Ty was furious at Dustin for turning him into a posterboy and decided that whenever he wanted to use something to have some fun with, he would use Dustin.
Ty saw a mosquito fly around in the kitchen, so he turned Dustin into a fly swatter. Dustin's face became a flat, plastic surface with small, square holes in it. The rest of his body shrunk until it became a small, thin, plastic handle that was about a foot long. Ty grabbed hold of Dustin, the fly swatter, stretched his stretchy arm until it reached the kitchen, and killed the fly. Then he retracted his arm, dropping Dustin on the floor. Slowly, the flyswatter turned back into Dustin, and he still had the dead fly stuck on his forehead.
"Ouch! My head hurts! Why did you hit me so hard against the kitchen counter?" Dustin complained, as he sat on the floor.
Ty got up and walked to Dustin, who was still on the floor.
"I want to go have some fun with my cousin, when he comes back. Hmm... What shall I do to you?" Ty wondered out loud.
"Stop messing with me! Why don't you use your power on Peter instead of me?" Dustin pleaded.
"I can't. Peter is a hundred times stronger than me, and he can stop my powers! Besides, you're lots more fun to change..." Ty responded.
"Oh great!" Dustin groaned.
"I know!" Ty shouted out loud, "Peter loves basketball!"
Suddenly, Dustin felt his skin turn into leather. His body curled up and turned bright orange. His face and legs were fused together as his whole body shrunk into the form of an official NBA basketball. Ty walked up to the ball, picked it up, and dribbled it on the floor.
Just at the moment, Peter walked in.
"Hey Peter, think fast!" Ty said, as he hurled the ball at Peter's chest using both his hands.
Immediately Peter dropped the bag of groceries on the floor and caught the basketball using both hands.
"Great, you look much better now!" Peter observed, as he dribbled the ball three times. "Where is Dustin?"
"He's in your hands!" Ty answered.
Peter held on to the ball for a few seconds, and then looked straight at it. On one said he could see an imprint of Dustin's face, on the ball that he now held in his hand!
"Dustin??!!" he shouted, while looking at the ball.
"Oh Ty, come on!" Peter said angrily. "Why did you do this to him?"
"Because he turned me into a posterboy just to get an 'A' in his stupid art class!" Ty shouted at him.
"You need to get over it..." Peter began.
"Now you're gonna be the backboard and the rim I'm going to shoot Dustin through!" Ty shouted, as he started to concentrate on changing Peter.
Peter just stood there, dropped the ball, and folded his arms in front of his chest. As Ty's power penetrated his body, it bounced right off of him and reflected back at Ty. Ty's body shrank and became a white, fiberglass backboard with a new, orange rim hanging from its front! Peter then concentrated on the board, levitating it in the air, at a height of ten feet. He then picked up Dustin the basketball off the floor, and shot Dustin through the rim, that was Ty.
"When are you two going to learn to get along?" Peter asked out loud, as he was finally able to play some basketball with Ty and Dustin.
Dustin bounced and rolled back to Peter, who was suddenly the only human in the house.
"Alright, last shot! If I make it, then you two will immediately turn back to normal again!" Peter said.
The ball bounced off the rim, and came down on the floor. Peter extended his hands, and the ball magically lept right in them. He took a step back and attempted a shot from three-point range. As soon as the ball passed through the hoop, Dustin landed with his back on the floor. The backboard turned back into Ty, who was floating right above Dustin. Immediately Peter let go of Ty, and made him fall on top of Dustin.
Both Ty and Dustin sat on the floor, still dazed and confused.
Then Peter slowly walked up to them and stood in front of them.
"It's no fun to play basketball when you're the only human who is playing!" Peter remarked.
Suddenly, Ty and Dustin were overcome with fear. Dustin had seen Peter's power and Ty knew Peter was way stronger than him. Peter allowed this to happen so that Ty knew what Dustin had felt like earlier. Both Ty and Dustin were trembling with fear, they knew they were no match for their mighty cousin Peter. They both gasped at the powerful boy walked closer to them.
"PPPPP Peter.... What.... What are you... going to do... to us?" Ty stuttered, with tears rolling from his eyes.
Peter changed his angry expression on his face and grinned.
"Prince had told me this was going to happen!" Peter said.
What a relief! Ty knew that Prince was the one who had given him his powers, and Peter had talked to him as well.
"Now, you two, it's time to make up! Quit being so mean to each other!" Peter ordered, "We are family, right?"
"Come on guys, group hug!" Peter said, as he spread out his arms.
The three men embraced each other. Then they brainstormed about what they wanted to do next. Peter thought it were a great idea for the three of them to go on a trip, just to get out of the house, out of town, in order to releive some of the stress they had been under.
Where would the three guys go now?