Hearing the police intercoms announce the missing kid has been found and the search is being called off from his hiding space in the neighbor's landscaping, Jeff pieced together that something happened. Maybe his dad was listening and finally realized that he had to get rid of the manhunt to give Jeff a chance to get back home. It sure didn't feel like his dad was listening while he was being chased through the house with flying snacks, but someone posed as him to make the cops go away.
Jeff sighed, giving the cops some extra time to exit the neighborhood. Eventually, Jeff cautiously pulled the foliage aside and peered along the street, no kids playing, nobody walking their dog, no young parents walking their baby. The heavy police presence did have one benefit of clearing the streets.
Rolling out of his plant hiding place, Jeff decided that the sooner he was back home, the safer he was, and bolted for it. Getting to his property, he decided to enter through the back patio, anticipating the front door would be locked.
Stepping inside, the dent in the doorframe and wall was a reminder of what happened just an hour or so ago, though the debris had been cleaned up. "Hello! I got your message." Adult Jeff called.
"Dad? Is that you..." Young Jeff halted at the kitchen as he realized the man wasn't his dad.
"Dad? Why are you still in my body? Never mind. I'm just glad you finally listened to me and realized you attacked your son, which, by the way, very rude! You coulda hurt me!"
Young Jeff blinked in confusion. "Who are you?"
Adult Jeff realized something was wrong, "I'm Jeff Hodges, I used the Chronivac to become my dad's age but he chased me out of the house and called the cops. You are..."
"I'm Jeff Hodges, I went to school today, came home and am waiting for the Chronivac to be ready for use."
Adult Jeff grimaced realizing a mental setting was probably flipped and... he needed a shower and wanted some clothes. "I just laid in dirt for 2 hours, I'm starving, and I don't want to be naked anymore. I'm going to take a shower and we can figure this out in 20 minutes." He walked up the stairs. noting that Young Jeff was conflicted but ultimately said nothing.
Adult Jeff washed up and raided the master closet fitting into his dad's clothes perfectly. "Hey little me!" Jeff entered the kitchen and went into the fridge grabbing a beer and a bowl full of lil' smokies that survived the earlier scuffle.
Young Jeff appeared pointing the emitter at Adult Jeff defensively, Adult Jeff simply rolled his eyes and took a drink from his beer. "Where's my dad? You admitted to being the last one who saw him and you were fighting him. What did you turn him into?"
Adult Jeff laughed, "You aren't serious. You don't see it? I guess you don't have the full context. I'm 99% sure you are Dad... thanks for the beer by the way. I'll be turning back to 16 in about 20 minutes. So you should probably prepare to get back to being Mike rather than being me."
"That can't be true! I'm Jeff! I have my whole life ahead of me! I don't want to become Dad!"
"But you ARE Dad. You messed up the transformation somehow and replaced your memories with mine. Did you check the history? Did you set a time for the transformation?" Adult Jeff got up and went to the fridge grabbing another beer. "15 minutes should be long enough. I plan on sleeping in my own bed tonight and going to high school tomorrow, so you should verify what I'm telling you and change yourself back."
"No! I don't want to be almost 50! I want to be hot, and sexy, and try new things! You made yourself his age, why don't you just finish the job?"
"Because that's my life you're trying to live, DAD, and you aren't thinking normal because you think you're me. But you aren't. Am I going to have to babysit you on the machine to make sure you don't screw things up more? Listen... you are the dad and you need to be the dad, but that doesn't mean we can't go back and make you look and feel younger, hotter, sexier, or whatever you want... but I want... we need... to get back to normal reality before we start changing more stuff, and that means someone knows how to get to Mike's workplace and do his job tomorrow morning." Adult Jeff drank his beer and ate a few more bites before putting stuff away.
Together they went to Jeff's room and Adult Jeff who had spent several hours looking through the options before aging himself, pointed out the history showing Jeffs profile being captured around 3, his 3 hour aging transformation at 5:30 and its pending reversion in 4 minutes... followed by a profile capture at 6 for Mike, the overwrite initiated 2 minutes later. Double clicking on the log the Jeffs saw profile converted to "Jeffrey Hodges", but no revert or undo button.
"Huh that's WeIrd." Adult Jeff was an adult no longer. The pair realized they needed to figure something out.