There was a flash, and a pop, and a little puff of smoke, and Franny stood there, directly in front of Baby Franny.
Baby Franny blinked in astonishment as Franny grabbed Baby Franny’s chart.
“I’m doing you a huge favor,” she said to Baby Franny. “I’m changing this dumb middle name so that nobody can ever make fun of it again.”
Franny erased “Kissypie.” “Let’s see,” she said. “I still want to keep the initial K. How about ‘Kidney’? Do you like the sound of that?”
Baby Franny scrunched up her nose.
“No, huh?” Franny said. “Maybe ‘Khufu,’ or ‘Kismet,’ or ‘Kilowatt’?
Baby Franny pulled the pacifier from her mouth. “Kaboom,” she said.
Franny smiled. “It’s a bit peculiar, but I like it. It’s like an explosion,” she said, and she wrote “Kaboom” down as her middle name. Then she leaned way down and said, very seriously, to Baby Franny, “The most important thing is that nobody will laugh at us again. There is nothing worse than being laughed at.”
She picked up Baby Franny’s toy elephant. “Here, let me fix that for you,” she said, and drew a few extra eyes on it.
With a flash, and a pop, and a little puff of smoke, Franny was gone.
Baby Franny looked at the elephant with the extra eyes and smiled. At that moment she knew she wanted to create more things like that doll. At that moment, Baby Franny became a mad scientist.