I was ALREADY HERE!!!
*bzzzz*
*bzzzz*
There was a shuffling sound as a woman, who had found herself napping on the wall again, slowly stood up, her long, messy, tangled-up hair hanging over her face. She stood up shakily, trying to use the wall for balance, before grabbing a corner of the table her phone was on. She yawned loudly, grabbing her hair band and snatching her hair up to hold the hair back in a messy brown ponytail. She grabbed her glasses to put them on her face, facing them backwards before turning them around and fitting them on her ears; she shuffled around on her neck to fix her bright red tie. Her eyes were still half-closed, with dark bags that clashed starkly with her bright blue eyes.
She had fallen asleep in the lab… again; she had been researching these strange gems, putting their components into liquids of all kinds, which had been creating… odd concoctions. She looked around, before finding the source of the buzzing; it was her phone, and someone was calling her. She picked it up to get a closer look; it was Natascha, her close friend in this research, and the one who she rotated lab stays with every week or so. She swiped the green “accept call” icon, before placing the phone on her shoulder to hold it while she grabbed her clipboard to look over; “Mutagenic Research:”
“Nan?”
“Nan?”
“Nancy?”
“Bayner?”
It took Nancy a second to process the voice, before she yawned again lethargically. “Sorry… I’m still in the lab; just going to look over the notes before heading back.” She lied; she didn’t want to look bad chatting with Natascha.
“…You fell asleep in the lab again, didn’t you?!”
Nancy sighed. “…Yes.” Natascha sounded so… angry.
“This is the fourth time this week, and the tenth time over your last few rotations; this isn’t good for you.”
Nancy nodded, looking between the phone and the paper. She had not been focusing on what was on her table. “I have ha-had some good p-p-progress!” she pipped, as she grabbed for a sugary drink.
“You mean the walking, talking rats? That was a month ago.”
Nancy pouted slightly, before grabbing one of the glasses on her table. Because she had been pulling all-nighters of research in the lab, Natascha had forbidden her drinking sodas and coffee in the lab, so Nancy had brought sugar water with her to bypass it; it was nasty, but it kept her awake… mostly. She let out a disgruntled chuff as she raised the beaker she had accidentally grabbed to her mouth. “…I-I’ll leave later, I promise.”
“I’m coming in for an early rotation tomorrow; you need to stay home for a bit.”
As Nancy took a sip from the beaker, she felt a jolt go through her body, a strange shock of electricity that seemed to shock her straight awake. She then… drank it again, this time forcing a large gulp down, before actually looking at what she was drinking; it was one of the potion mixtures. She went wide eyed, dropping the clipboard and accidentally letting her phone slip from her shoulder and slam on the ground.
“I’ll n-need t-“
Before she could finish her moot sentence, pain shot throughout her body, causing her lurch uncontrollably, her glasses falling off and shattering to pieces on the floor. She staggered as her head throbbed and her body pulsed, yet kept a tight hold on the glowing green beaker. She held her chest tightly and tried to keep herself steady with the table, and then she felt another shock as her hair shortened; her eyebrows thickened out, and became a darker brown-red in hue. Her head became longer, with her jaw becoming slightly thicker, and her eyes going from a bright blue to an almost unnatural shade of green, keeping the bags under them. Her nose became somewhat smaller and more triangular, and there were some prominent wrinkles around that area, with some new hair above her top lip. One of her teeth on the right side of her mouth grew and began protruding prominently from her mouth. Her build managed to become even skinnier as her breasts disappeared entirely, with her body type overall becoming more square. She snarled and whimpered in pain and held his crotch as her body’s sex changed quickly from female to male, leaving him wheezing, and then gagging as his vocal cords changed to fit the new body.
“Good G-God, NOW I-I know why tha-that hurts for gu-guys s-s-so much, eeeeeeeeehh…”
His build had become slightly shorter, but he didn’t notice over all of the intense groin pain, leaving him trying to balance on the wall. Before long, his clothes changed, his white lab coat losing its sleeves and becoming a bright green, with a pair of “double collars” around his neck, and a black fastener down the middle. His undershirt grew its own sleeves up to his wrists, and dyed itself a muted teal color. His boots became small shoes, with the pants accommodating to the new size, and both becoming the same color as his shirt. He screeched in pain and suddenly dropped the beaker with a splitting headache, as two bolts screwed themselves into the sides of his head.
He saw the beaker in the air and impulsively dived down to try and grab it, successfully grabbing the neck of it in one hand and falling flat on his face. Absolutely everything hurt; he had a splitting headache, was feeling the worst pain a man could ever feel, and his body ached all over. Wait… he…?
He slowly stood up, trembling before looking around, and looking over himself; this is even weirder. He looked at the beaker in his hand, and at the glowing green fluid within; just what is this stuff? He then noticed the sound of Natascha yelling through the phone on the ground:
“Nan, Nan!”
“You okay?!”
“What happened?!”
“Talk to me, please!”
He looked over himself again. “…S-She won’t reco-recognize me.” He whispered to himself, as he stepped and crouched over his phone and pressed the “end call” icon. He grabbed the phone and put it back on the table, before looking back at the clipboard he dropped at the start of this; he went over and picked it up, going back to the table to sit down and write with a pen, still keeping the potion in his hand. He didn’t seem to be tired anymore, which made this much easier.
“8/5/17; notes:
- potions made from the green fragments seems to have body-changing properties, being able to change things from one’s skin color to their sex, and can result in a completely different body.”
He absent-mindedly took a sip from the green potion, before tapping it with his finger with a cheery look on his face… wait, why did he do that? He went back to writing:
“- green potions may have addictive properties.”
He signed off, before he looked back at the testing stations all around him; he knew that he couldn’t exactly leave, so he breathed in deeply, before going to the station with all of the potion tests, failing to notice what he had signed the notes off with:
“Dr. Nitrus “N” Brio.”