Mark-O's parents looked at each other then at their son. "Transform," they both said.
Mark-O giggled, as much in pleasure as on impulse. "Fine. You are no longer Kyle and Lorraine Smith; you will become clowns like me and Jen. You're old memories are gone; as far as you or anybody else know we have always been one big happy clown family. You both work with me and Jen in the circus, have a full knowledge of clown tricks and routines, and possess cartoon physics. Your names are now Twink and Blink, and it even says so one your birth certificates.:
Suddenly both parents' eyes glazed over, as if they were in a daze. Their skins faded to a creamy white hue while their eyebrows fell out. New eyebrows, wide black arched lines, appeared on Kyle's forehead while blue diamonds surrounded Lorraine's eyes.
The mouths of the two turned read and stretched into wide smiles; red blush formed on their cheeks. A loud POP! sounded, and both of them like their children had bulbous red clown noses, Kyle's a little bigger while Lorraine's was covered with shiny glitter.
Both of their hair curled and shaped into afros; Lorraine's turned from blonde to rainbow while Kyle's became fire-engine red. The hair on top of Kyle's head then fell out, leaving him with a mass of red curls surrounding a white bald pate.
The t-shirt and sweatpants Kyle was wearing morphed into a baggy blue blazer and extra-wide pants. A puffy polka-dot bow-tie appeared at his neck and a blue derby on top of his shiny bald clown head.
Lorraine's bathrobe turned into a green and yellow baggy clown jumpsuit like her son's, with ruffles at the wrists, ankles, and neck and yellow pom-poms down the middle.
The final change happened as both their shoes morphed into large clown shoes, Kyle's a little longer and Lorraine's with wide bubble toes.
The glaze disappeared from the eyes of the new clown couple. They looked at each other, as if trying to remember something, then at their son.
Kyle, or rather Twink, squeezed his nose. Honk! Honk! "Hey there Mark-O!" he cried in a deep goofy voice. "You ready for the big circus show tonight, son?"
Jen had just come down to table for breakfast. She looked around, and giggled at what her brother had done to their parents.