Of course!

You're breathing has gotten heavier. You look Kendall up and down. As much a man as you're used to.

Supposedly somewhere beneath all this is a woman hiding. Could the wristbands really be that efficient? Then again, if there weren't women hiding among your colleagues, it would defeat the purpose, wouldn't it? But now you can't stop thinking about which of your teammates are actually women. For all you knew, they could all be!

"Coming?" Kendall repeats his, um, her question.

You nod. "Yes. But, we can't both go into your room together. It would immediately get flagged as breaking the rules!"

But Kendall just takes your arm and starts guiding you. "Don't worry, that's just something they tell you to scare you. The truth is they're a lot more lax about the rules than they let on."

"How do you know?"

"I've been to other's rooms."

"What? Who's?"

"Me and Jack once grabbed some beers in his room."

"You did what? Why wasn't I invited?"

"Ha, that's what you worry about? Truth be told, we thought you would be too scared to break the rules."

They weren't wrong. "So why now?"

Kendall put his, her hand on your arm. "Because I like you, Derrick."

I look down at the arm. Every instinct in you wants to pull back. It feels wrong inside you to break the rules. But somewhere deeper inside of you, you want to lean into the touch. The feeling of skin against skin with someone else is something you have ben throughly missing.

Then Kendall pulls back. "Sorry. Still a guy. Let me change that."

Kendall closes the door, leaving you two on your own. This is the closest you've been to intimacy in a long time. You keep waiting for an alarm to go off. For someone to burst into the room and arrest the two of you or something. But it never happens.

Kendall stands in front of you and deactivates his wristband. This is the moment you've been waiting for. There is still that feeling of wrongness in your throat, like you should report this or stop it or something. But you don't. And true to her word, Kendall deflates. He grows smaller, his muscles disapears, his shape becomes more slender and feminine, his beard grows inward, lips plumps a little, his chest swells slightly, he shrinks smaller than you, and at last, in Kendall's place, gone is the man you've come to know as your best friend for the last months, replaced with a beautiful petite woman.

And she is smiling to you. "Hi Derrick. This is me! What do you think?"

You're out of breath. This is the first time in forever you've seen a woman. Its always just been men. To think that the man you considered your best friend at work, was actually a woman all this time. "You're beautiful, Kendall!"

Kendal blushes. "Thanks. I can't wait to see what you actually looks like. I've grown so tired of looking at our work selves."

You blink. "Me?"

"Of course, silly. We're about to be intimate together, aren't we? That means shredding it all."

You talk a deep breath. To be honest, you quite like how muscled your work self is. And seeing how beautiful Kendall is, makes you a little nervous that she has to see how puny the real you is. Not that you don't want to train, it's just, no one's had to see you in all this time, so you didn't really see the point in doing it. "Alright, you showed me, might as well repay the honors." You lift your gender suppressor and click deactivate. You expect the familiar rush that goes through the body when changing back.

But not this time.

Instead it just beeps at you. "What the? It's never done that before?" You say. "Has yours ever not just changed back afterwards?"

Kendall shakes her head. "What does it say?"

The device glows blue like it always does when its turned on. Nothing out of the familiar. You press it again. And again it just beeps at you. "What the fuck?" You press it again. This time a message comes up: ERROR. DO YOU WANT TO PROCEED? "Yes, damn you." You say to the device as you press YES.

This time it works. That familiar rush goes through you. And you feel yourself changing back. Your muscles recede a little. Your hair grows out longer. Your cheeks and face reshapes into your own and becomes less chiseled. It does not take long for you to be back to your true self.

You're about to speak again, when you feel that familiar rush once again. What the hell? Aren't you back to normal, already? You look in the mirror. Sure enough, that is your face. So why do you feel like this? Why is the device still glowing? What's happening to you now?

At first you feel yourself grow smaller. You feel your shoulders narrow further. You feel your face shaping, your cheeks pushing out, your jawline pushing in, your lips plump a bit. You feel your hair grow longer. Your hands start slendering in and becoming delicate and fine. You feel the rush ripple down your body, reshaping it. Your hips push out a bit, your waist narrows. Then, you feel your chest itch as it suddenly starts swelling up, expanding out into two orbs of fat. Your have breasts now! Bigger breasts than Kendall!

But that's not all! You feel the final change in your crotch. You grab hold down there, trying to keep it from shrinking away from you. But nothing you do can keep your manhood from fading into you, leaving you feeling rather hollow down there.

This whole transformation was something you could watch in the mirror in horror, but do nothing against as your body dissapeared in front of you.

You have now become a woman!

"What the fuck!" Kendall exclaims. You flinch at her reaction. "You've been holding out on me, Derrick! Or is it Derry? Derrin? The point is, you make a cute woman."

You shake your body. "No! No, this is not me normally. I don't normally look like this, I'm not a woman!"

"What do you mean, I'm looking at a woman in front of me right now!"

"No, no, the device, it must have pushed too far. Suppressed too much. I'm a man, I swear!"

"But that's impossible."

"Yes. But it's happened to me! Maybe it's happened to others as well. We just don't know about it because of the embargo."

Kendall pulls back, her smile falters. "You're serious? This isn't how you normally look like?"

"No! No, I'm freaking out over here!"

"Oh Jesus." Kendall grabs your shoulder. "Take it easy, we'll figure this out, alright? We can fix this! Okay?" Her hand on your shoulder feels calming.

"Okay" You admit.

"Okay! Maybe we should talk to someone about this?"

You flinch. "Talk to someone? But we broke the rules! We could get fired!"

"Well, then we have to fix this ourselves. Do you want to be stuck like that?"

You look at the female reflection staring back at you from the mirror. You shake your head. "Not particularly."

"Then we have to fix this ourselves! Come, let me see your device."

Kendall holds out her hand for you.