The teacher announced to the class that this year they would be visiting a farm to see the animals and learn about the work there. This gave Edwin an idea. He took the chronivac emitter out and selected reality change :
"The farm trip will happen this afternoon. For the occasion, the administration gave the teacher an inferior version of the chronivac able to turn her students into diverse farm animals. Indeed the goal of the trip is to have us being the farm animals and she will turn each one of us students into a farm animal of her choice. Of course, that is still unknown to the students..."
He paused for a second, thinking, then added :
"...but their parents are aware of what's going to happen, as they decided it with the teacher. The parents may visit their transformed children every so often". That sounded good to him. He pressed enter. The chronivac emitter analyzed the change, then asked :
"Do you want the change to be permanent ?"
He had not thought of that. Unsure he answered :
"The duration of each student's transformation shall be left to the decision of their parents and the teacher."
The chronivac analyzed the answer then displayed : "Change applied".
Edwin turned his attention back to the teacher :
"... So I assume all of you are ready for the trip to the farm this afternoon" she said with a slight grin.
The class nodded (as all classes of children do when asked a yes/no question.)
"Good, then I'll find you all next to the bus after the class."
And so, at the beginning of the afternoon, all the children and their teacher took the bus to the farm. Edwin was wondering how they would be transformed upon arriving. Would they be turned all at once, are would the teacher transform them one by one. And if she did, how would she prevent the others from freaking out. He also wondered what he would be transformed into, and for how long.
He wouldn't have to wonder for too long, as the farm was in sight. After the bus stopped the students and the teacher descended, and the vehicle went back. The children were quite exited and did not really listen to the welcoming speech of the farmers. The teacher announced that she was going to do the calling. The rest of the class didn't really thought much of that, but as Edwin was waiting for it he guessed that was the time they were going to be transformed. Indeed, it was strange that the teacher would wait for the bus to leave to make the first calling.
The teacher took out a small device that looked like a smartphone. Edwin guessed it was the chronivac.
"Andrea ?"
"Present !"
The teacher pressed something on the device and suddenly the girl named Andrea saw her body rapidly transform and soon where a little girl had stood was a sheep. The class began to freak out but then the teacher said.
"Quiet class. I know this looks weird to you, but the goal of this trip is not the see animals, but to have you be them. Not only will this raise funds for our school, but I'm sure this will be a learning experience for all of you as you will experience farm work from a firsthand perspective. Don't worry though, this all thing is just temporary (for most of you anyway, she whispered). Andrea please come out of the rank and come over there." she pointed to a place next to the farmers. Seeing as, even though Andrea came out, the class was still far from calm she added :
"And if you don't calm down, I'll give you an F for this trip and you'll have a punishment your parents will have to sign."
Surprisingly that worked. Edwin didn't remember the fear of punishment to be that convincing in his time, but maybe the chronivac was very accommodating with his fantasy, or maybe he didn't remember well enough.
"Now let's continue the calling. Benjamin ?"
"err... h-here."
The teacher pressed her chronivac again. Benjamin quickly turned into a pig.
"When you are done transforming, please join Andrea. Kevin ?"
The calling continued, with all the students being transformed into diverse farm animals. At this point, there was four sheep and pigs, two cows, three donkeys and two jennies. Edwin noticed that the pupils were not always turned into an animal of the same gender, as a boy named Thomas had been turned into a cow. It was now his turn.
"Edwin ?"
"Present !"
He felt himself being turned into a...