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Uplink - A New look on life

Author's Note: -- The first in a series of stories taking place in the same universe. I am aiming to explore a concept that has always fascinated me, so we will see where it leads~

***

Alex flipped through the pages of a 'Futurist' magazine. He was trying, unsuccessfully, to distract himself from an appointment he had made. Well, an appointment he had been assigned. A pretty significant difference in his mind.

Alex was young, healthy, and bright, which was always a decent setup in life. The world seemed to fall into the open palms of his type, presenting opportunity after opportunity. Alex had been given plenty of chances to make something of himself, but alas, Alex had one defining trait that always seemed to nip him in the ass.

He was lazy. Really lazy, actually, to the point he had failed to hold any job for more than a month. Something always ate away at him, and he couldn't bring himself work.

And that's how he ended up here, in the waiting room of Synth-Tech, thousands of dollars in debt.

He sighed. He had seen it coming for months now, but he was too lazy to find a solution. He knew the consequences ahead of time too. Anyone who falls into considerable debt with no merit for making it up was.. well. Reprocessed in a way.

"Alex? Catherine is ready to see you now."

Alex looked up from the magazine, a young black woman giving him a half smile. -- She knew what was going to happen, and for most it was bittersweet.

"Down the hall and to the left." She added, turning back to her computer as Alex passed her.

"Thanks." Alex stated without much enthusiasm, passing through the doorway and down the long, white hallway. -- It seemed out of place, like he was walking through a hospital, but he knew better than that. He turned into the room and stepped into a small chamber with a large, tube like container in the corner. -- Catherine gave him a smile as she typed away into a terminal beside the machine.

"Alex, I assume?~" The woman asked. "I'm Catherine, I will be your uplink technician today!"

Alex nodded and shook her hand. She seemed a lot more excited about the process than the woman at the front of the building.

"I know you must be nervous, but I promise this process isn't painful. A bit disorienting but that is to be expected considering it all~" She laughed to herself.

Alex faked a smile and nodded, not really sure how everything was going to proceed.

"Alright, I guess we should just get to it then! I will need you to strip down and step into that machine there in the corner. Make sure you take off anything magnetic."

Alex nodded again, pulling off his t-shirt and stripping down to his underwear. He blushed lightly as he stripped off his boxers, but managed to get himself into the glass pod fairly quickly.

"Alright. The uplink process will take a few minutes, but I will be here to walk you through it. On the other side you will be given a default body and you can customize it as you wish. Until then just try to stay calm~"

Catherine closed the glass pod and resumed typing at her terminal. Alex took a deep breath and closed his eyes. His heart was racing, but he tried his best to calm himself. -- His eyes jolted open as the sound of a blast of pressurized gas flooded the capsule, and a pair of needles pressed into the back of his neck.

"Ow! Ahh.. shhhh" - Alex stammered, his voice quickly slurring as two metal arms lifted up underneath his shoulders. -- Alex's body was entirely numb, his spinal cord having been severed at his neck by the needles. He didn't feel a thing as artificial tubes aligned with arteries in his neck, blood and oxygen being provided by the capsule.

"Great job! That's the worst part of the whole thing." Alex could faintly hear Catherine say from outside the pod. "Your head has been removed from your body, and it will be put on ice as a potential organ donor."

Catherine held a mirror up to the pod, and alex could see his detached body lower into the floor, being taken into storage. Catherine pressed a few buttons, and a loud whirring noise began to pick up around him.

"This is the Nerual Uplink processor!" She shouted, her voice quiet in comparison to the machine. "It will digitize your consciousness and convert it into data!"

Alex's eyes were beginning to feel heavy. His mind could barely focus as bots and pieces of it were digitally stored.

"It will only be a few seconds now! It looks succccnnngffnng uahhln"

Alex sat up quickly in his bed, jolting awake. He looked around him, seeing nothing but white in every direction. He looked down at his hands, darker than before, only to be interrupted by a female voice in his head.

"Welcome to your new life! I am your artificial neural assistant. You can call me Ana."

Alex turned around, looking for any sign of the voice.

"You don't need to look for me. I am in your head! Well.. technically you have access to my API but that isn't really important..."

Alex turned around shakily, legs hanging off the bed.

"You... are in my head?" He asked, the idea seemingly insane. "Like.. like in my brain? Like a parasite?"

The AI smirked. Alex wasn't sure how he could tell but she felt.. smug.

"I suppose that's one way of thinking of it.~" Ana laughed. "Think of me like a guide. Like uh.. that fairy in that Nintendo game from way back."

Alex rolled his eyes. "Yeah that's maybe not the most encouraging analogy. But I get it."

Alex stepped off of his bed and onto the white floor, only to fall forward and land back on his bed.

"Wh.. what the fuck?" He stammered, shaking as he held onto the sheets. Ana laughed.

"You can't leave your bed until you make your character. The virtual world has no idea where to put you until you have a body."

Alex squirmed to the absolute middle of the bed. "Fine. What do I do to make a body?" He asked, making sure not to fall off again.

Ana brought up a big UI screen in front of the bed. It showed every aspect of his character, or more accurately, the lack of aspects. -- It was blank, with no data filled out whatsoever.

"All you have to do is fill out this form. Any traits you want will cost you credits, which you can pay off by working. You can go as bold as you want if you think you can work off the debt!"

Alex groaned. "I just got out of a ton of debt by selling my organs. I am not planning on getting right back into it." Alex stated, looking through his options. "Is there anything I can get for free?"

Ana paused as she thought it over. "Well yeah, I guess. But if you want a free character that will mean randomizing every trait of yours. Are you sure you want to do that?"

Alex nodded. "Yep. Whatever lets me relax and not owe anybody anything."

Ana seemed hesitant. "Uh.. are you sure? It will give you random EVERYTHING, you understand that right?"

Alex rolled his eyes. "Yeah, i get it. But I really don't care that much. I'm not too attached to me."

Ana relented. "Alright, let's roll the dice then I guess. Here is your new randomly generated body!"

The screen flickered as it chose random for all of the options. Alex stared ahead as individual traits locked themselves in.

Gender - Female

Species - Lioness

Orientation - Bisexual

"Wait. Wait wait? It can change my gender?!" Alex asked, shocked, looking at the woman on the screen. He groaned as he looked through all the little details, mentally kicking himself for being so careless.

"Submissive.. size queen.. wh.. I don't even know what that one means." Alex sighed, reading 'Vore Enthusiast'.

Ana chuckled. "It means you like to eat smaller critters, like mice n stuff."

Alex went wide eyed. "L.. like whole?! What the fuck? No. I don't want this."

Ana exhaled deeply. "Well dude, you shouldn't have chosen random. I mean, you can still change it, but not for free."

Alex lit up. "Oh?! Well hell yeah I'm gonna change it then. How much will it cost?" He asked, hoving over some traits on his profile. "It says.. 2 million credits to alter species... 10 million for gender... jesus"

Ana mentally bit her lip. "Eesh.. Yeah that's not cheap. That's like, a couple years of work, at least"

Alex groaned. "Fuck. This is bullshit! I shouldn't have to pay just to have a body I am comfortable in." He kept looking through traits, building up his bill as he fixed everything.

Ana thought for a moment, before chuckling to herself. "Well... technically you could be comfortable for free... if you really wanted to."

Alex paused, looking at his bill of 26 million credits. "Yeah? And how am I gonna do that?" He asked sarcastically.

"Well.. if you were to uncheck that box that says 'Memories' on it, when you load into your body you will be a blank slate." Ana noted, highlighting the box. "Actually, you would earn a few million credits as well, because the system could free up that data storage. You could make a few changes with the money you earn."

Alex stared ahead for a few moments before responding. "Wait.. so you are saying I should just... dump my memories and become some lion chick? Are you fucking insane?"

Ana shrugged. "It would work wouldn't it? I thought you weren't attached to your body?"

Alex groaned. "I.. I'm not, but I don't wanna be female! That would be weird!" He blushed, thinking about the concept.

"Would it?" Ana asked. "I mean.. You wouldn't know any better. You could make yourself however you want and then kinda just... poof into it. It actually sounds kinda fun in a way. Build your own life, you know?"

Alex was struggling with the concept. "I mean.. okay sure but..." He thought about it for a second. "Could I store my memories and recover them later? Like... make a body, give it some traits that are..." Alex hesitated to say it, but couldn't think of better phrasing. "Uh... i guess... profitable? And then recover my mind later?"

Ana took a moment to analyze what Alex said, but when she realized his intent she blushed. "Oh. Oh! Oh gosh. You mean like..."

Alex nodded quickly. "Yeah like that. It wouldn't be me! But i would be her temporarily i guess. It's better than my other options." Alex thought about what he was committing to. "Okay. Let's do that. I think I can make that work. Ana, change my name to Alexa."

***

David cursed himself as he stared at the broken glass of booze on the floor, his friends laughing across the booth from him.

"Nice goin' dude, they are gonna make you pay for that~" David's panther buddy teased. "Good thing you are loaded or this place would be milking you dry.

David rolled his eyes as he stepped around the broken glass and walked up to one of the bartenders, a tall zebra with white tattoos. "Hey, uh.. I knocked my glass over at my booth and i think someone should clean it up. Might be kinda dangerous."

"Yeah, that's no problem, I'll have Alexa come clean it up." -- David thanked the equine and walked back to his table, careful to step around his mess.

A few minutes passed, and David mostly kept to himself while his friends talked, more interested in the girls at the club. There were all kinds of kitties in the building, which was unsurprising for a club catering to felines. A lynx across the room had been looking at him occasionally, and he was mustering up the courage to approach her.

"Hey~ I hear you guys spilled some glass?"

David turned and blushed, seeing a busty mouse girl to his side. "Oh.. uh.. yeah~ I spilled my drink. Sorry.."

She laughed and bent over to pick up the shards, her tail flicking in the air behind her. "Nah it's no big deal~ Happens all the time. I'll get you a new glass~"

Before David could protest the mouse was off, tail flicking behind her tight booty shorts as she dumped the glass in a bin. -- David never took his eyes off her as she returned with another gin.

"Here yah go~ Enjoy! If you need anything else just look around for Jessie, I'm actually about to get off my shift."

David blushed as she turned, but grabbed her shoulder before she could get too far.

"W-wait. You said you are done working?" David asked, turning her around.

"Hmn? Oh yeah~ I have 2 hours off before i start up again~" She said with a laugh.

David's brow furrowed. "Wait.. 2 hours? Are you taking off for lunch?"

The mouse blushed and giggled. "No actually, I uh.. well it's a long story. How about I go get changed and I can tell you over a drink or two?"

***

Alexa leaned against the lion, laughing as she struggled with her 4th martini.

"S-so I'm locking up the place, I've got half of tha building's account locked to my profile, and I'm makin a beeline for the Personalization Center" She says, finishing her story. "And as I turn roun to cross the street, I walk face-fucking fur.. face first into fuckin.. fucking Paully over there!"

She laughs, pointing to a burly tiger in a nice suit, talking with the zebra. -- David was astonished. "So.. you tried to steal HOW much from this place?!"

Alexa giggled. "It was like 20 million credits duuuude. It was so mucchh. I was so close too!" She sipped her drink again. "But yeah~ He caught me n he made me repay everything i was gonna steal instead of reporting me to the police. Still owe em 7 mill"

The mouse closed her eyes and buried her face into the lion's arm. "He paid to turn me into this little mouse girl. Said it would be good for business. He wasn't wrong~"

David blushed at the thought. "Oh..? You weren't a mouse before?"

Alexa blushed. "Nope~ I was a busty lioness~ Oh gods you would have fallen for me. I was cute~"

David turned dark red, pulling the mouse a bit closer. "You are cute now~" David slipped his furred hand down the back of Alexa's cropped jeans, groping her ass.

Alexa moaned lightly, tugging the lion's arm as she pulled him off of the booth.

"Whoah.. wait where are--"

Alexa put a finger to David's lips. "Just follow me and stop talking~"

David didn't need to be told twice, letting the mouse lead her down a dark hallway and to an old wooden door. -- She fumbled around for a second and unlocked it, tugging them both into her humble home.

It was dark, small, and smelled like perfume and weed. The mouse pulled her date onto the couch with her, slipping out of her top and bra all at once.

"I want you to break me~" She whispered into the lion's ear, tugging on his shirt. -- David needed no further invitation, slipping out of his jeans and sliding on top of the small mouse.

"You smell so good~" Alexa half moaned, tossing her jeans and panties across her coffee table. "God I'm so fucking horny.."

The eager rodent grabbed David's cock roughly in her left hand, bringing herself up for a passionate kiss with the other. -- She squeaked as David lifted her off the couch and set her across the table.

"Oh fuck yes~ Break my furniture and me with it~" She moaned, feeling the feline climb on top of her, his cock pressed firmly against her aching sex. "I'm loud~ I hope you dooAHnn~!"

Alexa moaned as she felt her quivering cunt parted by her lover. She gasped as he hovered above her, one hand just above her shoulder, the other firmly squeezing her tender ass.

She gazed into the eyes of the lion and grinned, wanting to test her new friend.

"Choke me." She stated.

David was taken back slightly. "W..wait really?"

The mouse nodded and blushed deeply. "Its virtual. I can't die. I cum harder when I'm unconscious~"

The way she said it sent a shiver down the feline's spine. He nodded and climbed onto the table, resting on his knees. -- He pistoned his thighs, cock pumping slowly in and out of the rodent's leaking pussy. He lifted both hands and rested them around her neck, leaning forward as he squeezed.

Alexa gasped. She couldn't breathe, blood stagnating in her head as the cock inside her burned. She coughed, eyes watering as her legs weakly fought back, before going limp, her head rolling to the side as her pussy twitched, leaking slowly as she came herself to sleep.

David groaned, grabbing Alexa by her waist and thrusting into her a few times before holding her close, grunting as he filled her with the best orgasm he had in years.

He took a moment to recover, breathing heavily as he pulled out, cum dripping from his cock. -- He wiped it off on the couch, and grabbed Alexa by her waist, lifting her limp body up off of the table.

He set her down on the couch, resting her head on the arm, and searched her kitchen for something to drink. He filled a glass of water at her sink, and heard quiet murmuring from the couch.

David walked back into the living room, only to find the mouse fiddling with a small mint container she grabbed from a drawer of the coffee table.

"Just... need a bit to cool down after uh.. th.. that~" The mouse stammered, popping a hard candy into her mouth. "They don't let us smoke in here so.."

David realized that she wasn't eating candy. "Oh! Are those edibles?" He asked, holding his hand out to look at one.

The mouse smiled. "Heh~ Didnt take you as the type to get high, if I'm being honest." She handed a candy over to the lion, putting the case back in the table.

"Well people surprise you sometimes. I didn't think you would be into it either for what it's worth." David chuckled, sucking on the candy.

The mouse girl giggled. "Yeah well It's not my choice. You work here, you get told what to like."

"What do you mean?" David asked, genuinely confused by her response.

Alexa crawled towards the lion, leaning against him on the couch, head resting on his wide shoulders.

"When you work here you forfeit certain aspects of your character. For instance, I got to originally keep my species and orientation and all that, but i had to give up the things I like." Alexa nibbled lightly on the lion's neck. "They put a thing on my account, it lets other people swap the things that Im into. It helps all of us be compatible with our customers."

Alexa half smiled. "Like.. what are you into? I'll show you. It's no big deal. Honestly I should have done this earlier."

David blinked. "Wait. What? You mean like.. you can change your personality?"

Alexa grinned. "Well no. I'm not allowed to change it. But you could~"

David frowned. "Isn't that... kind of fucked up?"

Alexa shrugged. "I guess so. But I must not have cared all that much. My memories are locked behind a 2 million credit paywall. Whoever I was before obviously didn't care about who I am now."

David sighed. This was heavy. He knew going to a stripclub might be.. morally gray, bit this was on another level.

"Well, fuck that bitch! You can be whoever you want to be. It doesn't matter who she was before." David said, trying to lighten her up. "Who do you want to be?"

The mouse thought for a moment. "Well... that's the problem. I don't know what I want. Yesterday I slept with a tiger who was a heavy smoker so now I love weed because he made me that way. And even though I know he made me that way only a day ago, I feel like Ive been smoking and shit my whole life."

She leaned against David and held him close. "My personality changes every week. Tomorrow i'll be a different person, the next day Ill be different again. And each time feels genuine. Its like fallimg really into the role of a character you are pretending to be."

She forced a smile. "So.. I dont really even know who Alexa is. I'm kinda just whoever my clients want me to be." The mouse closed her eyes, squeezing David's arm tightly. "So for now, I wanna be whatever you want me to be. I like you~ I wanna make you happy."

David stared across the room. There was nothing to live for here. Just a small apartment with almost nothing in it, and a broken girl who deserved much better.

"No. No fuckin way. This is messed up and I am going to fix this."

Alexa laughed. "What do you mean?"

David stood up, looking for where he set his wallet. "This! All of this! Look at you. Look at how they TREAT you here. Like you aren't worth more than the cash you bring in."

David had to take a breath to calm himself down.

"I'm going to pay off your debt. And then we are going to get out of here, and you are going to figure out who you want to be."

David smiled at the girl. "I will be back in a bit. I need to talk to your boss."

And without another word David left. -- Alexa sighed, sinking into the cushions, not sure how to react.

Everything was happening all at once. She wanted to chase after David and tell her boss to go fuck himself, but she also wanted to stop him because she didn't feel worth the trouble.

The mouse stared at the door for nearly an hour. Her mind was racing. Did David abandon her? Did her manager refuse a deal? What could be taking so...

The door opened, and a tall, muscular lion entered the room. Alexa's eyes widened, and she sat up quickly on the couch.

It wasn't David. He was taller, a heftier build, he...

He stepped to the side, a petite mouse girl with ample breasts was holding the lion's hand, biting her lip.

"This is my sister Alexa~" The mouse teased, voice oozing sex.

Alexa's jaw dropped, staring at a girl who looked like her twin.

The lion approached Alexa, grinning ear to ear. "Your boyfriend wanted to buy you out, but he wasn't as rich as he led on." He squeezed the new mouse's hand lightly. "So we offered to let you two live together, and when you both can afford it, you can go free."

The lion pushed the mouse onto the couch and into Alexa's lap.

"Meet Daphne~ We may have neglected to mention she would be living with you, and not the other way around"

Daphne looked up at Alexa, a tear forming in her eyes. "I.. I fucked up" She whispered, leaning into her. "I'm sorry for this..."

Alexa held the mouse closely. "For what?" Alexa asked, before looking up to the lion.

He grinned, unzipping his jeans. "You know, I hear incest sells pretty well around here."

***

Alexa moaned quietly, feeling her sister's nose wriggle inside of her cunt. She spread her legs wide, pushing her deeper as she bit her lip.

The two had spent all evening with a pair of clients who ended up being too skittish to fuck. When their shift ended they wasted no time returning to their small room, and jumping straight into bed.

"Please Daphne, don't string me along like those assholes.~"

Daphne giggled, nuzzling her sister's glistening mound, teasing her bean with her nose. "I wasn't planning on it luv~"

8 years had passed since the two mice had met. In that time they found themselves at the center of the brothel's attractions, performing nightly for an ever growing crowd. They would tease each other for a few hours while dancing, before sneaking off to find the right clients to woo.

Daphne moaned as her sister squeezed around her maw, cunt drooling as she squirmed. She eagerly licked her sister's orgasm clean, crawling up to give the mouse a sloppy kiss.

"I can taste myself on your lips~" Alexa giggled. "I taste pretty damn good~"

Daphne rolled her eyes. "You like the taste of anyone's cum you fucking pervert~"

Alexa giggled. She wasn't wrong.

The two mice cuddled for about an hour before getting up for their next shift. They smiled and greeted the owner on their way into the club, climbing onto the stage to start their next dancing session. -- Across the floor the owner and the barkeeper exchanged a few words.

"They really think they have worked here for 8 years?" The zebra asked, stunned by how quickly the lion had adapted to her new body.

"You ask too many questions Johnny. Keep asking and you might find the answers the same way she did."

The tiger finished his whiskey and walked back towards his office. Johnny shook his head while watching the twins dance, blushing when one of them gave him a wink. "Fucking cats man...")