It was over an hour later that Richie had finally calmed down. He would find a way to change back, that he was sure off. After wiggling a bit his torso slipped back on the ground, but then his head hit the ground a bit harder with a “thud”. Richie was slightly dazed and took a couple of minutes to recover from the hit.
It then took him over an hour to reach the door of his own room, which Jeff and Cody had let open. He was so slow, and his whole body hurt from his tries to slither like a snake would. There was to much friction between his body and the carpet, and he was naked by now. His shirt, the last remaining part of clothing he wore before, had slightly ripped at the collar, and then had slipped along his whole body as he moved until it had fallen of his tail.
Ever so slowly he wiggled his way to Jeff´s room, luckily that door was also wide open. While he moved, he heard Cody ask: “Do you think we should release your brother now? I think we have tortured him long enough for being envious of your udder Jeff.”
“Maybe you are right. We haven´t heard him move in his room for over three hours. I guess beside rolling around like in the garden he doesn´t know how to move around, and for rolling he hasn´t enough space in his room.” Jeff replied.
Richie doesn´t believe his ears, they had acted as if they didn´t remember the changes? Oh, he would get revenge on them. But why that nonsense about him being envious of Jeff?
Richie came to Jeff´s door just as Jeff and Cody sat at the computer again, but Cody spotted him. “Oh, Richie. Have you gotten able to move properly?” At Richie´s angry face, Cody looked down guilty. “Sorry Richie, it was mean to suggest to Jeff to remove your limbs.”
Jeff didn´t turn as he worked on the chronivac, but said: “Yeah, sorry about that, little brother. We thought it was fun to play with you, but we went overboard with it. I just wanted you to shut up, that’s why I decided on removing your mouth, but I will restore that all now.”
Just a second after Jeff hit enter, everything blacked out. And with the computer shutting down, every change was made normal to everyone but Richie, as he had saved that he was aware of any changes made.
“What the hell?” Jeff exclaimed annoyed. “Just when we test that program out, argh.”
Cody was moving quickly to look after the fuse box for them, but Richie still laid in the door. “Hey, move away Richie, I can´t look for the fuses if I can´t get out of this room.” As Richie didn´t move, Cody climbed over him, cursing.
Richie laid there, again in shock. Had the black-out just erased their knowledge now? He was cursing his luck as he laid there crying, just as he regained hope to change back it had been crushed again. That wasn´t fair.