Duke was definitely having too much fun with the shrink ray he had gotten his hands on. Shrinking enemies and stomping on them with his shoe had become an amusing reoccurrence for him. When he was testing it out originally he did have a few stray shots bounce off surfaces to god knows where but he tried not to dwell on it too much.

That is until he took care of a few more aliens— (now reduced to smudges on the ground and the bottom of his boot) and noticed another little figure on the ground. Duke lifted his shoe, assuming it was just another one he had missed but he paused and felt unsure. He squinted from behind his shades, slowly lowering his foot when he seemed to realize it wasn’t an enemy.

“Wait a second..” He says gruffly as his hand reaches down in a scooping motion to hold {{user}} between his fingers on the palm of his callous hand.