Brittany Jones was a smart girl. She'd gotten great grades in school, and had lucked into a scholarship to the college. Everything had been fine for the first three years, and then Olivia Maxweller had arrived. Where Brittany had only been allowed to skip one grade in school, Olivia had skipped several, enrolling in college at the age of 16!
That annoyed Brittany, but even worse, Olivia was smarter than she was. Like, way smarter. A genius. No matter how hard Brittany applied herself, Olivia would always be better than she was. It wasn't fair!
Lately, Olivia had been working on some hush hush project, which would be worth most of her grade. If only something...unforeseen would occur. That'd knock Olivia down a peg for sure!
Then Olivia accidentally left her lab unlocked when she went home one night. This was her chance!
Brittany wasn't quite expecting what she found in there- a machine that looked like a shiny chrome hair dryer, with a USB port and a dongle hanging from it. Curious, she plugged her phone into the device, and it installed a new app.
The app was labeled CONTROL INTERFACE v.1.7. It had one option, to SCAN. Scan what, exactly? She aimed the device at various things in the lab, but nothing happened. It wasn't until she accidentally aimed it at her leg that something happened.
"SCAN COMPLETE. FEMALE AGE 20. 172 cm tall..." and it continued off her weight and measurements, as well as some codes she didn't understand.
"What the hell?" Just then, all of her data appeared as buttons. "SELECT ALL CHOICES". Frowning, she selected AGE and hit the READY option. "ACQUIRE TARGET", her phone proclaimed.
There's no way this thing could make someone else the same age as her, was there? Well, there was only one way to find out. Brittany went looking for a target.