"So the machine is off, and you guys are statues from the neck down, right?"
"Yes, what happened? What did you bump? I'll tell you how to re-set it, and- " Brad said.
"Didn't bump anything, I pushed the shutdown button that you showed me. I think it worked perfectly," Dan Eltrump said as he ran his hands over their stone bodies "It will make a much more attractive magic act, if you can have members of the audience come up and inspect the audience volunteer who I change into a statue. They can converse with him or her, I suppose it works on women?"
"Well, I wish you'd told me before. If you push that button again, the process will resume statufication, and then will revers-gah!" Brad gagged as Mr. Eltrump pulled a leather hood with a gag over Brad's head and secured it,
"What's happening?" Tad asked nervously,
"Well, I'm packing up my new artwork and my new machine before my movers get here," Eltrump explained as he shoved a red dildo gag into Tad's mouth, and strapped it to the back of his head. He then proceeded to close up Brad's machine into the travel boxes Looking up at his new statues, he explained further, "You see I what makes this trick so valuable is that I am the only one who can do it. So I couldn't afford to leave you-well, Brad-free to share or sell his experiment to anyone else. He he he, and you two made it so easy, and having the two of you in this erotic pose is a bigger bonus!" He smiled and pulled a red leather hood over Tad's immobilized head covering his gag. "Besides from your stoned stiffy, I think was it, Todd? You are enjoying your buddy's cock up your ass. Gay college boys, eh? Hahahaha!"
Sealed in their the hoods, Brad and Tad could hear, but not see, smell or speak.
The man known as Dan Eltrump could be heard making a phone call, but what Brad and Tad heard was most alarming, though they could only hear half of the conversation and it was muffled by their heavy leather hoods.
"Hey, Sanchez, it's Bernie, I'm ready for the movers. You got the package in transit? Good. The scientists will be disappointed, but now I will have all the human statues in the world in my collection. I will need you to get me some hitchhikers - decent looking ones- I want to practice a few times before I do my first public performance, and I've always -" his voice trailed off, and became indistinct as the man who was named Dan or Bernie walked away. Brad and Tad were panicking at this point, but they were helpless. The movers were quiet for the most part and when they did speak they spoke in Spanish. The statues felt and heard themselves loaded and packed into a crate. They were loaded on a truck. It was hours, perhaps days before they were unloaded.