It Grows In Water

Story by iplank on SoFurry

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Alterra has no shortage of mad scientists, but when the corporation decides to finally cut its losses and pull out of planet 4546B two researchers decide to use the equipment already on-site to do their own research rather than immediately bail. Using re-written virus cells to piggyback alien genes; this mad lad plans on transforming into his own next test subject.


(M tf Frozen Leviathan)

The Alterra corporation had for the most part pulled out of planet 4546B. It had sent research teams to investigate the Kharaa virus but with all known samples of it terminated- their primary interest in the planet was lost so they pulled funding. They remain in the system to set up a phasegate, which was actually why they came to the Ariadne Arm system in the first place.

Reigas sighed, motioning to the equipment in the subnautic base. "But they haven't gut the place! We have the tools to survive here."

Rich lowered his brows. "We have no funding."

"We already have several working fabricators and had to make 90% of the base from stuff we found ourselves anyway."

Rich is a handsome man- moreso since he ended up doing most of the running around to keep their base in working order, forcing him to become quite muscular, though his skin is looking a bit pale. You don't catch much sunlight below the sea. 4546B is almost entirely underwater; the only portion that is actually on the surface is frozen. Their base had been set up near the glacier's edge in a forest of colossal lily pads. They were sent by Alterra but then funding was cut and they were told to pull out... but Reigas being the madman that he is; doesn't want to leave. Alterra doesn't care much about researching the fauna of the unique planet, but they left a lot of equipment down there with the two men that could be used to do solo research. Then when they do pull out- they can sell the research to another corporation who is more interested.

Rich was tired of trying to argue with him and just had to go with the flow for now. Reigas is smarter than Rich; and he is the one who knows how to construct the escape rocket to get off-planet and reach the phasegate. If Rich cannot get off the planet, then he can't very well drop what he is doing and leave Reigas because where the hell would he go?

Reigas burst into their base's kitchen holding a syringe. "Aha! I recreated it!"

"What? Some sort of medicine? Weren't you looking into gene samples from the Frozen Leviathan?"

"Remember that researcher Constance had been working with a gene imprinter before she went missing and her base imploded? I re-created her imprinter! Virus cells are incomplete on purpose- they cannot reproduce on their own, they piggyback other cells converting them into part of the virus' system and using the cell's ability to reproduce to make more virus cells. If you wipe the genetic instructions you can dump the DNA of another creature onto the virus cell, which will then infect normal cells and get them to reproduce cells of the desired DNA. A virus that transforms the user rather than harming them."

"You... literally already had a sample of that since before her base crumpled itself?"

"Well the base formula, yea, but I mean, I have imprinted samples now. As in- working transformation injections for several species. We no longer need to hunt for live samples- we can capture a regular fish and then transform it into the subject we want to research while it's already in captivity!"

"Great, because there are way too many things out there that want to eat me." He took another sip of his coffee.

"The only issue is my Frozen Leviathan sample. They were known to be aggressive and uh... they are bigger than our entire base currently is. I mean, most of its TEETH are bigger than we are."

"You plan to make another one of..? Wait- what are you suggesting?"

Reigas held up the syringe, taking a few more steps into the room toward the table. "Wanna be my test subject for a while? Both our DNA are already registered in the system, so I can make a reversal virus. It would only be temporary."

Rich was already shaking his head no the entire time Reigas was talking. "Absolutely fucking not, are you absolutely batshit insane?"

Reigas sighed. "It is okay, just thought I would ask since it would make things a lot easier." He lifted the syringe and turned the tip toward his own shoulder. "So I will just use it on myself. But this means you will have to research ME. I left some basic instructions on the notepad for how you can start the research."

Rich dropped his coffee and scrambled out of his chair to stop Reigas from using that virus on himself. He swat Reigas's hand away so hard the syringe spun out of it and fell point-first into Rich's arm!! What... how? It fell so perfectly it stabbed into his arm, but also the plunger somehow also went down and injected him? That should be physically impossible without anyone pushing on it, but here we are anyway.

Reigas smiled but Rich just froze up a moment in utter shock. He technically injected himself.

"Get the damn reversal virus."

"W-well I haven't made it yet!"

"WHAT?!"

"I didn't think you would inject yourself- oh crap, and you need to get out of the base!"

They both gawked at his hands as he pulled the syringe out. His skin was starting to look oddly silver. Transforming slowly part by part risks a critical system failure in an organic body if one organ transforms ahead of others it is supposed to be connected to- so in order for the transformation to work... it needs to be made very, very quickly.

Which means he needs to get out- fast! The leviathan is colossal, bigger than their entire base and he is currently in the living area; the very middle of the base and the furthest point from any of the exits!

Reigas skittered away quickly, supposedly to go make a reversal virus but Rich wouldn't put it past him to just lie, and is actually off getting his research equipment to make a test out of Rich.

Rich attempted to head out, but his body kept pulsing which made him lurch several times and need to lean against a wall. His heart throbs powerfully which then causes all his veins to project out and pull tight as stone for a moment. His fingernails started to turn milky colored and then silver as he can feel the skin around the nail being deformed and shoved back to make room. The nail turned colors as the keratin thickens, making the nail thicker and larger... and more pointed. His digits all tipped with claws now. It also made his shoes fit terribly, because his toes were already against the end of the shoe, now with claws poking out the front the shoe doesn't fit properly at all.

From his upper back at the base of his neck- both up his neck and down his body in a wave now his muscles clench automatically, holding for several moments. When they slowly relax again; they retain the form they had when fully clenched... he is getting more muscular, quickly. The Frozen Leviathan are extremely muscular, which also means they are extremely bulky, and most likely did not spend much time on land... which makes sense given how little land there is on the planet in the first place. They only parked on land to lounge and possibly breed- returning to the water to live normally and hunt.

Rich's midriff started to expose itself, then his wrists and ankles, then forearms and shins! His muscles keep clenching rhythmically and swelling bigger and more bulbous! The more they change, the more his skin color shifts too. Peach to greyish, to silver, and now to blue-silver. The leviathan has indigo skin, which turns violet in areas of high circulation. If you overlay peach and blue the hot and cold colors neutralize one another and give you grey, but the less peach there is the closer he gets to its true skin color.

His fingers twitch and go rigid for a moment and he pauses again to look down at his hands and groan at the feeling. Feels like someone trying to push his claws down. They aren't moving at all on the top- they are expanding to be more round at the base, shoving his skin out of the way. Internally the distal phalanges in his fingers extend in sharpened points, almost like bone claws of their own- extending into the keratin claws off the front of the outer structure, reinforcing them with actual bone and heightened circulation for more rapid growth should a claw accidentally be broken off.

The first part of his body the virus was introduced to was his limbs so it seems to be working his extremities first- though the muscle growth seems pretty even across the board. His clothing starts to groan- the seams straining to contain him now. His outfit is starting to look like it is painted on over his muscle.

Rich staggered his way to the volcanic region research wing because the cyclopes submarine is parked at the end of that- and thus has the largest moonpool in their base for him to escape out of. He stops abruptly with a look of surprise as he feels a growth at the end of his spine, followed by warm tingles as new blood vessels and then nerves branch downward in preparation for a new extremity!

He groaned loudly from the weirdly pleasurable feeling of a short but extremely thick tail started to grow off his underside, but then his groan raised in volume and pitch as the sensation was quickly joined with pain! He grabs the railing on the side of the glass tube hall leading down into the research wing as he was forced to bow his legs and fold himself forward to give himself a bit more space! His growing tail yanks his pants backwards... which then crushed his testicles in the front of his pants.

Balls do have an escape route however- simply shoving them against his pelvis won't be enough to harm them. When they are compressed badly enough, they pop up through a gap in the pelvic floor where all the tubes leading into them come from, retreating into his torso where they cannot be harmed. However due to his transformation... they do not intend to come back down, even if he got his pants off again. His scrotum pulls smooth against his crotch as it is no longer needed. The leviathan does not have external testicles, as that doesn't facilitate hydrodynamic movement. Since it is surrounded by cooling water it also has no reason for them to be external in the first place- they can't overheat in water.

The tail curves around forward against his underpants trying to find room, then bulges them out between his legs, slowly shoving his pants down before an involuntary twitch in its muscles causes it to pull back hard enough to rip the seams on his crotch! His pants tear open and fall off, and his tail manages to pop out of his underpants- his underwear only survived by merit of their elasticity.

Another massive throb from his heart and his veins turn rock hard just as Rich was about to try and stand up straight again. His muscles then bulge, his shirt groans but then he is hit with a wave of dizziness and his entire body expands in size rapidly with the muscle surge! He now looks like a body builder and his skin is blue-ish with a webbing of black veins. His shirt seams snap in rapid fire and it tears in so many places at the same time it practically explodes off him- like someone rupturing a full balloon. His hands grip the railing, and his feet slide across the floor and touch the opposite wall!

His claws grow too big and rupture out the front of his shoes, then as his body grows larger overall the holes his claws make tear wider allowing his feet to rupture out the ends of his shoes too! His toes and fingers now have webbing between them! When he divides them, the skin rises up between and pulls taut. The leviathan doesn't have a lot of webbing between its digits though- which is indication it does not use its limbs to swim with. It most likely swims like a crocodile; its limbs just limp at its side. It uses them only when it drags itself onto the surface, or to skim the bottom of the dark below.

Rich staggered his way another short distance before his hands and feet changing shape causes him to stumble onto all fours. Digits are... changing lengths. Pinky and thumb equal length, then ring and index, then middle finger the longest. The claws now take up the entire front of each digit. Changing the lengths of digits to match hand and feet radically altered the shape of his feet- and while it was not too different from his hands by default; it does mean that is thumb isn't really a thumb anymore, but a fifth finger.

He turned his arm a bit, looking at it in frightened awe, noticing what looked like giant boils on the outer side of his arms. As he watched them grow however, it felt like his skin was pulling in toward them, even though the skin tension around it did not increase. The bubbles hardened more and more, compressing the tissue into keratin, and then borrowing some calcium from his bones within. The harder they become the darker they look, taking on a dull silver coloration as they start to push out from the surface even further! They are growing oblong, into teardrop shape, then even longer and a bit more flat, like extremely thick scales! Because they all lean the same way, they slightly overlap one another even though they do not sit flat against his arm like actual scales are supposed to. They are also reinforced with calcium, making them partially bone unlike scales- these are scutes, like the plates on a tortoise shell, or the spikes on an alligator. These did not grow on his legs, only his outer forearms.

His skin becomes darker and darker, Rich now breathing heavily. Every time he tries to get up he is hit with a new weird sensation and loses the will to try and move. The feelings are so strange and oddly pleasurable. His nerves detect no damage to his system so send no pain signals, but they still need to tell his brain something is happening; so they send pleasure signals instead.

His tail has already gotten so obscenely huge it is starting to tax the underpants again- pushing the opposite direction! The base of his tail is starting to consume the area between his legs, shoving his underpants forward instead of pulling them back like before! Not that his junk didn't appreciate the extra fabric. In spite of himself; Rich's dick was swelling massively, even though it was not at all erect.

His underwear looked like someone stuffed a soccer ball in it even though his testicles had already retreated. More and more of the bent, fattening shaft bulge from the top of the underwear that was at this point being held over a foot off his actual body. The opening at the front parted from internal pressure but at this point the dick was too big to actually fall out of the gap. The seams started to rip but the elastic waist did not go down without a fight. Rich started to groan from the pressure- which caused the pleasure nerves in his dick to trigger off the movement of the growth. Finally his underwear snapped, making a loud cracking sound before the force of the elastic snapping catapulted the scrap fabric further down the hall than he managed to get.

His dick is only semi-erect, so rather than spring out straight it flopped out and bounced heavily against the floor with a dull *plap*. The... sides of his cock look like it is corrugated! The only sample of the leviathan they have died after falling through the ice it had been standing on in one of the rare times it walks the surface... which means no one knows what its genitals look like, because its dick obviously was not out when it was frozen. The sides but not the top nor bottom of his dick are very wavy looking... though, it has also not finished transforming. While his cock grew; his foreskin did not. The foreskin turned blue like the rest of him, and continues to darken toward indigo, but the shaft instead to a powder-red in color, though is wrapped in fat veins that are a diffused violet. His cock was not that veiny before- it is so veiny now that the surface almost feels lumpy; though unlike the ridges on the sides of his dick, the veins are still squishy enough and only exist in the looser outer flesh, so they squirm around when you touch them and squish in easily.

Rich looked at his underpants remains ahead of himself and realized how far off the floor his head is! His heart fluttered again in renewed panic and he started to crawl forward awkwardly on all fours, he needs to get out faaaaast! His back is over halfway to the roof of this hall and he is on all fours- he wouldn't be able to actually try and stand up, he is taller than the roof! Bigger and bigger his tail gets, taking up more and more space between his legs. The tail grows taller than it is wide- making it almost blade-shaped, and is the main mode of propulsion when these creatures swim, wagging its tail back and forth catches and shoves a considerable amount of water out of the way. That also means the base of the tail can progress between his legs without shoving ON his legs. His anus was pulled narrow against the tail as it swallowed the area his anus used to sit in, then started to devour his taint.

Rich groaned as he got to the door into the research area. The cyclopes loading bay is just beyond this. The muscles in his crotch clenched, making his dick flop like a grounded fish below him as his taint started to shorten. His tail is swallowing the area between his legs, pushing the anus opening forward on its base till it met the area his scrotum used to be- which now collapses inward! The area between the two openings caves in, fusing the two together!! Though the inner pathways remain separate; they both lead to the same outer opening... a cloaca. A multi-use cloaca at that; due to this creature's immense size, it reproduces very slowly as the world cannot host many of them, so there is always a chance that one cannot find a mate. In the event that happens... they are able to gender-swap, and self-impregnate. If they cannot have proper offspring- they will essentially clone themselves. All their species needs is a single mature specimen, and it will keep going.

Rich bops his head against the door several times then grunts at it in frustration. There is no door handle on this door... it is automated. But he is so far removed from anything humanoid at this point that the door sensors aren't registering his presence, so it won't open.

His entire body swelled in a massive surge again, then his muscles tightened and swelled on top of that! His neck now also bulged tremendously from muscle growth, making it slightly wider than his actual head! The tight, bulging muscle of his neck just below it actually put a bit of strain on his jaw, trying to pull it wider than it can currently go. His teeth are starting to change shape! They are getting sharper but more narrow, and as the existing teeth shuffle forward so gaps are not created from them narrowing- more teeth grow out behind them to fill in that space. 34 teeth in the lower jaw; 40 in the upper. The sharp but very narrow teeth indicate that it did not prey on anything even remotely close to its own size- it likely eats 'regular' sized fish, by the thousands.

Rich was running out of time fast and it was only getting still more awkward to move in the cramped space that used to be plenty roomy for him. He smashes his head into the door then went to slam his hand into it- but forgot just how large his claws had become... and muscles. Instead of hitting the door he went through it- the claws lanced straight through the edges of the metal door creating a gap between the door and frame! With only a bit of effort he shoved it to the side and the automated hinges gave out, breaking the door open for him to squirm through.

It felt like he was dragging two tails- one behind him and one in front of him as his cock drags on the ground under him. It is erect enough to remain pointing forward, but not nearly erect enough to pull itself off the floor. It is also growing obscenely huge at this point. Since the tissue is already made to expand normally- it is able to grow faster than the rest of his body, causing it to speed ahead toward its final size well ahead of the rest of him!

When Rich steps into the large research room the glass hall leading up to it groans and shifts upward abruptly! He had not even realized- but the entire hallway had been threatening to rip free from the rest of the structure because it wasn't designed to hold someone as heavy as he now is! His bulbously muscular shoulders even brushed either side of the doorway when he squirmed into the room.

Rich tries to stand up now that he has room again but his muscles are immensely heavy and his skeletal structure is shifting in a way that does not accommodate bipedal movement. He got to two legs but his body was hunched forward heavily. As his skin turns indigo it also increases in thickness greatly, to the point where it starts to fold over itself very slightly, creating pudgy looking folds around his joints. The dense hide protects the creature from the cold- since it has neither scales nor fur.

The hinge of his jaws bulge tremendously, causing him to stagger as Rich tried to move forward, and he stumbled into a table! He tried to brace himself on it but the table snapped like a toothpick under his weight causing him to smash several other tables out of the way as he stumbled even further forward! His jaws bulged massively and the skin ruptured quickly but did not bleed as two bone spikes erupted out! His jaws extend two additional outer mandibles which grow and broaden into two sort of trowel-shaped bone plates! The outer facing sides are not particularly smooth- almost textured like tree bark.

Many leviathan species in this world have chelicerae to grapple prey while their inner mouth bites off pieces. This is a divergent evolution- these outer mandibles cannot hold anything, even held tight against his inner jaws the tips of these huge bone plates do not even come close to touching one another. It is more likely used more similarly to the tusks of a boar are used to dig for food. The Frozen Leviathan used these to help smash through dense ice in order to reach the surface in the deep arctic waters. Because they are on a hinge like its jaw however- they can be opened up to either side of its face, so they can also be used to corral fish while it swims forward; collecting them into its mouth.

Rich's dick started to twitch, but again; not because he is aroused, and not because it is becoming erect. In fact, it cannot erect itself because it keeps growing, causing the blood pressure to go down- and by the time it raises again, the dick expands, lowering it again. Every growth surge can be seen as a brief ripple of tension firing down its length, causing the dick to squirm and then flop heavily on the floor even in his standing position- like a grounded fish. The bigger and longer it becomes the less definition his glans have, till nothing remains but the corona! The corona stiffens and remains as a tight, purpled ridge behind where the glans used to be. The ripples in the sides of the shaft gain definition however. Now standing up as almost perfect half-spheres, they have stiffened into rigid domes of flesh, to help grip and stimulate the inner passages of the female. The general rule of evolution is that the less mobile and more awkward the creature is- the bigger its dick needs to be. And on a creature of this size; there is no shot in hell it's dick is going to be very small in the first place.

Rich attempted to move forward but every surge of growth his tail gained pushed into the floor behind him which shoves him forward and threatens to return him to all fours. He wobbles even besides that because his thick, slightly droopy skin feels like a lead blanket over him and if it wasn't for his enormous muscle bulk he wouldn't be able to stand at all. He can't even attempt to move around the tables at this point- the furniture is getting smaller in comparison so he just simply walks through it, because it takes no effort at all to knock it out of the way. His hunched back is approaching the roof though... so by the time Rich approached the door to the cyclopes bay it started to dawn on him that he has no way to get through the connecting doorway. At this point he would be lucky to shove his tail through the door, never mind any part of his actual body.

He can't fit through the doors, and soon he won't fit in this entire room! He has no way of getting out!

Reigas darts into the room through the trashed doorway a moment later. "Oooh, heeey. Wow... "

"Th- the... antidote?" He rubbed his throat a bit, surprising himself at the sound of his voice.

It had been pretty deep and manly before but now it was thunderously deep and gravelly sounding.

"No.... you think I can just mix that up in a couple of minutes?"

His bulging upper back muscles touch the roof. His neck swells even thicker, straining his jaws and pulling outward on the back of his skull- his vertebrae getting too big to match the skull. With a few hollow sounding crunches his entire skull starts to reform! It is growing but becoming wider! His face expands forward in a gradual slope, slowly terminating the definition of his nose against the rest of his face! He groans and makes several odd sounds like Rich is attempting to say something, but none of them come out as interpretable words. The leviathan's body, neck, and head are basically the same girth, they don't have much definition from one to the other.

His dick expanding ahead of the rest; slithered around the floor from the movement of its own growth and twitches of pleasure. It looked like a great serpent in relation to the furniture at this point- thick enough that its weight alone could snap a table if it landed on top of one. The fat, projected, violet veins on its surface were as thick as a human arm.

The metal floor started to sag under his weight. His thick hide started to wrinkle as it pressed even harder against the roof, forcing Rich onto all fours again. As soon as he returned to his hands and feet his entire body writhed from the weird sensation as his skeletal structure abruptly shifts. As if having waited for him to drop down like the beast he is becoming- he becomes much wider!

His hips become much broader now, pulling his legs much further apart from one another to give the tremendously thick tail space to work with back there- but also preventing him from walking on two legs ever again. Rich unintentionally let out a groan that sounded more like a long-held, low pitch roar. His midriff expanded to erase the natural dip it has on a fit human and then his ribs started to crack and reshape, making a loud click that reverberated through his chest cavity. From the bottom up his ribs dislocated from his spine and sternum, then expanded in size till they met again and re-fused in the new proportion.

His penis finally lifted itself off the floor for a good seven seconds and released a stream of liquid that almost looked like he was taking a piss... except it was the viscous clear fluid of precum. Much bigger torso- to fit much bigger internal testicles, and his prostate swelled to the size of a faire pumpkin inside of himself, momentarily overflowing with over eager fluids. The uncontrolled pleasure however also forced him to erection, so his cock stuck like that afterwards.

Reigas just watched him with interest and a bemused smile. Does he not realize the danger they are BOTH in right now? HE is also in the room Rich is about to demolish, if the computer AI does not seal this entire wing of the base off from the rest, the entire base is going to implode from explosive pressure loss as soon as the hull gives out. If Reigas is still in this room when the walls give out- he is a dead man. Rich will probably be okay because he is turning into a species that lives in these very waters- Reigas is not.

Rich had to shuffle himself to the middle of the room because the roof is a slight dome- so there was more room in the middle. His tail starts to wrap over halfway around the entire parameter of the giant room. And he still isn't even close to the true size of the beast. He could pick up Reigas in his hands and it would be like holding a pencil at this point.

Rich went cross-eyed for a moment as his brain hurt trying to parse the information as his head was forced still wider! His face lengthening and his head widening forced his eyes further apart but also turned them to the sides- the leviathan has side-set eyes. This means like a normal human; the end of his nose isn't really in his direct vision, he has a blind-spot directly in front of him that is large enough to encompass almost the entirety of his nose, in spite of it being absolutely giant now. The frozen leviathan's head is similar to a frog, except... lots of teeth. The eyes are not bulbous like a frog though, and so the side of the head. His irises expand to hide the whites of his eyes, making his eyes appear as if they were pure black. You can only see the actual color of his eyes if you shine a light directly into them.

His hair became rather unsightly as his head expanded, causing the individual hairs to divide and become rather sparse and sickly looking till the hairs were forced out by the roots and fell away entirely, leaving him bald. As if to make up for it- two large bulges appeared toward the back of his expanded head and the skin popped open to let out growing horns! The horns look like much smaller, narrower versions of its tusk-mandibles, except they point straight backwards instead of forward, and do not move. Rich reflexively went to bow his head forward from the movement, but that jammed the horns into the roof hard enough to cut the steel! He abruptly froze up in fear of rupturing the walls. The lights flicker from him severing several electrical wires unintentionally.

Reigas steps forward instead of away when the tail grows too big and wraps fully around the entire room- blocking the doors out. Rich's claws keep sinking into the metal of the floor causing him to shuffle his feet trying to prevent from cutting through the steel structure, but he weighs too much. He can't put his feet down anywhere without damaging something.

Because his dick grew faster than the rest- it is now disproportionately huge even in comparison and also impossible to aim anywhere without touching something, and now that it is stuck erect, he twitches and humps forward on reflex when it bumps something without meaning to. His butt against the far wall, tail around the entire room, his lower back against the roof, his upper back wedged into the highest point of the middle of the roof and his head bowed down over Reigas- not enough room to actually look down at the other man without unintentionally crushing him under his chin. He would tell the idiot to escape but his mouth is far too wide, lips too stiff and vocal chords too different- Rich cannot speak human language like this.

Bigger and bigger he grows. His groans, the groans of his bones and tissue expanding, and the groan of the bending metal of the structure around him all synchronize in volume. Too fucking biiiiig. His head pushes into the opposite wall, forced to bend against it- the top of his head against the wall the back against the roof and his nose against the floor!! His fingers forced to bend against the wall, not enough room to extend them forward. His ass is malforming the reverse wall, his tail now coiling into itself under him which puts pressure against his cloaca and the base of his monstrous dick. The tip of his cock actually bent against the wall from lack of room beside his head!

Bigger... bigger.... bigger again. The room bends around him starting to conform to his shape like condom around a dick. The lights flicker off in the room, machines too badly damaged to function. The computer AI detects an imminent breach and seals the doors leading into this wing of the base- now Reigas cannot escape. The computer itself basically cut this area off like a gangrenous limb.

Without even moving Rich can hear steel being cut and feel something moving in his spine? No... it is his spine itself. The bone processions of his vertebrae start to lengthen, growing at a downward angle . Keratin builds up in the tissue hardening it and expanding it out into rigid sheets as it forms into hard scale-like structures, but then the procession off his spine breach the tissue and grow into a framework for these new armor plates, making them giant scutes. Starting between his shoulder blades as both broad and very thick plates of a dull silver color, they become narrower the further down, almost looking more like spikes on the very narrow upper ridge of the blade-like tail. The plates do not grow above the shoulder- so the back of his neck is devoid of scutes.

Rich is afraid of crushing Reigas to death- even if Reigas doesn't seem to mind. More for the fact that he doesn't want to be directly responsible for killing him, opposed to just not wanting him to die at all. His squirming only caused his pleasure to spike- there is not enough space to actually move, so all squirming manages to do is grind his behemoth dick on himself and the deforming room. The pleasure makes him flinch back- but flinching back is also moving, causing him to instinctively thrust forward! Rich started to hump the room entirely on reflex! Not like there was anything else he could do. His vision started to turn white as his pleasure increased. Bigger and bigger, tighter and tighter. Too big. Too tight. Too much pleasure!

Rich hit climax and his cock throbbed so hard it ripped a trip of metal out from the wall and floor, swinging through the building and into the open water below!! Water exploded into the room and the oxygen was forced out in titanic bubbles! His cock exploded into the open water into an increasingly huge cloud of white.

A surge of pressure through his body from his crotch, triggered by the powerful clenches of orgasm jetting his load into the open sea. Too big. He grew in a surge that tore the rest of the room to bits like someone tearing a sheet of tinfoil. Then even bigger. His legs crash through the reinforced titanium beams that held the room off the sea floor, and his own claws touch bottom. Even bigger than that. His arms swing forward to catch himself and his hand crashes through the hallway he originally used to get into that room... which is now only the girth of his fingers. Even bigger than that, the sandy cliffside the base is erected on starts to collapse under his weight! Even the ground can't support him!

Now that it has gone off, his giant dick starts to soften and curl on itself- rolling itself up like a firehose when not in use before slotting up into the cloaca. The phallus is not used to urinate from, so it only ever unrolls for mating. The stone hard bubbles on the sides go soft slower than the shaft itself because the blood is so pressurized into them; but when they are completely soft they flatten out and are completely invisible against the rest of the penis when dormant. The ridge that was formerly his corona remains visible- but soft.

Afraid of gaining momentum as he falls back and becoming unable to stop; Rich thrashes his tail behind himself, and since the tail is so tall and narrow it shoves the water back, propelling him forward and halting his descent, allowing his claws to dig through the loose sand and smaller stones and connect with the solid rock of the cliff to hold himself in place. The water here should be freezing cold, but oddly he noticed no temperature shift at all. Is the creatures hide really SO thick that it cannot notice the arctic waters? The only thing keeping these waters from freezing solid is the concentration of salt. There are colossal icebergs not far from here.

Then Rich seen Reigas standing in the same place with the same bemused smile on his face. Wha-? How is he alive? He isn't even wearing a wetsuit- how is he breathing?! He is literally standing exactly how he was before in spite of there no longer being a floor under him- he is standing on nothing!

Reigas uncrosses his arms, motioning out before him. "Well? Pretty interesting, no? Are you sure you don't want to take the Frozen Leviathan virus for a test run?"

"W-what?!"

The whole area around Rich seems to spiral around as if a great vortex suddenly swallowed him, then colors become over-saturated and bleed together making his brain hurt trying to look at them. He closes his eyes a moment and when he re-opens them he is sitting in his chair back in the kitchen- though his coffee is still spilled on the table.

"What in the actual fuck..?"

"Well, I didn't actually give you the virus without your permission, that would be downright villainous."

"But I just.... we were just..?"

Reigas' smile returned to his maniacal, mad-scientist's smirk as his own form flickered and the illusion dropped.

His lab coat was brushed off his shoulders by two bizarre wing-like structures ending in several pads of stiffened flesh stained with a rainbow of colors- capable of bioluminscence. Most of the time they take a normal pale yellow hue and trick larger predators into thinking it is just a swarm of smaller fish- too small and too quick to waste effort on hunting.

Reigas' forehead is double-tall, creating a second brow ridge and a second pair of eyes! The forehead still slopes back like the top of his head would have so the upper eyes actually have to look 'down' in order to look forward with the other two. His nose has a hard, beige ridge of dense keratin that follows from the septum all the way to his hairline- cutting his forehead in half too. On his hands there are chitinous plates down the middle of both, and covering his middle two fingers as well as his thumb, almost making them look like pincers.

Reigas has two wing-like fins just over his butt that are made of three leaf-shaped flaps slightly overlapping. He has a thick tail that is ridged with soft chitin that has a gradual curl to it, similar to a backwards seahorse tail. Unlike Rich's skin when transformed, his is an almost luminescent, metallic blue, but only the outer facing portions of his body take this coloration- his transformation stopped at a halfway point. He only gave himself a half-dose, essentially turning himself into the anthropomorphic equivalent of the species.

He laughed, and for a moment all his fins flexed and then in an outward pulse blasted a rainbow of bioluminescent light, making Rich groan as it once again hurt his brain to look at. The entire room seemed to ripple for a moment, following the pattern of light.

"A Lily Paddler..."

"You see what I want you to see."

Lily Paddler are not especially big, and are skittish herbivores so you would assume they are as small of a threat as creatures come... but you generally do not want to fuck with one. Using light patterns of their bioluminescent fins they can make your eyes THINK they are looking at just about anything, and they release a toxic pheromone into the surrounding water that temporarily inhibits all higher brain functions. You try to mess with them, they can turn you around and make you walk yourself off the side of a cliff, or directly into the mouth of another predator.

After his little 'demo' Rich was still not convinced into wanting to contribute to the experiment, so Reigas had to shelf that plan and turn to more... containable species for now. Rich at least started to pay more attention to the experiments Reigas was running, and slowly but surely started to catch up to him in the more intricate knowledge of 4546B... if for no other reason than to make sure Reigas doesn't plot something even more insane, or brew up another illusion without his knowing.