Simon slammed the phone down in frustration. TransDem Labs did not exist. He’d tried the net, the newsgroups, IRC, and even the phone system and nothing. Even the Chronivac had turned up nothing but some vague rumours about nothing. Still he’d solved why Jeff’s machine had crashed the sap was running so much crap! Apart from the Chronivac program he’d had Word, IE, the Warcraft updater, Outlook, Newsbin Pro, a whole bunch of IM programs running, and a Bit Torrent downloader all doing stuff! After closing them the machine was much more responsive, not that that had changed their current conditions much, as he’d not been able to stop the changes Jeff had made- every time he tried to cancel or postpone the transformation he was undergoing the Chronivac threw up messages about ‘cannot stop a transformation in progress due to error 234x450’ of course there was no list of error messages.
Jeff brought up the food and watched his brother work. Simon was not a computer geek but as an engineer he seemed to know something about systems. Boxes appeared and vanished on screen and Simon swore occasionally. Jeff got slowly bored and started playing with his body fur – it was amazingly soft and two shades of black and brown. He measured it as nearly four inches in places like his armpits and groin but less everywhere else. He was still freaked out about living like this but he had to admit it was incredibly sexy to run his fingers over his chest as if it was head hair feeling the long strands pushed through his fingers and turning him on.
After a few hours Simon made a breakthrough, digging around on the packages site he found an Advanced option page that presented him with all sorts of extra packages for diseases, genetic disorders, disabilities, and all sorts of stuff for applying changes across a whole family by changing a grandparent – as long as the person as still alive he could change anything and everything! Simon started grinning – he held so much power here. He though of all the people he disliked in High School or College. Load up there profile in the Chronivac and zap! Problem would be gone!
Still grinning Simon got up and stretched. Jeff had left the room. Simon looked out of the window and saw Mr. Greenbow next door pushing his mower, the old black man stooped over with age and arthritis. A thought occurred to Simon, he could help him…. Why use the Chronivac just for revenge? Hell he could help anyone, set up a clinic and fix people for a fee… AIDS? Cancer? Fat arse? All gone with a wave of the Chronivac’s emitter. He started laughing just as Jeff came back into the room carrying coffee mugs
“What’s up bro?” Jeff asked Simon turned to him, wiping the tears from his eyes
“Jeff, this program is going to make us rich dude. Very rich!”
Jeff looked confused “what you on about bro? Can you fix us?” Simon grinned
“Fix us? I can fix the world!”
“What are you on Simon? Fix the world? What the fuck?” Simon picked up the emitter
“Look its simple bro” he said clicking in some commands. The Emitter lit up as it accepted them “we can help people or we can take what we want for ourselves” he pointed the emitter out of the window towards Mr Greenbow “so what’ll it be?
Jeff stared at his brother like he’d gone mad. He followed his brother pointing out of the window and saw Mr Greenbow
“What? You cant make me choose something when I know nothing about it!” he cried
“Choose!” Simon growled. Jeff stepped up to the desk and tried to imagine what his brother had loaded into the Chronivac
“Shit bro…..I choose…”