Knowing what Chris would do to him if he caught him, Shane stopped and stood his ground. As Chris barreled across the yard like an unstoppable force of nature, Shane zapped him with the green beam from the Chronivac's emitter ray.
He hadn't had time to program in some well-deserved transformation but had to use random as a fallback.
After the green ray engulfed the steamed jock, the body began to change. His limbs retracted into his body, which became more tubular in shape and shrunk into his clothes. After the collapse of the garments hid the transformed jock from view, Shane plucked them off the ground to reveal a tiny, wiggling worm.
An ordinary earthworm, its body a segmented pinkish tube, squirmed and writhed atop the ground. As Shane looked closer, there was a very faint impression of the jock's face at one end of the segmented body. In a "belt" around the middle of the long tube, he laughed to watch as the tiny genitals of the jock also receded into the tubular shaft that now existed as a body for Chris.
Shane laughed. Not even in his wildest dreams could he have imagined a more fitting comeuppance for the arrogant, musclebound, egotistical jerk.
He thought about stomping the worthless worm, but he stayed his foot at the last second when the brown and red bird flew from a tree branch to the lawn.
Shane watched the robin hop through the yard, tilting its head to search for its favorite prey— worms.
He walked back to the back porch and decided to watch the show.