"This is absolutely hilarious," Dan said, tears of mirth running down his cheeks.
He had just changed Shaun into Shauna, a ten year old girl. Now that he had his revenge, he wondered what else he could do. But first he would have to stop laughing.
To him, this was the funniest in the world he could do. As his sides began to ache and he started breathing heavily, trying to get himself to stop, the Chronivac slipped from his lap and clattered onto the floor, where a loud beep issued forth.
Worried that he might have broke it, Dan reached down and picked it up. On the screen was three bars; one on top, one in the middle and one right below it. Above each was the words 'Save in progress'.
"What's it saving," Dan thought as he began to enter key strokes, trying to figure out what had happened.
The first bar he found was for the awareness level, which had been set so that no one was aware of any changes. This confused Dan, because he couldn't remember any changes being done. Nor could he figure out why that little pipsqueak, Shauna, had information pulled up. And then he found two things that made his blood run cold.
When Dan had dropped the Chronivac onto the floor, several commands had been entered and saved. The awareness had finished saving and now the next bar was rapidly filling up. Sliding off the chair he was sitting on, Dan watched in horror as the Chronivac changed his name to Dani, his sex and gender to female and his age to seven. With this realization, Dan, soon to become Dani, set the Chronivac down on the floor and curled up into a fetal position.
The last bar to be saved read that all changes were permanent.