The Developer's Kit Awakens

Mandy wasn't sure when she woke up.

It felt like coming out of a coma, or so she would assume. Her ears were registering the noise of her best friend calling her name in distress, but any instinct to act was futile. Every fiber of Mandy's body felt frozen as if each cell weighed a ton.

Her eyes seemed to open on their own, but slowly. When they were able to see enough and focus, Mandy saw Zoey's face inches above her own, the girl's long black hair splayed out around her head and blending into the starry sky behind it. As soon as her eyes began working, it was as if the blood in her body began moving again. What felt like cold numbness throughout her torso in limbs was replaced by a roaring rush of warm sensations originating from her mind itself.

"Mandy! C'mon, damn it! Say something!" Zoey pleaded, on the verge of tears. Then, she lifted up and let out an exasperated sigh and repositioned herself to Mandy's side.

"Here goes nothing..."

Still half-awake, Mandy watched as Zoey pulled her hair back into a ponytail, looked back down at her, then dove down.

Their lips connected, and Mandy's eyes went wide as Zoey blew into her mouth and lungs.

One of Mandy's hands, almost reflexively, reached out and put it on the back of Zoey's head and lifted up to push her mouth into her friend's. The surprised young goth let out a squeak and tried to pull back, but Mandy was on her, moaning and kissing Zoey aggressively. Before either of them really knew it, Mandy had pushed Zoey onto her back and was on top of the tall girl, trying for some tongue.

Zoey's reaction to feeling her perverted friend's tongue graze her mouth was instant, and she used both hands to give Mandy and adrenaline-fueled shove off of her.

"Christ, Mandy!" Zoey said, her face bright red as she wiped her mouth. "Just tell me you're okay next time!"

Laying down on her back, Mandy giggled, then yawned.

"Sorry." The flat-chested blonde said as she sat up and looked over at her friend. "I thought you were my prince, coming to wake me up with their magic kiss."

"Oh, shush." Zoey grumbled, standing to her feet and wiping the dirt and grass from her labcoat. "Now's not the time to be screwing around, we've got a problem."

Mandy watched as she pointed to her uncle's bunker, and her heart skipped a beat at the sight.

The concrete foundation to the entrance was still there and sticking out of the ground, but the door itself was completely gone, replaced by a solid wall of steel-concrete.

"Oh, shit."

"That's what I said." Zoey said, then took a deep breath. "It's fine, probably. I still think this is him screwing with us."

She glanced around the yard for a moment.

"Yeah..." Zoey sighed, placing her hands on her hips. "I'm not seeing that plate of food anywhere. I wouldn't be surprised if he ran out here and snatched it while we were blinded by... whatever that giant light was... Friggin' jerk."

Mandy just sat there with her legs splayed out in a V-shape, staring at the bunker.

To be honest, she didn't know what to think.

Frankly, she just felt dejected.

"Yeah, probably." Mandy said, her voice soft and weak. "Why would he want to help me?"

"... Sorry, Mandy." Zoey said, walking over to Mandy to help her to her feet. "If he's hiding out all weekend, I'll talk to him about this on Monday shift."

Mandy just shrugged as she was helped up, and she was startled by Zoey's surprise hug.

"Keep your chin up, dummy." Zoey mumbled. "Just be patient, and I'll make sure you get those boobs."

Mandy's heart broke at that promise, and she returned the hug tightly.

"C-Can we kiss again?" Mandy sniffled. "I'll let you stay on top this time."

Zoey rolled her eyes and patted the dumb girl's head.

"No."

The two broke the hug after a few more seconds, and Zoey led Mandy back into the house.

They briefly discussed what that light was on the way to Mandy's room, and Zoey gave her account of what happened. Apparently, Mandy was the only one of them that was knocked ****. Zoey had indeed been blinded, but after about ten seconds, the light went away and she could see again. Then next thing she knew, Mandy was lying in the grass on her back with her eyes half-open and the door to the Laboratory was completely sealed. Mandy found it strange that she could specifically remember her eyes opening on their own, but her mind wasn't all there at the time, so it was possible that she was remembering things wrong.

After all, it wasn't the first time she's fainted from shock, but it had been quite a while since the last time it happened.

Something felt 'off' now, Mandy noticed. She couldn't quite place her finger on what it was, but it was as if she was... lighter? Lightheaded?

It was that feeling of fatigue one gets after they lift weights and their arms feel lighter afterwards, only it encompassed her entire body.

Her Uncle Eddy probably just designed it that way. Sure, he wouldn't completely fuck up his new intern, but why would he give a fuck about his only niece in the slightest? Whatever he did was probably designed to have a stronger effect on her than it would Zoey, and Mandy could take a hint.

Her Uncle Edward didn't give a shit about her.

"Hey, I'm going to lay down for a little while." Mandy mumbled as they stopped at her door, then turned around to give Zoey a weak hug. "I'm not feeling to good about things right now."

Zoey said she understood and told her she would be going home for the night, but that she would be back first thing in the morning to try and get Edward to unseal his cave and help her out.

"Thanks, Zozo." Mandy said before closing the door and wandering over to her bed to flop down into it with tears in her eyes. "You're the best."

Zoey walked through the house towards the front door. As she passed by the kitchen, a pair of very intimidating boobs popped out from the doorway to confront her. It seemed as though everyone had already eaten and were off in the house doing their own things, but there stood Carol, wearing a pair of rubber gloves and a sadistic smile on her face.

"Hey there, Zozo." The busty blonde said, holding out a matching pair of yellow gloves in her left hand towards the young goth. "I hope you don't think that I'm going to let you leave without helping me with the dishes first."

Zoey, terrified, nodded and accepted the gloves, then went to the sink with Carol to help her clean up as penance for the situation in the living room earlier, informing her best friend's mother of what happened when they went to confront Edward, who wasn't surprised and a little more than annoyed at her brother upon hearing the news.

Meanwhile, Mandy was laying face down in her bed upstairs, slowly drifting off into a deep slumber. She wasn't crying, but she was both sad and angry with herself for getting her hopes up. She believed that she would be doomed to have a flat chest for the rest of her life.

She wasn't sure how long she laid there in the silent darkness, but her sleepy mind was wandering the entire time.

At some point, she felt her stomach become absolutely weightless, and instinctively but sluggishly began to turn and pull herself off of the bed. The sheets and blanket felt stiff and static-like under her, and Mandy decided that she was weaker than she originally thought. By the time she sat up on the edge and stood up, she felt absolutely weightless. If it weren't for the thin line of light under her doorway, she could've sworn that the room was spinning around her. Walking to the door felt awkward, as if she couldn't even feel the floor underneath her bare feet.

Mandy reached out for the handle of her door, unable to feel it in the same way she was numb to the carpet. She knew that she was making contact with it, but when she tightened her grip and tried to turn it, nothing happened. The knob wouldn't budge.

It was at that moment, Mandy realized that she was wide awake and completely lucid, but felt like she was in a surreal dream-like state.

Looking down at her hands and naked body, slowly backing away from the door and trying to make sense of what was happening, she turned around to see someone laying in her bed, illuminated solely by the moonlight of the window next to it.

Mandy froze, watching her own body sleep soundly from across the room.

"What the f-fuck?" She mumbled aloud, her eyes wide with shock. "H-How-...?"

As if reacting to the sound of her voice, Mandy's body flinched as soon as she spoke. Then, slowly, it lifted itself until it was standing up on the bed, facing to the side of where Mandy believed she herself was in the room. After that, her body's eyes opened as it turned its tilted head towards her.

The iris' of her body's eyes were glowing and completely white, as white as the light that flashed out from her uncle's lab.

"Hello, Amanda." It said, completely expressionless, and in Mandy's own voice. "It looks as though synchronization was a success."

The rest of Mandy's body turned and stepped off of the bed, walking towards where she stood.

It reached out and placed a hand on Mandy's paralyzed shoulder, and her perspective quickly did a one-eighty.

Suddenly, she was standing where her clothed body was, could feel the ground beneath her feet, and now had her hand on the shoulder of a being that just looked just like her.

Although, this doppelganger was purely composed of a dim and translucent white light, completely naked as she just was, and looking up into her eyes with a warm smile.

"The Developer's Kit is at your disposal, Master."