Tim heard Katie's voice calling from outside the chamber. "Uh, there's an error message or something."
He groaned, and then yelled, "What's it say?"
After a pause, Katie's reply came back, "It says, 'Transformation subject number mismatch, reverting to previous saved settings, press "execute" to accept and continue.' What's all that mean?"
Tim thought for a second and then realized that the controls had been set to transform 2 people, he hadn't changed it to 1, and there was a bug in the system if the "wrong" number of people were in the chamber. "Can you open the door?" he asked.
He could hear the handle rattling, and then Tiffany's voice yelled back, "I think it's stuck."
He mumbled to himself, "Of course -- it didn't work 10 minutes ago when I tried opening the door before the transformation had completed." He raised his voice for the girls' benefit, "Okay, just keep hitting 'execute' until I'm done changing and the door opens, and then I'll fix things once I can get out."
"Okay," yelled Katie, with a bit of a reluctant sound to her voice.
The fog inside the chamber grew thicker. Tim started mulling things over in his mind. Okay, so the previous saved settings were for Tiff and Katie's transformation into fantasy women. He thought he could deal with that for a couple of minutes until he could reprogram the system. Oh, wait, there was that other setting that only males within a 10- foot radius of the machine would remember the old reality --
The fog quickly dissipated, and the door hissed, unlatched, and opened. Gingerly, Tim stepped back out into the mad scientist's basement and saw the expectant looks on Tiff and Katie's faces.
Their faces lit up. "Oh, thank God you're normal, Angela!" exclaimed Tiff.
"Angela? What --" Tim stopped and looked down into some very impressive cleavage. Two volleyball-sized breasts extended out from his -- her chest, barely contained by a white halter top. A quick inspection showed that she was wearing the same plaid skirt and high-heeled shoes as Tiff and Katie, which led her to think that the change to reality that happened when Tiff and Katie were transformed had ended up changing their school uniform.
"Here's your purse," said Katie, shoving a small black bag into Angela's stomach. "Come on, this place is giving me the creeps."
Angela unconsciously put the bag's strap over her left arm and hung it from her shoulder. "No, wait, I've got to -- I've got to change again." Her body was jiggling in some very strange ways. She took a couple of steps toward the control console and felt an unfamiliar sensation between her legs -- kind of like the sensation of rubbing a penis while masturbating, but a bit more intense and focused.
"What?" said Tiff. "What do you mean, change? Come on, you're already twice as hot as us."
Angela tried to explain. "No, you don't remember because -- look, just let me do this." She sat down at the console and winced with pleasure from the fabric that rubbed the area between her legs.