After watching how slow Richie was getting back to the house, still crawling and dragging his tail for five more minutes, Cody said: „Well, do you want to keep him like this or change him further?“
Jeff thought about it for a few seconds before responding. „Yeah, lets make another change to him, but what?“
Grinning, Cody suggested: „Well, he can only crawl right now. But what if we change that? We could take his limbs away, so he had to slither like a snake.“
„An interesting idea. So its like he is a snake then? We could make him a snake if we wanted to.“ Jeff answered, by now also grinning.
„No, changing him into a snake would be fun, but that would end afterwards. If we make it that way and only take his limbs, it would be far more fun to watch him.“ Cody said.
„Jeff, please change me back.“ was heard from outside as Richie tried to get Jeff's attention. By now he had crawled only a third of the garden and was already tired.
But Jeff was already at the chronivac, working on Cody's suggestion. First he changed Richie's setting for legs from „Human“ to „N/A“, and the program asked if he wanted to apply the same to his feet. After hitting yes and repeating it for Richie's arms and hands, he looked at the list, trying to decide if he wanted to change something else.
Head „Human“ +
Body „Human“ -
- Tail „Iguana“
Arms „N/A“ -
- Hands „N/A“
Legs „N/A“ -
- Feet „N/A“
Laughing at a short idea he had, Jeff changed Richie's mouth under head from „Human“ to „N/A“ as well, just to shut Richie up as he still was shouting outside. Then he saved it.
As Cody asked, Jeff only said: „I just want him to be silent, and without a mouth he can´t talk or scream.“
Meanwhile outside Richie made a short break to gain his breath again, shouting while also crawling was exhausting. Just as he wanted to continue crawling he felt odd again, as an sudden itch crawled over his arms and legs. „What now? Ants on my body?“ he thought. Pulling himself forward again he got slower forward.
Only when he got not forward anymore he looked down to see why he was getting slower and screamed. By now his arms had lost more than half their length, and were still be pulled back into his shoulders. „Jeff stop please. That isn´t funny.“ Then his hands vanish into his shirt sleeves.
At the same time he felt a scraping under his tail, and looking back showed him his shortening legs. Shortly later the last of his arms were absorbed back into his shoulders, and his hands balled into fists right there under his shirt. And sunk away also. Followed by his legs and feet, which resulted in his jeans, socks and shoes to drop off.
„Nooo… Jeff stop th….“ Richie screamed again, only for his voice to stop as his mouth closed shut. Richie couldn´t see it, but felt a light itch on his lips. Then, he couldn´t feel it anymore. But he couldn´t move his tongue anymore, didn´t feel anything in there anymore. He tried to swallow to calm down, only that didn´t work. He started trashing wildly on the grass as he realized his mouth was gone.
Jeff and Cody stood by the window and laughed as Richie changed, and it got even more as Richie's scream was silenced. „That's really good entertainment, Jeff. Any more ideas?“
„Ah, let him trash a bit more, and then we decide if we change him even more, or back or something else.“ Jeff answered while watching Richie roll around on the grass.