"You should allow me to take the machine back to my place, with your dad it's not safe here," Aunt Kelly suggested. "Though the pods are a bit too big to fit in my car and I'd need to make an excuse for you to stay with me for a couple of days."
You looked over at the pods, and back at Aunt Kelly, you weren't sure about leaving the machine with her but a couple of days able to experiment as much as your heart desired did sound like a good plan. Especially now that you knew that your father was against this technology.
The pods were mostly hollow and more acted as a chamber that amplified the swapping core's power, making it much more efficient. As they were able to hold full size people they were bulky though you had assembled them with moving them in mind. So collapsing them for transport wouldn't be an issue. Justifying why you needed to go to Kelly's house would be harder.
"Okay, I'll begin to work on these and getting them loaded up into your car, you come up with whatever excuse you need for me to go over to your... house?" It just occurred to you, you didn't actually know where she lived. All you knew was it was in the city.
"Don't worry I know how to con people into getting what I want, finding an excuse for my intelligent nephew to come over should be a piece of cake." You watched your Aunt bounce off with new energy, leaving you to disassemble the pods you had only just finished. As you loaded them up into her car, you realized Aunt Kelly was right about being able to con people, at the very least she was able to get you to do what she wanted.
You returned to the house and packed a bag to go to your Aunt's. Your parents seemed accepting of whatever it is she told them, however your dad seemed a little suspicious of both you and aunt Kelly's motives.
It was a long drive into the city and a bit uncomfortable in Aunt Kelly's ran down convertible, you had to keep the roof down to fit your machine, making the journey especially windy and not one you could really talk on. Then you got to your Aunt Kelly's apartment building, it took you six trips in the slow elevator to get everything up into her apartment. You had no idea how small or messy it was and as soon as you stepped inside, you realized she wasn't as rich as you had believed.
It was a two bedroom apartment, with a living area, kitchen and dining room taking up the main space, then she had her bedroom down the hall next to the bathroom, followed by the 2nd bedroom which mostly just housed lots of junk. There wasn't even a spot for you to sleep.
You spent the rest of the afternoon moving the furniture in the living area, until you had the pods and central console set up. You were so tired and exhausted as you were the one doing the manual labor.
"There... it's all done," you said as you plugged the machine into the wall.
"You're the best," Aunt Kelly gave you a big hug from behind as she surveyed your work, thinking how she might use your machine. "I guess you want to use it now?"
You sat down on her living room chair, which was now down that short hallway and gave her a look, she already had ideas on what to do with your machine. "What did you have in mind?"
She looked at you with a huge grin...
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