Mikey's mind was awash in possibilities. So much so in fact, that he realized he couldn't possibly come up with all the different types of transformations he could accomplish on his own.
"I wish," he began quietly to himself. "That I had a ray guy that would randomly change whoever I shot with it, both mentally and physically. And that as far as the world was concerned, that person's new form was the one they've always had."
Suddenly, Mikey felt a weight in his right hand and he looked down to see he was now holding an elaborate ray guy like something from an old Flash Gordon serial. It had only a trigger and a small knob on the side with two options: "male" and "female." Mikey clicked it over to "female" and took aim at Fred Orr, who was currently chatting with some girls and absent-mindedly playing with one of his pigtails.
He fired.
There was a bright pink flash of light. When it cleared, Mikey couldn't believe what he saw. Fred was now a large female french poodle that the girls were lightly petting. Pink bows were tied around her ears. Fred's long tongue lulled from her mouth and her tail wagged excitedly.
Mikey fired again.
Fred was now a 30-something black woman with a huge afro and dressed in retro 70's gear. Large peace-sign earrings dangled on both sides of her face.
Mikey was laughing hysterically. Each change went more or less unnoticed by the bus. They just adapted as if this were always the case. Mikey started pulling the trigger repeatedly just to see what sort of strange random changes he could induce.
First Fred became a pregnant teenage girl. Then elderly Asian woman. Next he was an anthropomorphic female chimpanzee. Then a mermaid, a stern-looking nurse, a girl clown with bright purple hair, a buxom prostitute in a leather jacket, a blonde, brightly-dressed superhero, a big-haired middle-aged waitress smoking a cigarette...
When the bus pulled up to their school all the children flooded out along with Mikey. Fred was the last one off, mostly because she had trouble navigating the narrow aisle in her hoop skirt. She straightened her crown, and twirled her wand. She had become Fredisa, Fairy Queen of the North.
