"Seriously?" replied Jon. "You're doing that? I didn't even know it was possible."
"I figure," said Karyn, "that we'd have some time to think about it. Now, Jon, the other one, who's a clone, get in the chamber."
"Huh?" said the other Jon with the vagina. "Why?"
"Because I want to test sopmething."
"You know, Karyn," he said, "technically I don't know if I'm a clone. We said it wasn't supposed to be a cloning machine. It doesn't use cells--it's more like a Star Trek replicator with different limits, even if it's full of fluid."
"Yeah," replied Karyn, "but 'clone' is what we call it, even if a scientist wouldn't say you're a clone."
The second Jon walked up close to the original Jon to read the screen. "Seriously?" he said. "Pregnant? I know the machine makes people, but it doesn't make people inside someone."
"It doesn't?" said Karyn. "The machine accepted the instructions. It makes people in that chamber, even if someone else is already in there too."
"But I don't want to be pregnant," said the other Jon. "It's strange enough having a girl's parts. But... Hmm. I did say I was going to try to get used to having them. If I'm going to get used to them I'll have to treat them like normal and do the same things a normal woman does, which means getting pregnant sometimes."
"Wait..." said Karyn. "You seriously want to go in and try this? Jon, and I know I can call you Jon too, you know the truth why I picked this? Because I knew it wasn't going to happen until you stepped back in, so we had plenty of time to change our minds. There was a second chance to say that maybe I shouldn't use a people-making machine without a good reason--I shouldn't just do it on a whim. It never occured to me that 'try to get used to having a vagina' means that you'd really want to go in."
"It's not so much wanting to go in," said Jon's clone, "as that I feel that I really should be going in." He opened the machine's door.
"At least," said Karyn, "don't get your clothes all wet."
"I bet it won't," said the clone. "It only needed fluid because it had to grow a clone in a place where a clone won't fall to the ground when it's only partly formed. If it makes a pregnancy in me that's already a place to put it. So there shouldn't be any fluid."
"And if there is?"
"Oh," said the original Jon, "I'll wish his clothes dry again."
"Now, let's do it," said the clone. He opened the chamber and stepped in before anyone could stop him. The door shut and the lights came on the machine.
Karyn tried hitting an off switch, but she couldn't find one, and by the time she thought of pulling the plug, she realized it could be dangerous to stop the machine when it was halfway done. There wasn't any flow of water, but the clone's stomach began to expand outwards. He reached for his pants and unsnapped them and loosened the zipper to make room.
Soon the door opened again and the clone stepped out. The vagina itself was invisible beneath his clothes, but his belly was that of a pregnant woman. "It's going to be twins," said Karyn. "I had it copy some things from each Jon."
"But we're identical," said the first Jon. "It doesn't matter who you take traits from."
"Except down here," replied the second Jon, indicating his belly and crotch.
"You're almost identical," said Karyn, "but I had it take traits from both of you so that I could say that both of you are the babies' parents, even if they'll just look like direct clones of either of you anyway. But I was't really expecting you'd do it anyway. So what's it like being pregnant?"
