Jeff glanced at the desktop image of the hunky cowboy, and started to
type, "COWB-"
He was interrupted, "Hey, Jeff, it's Cody on the phone for you,"
yelled his brother.
"Okay, this'll just have to wait."
He got up and left the Chronivac to answer the phone call. He really
needed to invest in his own land phone. His cell didn't get decent
reception in his apartment, and the shared land line phone was plugged
into the living room jack. It was cordless but it was an older model
they got cheap and only worked well within 20 feet of the phone.
Jeff's room was at the end of the hall 35 feet from the phone jack.
Jeff grabbed the phone receiver from his room mate and brother Richie.
Then he said, "Hey, Code-man, whassup?"
Richie rolled his eyes, and headed back down the hallway. He heard
the refrigerator open, and his brother shouted, "Hey, Richie, you
drank all the milk. You know the rule, you have to get more."
"Right, bro. I'll milk a cow after you're done on the phone!" Richie
shouted back and rolled his eyes. He looked over his shoulder, and
seeing the coast was clear sprinted the extra 15 feet to Jeff's door
and ducked inside.
"Whoa, cool Jeffy got himself a new toy," said Richie sitting down at
the Chronivac. He started reading, "So you want to be a cowboy? Heh,
heh, well, with the Anthro setting, and changing the awareness of the
change to be zero, and click this one, and this one, and this one. Oh,
yeah, Jeffy, you're going to be a real cow-boy one that gives milk.
I'll set the duration for 5 hours, that way I change you back before
your hot date."
He adjusted the Chronovac's antenna dish and aimed it at the wall. On
the monitor a window opened up depicting the living room and kitchen
with the highlighted subject "J-boy" walking around with the phone.
The target lock chimed confirming synchronization and locking of
transformee by the device. The machine whirred and started counting
down.
Richie grinned Jeff was going to go from annoying older brother to a
totally content milk-making machine. Three, two, one transformation
and reality adjustment commencing.