Chapter 1

Scott's could hardly contain his giddiness as he made a left at an intersection. After several weeks of careful planning, scheming, checking, and rechecking, he finally had an entire weekend for himself. He'd spent those weeks secretly ordering discrete packages filled with supplies and tinkering in his garage on a device that he hoped would be able to fulfill his wildest fantasies. His heart was pounding as he put on his blinker and changed lanes, wanting to get home as soon as legally possible. He had had a great week at work, his boss at been admiring the white leopard's progress as he designed a filing system that, according to his calculations, had increased the company’s data storage system by a whole 12.4%. The subsequent increase in efficiency had also increased his paycheck to a much sizable amount, which he had recently been putting to good use.

Scott was a brilliant engineer and computer programmer, his passion for creation had brought him to work for Sky-TEC industries, a company that specializes in creating computers whose processing power and ability to complete tasks in incredibly low amounts of time had brought them up to one of the best technology companies in the world. But as brilliant as this company was, Scott was just a little bit more brilliant. Scott had quite unmistakably come into contact with a piece of technology that was top secret and incredibly powerful. Many would use it for great evil, while some might use it to achieve near indestructibility. Scott however, wasn't particularly interested in any of those things.

Scott had some very private tendencies that he had never shared with anyone since he was a child. Specifically, he loved indulging in infantile fantasies, imagining himself just like a little kid again. From feeling the warmth of a freshly soaked diaper, to pleasurable struggle of being put in bondage whilst wearing a soiled diaper, unable to do anything about his current predicament, to the wonderful childlike freedom of just wearing a diaper and t-shirt whilst watching children's show on TV. Scott had spent a good amount of time imaging exactly what he'd love to do to or by himself if he had the time and resources to fulfill his fantasies. Fantasies, that he hoped would be fulfilled very soon.

Scott pulled into the driveway of his comfortable little home. It wasn't anything special, he had little furnishings to decorate it with, but it had what he liked to consider an "aesthetical amount of space". He turned off the engine, grabbed his shoulder bag, and exited the car, walking into his garage. He flicked on the lights, and as the light bulbs blinked awake the device that he'd spent months on putting together sat on his workshop table. To put it bluntly, Scott had been programming a device that would essentially stop time itself. Through a combination of biotechnology, an improbability-engine, and a calculator that essentially worked on the whimsical nature of the polarity of electrons whirling around in titanium atoms in the contraption, the device was able to access the particular genetic code of the user and ignore all cells with the sequence, then continue to all other organic matter and inorganic matter and "freeze them in place".

Scott didn't fully understand it, but he knew how to put the parts together and calibrate the machine. One might think that experimenting with such a device would be incredibly risky, but Scott had that figured out as well. He had coded in a fail-safe into the device. If a large amount of cells of the individual who had activated the device began to shut down at a rapid enough pace indicating possible death, it would essentially reverse the freezing process restoring reality to normal. Scott picked up the device with baited breath. It didn't look like anything special, like a TV remote except with fewer buttons and what looked like more volume controls. He connected his phone into the remote and fed it information about the current time, position of earth relative to the sun, and relative temperatures around the world.

He hoped that the device would be able to send out the proper frequency into the molecules around it, setting off the time freezing reaction properly. He knew that if it failed, it may fail spectacularly, possibly even harming him despite the fail safe. A green light on the device shone, indicating that it was ready to be activated. He closed his eyes, pressed his eyes shut, and pushed a large red button with his finger.  A loud rushing sound echoed through his ears, he fell backwards sputtering and coughing, he felt as if everything single part of his body was getting lightly tickled with electricity, he yelled in alarm, but before he could yell for more than a second it all stopped.

Scott looked around.  Everything looked. . . normal.  He went over to the garage switch and pressed it, a whirring sound come from the door as it opened.  He padded outside and his jaw dropped. Birds hung eerily in the air, much like bricks don't. Leaves stood stalk still, frozen as a gust a of wind was blowing through it.  Scott fanned himself with a paw experimentally, looking at it as he felt the air particles against his whiskers and fur. He had done it. He had created a device that stopped time.  It stopped time for everything and everyone! Everyone, except him.

Scott hooted and hollered!  He started running down the street, passing cars with passengers in them halfway through a sip of coffee, forming a word as they talked on the phones, or smiling jaws and maws agape as they sang to their favorite car songs.  Scotts saw planes and clouds, unmoving in the sky, felt the warmth of the sun on his fur as it peeked behind a cloud, permanently, until adjusted by the remote of course.

Scott stopped running in the middle of an intersection and turned around and around, taking in the view.  He laughed, joyous that he had achieved something that most thought was only possible in sci-fi movies and fantasy novels.  Suddenly, he remembered why he had gone so ridiculously out of his way for with his invention. He turned tail sprinted back to his house and got quickly inside, closing his door, not bothering to lock it.  Who would try bothering him now if every ‘who’ was frozen in time? He walked inside his sparsely furnished living room and opened one of the brown boxes he had sitting there.

A fresh waft of baby powder and ointment met his feline nostrils as he admired the contents of the box.  Within it lay several large, fluffy adult diapers, each themed with little cartoons of various baby animals wearing diapers.  Some looked sleepy, others laughed in joy, while still others were too busy with a toy to do anything else. Scott shuddered with excitement and let out a shaky sigh.  Finally, I can unwind like I've always wanted to. he thought, as his tail twitched in anticipation.  He look at the other boxes, knowing that what they contained would only increase the amount of fun he was about to have.  He grinned, and speaking aloud to no one said, “It’s going to be a good weekend."