29 April 2012
Faith led the other two to a building with a neon sign hanging over the top that read: 'Be someone else - literally!' There were glass windows that allowed the people outside to peer inside a waiting room - which was empty - and a room that looked like it had a cylinder big enough for a man to step into. Also, the door was open, so at least the place had some form of business.
"Have you been here before then?" Zack asked Faith as he made sure the door was OK for the three of them to pass through.
Faith nodded in response. "Yeah, the first time I arrived on Paradise I came here. It's kind of strange, the feeling when you go into the cylinder."
"I suppose it would be, really. I mean, your entire molecular structure is being converted from one genotype to another," Zack answered.
Kara looked at him dumbly. "Uh... English, smart-ass."
"I mean of course it'll feel strange, since you're turning into a dude."
"Why didn't you say that in the first place?" Kara and Faith sat down, whilst Zack stood up and leant against the wall.
"Because I'm a smart-ass," he replied with a poke of his tongue. Kara gave him her middle finger in response. "Ooh, real big there, Kara."
A woman with long dark hair popped her head through the door that led into the morph rooms. "Hello there. Are you waiting?" she asked with a smile.
"Yeah," Faith answered, also smiling. "C'mon Zack. Let's get changed."
Zack raised his eyebrows in response, and chuckled. 'Yeah... let's go,' he thought as the three of them went into the room.
Inside, there were four different cylinders, two for changing into a male, two for a female. The walls and ceiling were coloured mint-green, and the floor was tiled in a similar colour. It reminded Zack of a dentist's office. A desk was at one side, with an array of objects on it that Zack did not recognise by name, but knew they were of either surgical or engineering uses. A tired old-looking man was sitting at the desk, whereas two younger, voluminous, beautiful girls were tending to the cylinders. All three seemed busy, but then the old man looked up.
"Ahh, Miss Faith. You want to become a boy once again?" he asked with a smile.
Faith responded with a smile of her own. "I enjoyed the process, Doc, so I thought, why not? Oh yeah, and my friend Zack wishes to change as well."
The tired man got up and shook Zack's hand. "Hey there, Mister Zack. My name is Doctor Qwerta. Call me Doc. Everyone does. Now, if you and Miss Faith could strip down behind the screens there, please, we can get started."
"Why?" asked Zack, becoming self-conscious.
"It's because you'll likely become too small for your normal clothes when you become your female counterpart. And hey, you might even grow a bigger-than-normal pair of breasts, so you would have teared your shirt."
'Oh god, please don't let me have huge tits,' Zack quickly thought as he glanced down at his own chest, and imagining seeing breasts protruding from it. It was an odd thought, but...
Zack and Faith went behind the screens as they were told, and stripped off everything. Everyone else turned away when they both said they were ready. When Zack came out from behind the screen, only the helping women were watching him, and they were professional enough to not stare as they helped him into the cylinder. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Faith's nude body, and couldn't help but think that it looked stunning. However, this image dissolved as the cylinder door was closed, and all outside sound was cut off.
"PLEASE STAND STILL," said a computerised voice. "SCANNING INITIATING." A red beam of light began to fire at Zack's toes, then slowly edged upwards to his head. "SCANNING COMPLETE. PLEASE STAND STILL AS WE CALIBRATE YOUR BODY."
"Why do I feel as if that's not a good sound?" Zack said to himself as he heard an alarming amount of beeps go off around him.
"Do not worry, sir!" said a woman's voice from outside. "This is perfectly normal!"
'If you say so,' Zack thought.
"CALIBRATION COMPLETE. BEGINNING MOLECULAR SHIFT IN THREE.... TWO.... ONE.... MOLECULAR SHIFT ACTIVATED."
It was a simple gurgle, before Zack felt his entire body begin to bubble before him. He felt his hair get longer, and could see it go a lighter brown. His body shrunk down a few inches, and his body became a lot thinner. His (her?) hips went wider, and his/her backside rounded out a little. After a very weird feeling at his.... kid-maker, Zack realised with a worry that he was no longer a 'he'. The D-cups that had sprouted in front of... her proved that fact. When Zack, or rather Sarah (his/her parents were naming him/her, they would have called the child Zack if the baby was a boy, and Sarah if it was a girl), went to say something, she realised that her voice had also gone higher in tone and pitch.
"Oh... my... God..." she whispered, cupping her new breasts with her hands. "They're... god.... they're heavy... Kara, Faith..."
"Yes Zack?" said Kara from outside.
"I have newfound respect for women."
"Why's that?"
"Breasts are so goddamn heavy!"
Kara chortled loudly with laughter. "C'mon, I wanna see what you look like!"
"SHIFT COMPLETE. THANK YOU FOR USING THE GENDER CHANGE 4000, AND HAVE A NICE DAY."
Gas and smoke billowed out from the chamber as the doors opened. Kara was very curious as to what Zack looked like, and when the smoke cleared, her uproar of laughter continued. "Kehahaha! Aww, Zack... you look so CUUUUUTE!"
The two assistants handed the female Zack some clothes, who quickly got into. However, she fumbled around with the bra, since the male Zack had never needed to use one.
"Do you need assistance, Uh.... miss...." said one of the assistants.
"Call me Sarah. That's what I was supposed to be called if I was a girl."
"Let me do it," Kara said. She walked past the assistant and went around Sarah. Playfully, Kara tapped the bemused new girl's backside. "Looks like you would have been a knockout if you were a girl, SARAH," she said, putting emphasis on the name. "Right, the easiest way of doing bras is like this."
Kara took off her own top, and undid the clasp of her own bra. Strangely, Sarah did not feel embarrassed by seeing Kara's breasts bare.
"Hang on a sec, Kara. Something ain't right."
"What is it?"
"If I'm a guy, in here," she said whilst tapping her forehead, "then why the hell am I not embarrassed when I'm looking at your boobs?"
"Maybe you're just a dirty bastard," Kara said with a slur. However, it was Doctor Qwerta who gave an answer.
"Miss Sarah, what has happened is that the Shift has also changed your sexuality and thought processing."
Sarah knew straight away what that meant. "Are you telling me that I prefer BOYS over GIRLS?!"
"It's all part of the Shift."
"That is.... that's some pretty..."
"Fucked up stuff?" Kara finished for her.
Qwerta made a face at the coarse language, but decided to let it slide. It was basically what Kara had said. The Shift machine was truly remarkable, being able to change every molecular atom in the body, and convert it into something else entirely.
After a minute or so, Sarah was dressed in her new, more feminine clothing. It was a simple red Tee and black hooded cardigan, with skinny black jeans, and boots. She had quickly got the grasp of getting a bra on, since Kara showed her a neat trick of doing the back clasp around the front, then twisting it to the back so she could put her breasts into the cups of the bra. She also put on a red headband, to hold back her fringe. In her mind, the still-male part of her brain, Sarah was feeling new appreciation for girls, just because they have a lot to deal with. Sarah also put on a black bangle and a red watch.
"You look a right looker, Zack."
"My name is Sarah!" Sarah yelled, with anger in her voice she had not intended to show. She was, for some reason, really pissed off about being called Zack, even though that WAS her real name.
Kara was taken aback, not expecting that kind of answer. However, her curiosity was answered by Qwerta.
"Again, this is because of Sarah's mind change. Call her by her male name, and you'll be faced with a seriously angry young woman."
"That's why," said a male voice from behind them, "you should call me Michael, Sarah."
Sarah knew straight away that this was the male version of Faith, because Michael had almost exactly the same build and body as Faith, but he had a more refined jawline than Faith, and his hips weren't as wide. Oh, and there were no breasts, if that wasn't obvious.
"Bloody hell, Sarah, you're a beauty as a girl! Sexy as well."
Sarah did a twirl to give Michael a full-body view of her body. "Whaddaya think?"
"You should've been born a girl."
"Funny." Sarah took a look in the mirror, and found that Kara and Michael stood behind her. "God... has this really happened?"
Kara wrapped her arm around Sarah's shoulders, who rested her head on Kara's own shoulder. "Yep. It indeed has happened. Get used to being a babe for a little while, Sarah."
Sarah sighed. "...great."
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