With the changes completely imputed into the Chronivac, Jeff sat back as the changes commenced. Of course, there were a lot of settings. Some of the settings were complicated....and Jeff didn't bother to read them all. As he selected the run button, he could hear the computer's fan whir up, indicating it was working on something. A progress bar appeared on the screen, "Calculating Necessary Changes, Please Wait."
He looked out the window, spotting his next door neighbor, a thirty-two year old woman named Lilly Perkins. Lilly was twice Jeff's age and had, on many occasions been the subject of his fantasies...not that he thought she noticed. Lilly was taking her German Shepherd, Sandy for a walk, as she did every day. Sandy stopped right before the house, on a patch of grass outside her gate, a goofy grin on her face, thinking only of what she was going to do in that moment.
Lilly enjoyed the quiet time. Her boss was giving a hard time at work, wanting her to put in extra hours on a project. A nice walk with Sandy helped her clear her head. She looked up and spotted the kid next door looking at her out the window, then turned back to Sandy again.
Jeff heard a beep. "Preparing parameter test. Please stand by." Stats appeared on the screen.
Name: Lilly Perkins
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Relationship Status: Single
Occupation: Marketing
It listed a variety of additional parameters, her height, weight, cup size...And on the other side of the screen, another set of sets.
Name: Sandy
Age: 4
Gender: Female
Occupation: Pet
Owner: Lilly Perkins
Jeff looked out the window. It looked like the Chronovac was going to test the change before applying it to everyone. Meanwhile, at the curb, Lilly suddenly found herself slowly rising off the ground. "What the?" She screamed, dropping Sandy's leash..
But no one seemed to hear her except Sandy. Even Jeff. It was as if no sound could pass beyond the area she was in. The dog turned her head, looking up at her quizzically, as she too left the ground.
Lilly was dressed in a pair of flats she'd switched into, plus a skirt and white blouse from her day at work. The flats suddenly slipped to the ground, followed by her skirt. Some unseen force was causing her clothing to drop to the ground. She screamed for help, but...it just echoed back. No one heard. Jeff's window was to her back, and she couldn't turn her head far enough to see if he heard her.
Like some weird horror movie, her blouse was unbuttoning itself and dropping to the ground, along with her panties, her bra, even her earrings and hair clip...some unseen force was stripping everything on her, like a magical mugging.
She barely noticed that Sandy's collar had undone itself and dropped to the ground, she was panicking so much.
The Chronovac beeped again. "Phase 1 Test Beginning," but Jeff was staring out the window.
Sandy's rear paws began to grow, becoming wider and better able to support more weight, as her rear legs lengthened.
Lilly, panicking as she was, finally noticed the change. "Sandy?"
The dog barked at her. Whatever was going on, she seemed to not be panicking like her master was.
The changes picked up, as Sandy's tail retracted, vanishing entirely, and her spine began to shift until her legs were parallel to her torso. Her shoulders became more defined as her head shifted on them to look straight at Lilly. Meanwhile, her front legs were growing as well, with the paws at the end of them growing and starting to separate into fingers. The tiny claws at the end seemed rounded, as opposed to sharp.
Sandy continued to grow, taller, until she was a few inches taller than Lilly, floating there. Jeff watched with interest from his window. Sandy was looking more and more like a person...although a dog person.
Lilly gave up screaming for help, but was yelping at the changes in her beloved pet. Her discarded panties flew up onto her dog, along with her skirt, flats, and blouse...although the bra seemed to be transforming at the same time Sandy's torso was, to better fit her anatomy.
In a matter of three minutes, she'd gone from walking her dog to floating naked, with her suddenly bipedal pet, who was now wearing her clothes.
The changes reached Sandy's head. Her tongue retracted somewhat into her mouth, no longer hanging out. Her muzzle shrunk slightly, as the size of her head expanded...she seemed to be growing more of a forehead. As this happened, internal changes continued, as her brain began to reconfigure itself, with some portions shrinking, growing, or repurposing themselves.
As it did, Sandy suddenly became curious as to what was going on. Floating or not, she'd been waiting patiently for her master to do something. But, suddenly, she decided she needed to do something herself. She began to try to move toward the ground.
"Phase 1 Physical Test Complete. Begin upload," the Chronovac printed. Sandy screamed, and her mind exploded as the language centers of her brain filled with words.
"Sandy?" Lilly called again.
The dog focused on Lilly. "That hurt...." she remarked.
"You...are talking." Lilly said, practically spitting out the words.
"What are you doing to me?" Sandy asked her.
"Me? I didn't do this..." Lilly insisted.
A second upload began, and Sandy's mind began to fill with education...elementary school, high school, college...This time, it didn't feel like as much of a shock. "I don't think you did....but how do we get down..." She asked her master.
"I don't know...I don't know how any of this is happening," Lilly said. "My dog just turned into a person."
"Phase 1 Completed."