Andrew was surfing the web as he sat at home, bored out of his mind. Since graduating three weeks ago he had applied to what must have been hundreds of places, but he hadn’t gotten a call back. His mom had encouraged him to check out some websites specifically for finding jobs, but he’d been putting it off. It wasn’t until his boyfriend Brad encouraged him to check out Monster or Indeed last night that he really considered doing it.
Now, he was trying to avoid more disappointment and was just trying to find funny videos to watch when his phone buzzed. It was Brad, asking if he’d applied yet. Andrew frowned and typed “monster” into the search engine as he replied to Brad’s text that he was doing it right now. Once the results came up he went to click on the job site but didn’t notice his hand slip as he got another text from Brad. When he looked back up at the computer, he realized he was definitely on the wrong site.
“MonsterMe.com,” he read aloud. “Transform yourself into any kind of monster you can think of; the only limit is your imagination.” Andrew grinned and thought to himself that maybe this would help him with his boredom. The site seemed simple enough. All he had to do was take or upload a picture of himself to open the editor.
Andrew clicked on the button to take a picture and gasped as a full 3D model of himself popped up on the screen. It was identical to him, from his lithe muscles to his straight light brown hair; it even had the small moles between his shoulder blades and under his ribs. He saw the options to customize the image pop up and his eyes went wide. “Wow, this is impressive.”
Deciding to start just add extra stuff to see what might look amusing, Andrew added a second pair of arms right under the first. He thought for a moment then added extra abs in the middle of his six pack, and after adding five more rows, he decided to add one more pair of arms under the other two. He then added another torso growing behind him, ending in another pair of legs. This one he kept with just a regular six pack, and he saw a drop down menu for “bipedal, quadrupedal, or interchangeable” and chose the interchangeable option. Next, he added extra facial features so it looked like someone had tried to pull his face apart but stopped halfway, giving him two noses angled to form a “V” with a third eye between them, as well as three extra eyes on his now wider forehead. He made his mouth slightly bigger but kept it centered, and added eyebrows for the four new eyes. He kept them all the same deep blue but made his canines ever-so-slightly more pronounced to look unsettling when he changed the model to be smiling.
Andrew looked over the altered model with its wide head sporting four extra eyes and eyebrows and two noses, six arms, sixteen-pack abs, and centaur-like torso and back legs sticking out from its behind. “I’ve gotta show this to Brad,” he said to himself as he clicked on the “Transform Me!” button expecting it to let him share the model or go to an image. Instead, a menu popped up asking how long the change should take and some other questions. He clicked on an instant change with user aware and others unaware whatever that meant and frowned when nothing happened and his model just stayed as it was on the screen.
Suddenly, Andrew felt a great weight in his stomach as if he’d had too much to eat. He doubled over, closing his eyes and grabbing his sides as he felt like something was pushing through his body. It wasn’t 8ntil he felt like he was sliding across the floor that he opened his eyes and saw his legs and abs had pushed away from him as a lot more abs were growing in their place. Andrew gasped as he felt new legs kick out of his sides and adjust so he was now kneeling on four legs. He looked up at the computer screen in alarm as he felt himself getting taller with all the extra abs he was growing. Then he had a splitting headache as it felt like someone was pulling on either side of his head. He had to close his eyes, but when he opened the, he realized his vision was a lot different and that he was blinking six eyes at random. He looked down to finally see four new arms grow out of his sides and finally everything stopped. Andrew was now so tall that he was looking down at his computer screen, and he gasped when he saw that his reflection in the monitor matched the model on the screen.