Bentley's Scale Problems
#3 of Star Fox: Rebellion
Bentley was in awe of the technological prowess on display all around him. The Machine he was repairing was some relic of a bygone age its purpose eluded him. He wasn't alone in that Slippy Toad chief mechanic and head of science for Star Fox couldn't make sense of what its was supposed to do. They had carefully taken it apart cleaned out a few millennia of dust and entropy. Every part had been scanned every bit of data scrutinized and logged. Finally they were putting it back together in a controlled environment with the goal of turning the device on and seeing what happened. The code made sense but it was in a language neither of them recognized so they were hooking it up to an isolated system to try and translate it.
Bentley stood up from tightening the last bolt and was struck of the thousandth time how very much he owed Star Fox. The teams medic Fay Spaniel had fixed his cracked shell and wrecked spine in an hour. "All clear on this end. Quintuple checked and ready to rock." he said walking to his wheelchair behind the safety shield. It wasn't that he couldn't stand but years in the chair had left his legs somewhat weak.
"All good on my end as well this is pretty exciting." Slippy said joining him behind the shield. "Ready?" the toad asked as he took hold of one of the two mad-scientist style power switches. The design had been chosen for two reasons. The first is was hard to set off by accident and secondly because both of them thought it would look cool.
Bentley took hold of the second switch before replying. "Ready. On three. one... two... three..." Bentley threw the switch. An electric humm filled the air as power coursed through the ancient device, internal fans whirred as hard drives booted up.
"Bentley look!" Slippy said drawing Bentley's gaze from the still awakening machine to their readout terminal. Scrolling across the screen was a mix of Cornerian text and the strange language of the machine. The isolated module they had set up to decode the ancient machine was communicating and fast in the few seconds Bentley had been watching the page had scrolled on twice. "It's almost like it wants to communicate." Slippy said a touch of fear to his voice.
"Almost nothing! Look at that!" Bentley said as the questions from the device were suddenly in Cornerian. "It must be some sort of compatibility program. Trying to adapt to our system." his own nerves creeping up. Before any other words could be exchanged a message flashed on the screen. [Playing: Last Testament.VID]
A light flickered on and a curious creature appeared in a holographic display. Bentley had never seen any creature quite like it. The closest he could compare it to was being some kind of ape. His pondering was halted when the hologram began to speak. "If you are hearing this it means I am dead and that you have recovered my ship. Or at the very least one of the many computers on board that carry a copy of this message. Long ago my ship left one of our homeworlds on a scientific endeavor loaded with the latest technology. It proved useless when we were struck in transit and lost 89% percent of the crew and our navigation. We arrived on the edge of a strange new galaxy with no real idea where we were or how to get home. Thanks to our planet shaper systems creating livable worlds and ready food supplies was simple. Our loss of crew meant that a gene pool diverse enough to function as a colony was impossible we elected to use our Bio-technology to adjust local fauna and ourselves and moved on to a number of worlds. I say we, but myself and a handful of others chose to remain on the ship to help organize things. Time went on and we realized that no one was coming back for us and now I'm the last." The hologram hung his head and. "I've spent the last year future proofing the ship ensuring that even fifty million years won't be enough to erase everything. You have probably done some repairs just to get whatever you have working enough to hear my message, and as such are the new owner of our technology our inheritors. This device will now unlock giving you full control of it and the future before you." the hologram flickered out and the machine hissed as it opened. Slowly metal unfolded as the machine reconfigured itself into an octagonal prism, four tubes of glass formed pillars near the center, mechanical arms folded out of the ceiling and finally a Terminal screen folded out.
"How did all that fit in there without us noticing? We pulled that thing apart." Bentley said jaw agape as he came out from behind the shield. "There wasn't even any glass in it he said approaching the terminal.
"Nanite construction system it built half the parts while we were watching." Slippy replied and when Bentley shot him a curious glance he shrugged and said. "I was watching the command stream for the system unlock." Bentley mada brief look of acknowledgement before approaching the terminal. Gently he tapped the keys finding the terminal happy to provide him with a list of documents on how to run the various functions of the device. "Holy Toledo." Slippy said from over Bentley's shoulder. "This is some miraculous tech."
"Miraculous falls a little short. This level of advancement wouldn't even seem plausible if i'd have been told about it two months ago. There's even instructions how to build more of the Nanomite construction units." Bentley said stepping away from the device for a moment. Slippy took his place digging through the documents.
"This... this is bad." Slippy said as he scoured a document. Before Benley could ask Slippy went on. "This machine is the biotech they used to turn local fauna into creatures... well creatures like us. You could create an army of mindless drones with thing it would just take enough bodies.
"What if used that to our advantage?" Bentley asked. "We have the weapons and skills we just don't have the numbers to take on that pompous pooch. With this thing we could have the numbers. Make them out of non sentient beings." Bentley studied Slippy's features closely as the toad went from aghast to considering.
"Test it. At least two samples from two totally different planets" Slippy said finally. "I'll oversee one and you the other. The only other way I see to do it is to test it on ourselves." "If it works properly. I can't see any reason we shouldn't use it on ourselves. Tell me you've never looked at your self and wished to be taller or stronger." Bentley said already imagining how he would change himself. "I know I've been wishing since before my shell cracked." a phantom twinge crossed his back at the memory.
"Let's focus on making sure this works properly." Slippy said turning back to the computer. "Looks like there's a sample retrieval option we can activate." with a few keystrokes a metal column formed in the machines center before two wasp like drones each as big as Slippy detached and flew off to their assigned target planets. "Nothing to do now but wait... think i'll go inspect the ships."
"I'll stay here and run some tests on the practicality of making some of these machines." Bentley said Taking Slippys place at the terminal as the Toad headed out of the lab.
"Please help me!" A female voice screamed causing bentley to jerk awake. The room had darkened after her had fallen asleep in his chair. "Somebody please help! I'm trapped!" the woman screamed again she had such an accent to her chinese that Bentley could barely understand it. Rising from his chair Bentley followed the sound to find one of the Machines four chambers was now occupied with a Green and black viper with a pair of white flower like protrusions on either side of her head. "Ah! Please you must help me!" The viper called pressing her head to the glass.
"Calm down I will get you out." Bentley said as he stepped over to the terminal. Pretty as those blue eyes of her were he knew he couldn't pass up this chance to test the capacities of the machine. "This may take a bit."he said activating the body modding system. After a brief humm it provide him with a three dimensional model at the bottom was a scale labeled ophidia morphic on one end and at the other end it read Anthropomorphic. As he slid the scale from where it sat towards Anthropomorphic the model changed shapes first growing arms then a distinct torso what looked like breasts before the tail split away and became a pair of legs. Bentley slid the slider back until the legs vanished it just looked more appealing that way. Further sliders appeared allowing him to tweak the model in various ways. After selecting a thin but voluptuous form he tapped an icon on the head. Here a pop up message informed him that this was the neural adjustment and would require a scan prior before any adjustments could be made. Bentley shrugged before confirming the scan. A mechanical arm lowered from the ceiling of the tube and quickly snagged the viper woman behind her jaw.
"Turn it off! Turn it off!"
Bentley watched as the scan produced a series of names and values. Having read the instructions Bentley swiftly found what he was looking for the latest of her memories and how this snake -Master Viper- apparently perceived him. With a few key-strokes the adjustments were locked in and with the click of a mouse the machine began to work spigots at the top of the tube let loose a grey fluid that swiftly filled the chamber a glance at the terminal screen told him this was in fact a nanobot soup.he could see movement in the chamber the fluid swirling as parts of it were converted into new mass for Vipers body or was displaced by her growth as the mass was added and there was a flash of light and he could briefly make out her silhouette in the tub and what he saw made him look back to the display confirming what he had seen. As he gazed back the Transformation was completed the last of the nanobot soup drained away. Viper was now considerably larger even coiled on her hips as she presently was Viper was double his height her breasts each as large as his head swayed slightly as the once roomy tube struggle to contain her. Fearing the glass might shatter Bentley hit the release button. The tube sucked up into the ceiling letting Viper slide free her lower half letting her glide across the floor.
"Master Bentley, Thank you so much for my new body, my new life." she said in slightly accented English as she circled around the turtle her tail coiling about his body taking him off his feet and into her embrace. "I feel so much more..." she said rubbing her breasts and sighing as her fingers slide over the nipples. "... Alive. Not that I wasn't before but this is pure bliss." she giggled as she toyed with her new breasts.
Bentley had been slightly afraid as Vipers coils had wrapped around him but now he was feeling a different sort of primal emotion his cock slid out of his shell standing firm the tip twitching inches from Vipers slit. "Oh, is this for me Master?" Bentley nodded in response his voice failing him. "Leave it to me master i know just what to do." Viper pressed her hips forward and Bentley's shaft slid ever so slowly in. Bentley sucked in a lung full of air as he felt a woman's sex engulf his dick for the first time. While he and Penelope had done this before his damaged nerves kept him from feeling it. Vipers arms laced behind Bentley's neck as her groin mashed against his, leaning back with him resting on her coils and her torso resting against his the question of who was on top was a real puzzler. Vipers hips were utterly motionless as the inner walls of her rhythmically clenched and unclenched along his member. Bentley's hands found Vipers tits and he began to massage the scaly flesh much to Vipers delight. "Oh yes keep doing that." she crooned before running her tongue along the turtles neck. "Just keep squeezing like that i'm bout to find inner peace." Before Bentley could ask what she meant her pussy went wild closing around his member like a vacuum seal as it milked him or his seed.and seed she received the little turtle pumping so much baby batter into her that it swelled her stomach like she had just eaten a full blown boar. After a few moments of panting both of them calmed down Bentley's dick returning to his shell leaving a few strands fluid connecting the pairs groins. Viper shifted to a standing position stroking her filled cunt. Her blue eyes locked on Bentley's with a gaze of affection.
"Thanks Viper now let's go to my quarters shall we?" Bentley asked after catching his breath.
"Of course Master." Viper said shifting her hold on him as she uncoiled herself. "But you'll have to tell me where it is." she said as she left the lad utterly shameless at the seed drooling from her slit or her nudity all that mattered to her was obeying her beloved Master Bentley. Which as far as Bentley was concerned was just fine.