While Jeff was thinking his sister snuck into his room. She was two years older than him and a real pain in the neck. She was sneaking up behind him to pull one of her usual pranks when she read what was on the screen.
“Watcha got there?” she asked. Jeff jumped at the realization she was right behind him.
“Just a problem-solving game.” He lied, but she had seen too much.
“What’s it me by transformation target?”
Jeff, understanding that he has been found out, conceded the details on the Chronivac, while avoiding telling her how to activate a transformation. He then offered to let her customize a transformation form that he had preset to target her. When she was done, Jeff went back to review her work.
The screen read as follows:
F Human (Emily) -> Inanimate dining-chair type:{1974187386764132}
Senses: seeing, hearing, feeling
Reality change: on
Transformation length: immediate
Duration: indefinite
*Next to the long number was an image of one of the chairs at the dining table.
“You want to become a piece of furniture?”
“I’ve always had this fantasy of being a chair. And then I get sat in and treated just like any old chair. I think one of the chairs at the dining table would work well.”
“But why is the duration indefinite?”
“You can just change me back whenever you feel like it.”
“I can’t do this, I would have to explain to our parents where you went.”
“That’s why I set it to change reality so that everyone thinks I have always been a chair. No one would even know I was gone.”
“So you want me to just erase you from existence?”
“Pretty much, yeah.” She replied.
“You’re crazy.” Jeff replied. At that his sister was sent away in a huff, knowing that she would not be able to convince him easily. But she was used to her brother not doing what she wanted, and she knew that she would need to force his hand in order to get her way.
She went downstairs to the kitchen and grabbed a chair and dragged it all the way to Jeff’s room. She hoisted the chair over her head right as Jeff turned around.
“Emily what are you doing!?”
“Problem solving!” she exclaimed as she slammed the chair top first on the hard wood floor, smashing its back to pieces. “Turn me into a replacement chair, or all of this gets pinned on you.”
At that vey moment they heard the garage door open. “Right at the nick of time.” Emily said with a sly grin. She darted down the stairs. Right as their mother opened the door, Jeff slammed his finger now on the enter key, confirming Emily’s transformation.
“Mom! Jeff broke one of the kitchen cha-” her sentence was cut short as at that very second she was transformed into a chair that looked perfectly identical to the others around the table. As his mother walked inside, she had a look of confusion, why is this chair at the bottom of the stairs? She dragged the chair to the dining table and took a seat.
Jeff left his room to great his mother and assess the damage of what he has done. The broken old chair had disappeared from the floor of his room. As he walked down the hall, he passed by his former sister’s room. Looking in he saw nothing but storage boxes and old clothes. Clearly, all her belongings had been removed in the reality change.
When he had reached the kitchen, and answered his mothers question with some nonsense answer about a science experiment, he began to consider how everyone remembered his family.
“Hey mom, do you remember anyone named Emily”
“Not that I can say, why is she a friend of yours?”
“Yeah, something like that.”
It was incredible. His mother was sitting in her own daughter, and she didn’t even know it. She didn’t even know that she had a daughter. Jeff had not expected for this to work. Nor did he expect it to be so arousing when it did.
He went back to his room to consider what to do next.