The following days have been non-stop practice after school as Max & his magic crew prepared some new tricks for their weekly performance at Hotel Scherzo.
Finally it was show time
Everyone took their place as according to rehearsal. Jon sat in the audience next to Karen. Karen protested the Top Hat trick because she always seemed to get the short end of the stick, so it was removed from the lineup of illusions they'd perform.
Wendy and Tanya dressed in their sexy tuxedo leotards in Red and Black respectively a danced their way onto the stage. The music started and the performance went under way
Max had perfected some new material which consisted of some basic sleight of hand misdirection: including some card tricks, restoring a cut rope, and some magic rings.
By now Max, AKA Mysterio the Great, had built up quite a reputation. The audience eagerly awaited what impossible illusion Max would conjure up this time.
Jon was happy to be in control of the stone again, however something didn't feel entirely right. For the most part the stone responded to all of Jon's commands. There were a few times that some of his requests wouldn't happen, or were delayed by a few seconds.
Jon shrugged it off and was deeply concentrating on the stage. He used his magic stone to create some small pyrotechnics around the stage.
"Ladies and gentlemen" called out Max. "I will now need 2 volunteers from the audience." He looked throughout the crowd and spotted Jon and Karen. "How about you two?" A spotlight shown on them. "Do you believe in magic? Come on to the stage please!"
Jon and Karen made their way up to the stage. Two 6' vertical boxes were on opposite ends of the stage "“ One black and one white.
During practice, this was the part where Jon and Karen would go into each box and seem like they would teleport as they would emerge from the opposite box at the end of the trick.
Jon smiled as he and Karen stepped into the boxes and the doors shut them in. He held the stone in his pants pocket in preporation to actually teleport himself to Karen's box and vice versa He listened hard since things were pretty muffled in the box and awaited his cue
"Ladies and Gentlemen " began Max. "As you can see, both assistants entered the boxes. However it appears that they're gong on a trip!" There was a puff of smoke and Jon who was in the black box, was now in the white box. But something seemed wrong
