Balloon cat

Jim’s eyes had glossed over, any notions of his promise to Sharon had vanished from his mind the moment he laid eyes on this reality bending spork he now possessed and the device that created it. His mind racing light years every second at the endless possibilities it presented to him.

He calmed himself down and began to study the device more thoroughly. It seemed that once it was done “blending” it returned the new fusion to its proper place, depending on the percentage of it's fusion which could be altered at any time with a few taps of the plus or minus buttons on the PDA, the blending functions being able to be used in real time on the last blended items. There was also a drop down menu that said Advanced settings which he decided to tinker with later. He highlighted the spork on the PDA and pushed the RELEASE button and suddenly the spork dematerialized and a few seconds later the spoon and the fork were unfused and back in their normal positions.

It was nice to know that things weren't permanently blended, leaving his mind reeling at the possibilities.

For the moment Jim was wondering what else could he scan and fuse into one. Not really thinking of anything in particular, he decided to scan a few random objects.

Looking around he didn’t spy anything in particular until he noticed the neighbors cat skulking across his yard through the kitchen window, acting fast at the opportunity he jammed his finger down on the scan button and aimed it at the cat, smiling devilishly as it paused mid stride and vaporized before his very eyes. The hand held showing a revolving model of the neighbors cat. Thinking carefully now he looked around again for a second specimen to scan, he came across a small semi-deflated beach ball he won in a crane game and quickly scanned it into the PDA. Jim saw that he still had the option to scan further objects. Jim pondered if he should push his luck with the inflatable ball and the neighbors cat when he decided he could play with that option later.

The PDA gave him the option to BLEND, CUT AND PASTE, and RANDOM as well. However a new option showed up underneath labeled ORGANICS CUSTOMIZATION, with a new drop down menu. It had a lot of unique options that only applied to living things, one of them being a retroactive setting as well as an aware setting along with global setting that he didn’t want to think about at the moment, it seems this device was a little more complex than any simple fusion device. For now he set the toggle for retroactive and pushed the blend button. And watched with bated breath as the holograms in the cylinder whirled into a cyclone and as soon as the speed reached its max stopped dead with a hollow ding.

Jim searched the area where he scanned the beach ball and found nothing, turning fast on his heel he went outside to the front yard where he scanned the neighbors cat. Jim couldn’t spot anything immediately until he heard a low almost sluggish meow from below him. Jim's eyes nearly popped from his sockets as saw half deflated form of his neighbors cat staring up at him as it struggled to stand on its legs which looked like they could barely hold up its form. Jim was worried that he had inadvertently created some sort of mutated monstrosity that lived in constant state of agony and felt his heart drop with guilt.

Just when Jim thought it couldn't get any darker, his neighbor the owner of the cat suddenly stomped across the yard towards him, always pestering him whenever her cat wander into his yard and dug up his lawn. She stood in front of him, arm on her hips when she looked down and gasped at the mangled form of her half inflated cat thing on the front of his lawn. Jim closed is eyes in anticipation of the oncoming screams and panic when he heard his neighbor say.

“There you are Miss Poofy, I've been looking all over for you. It's not safe for you out here...just look at you, you're already all out of air.” His neighbor said as she scooped up her drooping cat in her arms.

“Sorry to bother you Jim, sometimes she squeezes out through the door and loses all of her air in the process, she's such a troublesome kitty, sometimes I worry she'll end up getting popped!” she laughed as she literally threw her now almost deflated cat over her shoulder, like some sort of cat skin scarf.

“You have a nice day Jim, I need to give Poofy here some much needed air and maybe a little helium to keep her sedated” referring to helium like a sort of catnip for her unique feline.

Jim's mind reeled from the scene, not able to comprehend what just took place. The device not only fused two objects into one, but could alter the very reality of the new fusion at will.

To any normal person such a device seemed chaotic and destructive, to Jim, it only warranted further testing.