Nikki's mind was in a state of conflict. She wanted to run to the computer room, to tell Jessica to stop doing whatever she was doing. She also had an overwhelming sense of urgency to finish eating the bread she had dropped on the floor. Nikki was poking at it, awkwardly scraping up tiny crumbs with her new beak before swallowing them. To enable her to do this, Nikki had squatted with her legs planted wide, and her new muscular structure allowed her to lean her entire body forward at tops of her legs. By sticking her butt out and bending over, she was able to twist her still-human back and neck close enough to the floor to reach her meal. She found, to her annoyance, that her still-human chin was getting in the way.
She was, at the same time, horrified at what was happening to her rapidly mutating body, but she felt unable to take any human action against it. There was a new presence in her mind, an animal instinct, that left her immobilized, acting like a bird, like the chicken she was rapidly becoming.
After about a minute, Nikki stood up and straightened her chicken legs. She untucked her arms from under her armpits, and with considerable concentration was able to re-form her hands from the lumpy masses at the ends of her feathery arms. Overcome with heat, she unbuttoned her shorts and let them, along with her underwear, drop to the floor. Stepping out of them, Nikki clawed at her shirt collar, lifting it over her feathery head, where it became stuck. Nikki could feel more changes approaching, and in a fit of animalistic fury she began to peck and claw at the shirt, shredding it, exposing her feathery breasts, shoulders, stomach, and butt.
Her shoulders and chest heaved from the heavy breathing the effort caused. She tried to yell, to give words to her frustration, but all that came out was "Buck bluck cluck cluuuck!" White feathers already covered her entire body, and Nikki felt more pushing out from her skin.
Her butt stuck out and became triangular in shape. Nikki craned her neck around and watched as long feathers, the longest she had seen yet, emerged from the tip and grew to full length, giving her a chicken's tail. Nikki's stance widened; her yellow-orange legs were pushing themselves out to the sides of her body. Her breasts were flattening, disappearing into her rounding abdomen, making her look even more like a chicken. These changes were enough to alter Nikki's center of balance, and she leaned forward.
She waddled over to the mirror above the sink, grabbing the edge with her wing-arms to steady herself. Nikki watched her chin flatten and melt into her feathery neck. Her black, circular eyes moved from the center of her face to the sides of her head, as her beak began to stretch out a few more inches. Nikki's comb dripped a bit from the tip of her forehead to cover the sides of her beak. Her neck thickened with muscle and feathers, but Nikki was able to stretch it inhumanly in her shock at seeing her basic facial structure overrun with chicken features.
The back of her human mind panicked and receded as animal instincts took over. Nikki folded and tucked her arms under her armpits again as her wings lengthened to the same length that her arms used to be. She flapped them tentatively as she ran out the door to the yard. Squatting in a pile of autumn leaves, she grunted and groaned, concentrating, as an eight inch long egg plopped out and rolled into the grass. Nikki flapped her wings and did a happy little dance around it. The human part of her mind was horrified at the experience. Nikki squatted down and began to groan again...
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Jessica was still at the Chronivac, on her computer, scrolling through menus looking for a reverse button. The sight of her friend running out of the house to lay a pile of eggs made Jessica jump, her finger inadvertently clicking 'Cow' as she did so...