Phoebe found her calculations had been correct. Her mild semi-transformation from just one dime had been enough to transform her forearms, while giving a programming driven mentality. Eight quarters had been enough to turn Wanda into a yellow naga woman in a black dress.
She had no idea what the end result would from the gaggle of coins Lidia was stuffing into the crystal ball one after another.
"LIDIA WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! WHY DIDN'T YOU TWO STOP HERE?!"
"She insisted," Happy said sheepishly.
Wanda said, "SSShe wanted to know what had happened and we kinda had to explain-"
Lidia was a rabid anime fan if ever there was one. More than one of her anime DVDs hidden under her bed were the kinda that got you banned from youtube. She naturally had brown hair but dyed it blond. She had brown eyes to match but wore blue contacts. Her parents were not absurdly wealthy by American standards, but well enough off. The clothes she wore tended to be neon colors that had more than once burned Phoebe's visual receptors. She was on the pudgy side, but often dressed the opposite. She had deposited, MARK!, twelve coins into the crystal ball. And who knew how many before Phoebe entered.
Then the crystal ball made an unpleasant cawing noise, and spat out the last coin inserted.
"Hey! What's the big deal?" Lidia demanded. She got her answer.
Lidia stood stiffly at attention, legs together, arms at her side, and face straight forward. Phoebe wondered if Lidia would turn into a robot herself. Instead, Lidia quivered in place like a volcano about to explode. A torrent of changes hit Lidia all at once. It was little like the gradual change Wanda and Phoebe had gone through.
Her shoes exploded out of existence, replaced by digigrated feline paws. Bright neon pink fur covered her body. Her clothes morphed into a single maid uniform with a too-short skirt and a too long bust line. Speaking of which, her figure's body mass rearrange itself, having hips and waists not seen outside of anime, with a thin waistline that left Phoebe wondering how she didn't topple over. Her hand likewise morphed into paws but with a opposable thumb. A long pink cat tail with a bell on the end grew from her tail bone, the dress maid to accommodate it. Her hair turned blond for hear and grew down to her backside like a single mass. Her face pushed out into a slight muzzle, fangs appeared as her ears became large and triangular and moved to the top of her head.
But even this was not the end as her new blond eyes became forever expanding rings of colors like a cartoon's version of hypnosis. Her skin and dress turned shinny and rubbery like they were now a single piece. She curtsied to the others. She spoke in a cutsey high pitched voice.
"Greetings, which one of you would like to be the Mistress for this humble brainwashed rubber catgirl maid? Nya!"
"WHAT THE SYSTEM CRASH?!" Phoebe explained.
"That freaky enough for you?" Wanda asked.
"... Well, remember, Lidia could never finish any of those video games where you had to pick where crewmate lived and stuff? Or had that break down when we asked her what she wanted for her birthday? Or never felt like she was getting anywhere when she exercised? Or her parents told her to get a real job? Or-"
"Sufficient sample data! Conclusion, combined with Lidia's taste in Japanese animation and comic books, she suffered from choice paralysis!"
"Now this humble brainwashed rubber catgirl maid is happy to never worry about such things again! How may I serve you?" Lidia asked cheerfully enough to put Happy to shame.
"Well," Happy said awkwardly. "I guess since Lidia 'maxed out' her transformation, we should see if nobody freaks out at the sight of her or not."
"Yes Mistress, this maid will test your theory at once." The doll said turning around and marching straight out the door to do as it mistress desired and couldn't be happier to do so.