Howard Khang really wished he'd had a son. He'd been driving his youngest daughter, Emily, home from school when suddenly he found himself parked on the side of the road. Losing track of time was bad enough, but he also seemed to have the body of a middle aged matronly woman from below his neck. On top of even that insanity, his daughter was shrieking and crying about her not wanting to be a boy.
Howard was quietly astounded by all of this, but maybe not as much as he should have been. His mother had always believed in reality-warping, transformative magics, and before her final trip to Peru she'd warned him that things could get really exciting if she found what she was after. He never got a straight answer from her on if she found anything, and then she was gone. He sighed and snapped back to his current bizarre situation. The inside of his car looked fairly norma-
What the hell is that?
He could make out the still form of a weird silhouette in his car's floorboard. Had he dropped something?
He leaned over slightly and felt around, trying to grasp it.
"It's okay, honey, just calm down and Daddy will-" his hand made contact with something mold-like, and he instantly tried to yank back. The blob of... whatever had latched onto his hand, and instantly he knew this was something he shouldn't have let happen. Grabbing it with his free hand, he forced the blue slime into the console between the front seats of the car.
"Dammit!" he swore, as he felt a wave of lightheadedness come on.
"Mommy, I feel weird!!!" Heather Khang's daughter whined even louder. She had no clue what had caused her daughter's body to suddenly change into a boy, but she figured her own mother definitely had something to do with it. Even with that hunch, it was hard to keep herself out of hysterics as she pulled back on the road. Her own daughter was changed, and that made her wonder about the two she had at home...
Trapped inside a decent-sized piece of tupperware, the slime-ified Karyn was groggily prodded awake by... Karyn.
Wake up!! I found out something awful about our new... situation.
Karyn really didn't want to believe she was talking with a... a what? A clone of herself? Especially not first thing after waking up.
The Karyn who had latched onto Jaime's mouth explained how the contact had assimilated him and one of her old bodies into a latina girl.
Wait... one of my... our bodies? There's more than one?
Arrgh I dunno, maybe when we split in two our magic made two of our old body?
Where are we?
I told you, she put us in a bowl or something. I've been trying to uh... re-fuse with you in here since then.
No luck, I take it? We're still two... well not 'people' but...
LISTEN, in this new reality, the boy with our body is friends with Cathy instead... If we stay in here, he should take us right to her!
And do what? Freak her out? Turn her into someone else just on accident?
We'll come up with something...
Inside Catherine's paint bucket, the green and blue slimes that had been Jon and Zoe were beginning to seep into each other. Neither were particularly conscious after Cathy's panicked actions had splattered them into various parts of what was once the Madison residence.
Stupid fucking stone... I can't believe I made that wish... now I'm a toxic monster and that dork is living my life...
Wait... who am I?
I'm not a gir-... I mean I wasn't a gu-...
OK, so grandpa gave me a wishing rock, which was really fucking awesome, and I showed my best friend Karyn...
Wait, but Athena is my best friend...? We're... goth? I was never into the goth scene though...
The colors of the two slimes had intermixed into a pleasant cyan hue, which seemed to be the reaction of different-colored slimes touching. The only issue was, Jon and Zoe, two of the only minds that remembered their family existing at all, were now also cluelessly intermingled.
I wished for something interesting to happen, and suddenly that boy had my body and I lunged at him...
No, no, NO, I had weird hairs in my throat and then... yeah, then that fucker stole my body! And he turned it into some nerdy girl!
Something about all that didn't match up to her. First of all, she should be able to remember her name... she definitely hadn't had this much trouble before...
It was three letters, uh, one was definitely an O...
Zon?? That's not even a name. Man, I'm fucking stupid for guessing it was Zon...
No wait, it kinda sounds like my name! Something-Zon
Ok it WAS more than three letters, it started with an M, I remember writing it on literally everything...
Maddy? Maddy Zon?
MADISON
Madison relaxed herself in the bucket. That had taken... a lot of effort just to remember her fucking name. The rest was really sketchy but she was pretty sure she wasn't a nerd. She had... uh, two best friends... both girls, like she... was?
She was getting tense again and bubbling over. She had a mom and a... uh... sibling. Or two? No, that was just more of her own goth memories. She really needed to talk to Karyn about what had happened to her...
