Green
You enter the machine first this time and ask Kim to press the green button. Smoke fills the chamber again. You feel a stretching, especially in your neck, and your wings disappear entirely. Your skin prickles as your feathers turn into spotted fur. You keep getting taller the whole time; by the time your talons turn into hooves, you're starting to feel cramped in the chamber. It's a relief when the smoke clears and the door opens. You unfold yourself from the machine, stretching your long neck and legs, and find that you've turned from a hawk to a giraffe.
You're also still female.
"Well, that's... interesting," says Kim, who suddenly seems a lot shorter. He looks away awkwardly, and you realize that the fur doesn't cover you as much as the feathers did. Oops.
"Not exactly what I was hoping for, though," you say. "I'm still female. At least I could fly before."
"Well, at least you're still on two legs." Kim points to the control panel, where a display has lit up with the number 4. A timer next to it is counting down from one hour. "We've still got four charges. Want to try again?"
Written by Chrysalis on 31 December 2009
The end (for now)