John takes both devices, securing them in a case because he needs the original to repair and modify in line with the one that used to be Jim. He pauses and realizes that if he can't figure out how to update the original, then there would be no way to change Jim back...can't shoot himself with himself. Shakes his head, and realizes that is a later problem, but the whole point is using the new device to fix the issues with the prototype. But he still hopes Jim isn't thinking the same things, assuming Jim is capable of thought while transformed. The device is supposed to allow that, but John finds himself racked with second thoughts. He needs to talk to Gina about this, and while he could have gone upstairs to his supervisor, he doesn't always trust him, and this is pretty darned important. Plus, Gina shares some of his fantasies that led him into the field of study, so she'll probably think it's cool.
Arriving at his cabin, a dinky little affair in the woods that he rents from a conspiracy guy who lives next door, he smiles as he sees Gina's cute convertible out front, and parks his SUV next to it. He goes in and Gina is playing video games in cheer shorts and a cropped top, and she smiles as she gets up. They hug and kiss their hellos when she notices the case he has. "oh, bringing work home with you?" John laughs and decides to just go all out "Work, and a friend" opening the case, taking out the two devices. "This is it, the thing I've been working on, that can turn a person into an animal or object. But it has some issues and can't turn them back...this one, well, this one can, but only because this device is actually Jim, my lab partner" Gina had been listening intently, her eyes growing wider, mouth slighlty agape, but when John said the second device was Jim, she lept up and grabbed it, running her hands over it "You're not meessing with me, are you? This....this thing is actually a person?"
John nods, and chuckles a bit at her enthusiasm, "Yeah, that's Jim, we played rock paper scissors to see who became the device that is fully functional, and so he's stuck like that, until I can reverse engineer, well, him, to fix this one" gesturing as he put the original back in the case. "I want to test him, well it, some and eventually we need to test it on people to make sure all the changes work and then we refit them to the prototype." Gina giggles "Ok, so let me get this straight, you turned your lab partner into a working TF gun, and brought him home to try it out?" she smiles and claps, hugging John. "This is awesome! Who first!" John smiles, having guessed she would be enthusiastic as opposed to wary. "Not so fast cutie, we need to test it on some other things first. Gina pouts, then smiles and takes off her cut off shirt, revealing her bra under neath and lays the top on the ground "Go ahead and transform my shirt, its a little ragged anyway" John smiles "Any requests?" as he uses the Jim device to scan it, putting the original back in the case. She thinks and then says "How about a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader outfit? You know, the short shorts, blue tie bra, white cropped jacket and knee high boots? I mean, if we art testing inanimate to inanimate, really push it, make it turn one thing into like four parts." John rubs his chin, then looks at the screen, rolling through the menus that are on the Jim-device, and sees a wifi connection, so connects to home wifi, and is able to search for an image and shows it to Gina "This?" and she smiles "Yep, and I'll even wear it for you" winking. John isn't a huge football fan, but in that outfit, he'd cheer for any team Gina was supporting. He aims it and scans her shirt to restore it, and gets to reversion setting "Ok, we'll set it to turn back in five minutes" She pouts "not enough time for me to put it on" John laughs "Tell you what, we get this worked out and tested, and I'll zap you up any outfits you want, and leave the reversion to infinite so they stay transformed for good...well, unless we used the device on them again" she smiles and says "Deal" and you zap her shirt, which glows and shifts, turning into the five pieces of the outfit, two boots, shorts, bra and cropped little jacket. Gina squeals and picks it up "This is incredible!" The handles each piece and is amazed "They're all perfect, and all of them used to be my ratty camp tee" She goes off about ideas she has for outfits, but then the five minutes is up, and the costume glows, and turns back into a worn tee. She picks it up and pouts, but smiles...she was only pretending to be upset. She comes over and kiss John "This is awesome...what next?"
John smiles and kisses back "Ok, now we need to try and see if it can shift things into animate forms....we'll use your tee again, if you are ok with it" and he scans one of his potted plants, and then turns the device toward her shirt. "If the device can turn your shirt into a living plant, that's proof it can assemble living matter" she watches and this time you don't set a reversion, and her shirt glows and is a copy of the plant. "Perfect, now, we see if we can transform living matter and have it revert." Turning the device on the plant he had scanned, he plugs in the cheerleader outfit, and sets reversion for one minute, and zaps it. The plant glows and turns into the cheerleader ensemble and John holds his breath as the timer nears zero, and then sighs and smiles as the clothes turn back into a plant. "Success. the device is fully functional and can transform and restore living matter." Gina claps and smiles "This is awesome, we so need to try it on people now. And I have just the idea..."
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