After a few seconds of silence, the whine of the electric pumps starting up was a welcome relief to Taylor as Noriko finished typing and began turning on various scanners and other equipment, including a video camera, "Well, you can't back out now. Hold your arms out, close your eyes, breath through your nose, and try not to use your powers when you feel anything, anything at all. Whether it's pain or a sudden burst of pleasure, don't use your powers until the transformation is complete."

Taylor glared at Noriko's blurry figure, "If I die or have to be treated by Panacea, I'm telling your Mom."

"On my honour as a proud Japanese girl, I swear you will be fine." Noriko's figure shifted just as the sprayers came alive and began drenching her in the rust-coloured chemical that began soaking into her skin and hair. After that, there was no more conversation as Taylor concentrated on keeping it out of her eyes and Noriko fiddled with the devices aimed at the test chamber.

The spray continued for several minutes and Taylor so far didn't feel anything strange or out of the ordinary before they cut off, dripping red liquid down onto the soaked concrete floor as it flowed into recessed drains. Looking around while slicking her soaked hair back to try and squeeze out some of the chemicals, Taylor shrugged, "I guess it's not working."

Noriko didn't say a word as Taylor removed her glasses and slipped them over her eyes as she kept talking, "Or does it have a-aaaagh!" She doubled over as she felt lances of agony ripple across her spine, "Oh god! What was that? Feels like my skin is on fire!"

"Taylor," Noriko's voice was cold and precise, "Turn around and show my your back. Quickly."

Shakily rising back onto her feet Taylor forced her body, now feeling like an army of centipedes were crawling under her skin, to turn and display her back as Noriko made a noise of interest, "Hmm, interesting. The bone growth of your spine is actually out stripping the rest of your body. Taylor, does everything look like it's shrinking in height to you?"

Taylor blinked away tears as fresh pain tore through her back, "Y-y-Yes! It all looks like it's shrinking! Noriko! Please! What's going o-AAAAAGH!" She staggered as a wet tearing sound echoed in the basement.

"I'm so glad my parents are on vacation in Vegas." Noriko remarked as she check the read-out on a scanner. "Okay Taylor, you want the bad news or the good news first?"

"Ba-AAAAAAAAAARGH!"

"Okay, the bad news is this: My calculations were off. And I mean so way off I might as well come out and say that I fucked up somewhere. What's happening to you isn't just some kind of freak accident. This was always going to happen."

Taylor struggled to remain standing as her back hunched forward with ugly popping and ripping sounds, the girl suddenly feeling something sharp and realising that she was growing fangs! She struggled to speak through the pain and small bursts of intense pleasure now making themselves known, "And the gooOOOOOooooh...."

"That is the good news. This was always going to happen! Taylor! I think I figured it out! There's simulation data here that I always initially assumed was junk is actually a means to predict not just the growth of your body, but also what could be changes to your powers!"

Taylor didn't reply with words, instead expressing her opinion with a violent, animal roar as she slammed her balled fists into the concrete and cracked the material, watching as sharp claws began to sprout from the tips of her fingers while the various muscles in her body began to finally swell just as a wave of pure pleasure erupted inside her.

She didn't resist, just let loose a growling moan as bones cracked and popped and skin stretched to tear in places, exposing pulsing muscle as Noriko simply sat there taking notes, adjusting a device or two while watching the spectacle.

Her view was all the more enjoyable since Taylor's butt was pointed towards the Japanese girl and Noriko watched Taylor's swollen, pulsing, pussy eject stream after stream of a clear, thick liquid that pooled on the chemical-stained floor like partially-melted gelatine. And in the cold air of the basement, she could see the steam coming from Taylor's mouth and her drooling pussy.

Idly, Noriko decided to make Peach Jello and some Melonpan later, she knew that those were Taylor's favourites when she stayed the night, and she would have to since there was no way she could go home as she was.

Her attention returned to Taylor as she noted the rate of muscle growth and her mind went over the data she was being presented as Taylor continued to growl, roar and moan while her body continued to expand.

'Hmm. I'd say biceps are about twenty-eight inches...no, thirty-two. Body looks about proportionate for the growth experienced so about...I want to say nine feet and eight inches. Impressive. Should I ask her to present her chest? Mayb-'

Taylor roared, spinning around to present her mutated, hyper-muscular upper body now firmly supported by a pair of massive clawed legs while her taloned hands scraped the chemical-hardened plastic barrier with a scraping noise; Noriko stared at the claw marks left on a material she had seen block one of Lung's fire blasts without a scorch mark, before focusing on the pulsing, twitching bumps that had formed along Taylor's upper body.

'Huh, that's something.'

Noriko watched as Taylor's breasts, her main ones her mind labelled helpfully, began to swell rapidly while the Japanese teen mentally compared the relative cup sizes in her head. She managed to reach basketballs when they finished swelling, capped with a set of rather impressively large nipples on compact areolae.

Noriko's gaze shifted downwards to see that underneath the main breasts, a set of four secondaries were now slowing their growth into an H-Cup and a G-Cup respectively. Still, they looked fairly small in comparison to the massive muscles surrounding them, but Noriko had a feeling most people would focus on the optical illusion caused by the increase size in relation to Taylor's head.

'No actual shrinkage, and I doubt she's actually dumber or more animalistic despite the noises she's making. Just the way she looks with those shoulders and pecs. Hmm, I should probably try to get her attention.'

Noriko stood up, careful not to block the camera's view as Taylor's growth finally slowed to a halt, leaving the transformed teen kneeling with eyes closed, steam escaping her mouth with each exhalation and Noriko noted the small trail of steam from Taylor's vagina as well.

'Much higher core temperature. Makes sense. I'll have to check the deep-penetration scans to check to see if that junk data related to the chest organs is correct. If it is, then it would explain how conservation of energy and mass are being defeated.'

"How do you feel?" Taylor's eyes snapped open at the question and Noriko blinked as two massive fists smashed into the plastic barrier.

"How do I feel?" Her voice was still feminine and still rather attractive, and Noriko considered that the deep animal growling only served to enhance that same attractiveness, "I feel like I had molten metal poured into me followed by what had to be the most intense fuck of my life. So yeah, I feel great right now..."

The fists unfurled, talons dragging down the barrier, "I'm also pissed off! What the hell Noriko! I look like a freak!" She growled, shifting her body as she tried to stand, forced into a hunched position due to her height, "You had damn well be able to reverse this!"

"Who do you think I am? Kid Win? Unlike that retard, I am a certified genius, so of course I can reverse it!" Noriko pointed to a clear liquid on a work-bench, "Universal reversion serum, it'll work first time, guaranteed. Even my simulations aren't wrong about that."

"So?" Taylor rumbled, "Let me out and turn me back!"

"You sure I can't get some basic movement and power-testing data off you first Taylor?" Noriko asked in reply with hopeful eyes. Taylor's claws penetrated through the plastic as yellow eyes with strange, alien pupils glared at her, prompting a sigh, "Fine. Let me drop the barrier. Oh, and Taylor?"

A growl, "What?"

"You dropped your glasses."

Taylor blinked and glanced behind her to see her glasses, thankfully still intact, lying on the ground. Carefully reaching over, she picked them up and placed them back into the container so they wouldn't get damaged. After doing some fiddling, the plastic barrier was gently lowered the ground as Noriko inspected the talon-marks.

"Damn," She whistled, "You penetrated five inches of plastic that had been reinforced by one of my Tinker-chemicals. That proves something about the Brute rating powering those muscles of yours." Standing up from her crouch, she pulled out an Earth-Aleph made digital camera, "Before we turn you back, I want to do some measurements and take a few photos of your body and then we'll...Taylor, stop playing with your breasts."

Taylor jerked and her massive hands dropped from where they had been cupping her main breasts while one of them toyed with the two sets of secondaries. Her bestial but still female face smiled a toothy, fang-filled grin, "Okay Noriko, maybe there's just one advantage to this. Just one mind you, because I don't know how this..." She waved at her massive, mutated body, "How this could be a benefit. Not only that, it feels weird using my powers, like something is supposed to be happening."

Noriko made to answer when an alarm beeped. Spitting out a curse in Japanese, she dashed over to a wall terminal made from various computers and studied the screen.

She turned to Taylor, "It's the Empire and ABB; two sets of contacts coming from opposite ends of the street. Looks like a land grab."

Taylor nodded, "Give me the reversion serum then."

Noriko shook her head, "It takes four hours for it to fully flush your body and transform something back, and they're already moving. Fuck, if only we had some time you could probably try and use your powers to fight them off with my help."

Taylor's lips curled in a snarl, "Great..." She looked around, considering her options, before huffing a rumbling sigh, "Noriko, do you have any idea what sort of changes might have been done to my powers. Because I know something has changed."

"Not sure, that was what I was hoping you'd help me with. If you use your powers, you'll be flying blind. But I do know that nothing short of a fully ramped-up Lung or Crawler is going to leave any scars on you. Which is good because Lung is out there according to my sensors."

Taylor held up a hand and studied her talons and the killing-sharp edges on them. Her face set in a determined expression as she placed a large hand on Noriko's shoulder.

"I'll go."

Noriko turned to Taylor, who smiled and revealed all of her sharp teeth.

"Might as well see just what I can do."

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Chapter 1: Street Fight

Taylor studied her body in the mirror Noriko provided while her best friend, her only friend really, continued to monitor the Empire 88 and ABB movements with her equipment. Right now a steady stream of japanese curse words filled the air while Taylor turned her body to check out her back, grimacing as she saw what had interested Noriko so much.

Her spine had torn through the skin which had peeled back to reveal bone and rippling, exposed muscle. What caught her interest was the thick, flexible cartilage locking her spine together and how thick the bones actually looked now that she had placed eyes on them. She flexed her back muscles in a clumsy imitation of what a bodybuilder might do, watching muscles swell except for two prominent bulges just under her shoulders running parallel with her spine on both sides.

What Taylor didn't quite understand was the presence of sharp spurs on her spinal bones. Was that some kind of defence? She could understand the claws and the enhanced strength was pretty obvious when Taylor looked at her swollen arms. If she was any shorter she doubted she could keep them at her sides and even with her massive nine-foot-tall frame her bulging muscles meant that it took a bit of effort to do something like touch her nose or under her eyes.

Speaking of eyes and nose, Taylor had told Noriko about her newly-enhanced sense of smell and how she could filter what she was smelling to which Noriko had quickly thrown together a quick test of her abilities followed by a test to see if Taylor's new eyes could see in more than one spectrum or wavelength. Not bad when her nose had sunken into her face.

So far she didn't have X-Ray vision but she could see heat and in total darkness which was in line with what Noriko called 'a basic predatory ability set' before returning to the scanners.

"Okay, looks like they've stopped near Highpoint Street." Noriko's voice brought Taylor out of her musings and the giant teenage mutant strode over to her friend's location with heavy, thumping steps as the Tinker continued, "Hmm, no sign of Oni Lee, Kamaitachi, or Hone-Onna. Not even Bakuda. Lung's alone with a bunch of normals while it looks like the Empire sent Hookwolf, Beserker and Freya to do this."

Taylor's bestial, nearly snake-like, face twisted into an icy expression of animalistic hate, "Freya..." Her central slit-pupil narrowed as the six smaller ones widened and her hand gripped Noriko's chair hard enough to make the plastic creak. Memories of the woman flowed into her mind and it was only when she noticed Noriko staring at her that Taylor realised that the vibration she was feeling in her chest was a low, hateful, growl.

'Freya...I'll make you pay.'

Taylor turned away from the screen, "I'm going."

"Wait!" Noriko shouted, "You need these!" She grabbed a pair of devices and ran over to Taylor, motioning for the mutated teen to kneel, "I still need data on your body so I can work on refining the serum, so I need to fix this Bio-Monitor to your spine." She carefully clambered up Taylor's back, using her striated, bulging muscles along with the spurs on her spine as hand-holds before Taylor felt a pair of small hands roughly shove something roughly ovoid in shape into a gap in her neck.

As cool, wiggling tendrils began to dig into her veins, nerves, bones and muscles, Taylor felt Noriko fix something to her slightly shrunken ears which had fused into the sides of her head, "Okay, this Multi-Form Communicator will morph to remain in your ear while the throat mic will burrow under your skin for maximum pick-up quality. You should only need to whisper to talk to me."

Taylor nodded as she felt that begin to happen, "Thanks. So what do you mean by refining the serum?" She waited until Noriko hopped off her body and straightened enough to let her move freely. Perhaps there was an advantage to having a slightly crazy friend with a Tinker/Thinker/Trump power?