“Alright, well I guess it’s my turn, then!” said Ethan. He didn’t wait for Ryan before aim his Chronivac at Ryan and pushing the button.
“Hey!” said Ryan, as he started tingling all over. At first he felt a pinching sensation in his hands, and watched as his index and middle fingers fused together, while his ring and little fingers did the same. They narrowed and lengthened slightly as they merged, and soon he was left with 3-digit hands. The same feeling was felt in his feet, and he awkwardly pulled off his socks with his new hands to catch his toes on each foot merging into two large digits. The separation between the two toes then stretched mid-way into each foot, leaving him with cleft feet.
“What exactly did you program?” said Ryan, as he got up and went to the mirror to see the changes. “You’ll see,” said Ethan, as Ryan felt tingling all around his head. First, his ears folded and flattened themselves into a smooth surface. Ryan put his hand to the flat space on his head, and wondered how he was able to still hear. Next, Ryan’s forehead stretched upwards and widened a couple of inches, as though someone had just put a few puffs into inflating his head. Ryan felt like someone was pulling on his eye sockets as his field of vision started to become larger; as he watched agape in the mirror, his eyes grew bigger and more orb-like.
“That’s classic,” said Ethan with a laugh behind him. As he watched, his nose flattened, losing its prominence, and his skin pigment shifted drastically from white Caucasian to grey Martian. With that, the sensations ended.
“That’s awesome!” said Ryan, admiring the new skin colour of his arms and flexing his hands.
“You make a good alien,” Ethan said, “But you look odder now in those clothes than I did. Want a change?”
“Go for it,” said Ryan, still admiring himself.
Ethan fiddled with the Chronivac for a while. “There. These should be more... fitting,” he said.
Ryan didn’t like how Ethan lingered on that last word, but he had already pushed the button on the Chronivac. Ryan watched as his clothing warped around him. His shirt and jeans merged together, while his jeans grew longer and wrapped themselves over his feet, and between the new clefts of his feet. A small weight suddenly left him as the fabric of the all-in-one became lighter, and turned a shiny silver colour.
“One spacesuit,” said Ethan, as finally the suit shrank around Ryan and stretched about his frame, becoming form-fitting.
Ryan looked down at himself in surprise. “Hey, now that’s cool!” he said, watching the light refract on the fabric. “Pretty snug, though; I mean, I feel naked.”
Ethan just raised his eyebrows and gestured to himself.
“Good point,” said Ryan.
“What now?” said Ethan.