Running and typing in precise settings while panicking is a good way to get unexpected results. Thankfully for Shane, it happened to work out in his favor. Chris was just 4 or 5 steps away when Shane pulled the trigger, sending the Chronivac into action. Instinctively, Shane cringed as he saw a 200+ lb 17 or 18 year old football player ready to tackle him and only a few feet away. When he felt a light hand on his shoulder rather than a pummeling impact he opened his eyes in shock.
Before him was Chris, but instead of an angry football player, stood a frail, out of breath teen with no malice in his eyes.
"Got you." Chris said panting, "Can we go in and start on the project now? You know I don't like running."
"Sure.?." Shane didn't know what was going on but he was safe and Chris' reasons for being here were completely different. "Go on ahead Ill be right there." The school jersey Chris was wearing, which was completely filled out a moment ago, hung on him like a tarp. It looked like he would slip through the neck if he put his arms straight down. The basketball shorts he wore had elastic so that suited him better but his legs looked like they could barely support his now puny frame.
Shane waited for Chris to go and combed his thoughts, somehow he knew Chris was talking about the science project that was due from the class they suddenly shared. And also they were friends and excited to be partners...
Shane was very confused but realized that he had two conflicting realities, and this new one seemed to be getting stronger. Looking at the Chronivac he examined the settings and tried to figure out what was going on.
Chris' profile was up and it offered to reverse the settings by increasing muscle mass by 900%. Shane figured out that needing to add 9x the muscle to reverse it meant that he had dropped Chris' muscle mass to 10% of the original amount. Shane also saw that the world modification setting was activated meaning that everyone else would accept Chris' new form as normal, including Chris himself.
Finally, Shane also saw that his own perception was shifting to accept this as normal over a 5 hour period, starting at 50% awareness of the new reality. Soon nobody would remember that Chris had a full ride football scholarship.
Shane had some choices to make, fairly quickly, if he wanted things to be any different.