Elder chuckled to himself as he put the finishing touches on the AgeReverser. He lifted it up to study it. The red button on the top was intact; it had fallen off about three hundred times while he was building it. The small, black box gleamed in the sunlight that blazed through the window. Now he could be ten years younger! Elder carefully put it back onto his worktable and ran out the door to go the lunchroom for his favorite: pasta!
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Meanwhile, Chrono and Rosette were playing a classic game of chess out in the courtyard. Rosette was fuming; she was losing miserably. Chrono knew a lot about a lot of stuff, but did he HAVE to show it off?! Rosette made her next move, knowing where this was heading. He apparently knew too, because he hesitated before making the move that won the game.
"Uh, checkmate?" he murmured, preparing for a world of pain. Rosette jumped up and grabbed him by the shoulders.
"WHY, CHRONO?! WHY DO YOU HAVE TO WIN EVERY SINGLE TIME?!" she demanded, shaking him with every word that came out of her mouth. Chrono's head spun, the shaking taking its toll as she let go and strutted off towards Elder's workshop.
"Wait, where are you going?" he yelled after Rosette, scrambling up and following her.
"I am going to find a device that makes someone forget everything about a certain thing!" she declared gleefully, as she stepped inside the workshop and started going through Elder's stuff.
"Rosette, I don't think we should be doing this!" he hissed, trying to put everything back in its proper place as the nun left it there. Rosette's eye was suddenly concentrated on a small black box that sat on the worktable.
"Hello, what's this?" she said, bending down to examine it closer. Chrono's curiosity got the better of him, so he joined her by the table. Her hand itched to push down the red button on top to see what would happen.
"I'm gonna take a chance and see what this baby does!" she said, bringing her fist down at astonishing speeds. Chrono tried to stop her by grabbing her arm, but he was too late. A blue light suddenly radiated from the box and climbed up their arms, engulfing both of them like flame.
"Rosette, what have you done?!" Chrono asked desperately as the light grew brighter and brighter. Then, it seemed to both of them that the world exploded in a burst of white. As soon as it had happened, they were no longer surrounded in the light. But they noticed that they both had changed position. Chrono now stood where Rosette had stood, and Rosette now stood where Chrono had stood. Chrono felt... different. He looked down, and saw he was wearing a blue nun's dress. The lifewatch (not sure what it's called, that's just what I call it) dangled from his neck. He threw his hand to his hip, and a gun was held in place there in a holster. He looked at Rosette, who was now in his body. Suddenly, they both screamed out loud as the truth dawned on them: the black box had switched their bodies!
