Edits - Ch 5.1.1.1.2

Chapter 5.1.1.1.2 - He regresses Steven into a kid.

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Tim recalled the happy days of their childhood and thought that he might like to see Steven looking like he did back when they had been best friends. He smiled as he edited Steven’s caption to change his age to 9 years old, figuring that just dipping into single digits would be young enough.

With everything set, he looked up at Steven, who was smiling back at him.

“Is it ready?” Steven asked.

Tim nodded.

“Let’s go,” Steven said, sitting up straight in preparation. “I’m ready to see your proof.”

Tim pressed save, and a popup appeared, asking if he wanted to adjust the rest of Steven’s caption to match his new age better. Deciding that he would rather not affect Steven’s mind anymore, he selected “no.”

The “initializing changes” bar appeared and began to fill.

“Whoa,” Steven said, seconds later. “I feel funny.”

Tim watched as Steven’s muscular physique began to slim down, making him look more like a freshman. Then, he began to lose inches of height, his facial features softening and rounding out as his head lowered closer to the table. Tim found himself looking down at his friend as Steven descended deeper into childhood. His clothes became looser as he shrank out of them until he appeared to be a middle school boy wearing his older brother’s clothes.

“Tim, I’m…” Steven started to say but stopped and cleared his throat when he heard how croaky and pubescent his voice had become.

Steven dropped down suddenly, letting out a high yelp as he went through a growth spurt in reverse, leaving him on the other side of puberty. A noise of something falling below drew Tim’s attention, and he checked under the table to see that Steven’s heels had lifted off the floor as his legs had shortened. His oversized shoes had slipped from his little feet, pulling his loose socks down to his ankles.

“Oh, God,” Steven said, his voice sounding distinctly childish now. “I’m getting younger?”

“Yep,” Tim said sitting up to look down into the younger face of his friend. “Don’t worry. It’s almost done.”

The changes seemed to accelerate then as Steven regressed deeper into childhood, looking like he was only barely old enough for junior high, softened features, big eyes, little nose... Steven opened his mouth and let his tongue probe new gaps that had formed in his teeth where adult teeth had disappeared. Tim now recognized the face of his childhood best friend appearing before him. The boy swam in his teenage clothes, which had become comically huge on his young body.

And then the regressing came to a sudden halt, leaving Steven a 9-year-old sitting incongruously in a high school cafeteria.

Next, it was Steven’s clothes turn to change, shrinking down in size to fit his smaller body. Finally, with him properly dressed in fitting clothes once more, the phone began its high-pitched whine.

“What is that?” Steven cried as he covered his ears.

Before Tim could answer, they were blinded by a flash of light. A moment of silence was immediately drowned out by the sound of the regular din of the cafeteria.

Steven blinked and looked around and then down at himself. “You turned me into a little kid!” he said, his young voice filled with a mixture of surprise and awe.

Amused by his friend's confusion, Tim asked, “How does it feel to be nine again?”

“N-nine?” Steven replied, seemingly intimidated by the number. “T-that’s so young!” He looked up at Tim nervously. “God, you seem so big now. It’s kinda scary.”

“Well,” Tim said, “I am almost twice your age now.”

“That’s… crazy,” Steven said.

“I could have made you even younger, but I thought that this would be more than enough to convince you,” Tim said, taking pride in his power and in the restraint he had shown while using it.

Steven held up his boyish hands and flexed his little fingers. “Yeah,” he said. “You’ve convinced me, alright. Am I staying like this? I don’t know if I like this.”

Tim was about to let Steven decide what to do with his body next, but his reply was interrupted by one of the school's security guards. “Excuse me,” he said. “What is that boy doing in this building?”

What do they do now?

Tim shrinks Steven out of sight. (5.1.1.1.2.1)

They run.

Tim targets the guard to transform him.

Tim reverts Steven back to normal.