That night, when Leslie is fast asleep, Jake carefully and quietly climbs out of his bed and lifts it up with his mouth, using a paw to retrieve the device, ‘I just hope he won’t wake up,’ he thinks to himself as he presses down on the scan button.
The device whirrs and then gives off a “ping” sound, Leslie stirs in his bed, causing Jake to hesitate and hold his breath, when he hears Leslie snore, Jake let’s out a sigh of relief. Using a claw he taps on the tab labeled “files” and smiles when he sees a new file, which has “Leslie” written below it, has appeared next to his own.
Jake, deciding that paws weren’t great for using the device, decides to change that, he had two options: either transforming his front legs and paws into human arms and hands, or at least transform his paws into hands, or give himself shape shifting abilities. Thinking about the possibilities, Jake decides on the shape shifting ability option, ‘that way, if I want to change my stance to be more like a human, or simply change a part of my body, I would only have to imagine it and wouldn’t need the device to change myself or any part of my body,’ he thinks to himself.
Leaving his file open, Jake uses a claw to carefully push down on the button labeled “shape shifting”. A message, that says, “do you wish to apply the change to the selected subject”, with a “yes”/”no” choosing below it, pop up. Jake carefully touches the touch screen with a claw, selecting “yes”.
After confirming the change, Jake shivers when he feels a tingling sensation, like pins-and-needles, run through his body, the device gives off another “ping” and when he looks down he sees a message on the screen, the message reads, “change successful”.
‘Is that so,’ Jake thinks to himself, ‘well, only one way to find out: time to have hands instead of paws.’ Jake concentrates on his front paws, imagining them to look more like human hands, at first nothing seems to change, but then the Malinois feels his paws tingle and start to feel strange.
Jake watches in amazement as his paws start to grow wider, his four digits lengthening, slowly resembling fingers, while the claw on the back of his paws start to migrate down towards his changing paw. Soon, Jake’s paws have been replaced by human looking hands, covered in fur and with long black claws.
The dog’s eyes widen in amazement, he sits back on his hind legs and lifts both of his hands to get a better look. He turns them around and tries out his finger, opening and closing them and wriggling them around. Jake then reaches out to the device and closes his fingers around it, lifting it up, a huge doggy grin on his face, ‘now, THIS is really cool,’ he thinks to himself, ‘the paws were so clumsy and worthless, but with these hands I can finally stop carrying stuff around in my mouth. Now, time too change Leslie a little… first, let’s make him forget about this device.’
Jake opens Leslie’s file and scrolls through it, smiling and wagging happily at how easy it is with hands to operate the device. The dog soon finds what he is searching for: memories, next to it there is a box with words, that say, “ordered the Chronivac to use on Jake”. Jake lets out a low growl, ‘I can’t believe he’d use something like this to control me,’ he thinks to himself, ‘it makes me so mad! I am so glad that I found it before he had the chance of using it.’
The Malinois Shepherd deletes the memory and confirms the change, ‘I hope that does it,’ he thinks to himself, looking over at the sleeping form of his owner, ‘no one has the right to control me! Humans think they are above everything and the ones who control everything, but I’ll change that, starting with Leslie!’
Jake returns to his dog bed and curls up, holding the device in one of his hands, thinking of what to do. Since Leslie’s awareness is turned off, Jake assumes and hopes that Leslie will not notice his hands, but to be sure, he decides to change them back into paws, once he has changed Leslie in a way.
For now, Jake decides to change Leslie’s personality, which is currently at 80% dominant and 20% submissive. Jake decides to change his owner’s dominance to 10% and his submissiveness to 90%, causing himself to be the dominant one in the house, the first step in taking over the command status.
Jake then gets an idea, his muzzle twists into a smirk as he presses a few buttons, this selection will cause Leslie to feel uncomfortable when wearing clothes, leading the human to not want to wear any clothes around the house, at least for now.
After confirming the last changes, Jake hears his owner groan in sleep and start to move in his bed, he then hears his owner throw something into the darkness, followed by a relieved sigh from Leslie. Curious to want to know what it was, Jake quietly gets up from his bed and walks over on all fours to the area he had heard the items land. Jake grins when he realizes that it is his owner’s pajama, realizing that the change was a success, and that Leslie from now on will always run around naked, unless he needs to go out, like shopping or work, but the human will feel unhappy and would want to get out of the clothes as fast as possible.
Finally satisfied, Jake returns to his bed, he turns off the device and hides it under his bed, before willing his hands to transform back into paws, the dog then closes his eyes, a grin on his muzzle as he imagines what he’ll do the next day.