In another room, they finally got a clue, and Joannie said "I wish Karyn and I were smarter when it comes to fixing wishes."
Soon Joannie opened the door and held the stone, reading off a piece of looseleaf paper with several wishes hastily scribbled on it. "Max," she said, "And Mickie. I'm going to fix some of these wishes. First, I wish that I can reverse any of the wishes I'm about to make if I think of something better, and I wish that Sarah would stay quiet until I finish them."
"What wishes are you going to make?" asked the blue monkey.
"Just listen. Max, have you ever seen those sci-fi movies where some alien refers to all humans as monkeys? I wish you were a monkey like that, making you human again. I also wish that you'd have a brief fantasy about being a female version of your normal self, and that you'd then turn into that. I wish that the wish that 'this creature' have orgasms from sausage-shaped things isn't true since you're not the same creature any more. Finally, I wish your blue hair is a wig."
Max's body began to warp. Soon she was back to normal--or almost.
"I'm still a girl!" said Max as she removed the wig. "The way you said that wish... I thought you were going to change me to normal."
"I couldn't think of anything," replied Joannie. "The wish said a girl from your fantasies. I could turn you into something else by giving you a fantasy about something else, but it has to be a girl."
"What next?" asked Max.
"It's Karyn's dad. We're going to defeat Sarah by math." The girl in the cage grumbled a bit.
"By math?"
"Yes, Max, by math. There's something we learned about in school called the sum of an infinite series."
"What does that mean?"
"Lots of things, but here's the important part: You can add an infinite number of things together without getting infinity. Like, if I give you half a sheet of paper, then half of the rest, then half of what's left after that.... I can keep cutting my piece in half and give you smaller pieces. I can do it forever but all the pieces never add up to more than one sheet."
"I still don't get it."
"It means... that if someone makes a wish saying 'you'll change a little bit each time,' the little bit can keep getting smaller. If it does, all the little bits, even added up forever, might not add up to much. I wish that the changes to Karyn's dad's body that feminize him will get smaller in this way, and that the total change isn't big enough to be noticed. I wish that the wish about being more and more horny worked the same way. And I wish that he was 'totally horny for men' meaning that it's only men he wants sex with, but not that he's horny all the time or towards every man that comes along."
Then Joannie took a deep breath, which jiggled her chest strangely, and continued. "I wish that Karyn's dad would stop following Sarah's masturbation order. It wasn't a real wish anyway. And I wish that Sarah is bothered by normal periods, thinking of them as heavy and painful, and that Karyn's dad only has heavy and painful periods by that standard."
Max waited for more, but Joannie didn't continue. Finally, Max said "You didn't fix Dad either. He's still going to have a vagina and he's still going to want sex with men..."
"Look, we're trying!" said Joannie. "Next is Karyn... I wish that Karyn had the ability to shapechange for the next minute and that she would use the ability to return her feet to normal...."
Karyn sat down and took her shoes off, as her feet reshaped themselves to normal.
"I wish Karyn had the power to teleport clothes onto herself, so she could be dressed in anything she wants without 'wearing' it. I wish she had enough money to buy a new wardrobe. I wish that no guy would say anything to her during sex that could come true unless she wanted it to come true. And I wish that the wish about her body parts getting bigger worked the same way as the other infinite series wishes, so Karyn would never change by enough to notice."
Karyn felt her buttocks. "I'm not changing back!" she said.
"Because," explained Joannie, "the only way to reduce your parts to their previous size is... wait... I wish that Karyn's parts were reduced to a size very close to their previous size, so close nobody would notice the difference, but not really their previous size."
That one worked. Karyn was back to normal. She'd have to buy new clothes and get dressed by magic, but at least she'd be normal.
"I wish that Mickie is constantly horny because of a hormonal imbalance, but she'll be permanently cured by a simple medical treatment that she'll get at the doctor today if she goes home right now. I also wish that Mickie is more mannish than the average girl, but not so much more that she looks weird."
"Whew..." said Mickie as her muscles shrank and her face softened. "You mean right now?"
"Right," said Jon.
Mickie said "Great! Bye!" and ran out.
Joannie continued. "I wish that Freddie is Sarah's maid because she was threatened, not because of any mental compulsion, so she can stop now that she's not being threatened."
"Now you're the only one left," said Max. "Right?"
"Right," said Joannie sadly.
"So you're going to fix yourself?"
"I don't know," said Joannie. "I could hardly think of anything." She read off the last wishes from the paper. "I have something, but I wouldn't call it a fix. I wish that since Sarah wished I'd have child-bearing hips, I have to be able to have children, so I'll have normal girls' organs and not a penis."
The freakishly long penis disappeared.
"How'd you do that?" asked Karyn. "You can't reverse wishes."
"Sarah made the childbearing hips wish first. The two foot penis wish was reversing the childbearing hips wish, not the other way around."
"Oh. Hm. Good thing it didn't just give you two sets of parts at the same time."
"I wish my hair is a wig. I wish to have some non-goth clothes to put on. I wish that I got normal feet the same way Karyn did. Now I wish that the infinite series loophole I used before also fixes the wish about me becoming more feminine." Joannie sat down too to remove her shoes and change her feet to normal.
"What about the wish to be more masculine?" asked Karyn.
"It doesn't do anything," replied Joannie. "Sarah wished me female, so any wish that I turn male is a reversal. The stone won't do reversals. Now, I wish that I heal fast even from injuries that are permanent on most people. Now I can take out the piercings and they'll close up. And the goth clothes and makeup I can just take off. Most of it, anyway."
Joannie crumpled up the paper and tossed it away.
She got up and was about to head out, when Karyn said "Wait! You forgot one!"
"I did?"
"Yeah, please lend me the stone."
Joannie let her have it, and Karyn said "I wish that Joannie's tattoos are children's washable tattoos that can be removed by some soap and water."
"Thanks!" said Joannie. "I didn't think of that."
"You wished I was smarter too!" replied Karyn.
Joannie walked out, and after dressing and washing, returned. She no longer had the piercings, tattoos, or Goth clothes and looked a lot more like the old Jon, but was still a girl, wearing a dress and jewelry and with painted nails.
"Nothing else?" wondered Karyn.
"Yeah," said Joannie. "So much stuff that I couldn't fix. My name. I'm still a girl, my arms and legs are still smooth. My nails are still painted permanently. I still have to wear jewelry, even though I could fudge the 'a lot of' part, and dresses. And I still like girls. I hope I can think of something later, but right now I can't. Now, there's one more person to make wishes on. Sarah!"
Sarah cringed.
"She may look afraid," said Max, "but I think she's faking. She was fiddling with something before. Mumbling something. I couldn't get it away from her."
"I wish," said Joannie, "that Sarah would get rid of what she was fiddling with."
Obediently, Sarah tossed an object outside the cage. It was a cell phone.
"She must have called someone to come help her," said Joannie. "We need to do something about this fast. Karyn, the stone, please."
Karyn gave her the stone, but said, "I don't know. We're in a house. Someone would have to break in to cause trouble."
"Or Sarah called the police telling them she was kidnapped. And for all we know they could break down the door without warning, so I need to make the wish now. I wish...."
(Author's note: This was convoluted. I just know I must have missed something here...)
