"The Ontaro virus" Various TF story

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#2 of TF stuff :)

SFW story where an experimental solution to a very dangerous virus is suddenly used on an entire town. Inspired by a prompt from @Pawggers on Mastodon :D


"But Sir, this is a completely unethical solution!" The scientist yelled. "It's our only option! We can't allow any more people to die from this virus!" The head scientist replied. "But, it hasn't been tested on humans, let alone an entire village!" The head scientist walked over to a keypad on the wall, and inputted a code. The wall opened up, revealing a canister. "Get this sent to Yamahachi, with the proper instructions for the mayor, now!"

Slam! The garage door closed, as Ethan walked through the door into the house. He sighed, as he took off my mask and walked to the kitchen to grab a drink. "The restrictions for that Ontaro virus are so harsh, these masks suck!" He said, grabbing a beer out of the fridge. "Still, I guess better safe than sorry..." He sat down on the couch, and turned on the TV. "In further news, the state of Kenperth is introducing further restrictions, including a general lockdown. More on that in just a m-" He sighed, wishing that he could just wake up from this nightmare. This virus was ruining everyone's lives, all he could do was be optimistic and hope it would be over soon. Brrring! Brrrring! The phone started to ring. Ethan hopped up and quickly picked up the phone. "Hello?" He said. "Hey, Ethan! Can I come over?" The person on the other side asked. "Well... I don't know, they are introducing a lockdown..." Ethan replied, worried they would be fined. "Too bad, I'm coming over anyways. See you in a few minutes!" "Wait, no-" The call ended. Ethan put the phone down. "Damn it, Keith..." he mumbled, taking a swig of the beer.

Knock Knock Knock! Ethan opened the door, letting Keith in. "Hey, man! Lemme get a beer real quick!" Keith said, quickly rushing to the kitchen. Ethan had to admire his stubbornness. "These restrictions are so stupid, aye?" Keith chuckled, walking back over to Ethan, opening the beer. "I mean, I think they are worth something at least, I don't wanna get sick..."

"Oh, come on. This stupid virus isn't that big of a deal!" Keith says, raising his bottle. "Yeah, maybe you're right." Clink! "Cheers, they both say, both chugging their beers. Knock Knock! Both of them look over at the door, in confusion. Keith goes to the window. His eyes widened. "Ah shit, the cops are here." "I knew this would happen..." Ethan muttered, as he opened the door. Outside was a female officer, with a clipboard. "Hello officer, is there a problem?" Ethan asks, trying to seem genuine. "Yeah, we just saw a second person enter this house, what was the reason for the visit?" The officer replies, obviously not happy to be having to enforce this lockdown. "Uh..." Ethan stutters, trying to think of a lie to get out of the fine. "W-well, we are broth-" cough cough cough

The officer suddenly breaks into a coughing fit. She manages to get out; "Stay here, don't you dare try and escape!" She stumbles back to her car. Ethan closes the door, turning to Keith. "Uh, what do we do? I tried to say that we are brothers, but... that happened. We need to come up with a story, and fas-" Ethan gets cut off, as he himself starts coughing. "Y-you good bro?" Keith said, worried. cough cough cough "Y-yeah, I'm good, what's our stor-" Keith cuts him off. "D-dude..." pointing at him, or more specifically, his hand.

"W-what?" Ethan says, looking down at his hand. "Your hand hasn't always been that... hairy, has it?" Now that he mentioned it, Ethan noticed his hand did seem a bit hairier... CRACK! "Arghg, fuck! What was that?" Ethan yelled out in pain. He inspected his hand, and noticed that one of his knuckles was out of place. CRACK! POP! Ethan roared in pain. "ARRGH! OK, this is NOT normal." "Dude, what's happening?" Keith queried, before getting a good look at Ethan's hand, and gasping. Ethan grasped his arm with his other hand, as his fingers started to get stubby and inflexible. The new hair on his hand quickly grew into a thick coat of black fur, as Ethan's hand continued to malform. "C-call someone! Q-quick!" Ethan shouted in dismay. "Y-Yeah, man, I got you!" Keith replies, fumbling for his phone. He starts dialing, before starting to sneeze himself. His eyes widen, as his hands start to be covered in similar fur as Ethan.

Ethan screams, as his fingernails start to grow out into claws, and his wrist starts to click out of place on his arm. His hand crunches and snaps into an inhuman shape. He realises he can't wiggle his fingers, or turn his wrist properly. He watches in insane amounts of pain as his thumb shrinks into nothing more than a dewclaw. As his hand finishes its transformation, the same thing happens to his other hand, fingers shortening, thumb becoming a dewclaw. All the while Ethan is writhing in pain.

Keith watches in awe as his finger nails quickly grow out into claws, and his hand grows paw pads. Strangely, it doesn't hurt at all... it's fascinating... Keith is quickly knocked out of his stupor by Ethan's screams. He drops the phone and runs to Ethan's side. His other hand quickly undergoes the same transformation as the other, becoming a hybrid between a paw and a hand. The fur quickly spreads up his arm, as he kneels by Ethan's side. "Hey, hey. You're okay, I'm here." Keith quickly says, trying to comfort Ethan.

Ethan's hands are nothing more than the forepaws of some... animal... the transformation seemed to take a break. Ethan starts panting heavily... "Holy... shit..." He manages to get out. He feels a soft hand on his back, as Keith's newly furred hand rubs it. "Wha... you too?" Ethan says, before starting to sob. CRACK! Suddenly, a surge of pain runs up Ethan's arm.

Keith continues to comfort Ethan, not caring what was happening to him. All that mattered was that his friend was okay. Underneath his shirt, the fur quickly spread into a full orange pelt across his chest and back, starting to creep up his neck and down his legs...

Ethan's arms started to contort, thinning as they snapped out of place, becoming more fitted for quadrupedal life. He quickly slid out of his shirt while he still could. The pain was unbearable, he fell to his hands and knees. His arms seemed to recognize that they were touching the floor, and started painfully shrinking and extending, sealing their fate as proper forelegs. The changes reached his shoulder blades and they quickly snapped, morphing, and becoming pronounced on his back. The fur switched to a red colour, as Ethan's spine started to morph, locking his forequarters into a quadrupedal position, but a lot of the spinal changes seemed focused at his neck.

While that happened, Keith underwent a lot of changes. His neck extended, his legs were completely covered in fur, as they snapped into a digitigrade posture, bringing the only pain so far, albeit not that much. His feet quickly grew and elongated, bursting through his shoes before he had even realised it had gone that far. By now, his entire body was what looked to be an anthropomorphic fox, leaving only his head untouched. Nevertheless, he stayed by Ethan's side, doing his best to comfort him as he slowly and painfully transformed.

Ethan's neck snapped and cracked out of place, locking it into a more quadrupedal position. "ARRFGH, Fuuhck!" He shouted out, noticing his voice sounding more scruffy and less... human. The changes forced their way up his neck, elongating it painfully. His ears started to burn, as he suddenly lost all sense of sound, as they got dragged up his head, morphing into more pointy ears. "Nort thuh heahriigng!" He groaned, struggling to properly pronounce the language he had been speaking his whole life. Slowly, his hearing came back to him, and the amount of new sounds he could hear was overwhelming. He instinctively tried to bring his hands up to cover them, but his new forequarters couldn't bend that way, and he fell onto his side. "Ffruhuuckk... Ighrant spheack! ARghghrr..." Slowly, he felt his vocal chords changing, before he felt like he couldn't breathe, as a skull-splitting headache hit him and his head started to be sloped in. It felt like a cosmic hammer was slamming into his skull. His nose started to protrude from his face. "Naarroooooo!" He yelped, as he finally completely lost the ability to talk. He howled as his face was yanked with the force of a thousand suns. His tongue was stretched, flopping out of his proto-muzzle. His nose nestled on the front of his new muzzle, as it contorted and stretched. His eyes singed as his eyesight gave, he saw all the red and green fade from his vision. He tried to scream out, but all that came out was animalistic howls and whimpers. The muzzle continued to grow out, taking up a huge part of Ethan's vision. Inside his maw, his teeth grew, becoming extremely sharp, pain spreading throughout. Eventually the headache faded, and Ethan's forequarters were completely finished transforming...

Keith watched in horror as Ethan lost his human body, replaced by the body of a red panda, before his face too, started to stretch out. As Keith sat there, blindly patting Ethan's back while his muzzle grew out, he felt an extreme sense of guilt. Why wasn't he undergoing the same pain as Ethan... Why did Ethan have to go through this, and not me? It wasn't fair. "E-ethan...? Are you okay?" Ethan let out a few growls, before stopping, and nodding instead. "Oh, you lost your voice... Don't worry dude, we are gonna figure this out..."

A jolt in his spine woke Ethan back up to the reality that his transformation wasn't finished. He cried out in pain as his spine forcefully arched, locking him further into the quadrupedal body he found himself changing into. His ribcage started barreling out, and he felt like he both couldn't breathe, and was about to vomit at the same time, as all his organs rearranged in his body, bright orange fur encompassing his body as the changes progressed. Suddenly, Ethan took a huge gulp of air, as the ability to breathe came back. The changes reached his hips, and they started to quickly narrow and shrink. His legs were slowly readjusted on his body, as the hips became more defined on his body. He started to kick his legs, but got blocked by his pants, dangling on his shrinking frame. Keith, now completely an anthro fox, helped Ethan out of his pants. Thank god Keith is still here, he thought to himself. Suddenly, there was a tug above his hips. And then another, and another. Slowly, and painfully, a lump formed above his hind. It grew out, a few centimetres at a time, slowly growing striped fur on it. It almost felt... relieving. The tail seemed to stop growing, and Ethan managed to catch a glimpse of it. Suddenly, his body froze, overwhelmed as his tail started growing pain receptors. The feeling of being able to freely move his tail, a whole new appendage... it was amazing. However, the transformation didn't wait, and quickly started spreading down the legs. He felt his thighs thin, and new muscle surge throughout the legs. He felt his knees involuntarily rise, forcing him onto his feet, as his legs changed into a digitigrade stance. Finally, the last change was his feet. He felt as his feet painfully stretch out, some of it becoming part of the leg, the rest morphing, the digits becoming furred, as one toe shrunk out of existence on each footpaw. Finally, the transformation seemed to end, as Ethan flopped to his side, as if he was let go by the universe's grasp. Unfortunately, there was one more change in store. Ethan's entire body was enveloped in pain, as he shrunk smaller, and smaller, until he was the size of a regular red panda. Finally, he was finished.

Keith stared at the red panda on the floor in front of him, passed out... He started to sob, upset that both of them had lost their humanity, but mostly that Ethan went through all the suffering, while he had a smooth transition. It wasn't fair! He thought to himself. I will find whoever did this, and I and when I do, I'm gonna- Ethan started to wake back up. Keith quickly stopped crying, and steeled himself for what was coming.

Ethan woke up, and immediately saw the muzzle in his eye sight. He quickly tried to inspect himself, but his new body wasn't able to stretch and bend in the same ways. "Hey, hey now... you're gonna hurt yourself!" Ethan looked up, and saw an anthropomorphic fox towering above him. It was frightening, to say the least. Keith saw this fright and quickly tried to calm him down. "Don't worry, it's me, Keith. I'm here for you, dude." Ethan tried to stand up, and failed miserably. This red panda body didn't work like he wanted it to. He wobbly made his way over to Keith, and nuzzled his leg. "Yeah, I know. This is really weird..." Keith picked up Ethan, and looked him dead in the eyes. "But I swear, we are going to find out what caused this, or who caused this, okay?"

Ethan had never seen Keith this serious before, but I nodded my head. "Alright, now before we do anything, I'm gonna relearn how to walk on these new legs... I suggest you do the same." Keith says, trying to seem happy. He tries to stand up, and immediately falls back over. "Ow! Well... Okay, maybe jumping straight up isn't a good idea..." He says, crawling over to the wall, using it to help himself. Slowly, he stood up. He wobbled a bit, getting used to the new balance. It was hard, but after about 10 minutes, Keith could confidently walk around. Ethan, however, was struggling, he couldn't take a single step. "Hey, you wanna come with me, help me investigate the area?" Ethan was annoyed that he still couldn't even walk, but decided to come anyway. Keith picked up Ethan, patting him with his other hand. Ethan was hit by a wave of euphoria, he had never felt something like this. It was so soothing and calming, and it felt so nice... Keith heard Ethan purr, and smiled, glad he could relieve some of the stress from what just happened. They stepped outside, and saw the police officer outside, now a German Shepard. Keith quickly darted back inside, however the officer saw them anyway. "Hey, you can come out. I'm not after you two anymore." She said. Keith slowly turned the corner. "...hey." Keith said. "Who's your friend?" She asked, clearly not caring about being a cop right now. "The... The guy who opened the door. He was, less fortunate, it was very painful." Keith said, gloomily. "I'm... sorry. That must have been traumatic. If you are looking for answers there is something going on at the town square. Be careful..." "Thank you!"They headed towards the town square, and as they got closer, they heard a lot of commotion. They turn the corner, to reveal about 150 people, both anthropomorphic and feral animals, all yelling outside the mayor's office in Town Square.

"Well, this is an... event, huh Ethan?" Ethan nodded in his arms. Suddenly, the mayor, a giant anthro Lion, walks out with a microphone. "People, people. Settle down." A roar of boos and various animal roars erupts. "I understand this is a very... inconvenient situation for everyone." He says, gesturing to his own body. "And my Condolences go out to anyone who was... unfortunate enough to have a feral transformation, this was a very, VERY early prototype. However, this was the only way to make everyone immune to the Ontaro virus." Another wave of boos erupt from the crowd. "Rest assured, you will return to your human forms, once we have a cure for the Ontaro virus. Until then, we couldn't justify leaving so many people to die." One person shouts, "What about the 'unfortunate' people? Are we just going to let them suffer, with no voice, no trace of humanity?" "Rest assured we are working on a way to let them speak, this was entirely an unexpected side effect and we intend to right the wrongs. Good day now." And with that, the mayor walks back into the office. The crowd starts yelling again, some of them dispersing. "Well, I guess we better help you get to walking again, huh Ethan?"