Buying the Farm 4 - Competing Offers

Story by Serathin on SoFurry

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#4 of Buying the Farm

An unlikely partnership forms as the silent siege of the town continues. Can the two unravel the parasites' plan before it comes to fruition or will the infestation spread beyond their control? Either way, they're going to need some help...


Buying the Farm 4 - Competing Offers

"So why are you here Renzyl?" Ares asked as she tried to find something in one of the lockers on the training field in order to cover her naked body as the large, latex-covered dragon watched her in mild interest. "I assume you're not here just to save this military base and everyone on it from those... things."

"The base is already lost, my dear." Renzyl replied matter-of-factly. "As are your friends, at least in the sense you know them. I'm afraid you're going to have to broaden your scope a bit, considering these parasites threaten every living creature on this planet. You saw what they did to your friends, what they almost did to you. You're very lucky you had the force of will to break away from their grasp and follow my magical influence, otherwise I'd be talking to myself now and you'd have a body filled with pink snake-cocks."

The tigress sighed as she found only a flak jacket, enough to cover up her exposed breasts but nowhere near the required length for any modesty around her nethers. "Well why don't you just magic them then?" She asked as she turned to face him, her body shuddering slightly as her sight met the glowing red eyes of the demon. "From your boasts you seem quite powerful, thwarting them should be an easy task then."

"Mmmm, it's not as simple as that." Renzyl replied as he tapped a claw to his chin. "Magic I have, yes, though your planet is not as connected to the others through the nexus realm which diminishes my power somewhat. Even so these 'c-snakes' are naturally resistant to my usual tricks, as I am immune to theirs. Now I could impart that protection on others, but these buggers infect on a scale far faster then I and if I used conventional means to spread my own... protections around then they will easily win out."

"Then what do we do?" Ares questioned, her arms crossed.

"I have a plan, but we are going to need to gather some information first." Renzyl replied as he looked out of the window, seeing the horizon brighten with the first light of day. "The c-snakes have likely cleared out by now to begin their infection rampage, I just need the base's resources to figure out some questions of my own. Then from there we'll play it by ear."

All Ares could do was nod as they walked through the training grounds to the base problems. Even though she had been saved by him the tigress couldn't help but find a source of mistrust for the dragon, especially when he described himself as a 'demon'. She wasn't sure what the connotation was where he came from, but on this planet demon usually described something that was evil. Was she jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire? She barely had time to contemplate it as she felt his hand push against her chest and keep her from turning a corner. "Infected around the corner." He whispered as they backed up a few steps.

"I thought you said that they were all out infecting others." Ares hissed back as they both carefully peaked around the corner to see their heavy weapons officer talk to one of the base's mechanics like nothing was wrong with them. Had the tigress not known otherwise she would have assumed that they were perfectly fine, well, except for the very noticeable bulge on the otherwise female physique of the mechanic.

"Something is definitely off about that." Renzyl replied in a hushed tone. "They're wearing clothing too, normally that's not done because it hampers their ability to infect others." He looked around the hallway and finally up, looking at the security camera that hung in the intersection of the hall. "Is there a secure way to access the surveillance camera system?"

"Well there's the security office." Ares suggested, though the demon dragon quickly shook his head on that option. "You can assess it from the war room as well, or really any place that is hardline connected to the main server if you have the right access codes."

"And do you have the right access codes?" Renzyl asked, Ares cocking her head slightly before nodding. "Good, let us regroup at one of these terminals then, there is a facet to these creatures that we need to discover before we put ourselves in serious danger..."

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Meanwhile as the sun began to rise on the sleepy little town one place was active, the market where famers went early to try and buy and sell things they needed for the coming planting season. The place was packed from with everyone from old farmers to young people attending the market with their parents before they had to go to school. One such male, a young stallion named Darren, was running down the cramped aisles before he finally found his friends Mickael and Lia sitting behind one of the stalls smoking. "Dude, you have to come and see this!" He said excitedly to the snow leopard and eagle, prompting his friends to look at each other with an eye raised before looking back at him.

The three young adults ran through the backs of the stalls, led by Darren, until they reached one of the stalls near the back of the market. "Seriously?" Mickael said as he crouched down behind some boxes. "I had half a cig left and I crushed it out because Bella and Donna's family got a stall in the market? I know you had a pony crush on them but that's no..."

Mickael's sentence trailed off as they saw the twins come out of the back of the stall, the snow leopard's jaw nearly dropping to the ground. Despite the early spring weather the two girls had opted for very revealing clothing, as they bent down to set up some crates he could swear that he could see their nether regions perfectly outlined in the tight denim. As he glanced to his left to see Darren nearly panting, trying to turn away to avoid the tenting in his pants. Even Lia seemed to gawk slightly, though as Mickael managed to tear his eyes away from them to look over at the other two she quickly feigned disinterest.

"Holy shit dude, when did those two become so smoking hot?" Mickael said as he reached for another cigarette, his hands missing his pockets several times because he had turned back to watch them pick up crates. "Man, you can see EVERYTHING... wonder if she's advertising..."

"Mickael!" Lia said angrily as she smacked him in the shoulder. "Can you please keep your hormones to yourself at least!?"

"I'm... I'm gonna ask her out..." Darren finally said, causing both of them to look at the stallion.

"Which one?" Mikael smirked, though the snow leopard's eyes were still fixated on the two pony girls.

"Bella... no... Donna... no..." Darren seemed to grow frustrated by his own confusion, shaking his head before standing up. "Fuck it, whichever one says yes. You two need to back me up... be like my wingmen, er, wingman and wingwoman."

Lia rolled her eyes as she stood up as well, brushing the dirt off of her jeans. "Whatever, faster we get this done the sooner we can go back to not ogling a bunch of girls." The female eagle sighed as the three moved around the side of the boxes, unaware that a pair of eyes followed them with a sinister smile...

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"Alright, I'm in." Ares said as both she and Renzyl huddled around the computer screen in the weapon diagnostic's room a few hours later. "As long as they don't have someone actively searching the network for intrusions we should remain undetected. Now, what is it that you want to see?"

"Bring up the base's item registration system, see if they brought in anything unusual in the past twenty-four hours." Renzyl instructed, the tigress nodding and typing in the request. Almost immediately they found what they were looking for, an entry marked 'space debris' being logged in at around 1 am. "Very good... can you show me the surveillance footage from that time period?"

The two watched as the people on the screen began to move backwards, Ares having to look away as it went through the footage that showed her fellow soldiers becoming infected with the c-snakes. Finally the counter ran back to the time they needed, playing the footage as they watched a dragon and cougar come into the garage and unload what looks like a large pile of twisted metal into one of the rooms. "Oh my God, is that what caused all of this?" Ares said with a small gasp.

"Perhaps, but it's not the source of the initial infection, at least not here." Renzyl replied as he fast forward the digital recording a bit, focusing on the dragon as he entered the mess hall split with the cougar as he went into the sleeping quarters. "They don't show the signs of infection when they bring the thing in, if they were both infested when they drove into the barracks they wouldn't have bothered unloading the junk, they would have just started their rampage. No... it had to have started... wait, there! Look at that!"

Both tigress and dragon watched as the dragon collapsed in the mess hall, Renzyl tracing a claw around the bulge in the soldier's pants. "That was the first introduction of the snakes to his system, whatever was in that bottle is what caused him to become infected." Renzyl explained as he told her to enhance the video camera footage that was watching the cougar, seeing him with a bottle similar to the one that the dragon had been drinking from before his transformation. "It's so... subtle though, unless the c-snakes were imprisoned in milk bottles they had to have come in contact with hosts, which meant they should have been infested beforehand."

"I don't get it, how could snakes that take over an entire body fit inside a milk jug and survive?" Ares asked quizzically.

"C-snake can reproduce just from the introduction of its secretions into a potential host's system." Renzyl explained as he looked at Ares. "And before you ask yes, you are infected as well. The same magic that is keeping you from diving on the nearest creature also keeps their spawn in a dormant state, though as we speak they're slowly reaching a point where they will overwhelm you fully. Nothing I care to do about it now, let us focus on the task at hand and we can discuss your options later. Can you find where the dragon and cougar are now?"

Ares felt a lump form in her throat as the dragon spoke of her fate in an almost flippant nature. Was she really doomed to become one of the creatures she had escaped from only a few hours before, her fate already sealed the second she stepped in that puddle of pink goo? Part of her wanted to question Renzyl further, but the determined look on the demon's face as he stared at the screen quickly staunched that idea. As far as he knew he was the only one who could save her, and possibly everyone else, from such a horrendous fate that befell the base.

"They're in the control room." Ares said after shifting through several feeds. "It looks like they're commanding everything from there."

"Well there you have it..." the demon seemed to mused to himself as he watched the cougar and dragon give orders to the others, "c-snakes don't control, they only function high enough to camouflage themselves until another suitable host is present. These snakes have been somehow... changed... the others act exactly as they should, but these two in particular seem to have control over the rest like some sort of... alpha or king c-snake. Hmmm... could you go back to the wreckage those two brought in?"

Ares nodded and rolled the camera feed to the inventory room, the remains of the craft untouched since it was brought in. For some time Renzyl stared at it, then began to nod slowly to the confusion of the tigress. "I thought so, those two can't help but brand every little thing they do." He said as he pointed to the screen where a black silhouette of a cross between a dragon and feline was emblazed on the side. "Is there any place in town where that logo is?"

"Mmmm, I've never seen it before." Ares confessed, watching Renzyl frown slightly before a message popped up on the corner of her screen. "What's this?" She asked herself, clicking it and finding it to be a schedule reminder. "Oh God... Alpha team was out on night maneuvers, they're heading back right now and will be here in less than an hour. They're going to be walking right into a trap!"

"Indeed they are." Renyl replied. "How many people are in this... alpha squad?"

"Fifty men and women, they're assigned here temporarily so they can take advantage of our hilly terrain." Ares said as she tried to type in several commands to the computer. "Ugh, it's no use, I can't get a message to them without alerting the rest of the base. If I attempt to send something electronically then they're going to see it."

Renzyl stood up, looking around for a second as he appeared to be deep in thought before shrugging his shoulders. "I've always believed in delivering such messages personally." He stated with a small grin. "Can you get us one of those larger vehicles and get us out of here undetected?"

"Get us out of here probably." Ares replied as she accessed the motorpool mainframe. "Not sure about the undetected part though. I can fool the computers easily enough, but if any of those things bother to do a spot check they will see that one of the APC's are gone. Then there is the problem of stopping Alpha team to deliver the message, I don't think that 'the base has been run over by alien snakes that crawl into your body' will quite cut it."

"One problem at a time, my dear." Renzyl replied simply as he opened one of the doors to look out of, his eyes widening as they began to glow slightly brighter at the contents that laid within. "What room is this?" He asked.

"That?" Ares replied, turning around to see what he meant. "Oh that, it's our storage room for equipment in case of a bio-terrorist attack... why?"

Renzyl said nothing, but as Ares watched him his grin grew even wider as he chuckled lowly...

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Darren stumbled slightly as he smoothed back his mane once more, the three waiting just outside the new stall with Lia and Mickael waiting impatiently. "If you don't move in two minutes I'm leaving." Mikael grumbled as the two watched the stallion pace back and forth for the third time.

"Fine!" Darren replied, moving his way towards the stall. As the other two started to follow him Mickael suddenly felt someone grab him from behind, his body being spun around until he was face to face with a grinning tiger.

"James?" Mickael asked, the tiger nearly dragging him to the back of the stall and into the room where inventory is kept. "Hey man that's starting to hurt, what do you want?!"

"You." James replied simply, slamming the door shut before backing the snow leopard into a wall and kissing him on the lips. Mickael was slammed with emotions from the sudden, forceful display of affection from the other male. He only knew James as a jock who wouldn't even be his friend, much less go out of his way to kiss him like this. As he felt the tiger's thick tongue in his mouth Mickael tried to push him back to tell him he wasn't gay, but the longer they engaged the more and more he didn't mind.

When they finally broke the kiss Mickael was so stunned he couldn't move, though as he stood there he felt a strange warmth flood his body. "James... I..." The tiger didn't even let the other feline finish his sentence, his tail wrapping around the snow leopards body and pulling them out from under him in order to slide him down onto the floor.

Mickael looked dazedly as his muzzle was eye level with James' groin, the eight inch member pointed straight at him. It was strangely pink, but when the snow leopard tried to open him mouth to say something, but that only gave the eager tiger an opening to shove it into his maw. The feeling was even more amazing and confusing then the kiss, his fingers bunching up as the cock already began to push down into his throat. As he looked down at the tiger's member it began to turn pink, continuing to slide into his throat as Mickael felt something begin to fill his stomach.

To the snow leopard's surprise is caused his cock to become fully erect, one of his hands undoing his fly and letting out his own feline phallus. He was about to wrap his hand around it when the tiger's tail amazingly coiled around it and began to stroke it for him. This caused Mickael's back to arch and his body even more accepting of the now monstrous member that had worked its way down his throat and nearly into his swelling stomach. Even as he watched in a lustful daze as the tiger's tail turned a bright pink, the tip turning into a snake's head before clamping down on it and beginning to suck, the snow leopard's member starting to turn a similar shade as the tail as it began to wiggle and grow...

Lia and Darren didn't even notice the snow leopard's absence as they moved up to the stall, surprised to see Sophie sitting there in front with a number of bottles on the table up for sale. "Oh hey Sophie, is uh... is Bella and Donna still here?" Darren stammered nervously, which caused the liger to chuckle as she pointed back towards the truck.

"They're back by the truck still." Sophie explained, the stallion nodding and quickly running back. "Hey Lia, long time no see, how are things?"

"Good I guess." Lia replied, trying to move the same direction that Darren did so she could watch the mare twins shoot him down in what she was guessing would be a most spectacular fashion. "Yourself?"

"Great actually." Sophie replied, reaching out and grabbing onto the eagle's hand. "I just got something that you have to see, I picked it up when I was with Bella and Donna. You are going to be so jealous."

Lia sighed and rolled her eyes once Sophie had started to lead her into the back of the stall. Sophie was a farmer's girl and Lia lived in the town, so other than the occasional get together she rarely saw the liger. Still their parents were friends so the eagle had to at least make nice with her, following her back into one of the storage rooms. "Alright, so what is it?" Lia asked.

"This." Sophie replied before pinning her against the wall and enveloping her beak in a hard kiss. Lia was so taken back she froze, it was only when something began to wiggle around inside her mouth that she began to struggle and try to yell out. As the eagle's throat began to bulge out her fight become less and less, her amber eyes rolling back into her head as a pink fluid began to leak out from her nose and mouth.

"Let's get you more comfortable." Sophie hissed as she undid and pulled down the eagle's pants, already seeing her feminine slit glistening with arousal. The infected liger undid her own, the skin above her own groin splitting as her pink snakecock wiggled out from its hiding place. By the time she was ready Lia was already showing the first stages of infestation, the eagle's tongue lengthening out and turning bright pink as thick tentacles could be seen bulging out just under the feathers that adorned her skull.

"Soph...ie..." Lia managed to utter, her words garbled as pink goo ran out of her beak and down her chest. Sophie just grinned, the snakes inside her sensing the eagle's mind being taken over. It would help keep her quiet as her snakecock slithered up inside Lia's pussy, causing both of their bodies to shudder as she was filled. Almost immediately the skin around the eagle's groin began to writhe, the already succumbing host's body ready to convert. Sophie pressed her body up against Lia's as her cock slid completely inside her victim's body, causing her stomach to bulge as their breasts pressed together.

The liger was wasting no time though, Lia's already pleasure-wracked body convulsing even more as two small snakes pushed out of Sophie's nipples and began to wiggle their way into Lia's. Had the eagle not had her consciousness ripped apart by the c-snakes pleasure she would have been astonished to see the two snakes press into her breasts, which seemed to expand from her b-cup size up to d-cup almost immediately as her body went completely limp...

Darren was so caught up with the sight of the two horses he didn't even realize his friends had abandoned him. "Hey Bella, Donna." The stallion said, trying his best not to get a full-blown erection from the mere sight of them. "It's me Darren, you met me when you were getting a permit from my mom to expand your barn?"

"Oh of course we remember you." Bella said with a warm smile, clasping him on shoulder. "How is your mom by the way, is she still the record keeper for the town?"

"Uh, yep." Darren replied, trying anxiously to change the subject. "I was just wondering, actually, that if you weren't busy if we could... you know... perhaps..."

"Go out sometime?" Bella said with a giggle, Donna doing the same. "Sure thing handsome, also I have to ask if you were asking me or Donna."

Darren felt his face flush as he knew he hadn't specified who he wanted, casting the net out there to see which one of the two mares would actually be interested in going out with him. "Silly girl, can't you see he wants to go out with both of us?" Donna replied, causing Darren's jaw to drop. "What do you think stallion, think you can handle both of us at the same time?"

"I... I..." Darren was so shocked he was speechless, which the two girls took full advantage of his open mouth and kissed him. When they were done the male horse's cock was ready to burst out of his jeans, using his sleeve to wipe away a bit of pink fluid that had collected on his lip.

"Let's take him inside." Donna said as they each took him by a hand. "You're friends are probably waiting for you."

The comment had sent alarm bells up in Darren's head, but at that point his lust-fogged mind was so clouded he didn't even hear them as he was led inside. Before they even got through the door Darren could hear loud moans coming from inside the storage area, along with a strange hissing noise. None of that really mattered though as the two mares quickly disrobed themselves, their perfect female bodies on display for him as they moved to remove his clothing as well. Darren closed his eyes as his fantasy played out before him, feeling their soft hands caress his muscles as they stripped him down. He let out a loud gasp as his member was finally freed from its cloth prison, his body shuddering as he felt a pair of heavenly lips caress against it.

"You ready big boy?" Darren heard on one side of him as they nibbled his ear, his head nodding with enthusiasm. "Good... because so are we..."

Darren's eyes snapped open as he was pushed down on all fours, a pair of hands on his hips as he was positioned suddenly between the two girls. As he looked up at Bella there was a smirk on her face as she stroked his jaw, point something extremely unfeminine and pink that seemed to move of its own accord. The nightmarish scene broke him out of his lust-drunk state enough for him to try and get up and run, but Bella's unnaturally strong hands kept him on his hands as he looked up at the writhing horsecock in front of him.

"What the f-" Darren started to say before the strange horsecock tentacle darted forward and filled his mouth, more of the strange pink substance draining down his throat and immediately returning him to his more docile state. Behind him he could feel something similar to what's in his mouth begin to press against his rear, the strange slime relaxing his anal muscles and allowing the appendage to slide right inside him. That same slime also seemed deactivate his gag reflex, as his eyes glazed over the thick cock tentacle had completely filled his mouth and began to work its way down his throat.

Darren's body was wracked with pleasure as he was completely filled from both ends, the goo that dripped from his mouth and tailhole making him feel nothing but sheer bliss as he was stretched to the limit. The two mares began to bounce the helpless male back and forth as his infestation took a rapid pace, his cock already turning bright pink as his normally white cum began to turn pink as well. Before long the stallion's lustful look turned blank as his ears twitched, several small cocktentacles pushed their way out of them as well as his nostrils.

Donna let out a hiss of delight as she could already see the c-snakes working their way in the stallion, her thick 'cock' sliding in and out of the loose tailhole as she rubbed her hands against the squirming flesh in the stallion's expanding gut. As the infected mare looked around she saw James with his prey, the snow leopard drooling a copious amount of pink slime from his mouth and cock as his tongue began to grow longer and thicker. On the other side of some barrels she could also see Sophie and Lia, Lia's avian snatch filled to near bursting as a similarly sized cock bounced just above it, the eagle's breasts expanding out as the nipples began to wiggle and lengthen into pink tentacles. "All according to plan..." the two mares hissed with delight...

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Less than half an hour later Ares was behind the wheel of an APC with Renzyl riding in the passenger side seat and a large crate that they had managed to sneak out of the room in the back. The tigress had to shield her eyes from the bright light of dawn that hit her eyes as she drove out, the algorithms she had installed into the gate protocols allowing them to slip past. They hadn't seen any of the infected soldiers when they left, though that did not necessarily mean that they hadn't seen them leave. Nevertheless she was happy to be outside of the military base, driving into the warmth of the morning light with nothing but farmland ahead of them.

"Will they be stopping in this town?" Renzyl asked as he held what looked to be some sort of tablet device, Ares seeing a satellite picture of the entire area with the roads and towns highlighted.

"No, they have strict orders not to drive APC's through heavy population zones." Ares replied.

"Good, most likely that town is already under siege." Renzyl stated as he moved the map up a bit too where a dot signaled the Alpha Squad they were intercepting. "If we can catch them before they make contact with anyone then we should have a good chance of making sure they're uninfected when we meet them."

As they drove another mile up the road a red bar suddenly started flashing on the screen of the tablet, the words 'Alpha protocol TY-653V initiated' flashing on it. "Crap..." Ares muttered as she glanced down at it. "They must have found our signal and figured out what we are doing, they've just radioed in an emergency return home beacon. Nothing short of an immediate emergency is going to stop their convoy now, they only have central command on their frequencies now and even if we block the road and wave them down they're going to keep going until they get back to the base."

"Clever... still too clever..." Renzyl mused as he looked up from the tablet towards the road, where a growing cloud of smoke was signaling the arrival of the other APCs heading their way. "What would constitute as an 'emergency'?"

"Um... if they came under direct attack, though they probably wouldn't listen much if we started shooting at them." Ares replied. "A life-threatening situation that involved another soldier, anything that may incapacitate one of their vehicles... anything else has to be radioed in from central command for them to stop."

For a few seconds they both sat there in relative silence, their engine's still roaring as Ares kept the pedal down. The two could now just see the other vehicles on the horizon, the sun glinting off of the dusty metal as they came barreling straight at them. The tigress tried to keep her cool as she saw the convoy coming, but with the demon dragon still silent and no plan forming in her own mind they were quickly running out of time. If they didn't stop them now it would be likely that they would not reach them again until they reached the infested base.

"Are you buckled in, my dear?" The dragon suddenly said out of the blue, causing Ares to turn and give him a confused nod. Before she could ask why Renzyl lunged over and jerked the wheel hard to the left, causing the heavy vehicle to shift all its weight to its left side. There was a stomach-wrenching snap as the sudden pressure caused the wheel axle in front to snap, the front of the truck falling forward and crushing in the metal of the front fender as the whole thing began to roll. All Ares could do was hold on for dear life as the momentum of the back only increased the angle in which they were going, causing the APC to flip nearly twice before crashing down and causing the roof to cave in slightly and the reinforced windows to spiderweb. The screech of metal against pavement was near deafening as the huge vehicle skidded forward when it could no longer turn itself over, the entire metal beast letting out one last loud groan before stopping in the middle of the road.

It took the tigress' brain nearly a full minute to comprehend what had just happened, the front cab beginning to fill with smoke as she hung there from her seat restraints. She was vaguely aware of someone yelling, and after a few moments the side of her door was wrenched off its hinges. "We got a survivor here!" A male voice yelled, feeling strong hands unbuckle her restraints and hoist her as gently yet quickly out of the vehicle as possible. "Get the medkit!"

As Ares was checked for a concussion and any other signs of trauma she realized that it was the Alpha squad convoy that had come to their aid, their APC's parked along the side of the road. On the other side of their destroyed vehicle she saw Renzyl being tended to as he laid there on the ground, finding it strange when no one asked him of his definite demonic nature. As she continued to stare though the demon dragon looked over at her and winked, his form shimmering until he appeared to look like a normal black-scaled male dragon in full fatigues. She could feel her anger flare slightly as she realized that he had just put her life in immediate danger to stop the convoy, though she quickly decided that she would yell at him later for it and keep them held up as much as possible.

"Sir, central command is telling us to just pick them up and take them with us back to base." A lion male said as he went up to the German Shepard soldier that was treating Ares. "Let's carry them in and get a move on!"

"Will you turn those idiots off?!" The soldier snarled. "They've been on our asses all night telling us to come back, and I'm not risking a permanent injury to those two so we can all make some briefing that they want us all at before their coffees get cold! I'm in charge and what I say goes!" Once he was done chewing the lion out he turned his attention back to Ares, a weary look in his face as he sighed slightly. "It's been a long night..."

"Tell me about it." Ares said as he helped her stand up, noticing him look down at her peculiarly before realizing she still did not have any pants on. She fought the urge to blush as she identified herself, glad that the soldier seemed to ignore her nakedness for now.

"I'm Ranger Captain Jesse Donovan." The German Shepard replied. "Now that you appear to be in relatively one piece, can you tell me how you managed to get in such a spectacular wreck?"

"Well, you see..." Ares replied as she glanced over at Renzyl; while he had shared the general plan with her he had been rather vague on exactly how or why they were doing what they needed to do, but if she didn't go along with it then they would just take them back to the base. "The axle must have buckled under our speed, we left in a bit of a hurry. The reason we were rushing so fast and why our central command post wants you back so quick was that there was a bio-terror threat to this area that was just confirmed an hour ago and we wanted to make sure that you got the right equipment as soon as possible. The crate is in the back, it was secured so hopefully everything is still intact."

"Sir!" A female raptor came over with the tablet that Renzyl had been holding onto, which was still remarkably intact despite their crash. "The other soldier gave me this, an official preparedness form from OUR base, they want us to get into hazmat protocols and assist this area with anything they need. We have several men pulling the metal crate out as well speak, so far it appears to be undamaged."

Ares breathed an inward sigh of relief, the risk she had taken in remote hacking the Alpha's Squad home post before they left appearing to pay off as Jesse handed the tablet back to the raptoress. "Alright everyone!" He shouted, several people popping their heads out of their APC's. "General back home has extended our stay here, as of right now we are under a stage two bioterror alert! This base has been kind in giving us loan of their equipment, minus one APC, so let's suit up and get back to their base so we can address this situation properly!"

There was a resounding "Yes Sir!" before everyone leapt into action. Jesse brought Ares back to Renzyl before heading to the crate himself, where some of the soldiers had already started to put on the clunky rubber suits and respirator masks.

"Alright, so far so good." Ares whispered amongst the flurry of activity. "Now what do we do now that they some protection against that c-snake goo? They're still not going to believe our story, and if they radio in what's happening to the base they're going to immediately conflict with what we just said."

"Let us consider this your first lesson." Renzyl replied cryptically, Ares giving the smirking demon a quizzical look. "The suits they are putting on now have been... 'Enhanced' with my own essence as we packed them into the crate, if I wanted I could give them near immunity to the c-snakes right now. However it would be extremely shortsighted since as I said before we would still be greatly outnumbered by infected creatures, so I'm going to need you to change them with your power."

"My power?" Ares asked. "What power?"

"The power I'm about to give you." The demon dragon replied coyly before grabbing her wrist, bringing it up to his mouth. Before she could pull away Renzyl's tongue wrapped impossibly around her hand, causing a chill to go down Ares' spine as the thick, rubbery appendage squeezed it several times like a snake's coils before unwrapping itself. When her flesh was exposed once more she saw that some of the fur from the back of her hand had been removed, a strange black symbol appearing both on it and the palm.

"That is my mark." Renzyl explained. "Slightly unnecessary since I already have so much power running through your body to stop the spreading infection but a good way to establish a link between you, me, and your new converts."

"My... converts..." she repeated, her head turning towards the soldiers. Most of them had already completely suited up, checking their equipment and comms with only a few still without their helmets on. The German Shepard was one of them, making sure that the others were secure first. Captain Donovan had done nothing to them but been nice, but they were fighting a war and sacrifices needed to be made...

There was a chuckle next to her, Renzyl putting a hand on her shoulder. "You fancy that one?" The demon dragon said as he leaned in and whispered in her ear. "I know that look... you can make him special you know, sort of like your second in command, though at this point you'd only be strong enough to make one. This is all you need to do..." Ares' eyes widened as she not only heard the words but could also feel the power of them flow into her ear.

"Captain Donovan!" Ares shouted as she ran over to the German Shepard, who had just put on his own gas mask and clasped the sealers down into place. "I need to talk to you!"

"Can this wait Ares?" Jesse replied, his voice muffled from the heavy rubber mask and respirator. "We can talk after we get everyone loaded up."

"Well..." Ares bit her lip and looked back, the tigress seeing the demon dragon motioning his hand for her to continue on. "I want to make sure... that everything is fitting alright..." out of the corner of her eye she could see the demon shaking his head slightly, "...and to also tell you of a great danger that is happening at the base and a nearby town."

"A great danger?" Jesse replied, Ares hearing the note of concern in his voice. "Is this is about the potential terrorist attack?"

"The attack has already happened." Ares said as she moved in and pressed her hands against his chest, trying to get as much bodily contact as possible as per Renzyl's instructions. As she did she felt the symbol on her hand begin to tingle, the rubber of the suit beginning to tighten up as the demon's magic flowed through her into the corrupted latex. "I couldn't tell you before, our base has been completely wiped out by an alien parasite and my partner and I need you to help us make things right."

Ares could feel a twinge of pleasure run through the Captain's body, the tigress trying to inflame the pride that Renzyl had known was there. "You... lied about your orders?" Jesse said angrily, though the resistance had already started to drain out of his voice. "But the crash... you and the other soldier..."

"This is how desperately we need you." Ares said as soothingly as possible, stroking her hands against his back and head. By now the rubber had seemed to meld itself to his chest, his firm pectorals and washboard abs glistening in the light as though the shiny material was merely a second skin. The effect wasn't lost on the others either, as the power began to flow into Jesse's suit it activated the others as well, the tigress seeing out of the corner of her eye as the Alpha squad began to clutch at their hazmat gear as it tightened around their own bodies.

"You are a powerful creature, Captain Donovan." Ares said, getting more into it as she felt the German Shepard succumbing more and more. "You can lead your men into a great victory and save this planet, be a hero for all and have your name written in history for ages to come. All you have to do is listen to me and we will defeat this enemy together."

"What... what's happening..." Jesse asked, his hands going up to his face as the tigress' touch caused the tough rubber to melt and collapse against his own muzzle until it became form fitting. "What have you done?!" In a sudden surge of will he broke away from the tigress, clutching his head. Ares already knew it was too late though, the images of glory and power eating away at his resolve like acid just like the demon had told her they would.

With her focus no longer on Captain Donovan, Ares began to look around in shock as the fifty soldiers continued their transformation. The normally bulky suits looked like they were vacuum-sealed to their bodies, many of both the male and female soldiers rubbing over their erogenous zones as they became clearly outlined. Their gasmasks contoured to their heads as well, though it was thicker than the rubber on their bodies and their eyes were completely tinted out by the lenses that covered them. What struck the tigress the most however was that their physical bodies began to change as well, their muscles tightening and contacting as they grew bigger and bulkier. "My god, what have I done..."

"You've armed yourself." Renzyl said, suddenly appearing next to her as he watched them change as well. "You've protected them as well, any c-snake is going to find converting them a hard time. Plus they communicate better than any squad in the history of this planet and are completely loyal to the one that changed them... you."

Ares shook her head as the weight of what she had just done fell upon her, but as she turned away it only got worse as she saw a rubber German Shepard knelling in front of her. "At your will, my master." The rest of the soldier quickly knelt in reverence as well, Ares running her hands through her hair at the sudden display of subservience.

"Isn't it great?" Renzyl said with a smirk, his glowing eyes glancing down at the obviously perturbed face of the tigress. "Ah you will get used to it my dear, or at least you had better unless you want those slimy pink atrocities to win. Now load them up, we have a king snake to catch."