Michael Haskings, FBI agent, was trying to track down the I5. Many people were. Police, the NSA, the national guard, etc. The problem is, they were very difficult to track. Part of the problem is there are five of them. A single individual could be tracked easilly, a large group could be infiltrated. But a group of five can work together or split up on a whim making tracking them next to impossible.
The other problem is no one has been able to figure out how they are communicating. The NSA has been tracking cell phones, the internet, walky talkies, mail HAM radios, everything. But so far they have no luck. Everything from very secure and encrypted electronic communications, to note passing and word of mouth, to carrier pigeons have been considered but no one knows for sure.
Mike's job has been tracking their spree through Massachusetts and trying to stop them. It's tough as whenever a pattern seems to appear in their travels they will break it.
They first made their presence known in Massachusetts in the rural town of Richmond Mass. Three women developed P-rashes and their lower bodies changed into those of male centaurs. Beyond that each change had slight differences,
The first girls boyfriend left her as he couldn't help but picture making love to her as making love to a barnyard animal. Behaviorally she was unchanged,
The second girls horse body had a mind of its own, at the base of the horse spine a neural cluster formed that acted like a second, animalistic brain. Moving is less like walking and more like horse riding to her.
The third gil was very unfortunate. Her libido and response to male pheremones was increased. And her boyfriend was willing to experiment with her. Sadly when he came to wanting to try her being on top both her equine member and horses weight was too much for him. Thankfully the crushing took its toll on him before the tearing did. The girl has withdrawn into a deep depression now.
Mike found it odd there are not more deaths associated with transformations. Either they have a genetic modeling program that would make most universities drool, or a well hidden stash of dead lab animals from failed experiments.
Then they hit Westfield, Holyoke, and Chicopee in rapid succession. In Westfield they changed peoples genders except their heads and genitals. In Holyoke they hit the Ingelside mall and the men developed strong allergic reactions to cotton, wool, polyester, and most fabrics except for silk and satin. As a result men's silk shirts sold out fast and many men had to resort to wearing women's clothes. In Chicopee they hit the air reserve base. Everyone on base grew breasts so big they couldn't even stand. Most think this was a strategic hit as the men would no longer fit into the cockpits limiting them being tracked by air.
Seeing a west to east travel pattern a watch was placed on Worcester. And either from insider knowledge, or deliberately deciding to break pattern, they skipped it. Some of our experts almost suspect the I5 intentionally skip some cities to make sure baseline gender is part of the diversity.
They next scattered. One of them hit Salem turning a wiccan group into green skinned witch characatures out of a Halloween poster. The other went to Plymouth and turned some of the people into humanoid turkeys, others had ethnic features shift into looking native american. This was obviously a thanksgiving reference, pilgrims, indians, and turkey. But no one finds it funny.
Then they started a pattern again on cape cod. They hit the popular gay resort town of Provincetown and changed it so the men had rear located uterus's and could be impregnated by anal sex. Then they went to Truro and increased the mens responsiveness to male pheremones but made them repulsed by female ones. Probably to see if being next to a gay resort town would influence their sexuality.
In welfleet that is where they met trouble. Some of the changes seemed as if a device was damaged. A man grew one D cup breast on one side of his chest, and barely started developing any breast on the other side. A woman had her lips turn loose in vertical as they failed to become a pussy.
This is when we ALMOST got them. They needed electronics to repair their device. Unusual equipment purchases and raided shipments of laboratory and military grade equipment lead us to track them down to a nearbye warehouse. The gov't interceded sending in a small elite military squad to get them. They missed them by maybe 15 minutes and triggered a booby trap. It seems they were building a new device and used the broken one as a booby trap. They overloaded the current so it could change a group but while melting its insides out due to overheating. The squad soon found their eyes and orifices sealing up with skin. It was a slow enough process that they could call for help and the surgery to correct it was easy. Nothing regrew like normal. This was obviously a warning saying they do not want to use lethal force but can do so if pressed to. Experts are studying the melted device, but little can be made from the remains.
Now they developed a new pattern and we are waiting. They have been hitting around Boston and we feel the big city is too much of a target to ignore. So far the changes to the city have been sparse and the kind to thumb their nose at us. A lady at the aquarium became a mermaid. A few men in Quincy Marketplace became women. Some women in Fenway stadium grew testicles below their vaginas. But mostly they have been hitting the surrounding towns.
A transgender support group in Waltham was turned into genetic women much to their delight. A few men in Quincy gained female buttocks for their face, but can still talk through their anus's and apparently see through the pores on their skin, In Medford some women grew dicks instead of mouths, but were able to drink through them.
Since the places they hit in Boston are popular tourist areas we have been checking photo and video images to compare with other sites. As usual no two suspicious people look alike. We suspect I5 actually change themselves each time to keep from being identified.
Why are they waiting on Boston? It depends on what theory you buy on how they do mass changes on a city wide scale. Those who think they can change whole cities with each device suspect they are waiting for the perfect moment to act and not get caught.
But there is another theory, It goes that each device can have a large range but has a limit. But they can not only broadcast signals, but receive them and bounce them off the devices and the overlapping signals boost the weaker signals at the edge of the range that otherwise would be too weak to cause changes. Those who subscribe to this idea suspect they need all five members to change an area as large as a whole city and are waiting for everyone to arrive.
Mike sighed and went back to looking over photos from Boston trying to find anyone suspicious, maybe he'd be lucky and one would slip up and he'd get a photo match with another location.
