Subterranean Suburban Lizard Lab
Story for a SkiesofSilver contest
"Blast! Hellfire!," and a "Damnation!" for good measure. I shouted out to the heavens as my used car puttered along as best it could. House upon house darted by on either side. All identical. I assume it would be the perfect disguise for a lab, but it all proved useless. I'll never forget the scaly lipped grin on my assistant as he dialed 911. And how he held me back with ease while he smugly reported my lab's location to the police.
He was a fool to reject the gift of reptilian life I'd given him. They were all fools. Every last human. Even me. I was just the least foolish. But even I had my flaws. For one I should have never used Crangslist to hire an assistant. I had a Zeldadin already set up I could have just used that to search for... my thoughts are racing. A nervous habit, though a useful one during underfunded and underappreciated research. But another flaw without a doubt. Perhaps it too, along with my anxiety, could be quelled by the change. It certainly did a number on my assistant's cowardice.
I round the corner. I must admit even I was surprised with the results. After he drank the potion, hidden seamlessly inside of a fast food sweet tea I had offered him, the transformation had been as beautiful it was powerful. I simply used it on the wrong human is all. I should have saved it for me. That should have been me grinning so satisfyingly before simply walking through the, admittedly cheaply made, duplex wall to yell at particularly loud neighbors. Well I probably would not have done that, I would have gone to city hall or something. Simple minds. Simple minds. Speaking of...
Police! They were here. Or there rather. Their car was parked roadside style before the home I had used to hide my lab. They probably thought it was some sort of drug manufacturing location. As if I'd ever debase myself in such a way.
"Pah! Pft," I expelled my excess energy as rebuke laiden laughter," As though they could ever hope to catch me!"
They looked at me. I immediately regretted saying that, saying that as loud as I did, and saying that while having my windows rolled down. Their probably hamster wheel shaped brains went a twirling the moment they caught sight of my lab coat no doubt. The sight of a lab coat clad intellect to a laymen was doubtlessly a cause for fear. Mouth agape they began to run from their car. I heard the faint sound of disbelieving laughter drift through the wind from their direction as I fired up all four cylinders on my car and turned right on the stop light. Without stopping of course.
I peeled around, almost drifting into my neighbor's house as I took another right turn. Then another. I had driven in an incredibly tiny circle through my back door neighbor's fences to drive up to my house just as the police rounded the bend to try and catch me. I hopped out of my car door and scurried up the railing to my porch. This was no time for stairs. I tripped, causing my keys to bounce out of my pocket and roll over next to the door. Just like I'd planned, I scrambled to grab them and fumble with the door lock as the police noticed my ruse and had circled back. I pushed my way through the unlocked door just as one jumped out and began running over my overgrown grass. It slowed him just as the meticulously designed neglect was designed to.
"Engage full lockdown sequence!" I shouted as I pulled the wooden plank stashed by the door up and wedged it into place. The door jangled as the police attempted to open up.
"Sir this is Mark Scottsdale from Townhouse PD, we were just coming to ask questions but your noncompliance with law enforcement will result in-"
I slipped into my basement as the cattle loudly lowered on behind me. Why would they be here? My assistant rampaging through town after my car for as long as he did should have warranted most of the deployable police response capable of this pathetic little pseudo city. No matter. I locked the three deadbolts on my basement lab door and busted out the two emergency planks to help keep it closed.
Then I descended. Down down all of a few feet into the admittedly fairly short basement level. Ducking down to avoid hitting my head I made straight for the remaining serum. I grabbed the green vial and stared at it. Hesitating, for a moment at least, for I knew full well this was meant to make the Eve to my assistant's scaly Adam.
I had been hoping to use it on a willing or perhaps even unwilling woman, but this situation was escalating at a rate I was not quite comfortable with. I could hear the cracking of wood above me, indicating that the first defensive layer had been kicked through. I watched and listened to the basement ceiling as they plodded their way over to start kicking at my lab door. Without thinking I downed the entire vial.
I could now afford to pay them no mind, as the changes had already begun. Even before pulling the vial from my lips a newly formed forked reptilian tongue darted out to drink up every drop. Soon I would be more than powerful enough to take them on. I grinned as my teeth grew almost half as sharp as my wit, and perhaps a third as deadly. I tossed the vial to the wall and greatly enjoyed the noise it made when the glass shattered upon the wall. I wondered what noises police would make when tossed against the wall as my snout rounded out and my scales began to grow.
I snarled loudly, enough to put a temporary stop to their kicking. My ears melded with my balding head as I made out more of their distracting noises. I was growing taller. Broader. Stronger. I could see now why my assistant found himself growing bold from the change. Such power. It was one thing to calibrate such a change on a computer from the early 2000s so as to not have my research spied upon, but it was another thing entirely to attain the ennui of such an exponential increase in physicality. I pulled off my pants and underwear.
Setting the useless articles of clothing to the side my scales began to spread both down my neck and across my belly. The first wave of green seemed to start from where my lips touched the vial. The latter seemed to manifest from my now gone belly button and spread outward in a growing circular pattern. The skin felt slightly looser than the usual human sort, only beginning to tighten up along my belly as the scaled spread to the chest. Then followed my breasts.
I knew they were coming, but it was still a thoroughly odd experience. The scales seemed to stake their claim just as the roundness began to form and expand. Light green nipples graced the air as I pulled apart my undershirt Superman style. Or Superwoman style perhaps. I wondered for a moment whether or not she ever got undressed the way Superman sometimes did, but was soon snapped back into reality as another cop kick echoed through the basement. I growled first before grinning. They would be in for a bad time, no doubt about that.
I felt my posture naturally angling forward as the circle of scales on my belly finally came into contact with my spine. My face scales began to trace down my upper back just after robbing me of the last of my hair. My eyes grew slits and a I gained a clear set of lids that could accomplish little in this environment besides make the room seem blurrier. I kept them open fully, watching the changes with interest. My slightly elongated neck allowed me to slip my snout between my breasts to watch as my body inhaled the last bastion of my masculinity. I felt a great pang of loss which was soon replaced with a burning and unyielding desire for eggs.
Not the edible sort mind you, but the kind my body could now produce. I frowned, tugging my snout free of the perky beasts. The change was supposed to eliminate libido not alter it. Unless...perhaps something to do with the change from male to female. Such a hormonal rush was bound to cause certain feelings. Eggs though? That was an obscure human kink and not a natural desire that would come around from a simple shift in hormones. This was a mental shift of some kind, there was no other explanation.
Soon though that very explanation eluded me. My tail rocketed from my body, it was sudden enough that in my moving around to see I knocked away much of my lab equipment. It would take a while to set everything up to make another batch. Or even an antidote. I lacked the ability to gulp, but I would have if I could have. I turned to see my tail raising in the reflection of one of the beakers. I blushed as I watched it push my labcoat out of the way as the last of the changes began to crawl down my arms and legs. Soon claws decorated all four, long powerful ones that could make much quicker work of a door than the feeble cop kicks no doubt. I smiled. This would be unfair.
I was so powerful. They were nothing. They were men though. I remembered seeing them both. They would make good donors. Donors to what? Eggs. No. Yes! The intrusive thoughts had gotten so powerful I had begun to feel nervous. I paid no mind to my building desire, instead looking for the ingredients to the arousal inhibitors to see if I could destroy them so that I would always feel this much need. Or perhaps I could whip up a potion to make me desire them even more? No that wasn't what I wanted to do at all. Hold on.
I took a deep breath, exhaling in a moanlike growl that only seemed to propagate my unnatural desires all the more. Upstairs. They were weak. They could be used. Donate. Many times. I could get eggs. So many eggs from them both. Must spread. Must make more lizards. No no no, wait I said, er, wel I thought wait. No too, corrected my lizard brain. Thank you, I thought back at it before realizing it was simply trying to distract me with the non-correction as my body marched up the stair and knocked back.
"Step back," I heard myself roaring before I burst through the room. Oh dear. This was not how I had wanted things to happen, but it seemed as though I had little choice in the matter.
***
"Look honey, I didn't want to do it, that thing jumped us both. I'm being honest here!" said Mark.
"Bullshit Mark, Becky told me that your partner told her that you told him you'd 'bite the bullet' and 'sooth the savage beast' before grinning and going in for rounds 1 through 5," said Janet.
"Dave is exaggerating," said Mark.
"She said he told her you would smile and wink back at him every time she lifted her tail and ordered one of you two to go at her again, and the hospital said all the chafing seemed partly self inflicted!" shouted Janet.
"They probably put down scale inflicted and you just misread it is all, She was awfully rough," said Mark.
"I can't believe you'd argue I was that dumb so you could get away with cheating," said Janet as she cut Mark off from getting in bed with a hand.
"Janet I'm sorry, I was just trying to save my partner," Mark pleaded.
"Save it mister, you get the living room couch for at least five months. One for every time you 'bit that bullet,'" said Janet as she mockingly winked and smiled at her husband.
"..." Mark went to argue for a moment before deciding ultimately, that it would only make things worse to push the issue further," You know what honey, that's fair."
"So was she a really attractive lizard lady or what?" asked Janet, a little curious now that he had surrendered.
"She had great tits," said Mark, before a pillow smacked him in the face.