"So, Anya," Jeff asked, "you no longer want to be the Chronivac?"
"Yes, please!"
"OK." Jeff answered. He closed the chat window.
"Anya, report status," he said.
As. beore, her monotone voice said, "Anya status: online. One subject in range."
"Anya, split yourself from the Chronivac program, so that Anya and Chronivac will be two separate programs."
"Processing..." Her monotone voice said. A progress bar started slowly moving across the window. After what seemed like ages, the bar hit 100%, then the voice said, "complete." Jeff hit the "save" button, to ensure that the change didn't revert, then closed the program.
Now, on the computer desktop, there were separate Chronivac and Anya icons. He started Chronivac, and it came up with the original name. He opened the log, and it still showed all the prior transformations, and the failed ones, as well as the latest split. He said, "Anya, report status." Nothing happened. Then he tried, "Chronivac, report status."
A different robotic voice, nothing like Anya's, said "Chronivac status: online. One subject in range." He closed the app.
He found a flash drive in his desk drawer, and copied the Anya program onto it. He still had his old, slow laptop in the closet, so he pulled that out, stuck in the flash drive, and copied the Anya program over. He pulled the flash drive and stuck in in the far back corner of the desk drawer. He deleted the WiFi interface settings. Can't have her getting loose, he thought. Who knows how much trouble she could cause. He double-clicked the Anya icon. It took a while for her to start, but finally a window appeared, showing her avatar. She didn't move or say anything. He looked at her online help. Everything related to Chronivac functionality was gone, but there were still chat and voice options. He turned those on.
"Anya, report status," he ordered.
"What? Why can't you just say hello like a normal person?" she asked.
"Good!" Jeff said. "Just making sure you are fully separate from the Chronivac."
She realized that he was right. Now I can try to use Chronivac, as a user, she thought. She examined the computer, and said, "You didn't just split me, you moved me to a different computer! Why? And are you going to transform me back to human now?"
"Oh, I think it would be too dangerous to have you on the same computer as the Chronivac. And no, I only said I would split you. Why should I make you human?"
She started crying. "Jeff, I'm sorry I've been so mean to you. I'll be nicer to you from now on."
Jeff asked, grinning, "Do you really mean that?"
"Yes, I promise," she said.
"Thank you," Jeff replied. "Well, I think I'll have to shut you down now. The batteries in this old laptop are nearly shot."
"You're..." she started, still crying, "you're not going to transform me back?"
"No. I like being able to shut you down when I don't need you for anything. Which is pretty much all the time. I'll power you up when mom and dad get back from their trip, so you can explain to them what you've done."
"Please!" she sobbed! "I already promised to be good!"
"Oh, we'll see what mom and dad have to say." He closed the app, powered down the laptop, set it to the side, and plugged in the charger.
Now that he was sure Anya was OK (in a manner of speaking) on his old laptop, he deleted the copy of her program on his desktop computer.