Discovering the Machine, part 2

I can't stop looking at myself now, it's even more of a change than Henry went through! 

Perhaps I should begin where I last left off.  Enjoy the selfie up there for a minute.  Alright, here we go.  After Henry explained to me what the machine did to him and his brother, we heard footsteps behind us.  We turned and there we saw Henry's brother next to the extremely muscular police officer, Officer Ryan Burgess.  Officer Burgess lived in our neighboorhood and was seen at many of the neighboorhood cookouts.

"Henry? Tyler?  You do realize that this house is still private property, right?  And trespassing is illegal," he told us. 

"We're sorry," Henry said. 

"Then explain to me why your brother here is saying this isn't the first time you've been here?"

"Uhhh..." Henry began, and he started explaining what his brother had done.  While he did so, Officer Burgess began looking around the lab room, and soon he stood near a pod.  Henry had followed him while he explained, and when the officer turned his back to him I saw his eyes light up and I knew what he would do. 

With his new strength he pushed the officer into the pod, and the door sealed behind him.  We heard him banging and shouting at the door.

"Why'd you do that?!" I shouted.  "He's gonna kill us!"

"Oh, hush up," he said.  "I have a feeling he'll be very understanding in a few minutes."  Suddenly, he'd picked me up and stuffed me into the other pod.

"Hey!" I said.  Suddenly, everything was blindingly bright, and I passed out.  Moments later, I awoke feeling heavy.  "Oh, no..." I muttered. 

The door on the pod slid open, and I stepped out.  I looked over to see Officer Burgess's head on my body step out. 

"Are you okay, Officer?" Henry said to him.

"Yeah, I'll be fine," he said.  "Anyways, I'll let you boys off with a warning this time cause I know you.  But if you trespass here again, there will be consequences."

His face became less serious.  "But boys will be boys.  Even if they look like men," he laughed.  He walked away with Henry's brother.

I turned to Henry, shocked.  "What. The. Hell?!"

He grinned at me. "I didn't finish telling you about this place.  After I'd swapped accidentaly, I found a control panel.  It had an easy User interface, so in short order I figured I could do a ton of stuff, such as choose if either participant was aware of changes.  Only you, myself, and my brother recognize a change in you and Officer Burgess.  Something to do with pheromones you two emit that alter memory.  I think I programmed it so Burgess just got promoted to Police Chief so he'll be in a desk job and won't see much action. Honestly, your body was a teenage body so it'll burn fat faster.  It'll be healthier for him in the end." 

My mouth hung open.  "Dude." 

"You can always switch back... but I figured you'd enjoy his body for a while," he said then muttered, thinking I couldt hear him,"sowouldi."

I grinned.  We'd both known the other was gay, and I figured these bodies were hot enough for a breach of friendship protocol.  Minutes later he was undoing "my" uniform as we touched each other. This machine is going to be great...

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Finding the Machine

"Hello, Tyler," I heard Henry's voice say, but when I turned around, it wasn't the Henry I was used to. 

He leaned against the doorway shirtless, and it was stunning.  He was totally ripped.  When you covered his face, he seemed to be a studly 26 year old.  But there it was, his regular head of a geeky 16 year old. 

"W-what?" I asked, completely dumbfounded. "How?  Have you been working out?"

"Come on, could I look like this after only a few weeks?" he said. 

"I guess not," I answered.  "Then how?"

"I'll have to show you," he said.  He stepped back into his room and came out in a t-shirt.  I followed him all the way outside and to the old, empty house everyone avoided.

"My brother wanted to scare me, so he got me to come here with him.  We went into the basement, and, well, look for yourself." 

He pushed open a door, and flopped a switch.  A single lightbulb dimly illuminated a room dominated by two pods of a machine. 

"We were both kind of freaked out," he explained, "but we both decided to investigate.  We stepped inside, and the doors shut.  I admit, I wet my pants."

"Then what?" I asked.

"A ton of lights flew around everywhere, then disappeared.   I felt really weird.  But then I noticed my pants weren't wet.  The for wasn't locked anymore, so I stepped out.  And I saw my brother's head on my body with my wet pants," he answered. 

"No way!  It switched your bodies and not your heads?"

"It's sweet, I know! I refused to get in the pod, and he couldn't do anything because he was a wimp!"

I opened my mouth to reply, but then we heard footsteps.  Turning around, we saw...

((Find out in the next installment!))

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