Mark pointed the device at Heidi and pushed the “Personality Swap” button.
Nothing happened.
“I probably have to do it again to somebody else,” Mark mused aloud. “After all, one target couldn't exactly swap with itself.”
Mark pointed the device back at himself and pushed the “Personality Swap” button again.
Suddenly, he didn't think the joke about the rubber snake in Heidi's underwear drawer was very funny.
“I can't believe I did that!” he said with a shudder. “What a stupid, immature, boyish thing of me to...”
Waitaminute, Mark suddenly thought to himself, pausing mid-sentence. Did he just say 'boyish'? He was a boy, wasn't he? Why would... did this little device really work and just give him 13-year old Heidi's personality?
“It works!” he said in an awed hush. “This is great! Oh, I can use this to get even on so many of the stuck up girls who...”
Again, Mark paused mid-sentence and wondered why he'd WANT to get even with some middle-school girls he didn't even know. The device had apparently given him some very rudimentary, limited memories of Heidi's. Mark was still himself, with his own memories and identity – but he now had access to JUST enough of Heidi's memories in order to behave just like her.
And in a bizarrely hypocritical twist of nonsense logic, Mark suddenly wanted revenge against Heidi for his own actions in putting a snake in her underwear drawer. For some twisted reason, he took personal offense at what he himself had done, yet blamed her for the prank.
“That's who I want to get even with now,” he said, with a fiendish grin.