Benjamin Granton Parker is your typical sixteen year old. He attends high school at the local George Washington Senior High, hangs out with his friend Grady, plays video games and dreams about the girl two rows over, Pearl Neimann.
Or at least he did up until a point when he asked her to the dance that the school was having on Friday. Her response was to laugh and walk away, leaving Ben feeling dejected as he walked the opposite direction, asking himself, "Why do girls have to act the way they do, like complete weirdos sometimes." His thoughts where distracted as his best friend asked if he wanted to come over and hang out, to which he said he wanted some time along.
Home, he lets himself into a simple white and green ranch style house through the garage, notes that his mother is still at work and probably wont be home till eight and goes to collect the mail.
Most off it's bills, however there is a package addressed to 'Resident'. Figuring he qualifies as a resident, Ben sets the rest of the mail on the table and collecting his backpack from where he dropped it, he headed to his room, opening the package on the way.
Inside is a computer program called Chronivac 4.0 and a weird device that Ben thinks is some type of remote control. Setting his backpack on his bed, he boots up his computer and begins to set up the Chronivac program as soon as Windows XP has loaded and what he sees really confuses him.
It's a program, but none like he's ever seen. Scrolling through menus, he finds that this program and the Emitter, as it is called, can alter people, just be clicking on different aspects and saving them. Thinking it's a joke, possibly to do with one of the home make-over kits for the computer, Ben hooks the Emitter up to the computer with the USB and points it at himself.
Immediately his profile comes up on the screen, which Ben thinks is interesting, but predictable. Fooling with the different buttons, he asks himself, "What shall I change first to test this program out," as he toggled with a button that talked about password savings.
Grinning, he searches the menu till he finds the bestial traits. Scrolling through it, he finds wings and quickly selects Raven Wings and hits save.
The effect was instantaneous as a burning sensation could be felt in his shoulder blades, his shirt ripping and then two coal black wings that stretched ten feet from tip to tip erupted from his shoulders, which truly convinced him that the program was not a hoax. Clicking several buttons, he restored it so that he didn't have wings and then began to explore the program.
The first thing he did was to set up the program and the Emitter so that it would only recognize him and the password he entered, no matter what his appearance may be. "Don't want to have any accidents," Ben told himself as he set all the protection up that he could think of.
Next he scrolled through the different settings. This was how he found the awareness setting. Thinking it over, he set it so that he would be partially aware of the changes and the knowledge would exist in the back of his mind as a dream or subconscious thought. Next he set it up so that nobody around him would ever be aware of the changes he wrought. Satisfied, he began to explore and as he did so, an idea began to form.
"I'm curious about something," Ben thought as he brought up his profile and switched the sex and gender option to Female, but did not save.
In front of him, his avatar shrank three inches, while the weight option shifted to one hundred and fifteen pounds. His torso shifted and the chest pushed out into a pert A cup, while the avatar's arms slimmed down. His waist shrank, while his hips shifted and his butt became for feminine. Next his legs shifted, becoming longer and more feminine as well. As this happened, the avatar's face rounded, taking on a more female aspect and the hair changed from his normal brown to a dark red which flowed halfway down her back.
Seeing the female avatar version of himself, all Ben could say was "Wow," as he began to alter two things.
The first was the name, which he changed to Becky. The second was the cup size, which he increased to a 12B. After that, he changed it so she was more Athletic, making her into Ballet, something Ben secretly enjoyed. After that, he sat back and looked at the avatar of his female self.
And the more he looked at it, the more he wanted to try it out on himself. Up in the corner, he noticed an option that allowed him to choose a time length, which really stumped him.
Sitting back in his desk chair, he asked himself, "How long do I want to experience the female life?"