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Roswell
by Louder
Contact the author at louder@phuze.com
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Sam and his girlfriend Julie were two average teens looking for some kicks late at night. Every weekend they would get together and try and find something they considered 'fun'. On this particular evening they decided to head out to where the UFO had supposedly crashed back in 1947. Neither one had actually ever taken the drive out there before considering it boring and probably just a local legend blown all out of proportion. But maybe a trip out there at night, sneaking around, would be more fun. Besides, they couldn't think of anything else to do.
They got into Sam's pride and joy, a 1990 Camaro, and headed out to the 'crash-site'. Sam pulled far off the road and they locked the car and began walking. The site had been a bee-hive of activity recently with all the 50th anniversary 'hoopla'. Fortunately, the worst of it had died down and things were as normal as things ever got in Roswell. After a lot of walking they finally reached the area where the UFO had supposedly crashed. Sam turned on his flashlight and shined it around.
"What's THAT?!" he yelled and Julie quickly grabbed him.
"What? What did you see?" she asked nervously. "
Oh, .....Nothing. Gotcha!" he laughed.
Julie wasn't amused. She had started losing interest in being there, actually feeling a little afraid. Usually, she was all for a little excitement but something about this place felt eerie.
"Maybe we should leave here. There's nothing here. Let's go back." she pleaded.
"No way! That was too long of a drive, and then this long walk out here, to just turn around and go back. I won't scare you again. Let's just look around some more." he answered.
Julie shook her head said "OK, I guess...."
Sam kept looking around, following the beam of his flashlight. All of a sudden something appeared to 'sparkle' in the beam. "Hmmm, I wonder what that is?" he said, motioning for Julie to look.
"I don't know....maybe a pop can or something?" she replied, still a bit frightened.
Sam didn't think so and began walking toward the 'shiny' thing. He wondered if all the wind that had been in the area recently had maybe uncovered something from the crash. 'Maybe this stuff is all for real!' he thought. Julie stopped, afraid of whatever it was Sam might find. Sam walked on until he could pick up the piece. It was smaller than a soda can and appeared to be some kind of electronic device.
"Wow!" he said as he picked it up.
It had four buttons on it arranged in a 'North-South-East-West' configuration. One pointed up, the other down, one pointing left and the other right. There was some type of 'writing' but it looked more like pictures to Sam than words.
"What did you find?" Julie asked.
"I don't know....It might be something the army left out here. ...Might even just be some kinda souvenir for the tourists.... I KNOW, It's one of the alien's phasers!" he said, turning and pointing the device at Julie while hitting the button that pointed down.
Julie looked at him and started to speak "Hey......".
Both were stunned. The 'device' had turned Julie into a child. Julie knew something had happened because her voice had gotten higher as she as spoke. She also noticed the world appeared to get bigger!
"You've 'shrunk' me!" she said.
"Actually, _no_! I mean, yeah you're little..... But it turned you into a kid! I thought it was a toy! You gotta know I didn't mean for THIS to happen" Sam said apologetically.
Julie looked at herself and saw no trace of former body. In its place was a child of about 7.
"This can't be!!!" she whined.
Sam, still surprised by what had happened, decided to try another button and try and restore Julie. This time he hit the button that was on the 'left'. Julie's mood immediately changed, but she didn't get any older.... or younger.
"Julie, are you OK?" he asked.
She started crying "I want my mommy.....".
Sam realized that the device had erased her memory. She was now a 7 year old. Totally! Little Julie's crying only made Sam's confusion worse. He had to do something, he couldn't leave her like this....But who would believe him....they'd think he was some kind of kidnapper....or crazy....or BOTH! Frantically, Sam aimed the 'device' back at Julie and this time hit the button on the right. Little Julie still looked the same, but she stopped crying.
"Julie, are you back?" he asked.
"Uh huh, I think. What happened? I felt so scared.....".
"When I hit the button on the left it was like you totally turned into a little girl! I hit the opposite one and your memories came back." he explained.
"Well, hit the opposite of the one that made me a little girl!" she demanded.
Sam obliged, holding the button down and watching as Julie began to grow. 7-8-9
"It's working!" she said.
10-11-12..... Her body starts to take on a more mature form. 13-14-15...Her clothes start filling out, although still too big on her. 16-17-18...Her clothes are tight now and Sam continues holding the button as he watches. 19-20-21..... She's now a little taller than before
"Hey! What are you doing? These clothes never were this tight! You're making me even OLDER!!!" She exclaims.
22-23-24....Her body easily fully fills out her clothing. Sam continues to hold the button even as Julie orders him to stop. 25-26-27....Sam can see lines on her face that he had never saw before. 'Crows feet' he thinks they are called. Her facial expression is more stern looking and she still is ordering him to stop! 28-29-30.... He can now see more than a little resemblance to her mother. The 'crows feet' are deeper and her body doesn't look as 'firm'. 30-31-32.... She looks much older now. Her physical age is now practically double her actual age....yet Sam continues to press the button. 33-34-35.... Finally, he releases the button. Julie is no longer a teenager. She is now a middle-aged woman. Her body has started sagging. There are lines on her face. Her arms and legs no longer look well defined as they had earlier.
"What have you done to me?!! Please turn it back!" she pleaded.
Sam checks out the changes in his formerly 17 year old girlfriend and then says "Hold up a bit.... There's a lot of stuff that a couple of 17 year olds can't do.... but a couple of 35 year olds.....And we know how to reverse it!".
"You're crazy! I don't want to be seen ANYWHERE looking like this! And look at these clothes.....I look like a .... welllll..... a TRAMP!" Julie argued.
"Well, we want to look old enough so no one cards us! You can 'borrow' some of your mother's clothes. Or buy something some where.! It'll be fun!" Sam countered.
Julie thought about it....It 'might' be fun....and it wouldn't be permanent.....Finally she said to Sam "OK, why not?"
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Chapter2
Sam handed Julie the device he had found and asked her to make him older. She aimed it toward him, laughed, and then pressed the down button. Suddenly, Sam began to shrink. 17-16-15.... Sam realized what she was doing and ordered her to "Stop playing around!" 14-13-12....Julie can't help but laugh at her boyfriend as he slips back into childhood. He yells for her to "Quit it, NOW!" in his now high pitched voice. 11-10-9....Sam runs toward her to grab the device before she can make him any younger. 8-7-6.... Julie hits the button on the left. Suddenly he stops in his tracks. He looks around in and is obviously bewildered.
"Who are you, lady?" he asks.
Julie bursts out laughing "This thing really works....You're just a regular little boy!".
He looks at her quizzically "Huh?".
She smiles and tells him "Oh, never mind. Here, take my hand. We need to get out of here."
"I ain't sposed to talk to no strangers, lady. And I ain't sposed to go no where with 'em either!" little Sam answered.
"Oh it'll be all right....I'mm ummmm you're....ummm....Aunt. You got a bump on the head and don't remember. You'll be OK after we get back and get you some ice cream, I bet!" she said to him.
He agreed and then promptly fell flat on his face, tripping on his over-sized pants. Once again Julie had to laugh at Sam's plight. Julie took his jeans and they walked back to the car. Julie went through Sam's pant pockets to find his keys. Once she found them she unlocked the car and Sam hopped up into the passenger seat.
"You sure got a nice car, lady." he says. "Thanks. And you can call me Aunt Julie. OK?".
"OK....Aunt Julie" he replies.
On the way back into town Julie makes a detour to the all night Wal-Mart Super Center. Julie tells Sam "You stay in the car and DON'T GO ANYWHERE! I'll be right back!". He nods his head and she gets out once again locking the car.
She steps beside a van and when she's sure no one is watching she turns the device back onto herself. 35....33....30.....25....22 'That should do for now' she thinks to herself and walks on into the store.Once inside she gets some conservative clothes that she thinks will go better with the 35 year old version of her self. She pays for the clothes and heads back out to the car, stopping to again make herself 35 before Sam see her as a 22 year old! She heads to a public restroom and changes into her new clothes. She now looks like any other 35 year old mother out with her son. No one would recognize her now.
"Where we goin', Aunt Julie?" Sam asks. "I have a few ummm 'friends' I want to see. You just be good, and we'll get that ice cream in a while." she tells him.
Julie heads for the local Burger King where she knows one of her most hated classmates, Cindy, will soon be getting off work.
'This'll be perfect for 'Miss Goody Two Shoes'' she says to herself as she waits. Finally, Cindy emerges from the building. Julie walks toward her and gets her attention, asking her to "help me find my keys....".
Julie stays on the opposite side of some shrubs so that Sam can't see what is happening. Julie quickly takes the device from her pocket and aims it at Cindy. 17-16-15-14-13-12....
"Heyyyyy ....what's happening to me...... quit......nooooo" she cries.
11-10-9-8-7 Julie lets off the 'down' button and hits the 'left' button. Immediately, Cindy becomes a child just as she appears. She is still wearing her Burger King uniform, although it is now huge on her. Her hat keeps falling over her eyes.
Julie quickly grabs the small child and takes her to the car. Cindy is crying and yelling for help but there is no one around to hear her.
Sam asks "What's going on?".
"I'm going to teach Miss Goody Two Shoes a lesson! Now shut up....and I mean it!" Julie says.
They drive off with little Cindy crying in the back seat and little Sam more confused than ever.
By this time it had gotten very late. Julie turned to Sam and tells him "I'm really kinda sorry I had to do this. But you'd never let me do this otherwise. This little thing is gonna help me even the score.... I'll change you back when I'm finished."
None of this made any sense to little Sam "Change me back???? Huh?".
"Deal with it Kiddo. You'll know soon enough!" Julie told him.
She now heads out to a local housing addition where one of her least favorite teachers lives. Ms. Parks. She knows the area well from her frequent trips there to egg the car and house. Julie parks the car and walks up to the house, then rings the door bell. Her teacher slowly opens the door but obviously doesn't recognize Julie. Julie just aims the device at her teacher and holds the 'down' button, watching as her teacher shrinks. 40-30-20-10 The teacher pleads for her to "Stop it....Please....." But Julie continues until her teacher is now just an infant.
Julie looks down at her and says "I bet you know what just happened, don't you? You still have your adult mind, ....I bet. I just want you to think about how you made some of your students feel like 'babies' with your 'holier than thou' attitude. So picky..... Nit picky..... "
The infant started tried to speak but only could bawl. Julie laughed at the baby that once was her teacher and then said "Don't worry, I won't leave you like that.... a little bitty baby with an adult mind.... I can fix it.....".
And with that the baby quit crying as Julie aimed the device at her and hit the 'left' button. She picked up the baby and headed back to the car. She had little Cindy hold the baby and little Cindy happily obliged, still unaware of their fate.
"This is so great. I'll leave those two at some church. School will be _so_ much better without those two! ....AAAAND.... No one will ever know _I_ did it! Even IF someone sees me..... this little _device_ will erase the person they saw! The police will be looking for a middle aged woman! She won't be around for almost 20 years!!!! Thank you Sam! This is perfect!" Julie was ecstatic.
Sam couldn't understand what she was talking about.
As she drove around looking for the 'right church' she noticed a car come up behind her. It followed them a while and then it flashed its headlights. At first she ignored it, but it kept following her....continuing to flash its headlights! Julie decided her 'device' was all the security she would need and so she pulled over and got out of the car. Someone got out of the other car but she couldn't make out who they were. She could only see an outline of a person in the bright beams of the headlights. "What's up? Who are you?" she asked. The 'form' finally emerged from the light and Julie could see it was Sam's mother!
"Uhhhh Mrs. Miller....uhhh..." Sam's mother cut her off "_That_ is my son's car. He should have been home hours ago. He's never late. You know my name so I assume that you can tell me where my son is AND what is going on!".
Before Julie could answer, little Sam came running out of the car yelling "Mommy, mommy....!!!".
Mrs. Miller looked at her son and then looked back at Julie with an icy, almost reptilian glare.
Julie was frantic! "Mrs. Miller...it's _me_ Julie! I was uhhhhh we uhhh....DAMN!".
Mrs. Miller's stare only deepened. Julie decided she had to use the 'device' on Mrs. Miller! It was her only hope.... She couldn't let the others return to normal....How would she ever explain it.... She aimed the device at Mrs. Miller and quickly hit the 'down' button. 45-40-35-30-25 but then the youthening seemed to stop! Julie kept pressing but the woman still appeared to be about 25! She kept aiming it on pressing the button as hard as she could!
In the blinding light of the headlights she could tell that something was still happening to Mrs. Miller. But it didn't look like she was getting younger! Press, Press... Julie kept pressing. Mrs. Miller WAS changing... her skin was getting grey! Her hair was disappearing. All of a sudden she DID shrink, but not from youth. At least not the youth that Julie expected to see. Mrs. Miller's head seemed to get larger even. Her limbs got very narrow.
Julie stopped pressing the button, threw down the 'device', and turned to run. All of a sudden a 'force' grabbed her and floated her back to the scene.
Julie cried out "What are you? Why didn't you get younger?".
"Aw, you see I DID get younger.... all the way back to my original form! I'm one of the survivors.... It seems that you somehow got one of our medical devices that we had intended to bring as gifts-until your _military_ showed its true colors!..... It's all a matter of DNA integration techniques...blending...binding....distortions....We had to fit in.....Anyway Julie, I can't leave you with all this knowledge so it looks like I'll have to use this on you. The others are too young to really comprehend, so I'll use this to restore them as close as I can.... I guess they're all classmates?"
Julie didn't answer only squinting to see the outline of a 'GREY!'....just like on the X-files!
"My God, you're a.....a.....a.... an ALIEN!.... But what about Sam..... he didn't turn into a liza....errr alien???"
"Adoption, my dear....Adoption!" and with that answer Mrs. Miller aimed the device at Julie and pressed the 'down' button.
The end
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