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To Walk the Rainbow: Chapter 2

2077 A.D.E., or rather 50 After Change(A.C.) A new era for humanity. Fifty years ago, a plague was stopped. A plague the world had never seen, or even thought possible outside of science-fiction. The Lover's Grey Decay, as it would be named. A plague made not of germs or viruses, but of nanomachines. Machines so small that they could physically alter DNA with just a keystroke. A cure for cancer or reversing ageing, to name just a couple of things that could be done, no, no this new scientific breakthrough would be used first for evil. Targeted at the concept of humans and their propensity to move from one mate to another, was the foundation of this plague's creation. Bodily fluids mixing, that was the catalyst to an individual's destruction. Once introduced to the body, these nanomachines, or nanites, would actively seek a second part of their code, which would only be found in another individual. This code if encountered partially, like itself, would bond, linking those two genetically together, however, if a partial code or a full code encountered another full code that did not match, then the nanites self-destruct function would activate. This caused the nanites to reproduce, using any and all material in the process. The result would be two individuals who had shared fluids, be it sexual, or as innocent as a kiss, would be locked together down to their very DNA, with the result of ever introducing a newer DNA source being that those individuals would quickly turn into a grey puddle of unstable nanites as every part of them was converted over. The most horrifying aspect these nanites were programmed with, was that it was the female that was punished over the male. It was the male encoding that started this meltdown, leading males who got lost in the moment to suffer turning into a grey puddle with their partner. This allowed males to have multiple females under their control, or worse, sexually execute them and get away. The news outlets tried their hardest to keep that part quiet, succeeding far enough that it was more of an urban legend than fact so far as the public knew. For five years the world lived with this horror. Populations thinned as the densest cities were hit the hardest. Entire governments collapsed as important positions were quickly 'dissolved'. This power vacuum left many countries wounded while others were essentially wiped out. In the initial panic, North Korea used what weapons they had, and proved that they were more a threat to themselves than to America, not only taking themselves out with half working nukes, but a large part of China and Russia, leaving The Asian Deadzone. The middle-east practically devoured itself within those five years, mostly hindered by their cultural beliefs, and eventually turning into The Grey Waste, a desert of nanites from parts of Egypt to Kazakhstan. All contact was lost with Australia at first, and the continent was thought lost to the likes of a Mad Max Style way as was joked about for so long. America suffered in the large cities, with martial law being the only way to control the pockets of Grey that would pop up, as the National government was hit like all the others. By the end of those first five years, it came out that another individual was attempting the same thing, so everything was used to try and stop him. He died successfully releasing his own plague. This new plague was a cure to the last one, just no one knew it at first. This new plague, The Levault Miracle, was developed from it's enemy with every able moment of the creator's time. These new nanites would seek out and bond with all the other ones, filling in and replacing code, and creating a new artificial chromosome that was stable, The L-24x. Maybe stable is not quite right. It made the original nanites no longer self-destruct, but in doing so, it actively organized and reorganized the natural DNA of the original chromosomes. The stability of not self-destructing made for the unstable change of human biology. With the energy of a solar-flare, L-24x immediately activated, causing a world wide wave of transformations in all living humans as L-24x settled into it's new home, and leaving everyone as a mix of humanized animal, unofficially being named Change Day. The Lover's Grey Decay was stopped, and humanity now had their second chance.

With humanity no longer turning to grey puddles, everyone turned on each other, fighting as they thought their new forms should. This was the start of The Species War. People killed for food they thought they needed. Carnivore types killing for meat, and leading to horrors of cannibalism as some 'packs' grew and devoured herbivore types as prey. Millions grew sick and just as many died trying to keep up with what they thought they should do. It was early 21st century culture that would eventually help end this new war. Furries as they had been known, pockets of people the world over who had created their own ways based on the what-if of being humanized or anthropomorphic animals but as equals, kept to their ways of non-discrimination. They took charge and helped get things back in order. They saw past the animals they had become and used the humanity they still had left. Reforming the United Nations into the United Human Federations, adjusting what it was to be human into what it now is to be human. The U.H.F. let humanity continue forward, leaving behind ideals that had kept the world from truly uniting, and enforcing new ones of understanding. Race no longer mattered. Sexual orientation no longer mattered. It was during this time of reformation, that it was discovered that new children were being born, from newly formed single species groups, as the humans that all used to be, and helping to solidify the concept that everyone truly was the same regardless of their outer appearance. Under the new U.H.F., science slowly made a comeback, though feared and highly controlled, and even grew better than before. Labs dedicated to perfecting the nanites that almost destroyed everyone, into a new material itself. Super-crops, electronics, fabrics. Everything started to see a way of being improved. It was with these new labs, that everything started to be examined. The new chromosome L-24x was discovered, along with the fact that is seemed to almost lay dormant in the new generation until puberty, but making the animal instincts more natural as they changed. Then the discovery of chromosome Lx-24x in the next generation. A matching chromosome for L-24x, one that was created at conception and seemed to learn it's place up until around puberty when it set itself. It was found that the original 23 pairs stayed and that the new 24th amplified themselves through them, so never taking humanity away, just giving a new perspective on it. This new full pair created the new phenomena of Powers as well. The Powers manifested themselves at the change as an individual grew to understand how to activate them. It was the way in which the new 24th pair fused, that dictated the function. The most common Power seemed to be the ability to change fully into the animal one had transformed into. Abilities like amplified strength, or energy manipulation showed up as well, even having rare ones like teleportation and time manipulation. With the Powers, came the new police force. Using their own Powers and the latest of technologies in their fields, these new police not only enforced the laws, some new to reflect the change and some old just to keep the peace, but also were trusted with handling any who used Powers out of control. As newly changed were young teens, the manifestation of these sometimes truly devastating abilities, it was this new forces job to not only protect everyone from the threat, but to help the one causing the threat as they were mostly just scared about what was happening to them.

Like one individual now...

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"ALBERT HAS BOOBS!" he heard his sister hysterically shout. Pawing at his chest in a panic, he felt them, a small pair, but a pair nonetheless. At that, Albert bolted out of his seat and ran for the bathroom, his sister falling out of her's laughing and his mother cleaning up the plate she dropped.

"Shit, shit, shit...," he was letting out as he hurried, hearing an unfamiliar girl's voice. Albert almost broke the door off it's hinges as he impacted it in his attempt to make the turn so tight. There was a loud clopping as he entered the bathroom, forcing him to look down at his new hooves. His breathing was getting labored as he stepped up to the mirror. A pinto stared back. An obviously female paint horse stared and moved as he tried to. Quickly, he stripped off his t-shirt and boxers, getting a full clear look at his new body. No doubt, he was a filly. Slender legs, tight ass, wider hips, perky little tits, and most importantly, no penis. Almost tripping as he moved back and slid down the wall to a rough sitting position and kinking his new tail, he had his hands between his thighs, feeling for something that should have been there.

That's how his mother and sister found him. His sister was still laughing and now was calling him "Alberta", which got her sent back to the kitchen. The giraffe he had known his whole life slowly came in a sat down. "Oh, sweetie, you're going to hurt your self, here." she said reaching down and pulling Albert's tail out into a better position.

"Mom," he let out, but stopping at that girly sound. He couldn't hold it in any longer and just started crying. Big sobs that were making it hard to breath, and he started to panic again.

His mother embraced him, tucking his new equine head to her furry chest and patted him on the back. "Calm down. You're having a panic attack, and if you don't breath, you're going to pass out." she said gently. Then more firmly, "Albert, breath!"

He started breathing, which helped calm him just enough to not hyperventilate, but he couldn't stop crying. Tears pouring down his cheeks, he finally pulled away just enough to look up at the comforting giraffe of his mother but the only thing he could get out were hiccups. He finally just buried his face into his mother's chest again and continued sobbing.

About an hour later, Amber finally controlling herself, had joined her mother and sibling in a family hug. It was then only a few minutes later that Albert seemed to truly calm down. "Albert, I'm sorry, I was being mean." she said.

"Nevermind that now." their mother said. "Right now we need to get dressed and go to the doctor's office."

"Why?" the twins said together.

Kissing him on the forehead, the giraffe stood and pulled Albert up with her, "Because sweetie, you turned into a girl. Now don't start crying again." she added in as his lips started to quiver.

He gave a big sniffle and a deep breath, finally preventing more crying. Then after standing there a moment and realizing he was nude, felt the urge to cover himself, feeling insecure all of a sudden. Slowly he picked up his clothes and held them to his chest and solemnly left the bathroom to go to his shared room.

Amber had followed her mother back to the kitchen, so as to give Albert a little time alone. After getting a little lecture on treating people after the change, she slowly joined Albert in their room.

"Well, you're very pretty, for what it's worth." she said standing in the middle of the room.

Albert was curled up in the closet, tail sticking out to show where he was hiding. There came a response, very female and higher than the voice she remembered as her brother's.

"What? I didn't quite catch that." she said moving closer to the closet.

"I said, I feel fat but I want some ice cream!" Albert blurted out.

Amber bit her lip to keep herself from laughing again. Finally she let out, "That's normal."

"Are you dressed yet?" their mother called from the front room, "We need to leave. I got you squeezed in."

"Just a moment!" Amber called as Albert seemed to take too long to respond. Turning back, she offered, "Do you want some help?"

"No." he said getting up and pulling on a pair of boxers, scrub pants, and a t-shirt. Nothing seemed to fit properly, and he hung his head as he noticed this and left the room.

It was a short drive to the hospital where the doctor's office was, and all of his mom's co-workers. At least Amber stayed at home, so as to not draw more attention Albert's way. He kept absently folding his arms which made his new breasts push up, so he finally just sat on his hands. His mother was saying things about everyone going through new experiences now, but he just kind of blocked her out, leading to her having to give his shoulder a little shake. "We're here." she said.

Ears flattening back immediatly gave away his new feelings of being there, and then caused him to blush with embarresment as he realized he wasn't hidding his feelings. Relaxing had his ears pop back up. "Fine, just, just don't tell anyone it's me, please." he said getting out of the car and closing the door a little harder than he probably should have. His mother just looked at him for a moment before finally nodding. Albert headed for the doors, and after a minute, was a little glad to feel the light hug as his mother caught up with him.

Forty minutes later, Albert was naked again, this time with a hospital gown on, sitting on an exam seat. He shivered a bit, feeling cold despite the new fur coat, possibly due to a loss of fat content. They had just taken a blood sample and vitals, so now he waited for the doctor to show up, absent mindedly twitching his new tail and finding it strange to feel it. A couple minutes later and the doctor knocked and entered, leading to Albert sitting up at attention before slouching after noticing how his new boobs stuck out.

"So, Amber, you finally changed, well that's good and expected. You were starting to get past the average...," the doctor, a middle-aged ferret, trailed off at noticing Albert's ears go back in anger at being called his sister. "What's wrong?"

"Actually Doctor Adams," Albert's mother cut in, "This is Albert. That's why we needed to see you as soon as possible."

The doctor did a full up and down look of the young horse in front of him, and clicked his teeth for a second, "I see. When I heard you had brought your daughter in, I just thought." The doctor logged into the room's computer terminal and brought up a few different screens. After a moment the ferret turned around, "Okay, it's got to happen, so lay back and hike the skirt so to speak." Albert laid back, and pulled the gown up, but nervously could not open his legs as if his knees were fused together. "Albert, just relax. I need to examine a couple things to see how extensive this is." It took all his willpower, but he finally forced his thighs apart and kept his gaze at his mother. The giraffe stood there with no judgement at his side, softly stroking his hair. As he felt the doctor's fingers in his new girl parts, he jumped a bit. The doctor made a little "hmm" then added, "Okay, now this is going to feel cold." Cold it was, and the new feeling was unlike anything he had felt before, especially with all his emotions mixing. Albert's pelvis spasmed at the contact and his hips bucked without his control.

His mother let out an admonishing, "Albert!"

Albert just covered his face with his hands as he felt himself blush stronger than ever before. The doctor's reply was a simple, "It's fine, it's fine. These things happen. Okay, you can sit up and cover yourself now." he said turning away to get a towel. Sitting on the stool and wiping his glasses off along with his face, the doctor said, "As I thought. Everything seems to be intact and work, and the blood test came back as conclusive. Seems Lx-24x bonded with your Y-chromosome when you changed."

"So you mean-," his mother started.

"Albert's a girl." Doctor Adams finished. "It's a rare effect. So far only seventeen documented cases so far of gender change when the change occured. Let me tell you this right away also, five of those patients tried to change themselves back with not only hormones, but other treatments, and it was not pretty. So please don't try. Also, it seems that Albert is going to be a handful come, that time."

"What time?" Albert asked almost crying from the news. "Am I going to start mutating?"

"No sweetie," his mother spoke up. "He means 'That Time of the Month', or your period. Don't worry about it right now though, because your sister is going to go through the same thing." That didn't really help and only made Albert pout.

After the doctor, Albert's mother took him for a quick stop of shopping for a new couple sets of clothes until payday and a more extensive wardrobe could be acquired. It took an hour of convincing, but she was finally able to get him to try on a couple bras, which in the end, he thought he did actually look real pretty in, enough to even make himself blush. After a bit of trail and error, Albert finally found the right fit and size for his new body, even though everything was from the girl's sections, it all fit. He kind of understood why girls shopped all the time. There was just so much variety. Still, guys had better shirts he thought. He knew he was going to have to get all new things, like his sister he had gained a foot, but the new tail meant things with tail-holes. A lot of things his sister had, he could share, but he insisted on his own pants, because Amber only had shorts, while his mother insisted on proper underwear. After a little heated debate that had brought over two employees to calm things down, Albert finally gave up and marched into the dressing room to try on the different cuts. After trying them all on and stalling for twenty minutes trying to figure out how to approach the subject, he just gave in and exited the dressing room. He handed his mother the ones that he liked and dropped the others into a pile for the clerk. His mother grabbed a dozen pair of the bikini style and then looked at Albert while holding the thong and raising an eyebrow. He just blushed and looked away a bit embarrassed, but she shrugged and tossed in a half dozen. Before they left the store, Albert changed out of the grungy stuff they had left home in, and put on his first outfit as a girl for the rest of the world to see, a pair of a plain light-blue bikini-style panties that got covered by a snug pair of khakis with a snap over the tail followed by a black sports bra and decent fitting shirt with a video game design. He stepped out and nervously looked around. No one was staring like he was a freak, so that made him calm down a little and loosen up. So much so that the suggestion of getting his ears pierced didn't seem so bad so he just went with it. However the day out was cut short when before the technician could even get the piercing gun ready, Albert had punched a wolf for slapping his ass as he was bent over and looking at earrings on a lower shelf. His mother didn't say a thing as Albert fumed all the way home.

When they had arrived home, Amber came running out to the front room worried about what was going on. Lisa, their mother, handed over her share of bags to Albert so he could go and put everything away, then turned to her little unicorn, "Everything seems fine and normal, and you have a new sister now."

Amber stood there for a moment. Long enough that when she finally said, "So...,"

She was cut off with, "Yeah, I'm a girl. Apparently we get to have periods together." he said coming into the room and plopping onto the couch. Amber happily joined him and threw a hug on him. Even though she had been laughing so much, she was still worried.

For the rest of the day, they sat as a family and watched movies until Lisa had to go to work. Leaving the twins reluctantly after the days event. As she left, she had a talk with a reporter who had just pulled up to the house, eventually having him leave looking satisfied. The twins saw this. Albert spoke up in his new voice, "Looks like it finally made it out. You're going to be famous now."

"Well, that's definitly going to cut into my reading." Amber said flatly as she changed the channel. "Want to fool around?"

"Can we just cuddle?" Albert asked.

"That would be perfect." his sister said.

So the twins pulled a blanket over themselves and cuddled up. Albert sighed, and after a minute of silence let out, "Tim is going to be so jealous that I get to go into the girl's locker room. Being called Albert is probably not going to be a good start to my school life."

"No, probably not, but we'll think of something." his sister said, then added in, "Man, I really wish we'd gone all the way."

"Yeah, so do I." Albert replied almost depressed.

Amber looked down at the remarkably similar equine face at her side, "I love you," she said, and then hesitantly added, "Sis?"

It was a moment, but eventually came a light reply in a soft female voice, "Yeah, I'm your sister, but I'm still the big one." Finally, she added, "I love you too."