Kent had just left the library when Ty came running down the hallway.
“Kent!” he shouted. “Kent! I need you to come with me to the locker room at the gym!”
“Why? What’s going on?”
“Dustin joined the football team but he doesn’t have the money to buy new gear, so we’re all going to be his gear!”
“What?”
Just then, they spotted Allen and Tim.
“Guys, we need to help Dustin!” Ty explained to them. “We’re gonna help Dustin play football!”
Allen, Tim and Kent quickly followed Ty to the locker room and joined him there, where Dustin was patiently waiting for them.
“Allen, get Peter over here!” Ty ordered his friend.
Allen snapped his fingers, and Peter magically popped up in the middle of the locker room, wearing his usual basketball gear.
“Hey guys, what’s going on?” he wondered, the minute he realized that he had been teleported by Allen. He had become used to Allen teleporting him all the time, and he wondered if Allen was going to make his muscles grow again.
“Okay everybody, here’s the deal…” Ty began to explain everything to them.
“Dustin finally has the opportunity to join the football team, but he can’t afford to spend the four-hundred and fifty Dollars on new cleats, pants, a new jersey and a new helmet right now, so are you guys willing to help him out?” Ty asked them.
“Sure, count me in!” Allen replied.
“Me, too!” Tim added.
“I’ll help Dustin!” Peter answered.
Ty turned and looked at Kent. Kent was the youngest in the group.
“I-I’ve never played football before… I dunno…” he said, feeling a bit insecure.
“You can be one of his cleats!” Ty assured him. “All you need to do is hold on tight to his foot! You don’t have to do anything! You won’t feel a thing!”
“Let me be the other cleat” Peter suggested. “That way, I’ll be on Dustin’s other foot, and I can talk to Kent when we’re on the field!”
“It’ll be fun! You guys are gonna love it!” Ty assured them. “Peter and Kent, stand next to each other.” Then Ty turned to Dustin. “What size shoes do you wear?”
“I wear size eleven right now…” Dustin responded.
“I’ll transform Peter and Kent into a brand new pair of high-top football cleats!” Ty commanded, as he concentrated on the two teens as he made his silent wish.
Immediately, Peter and Kent started to shrink rapidly. Both of them started to dwindle at the same time, and at the same rate. Both shrunk faster and faster, from about 6 feet tall (Peter was taller than Kent) to about 2 feet tall when another transformation started to take place.
Both teens were forced to lay with their backs on the floor and their chest facing up. Next, their bodies started to transform into synthetic black leather on top, while the bottom part changed to molded rubber. Where their heads were, their faces formed into the front part of the cleats, forming the elegant design of the holes where the laces went through. Their sides turned into thick, strong black leather, which had thick Velcro straps which added support to the shoe and allowed for tighter support on the football player’s foot. The legs and arms fused together and formed the inner padding and sole, where Dustin’s foot would go in. The bottom part of the shoe was now made of hard, thick, molded rubber, which consisted of the hard, bottom outer shell, which had the stubs sticking out. These provided the traction, which allowed for the football player to run across the grass without slipping and sliding.
“Alright, now lift up your feet, Dustin!” Ty ordered.
Dustin, who was sitting on the bench, lifted his feet off the ground. Luckily, he was already wearing his athletic socks.
Immediately, the two brand new black football cleats leaped from the concrete floor and magically slipped on to Dustin’s feet! The laces tied by themselves and the Velcro straps stuck together so that the awesome cleats fit nice and snug on his feet!
“Wow!” Dustin exclaimed. “These are the coolest cleats EVER!”
Two eyes and a mouth appeared on the front end of each cleat. The left cleat was Peter, and the one on the right was Kent.
“How does it feel, Kent?” Peter said to his partner. “We’re Dustin’s cleats!”
“This is weird!” Kent responded. “It’s awesome, but it’s weird!”
“Walk around in them, and see how they fit on ya!” Ty chuckled.
Dustin got up and paced around the locker room while wearing his new cleats on his feet.
“These shoes are SUPER comfortable! I can’t wait to wear these guys out on the field!” he said to Ty, as Allen and Tim looked on.
“Well, I’ll make it so that you can teleport all of us here when you need to play football, and you can transform all of us into your football gear and then we’ll all transform back into our regular bodies as soon as you take us off!” Ty explained to Dustin.
“Wow… That sounds like a great deal!” Dustin smiled. “That means I can change you guys into my football gear anytime I want?”
Ty just nodded in reply.
“Cool!” Allen cheered.
“That’s great!” Tim added. “It’ll be cool for all of us to be your football gear this season, Dustin!”
“Well, he’s still gonna need a jersey and his pants…” Ty chuckled. “So, who wants to be the jersey, and who wants to be his pants?”
Allen and Tim had to decide on who would get the coveted role of becoming Dustin’s football pants.