[Genderswap, 'Nationality' Change]

"Mein Freund, you are lagging behind. You are not afraid of me, ja?"

"N-Not at all, Doktor Koenig. Just... There's just a lot on my mind at the moment."

Lieutenant Queen's mind was racing as he kept pace with the former Ironblood scientist. All because of what he had currently seen aboard this base...

Palmyra Atoll, alias 'Nowheresville'. A base that was so far from the front lines that nobody gave a damn about them. And both he and Admiral Prince had been sent here because of the fact that they did give a damn about their girls. Something that bothered the young lieutenant to no end.

But there was something that bothered him a lot more than the simple fact that they had been punished for their kind actions. And it was related to those very same actions...

The girls stationed here at Nowheresville, Manta and Pasadena? They were... They weren't, really. Both of them were disobedient in their own way, having resigned to the fate of never seeing combat. On one hand, it was great that they weren't going to see any danger, because he would hardly want the Admiral to suffer seeing them in danger. On the other hand... What if things really took a turn for the worse? Would the two be ready to defend their 'home'?

Lieutenant Queen kept on thinking, only to bump straight into something soft, causing him to stagger backward and fall right onto his rear, with the former Ironblood laughing at his expense... Especially since he had just bumped into her bosom. A fact that made him blush before he was able to excuse his actions.

"Wunderbar." Doktor Koenig said as she rubbed her hands together. "The last time we had a shipment of fresh blood, we didn't have somebody like you, Lieutenant. Tell me, what is on that mind of yours?" She chimed in such a gleeful tone, showing off her sharp teeth as she leaned closer. "Don't worry. I won't be selling any of you out. As much as I'd love to get ahold of mein kommandant, the line's dead. And here I thought she liked talking to me!"

The Doktor was... She was a real piece of work for sure. But it seemed like she was a lot more perceptive than her wacky attitude gave her credit for. As she gazed at him, it was like she was reading him like an open book. Something that made him shiver a little as he got up.

"...You say you've been researching the Wisdom Cubes, Doktor Koenig?" Lieutenant Queen asked, quickly and quietly doing all the requisite planning in his head. "Can we actualize a new ship girl, with the equipment we have on hand?" The best way to start fixing the base, would be one more helping hand. He was only human, after all.

"Nein." Doktor Koenig replied, shrugging her shoulders. "The equipment here is not fully compatible with the Wisdom Cubes that we have in stock. Not only that, but we have precious few cubes remaining. Actualization experiments with these cubes, verboten." She sounded almost disappointed while explaining, as if she would've loved to have another ship girl to mess with... Considering the state of the other two, it only made sense that she'd be disappointed.

Lieutenant Queen naturally looked disappointed as well, before a light went off inside his head. "...There's more that you can do with these cubes than just actualization, isn't there, Doktor?"

"Wunderbar." Doktor Koenig's eyes lit up in turn, as she started grinning from ear to ear. "You really are better than all the other guinea pigs that have been sent here. Very well, come with me. I'll show you what I've been tinkering with."

Without missing a beat, the Doktor tapped a button that she always had hidden under the sleeve of her lab coat, causing a door to shoot open beside them. One of many hidden doors, as the Lieutenant was able to make out the faint outline of many more. Was this part of the Doktor's duties, or were there just that many nooks and crannies?

He didn't bother dwelling on it too much, following after the Doktor-

"A-Aahhhhh!"

Right before sliding down a tube as there was absolutely no floor underneath him. Only a tube that would make his fall hurt way less, and a slide that led him directly into a secret laboratory deep underneath the base...

"Never gets old! Haha!" Doktor Koenig laughed as she emerged from the pool that served to fully break the fall of the secret passage, with several pseudo-mechanical arms grabbing ahold of her attire and quickly drying her off in turn, so she could look as pristine as she could. Which was honestly not very pristine, considering her absolutely rancid mad scientist vibes.

Lieutenant Queen slowly pulled himself out of the pool, coughing before being blasted by an intense ray of heat that very nearly gave him a mild tan from how hot it was. But by the time it pulled away, he was just as dry as the Doktor...

Not that he was really paying attention to how he was currently feeling, as much as he was paying attention to the machinery around him. And how distinctly alien... No, not alien. How distinctly SIREN it felt. What in the world was the Doktor toying with, and what did she have planned..?

"Apologies for the fall, Lieutenant." Doktor Koenig said, as she adjusted her glasses slightly and gazed back towards her guest and guinea pig with utter glee. "But I cannot show you mein experiment without a little surprise first. It gets me in the mood, ja..."

Lieutenant Queen softly chuckled as he tried to shrug off what he had just been through, clearing his throat as he stepped closer to the Doktor. "All of this tech... Siren tech, Doktor?"

"Nein." Doktor Koenig grinned as she casually caressed one of the mechanical tentacles that had helped her put on a new labocat. "Well, almost. These are made from my research into the Wisdom Cubes' power. Thereby achieving all of the benefits of Siren technology with none of the bad effects. Give or take a bit of mania, should I allow them to be more intelligent."

That didn't fill Lieutenant Queen with any confidence, but at least it seemed like it was under control. For now. "Why would you want to replicate them, and... How does this tie into your research, exactly?" He tried his best to ignore the curious tentacle close to him. He didn't want to be touched by one. For fear that it might try and infect him or something. He wouldn't want to show up to the Admiral, completely covered in black and yellow substances...

"Actualization experiments, verboten." Doktor Koenig repeated, before pushing up her glasses and smirking as she motioned towards a device in the back of her lab. One that was designed in such a way that a humanoid could step inside and get connected to strange looking tubes and tentacles. "But nobody said anything about actualizing a ship using an existing template. Ja, this is what I've been working on."

The young Lieutenant's mind started rapidly racing, using the various context clues to stitch together what the Doktor had managed to replicate... "...Are you saying that the Sirens that we've been fighting against... They were humans that had been forcibly actualized?"

"Maybe." Doktor Koenig laughed, as she took a seat on her favorite chair. "I doubt that enough of our kin sank to the point where all of them are. I wouldn't be surprised if the Sirens stuffed their fellow abyssal life into their conversion machines, turning them into the beings we've been forced to fight against. As for this device..." She mused, before pulling a wisdom cube out of her coat's pocket.

The blue hue of the cube shone brightly, even as she slotted it into a socket on her table. A socket that quickly began to transfer the power of the cube into the device, with the Doktor gleefully giggling as it roared to life. "All it takes is a human meat puppet, and it'll make a brand new ship girl. Transcending sense and surpassing imagination, bringing a whole new ship to life. Wunderbar."

Lieutenant Queen gazed at the device. All while the knowledge that he had built up ran through his head. He was well aware of what the Wisdom Cubes were capable of. And how they were the sole reason why the Eagle Union fleet truly came to be. As well as the reason why Admiral Prince...

...If these cubes were to be used in the normal way, one of the Eagle Union's old ships would be forged into a feminine existence. Adding yet another soul for his Admiral to worry about. But if he was the one to become a ship... If he was the one that ended up with the chance to protect his Admiral, then...

"Have you ever successfully gone through the procedure, Doktor?" His heart was wavering ever slightly. But if this really could work, then... Then he would be able to make his Admiral happy..!

Doktor Koenig shook her head. "Nein. All of the meat puppets and guinea pigs that have arrived are nowhere near trustworthy. You, my dear Queen... You're the most wunderbar one to arrive. Our new kommandant trusts you a lot as well, so I have no reason to believe you will try and betray us." She explained, before grinning. "Listen to me, talking about trust. When I've already betrayed the fatherland at this point, hah. Wunderbar, truly wunderbar..."

The procedure was risky. There was nothing that proved that it would be truly safe. But Lieutenant Queen... He did not care. He wanted to make sure that his Admiral was going to be safe. And with the powers of a ship girl on his side, then... Then he would actually be able to fix this base as well. It was a win/win situation, one with absolutely no flaws whatsoever.

Lieutenant Queen approached the device, glancing over his shoulder to keep eye contact with the Doktor. "This will not hurt, will it?" He asked,just to be sure. Not that a bit of pain would deter him. Not when he was this determined.

"It will." Doktor Koenig replied, before smiling back. "But you won't feel it for long. Once the actualization begins, you'll feel Wunderbar. At least, according to my research." She explained, before laughing a little as she carefully caressed the wisdom cube that powered the device. Finally, she'd get the chance to see how this worked too. Something that she had been waiting a long time for...

Lieutenant Queen took a deep breath as he looked at the device. And most importantly, at the slot where he was supposed to go. It was so distinctly feminine, which... Well, he was a little feminine. But the female form that would emerge from that slot was going to be a lot more feminine than he was at the moment.

The Lieutenant took a deep breath as he closed his eyes... And slowly but surely climbed into the device, his heart pounding against his chest at the rate of a thousand or so... Or, at least, that's what it felt like to him.

Once he had climbed into the device, the Siren-like tentacles immediately reacted to his presence. And they quickly turned him around, so that he was facing outward. All so they could connect easier to his body.

An act that quickly made him cry out as he felt one of the tentacles connect to his rear... N-No, it wasn't quite... c-connect. It was more like he was penetrated down there...

"Y-You didn't mention-"

Lieutenant Queen wanted to protest how sexual the procedure felt, especially with how his rear had just been invaded by a tentacle. But all that he managed to do was just get his mouth stuffed full with tentacle instead, as each of these prehensile limbs started to find their home...

Whether it was around him, or inside of him. Whether it was naturally entering one of his holes, or otherwise digging in without much actual pain. All while he felt his body trembling more and more.

With each tentacle that connected to his body, more and more of his outfit ended up falling to the ground. Leaving him more and more exposed, especially down below. His rather generous looking package on full display.

"Mein Gott." Doktor Koenig gasped a little as she blushed and licked her lips. "A shame it'll be gone. But how Wunderbar, that Bratwurst..." This was another reason why the Doktor's procedure hadn't yet had a proper test subject. All because of how absurdly horny she was...

Not that Lieutenant Queen could really focus on what the Doktor was doing. The pain of synching with the machine, as well as the pleasure of that very same act, was keeping his mind kinda hazy. So much so that he didn't really know... What he was doing..? It was like... It was like he was floating in the air, despite being slotted into a device that was going to change him fundamentally...

Thanks to that kind of disassociation, Lieutenant Queen didn't really notice the blue hues that were being pumped in through the tentacles, filling his body more and more. All that he could notice was the pleasure growing... stronger...

And with that growing pleasure, something else started to grow. Something hefty. Something bouncy. Something from his chest... His... chest..? Yeah... he was... Male, wasn't he..?

Then... Why did it feel weird when he looked down and gazed upon the bosom that now jutted out from his chest..? Those were... a man's breasts, right..? He... He still had something down there, didn't he..?

Lieutenant Queen's mind was in complete disarray, all thanks to the Wisdom Cube's energy pouring into him. But Doktor Koenig could more properly observe the transformation he was going through, and she loved every moment of it.

She could see the feminine aspects forming. Aspects that were mainly based on the Lieutenant's mind. In fact, this actualization process was meant to bring out the ideal ship girl within the victim. Which was why it was able to make brand new ships. The ships were essentially the very best that the test subject's mind could think of.

Which was why Doktor Koenig was a little bemused by the sight in front of her. The innocent Lieutenant was thinking that the perfect ship girl... Was absolutely stacked. Not just up above, but below as well. She looked more like a bimbo rather than an officer, if she had to be completely honest.

And she was definitely a she at this point, Lieutenant Queen's impressive Bratwurst had inverted completely, leaving behind a clean yet wet slit that had not yet been broken in. Something she'd have to inform the Admiral of, in case he was one of those types. And yet...

"Nein... Nein, a full Eagle Union ship will not do. Nein, nein." Doktor Koenig grinned as she pressed her hand up against her cheek. She knew that a true Eagle Union girl would end up just like those two lazy frauleins that always caused her trouble.

Which was why she put her hand on the Wisdom Cube, and quietly started to squeeze. Causing part of the cube to turn white, all while she giggled. A bit of Ironblood Wisdom would do the trick, and ensure that the brand new ship girl was as loyal as the good Lieutenant Queen no doubt wanted to be.

Lieutenant Queen gasped and panted as he... she..? She... felt a brand new sensation rush into her. It was... It was overwhelming. But more importantly...

Ah... It was... Wunderbar... It was like she was being rewarded for helping out the greater cause. Obeying her orders, and... and...

A moan left Lieutenant Queen's lips, as her hair quickly started to grow longer and longer, until it turned nice and blonde once it reached her hips. Only to immediately turn white as well, as a pair of tiny horns started to push their way out of her forehead, curving their way back once they grew far enough...

And once those horns were fully grown... Once the brand new ship girl had been actualized, and the procedure had been completed... The tentacles that had dug into Lieutenant Queen quietly started to pull out, each of them causing her more and more pleasure...

Until the one in her ass popped free, and she was released from the device just as she reached her own release. A piercing moan left her lips as she fell to her knees, with her naked body dripping with all sorts of sweat and other desire-filled liquids...

She wasn't the only one that had climaxed, as Doktor Koenig was doing her best not to vocalize her own delight. But the soaked spot on her chair definitely indicated that she had enjoyed it a lot. "Stand tall. And recite your designation." She said, her lenses glaring slightly as she took on a more authoritarian tone of voice. Not unlike her old kommandant...

"Jawohl..!" Lieutenant Queen cried out as she got up onto her feet, obediently pressing her arm against her chest. Not out of modesty, but out of respect for her cause. "Iowa-class Battleship, Queen, reporting! Heil Eagle Union!" She cried out, before blinking a little as her mind caught up with her. "H...Heil? Vas..?" She muttered in a daze, her mind partly struggling with her brand new Ironblood thoughts...

Doktor Koenig giggled a bit more as she watched Queen struggle with her new self. She knew that this would happen, given the mechanics of the actualization, and especially since she poured in a bit of Ironblood to make sure that the end result was truly Wunderbar. From here, further actualization using the rest of the base's guinea pigs... It was certainly an option.

But a single glance at the new Battleship was all it took. A single glance at the wicked grin developing on those lips. For now... She just had to sit back and watch the new Battleship work.

After all, there was much that Queen needed to do, before Palmyra Atoll was at peak performance...

Ja... Wunderbar...