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There were a lot of people in the world who believed that if something was scientifically possible, someone should do it, simply because they can.

It was a dangerous motto in a world filled with dangerous sciences: one wrong move, and someone could cause a nuclear detonation near a civilian population, or create a black hole by trying to recreate the big bang. Radiation was always a threat and concern, and of course, there were plenty of experiments that couldn't be done safely without a massive budget and complex, something that most scientists simply didn't have.

Then, of course, there were those basement scientists who threw caution to the wind, used illegal parts to build their machines, and were trying out experiments for their own enjoyment, or personal gain. Helping the world, or even the scientific community was rarely of their concern, and as long as nobody caught onto what they were doing, they'd continue on with their experiments until something went terribly wrong.

More often than not, something went terribly wrong on the first try.

"I'm serious, dude. If this thing works, we're not just going to be rich; we're going to be famous, and people will be lined up around the block for the chance to use this machine."

"But is it safe?"

"Well...y'know...that's why I needed you to come over and help me test it."

As someone who had been fascinated with the technology that helped to build the United States, Rail was a bit of a tech wizard, himself, and he spent a lot of his time in his basement, conducting some of the most elaborate model train systems that the world would never get to see. When he found himself with a little spare time outside of that, however, he could often be found tinkering around with technologies that he didn't quite have the full grasp of, and one of his latest goodies was something right out of science-fiction.

"And you thought of me, because?" asked Shyy, a curiously canine looking bunny who was glad to call Rail a close friend, but often had a sense of worry about him when Rail called him over to his house with such excitement.

"Well, aren't you into that kind of stuff?"

The white fur upon Shyy's cheeks did nothing to hide a flare of warm bashfulness. "Th-that is entirely besides the point!"

"No, it isn't!" Rail corrected him, as the eager canine rummaged through a pile of different devices, cluttered about on a long work bench. "I never even told you what this thing does!"

Wilting his ears a little bit and crossing his arms, Shyy let out a quick huff and raised a brow at Rail, watching as the German shepherd dug around through the piles of electronics like a puppy digging through dirt in the yard. "Okay, well were you actually going to tell me?"

"It's very simple, really," Rail explained, as he finally pulled out the particular device that he was looking for. It was a long, thick, rectangular box, akin to the shape of a liquid bottle container, but it was covered in small buttons, and at the end of it were a pair of prongs that didn't look all that friendly to be touched by. "I've created a device that has the DNA of almost every common land mammal inside of it, thanks to our many encounters with hybrids, like you...and with a little bit of ingenuity, gamma radiation and the ability to reverse the double helix of a DNA strand, I've created a beam that will actually cause to you swap species with the person holding the device!"

Rail was known for his special talents with technology, but of all of the things he'd created, this one sounded by far the most outlandish, and just at the mention of what it could do, Shyy let out a begrudging sigh. "There is no way that you were able to do that," he countered, "And further still, no way I'm letting you point that thing at me."

"It's entirely harmless, though!"

"Those prongs sure look like they'd leave a nasty little mark."

Rail chuckled quietly as he held the device up and pointed it at Shyy, who couldn't help flinching as the prongs were aimed at him. "You don't actually get touched by them. These prongs generate a small electric field, which transmits the beam over to you. The device then registers your DNA pattern, and as long as it's within the system of the device, which it is, it'll pull your DNA pattern over to my paw, while transferring my DNA pattern over to you! It's the first example of legitimate body swapping technology the world has ever seen!"

The concept was enticing to Shyy, who was guilty of having looked at a few adult images depicting such a transfer taking place, but his ears were still folded back in disbelief as he looked down at the prongs, seeing the small arc of electricity jumping between them. "And there's no way that this can possibly go wrong?"

"Well, you can't use it with someone who happens to be a species outside of the DNA that's in the machine. It won't recognize them, so they'd have to be added, first. Also, as far as I know, this device is only safe to use between two people, as I don't know if it could handle a third set of DNA being added into the mix. Also...probably the whole FDA shtick about pregnant women, children and the elderly avoiding it and whatnot."

Shyy at least managed a chuckle at the last little bit, but it certainly didn't do away with all of his fears and concerns. The idea was beyond enticing, but he couldn't imagine it being safe, and even if it was perfectly healthy to use, there was the possibility of any number of other complications, due to the presence of radiation in the device.

"So if I let you shoot me with that thing...I just become you, and you become me? Like... poof, and we're done?"

"Not exactly like that," Rail replied. "This isn't a particle beam that just swaps our brains with each others bodies or anything like that. It's causing our DNA to trade places, and then change, accelerated by the gamma radiation, so...it's probably not the safest method in the world, but we'll literally be able to watch each other turn into the other, so you can see that the process is really working!"

Shyy felt his frown starting to curl up a little bit. "But can we go back to being ourselves, again?"

"Of course! If the beam works in one direction, it should work in the other...no reason that anyone should be stuck as anything anymore, if this beam works. We could allow people to become something that they've never been before, and even help those people who feel like they're trapped in the wrong body! I just need to run a few more tests, and then, this thing can go up for patents!"

"You'd actually want to mass produce this thing? Sounds a bit crazy," Shyy admitted, thinking that there was no way such a dangerous device would ever receive a patent, but he was dedicated to helping his friend, and he couldn't ignore the butterflies in his tummy at the thought of being a different species, even if it was just for a few hours. "But, if you really think you need to run a couple more tests on it, I guess I can be your guinea pig."

"You'll be turning into a German shepherd, actually," Rail joked, chuckling quietly as his own jest while he pushed a few buttons on the device. A set of small lights at the bottom turned red, and Rail waited, watching them until they turned orange. As soon as they did, he pointed the device squarely at Shyy, and waited for the lights to turn a bright, 'go' green. The small arc between the prongs grew wider and further out from the device, and Rail couldn't wipe the grin from his face as it seemed to accept Shyy as a target. "It'll just feel a bit like you're getting the softest electrical buzz you've ever felt," Rail confirmed, as the arc began to extend further, and a small beam of light encapsulated it.

Energy began pouring from the end of the strange invention as Rail held it firmly in his paws, acting as though the beam was going to knock him onto his backside. The locks of brown headfur were blown up and out of his eyes from the particles that it sucked right out of the air around it, and Shyy felt a sudden temptation to jump out of the way as the beam readied itself to fire. The green lights flashed a bright, eye-piercing blue, and finally, the beam released...right after Ori came walking down the stairs and into the basement, blue eyes filled with wonder at the sight of such a beautiful and iridescent looking laser.

" Wooooow... what the hell are you guys doing down here?" she asked, making the most fatal mistake she could, as the cheetah-lynx walked right over to the transmitting beam. Rail didn't have enough time to yell at Ori not to get any closer, but there was no warmth coming from the energy, and being part cat, there was too much curiosity about the bright light for Ori not to stick one of her paws right into the thick of the stream...causing blue and orange lights to flash at the bottom of the device, and Rail's eyes to fly wide open in panic.

Shyy immediately threw his forehead into his palm as Rail tried to power the device down, but the damage was already done, and there wasn't any button to instantly cancel or reverse the process. The beam began to power itself down naturally, allowing Rail to safely point it at the ground when nothing more was left than a small, electrical arc once again. "...Ori...why did you have to come downstairs, now of all times?"

"I heard you guys were playing with something, and I wanted to see what was up!" she admitted, smiling as cutely as she could to try and deflect some of the frustration that she knew was coming, judging by the way that Rail's eyes narrowed upon her. "What kind of a laser gun is that, anyway?"

"It is NOT a laser gun!" Rail growled, his fangs gritting together as he set the device down and began rubbing his temples, trying not to explode at his friend in his frustrations. "And since when did it seem like a good idea to stick your paw in a particle beam? What if it had actually been a laser?"

"But you just said it w-

"I know what I said," Rail groaned, his voice trailing off a little bit as he cut off the female chynx. "L-listen, Ori. Do you have any idea what you might have done, just now?"

Ori giggled, trying to remain as cute as possible, hoping it might defuse a little of the tension that was permeating the air. "By the looks of it, I didn't do anything, actually."

Shyy looked down at his palms, noticing the same thing that was mentioned. His paws were still completely white on the back with the same pink pawpads that he always saw, and though there was only a small window in the basement for him to use as a mirror, his muzzle was still the same, short and narrow combination of rabbit and canine features that he was used to seeing. "I hate to admit it, but I think she's right, Rail. I dunno if you device did anything more than give all of us a non-lethal dose of gamma radiation...probably not the best thing for expecting mothers to be around, though."

"Hmmph! You don't know me!" Ori protested in a huff, crossing her arms over the small, modest bumps of her breasts and doing her best not to highlight the very small bump that was starting to grow in her tummy. "And what kind of a psychopath uses gamma radiation in his basement?"

"The kind...who's...y'know...trying to figure out how to help people swap bodies...for science?" Rail said, his own statement turning into a question as he realized not only the dangers of his experiment, but perhaps the lack of a proper motive. The one he'd given earlier felt just a little bit flimsy in the face of Ori's point, who was actually starting to look every so slightly different...his ears were starting to elongate from his head. "Uhm, Ori...do you feel funny, by chance?"

Unable to look over as far as the window, Ori didn't realize that her ears were creeping up, little by little. It was the kind of change that one had to focus on, and was slow enough that it could be missed even then, but Rail had a keen eye for detail, and of course, Ori had become a willing, but unintentional part of the experiment, and it was too late to for any of them to turn back, now. "I feel exactly the same. I'm hungry for pickles and ice cream, and I still think your invention is stupid," Ori protested, feeling a little bit hormonal from the growing stages of her pregnancy. That feeling would subside before the evening was over, however, as the rounded tufts of her ears turned just a little bit sharper and taller, until they cocked forward. All of the sudden, Ori could pick up on noises that she couldn't before, and her sense of hearing felt that much sharper as Rail continued to watch her closely, wishing that he'd kept a notepad near by to write down his observations.

His smartphone would have to do, as he watched Ori closely, and though Shyy hadn't seen it before, he started to look a little closer. He gulped back a small, nervous lump in his throat as he walked over to Ori and stared closely at her ears, able to see the soft, sandy color pouring out of them, only to be replaced with a richer, darker brown. "So...the beam does work on more than two people at a time," Rail theorized, though he wasn't sure just what the outcome of the mistake would be, yet. He was still trying to cover up the panic that he felt at the thought that Ori's intrusion might turn all three of them into bubbling messes of incompatible DNA, something that nearly made his stomach turn as his own body began to succumb to uncontrollable changes.

"Rail...I...I think it's starting to work," Shyy admitted. He wasn't entirely sure that it was actually the cause he was thinking of, but his typically lithe and narrow form was starting to bulge out just the tiniest bit, and not in the ways that he might have expected. There was a certain weight to his tummy that simply wasn't there before, as if an unnatural object had been lodged within his digestive tract, and as he stood, he couldn't find a way to get comfortable around it. He could only imagine his deepest fears were coming to fruition as he saw the start of other slow, mild changes in the works; Rail's ears were growing taller than they'd already been, and his fur was turning lighter and lighter, all across his body, while Ori's already modest breasts began to shrink down, back into the pectoral muscles of her chest, as if they were literally melting away. Like the rest of the changes, both processes were slow enough that they had to be paying attention to notice it, but no doubt, Ori could feel the difference in her center of gravity as the bones and flesh of her hips turned back into something more male, something that she had been used to a long, long time ago.

As Shyy wrenched over and clenched his stomach, all while Ori's stomach continued to flatten, Rail started thumbing through his smartphone to create a digital memo. "The beam actually picks up on the specific genetic makeup of whoever touches it...and copies everything!" he announced, even as he typed it into his phone. He could only fathom that so much discomfort in the stomach meant that Shyy was actually becoming Ori, and that somehow, the pregnancy itself was imprinting upon the bunnolf, though he wouldn't be one of those much longer.

Of course, Rail wouldn't be a German shepherd much longer, himself, but since he hadn't looked at the window in the basement, he wasn't sure just which form he would be taking. For all he knew, all three of them could still end up as a combination of each other in some way or another, but the design of the device was to swap one body with another, leading him to believe that each one of them had to be a perfect swap of the other. Adding a third body meant that someone had to become Ori, however, and seeing small pock marks of black popping up in the otherwise pristine white of Shyy's fur, Rail figured that he wouldn't be the one receiving an unintentional child. Instead, he could finally feel his ears reaching higher, even as his height overall began to shrink, and he could feel a weird, sickly sensation of his bones crumpling and melting down as the world grew taller around him, little by little.

The changes were so slow and subtle that Ori was delighted to see her own fur blending over with a rich and proud brown as her spots faded away, leaving little gaps of tan fur in a growing field of darker colors. Her tiny nub of a tail was getting longer, and it was the first change to have any dramatics, as the bones within rapidly expanded and then burst back from her spine, surrounded by a small casing of flesh that was still taking time to grow in the rest of the fur. She couldn't keep from giggling at a sight that was a little grotesque to see, but at the same time, felt ticklish and delightful to her, not to mention her enjoyment of seeing Shyy in such obvious discomfort as the child that had been growing inside of Ori was somehow literally transferred over to another body, leaving her feeling lighter...and she was smart enough to know that she wouldn't be a 'her' for too much longer.

"D-damn it...Ori!" Shyy growled in a deep frustration, though the pitch was turning higher as he glared over the chynx, though, right then, she was somewhere in between. Her hips were shifting, growing wider and into a more masculine frame as her breasts finally faded entirely under her fur, and the tight top that she wore was clinging to her body, but for an entirely different reason, as her frame began to grow too wide for it. "Why did you have to go and put your paw in the beam?!"

Ori smiled bashfully as she felt a strange stirring between her legs, one that she'd never felt before, but she was smart enough to grasp the meaning that it held as she bent over just a little bit, still giggling from the strange, internal giggle that came along with it.

"Well...it looked fun!" Ori explained, with a genuine honesty to her off kilter behavior. "You can't honestly ask a kitty to keep her paws out away from a bright, pretty light, can you?"

Rail was chuckling, even if Shyy didn't see the same humor in the moment that he did. Of course, all while Ori felt a strange wiggling, and something growing out from the front of her crotch, her womanhood began to fold into itself and disappear, leaving her to to drop the more feminine pronoun and grin with a twisted sense of delight, as his fangs gritted together.

"Say, Ori...how does it feel?" Orio asked, though at the moment, the statement was nothing more than a teasing gesture, as Shyy fell down to his knees and gripped his stomach with paws that were shifting. He could see spots on the backs of them as he looked down, and under his trademark tank top, lumps were starting to form, budding up slowly but surely as Shyy's gender started to change just as much as the rest of his outward appearance. His grunts of mild pain turned purely to frustration as he felt the length of his member starting to curl back up into his body unnaturally. "Sure looks to me like you're going through a little...discomfort."

Taking down every observation that he could, Rail was fascinated by the extent that his device worked to. "So...genders are maintained, as well...the beam literally replicates whoever it touches!" he admitted with delight, though his voice was becoming unrecognizable. He still hadn't seen any of his own change, and that might have been for the best, as white fur began to creep up over his wrists and paws. His bulk was slimming down rapidly as his body came to mimic the lithe and sleek figure that Shyy worked so hard to maintain, and just from a single shot of his device, Rail was able to have the same body and the same impressive fitness, even if the process was taking a little longer than anticipated.

"When I get my paws on you..." Shyy grunted, though his voice couldn't have sounded any less menacing. His throat had already tightened, and his vocal chords had already changed, mimicking Ori's old voice so perfectly that even Rail was fooled by the sound. Of course, his ears were a bit more sensitive, as they'd grown every bit as tall as Shyy's ears once were, complete with the same stark stripes of black near the tips. It was strange for someone with canine hearing abilities to find themselves with any kind of an upgrade, but even the faintest sounds of gurgling in Shyy's tummy were evident to him then. They were the kind of sounds that were just a little bit unsettling, as he realized that he could hear the life-form that was now setting up camp inside of Shyy, who, as stripes ran over his shortening muzzle and spots became more evidence in his fur, now a neatly kept layer of sandy tan, was almost entirely transformed into Ori.

"What? Are you gonna snuggle me to death?" Ori teased, though his voice was a perfect mock up of Rail's anymore. "Also, is that really what I used to sound like?"

"It's what you'll sound like again when Rail turns us back!" Shyy pointed out, refusing to stay in such a state for any longer than he had to. The idea of being turned into Rail was actually somewhat appealing, but being stuck as Ori for any extended period of time worried him, especially knowing that he had a bun in the oven, and there was nothing that he could do about it. "...Right, Rail?"

Rail smiled nervously, finding the grin felt just a little bit different with his shorter, narrower muzzle. "Uhm...a-about that, Shyy."

" Right, Rail?!"

"It's not safe to use this thing too often...so far, I haven't tested it more than once or twice a day...I'm worried that too much exposure to that level of radiation might be just a little bit dangerous, y'know?"

Shyy narrowed his eyes on Rail, though they didn't hold the same, intimidating pits of golden yellow that they once did. The irises were a swirled mess of gold and blue, though they were fading fully into the latter as his change to Ori was nearly completed. "How. Long. Does. It. Last."

"Well, if I don't zap you back, it would last forever, in theory."

Feeling a different sort of emptiness in the pits of his stomach, or rather, her stomach, then, Shyy could feel his eyes shrinking down to tiny pits, all while Ori stood triumphantly as the new, tallest member of the group. He was adjusting quickly to being the new Rail, and he couldn't keep from grinning wide as Shyy finally stood up off of his knees and tried to grab the device from Rail, creating an odd, out-of-body experience for Shyy, who felt like he was looking at himself. "Give me that ray right now so I can get back into my own body!"

"It isn't safe!" Rail protested, keeping a tight grip on the device as the newly transformed chynx tried to get her paws on it, but of course, she couldn't overwhelm Rail, even if he was currently using Shyy's body. "If you try and use this thing again too soon, it could be really harmful to the baby!"

Grunting furiously but sounding entirely adorable in doing so, Shyy gripped the device anyway and tried to rend it from Rail's paws. "I don't care how safe it is, I want to be back in my old body again!"

"S-stop it, Shyy! If you're not careful, you're gonna break it! Do you know how long it took me to build this thing in the first place?"

It was nearly a self-fulfilling prophecy, as Rail did everything that he could to keep a grip on the device, and Ori watched on, still marveling at the fact that he had a penis again, but Shyy couldn't contain her frustration, as she dug her claws into the sides of the device. Sparks flew from it as she did, and Rail started to panic as he struggled to pull the device away. "If you don't just let me have it, you're gonna have to build another one, anyway!"

The tense stand-off was only made humorous by the way that Ori pulled his skirt forward and glanced down it, able to see just what kind of anatomy and endowment Rail was dealing with, then. "Huh. I forgot how awesome it felt to have one of these," he admitted, hardly having the care to glance over at the struggle, as Shyy finally realized that she couldn't pull the device fully away from Rail...but she could easily dig her new, feline claws into his delicate bunnolf paws.

In a move of nearly pure self-sabotage, Shyy dug her claws deep into the back of Rail's paws, who cried out in pain, and finally, his grip gave out as the device, still sparking and glowing with a number of different lights, fell to the floor...and shattered into pieces the moment that it hit. Small circuit boards went flying as the device splintered, and chunks of plastic flew across the floor as Shyy's eyes widened in horror, and Rail's narrowed in an inhuman frustration.

"...Shyy..."

"Heh...heh. Listen, Rail. You're a smart guy, right? You can totally build one of these again in no time!"

Rail felt a deep, throaty growl building up from his gullet as he bared his fangs over at Shyy, and sweat began to pour down his brow in nervous frustration. "It took me FOUR MONTHS to build this thing! Do you have any idea how hard it's gonna be to find all of the proper pieces again?! We could be stuck like this for YEARS!"

"Huh. Four months...I think that's about how much longer I had left to get to term," Ori pointed out, remembering just how far he'd been along in his pregnancy. He couldn't keep from grinning as he gave Shyy a sneaky look, able to see just how well the tank top actually accentuated the breasts that had grown in upon her body. She couldn't deny the intensely strange feeling of her own sexual organs being outside of her body only minutes before, and the somehow delightful sensation of them being inside of her only moments later. It were as though a part of her were melting within, just below the small bulge of her tummy, and filling her body with sensations that she'd never known before...ones that made her just a little bit uncomfortable and squeamish inside, but in the most delightful of ways.

Shyy groaned in frustration and did everything that she could not to lash out and pin Ori to the ground, but now that he was the largest and strongest animal in the group, he felt a small shift in personality, as well. He didn't have quite the same feeling of being meek and pathetic that he normally did, and all the same, Shyy was starting to feel far more timid than he ever did. Rail, who was still adjusting to the feeling of his paws shrinking back just a little bit, and then, growing wider, hadn't quite adopted the personality of Shyy just yet, but he could appreciate the physical changes that had occurred, as his clothes looked heavy and baggy upon the smaller, thinner frame that he was having trouble adjusting to.

The trio gazed upon each other in wonder; it seemed that the device had actually worked perfectly, although, it wasn't the experiment that Rail had originally planned on. He was still giddy, beside himself with excitement that his device worked so well, and yet, the happiness was laced with the kind of rage that could easily overwhelm it. The gravity of the fact that he was going to be someone entirely different for an untold amount of time was weighing heavily upon his shoulder as he gazed around the room.

Ori was now Rail, Rail was now Shyy, and Shyy was now Ori...and unless the device was faulty, they'd be stuck that way for months, or perhaps even longer. The broken pieces of the device might not be able to be used again, and Rail couldn't even begin to fathom where he'd get the necessary pieces to replace what had been destroyed.

"So, Shyy..." Ori whispered, still grinning like a fool at the person who now wore his old colors, "What color are they?"

Rail giggled behind a paw and snickered as Shyy gazed upon the floor in bashful frustration, flattening her ears and doing all that she could not to answer the question.