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"So how much longer until we meet these two?" Mirven asked as he shifted to a sitting position after another shudder and reduction of his size, letting out a grumble after.

"Hopefully soon. Mirv's getting pretty small at this point." Laza added, the smaller avali grumbling even more under his breath.

"Alav...!" a voice sounded off in the distance, which caused the aforementioned avali's ears to perk and even jolt somewhat, a smile showing on his face.

"That's Al!" he said excitedly, easily adjusting the drone's course to make a beeline for where the call out originated from.

Taoma and Nezyu did have to brace themselves and hold onto whatever would work thanks to the drone banking in its flight, but not too harsh in such and thus no risk of being flung off. It wasn't long until the form of the zororesh would come into view, his own ears perking at the buzzing of the drone's rotors and glanced over, a chuckle coming from him once he saw the smaller figures riding on it.

"Heh, repurposed a drone for getting around." he started as he saw the drone slow to a hovering halt in front of him, lifting a hand up to press a couple fingers to the barrel of the gun it had and point it away from him. "To be honest, Alav's message made it sound a lot more urgent and thus all of you being a lot smaller than what you are now."

"I'm small enough, thank you very much!" Mirven yelled out before anyone else.

Nezyu was next to respond, chuckling as she looked up at the larger hybrid. "Yeah. It's still pretty urgent though, and we had enough issues trying to get this thing running to begin with."

"I can tell just from the 'seat' alone. Still, I'll bring you guys to Syn and see about getting you guys back to a normal size." Aleron replied, reaching to the drone with his other hand, shifting the one that pressed against the gun barrel to holding the palm up, to allow the smaller avali to climb on.

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Round nine voting results:

Mirven: 42 votes.
Alav: 20 votes.
Taoma: 16 votes.
Laza: 11 votes.
Nezyu: 9 votes.
Total: 98 votes from 48 participants.

Donation thresholds passed: 0.

Shrinkage values:

Mirven: 42 x 0.25 = -10.5% current size reduction.
Alav: 20 x 0.25 = -5% current size reduction.
Taoma: 16 x 0.25 = -4% current size reduction.
Laza: 11 x 0.25 = -2.75% current size reduction.
Nezyu: 9 x 0.25 = -2.25% current size reduction.

New sizes:

Mirven: ~2.64 in/~6.71 cm. >> ~2.36 in/~5.99 cm.
Alav: ~5.32 in/~13.51 cm. >> ~5.05 in/~12.83 cm.
Taoma: ~6.49 in/~16.48 cm. >> ~6.23 in/~15.82 cm.
Laza: ~7.54 in/~19.15 cm. >> ~7.33 in/~18.62 cm.
Nezyu: ~7.38 in/~18.75 cm. >> ~7.18 in/~18.24 cm.
Numbers were rounded to the nearest hundredth.

For the sake of it...

Aleron: 7 ft/2.13 m

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Finally managed to get to some help, and who else than the zororesh himself to find them.

So, for that bit in the bubble? Final round bonus is gonna kick in for the next part!

Votes will have double their normal potency, going with a -0.50% reduction of the recipient's size each instead of -0.25%.
Donation threshold has been lowered to 30 USD per instance instead of 50 USD.

Any donations that haven't hit the previous threshold but do hit this new one will be applied in the finale.

Finale poll: Poll closed. Thank you for voting!
Donation link: Donations closed. Thank you for donating!

Alav and Nezyu belong to me.
Fluffy doof there is me.
Taoma belongs to  Hugna.
The others aren't anyone specific, just hastily named and colored for the sake of this sequence.
Natvali model was made by and belongs to 'Natch Deux', while credit for it goes to Wolyafa.