The Evil Dr. Meinclare

Chapter 7
Chapter 7

Katie liked her time as an adult. She liked being big and having power over her brother. He’d always been bigger than her but during her time as an adult the tables were turned. Now that her mother was again thinking like a 6 year old, Katie had the possibility of taking advantage of her...or so she hoped.

"Did that crazy doctor use that thing on you again????" Stevie asked.

"Uh huh... but it’s Ok... I’m still mommy!" Genni replied hopefully.

"But we can trade if ya want!" Katie said cutting into the conversation.

"Heyyyyy!" Stevie shouted silencing Katie.

Genni headed to the sandbox to play with Mark. Katie and Stevie began arguing.

"You’re mixin’ her up!" he told Katie "Quit tryin’ to trade!"

"I can trade if I want to!" Katie replied as she stuck out her tongue "and then ~I’ll~ be the grownup and you’ll have to do what I say!"

"Nuh huh! I won’t hafta cuz you ain’t gonna be big again!" Stevie argued.

"Are too!" Katie replied.

"Are not!" Stevie shot back.

"Are too!" "Are not!" "Are too!" "Are not!" "Are too!" "Are not!" "Are too!" "Are not!" ..... The argument raged on.

Meanwhile Mark wasn’t happy about being joined by a girl.

"Whatcha doin, Marky?" Genni asked him.

"Ummmmmm Playin" he replied.

"Can I play too?" she asked as she stepped into his sandbox and sat down.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh You’re a girl. Girls can’t play army!" he protested as he put some of the toy soldiers in makeshift foxholes he had dug with his fingers.

"We can so!" she countered without explaining.

"Nuh uh...." he said as he shook his head and pulled his soldiers closer.

"But.... I wanna play tooo...." Genni said as she started to sniffle.

"Ummmmmm nuh uh.... you can’t" Mark told her.

This exchange caught Stevie and Katie’s attention.

"See???? Daddy’s not right either! He’s makin’ mommy cry!" Stevie explained.

"Ummmmm Genni... don’t cry..... we can trade and make it all better... You’re just too big but if you were a kid I bet he’d play you!" Katie said to her mentally regressed mother.

"Quit it, Katie! Don’t do that! You’re mixin’ her up I tell ya!" Stevie argued as he went to retrieve his mother from the sandbox.

"C’mon, mommy.... you don’t wanna trade with Katie." he told her.

"But....*sniff* I wanna play too! *sniff* He doesn’t like me!" she said as her bawling intensified.

"Forget that. It’s the doctor’s fault. We need to figure out a way outta here! You said you and me would think of a plan!" he said.

"Ummmm Ok... *sniff*.... maybe you can beat ’em up???" she replied.

"They’re bigger than me. That crazy ol doctor’s got that thing too. We need to get that! That’s what mixin’ everybody up!" Stevie explained.

"Ok.... you do it... ok???" she answered.

"But how?" Stevie asked.

"I dunno...." Genni replied.

"Ummmmmmmm what are you two talking about?" Katie asked.

"None of your business!" Stevie snapped.

"Well... it is so my business. This place is getting boring! I wanna trade and mommy does too, doncha?" Katie replied.

"I don’t care.... do you wanna trade?" an unconfident Genni asked not wanting to make Katie mad.

"Yeah... I can be the grownup and do the mommy stuff and you can go to school with Stevie and ride the bus and stuff like that!" Katie offered.

"Can I play???" Genni asked hopefully "And I like school!"

"Sure!" Katie answered excitedly.

"Katie! No!" Stevie growled.

"It’s ok....If Katie wants to then I do too. ’Sides... I like school so I can just be your little sister" Genni reasoned wanting to accomodate Katie’s wishes and the thought of being a kid again suddenly sounding pretty good to her rather than the pressures of late.

"Mommy! What about daddy??" Stevie asked.

"Ummmmmm he looks ok..." she said as they caught a glance of him pretending to drive his tank over some toy soldiers lying in their foxholes.

"But... we gotta stick to the plan... when we get one... you can’t be little!" Stevie complained.

"Ummmmmm don’t yell *sniff* at me...." she replied.

"Katie!!!! This is your fault. You can’t trade... it’s not right! Shut up!" Stevie ordered his sister.

"Can’t make me" she replied.

Can too!" he countered.

"Can’t" she replied.

Can too!" he countered.

"Can’t!" "Can too!" "Can’t!" "Can too!" "Can’t!" "Can too!".......

This argument caught Miss Holmes attention. ----------------------------

Inside: Dr. Meincalre was on the cell phone.

"Yes.... she most certainly IS the secretary. My invention DOES have that kind of power and if anyone makes a move on me or this area then more people will feel the affects! I have a list of things that I will require. Are you ready to listen?..." ....

"No, she IS the same person. Listen to me! I just made her younger! She’s 38... I pulled up her file... I knew she’d be alone in her office. That’s why I chose her for the first demonstration. Now she’s 17! It’s the same person!"

"My demands are..." ......

"Huh??? Excuse me??? No it is not impossible. Can I give you my demands now???"....

"Please... Ok...Are you in the office still?"...

"Ok then.... talk to her.." ........

"I don’t care.. ask her anything!"

The Dr punched some keys on the computer. And listened to the conversation now in the background on the phone.

Heard in the background "Ok, Miss... I’m supposed to talk to you. Tell me again what happened...". Girl’s voice "Listen... I don’t know how this happened. I was setting at my desk and the next thing I know you guys busted in here and start asking me where I’m at. I’m telling you.... It’s me! And you guys....ummmmm are like.....uhhhh all....like spazzin’ and stuff and I’m, like, what!!!??? And you guys are, like, accusing me of not being me. I’m, like, so ME! So you guys are, like, sayin’ "you’re a kid!??" but I didn’t know it, ya know? But it’s cool! I mean... I’m, like, kinda a hottie! Wait’ll my daughter, like, sees me!"

The Dr heard the man pick up the phone and heard him grumble about "no time for this....".

"What do you mean you don’t have time for this??? I just regressed her personality to match her body! Can’t you tell?? Is this what our taxes get us for investigators???".....

"No... first she just LOOKED like a kid... NOW she thinks like one too! This is crazy! Watch this!".........

Back in the government office the men watched as the teenaged secretary began to age. Her youth washed away. The glow left her skin. Her hair thinned and greyed. Lines and veins appeared on her body. "Hey, like, .....what’s happening? Stop it.....I’m getting..... ya know.... like, ancient.....No..." tears streamed down her face as she slumped over. She spoke with teenage slang but in a halting gravelly voice of an old woman. The men were slack-jawed! The man went back to the phone. As he did the secretary began to grow younger. He watched as a teenager replaced the elderly woman who had been there only moments before.

"NOW, do you see??? Can I get to my demands?"

The man told explained to him that he would indeed listen.

"Dr Meinclare, I’m sorry to disturb you but the kids are growing restless and...." Miss Holmes tried to say as the clan followed in argument.

"Ummmmm listen to me" The Dr said into the phone as he held his index finger up indicating to give him a moment ......."What?"...."Hostages? Ummmm... Yes... Sort of.... they are I guess.... Why not? But don’t get any funny ideas. Everything here is redundant. I control the satellites I need. I have an independant power source here. I have radar. If I see planes or rockets headed here then I will use my device and no one will be able to reverse it if this place is destroyed. I have ALL the answers! I’m a genius as you can no doubt tell...."

The ’kids’ grumbling grew worse. Miss Holmes couldn’t keep them quiet.

"Ummmmmm listen.... I’m going to have to call you back with the demands. Something’s come up here" he said as he slammed down the phone.

"Can’t you see I’m busy!!!!!!!?????" he barked.

"I’m sorry, Dr... I tried!" Miss Holmes replied.

"Well.. it’s almost done now anyway... so what is it?"

"We wanna leave! Fix everything so we can leave!" Stevie told him.

"Yeah" Mark said "Leave! I gotta potty!"

"Me and mommy wanna trade places" Katie whined.

"Marky won’t play with me!" Gennie said.

It was obvious to Dr Meinclare that the ’kids’ were growing restless! "Ok.... Miss Holmes... you take the girls and I’ll take the boys.... I don’t have time for this at all! Mark the ummmmm bathroom is this way... you are potty trained aren’t you?" The Dr asked as he led the boys away.

 

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