Pure Energy (Part 5)

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Josh did ultimately manage to return to his basement, and he breathed a sigh of relieve when he did so. He reattached the control loop and got back in the booth. Once again, he took the form of pure energy, and he re-entered the machine. His body reformed once more, but instead of his own body reforming, he reformed as the woman from the park. He sat in the booth scared for so long after that. He really was stuck; he really was this woman now...forever. He checked the scans. His energy signature was only slightly different from what it had been. He tried to get the device to tweak it back to normal an went through the process again, but he once again returned to the form of the woman. He was beginning to give up. He though about smashing his device into a million pieces. After removing a piece or two out of anger, he stopped himself from going further. This machine could still do good in the world; he could still do good in the world. He was just going to have to do it with a different body...