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Author's Note: This story was given to me by Shamira the Guardian. I'm hopeful that I do her idea justice. Please review after reading and leave either nice comments, helpful suggestions, or constructive criticism. No flames allowed.
From Human to Mutant
In Blackpool, England, everyone was enjoying a nice peaceful summer day. Some were at the beach, some went to the movies, and others went to local parks for picnics or to play on the play ground equipment. In this particular park of Blackpool, however, many children were gathered around and trying to catch bubbles that were floating in the air. The one blowing them was a young green-eyed brunette girl of fifteen. The girl in question smiled and laughed as the children played with the bubbles.
The girl was getting ready to blow some more, when she heard a voice say, "Can I have a go?"
She looked and saw a little boy with brown hair and green eyes. She smiled at the boy and said, "Of course." then handed him some bubble solution and a wand. Soon more children asked for some, and she happily complied .
"Thank you," said the boy, happily taking the wand and bubble solution.
"You're welcome," said the girl, "By the way, my name's Jenny. What's yours?"
"Eric," said the boy.
Jenny smiled at the little boy and said, "Pleased to meet you, Eric."
"Nice to meet you too, Jenny," said Eric., and then he started blowing bubbles the way he saw Jenny do it.
After giving him the wand and bubble solution, more children went up to Jenny asking if they could have a go as well. She smiled and happily gave them all wands and bubbles solution. The children thanked her and then went off to blow there own bubbles. Before long, all of the children were blowing bubbles and laughing while Jenny watched them with a big smile on her face. Jenny loved making children happy, seeing them happy brought joy to her heart. She was determined to become a teacher because it seemed like the perfect career opportunity for her because of her love for children.
For an entire hour, the children had been blowing bubbles until the ran out of solution and went to Jenny for refills. This kept up until she poured some solution only to find that no more would come out of the bottle.
Jenny handed the solution to the child who had asked for it and then stood up and said to the other children, "Sorry, no more refills. I'm all out."
Twenty minutes later, Jenny collected the wands and bubbles solution cups from the children. She put the wands in her bag and threw the cups into a nearby recycling bin, then she got ready to leave.
"Seeya, kids!" she called, "I have to go home now! I'll be back tomorrow with more bubbles!"
Just as she was about to leave, several children whined and begged her not to go, Eric being one of them. Jenny let out a soft sigh as she called the parents over to come get them. At one point, Eric got away from his mother and grabbed onto Jenny's arm.
"I'm gonna miss you, Jenny," said Eric.
Jenny smiled as she knelt down to his level and said, "I'll miss you, too. But I'm coming back tomorrow."
"What if you forget?" he asked, nearly ready to cry.
Jenny laughed and told him, "I won't forget. But if it will make you feel better, I have something for you." she then reached into pocket and puled out a small blue dragon keychain. "Here, take this as a symbol of my promise to return."
Eric took the Keychain, smiled, and said, "I'll keep it safe."
"There's a big man," said Jenny, "Now then, I think you should get back to your mother."
"Okay," said Eric, turning to leave, "Goodbye, Jenny."
"Goodbye, Eric," said Jenny, "And I look forward to seeing you again."
And with that, Eric returned to his mother and Jenny gathered up her bag and began to make her way home. Along the way, she decided to take a shortcut through a field. As she walked through the field, Jenny suddenly tripped on something and fell face-forward to the ground. Getting up, he groaned and rubbed her head.
"Ouch!" she exclaimed, "What the heck did I just-?" before he could finish her thought, Jenny caught a glimpse of something glowing in the grass.
Curious, Jenny crawled over to examine the thing she tripped over. When she reached it, Jenny saw that it was a strange canister filled with a mysterious glowing liquid of some kind.
"What?" she asked out loud, still staring at the canister, "What is that?"
Jenny had a feeling that the canister was not something that should be left lying around, so she picked it up and placed it in her bag. She then lifted her bag over her shoulder and started to walked away. Her plan was to look it up on the internet and find out what the liquid was and then turn it over to the police.
A minute or two after Jenny had left, two identical men in black suits arrived at the field and made there way towards the exact spot where Jenny had found the canister. Seeing nothing in that spot, one of the men turned to the other as if questioning him, though it was hard to read their emotionless faces.
"Kraang swears that the mutagen was in this place," one of the men said in a robotic tone of voice.
"Well, the mutagen is not in this place now," the other man said in the same robotic tone, "Is Kraang certain that the mutagen was in this place?"
"Kraang is certain that the mutagen was in this place," said the first man, "Though Kraang could be mistaken."
"Kraang is that which called an idiot," said the second man, "Kraang will continue to search for that which is known as mutagen. Why was the mutagen in this place in to begin with?"
"Kraang assumed that no one would look for it in a place that is like this place," said the first man.
"Kraang assumed wrong," said the second man. And with that, the two men walked away in search of their missing mutagen. What they did not realize was that their mutagen had been discovered by another and taken earlier before they had arrived.
Upon arriving at home, Jenny found that no one else was home. She figured this much because he parents were away on a camping trip at the lake and her brother was staying at a friends house for the weekend, so she had the house to herself; provided she phoned her parents at least once a day to assure them that she is fine.
"I guess I should call mom and dad and let them know I'm okay," Jenny said t herself, then she let out an exhausted sigh and added, "But first I better unload."
That being said, Jenny went up the stairs and into her room. There, she removed her bag from her shoulders and placed it on her bed. She then proceeded to rub her sore shoulders; the canister in addition to the things she usually brought with her to the park made it pretty heavy. After rubbing her shoulders Jenny began unpacking her bag, taking out her bubble wands to wash as well as the canister. She placed the canister on her desk while she took the wands to the kitchen to wash in the sink. As she was leaving, Jenny did not realize how close the canister was to the edge of her desk.
After she washed off the bubble wands, Jenny remembered the canister and decided to try to figure out what the stuff in that canister was and where it came from. She remembered seeing some kind of symbol on the canister and decided to look it up figuring that it must be a logo for some type of company.
With that in mind, Jenny went back up to her room to look up the logo on the canister. Once she sat her desk to turn on her computer, Jenny accidentally bumped into one of the legs, causing the canister to fly off. The canister flew right into her wall and broke open and the contents sprayed all over Jenny, causing her to cry out in disgust.
"Ah!" Jenny screamed, "Gross!"
Jenny stood up from her chair and started making her way to the upstairs bathroom to wash up. On her way to the bathroom, however, Jenny began to feel strange. For some unknown reason, her whole body began to ache and she felt very dizzy. She groaned in pain as she stumbled towards the bathroom and she could feel her body changing. She just barely made it out into the hallway when she passed out on the floor.
Later when she awoke, Jenny felt pain all over her body. She had no idea how long she had been asleep and barely remembered how she got on the floor. A moment later, she remembered everything from the canister falling and breaking to the strange ooze splashing all over her. She even remembered trying to get to the bathroom to wash it off before passing out. Jenny figured she should try to get up off the floor and try to figure out what happened to her. She attempted to stand up, but she found her limbs hard to control and her center off balance. She extended her arms to push herself up, but when she looked at her hands she did not see them, instead were blue hands with scaly skin. The fingers were long and instead of finger nails, there were long sharp claws.
"Ah!", Jenny screamed, "What's going om?"
Jenny brought a clawed hand to her mouth when she realized her voice seemed to be impaired; she also noticed that her mouth felt longer. When she rubbed her tongue along her teeth, Jenny discovered that they were now bigger and sharp. Now Jenny was starting to become freaked out, she had to lean back. However, when she did that, Jenny felt something rough against her back. Turning her head, Jenny caught a glimpse of something blue. Finally, Jenny decided that she had to see what she looked like and started crawling over the full body mirror in her bedroom. Once she made it to the mirror, Jenny used all of her strength to stand herself up and look in the mirror. When she saw her reflection, Jenny let out a loud, horrified scream.
Instead of her regular human reflection, what stared back at Jenny was a creature twice as big as herself with blue scaly skin, clawed hands and feet, black reptile eyes with no iris, holes with ridges on either side of her head instead of ears, long black hair, a set of blue bat-like wings on her back and a long black tail, lizard-like, coming out from behind her. The face was more reptilian than human. She also noticed that she had no clothes on, only pieces of cloth that barely covered her.
The creature copied Jenny's movements exactly, which confirmed the girls' fear; this creature is her!
"What happened to me?" Jenny asked out loud as she stared at her reflection in shock.
It took a while, but Jenny finally calmed down enough to accept that she was now a blue lizard-lady with wings. Once she was able to think again, Jenny concluded that her body's sudden growth must've torn her clothes, which is probably why she was half naked right now. This meant that some of her clothes might not fit her anymore. Seeing this as a problem, Jenny grabbed an old bedsheet that she never used on her bed and started trying to walk properly. After she was able to steady herself, Jenny grabbed a pair of scissors and an old bathrobe belt she found and decided to fashion some clothes from that. She cut a hole in the center of the sheet and put her head through it. She then tied the belt around her waist. It still felt off on the legs, so she cut off the bottom just below the knees.
When she was finished, Jenny looked at herself in the mirror. "It'll do," she said to herself. "But how did this happen in the first place?"
She suddenly remembered the canister and looked back to see the broken remains as well as a little bit of the remains of the ooze. "That must've been what had changed me." She remembered there being more ooze than there was on the floor, but figured she must've absorbed it when she changed.
"What am I going to do? I'm a freak," Jenny said, sobbing into her hands, mindful of her claws, "I need to call someone. But who?"
Jenny began to wrack her brain trying to figure out who to call for help. She couldn't call her parents, it would take too long for them to get home and they might freak out if they saw her like this. Her brother was out of the question seeing as they weren't on very good terms at the moment. That only left her friends, but which one could she call? Going over her list of friends, Jenny finally settled on her friend Elizabeth Brown. The girl always was open minded and kind hearted, she would most certainly hear Jenny out before screaming her head off at the sight of her; hopefully.
Deciding that it was her best option, Jenny slowly made her way to the kitchen, having some difficulty with her new long legs as well as her wings and tail. To add to the complications, she now could only walk on the balls of her feet. She made a mental note to figure out how to keep that under control. After much effort, Jenny finally made it to the kitchen, picked up the phone and dialed Elizabeth's number.
The phone rang a couple of times until someone picked it up. One the other end, Jenny heard a female voice say, "Hello?"
"Ellie. Thank god, it's you," said Jenny happily.
"Jen? What's wrong?" Elizabeth asked, sensing that something was wrong, "You sound strange."
"Something's happened to me and I need help," said Jenny.
"What happened?" Elizabeth asked in concern, "Are you alright?"
"I got covered in green ooze that I found and it changed me," Jenny said, starting to panic again. She took a deep breath took calm herself down and added, "Listen, it's a little hard to explain over the phone. Could you come over? You'll see for yourself when you get here."
"Okay," said Elizabeth, "I'll be right there."
And with that, Elizabeth hung up the phone. Jenny hung up the phone on her end as well and waited for her friend to arrive. As she waited, Jenny could not help but feel a little nervous. While she knew her friend was open minded about strange things, she felt there was still the chance that Elizabeth would get scared of her appearance. After ten minutes of waiting, Jenny heard a knock on her door.
"Jen?" Elizabeth's voice called, "Are you there?"
"The door's unlocked," Jenny said, "Come on in."
AS she heard the doorknob turn, Jenny braced herself for her friends reaction, whatever it may be. Once Elizabeth was inside, she started looking around for her friend.
"I'm in here!" Jenny called.
Elizabeth walked through the house and made her way to kitchen where she expected to fins her friend. She found her, but not the way she remembered her. She froze at the site, instead of her human friend, she found a blue lizard-like creature.
"Hi, Ellie," Jenny said, with a weak smile.
"J-Jen?" Elizabeth asked, eyes widened in realization, "Is that you?"
"Yeah," Jenny said, "It's me."
"What happened to you?" Elizabeth asked, feeling the need to give her friend a comforting hug.
"I...I don't know," said Jenny, "I got splashed by some green ooze that I found and blacked out. When I woke up, I was like this."
"Green liquid?" Elizabeth asked.
"I'll show you," Jenny said, then got up from the stool she was sitting on and walked towards her room, Elizabeth followed close behind. Elizabeth kept a short distance so that Jenny would not accidentally hurt her with her wings or tail; she had already come to terms with her friend's new appearance, accepting things easily was one of the things Jenny loved about Elizabeth.
Once they reached Jenny's room, Jenny moved aside to allow Elizabeth to enter. She then pointed to the ooze and canister shards on her floor and said, "That stuff, there. That's what made me this way."
Elizabeth felt curious and reached out to touch some of the ooze. Her hand was inches away from the ooze when Jenny swiftly grabbed her friend's wrist and jerked her back.
"Don't touch it!" Jenny shrieked, "It might change you too!"
"Ow! That hurts!" Elizabeth screamed, yanking her wrist out of her friend's grasp. She rubbed her wrist where she had been grabbed and added, "Careful with that grip."
"Sorry," said Jenny, feeling guilty over hurting her friend, "I guess I don't know my own strength anymore."
Out of sympathy, Elizabeth put her hand on Jenny's shoulder and told her, "It's okay. I'm alright." then her expression changed as she said, "But I have to say, an ooze that turns someone into a blue lizard lady, this whole thing seems like something out of an 80's movie."
"Well, it happened, and it's taking everything I've got to not freak out anymore than I did before," Jenny said, then she looked like she was about to cry as she added, "What am I going to do? I don't think I can live like this for the rest of my life. I look like a freak!"
Jenny started crying her eyes out. Feeling bad seeing her friend sad, Elizabeth wrapped her arms around Jenny and hugged her tightly. Jenny would have returned the hug had she not been nervous that she might hurt Elizabeth on accident.
"It's not all bad," said Elizabeth, in a calming voice, "Maybe it's not permanent. There might be a chance that you can find a way to change back."
"I don't know," said Jenny, "And even if I can change back, for all we know it could take a really long time and my parents are due back in two days. They might freak out if this. Plus my brother comes home tomorrow and I just know it won't be good if he sees me like this; not everyone's as accepting of things like this as you are."
Elizabeth sighed and said, "I guess you have a point there. I mean, if anyone found out about Puck..."
This caught Jenny by surprise. "Who's Puck?" she asked.
Upon hearing the question, Elizabeth looked bashful and started fiddling with her hands as she wondered what to say. Finally, she decided that the best thing to do was to tell her friend the truth.
"Well, let's just say you're not the first strange creature I've encountered," said Elizabeth as she took off the backpack she had brought with her.
Jenny watched curiously as her friend reached into her bag and puled something out. It was small, no smaller than a tennis ball, and covered in fur that was a lighter blue than her skin, it had two big round eyes, a big mouth with a fang poking out of one side, a set of four spikes on either side of it's head that could be ears, and two rodent-like tails coming out from it's behind that were intertwined with each other. Jenny could not help but compare it to a collectable plush toy.
"This is Puck," said Elizabeth, "Isn't he adorable?" She then brought the creature, Puck, to her face and nuzzled it with her cheek, making him purr a little.
"What is he?" Jenny asked, curious about the creature that her friend was cuddling.
"I have no idea," said Elizabeth, "But I don't care. He's sweet and adorable!"
"When did you get him?" Jenny asked.
"A few day's ago," Elizabeth explained, "I haven't told anyone about him until now because I was afraid he would be taken away, and he's become very attached to me."
To prove this, Puck climbed onto Elizabeth' shoulder and nuzzled her neck, causing her to giggle.
"Stop it, Puck! That tickles!" Elizabeth said, removing Puck from her shoulder. She then turned her attention to Jenny and said, "I suspect that whatever changed Puck into what he is now might have been the same chemical that changed you now."
"So, what you're saying is that this ooze causes all kinds of transformations, not just one like mine," said Jenny, "Then there must be more of this stuff out there somewhere."
"I think you're right," said Elizabeth, "And that means someone is making it."
Jenny nodded at that and said, "Yes. But who? And why?"
"That I don't know," said Elizabeth, "But I think we should clean up this mess before we try to figure it out."
"Good idea," said Jenny, with a nod, "I'll get the shards, you cover yourself and get some towels."
And with that, the girls split up to do their tasks. Jenny picked up the pieces of the canister and put them into a plastic bag, while Elizabeth was in the next room dressing up in a raincoat, a mask, rubber gloves, long pants, a bandana on her hair, and rain boots. When she was finished, Elizabeth joined Jenny with a towel in her hands and began wiping up the ooze that was left on the floor. Once she finished wiping up the ooze, Elizabeth put the towel into the same bag as the canister pieces and Jenny tied it closed.
After the girls finished cleaning up the mess, Jenny decided that they had to dispose of the remains. Seeing that it would be unsafe to throw the remains in the garbage can, Jenny decided that it would be best to burry them in the back garden, which is what she did.
Once the canister and ooze were buried, Jenny and Elizabeth sat down on the couch in the living room and relaxed. As the girls started to think about what to do next, they heard a knock on the door.
"Huh?" Jenny asked, "Who could that be? I'm not expecting anyone else."
"I'll get it," said Elizabeth, as she got up from the couch.
"Be careful, Ellie," said Jenny, "Something doesn't feel right."
"Don't worry, Jen. I'll be careful," said Elizabeth.
Once she reached the front door, Elizabeth opened it and there in the doorway were two identical men. They had dark hair and eyes and wore black suits. Their faces were blank and void of any emotion of any kind. It might have been their stares, but something about them made Elizabeth feel scared. It was as if they were not human.
"Hello?" she said.
"We have come to this place to retrieve a canister that may have been taken by you or one of the people who live in this place," said one of the men, in a robotic voice.
Just hearing his voice confirmed Elizabeth's suspicions; these men were bad news. Quickly, Elizabeth slammed the door and ran for the living room. She grabbed Jenny by her wrist and Puck from his spot on the couch and made a run upstairs for Jenny's bedroom. Once they reached the bedroom, Elizabeth slammed the door and panted heavily.
"Ellie, What's going on?" Jenny asked. "What's wrong?"
Elizabeth did her best to catch her breath as she explained, "Jen... there are two men... outside the house. They were looking... for the canister. And they talked like robots!"
Suddenly, the girls heard a loud crash coming from outside the room. This kind of sound could only be the door being broken down!
"Correction," said Elizabeth, "They're inside the house."
"What are we going to do?" Jenny asked, "We can't give them their canister, it's broken and buried. And I doubt we'll be able to hide in here for very long."
Elizabeth then signaled for Jenny to stay quiet while she looked to see how many there actually were. Quietly, Elizabeth opened the door and peaked out of the room. Once she looked outside, Elizabeth could see that there were indeed only two of them, but she also saw that they had the strangest guns she had ever seen. Their guns looked like something one might see in a sci-fi movie. At first they did not notice her, but once they did, they opened fired on her. Luckily, Elizabeth got back into the room in time to avoid their shots, which were lasers!
"Well, one thing's for sure, they're definitely not friendly," said Elizabeth, "They have lasers! And they're shooting at us!"
"What are we gonna do?" Jenny asked.
Elizabeth thought for a moment, and then she got an idea. "Listen, Jen, hide behind the door. Then when the men come through, jump them," said Elizabeth.
"Okay," said Jenny, then she went to the door and waited for the men to come.
She did not have to wait for long because the door opened about a minute after she moved to her spot so that she would be behind it. When the door opened, Jenny caught a glimpse of two men, she figured that they must be the men that her friend said were looking for the canister. Seeing only Elizabeth in the room, the men pointed their guns at her and decided to question her.
"Tell us the location of the canister that we are seeking," one of the men demanded.
"I don't have it anymore," said Elizabeth, "It broke and I buried the remains."
One of the men turned to the other and said in his robotic voice, "If the canister containing the unstable mutagen had broken, there should have been a mutation of some kind."
"Indeed," said the second man to the first, in the same robotic voice, "Yet, I see no such thing in this place."
"Right behind you," said a new voice from behind them. The two men turned around just as the door closed, revealing an angry blue dragon-like girl standing there.
"Kraang is getting the feeling known as impending doom," said the first man to the second just before Jenny struck them both in their faces.
The girls gasped as Jenny unintentionally ore their faces off with her claws. What was even more shocking was that there was no blood under the skin, instead there were robotic looking faces. That explained why they talked like robots, they are robots! They pointed their guns at Jenny, and, on instinct, Jenny charged at them for a counter attack. Using all of her strength, Jenny beat the robots until they could no longer move.
After the attack on the robots was over, Puck came out of his hiding place and ran to Elizabeth to comfort her. As Elizabeth held her pet in her hands, she stared at the broken robot remains in shock.
"What is going on here?" she asked in shock.
"I don't know," said Jenny, "But if they were after the canister, then more of them can't be far behind. I have only one choice, I have to leave."
"What?" Elizabeth asked, "Why?"
Jenny sighed and explained to her friend, "You saw what these men are capable of, Ellie. They weren't afraid to use deadly force to get the chemical in the canister, that means that others could come looking for it and will surely come after me to find it. They may come after you or even my family to try and find. I don't want to put you in danger."
"Jen, think about this," said Elizabeth.
"I don't see any other way around it, Ellie," said Jenny.
Elizabeth tried to think of another solution, but nothing came to mind. She hated to admit it, but Jenny had a point. Those robots would surely signal more to come find Jenny, and that could put them both at great risk. The only option seemed to be to let Jenny leave.
"You might be right," said Elizabeth, "But maybe you should get some rest first before we do anything. We might be able to plan better once our heads are cleared up."
Reluctantly, Jenny agreed and got into her bed. She had to curl up in order to fit on it because of her new height. Elizabeth decided to take the couch in the living room and take Puck with her. As Elizabeth left the room and Jenny drifted off into sleep, neither girl noticed the brain-like creatures come out of the robot's chests and crawl out the window.
Hours later, Jenny and Elizabeth had packed a camping bag full of supplies that Jenny would need such as food and first-aid supplies. They had tried to come up with another solution, but in the end, the only real option was for Jenny to leave.
"I still can't believe I'm helping you do this," said Elizabeth, "Where will you go?"
"I don't know yet," said Jenny, "Somewhere far away from here. The farther away from here I am, the safer you and my are."
Once she was finished loading the bag, Jenny slung the bag over her shoulder. The weight was no longer a problem because her new form made her stronger than she was before. Once it was totally dark outside, the girls left the house and made their way through the streets. They continued walking until they were out of the city.
"Well, I guess this is goodbye," said Jenny.
"Don't say that," said Elizabeth, "Because that makes me feel like I might never see you again. I wish you would at least take Puck with you so you won't be alone."
Jenny shook her head and said, "I can't take him from you, he's yours. Besides, I'll never really be alone as long as I have your memory."
Elizabeth smiled at Jenny's words and said, "Then, until we meet again."
Jenny smiled and said, "Until we meet again."
The two friends hugged and then released each other. Then Jenny turned away from Elizabeth and walked away from her. Elizabeth watched her friend leave until she was out of sight, then she turned around to return to her own home.
The very next day, Jenny's brother returned home to find the door broken down and the inside partly wrecked. On top of everything, he found no trace of his sister, so he called the police. since the door was broken down and the inside of the house partly wrecked, the disappearance was treated as a kidnapping. When Elizabeth was questioned, she lied and said she knew nothing; she could not tell them the truth, they would not have believed her even if she had told them anyway. Elizabeth just hoped that her friend was safe wherever she was.