Mike looked the device over soon realizing the full extend of what it could do and all the packages that could be enacted.
"Jeff, I have..." Mike was clicking and typing a few things. "some concerns about this. I think we should talk somewhere away from this machine."
"What? Dad, its not like its.... woah." the transformation his father set kicked in. Jeff rapidly aged to 24 his clothes reshaping on his new form. "What did you do to me? Why did you do something to me? Am I older?"
"Yeah, I'll explain on the way. Let's go." Mike walked out of the room and made a bee line for the garage not giving Jeff a second to stop or even slow down. The pair were in the car buckled and the car was on before the garage door had come to a stop.
"Dad, You're starting to freak me out, what's going on." Jeff asked as Mike pulled out of the driveway.
"You're an adult because I can't look at you and treat you like a kid anymore, not with that. Right now, everyone but you and me think that you look normal, just so you know. The things it can do are too much... You're practically a god with it. So I'm stuck. How would you feel about me if I took it away from you?"
"I'd be very upset."
"Okay, and if I used it instead of you or made you pass all changes through me while I had complete access to it?"
"I wouldn't like you very much," Jeff admitted.
"Right," Mike pulled into a parking spot. "We're here."
Jeff got out of the car noting they were on the town's main street, there were a couple restaurants, shops, and bar's open but dinner was a few hours away and none of the shops looked particularly enticing. Mike made his way into one of the bar's and Jeff nervously followed. They sat at a booth and the bartender walked up a moment later asking what they would have. Mike said he'd have a beer, and as the woman looked to Jeff, Jeff glanced at Mike who gave a small smile and nod, and Jeff ordered the same. She asked for ID and Jeff pulled his out showing his new age of 24. She wished Jeff a happy birthday and said she'd be right back with their drinks.
"So, Jeff. I either need to control you like a kid and accept that it will rip apart my family, you'd resent me for holding you back and stealing from you, or if I destroyed it, I ruined your life. Or, I trust you like an adult and stop seeing you as a kid."
"Dad, where is this coming from? I haven't even done anything with it besides change my hair color."
The bartender came back with the beers and asked if they wanted food. Mike said no and she walked off. "Jeff..." Mike looked around the bar and saw a beefy 30 year old guy. "You might look at that guy and today you say, gee I wish I was as big as him, you go home, punch some things in and become more muscular. A week from now, a month from now or whatever. You might instead say screw that guy for looking bigger than me. I'm going to turn him into a chain smoking alcoholic destined to be no less than 350 lbs of fat. Or that kid was always mean to me at school, Ill make him 99 years old. Or maybe, that girl's pretty, it's part of her morning routine to give me head after her morning coffee."
"Dad, I'd never." Jeff was mortified.
"Why not? You can do whatever you want and get away with it. The more you do, the more you're likely to do. You might make your mother and I 12 years younger, go on a cruise, sleep around, make people hotter, I'm sure it will start out harmless, good even, well intentioned. Maybe you'll make a friend rich, you don't need money yourself after all. But you will tread closer to that line. Maybe make a person happier and less of a jerk. Maybe make that loud drunk guy unable to get drunk anymore and not realize he now has to turn to harder stuff. But you'll catch the attention of someone eventually, and they will try to take it from you and they'll melt into a pile of goo, or become your sex slave, or you'll get killed and I can't see you as my sweet innocent little boy when that happens. So from now on, you're 24 to everyone else and I'm going to forget too any minute now."
"Dad, I wanted to include you." Jeff cried out a little to loudly catching the stares of other patrons.
"Son, God isn't a job I want. I don't want omniscience, nor omnipresence, so I shouldn't have omnipotence but man to man, that's a decision you have to make for yourself."
Mike's eyes clouded over then cleared. He inhaled sharply and saw Jeff then looked around catching his bearings. "Where were we? Oh yeah, Got your eye on any nice ladies? It's good of you to visit for the weekend kiddo, the house is so empty your mom needs the tv on just for the noise. You haven't touched your beer, its gonna get warm."
Jeff took a swig, trying to figure out how he wants to handle this.