Before Jon transformed into a geek, physical education was bad enough, but now it was practically insufferable. Jon hated having to exercise with a bunch of other kids who enjoyed it, and he tried to get through the period with as little class participation as he could get away with. At the moment, he was standing out in the school's field with the rest of his class, watching two athletic students kick a soccer ball around zealously while the remainder of the class had varying levels of enthusiasm, Jon himself coming in dead last. He just wanted to get through this period so that he could go to lunch.
"I wish that we could go inside," Jon muttered to himself, temporarily forgetting that the magic stone was in the pocket of his P.E. sweatpants along with his new Geek Gun.
Like clockwork, thunder rang out louder than a gunshot, and very heavy rains started falling upon the sports field. It had been sunny all day, but the sudden shift in weather made the middle-aged Phys Ed teacher curse in ways that would probably get him fired if he didn't have tenure. Jon didn't really hate the man, but he certainly hated his class. He understood, though, that government regulations mandated that Jon waste an hour of every day doing this.
"Well, crud," the gym teacher shouted in a vaguely Minnesotan accent. "Show's over. Everybody, quickly get back inside the building and get out of your wet PE clothes."
Jon was a little embarrassed he recklessly made a wish like that, but he was glad that the day's labor was over. He was about to start running back towards the school when another kid named Kevin Weams- not really a popular guy or even a very athletic person, but just a sycophantic twerp about Jon's height- walked over to him. "You spent the whole period being a waste of space and now you're staying out here? Dumbass."
He walked past him, but Jon was still sufficiently annoyed enough to decide to take a quick and dirty revenge. Pulling the geek gun out of his pocket, he aimed the barrel and Kevin's back and pulled the trigger...
...Only for, in a tremendous stretch of statistical impossibility augmented exponentially by the dangers inherent in the volume of magic being used and perhaps some manipulation of the threads of fate by an unknown saboteur who will not be appearing in this presentation, a huge bolt of lightning to come down from the sky and blast Jon in a manner that burned his hair off and caused the geek gun to explode in a discharge of magical energy. Kevin just barely escaped the lightning strike, but it didn't matter, as both were enveloped by the magical explosion that followed.
For the most part, the rest of the Physical Education class saw this holocaust occuring at their backs, but rather than try and help either of them, they took the obvious decision and sprinted even faster towards the school. One girl did make a mental note to call them an ambulance when she was under shelter, but everybody else- teacher included, who was having some terrible flashbacks to his military career- continued focusing solely on their retreat.
When the smoke and debris cleared, there were two girls in Victorian era bustle dresses where Kevin and Jon had been, still being pelted by the heavy rains. The one John had been turned into slowly pulled herself up from the ground where she had been lying, the only apparent indication of her previous injury being that smoke was still wafting off her body. The other girl quickly ran up to her as best she could and grabbed her by the shoulders.
"Winnifred!" The girl who had been Kevin shrieked, an attractive British aristocrat with long chestnut curls. "Are you well? I know not what happened, but I saw you fall."
The red-haired beauty shook her head, her grey eyes showing bemusement and fear. "I am similarly baffled, Sophronia. This storm came as if from nowhere and a flash of light came upon me, and... Where are we?"
Sophronia looked at the school in the distance and saw two strange points of light that was actually a car moving off in the other direction. "I... am not sure," she said fearfully, "it does not seem like England."
