Chapter 4
Changes?

A massive magical pink explosion rocked the Koopa Kingdom, expanding ever more outward. A massive pink light raced across the land. The light engulfed forests, plains, towns, cities… If the Mario World was seen from space, the rapidly moving pink wave would seem to cross the entire planet. The wave completed its coverage of the planet then vanished just as quickly as it appeared.

"—please! Please open your eyes!" Bowser felt someone shaking him and awoke groggily. "Did… did it work?" Bowser asked. He could barely see or hear anything, but it was already clearing. "I'm afraid not." Kamek laments. Bowser looked around and noticed Kamek was holding his head up. "Oh well. Back to the drawing… board…" Bowser felt odd. Shakily he got to his feet, but then something threw his balance off and he almost toppled to the ground again.

Kamek caught the Koopa King. "You shouldn't strain yourself." Kamek said concerned. "I'm fine Ka…" Bowser looked around and noticed the Super Crown in pieces on the floor. He tried to walk over and pick it up but had a hard time keeping his feet steady. He looked down at the crown and suddenly noticed his considerable… assets. "What do you mean it didn't work!?" Bowser shouted in surprise and held her new breasts.

Kamek looked at his ruler confused as she gropes herself. "The Super Crown did not turn you into a male Koopa as expected my Queen. No apparent changes at all. You simply screamed in pain and passed out I'm afraid." Bowser just stares at Kamek for a bit. "But… it was supposed to make me a woman…" Bowser said meekly. He… or she took a step back and almost fell from the heels she was wearing.

"Um… my Queen Bowsette? You've always been a woman." Kamek said he was confused at the weird situation, but he was smart enough to know something was up. "What!? No I wasn't you dunderhead! I'm the great Koopa King! Then I had you tinker with the crown and put it on…" Bowser, or Bowsette, was never the sharpest knife in the drawer but they looked around the lab as the wheels started to turn. Bowser knew there was a mirror around here somewhere in all this equipment…

Finally finding a full-length mirror amid some old magic junk Bowser couldn't care less about he hung it on the wall and stared at what he saw before him. 'This was what I wanted right? But now Kamek is acting weird…' "My Queen…?" Bowser whipped around and growled "SHUT UP Kamek!" before turning back to the mirror.

In the reflective surface was, frankly, one of the most gorgeous women Bowser had ever seen. He watches the woman in the mirror mimic him as he reached up and touched the horns protruding from his head like always, but then headed down to grasp the long red locks of hair running down her shoulders, the same fiery reddish orange color he remembered having, but of course he'd never let it get THAT long! Bowser opens his eye wider with his fingers and takes a closer look, red irises like usual, but the pupils have changed to look narrow and reptilian, something he recalled his great grandfather from portraits having but few other Koopas in his line did.

His… or her eyelashes were long and immaculately layered with red mascara, the red eyebrows plucked to a pencil thin shape, but aside from that it seemed that natural beauty was her only makeup. Bowser focused his eye down to his cheeks and neck, noticing scales the color of human skin ran the whole length of his body, but the scales were so tiny that he mistook it from simple human skin at first until he looked closer. They felt like skin to the touch too, more or less, though some parts were more obvious and bumpier even to the naked eye.

Bowser felt a stab of terror as he continued to look, thinking of what might have changed. He opened his mouth to find his teeth were still strong and sharp as ever, even if his face in general was much like a typical human. He looked back and noticed his tail, which he rarely thought much about, was still there, coming out the back of his clothes. His spiked shell was smaller but still present, just big enough he could tuck his arms and legs into it if need be to protect himself. His hands and arms seemed delicate if muscular and strong, but his hands and fingers were humanlike, ending in long claws rather than the fingernails humans had that extended a bit as he flexed.

As for what he was wearing, it was a long and elegant black sleeveless dress mostly unadorned except for a red symbol of what he can presume is his own face but altered to match his new look hung on the center of his breasts. He was wearing black high heels to go along with it. One thing hadn't changed, his spiked collar and wristbands were still there, if smaller, while his arms were free and uncovered.

'His? No, not anymore…' Bowser… Bowsette thought. "Kamek… what the hell just happened?" It always took Bowser a while more than most to pick up on things. "It worked, I changed but you don't think I ever…" Bowser starts as something occurs to her and wobbles over to the door as fast as she can manage it. Bowser grabs the door and flings it open with ease. 'At least I haven't gotten any weaker.' Bowser noted with a bit of relief.

"My Queen? Where are you…" Kamek trails off behind, befuddled by his Queen's strange behavior. Maybe the crown did do something? Kamek looks down at the crown for only a moment, it was in useless bits before him. Kamek put it behind him literally and figuratively as he rushed after his Mistress. 'She looked like she had never walked in heels before…' Kamek noted, but at least he didn't have much issue keeping up with his suddenly hysterical queen.