Later, Jeff returned to his room. He powered up his computer, but still hadn't decided what to change with the Chronivac, so instead of opening that program, he played some games, though continuing to consider the possibilities. Maybe he could change his sister Anya, to somehow make her annoy him less of the time. Perhaps even make her nice to him? That ,right be beyond the Chronivac's limits.
After a while, he quit the game and decided he was ready to try the Chronivac. Maybe something simple first, as a test. He ws going to click on Chronivac, but noticed something had changed. Where the Chronivac icon had been before, there was now an icon labeled "Anya", and it even looked like her. Shit, did Anya mess with his computer while he was in the kitchen?
He left his room and knocked on her door, intending to confront her. He yelled, "Anya!" There was no answer. Typical, he thought. When she wasn't actively making a pest of herself, she ignored him.
He decided that in messing with his computer, she had crossed the line. He opened the door, but didn't see her in the room. He checked the rest of the house, but couldn't find her anywhere. Odd, as she rarely went out. I'll have to deal with her later, he thought, and returned to his room.
He double-clicked the Anya icon, and the program started. Surprisingly, it even said "Anya" instead of Chronivac. However, the user interface looked the same as before.
Since Anya now _was_ the program, unbeknownst to Jeff, she felt .like she was waking up. Yes! she thought, now I can mess with Jeff! She scanned him, and was thinking about what to do to him. I'll make him younger, she thought. About five years old. She changed his age in the scanned data. What? She found that his age would not change! She tried to change his hair color. Nothing happened! She tried to turn him into a newt. Nothing happened. What the fuck? Now that she WAS the Chronivac, why couldn't she change him?
Jeff was surprised to not see Anya's previous scan appear, as it had been on screen before. Instead he saw his own scan. He might change himself later, but for now he still wanted to change Anya. He clicked scan, and the program indicated that he was the only target in range. Of course, he thought. Since she went out, she's too far from the emitter. He'd have to wait for here to come home.
Meanwhile, he should figure out how she had renamed the program, and whether she'd changed anything else. He opened the "log" tab. There were a few entries. Sure enough, Jeff saw that she had done a few things with the program. The log showed that Anya's eye color had been changed, her breast size increased, and...
Holy shit! Jeff saw that Anya had merged herself with the Chronivac! It wouldn't have even occurred to him that such a thing was possible! She hadn't gone out, she had gone IN!
The final log entry said "Scanned subject Jeff." If Anya was now the Chronivac, Jeff thought, and she scanned me, why hasn't she done anything to me? The log window had a "more detail" checkbox, so he clicked that. Three more entries appeared. First, a change of his age to five. That was indicated as not performed. He clicked on it, and a message appeared that said "Internal error - transformation not requested by user." The next entry was a change of his hair color, also indicated as "not performed", with the same internal error. And a transformation into a newt. Same deal.
Jeff laughed, realizing that Anya had screwed herself royally. She tried to fuck with me, he thought. My turn to fuck with her! He exited the log, and entered a transformation to change his hair color, from brown to blonde. He clicked the "save" button. He felt his scalp tingle, and went to the bathroom to look in the mirror, Cool, it worked.
Now Anya realized just how badly she'd fucked up. Sure, she was the Chronivac now, but apparently she could only make changes her user requested. She tried to undo her merger with the Chronivac, but nothing happened. She tried to scream at Jeff, but nothing happened.