A severe sort of grogginess had set in by the time Jennifer was waking up, all her senses left impaired by an exhastion that she hadn't completely shaken. The memories of her activities with Madeline provided some explanation for why she was so tired - though a smile still spread over the scientist's face, as she concluded that her current tiredness had bee worth the sense of joy and contentment that the stduent cradled in her arms had brought her. Half-open eyes lazily glanced over the blonde and the smile plastered on her sleeping face, admiring the way her body moved up and down with the heaving of Xiao's considerable bust. She was in need of draining - Madeline would surely be happy to oblige, a thought that already had one hand drifting to Jennifer's folds.
It ripped back away from her crotch when she looked up to find someone else there.
Her yelp caused the stranger to take a step back, and Madline to awaken with a frightful start. The bee-woman's heart was racing as she studied the unexpected intruder - no, intruderds, plural. Two of them. One, somebody in a white hazmat suit, complete with a breathing apparatus connected to a personal oxygen supply. Clearly a researcher of some sort, based on the clipboard they were carrying and a badge identifying them as 'Science Division', whatever that might mean. The other had a far more militaristic bearing, complete with webbing and an assault rifle... though instead of a hazmat suit, she was covered head to toe in some kind of shiny, skintight black material almost like rubber or latex, covering her body completely and even leaving her face a blank black expanse, hair covered in the same material dangling down to her shoulders.
Both mutated women cowered, hurrying to their feet and retreating to a corner as Madeline instinctively took a position to stand in defense of her queen. They both were able to glance over to the window and find that daylight was shining in, but it was blurred by a heavy black rubber not unlike what the soldier was covered in. The same material could be seen over the entrance and every other window, vent, or potential egress, acting as some kind of biohazard containment if Jennifer had to guess - though it was unlike any containment measures she could recall having seen before.
The soldier looked ready to snap up with her rifle and open fire, but the scientist's movements were more slowly, deliberate, a hand being outstretched with an open palm as she spoke up with a distinctly Texan accent. "It's alright, it's alright! We're not here to hurt y'all, I promise!" The woman's voice was confident and soothing, in an odd sort of way, almost completely counterbalancing the firearm being so tightly clutched by her companion. "I'm Doctor Stacy Johnson. My friend here is Sergeant Melissa Ramirez. We're here to help y'al." She nodded thoughtfully to the mutated duo, seeming unbothered by their half-insect states. "Mind if I ask who y'all are?"
Madeline glanced back to her queen, still in full-on defense mode, leaving her to swallow audibly before she replied. "D-Doctor Jennifer Xiao. This is my..." What word did she even use at this point? "Madeline here is my... partner." In more ways than one.
"Well Jen, Maddy, it's sure nice to meet ya." Sensing that a handshake still wasn't in the cards, Stacy pulled her hand back, motioning for Ramirez to ease up a bit on the ready-to-rumble stuff. The latex-coated woman relaxed her stance, and after a moment, Madeline relaxed as well, though she still stood between Jennifer and the strangers. "Y'all's dean called local authorities when he found ya this mornin', and it worked its way up to us. If it ain't intrudin' too much... may I ask, are y'all non-human by nature, or did somethin' happen to make ya that way?"
The manner in which she so casually posed the question put Xiao ill at ease - what, was this woman used to seeing bizarre things like this? Still, she tried her best to give a very high-level overview. "Madeline and I, we've been experimenting with a... a-a retroviral agent, for inserting pesticide immunities into bees." She nodded towwards the various cages containing their test subjects. "One of them stung me, and the retrivrus it.. it had... unexpected effects..."
"Unexpected, but real interestin'," Stacy replied with another nod as she sat down on a stool next to one of the equipment benches. "Injection-based, I'm assumin'? Carried through the stinger?"
"And through... other secretions..." She winced as, if on cue, one nipple leaked out a trickle of golden nectar. "It's... it's not airborne, if that's what you're asking."
"Well whew then, that is one worry off my shoulders." She reached up and quickly pulled off her headpiece, revealing a pretty young bespectacled woman with short blonde hair underneath. Next to her, Ramirez shrugged, and Jennifer was left staring in shock as the latex quickly retreated away from the sergeant's hair and face, now stopping about halfway up her neck. The hispanic woman looked them over with an intense glare, but after a moment, she took her hands off her rifle, leaning up against a wall and leaving Stacy to continue on with the nerdy, technical stuff.
"Dean said y'all looked normal yesterday, so I reckon these changes must've come on quick, is that right?"
Jennfier nodded. "F-full mutation within a couple of hours. Sooner, with more exposure to the retrovirus."
Stacy grinned, running a hand through her hair. "Full genetic rewrite within a couple hours... Jesus Mary and Joseph!" There was a certain sense of pride swelling up in Jennifer's heart as the other scientist marveled at what her work had accomplished. Yes, it had left her in this half-insectoid state, but at the same time... her ego was getting hte kind of boosting it had been starved of for so long.
"Doctor, if you'd be so kind, I'd very much like to transport both of y'all to my facility." She clasped her hands together eagerly. "This retrovirus of y'all's... I'm sure I ain't gotta tell ya how much good this can do. And the folks I work for, well, I reckon they're the best people in the world to get it out there, really make this breakthrough the kinda thing that saves lives and makes the world a beter place." She once again outstretched her hand to accompany the offer.