By the time Ty realized that he had really regressed Dustin’s body back to that of a 13-year-old, his foster brother had already ran back upstairs to the bathroom and locked himself in. Ty hopped out of bed of peeked downstairs to see Mark and June just finishing their breakfast. Mark was reading the paper silently and June was starting to collect to the dirty dishes.
Ty felt an exciting urge to go see what else he could do to Dustin, but first he wanted to make sure June and Mark weren’t going to interrupt. Silently, he willed his foster parents to freeze as they were and not move until he wanted them to. Instantly June froze in mid-walk to the sink, Mark at the kitchen table, with the paper still in hand. Experimentally, Ty sneaked down the stairs and walked around the kitchen in front of his frozen foster parents. It had worked! They were really frozen in place! Ty grinned and then walked back up the stairs to see Dustin. By the time Ty got back to the bathroom door, Dustin had finished his shower and was just walking out of the bathroom. Dustin took one look at Ty and stopped in his tracks, furious.
"I don’t know how the hell you did this to me, Ty!" Dustin spat angrily. "But you’d better fucking change me back, or I’ll-!"
"You’ll what?" Ty said softly. Then added with a silly grin, "Shrimp."
"You son of a-!" Dustin screamed, and went to take a swing at Ty. Before his fist was halfway through the air, Ty simply willed Dustin to freeze like he had frozen Mark and June. Like his foster parents, Dustin simply froze in place instantly. "Now, then," Ty said to himself and to the motionless Dustin, "Let’s see what we can do to you. First, I want you to follow me downstairs. Stand next to June."
Without a word, Dustin’s body relaxed and he followed Ty down the stairs to the kitchen, where Mark and June were still posed like mannequins. Dustin stood next to his mom and stood with his hands at his side. Ty stood in front of Dustin and faced him. "Okay," Ty nodded, "Now, um, Dustin, why don’t you turn back to your normal self."
Dustin began to age forward back to 16. His pubescent hair quickly returned and his body regained the height and proportion it had lost.
"So…" Ty said to his foster family. "What should I do with you now?"