“I’m a snake- a snake- GIRL!” Mike screamed it, not quite able to even believe such a thing was possible. Her long black hair draped somewhat behind her… she had small breasts and for the most part wasn’t exactly an ‘outlandish’ looking girl… it was everything ‘below the waist’ that was different. She was feeling it.. with every inch of her body.
It was so… elongated.
Mike’s body ‘felt’ stretched out, and yet she knew she could stretch even further. Her snake tail, all twenty feet of it could be felt from the tip to her waist. Humans so rarely thought about the sensation in the legs or even their feet… yet given how ‘large’ all that was, and part of her, she could feel the sofa… the carpet and part of the door she had just entered from…. It was overwhelming.
Robin was screaming in the kitchen. “I’m looking for some food! Would you two please stop!” The new harpy-mom begged her chicks to be quiet as they chirped incessantly. They screamed so much louder then human babies. One of the chicks decided to sleep on a plate, which… looked awkward to say the least with his outstretched wings flapping on it. “Ah- get off that- what do I do? Mike please help!”
Mike hopped off the sofa sliding her body to the kitchen with a sway of her tail. One of the chicks decided to try and do a flutter jump towards her on seeing the snake-girl. “Ah-“ She caught her as the bird-girl hugged her back. “…we should probably take the chicks back to that other dimension,” she thought. “Their mom and dad are probably worried.” They had no idea they were dealing with… this! She felt acutely concerned for the two… as much as she was also concerned about her own changed body. “The internet says we should feed baby chicks water.”
“They aren’t just chickens! Donny and Molly are well- human too. I think?”
“…Donny and Molly?”
Robin raised her feathered arms in exasperation. “I need to call them something!” She frowned folding her wings trying to cross them. “Donny! Get out of that cupboard!” she tried to use her talons to pull the small bird-boy out as he explored under the sink. The bird-boy suddenly flew up to Robin’s chest and nuzzled against her bosom. This seemed to make his sister chirp more and she too flew toward Robin, making her almost fall over at the gust of wind. “Urgh… what are you two do- uh-“
It quickly became apparent that they were ‘nudging’ her breasts… Robin looked annoyed at this, and treated it as no more then a cat kneading a human to access milk. It seemed to make them quiet at least. “…at least they have good instincts,” She sighed. “Look you two have to stop that I don’t-“ Then Robin felt… ‘it’. She had never felt such a strange sensation… it felt like something inside her chest ‘settled’ in some way. She felt her nipples harden as the little chicks found their lips upon their desired food source.
Mike glanced awkwardly as Robin stood still. “Uh- are you o-“
“AH!” Robin screamed suddenly as the chicks began to cry in response, falling gently to the table with a flutter of their wings.
Mike stared as the wetness from Robin’s breasts trickled down onto the kitchen floor. The snake-girl’s jaw dropped… and probably dropped a lot ‘further’ then a human jaw ‘should’ be able to. The two harpy babies continued to cry though, and it was starting to get very hard to concentrate. “God- Robin just let them have it!” she pressed her hands into her ears as they wailed.
“You- you can’t be serious!” Robin shrieked. “No way! I’m- I- I can’t!”
“Well you took the egg!” Mike groaned as she decided to slide away from the noise. “I won’t look, okay? Just… please stop them crying!”
Robin gave an exasperated look… the noise, the stress, and it could all go away with just… that. She sat down, talons raised on the table and looked like a bird-woman who had utterly given up. The bird-babies again launched themselves onto robin. “M-Maybe one at a time…” She thought. “I mean- you guys are hungry… this is normal… totally normal… oh what the heck am I saying this is anything BUT normal!” She felt that weird instinct kick in though… a part of her ‘liked’ it?! She shuddered. She was a guy damn it! This was … this was … this wasn’t her…
Yet as her breasts felt this ‘ache’ inside, it started to get painful… and the relief of that pain could only come one way. “Urgh- fine!” She clenched her wings and surrendered to the inevitable.
Mike quietly slithered away, the snake-girl as awkward can be.
While Robin dealt with the harpy-babies, Mike was still looking at the strange portal gun. It now had an odd ‘glowing’ red icon, that was blinking. She couldn’t really tell what it was though. She guessed it was because of what she did, using the gun to travel ‘intra-dimensionally’. The magic portal gun was very good at moving to other dimensions… but travelling inside the same dimension caused problems. She flicked her snake tail, trying to decide how to ‘fix’ this. Why had it changed them? “I suppose we could find a dimension where there’s a cure to this disease.”
If all things existed in all dimensions…then there had to be a dimension with a cure. She started to access the AI to try and find such a dimension. “Find one where we can transform back to normal…” She hoped it was a simple enough statement. The AI started to go through its database… she hoped it would find something. She glanced hearing motion in the kitchen… her friend Robin was done?
The harpy-mom started to come out the kitchen… one talon at a time. She had each of the harpy children the crook of her wings… and silently walked to the sofa. Her skin was as white as a sheet, and she was giving the thousand-yard stare.
Mike gave a sympathetic look… but burst out laughing.
Robin looked angrily. “urgh… shut up.”
“I’m sorry!” She laughed. “I mean- this is pretty silly…” She tried to stop herself. “Dude- you really are like their mom… I mean… in every way! Why are you treating it like you’re in a war?” she shook her head.
“War?” Robin waved a wing at her. “You can never understand what just happened! Well unless you decide to…”
That ‘did’ make Mike stop. “Yeah okay, I’m messed up too. Sheesh… I still don’t get how this even happened. Maybe the AI has something… Hey can you tell us any info about that world where the egg came from?”
The AI started to rattle off what information it had.
“EGG WORLD. EVERY CREATURE IN THIS WORLD ONLY LAYS EGGS TO PASS ON EACH GENERATION. NO KNOWN SENTIENT SPECIES.”
“Huh… well that doesn’t make sense. These kids look human…ish.” Mike glanced at them. Maybe it wasn’t possible to tell but every instinct… every fibre of her being told her that these kids were people… people with feathers… but people.
The red light started to beep faster. It caught Robin’s attention. “Hey- what’s that?”
“I dunno…” it started to make a humming sound.
The answer soon came as there was an odd ripple in the air. The two suddenly beheld a portal though not one of their own making just to the side of the television in the living room. A golden colour that rippled like a magical curtain. It was a ‘small’ portal, and the two were surprised to find a weird looking ‘fairy girl’ emerge out of it. “Ah… here we are.”
The fairy girl floated in the air. She wore a pink dress, and was about two feet tall. Barefoot, she crossed her arms looking at the two. She seemed to have a strange hat with an emblem on it. The fairy then produced a badge from under her hat with a picture and identifier. “Okay, who broke reality.” She demanded. “Was it you?” She looked at Mike. “Or you?” She looked to Robin.
“Uh…” Mike blinked.
“Who are you!” Robin demanded feeling protective of the children. “You- can’t just-“ This was her home damn it!
“Let’s have a look here…” the fairy took out a wand and started to wave it around. “Oh dear… reality leakage... That’s not good.” She shook her head. “Well, congratulations on discovering portal travel. Unfortunately, I have to now book you for crimes against reality placing the fabric of this universe under severe strain.”
“We didn’t mean it!” Robin tried to show the portal gun. “We- we just found this thing! We were exploring…” he tried to explain to this ‘reality cop’.
The fairy sighed. “Hm, mingling of two universes…” She scanned Robin. “Snake bite… makes sense… oh and you took an egg… hm…” She shook her head. “Egg of an Avis, resulting in Avian-sapiens, not too dissimilar to some other dimensions… hm…” She tapped her wand a few times. “Okay, I can fix this. Standard protocol plan alpha.” She started to power up the strange wand in her hand.
“You can fix this?!” Mike asked. “Oh- thanks!”
“Eh, don’t thank me it’s what we do,” The fairy smiled as she set up her wand. “Just give me a bit of time, this will take a powerful charge.”
“Wait- uh- what exactly is your plan? With the kids be okay?” Robin asked quickly glancing at her sleeping charges.
“Don’t worry we’ll fix all that.” The fairy seemed to tap something on her wand. “We’re going to have to decide on who the father is I suppose.”
“Wait- what?!” Robin stared at the fairy wide eyed. “Hold on what! You can’t! I mean- wait who IS the dad?!”
“You are.” The fairy explained.
The harpy girl gave a confused look at that. “I- I thought I’m their mom? I’ve been doing… mom stuff! I turned into… this!” She gestured to her body.
The fairy sighed. “Well, it’s part of how the Avis reproduces. You touched their egg and they took on your DNA, making you technically the father… it’s part of how they reproduce. It’s not really with dads and moms… You take on the ‘caregiver’ assignment of your species… so that makes you female… oh this is complicated… but it works out pretty well in that dimension. Just doesn’t normally involve sapient species… they havn’t evolved that far yet. ” She ran her fingers through the wand. “Okay! I can make a clone of you as the dad if you like. You’ll be split in two, and.. one of you will be mother harpy, the other can be dad human…”
“No way… no no… I mean- how is that even option one!” Robin looked exasperated. “I can’t be in a world where I made love… to myself…” She looked confused as she said that statement. “How would I even know which one I end up as?! Neither way is good!” She imagined looking at herself as both a guy and a girl from each perspective and nearly broke in her head.
Mike on the other hand began to laugh again. “You really screwed yourself.” The snake girl giggled.
“Hm, I could make snake-girl here the father, before she changed into her new form.” The fairy smiled looking at Mike with a sweet smile.
Mike blinked and stared in horror. “No- uh- wait why is this even a thing… what if we just… did nothing?”
The fairy hummed a bit. “…sure. Can do nothing. You want to play your universe ‘without’ my intervention? Let’s see what happens.” She tapped her wand showing a quick run through on the television.
“Two students that ended up transformed into alien beings. Harpy girl here gets to live in some kind of government facility where the children are studied and they start collecting their eggs. On the one hand, you do create a new bird flu that results in more harpies around the world… on the bad side, you don’t get to live normal lives for at least twenty years.”
Robin watched the events on the screen and winced. “That’s… not good.”
The fairy nodded. “Snake girl here… actually turns out pretty good. Seems you managed to escape and live out in the wilderness, eating mushrooms… oh and that hole you punched through reality continues to leak and eventually leads to societal confusion and eventual destruction. The end.” She turned off the Television quickly. “So, still don’t want an intervention?”
Mike and Robin stared at the fairy stunned. She had made her point pretty clear.
“So… who’s gonna be the dad?” the fairy asked again. “I suppose if clones or your snake friend isn’t an option… I have a third option.”
“What is it?” Robin asked feeling more distraught at each second.
“…I ‘normalise’ it. People won’t question it. I can make it so these eggs are sometimes found on your world, and it’s a known thing that they transform you when touched… they won’t ‘always’ have kids of course, but… eggs can cause transformations,” She shrugged. “A simple merging from that dimension should do it. It could mean others changes… maybe weirder then the ones you already have,” The fairy hummed a bit. “Still a little tricky. You won’t have omelettes on your menu anymore.”
“…sounds like a good option,” Robin sighed. “It keeps things mostly the same… I can handle that.”
“Wonderful! Oh- what do you want to do about the mermaid?”
“…mermaid? What mermaid?” Mike glanced in confusion.
“Ah you don’t know about her yet? Eh nevermind, I’ll fix that too. Oh, I’m gonna have to confiscate that primitive dimensional device.” She waved her wand over and it appeared into a blue box. The item then shrank.
“But-“
“It doesn’t belong to you right? If it did… well someone would be ‘responsible’ for this mess… do you really want to spend a night in dimensional jail?”
“No- er- no we don’t,” Mike quickly said. “F-Fine…” she looked down at the device saddened at its loss.
“Good! Oh- I’m also going to remove your memories of me having been here… so you’ll just find yourself in a world where this is all considered ‘normal’… and your dimensional hopper is gone. So… good luck!”
The fairy raised her wand… and there was a large magical zap of energy as reality started to heal and re-write itself.
