Transformation: Project Legends
Chapter 21: Jessica
A/N: Well, I'm sure glad I kick-started this story again by FINALLY making something eventful happen…XD. A lot of you found the character of Jessica to be a very disturbed individual, and I would like to thank Felix the Eevee trainer for presenting her to me. Well, let's see where this warped deal goes…
Disclaimer: I do not own the Transformation universe, TurtlesandMonkeys does. I also do not own the pokemon franchise created by Nintendo. Jonathan Grant and Emily Masterson belong to Lord Nalthren, Ryan Ping belongs to Swack16, "The wings that bring the fate" owns Melody Snowfeather, Jared belongs to S11jande, Jessica Mareva belongs to Felix the Eevee trainer, and I own Scottsdale, Daniel, Amy, Julie, Kagai, and Team Dark gale. CHIKA! CHIKORI!
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Scottsdale sat in his chair with his eyes wide, his face coated with sweat. Someone had actually breached Project Legend…
…And now that very same person wants to bargain with them in order to become a part of the project herself. I thought I had seen all the scum this world had to offer...but apparently it comes in all form...even a beautiful one…
He kicked the ground in front of him and looked to the monitors, seeing them still buzzing with static from the shut down, faint fuzzy images of the legendaries barely visible. He saw two grunts walk by with a scientist with a Porygon in his hands, the virtual pokemon looking very frightened as they passed by. Scottsdale took his glasses off and rubbed his face with his hands. That girl, Jessica, was all that was in his mind right now, her taunting smile waving the disk in front of him, her voice laughing at his failure. "I can't believe you practically gave me all you're project's secrets on a silver platter …"
He tightened his fist. How could he let the entire project fall at the mercy of this little girl? Kagai would either be outraged or scoff at Scottsdale's humiliation, which is why he had yet to confer with him. Obviously there was only one thing to do, give into her demand and make her a legendary and she'll hand over the data. It's a win-win situation, so why was he making such a big deal out of it? He opened his cabinet and pulled out a bottle of scotch and poured a shot. He gulped it down before pouring another, barely even tasting the burning drink. He looked to the clock. 2:17 a.m. He then coughed and rested on his side of his barely used cot, staring at the clock for the remainder of the night, holding his bottle tight.
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Miyuki walked over to what was known as "the ward" and peeked her head in. It amazed her how careless these grunts can be in leaving doors opened and unlocked. She silently tiptoed to the cages and looked at them. Most of the pokemon were asleep, save for a nervous looking Pachirisu with bandages on it. She bent forward at its cage and looked it over, the Pachirisu looking at her with uncertain eyes.
"Hmmm…you're different, aren't you?" She coolly said. The Pachirisu cocked its head to the side and reluctantly nodded. It never saw this woman before, but there was something in her steely eyes that it could somehow trust. "I'm not going to hurt you." Miyuki responded, as if playing on that thought. She picked up the cage and put it on a counter and opened it, the Pachirisu looking around before stepping an anxious foot out. Miyuki ran a stroking hand down the Squirrel pokemon's back, reassuring it. "...Poor girl…"
She looked around and saw some discarded Pokeballs and picked one up. The Pachirisu then looked anxiously at her when she held a ball to it.
"Don't worry, it's for the best, it will get you out of here…"
The Pachirisu then nodded and closed its eyes when Miyuki tapped it, the ball realizing alight and the Pachirisu went inside, the ball barely even shaking as the red light confirmed the capture. Miyuki looked around before retracting the ball and putting it in her lab coat.
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I felt sleepier than before when a blue gas was sent into my chamber, and so I was sent into my world of darkness. I looked to myself, seeing my human hands and looking around, expecting to find some trace of my 'mother'.
I saw a street sign and recognized it. It was the one I waited by for the bus to arrive. I walked a little further down the road and found it. My home, my old house. I really wished that this was real, that what I saw was really here in front of me, but everything had a sort of hazy quality that made it seem like a foggy film, so I knew it was only a dream. I walked in regardless and remembered the faint scent of freshly baked cookies as it entered my nose, a nice thing to smell after watering over dead fish. I saw the hall way and the living room, the two-piece set of blue furniture there. I walked over and followed the scent to the kitchen where I saw the back of my mom, an apron tied to the back of her, her long brown hair hanging loose while she put the next batch in the oven to bake. I felt like crying right there, knowing that this is really her, not some legendary pretending to be her. I ran into the kitchen and wrapped my hands around her waist, hugging her tight as my eyes watered. "Mom! I thought I'd never see you again!" She turned in surprise. "Oh, Daniel! Don't scare me like that." I heard her chide but she turned and hugged me, and I felt her warmth, almost feeling like the real thing. I so wished that everything that happened in that lab was just a very bad dream, that the dream I was in was my reality. But in the back of my mind, I heard the cries of everyone who was hurt by Scottsdale, heard the impacts and roars of attacks of fury, heard my own monstrous cries when I nearly lost myself. But all that was only a bad dream in my head while I hugged my mom.
My mom smiled and took a step back, the haze growing even more, her smile becoming foggier and foggier until it was a mass of hazy colors, and the haze started to fade to black. I watched as everything around me disappeared in a haze and started fading to black. I curled around my self and held my head, shaking, feeling my body grow and change until I was back in my legendary prison. I reached my massive wings outward and watched them for the longest time, almost forgetting that they were human hands a moment ago.
Mom...don't leave me...I'm losing myself without you…
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Scottsdale waited outside the complex, his eyes still burning from the garish sunlight, his hair disheveled. He had a hard night sleeping, and just waited, looking at his watch, seeing the clock hands reading 6:09.
Ten minutes…it's already dawn…where is she?
He heard a little meow and looked to see a Delcatty chasing a rubber ball as it bounced out of the bushes. Scottsdale straightened up and waited for the Delcatty's master to arrive. Jessica came out of the bushes with a giggle, dressed in a short spring green skirt and a light white and green striped tank top, her golden hair crowned by a sun hat.
"My, isn't this lovely weather we're having?" She cooed to Scottsdale.
"All right, I accept your offer." Scottsdale came out with it right away, frustrated and wanting to get this over with. Jessica smirked. "Thought you'd do that, then again, I do have you by your legs now, do I?"
Scottsdale tried to maintain neutrality while he flushed with embarrassment inside.
"You have the optical disk?" He asked.
Jessica reached into her handbag and procured the shiny disc. Scottsdale reached for it, but Jessica pulled it out from his grasp when he was about to take it. She waggled a finger at him. "Nu-uh, not until you show me the serum first. Then we'll talk about giving this back to you."
Scottsdale fumed inside while he tried to smile. "Hm, uncompromising, a nice thing to see in women your age. Right this way."
Jessica smirked and called her Delcatty into her arms before recalling it, then followed Scottsdale into the complex.
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"Ms. Mareva…"
"Call me Jessica."
Scottsdale cleared his throat. "How did you find out about this project? I was assured of its security."
Jessica made a mocking laugh. "Well, when you're on the web looking for kicks, digging into the black ops of a multi-national corporation, you're bound to find this sort of thing."
She put her hands behind her head. "I've seen them all. Cloning projects, mind control devices, performance enhancers, and new capture technology. That's why I was surprised when I stumbled upon project legend. It was so out of the blue, so promising, that I thought to myself. 'Hm, why hasn't anyone jumped at this?' Soo I did a little hacking scooped what I want, and decided to be that someone."
Scottsdale raised an eyebrow. "You could have asked."
Jessica gave him a charming smile. "Yeah, but it wouldn't be as fun. Plus, I like making someone like you squirm in the palm of my hand." She laughed at it as if she just told a joke.
She looked at one of the observatories. "Ohh, is that a Suicune?"
Scottsdale stopped. "That isn't the way to the labs."
Jessica turned to him, her skirt fluttering. " Yeah, but if I'm going to be with them, I might as well know who I'm sharing the dorms with, right?"
She looked through the glass. "Why is it sleeping?" She tapped at the glass. Scottsdale sighed. "Well, you're little 'hack attack' forced us to shut everything down, including the security protocols. That's why we nerve gassed them to be totally immobile until half the systems are up and running again." Scottsdale explained.
Jessica put a hand on her hip as she smiled. "According to the files, this Suicune was a beginner pokemon trainer and after you turned her, she did nothing but sit around and mope. Hm, if I was her, I'd be trying to use my powers to their fullest, even if it only purifies tainted waters." She turned to Scottsdale. "My second choice was Suicune, but I see you already have one."
She began to sway her hips as she walked past Scottsdale, walking down the hall. "So, are you going to show me all of them?"
Scottsdale put his palm to his face and sighed as he continued to walk down the hallway.
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"And at last, here are the labs."
Jessica looked through all the beakers and data graphs. "Hm, I expected more from the data files…" She turned to Scottsdale and pulled out the disk. "So, according to this, you retrieved a Rayquaza claw sample from the Hoenn region, yes?"
Scottsdale nodded. "Its all in the files you stole." She put a serious look. "I want to see it."
Scottsdale yawned. "May I ask why?"
Jessica closed her eyes. "I want to see the formula made right in front of me, so I'll know when you're trying to pull a fast one on me."
Scottsdale pushed the bridge of his glasses up. "Very careful, are we?"
She smirked. "Takes one to know one. You're not any sure that I'll give you what you want anymore than I am about you giving me what I want."
Scottsdale walked with a hand in his pocket when he raised the other one to his heart. "I'm a man of my word."
Jessica smirked. "Then show me the claw."
Scottsdale walked to another part of the lab and opened a door that led to a hallway that led to a steel door. He typed in a password at the terminal and the door slowly whooshed open. Jessica felt a slight chill on her legs and arms from the cold room. Scottsdale the went to a locker cabinet and typed in his combination and pulled it open. There, in a glass container, was the claw, the barb with several bloody specks on it. Jessica's eyes widened with awe. Here it was, a claw of the legendary she so admired.
She reached to touch the glass container when Scottsdale reached in and took it. He closed the cabinet and walked back to the main lab, Jessica following and watching as he sealed the room again.
Scottsdale took the claw to one of the genetic workstations and put it behind an airtight glass container in box with gloves attached to it. Scottsdale put his eyes to the microscopic eyepiece as he reached into the glove and took a nearby scalpel, scraping of the blood near the root of the claw into a collector. He scrapped what he needed and put the claw back in its container with in the glass box and took the box out.
"You have to understand, that with direct blood samples like the Lati, it's a lot more easier, but with fragments, you have to know what you're looking for. We were lucky it still had a piece of the beast's blood on it."
Jessica crossed her arms. "And all this virus needs is just a fragment of DNA to replicate it?"
Scottsdale grabbed the collector on a Petrie dish and took it to another part of the lab. "This base form of the virus made for the serum only requires a speck, but it is still astounding how it can replicate it that fast and initiate the transformation of the body into the body imprinted with in that DNA."
Jessica put her hands on the back of her head. "How do you think it does that?"
Scottsdale took a bottle and poured some fluid over the dish, collecting the specks into the slime and shaking the dish around. "It would require a large surge of energy. This virus displays such a startling intelligence, it knows where and how to target the body, and attacks that spot and replaces it with the carrier DNA into the host's genetic make-up. We noticed that a lot of the subjects display a gesture to sudden temperature change just before the transformation starts. We assume that it is a result of the virus absorbing all the host's potential energy into the cells that initiate transformation, and releasing it in a sudden burst of energy that allow the cells to work. An advance stage of cell apoptosis and cell growth begin at an alarming rate, we're still trying to figure out why at midnight?"
Jessica shrugged her shoulders. "Maybe to keep up with the old cliché?"
Scottsdale finished mixing the DNA and began to reach for a vial of a clear substance.
"Oh, is that the virus?" Jessica asked. Scottsdale took it. "This is the foundation that project legend is based on. With out this, the DNA is nothing but a relic." Jessica smirked. "Well then, I'm hoping that you're not planning on infecting me with a stage three batch. I know what it can do, poor Jared Caspian is a testament to its effects. If you want me to give you the disc, it's going to have to be two or lower."
Scottsdale smiled. "Jessica, now why would I do that and wipe one of the more brilliant minds on this planet away?"
"You didn't think Ms. Masterson was so brilliant when you wiped her mind away, and thanks for the comment but flattery will get you no where."
Scottsdale cursed inwardly when Jessica pointed to the microscope. "Put it in there so I can see if it's a stage one or three."
Scottsdale bitterly went there and put a bit of the liquid into the microscope. Jessica moved in and put her face to the eyepiece, bending over. Scottsdale flustered a little seeing her skirt nearly go up and looked to another part of the room.
Jessica stood up. "Do you have photos of the Suicune or Lugia boy's blood samples?"
Scottsdale pushed his glasses up. "We have a portion of the samples already in observation."
Jessica walked over to where he gestured and Scottsdale looked into the virus he just poured. She came back.
" Looks like a match, wouldn't you say so Doctor?"
Scottsdale looked up. He nodded and opened the lid of the viral vial. Jessica grabbed the DNA. "Let me pour it." She put it over the vial and watched as Scottsdale put a funnel like device over it and she poured. The substance had a green part at the top when the DNA contacted with it. Scottsdale then capped the lid and took it to the spinning synthesizer machine.
He put it on the rack and watched as it began to mix.
"Now all we have to do it wait and well soon have a newly prepared Rayquaza strain of the serum prepared."
"How long will that take?" Jessica held her hand in front of her as if inspecting for any dirt on her nails.
Scottsdale's eyes panned over her form. "It could take awhile."
Scottsdale took his glasses off to clean them and watched as Jessica stretched her arms above her with cat like grace. He turned away from her.
Come on Alexander, get a hold of yourself! You're almost 41 for Arceus sake! Now is not the time to have any adolescent thoughts!
She just kept her stare on the spinning device, not feeling Scottsdale's gaze on her.
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The device stopped spinning and the viral substance had turned into an emerald green color. Scottsdale took it out and held it before Jessica. "Here it is."
Scottsdale almost shuddered when her hands touched the vial, almost feeling the power beneath the thin millimeters of glass. Scottsdale took it out of her hands.
"A deal is a deal, the disk first, then your serum."
Jessica nodded and took it out. She put it in his hands. He fingered the disk in his hand and slipped it into his pocket. "Excellent."
He then took a syringe and stuck it into the vial, extracting some of the green substance into it. Jessica held her arm out. He held the needle over her arm. "A pleasure during business with you Mr. Mareva."
She winked. "Like wise, and it's not over yet."
Scottsdale stuck it into her skin and pushed, sending the virus into her system. She had an almost pleasurable expression on her face when she felt the substance pulse through her and entered her blood stream. She shuddered and rubbed the spot where Scottsdale extracted the syringe it. "And now, we wait. You must understand that after this injection you are now apart of project legends and therefore are not allowed to leave this complex." Scottsdale added.
Jessica smiled and winked. "Hey, you're a man of your word, I'm a lady of honor." She gave a peace sign to him.
Scottsdale gestured to her. "Come, I will escort you to your new home."
Jessica only stared at the spot where he injected, feeling the power slowly spread all over her.
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Scottsdale led Jessica to a large blank room with an observation glass on its wall. She then turned to him and gave him a Pokeball.
"My Espeon is in there. If I can't communicate with you telepathically, then I'll just have her read my mind and relay the thoughts to you. That way, I'll keep in touch. Got that?"
Scottsdale pocked the Pokeball. "Noted."
She also gave him her other Pokeballs.
He looked to his watch. "Enjoy you're last moments of humanity."
She sat on a lone chair pulled out for her and crossed her legs. "Oh, I'll more than likely enjoy my new life as a legend."
Scottsdale then closed the door and sealed it. A grunt came to him. "Boss, the wire heads sent me to tell ya that everything is up and running again."
Scottsdale smiled. "good."
That way, if Jessica is out of control, we'll be able to contain her…
He looked to the observation booth. "I'll need a few moments alone."
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It felt like days waiting for the hours to pass by. Jessica sat in the chair, waiting for midnight to come. Shoot, I should have said something like dusk so I wouldn't have to wait so long.
It took almost half the day to tour the complex and a few more hours preparing the Rayquaza synthesis. It was probably 8:00 or something when he injected her. And already that time has passed. She looked to her arm, feeling the power spreading through her. She was just waiting for it to burst out of her frail body and transform it into something mighty and powerful. She was always a girl for power, got her kicks from it, and now she was going to become an even more powerful being. It didn't matter that she had a powerful pokemon, now she was going to be one. Those others that had to be forced into it, they were fools for resisting.
Well, I'll make them change their minds…through my charm or my force…
She then got up and took off her shoes and reached into her handbag. She pulled out a long T-shirt and began to slip her skirt off. She wouldn't want her clothes to get ruined now would she? She bought the generic T-shirt just to have it destroyed when she grew. She slipped her shirt off and slid her underwear and bra off, and slipped the T-shirt over her body, the bottom coming to her knees. She folded her clothes into her handbag and sat in the chair again, waiting.
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Miyuki passed by one of the observation rooms and saw that Scottsdale was in one, watching the monitor coolly, staring at a girl. "Another subject Scottsdale?" he turned and straightened up. "Ah, Ms. Hanabi. I'm sure you are aware of our systems returning to full capacity after the breach?" Miyuki shook her head. "It amazes me how fast you are to get back on your feet."
She walked over and saw the girl waiting. "So who's this, another kidnapped child?"
Scottsdale looked to Miyuki and shifted his eyes but regained his cold demeanor. "You could say that…they had little trouble in acquiring her."
Miyuki tapped her lenses with her pen. "She looks like she was caught in her sleep or something and lie she's actually waiting for it to happen. Most would be kicking and cursing your name right about now."
Scottsdale paid no mind to her as he watched the clock. "It's almost time."
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Jessica decided to stretch when she felt a chill. She almost giggled with glee. "It's starting." She chucked to her self.
She felt all her body chill and rubbed her arms, then felt a sharp pain shoot through her. She winced, but managed her smile with one eye shut as she felt the changes begin.
Her legs rubbed together, the skin almost taking a liquid quality as they contacted, seeming to melt into each other, She fell on her dissolving knees and looked at her legs to see them twisting and merging and become one large solid tail, her feet loosing feeling and her nerves connecting with her tail, and stretching out , her former feet stiffening into ridges at the end of her tail. Her skin began to crack in some areas and thicken, becoming hard as bone around her new tail and become almost armor like.
The felt her spine begins to elongate as her body began to stretch out wards and become longer and taller. She laughed as she felt her organs tickle and began to increase with her growing body. Her puny frame began to bulk up as her muscles began to expand, her delicate arms becoming stronger. She reached a hand in front of her face and watched as her slender fingers began to merge, her index and middle finger merging and thumb and merging fingers became three strong powerful claws. She opened and closed her reptilian hand, almost feeling Euphoria in spite of the pain.
Her torso expanded, shredding her tight shirt, her breast already devoured by the expanding trunk of her body. She watched as her creamy skin began to melt into a wave of green scale across her growing body. She felt to rectangle ridges poke out of her back and felt her neck thickening, her laughs becoming deep roars.
yes! Yes! This is power! Yes!
Her blond hair fell out and her ears began to stretch back and become the long horns on the back of Rayquaza's head. Her smile and cheeks split as her jaw bone began to expand outward, her nose melding with the top of her mouth and stretching with her jaw bone, becoming broader and longer until she had powerful snapping jaws. Her gums swallowed her teeth as new sharp teeth began to form. The remainder of her bottom lip became red and traveled along her jaw line.
She felt her eyes sink as ridges formed at the top of her head and some more bony plates formed at the bottom of her neck. Then golden rings began to form on segments of her body. She felt reborn, she felt alive, she felt power, she felt excitement. She reared her head back and roared a fierce roar.
She was Rayquaza.
And it felt great.
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Scottsdale watched as the Rayquaza that was once Jessica Mareva roared with a roar of Euphoria that chilled his spine. He then watched as she coiled up and seemed to be caressing her tail and testing and stretching her new body. Even as a large legendary, she still retained that grace she had when she was human. Miyuki looked disturbed. "..There's something...not quite right about this one."
You don't know the half of it…
Scottsdale thought to himself when he saw Jessica give a reptilian grin to him.
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And there! Whew! Got this chap done! Jessica is definitely the most sadistic character I handled since Miki from Quarantine. I thought I would also give some possible scientific explanation for how the virus works. Don't know if its official, but it's a theory for the legendary strain. Also, we are reminded of Daniel's homesickness. And seeds of suspicion have been planted for Miyuki. But I think the central focus of this chap is Jessica and her interaction with Scottsdale. He's human too, and I thought I'd through in some implied things to show this. Well, please review! Jonesycat, out! MEE-YAA!