"I thought you guys would like to see these," Jake said holding up a canvas bag that rattled with the variety of guns inside. "My uncle collects them, and these are some duplicates and older ones he didn't want anymore."

Robert and Amanda walked closer and peered into the bag. They all looked similar to the guns they had used, but the controls were different.

"What do they do?" Amanda asked.

"All sorts of things!" Jake said enthusiastically. "This one can make you weaker or stronger, although it doesn't make you grow at all. This one gives you really good eyesight, and that one is for hearing. This one over here can make you really, really smart, or stupid. This one makes you younger or older" He giggled. "I'm not supposed to have these two, but my uncle gave them to me anyway. This one makes a girl's boobies a lot bigger, or smaller, and that one can change a boy into a girl or a girl into a boy." He turned to Robert and made a face. "Wouldn't you just HATE that?"

Robert nodded and pointed to one that had a larger barrel and more complicated controls. "How about this one?"

"That one's really cool. It makes you like Superman -- if you use it right, but my uncle said it's really easy to mess up the settings!"

"What happens then?" Robert asked.

"I dunno. He didn't tell me."

"Have you ever used them?"

Jake shook his head vigorously. "Are you kidding? It's not allowed! These are just for fun. I'd get locked up forever if I used 'em outside the gun shows!"

"Don't try these tricks at home, kids!" Robert said, pretended to be a TV announcer.

"Yeah, that's it!" Jake said happily. Suddenly, Amanda and Robert started shimmering. "Hey, where are you guys going?" He turned and saw his bag of guns shimmering too. "Hey! You can't take those! They're mine!"

"What's happening to us?" Robert said, as they faded away.