When Todd got home he carried Chad out to the workshop in back. He set Chad the medicine ball on a shelf and swept the concrete floor clean. Then assembled a wooden frame 3 feet wide and 6'6" tall. He lay a clean plastic blue tarp on the floor, and lay the frame on top of it. He set medicine ball that was Chad in the center of the frame on the top of the tarp. Chad could see the tarp had a rough hashtag pattern embossed on it.
Todd consulted his tablet. Then he took the spray can that had done this to Chad, and sprayed it liberally on the ball. There was a groaning, as the ball unfurled slowly like a sick Amarillo. It stretched its limbs and started to grow. Chad was in agony as he unfolded and reshaped after being a ball for so many hours. He felt so weak, but the spray seemed to restore his human form. He tried to sit up, but couldn't.
"Thanks, Todd," Chad said in a feeble voice as he lay there helpless. He was sure he would get his strength back. He had been mad at Todd initially for changing Chad into a medicine ball, but Todd hadn't sprayed Chad. Someone other than Todd had put the can in his locker, and he had sprayed himself. Now Todd had rescued him from the gym, and changed him human with the spray. Though Chad wasn't sure what the frame and tarp were for, maybe if the spray hadn't worked to restore gim, the frame would have contained his body, if he had melted?
"Huh?" Todd said looking up from his tablet. "You spoke? Good. It says here, "when the subject is ready for reshaping it will be able to speak. If it is silent use a feather to induce an audible reaction such as laughter or crying. Then the subject is ready for reshaping." Guess, I won't need this feather after all," Todd said waving an ostrich plume. He set the tablet on a stand and started recording. He picked up a rolling pin, and grinned.
Todd said, "I already got video you uncurling from your ball form. Not sure who I may share it with, but i think I may enjoy watching it by myself, whether or not anyone else sees it."
There was an awful smooshing sound as Todd brought the rolling pin down on Chad's feet and ankles. He flattened and merged the lower extremities into a thick flat dough, and then started working his way up Chad's helpless prone body.