The Party After (Part 2)

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Earlier in the week,Garrett had been seven feet tall and a rising star on the college’s mens basketball team. Of course, that was before the body swapping incident. Now he stood in the body of a blonde woman at a mere 5’2”. He had been nervous about what would happen to his athletic scholarship since the incident, especially after a particularly embarrassing practice at the gym.

But something was hitting differently at this party. The nervousness he was feeling just seemed more intense. He was clutching the beer in his red Solo cup tighter. He found himself looking up at so many people, but it wasn’’t his short height that was making him feel vulnerable...it was his new gender.

As a tall guy, he could seem pretty intimidating. But as a short woman, he was now the one being intimidated. There were guys leering at him, a few inappropriate gestures, and a lewd comment of two. And what if one of them actually tried something? He couldn’t exactly fight anyone off in this body. Heck, he could barely get a ball into a hoop anymore -- and that was something he used to be good at! He told himself he was going to leave early and find a friend who would safely escort him back to his dorm room for extra protection.

Quarantine

Bill had lost track of the days since he was put into isolation. Every day a scientist would enter and he would ask from his bubble, “How long have I been in here.”

Today the scientist replied, “Three months.”

And Bill would follow up with the same question, “Can you let me out yet?”

And once again, the scientist shook his head with a “No.” They were doing all they could to make sure Bill wasn’t contageous, but they still didn’t know. The Transformation Virus had been devistating a few months ago -- people’s body would undergo dramatic physical changes with few other symptoms, and then spend about a month as a completely different person before finally dieing.

Bill, of course, had survived his transformation -- the only patient who contracted to virus to have done so. He had transformed into a young woman who seemed to be 20 years younger than his own actual age. Immediate quarantine was the only solution to stop the spread. Despite their small size, the bubbles could keep people fed, exercised, and entertained. However, no one envisioned them to be used as long as Bill had. He was a medical mystery that they just couldn’t risk releasing.

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My sister soon activated the chamber and I once again found myself in a new body. This new form felt even better, and I knew I had to thank her. My sister dismissed my gratitude and just wanted to be back in her own body.

The woman currently inside my sister’s body was swearing loudly right about now. I could only imagine how mad she was going to get in a minute when she ends up in my body.

And, sure enough, once I activated the machine to restore my sister to her original body, leaving the woman she had brought now trapped in my body, there was more yelling and banging. But then there was silence.

I consulted with my sister, and we decided we’d have to risk opening up the chamber to let her out. As we opened the door, my body tumbled out with a huge bloody gash on the head. We didn’t know if the woman had done it by accident or if she had simply been so distraught when she found herself in my body that she had intentionally inflicted the injury upon herself. Either way, we were quickly rushing to the hospital.

Radioactive

After accidental exposure to nuclear materials, Wesley’s body began changing. It started with rapid weight loss and losing a significant amount of body hair. As doctors and scientists examined him and treated him for any radiation exposure, they noticed his body continuing to change. There was a strange swelling of his chest and his genitals were clearly shrinking. Within a few hours, they realized Wesley had become a woman by all observable metrics.It was like nothing they had ever seen before, and the condition was made even stranger by the fact that there seemed to be nothing else wrong. It was as if Wesley hadn’t been exposed to radioactive materials at all.

Within a few hours, Wesley was back up on his feet and walking around as if nothing was wrong -- nothing except his new gender, that is. The doctors wanted to examine him further, but he asked for a few minutes of fresh air first. Stepping outside, he felt a rush of something he had never felt before. It wasn’t just an adjustment due to his new gender, however. It was more than that -- it was like a power inside that he could feel manifesting. He focused it on his hand, and it began to glow. It felt like he could shoot fire from his fingertips. But instead of testing that theory, he calmed himself, knowing the scientists inside were already prodding him based on what they could see. If he manifested superpowers, they’d never let him leave! So he calmed the power, his hand stopped glowing, and he returned inside.

Are You Alright?

After the flash of light, the first thing I remembered was hearing my wife screaming. “Gerald! Gerald! Are you alright?” She asked.

Her voice sounded distant and it didn’t seem to be getting any closer, so I shouted back, “I’m over here.”

I could tell my voice seemed strange and my head was throbbing. I tried rubbing my scalp to help deal with the pain. I could feel a strange fluffiness that I didn’t realize at the time was additional hair.

It took a while for my other senses to come back to me. I’d turn around to see my wife helping another man to his feet -- a man seemed to look like me. I’d learn that other man was actually my body; I had swapped into a woman’s body a few feet away. Most people in the world swapped bodies with someone else in that moment, leaving a few people unaffected -- like my very confused wife.

I was probably a little more fortunate than most that day. Though it still took a while for me to adapt to becoming a woman, I eventually adjusted. I think my wife took it harder than I did, but she got used to it as well...