"Mom still kept these. Don't worry, I'm not going to keep you a toy for long. I have a whole list of things we could do together. Remember these?" He showed the plastic action figure some of his old clothes; a Disneyworld themed hoodie and a striped shirt that had withstood the test of time, and some little boy jeans. "I used to wear these when I was only ten! I was thinking....maybe you should be old enough to appreciate toys and playing around and just having fun again. It is Christmas, after all." Jeff rubbed his beard and sauntered back to the Chronivac. He was feeling pretty powerful. He had power tripped maybe a little too much with his brother but he wanted to show off. And he had neglected to experiment with the Chronivac very much.
He typed in the commands and set the action figure down on the floor. It began to expand...slowly growing bigger and bigger until it morphed into a person again. His army man action figure outfit disappeared, leaving him naked. Adam was now a shrunken man about a foot tall. The plastic sheen evaporated and he became mobile again. He got up, aching a bit in his joints.
"You asshole," he said, his pipsqueak voice sounding like he's swallowed helium. "Oh very funny. I'm a tiny toy man now. Real mature." He gulped as he looked way up at the GIANT bearded sculpted bodybuilder that his brother had become. Jeff was a man now in every respect body wise, while Adam was...growing into what? He didn't even want to think about it.
He grew taller and watched as he became eye level with Adam's knees and eventually his crotch, and then his belly button, and stopped there. His stubble disappeared, and his face contorted to become much smoother. His genitals had grown in...sort of. The were tiny but they looked like they could work...he thought.
He blinked.
"How do you feel, little brother?" Jeff asked, smirking.
"How do you think, douchebag? You just turned me into an inanimate object and hey! What happened to my voice! And...my leg!"
Standing before Jeff was a ten year old boy with a fully operational leg. Jeff was still smirking arrogantly. He rubbed the boy's head with a fatherly hand. Jeff swatted his hand away angrily.
"Please tell me that I'm not a child again!"
"You're a little boy again, little bro. Come on! Let me show you!" Jeff picked up the child Adam with both hands and hoisted him into the air. "You're big enough for me to carry around! Or little enough I should say! Wheeee!"
Adam was slightly dizzy and terrified as Jeff brought them both over to the large mirror so he could see their reflection. For all intents and purposes, they looked like they could have been father and son. His smooth skin and flat, shiny hair was coiffed as a child's would be. He gaped and he kicked his little legs.
"Your leg is back! Isn't that great? Now you can spend the holidays as a little boy and just have fun again...no worries about the adult world or the army or anything!"
"This is unbelievable! And put me down already!" Adam was secretly terrified over how much stronger his brother had become. The man version of Jeff could literally pick him UP into the AIR! That was quite a change from him being so much taller and bigger than his little brother. Their positions had reversed and then some!
"Come on," Jeff said, setting his little bro down and offering him some clothing, which Adam snatched out of his hands. "This could be an adventure! I wanted to make you happy, or at least give you the chance to be happy. You used to go on and on about how much you missed everyone taking care of you when you were a kid...how all our relatives would dote on you and call you adorable and smart and fawn over you. You were always so much more popular than me."
"That's not true. Our family loves you. It's just that you're so damn shy most of the time! You hide in your room whenever anyone comes over!"
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"Not anymore. I don't think I can be too shy with guns like these!" Jeff showed off his enormous bicep. "And I earned these the old fashioned way."
"With a magical device that gave you an edge in the gym as you aged at an accelerated rate!"
"Well I did go to the gym and grew up slowly...sort of."
"You know you could have just used the reality changing features. And kept your awareness level. That way you could enjoy the changes without drawing any suspicion. Which reminds me, how do you expect to explain me having a leg again. Oh my god, I have a leg again. "
Adam stomped his leg, and then twirled around on it. He did a little dance. He had been so distracted by turning into a ten year old version of himself that he forgot about the joy of having a real leg! He danced around his now huge older brother, who laughed and guffawed as he saw how happy his brother had suddenly become.
"Okay, so now you just have to change me back to an adult and I can show this leg off with some real style!"
"Not so fast. You have the opportunity to be the star of the family now. You know, before I came along and took away all the attention from you. You could be the baby brother for a while and I could be your uncle. It doesn't make real sense for me to be in my mid 20s. I'm afraid I've attracted a lot of attention for getting to this size and people are beginning to talk at school that I'm up to no good. Lots of rumors floating around. I've been ignoring them and everyone has been too afraid of my size to ask me. I kind of like that but...at the same time, I've been forgetting I can change reality. You're right. How about...I be your uncle. I'll change myself to be Dad's brother and I can get a job and you can go back to elementary school and keep your adult brain. It won't even be hard for you! Just think of how much fun you could have!"
His now ten year old brother stared at him, considering all this.
"Jeff! Adam! Come downstairs, please! We have a visitor!" Mom's voice rang out.
"We have to decide quickly! What do you want to do, bro? Come on, stay a kid for a while!"
"Okay okay okay," the ten year old replied. "I think what I want is to...