Jeff was stunned as he watched everything around him grow larger. He then realized that
he was being transformed into a doll. A Ken doll at least. As his body transformed into
plastic, his contemplation on why his mom chose this for him slowed until he completed
his transformation into a lifeless, plastic Barbie doll.
Once the transformation was complete, his Mom began to have second thoughts. 'This
doesn't seem to be fair to Jeff, though. He wants to try being inanimate but can he truly
enjoy being lifeless?'
She altered the settings to 'anatomically correct', 'living', and 'aware'. Jeff's plastic eyes
blinked and he stretched his arms. His hands bumped the box and he looked around. He
looked up at his mom and called out to her. "Mom! Mom!" but she didn't turn. He tried to
push away from the box, which he felt on his back. He looked to see himself and saw the
blue swimmers racing suit on his bulging groin.
Looking up again, he saw his mom walking over then picking up the box. "Honey?" she
asked, "Can you hear me?"
"I can hear you!" Jeff shouted. "Why did you do this to me? Couldn't You have turned me
into something else?"
"I'm sorry honey, but I promised your sister a new doll, and you wanted to become
inanimate. I figured that is wasn't fair to you, so I used the machine to give you life. I just
have to take care of the Chronivac, and you."
She took both of them and put them in her room. She put the Chronivac in her top drawer
and put Jeff the doll on her bed. Just then, Jeff's sister came in the door. "Mom! I'm home!"
Jeff's mom left the room and went downstairs.