As Ty was putting his jeans on, a box fell from the closet almost hitting him on the head. Out of the box fell some old comic books that he had forgotten about. One of the books opened up to an advertisement for Silly Putty. He picked up the comic book and looked at the advertisement. He remembered the fun that he used to have playing with it when he was younger.
Dustin turned around when the box fell.
“Are you alright, Ty?” Dustin asked.
Ty, lost in reading the advertisement, took a few seconds to respond. “Yea,” he said.
“What are you looking at?” Dustin asked.
“Do you remember the fun that we had with Silly Putty when we were younger? Bouncing it, stretching it, flattening it, and copying cartoons from the paper.”
“Yea, we had a blast with the eggs of Silly Putty.”
Just then, Ty had an idea.
“I wonder what it would be like to have a body with properties of Silly Putty.” Ty asked.
“There is one way to find out.” Dustin said. “All you need to do is make a wish and experience what it would be like. I’m here in case you run into any problems.”
“That’s not a bad idea.” Ty said. “I wish that my body has the same properties as Silly Putty.”
Ty moved to the mirror so that he could see the changes as they occurred. He felt a tingle over his entire body. He noticed that the hair on his body was disappearing and that his body color was turning into more of a beige color. The tingling stopped. Ty was standing there wearing only jeans and no shirt.
“How do you feel?” Dustin asked.
“Not really much different,” Ty said. “Let’s see if it worked or not. If I remember correctly, one of the properties is that you can’t flatten it by hitting it with a hard object. Dustin, get one of the books off of the shelf and let’s go over to the dresser.”
Dustin gets one of the books off of the book shelf and meets Ty by the dresser.
“When I put my right hand on the dresser,” Ty said, “hit it as hard as you can with the book.”
“Okay,” Dustin replied.
Ty put his hand on the dresser and nodded to Dustin to let it go. As soon as the book hit Ty’s hand, it acted like it had hit a piece of rubber and almost bounced out of Dustin’s hand.
“Did I hurt you?” Dustin asked.
Ty laughed. “That kind of tickles. Now try using your hand to flatten my hand.”
Dustin first pressed his thumb into the back of Ty’s hand and saw how easy it made an indentation. He looked over to Ty to make sure he was okay before applying pressure and flattening the entire hand.
Ty removed his hand from the dresser and looked at it. “Well, that property is working right.”
“How are you going to get your hand back to normal?” Dustin asked.
“I’ll just have to remold it,” Ty said. With that, he tried to use his left hand to remold his right hand. With both hands having the properties of Silly Putty, they stuck together and combined into one glob joined at the wrists. Ty was at a loss for a few minutes as to what to do. He concentrated on his hands and they separated and reformed.
“That was close,” Dustin said.
“There are always new challenges when you try new things,” Ty said. “Okay. Let’s try the stretching test. We’ll grab onto each other’s right wrists. Then, I’ll stay put and you pull my arm as you walk down the hall to your room.”
Ty and Dustin grab each other’s right wrists.
“Your skin feels really weird,” Dustin said.
“I know,” Ty said. “Start walking to your room.”
With that, Dustin started walking down the hall watching Ty’s arm as he did. The arm kept getting thinner and thinner as he made his way to his room. Just before he got there, the hold he had on Ty’s wrist and the end attached to Ty became disconnected. Ty and Dustin looked at one another for a few seconds before either one could speak.
“Oh no,” Dustin said. “What now?”
Ty started concentrating like he did when his hands were molded together and was able to retract and reform what was still attached to his body.
“That property seems to be working as well,” Ty said.
Dustin came back into Ty’s room with the disconnected right wrist still attached.
“What do I do with this end that was your hand?” Dustin asked.
“Try taking that piece and make it into a ball to see if it bounces,” Ty said.
With that, Dustin took the piece that was still attached to his wrist and made it into a ball and bounced it on the floor.
“That about covers it,” Ty said. “Would you pass me the ball, please? I want to try something.”
Dustin passes the ball that was once Ty’s right arm back to Ty. Ty then concentrated again and was able to rejoin the disjoined piece back into his body.
“That wish seems to have worked out like it was supposed to,” Ty said. “What should we try next?”