Time: Stopper 3.0 -portable-

She hadn't built this. She'd built 1.0, a room-sized machine that could freeze a cubic meter of spacetime for 1.7 seconds before melting its own capacitors. 2.0 had been a backpack, clunky and dangerous, capable of stopping time for exactly eleven seconds before the user's neural tissue began to degrade.

Who stopped time first?

—A Friend Mira read the file three times. Her hands were steady. Her heart was not. Time Stopper 3.0 -Portable-