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David and Pammy trudged their way through the forest cursing softly as the branches crash into their sides. They both looked around disgusted as the forest did not seem to end. The long, this trunks of the pines seemed to go on for miles, along with the short, prickly shrubs that dotted the misty landscape. David held his jaw firm as the sound of the crunching leaves below their feet spurred Pammy to stop every couple yards and swing around to check her surroundings. For a normally calm and collected girl, Pammy was quite the opposite out here.

"What's the matter?" David asked with a coy smile. "Never been out in the woods before?"

Pammy turned and shined her flashlight in his face. "I have been to the woods before, just not without an RV. Or service."

David covered his eyes and chuckled to himself. "Spoiled brat."

Pammy groaned and dropped the beam to the ground. "Can we just find them? I want to get out of this hell hole as soon as possible."

David gave a mock bow. "As you wish, your highness."

"Very funny."

They walked in silence for the rest of the journey. The mist seemed to be coming in droves, it was now covering their feet and moving upwards towards their ankles. Walking slower now, Pammy dropping back to David's side, they charged forward. The trees seemed to be getting closer together, or at the forest was becoming more dense. David would have to wave his flashlight in a wide arc in front of him before moving every couple feet, Pammy close at his heels. The shrubs ripped at their jeans, the pair would have to wince and try their hardest to step carefully over them, all the while trying to avoid running into a tree.

Just as the forest grew in density, it abruptly opened up to a wide clearing. David, who arrived first, almost dropped his light in amazement. Pammy, just happy to be out of the forest, gawked at the sight before her. A large mansion stood before them. Its dark oak walls caught the moonlight at such an angle, it looked like a fresh coat of blood decorated the walls. The windows on the four stories glared down at the two, most challenging them to step forward. The large door to the mansion stood a few yards ahead, and beckoned them forward with its alluring carvings.

"What the...what is this place?" Pammy asked.

David wished he knew. And he was going to find out. He stepped forward when a hand gripped his shoulder and held him tight. He turned and Pammy looked at him wild eyed. "You're not serious about going in there, are you?"

"Pammy, Daniel and Jake could be in there. Or at least the people who live here could have seen them. We have to check. You can stay here but I'm going inside."

She locked gazes with him and finally relented. "Fine. If it gets us out of this goddamn forest."

David offered her a smile. "That's the spirit."

They cautiously crossed the clearing towards the eerily silent house. Pammy crept closely behind David to where he could feel her hot breath on his neck. Their hearts began to beat faster with every step, and their bodies began to feel warmer.

Finally, they made it to the porch. They climbed up the creaking steps as slowly as they could, making sure to not alert anyone, or anything, that may be living in the house. Pammy held her breath as David crossed the final steps and the door hung over them, studying them.

He paused, staring at the intricate carvings on the broad oak. He couldn't make out anything, save for some type of animal with nine tails. Pammy stared at the door with him. She was the first to break the trance. "Are you sure about this?"

David watched the door for a couple more seconds before turning to her. "Pammy, we _need_to find them. Everyone thought that we would be the best bet, we can't let 'em down."

She thought about this for a few moments. "Fine."

David exhaled and reached for the door handle. His hand paused in the air, as if the door would come alive and swallow them up whole. What if they were not in there? What if it was just an abandoned house?

What if they are, though.

He sighed again and gripped the handle. He pushed in and the door swung open at a slow pace. Dust assaulted their nostrils as the large panel came to a halting stop. David stepped forward, his foot causing the dust to scatter like flies. The interior was bare. There wasn't a piece of furniture in the old house. There was a large double staircase that led to the upper levels.

David's eye caught something reflecting in the moonlight. Towards the middle of the staircase was a picture. David leaned in and squinted his eyes to get a better view. It was a picture of a fox. Except, this fox had nine tails and pale, almost beige fur.

"What the-"

His sentence was interrupted by something corrupting his vision. Then the next second, his mind went blank.

****

The lights above David burned brightly as his eyes fluttered open. His vision was blurred and the world around him seemed...different. The dusty interior that welcomed him into the decrepit house was replaced by white tile floors and white walls that reflected the harsh beams sent down by the four lights overhead. There were two metal tables, with a tray next to each one with all sorts of materials. The smell of disinfectants was so highly agitating, David had to clutch his hand over his-

"What the hell?"

He looked at a petite pair of paws in front of a beige muzzle with accompanied by a black, shiny nose. When he willed the hand- paw, to move, it did with uncanny precision. He stared dumbfounded as the paw opened and closed when he told it to, or to poke the air, it's sharp claws protruding from long digit.

What the hell is going on.

He quickly spun to see, what he thought was a mirror and ungracefully stumbled towards it. The mirror was small, maybe half his height. He stared into it, and so did a jagged face with light, cream colored fur. He jumped back and looked again. He waved his hand, and so did the creature.

This can't be possible.

He started to feel his body up, the claws of the creatures paws digging slightly into his flesh. His paws halted when they felt two, flesh-like orbs attached to his chest. They squeezed again, and David knew the feeling all too well. He stared down into the two objects that got him through lonely nights at home.

I...I have boobs?!

He quickly grabbed the mirror and positioned it on the ground facing outward and took several steps back. The body reflecting from the mirror followed his every movement, he was now sure this was him, or he was in it, or it was in him. In full view, he almost passed out again.

His boyish form was replaced by that of a female. His macho charisma, now replaced with dainty gracefulness in a body covered head to claw in beige fur. His every movement was replaced with subtle swiftness, he spun around and nine long, beige tails followed him.

No. Freaking. Way.

"Ah, I see you are enjoying your new body," a voice said over a loudspeaker.

David broke from his trance and glared upwards. "Who the hell are you? What'd you do to me? Answer!" His new voice, now light and airy, caused him to cover his muzzle with his paws.

"Now, now," the voice was calm, setting David's newfound tails and ears down, "do not act like you do not like it. This was an improvement, Kit-002F."

"What'd you just call me?"

The voice gave a slight chuckle. "I'm sure your friends will fill you in."

David grew wide eyed. She had forgotten about Pammy, Jake, and Daniel while she was studying her new body. "What'd you do with them? Where are they?"

"Goodbye, Kit-002F. Have fun with your new life."

There was an electronic beep and the sound was cut off. "Hello?" David asked in vain. "Hey! We're not done talking yet!"

There was another beep, and the door behind him opened. Another creature stepped forward, another kitsune like Kit-002F. She walked in, and upon seeing David, ran up to her and viciously hugged her till she couldn't breathe.

"Oh my God, they got you too," the creature said.

"Who...who are you?" David asked as the kitsune let her go.

"It's me, Jake," she said.

David stared at the new body of Jake, similar to her own. How...how could this have happened? What sick mind would create us as this?

"Don't be scared, um...David?" Jake said. "It's actually kind of cool when you get used to it. Oh, and here come Daniel and...Pammy, I presume."

David followed Jake's gaze behind him as two creatures emerged from a tinted sliding glass door. They had human heads and shoulders, but their bodies were like that of a lion. They had thick, elongated arms, sharp, extended claws at the end of their large paws. Their hind legs were stronger, more heavy set then their arms, with a long almost chord like tail swinging wildly behind them. David knew who each were immediately. Their hair and, much like Jake and David's, eye color did not change, but their hair length and...sensitive parts did.

Pammy, now sporting a broad set of shoulders and missing her usual thin shape lunged forward and hugged Kit. "Oh, David," he whimpered into her long ears. Pammy let go and surveyed his new body. "So you're changed too?"

He shakily nodded his head and looked behind the sphinx. "Daniel?"

He, now sporting breasts like David, avoided eye contact and put up a paw. "Hey, David."

A heavy silence hung in the room, everyone shifting uncomfortably in their new bodies. David was the first to speak. "So, what the hell is going on?"

"Honestly, we didn't know at first," Jake said. "But, these people, whoever they are, they want to give us new lives-"

"Well who the hell are they to tell us that we need a new life?" David exploded. "They- they can't just take something from us like our freaking bodies and expect us to live like," he pointed to his girlish figure with a jagged claw, "this!"

Jake placed a calming paw on Kit's shoulder. "Hey, listen, I already told you it gets better. Once you get used to it, it's not so bad..."

Daniel remained silent. Everyone turned towards the sphinx as its tail swung wildly behind her.

"Daniel?" David asked.

The sphinx avoided eye contact, but spoke in a low, high-pitched voice. "Jake's kind of right, David. It's not so bad once you get used to it. I mean, these bodies can do so much...I miss my old one, but these are kind of cool."

The room grew silent again. Pammy, now stepping forward, his form dominating the room. "How'd this happen?"

"We were captured and the injected with some...kind of liquid," Jake offered. "We blacked out a couple seconds after it happened, then woke up like this. Why? Didn't you guys get injected?"

David shook her head. "I woke up like this."

Pammy said, "Same."

"Maybe they just didn't want you guys to suffer or something," Daniel spoke up. "The needle was pretty large."

"So are we stuck like this?" Pammy asked.

No one answered, which, to David, was an answer in itself. Well...shit," David sighed.

"Listen, man- woman," Jake smiled pointing to David's exposed breasts, which she quickly covered up. "you have to just accept it."

"How?"

"Take 'em out for a spin around town...or the lab!" Jake smiled again.

How could he be so okay with this? David thought to herself.

"Here," he said offering a paw, "there's a sort of break room, we can go talk there. I think it'd be a better scene than this place."

David wearily took her paw and followed Jake, Pammy and Daniel in tow. They crossed into a long hallway filled with nothing but a few clipboards next to numerous metal doors. The lights cast an ominous glow on the bare white walls. There were pockets of light, then darkness, a vast expanse of darkness at the end of the hallway.

David stopped but Jake urged her on with a tug of the paw. "I know it looks scary at first, but you get used to it."

"What's down there?" Pammy asked.

Jake shrugged. "We don't know. They told us not to go down there."

"What if it's the way out?" Pammy questioned.

Daniel shook his head. "No, we thought of that. It's just an all consuming darkness. We went in there the other day, at least I think it was the other day, and it was just...cold. That's the only word I can describe it as. And evil."

The silence returned as their claws clicked against the cool tile floor. They walked for a couple more feet before Jake stopped in front of a metal door that looked exactly like all the other metal doors. He opened it up to a sort of break room like in the office TV shows David used to watch back home. There was a coffee maker, a chrome refrigerator and a fruit bowl, except the fruit was replaced by meat. A metal round table with six seats stood in the middle of the room.

"Here we are," Jake said, opening up her arms to the small room.

"This...looks a little different than I thought it would," David said.

"That's what I thought," Jake replied, "but this is what it looks like and it's pretty nice."

She walked casually over to the meat bowl and picked up a half of a steak and picked at it daintily. Daniel sat down at the table, her breath rising and sinking. Pammy and David sat at the table on either side of Daniel, Pammy's chair sinking slightly under his weight. Jake's chewing was the only noise that held the silence at bay as the two who just transformed tried to decipher what just happened.

Okay, David thought, so I'm a girl. A girl, fox-thing. Why the hell would someone do this?

As if an answer to his question, Jake swallowed a hunk of meat and said, "I think they wanted to make a difference."

"Wanted to make a difference?"

"Yeah," Jake said, coming over to the table and sitting down next to David. "Maybe they wanted to change the world for the better. If you think about it, these bodies are more powerful than our other ones. Who knows, this might actually be a good thing."

Bullshit, David thought. He did not want to get into it with Jake so he kept his mouth shut. But his mind played an argument with itself. If they wanted to make a difference, why not donate to charity? Beach cleanup? Why would they go out of their way to design probably million dollar technology to change people's gender and form?

"So why'd you come?" Daniel asked, breaking David's thought.

Pammy answered, "You guys were missing and the rest of us talked about it and David and I offered to go. We thought you guys were dead or something."

Daniel's eyes wandered down to the floor. David cocked his head and thought to himself, Maybe he thought it was better that they had.