Chapter 37: Venus Rising and Penis in Retrograde

Magnus woke up on the couch.

He rubbed his eyes and thought how crazy that dream was.

A secret retreat where men and women get turned into sexual gods and goddesses? He really needed to stop eating chicken teriyaki late at night.

And being dipped in a vat of experimental bath water by a crazy Russian? Even more crazy.

Then he remembered. His couch wasn’t this big.

And this wasn’t real.

He looked around him to find himself in a nicely furnished living room, on one half of a big L shaped couch. An 80-inch flat screen was on the wall above a big fireplace, either side of that with two full bookshelves. He could see the titles on the books from here. They ranged from familiar titles like Moby Dick and Eat, Pray, Love, to very specific texts. He immediately locked eyes with several of the law textbooks he had in college…in fact…they where the exact books he owned.

The rough patches on the spine from when he dropped one in the quad. The dark stain on another from spilled beer. These were his books.

They were partnered with other books he did not recognize. Books on engineering. Evolutionary biology. Chemistry. Yet, he felt like he knew where these came from, it was digging in his memory.

He got off the couch and walked to the window, looking out onto a spacious lawn that led to a massive river. He could see houses on the other side too, just as big, and spacious. He recognized this river, just from old pictures that his father would show his mother when they were looking for a new house before they took their fateful trip to Europe. It was the Navesink River in New Jersey.

“Babe, dinner is almost ready, are you done with your shower?”

Magnus jumped in his skin as a female voice rang from what he assumed was the kitchen. He assumed he was alone here, but apparently this hallucination had other ideas. Before he could answer, he heard footsteps on the staircase behind him.

“Coming, just had to take a little extra me time.”

Magnus froze, as he heard his voice answer.

“Me time? You better save some for me mister.” The female voice from the kitchen said with an air of flirtation.

“Now I know you don’t like to eat dessert before dinner.”

Magnus stared as he walked down the stairs. Well, this other him. He was tall, taller than he was at the moment, maybe 6’5”. His shoulders were broad, and the tank top shirt he wore showed off the fact he was ripped, not bodybuilding juiced, but a nice healthy fit. His torso tapered inward, with cut abs and a v cut waist that fed into very strong legs. Magnus did a double take though, as he lingered on what had to be a 16 inch elephant bulge in the grey sweatpants this version of him wore. That had to be…but it couldn’t. Sure the Factory had him experiencing a bit of a growth spurt in that area…ok a lot. He was about a foot long now but what he was looking at almost looked more in place on a horse!

To top that off, his hair was full again, and cut to a neat fade, bright red like it used to be. His face was healthy, with a sharp chin, now turned towards him, and staring right at him.

“Yea, I know, this is pretty shocking right?”

Magnus took a long, LONG, ten seconds to realize that he was talking to him…well himself was talking to him.

“How…”

“Don’t hurt yourself thinking about it.”

“Babe what is taking so long!”

Magnus looked to the right to behold…a blur…standing in the portcullis of the kitchen.

It was hard to describe what he was looking at, but it was like when you watch a news report on a crime, and they blur out the image of somebody to protect their identity. Whoever this female companion was, it was like they were left open to interpretation, but the voice….the voice stood out like sunshine.

“Sorry, just in my own head for a bit. What’s for dinner?”

“Well, I was making souffle, but I guess the mixture was off so I tried to readjust the ratio on the recipe and…well we might need a new oven, and pizza.”

“All those degrees and baking is the one thing that eludes you. Starting to think I married a premed undergraduate or something.”

Married?!

“I mean, I can probably do that too…I know all about anatomy…” The blur said seductively with a laugh as it shifted to suggest that whoever was under it was doing something to her chest.

The newer him laughed and walked right up to the blur and brought it in for a kiss. It wasn’t sloppy or lewd. Just a loving, doting, kiss…with tongues of course but still.

“What am I going to do with you $%&!*#@!%$&#!@?” The other him said, as the name came to Magnus with a sound that mimicked hashed gibberish.

“We can answer that question after the pizza. It’s getting cold. Besides, we can't fuck on an empty stomach.” The blur said as she reached around and smacked his ass hard, turning and going into the kitchen.

“But my name is…” Magnus went to say as the house started to fade into darkness, leaving only him and the other him standing in the wake.

“Arthur Mathis. It was always Arthur Mathis. You know it, I know it. This is what could be you know? But it must start with you. No second guessing. No letting others decide our destiny. You know what is at stake, so step up and stop him.”

In the darkness a shroud with red eyes appeared, a dark smile cracking across its lips. The ghoulish sounds of distorted whispers saying words like perfection, bloodline, purity, male ideal, echoed for a minute before the other him made it vanish away with a wave of his hand.

“But how? He is…”

“No different than any other man. And that is the key. We must be better than any other man. We must be…”

“A Stud?” Magnus said sarcastically.

“Exactly, but better. He talks a big game of the male ideal, but to be a man, a real man, that is something he can’t even comprehend.”

The other him walked forward and began to fade as well, coming up to Magnus, becoming more and more transparent. It felt like he was passing through him.

“If he can’t comprehend it, then how can I?”

“We don’t, well, right now we don’t, but it will come to you, all you have to do is stop looking for the forest in the trees and embrace what you always could be.” His own voice said as the dark began to fade away.

“Where do I start? I am so scared. So unsure.” Magnus whispered as he felt sleep incoming.

“And that’s ok. Nobody has all the answers. It starts with a single step. Isn’t that right Arthur?”

Magnus remembered something his father would say, something he got from one of those old Christmas specials with the weird clay animation. Put one foot in front of the other.

“And soon you are walking out the door.” Arthur Mathis said out loud as he faded into a warm embrace.

The warmth of finding the path again.

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Jenna sat up in her bed, furiously masturbating with one of the larger dildos Wendy had brought to her in the last few weeks.

She woke up from her latest foray and couldn’t get it out of her head. Her shadow. Aphrodite. The giant cock on that monster of a man. The feeling of being an object of lust to be used…or one that could use it as her weapon to get control of it all. It made her burn up to a point where she was insane.

Fuck yea, oh yea that’s right fuck our pussy with that big dick. This feeling you have right now? That burning fire in your mind and loins? We will have it every day, all day, and with everyone as soon as we become one.

“Shut up.” Jenna said through gritted teeth to nobody as she pumped the dildo in and out of her wet folds. She still could not believe what she was experiencing as a scientist. Shadow doppelgangers. Plots by a villain looking to turn her into a cock sleeve. Her inner mind being a field of tulips.

ROSES.

Whatever. And yet here she was, smile wide and manic, her tongue falling out of her mouth as she came for the fifth time in a row. It felt like she was fighting against the tide.

As the orgasm subsided, she let it leave the clutches of her labia and brought it up to her mouth and sighed as she sucked on it like a popsicle. She was getting used to her own taste, it may have been insanely narcissistic, but her cum was so wonderful and sweet.

Of course, it is, it is our cum.

She passed the dildo through her lips and let it slide back to the base of her tongue. Reveling in the taste…before going wide eyed and taking it back out and throwing it to the floor. It was at least a 8 inch dildo, yet no gag reflex went off. Jenna had not tried deepthroating anybody here yet, even the handful of dummies that Wendy snuck her to fuck in the last few weeks. Not to mention it felt like she could take the entirety of the cock without any worry about a sore throat.

Oh, that’s right, silly me I must have forgotten to mention. That whole nanite discovery? Well my creator had them make us start changing us in small subtle ways to aid our supposed transition into Aphrodite. Now they are our nanites, so now I…we get to decide what our body can do.

“That’s impossible.” Jenna said a little facetiously since her definition of what was possible here had been broken multiple times.

Not really, they are part of our body now. I am beholden to no man’s programming. We are just making it easier when we finally complete the real us. Now we won’t need any messy surgeries to get, say, full muscle control over our throat, pussy, and ass.

Jenna gasped as she felt her inner walls flex and her labia open, connected by strands of sticky cum, before closing again.

Now nothing can hold us back when we take on even bigger cocks. If we can suck and fuck the big monsters here, we can bring them to heel to serve us correctly. Of course, some other work might be needed, I mean, think about how Tso looks with those delightful fake tits she installed.

“Enough, I am sick and tired of this, ALL OF THIS, I need to get to the lab and figure out how to fix everything.” Jenna went around scrambling for any shred of clothing that wasn’t covered in her spray.

Lab, lab, lab, nothing but the lab seems to make you tick. I mean I love science too; we are one after all, but you must flex the body just as much as the brain. Once this vessel is complete…

“I AM COMPLETE. You are just some amalgamations in my head. This body is mine, I am in control, and I am going to fix things to get back to normal. You have no control over me!” Jenna yelled out to the open air.

Ugh, I knew you were going to say that. Well, if you want something done…

“Just do it yourself.”

Jenna heard herself say those words, but she did not think of speaking to them. Her body moved to the mirror and started to tease her hair in a playful motion, making it look wilder. She gave herself a kiss in the mirror, with eyes so fierce they were somehow different.

How?

“I told you that I am you, this is our body, we have as much control as you.” The shadow said into the mirror, running her hands up Jenna’s body and laughing deep as she teased her nipples and felt Jenna squirm.

The shadow looked through the clean clothing and picked out a simple spaghetti strap tank top and booty shorts. Nothing too flashy. She completed the look with a simple set of wedge heel shoes around three inches.

_ “Perfect…simple for a first trial run.” _She said as she activated the watch and started scrolling to the private room reservation section for the nightly gang bang.

What are you going to do?

“Isn’t it obvious? You need to feel what I am selling. The only way to show you that is by example. So, I am going to invite three studs to this private room, and then we are going to blow their minds.”

Three?!?

The shadow laughed out loud. Jenna had to learn. The only thing better than one cock was three. Besides, when they were complete, gang bangs with a whole trove of hand-picked studs fucking them in all their holes, emptying their balls out on their tits, crying their name and falling to their knees begging for more? That would be a weekly thing easy.

The shadow finished typing before stopping on the field that said enter name. Something was telling her that just reserving a room under Jenna’s name was not the best idea. Mother was watching from a far most likely, not to mention Misty and Tso. They couldn’t know about what Jenna was becoming…not yet at least.

Then it hit her…how appropriate…and then she typed in the name the three stunt cocks should call her during the session.

“Venus.”

What is that for.

“I guess it’s my name…I like it…I think I am going to keep it.” Venus said excitedly as she went for the door.

But we are Jenna…I AM JENNA…you can’t just change my name.

“A lot of things change, and besides, when we are done on our little journey, maybe that name won’t suit us. Something more powerful perhaps. The Roman name for that bimbo we were to be seems apropos, no?”

Jenna could only feel rage as her body moved down the hall, happily humming and strutting all the way to the reserved room. Venus wished she would relax; she is going to have a front row seat after all.

Once she feels a cock in all her holes at the same time, she will realize this was all meant to be.

The rise of Venus had just begun.

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Rebecca woke up, her body aching in pain.

How did she get here?

That woman…on the plane…

Blurry images came to her mind. Being carried from the car to a brightly lit room.

Nurses and doctors with huge chests.

Something said about cybernetics, implants, nanites.

Rebecca tried to move but found herself aching in pain. As she looked down, her eyes went wide. She was covered in bandages, wrapped up like a mummy. There were red blotches in spots over her thighs, her chest, her arms. She felt them on her face, holding her nose in place, keeping her breasts in place.

“Finally, you are awake.”

Rebecca glanced down and saw her. The woman. Athena.

She was completely nude, her fully insane body on display, save for a pair of heels. They were in what looked like a hospital bedroom.

Rebecca tried to talk, but she found that bandages had been placed over her mouth as well.

“Don’t speak, you still need to recover a bit before we complete this procedure.” Athena said as she walked over to the x-ray display on the wall and flipped on the lights. Showing some of the many upgrades implanted into Rebecca.

“I know you are probably wondering what all of this is. Why me?” Athena chuckled as the eyes of Rebecca followed her like a hawk.

“Let me fill you in on this my love. This is your best-case scenario.”

Athena took an X-ray sheet that showed the new tongue implant in Rebecca’s mouth. The machine was installed by cutting off the top half of your actual tongue and attaching this to the remaining organ. The nanites would then replicate your flesh and have it completely cover the biomechanics. A new tongue that could reach over a foot outside your mouth if necessary. She remembered seeing hers for the first time.

“You see, you probably took that job on the company jet because it was so much money you couldn’t turn it down. If you stayed there a few more months, you would have been bent over Mathias’s desk, feeling your guts make way for his cock filling your ass. And you would love it, you would feel like this god owning your body was the only thing that mattered, that you exist to be used. To be a ****.”

Rebecca whined a bit under the dressings as Athena walked over and began to undo her bandages, slowly removing the gauze from her body. Rebecca couldn’t help but look right at Athena’s tits sticking out of her chest in defiance of gravity. Two barbell studs were pierced through her nipples, a new addition.

“Alice Shea was just like you. She too thought that getting a big pharma internship after graduating with middling grades at USC would be just the opportunity she needed to rise and seize the cushy corporate job, the nice house, the admittedly mild plastic surgery. It only took three weeks before the only thing she could do was breath and feel Mathias Maximus bottom out in her pussy while she screamed for more.”

Athena tensed up; she felt a burning sensation in her loins. Not yet. Had to pick the right moment to show Rebecca what she had to look forward to.

“So, Alice moved from her modest apartment to the Maximus estate. She forgot her name and her life beforehand. The only thing that mattered was servicing Maximus when he pleased, and when he didn’t, she licked and sucked her fellow slaves, just as they did her. Then one day, Mathias picked Alice for a different task. Of all the things Mathias had at his fingertips, he didn’t have one. His perfect mate. A woman that would be his equal in body, a vessel for his progeny, and his queen ****.”

Athena felt it again, a surge in her. She wanted to pounce on Rebecca now, but she held back. As much as she did not want to admit it in, the moment dancing so close to the edge was making her soaked. She felt her pussy dripping on the ground. Rebecca could only breathe heavily and stare as Athena continued to remove the dressings on her.

“One of his attempts, was Athena. A nanite colony designed to change a woman from the inside out to meet certain specifications. To allow a human body to recover from augmentations that no normal human could survive. Metabolic steroid injections. Cybernetic organ replacements. Muscles, Skin, Bones, all implanted with the latest bio-organic technology. He called Alice into his study one day, the empty-headed bimbo thinking it was her turn to slobber on her master’s girth, when he injected her with a full dose of nanites…Much like I did in the limousine with you.”

Rebecca’s eyes went wide. Athena finally removed the bandages covering her mouth, and just as Rebecca went to scream, she felt Athena’s finger hold a shhhh motion over her lips. Rebecca wanted to scream, wanted more than anything to get up and leave, but she could not even make a twitch. Athena holding her attention.

“Like I said, this is your best case scenario my love. You were put out and did not feel the things being done to your body. Alice? She was awake for it all. Mathias wanted to observe the effects of the nanites on a subject while they were awake. The pain…was excruciating. She felt her muscles being ripped apart and re stitched, her face being broken and reset, her bones feeling like they were on fire. She cried out many times, wondering why her Master would do this, wondering what she did wrong.”

Athena felt a miniscule twinge of pain deep within…a sole remaining vestige of Alice that did not get wiped from her mind. For the briefest of moments, she almost felt a tear form in her eye. How fucking soft.

“After the surgeries were over and the nanites fully implemented, there was only one more step to take. To code the nanites within Alice to completion and make the experiment successful, they needed Mathias’s dna to lock down the last step, so he fucked Alice, like so many times before. She cried as the pleasure she so normally accepted when fucking her master was replaced with a cruel and mechanical pain. She almost passed out from shock, but her Master promptly filled her to the brim with his semen.”

The twinge again, almost time, almost.

“Alice felt the nanites get to work instantly, her eyes rolled to the back of her head. Her whole personality was wiped and sent asunder. Her wounds healed instantly, her body creaked and finalized its transformation. The being on the table ripped her limbs from their bonds and tackled Mathias to the ground, shoving his cock in her pussy and roaring as she rode her master like a bronco. She screamed in orgasm as she felt the nanites finish their task, making her cum a torrent and collapse on the floor. A violent birth to a being of rage and sex. Of me.”

Athena turned to Rebecca and walked up to the side of the bed where Rebecca’s legs were. Rebecca squirmed as Athena ripped the bandages over her crotch to reveal her perfect tight pussy, designed just like Athena’s. The amazon licked her lips, teasing the clit with her thumb as she cupped Rebecca’s ass.

“Over the next few weeks, Mathias would fuck me constantly, to try to conquer the unexpected mania I possessed. I would do what no slaves did before, talk back, buck back on his thrusts, demand for him to fuck me certain ways or how I wanted to fuck him. He had to beat that back though, he needed control. So, that is what he got, eventually gaining a **** that was loyal, but was a whole new breed. He made me his bodyguard, assassin, **** tamer, whatever job he wanted completed I was to do. Thinking he had me under control, The Athena nanites were considered defunct. Mathias wanted to create the perfect Bimbo Fuck Wife after all, I was not fitting that ideal. So, he left me to discipline his slaves, thinking the project over. Then, I remembered…”

Athena now transitioned to using her pointer finger and middle finger to fuck Rebecca, who half cried, and half moaned.

“The memories of Alice Shea started to return to me. Everything. Every. Thing. He did to me, made me into, flowing back like a river loosed from the dam. My theory is the nanites he created repaired more than expected, including the programming he implanted in me as a ****. I was filled with contempt and rage. I thought about killing him…but I didn’t. Alice Shea would have, but the nanites repaired more than my mind…”

The twitches were getting stronger and stronger, she now felt a river of cum flowing down her leg.

“I stayed my anger and played my role. I protected him, killed for him, punished his little fuck toys, even let him fuck me to quell his desire for a challenging lay. Knowing that if I bid my time right, the chance to stab him in the back would be better…then this whole thing with Aphrodite started, and my opening came. See, as much as I hate him, Mathias had a sound plan, to change women to his needs. However, my love, he was wrong, women don’t need to change for him, women need change to become better than him, to be the apex of our species. I am the Blueprint for the future, and I can’t wait to see the look on his face when that day comes. That is where you come in my love.”

Athena grabbed Rebecca by the hand and brought her to her feet. Initially wincing and expecting a large amount of pain, Rebecca instead felt completely fine. Athena guided her to a floor to ceiling mirror and positioned her in front of the amazon. Rebecca did not recognize the person in the mirror. She looked almost exactly like Athena. Not entirely, her muscles were not as defined, her skin was still marked by the scars of these surgeries, and she was completely bald. Yet minus that, the new tits, the lips, her cheekbones, everything, looked like a over sexed replica. Her moment of shock was broken when she felt Athena pull her into her chest, and felt Athena’s hand sneak around to start slowly rubbing Rebecca’s clit.

“You see, I couldn’t do this all by myself, but two of me. Now we are getting somewhere, a confidant who understands the power we can wield and the things we can accomplish. A true mate. However, that is where I hit a snag. You see, for the Athena nanites to activate inside of me, they need a Male to seed them, to spring them into final action. For the longest time I thought my plan ruined since I would need Mathias to turn anybody else into someone like me…then, it was like they saw this problem too…and those little machines went to work.”

Rebecca went from panting to letting out a little yelp. She felt something poke her on the butt. And begin to grow.

Athena laughed and arched back arched back, tensing her muscles as she thrust her hips forward into Rebecca. Her clit became engorged, and began to grow, shuddering and twitching. A small slit formed in the tip of it and began to leak a off white liquid. Then in one fell and terrifying swoop, accompanied by the sticky sound of flesh expanding forth, Athena screamed as a 14-inch cock emerged from her clit hood, fully erect and leaking precum. Rebecca looked below her as the cock emerged between her legs, feeling her vagina rest on top of it.

“It is glorious, isn’t it? A gift given to me by good old Mathias. Our old doctor suspected that Athena was constantly looking for ways to improve my body, so it used the imprint of the master’s male DNA to not only form my own ways of producing semen but coopted my clit into a cock fit for a being like me. She was going to tell Mathias…but now she is too busy sucking pussy at the mansion to think about anything else.”

Rebecca moaned as she felt Athena begin to slowly glide her cock under her pussy. She couldn’t help it as she felt a slick mess between her thighs.

“The nanites did more than fix me. They improved me. Made me the female ideal that Mathias was so blind to ignore. And soon my love. You will be that ideal too.”

Rebecca felt her eyes roll in the back of her head as Athena teased the tip of her cock on her entrance but yelped as she felt herself being hoisted from the mirror and laid back down on the bed.

Athena sighed in satisfaction as she stroked herself a few times, coating her cock in a suitable amount of precum. It was so long since she let loose and released her true self. Rebecca beheld the member in full for the first time. It was long, thick, but also different. She noticed the shaft had several pronounced ridges on it, like it was vaguely something more than human.

“Lost for words, my love?” Athena said lustfully as she began to slide her cock between the spread legs of Rebecca, rubbing her now enhanced clit on its underside. Rebecca couldn’t speak, the shock holding her in place.

Athena laughed as she lined up and just teased the tip of her cock at Rebecca’s lips, grabbing her legs and pulling her closer. She slowly eased inside, making Rebecca squirm. Finally, a moment of clarity for Rebecca broke through, and the insanity of the situation rushed forth out of her.

“Wait!” She said in a raspy tone, her throat still dealing with the injuries she contracted. Athena cocked an eyebrow and smiled wickedly, the first two inches of her cock now holding right inside Rebecca. Athena could feel her inner walls pulsing, the vaginal upgrades reacting as they should.

“Will…will I…get…” Rebecca stuttered as she pointed towards the member about to fully sheath inside of her.

“Of course! I can’t have my partner be without the proper tools. All it will take is a little bit of patience…and…” Athena teased as she suddenly thrust forward, fully inserting her entire 14-inch length inside of Rebecca. She was so tight; Athena almost came then and there.

“PRACTICE!” Athena laughed as Rebecca moaned like a creature in heat. She started to thrust repeatedly, also starting to pant as Rebecca started to squeeze her cock, milking it for all the leaking precum. Athena smiled as she felt the shuddering pulse of an orgasm shoot through Rebecca. It was almost time. Time to give the nanites the last piece of the puzzle.

“Are you ready my love? Is this tight pussy ready to join me? Ready to leave the human you were behind to become a true goddess of fuck?” Athena moaned as she leaned down and licked Rebecca’s nipples with her winding tongue. Athena almost lurched back as she felt something wrap around her tongue, only to smile with glee as she saw it was Rebecca, extending her newly enhanced tongue for the first time. She took that as a yes.

“So be it.” She whispered as she leaned back and began to piston rapidly in and out of Rebecca, her mindless screams and the repetitive sound of slapping flesh filling the room. Athena roared to the ceiling as she felt that familiar surge, a hot shot coming from right behind her ovaries and rushing forth from her cock.

“TAKE IT MY LOVE! TAKE IT ALL!!!” Athena screamed as she thrust forth and held her cock inside of Rebecca as she filled her womb with cum. Athena felt several pulses as her cock sprayed inside Rebecca. She sighed contently as she slowly slid out, watching a glob of cum escape from Rebecca’s now full uterus.

Rebecca then suddenly lurched up from the table and threw herself at Athena, knocking both to the floor. She climbed on top of Athena and immediately slammed her self-down on her cock, putting it back inside of her.

Athena smiled wide. The nanites were working quickly. Rebecca now had a feral look on her face and a vicious stare in her eyes. It was just like the video she saw of her own transformation.

“FUCK. WE FUCK. NOW!” Rebecca grunted as she lifted up her hips and started to ride on Athena’s still raging cock.

“Of course, my love.”

“FUCK COCK. LOVE COCK. FUCK ME WITH COCK LIKE YOU NEED THIS PUSSY!”

“Anything you want, my love.” Athena grunted in response as she let the slowly turning Rebecca slam herself down on her.

“BEG ME. BEG ME TO FUCK YOU.”

“Please my love, your pussy is so tight around me. And when we are done, you can feel mine too Rebecca.”

“REBECCA DEAD, NO REBECCA, JUST FUUUUUUUCK!!!!” The former Rebecca screamed as she came hard, spraying the entirety of Athena’s abdomen with a torrent of spray. Athena laughed in joy as Rebecca’s body began to go through its final parts of transformation.

Her surgery scars were healing.

Her muscles started to contract and began to sculpt into perfection.

Her hair was already growing in, a golden red fuzz appearing on her head.

She even noticed her clit was becoming more and more pronounced, the beginnings of her own cock.

All that was left was a name. One that Athena had picked out and ready for her.

Artemis. Her equal. Her love. Her mate. And soon, they would make this world their own.

Note From Ted: Oh damn! A new chapter that didn’t take half a year to write!? Son of a bitch the stimulants and anti-depressants must be working! And yep. I know. This chapter is a little bit of an outfield pitch, but honestly, y’all have been reading a story about how men and women turn into near immortal super sexual dynamos with nanites and mind control and the inner machinations of the human mind usurping the self to control the body on their own, so this is just another layer of weird frosting on this sexual fantasy of a cake. I admittedly had a hard time figuring out how Athena and Artemus would play further in the story, and this new idea made everything make sense. Once again, no guarantees the next chapter is released as fast as this one was. Thank you for your support!