Bobby sighed kicked the can down the street, "Man, this sucks....I'm so bored." He hurried across the street, wandering his neighborhood as he often did when he was bored. His parents had warned the boy about wandering, but like any twelve year-old, he thought he could handle anything. Bobby was a rather normal looking child. He was around 5' 2", his ear-length blonde hair hidden beneath his trusty ball-cap. He wore a simple t-shirt underneath his flannel shirt, and wore a pare of light brown shorts.
He wasn't exactly the most popular, but it wasn't like he had no friends. He had several close friends that he hangs out with and plays with, but as luck would have....today they were all busy with one thing or the other.
He sighed as he walked along the sidewalk, deciding now would be a good time to head home. He turned directions and headed through an alley, a shortcut he used often when he wanted to get home quickly. Everything was fine....until he hit a wall, causing him to fall on his rear-end. "Ow! H-Hey.....what gives?!"
He stared ahead, but saw no sign of a wall. "....Huh?" He stood slowly and started walking again, running into that same invisible wall as before. Luckily, this time he was able to right himself before toppling to the ground. "What the?" He walked forward again, keeping an arm in front of him. He reached the invisible wall his arm feeling cold steel, "W-Whoa....." His hands searched around the transparent blockade, searching for something that would move it out of the way.
His hands found what felt like that of a handle, he pulled it without hesitation. Suddenly, a door swung open, revealing the inside of the object. The inside looked no larger than a phone booth, only instead of a phone there were dozens of blinking machines and computer monitors all along the walls. Bobby's eyes widened to saucers, "Awesome...."
He stepped inside and closed the door behind him before taking a seat in front of the main computer monitor. "What is this thing..?" From what he could tell of the computers, it looked like this whole booth was a machine that was made to......travel through time.
Bobby smiled broadly, "Oh my God, this is so awesome! I can go anywhere.....anytime! Oh, where should I go? I could go back to the World Wars....or see the pyramids! This is so cool!"
He suddenly had a thought and grinned boyishly, "That's it! Dinosaurs! I can go back and see the dinosaurs! Aw, it's gonna be so awesome!"
He fiddled with a bunch of controls and twisted a couple of knobs randomly. The computer's voice rang over the speaker, "Warning: temporal jump is not advised. Central core is damaged. Errors detected. Subject my experience temporal displacement, disorientation, mutation, a-" The computer's voice was cut off as Bobby continued fiddling with the controls.
Suddenly, the whole thing began to shake as the temporal core began to fire up. "Dinosaurs, here I come!" The entire machine disappeared from the alley in a flash of light.
Part 2
Bobby fell to the floor as the whole contraption began to shake, "Whoa...!" After a long moment of shaking and the feeling a wave wash over him, everything stopped suddenly. Bobby stood slowly, "...Did it work?"
The computer's voice rang through the speakers, "Temporal jump complete. Sensor sweep activating."
Bobby suddenly had a strange feeling all through his body, "Wha...?" His whole body began to grow, his legs, torso, and arms elongating. "Whoa....cooooool." He was now about the size of his older brother, 5' 5" tall and around 110 pounds. His clothes that fit perfectly when he arrived were now all far too small.
"Sensor sweep complete." The computer announced. "According to all known data on file, current location is London, England, 1864"Sensor sweep complete." The computer announced. "According to all known data on file, current location is London, England, 1864."
Bobby tilted his head at the announcement, "England? So.....no dinosaurs? Aw...."
"Activating internal sensor sweep." The computer said. A green light began to sweep through the machine, stopping as it reached Bobby. "Warning! Warning! Temporal displacement detected! Return protocol activated! ......Error, activation failed. Malfunction detected in central core."
The entire announcement flew right over Bobby's head, "Uh.....whatever." He looked down at himself again, still amazed how much he had grown. "This is so.....huh?" He noticed to small lumps on his chest. "What.... AH!" Suddenly, the mounds inflated to full growth nearly instantly. "I-I....OH!" He felt a very similar feeling happen on his rear-end. He looked down at his sizable breasts in shock, "Why do I have girl parts?!?" His hair began to grow, creeping out from beneath his ball-cap and reaching down to just above his butt. His hips widened slightly, causing some pain as his bones shifted. "Ah.....I-I don't like this...." His figure shrunk, creating an hourglass figure.
"Why is this happening? I-I'm not a g-girl....."
Part 3
Two men made their way down the alley, both dressed in black suits. One of them pulled a strange-looking hand-held device from his pocket and pressed a button on it. "Hm......it seems the cloaking field is malfunctioning."
"What do you mean? It won't shut off?" The other asked.
The first man nodded, "Exactly. Looks like we'll have to find it the old fashioned way." He walked forward, his arms extended. He expected to meet a wall, but all he met was the air. "What the? James.....it's gone!"
The other man, James, shook his head, "What do you mean, it's gone?! Thomas, how could this have happened?!"
The first man, Thomas, held the device and pressed several buttons in succession. A red light emanated from the device, scanning where the machine had been. "I'm scanning the area....hopefully we'll be able to track it."
"This is bad....this is very bad."
Thomas sighed, "Calm down, we'll have our answers in a moment." The device beeped and Thomas read the results, "It appears that a temporal jump occurred from this spot about an hour ago....there's also traces of DNA here."
James walked over and examined the results as well, "DNA? Who's DNA?"
"The results indicate a human, male....age twelve...."
James chuckled, "Just great.....a twelve year-old stole our time machine."
Thomas thought for a moment, "Maybe...I can interface with the machine and see exactly where they ended up." He pushed several buttons on the device.
James nodded, "Good idea. Then maybe we can activate the return protocol."
Thomas nodded as the device began to search through time for the quantum signature of their machine, "I think I may have found it. It appears....that it ended up in London during the Victorian era."
"Victorian, eh? Well, at least it's not in danger of being destroyed...."
Thomas's eyes widened, "It appears that the temporal core has gone offline. There's also records of an internal scans here....it looks like the occupant is suffering from temporal displacement...."
James's own eyes widened, "Temporal displacement? Oh, God....and now that the core is offline, there's no way to get him back here..."
Thomas nodded, "There's only one thing we can do....we'll have to follow him and see if we can repair the machine."
James looked Thomas in the eyes, "Are you insane?! If we follow him, we might suffer from temporal displacement too! And I'd rather not be a citizen of Victorian England."
Thomas shook his head, "We have no choice. This device can't send us back to our own time, but it might have enough power to send us to the machine if we can interface with it's targeting systems..." He pressed a couple of buttons, having the machine lock-on to them.
James sighed, "This is crazy....."
Thomas smiled, "Look on the bright side. If we fail, we won't care." Suddenly, there was a flash and they disappeared.
Part 4
Bobby shook his head, looking down at himself. "Am I dreaming...? This is so weird. I'm not a girl....I can't be a girl..." He was so focused on his form, he failed to notice his underwear slowly creeping down his legs, changing from black to pink and growing some frills at the bottom. His regular black briefs replaced by pink frilly bloomers that reached from his thighs to just above his belly button. Suddenly, his already tight shirt became even tighter as the bottom of the shirt started to slink down to just above the bloomers, the shirt's sleeves disappearing. Buttons appeared on the front of the shirt and the fabric of the shirt shifted. What was once a normal t-shirt was now a tightly-fitted corset with frills around the bosom.
Bobby shook his head, "No way......no way...."
His socks began to snake their way up his legs, coming all the way up to the bloomers. The socks had become a pair of leggings. His shoes began a similar transformation, the sneakers changing from white to black and slinking up his legs, laces appearing and a noticeable heel forming. The boy had trouble balancing on his new heeled laced-up boots.
"I-I....this is so...." He stumbled over to the controls, hoping that the machine could take him home before he changed any more than he already had. He began to push random buttons. "Take me home....take me home!!!"
Part 5
No matter what he pressed or twisted, the machine refused to respond. "Am I.....s-stuck h-here...? A-As a g-girl...?"
The answer seemed clear as his flannel shirt closed itself over the corset, frills appears on the bottom of the shirt as it wormed it's way down to cover the corset. The buttons of the shirt disappeared and the flannel pattern began to fade away. The flannel shirt was now a blouse with a v-necked pattern coming down to his stomach, the inside of the v covered by a black undershirt with buttons running up to his collar.
"N-No.....please no m-more...." He pleaded to no one in general, tears filling his eyes.
However, his pleas fell on deaf ears as his shorts began to change, the legs holes splitting apart before reattaching themselves to each other, creating a skirt. The new skirt began to make it's way down, stopping just above his feet. The waistband of his former-shorts began to unravel downward, layers of ruffles appearing as it went. The skirt, now complete with a flower patterns and ruffles, began to balloon outwards in a typical victorian style.
His ball-cap changed as well, the logo on the front disappearing and the color becoming a light pink. The rounded visor of the hat came to a point, a flower appearing on the side of the hat. The hat was now three sided and the top of the hat flattened out.
A black fabric began to work it's way down his sleeves, coming down to completely cover his hands. His long hair flipped up and pulled itself into a bun. "I don't like this....I want to go back to.......to.......back to the manor....." His eyes widened in alarm, "What?!"
Part 6
A bright light erupted from an alley, someways away from the machine. As the light faded, the figure of two men in black suits was visible. Thomas pulled the same device from earlier and pressed a few buttons, "This is it....England, 1864."
James nodded and looked around, "So, where's the machine...?"
"According to this, it's still a couple of blocks away." Thomas's eyes widened, "We'd better hurry.....it appears we're being affected by temporal displacement as well."
James sighed, "Great.... Let's get going before I start having a craving for tea." Thomas nodded and slid his fingers across the screen of the device, a cloaking device activating around them both. They made their way through the streets, trying to avoid bumping into anyone or cause any undo attention. They turned the corner into another alley and deactivated their cloak. "Whew....this sucks..." James commented.
Thomas nodded, "But according to this, the machine is in this alley." He walked forward, and sure enough, found the invisible latch to open the door. "Here it is."
James grinned, "Yes! Well, what are you waiting for? Open it!"
Thomas smiled and pulled the latch, the door to the machine opening.
A young woman turned as the door opened, her eyes wide with fear. "H-Hello...?
James's eyes widened, surprised to see the lovely maiden inside his time machine. "Hello.....um..... How did you end up in here?"
The woman's eyes filled with tears, "I-I was just....t-t-trying to find a s-shortcut home and then there was a b-bright light...."
Thomas sighed and scanned the woman with the device, his eyes widening. "James....her DNA....it's...it's nearly identical to that of the sample we found of the boy!"
James shook his head, "But that's not possible.....that sample was of a twelve year-old boy."
Thomas nodded, "I know....if not for the two X chromosomes, it would be completely identical...."
James ran his hand through his hair, "So...you're saying that this woman....is not a woman?"
Thomas shook his head, "No, she is. But she wasn't always.... Temporal displacement, James. Time is trying to fix itself, trying to integrate him into the fold."
James shook his head, "But why? He's not from this era...."
Thomas nodded, "Exactly, but with the temporal core so heavily damaged.... My guess is...that when he traveled back to this time, someone had to take his place in his time period. A young woman, most likely..."
James was feeling a headache coming on, "So....they switched places? But why? That doesn't make sense...."
"It does. The temporal core is supposed to shield travelers from these kinds of changes....but it's broken. Without it, history is changing. But it's trying to repair itself..."
James sighed and rubbed his temples, "If you say so...."
The woman had a very confused expression on her face, "Pardon me....but....what has happened?"
Thomas sighed and moved over to the main computer, "Don't worry about it. We'll have you home in time for tea."
The woman shook her head, "That's lovely....but I was referring to you, sir."
Thomas raised an eyebrow as he took a seat, getting to work on repairing the core. "What do you mean?"
"When you entered, you were several inches taller than myself and this other gentleman. Now, you appear to be eye level."
Thomas's eyes widened, "Oh, God....it's happening to me, now."
Part 7
James stared as Thomas shrank before his eyes, "Thomas...."
Thomas forced himself to focus on fixing the machine, walking over to the wall and yanking out a panel. He used the device to scan the damage and set to work repairing it before he became too short to reach it.
The woman's eyes widened as she watched Thomas, "What is happening?"
James looked to the woman, "Listen, you have to keep your mind focused on who you are. You are a boy, you are twelve years old, you live in the United States. Whatever you do, focus on that!"
The woman shook her head, trying to clear the fog in her mind. "What....yes....my name is.....is....B-Bobby! I'm Bobby!"
James nodded as he moved to assist Thomas in his repairs, "Do you need any help...?"
Thomas nodded, "I'm fine....my legs hurt like hell, though." He said in a high-pitched voice. His eyes widened and he brought a hand to his throat, "Is that.....my voice? I haven't sounded like this since I was little...."
"We need to get out of here. How much longer until we're ready to leave?"
Thomas shrugged as he bypassed the damaged circuits, "I'd say....half an hour? The temporal core is just about ready, but the targeting systems are still down. We could end up anywhere if we don't fix them."
James nodded and turned back to Bobby, "Are you okay, kid?"
Bobby nodded, trying very hard to keep her concentration. "Yeah.....I-I'm just....trying not to think about girly stuff..."
James nodded and moved over towards the control monitor, "Okay....I'll set in the date and time that you left. When we're ready, we'll head back and drop you off."
Bobby's eyes widened, "H-Huh?! No, I can't go home like this! My parents would freak out!"
Thomas took the panel and placed it back on the wall, "You should return to normal when we reach your time-period. You- Ah!!!" Thomas shrank rapidly, now only reaching down to James's knees. His skin softened significantly and his dark brown hair lightened and began to retract.
James's eyes widened, "Oh, man....this is bad. You look like a little kid. But, isn't it weird that none of your clothes have changed?"
Thomas looked down at himself, "You're right...." His clothes were now far too big for him, but they didn't change to fit his younger form. "I don't get it."
James shook his head, "You're still shrinking, Thomas...."
Thomas had a look a pain on his face as he disappeared into his clothes, "I-I....."
James's eyes widened as he saw Thomas shrink down into his clothes, "Thomas...? Thomas?!" He picked up Thomas's bundle of clothes, "Thomas?" He examined the bundle, finding nothing inside. "He's......g-gone...." The clothes disappeared as well, leaving him empty-handed.
Bobby's eyes widened, "What c-could have happened to the poor dear?"
James turned to Bobby, "Poor dear...? C'mon kid, you don't have to talk like that."
Bobby frowned,"Kid? How dare you speak to me in such a manner! A true gentleman treats a lady with respect."
James sighed, "I'm very sorry, madame. I suppose we can't call you Bobby anymore...."
She tilted her head, "Bobby? I don't know anyone by that name. I am Lady Bellinger."
"Well, Lady Bellinger....I need to get you home." James said with a sigh, wiping away tears at the thought of Thomas. He moved over to the console and wondered if he should just engage the core, to just try and get home without the targeting systems.
Lady Bellinger grabbed her stomach, feeling a pain. "Oh....my stomach..."
James turned to her, "Are you alright?"
She shook her head, "I am unsure.... OH!" Her stomach began to expand outward. "What's ha-happening to m-me?!"
James quickly pulled out a hand-held scanning device and moved over to her, running the device over her growing tummy. He examined the results and his jaw dropped, "........You.......you're....."
She looked up at him, concerned. "I am what?"
"You're.....p-pregnant. Just around n-nine months pregnant."
Her eyes widened, "WHAT?!?"
"And....the DNA of the infant....matches Thomas's DNA signature."
Part 8
Lady Bellinger shook her head, "This.....t-this is....not possible..."
James walked behind the monitor and opened up a panel, crossing several wires. "We might need to just make the jump without the navigation systems...before I start to become affected." He closed the panel and walked around to the front of the monitor, inputting several commands.
The computer's voice came to life, "Warning: temporal jump is not advised. Navigation system is damaged. Errors detected."
James sat in front of the monitor, "Belay that, computer. Initiate jump."
"Acknowledged. Initiating jump." The computer chirped. The whole machine began to shake.
Lady Bellinger was thrown from her trance as the machine rumbled, "W-What in heaven's name?!"
James sighed, "....Here goes nothing." The machine disappeared from the back alley.
Lady Bellinger held on for dear life as the machine traveled through the time stream, feeling like she could easily become very ill.
James sighed as the machine finally stopped rumbling, "Temporal jump complete. Sensor sweep activating." The computer said.
"Please be home....please be home...." James chanted.
"According to all known data on file, current location is Miami, Florida, 2001." The computer announced.
James slammed his fist down on the keyboard, "Dammit!"
"Warning! Warning! Overload detected in the temporal core!" The computer warned, smoke emitting from a panel in the wall.
James leapt to his feet and grabbed a fire-extinguisher from beneath the center console, throwing open the panel and dowsing the inside. As soon as the fire was out, James threw the extinguisher away in anger, sitting down on the chair and placing his head in his hands. "It's....over...."
Lady Bellinger watched him in shock, "Sir.....are you....alright?"
James laughed softly, "Sure.....never better..."
Lady Bellinger sat next to him, "I am sure it will be alright...."
James turned to her, ".....Yeah....I think it will..."
The computer's scanner swept across the interior, "Warning! Warning! Temporal displacement detected!"
James turned to the console and muted the voice of the computer, resigned to his fate.
Lady Bellinger's eyes widened as she saw James start to change. His shirt and vest began to disappear, leaving him completely topless. His arms and legs stretched out, making him at least 6'" tall. His hair became disheveled and turned a dark blonde, reaching down below his ears. His pants creeped up his legs, the material changing as it went, turning into a pair of blue swim trunks. "You...."
James eyes widened as he saw his own reflection in the monitor, ".......I...."
Lady Bellinger cringed as she felt a similar transformation happening to her. Her blouse disappeared completely, her corset slinking up to only cover her boobs and the fabric shifted, creating the top of a two-piece swimsuit. Her skirt also disappeared and her bloomers transformed into the bottom of a skimpy blue two-piece swimsuit. Her hat rounded out and turned straw, sunglasses appearing on her face. Her pregnant stomach was completely exposed.
Suddenly, the machine itself began to change. "Warning...temporal displacement detected. Corruption imminent." The multiple screens and monitors melded together into a window, the keyboard in front of James distorted into a wheel and their chairs became soft, straps coming down to keep them in place. The time machine twisted and turned, transforming from a vehicle to travel through time, to a vehicle that traveled on roads. The time machine....was now a red camaro.
James stared at her, "....Whoa...."
She turned and blushed deeply, "Y-Yes...?"
James smiled widely and kissed her cheek, "You look beautiful, Andrea..."
Lady Bellinger, now Andrea, blushed even deeper, "J-Jimmy.....I.... Do you think.....p-people will stare...?"
Jimmy shook his head, "No, of course not. You think this is the first time a pregnant girl has ever been on the beach? It'll be fine."
Andrea nodded slowly with a smile, grabbing his hand. "You're right.....I love you, J-Jimmy...."
Jimmy grinned and leaned over to give her a kiss smack on the lips, "I love you too, babe."
