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Part 1

Alan could be best described as just above average. He was maybe a half inch above average height, looked like he went to the gym just barely more than whoever he was sitting next to, and would generally get high enough grades to never get in trouble, but too low to really stand out. In fact the only place where he really seemed to stand out was in the pranks he pulled. Several of his pranks were the stuff of legends at his school, and he had several fairly popular videos online of his pranks.

He also had a sister who was the frequent target of his favorite diversion. He figured she deserved it with all the stuff she had borrowed from him and never returned.

However as Alan walked into his room his frequent machinations in planning his next prank had been pushed aside for something more interesting. He had finally received the package he had been waiting for. Setting the box down on his desk, he closed the door to his room and locked it. Opening the box he took out the strange camera like device inside. He plugged its cord into his computer and extended its several antennas before reading the words written on the tape stuck to its back, ‘Transition Download Cam 1’.

Months ago Alan had signed up to test the prototypes from the technology integration group at the nearby magic college. He had been dreaming of getting a hold of all sorts of incredible gadgets, but they hadn't sent him anything, until today. Even though he was about to leave on a trip for summer vacation he could spend a couple hours messing with whatever it was. Looking at the device he hoped it was more than just a boring web cam. Opening up its file on the computer he noticed an instructions document and a program called transition editor. Alan opened up the program and started trying to figure out what it did. He probably could have gotten that from the instructions, but where would the fun be in that.

From the drop down commands it seemed to be some type of 3D editor software, but he couldn't figure out how to get a model into the program. Eventually he spotted a large green button in a corner of the window that read “transfer data.” As he clicked on the button there was a bright flash of light and he found himself standing in a square gray room about the size of a small garage. One of its sides was a window and looking out he could see what seemed to be a giant version of his room.

It didn't take long for Alan to realize that he had somehow been trapped inside of his computer. Looking really closely at the semi translucent walls that made the sides of his prison, he realized he could see the now red button that he had just pressed, but being on the other side of the walls he couldn’t reach it.

As he stood there with his hand pressed against the glass he started wondering if things could get any worse. Just then he heard someone fiddling with his door and saw the handle start to turn despite the fact that he had locked it.



Part 2

Stuck in the computer, Alan could only watch as his sister, Sadie, unlocked his door and poked her head into his room. She was one of those people who could eat as much as she wanted and not gain a pound, but few people would envy that looking at her. Her stick like figure was accompanied by dirty blond hair and a frequent smirk that let you know she was up to something.

That same smirk was sitting on her face as she walked into his room and started going through his shelves looking for something.

From the computer Alan banged his fist on the screen and with a loud voice asked “What do you think you're doing?”

Sadie practically jumped out of her skin and with a shameful expression looked behind her trying to see where her brother had been hiding. “Where are you?”

“Over here. I got trapped in the computer. Do you think you could get me out?”

Sadie looked over at the computer and her face darkened. “Oh, so you think you can pull another prank on me. I can see the title 'Dumb Sister Thinks Brother Is Trapped In Computer.' Well I'm sorry but your going to have to try something else to get your next hit video.” She said as she looked around the room trying to spot the cameras that she was sure her brother had placed. “However that program you have up on your computer does look interesting. Is that motion capture? Where are you broadcasting from?”

“It's not a joke this time. I really am stuck.” Alan said as Sadie sat down at the computer.

“Give it a rest. I'm not that naive. Oh, look there are a lot of options for adjusting your avatar.” Sadie said as she began opening menus and looking through the options. “Hmm, look at this. It has a list of what you are wearing, I wonder what happens when I un check some of them?”

As Sadie unchecked his shirt Alan felt it disappear. He yelled at her “What do you think you're doing?”

“Just seeing how good your model is. Don’t worry, you can keep your boxers; no one wants to see if you modeled anything beneath them. Wow, this has a ton of detail. No wonder you thought you could trick me with it.”

“I'm not trying to trick you. Just please do what I say I need to get out of here.”

“Hey, I can change the position of your avatar. It even has animation controls. Let's see if I can make you dance.”

As Alan felt his body freeze up and start to shift into various poses he started to get angry. Up to this point he had been regretting the prank videos he had made of his sister, but this was going to far. She should have been able to tell that this was different. With a snarl he started to yell, “Sadie, stop being an idiot! This is real! I don't know if you are too stupid or too stubborn to realize it, but …..”

“There we go. I found the mute button, now I can look at this in peace without having to worry about your rude interruptions.”

For the next half hour Alan could do nothing but feel his body switch between different poses, his hands moving from side to side and his hips swinging back and forth. At first his motions were jerky and irregular but his sister quickly got the hang of the animation software.

“That looks just about perfect. Now if only I could change clothing. Wait, here it is. This looks like the right menu. If I do a search do they have it? Yes! Hey, Alan how do you think you'll look in a grass skirt. Oh, with coconuts. We can't forget those.“

Alan suffered in silence as he stood there doing a luau dance. This was probably the worst day of his life, and it didn't look like his sister was ever going to realize who he really was to let him go, especially not before she left to stay with their cousin for the summer. Moving back and forth to an unheard beat he started to wonder how this could possibly get any worse.

“Alan, I don't think you've ever looked better. I hope you can see this wherever you are broadcasting from. I bet you already left on your trip and you're doing this from your friends car. Well I think that you look so good that I can't keep this to myself. I am going to send this avatar to your girlfriend. I bet she'll get a laugh out of it.”

Alan watched in silent if surprisingly graceful horror as his sister expanded his email over his program and started typing a message to his girlfriend:

Dear Iris,

My brother tried to pull another trick on me like the zombie prank you two pulled last summer. However it didn't work out and I got a hold of his avatar (attached to this email), and made some slight changes. I had to let you see it. I think he looks better than he ever has. Let me know what you think.

Sincerely,

Sadie

As Sadie attached his file his world went black, but he was almost sure he could hear the sound of the mouse clicking send.





Part 3

Alan wasn't sure how long he had waited in the dark. Eventually he had fallen asleep, but as soon as he felt something happening he woke up.

In front of him he could see through the screen the big beautiful face of his girlfriend Iris. She was a bit on the heavy side and most people would say had a good heart, if you could find it under her massive mischievous streak (which Alan considered one of her best qualities).

He was sure that after she finished teasing him about his situation she would be willing to help him. That is she would be willing to help him if he could somehow make her realize that it was really him. Right now all he could do was dance in his hula outfit as his gigantic girlfriend laughed so hard that she almost fell out of her seat.

“Oh, that is precious. I've got to use that somewhere. Oh, I know.”

Alan watched as his girlfriend opened the her computer’s settings and went to the mouse icons. Clicking on the hourglass she started to switch it out. He had a brief moment of hope as she looked with a bit of curiosity at his file type “.bng” but she lost interest in it when the computer accepted it.

When she closed his file he fell into darkness again, but only for a few minutes. It wasn't long before he appeared on the screen again. If he had thought that his girlfriend was giant before when he was a full four inches in height he wasn't sure what word he would use to describe her now that he was no more than the size of the cursor on the computer screen.

Over the next few days he learned to hate it when his girlfriend moved her mouse while he was acting as the wait cursor almost as much as he hated waiting in the darkness for his symbol to come up again.

He found his girlfriends expressions to be both a gift and a curse. On the one hand he loved the smile that came to her face every time she saw him, but he wished she would stop laughing at his ridiculous dance and outfit (which she never seemed to do). The worst part was, after a few days, how he thought he saw a wondering look in her eye when she looked at him. He could never tell if it was real or his imagination.



Part 4

It had been four days since Alan had been trapped in the computer and sent to his girlfriend dressed up as a dancing hula girl. 4 entire days that his family wouldn't have worried about him since he was supposed to be on a trip, and four days since he was supposed to have called his girlfriend to let her know where they would be camping.

He hoped Iris would be trying to figure out what happened to him, but he had no way of knowing.

Eventually on the morning of the fifth day he found himself back in the gray room of the editing software. In front of him was a definitely annoyed girlfriend, but as she watched him sway his hips her expression changed from angry to mischievous. Alan wasn't sure he liked either one.

“Ok, you didn't call me. We'll see what fun I can have with your avatar. Let's see, animation, size, clothing...”

At that option Iris blushed a little, but to Alan's eternal thankfulness she left everything on him (though he probably wouldn't have minded getting rid of the coconuts).

“Wait what is this? Mute?”

Alan's heart skipped a beat as he watched his girlfriends cursor hover over the button that would undo the horrible mute that his sister had turned on. As his voice came back to him he practically cried, “Thank you, Thank you. I wanted to talk to you but I couldn't say anything.”

“Alan is that you? Where are you, and why haven't you called me.”

“I'm right here in the computer. I got a device from that research group and got sucked in. I tried to get my sister to save me, but she just thought I was pulling a prank on her.”

“That does seem like your MO how do I know that you aren't pulling a trick on me this time?”

“Try disconnecting the internet.”

“Ok, internet disconnected. No flash drives or other devices attached to the computer, can you still talk?”

“Yes. Now do you believe me? I need your help.”

“Wow,” Iris let out in a breathy whisper as she sank into her chair. “You really are in there. How is this even possible?”

“I don't know, but I need to get out.”

“Of course. What do I need to do?”

“Well first could you shut off the dance animation.”



Part 5

With a slightly furtive look Iris stepped into Alan's room and shut the door. “Ok, were here. What should I do now?”

An answering voice came from the small figure on the smart phone she was carrying, “Plug your phone into the computer and transfer me over. Hopefully then you can use that thing on the tower to bring me back.”

Iris plugged her phone into his computer and with a couple clicks had his file opened on the computer. “Here we go. Transferred over. How are you doing?”

Alan tried to tell her that he was doing fine but while he heard his own voice, he didn't see any understanding in his girlfriend's eyes.

“Are you Ok? I can't hear you. Let me try turning up the speakers” Iris reached over to where the speakers used to be before pausing and turning back to the computer. “The speakers are gone. Your sister left a note saying she was borrowing them.” She said as she held up a sticky note, “I'm going to have to try and figure out how to change you back on my own.”

Iris started clicking around and opened up a properties menu. “Hmm, It says your hula outfit is computer only. I think that means that it won’t come with you when I bring you back. I'm guessing you don't want to come back naked.”

Iris saw Alan give a reluctant nod and his mouth silently move. If she could have heard him she would have understood that while she was right, he really just wanted to get out, and clothing was a distant second.

“Let’s see if this works? Alter, Clothing, Jacket. I always thought you looked good in a nice jacket.” As Iris pressed the OK button she watched in shock as her onscreen boyfriend changed into a rather classy sports jacket.

“That wasn't supposed to happen! Where's the undo command?” After a couple hasty minutes of looking around Iris found the undo button and on screen Alan changed back from cloth to human. “Are you OK?”

Alan stood there on the screen for a few moments breathing deeply and then nodded.

“Did it hurt?

Alan shook his head.

“Were you still aware? Could you still see me”

Alan took a moment with a quizzical look but then gave a slow nod.

“That is so cool! I have to try that again.”

At this Alan vigorously shook his head and crossed his arms but his girlfriend was no longer paying any attention to that. She quickly hit the redo and undo button half a dozen times staring in wonder as her boyfriend changed back and forth between human and clothing. “This is amazing. I wonder what else I can change you into. After all you look good in a jacket but I don't think you would look that good on me. Besides it's summer and I think you would be to warm.”

Alan stared in horror as his girlfriend scrolled through the list of clothing.

“Oh, here we go sundress. I can't wait to try you on.” With a click Alan's body disappeared and was replaced by a frilly floral pattern sundress.

“You look perfect. Now to get you out so I can try you on. You said that you clicked the transfer data button and it changed from green to red when it sucked you in. Let's try that.”

Alan watched as her mouse moved towards the button. How could she have changed him into a dress. Well actually that kind of fit with his girlfriend. If she had been doing it to someone else he would have been laughing it up next to her, but on the receiving end all he could do was hope she didn't keep him like this for long. However to both of their shock when she clicked the button rather than him appearing outside next to her, she appeared next to him in the computer.

As his girlfriend was making unintelligible half words, the sound of the door opening grabbed both of their attention. There standing in the doorway was his sister.

With a malicious smirk she said, “Nice to see you Iris. I was afraid you wouldn't figure it out before I left for the month. This will make things much more fun.”





Part 6

With a smile Sadie walked over to the computer. “That program was cool enough that I tried reading the instructions. Imagine my surprise when I found out that it really was my brother who was trapped in there. I mean, he could have written the instructions as part of the joke, but it was over 100 pages and even he is not that bad a writer.”

“I was hoping you would come. Considering the what I knew about you I gave it even odds that you would get yourself stuck. Turning my brother into a dress though, that was a surprise. I have to say Alan you look fantastic. In fact it would be a shame if you didn't have a chance to be worn, so how about we play some dress up.”

Iris had been hopelessly shouting and stamping her feet when she suddenly froze in place. As Alan watched Iris's pose changed under his sister's control and then began to take on a plastic sheen with separation joints. Before his eyes his girlfriend had changed into a mannequin.

“There we go,” his sister smiled, “Now you are perfect for trying him on. By the way the command you were looking for was under file, data transfer, export data, from program. I admit it wasn't the easiest to find.”

As his sister entered the command Alan reappeared in his room and felt himself fluttering down to the floor where he lay staring up at his plastic girlfriend.

Laying there on the floor he could just watch as his sister got up out of the chair and crouched down over him with a huge smile on her face. Picking him up by the straps and turning to his girlfriend she said, “Let's see how he looks on you.”

Being worn, even by what was now a mannequin, was a completely new experience. Being a skirt in the real world felt quite different from what it had felt like in the computer. Every little breeze caused his skirt to flutter and shift, and as Sadie set his girlfriend back on her feet after putting Alan on her the slight wobble sent his hanging mass swinging back and forth. He couldn't even imagine what it would feel like if his girlfriend had been mobile.

“You know Iris, You have some really great fashion sense. My brother really compliments your figure. I kind of want to try him on now, but what to do with you. I mean right now you are supposed to display clothes, but when I leave on vacation you won't have anyone to display clothes for. Oh I know.” With that my sister grabbed a sticky note and wrote something on it. She turned the note around so that we could see it read “property of Iris” before sticking it just below Iris's neck.“ I can send you back to your home. I'm sure they can figure something out,” Sadie laughed.

“Now what to do with you Alan. I don't think you would fit me right now. I could try and resize you to fit me, but you look so good with Iris's figure I think I might want to try that first. While reading the instructions I found out that you can set the program to automatically make changes and export you afterwards. I'm going to set it up to give me a figure that better fits your current proportions and then I can try you on.” Sadie walked back over to the computer and after a few minutes working on the program, she stood up in front of the device and winked at her brother.

With a small flash Sadie disappeared and reappeared on the computer screen, then brother sister and girlfriend watched in horror as the message appeared on the screen “Target not selected, ending set sequence. Please select target and restart sequence.”

For the next hour as Alan watched as his sister struggled to do anything from the small window on the computer where she was trapped he tried to figure some way out of this but with his current immobile status he was helpless. All he could do was look at his room and enjoy the admittedly not that bad experience of hugging his girlfriends curves and feeling the rays of the sun slipping through the window slowly pass over him.

Eventually he heard the front door open and his dad shout, “Sadie are you home?”

With the speakers disconnected from the computer Alan saw his sister futilely trying to scream that she was here. He heard the squeak of the stairs as his father walked up before peeking into the room. His dad took a moment to read the post it note on the mannequin before turning to the computer. As Alan watched his father reached for the switch he heard him mutter, “I can't believe they left the computer on when they left, electricity isn’t free.”





Epilogue

After turning off the computer Sadie and Alan's father called Iris's family and had them come pick up the mannequin and the dress it was wearing. Iris's sister Irene loved the look of the dress and decided to borrow it while her sister was away. She also decided to rent the mannequin out to the store a friend of hers had just opened up.

Being worn by his girlfriend's sister was one of the most physically comfortable and mentally disturbing things that had ever happened to Alan. He spent a month and a half cycling between hanging in the closet, being worn by Irene, Lying crumpled in the clothes hamper and tumbling around in the wash. His spell was the first one to wear off. He immediately put on the nearest set of clothes and went to Irene to try and see where she had taken her sister.

Unfortunately this was in the middle of the night and the nearest set of clothes was one of Irene's dresses that he had been hanging next to a moment earlier. Alan was quickly and forcibly kicked out of the house and believing him to be a creep Irene refused to talk or listen to him.

Iris sat in the window for another two weeks after Alan turned back. She turned back in the middle of the day, but decided to stay still until the shopping attendant came to change her outfit to give her the shock of her life.

Sadie fell asleep soon after the computer was turned off. She had snoozed there peacefully until Alan came back and finally remembered to turn back on the computer. Rather than seeking revenge immediately he got her out so that she could go talk to Irene and find out where Iris was. When Irene refused to listen to her Alan took the revenge he had been dreaming about for a month and turned her into his phones home screen for a most of a week.

Sadie had little lasting effects from her transformation. Mainly she was just angry at sleeping through her entire vacation.

Iris also had little change from her stint in the window. Her relationship with her sister was more strained than ever when she tried to pass of Alan appearing in her room at night as a result of a prank she had pulled. The only real change that her close friends noticed is that she tended to naturally fall into a pose when she wasn't paying attention.

Alan had the most trouble adjusting back afterwards. While he was happy to be human, he still frequently felt the desire to be worn. Iris found this hilarious and often teased him about it. She also made frequent use of the device to change him into clothing (which he only ever halfheartedly objected to).

Alan had also developed a strange attraction to Iris's sister which he was trying hard to break. Iris couldn't get enough of how uncomfortable this made him and usually made sure that his stints as clothing ended with her sister borrowing him for a couple days.