The doorbell rang, as Jimmy placed the ice pack on his wrist. Jimmy headed for the front door.
"Hey, Justin from IT, you called to have your internet connection upgraded to 100 GB?" said the tall blond man in the white button down shirt with the black tie and black trousers.
"Justin?" Jimmy asked with a strangely contemplative expression on his face.
"You did call for the internet upgrade, Jimmy Si-?"
"Yes, of course. Do come in. The connection is over there. Do I need to shut down my computer?"
"Nah, but you'll lose internet for a minute or so while the new interface connects," Justin said.
Jimmy sat down at his computer. There was now a second subject ohadn the screen. The blond guy was pretty hairy. He was in his 30's, and Jimmy thought the guy looked kind of hot. But he really wanted to try out the Chronivac. He began exploring options. The blond hairy guy on all fours working with the cable box made Jimmy think of a dog. A golden retriever would be nice. Now how did those reality altering features work? No one would come looking for a tech guy named Justin, if he did this right. Justin would think that he had always been Jimmy's dog.
Justin had reset Jimmy's connection, but he lingered on the floor for a few minutes because it justified the bill that the client's had to pay. Still most other contractors would take an half hour to do what Justin did in a couple minutes. He knew his job inside out. He started to unbutton his shirt. It was kind of warm. He paused to wonder about Jimmy. The young guy was really cute, and Justin's gaydar was going off. He decided he'd ask Jimmy if he'd like to go out.
Jimmy grinned. Justin said, "Well, try it now. You should be connected now. How's it working?"
Justin stayed on the floor squatting. He didn't normally do that but the Chronivac was slowly modifying him mentally. The physical changes required freezing, but the mental didn't. Jimmy suppressed a laugh, as Justin's tongue lolled out of his mouth.
"Working fine," Jimmy said.
"Oh, good. Uh, do you like to dance?" Justin asked, as he started to get up.
"Stay, Justin," Jimmy ordered.
Justin resumed his squat. Jimmy hit enter.
And almost instantly the Chronivac chimed.
Justin's clothing vanished, and his body rapidly covered itself with golden hair. His ears grew bigger, and slumped over and hung on the sides of his head, as his nose and jaw thrust forward, and his forehead folded back on his skull. His hands and feet became paws. Jimmy reached for his iPhone to video the transformation, but before he could. The Chronivac chimed again.
"Transformation complete. Do you wish to make any other modification before releasing subject?"
"No, I think, Justin is a fine dog," Jimmy said, "Come here, Justin!" Jimmy called.
The dog eagerly trotted over to his master. The brass dog tag from his neck identified Jimmy as his owner, and indicated that the Golden Retriever had belonged to Jimmy for the last 5 years.
"Woof!" said Justin happily burying his snout in Jimmy's crotch.
Hm, Jimmy thought as he scratched his dog behind his ears, maybe he would change Justin into a human, and take him dancing sometime.