I really enjoy this whole story and like that m-13 involved Jon a little more directly after this, but I wanted to explore involving the rest of the crew in getting back at Jon more. The below starts with M-13's parallel branch but diverges about halfway, leaving things to be continued after the jump. I left it up to future writers to decide whether to tell what the crew decides to do or just to leave the reader just as in the dark as Jon.
-LuggageCombo12345
Backstage, pandemonium reigned supreme:
"Damn, this is weird!" said African Damon as he used his muscular hands to stroke Wendy's tiny Asian legs through the red fishnet stockings. "I can feel everything! How do women wear these things?" Damon proceeded to remove his left heel and rub his foot.
"How did we get involved with this?" asked a puzzled Akira. He nervously paced back and forth with Tanya's black legs under his waist. He was a little embarrassed, so he took off his blue cape and wrapped it around his waist like a sarong to cover Tanya's tiny black body-suited lower half.
Tanya proceeded to explain about Jon and the magic stone and how their magical success was based around it.
Wendy kept staring down at her new lower body and occasionally poked the large bulge in the green speedos that she now wore. "It feels so strange!" she exclaimed as she noticed the bulge getting larger.
Karyn's head was still affixed to the plastic skeleton hanging on a rack. She was yelling at her body, which was sitting crossed-legged on a couch wearing a playboy outfit and a skull for a head. Her body grabbed its breasts and started bouncing them playfully.
"Will you cut that out!" shrieked the helpless Karyn. "Will someone make that bonehead stop messing with my body?!"
Just then Jon walked in, his arms spread wide as if reveling in imaginary applause, "Wow, everyone, what a show! And Max, my friend, I love the new twists in the third act - simply genius!"
He extended his arm to shake Max's hand, only to have Max slapped it angrily away while everyone glared at Jon, silently fuming. Even Karen's body with its skull head put its hands angrily on its hips. "What the hell were you thinking, Jon? I don't know what to expect anymore. I'm supposed to be the magician, but I spend the whole show screaming and panicking because of all of these unexpected twists and turns that occur. How am I supposed to keep a good stage performance if you keep deviating from the rehearsed illusions without telling me!? And involving Damon and Akira without asking anyone? That crosses a line, Jon."
"Hey, I was just trying to help! Here, let me fix this," Jon said, trying to placate his friends. Holding up the stone, he wished Akira & Damon were home and back to normal with no memory of the events of the last hour.
Just as he prepared to wish the rest of the crew back to normal, he felt the surprisingly firm grip of Tanya's hand on his arm as she snatched the stone away from him. "Oh, no you don't. I think you've done enough wishing for one night."
From across the room came Karyn's voice, still stuck to the plastic skeleton: "In fact, Jon, I think you owe us all."
"What do you have in mind, Karyn?" Max asked, looking warily between the two friends.
"Oh, a few things.... But it rather takes away half of the effect if Jon-boy here can hear them, doesn't it? After all, none of us were warned. May I see that stone, Tanya?" As soon as she said this, she looked down and remembered her own predicament. "Just, uh... hold it against my head or something, I guess. Okay, I wish Jon was at home in his room but that he will be in the audience tomorrow night again." With that, everyone in the room had to look away as something caught in their eyes and when they looked back, Jon was gone as if he'd never been there. "Now, I have a few ideas, but I think we should all discuss this, together, as a team. But first things, first." With that, she wished all of them back to normal.
Meanwhile, Jon suddenly found himself alone in his room and, more importantly, without the stone. He could also tell, whether he wanted to or not, he was going to go to the show, tomorrow. "Oh boy...this is bad."
