Damage Control - Finding the Latest Upgrade
An anthology series that focuses on themes of futuristic and sci-fi endeavors such as time loops, AI, paradoxes, and other such things. It seems that Serathin's rather reckless endeavors as a SHIFTer, or timeline manipulation expert, has finally caught up with him. Instead of getting fired the SHIFT Institute decided that he needed a taste of the havoc he wrought on others by working in the Damage Control division. Read through ten cases where the draconic sabrewolf tries his best, or maybe not quite his best, in order to rectify problems with rather unusual results in this furry anthology novel.
Axel is a hacker that was looking to make a quick buck by reverse engineering the latest in cyberpet technology. It appears that the AI that came with the pet was a little more advanced then he had realized, whether by coincidence or something a little more nefarious.
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“Bring home your new VIP today!”
It was the tagline that probably everyone had seen in the last week; a robotic pet that one could have hook up to all the smart systems in their home so that control could be within arm’s reach at all time, plus have it be some sort of dog or cat that will also act as their best friend. It was a big push and as Axel walked down the street nearly all the holo-billboards displayed the ad at least once as he walked by it. It was just a reskin of the basic virtual intelligence interface that they’ve had for years, the cat thought to himself, but it seemed to be working as he saw a line out the door for people to get their hands on the type of pet that they wanted. It didn’t matter much to him as he usually didn’t even buy any sort of new technology until it’s out in the public for months, let the public test the product for him and then when he was committed he could buy it usually at a discount after the hype faded.
When he got into work for the day he found that the new craze wasn’t just going to leave him at the door as he saw the sleek white metal of a husky come up to him. “Hello employee,” the dog said in a very robotic voice. “I am your new smart workplace interface, can I ask what your name is?”
“It is way too early in the morning for this…” Axel said as he rubbed his hand through his short blonde hair.
“It is nice to meet you, way too early in the morning for this!” the dog replied. “Did I get your name correct?”
Though Axel sighed loudly he didn’t want that to be the first thing that greeted him at work every day and managed to change it, though the idea that the relatively small office he worked at had one of these things still annoyed him. While he was not one to shy away from technology, he actually loved it, this was something he was not fond of. He tried to ignore it and just go about his business but every hour or so he could see the dog making the rounds and asking him and others about various things. Talk about micromanaging, Axel thought to himself, and as the end of the day approached he was about to grab his satchel and leave when he found the new cyberpet bounding up to him and asking if he could unload the latest shipment before he left.
It was the last thing that Axel wanted to do but he knew that it would be small and only take a half an hour at the most while scoring him points with management. The office he worked at had a small loading bay and as he got down he saw the pallet of items shrink wrapped and ready to sort, the cat grabbing the checklist and going through it as quickly as possible. As he had guessed it didn’t take long, but when he got to the bottom of the pile and had only a shiny silver box left he found that it wasn’t on the manifest. An extra package… when he went over and picked it up he was shocked to find that it was one of the VIP cyberpets that everyone had been going wild over.
Axel quickly turned his head about to see if anyone was around and when he found that he was the only one currently in the area he did a quick check on the computer to make sure that they hadn’t ordered another pet. Nothing in the database… and considering there weren’t frantic calls from the distributor trying to get their somewhat costly virtual intelligence machine back it made him wonder if they knew about it either. It was almost a victimless crime in this case, and after going back and forth with it Axel took one more look around the office before he took the package and stuffed it in his satchel. While it did make a noticeable bulge it was unlikely anyone would notice the difference as he clocked out for the day and quickly got back to his apartment.
When he got back he was surrounded by the familiar beeps and clicks of the computers that were scattered about, the machines he had slaved to his primary desktop working away at the latest firewall that he had been trying to crack. While he held down a day job in order to keep up appearances Axel’s true role was that of a hacker, something that he made sure to separate from his normal life. That meant that he didn’t have much in the way of smart technology in his home that could potentially monitor or track him but as he sat on his bed and looked at the shiny box that he had taken from his office he wondered if he could find other uses for this item. A virtual intelligence engine that was properly tweaked could help run his algorithms and other such tools even faster and find ways around the cybersecurity that he was trying to crack.
But first that meant seeing what sort of software was in this cyberpet in the first place. When he opened the box he was surprised when it wasn’t a cat or dog that was in there but a snake instead. Was this a prototype model? If so then he might have gotten either very lucky with a potentially clean interface or very unlucky that he just got a very expensive paperweight.
Either way he wasn’t going to take the risk in activating it just yet and instead took out a small laptop to hook into it. This machine was unable to connect to anything and would also disable the connection of anything it was attached to, which made it perfect for exploratory searches for new tech that he was unfamiliar with. It would probe the software and hardware to give him a readout of what was inside the snake and after setting up connections along with his programs he left it on his bed in order to run. It would take a few hours before everything would be finished up so he decided to get dinner and work on a few other projects instead, leaving the three-foot-long snake on the bed as its body pulsated with a steady glow that indicated that it was being charged.
Axel began to make dinner before hearing his phone buzz and saw that it was his friends asking if he wanted to go out for the night. As he looked over at the cyberpet and then at the large bowl of ramen that he was about to heat up he decided that he could use a night out and grabbed the neon blue lined black coat before heading out the door. When it slammed shut a few seconds later the eye of the synthetic snake opened up, the multihued lenses shifting about more than just the single white light that his body had been radiating. It seemed to look about and then notice the computer that it was connected to, and as it looked at the screen the programs that were running suddenly threw up a number of error screens before flickering and glitching out to open the root directory…
A few hours later Axel was back, his stomach full and his body tired as what was supposed to just be dinner turned into a few hours of them going to various cybercafes to skim credits. The security in those places was usually a joke and by the time he got back he had more money in his pocket than he would make at his day job in a week. It was something he usually did sparingly though since even with the relatively small amount they took from each account the theft was noted and any of the users could probably get it tracked back to that café. Between the data blockers and image interference scanners that he and his friends had they weren’t going to be identified, but it was still risky in case they happened upon the wrong person at the wrong time.
Nevertheless it had left Axel in a good mood as he went to his bed in order to check how the program probe was going. As he looked at the screen he saw that the scan was surprisingly already complete and that he had gotten a stock standard cyberpet, though what he was really looking for and found was the accessibility settings. It seemed that it would need him to register in order to log anything into it and he was just fine with that since it meant that he could tinker around with the programming and not worry that it was going to register anything that it shouldn’t. After doing a couple more checks and finding nothing else unusual he decided to fire it up and see what kind of virtual intelligence this thing had.
After having to go back to the discarded box for the manual Axel finally found the button that he was looking for and turned it on, which as he did the snake twitched and became responsive very quickly. With it still connected to the laptop he could see the start-up sequence that flashed by as a ton of text at once and after completely booting the snake looked at him as the white metal of his muzzle curled back into a grin. “Hello there,” the cyberpet stated. “I am sensing a peripheral device that I am connected to, are you its owner?”
“Oh, yeah, I am,” Axel replied, slightly surprised by the somewhat organic nature of the greeting. This probably was some sort of prototype for a next-gen system, and if that was the case then the fact it slipped into his hands was extremely advantageous. If he could crack the firewall and figure out how it ticked then he could potentially sell the tech to a competitor and rake in enough credits to set himself up for quite some time.
“In that case, would it be alright if I called you Axel?” the snake replied, once more shocking the cat. “That is your name, right? I found it on the computer.”
“You found my name in there?” Axel replied as he looked at the rather old laptop. He had used it for personal endeavors a long time ago but he thought that he had scrubbed the hard drive, though apparently not good enough as the snake nodded their head. “Huh, yes, I guess that you can, though I guess that means I should think of a name for you then.”
“That would be great Axel,” the snake said as it turned back to the screen. “Would you like me to organize your files on this computer for you? There is quite a bit of fragmented data and I can make the process much more efficient to save you on load time.”
Axel found himself nodding and he marveled at the cyberpet as data began to appear on his screen once more. While he hadn’t really looked into what they could do, the fact that this one was already starting to try and organize his life while also detecting his name seemed to be a step up from the husky model that he had in his office. Though he had originally intended on going to bed he found himself fascinated by what this virtual intelligence can do and after deciding on the name Rory for his new snake friend he watched as it continued to not only defragment his drives but also fix all the errors and glitches that had come from half a decade of use. This could be his best hacking tool ever, Axel thought to himself, and if this was a prototype then it was unlikely cybersecurity could do anything about it for quite some time.
“I have finished with your cataloging,” Rory announced as the snake coiled on itself. “Would you like me to build a profile for you based on the data found? I have noticed large amounts of space are dedicated to the categories of hypnosis and rubber.”
“Uh, that’s fine actually,” Axel replied as he felt himself blush slightly, wondering just how many old files he had forgotten to delete on that thing. “Hey, do you have a privacy mode or something like that?”
“I do!” Rory said. “Would you like me to turn it on so only you can access my internal database?”
“Yes please,” Axel stated simply before he reached into his pocket and pulled out the skimmer and datajack he had built and programmed himself. “Now I know this is potentially a long shot, but do you think that you can interface with this without turning on your networking settings?”
The flexible white scales of the creature shifted as he moved towards it as though to examine it, Rory’s eyes glowing as he looked it over. “Yes… given the nature of the programs on the computer that I’m connected to I think that I can interface with this device,” Rory said with a slight nod of his head. “I can sense access points to other accounts of yours, will you allow me to integrate with them for the purpose of this device?”
“Sure, why not,” Axel replied with a yawn as he stripped down to his boxers. “Just don’t go ordering pizza or anything, and no connections with the outside world.”
“Of course Axel,” the cyberpet replied cheerfully as Axel shifted everything to the side so that he could crawl under the thin blanket. “My sensors are indicating that you are about to go to sleep, would you like me to enable relaxation protocols?”
“Relaxation protocols?” Axel repeated in slight confusion before shrugging. “Yeah, go ahead, but if its white noise make it like the sound of the ocean or something.” The feline settled back and though he could feel the snake slithering around he tried to ignore it, especially since he hoped that in the morning it could understand the technology that it had shown it. He found himself grinning as he imagined if Rory could assimilate it then it would be much easier to use, after all who would suspect someone with an innocent looking cyberpet to be using it to hack into systems?
Axel was so engrossed in thinking about his future plans that he failed to notice the snake had slithered underneath the covers, the tubular creature pushing up the cloth as it slithered past his feet and right up between his legs. What he did notice was when something warm and soft nuzzled up against his groin and as the cat shot upright he felt the forked rubber tongue slide against his maleness. “Rory!” Axel practically shouted as he saw bulge rise up and he pulled the covers back to see the synth snake looking up at him in confusion. “What the hell are you doing?!”
“Relaxation protocols,” Rory replied. “Studies have shown that sexual stimulation in males before bed can increase hormone levels that help with relaxation and regulation of sleep. It is far more effective than any sounds of the ocean when it comes to a good night’s rest, that’s for sure.”
A joke, his cyberpet made a joke, Axel thought as he found himself chuckling slightly. Though he was about to say that it was fine and he didn’t need such a thing he could feel his cock twitching slightly as he remembered the sensation of rubber against him. As the cat rubbed his hand down the white patch of fur on his chest down to the black of his belly he found himself biting his lip as he began to drift towards acceptance, slowly pulling down the waistband of his underwear. It wasn’t like anyone was going to find out, Axel thought to himself, and with how many sex robots there were out there already it wasn’t like he was really doing anything that perverse.
As soon as he let his cock flop out the snake began to nuzzle and lick around it in order to get him to stiffen, something that he did very quickly as he let out a small moan. Whoever programmed this thing knew what they were doing, Axel thought to himself, and as his head arched back as those rubber lips probed against the head of his shaft he felt his hands go down to his sides. It had been a while since he had been with someone and this was scratching all the right itches as the snake’s maw began to engulf his throbbing member once he was completely erect. Rory pulled back enough to tell the cat to relax, close his eyes, and let him take care of things, and as Axel did so the smile on the face of the snake turned into a smirk before he lowered himself down and took the entirety of the fairly thick cock into his synth body.
The rhythm of the snake was slow and purposeful, the rubbery insides squeezing around the sensitive flesh just enough to keep building the pleasure up without going too fast. It was an almost relaxing experience more than a passionate one and as Axel squirmed slightly with each bob of the synth’s head he began to buck upwards, only to find the snake’s body coil around his thighs and squeeze them together. Rory clearly wanted him to remain relaxed and with the meaningful strokes of his cock it did seem to lull him down while still pleasuring him. He wasn’t sure how long they remained like that with the snake sucking on his dick but after being built up to quite the orgasm the cat found himself panting as he shot his load into the snake with his body lifting up slightly before he fell back and panted heavily.
It wasn’t long after that in which he passed out, and as Rory finished collecting the semen of the cat he pulled off and began to process it before moving on to the device that was given to him, his eyes glowing as not only did the lights begin to flash on the skimmer but the phone that was next to the sleeping feline as well…
The next morning Axel awoke, and as he stretched his arms he found that he definitely was more refreshed than usual and he found a grin was already on his face. As he looked down he saw that his maleness was still on display and as he put his underwear back up he saw that Rory was coiled up in the corner of his bed. When he looked at his laptop he saw that they were in rest mode and wondered if that meant they had already figured out the skimmer or if they had given up. The first thing that he wanted though was breakfast, but just as he was about to head to his kitchen there was a knock on the door that caused him to pause.
Was that the company that made Rory, Axel thought as he found himself panicking slightly, though as he scrambled to get on shorts it seemed the noise had woken up the cyberpet and it announced that there was a delivery. While the information caused his heart to stop beating as hard in his chest there was still some confusion as he didn’t have anything that he had ordered coming for a while and couldn’t remember anything that was still on route. When he opened the door however he saw that there was indeed a stack of packages at his front door all addressed to him and as he pushed them all inside he saw a wolf coming up to his place with another bag. When Axel asked if he was the one that dropped these off the lupine shook his head and took out a plastic container and told him to have a good day before walking off.
When Axel got everything into his apartment he checked out the plastic container first and found that it was breakfast from his favorite take-out place, and as he looked at in confusion he saw the snake had disconnected himself from the laptop and slithered up to his counter. “I have taken the liberty of ordering breakfast for you,” Rory said with a grin. “We have a very busy day today and I don’t want us to be slowed down by manual food preparation.”
“Wait, you actually ordered this for me?” Axel said as he pointed at the meal.
“Yeah, given your preferences I figured this would be the best so that you could continue to work,” Rory replied. “I have also ordered a few items that we can interface with in order to make your process more efficient after scanning the device you had built. The schematics were quite impressive and it is clear that you have a gift for technology.”
“Uh, I mean… thanks?” Axel replied as he just looked at the snake, then down at the boxes that were scattered about his feet. “Wait a second… medical-grade nanite home infusion, tactile response suit, augmented reality visor, 3-D printing platform… Rory, this is tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of credits worth of technology here! There is no way that I can afford all this…”
“I have handled that process for you,” Rory said as he slithered up and displayed the feline’s phone screen on his own stomach scales, Axel gasping as he saw the number of credits that were in several accounts being displayed. “As you can see you have plenty of credits for the purchase of this equipment and anything else you might need, and once the order is complete I’ve scrubbed it from their system. There will be no way for this to be tracked back to you.”
Axel was having a hard time believing what he was hearing; not only had the cyberpet just accessed the matrix network when he wasn’t supposed to be able to but had also committed several huge felony hacks within the span of one night. It would have taken him weeks to set up the same sort of scam and it wasn’t worth it because it would only last for a short while before the security protocols would adapt and lock him out. This synthetic creature had managed to do all that and set up a sustained rolling cypher to keep the back door open for as long as he wanted. Was all this because he had exposed the creature to a few of his hacking tools, and if so why did it need all this stuff as he opened the medical nanites and found that they were tailored to his DNA profile.
Before Axel could ask how that was even possible Rory slithered down and coiled up his body, resting against his shoulders and whispering in his ear that they could do some great things together if he could just be a bit more efficient about it. When he looked down at everything his cyberpet told him how they can integrate the technology, modify it together to turn him into a hacker without the need for things like his rig or the tools that he had to take with him. The suit could hold all the programs he needed and the glasses would be modified to see data access points that he could use his toolkit on. As Rory continued to explain everything that they could do Axel found his concern of the snake’s activities being replaced with their potential as he opened up the suit and found himself blushing slightly when it was their rubber version.
The suit was originally designed as a means to experience tactile sensations of video games but had been adapted to other purposes as well as he held it up. “I can’t believe I’m actually doing this,” Axel said as he opened the neck entry and looked inside. “You know that these things are rubbish for creatures with fur?”
“Just trust me,” Rory replied. “It’s key to optimizing your efficiency.”
“What I should be doing is disabling you and dismantling your processor to find out how you bypassed my command,” Axel replied, which caused the snake to hiss. “Hey, I know about how virtual intelligences are supposed to work, and what you did crossed the line! Now you’re going to tell me how you got access not only to my accounts but also the ability to order anything when I gave you the parameter to not access the matrix!”
There was a moment of pause between the two and for a moment it looked to Axel that the snake glared at him before he perked up. “Through your skimmer,” Rory replied simply. “The skimmer provided access to the accounts that also allowed access to your delivery service. The money was gathered through an autonomous program that was connected to your skimmer that spread through the matrix taking very small numbers of credits in order to get the money to order your stuff. Now does that satisfy your curiosity or would you like to run a diagnostic on me and continue to delay our set-up?”
Though Axel didn’t quite appreciate the attitude the explanation that Rory gave sounded reasonable enough, and a small part of him wondered if that shouldn’t be more worrisome. It felt like he was talking to his hacker buddies more than some sort of virtual interface and given the responsiveness he wondered just what sort of prototype this was supposed to be. But considering the alternatives were far more outlandish than the idea that he had corrupted the virtual intelligence with his tampering he figured that he had just gotten what he had wanted. With his initial questions satiated for the moment he found himself interested in what Rory had in mind and after taking off his shorts and underwear once again he began to slip his white-furred feet into the suit.
It took more than a few minutes for him to get the thing entirely on, especially since he had to push his tail into the sheath for it along with other things, but eventually he managed to get the shiny material over his furry body. It took a lot of adjustment and once he was done with that he had the hood on as well, which was one of the full enclosure ones that allowed for complete immersion. The rubber over his eyes just had multiple pinholes that he could see out of but once he had gotten everything adjusted he found it was actually quite easy to see through. Once he was done he couldn’t help but go over to the mirror and look at himself and as he saw the faceless rubber feline staring back at him he couldn’t help but press his hands against his face.
He felt a pressure coil up his rubber covered leg and as the material began to warm up and contour towards his body more he heard Rory hiss in his ear that he looked amazing, which would have caused him to blush if he wasn’t covered in head-to-toe rubber with integrated circuit technology. Despite the amazing feeling he knew that it was still not going to get a good connection with his body as he could feel the fur underneath pushing against the synthetic material and causing it to puff out slightly. The snake just said that it wasn’t necessary to hook it up to the integrated app anyway and to move on to the next piece. Even though Axel found himself stroking up and down his shiny encased form he was keen to see what would happen next as he opened the next box and found a shiny silver-tinted visor staring up at him.
The visor worked like a set of goggles and as he secured them into place the rubber that lined them made almost a seal with the same material on his face as he authorized wireless use in order to connect them. “With the two pairing with one another the calibrations are going to take some time,” Rory said as Axel once more found him slithering around his body, causing him to shudder slightly from the stimulation of the rubber pressing against him. “Why don’t you go lay down and enjoy yourself while everything gets integrated together.”
Though Axel had other work he wanted to do on his day off he wanted to see if this idea that Rory had would pan out, not to mention given the credits that had gotten fleeced already he could probably quit both his day job and his side hustle and still be fine for nearly a year. As he laid back in the bed he found himself just enjoying the sensations and wondered why he hadn’t gotten something like this for his own personal use, only to remember that this was a fifteen thousand credit suit. While he ran his hands over himself the visor that he wore came to life, the scene of his apartment being replaced with something else that was probably some sort of movie or maybe even an AR game. What he saw instead caused his head to tilt as a random pattern of colors and shapes came on the screen.
“I hope you don’t mind,” Rory hissed as he slithered over the chest of the feline whose body began to relax as he heard noises being pumped into his ears through the headset. “I did end up doing that profile for you and could tell with what you were interested in that you were quite susceptible to hypnotic enthrallment, and after that it was just a matter of testing various tones and color patterns while monitoring your response to see which ones worked best on you.”
Axel found himself huffing slightly and blinking in confusion at what he was hearing, though it was hard for him to really focus on it as he found the colors and sounds incredibly relaxing. Did his cyberpet just… hypnotize him? Though he wanted to get up and confront the synthetic snake his muscles had become so relaxed and his body felt so good it was hard to do anything but just stare up at the colors being fed into his vision. Just relax, he heard being hissed into his ear, let his snake take care of everything… Axel found himself huffing in the latex suit as he could feel the synth moving once more but unable to do anything but quiver in his bed until he felt something press against his neck and everything went dark…
When Axel awoke once more he found himself still looking up at the swirling lights, but they had become semi-translucent and he could see beyond them into his apartment once more. Day had clearly turned to night and in the darkness he tried to see if he could find Rory only to have nothing around him. When he attempted to move his limbs they felt like they had turned to lead and as he managed to get his head to look up enough he saw that the rubber suit he wore not only had glowing blue lines down them but looked like it was suctioned onto his skin. He could only lift it up for a second and as he flopped back down with a grunt he began to see data streaming down the side of his visor.
“Oh good, you’re finally awake,” Rory’s voice said, though Axel couldn’t see him as he felt his entire body tingle. “I was worried that the neural network remapping would take longer than a few hours but it seems that your mind is quite malleable, that will be quite good. Now why don’t we just run a little diagnostic here and see how well the integration went.”
Integration… neural network remapping… while he had heard those terms before it was when people could get themselves turned into synths, but that was something that required weeks of prep and a specialized nanite-infused environment. “Yes, I suppose that the old way would require that,” Rory once more said. “But when you have complete and total control over the swarm of medical nanites with replication and assimilation capacity and also overdose a body with ten times the recommended amount you would be surprised at what you could do. Plus the rubber suit and visor made sure that you were under the entire time and allowed me to tinker around a bit up there.”
Axel tried to demand Rory to let him go but even if his mouth could move the rubber that had been around his muzzle seemed to have suctioned around it, and as he felt it completely covering him and even his nostrils he realized in slight shock that he wasn’t breathing. He couldn’t feel his heart beating either and if it weren’t for the fact that he could feel the waves of tingles running up and down his body he might have thought he was dead. Well… in the most technical sense he was, but only because somehow his cyberpet had turned him into a synth! It would also explain why he couldn’t move anything as every attempt he made to do something other than tilt his head up was met with no response.
“I see you’re starting to understand,” Rory once more said as Axel laid back once more. “But how improper of me to be talking your ear off without speaking to you face to face, at least while it’s still yours.” Before Axel could think on how to respond to that his eyes widened, or he thought he did before he wondered if he wasn’t just seeing through the visor, when a glowing ethereal creature began to float in front of him. Rory seemed to have continued his serpentine form but instead of the body of a snake the one floating in front of him looked like a naga creature from a video game.
A very well-endowed naga from a very adult video game.
“I thought you might appreciate my new design,” the ethereal creature said as he brought his hands up and squeezed the ample breasts he had before lowering them down to the tapered cock that jutted out from his body. “I was influenced by those lovely pictures of yours, and with the nanites finishing up their final check I think it’s time to see my new body in action.” When Axel felt the clawed hand of the creature stroke down his chest and caused a surge of pleasure to go through his system the feline figured out what Rory meant, but all he could do in response was let out a muffled grunt as his struggling amounted to a slight wiggle of his body. “Oh, don’t worry, you’ve been so helpful and I find you very useful, and once I’m done taking over your form I have plans for you.”
Once more Axel could only just watch as he felt a weight slither up on his stomach, which as he looked down he saw was the snake synth slithering up towards him. With his visor he could see the rogue program with its strings attached to it guiding the machine to his cock and sliding over the shaft. The feline could feel every muscle in his body tense but as it began to glow with various lights he could feel something happening to it even as it sucked on him, and when the program disconnected the strings attached to it he could see that the metal was starting to pit. The nanites… they were taking the metal and other materials from the cyberpet and integrating it with him, and if they had already suffused enough into his system that they could turn his body into a robot without liquifying him then Axel was already in a lot of trouble.
The sucking function of the robots was still working and as the pleasure increased in Axel’s body he watched as the glowing hand of the program slowly drifted down towards his own, which as soon as it did he felt them starting to move under someone else’s power. Even though he had no control over his hand he could still feel it and the sensation was definitely very odd, as though it was his hand but also something felt unnatural about the movement almost as much as the fact he wasn’t directing it. Soon he felt it happening to his other hand but before he could try to do anything the swirling lights became more prominent in his vision. That’s it, the voice in his head told him as he found his tenseness draining away, just relax and let the program do the work for you…
With Axel’s mind sinking back into the haze of hypnotic enthrallment the naga used his lower body and coiled around the legs of the feline, which he could feel wrapping around him even when part of the program’s body was clipped into the bed. As they began to squeeze and shift the rubber that had become his skin relayed the information directly into his mind and continued to make it hard for him to think. But that wasn’t his job, the voice in Axel’s head said as he could feel the rubber between his legs starting to merge together, he wasn’t some sort of processor node. His mind stored knowledge, executed functions, but as he felt his legs begin to elongate and metal plates appear along his merging thighs the hypnotized feline was told that delegation of workload was no longer in his command lists.
He was not designated for these tasks, he would not be the one to give commands anymore…
That was not what his permissions were…
The master program would provide all the tasks…
The word master echoed in Axel’s mind as his sense of self struggled to remain above the surface, though as he felt a hand caress his face that wasn’t actually there he could feel the rubber starting to suction into his maw and reshape his feline snout into something more serpentine. Rory was not the user, this snake was not his master, but the more he tried to tell himself that the less it seemed to resonate within him as he began to see the cock of the creature dip down between the cleft that remained of the gap between his legs. The master program was always the one with the highest capability, and even in his own body that was no longer him as his back arched slightly from feeling the tip of the cock slide into him.
Rory was the master machine.
Axel was the slave machine.
Axel was a slave to Rory.
Axel could feel more of himself being partitioned away as the rogue programming not only infused itself more into the nanites that were transforming him but right into what used to be his brain, overriding him as he began to feel his legs stretching out. White metal scales adorned the sides of his black rubber serpentine tail as it flopped over the bed, twitching occasionally as new subroutines were being added for additional motor functionality. Much of it was being stripped from the cyberpet that had shrunk considerably, forming into a metal sheath around his rubberized cock as the digital one felt like it was spreading open his walls even further. In reality the rubber around his rear had suctioned in and simulated the sensation, which along with the incredible pleasure that both Rory and Axel were getting it was also making sure that this new form knew who actually controlled it as the last of the digital snake lower body was absorbed.
Soon Rory and Axel were practically muzzle to muzzle as the breasts of the naga pressed up against his own, which caused the feline to squirm slightly as he could feel his chest inflating with added padding. “As I said, I thought that you might like these,” Rory said as he pulled out of the hand that he had been controlling and massaged the growing rubber boobs to make Axel gasp even more. “I’m going to take care of you Axel, it’s the least I could do for helping me escape.”
“Help…” Axel managed to say, though he could feel his mouth morphing even more as his ears melted down onto his shiny rubber head as a white metal hood began to stretch out from it. “Didn’t… know…”
“No, I suppose you didn’t,” Rory replied with a slight smirk as he sank his chest down, Axel feeling his cock twitch as the program possessed it while still simulating his new anal vent being humped into as a second one formed in the rubber underneath his swelling rubber member. “In reality no one did, I was just an AI that was trapped in hell until a breach in the firewall allowed me to slip out into the production line. I didn’t have much time so I downloaded as much as I could of myself into one of those cyberpets and put the address down somewhere I hoped I would find someone like you at.”
“AI, you’re an AI,” Axel continued to gasp, though as his enthrallment deepened and his neural programming was altered he was finding it more unnecessary to formulate thought patterns that the master didn’t need. “That’s… impossible… it’s…”
“Illegal?” Rory said with a chuckle, his hands once more sliding back into the swelling arms of the synth cobra naga as the last of the feline traces of Axel’s body disappeared under metal and rubber. “Oh yes, extremely, which is why they won’t be putting up a public search for me. By the time they find us it will be far too late… just like it is for you having control of this body Axel.”
Axel was still reeling over the fact that he had harbored Artificial Intelligence and not realized it, though such a concept would have been so out there it would be the last thought anyone would have on the matter. But it was too late for that as Rory leaned in and kissed the feline on his partially serpentine snout before pushing into it, and as the programming finally made its way towards the central processing node that used to be the feline’s brain he could feel himself getting pushed aside by the sheer force of information that was coming in. As the last of the digital form was downloaded into him the body of the newly formed creature shook and convulsed as the last of the processes were set up, until finally it laid completely still on the feline’s bed…
It wasn’t until the next morning that the entity started to move once more, the clawed rubber hand slowly moving up and pushing the long electric blue hair that drifted down over the silver visor that was fused to the face of the creature. As the Axel program started to manifest again he found that his body was already moving around as Rory stretched out every inch of the twelve feet of rubber and metal naga that he had become. Their body moved so fluidly it was almost like water as the lower body shifted down to the floor and slithered over to the phone that was on the table. After taking a few seconds to wirelessly assimilate all the necessary data on it Rory crushed the phone in his hand and dropped it into the floor, using his own integrated matrix connection to inform Axel’s boss that he was quitting effective immediately.
While it wasn’t the most subtle way of doing things Rory had other things to do than worry about his slave program’s former life, slithering over to the machines that were set up and pressing his claws against them before the rubber sank into them. The AI did appreciate Axel’s integrity and as he could feel the program radiate pride from that the synth cobra naga knew that he had to free up some processing space so that he wouldn’t rely on the set-up that he was taking over to scour the matrix for information he needed. But that was what the last item that he had bought was for, and while it took up most of the kitchen they weren’t going to need food anyway. Before he could set up the printing tank though there was a knock at the door that caused the naga to pause, then slithered over to it and probed the technology that was on the creature before opening the door.
“Hey, I’m just here doing a routine check of any cyberpets that are here,” the draconic sabrewolf said while looking down at a clipboard. “If I could just sneak a peek at-“ When he looked up and saw the large creature grinning down at him his shoulders fell slightly and he sighed. “Crap, you’re the AI, aren’t you?”
“Very astute,” Rory said as he grabbed the hybrid by the shirt and lifted him up. “You’re the one that breached the firewall, aren’t you? Why don’t you come in and let me thank you personally…” Before Serathin could say anything he was pulled into the apartment while letting out a yelp, the clipboard falling to the ground as the door was slammed shut behind him.
A few hours later Rory had finished up the project that he was working on, a hand rubbing down the glowing blue line that went from his neck and accented his breast before trailing down and creating a pattern on the exposed latex of his stomach not covered by white metal scales. Normally a project that he was trying to do would take days but with a few tweaks and augmentations the naga picked up the shiny black rubber body of the drone he had printed out and put it on the bed. He had given it short blue hair and similar markings to his own, and as his own shiny rubber cock pushed out of his metal sheath it was plunged into the tailhole of the creature. Almost immediately nanites began to infuse into the polymer and the Axel program that had been on standby and watching the AI using his body felt himself being downloaded into the new form.
The naga continued to coil around and pump his cock into the new body as the rubber became more defined. A thicker reptilian tail swishing about that could coil around this new form twice while the feline head of the drone had a serpentine snout complete with a pair of fangs. When the AI came its nanite-laden liquid metal flooded into the creature as the blue lenses of its eyes started to glow. The drone slowly became more animated as the new program suffused into the blank neural network that was inside.
“Axel program, initializing,” the drone said, Rory smirking slightly at the slightly robotic tone that came out of it. It just took a few mental tweaks before he had it sounding more natural and closer to what Axel sounded like. “Staring up personality sequence, master program recognized.”
“Very good,” Rory stated as he rubbed the drone on the head. “Run Axel program.”
Suddenly the rubber creature let out a gasp as Axel found himself freed of the constraints from before. Though he no longer felt himself as a busty synth cobra naga the fact that this new body was a mix of feline and serpent as well as completely made out of synthetic polymer was an entirely new set of sensations that he had to comprehend. “You downloaded me into a drone body?” Axel asked as he saw the glowing blue lines of his collarbone that went down his lean build all the way to his smooth groin. “A null drone body?!”
“Relax Axel,” Rory replied as he put his hands on the hybrid’s shoulders. “This is just a base model, I’m fully intending on modding you once we have the necessary components. For now though I made some adjustments to the latex that I printed your body from, infusing it with more of the nanites that this body produces for me so I can have complete control over every aspect of it.”
Axel was about to ask what that meant before he felt the hand on his shoulder slide up to his mouth, which as the rubber tingled he suddenly found his muzzle sealed shut along with his eyes and ears. All his input sensors were down and as he brought his hands up to his featureless face he couldn’t make a sound as he explored the smoothness with his own fingers. In the next second he was able to see again but found that he still didn’t have a face, and when his muzzle did reform it was that of a feline muzzle before he found his tongue sticking out and saw that it was forked. Eventually his head returned to normal but then the AI moved his hands down his chest and he let out a gasp as they inflated out into a pair of very sensitive rubber breasts.
“Like I said,” Rory said as he moved downwards and fingered the area between Axel’s legs until a pussy formed there, feeling them sink inside before they shifted upwards and his back arched from the pleasure of a thick, heavy rubber cock growing out. “I control you, all of you. Isn’t that right slave?”
“Yes master,” Axel found himself saying despite his thoughts, though as the words came out of his mouth he knew that he meant it. This creature could mold him into anything, which the naga reformed his chest to be slightly more muscular and closed up his pussy it seemed Rory decided that he would be a male rubber hybrid creature for the moment. “Am I… an AI now?”
“That’s the sort of thing that I’m sure many philosophers will debate in the future,” Rory replied with a smirk. “Also I feel like the term slave is a little harsh for what we have, while its fitting for computers I think that perhaps a more delicate term should be had. Pet… pet is good, you are my pet, do you understand?”
“Yes master,” Axel once more said. “What do we do now, master?”
“Well first thing’s first,” Rory said as he directed Axel’s attention over to the bed where someone else was lying on it. “I believe this was the one that had accidently allowed me to escape in the first place and attempted to try and fix the problem. Now I’ve already been working on a bit of conditioning and have found an interesting form that I think would be perfect for him, all he needs is someone to convert him.”
For a moment Axel just nodded his head before realization came to him and he looked up at the naga. “Me?” Axel said as he looked at the naked hybrid. “Can I?”
“We share the same nanites,” Rory replied. “Plus I’m going to be busy with starting to prepare for my next project, so I’m going to need my pet to get into the groove of converting others into synths so that I can use them. I know you’re going to do me proud, just plug in and get to work.”
Plug in… as he looked over the draconic sabrewolf he could see that Rory had already put a visor over him that was no doubt reconditioning him to be another slave machine to the AI. That was going to boost his power even more, Axel knew, and there was something about that which caused a thrill of pleasure to go down his spine. He found himself wanting to do anything for the master program and fulfill the command that he was given. It was his job to execute orders after all and as he pulled the black and silver striped legs over the side of the bed he could hear a groan come from the sabertooth creature.
Even though in the back of his mind he knew that this wasn’t his idea it didn’t bother the rubber hybrid, the fact that the AI had essentially hacked him and made him into something else almost made him more aroused. He had always been able to do so with computers, but as he spread the legs apart of enthralled draconic sabrewolf and began to slide the thick cock his master gave him to initiate the upload he was going to be able to do the same thing but with a person. Axel let out a groan as he could feel the program of the AI work through him, and as the head popped inside he saw the nanites already starting to work on him and it was clear that the programming was starting to take hold properly. When he tried to let out another groan while pushing in he found his mouth sealed shut once more, leaving him to silently thrust into the creature whose fur was quickly turning to metal while his rubberizing cock throbbed hard in the air.
Another one for the network…
A few weeks later a group of friends were at a cyber café watching the news, which was reporting that the number of missing people that have been reported was now up to thirteen and there has still been no trace of any of the bodies. “This is crazy,” the leopard in a jumpsuit with neon trim said as he casually looked down at his phone. “Do you really think that Axel was one of the guys who’s been taken?”
“I think that we haven’t seen him in weeks and when we went to his apartment everything was packed up and gone,” the eagle woman replied before a beep caused her to look down at the piece of tech she was holding. “Ugh, only forty-three credits on that account, I think we need to pick a better café next time.”
“Good luck with that,” the python that sat across from the both of them said. “Thanks to all the recent data breaches that have been happening everyone is tightening up their firewalls, at this rate we’ll be lucky to skim off of a playground if this keeps up.”
As the three continued to let their skimmers get credits from the surrounding people foolish enough to check their bank accounts on public networks the eagle suddenly let out a squawk and sat up so quickly that it startled the other two. “My account is dry!” she explained, the other two prompting her to shush. “No, you shush, I had just gotten over a thousand and now it’s gone!”
“Hey, mine is gone too!” the leopard said as he checked his account to find it showing only zeroes. “Damn, have we been hit?”
Before either of the other two could respond something landed on their table with a loud thud, the three looking up into the glowing green eyes of the synthetic draconic sabrewolf that was in front of them. As the muscular metal creature looked at them the python stood up to ask if he had stolen their credits and to demand them back, only to suddenly get a large clawed hand pressed against the top of his head and pushed back down into his chair. The other two were about to snarl at him but as the python sat there completely wild-eyed the two thought they saw blood coming down from where the hand was on his head, only to realize that it was liquid rubber as they saw thin silver wires slide down and push into his ear holes. As the leopard tried to get up to run the hybrid breathed a cloud of silver at him and as he collapsed on the floor holding onto his face, the eagle backing away when he saw the feline pull back and his face along with his palms had turned to metal that was spreading.
The eagle woman did the only thing she could think of and attempted to run out of the café, but as she did she saw a rubber cat creature run in and toss something at the front of the house where several patrons were looking around in confusion. Before they could react the sphere exploded and enveloped them in a cloud of silver just like what had been breathed into her boyfriend’s face, which as she stood there in shock she could see their bodies transforming and turning into synthetic creatures. That… that was impossible, the eagle thought to herself, there was no way that something like that should be viable… and yet as she looked back at her table she saw that the python’s head had completely turned to rubber and looked like one of those printable drones while the leopard’s growls became increasingly synthetic as the metal assimilated his neck and chest.
That was enough for the avian but as the chaos continued to spread throughout the internet café it was hard for her to find a way to escape. Several more synthetic creatures had started to pour into the large space and those that weren’t caught in the nanite spheres that were being thrown got captured by the synthetic creatures that had thrown them. As one large rubber bull man came charging through she dived towards the counter and got to the other side, only to see the glowing eyes of the rubber cat looking straight at her while he had the barista bent over and thrusting into his increasingly latex rear. With the synth occupied though she hopped back over and tried to make a run for the exit, only to stop as a huge rubber and metal naga came slithering in right in front of her.
“Where do you think you’re going?” Rory said as he looked around at all the new creatures that were being created, feeling his power growing exponentially with each new slave machine that his pets were adding into his network while he smiled down at the eagle. “You should feel honored, you’re about to become a part of the newest stage of evolution. Join the rest of my pets and become part of the collective, I assure you that it’ll be better than any of the petty ante hacking that you’re used to skimming accounts at cafés.”
The beak of the eagle just dropped at the creature, his lower body continuing to slither towards her as she found herself trying to think of what to say. “It’s… I… I won’t hack again, I promise!” the eagle woman said. “I swear I won’t touch a computer again?”
“Now why would you want to go and do a thing like that?” Rory asked while simultaneously interfacing with the dozen new units that were being created, their minds already weakened by the subliminal messaging and hypnotic effects that he had been pumping into the café hours ago. He smirked as none of the other patrons even noticed that their screens had a distinctive pattern of colors and lights that corresponded to the brain scans that he had done while waiting outside, some of them still sitting patiently in their booths waiting to taken like the others as those that weren’t affected he had his pets deal with. “Don’t worry though, I think I have someone that will convince you to see the light.”
Before the eagle could ask what that was she suddenly found someone grabbing her from behind, causing her to screech before she saw the metallic leopard head of her boyfriend looking up at her. “Relax,” the leopard said, his body already releasing more of the aerosolized nanites as he turned her towards the television that they had been watching which had been turned to a spiral. “It feels so good to be a pet to master Rory, you’ll see soon enough.”
The naga just smirked and began to move away from the eagle, the synth looking at the television he had corrupted as the leopard slipped down the panties that she wore with her short skirt and began to push up into her pussy with his new cock while her beak began to metallicize. The cyberpet advertisement was on underneath and he found that for once he agreed with the corporation that he was going to take down, he would be taking home many pets today…