“Hey! I just got an idea!” Jim cheered, as he discovered an additional control panel that was attached to the side of the air pump. “This thing has a timer built-in to it!”
“A timer?” Cody wondered. “What’s that for?”
“I’m gonna set it so that the pump will inflate and deflate the balloon every thirty minutes…” Jim explained, as he punched in the time on the display panel. Then, he touched the balloon with his fingers and said out loud “Control my muscles!”
He allowed the balloon to hang from the spout of the air pump, completely deflated, as the boys walked away.
About thirty minutes later, when they were outside, Jim was suddenly overcome by a tingling feeling.
“Oh! Oh! Here comes!” he gasped, as Cody was walking next to him.
Meanwhile, back at home, the timer hit the 30-minute mark, and the pump inflated the balloon with air. At the same time, outside, the balloon’s magic caused Jim’s muscles to inflate at the exact same time! Jim’s chest expanded rapidly and pushed out sideways and forward, almost completely stretching his t-shirt to the max. His arms widened to the point where his sleeves began to tear; his abs popped up over his flat stomach and his legs practically doubled in width. His calves grew into huge soccer-balls, and his biceps inflated to the size of softballs, all in the matter of seconds!
“Whoa! You’re massive!” Cody laughed; as he witnessed Jim practically hulk out before his eyes.
“Oh man, I’m really, really strong…” Jim said, as he began to flex his arms. They continued to walk around the mall, where everyone stared at the incredibly super-muscled youth. Luckily, Jim’s clothes were so big, that they barely stayed on his super-muscled body.
About 30 minutes had passed since the growth spurt, when the timer went off again. Suddenly, the pump’s release valve switched open, and let out all the air in the balloon, causing it to deflate.
“Oh no! I’m gonna deflate!” Jim said, as he was overcome by that familiar tingling feeling. Indeed, all his huge muscles rapidly began to shrink back, and they disappeared until Jim was reduced to his old self again at the same point in time when all the air was let out of the balloon, back in the garage back home.
“Awesome!” Jim cheered. “Dude! I’m gonna use this thing when I go to school tomorrow!”
“You’re gonna set the timer on the balloon?” Cody wondered.
“Yeah… But I’m not going to set it to make my muscles inflate and deflate every thirty minutes. I might set the timer for a shorter period than that!”
“So, you’re going to be growing and shrinking all day long!” Cody noted.
Jim just stared at his friend with an evil grin on his face.
“You got it….”