So...While the transformation to children is inspired by the Star Trek episode Rascals, this scene is inspired by Disney's Aladdin TV Series Episode: Eye of the Beholder (Man...Remembering when Disney's Spin-Off TV shows were at least mildly entertaining) where Jasmine is tricked into taking a potion that transforms her into a Snake-Person and after the cure they were seeking, the magic fruit is taken from them, Aladdin takes the rest of the potion turn himself into a Snake-Person if they both can't be human they'll both be snakes together

As Bill was slowly making his way across the meadow and Ichabod was resting in the woods after practicing his dancing, a Bird Humanimal flying overhead screeched "Ichabod! Come to the farmer's market! Marzipan! She's been tricked into taking a magic potion!"

Well Ichabod didn't need to be told twice...Running into the meadow and finding Bill, not even questioning why his best friend was there, he hopped on his faithful steed's back and they raced off the the farmer's market!

There they found Marzipan sitting in the trashed 'spice stall' apparently as she was transforming she lunged at the spice seller, and quickly realized she was Bimbolurlina is disguise...The Wrangler Duchess fled as Marzipan was reduced to an eight year old kitten because fortunately she only took one of the potion covered pepper flakes, if she had taken anymore before any noticeable changes she would have regressed to even younger ages!

So there she was sitting in her now over-sized clothes trying to conceal her smaller body

"Oh Ichabod!' She cried when she saw her boyfriend racing toward her "I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!"

Soon after Ichabod and Bill arrived, Jonathan arrived

"I got a call saying something had happened to Marzipan…" Jonathan panted "...What happened?" But then he turned his head and saw the familiar pink and purple Cat-Girl but clearly she was now a younger kitten and he gasped in horror!

"How did this happen?!' Jonathan asked already ready to give whoever was responsible a fear gassing!

Marzipan pointed to a broken jar of the potion covered pepper flakes, with one half of a jar left, there was a small pile of flakes left. "Bimbo tricked me…" Marzipan said "Saying they were alien spices...They're just pepper flakes coated in magic potion! I ate one and I turned into a kitten!"

"Oh My Dear Marzipan…" Jonathan said soothingly "...Let's try not to panic! Hopefully this potion has an antidote…We just need to keep calm...And perhaps start by finding you some clothes that fit…"

While his Father was doing his best to try to soothe his girlfriend Ichabod himself was scarred that it might be a long time to find an antidote...They had no idea how rare this 'Fountain of Youth' potion was and it clearly was rare...Humanity had been constantly trying to find a means to control aging since going into space...Ideally by science...But so far every attempt to control aging through science had been failed...That left only magic which Wranglers had learned because magic's power comes from the spiritual and magic that interferes with the natural processes of life almost always falls within the realm of 'Black Magic' such magic always comes with a bunch of messy consequences that even most Wrangler Lords realize is more trouble than it's worth...And seeing Marzipan cry like that...Clearly so scared...He couldn't let her go through this alone! So he picked up the broken jar...Took one flake…

"Ichabod…" Jonathan was finally done with his speech and hadn't been noticing what his son had been doing until he saw Ichabod begin to shrink "ICHABOD!" Jonathan exclaimed

"Awkwardly walking while trying to keep his increasingly baggy pants up...In his new higher pitched voice Ichabod said "We don't know how long it will take to find a cure…"

And forgetting about his pants, letting them fall because at this new size his shirt would be long enough to cover his modesty for this brief moment while he took Marzipan's hands in his "So we'll both be eight year olds until a cure is found or we both age back into teenagers…

While still shocked at what his son did, Jonathan recognized for the heroic action that it was and said "That is very noble and very brave of you Ichabod...Of course...Now that you are both in the bodies of children...You're both coming to my cottage where I will take care of you while you are under the affects of this potion!"

Sometime after coming back to Earth after New Year's Jonathan knowing he would be staying in Keswick to be near his son for a while, rented a cottage what was near the Woods...He didn't like the idea of living in that monstrosity of a building called Earthport, the cottage was a mixture on ancient (By First Earth standards) and modern it was built and designed to be like those quaint British Cottages particularly those of Northern England but also had things like a 'Holovision' which almost modern human society had in place of television, it was mounted on the ceiling and the images instead of being confined in a box like TV appeared as three dimensional images playing out above the heads of the viewers...Jonathan had hardly ever watched regular TV in Anachronistic Gotham so he pretty much never turned on his HV, both Ichabod and Marzipan despite not having grown up with HV had quickly learned how to operate it.

"First things first…" Jonathan sighed "...Get both of you a change of clothes…"

So not much else to say other than some nice world building around the futuristic technology as I describe what an 'HV' is as opposed to a 'TV' which for most Mizzerans would take a while to get used to since deliberately keeping in the 20th century they had been using regular TV for five thousand years