"Pwease," Tanner begged.
Derrick smirked and handed off the malfunctioning unit into Tanner's tiny hands. "Knock yourself out," he said. He looked in the mirror again, grinned appreciably, and left room.
The screen was still flashing a warning against use as Tanner used his stubby fingers to attempt to call up his profile.
"Yes," he proclaimed when the profile window activated over the flashing warning.
Name: Tanner William McBeall
Age: 2
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Height: 3’ 2’’
Weight: 27 lbs
Sexual Preference: N/A
Hair color: black
Eye color: blue-green
Occupation: toddler
"I've got to change my age back," Tanner said. He backspaced over the "2" and left the field blank. He started to type "17" into the field when the warning returned, with a vengeance.
"System compromised," the warning read. "Saving last profiles."
"No! Wait!" Tanner cried. "Dewwick! Come back!"
He tried to punch in new numbers, but the system locked him out. The toddler felt funny as a new wave of changes overcame him.
When Derrick, responding to Tanner's entreaty, finally returned to the room he found...