It's been about a week since the first indecent where you found the device. Everyone has gotten pretty accustomed to your new life. You've all been studying the forum post almost religiously at this point. James has been pretty busy helping with his families' work and hasn't been able to study the device as much as you two have. After a while, you and Chris feel like you've studied the device enough where you can make an effort to change Jake back into normal. According to the forum post you need to match up the DNA of the species you want to change, and the DNA of the species you want to change them into. After a long while of sifting through the different displays on the device, you think you have both the DNA for raccoons and the DNA for humans. In addition to this, you had to change the wiring a bit, so that it points towards the subject, and not to the one activating the device. After some careful setup, you think that you have the device all set up to turn Jake back.
For precaution, you and Chris stand as far back as possible from the device you set on the table. Jake is sitting on the couch waiting for you to press the button. You reach out with a yard stick to press the device from a distance. You press down a bit too hard on the device and it shifts it orientation on the table as you are pressing it down. You still see the green electricity emit from the device as it covers your vision. You aren't sure if it fired at Jake, because your vision was blinded from the light. Eventually your vision clears and you still see a raccoon sitting on the couch in front of you. That's when you feel a weird tingling in your arm that was holding the yard stick. You look at it to see it completely covered in grey fur. That's when you begin to feel the same feeling spread over your entire body. You feel your clothes get baggy and you look over to Chris and he looks maybe a foot taller than you. Now you see your entire body covered in this same fur. Right as your face begins to feel weird and fuzzy, everything goes dark.
You feel something covering your entire body as you try to push it off. Eventually you are able to break free of your clothes and crawl out into the open. You see Chris not standing too far away from you, now towering over you. Eventually Jake, who is still a raccoon, runs over to you and talks to you. He is the same size as you now as he looks at you from eye level. "Oh my god are you okay?" You hear him say. While you can understand him, its not exactly English. It still sounds like raccoon noises, but you can still understand him. You let out a sort of groan, "Uh I think so." You look at yourself again, your worst fears have come true, now you're a raccoon as well. There's a body mirror on the wall and you scurry over to it. You look like any ordinary raccoon. You're a bit taller than Jake, and less chubby. It's hard to believe that you're actually a raccoon.
Chris looks disappointed and he kicks the ground in anger "I thought we had it! Now we're worse off then we are before." He usually doesn't get that angry unless he's playing sports, so you rarely see him this angry. You wonder exactly where you went wrong, and realize you must've switched the two DNAs on the display, or it could be that you didn't aim the device right. Either way you failed and now you're stuck as a raccoon, and you wonder if this you could be stuck like this for a day, or forever.