Thomas, his eyes still riveted to Jenny's changing form, takes a few seconds to realize Randall is speaking. He gulps and tears his eyes away, trying to remember what the question was.
"Um, well, I'm not really sure, I guess. I was rushing to get back and it had taken forever to find the capsule prod, so I just started grabbing whatever samples came to hand quickly. Uh, I guess it's safe to assume there was horse semen, since there's always so much extra of THAT... and I think I grabbed a yellow vial. That's feline, right?"
"From the looks of her, I'd say you picked up the cougar sample. Look at the size of her paws! Like dinner plates! Do you think it was just those two, or did you add others to the mix?" Randall asked, taking in movement and the growth of lithe muscles working their way up Jenny's forelegs.
Thomas hesitated, not sure if he should mention the other vial; maybe she was just going to be a cougar-horse blended creature. The muscles rippled under her skin, settling around her flattened shoulders. Suddenly Jenny's back bulged between her shoulder blades, stretching out slightly and pulsing.
"Withers?" Randall murmured, puzzled that a horse characteristic would manifest above her feline forelegs. "I would have thought it would be half and half, top cat and bottom horse?"
The bulging hadn't stopped, though. Another pulse distended her back, stretching directly outward until a wet tearing was heard and Jenny screamed! Two new appendages had sprouted from her back, and what looked to be 3 feet long unfolded to be two HUGE 6 foot wings, stretched out behind her on the floor! Already, feathers were sprouting from the slick flesh of each rod, growing before their eyes to long pinons and flight feathers.
Jenny screamed again, sounding broken and desperate. She could feel her new limbs sticking from her back, feeling heavy and awkward as she lay on her side. Unconsciously she folded them, pulling them closer and twisting her head again to look. Her neck hardly had to bend, as she found she could twist her head most of the way around now.
"Oh god, please no." she wept, closing her eyes as she writhed in mental anguish. When she blinked them open again, she noticed her vision seemed sharper, her eyes felt larger on her face. She sobbed as she realized the changes were reaching her head, nothing would be left of her old self when this was done!
Randall and Thomas had retreated a few steps at the arrival of the enormous wings. They were covered in rapidly drying light brown feathers, and Randall glanced away to glare at Thomas. "I think you forgot to mention some extra samples." he accused.
Thomas looked down sheepishly. "I wasn't sure of what I'd added, and I thought maybe only the two would present. I think I may have grabbed a blue avian vial, maybe that new golden eagle sample that just arrived from Russia?"
"Amazing! One of the largest raptors in the world combined with big cat and equine power. I cannot wait to see the finished product! Ready a sedative before she completes her transformation." Randall rubbed his gloved hands together in anticipation.
Jenny heard the command, and for the first time she wished the changes would speed up rather than reverse. She had to get away from these madmen! She stopped her struggles and tried to calm her sobs and panting, concentrating on the final alterations to her body. Her lips felt drier, and when she pressed them together and flicked her tongue to wet them, she realized they had thinned considerably, the corners drawing outward and the texture hardening. She tried to purse them and was dismayed to find they lacked their former mobility, although there did seem to be a pucker in the center. A peak was forming in the middle of her upper and lower lips, pushing outward and thinning, becoming hard and sharp like one of her claws, darkening at the tip and she watched the top lip curve down wickedly. A beak! After wings it shouldn't have been such a surprise, but she couldn't have ever imagined a human mouth becoming a bird-of-prey's sharply curved beak! Her new jaws ground together and she realized that her teeth had been pushed out at some point; she gagged and prodded with her smaller, stiffer tongue to spit them out.
While looking down at her new jaw, she realized her nose had basically disappeared, merging with her beak and becoming two slits at it's base. She felt a throbbing above her eyes and could just see her brow-bone pushing outward, shading her eyes even as her forehead flattened and sloped back, her skull shrinking a bit as her orbital sockets widened. Her chin had disappeared, her jaw sloping back to her neck under the lower portion of her beak.
Suddenly, tingling! like pinpricks all over her body at once! A rush of goosebumps ran in waves up and down her skin, and she suddenly wondered if this signaled the arrival of hair, fur, feathers... anything not to be naked and grotesque any longer! Starting at her cheeks, tiny points appeared in every pore, pushing outward. The hair from her head, once long and curly, was pushed out too, sliding limply down her neck to puddle on the floor. Tiny darkly golden feathers were quickly growing in to cover her face, over her head and down her neck. A tingling in her legs made her glance down where she discovered tawny, golden fur covering her paws and racing up from her hooves, sprouting all at once along her torso and meeting her slightly darker feathers just above her shoulders and chest. Twisting her paws, she noticed they were a bit darker than her sides, her stomach almost a creamy shade, and a dark stripe of fur running down the center of her back between her wings to her long tail.
Thomas, jolting into action, darted to the door, presumably to retrieve the aforementioned tranquilizer. Jenny knew she was running out of time!