Liam was home alone.
Well, his mother was dead and his father worked out of town most weekends, and it was a Friday afternoon, so he had the whole weekend to do whatever he wanted.
Liam had found the Chronivac at the front door soon after his father had left. It was a program on a USB memory stick. Liam plugged it into his laptop and downloaded the program, then firing it up.
A logo glowed in the middle of the screen for a few seconds, then disappeared.
Suddenly, instead of sitting on his sofa with his laptop on his lap, Liam was in a sort of control room with large screens and monitors. There was one wall that had a large window into an experiment area, but the rest of the walls were keyboards and options and screens.
Liam, shocked, shot up from the swivel chair that he had found himself in and ran to find the door. When he found it, he was faced with a message:
"Are you sure you want to close Chronivac 4.0?"
Liam thought, I'll just play around with it for a little while to see what I can do.
He walked back to the swivel chair and sat down, and began going through some of the options. He selected "Download Profiles" and chose his own name, and waited for a few seconds while it loaded.
When it finished loading, an exact copy of Liam appeared in the experiment room. The copy body was completely naked. A list of information appeared on the screen to the left of the observation window.
INFORMATION
Name: Liam Jamison
Age: 16
Physical age: 16
Mental age: 16
Birth date: July 14 2001
Race: Caucasian
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: British American
Skin colour: Extremely pale
Hair colour: Blond
Eye colour: Green
Freckles: Low
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 130 lbs
Muscle Mass: Below average
Fat: Low
Body type: Slim
Eyesight: Normal
Colourblind: No
Intelligence: Above average
And many more options, as well as options such as "Adapt Reality", "Change Awareness", "Amount of Population Affected", etc.
Liam fiddled with some of the options, and then selected "Upload Changes".
Suddenly, Liam found himself in the body of his copy in the experiment room. His original body was not in the main control room anymore.
A light went on and a 60-second countdown started.