You stare at the choices: snake, rat or weasel/otter/?
5....4....3...
Pop goes the weasel. You click on the weasel image.
"Now what?" you ask.
"Now the fun begins, Kevin," answers the unseen voice.
Then the voice comes from the monitor saying, "Mike, you have been selected to participate in a unique experiment."
"No way. I didn't volunteer to participate in any experiments. Give me back my clothing and let me go!" demanded Mike.
"You don't like snakes, do you?" said the voice on the monitor.
"No, I don't."
"Well, you will be happy to know that you aren't going to become a snake. At least not yet," said the voice.
"Become a snake? What are you talking about?"
"Ah, well at the under end of this camera is a monitor with another person. He was given a somewhat randochoice of three animals to change you into. A rat, a snake and a-uh, hm, weasel or ferret, maybe a mink? Sorry, this image is not as good as I would like. Let me see, what it is that he selected for you."
"Yeow!" shouts Mike jumping up in his seat between his spread legs, and lifted buttocks, you can see a needle retracting from his butt cheek back into the seat.
"Now the genetic material of the subject will begin to overwrite your DNA, and you will be able to handle the snake crawling toward you. If he had selected a rat, you'd be snake food. If he'd selected a snake, you'd end up mated to this rather handsome male python. But he selected the mongoose, and so you should be able to defeat the snake before he can kill you.
"Aaargh!" your brother screams convulsing in the chair, foam bubbles out of the corner of his mouth.
The straps release him, and he collapses to the floor. You still haven't seen the unseen voice, and you suspect he's watching remotely like you.
Your brother is covered with fur, and his body seems to be shrinking and elongating simulataneously. His thrashes around on the floor all fur, claws and tail. At last he stops moving. Breathing shallowly, the mongoose opens it's shiny brown eyes. The snake is less than a foot away. Your brother rolls and leaps on his f
A few minutes later, you watch the brief life and death struggle which ends with your brother the mongoose holding the dead snake by its neck.
"Very good, Kevin. Your brother lives, and is still male. Now for your next selection."
The monitor flickers and another naked person strapped to a chair appears on the screen.
It takes a moment, but you recognize...