Determined Orange...
Thinking about how I will be able to explain this I decide to give him an example. "Think about it like this Ben, if a person who had absolutely no control over their ability were to put this on and nothing was to change and their powers are still way out of control then that would mean that they are truly not able to control their powers and I think this scenario would apply to anyone whose powers manifested in their physical form such as a mutant having an extra set of arms or something." I say and Ben immediately gets depressed and flops back onto the sofa behind him making it creak dangerously though thankfully it holds, it must have been specially made with Ben in mind. "So what your saying is that your doohickey won't work on people like me who had their appearances change because of their powers." He moans out going into full depression but I don't want that and so I decide to continue my talk in the hopes that I might give him some hope or something.
"I'm saying that it won't work on all the people who had their appearances or physical body change because of their powers as some of their changes just can't be controlled while some of them just might be able to." I say but it's clear that Ben doesn't understand or he just has lost interest but what I'm about to do next should grab his attention. "Reed can you please come on up here for me please? I think another demonstration is perhaps in order." I say while walking over to Johnny and removing the bracelet from his arm which he seems happy to comply with because as soon as he is free he begins to play around with his fire powers just to make sure that they aren't permanently strong, by the time I've removed the bracelet Reed is standing next to me looking a but hesitant but I'm not bothered about that right now. "Reed, can you please show a quick demonstration of your powers, nothing special just a quick display please." I say to which Reed begins to showcase his powers by stretching and and shrinking various parts of his body even going as far as to shape himself into the shape of a teapot which I found quite amusing.
"That's enough Reed, you can return to normal now thank you." I say to which Reed begins to comply though I get the feeling he's beginning to get a bit irked with my ordering him around though he doesn't seem to show it. "You see Ben I think that your and Reed's powers are quite similar, in fact I'd say that the only difference is that he can control his powers." I say while Reed begins to unravel himself from teapot form. "Oh yeah, Reed's a big rock monster as well, how'd I miss that?" Ben states sarcastically which I chuckle at. "No, what I'm saying is that you both took on the composition of a certain material which for you was rocks/earth while Reed took on the metaphysical properties of rubber/elasticity, watch what happens when I put the bracelet on Reed." I say and as soon as Reed is once again in human form I slap my bracelet on his arm which promptly stops him from using his powers. "Can you try and use your powers Reed?" I ask and Reed nods his head and a few moments later I can see his face morph into an expression of frustration as he wills his body to change shape yet nothing happens, I think that Reed is more angry over having his mind not conform to what he wants than his powers working as I'm sure that he believes that he can overcome my device because he is simply intelligent and I bet that he's pretty miffed that he can't overcome my device.
"Now you see here Ben that even though Reed's powers manifested themselves in a physical form he's been forced to go back to being a normal human without the ability to use his powers and that's because he is able to use his powers but even still..." I reach my hand out and before Reed even know what's happening I grab onto to the end of his nose and begin to pull and in doing so Reed's nose is pulled out as if its piano hips and it's dragged around nearly a meter away from his body though not without a lot of resistance. "As you can see even though my bracelet is restricting Reed from using his powers that doesn't mean that he's actually lost his powers as even though he can't use them his body still has its rubber/elastic properties and so I can stretch him even if he himself can't and that's because his ability is both passive and active." I let go of Reed's elongated nose at this point and it smashes back into his face throwing him backwards with a nice whack. "The bracelet is making Reed subconsciously believe that he can't use his powers no matter what evidence might be thrown into his face and this means he is subconsciously using a level of control that Reed himself isn't even capable of right now to restrict his body into the shape of a normal human and even when I stretched his nose out his body desperately tried to return to normal human dimensions."
Johnny excitedly joins the conversation at this point. "Oh so what your saying is that Reed's powers are both active and passive like in a game and it's active to turns his body into different shapes and stuff but it's passive in the form of making his body like rubber no matter what shape he takes and that can't be changed, right." I blink a little at what Johnny said while Reed seems to find himself and begins to rub his nose. "Yeah that's right I guess, you see this device works by making you take whatever control you might be capable of and returning you to a baseline human as much as possible with that control based on if your powers are active or passive, so what I guess I'm saying Ben is that whether my device works on you or not depends on whether your powers are passive or active and how much control you might be able to have over your powers." Johnny again intrudes with one of his weird analogies that somehow make perfect sense. "Oh so if his powers are passive he's going to be stuck as a rock monster unless someone finds a way to remove his powers but if his powers are active he will be like a saiyan that's stuck in super saiyan and depending on the control he's capable of the bracelet will revert him to back to a normal saiyan, it'll be like he has a transformation like a power ranger."
Everyone stares at Johnny a bit confused while I marvel at the way he's related real world problems to cartoons and anime and I'm quite impressed about it as well, Ben doesn't seem to have comprehended my explanation it seems and Johnny's analogys just seems to have confused him even more. "What?" Ben dumbly asks to which I give a simpler answer as I remove my bracelet device from Reed's arm. "Basically one of two things are going to happen if I put this bra let on you, either you will stay as you are right now but just be a lot weaker or your appearance will be changed in some way though the extent of that change I can't be sure of except that it will definitely be regressing to your former human self though whether you'll fully return to looking like a normal human I don't know." I say but even then Ben is still confused but he seems to have gotten the gist of what I've said if I'm to go by the new light of hope I've seen ignite in his eyes. "So if I put on that Gizmo there's a chance that I might change back to being a normal guy again?" He questions with his big rock monster puppy eyes.
Everyone in the room looks to me though I can see that both of Reed and Susan look to me worried by the fact that I'm raising Ben's hopes for nothing while Johnny just looks happy for his friend at the chance to return to normal and so I try to mitigate some of Ben's expectations so that he won't be so disappointed when my device fails to work on him like he hopes it will as I'm nearly one hundred percent sure that my invention won't revert him to normal and it seems that both Reed and Susan think so as well. "Ben, there's a chance that it might return you to normal but that chance is really small as it seems that you don't currently have any control over your powers and so its most likely that your powers are passive and my device won't work like you hope." I finish but Ben just walks to me with his thick orange tree trunk legs. "But there is a chance isn't there?" He asks to which I nod as its true that it's a possibility.
Ben finally stops his legs in front of me and reaches his arm out towards me. "Put it on me." The Thing says and it doesn't seem like he'll take no for an answer...
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