Character Selection Screen

Story by Serathin on SoFurry

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A female gamer, tired of the grief being given from certain multiplayers, decides to take a friend's advice and play in a community that is far more inviting to such things. Set in the Nexus Wars universe.

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Lina smirked to herself as she leaned back in her gaming chair, watching as her and her squad racked up an insane amount of points against the other team they were facing. It had gotten to the point where they were likely not even going to switch over to the second half of the game as their score was already overwhelming the opponents. Her smirk grew as that became exactly the case, and watched as she once more claimed the top spot for the match. That smirk soon dropped and she sighed as the screen informed her that she was about to head back to the lobby, muting her headphones and sitting back as she waited for the next match to load up.

Almost as soon as it got back to the match-up screen the mic icons of the other side lit up and she could only imagine what the other side was saying about her. At this point she had gotten used to it, but she still didn't feel like getting screamed at by prepubescent teenagers who were angry that she was better than her. Still, she could see the chat below filling up with the hateful remarks against her, calling her everything from a cheater to the much worse. It was enough to push her over the edge and told her squad that she was done playing for the day before she logged off.

Just as she got back to her game organizer screen she thought about playing something else when she suddenly got an instant message from one of her many battle buddies. The message had some link to a game called Nexus Wars, a free-to-play shooter that had been gaining a lot of steam in the gaming community after it had left its beta stage. Instead of just going through the text app to inquire further about it she decided to call him up, hearing it connect almost immediately. "Lina, I wasn't expecting you to call so soon," the voice on the other end said.

"I decided to call it an early night on ranked play," Lina replied as she sat back once more. "Speaking of which, there's been a void where you usually are kicking butt and taking names. It wouldn't happen to be this new game that's taking one of the best FPS shooters out of the lists, would it?"

"It is actually," the voice replied which a chuckle. "It sounds like you're a bit disappointed, one less competitor taking you out of the top spot."

Lina chuckled and looked at the leaderboard of the game that she had just gotten out of, once more seeing that the one she was talking to wasn't even listed on the top spots anymore. "It's just a bit strange is all," she replied with a small sigh. "Plus you're one of the few people that I can squad up with and I don't have to deal with any crap that comes out of their mouths. If I get another rando that says they think that I'm cheating just because I have a set of tits, I swear..."

"I hear ya, I hear ya," the voice quickly replied. "It's why I'm actually sending you a link to the game, you're going to want to be a part of this, I think. Not only is it still super competitive but you also don't have to deal with anyone like that, trust me when I say everyone is really friendly with one another."

The two continued to chat for a bit and then her friend said that he needed to get to his game and wished her all the best. Even though he left she continued to leave the chat screen on, looking at the blinking referral link that he had sent to her. Faust was one of her more trusted online friends and a hell of a gamer... if he got absorbed into such a thing, it warranted at least a look. As she clicked on the link there was a part of her that thought he might have oversold it a bit, or perhaps she was just too used to toxic environments to think that such a thing was even possible.

Once Lina had loaded up the game and pressed download the program installed itself with surprising quickness, causing her to shrug as she grabbed her VR set. Her friend had insisted it was intrical for the entire experience and she slipped it on as the game loaded. She half-heartedly listened to the backstory that was provided for the game and waited impatiently until the faction selection screen had loaded up. Since she had used Faust's code it gave her the option to join his faction first as the image of the muscular dragon looked at her with glowing red eyes and crossed arms.

"Hubba hubba," she said with a chuckle before scrolling through. "Sorry Faust, but it's much more fun to fight against you than it is to fight with you. Let's see what else they got around here..." She scrolled through several of them before she suddenly stopped at one that caused her eyes to widen. It was the image of a minotaur like creature, but instead of skin or fur the creature looked like he was covered head to toe in patterned spandex that caused her to huff slightly. Her eyes seemed to instinctively glance back to her closet where she had a number of similar items such as leggings, tops and pretty much everything save for the full-body outfit like the one she saw on the picture in front of her.

It didn't take much for her to click on it, the beefy bull man giving her a snort and a wink before moving on to the next screen. Once more it was divided into several different leaders, called Generals, within the faction she had just chosen. "Not a huge fan of the heavy class," she said as he moved over to the next one which caused her to tilt her head in confusion. "Not sure what a corrupter class is... must be some sort of support. This one; however, is something I could work with..."

She clicked on the stealth class which was marked as something called the shapeshifter class, though she wasn't quite sure what power that was going to give her, she gave a guess that it was some sort of camouflage or something. The general of that faction was a creature that had very non-descript animal features unlike the others that she scrolled across, and the more she watched the picture of the guy, which that much she was sure of, the more it seemed like even as she did his form slowly shifted from bovine to equine, then to canine before the screen faded to black. It appeared that had been the last choice she needed to make before she found herself outside of a stadium-like setting that represented the faction lobby. As she looked around to try and get her bearings she was surprised when a number of creatures like the ones in the faction selection screen suddenly passed by her, all of them with head to toe animal-themed spandex avatars.

"Hey there," a voice said next to Lina that caused her to look behind her, seeing a spandex bull-man looking at her with a grin on his face. "You must be new, welcome to Nexus Wars! My name is Jim, or Jimmy if you prefer, and I sort of help new players get acclimated to the way things work around here."

"Well thank you for the warm reception," Lina replied as she grinned while looking up and down. "I have to say that the avatars people have here are very... interesting... not that I'm complaining, of course."

"We definitely have a certain style here to say the least," the spandex creature said with a chuckle. "Speaking of which, I'd like to tell you about your avatar mod that-"

"Oh, is that the battle lobby?" Lina interrupted, catching the bull-man off guard as she began to walk towards the train station. "I've been itching to try out a match or two ever since this game came highly recommended by my friend."

"Well, yes that is where you go to the battles..." Jim said as he walked behind her. "But about the avatar mod-"

"This one is going to an intro king of the hill match!" Lina exclaimed as she pointed to the train. "Thanks for everything, Jimmy, see you around!"

"But-" the bull man sighed and put his hand on his face as he watched the gamer hop onto the train right before the doors closed, causing him to put his spandex hand on his face. "Of course you'd be a friend of Faust..."

As she got on the train she noticed that a lot of those that were heading towards the battle already had those avatar mods on them, something that Jimmy had been trying to get her to look at before she hopped on the train. As she looked in her inventory she saw that there was a mod waiting for her as well, some sort of morphsuit that came with her character class. Just before she was about to put it on; however, another girl sat down next to her. "This your first time, too, I take it?" she asked as she sat down.

"You bet," Lina replied. "I managed to catch the train just as it was leaving, trying to catch myself up before we get there."

"You and me both," the other gamer replied with a smirk. "I literally just put on my beginner mods before I got here. Definitely an interesting experience... like it actually happened. I almost pulled off my VR headset to see if it actually happened in real life, but we got a match to win."

To show off her point the other gamer revealed her legs to Lina, her eyes widening when she saw the human legs ending in bovine hooves. It made sense since she was one of the heavy class, but it was still strange to see such inhuman appendages on otherwise human legs. When Lina asked if they helped or hindered her and she said she didn't know yet and would tell her when they were done with the mission. The two talked for a while and Lina got her friend info, seeing the gamertag Artemis appearing on her screen.

Just as they got done the train came to a stop and everyone piled out of it, including Lina as she hastily equipped her weapons. She was about to put on the morphsuit, too, but before she could the match already started, and instead of taking the time to equip it she just ran out guns blazing. As the match went on her skills shined, quickly raking in the kills despite not having her armor equipped. Most of the time she didn't bother with such things, anyway, and from the look of her score she didn't need it now as she finished up the game almost at the top of her faction's leaderboard.

About four hours later Lina had successfully climbed her way up several levels, the one battle she had chosen to see if the game was any good turning into nearly a dozen as she showed off her skills. While she was having fun with the gameplay and the mechanics the main thing she enjoyed was just how friendly everyone was to one another. Of course some were more so than others, more than once while they were waiting for the match to begin Lina caught two of the guys in their modified avatars kissing. While she didn't mind the public display of affection, it did lead to another revelation that almost everyone that had mods were male, and of those that weren't they all seemed to be unmodded human players.

When she finally did take break she went to the watering hole that was part of their faction, which was fashioned as a sports bar complete with rowdy muscular males cheering and the laughing as they watched the various matches on the television screen. She saw from her friend's list that Artemis was there as well and looked forward to catching up with her after the glut of matches that she had just undergone. It would also give her a chance to check out the upgrades that she had gotten, including a new morphsuit that was accented with stripes.

As she looked around she didn't see her friend, but as she walked around there was a familiar face that waved her over. "Well hey there Jimmy," Lina said as she moved over and sat down next to him and another heavily-muscled minotaur that was on the other side. "Any more hints and tips you want to give me?"

"I think you've proven that you're good to go all on your own," Jimmy said with a grin before he motioned over to the other male. "This one also seems to have gotten the hang of things as well, what do you think of their avatar mods?"

"Definitely keeps with the theme of this place," Lena replied with a grin as the two bovines chuckled. "Of course I wouldn't expect anything less from a heavy class, pleased to meet you... uh..."

Lina took a second to double check the tag that was on that avatar, revealing the name Artemis. At first she thought it was a mistake, but when she double checked by looking at her friend list she saw that the coloration marked him as a friend already. "Artemis?" she asked, the bull man giggling as he nodded. "I see you've changed... quite a bit since I last met you."

"Well I have advanced quite a bit in the game," the former female replied as he continued to smile at her. "You have, too... but you haven't used your avatar mods yet. Perhaps you should put it on right now? I'd love to see what a shapeshifter class looks like."

Lina felt a bit nervous as she could tell that her conversation has garnered more than a few stares, eager to see her change as much as they did. "I... don't know about this," she said as she quickly put two and two together. "I mean... I notice that there are no female avatars..."

There was a chuckle from the other two as Artemis leaned forward and explained that it was a shock to the system when he had gone from male to female... and if she was feeling particularly nervous they could go somewhere else to get her changed. Lina swallowed hard and nodded, then nearly jumped a bit when she heard the others nearby give an audible groan of disappointment. The hefty male grinned and grabbed her by the hands to pull her up and out of the sports bar to an area where they could get a bit more privacy.

Surprisingly that area was one of those private pagodas that were around the pool, the water reflecting off the spandex body of the bull man in front of Lina. "So... your avatar is a guy now," Lina mentioned as Artemis pulled the curtains shut. "Don't you think it's a bit odd that's the only option? I mean, all kinds of other games let you choose female avatars, why doesn't -"

"You'll know why soon enough, don't worry," Artemis replied with a smirk as he cut her off. "But I'll leave it as a surprise, I'm told that if you don't want this it won't affect you, anyway. Let's see just how open you are..."

The cryptic spandex creature's grin widened even more as Lina looked at him in confusion, only to gasp slightly when his hands went up under her shirt. She could feel the soft fabric like it was actually touching her and all she could do was stand there in dumbfounded awe as the clothes she was wearing were taken off her avatar. It felt like she was actually naked as Artemis took a step back and undid the loincloth that he was wearing before letting it fall to the floor. Her eyes widened in amazement at the thick spandex cock that hung between his legs, her mouth dropping slightly at the extremely erotic display in front of her.

It was clear that was what Artemis wanted to see as he said that it was her turn to change, motioning to her body. He wanted her to use the bodysuit, but did that mean she was going to be a guy as well? At first the thought was alien to her, but the more she dwelled on it the more it became... strangely appealing. It wouldn't be the first time that she had a male avatar before, though it was mostly to draw off the ire of those who cared to ridicule her, but this time she was doing it for a completely different reason. The community here was so welcoming, too, that it alone made her not care that she was going to get an avatar change, though as she moved to put on the suit a thought in the back of her mind wondered about the sensations she had already experienced and what this was going to do to her.

As soon as Lina equipped the suit, though, all that got pushed to the side as tendrils of white liquid began to materialize out of the ground and surround her. Though it was fluid in nature the second that it touched her body it turned to a spandex texture while it climbed up her legs. She let out a slight gasp of surprise as she could feel every inch of her skin getting coated, covering up her body like the zentai clothing that she owned. Unlike her clothes, though, this stuff felt very much alive as it quickly moved up her legs and began to latch around her arms while the bulk of it moved up to her waist.

Even before it got to her groin she could see that her avatar was becoming more masculine, the calves thickening with new muscle along with her thighs as the vibrant white fabric continued to climb up her body. Artemis watched with his arms crossed as Lina was suddenly awash in pleasure that radiated from her transformed parts, falling back on the bed as her hands drifted towards her crotch. When it got there and her fingers pushed their way over the fabric she found nothing there, only a smooth expanse of synthetic flesh that caused her to writhe as her hand ran between her legs. As she continued to feel the area her gasps turned to grunts as her hips and waist began to expand as well.

"I have to say I like it," Artemis said as he went over to the changing human, once more sliding his hands along Lina's thighs as the shiny substance pushed its way up her chest and arms. "I can't wait to see you when you're done."

"I... should have guessed... this would happen..." Lina panted as her breaths came out in heavy pants as the liquid spandex crawled over her chest, her already modest breasts shrinking down into her chest as the mass seemed to flow into her biceps. While she wasn't getting nearly as muscular as her heavy counterpart she had lost all manner of her femininity through her transformation, giving her the appearance of a strong male, save for her groin, from the neck down. The bodysuit wasn't done yet, though, as she could feel it creeping up her thickening neck towards her head.

Lina began to feel it cover her head just as Artemis came in for a kiss, their spandex-clad bodies rubbing sensuously against one another as his muzzle went in and pressed their lips together. As she felt that also strangely spandex tongue push into her mouth the liquid version curled over her lips as well, completely coating them. Part of her expected to start growing a muzzle as well, but to her surprise her face actually seemed to smooth out and lose its features. It didn't matter much to her, though, as their make-out session continued.

When Artemis backed away Lina's transformation had been made almost complete, the bull man pulling her back up so that she could see herself in a nearby mirror. When she looked at herself it wasn't just like staring at herself wrapped up in spandex, it was like she had become a completely different person. She looked like a doll, all the features that could have identified her as her were smoothed away or replaced with the body of a masculine male, save for the blank spot on her groin. While her identity hadn't been particularly important to her before, the fact she had completely lost it caused her to be a bit paranoid, especially when she leaned forward and put her hands on the smooth dimples where her eyes used to be.

"Not quite done yet," the other creature whispered into the area where her ear would have been as she felt those thick fingers go back down towards where her sex used to be. "Trust me when I say this is going to be an experience you're not going to forget..."

Lina felt one of those meaty arms wrap around her chest, feeling both the euphoria of that slinky substance rubbing together and the surreal sensation of it sliding across pectorals instead of boobs. As that thick arm pressed against her she soon found out why as the tip of the thick maleness began to push between her synthetic cheeks, which caused her back to arch as his other hand massaged her groin. The fabric there began to bulge in the palm of Artemis' hand as it continued to swell, forming into a similar appendage as the one being slid into her. Her hands reached back and grabbed the spandex bull by his thighs as he pushed into her, the cock spreading her anal walls open as they seemed to effortlessly glide into her.

"Now that you've sufficiently modded yourself out," Artemis chuckled as Lina's cock began to throb as it was molded by the bull behind her, "let's see you put that power into action. Since you've already got the white spandex, why don't we do something simple? Kirdos has these brilliant white tigers that are made out of marble, why don't you try that?"

It was the first time that Lina had remembered that this transformation was even related to a game since she had started, but then realized that one of the abilities that she had was now available. During the various matches she thought it was just something she hadn't unlocked yet, but now she realized that she never had the capability until now. The words of Artemis continued to echo in her mind and she began to think about those marble tigers, having already fought them before she knew what they looked like as her body began to shift for the second time. Once more Artemis caught her as her knees gave out from the surge of lustful pleasure, mostly from the extra inches of cock that had been both shoved into her and that had grown out of her own groin, but also partially from her newest transformation.

Though the spandex remained as such both of them watched in the mirror as the bright white began to grow even shinier and black marbling patterns appeared. The streaks on her body quickly formed into tiger stripes, though all Lina could fixate on was the growing cock between her legs being stroked by the bull man behind her. It had already surpassed most normal ones that she had seen in her life and continued to grow until it was a hefty nine inches completely erect as her hands and feet grew more feline in nature. With her body now completely male it seemed to give Artemis the signal to start stroking her newest appendage as a second one, a ropy tiger tail, stretched out from the spandex that surrounded her tailbone. It wrapped around the bull's waist as his thick arm moved down from her chest to her waist in order to get better leverage to thrust inside her.

"Oh god..." Lina said as Artemis pounded into Lina's newly-formed spandex prostate, causing the cock in his hand to surge with pleasure. "Damn Artemis..."

"That's right..." Artemis huffed back as they moved to the bed, the bull thrusting hard and deep into the newest convert of Modino's faction. "How does it feel to be a spandex animal guy? To have that cock throbbing between your legs and my fingers?"

Lina couldn't respond, the only thing that came out of her... his, came out of his expanding muzzle was a low groan. It was all the joy of being penetrated while having a tool to do the same, plus a body that he could shape to his desires and be completely covered in spandex. Lina was in sheer heaven as he felt a pair of ears form out of his skull into a rounded feline shape. As he braced himself on all fours on the bed he looked down at his hands and saw them shine in the light, giving them the look of the marble texture but still made of the same spandex as the bucking male behind him.

The two newly-forged males spent nearly an hour exploring one another's bodies, from Artemis continuing to plow into him as Lina was on all fours to the bull man being on his back with the white tiger's new cock sliding into the other male's hole. The two also sixty-nined one another and Lina shifted into a bull creature, himself, so that they could make the joke of the two riding one another, one of them on their back with the other straddling them with their cock embedded deep inside them. By the time they were finished the two males laid together in a sexual heap, their sweat-drenched spandex bodies still rubbing frictionlessly against one another as they cuddled for a while.

"Well, now that you know how to use that suit of yours," Artemis said as he got up, materializing his minigun that he put on his shoulder. "Ready to put it to good use?"

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As Lina took off his headset he breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the clock and realizing that he had logged another four hours after he had transformed. When he looked down at himself he couldn't help but grin, seeing the lizardman corrupter form that he had transformed into during their last match. When he tried to turn into something else he found himself unable to, no doubt something that was tied to the game itself. It really didn't matter to him, though, as far as he was concerned he brought the best asset of the game back with him as he began to stroke his spandex cock once more.

Just as he was about to log off for the night he was caught once more by Faust, Lina gleefully turning on mic chat as he continued to stroke himself. "Figures that you'd already have a leg up on me for the leaderboard," the voice of Faust said with a chuckle. "Of course I was silly enough to take a long time before I got into my mods."

"I'm surprised you got into them at all given your need to go at it without armor," Lina replied with a laugh. "Of course now I'm going to need a new screen name, this one doesn't really work anymore."

"Tough break," Faust chuckled.

"Well at least I won't have to worry about getting hassled online anymore," Lina exclaimed. "Wait... this body is for real, right? I'm not just hallucinating or something and it's not all in my head?"

"Well let me help you out with that particular question," Faust replied before the line suddenly went dead. Lina frowned as he sat there in his chair and attempted to reconnect, only to hear the sound of a phone ringing faintly before there was a knock at the door. The noise caused the spandex lizardman to nearly fall down to the floor before he jumped off of the desk and ran towards the door.

When Lina opened the door he saw a rubber-scaled naga posing seductively in the doorframe, slithering his way in and closing the door behind him before the two reptiles kissed one another. "Spandex... I should have known..." Faust said with a fanged grin. "You would look real good in rubber, though."

"Well there's always the chance out in the battlefield for you to make it happen," Lina replied. "How did you manage to slither that serpentine form all the way from your place over here? You're even naked..."

"The game makes us look like our normal forms out there somehow," Faust explained as his rubber snake body began to coil around him. "I can't wait to take you out on the town, this game has been spreading through the entire city, possibly the world. But that's neither here nor there, I'd really like to see your gaming rig, and possibly your bedroom."

Lina just watched as the muscular naga continued to slide his rubber body all around him before heading towards the bedroom, stopping only to turn his serpentine head back and winking at him. The entire time the spandex lizardman continued to stroke his cock and licked his lips as Faust finally disappeared completely into his bedroom. "I wonder who's going to be on top between the two of us..." the male said to himself as he felt his tail wagging eagerly behind him in anticipation. "At least I can't wait to see how this battle goes, it's probably going to take at least three matches for us to find out for sure... although it'll be more like five."