Frey@'s eyes flared back to life as she was alerted to an update. New blood, she thought. A useful minion. Her energy though was so low... still she willed a display to rise before her on a pedestal and focused what little power she had through it.
B.A. suddenly noticed a program on her computer she hadn't opened. The icon looked a bit, but not quite, lke a web browser. Just a sort of generic flaming O with a blue center, trying to get her attention. Worried she might have contracted some sort of malware she hovered her mouse over it for a moment, only for it to expand quite suddenly. It filled the entire screen and somehow kept growing beyond it. As it loomed to fill her whole field of vision, the stylized flames whirled about, enveloping her in a fiery aura. She felt a rather intense heat, but wasn't burned. Her clothes on the other hand didn't fair as well. Quite quickly they were incinerated, leaving her... not sitting, not standing, but floating in mid-air, surrounded by the strain swirling flames.
The fire closed in, reshaping her body bit by bit. Smooth willowy arms and legs, a very flat and taunt stomach, slimmer shoulders, a smoother, rounder face. Her hips widened, while at the same time certain pesky bits of anatomy between her legs melted like a candle, and pooled into more feminine folds. As breasts swelled from her chest, stopping at a sizable handful each, her face was suddenly rearranged. Her nose and mouth slid forward into a canine snout, and her ears crawled to the top of her head, widening and becoming more tapered. Finally, there was an odd prickling sensation at the base of her spine where a three by three grid of strange lumps burst forth, just as the flames withdrew... still largely present but now swirling in a ring around that blue void.
Looking closer, it seemed less like a void, and more like a tunnel, with another ring some distance away opening into some opulent locale she'd never seen but had certainly read about, with a large looming robotic centaur that seemed to be getting closer as her gaze focused. Suddenly she realized it WAS getting closer. She'd somehow fallen into the tunnel... and was being changed again.
This time it was much more rapid, almost instant, as her body compressed and lost all traces of humanity, leaving her entirely in the form of a fox, compelled to dash forward down the tunnel, with a wake of flames bursting out behind her paws as she dashed along the non-existent ground. Glancing around, it seemed there were more possible exits than just the one she was headed towards. Hundreds? Thousands? Perhaps even millions of flame-wreathed portals seemed to float in the distance, leading who knew where.
Eventually she arrived, tumbling out of the portal and back to her normal self. Well, her fox-faced, naked, decidedly more femme self at any rate, and she was indeed standing before the rather imposing Frey@, who proceeded to... there really wasn't another fitting word, intoned a brief explanation in a voice that was quite imposing, but seemed very tired.
"TAILS... STORE ENERGY... GATHER FROM ANYWHERE... ELECTRIFIED, HOLY, HUMAN... THEY GROW... CANNOT HIDE... DETACH... INSERT... YOU NEED AS WELL... RAVENOUS... RESTOooo-" Her tone shifted quite noticably. "Power needs critical. Please charge at earliest convenience. Entering emergency sleep mode."
The chamber grew quite suddenly dark and quiet, lit only by the flat panel LCD with the flaming ring behind B.A. she'd apparently come through. It took her a moment to process all of this. Magic being real, being turned into some sort of cyber-kitsune, having 9 tiny detachable tails that apparently acted as batteries for both herself and some sort of weird demigod who apparently used to be human as well. Plus the fact that she was standing around naked in a weird marble palace above a forest, who even knew where.
It did seem like she could go back the way she came. Just a question of... diving through some sort of magical portal and turning into a little fox to run across the internet. On the other hand, this place was pretty odd and maybe worth exploring. Of course, Frey@ had also rather strongly implied she needed to "charge up" these tails (they certainly didn't feel much like tails right now, just little nubs maybe the size of her thumb), and she was suddenly feeling both hungry and tired... how was she supposed to do that though?