Wait a second, that one mer-person looks familiar. Is that, is that Naomi? Is Naomi the male? Uh-oh.
She turned to Lawrence. "Get me something to write on. Quick!"
Lawrence, who was used to taking orders, quickly returned with one of the scientists's lab notebooks and a pen. Irene grabbed a page and wrote in big letters RU NAOMI?
The mermaid swam up to the glass, read the note, and pointed to the male.
CHARLOTTE?
The mermaid pointed to herself and smiled.
HOW IS NAOMI TAKING BEING MALE?
Charlotte shook her head and pointed her thumb down.
THEY'RE SHUTTING DOWN THE FACILITY IN A HURRY. WE'RE TRYING TO GET PEOPLE OUT OF HERE. I'M GOING TO SEE IF THERE'S A TECHNICIAN WHO CAN TURN NAOMI FEMALE AGAIN. TELL NAOMI THAT HARRY FINALLY GOT UPGRADED. MY NEW NAME IS IRENE.
Charlotte nodded.
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Thing in talons heavy can't fly well hungry need food see water ducks on water prey animals dive with claws open heavy thing falls into water male flying beside me screams catch duck kill duck eat male still upset about something tries to dive into water drops heavy thing he was carrying harpies don't do well getting wet fly south get warm men with guns on side of lake pointing guns male still upset
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Max was a fairly intelligent man, but he wasn't the kind of supergenius serial killer that mainly exists in the movies. Now that Goldie the bitch was finally sharing a cell with him--and what was the deal with that? there were no other females in the cell block--he realized that she had claws and teeth and a coat of fur, and literally "shredding the bitch" wasn't actually an option. Head games, though. . .Goldie clearly valued her new identity as a straight arrow female husky, so time to go after her self-image.
"Max and the lone wolf together again, eh? Just like old times. Remember when you told me about that rabbit-girl you smeared blood on? That was hilarious. I always admired the way you were able to terrorize helpless creatures without even breaking their skin. You're an artist, man. This whole 'good little husky bitch' thing is just totally not you."
Find the lone wolf, Goldie thought, Goldie can't handle this.
"While the whole 'spend the rest of my sorry-ass life in prison' thing is totally you?" Goldie replied. "Bet you're going to miss having those claws and teeth on the inside."
"Oh, I'll get by" Max responded. "You see, the transformations aren't really that important. There's only predators and prey and that's all that there ever has been. All the transformations do is make it literal. Some predators, like these pathetic huskies, try to deny it--they're more pathetic than the prey, which at least accepts their natural role."
"Like the bearmorph?"
"Oh please, that was just having some fun. Fun like you used to have."
Don't let him get to you, Goldie thought.
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"Agent Yereminiva?"
"Yes" snapped the panther-woman to the Park technician.
"We were doing a scan on Vincent Usborne as part of the regen process, and there are a few anomalies from the standard deermorph template."
"Go on."
"Basically, most of it is enhanced musculature particularly in the arm, leg and neck area. The antlers are also artificially enhanced with nearly twice the density of standard deermorph antlers. That's all combat related, the only other area of enhancement we found was increased genital size and sexual capacity."
"Fratboy moron." replied the panther.
"Essentially, yes." responded the technician.
Tasha was already on the communicator.
"Zack, I want your huskies to round up every doe and stag from the group that came in with Vinny and take them to the regen chambers for scanning. An agent will supervise."
"Yes, ma'am."
"Yereminiva out."
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"Okay, how about we don't do anything with the fed. We just leave him here and follow the original plan." Roberto began.
"But he saw us!"
"He saw a bunch of jaguarmorphs. How good are humans at telling the difference between jaguarmorphs who they saw for less than a minute? Particularly when they've taken a blow to the head."
The other jaguarmorphs nodded. They grabbed the unconscious Minotaur and carried him out to the truck, the truck that was used to carry prisoners to what the jaguarmorphs called "that place from which no one returns." Everyone knew they needed to move before the fed didn't check in and the feds showed up in force.
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"The modifications on the stags are not very different from Vincent's. Basically, they got the muscles, just less than Vincent's, and they got the antlers, just not as dense as Vincent's. Vincent wanted to win, so he cheated."
"Makes sense." replied Tasha.
"The does, though, are interesting. Most of the modifications there were psychological. They're hyper-sexual, and hyper-submissive to men. Generally, the deermorphs are a male-dominant species" Tasha grimaced "but this is far beyond the norm. There are a few minor physical modifications made to enhance sexual attractiveness--big breasts and the like--but the outstanding physical modification is hyper-fertility."
"Hyper-fertility and hyper-sexuality? I'm guessing that means"
"Yup. Every last one of them is pregnant."