She looked more or less the same maybe a little disorient- Ken found himself staring at some galaxy as he found himself and Christoph sitting on the milky way. Christoph was pinching the bridge of his eyes as he said "Ok... I told myself I wouldn't do anything, but... I should at least teach you one spell considering what Penny just did to your friend."
"What di-"
Christoph held up a hand "You'll find out in due time but... First do you feel 110%?"
Ken thought "A little tired, and maybe a smidge sore fr-" Christoph held up another hand and chanted a few spells and Ken suddenly perked up and could feel his muscles swelling just a bit. He felt 1000% an-
"I'll teach you this one thing now... Now I'll say the translation of what I'm going to tell you to repeat." Ken nodded as Christoph was guiding him "I am Me, This is me, I am this... It's a little circular but it's the basis for something so many people have died trying to become." Ken nodded as Christoph had him repeat a mantra in some weird language. Ken repeated the mantra repeatedly over and over again. Christoph nodded and said "Alright... You are now that and will continue to be till you figure out how to undo it if you even want to undo that."
Ken asked "So... You just locked my body into this?"
Christoph nodded "Yep... In peak condition, effectively immortal, never aging, and it'd take more than a single nanomachine using your body to make more nanomachines and turn you into a nanomachine robot to do anything to you."
"Wait... nanomachines?" Ken asked when suddenly he was back in the lab seeing Penny the robo-woman leading Kate to the small group.
It was disconcerting seeing Kate... as Kate. Ken was scanning Kate to see what had changed... He couldn't notice anything like Christoph had apparently. "Kate? Are you ok?" Ken asked
Kate seemed to focus a bit "Ken?... That's you right?" She looked at Ken and said "...Yes... right..."
Penny performed a sigh and said "Feel free to tell him at least. You two seem to be friends and it wouldn't be right for you two to keep things from one another like this."
Kate felt hesitant to say but blurted out "My body is entirely magic nanomachines!"
Penny slapped Kate on the back of the head and said "Nanomachines with a little bit of magic."
Christoph chuckled "If you use magic they're magic nanomachines."
Kate stared at her hands and said "I can... morph my body... I just have to be able to envision the thing and..." Her hands looked so real... Her "brain" was astonished with how real her body felt but... they were human cells, they were nanobots that could change their color on a will, use matter to make more of themselves, and disperse some of themselves as matter... Kate just had to imagine her hand was... not a hand. Kate could feel Penny stare at her judging, seeing if this was a mistake... Kate's hand... grew a finger. They absorbed the air and turned it into nanomachines which quickly built a sixth finger right next to her pinky. She could flex it, feel it, and it was weird... alien yet part of her... she let the extra digit evaporate into air.
Penny performance sighed again "I guess it takes some mental adjustments to get used to such a radically different body. I'm curious how your soul will adjust." Kate... could understand that soul part... Each bit of nanomachine may have had data of Kate's knowledge and memories and stuff but.. She didn't believe that was what held her exactly. That her soul itself could hold some of the information and that... maybe she could feel her soul shift a bit easier now that she had been reduced to basically just a soul once already.
Ken glanced from Kate to Penny to Christoph to Kate to Christoph again who was giving Ken the "I already gave you more than I've had to" look. Christoph then said "Well... Unless you guys wanna go deeper into Penny's clutches I'd suggest getting out of here... and I guess Good Luck finding someone to teach you Ken."
The door to the new exciting world of magic had closed for now on the two young adults and their smartphone. Now it was a young adult whose body was kinda locked, a nanomachine android, and a smartphone. Ken looked at his remote and asked "...I'm guessing this probably wont work on your super body anymore... nor will it work on mine thanks to a trick Christoph taught me."
Kate nodded "And Penny didn't give me an instruction manual for my body... I'm guessing she wants to see what I can do with little instruction."
"We're still obviously exploring these new things right?"
"Totally, but I suppose where should we try exploring with these?" Kate asked