Lizard King

Story by iplank on SoFurry

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AWE has been trying to revive the dinosaurs by turning humans into them, but the news got out about their less than legal methods. Trying to buy time, Tex volunteers himself to delay the authorities while AWE works on their final global strike plan. They are going to need something with a lot of power, so when you can't quite decide on one dinosaur- why not use all of them?


(M TF Dinosaur mega-hybrid)

The conservation and preservation organisation known as AWE had suddenly found itself on red alert. Their head researcher, the slothful and eccentric researcher Dr. Magnus has been using their research of neo cells to transform people into prehistoric beasts, to undo the unfair extinction. They had not always gone the most... legal route in aquiring volunteers, and even their most legal route is still arguably not legal- even with a person's permission doing human expirements goes against humane laws. Most people knew what they were doing, but few knew the creatures had all formerly been human. AWE's founder the extremely rich Rex Aldinn threw his money around to make sure governments and police forces kept their mouths shut and let them work, so no one was able to investigate them fully. But one day Rex woke up to find the police already knew. And now knowing what AWE was actually doing, money was no longer good enough. No ammount of money would keep them quiet about kidnapping people and turning them into ancient beasts- some of which ran wild outside of AWE for a time leading to property damage and several eaten people! Rex's money was to keep people away from finding out, and to keep his employees well paid enough that no one would ever rat on them. When he looked at the news reports of police gathering outside AWE facilities around the world, he seen a familiar face and grit his teeth. Aden.

The neo cells had been recovered from the primordial ooze known as the Garden Of Eden, which had been found by a research team, Aden and his wife Lilith. Lilith exposed herself to the cells which then flash evolved her into a bizarre creature, causing her to go into hiding. Rex had been in school with Lilith and done lots of research with her before she married Aden, so she sent Aden his way to try and develop technology to repress the cells. Rex agreed, but at the same time formed AWE to harness the cells to enact his dream of undoing the unfair extinction of prehistoric life brought about by the meteor. He believes it disturbed the natural course of evolution on the planet, so he wanted to revert it, and bring dinosaurs back to evolve undisturbed. Rex beleived whatever dinosaurs will evolve into naturally is this world's true apex being. Seeing Rex intended to deliberately unleash the cells for his own uses, Aden quickly pulled out of his research on neo cell repression and abandoned AWE to return to his wife. They did not have the manpower or funds to resist Rex. But it would seem he found a way to hurt the organisation anyway. He leaked all their information to the authorities. Yes, AWE was bringing back species that had been wiped out, which sounded great on paper. Except they neglected to mention that in order to bring back prehistoric life- they would make humans extinct.

Rex rushed to Magnus's office to see him scrambling to sort DNA sequences and eject them into a thermal shielded breifcase to transport them, knowing AWE facilities were compromised. "How close to operational is our satalyte network?"

Once they had perfected their work, they were going to load the programmed neo cells into low orbit satalytes to shower down on the planet like a carpet bombing, transforming people en masse.

Magnus lowered his head and glared at him over his dense glasses. "We built them with your credit card, and you don't know? They are mostly complete, and the ones that are not opperational yet can be finished pretty easily, because they were never a priority. We have nothing to send them up with."

Rex twisted his lips in frusteration a moment. "And we can't rush DNA research."

"Rush? With the cat out of the bag, how are we even supposed to do it at all? No one is going to let us search for samples. Synthesizing DNA sequences through nano fossil scanning of fossils we already collected is literally the only means we currently have of getting any more gene programming. We only have a handful of species with complete sequences right now. The whole point was to bring back dinosaurs, and of all the prehistoric creatures we have completed sequences for- NONE of them are technically dinosaurs!"

"Maggy?"

"HALF plesiosaurus. She is a functioning creature that is 100% prehistoric, but only half of that is technically a dinosaur. We had to do a half and half because we did not have a complete sequence for either of the species."

Another man burst into the doorway behind Rex. "Mr. Aldinn, the police are swarming the building outside. It looks like there are SWAT teams showing up too- they are not joking around." He looked at Magnus. "Hey, give me a prehistoric form, I will fuck them up. I can buy us time, just give me something strong."

Rex shook his head. "We appreciate the thought Tex, but as great as dinosaurs are, they are still no match for a slew of guns. You would be gunned down before you stepped out of the building."

Magnus smiled, holding up a vial. "Actually... there is a bullet proof dinosaur. We have 15% of its sequence."

"... seriously?"

"Making a pure sample to create and propogate a species is one thing. If all we need is power, then I can do that rather easily. We just keep using incomplete sequences till we have a complete one. Make a dinosaur that is... all dinosaurs." He handed Tex a suppressor band. "This won't fit by the time you are done so just... hold it."

The neo cells worked very fast, so by the time Tex approached the front of the building he could already feel the changes happening. It felt like his skin was crawling, twitching and tugging in random directions as it grew and compressed. He looked down at the back of his hand to see the skin thickening and darkening to a grey color. As it compressed it seemed to form into shallow square plates. He felt it with his other hand and it already felt like hardened leather. The feeling through it was dulled as well- there was no sensation directly on the surface. Magnus had explained that using polarisation microscopy on fossils of Ankylosaurus remains indicated that its hide was a material blend of bone and collagen, almost mirroring fiberglass or kevlar. The material used to make bulletproof armor. Ankylosaurus is bulletproof, in addition to the fact its entire body is covered with thick bone scutes and most of its skelital structure is fused together- its more like it was bomb-proof. Tex arched his neck back at an odd sensation as he felt a stiffening branch out from his spine, straight sideways at several different points. A bulge travelled through his skin and gave him a sharp but very breif pain as they broke the surface and spikes quickly formed and grew to the length of his fingers, and a bit thicker than the base of his thumb each. There was two on the very base of his neck against his back, then three more sets up the back of his neck. These spikes were sharp and dangerous, but not especially stiffly locked in place- they did not connect directly to his spine, there were braced with cartalage but could still be bent if you pressed hard enough on the side of one.

The thickening of his skin caused his entire body to bulk up a bit making his clothing ill-fit, and making his bodily features less pronounced as the thick hide rounded them out for now. Tex planned to walk heroically out the front of the building but the next change caused him to stop entirely to let it finish. His spine was rapidly growing new vertebrae as a tail formed behind him. He had to quickly pull the back of his pants down to let it out, and the growth was so close and tangled with the muscle structure of his hips it made it difficult to move his legs when it was growing, so he had to wait this one out. The blood raced so strongly into the new tail to feed the new muscles as they grew that blood pressure seemed to slam into the end and cause it to tingle powerfully from pressure, like a limb just starting to wake up. The end of the tail visibly swelled though, bulging up and out like a balloon of stiff hide. The vertebrae at the end of his still growing tail fused together- no cartilage between them, ossification turned several tendons to bone as well, so he could not bend the end of his tail at all. The skin seemed to open up around the continued growth at the end exposing what looked like a giant bone sphere inside, but as it continued to grow and push farther out it was actually two bone domes- giant scutes! As the growth of the tail slowed to a stop Tex sighed in releif. It was long enough that the stiff end dragged on the ground behind him. He carefully lifted it, curling it like a person flexing their arm, then smiled and slammed it onto the floor. The tile floor shattered to bits under the impact of the powerful limb- there was almost no feeling at all in the solid end of it. The end of an ankylosaur tail is a solid bone mace, for shattering their enemies legs out from under them.

As Tex continuned to the front doors, the police shouted commands at him, seeing him through the glass doors and windows of the front of the AWE building, but Tex did not bother to listen. He could feel a growth in his head toward the back, making him lean his head forward a bit against the sensation. It felt like someone had grabbed his skull and was stretching it backward, creating a cup-shaped extension off the back of his head. The only gap in the bone ring was where his spine went down to his body. The larger it got the more its shape took form, and four divots became apparent in the bone, three more besides where his spine was. Small stumpy spikes formed around the rim of it, breaking the skin. It was not till he felt four horns break the skin near its base that he identified this as the cest of a triceratops. But it was mirrored- the crest was only supposed to face up, and there was only two horns at its base. This was a full circle with four horns, two on top and two that followed just over the hinge of his jaw. There was a dull ache as the muscles under the skin seemed to resist the growth of it, and when he clenched his jaw the plates broke where the seams had shown. The crest broke into four segments and pulled forward, creating a large fan connected between by a thin but stiff membrane. The horns rapidly grew out out of him feeling oddly satisfying as they slid out, though their weight nearly toppled him forward onto his face. The police outside likely would have opened fire on him already, but seeing him transforming gave them pause, thinking he was another of AWE's victems, not a willing volunteer. Tex actually had to grab his lower horns to help hold his head up because his neck no longer had the power to. As soon as he did though it felt as though they reacted to his touch and the already formed bone of the horns started to change shape! They narrowed greatly and spread quickly both up and down. Narrow holes formed on the top and bottom facing down toward each other and the four started to stretch in toward one another. Several more holes formed on the top horns that spread further than the bottom did. Baffled as to what was happening he had to look at his reflection in one of the glass encased pillars of the lobby. The horns were not horns at all any more- the four segments had transformed into what looked like a long, narrow Spinosaurus skull! The two top ones made the body of the skull and the bottom two formed the mandibles of the lower jaw. The narrow holes on the edges quickly became filled as the thousands of vicious spinosaur fangs filled them! In confusion he flexed the new muscles in his head, causing the huge four segment crest to pull back and lock together pointed backward off his head, but in doing so almost threw himself off his feet when his weight shifted! The four segments that formed the giant skull mask also broke into four segments again and opened up, sticking straight out from his head, exposing his face again! When the crest closed, the skull mask opened, when the crest opened the mask closed, shielding his face.

Tex uttered 'finally' when he felt his spine stretch and then fatten up, tugging the skin of his back. His tail once again started to grow longer, but his torso was starting to get very slowly longer as well, and more importantly the veins in his neck throbbed powerfully and his neck bulked tremendously with muscle and grew longer to deal with the weight of his new head. An officer shot at him out of fear from watching the changes and the other officers were quick to chastise him for shooting without orders. The bullet would have struck along Tex's expanding neck but he closed his mask in reflex, which caused his crest to open up, catch, and deflected the bullet into the floor. It was a strange feeling both physically and mentally, to look down at his own body and see the distance from his eyes and the end of his body growing longer and longer. The longer it got the more muscles developed to support and move it, which caused his tail and neck to both gaint a great deal of flexibility, allowing him to twist and curl them like a snake does its entire body. Not only was his neck getting much stronger and thicker, the spikes from his spine also started to multiply, but at a slower rate than the growth. This caused the ones that already formed to be stretched farther apart. His neck belonged to a Mamenchisaurus, the tallest of the tall. His tail length was being taken from a Brontosaurus, who used its extreme tail length as a muscular whip to painfully smash predators away. In a sense these features made them similar to a modern day giraffe. A lion would love to eat a giraffe, but it would have to be suecidal to try, because a healthy adult giraffe could shatter every bone in its body with a single kick. Only their elderly and young were prey. You don't fuck with a healthy adult, it doesn't matter who you are, it will annihilate you with size alone.

Tex started to open the doors to go outside against the protests of the police as they aimed their guns. He had to pause as he felt a surge of pressure from somewhere deep inside of himself, in the very core of his body. It pulsed outward through his entire body as a warmth, but when it hit a second time before the warmth of the first had passed, his entire body throbbed with it, getting a bit bigger. His clothes gave pained groans and several teeth on his pants zipper blew out. Because his torso was longer now, it was already a bit awkward to keep his balance, his body leaned forward even when he stood as straight as he could. He knew the police were not going to hold their fire much longer though, so he pushed off of the doorway and rushed forward even as he felt the next pulse coming. Mid run, the police were shouting at him following closesly with their guns when his clothing exploded off him, ripping in several places at the same time because his entire body grew evenly. The metal button on his pants even fired off with enough for to blind one officer in the eye. Tex lost his balance because he was running when his size shifted, so he turned his shoulder forward as he fell and crashed into a police cruiser with enough force to flip the car into the air, standing on the front, absorbing several bullets. A couple bullets hit Tex but it sort of felt like getting shot with a high power paint gun. It stung like hell and felt like it would leave a bad bruise, but the bullets did not break his skin. His weight was pinning the car in its standing position and he felt another surge, feeling his body slide up the car as it grew still bigger.

His junk was exposed now without any clothing and it felt a bizarre change too. His anus felt like it was being tugged upward from an inward pressure behind his nuts, but at the same time just immediately above that there was an outward pressure behind his dick, forcing it to full erection quickly. Tex inhailed sharply at the feeling as his anus shifted up quickly and his nuts yanked themselves into his body- the scrotum pulling tight to prevent them from descending again. His dick got fatter though, especially in the middle of the shaft. He seen one officer out of the corner of his eye lower the aim of his gun, targeting the pink flesh of his cock. Well, that is just against the rules. Tex stood up but before the car fell back into place, he punched down on it sending it fully back up then swatted it with his other hand, sending it spinning on its front toward the man trying to shoot his dick, and crashed into two other cars sending them all in different directions. Tex landed on all fours but his arms and legs both bulked on up impact to brace. His thighs especially swelled giant with muscle, which also made his ass huge and round as a side effect. He groaned again from the sensations in his crotch though as his anus tugged still higher and vanished into the remaining folds of his scrotum flesh as it inverted. It pulled the base of his dick inward a bit as the area collapsed into a slit-like opening, a cloaka. His dick throbbed longer but also much thicker, causing the shaft to deform as a indent formed down the middle, which continued to deepen the wider it attempted to grow, till eventually it went all the way through, and the shaft split into two in the middle. The split started to travel farther down and up, till the tips split in half and 'twanged' in either direction. The shaft was still incredibly thick toward the ends, and got thinner as it went down. His cock was shaped like a wish bone- a hemipenis. Also like a hemipenis, since it collapses entirely into the body when not in use, its rediculously huge when it does come out to play.

Tex felt the pulses of pressure in his body soften, becoming less pronounced but also lingering longer, so it was less of a pulse and more of a steady feeling as he was just slowly growing at a constant rate now. He turned and smashed one car up into several officers with his clubbed tail, temporarily taking out the threats to his left as he turned to the right and lowered his head, feeling the bullets deflecting off his mask and crest- becoming more of a threat to the people shooting them than it was to Tex. Since it was fully grown now, his pronged cock started to shrink back down and draw in, so that weak point was quickly vanishing. He was not actually aroused by anything- it was only forced erect by the growth temporarily. His nails became extremely thick and narrowed a bit, growing into points and then sliding out more and more. His fingers got rounder and thicker to support them as his claws grew huge. His hands then started to stretch immensely though. His thumb and pinky were drawn into the sides and slowly absorbed as the others grew farther and farther away from the wrist. When he arched his head down to look at his changing hands though, he seen thousands of quills sprouting on his chest and down his underside too, not sure what those were yet. The distance between his ankle and toes were stretching out just like his count, but his toe count did not change- though his large toe did not follow the others and instead rotated a bit so that it was coming off the bottom of his ankle, giving him a small claw that just sort of hung there, no where near the ground. The claws on his feet were taller, and looked more like talons, while the claws on his hands were more round and long.

Tex seen the officers starting to regather themselves from the car he tossed spinning into them. He went to roar at them but it did not come out right. It sounded like half a roar, half a man trying to impersonate a roar. Because his mouth was open, there was also several painfully sharp snaps heard as his face started to change shape! His chin and his nose started to grow outward, making the slope of his nose more equalized with the rest of the face that was dragged along with it. His nostrils adjusted and became narrow slits- they now acted as gills instead of regular nostrils. Allowing him to breath above or below water by changing where he breathed in from, nose or mouth. His teeth became sharper but also more wide, taking on triangular shapes, which caused all the teeth to ache behind it for more room, which then changed and shoved the teeth behind those further back, till it was shoving against his jaw itself which was struggling to keep up. More teeth started to grow in behind those as he got the full set of teeth from a Megalodon, all four rows. His head grew huge, though his eyes remained relatively the same size. The shape of his skull was anvil-like, a hybridization of both a tyranosaurus and megalodon. He lurched his long neck forward and roared again, this time a bit better but there was also a powerful reverberance in his chest he could not identify that vibrated hard enough to tickle him. Tex pounced forward not being able to make it very far with his awkwardly still growing body and sort of just pancaked half a cruiser under himself. He bit toward the police and missed, but bit into the side of another car and actually lanced the metal. It felt like biting the metal that held the eraser on a pencil- it wasn't hard at all compared to the crushing power of his new jaws. His head stopped growing when it nearly filled the huge bone mask. The police fired several more bullets into his side, still not drawing blood but hurting him. He roared at them this time on reflex, and the volume collapsed them all to their knees holding their ears. The windows of all the nearby cars exploded from the vibrations as a large bone ripped out of Tex's chest! The arched club-like bone was hinged on the top of his rib cage and pulled a membrane of flesh out off his collar. It was the crest from the back of a Parasaurolophus' head! It allowed them to make hauntingly musical calls. For Tex it amplified the volume of his roar and made it almost sound like a whale song- except without it being under water the sound was much sharper, and the vibrations strong enough to cause glass to shutter violently enough to break.

Tex grinned his giant shark teeth at them and tried to stand upright again, but had a lot of trouble. As he thrust his chest out in pride from his mighty roar the quills down his underside burst open into millions of colourful bristles- they were all feathers! They were red with dark blue arrow tips on them- colors usually associated with ripe fruit or lively flowers to attract attention and draw in unwitting prey. These were the feathers of Archeopteryx, the proto-bird. He fumbled his supressor brace for a moment in surprise as the explosion of color from his own body, and as soon as he let go his thoughts seemed to vanish. He forgot what he was trying to do, and as he started to tip back into a fully four legged stance his hand touched the brace and his thoughts returned. He would have to make sure not to lose that by accident- he cannot turn human again without it. His claws were so huge now he was able to manoeuvre it around their points and wore the brace like a ring- since his fingers were about as thick as his arms used to be. His hands were so long now it almost looked like he had two elbows- one pointing either way. Trying to get up he placed his hands and feet together using his hands to push up off the ground while his legs braced him. His torso exploded in thickness, which helped brace his longer spine and help him with his task. When he lifted his arms though, he felt resistance. The skin was stuck! His arms and legs partially fused together! He pulled up and the skin stretched easily enough but never divided. It stretched out into giant sheets- a thick membrane... crudely evolved wings. That is why his arms reshaped! These were the wings of the Azhdarchid, the largest winged creatures to ever exist. So large that they did not fly very well. They usually just walked. His front claws were so long and sharp he had to stand on his knuckles, so the claws were sticking up and would not snag and dull on the ground. He would also have to be careful of being shot there- he could tell by the smoothness of the membrane that it did not share the bulletproof hide the rest of him had. His feathers stood on end in effort as his muscles tensed. He stood his hands up off the front and sort of teetered there, his back struggling. His torso got a bit thicker, and the leg muscles swelled bigger and even more defined, pulling the skin taught on the surface. With a bit of a jerky movement he stood up right, then took a few steps to make sure he could stay like this if he needed to. It would probably still be a lot easier and faster to travel on four legs- he can stand and walk on two if he wanted. His arms and legs were the same length but his arms were like pencils compared to his extremely girthy and muscular legs. Each time he stepped down he heard a click and noticed one of the talons on his feet was twice the size of all the others- these were raptor claws. The earliest bridge species between dinosaur and bird. The bulky leg structure itself from a Tyranosaur.

Standing, Tex was so large he could touch the roof of the second floor of a building easily with his hands. His neck more than doubled that, allowing him to peek into the fifth floor of a building from standing on ground level. Thanks to the spikes sticking out of the sides of his neck, he could also swing it like a weapon. His tail was so long he could touch the opposite end of the block with it. He swung it around, making sure the police behind him didn't try to group back up and brushed them off the road like a broom gets rid of dust. The movement caused the club of his tail to throb, a bit of pressure building in it. It would have felt much more intense but there was almost no nerves in it to feel with. Another scute started to push out of the skin, and then another. The club got larger and larger, growing more scutes, and then as if it was not already deadly enough several barb like spikes grew off the end of each scute pointing off the end of the tail.

Tex found himself a bit breathless and tired though. Had the transformation taken a lot out of him? A lot more police were on their way, running out of steam at the very start of his rampage wouldn't buy AWE much time at all. He shivered at the feeling of the breeze on the membrane of his wings, and then remembered- reptiles are exothermic. He is cold blooded now, the breeze was draining body heat from the thin material of his wings! Without warmth his body will try to enter a dormant state to preserve its energy. As if in reply an immense pressure exploded all down his spine and he roared and fell onto all fours again, hunching his back. As soon as he raised his spine to the sunlight it started to stretch out. Pillars of thin but sturdy bone started to stretch out from each vertebrae, dragging his skin up with it, stretching it out along the way. The spines in the middle grew faster and stopped longer than the others, ultimately creating a gigantic fan of skin. The bottom bulged out on either side, eventually releasing large diamond shaped bone plates from the skin, creating a more gradual slope onto the fan from the sides. Tex could immediately feel the sun being absorbed into the huge fan of skin, warming his body. The giant fan was from the back of a spinosaurus, allowing them to gather solar power even while the rest of them was sunk into the water. The diamond plates are from the back of a Stegosaurus, armor plating the lower half of the fin. They did not stand up off the skin like depictions of stegosaurus have- but scientists are actually not sure how stegosaurus wore them either. The plates are not attached by bones, so like Tex's neck thorns, if a stegosaurus did have them projecting straight up like that, you'd be able to bend them sideways. As the warmth spread through him from the fan, color spread across the crest on his head, looking like it was being tie-dyed in fast forward. It stole the coloration of the crest of a Dilophosaurus, who used its crest like a cobra to scare enemies, or startle them long enough to spit caustic snot into their eyes. As if adding a cherry on top, as Tex slammed his head into a car to toss it at the remaining police a horn erupted from the end of his nose. It was narrow so it slid between the two plates that made up the top of his skull mask, and the back side of it was serrated. This did not seem to be from a specific dinosaur, so perhaps it evolved simply from the neo cells taking liberties based on his behavior.

Not long after, the military had been called in. AWE's primary wing would not give in as easily as the others. Remotely controlled facilities were being activated across the world in bunkers containing satalytes ready to launch. Magnus was uploading data for what gene sequences they did have, and due to lack of time thanks to their whistle blower- including a few hybrids, simply because they could not create pure samples. The military wasn't about to let the madman push the button and launch them though. As soon as they turned the corner onto the street, the sun was blacked out. They looked up to see Tex clung to the side of a building on the twelfth floor by his hooked claws. No, not Tex anymore. He was the peak of all dinosaurs, the conjunction of all their greatest features. He is the Yellow Tyrant! The Lizard King! Using parts of thirteen different dinosaurs, the cells managed to create one very long but still stable and complete gene sequence. He let go of the building and spread his limbs to the side, catching the wind under the membrane as he glided quickly over to the approaching military and slammed down ontop of them with enough force to make their vehicles jump and inch in the air from the tremor, as they watched the lead vehicle get crumpled in like a tin can. He stood up slowly, feeling the breeze rustle the vibrant feathers on his chest, and smiled at his new play things.