Isabelle Garcio-Shapira sat on the edge of her bed in her bedroom, thinking hard and staring at the ray below her. Why, why, WHY isn't this working? she thought, picking it up and aiming it at her cat. She shot the ray at the cat, and it turned from a stray she found on the street to a Persian cat with long white fur. She sighed. This had happened every time she attempted to use it. She was testing her duplication ray on her cat, and every time, it never duplicated. So far, Nibbles had been turned into a groundhog, turned the color gold, had legs sprout out of his head, and had his head and tail switched. Isabelle was searching for the reason why the ray didn't work correctly, and every time she adjusted something. Standing up, she pulled a book on her bookcase that her mother had always