Story #24: Monkeyshines

Story #24: Monkeyshines Karma is a volatile beast that is cruel and petty, and while it is not necessarily unfair in its assessment, it is perhaps unjust in its selection of who to punish. Sometimes it is not the greedy businessmen or the stark raving mad murderers who feel the blunt of its boot, but instead someone as humble as a mere schoolboy. Perhaps this is because karma is not some mindless force, but instead exists from a tangible mind. Karmic creatures that act as purveyors of justice, and for the more juvenile of their clan, as agents of mischief. For Mikey, this was a day that karma would glower upon him, and for the smallest of indiscretions. He was an impish boy, so it was only right that he attract the attention of one of these entities; a youthful prankster for the youthful prankster. This karmic creature was invisible to human eyes, but it had been drawn in by Mikey's energy, and it had spent the morning following him. Today was the class trip to the zoo, and while Mikey had so far been rambunctious, he hadn't exactly crossed any threshold into being mean or deserving of retribution. The lingering sprite was convinced that this would soon change, so while impatient, it still trailed the bratty boy. The class eventually came to a halt at the monkey habitation. These primates, which bore an uncomfortable distant resemblance to the kids watching them, were happily traipsing around their caged home. Mikey was quick to point out how funny it was that these monkeys were diapered, callously jeering about what dumb animals they must be. He pointed at one in particular, who had been eating a banana, before stopping and twisting his face up. "That one looks like its about to crap itself! What a stupid idiot!" Mikey chortled immaturely. That was enough for the mischievous entity to take action. Using the reality-bending powers of its race, it snapped its fingers and suddenly switched the minds of the schoolboy and the diaper-defecating monkey. It was so instantaneous that Mikey had blinked as a normal boy one moment, and then been staring at himself from inside the cage in the next. Now Mikey was the monkey, or at least was trapped in the monkey's body! The switch also hadn't stopped anything in motion, so Mikey could feel the simien diaper filling up with the hot, steaming results of all these bananas; he was helpless to stop it, and could only let out some animalistic grunts and screeches as he squatted and pushed. Like a twisted mirror, it seemed that while he had inherited the physical results of this donor body's previous actions, the monkey in Mikey's body had continued the mental action of dropping a load. The now primal child had squatted down and gotten a strained look on his face; he began to loudly grunt and pepper his shorts with toots. It was bad enough that Mikey was in a dirty diaper that wasn't technically his own, and that flies were even beginning to buzz around his sagging garment, but now he had to watch 'himself' strain to the point of drooling during a very public bowel movement in his briefs. Mikey's classmates were visibly stunned by this sudden devolution, watching as the back of the boy's shorts began to sport a hefty, weighted lump. One of them began to laugh and point at the sight, loudly letting out the exclamation of: "Haha, Mikey see, Mikey poo!" The wordplay garned a ripple of laughs from the other students, not that the monkey-minded boy seemed to notice. Mikey was aghast, more humiliated by what he had just seen, then by the fact that he was currently a chimp in a full diaper. The entity smiled wickedly, glad to see that its punishment had played out in just the way it imagined. With a snap of the fingers, Mikey and the monkey immediately found themselves back in their original bodies. This was especially fortunate, since the monkey had been about to reach his hand behind him to do what monkeys do. Mikey felt dazed, and the sensation of a warm pantload hadn't disappeared, since he now had one of his own. Being the class clown, his teacher wasn't so charitable to call this an accident either. "Mikey, I can't believe you! You think its funny to act like a monkey? Well we'll see how funny your parents think it is when I call them!" Mikey could immediately see being grounded to his room in his near future, and diapers would be a given punishment for something like this. It seemed Mikey would be pretty similar to this monkey after all: thickly diapered and caged in.