The lights were on, the stage was set, the audience mulled into the
auditorium, murmuring and laughing, talking about what they expected to
see tonight. The Sain School for the Technically Gifted was one hell of
a place after all. It provided special resources to people with special
talents, promoting the young and brilliant to the forefronts of
scientific and technical advancement. The audience was composed of
friends and family members of the student's who would be showing off
their work in this talent show for the talented. The most talented
senior students would be showing off their latest and greatest
creations. These were the creations of tomorrow, today.
Stan was pacing back and forth, in the hallway outside. He was nervous.
He always felt nervous about this kind of thing. Big presentations and
all that were enough to get anyone nervous. Stan wasn't even
presenting. He was just there to be a guinea pig for his friend
Cameron.
"Relax man you are making me nervous," Frank said, he was leaning
against the wall, "Cameron's the one with the hard job, all we need to
do is stand there."
"I'm about to be transformed, on stage, in front of the entire student
body and their parents. Cameron said his damn machine wouldn't even
change our clothes so we'll be naked! Hell the same thing is going to
happen to you two, why aren't you nervous!?" Stan said to Frank and
Becky.
"Hey your not even going to end up naked, well you are, but not really
as yourself. Relax," Becky retorted. She loved Cameron to death, but it
had taken him some convincing to get her to agree to this. She was
actually kind of eager to try it, but trying it in front of a crowd?
"Yeah besides the Censorscreen will blur out your junk if it shows up
anyways. No one will see anything that they haven't seen in the boys
locker room," Frank replied calmly.
"But there are no girls in the boy's locker room!" Stan said
frantically.
"Are you getting last minute jitters man? You're not going to back out
are you?" Frank said.
"What? No, it's just... let me freak out a little ok? I'll calm myself
down eventually," Stan hoped.
"Good," Cameron said coming out of the doorway to the back stage, "Hey
babe," he said and kissed Becky. He put his arm around her and turned
to face Stan and Frank. "I'm all set back there. Don't worry about
anybody watching you, it's going to be all eyes on me and my machine."
"You still haven't named it?" Frank said with a smirk.
"I was thinking the Universal Body Morph Ray, or the Transmo-ray,"
Cameron said and everyone groaned.
"Dude, you may be a genius at the technical stuff, but you need to work
on your marketing," Frank said.
The lights flickered three times. That was the signal that the show
would be starting.
"Let's head inside. Thanks for agreeing to help me you guys," Cameron
said earnestly.
"What are friends for?" Stan said his voice betraying his nerves.
"This will be great. I can't wait to play around with it some more once
this is over," Becky said and kissed Cameron on the cheek and whispered
something in his ear. His eyes went wide and he blushed a ferocious
scarlet.
It was going to be a good night.
---
"Are you nervous?" Kim asked Brian as his leg bounced up and down. They
were sitting in the changing room back stage waiting. Brian didn't have
much much set up for his show. Just a simple vial that had taken him
weeks to prepare.
"A little, you know this is a big event. I hate crowds," Brian said and
looked to the older woman. She was attractive, but old enough to nearly
be his mother. That weirded him out a little, but her maturity also
turned him on. He was tired of GIRLS, he wanted a woman. Kim was
definitely that.
"Relax," she said and put her arm around him. She pulled him into her
chest and he grinned to himself. Her boobs were huge, but sagging.
She'd never had any children so they were in pretty good shape all
things considered.
"I can help you relax," she said and put a hand on his thigh, her
fingers rubbing the bulge she found there.
Brian looked up at her and forced himself to smile. She was smiling
back at him making wrinkles in her face, wisps of gray hair draped
across them. He turned away and picked up her hand and placed it in
his.
They'd met when he was volunteering at the library and felt an
immediate connection. A pity he was half her age. Less actually. They'd
gotten to know each other quite well, but not intimately. They both
felt the desire, but they weren't comfortable. She'd told him that when
he was older their difference in age would matter less. It took a long
time but Brian eventually confided in her that he knew he'd want a
family someday, and that he couldn't have it with her made anything
beyond flirtation just painful.
Well, until he hit on his new line of research anyways.
She pouted as he held her hand. "Fine, but once this is done I'm going
to rock your world."
Brian smirked, "I believe when I first pitched this idea to you, you
said you'd pay me back for this with `unlimited blowjobs forever.' "
Brian said with dramatic air quotes.
Kim laughed. Her laugh was short and sweet. "We'll knock 'em dead," she
said then paused. "You'll knock 'em dead. I'll just stand there and
look pretty."
Brian laughed. Then you'll be perfect, Brian thought to himself.
The lights flickered and Kim squeezed his hand. Time for the show to
start.
---
Winston skulked around back stage. Tonight was a big night for
everyone. The best student would get all the fame and glory to last a
life time. Connections to powerful people, resources beyond imagining,
limitless possibilities.
It was worth taking some extra precautions to be sure he was going to
win. Besides he knew who his main competition was anyways.
Cameron. The guy was a total jackass. Brilliant, no doubting that, but
a jackass. He took every opportunity to gloat and show off how great he
was at everything. He had lots of friends, a hot girlfriend, all the
teachers liked him. Cameron just took it and smiled, like he was owed
it. He never helped other people with their work. Never did anything to
try and make the school a better place. He just did his school work and
goofed off with his friends. If he won, and he certainly had enough raw
brilliance to win, he probably wouldn't even do anything with all the
recognition he'd gain. He'd probably slack off and slip into a rich and
lazy lifestyle. He wouldn't ever build anything or do anything great.
He'd just take what was given to him and squander it like the spoiled
brat he was.
Winston came to the behemoth device that he'd seen Cameron wheel in and
laughed. Cameron certainly hadn't put in the effort to minimize the
size of his creation. Or maybe that was part of it, make it big and
grand. It probably glowed, sparkled, and shot lightning when it was on.
All for effect of course, none of those visual effects would do
anything. Cameron was that kind of flashy showman. Winston thought it
was duplicitous.
No, from looking at it Winston could imagine what it was and what it
would do. Though it pained Winston to admit he wasn't as bright as
Cameron, Winston was no slouch. He looked around to see no one else
nearby. He pulled a screwdriver out of his pocket and pulled up a panel
on the back.
It was an impressive bit of work certainly. Winston knew enough to have
a pretty good grasp of what it was. He marveled at some bits of
circuitry and cursed himself for not thinking of them on his own. It
would be a triumph, no doubt. No one had ever made something like this.
Winston's own creation was similar but of no where near so grand a
scope.
Winston traced some wires and found what he was looking for, the
control circuitry. He crossed a few wires and scratched a few circuit
boards with his screwdriver. By his estimation the whole thing would
probably catch fire after being used two of three times. The fire would
cover up what he'd done, but not before Cameron had used his device on
someone. Winston felt a little bad for whoever the device was used on
before it caught fire. They'd probably be stuck for a few weeks while
Cameron fixed his device. It was going to be a total disaster for him.
Winston replaced the panel and strolled away nonchalantly. The lights
flickered and he smiled to himself. The audience would be filing in
now. They all came to see what amazing wonders the best and brightest
at Sain could come up with. They all stayed for the train wrecks.
Everyone loves a good disaster more than a triumph.
"You do it?" Marcus asked as Winston came out from back stage.
"Yeah. Now I'm a shoe in," Winston replied grinning maliciously.
"Good now I just hope something doesn't go wrong with your invention. I
don't want to end up stuck," Marcus said.
"Nothing can go wrong. We tested it like twenty times while we were
practicing. It should all come naturally to you now."
Winston was staring at the stage and didn't see Marcus sneaky little
grin.
"I'm sure nothing will go wrong," he replied.
---
"Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to the Annual Invention Showcase here at
the Sain School," Mr. McDonald's voice boomed over the speaker system.
"Tonight our students will showcase their latest and greatest
breakthroughs here. These are the technologies of tomorrow, today. Our
students compete to win the title of "Most Exciting Invention".
Previous MEI winners have gone on to found research labs and develop
new and exciting technologies which we are all so familiar with. From
the self cleaning coating on your teeth to the developments of
practical quantum field based gene manipulations, it all started here.
Yes the greats like Casia Franklin got her start here back in..."
Mr. McDonald went on while Stan's leg bounced up and down nervously in
the first row. He wished the old man would hurry up all ready. He was
regretting agreeing to this. He was Cam's friend and all, and he wanted
to help, but he really shouldn't have signed up for this. He was too
nervous and he was going to make a fool of himself, he just knew it. He
tried to focus on what Mr. McDonald was saying to distract himself.
"... and that's how Shrunken Storage got it's start. Now for anyone who
hasn't been here before, please don't be alarmed by some of the
technologies you see tonight. It's typical for them to be a bit rusty,
usually more like prototypes than finished products. Precautions have
been taken and no one is going to be seriously hurt. One of our
student's inventions from a long time ago prevents that. The same
technology that saves you in a car crash has been modified to keep you
and our students safe. The Automatic Chrono Suspender will kick on in
the event anything dangerous happens. So relax! If something goes
wrong, and at this event nothing ever goes exactly to plan, we
encourage you and our students to just laugh it off! The students are
responsible for fixing any problems in their inventions before they are
allowed to graduate, so nothing that happens here is permanent. This
event is a time to showcase the latest and greatest! A time for joy and
celebration, especially in the face of failure and frustration!"
Stan swallowed loudly, yes things could and often did go wrong. Yes no
one ever got hurt. Physically anyways. There were sometime he wondered
about the psychological health of some of previous years participants
though...
"Tonight we are broadcasting live to a world wide audience, and we
encourage folks at home to comment on what you see here. Some
presentations may call for audience input, you'll get to decide what
happens!" Mr. McDonald said and paused, "Now there's been some concern
about the graphic content of some of the things which happen on this
stage in the past, and so we started using the NudeCo Censorscreen 13X7
to blur the events happening on stage in real time to both viewers are
home and the audience. NudeCo, thwarting voyeurs everywhere for 20
years and counting!" Mr. McDonald said with a tremendous smile and Stan
winced. Stan knew promoting products and companies was part of the
deal, they helped fund the school and this event after all. Hell he was
thankful for the Censorscreen, he didn't really want to be seen naked
in front of everyone here, much less the broadcast audience. It just
felt like such a shill thing to do plugging all these different things.
"All right, students you've been preparing for this for months, let's
see some SCIENCE!" Mr. McDonald said with all to much enthusiasm. The
audience ate it up while the students groaned quietly to themselves.
This whole endeavor was a lot less glamorous than it looked from the
outside and they all knew it. Mr. McDonald's role was entirely one of
PR, and he did it well. So well none of the students could ever tell if
he was actually that excited by what they were doing or if it was all
just an act.
The curtain came up the the first student made their way on to the
stage.
---
Several students presented work on efficient levitation technologies
and improvements in dimensional folding storage they had worked out.
The audience was impressed as one student pulled hundreds of baseballs
out of a sock and another student rose through the air with the aid of
a device no larger than a quarter.
Following the display of these simpler devices, devices which would
never win an MEI but by their sheer versatility would no doubt make
them appealing anyways to any companies watching, the fun rounds began.
Practical quantum field based reality manipulation was a discipline
which turned a lot of heads. It worked like magic, and it's effects
were suitably magical. And that was Cameron's field of study.
There was a brief pause while he wheeled his contraption to the stage.
The audience ooo-ed and ahh-ed as it became visible, if for no other
reason than the fact that it looked like a giant death ray from an
early 20th century science fiction comic.
"You guys ready?" Cameron said to Stan, Frank, and Becky. They all
nodded and got in position, they'd rehearsed the presentation, though
without actually using Cameron's device because of time and resource
concerns. The machine was huge and it gobbled up power like there was
no tomorrow.
"Practical quantum field manipulation, quite a mouthful, right?"
Cameron said to the audience. "We all know what it can do. We've all
seen the advertisements and the movies. We know it's incredibly
expensive, and that a typical device is limited to a single kind of
change. Cosmetic reality alteration and general body transformation
promise to awaken the world to a whole new way of being, transforming
us to the limits of our imagination," Cameron paused to catch his
breath.
"We've all seen the beauty enhancement rays, the shrink rays, the
gendorays, and a dozen others. Each needing it's own design, each
capable of only making one kind of change. A man who wishes to be
taller goes to a height enlargement ray, a woman who wants larger
breasts goes to a breast enlarger ray. Simple changes like these can be
unproportional and unsightly, and further augmentation using other rays
is then required to achieve the desired beauty enhancement effect. Body
enhancement salons have sprung up in the vacation spots of the super
rich offering just such a service at an incredible price only they can
afford," Cameron paused and took another breath.
"Today, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the world's first
Universal Quantum Field Manipulator for Body Enhancement, the
Changeray!"
The audience was like crickets and Cameron shrugged it off. Names
weren't his strong suit, he knew that. His stuff was hot shit and he
knew it. He moved on.
"My assistants here will help me to show off it's capabilities. Frank
please step into the machine."
Frank smiled and waved and walked under the giant raygun pointing down
at the stage. Cameron walked over and flipped a gigantic red switch and
the machine started to hum. It lit up and started to glow and crackle
as little sparks shot around it. The audience ooo-ed and ahh-ed again,
usually these displays weren't nearly so colorful and Cameron knew
that. There was a spectacle component to winning an MEI and he'd
designed for it.
He walked over to a small panel and typed into it.
"This panel allows me to make any changes I would like. Frank how do
you feel?"
"Good Cam! I'm ready."
"For Frank I'd like a simple change. A change most of you are familiar
with seeing more in movies than in real life," Cameron typed away at
the machine and hit a large green button.
There was a flash of bright light and a blue beam hit Franklin. The
audience winced and the light faded.
Frank had been an average looking guy, 5'11", brown hair, slim, not too
muscular. He'd dressed up for the performance and was wearing a nice
fitting blue button down and nice khaki pants.
Now in the same spot stood a 5'2" woman with long red hair and large
breasts wearing the same blue button down shirt and khakis Frank had
been wearing, though they didn't fit nearly as well anymore. Several
buttons had popped off the top of the shirt, unable to contain his new
and considerable bust. The audience clapped politely.
"How do you feel Frankie?" Cameron asked the woman who was staring down
at her breasts with a ferocious looking grin on her face. Cameron
smiled at that look of surprise. They'd never practiced with actually
using the device. He wanted that look of surprise. Spectacle, it was
all about spectacle.
"Fantastic! I have tits!" Frankie shouted in a high pitched voice and
cupped them through her shirt. The audience laughed. It was a classic
change, but it was funny every time. "Oh wow, my voice!" she shouted
and brought her dainty little hands to his mouth then pulled them away
and stared down at them and giggled.
"Something we have all seen before, right?" Cameron said to the
audience and Frankie walked towards the stage and bowed and one of her
tits fell out of her ripped open shirt. She blushed and stuffed it back
inside. The audience laughed again, they'd only seen a blurred shape
thanks to the Censorscreen but the look on Frankie's face was
priceless. Cameron laughed too, they hadn't rehearsed that part.
"Now I'd like to use this same machine for another classic
transformation. Becky please step into the machine."
Becky waved to the audience and stepped under the great machine.
"Again I enter the change I want in this panel," Cameron said as the
typed something into the panel. He smiled at Becky.
"Are you ready Becky?" he asked and winked at her. She'd been begging
him to do this to her since he had started designing the Changeray,
though admittedly she'd wanted to do it in private. He'd talked her
into this and eventually she'd seemed to forget her stage fright and
instead was more interested in the change.
"More than you can believe!" she said enthusiastically and couldn't
help but grin like an idiot. It was finally going to happen after years
of fantasizing about it.
Cameron hit the button. The machine crackled and flashed, the audience
winced again.
Becky was a very pretty girl. 5'10", modest B cup breasts, long blond
hair, athletic build, sculpted face with an upturned nose, high cheek
bones, and pouty lips. She'd dressed up for the event as well, wearing
a sleek black dress that showed off all of her feminine curves.
Now that black dress lay in a pile under the machine. Cameron walked
over to it and gently pushed it around. He grabbed something and lifted
it up. He held it up high and watched on the various monitors as the
camera's zoomed in on his palm. He opened it to reveal Becky laying in
his palm seductively, completely naked and only five inches tall. The
Censorscreen hid her private parts but that didn't stop some members of
the audience from letting out some wolf whistles as everyone started
clapping.
Becky waved to the camera and blew it a kiss. Then she turned and
looked at Cameron who was staring down at her with a hungry look. To
him she wasn't censored. He could see every inch, or millimeter now, of
her naked body. He could feel the warmth of her skin against his hand.
And he saw her wink at him and smile.
"How do you feel Becky?" Cameron asked.
"Amazing! Everything is so huge!" she shouted excitedly. She didn't
need to, the microphones were sophisticated enough to pick up
everything she said.
"I'm sure it is," Cameron said and his eyes darted downwards for just a
second. He was sure no one but Becky saw it. She laughed aloud, knowing
just what he was implying. They'd talked about this before after all.
"Now if you'll excuse me my dear," he said and carried her over so she
was sitting on top of the Changeray's control panel. He knew he'd have
to put her down before holding her tiny naked body gave him an erection
in front of all these people. She stepped off his hand and waved again
to the crowd. There was a slight breeze on the stage she hadn't notice
when she'd been clothed and she shivered. She'd literally and
figuratively never been more naked in her life but that didn't matter.
She'd dreamed about being this size and to have that finally realized
was too exhilarating for her to care. She knew Cameron was planning on
changing her back at the end of the show, but she knew immediately
she'd have to get him to do this to her again in a much more private
setting...
"So as you can see it does the two classic body modifications. Quantum
gene manipulation, which in this case was the most extreme example of
gender transformation, and quantum dimensional folding, or size changed
like shrinking or enlarging," Cameron said to the audience.
"Question from our viewers at home," Mr. McDonald interrupted from the
side stage.
"Yes of course," Cameron was so glad he'd gotten to go first in the
quantum field reality manipulation category. He knew he'd get questions
about how it all worked and the specifics of the field. Whoever
presented first in a field always did. Answering the questions well
made his presentation all the better.
"Andy Weller of Eugene Oregon asks, `Why didn't their clothes change
too? If your device isn't limited to making a single kind of change,
why couldn't it change their clothes at the same time?" Mr. McDonald
asked.
"That's an excellent question. It is commonly believed that the reason
quantum field reality manipulation technology doesn't effect clothes is
because it is so specialized on making a single kind of change to a
person's body. This view is false unfortunetly. Though the exact cause
remains unknown, and there are many quasi scientific and metaphysical
explanations for it, quantum field reality manipulation, or QFM for
short, only works on living things of sufficient biological complexity.
The best explanation theorists have been able to give is that a living
brain is necessary to reestablish the physical reality around the
target. A mind exerts a pull on reality somehow, as a mass exerts a
pull on objects through gravity. Without that pull quantum field
manipulation is believed to not work because the change occurs and then
immediately slips back into its original real form. It is believed that
a brain, even a simple brain like in a mouse, possesses enough of this
'mental pull' to lock that new reality into place," Cameron said in
what was the most incredibly simplified version of an extraordinarily
complex topic. He didn't touch on multiple reality theory, quantum
fluctuations of matter, interdimensional linkage, or anything detailed
really at all. It wasn't always easy, and his description was limited
in how well it explained things. The mass gravity analogy was cute and
simple, but far from precise or in any technical sense meaningful.
"Thank you," Mr. McDonald said and returned to his seat at the edge of
the stage.
"That question brings me to my final point and my final innovation. As
I mentioned what we just witnessed are the two classic changes, gene
modification and size alteration, both made with one machine. All body
modification is just some combination of these two. Gene modification
enables us to change someone using their own genes. You would expect
someone whose gender was changes as an example, to look like their
mother or a sister or perhaps an aunt. Size manipulation is just a
dimensional folding making an object appear in every way we can
perceive as human beings to have changed size even though it really
hasn't. This explains why physiologically changing size of a single
body does not result in gruesome and horrible maiming," Cameron paused,
time for the big reveal.
"It may interest you all to note that Frank's mother is an attractive,
slim, 5 foot 9 inch tall woman with black hair. His sisters look
similar, as do his aunts, and I am to understand his grandmother did in
her prime."
"And none of them had breasts anything like these melons!" The red
haired Frankie called out from the side stage and cupped her breasts
again, causing the audience to laugh.
Cameron smiled and continued.
"Now some of you might say `well maybe somewhere back in his genes
there was a whole cluster of short busty red heads and we just don't
see that anymore because of dominant and recessive genes and so on and
so on. I can tell you right now that's not true. Or rather, if it was
true it doesn't matter. My device can make changes not dependent on the
targets DNA," Cameron paused to let that fact sink in. This was really
his breakthrough.
"In fact that is why my device can make universal changes. Changes
which would normally take highly specialized machines can all be done
by my one machine because it does not obey those rules. The rules are
broken and the game is changed," Cameron said and then turned to Stan,
who grinned nervously. The audience was murmuring quietly for awhile
before Cameron spoke again.
"Stan, would you please stand under the Changeray," Cameron asked
politely. He walked over and sheepishly smiled at the audience.
Cameron entered information onto the panel on which Becky lay and
silence filled the room. Everyone was watching and waiting for
something incredible.
"Are you ready Stan?" Cameron said and felt a little nervous. This
change, being so radical, he had in fact tested. He knew it would work.
He just hadn't tested it on Stan. He'd told Stan what to expect, and
Stan seemed OK with it, but it would be new for him. He hoped Stan
didn't freak out.
"Ready," Stan said, his voice quivering a little. He closed his eyes.
Cameron hit the button the same crackle and flash filled the room.
Stan had been dressed not quite as nice as the other two. At 5'9" tall
Stan was nothing special. Brown hair, average looks, average weight,
average face. The kind of guy you'd forget in a crowd. He was wearing a
loose fitting white button down and some brown slacks.
When the flash cleared there was a brown Labrador sitting under the
device, it's head poking out of the white shirt Stan had been wearing.
The crowd went nuts and Cameron relaxed. He knew he was a shoe in with
this. MEI here he comes. He bathed in the applause and cheering of the
crowd for a few minutes and bowed. He leaned down to Becky and
whispered to her.
"They love it."
"Of course. And I love you," she said quietly and smiled up at him. She
rubbed her legs together provocatively and her grin switched to a leer.
She was proud of Cameron, but there was more to it. She wanted him to
make love to her right there. The feeling was incredibly strong,
stronger than she had ever felt.
Cameron looked down at her and saw the look on her tiny face. He'd seen
that look from her before. He knew exactly what it meant. He looked
over at Frankie and saw her shifting back and forth uncomfortably at
the side stage.
He felt a little guilty. He knew his machine had some... unexplained
side effects. Don't ask him why, but for some reason Cameron's device
made subjects horny. He hadn't told anyone about it. He thought it
would make him appear dumb and not in control.
It didn't matter anyways, he was going to turn all of them back into
themselves in a few minutes anyways. When they were returned to their
original form the effect diminished rapidly with time. No one would
ever know.
Cameron raised his hand and the audience cheers died down.
"Stan, can you bark three times for me?" Cameron asked the dog. It
barked loudly three times.
Cameron walked over and knelt down in front of the dog. He unbuttoned
the shirt and Stan slowly stepped out, walking a bit cautiously on his
four legs like he wasn't quite used to it.
"Stan, bark twice if you are ok," Cameron asked.
Stan barked twice. It was a bizarre experience for him. Everything was
different. He could smell so much! And everything had different colors,
like there was no red in the world anymore. Not to mention how he felt
physically. Aside from being lower to the ground and moving around on
all fours, he had no idea how used to his body he had been and how
different this one felt. He was rather enjoying himself actually. He
felt great. His tail started to wag uncontrollably and the audience
laughed.
"Stan one more thing just to prove you are still you in there, bark the
first four prime numbers."
Stand barked twice. Then three times, then five times, then seven
times, then was quiet. The audience cheered.
"Though he is now a canine the Stan we all know and love is still in
there. Imagine the world of new possibilities this opens up. No longer
are any of us limited to being who we were born. We can all see the
world through any eyes we choose. Be anything we choose. The only
question is, what will you be?" Cameron said and the audience cheered
again.
"Good boy," Cameron said quietly to stand and patted him on the head,
this only made the audience cheer louder.
Cameron went and picked Becky up off the panel and waved Frankie back
to center stage. They all stood there together and bowed as best each
of them could. For Cameron it was a full bow, though careful not to
drop Becky. Becky bowed from a kneeling position, Cameron's hand was
too shaky for her to stand. Frankie bowed with one hand holding her
shirt together across her breasts and Stan nodded his head low in the
best facsimile of a bow he could manage as a dog.
After several more moments adulation, Cameron raised his hand and the
audience was quiet.
"Thank you all, but there are more presentations to come," Cameron
said, confident that none of them would beat his.
"I have a question!" A voice called out from the crowd. Cameron turned
and saw it was that it was Brian.
"Yes Brian," Cameron asked politely. Brian was a nice guy, but he and
Cameron rarely interacted. They were in completely different fields
after all.
"Does your device overcome the chrono specificity problem?" Brian asked
succinctly.
Cameron was taken back by the specificity and technicality of the
question. Also because he knew immediately what the answer was. He did
his best to hide his embarrassment.
"Unfortunately no," he said quietly.
"Ok thank you," Brian said and sat right back down. There was a pause
for a moment and the audience seemed lost.
"What is the chrono specificity problem for our folks at home?" Mr.
McDonald asked trying to get things moving again.
"The chrono specificity problem relates to the age of the subject being
changed. In short, quantum field manipulation cannot make anyone older
or younger. The answer can get rather technical very quickly and a bit
boring, but it has to do with the specific chronometric signature of
the target. In anticipation of a follow up question, let me say that
the chronometric signature of Stan is equivalent based on his new
lifespan. While Stan had been 23 years old, he is now 23 'dog-years'
old, as the old colloquialism goes, or approximately a four year old
dog," Cameron said wishing he didn't have to spend more time on talking
about the limitations of his invention.
"Thank you Cameron. Ladies and gentlemen we will now take a short
recess while Cameron and his troupe clear the stage," Mr. McDonald said
and there was a shuffling as the audience moved about. The recess
wasn't typical, but because of the size of Cameron's machine it was
necessary.
"Let's get you guys back to normal," Cameron said to his three friends.
Stan barked at him.
"This is really something," Frankie said and smirked, "Can I stay this
way a bit?"
"Not unless you want to stay that way a long while, do you have any
idea the amount of power the Changeray pulls? I had to fill out three
city permits just to get to use it a few times tonight. If I don't
change you all back tonight just waiting on that paper work again could
take weeks," Cameron said sounding a little tired.
"A few weeks is a bit long, wouldn't you agree little dolly?" Frankie
said talking down to the tiny woman in Cameron's hand.
"Mmmm it might be worth it," she said, not entirely unopposed to the
idea.
"Come on guys, let's stick with the plan. I'll fill out the paperwork
for a few days we can mess around once it goes through," Cameron said.
He'd have to fill out a budget request as well, drawing on that much
power wasn't cheap, and it would be harder to justify now that he'd
already shown it off. They'd expect him to bring in his own funding
now. Still it wasn't impossible.
"Ok fine," Becky said and crossed her arms over her chest and stuck out
her tongue.
"You first little doggy," Cameron said and patted Stan on the head. He
barked and wagged his tail, strolling over to sit under the machine.
The audience was exiting, well some of it anyways. Those sitting down
watched the stage as the machine powered up again.
There was a whir and a crash and a flash altogether more yellow than
the blinding white ones that had happened before. A loud buzzed sounded
and smoke billowed off the stage.
The head of the Changeray was suspended inside a large translucent
bubble. The flames and smoke inside the bubble were frozen in time,
still and unmoving thanks to the Chrono suspender. The audience gasped
at the sight.
"Whoops! Looks like the Changeray overloaded! Sorry Cameron and crew!
Looks like you all are stuck that way until Cameron can fix his
machine!" Mr. McDonald said like a vindictive gameshow host and started
laughing. The audience laughed with him.
Cameron stared at the Changeray and fell to his knees. He stared at the
head of it, wreathed in frozen flames and black smoke, unmoving inside
the bubble that had contained it.
"It broke," he said calmly, his eyes unmoving.
"It wasn't supposed to break," he said.
Frankie put her hand on his shoulder. "I guess we are going to have
those few weeks after all," she said doing her best to not sound
dejected. A few weeks or longer...
Stan whimpered and Becky stared at the Changeray, same as Stan.
They'd broadcast it blowing up after the commercial break. Everyone
would see it. People loved a good train wreck after all.
---
Winston swore in the bathroom. Their short recess was extended thanks
to Cameron's machine's meltdown. Extra caution had to be used to move
it off the stage.
Why couldn't it have blown up before that last change! How was he
supposed to compete with a device that didn't rely on typical gene
manipulation, even if that device did blow up afterwards!?
No one would find that it was foul play, he was pretty sure of that,
but now he felt like it was all a waste of time. He was up next and
there was no way he was going to win now...
...or was there?
In a frenzy he pulled out his tablet and started typing.
Brilliant, brilliant, he was brilliant! He'd use Cameron's device's
explosion to show case just how amazing his device really was!
The presentation would stay pretty much the same. He worked furiously
to rewrite his introduction, making reference to all the things the
audience had just seen.
It was brilliant! He'd make Cameron's whole presentation into a set up
for his own invention!
Brilliant!
----
Frankie was panting loudly. She'd wandered to a restroom on the far
side of the school from the auditorium knowing it would be empty. She
was glad she did, she was pretty sure she was moaning pretty loudly a
minute ago.
"Wow," she said to herself and pulled her fingers from her slippery wet
sex. She teased her nipple with her thumb, her hand unmoving from where
it had been while she was playing with herself. Her shirt unbuttoned
completely and her large breasts handing free. She tried to steady her
breathing as she wiped her self off with some toilet paper. It
disintegrated on her wet fingers and she frowned. She picked up her
boxers, now uselessly large, and used them to wipe herself off.
She smelled her fingers again. The odor was so pungent and musky.
By reflex she flushed the toilet when she stood up. She buttoned her
shirt as best she could. It closed up to the bottom of her breasts. She
pulled up her now baggy pants. She struggled to get them over her new
round butt, just like she'd struggled to get them off, but they made it
up. She tightened her belt as far as it could go and used her one clean
hand to hold them in place. She stepped out of the stall and looked
around. Just like when she'd came in the room was empty. The only sound
was the running of water in the toilet she'd flushed. She stepped out,
the tile cold on her bare feet. She'd abandoned her oversized shoes
back stage at the auditorium.
She looked at herself in the mirror and smiled. She was so incredibly
hot. Her face was flush and the smile said it all. She'd just had a
fantastic orgasm.
She washed her hands three times, sure after each time she could still
smell herself on them, but eventually convincing herself it was her own
imagination.
Fucking Christ that had been amazing! Masturbating as a girl was way
better than as a guy! She'd gotten off squeezing her tits with one hand
while she fingered herself frantically with the other and had been
literally unable to not cry out. When she came she'd bit her lip to
keep from screaming and could actually taste a little blood in her
mouth. That tiny pain had been nothing compared to the immensity of the
pleasure.
Then she'd done it again five minute later. If anything it felt better
the second time. She'd nearly blacked out when she came the second
time.
She'd started feeling horny pretty much immediately after Cameron had
changed her. Any guy would. She suddenly had a pair of giant tits right
in front of her, free for her to touch at anytime. And boy did they
like being touched! She'd thought she'd enjoyed playing with her
nipples when she was a guy, but that had nothing on how her new
mammaries felt!
In a way she was glad when Cameron's device exploded. She had REALLY
wanted to do what she'd just finished doing, and was sad that she was
supposed to turn back into a guy. Now that wasn't a problem.
Sure it sucked for Cameron, and especially for Becky and Stan, but it
wasn't so bad for Frankie. She stared at herself in the mirror and blew
a kiss. Just seeing a woman doing that was enough to get her horny
again!
The loose fitting clothes weren't helping. They were touching her body
in rather delicate ways.
She'd need a whole new wardrobe. At least a few outfits. She was smart
enough to know Cameron wasn't going to be getting them back to normal
for a few weeks at least. Not after a failure like that. Fortunately
the school had a special budget set aside for exactly this problem. She
wasn't the first Sain student accidentally stuck as the wrong gender
and in need of new clothes. It wasn't much, she'd probably have to go
to consignment shops to be able to afford everything she needed, but
that was fine. Or her parents would buy her clothes. They were rich
after all.
So what if she was a woman? So what if everyone knew she used to be a
man? So what if she was stuck this way for a month or so? She didn't
have any work to do. It was all on Cameron to fix this. For Frankie,
this was like a very special vacation. She cupped her breasts in the
mirror and stuck out her tongue. It was gonna be so much fun!
---
"Thank you all for coming. As you may have seen from my friend
Cameron's demonstration, quantum field based body manipulation has some
pretty serious risks involved. Not to belittle his work, his
development of a non genetics based manipulation technology is
astounding, and I am sure without a doubt it will become the future of
all quantum field technologies with its ability to perform any change
you'd desire. I can't wait to read more about how it works," Winston
said opening his talk.
"While it is a phenomenal scientific achievement, the Sain school has
always put a greater focus on practicality. And I ask you, isn't such a
monstrous and dangerous piece of engineering just an improvement on a
technology already only really available to the super rich? Isn't an
improvement like that, prize worthy though it may be, really only going
to benefit the people who were already benefiting from it? Here at the
Sain school we are looking for breakthrough technologies that can
change the lives of everyone. Everyone. Not just the wealthy," Winston
said. He thought repeating the rich vs poor argument over and over
again should help drive the point home that there was a difference
between his goal and Cameron's goal.
"Today I'd like to present to you my invention," Winston said and
walked to the side stage and picked something up. "Behold!" he said
holding what looked like a toy ray gun up in the air, "The Quimsy! The
Quantum Uncertainty Intermittent Modification SYstem. A device which
promises to bring quantum field body manipulation to you, the average
person at home."
There was a murmur from the crowd. It was a common enough sentiment.
For most people quantum based field manipulation was beyond their
means. There had long been talk of how to bring the cost down to a more
manageable level. Even if it could get down to the price of a
reasonably nice car it would open up to a much wider audience.
"My friend Marcus here has agreed to help me demonstrate how it works.
Marcus, are you ready?" Winston asked silencing the murmur.
"I am," Marcus said. He was dressed in a slim black button down with
black pants and black shoes. This went well with his black hair and
dark brown eyes, playing off the contrast with his pale white skin.
Winston aimed the Quimsy. A red dot appeared on Marcus's chest.
"The laser dot is just for aiming purposes," Winston said and pulled
the trigger. A little blue beam hit Marcus in the chest but nothing
else seemed to happen.
Winston said nothing and the crowd started to murmur.
Marcus hiccuped loudly and suddenly had long flowing black hair. The
collective gasp from the audience was priceless.
"The I in Quimsy is for intermittent," Winston said, as he talked
Marcus hiccuped again and suddenly his clothes looked a little loose as
he got a few inches shorter. "Utilizing a special power source and
causing the change to occur piece meal over a longer interval, I am
able to dramatically reduce the amount of power required to create a
quantum reality manipulation field. Instead of one great burst it is
can be thought of as a collection of small snaps, which aside from
being thermodynamically more efficient also allows for the changes to
come from multiple reality vectors, smoothing the ease of transition
and reducing the power required by orders of magnitude."
Marcus hiccuped again and then blinked and stretched his jaw. His
jawline had changed, as had his nose, eye brows, and mouth. The
audience could tell his face was that of a woman now.
"The hiccups are an interesting side effect of the quasi stable reality
alteration field around him. This is a phenomenon which interacts with
the human body in an odd way. Every time a change occurs the body
suffers from an involuntary autonomic muscle response. Today Marcus
hiccups, but if I were to use it on him again tomorrow he might sneeze
or cough or burp or fart."
Marcus hiccuped again and the crowd laughed as his shirt became clearly
very tight around his chest. His breasts were of a modest size and he
smiled at the audience and wiggled his shoulders a bit to move them up
and down.
"Think about it. No more giant quantum reality manipulation stations.
No more banks of transformers and reactors powering a rich persons toy.
YOU-" Winston said and waved his hands over the audience before staring
right into the camera, "You can finally be whoever you want to be."
Marcus hiccuped again and crossed his legs. The audience couldn't see
it but they could guess what had just changed.
"How do you feel Marcy?" Winston asked. They'd debated on the
name,Marcus liked the name Rachel but Winston had insisted on something
close to Marcus for the purposes of the talk.
"Great!" Marcy said in a soft feminine voice and waved to the audience.
She hiccuped and suddenly her hips flared out and there was a tearing
sound as her pants ripped. She blushed and grabbed them with her hands
to hold them up. The audience laughed.
"Changes for anyone, choices for everyone. Quimsy," Winston said and
the audience started to cheer.
Winston bowed and smiled to the audience as he basked in their
applause. They might have gone more nuts for Cameron, but he thought
they seemed a lot more earnest in their cheering for him. Cameron's
invention was remarkable, but unavailable. The Quimsy was something
they could all use. Something they had all wanted but couldn't have.
Something which he promised to give them.
"A question from Benny Trupple in Manchester, UK," Mr. McDonald said
once the applause had died down.
"Of course," Winston said. He knew he wouldn't get any basic questions
thanks to Cameron's presentation. It was better that way. People didn't
like being lectured.
"Benny asks, how long do the changes take to finish? What determines
that?"
"An excellent question. The time to complete transformation is highly
variable and difficult to predict. There is an attempt frequency
occurring for each change. This number is quite large, but the
probability of something happening, i.e. a change being influence by a
neighboring quantum singularity, is quite low. As a result we see an
average number of changes happening at something near 1 'significant'
change every 30 seconds. For a more complex change like the gender
change Marcy just underwent there are typically 4-7 'significant'
changes, so about 2 to 5 minutes for a complete change," Winston
replied calmly. Stupid quantum uncertainty making him sound so
uncertain.
"And just how much will these 'cheap' quantum body manipulation devices
cost?" Mr. McDonald asked the question everyone had been thinking
about.
"Significantly less than typical, but let me stress the real savings
comes in the cost per use. We expect the cost of one Quimsy to be near
two hundred and fifty thousand US dollars. However an individual Quimsy
can be used hundreds if not thousands of times for any one specific
change. There is no need for special components and hundreds of
gigawatts of electricity like you would typically expect. I wouldn't
expect a Quimsy in every home, but I would expect Quimsy boutiques to
open up in every shopping mall," Winston said doing his best to sell
his device. It was a simple enough concept he thought, but some people
would be upset knowing it wasn't a technology they could take home with
them.
"Thank you very much," Mr. McDonald said and sat down.
"To conclude I will turn Marcy back into Marcus, showing just how quick
and easy it is to use the Quimsy mutliple times," he aimed the Quimsy
at the pretty girl in the ill fitting clothes standing across the
stage.
He pulled the trigger. There was a loud pop and a spark hit Winston's
hand.
"Ouch!" he said and dropped the Quimsy to the ground. It hit with a
distinct shattering sound, though it looked unharmed from the outside.
The audience laughed. Winston was red in the face but he tried to
compose himself. Even with the set back it showed off how safe it was.
Cameron's device had exploded so violently when it failed but his just
sparked a little. He stood up and tried to compose himself.
"I guess there are still some bugs to work out, but I would like to
point out how even when it fails my device is still s- ACHOO!"
Winston sneezed and felt a sudden weight on his chest. The audience was
laughing uproariously.
"Shit," Winston whispered to himself but not to quietly that the
microphone didn't pick it up. Fortunately it only made the audience
laugh more as Winston stood there with large breasts hanging from his
chest. They'd burst his shirt wide open and the Censorscreen kicked in
to blur them from the audience. He tried to cover them with his arm.
"ACHOOO!" he sneezed again, feeling his breasts sway and hearing his
pants rip as his hips expanded. His pants fell to the ground in shreds.
"Fu- ACHOO!" Winston sneezed again and long blonde hair cascaded down
his face.
"ACHHOO!" he sneezed again and felt his face change awkwardly.
Winston's device was gene based in it's manipulation. Winston's mother
had been a bikini model in her early twenties, a fact which Winston
rather regretted now that he looked so much like her. He didn't want to
be a woman damn it!
"ACHOO!! ACHOO! ACHHOO!!" Winston sneezed three times rapidly feeling
his body feeling different with each change. The last sneeze was
several octives higher in pitch as his vocal cords shifted.
The audience was laughing so loud. Winston's now very pretty face was
scarlet as he stood there on the stage doing his best to hold the
shreds of his once tight fitting clothes to his body.
"Well Winny, looks like you still have some work to do before there are
changes for the masses," Mr. McDonald said and wandered to the center
stage and patted Winston on the back. That pat was more of a smack,
hitting Winston so hard it nearly knocked Winston over and she threw
her arms out for balance, flashing the audience again.
Marcy walked over and put her hand around Winston. "Come on Winny," she
said using the name Mr. McDonald had used. "Let's get off the stage
now."
Winny was mortified. The audience just laughed. Slowly Marcy guided her
off the stage.
---
Stan sat outside while the fire department slowly wheeled the Changeray
to the Sain school athletic field. It was a flat open field, a good
place to put something that was frozen in time at the start of an
explosion.
Stan smelled something. Something his human mind couldn't put into
words. That was an odd but common experience for him now. Thinking in
words didn't seem to come naturally to him anymore. It was like trying
to think in a foreign language. In a lot of ways he just was. His mind
functioned as though drunk, with little veil between conscious and
unconscious mind.
He followed his nose to the thing he smelled. It smelled good, he could
conceptualize that much effectively.
He made his way to the fire engine. There was a dalmatian sitting by it
patiently while a man sat on the bumper watching his fellow firemen
wheel the Changeray away.
The dalmatian turned and looked at Stan. She smelled amazing.
Stan knew she was a female from the smell. It seemed so obvious to him
even though a part of his mind knew he wouldn't have been able to tell
so quickly from what his eyes told him. Humans relied so much on their
eyes. For Stan he felt like he was getting most of his information form
his nose now, even if he didn't know what it meant right away.
He walked cautiously up to the dalmatian. She didn't pull away. He
sniffed around her and she sniffed back.
"Hey there fella'," The fireman sitting by the bumper said and patted
Stan on the head. "Where'd you come from?" he asked.
Cameron was the crew of firemen as they slowly moved the Changeray. It
wasn't especially mobile. The jacks they'd put it on had wheels, but
they weren't much good at moving across the soft ground of the field.
"No collar," The fireman by the truck said, "but you seem friendly
enough."
Stan was annoyed the fireman was there. He was distracting Stan from
the dalmatian, who was now sniffing at Stan. She smelled so good.
He felt a sensation that he recognized. A twitch in his penis telling
him he was getting turned on.
She was in season. The dalmatian bitch was in heat.
"Ken! Get over here we need your help!" One of the firemen called out.
"Coming!" The fireman by the truck said and stood up. "You stay put
Madison. You too buddy," he said and patted Stan on the head once more
before wandering off.
Stan resumed sniffing the dalmatian. She sniffed him. He moved his nose
to her backside and sniffed, the smell was over powering and he could
feel himself becoming erect. He licked her backside and felt her warmth
on his tongue.
It didn't taste like it smelled, which was a difference from when Stan
had been a human. It didn't taste like much of anything compared to the
smell.
She turned and sniffed at his crotch. She licked him a few times before
turning and pointing her backside at him.
Stan didn't think. Stan just did what felt natural. He mounted her and
after a bit of trial and error was inside her. He started humping
frantically.
The sensation was incredible. Way better than masturbation. It didn't
take him long before the pressure built and he felt himself erupt
inside her.
They stayed there for awhile, Stan resting on top of the dalmatian. He
tried to pull off but felt he was stuck. He suddenly felt a little self
conscious and looked around to see if anyone was watching them.
It was dark and everyone was far from the parking lot where they were
entwined. No one seemed to be paying them much attention.
Eventually Stan was able to pull out. She turned and licked his crotch.
He returned the favor. She sat back down exactly where she'd been when
Stan walked up. Stan lay down in front of her.
Cameron couldn't believe what he'd just seen. Or rather he could
believe it. He just... didn't know what he was supposed to do about it.
He couldn't undo it, that much was certain.
He needed to find Becky and Frankie and make sure they were ok. He
didn't want either of them doing anything as... involved with their new
bodies as what he'd just seen Stan doing. Sure it wouldn't hurt Stan
physically, but there was no telling what loosing his virginity to a
dalmatian bitch would do Stan's psyche.
He turned and walked over to the firefighter that had been sitting by
the dalmatian.
"Hey mister, uh-"
"Ken, call me Ken," The man said and stretched out his hand.
"Cameron," Cameron said and took his hand, "That's my dog Stan over
there by the dalmatian."
"Is that who he is? He doesn't have a collar young man, you shouldn't
let him wander around like that. He seemed to nice and clean to be a
stray, but how was I to know that he actually wasn't?" Ken replied
sternly.
"Yeah sorry, it's just that I was using him as part of my project
tonight, did you see my presentation?" Cameron asked.
Ken snorted, "Nah, not my thing. All high brow science talk to me. I
just wait for whatever you guys do to show up in stores before I learn
anything about it."
"That's a good strategy considering the amount of stuff which never
makes it to mass market," Cameron said doing his best to avoid looking
too high brow. "Listen, I need to run inside and check on some things,
how much longer will this be?"
"Well once we get it out there we've set up the KIPS and the WANP and
then turn off the CIF and let your device do whatever it was going to
do. Now that it's unplugged you said it shouldn't be able to do much
harm beyond whatever started when the CIF kicked on, right? From
looking at what's inside the CIF I'd say it looks more like a rapid
fire than an actual explosion so it shouldn't be too much risk."
"Yeah without an actual power supply it's just a matter of discharging
some capacitors," Cameron babbled, he didn't really know how the device
would fail. It SHOULDN'T be possible for it to do much harm when it was
unplugged. Shouldn't... "Do you need me for that, or can I go check on
some things, It's kind of important. Mind if I leave Stan over there?
He's well trained and he won't wander off, I just don't have a leash or
anything with me out here."
Ken laughed, "Sure, it looked like him and Madison were having some fun
together if you know what I mean," he made a crude gesture with his
hands and laughed again when Cameron blushed.
"Yeah I saw. Thanks," Cameron said and darted inside. Stan was, well
Cameron didn't really know what it was like to be transformed into an
animal. The volunteer he had used to test it said it was kind of like
being drunk. Cameron rarely drank so he didn't really have a lot of
experience being drunk so he wasn't entirely sure what that meant. He'd
seen movies though. People who made drunk mistakes often regretted it,
but it rarely ruined their lives.
Cameron really hoped Stan's experience would be like that.
---
"I don't understand what went wrong!" Winny fumed, "Why did it fail
now? We tested it so much! I turned you back and forth into Marcy over
twenty times and it never had a problem! Why now on presentation day?!"
"Rachel. If I'm going to be stuck like this I want to be the one to
pick my name Winny. Oh, do you like the name Winny?" Rachel, formerly
Marcy, formerly Marcus asked.
Winny started and looked up at Rachel and met her gaze. There was a
flash of anger across her face and then she started to sob.
"I'm ruined! My whole point was how safe and reusable the Quimsy was
and now I look like an idiot!" Winny sobbed into her hands.
"Hey there don't be sad-" Rachel tried to calm her but was interrupted.
"I'm not sad! I'm angry!" Winny called out, "I just can't stop crying!
I feel like I'm out of control!" she said between sobs.
"It's not so bad. I've spent enough time as Rachel to know."
"That's because your mom was a demure normal looking woman! You look
almost normal!" Winny cried out pointing to Rachel's tits as tears ran
down her face.
"My mom was a fucking bikini model when she was my age! Look at me! Big
tits, big ass, narrow waist! I look-"
"-hot," Rachel interrupted. Winny glared at her hard.
"Like a freak!" Winny finished and turned her back to Rachel. She
sobbed quietly to herself for a few minutes. It was the only sound
filling the locker room they'd retreated to. It was technically the
woman's locker room, but they were both technically women now.
Rachel walked over to the bench Winny was sitting on and put her hand
on her shoulder.
"You'll be fine. In a week or two you'll build another Quimsy and be
back to your old self," Rachel said and sat down next to Winny and put
her arm around her. Winny sniffled and leaned against her. "The Quimsy
will sell it self. Tell it's own story. You don't need the MEI prize to
be a success. When every mall has its own Quimsy boutique they'll have
you to thank for it. Everyone will know your name."
Rachel kissed Winny on the cheek. Her skin was soft and tasted like
tears. Winny looked up at her with red bloodshot eyes that were soft
and vulnerable. Winny kissed Rachel on the lips.
Rachel didn't pull away, but she didn't kiss back. Winny didn't seem to
notice and started to kiss Rachel's neck while one of her hands reached
up and grasped Rachel's breast.
This wasn't exactly how Rachel had wanted this to go. Pretty close, but
not quite. It was actually extremely frustrating.
She pulled back and pulled Winny's hand of of her gently. She locked
her fingers in Winny's and met her gaze. Winny looked like she was
about to start crying again.
Rachel kissed Winny on the forehead and then put both arms around her
and held her close. Winny sobbed quietly into her breast while Rachel
stroked her back.
Marcus wasn't gay. Well not in the strictest definition. Or maybe
exactly in the strictest definition he was. Winston was his best
friend, and it was easy for him to say, in hindsight especially, that
he loved him. But he'd never been attracted to Winston physically.
That had all changed the instant he'd first been turned into Rachel.
Suddenly she felt this incredible and powerful connection with Winston
that had never been there before. It still hadn't been physical at
first, but it just somehow felt like a deeper connection. A yearning to
be with him. After spending more time as Rachel he realized Winston
actually was kind of cute.
Marcus started to feel awkward hanging out with Winston as a man. It
just felt so shallow an empty compared to what he felt when he was
Rachel. Every time he'd feel butterflies in his stomach just before he
changed and they'd all go away once he was Rachel again and Winston
smiled at her. She started to dread when she'd go back to being Marcus.
Winston never seemed to notice her affection, but she didn't lose
heart. To Winston she was still Marcus, even in the female body of
Rachel. She wanted to tell him. To tell him she wanted to stay this
way. To be his girlfriend. But what if he said no? What if Winston
wasn't capable of being the boyfriend of his former best friend? Marcus
had only ever been Rachel for a few hours at a time, and always it was
in the testing laboratory. Not exactly an intimate setting.
So Marcus had concocted a plan. He'd rig the Quimsy to fail when it was
set to turn him back into Marcus again. He may not have been as
brilliant at Winston, but he could manage that at least. He'd be stuck
as Rachel for awhile, maybe a few days. That was just what he thought
he needed. Long enough to spend an extended period of time with Winston
so Winston could get comfortable with her as Rachel. Then she'd ask
him. She'd ask him to not change her back and she'd tell him she loved
him. She bare her soul and hope for the best.
Of course things rarely work out the way you wanted them to. After
Marcus had modified the Quimsy to fail they'd stopped testing it. It
seemed Winston was satisfied with how it worked, and since that had
only been two weeks before the big day he decided to work on his sales
pitch instead. He took the Quimsy home with him for safe keeping and
Marcus has been unable to undo the damage he'd done. He'd felt panicked
at first, but as the big day grew closer and it was more and more
obvious he wouldn't be able to fix it, he'd come to accept it.
Winston's device, wonderfully practical though it might be, would
almost certainly not have been spectacular enough to win the MEI.
Efficiency improvements never won, and in the end thats all the Quimsy
was. A more efficient version of an existing technology. It was a sad
but true fact which Winston refused to recognize.
And so Marcus would get changed on stage, like they'd planned. And he'd
get stuck as Rachel, as he'd planned. She'd do her best to comfort him
and he would no doubt feel bad and try and comfort her. They'd grow
close together, as men and women do, and then she'd tell him how she
felt about him. She'd never tell him the truth that it was her who had
sabotaged the Quimsy on presentation day.
"Listen there is something I want to tell you," Winny said, resting her
head on Rachel's shoulder while Rachel stroked her hair.
"What is it?" Rachel asked doing her best not to stare at Winny's
cleavage. She was doing her best to hide the attraction she felt for
Winny. Winny was certainly very very attractive. If she was still
Marcus she knew she'd almost certainly have an erection that would be a
lot harder to hide than the warm damp feeling between her legs. They'd
found some gym uniforms in the locker room that didn't fit very well,
but at least they were better than the shreds of the clothes they had
been wearing.
"You're a great friend," Winny said quietly.
"I know," Rachel said and laughed. Winny laughed a little too.
"You're my best friend," Rachel said and hugged Winny again. She was
attracted to Winny, but she didn't WANT Winny. She wanted Winston. She
didn't want Winston to think that any passion between them was just
some temporary lesbian dalliance. She wanted him to know it was more
than that. She wanted him to know it was more than a heat of the moment
thing caused by them both being in this stressful and alien situation.
She laughed to herself. Winny didn't ask her why she laughed. She was
glad she didn't have to explain.
She was thinking like such a woman!
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