 hours of being āfun-sizedā until the effect wears off. And yes !! The blue spikey troll did not find the joke funny, at all. So yeah, Draal itās the most grumpy about the whole thing, not wanting to wait that long for his glorious and true size to be restored.
Blinky is mostly frustrated over forgetting something like this could happen for overusing the machine. And also cause heās not able to help others like he would normally be capable of. Plus thereās the fact he likes to read when heās nervous, but he canāt do that on his own on account of his books being bigger than him now.
And Arrrgh ? Heās just vibing through the whole thing !! Unbothered, hydrated, in his lane and lowkey enjoying their surprise vacation all things considered. The krubera can fit one of Tobyās pockets like a kangaroo and all of his favorite snacks are giant sized now. Heck, Arrrgh doesnāt even have to worry about controlling his strength for once.
Itās not something he would want to do again, also really trippy and unnerving to be so small when heās used to the opposite (Arrrghās also sad cause he canāt give huge hugs and big cuddles like this). But again, itās temporary and thereās nothing they can do to make it go away faster, so he might as well enjoy it while it lasts, thatās his mentality through the whole thing.
Besides, Trolls are way bigger and stronger than your average 15-year old chosen one. So they don't struggle as much as Jim did, however !! Trollmarket it's not exactly the ideal place for them to have a mini-vacation (I'm legally obligated to do as many puns as I'm capable of). Especially with all the hustle and bustle lately.
So the best place would be on the surface with Jim, Toby or Claire. But Enrique has begun crawling and even walking, so the Nunez residence is out due the risk of the trolls being confused for a pacifier. And Tobe's home too, because of all the cats and Nana's not exactly stellar vision, particularly with small objects sheās not used with.
But Jim doesnāt have any of those problems. And on top of that, the trollhunter has prepared for this exact scenario ā¦ well not this exact event. But he did get a back-up dollhouse and furnished in case he ever had to āexperienceā the furgulator to catch another sneaky Gnome. It wasnāt particularly hard to adapt for his new guests. (Jim and Toby actually had a lot of fun making the toy-house extra special, and maybe used more money than they should for this one-time thing).
Arrrgh has a small heating pad to enjoy and nap on, Draal has a miniature punching bag to vent his frustrations on (please do not say it's a mini anything. This has been enough of a trying time for the spikey troll). And Blinky has access to a small computer AND the whole internet to keep his thirst for knowledge sated (I'm sure this wonāt back-fire at all).
So the trio is pretty comfortable all things considered. Jim even sets aside a plate with metal shavings and trollish snacks for them to eat, once again they're pretty impressed with the trollhunter's thoughtfulness and care.
It would shape up to be a pretty uneventful night. Until they hear Jim having a nightmare, evident by his tossing and turning in bed ā¦.. they thought those were gone. He always slept so soundly at trollmarket.
The mystery is solved when Arrrgh notices he's crying/whimpering like a youngling calling for the comfort of his parents or other family members. Well that explains it, but the problem wonāt solve itself, they gotta do something about it.
At their current state, the most logical answer would be to wake up Jim, tell him that everything's okay and hope he would fall asleep without any night-terrors this time. But what if he wasnāt able to slumber again that night ? They all knew Jim needed all the sleep he could get.
But the only other option itās to comfort the youngling while heās still asleep, which might result in them getting accidentally smushed or even thrown away like a rag-doll, Jim was having a nightmare after all. What would they choose ? Well, if itās anything they named the operation āRocky Teddy-bearsā.
The trio climbed on the bed and proceeded to comfort the trollhunter as best as they could without waking him up. Rumbling softly to his cries, as if saying āWeāre hereā and āEverythingās okayā. And it did work wonders, as Jim relaxed and breathed more smoothly, the mission was a success.
Though Jim did start to move before they climbed down the bed, and before the trolls knew it they were cradled like plushies with no chance to escape without waking up the half-troll. It was actually very comfortable so they didnāt mind.
Now I have 2 conflicting ideas which are both really cool !! So Iām just gonna say āem both as they lead to the same end-result more or less.
When you sent an ask about the trolls being the victims of a furgulator incident my mind immediately went to Cinderella and her cute mice-friends and how they helped her in the movie (bless that disney era). But with Jim and the others, and I mean, the trollhunter itās basically a disney princess/prince anyway, with the whole missing father thing, plus being good at befriending trolls.
(1) In the morning the alarm starts beeping at an ungodly hour, surely Jim didnāt mean to wake up that early ? So they turn it off and go back to sleeping ā¦ā¦ maybe a bit too much because Blinky finally remembered what hour human-school starts, looked at the clock and went ācrapā. Jim could be pretty late if he didnāt start getting ready now.
But because the half-troll slept more than usual (also more relaxed) that means heās super groggy and sleepy! So they gotta help the trollhunter get ready for school while not bigger than a sack of flour. And surprisingly ? They do well enough, Blinky and Arrrgh groom his hair and Draal wields the toothbrush like a weapon (against cavities, bacteria and bad-breath).By then Jimās awake enough to choose a new deep blue hoodie with extra pockets, so he can carry all his friends >:D !!
A big one for Arrrgh, an extra one at his chest for Draal and Blinky's pretty happy to be at the hood !! Plus the sunstone protection extends to them as long as theyāre touching Jim so thereās nothing stopping them from going to school after a quick-breakfast. (you bet that Arrrgh took a itty little bit of the toaster while Blinky was figuring out how to use it).
(2) OR !!! Jim wakes up super early as heās used too, which the trolls find a little weird. Blinky thought that humans didnāt wake-up at the crack of dawn ever since they discovered electricity and such. Trust me on this, humans becoming more active at night and less afraid of the dark was a whole thing for trolls, as it made it more difficult for them to go unnoticed and stuff.
Anyway, this gives them more insight into everything Jim does in his day to day life, outside of his duties and training in Trollmarkert. All the chores he does before breakfast, how he breakfast for himself, his mom and then lunch for Tobes as well. Not because heās asked too, itās just something he likes to do to take care of his loved ones, which surprise (or not) it also includes them for today >:D !!
Draal gets 2 bacon slices wrapped in a small omelette with some pepper on top (protein with some spiciness for the warrior). For Arrrgh he cuts half an apple into cubes, some honey and yogurt along with some cinnamon on top (in my head the krubera likes chewy things, and we saw him eating an apple in season 1). And for his mentor? A stack of appropriate sized pancakes with just as much whipped cream on top, the ratio of cream to pancakes is skewed. But who with a sweet tooth never thought of almost drowning in their favorite treat ?
For a moment, they almost forgot their current predicament, that's just how good of a job the trollhunter is doing to accommodate them. (thatās the second idea, now moving on to the next part of the day).
Hopefully, it will be an uneventful day at school, even with his found family trolls coming along, I mean, they canāt get into much chaos while shrunk, right ??? Wrong !! Has Jim ever had an uneventful day ever since picking up the amulet ? Thatās right, none at all, but so much more interesting.
The first 2 periods are fine, but the third and fourth were history, and thatās when Blinky starts a discussion with Strickler over all the ramifications of the industrialization period. It also becomes a good way to demonstrate how 2 people can have different thoughts about the same time period they lived through. Kind of like āHistory is told by the winnersā kind of thing.
Though what really makes the lesson stick on everyoneās minds is seeing their normally very composed teacher getting into a heated argument with a tiny troll.
Mary totally recorded the whole thing because it was comedy gold (and potentially some good black-mail material to round up her grade if she played right, if there was anything she learned after discovering her teacher status as a changeling, was that she could get extra credit with cleverness such as this). But she wasnāt gonna post it for obvious reasons.
Though maybe one day if (or when) magic becomes common knowledge on earth, she will release the video into the wilds, become internet famous for 15 minutes and milk it for all itās worth.
On the other hand Jim is seriously considering spontaneous combustion. Why did his dads have to do this during his history lesson ? Why not anywhere and anytime else.
Lunch is a much more chill affair with Toby and Claire though, itās fun in a calm way.
But after school is over ? Jim has been feeling inspired for quite the baking project, which includes a team-up with the hammer-wielder (I head-cannon that Toby is a pretty good baker even if he doesnāt do it often). They start making a ginger-bread house, they canāt think of any better way to enjoy these last hours, itās a lot of fun decorating with everyone. And thereās some pictures taken too.
They finally return to their true and much much bigger sizes at night. But the fun was not over, as everyone agreed on a sleep-over in the basement. And just like that, Jim enjoys sweet dreams surrounded by love. (I just really wanted to parallel the first night, you know? Hope I managed to convey that).
(And now I kinda want to write an oneshot like this)
