Chapter #5Head swap variation 1. by: Unknown Sat on the floor, still disoriented from passing out, was Liz. Whatever had just happened, it certainly wasn't a good thing. Looking around her, she immediately realized she was in a completely different location. She had just been next to the Help Desk a few minutes ago. She lifted her arm to check her watch--and promptly realized she was no longer wearing one.
"What the hell happened...?" she began. Before she could get a good look at the rest of her body, she saw something move out of the corner of her eye. She swung her head around to see Donna, whom she resented, staring at her with a mixture of shock and amusement. It took a few moments for her to register that something was absolutely not right about Donna's body. Her nametag read: NICOLA.
"Donna? Why the hell are you wearing Nicola's name tag?" she demanded as she hastily stood up. She had to catch herself on a nearby shelf as she almost fell over again.
"You'll need to be careful, Liz. Looks like you've got it pretty bad!" Liz's rival taunted. Liz could see she was trembling, despite her confident attitude.
"What do you mean..." Liz trailed off. Donna grabbed her arm and showed her to the nearest mirror.
What she saw staring back at her was her usual visage... on a man's body. Upon further inspection, the nametag on her uniform read: STEVEN.
"Donna..." she began. "What the hell is going on?!"
"Believe me, Liz, I would love to take credit for doing this to you, but I've got no clue either," the morning supervisor confessed. "I just remember falling asleep in Stationary and waking up in Toiletries. As far as I can tell, our heads ended up on other peoples' bodies. And--unfortunately for you--you wound up as a man!" She chuckled slightly, but her voice was still trembling. Her figure wasn't terribly different from Nicola's, but still, she felt extremely strange. And now she was wondering if it was just the employees, or if this phenomenon reached beyond the walls of her workplace. She was especially concerned about her two kids.
Liz tried to return to a calm state of mind. "We need to round up the others, then," she proposed. "As much as I loathe you, Donna, you and I are probably the first ones awake, and we'll need to cooperate if we want to get this situation under control."
Donna was brought out of her trance. "Right, I suppose I've got no choice..."
"Liz? Donna?" came a familiar voice. They turned around to see Luke, or at least his head. He was now atop the much shorter--and much more female--body of their co-worker Becca. "I don't suppose either of you know what's going on here?" he asked, clearly as unnerved as the others. They did their best to explain the situation, and then decided to investigate.
While Liz attempted to phone her husband, Donna, having the most normal appearance, left the store to find out how widespread the swapping phenomenon was. Luke, meanwhile, had been sent to fetch his fellow employees and bring them to the Help Desk, where the three of them had decided to set up base, so to speak.
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