The Change we Wish to be

Energy poured through me like rainwater in a dry river bed. Revitalizing me as it did a thousand tiny things to make me better. Stronger and more alive. A tiny ember of crimson flame flickered to life somewhere deep within me.

I opened my eyes to see Sam kneeling above me, her visor down and glowing bright blue, ephemeral circuitry running over every inch of her body. Sound came next, dozens of confused but not panicked voices overlapped in the background. When I thought of the crowd, there was some strain in the back of my mind, like an overstretched muscle ready to snap.

All I heard was Annie.

"I'm sorry!I'msorryimsorry—"

"What the fuck was that!? What did you freaks do to me!?"

Rachel's voice sent me into a rage.

My hand closed down on something warm and pulsing rapidly against my grip. Small blades clawed at my arm as I squeezed, drawing thin lines of fire on my skin. The pain made the red haze over my vision recede.

I was met with Rachel's terrified face gasping for air, her irises a pale shimmer without any pupils. Her facial features were an uncanny mix of perfect and forgettable. As I watched, those features shifted to become more sympathetic.

More like Annie.

"P-please…Mason…'m sorry…" she wheezed out when my grip loosened. Her blonde hair began to turn pink and her tan deepened.

I dropped her to the floor and Rachel immediately shifted back to her uncanny perfection. Backing away as the crowd stared at me in shock, the strain in my mind worsening. Rachel scrambled away from me and vanished into the crowd, her glasses left broken on the ground.

Annie crashed into me, tears staining my shirt. Saying sorry over and over.

I pulled her to my chest, letting the anger flow out in one heavy breath as I squeezed my girlfriend to my chest.

"It's not your fault, Annie. She was goading you, saying horrible things and we did nothing to help until it was too late." She was okay. Annie was fine. She wasn't happy, but we could fix that later.

"Mason, Annie, what happened?" Hanako's voice cut through the whispers of our audience. Mr. Grayson and another teacher stood behind her, looking confused.

"Annie got dragged into a fight. My cum got involved." I tried to ignore the insanity of what I just said. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to laugh or cry. Maybe both. "Two people swallowed it."

"Oh, dear. I suppose that explains the puddle with a girl growing out of it?" Her vines and petals rustled nervously as her hooves clicked towards us.

Puddle? What— Elizabeth. My heart sank as I turned towards her, Annie still sniffling into my chest.

My friend's face looked from her translucent purple hands and down to the puddle where her legs should be. Then turned those bewildered glowing amethyst eyes onto me, the solid mass of darker slime that was her hair flowed in and out of her shoulders as she moved.

"I think I want an explanation really soon, Mason." She gurgled calmly.

—THAT CAN WAIT UNTIL WE'RE SOMEWHERE PRIVATE. I CAN'T KEEP INTERFERING WITH THIS MANY PHONES FOR MUCH LONGER—

Oh, shit! "Thank you, Sam. Can you move like that? You too, Elizabeth. I'll explain as much as we can." I got a hesitant nod from them both. Annie reluctantly let go of me when I set her down. "Hanako, can you release some kind of pollen to calm the crowd into ignoring us? Whatever ability that lets me do so passively is straining."

The dryad frowned as she looked at the small crowd, most had turned back to their food or had turned to their unresponsive phones with frustration instead. But there were still nearly twenty people blinking at us in confusion. Something like a heat haze visible to my sight fading from their heads. Daniel and Nathan were the closest to escaping it.

"I can make them forget the last few minutes, but it'll be exhausting and might not be comprehensive." She warned.

She raised her arms wide. Purple flowers bloomed in her hair and shot clouds of pollen over the heads of the crowd, the dryad like a conductor as she directed it all. Almost immediately lessening the strain in my mind, but also making Hanako sway as the flowers withered to dust when the pollen was absorbed.

I caught her before she could hit the floor. Her hooves unraveled into weakly grasping roots, too weak to break through the floor. Which was alarming, she'd broken through the tile and concrete foundation easily just a few days ago.

Annie gasped from where she had apparently been helping Elizabeth regrow her legs. "We need to get her in some soil with plenty of sunlight! I've never seen her that exhausted in any of our tests!"

"The garden outside her lab, it's close and very private." At my suggestion, Annie nodded seriously, wiping away the remains of tears.

I carefully draped Hanako over my shoulder and stared down at Sam's still glowing form. "Sam? Can you move on your own? We're heading to the lab."

Her visor flickered and she blinked at me. Dim trails of circuitry still flowed over her, but much less. "Oh thank fuck! That was not fun. I'm not actually a computer hacking into other computers, I'm more like a techno sorcerer or something. Instinctual." She winced and rubbed her head as she accepted my hand to pull her up. "I'm sorry for taking things so casually earlier. I should have left you with Elizabeth and stepped in instead." She opened and closed her mouth when she saw the slime girl struggling to stand.

Elizabeth was the one to speak up next. Her voice grew smoother with each word. "I forgive you Sam…Annie" She rippled and the slime on her face darkened in a blush. "Mason's…stuff… didn't land in my mouth. I kinda licked it off my hand…" She trailed off and let herself melt back into a wriggly puddle of embarrassment.

The five of us left the cafeteria, the sounds of dazed confusion from within quickly returning to the normal chatter. Hanako **** on my shoulder and Elizabeth slowly sliding on the floor as a single blob, her legs too unstable to walk normally. She left no trail I could see, except maybe a bit of a sheen on the linoleum like a polish. She'd slowly fall behind until the rest of us stopped to wait for her.

Which made Annie dance around her in worry. Looking down every hall for passing students or teachers and at the dryad's limp body. Biting her lip and wringing her hands. I didn't know what to do, if I should even do anything.

"Is there a way for us to carry you, Elizabeth?" She finally asked at the halfway point. "Maybe wrap yourself around me like a backpack or something."

"Hey! I'm goin' as fast as I can!" Her amorphous body spoke without a mouth or lungs, the surface rippling subtly with each syllable. "It took me a minute to even realize I wasn't just stuck as a puddle!" Frustration seemed to pour from her despite any standard human cues.

That made me wince and Annie cringe away in guilt. Sam just looked worn with her eyes dimmed.

"I know, I'm sorry! I'm sorry and worried about Ms.Tanaka and Rachel and Zoey—"

"Okay, okay! I'll try. Give me your hand or something so I can climb up."

Sam and I had stopped to look, afraid of another confrontation, once again unsure if we should interfere or not. I hope this didn't keep happening.

So we saw as the purple slime girl reached up and wrapped around the pink bimbo's arm up to the shoulder. Annie's skimpy lab coat dissolved into its usual sparkles of pink to not impede the slime.

That, or Annie was letting her exhibitionism make decisions again.

"Ah! It tickles!" She giggled as more slime flowed over her like water.

"Quit moving so much!" Elizabeth's voice only made Annie spasm more.

"I can't! You're- ahn~ it's like you're licking all over me!"

The sound of Annie giggling made the last of the stress weighing me down evaporate. There were still several serious problems, of which Hanako was the most immediate, but they were either distant or being solved. Letting myself get worn down wouldn't help now and especially not later.

"I'll show you licking!" The slime threatened playfully as she descended past the giggly girl's squirming hips. "Start walking! Onwards!" A purple hand sprouted from over Annie's shoulder as she began walking unsteadily, but much faster than the slime girl had.

Elizabeth seemed to be regaining her usual enthusiasm as she and Annie worked together and started skipping and even running ahead in excited bursts. The sight of glittery pink shining through translucent purple slime cheering me up as we made it outside on the side path towards Hanako's garden. The dryad shifted and grew leaves when the early afternoon sun came out from behind a cloud.

So, you can imagine the whiplash my heart rate suffered when Elizabeth melted through Annie's skin.

The moment all the slime got settled in a thin film over most of Annie's body like a literal wetsuit, Elizabeth said. "Hold on, something just kinda clicked into place for me! Lemme try-"

Then Annie's eyes rolled back in her head as she shuddered, mouth open in shocked pleasure and the purple slime seeped inside her every pore. "Ahn~ Lizzabeeeth!!" She whined and trembled, falling to her knees as her arms and legs twitched wildly.

As fast as possible and uncaring about secrecy, I set Hanako down on the grass. The dryad immediately sent out roots that tore into the soil and her main body vanished inside a cocoon of leaves.

"Annie! Talk to me! Elizabeth, what did you do?" My hands hovered over her—them?— trying not to panic again.

Annie rolled onto her back on the grass. Chest heaving as she sucked in breaths between giggles. Swirly pink eyes with a purple center gazed up at me with endless love, two very different sources making something greater than the sum of its parts.

When she spoke, two voices overlapped in perfect harmony. "Hi Mason! We're sorry about scaring you again. Elizabeth is learning how to make a human body again by reading through Annie's." My girlfriend seemed to take over to say the next part, the purple in her eyes shrinking to a pinprick. "Don't worry Mason! I'm showing her all the fun we can have with— N-no she's not!— really? Your mind got all wiggly when I showed you the first time we— It did not! I was looking at how your neurons sent signals to your body!— Then why do you keep looking at— because that's all you do, you slut!"

Sam started laughing behind me as we watched the two girls trade control back and forth as they argued. Annie's face and general mannerisms seamlessly switch from her mischievous glee and back to Elizabeth's scandalized frustration covering for poorly hidden curiosity. Their eyes glowing more pink or more purple to signify who was talking.

Despite myself, I grew curious on how exactly it worked, was the eye thing something they did for our benefit or was it a side effect of Elizabeth's slime actually being physically present? It was also a good distraction from the arousal I felt from the whole situation.

"So you're both still in there? You haven't fully merged, have you?" Sam asked before I could.

Annie replied this time. "Both of us are in here, yeah. It's like we're driving a car with two sets of controls and a switch between us that turns them on."

Then, Elizabeth. "I think I could take more complete control over a normal person." Why did she sound excited about that? "Annie's mind is like a pink sun with a corona of glitter."

"Aw, really? That's so cool! That's what I feel like sometimes too! You're like an ocean of purple giving me a hug!" She gave a happy squeal as she hugged herself. Or maybe Elizabeth inside her?

The slime girl blushed heavily with my girlfriend's face as the hug continued. "I'm almost done learning how to human again. Give us a minute to—"

"Wait! Mason, do you wanna try fucking us like this?" Annie pressed her naked tits into my stomach, eyes flickering between pink and purple. "Elizabeth really wants— Absolutely nothing 'cause she's finished!"

Annie pouted then shivered with a dopey grin as the purple slime left her body all at once. The mass of locomotive liquid flowed into a humanoid shape in midair before landing with a full bodied wobble.

Elizabeth raised her arms and a leg in a victory pose as her body rippled into finer detail. Her skin paled to lavender and her hair darkened to a deep violet. Her face had defined lips, nostrils, eyes and even ears, all in varying shades of purple. The curves Sam had offered to show me the other day bounced into place, better than what she had before. Even larger breasts tipped with violet nipples and an enormous ass paired with a sinfully narrow waist to make an hourglass. All atop powerful thighs that left a gap to show her puffy purple pussy, glistening like a prism in the refracted sunlight as her pose opened it slightly.

Annie cheered and Sam gave a wolf whistle.

I put my head in my hands as I laughed. Surrounded by three naked girls and another only clothed by the leaves drinking in the sun.

"What? Mason, why are you laughing? Did I screw up my hair?" The new slime girl sounded honestly worried and a little hurt by my reaction.

My hands waved to show I wasn't laughing at her appearance, at least not in the way she was afraid of. "You look beautiful Lizzy." She beamed at me, despite her earlier protests about fucking me. "It's just… did you mean to be that… naked?"

She looked down at her lavender-colored tits as the sunlight refracted through them to show her even more transparent fingers as they hefted them. "I mean…yeah? I don't need clothes, why shouldn't I just be naked?" Elizabeth grinned, showing teeth that weren't quite right in a way that was cute instead of creepy. She shook her torso side to side. "Am I too distracting?"

Was it my fault the girls I transformed became nudists? Even the ones like Annie and Hanako that wore clothes did it for aesthetics more than modesty. Or was it just them being so confident in their bodies and not caring about societal norms anymore?

Wait, Rachel hadn't lost her clothes! It's not my fault, It's just them all being shameless.

I felt honestly proud for figuring out a small mystery so quickly after I noticed it that I nearly missed the three girls trying to assemble in a line based on the size of their assets. Elizabeth was being accused of cheating by making herself partially hollow to add more mass.

"Annie got her tits from Mason while I worked for this ass!" Sam bent over in front of an outrageously curvy slime girl to smack her own ass. "Do you have any idea how many squats I did for this thing?"

"The only reason your ass is bigger than Annie's is because you're three inches taller. I'm 5"8'! I'm supposed to be bigger anyway."

Annie just sounded confused. "But you just used the same logic to argue for and against the same thing!"

Sam put a consolatory hand on her shoulder. "She's being a hypocrite to be funny, Annie."

"Which means I always win disagreements."

"No, it means the others just get tired of arguing with you." I retorted.

"A win by forfeit is still a win!"

I rolled my eyes at her. "Is that why the debate team kicked you out?"

"No, it was because I went to a competition in a halter top without a bra on." She admitted with pride. "Half the opposing team kept stuttering."

Sam laughed. "Along with your own team right?"

They shared a high-five as they grinned. Oh no.

The smug slime girl(smlug girl?) squeaked when my arm wrapped around her tiny waist to grip her ridiculous ass. She blushed as she instinctively leaned into my side before sliding out of my hold with a complicated expression.

Annie happily took her place while Sam stuck out her tongue from my other side.

I pulled them with me back towards Hanako's slowly opening flower. "Come on, let's get inside." There were other students in the distance, lunch must have just finished.

Hanako stretched her arms above her head as she bloomed once again. Smiling sleepily at our approach then blinking as Elizabeth waved with a grin.

"Oh, it seems things sorted themselves out! Splendid!" She clapped her hands.

In the lab, Annie and Hanako sat Elizabeth down to examine her. Carefully collecting drops of her slime to look at under a microscope and testing things like her surface tension and stretchiness. When they pulled out a mallet, it bounced off the slime girl's knee with more than twice the **** it struck at.

Sam and I sat back to watch the proceedings. Well, I did, anyway. The android fell asleep against the wall almost as soon as she sat down.

Once the two mad scientists had collected as much data as they could, Elizabeth slithered away beneath a desk when their backs were turned. Reappearing next to me like a dolphin leaping out of the water.

"Ta-daa!" She gave another victory pose, her proportions back to voluptuous instead of comically curvy.

I clapped quietly as she bowed. Smiling at her smile. "Having fun now that you've adapted a bit?"

Elizabeth bounced in place, shifting her form with every impact. "It's awesome! I have total control over my body now that I know what to do." Her broad grin turned a little sad. "You remember how I used to do gymnastics and cheerleading all the time?"

"Yeah, I always wondered why you stopped, but you just told me it was a stupid girl thing." I was a little ashamed that I had been relieved when she stopped, her busy schedule strained our friendship.

"It was that." She shrunk her tits to nothing. "But it was mostly because I went from this" they returned to normal with a jiggle, "to this. In like six months."

"Really? Those other girls were jealous of your…"

She shook her head as she sat next to me, resting her cool head on my arm. Her hair flowed over me like honey that stopped mid stream. It was oddly pleasant.

"No, it started like that. But as I kept growing I lost my balance and couldn't do the acrobatics anymore. Until the coach pulled me aside one day after practice to tell me I was off the team." Tears fell and were reabsorbed before they reached her chin.

Her voice shook. "Those bitches had been complaining about me for months. That I was dangerous to practice with and that I wasn't a team player. The Coach finally gave in and told them before she told me. They laughed and cheered like they'd won a big competition or a game as I walked out of the gym and the coach did nothing." She spat.

She shuddered when I pulled her into a hug, letting the emotions out. "Was that the same day you climbed through my window and cried on my bed until I found you? You didn't tell me that you weren't on the team until I asked about it weeks later!" How had I not noticed any of this?

"You were dealing with that bitch, Stella. I didn't wanna bother you with my bullshit and I was already gonna leave the team at the end of the year. One girl sprained her wrist when I fell wrong during a throw." She said sullenly, hiding her face in my chest. "It's not your fault I was an idiot."

"You weren't an idiot, you were twelve."

She laughed and we sat like that for a moment watching Hanako describe something on the whiteboard while Annie took notes.

I reached out to draw a hand through Elizabeth's violet hair. It flowed like a dense waterfall, amorphous and cool to the touch, though it didn't leave any kind of residue on my skin. I managed to isolate a single hair, which looked like a normal, human strand of damp purple hair.

The slime girl shivered when my fingernails scratched her scalp. "That feels so weird!"

"Bad weird?" My hand stopped mid scratch.

Elizabeth pressed her lips together as her cheeks darkened. "Good weird…can you try scratching my scalp more?" She squirmed. "Maybe press in a little harder?"

When I did so, her scalp was as rubbery as the rest of her. Then, as my nails pressed in, my index finger sunk in halfway to the knuckle, shortly followed by the others as the slime seemed to pull me in. My hand was stuck, sunken into the top of her head. I tried to gently pull out.

"MmmasoooOhHhn~"

My friend quickly collapsed back into a jiggly puddle of goo, but not quickly enough for me to miss her eyes rolling up and her mouth hung open in drooling pleasure.

I sat there frozen. Blinking in shock from my spotless hand to the puddle of Elizabeth as it stilled. Before this past week, I would have said my dick had never been harder.

Ever so slowly, the face of a mortified Elizabeth Thompson appeared in the puddle. "We shall never speak of this again." Her voice shook. Oddly ****, longing almost. Purple eyes pleading.

"Agreed." I agreed to two very contradictory things at once. "My lips may as well be stapled shut."

We held out our hands to shake on it. Before Elizabeth reconsidered, absorbing her arms completely and scurried away at her fastest sustainable pace.

I turned to find Sam smirking at her retreating back.

"You saw nothing, right Sam?"

She pressed a hand on her heart and the other very obviously behind her back.

"We both know she loved the fuck out of that. But I'll wait for her to admit it." Blue lips curled up into an evil grin. "Sounds fun to see how long that'll last. Wanna bet on it being less than three days?"

I snorted. "Hey! She can be very strong-willed!" My hand smacked into hers. "At least a week."

We shook on it.

Hanako's panicked shout drew our attention to the front of the lab. "Ah! We need to leave in half an hour or we'll be late!"

"Late for what?" I asked.

The dryad wrung her hands together. "The potential collaborator I mentioned to Annie earlier. We have less than two hours to meet with her or she'll never speak with me again!" She nearly wailed the last few words.

Annie hugged her teacher around the waist. "Who is she? You didn't tell me much in class."

Her hair-vines rustled as she squeezed Annie into her chest. Drawing strength from the hug.

"My ex-girlfriend, Gemma."