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This is the day everything changes... Well, when a bunch of things happen all at once. This is nearly the end of our sexy saga.

Shifting Consequences--Chapter 50: Rising Tide

By Zmeydros (Lucien Quinn)

When Vale wakes up around four in the morning, he rubs his hands over his furry chest all the way down to his crotch. He feels his sheath and then his balls. It's hard to believe he's finally in a mostly-male body... Oh! He hasn't contacted Able. If only he wasn't still mad at Able... Well, none of that seems to matter as much right now. He feels amazing. Sexually satisfied, warm and cozy. He reluctantly gets up and goes to the restroom before going into the living room and grabbing his laptop out of his bag. He grabs an ethernet cable as well.

He sets his laptop down on the dining room table and starts looking around for the wireless router. This house probably has cable internet. He looks for places where cables enter the house and in the second bedroom, he finds what he's looking for, the wireless router sitting on top of a bookshelf. This room has an old disconnected printer that looks like it needs to go out with the trash. Some random papers, and a CD rack with music from the early 90's on it, are in the room too.

He goes and grabs his laptop and brings it back. After positioning the computer chair somewhat near the bookshelf, he reaches up and plugs the ethernet cable into the router and then into his laptop. If Don was up, he'd get on the wireless network, but there's no need for that now.

It isn't more than a couple minutes before he has his computer set up and the Tor browser running. He goes into the Tor-only message board Able practically lives on and starts writing a message. As he writes, he pauses multiple times remembering why he's so mad at Able. All he had done was forget Able's birthday and Able just wouldn't stop ragging on him for it. She questioned Vale about how long they'd known each other and how she always remembered Vale's birthday and how they always tried to hack into each other's accounts to leave birthday wishes.

It was a ritual, but it wasn't worth getting so bent out of shape over. But, this was Able and for some reason she just wouldn't let it go. Eventually, they made up. It was too late for Vale, however. Vale had had it at that point and decided to just interact with other friends more, spending less time with Able. This pissed Able off too. Heck, maybe Able wanted to be Vale's girlfriend back then. Who knows? Able claimed to be another female hacker ever since they first met, but Vale had no proof of that. He often wondered if Able was just trying to make him like her.

Making a fist, Vale clears all that out of his mind. He needs Able and he has been a bit cowardly in just avoiding Able instead of having a talk with her about all this. Plus, this is something Mal has asked of him. He puts in his message how much he misses Able and what he needs Able to help with for a cool new hack he's doing. He even gives her his one of his YIM names, something that he had avoided doing forever.

Hopefully, this contact info will be an act of good will that's strong enough to get Able to be willing to help him. He also points Able to some of his own code that she might find useful. It should be easy, Able may be annoying to work with, but she is gifted. Vale starts brainstorming how to get into the assistant director's computer--the guy he needs to frame. He knows what OS they use. It's one Microsoft OS update behind. Were there any bugs he can exploit? Can he use the code he already put in the system? He needs a fast and efficient method.

Evil Knoppix! It's a version of Knoppix that just displays a fake Windows login screen and lets the person try to login five times before displaying a blue screen of death. It captures their login information. Since Knoppix can boot off of a USB stick, all he has to do is stick a tiny USB drive with his Evil Knoppix into the USB port on the assistant director's computer and get the computer to boot off the USB drive. He can have Cher's friends set it up so when the assistant director calls for tech support, Vale is sent down.

He grabs a tiny USB stick that he stripped all the plastic off of and changes the fake login screen to look like the previous Windows release. Then he saves the changes and reboots the computer off of the USB drive to test it out.

When it reboots, the screen looks a little off. He fixes it and tries again. Now it looks perfect. He shuts down and pulls the stick out and then puts it in his backpack. He's starting to feel tired again. He shuffles off to bed and falls asleep against Don's back.

* * * * *

At six-thirty in the morning, Bella gets up and stretches. For a moment, she stares at her arm wondering why it's so darkly colored, but then she laughs at herself. That's right, she went to sleep in anthro form... Wait! Is her sustain spell still working? Well, she didn't cast it that long ago and it went very well. She's getting better at magic. Today is a great day.

She hefts her breasts and then toys with her nipples as Glenn blinks his eyes just waking up. "You getting started already?"

Bella blushes. "No, I was just messing around."

"Sure, sure... Just messing around." Glenn's eyes are staring at her crotch now.

She looks down and sees that the head of her cock is out of her slit. She blushes more. "Wow, why am I so worked up this morning?"

"You probably dreamed about what we're going to do today or something." Glenn smiles.

"Whaa? Who?" Don sits up not really seeing or understanding anything. Then he rubs his face and the moment he notices he has a muzzle, he nearly falls off the bed.

"I guess my sustain spell bled into you guys. We did exchange lots of fluids and those fluids are what causes the transformation, so I guess the magic travels along with it." Bella looks at Cher who is just waking up and is still in her doberman form.

Glenn's eyes widen. "Wouldn't that mean that all the people we change today will have the sustain effect as well?"

"I think it would get watered down, but I think I should dispel it anyway." She sighs. "Let's change back and then I'll dispel it."

Vale shifts on the bed still mostly asleep. Glenn kisses along Vale's muzzle and Vale wakes up with a start, only to smile broadly and curl his lips up, showing some teeth as he looks at Glenn and realizes they're both still in their anthro forms.

Glenn says, "I think we should let Vale enjoy waking up like this. Perhaps we should have breakfast first?"

"I'll make it." Don gets out of bed and starts walking toward the bedroom door. "We gotta get going if we want to be at work on time." He walks out the door.

Cher starts changing back. It doesn't feel that uncomfortable, but she quickly finds that the room is far too cold for furless body parts and jumps under the covers to finish transforming. Glenn starts turning back next and he too hops under the covers the moment his legs aren't furry anymore.

Vale watches the transformation of his face. "I don't think watching people transform is ever going to get old or not turn me on." He licks Glenn's changing nose.

"I know what you mean, it's really cool." He winces when his tail starts to go in and rolls onto his side. "I'm going to look not like myself completely. Probably not a good idea to walk into a place that's looking for you without a disguise."

Vale nods. "Yeah, I'm going to go for a rather ordinary look."

"What are we going to do about Zack?" Cher says as the fur on her head disappears. She's almost back to normal.

Glenn looks at Bella. "Can you just make people think he's not in dragon form? Or ignore him? I doubt they are looking for this form specifically."

"But cameras would see him if we didn't turn them off," Bella says.

Cher shrugs. "Then Don will just have to turn them off first."

"I guess we can just put Zack under a blanket in the back seat till we're ready for him," Bella says as she starts casting a spell. "Okay, help me keep him under control for a bit. I have to wake him up and let him use the restroom and get a bite to eat. We need to not stimulate him or set him off. He's going to be as horny as he was last night. I'm going to try to calm his mind with a spell, but I don't know how well it'll work. We may even be able to convince him to take human form. I'm not betting on that, though."

Bella's magenta-stranded magic goes off, but nothing happens at first. Then, Zack's unbound hand moves down to his cock which comes out of his sheath in record speed and he starts stroking it.

Glenn grabs his hand. "Zack, hun, you need to get ready for us this morning."

"I am getting ready. Feels so good!" He keeps stroking.

Bella casts a spell that has orange hexagons and green firefly-like things in it. "Been ssschreen beem speen streen fen-farna fen-arna bubbles and glue. Peridot pickles and parkley fardeu." Her hands move around as if they're on a carousel.

The alarms in Zack's head fade, everything fades. He feels lighter and like he's drifting. His mind isn't slower, he's just less aware of his body. "Thank you, Bella. That really helps."

"Your wings made it more powerful. It's crazy how well they channel magic." Bella touches Zack's wing.

Zack moans and gasps and grabs at his breasts as he suddenly feels unbearably horny. When Bella removes her hand, he is relaxed again.

"Whoops, sorry. I guess the spell isn't powerful enough to fight the pleasure you get from being touched when you're this horny." She backs away to give Zack room to get off of the bed.

Moaning as he feels the fabric of the bed slide across his scales, he gets out of bed and dashes into the bathroom. Once he's done in there, he comes back out to see Vale changing back into human form.

"Guess I should do that too," Zack says as his wings make their way in. "I'm going to remember this form. I like the big balls. They feel very nice."

Bella changes herself back to human form along with Vale and Zack. Everything goes fine, but her fluke feels a bit odd when she brings it in too quickly. By the time they're all changed back, the smell of scrambled eggs and toast is wafting through the air. Everyone, except Zack, hurriedly puts on a new set of clothes and goes into the kitchen. Don's there with his red fur bare for all the world to see. He pulls out another plate when he sees another face. He's kind of sure who is who. He's assuming that Zack is the nude less-voluptuous woman he doesn't recognize that's sporting a nice set of balls and a flaccid cock.

Seeing a human with these features in the same room as him gives him an odd feeling. A slight bit of excitement mixed with curiosity. Behind those balls is probably a pussy.

"Yep, I'm still a herm." Zack moans as he pulls up his balls to show the pussy lips behind them.

Both sets of genitalia fully formed on a human body. In anthro form, he was more willing to accept oddities, like Cher's six pack of breasts, but seeing a human herm body is odd on a different level. There's a deep interaction between the familiar and unfamiliar. An interaction that causes him to stare for a good couple seconds.

Cher stares as well until her stomach growls. "I'm starving."

"Oh right!" Don puts some scrambled eggs onto a plate with some buttered toast and hands it to Cher.

Cher grabs forks for everyone and then sits at the table. One by one, they all end up at the table. Zack grabs a shirt and sits on it. Don is the last to sit down. "We need to get out of here within twenty minutes."

They all eat hurriedly and Zack finishes first. He gets up and dashes into the bedroom. He tries again to put on clothes. As he pulls his panties up, he shudders from the feeling of the cloth sliding across his skin. When he puts on a bra, his nipples harden. Putting on a t-shirt is easier. The khakis go on okay, but he has to stop a couple times to moan as he feels his genitals shift in his panties.

Vale peaks his head in the door. "You doing okay?"

"Yeah, just feel like my whole body is a live wire." He puts on socks and then walks into the living room.

Vale follows him and they both start putting on shoes as the other four finish tying theirs. Don opens the door and says, "Glenn and Bella, come with me. It's going to be a tight fit in the car. Bella, you have the widest hips and Glenn, you have the longest legs. Zack gets the middle back seat and Cher and Bella should sit on the sides. Bella, it's up to you if you want to bring those hips in a bit. I wish we had Cher's car, but we ended up leaving it at the headquarters yesterday."

"I'll see how tight the fit is, but I can do that if needed. I'm going to dispel the sustain spell along the way." She walks out with Glenn. They were closest to the door and everyone else walks out following them. Don circles back and locks his door once it is clear. "I forgot that I'm the only one with the key."

His statement gets chuckles from them. After he's in his driver's seat, he realizes something important. Vale is still standing outside with nowhere he would fit. "I'm not sure how to get you there."

"You can put me in the trunk and let me out after you've dealt with the security cameras. It's best if I am not caught doing anything that I have to do today."

"Are you sure? That's not all that safe," Don says with a furrowed brow.

"It's fine. I'll pretend I'm a secret agent." Vale chuckles.

Don gets out of the car. "Okay, I'll drive extra careful. Luckily, I don't live that far from the office."

As Don opens the trunk, Vale says, "I forgot something important. Don, I need you to follow me in so I can get my backpack and your wifi password."

"Okay, we only have a couple minutes." Don hops out and walks up to the door.

Vale follows him closely and the moment he's inside, he grabs his backpack and pulls out his laptop. He wakes it up and sets it on the dining room table. "Put in your password. I need to see if my friend has given me a file I need."

"Okay, no problem." Don puts in the password and then steps back.

Vale goes in and checks the forum. Nothing from Able. "Damn!"

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing, I thought I could make our lives a bit easier, but I guess I'll have to just do the best I can with what I already have." Vale puts his laptop in his backpack and carries the bag by one of the shoulder straps. "Let's go."

"Sure." Don goes out the door and locks the door the moment Vale is outside.

"Don, before you get me out of the trunk, get the vice director out of his office. And when you let me out of the trunk, lead me to his office. I'll need you to make sure I get the tech support call he makes after he deals with the surprise I'm putting in there." Vale puts the backpack in the trunk before climbing in.

"Alright, I think that's all doable." Don looks off into the distance as he commits Vale's steps to memory. Something about the way Vale said it suggests that things will go really bad if he does't make sure it goes down the way Vale wants it to.

Vale gets the rest of the way in. "Okay, you can close it now.

Don looks down at Vale and gives him a smile. "This is when you tell me that you for sure don't have claustrophobia."

"Nope, don't have it at all." Vale gives him a half-smile. He's not sure he'll enjoy being in the trunk. He's got some bad memories about his cousin locking him in in a closet or three. That was a long time ago. He should be fine.

Don closes the trunk and hops into the driver's seat before driving carefully to work. On the ride there, Vale feels a slight wash of tingly fizzyness and figures it's Bella dispelling the sustain spell.

They arrive on time. He hops out and waits for everyone to get out. "We're just going to say you're witnesses. Act a bit anxious and we'll get you inside no problem."

Cher nods. "Yeah, unless the guards think there's something off about you. The less you say to them, the better. Might even be good to act tired or sad."

Zack says, "Makes sense."

They follow Cher and Don to the doors and inside. This rather boring building is actually a bit imposing. The doors are a part of a big glass facade.

The security on the other side looks at the group and a tall man with a long nose and short-cropped curly black hair steps forward. "You have guests to check in?" He's holding an iPad.

Cher nods and grabs the iPad. She makes up ordinary names for Zack and co and labels them as witnesses and then hands the iPad back to the guard. The guard nods and waves his arm toward the metal detector.

Don and Cher pull out their badges and walk through a turnstile next to the metal detector. The guard at the metal detector, an old woman with long grey hair, says, "Please put your electronic devices, keys, change and belts in the trays." Bella, Zack and Glenn walk though slowly. Glenn's belt buckle rings and he ends up having to take it off before going through. He didn't remember putting on a belt this morning. He must have been in a rush.

The guard watching the metal detector says, "No electronics on any of you?"

"Nope, we left that stuff at home," Bella says.

"Not sure I'd want to sit around here without any form of entertainment, but whatever. You're all clear."

Cher motions for them to follow her up the stairs and walks toward them. Don walks behind them. Soon they are on the second floor and the rather average-looking office space immediately gives Bella a sense of utmost boredom. It looks like everything is grey here. She follows Cher to the left and looks at the line of interrogation rooms. Cher opens the door to one of the larger ones and guides them in.

When Don gets inside, he says, "I'll be back, you can have the first go at them, Cher." The fact that they're actually his new fuckbuddies doesn't even flicker across his features. He can't even hint that anything is out of the ordinary. He leaves the room and walks briskly away letting the door close itself.

There's no one-way mirror in this room, but there are two security cameras in opposite corners and a disk with multiple microphones and a speaker on top of it in the center of the table. A red light near the top just below the speaker is glowing. Zack's neck starts to sweat--he's being recorded, they all are. Last time someone recorded him things went very poorly. Hopefully Don will have things shut off soon.

Cher puts her hand on the table and laces her fingers. "I'll have to question you one at a time. I'll start with Sheryl." She looks intently at Zack. "Could you two please wait outside?"

Zack blinks and raises an eyebrow in confusion before he remembers that she can't use his real name.

Bella and Glenn look at each other and then shrug before leaving the room. Once they're gone, Zack feels his leg tremble. Why does he have to be in this situation again?

After pulling a pen and notepad out of her briefcase, Cher asks, "How would you describe your relationship with Beverly Strom?"

"Very sexual. Sometimes I wonder if that's all we have." Zack isn't even sure if Cher is asking about Bella and it probably doesn't matter, so he's just making shit up.

Cher leans forward. "What did she tell you she was doing when she had to run out in the middle of the night?"

He pretends to sigh, and then takes a couple deep breaths to calm himself. "She avoided talking about it."

"She never explained herself?" Cher raises an eyebrow.

"N-no." Zack stammers. "I mean yes, she told me she was cheating on me."

"Did you believe her?" Cher asks.

Something's different... The red light is out on the mic array in the middle of the table! "Isn't that light supposed to be on?" He points at it.

When Cher sees that it is out, she frowns. "Yes it should. Would you mind waiting here for a minute while I check to see what's wrong with our equipment?"

"Okay." Zack nods. He's not sure he wants to sit in here any longer, but he has to follow Cher's lead.

Cher leaves the room and looks around before using the phone on a nearby empty desk to call Deron. When he picks up, she says, "The mic in the conference room is out and the security cameras don't appear to be on either. Is there a problem with the system?"

Deron knows what she is asking. She's asking if it's safe for her to move and talk freely now. "It's a pretty serious failure. Their power system went out. We're going to have to get the company that installed them to come out and fix it. I think someone may be trying to cover up a security breach."

"That's terrible. I'll have to conduct my cross-examination at the local precinct or something." She sighs.

"Well, you could just grab one of our field camcorders and record using that. But, I'm going to recommend that everyone just send the witnesses and suspects home or return them to custody for today because we don't have all that many camcorders. We don't want to overburden the local police with work on anything that isn't urgent."

"Okay, I'm going to get a camcorder before we run out."

"Sounds good. Oh, and I'll be sending someone around to collect all the cell phones so we can nail down this possible breach."

Cher nods. "That bad, huh?"

"Yeah. I'll fill you in once we have more info." Deron hangs up.

Cher goes over to the equipment locker on the west wall and pulls out a camcorder and then goes over to the interrogation room. Bella and Glenn are sitting in a couple chairs just outside the room. Cher motions for them to go in with her.

They follow her in and when everyone is seated, Cher says, "We can talk safely now. How are you guys planning to get everyone to transform?"

"Well, they'll all be so horny that they'll probably be willing to lick whatever's offered to them." Bella laughs.

A guard with curly blonde hair knocks at the door and Cher quickly hands her cell phone to Bella under the table before getting up. She steps outside the room and closes the door.

The guard says, "May I have your cell phone for a routine check?"

"I already handed it in when I went upstairs to talk to Deron." Good thing she already thought about what her lie was going to be. She knew Deron would expect her to keep hers. Otherwise he won't be able to message her to tell her when to show up and such.

The guard nods. "Okay, that's where they're all goin' anyway."

"I gotta get back to my witnesses," Cher says as she opens the door.

"Sure thing." The guard continues down the hallway.

She walks in to hear Zack saying, "All we have to do is get a few people on each floor, they'll probably spread it to everyone without much help."

* * * * *

Vale sits in the trunk controlling his breathing and waiting for something to happen. After what seems like ages, the car starts and is driven a short way. At first, Vale nearly freaks out, but then he realizes that if Don didn't think it was safe to let him out in the parking lot, he might relocate it. When the car stops, Vale gets ready to kick whoever opens the trunk just in case he's wrong about why the car was being moved.

When Don opens the trunk and sees Vale's feet ready to kick, he quickly leans to the side and yells, "Yikes!"

Vale laughs. "I wasn't going to kick you, but I wasn't sure it was you."

"Ahh, well..." Don offers his hand and when Vale is out of the trunk, he says, "I drove you 'round back so that you could enter through the loading dock and avoid being seen by security."

Vale nods. "Good idea, the less I'm seen, the better."

"Now, I'm going to go in through that door next to the big garage door and see if there's anyone around. I want you to wait hugging the building until I come back and get you."

"Okay." Vale gets against the building holding his backpack in front of him. He hears Don enter a combination and then open the door. He waits a few minutes staring at the unkempt evergreen hedges behind the building and trying to look normal when he hears a car.

Don pops his head out of the door. "Come on in."

Vale dashes into the building and follows Don through the loading dock to a stairwell. Don looks down at Vale as he climbs the steps. "The assistant director is away from his desk complaining to Deron about the surveillance failure. I'm not sure how long he'll be away, but I'll keep watch so I can catch him in a conversation if you need more time. When you're done, meet me in the elevator lobby for this floor. Will what you're doing take long?"

"Just a few minutes," Vale says.

"Good." Don leads Vale to the assistant director's office and then says, "Okay, I'm a bit nervous about all the stuff we're doing today, so I am not sure how talkative I will be."

"Just do your best, I'll try to get this done quick," Vale says as he puts down his bag and sits in front of the computer. As Don walks toward the elevator lobby, Vale pulls out his USB stick. He then forcefully shuts down the computer by holding the power button and lets it start up. He holds down the key combination to get to the BIOS and when the password screen for the BIOS comes up, he hits the desk with a fist. He automatically tries the first few things he always tries.

He leaves the username blank and types in "password" for the password. He tries "Password" and "pa$$word" and "password1" and "pa$$word1!" but none of them works. He tries the same thing with "admin" as the username and doesn't get in. Then he laughs as he tries using "admin" as the username and leaving the password field blank. There's no way this is going to work. He sees the screen flicker just as he hits enter and it lets him in. "No fucking way," he mutters under his breath as he goes about setting the computer to boot off the USB drive and saves the changes.

He puts in his USB stick and as it's starting up, he hears, "Hey! What are you doing!"

A skinny guy with an extremely close buzz cut and small squareish glasses is glaring at him. He calms himself. "Can you try to log in? We're having problems with network authentication."

"If I need tech support, I CALL tech support." He points at the floor dramatically.

"Understood, I won't do it again. I was just seeing if I could solve the problem on your machine and the director's machine first. I think it has something to--"

"Fine, fine! Whatever." He practically pushes Vale out of the way to his desk and sits down and tries to log in. The first time his password doesn't work, he tilts his head for a second and tries again. As he tries a couple more times, he sets his jaw and types smacking the keys hard. "Well, congratulations, you fucked it up."

"Can you try one more time? It's spotty right now and you might still get in. You can at least get some work done before I have to come back and troubleshoot more," Vale says, digging his fingers into his side trying to avoid yelling at this guy.

He rolls his eyes and then tries one more time and when the computer gives him a blue screen of death, he points at Vale with a shaking finger. "You fucking idiot! Do you even know what you're doing? It was working BEFORE you showed up. First the surveillance goes out and now this. Do you tech people even work? What the HELL do you DO up there?"

"Look man, I was trying to fix this before you got back." Vale says trying not to ball both hands into fists.

"Don't 'man' me!" For a moment, it looks like the assistant director is going to just jump out of his chair and punch Vale in the face. His eyes are wide and his hands are in fists and he's showing his teeth--his face reminds Vale of the face a poodle makes when it's growling. "I need some coffee. If this isn't working by the time I get back, this is your last day working here. I'll make sure of it!"

"Okay, okay, geez!" Vale says, not having to fake exasperation.

The assistant director gets out of his chair and glowers at Vale. "Don't 'geez' me! Just get it fucking fixed!" He storms out of the room.

Vale sits at the desk and pulls out his laptop and starts it up.

Don runs over. "Hey, everything okay?"

"I don't want to talk right now," Vale says not looking up.

"Oh, right... I will see if I can find some way to keep him occupied." Don dashes off.

Vale types in his password on Paul's computer and then hits enter. The blue screen goes away to reveal the simple Knoppix desktop. He opens a text file sitting on the desktop and looks at Paul's login information. He logs into his laptop and copies the login information to his own computer.

Then he shuts down Knoppix and pulls out the USB stick. He goes back into BIOS and undoes his change and restarts the computer. As it is restarting, he logs into his computer and uses Paul's username and password to get onto the wireless network. He then opens the Tor browser and logs into the message forum and sees a message from Able. He gets the file from Able's link and thanks Able for her help.

He rubs his eyes and huffs out air. Should he try to implement the program now? He pulls up the code on his computer and thinks for a moment. It takes him a couple minutes to go over the code and when he's done, he suddenly realizes what he needs to do to make this work. All he has to do is get the code he already put on this network. He uses Paul's computer to dig down into the file system and pull out the file he put in there when he breached the firewall.

He puts the file on a USB stick and then loads it onto his laptop. After that, he combines the code and compiles it. He then makes a Windows shell script that will run the file ten minutes after Paul logs in. The guy still isn't back? Vale double and triple checks the code in BBEdit. This should work. This should work very very well. He puts the finished program and shell script on Paul's computer and logs out. He pulls out his USB stick and puts away his laptop.

As he's walking out of the office, he hears Cher's voice. She's talking to Paul! He's very thankful that she somehow was able to keep him occupied this long. He hears them talking about some procedure for submitting some sort of paperwork. It's too boring to stick in his mind at all. It seems like everyone on this part of the floor has an office and is ignoring him. He finds an angle where Cher can see him but Paul can't, and he gives Cher a thumbs up before pointing toward the stairwell and mouthing "stairs." At her. She nods and turns her attention back to Paul.