Author note:
This story got a page on TV Tropes, slowly all my stories will end up taking pride of place.
I hope you enjoy this new chapter.
The reviews and comments help me a lot to improve my writing and the speed of publication of new chapters.
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Story Arc: Welcome to the wonderland of nanotechnology.
Episode 1: Evolution (I)
Chapter 1: Explore the ruins
Plot : Anne and Marcy have reached the bottom of the shaft. After Marcy shows one of her many hidden talents.
The girls begin to explore the rest of the mysterious facility.
Unfortunately, things take a turn for the worse, and the girls are about to go through a very painful time.
But what doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger.
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POV Narrator
Anne and Marcy have come down through the shaft, the place is rather dark and narrow, perfectly cylindrical in shape.
The girls have received a small look update. Around their arms and legs are glow-in-the-dark bracelets, and between their clothes are glow-in-the-dark sticks.
Before descending into the mysterious structure, Marcy had the brilliant idea of preparing a light source to face the dark.
"Mom wanted me to throw away my collection of arcade prizes, saying I'll never need them." Anne said, a cocky smirk on her lips.
"Your mild case of hoarding has come in handy." said Marcy, able to use Anne's little flaws for the greater good.
"Mar-Mar, you may not use complicated words to describe me." Anne said, losing some of her cocky smile, feeling stupid when Marcy uses her extensive vocabulary.
" As you wish, Anna-Banana, I am always open to your requests. " Marcy replies, ready to do anything for Anne, truly anything ...
Finally, after what seems like an eternity, but is actually about five minutes, the two girls made it to the bottom of the vent.
The first thing Marcy did was sit upside down on the cold floor.
" When I missed having a floor under my feet, I was starting to get tired in my arms and legs with this descent." Marcy complains about physical activity.
The nerdy girl would have preferred to be stuck in a world that is more Cyberpunk and less Jurassic Park.
" Need a short break or a massage against cramps ?" She asks Anne, innocently, as she touches Marcy's shoulder, wanting to help her best friend.
' I'm stuck in a dark narrow place, with Anne wearing only a sports bra and holding a glow stick between her breasts, she asks me if I want a massage!?
What should I do !?' Marcy thinks, trying and failing to keep her cool.
Quite an understandable thing, a shy girl accompanied by the love of her life, who is half naked, can melt anyone's brain.
If the vent weren't so dark and dimly lit, you'd see that Marcy's face has turned completely red.
"Anne, is that a control panel!?" Marcy said, pointing her finger at a section of the wall.
The nerdy girl, if she doesn't get away from Anne, is in serious danger of losing her mind or passing out.
Anne turns in the direction indicated by Marcy, narrowing her eyes she can see something attached to the wall.
"I think you've discovered something?" Anne said, walking towards the wall, holding up one of the glow sticks to get a better look.
Anne is not a scientific genius and all her knowledge of archeology comes from Indiana Jones, but she can identify a digital lock when she sees it.
Inserted on the wall is a rectangular shaped metal panel, at the top is a keyboard with ten strange symbols, while at the bottom is a button.
" Mar-Mar, I think we've found a digital lock." Anne said, informing her best friend of their discovery.
"You think you can pick it, if I've learned one thing from the movies, it's that the more locks and defenses a place has, the more valuable the contents." Anne said, with a great deal of enthusiasm in her voice, being able to imagine…there are crates of food somewhere.
Don't judge Anne too harshly.
Right now her only priorities are to fill her stomach and protect her friend, Marcy.
The rest of the stuff like a hot shower or finding medical supplies are in the back of his mind.
Marcy's brain, hearing the words lock and pick, manages to put aside the hormones and bring out its immense knowledge of nerds.
" In most of the games, I play the role of the witch, but I'm also good at being a thief." Marcy said, walking over to the digital lock, examining it carefully.
"Give me, five minutes." Marcy said, in a calm and confident tone, the polar opposite of how she used to be.
The miracles of being in one's element.
Marcy pulled a screwdriver and pliers out of her shoulder bag.
"How or why do you have a screwdriver and pliers with you?" Anne asks, trying not to sound hypocritical, after all, you might find an inflatable swimming pool in her backpack.
"Every now and then, I manage to lose my house or car keys." Marcy confesses, in an embarrassing tone.
The nerdy girl is sometimes too focused on video games or her sexy girlfriends to notice that she dropped her keys by mistake.
" After the third time I was locked out, I learned how to pick locks and keep my new friends, Ratchet and Clank, with me at all times." Marcy said, with a confident smile, crossing her arms as she holds Ratchet (screwdriver) and Clank (pliers).
"You look so beautiful when you act like an otaku." said Anne, considering this trait of Marcy unique and endearing.
' Anne called me beautiful !' Marcy thinks, feeling her grip on her tools weaken.
"Have you never been confused with a thief?" asks Anne, slightly worried that this habit might cause problems for Marcy.
"No, I'm just too good. To unlock my car, I need thirty seconds to open the door and one minute to start the engine." Marcy said, in a proud tone, not exaggerating her abilities in the slightest.
"Why didn't you ever tell me about this talent, you're a great girl?" asks Anne, curious as to why Marcy hid this ability.
"Because I was afraid Sasha might get some weird ideas if she knew I can bypass most security systems in minutes." Marcy said, bitterly, aware that Sasha can sometimes get caught up in her ideas and not think too long about the consequences.
"I'd like to say something to defend Sasha, but we ended up here because we stole from an antique shop." Anne said, having mixed feelings about Sasha at the moment.
"I wonder what would have happened if we had stolen something else?" asks Anne, not wanting to think about her blonde friend with a strong personality.
"We could have mistakenly stolen a time machine disguised as a sports car." Marcy jokes, being able to imagine that it ends in a scenario like Back to the Future or Doctor Who.
"The break is over, time to lock in." Marcy said, focusing on the current objective of this scouting mission.
XXX
After exactly five minutes, Marcy finished working on the digital lock.
'Let's see if my talent works in other worlds too.' Marcy thinks, as she cuts a blue thread with the pliers.
A section of the wall splits in two, revealing an exit from the shaft.
"Am I brilliant or am I brilliant?" Marcy asks, arrogantly, holding up her ever-useful tools in the air.
" Marcy Wu, you are the smartest person I know." Anne said, as she grabs Marcy's hand to keep her close to hers.
"Let's go see what we find in this strange place." Anne said, walking through the entryway, with Marcy beside her.
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The two girls from Los Angeles entered a hexagonal metal corridor.
The floor is obsidian black, while the walls and ceiling are a more lavender color.
Installed on the ceiling and on some sections of the wall at regular intervals are panels that emit neon-purple light.
"Whoever built this place likes purple and black too much." Comments Anne, wanting a little more variety through these aisles.
" To me, I like it, I would have replaced the purple with a nice green. But I wouldn't change anything else. It's like I'm on board a spaceship." Marcy Wu said, in a surprised voice.
The nerdy girl is so caught up in the futuristic environment, that he doesn't care about Anne and her handshake.
The girls continued walking in a straight line through the corridor, stopping in front of some kind of futuristic elevator.
"Should I get out my tools?" Marcy asks, ready to repeat her magic number.
Anne not wanting to just watch and hold the light for Marcy, decides to do something useful.
"First let's see if your talents are needed, aren't all the doors to this place locked?" Anne said, proceeding to press the elevator button.
After that… the elevator doors opened and… nothing else.
" Finally, something easy around here !" Anne exclaims, appreciating not having to run or use ugly force to get anything done.
"I wish I could find a treasure chest before proceeding to the next level." Marcy comments, hoping to find an intermediate level item during this exploration.
" Mar-Mar, we're not in a video game. You shouldn't rely too much on your own experiences as a gamer." Anne said, not wanting her best friend to do anything reckless because of her fantasy.
"I'm aware of this, but it's really hard not to feel the emotion of being inside an Isekai." Marcy said, sure that many other nerds would have reacted the same way if they were in the same situation as her.
The two girls entered the elevator and the doors closed behind them.
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"So far, everything is going well, there are no obvious predators or dangers. Except the huge amount of purple neon." Comments Anne, finding the change of scene refreshing.
Although this place could do with less strong lights.
"Some things are universal." Marcy declares, ceasing to look at the elevator as if it were a last generation PS5.
" If you put aside the cylindrical shape and futuristic aesthetics, it looks like an ordinary elevator." Marcy comments, looking at the elevator control panel, with a dozen buttons, each covered with a geometric symbol.
"The numbers of sides of geometric shapes indicate the number. Three lines equal the number three, two squares equal eight, two squares and two lines equal ten." Marcy said, managing to figure out more or less how the numbers in this structure work.
' Instead of using prime numbers, use geometric shapes. Whoever built this place has serious head problems.' Think Anne, starting to dislike the architect of this place.
"Ten buttons? It means there are ten levels. Where should we go? To level two or directly to the top floor?" She asks Anne, turning her head in Marcy's direction.
"Better proceed to the second floor, it's safer." Marcy said, not wanting to go straight into the final boss.
Before Marcy or Anne could press a button, the elevator moved on its own.
The calm of the two girls slowly melted.
"Mar-Mar, did you touch one of the buttons?" Anne asks, cautiously, pulling out her pickaxe.
"I didn't even touch the control panel. Maybe we activated a voice command or a motion sensor?" Marcy said, not too sure of her assumptions.
Entering this mysterious place is an opportunity that promises great rewards and just as many risks.
"Mar-Mar, you may be right or you may be wrong, but I'd be better off if you were behind me." Anne said, in a serious tone, not wanting to see how Marcy can get hurt.
Before Marcy could say anything, the elevator doors opened.
Anne went out first, holding the pick as if it were a battle axe.
At the elevator exit, there are a pair of metal spheres, equipped with four long tentacles.
"Machine or giant insects, no one can mess with me or Mar-Mar!" Anne exclaims, swinging the pickaxe at the strange robots, wanting to eliminate them.
Unfortunately at the moment, Anna-Banana is a mere sixteen-year-old girl, with no abilities that enter the realm of the superhuman.
The first mechanical creature literally moved, dodging Anne's blow.
After that, the robot uses its tentacles to grab hold of Anne, capturing her arms and legs.
" Put down your ugly tentacles. If you don't want to end up dismantled in a landfill!" Anne exclaims, hurling a threat at the squid-like machine.
Marcy seeing Anne, wasted no time in pulling something out of her bag to harm the strange robots.
Too bad the machines are faster than a teenage girl's hands.
Robot number two, using its four tentacles captured Marcy, with extreme speed.
If Anne, who is an athlete with excellent marks in sports and won some prizes, she cannot defeat one of these machines.
What hope could a nerdy girl who can barely make it through her weekly sports class have?
" This is not an Isekai, but a bloody Hentai !" Marcy yells, going into a slight (a lot) panic.
BIRI BIRI!
The tentacles of the two emotionless machines emitted a "small" electric shock.
" Anne !" cries Marcy, worried sick about what might happen to her best friend, who has been stealing her heart for years.
"Marcy!" cries Anne, with tears in her eyes, trying to struggle with the grasp of the tentacles, but all in vain.
The last thing the two girls from Los Angeles felt was the pain of electricity running through every cell of their bodies and an indescribable fear.
Not fear for her own health, but an unprecedented dread of what might happen to her best friend.
XXX
After an unspecified amount of time.
In an armored room located on the tenth and top floor of the building, there are Marcy and Anne.
Each girl lies flat on a circular metal table, with her arms and legs tied to the table, using energy cuffs, held in a T-shaped position.
Marcy and Anne were stripped of their clothing, leaving them completely stripped of any form of protection or modesty.
Around each girl's right wrist is a sort of complex tattoo in the shape of a barcode.
As it is cattle are branded for ease of identification, Squad Marcanne has suffered the same fate, albeit via more advanced means.
Above each girl's head is a special spelling screen filled with medical information about genetic structure and brain composition.
Anne's screen shows the following data:
[Subject 6-2-6, stable and ready for surgery.
Genetic compatibility with Nanites: 88%.
Psychic Compatibility with Nanites: 73%.
Default package: Ex Machina.]
The screen that concerns Marcy shows the following data:
[Subject 6-2-7, stable and ready for surgery.
Genetic compatibility with Nanites: 65%.
Psychic Compatibility with Nanites: 98%.
Default Package: Kagune.]
[Start, experiment.]
Mechanical arms have come out of both tables, which look like stingers.
Squad Marcanne has been injected with a fair amount of Nanites, engineered by an Artificial Intelligence, dedicated to amoral experimentation.
Anne's entire body has begun to be covered in circuit-like tattoos, glowing fluorescent blue.
The arm and leg areas were covered with a greater amount of shiny tattoos.
"haaaaaaa!" Anne cried aloud, waking up to the intense pain that was coursing through her body.
The nerdy girl is also going through a similar experience.
Marcy's entire body has begun to be covered in circuit-like tattoos, glowing neon green.
The head and chest area have been covered with an increased amount of brilliant tattoos.
" Anne !" Marcy yells, thinking first of all of her best friend.
On both screens appeared, the universal symbol for danger.
[Anomaly detected, both subjects are subatomically connected to an unknown energy signature.]
A blue and green aura enveloped the girls' bodies as their bodies began to undergo changes.
A huge number of black and blue metallic protuberances began to grow from Anne's body.
Marcy's table was abruptly destroyed, as four different sets of "tentacles" exploded from Marcy's back, looking like they came from Tokyo Ghoul.
Anne and Marcy have just become
Amphibia's first EVOs and they are uncontrollable!
"AAAAAAAAAHHH!" Both girls let out an inhuman, bestial cry.
Clearly, gaining superpowers is not a stable and secure process.
[Start preceded by ejection]
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Girls are about to become a big "problem" for the small town of Wartwood and its inhabitants, especially for the Plantar Family.
Continues ...