For a moment, only a moment, Ty felt an overwhelming sense of terror once more as it really sunk in that he had just agreed to help an ancient reptile woman fight a longstanding blood feud with dark and twisted members of her own species for the future of mankind. He had made his choice, though. He briefly thought about comic book heroes put in the same situation. They always chose to use their powers for good. The ones who didn't became villains, and-
"Hey! Dickhead!" Dustin growled suddenly, breaking Ty's train of thought. "Come on, bro! Change me the fuck back! Do whatever you did before!"
"Oh... right." Ty stepped out of his head and shook it once or twice. "Sorry, Dustin."
"Sorry, Dustin?" His step brother said, fighting back pure rage. "Sorry, Dustin? Like this shit is fucking something you just shrug off?"
"All right, easy..." Ty reassured. "You won't even feel a thing." He offered, and instantly willed Dustin's body and history to restore to normal. It did, of course, and suddenly his step brother was back to a big jock douchebag in a flash.
"All right." Dustin said, looking himself over in relief. "Don't you ever fucking do that to me again, you fucking hear me? Whatever weird fucking voodoo shit you got going on, go do it to somebody else."
"You know what I can do to you, too, now." Ty said sternly, for the first time in his life uttering the words with the confidence and malice of a threat. "You leave me the fuck alone or I'll shrink you so small that you'll slip through the bonds of matter."
At that, Dustin visibly cringed. Whether or not Ty meant it, it was clear he could do it. Even though he was an egotistical teenager, even Dustin knew better than to question it, since it had just happened to him. "Dude..." Dustin said cautiously. "Just... chill, all right? We good?"
"That's up to you." Ty grinned. "In fact, I think you should know..."
"Whoa...!" Dustin said in alarm, his entire body tingling strangely. His face contorted into recognition and then terror as he began to transform into a new body. Barely able to make a feeble cry for help, Dustin had already shrunken to half his normal size and was halfway between a human and an insect as he collapsed and shrank into a pile of his own oversized clothing. As he shrank, naked and inhuman, his insect features morphed away his human ones at terrible speed, six arms trembling as he became a big humanoid cockroach at two feet tall, before shrinking further and losing the humanoid part all together. Dustin visibly cringed as he realized he had become a complete roach.
His panic increased as he tried to scitter away from Ty's lowering hand, which easily scooped him up in a thumb and index finger, rendering him squirming and helpless in his step brother's grip. He held the roach up for inspection and smiled. "Remember this." He said, gently squeezing Dustin between his fingertips and watching him desperately kick and flail. "Remember this helplessness. Because this is what you are to me."
Ty carefully set Dustin down on the ground, watching the bug tremble in absolute and total fear, and urged him to change back halfway. Swiftly returning to a half human half roach, Dustin fell to his knees and pleaded with four hands held together. "N-No!" He squeaked, drooling and lisping in a grotesque high pitched voice. "Dusssstin sorry! He be good! Change back! Pleaseee! Chaaaange bacccck! Not hurt Ty! Pllleeeeaaasssse!!!"
Ty lorded over the terrified abomination and smiled, snapping his fingers for effect and grinning as Dustin sputtered and choked on mucus as he returned to a trembling naked human.
Dustin simply stared at Ty wordlessly, pale and sick, and began to redress frantically. He barely made eye contact as he fled the house without a word.
"Where are you going?" Ty asked simply, having not moved.
"G-Going to Krissy's..." Dustin whispered. "My girlfriend."
"I know who she is." Ty nodded. "You should definitely keep this to yourself, though. Would be a shame if she wound up having to be silenced."
"N-No! Nobody will know!" Dustin said in terror, breaking into a sweat. "N-Nobody will ever know! I swear to fucking God!"
"Go." Ty said.
As the door slammed Ty broke into a fit of laughter as he saw Dustin jump into his Camaro and scream off the driveway in a trail of burning rubber.
{ Not bad. } Narissa chimed in. { Almost poetic. }
"Not bad at all." Ty agreed, relaxing as he felt the lizard's presense and exhaling deeply in calm. "So... what happens if I tell you that you I want you to cross over to my dimension?"
{ Nothing happens. } The lizard said. { You have to will permission. I can't just flip back and forth on my own, you see. }
"All right." Ty whispered, closing his eyes and willing Narissa the ability to cross over to his dimension. Or somesuch. "Now what?"
"I cross over to your dimension." Narissa whispered from behind Ty, placing her hand on his shoulder.
Ty gulped, seeing a big scaly hand on his shoulder, and turned slowly to see the 7'2" Narissa staring down at him with a coy grin.