Katelyn's Home. 4:30 PM...
"Thanks Danny, this weekend was fun," Katelyn said as Danny got her suitcase out from the van.
"Cool, maybe we should do this more often," Danny suggested.
"We'll see..." She said teasingly.
The two exchanged smiles as Danny climbed into his mom's car and drove away. As Danny drove away, Katelyn rushed into her house; excited to perform her second experiment with her masks.
Katelyn unlocked the front door and let herself in; sensing that the house was empty she texted her parents to see where they were and then locked herself in her room. In her darkly-lit room, she jumped at the opportunity to try out Peggy's gift: the sister mask and its accompanying remote control.
She took out both masks and the controller from her suitcase and laid them on her bed next to each other. She then took out her phone, plugged it into the outlet and positioned it in the corner of her room; to capture whatever would happen. She then walked back over to her bed and picked up the controller. She took the controller and flipped it over; making sure that the "FW" setting was on. Then she flipped the controller back and looked at the options that were shown on the display. She scrolled through and saw a "Timer" setting and set it to ten minutes; that should be plenty of time to test out her theory. She then pressed the green "Enter" button and placed the controller down on the bed and took both masks in her hands. Both looked fairly similar except the sister mask had a outward dot on the bridge of its metallic nose.
With the controller's settings in place, Katelyn placed the sister mask over its brother mask and slowly pulled it towards her face while standing in front of her room's mirror. Unlike previous transformation where the mask's tendrils grabbed at her face, this time the wooden fibers of both masks merged together into series of tendrils and leaped onto her head with a fervor that she never seen before.
Green sparks emanated from each tendril as it quickly climbed around Katelyn's skull. First, the tendrils from her original mask fused with her face and then the sister mask snapped on top; locking the ID persona that the mask typically drew out. Surprisingly, she was able to see through the eyeholes of both masks as she saw the wooden surfaces pulse and smoothen into familiar green skin. Once both masks tightly clamped down on her head, a green beam of light emitted from the dot on her forehead and she suddenly spun into a twister; not too different from her previous transformations.
Within the twister, the masks reconciled with one another and just fused into one massive rubbery mess on her face. The increased mass of masked material bubbled around her face and the tendrils came together on the back of her head; locking her into this form.
The twister then suddenly stopped and Katelyn was left standing in the middle of her room in a white toga with golden winged gladiator sandals. Katelyn opened her eyes and saw herself; completely conscious and now wearing the mask. She stepped forward towards her mirror and looked at her new face with her blue eyes. The structure of her face had changed into something familiar to her un-masked self; the only difference was the addition of a layer of smokey green eyeshadow, forest green lipstick, and a recessed dot on her forehead. In addition to her face, her now cream blonde hair was done up in a hairstyle that resembled Daenerys from Game of Thrones; knotted and braided in a unique pattern. She turned to her side and noticed that her ears were missing; likely covered up by the mask's fleshy material that entered her brain.
She looked down and saw that she was wearing a white silk toga with a golden belt around her waist. Her breasts and butt were also noticeably enlarged from her previous self; leaving little room for her to move without having her cleavage and bottom bounce with each step. On her feet, she wore a pair of golden Gladiator Wraparound Sandals that exposed her mint green pedicured toes.
She felt and looked amazing. And with her in control the possibilities for Katelyn were endless; she now had the power of the gods in her fingertips. She then turned around to admire the back of her body and noticed something missing; the mask's seam.
She flipped her hair to the side and sure enough the back of her head was just as perfectly smooth as the rest of her pronounced green face. She panicked and tried to pull the mask off her cheeks; but as she pulled on her face the sounds of stretching rubber only reinforced it's attachment as her rubber face pulled outwards like laffy-taffy candy. Then it got worse...
"Kat~! We're home, I saw your text and we brought leftovers from a party," her mom called from the living room.
"Shit..." she thought to herself and let go of her stretched-out face; snapping back and giving her a pleasureful tingle down her spine.
She then tried to pull on the edge of the mask that separated her lime green skin from her tan neck underneath her jaw. But as hard as she pulled the edges of the her jaw stayed put and even felt that it dug into her face even more than before. Now even more desperate, she reached for the controller only to feel a sharp pain as she touched its joystick.
She recoiled and sighed. "Great," she said to herself, "my parents are home, I can't touch the controller, and I'm stuck in this mask..."
She looked over at the controller and saw the display read: "0:30". Katelyn thought to herself that if she could wait another few seconds maybe she would be able to return back to normal.
"Kat? Are you in your room?" Her mother called from the other side of the her door.
"Hi Mom, yeah I'm changing don't come in!" She replied in her un-masked voice.
"Okay. We're getting ready for an early dinner so come down when you're done!" Her mom replied as she walked back downstairs.
Relieved, Katelyn looked back over at the controller and it read: "0:00".
"Yes!" She said to herself. And sure enough when she looked at the back of her head there was a seam where she could tear off both masks.
With that, she looked at herself in the mirror one last time and took her delicately manicured fingers and dug into the seam and pulled.
With two masks on her head, it was much harder to pull it off the combined green flesh off of her face. As she pulled, the tendrils of the fused masks slowly came undone; Katelyn could feel each green tendril snap off her skin underneath. For a split second, she thought of giving up and just leaving it on; embracing her new persona as Santa Cruz's next vigilante. But then she thought of her parents, school, and her new friends and quickly re-focused on her attempt of getting it off. With one final tug, the two masks were now far enough from her face that the two masks re-solidified and flew out of her hands and landed on top of her bed.
Katelyn, now exhausted from her experiment, leaned on a nearby wall and just stared at the two masks. To her, the second experiment was somewhat of a success. But she still had much to learn about the sister mask and its remote control.
With her second experiment done, she stored both masks in her lockbox, got her phone, and hopped downstairs to greet her family.
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Talk about a close one...
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