Dr Kate Summers nudged her way through the stacks of equipment and various contraptions that seemed to fill most of Dr Penelope Rose’s workshop. It was a far cry from the usually pristine laboratories that produced most of 2B Laboratories’ treatments but Kate knew Penny wouldn’t have her workshop any other way. Tucking her tail in to avoid catching it on some contraption, Kate emerged to find Penny carefully working on some kind of robotic arm, her black goggles occasionally illuminated by a brief shower of sparks.

    “Penny? - ow - You got a moment?” Kate said after finally squeezing herself out from between two piles of junk. The black goggles turned to look at her, making the young engineer look like some sort of insect, her face slowly split by a wide grin.

    “Kate! Yes!” she called back, lifting the goggles from her face, a faint trace of soot outlining her eyes, “what do you need?”

    “A place to hide, really,” Kate blushed a little, absently rubbing a furred ear, “Jamie has been pestering me again, anxious for something else to test. But after last time, and the whole… robot incident, I’m not trusting her with a vial or pill again.”

    “You, um, you’re still remembering to eat, right?” Penny replied, wincing a little as she remembered the time Jaime had stolen a couple of vials from her lab. One spiked water cooler later and both Kate and Belle have turned into robots. It had taken a few weeks to change them both back, and a week more for Kate to get used to things like eating and sleeping again. “Sleep well?” Penny added, prompting Kate to roll her eyes in return.

    “Yes, yes, I’m fine,” Kate slumped a little, exhaling sharply, lifting a few strands of pink hair from her fringe. “Or I will be as soon as I figure how to calm down Jamie for a bit. Maybe if I just change her into a beachball for a few weeks...” Kate trailed off, distracted by one of Penny’s strange devices, a glass tank slowly churning with something sparkling and silver, flowing like a liquid but occasionally flying up like a cloud of dust.

    “Beautiful, isn’t it?” Penny walked over, standing beside the catgirl, almost losing herself in the hypnotising swirl of glittering silver. “My nanite farm. These little critters can transform anyone into pretty much anything! Well, if I program them correctly, anyway.”

    “Anything?” Kate raised an eyebrow, a grin slowly spreading across her face, “Say, Penny, think you could do me a favour?”

    Jamie Masters gripped the edge of the test bed, fingers digging into the plasticky mattress, excitement building inside her. Always eager to try out any and all treatments 2B Laboratories had on offer, Jamie had volunteered to try out Penny’s nanites without even asking what she was going to become. After all, part of the thrill was the surprise, the suspense.

    Kate looked on from the other side of the glass, wondering how Jamie might look when her transformation was complete. Though mostly human, a demonic horn curled up and out of Jamie’s forehead, resting above her almost-reptilian eye, a vertical slit pupil down her emerald iris. They were a testament as much to Jamie’s willingness to test 2B Lab’s new treatments as to her disregard for proper lab protocol. No matter how Jamie was transformed and changed, she always kept the horn and eye. Kate wondered if nanites would be any different.

    Penny rested her hand on the door into the test chamber, trying to calm herself down a little. Although she’d had a hand in a few experiments in the lab – not to mention the robot incident – this was going to be her first time administering the test, partly at Kate’s insistence. Anticipation gripped her. She wanted Kate to be happy, even if she didn’t quite understand the need for revenge, but more than anything she was excited to see how well the nanites performed. This was going to be amazing!

    “Doc! Hi!” Jamie cried out, the moment Penny stepped through the door, “How are you doing? What have you got for me? Are you going to make me a dragon? Or a robot? Those robots were pretty sexy, right? Oh! Am I going to be a robot?”

    “Hi, Jamie, right?” Penny replied, feigning unfamiliarity. “And it’s just Penny, please. I don’t go in for all that ‘doctor’ stuff.”

    “Oh, gotcha, Penny… So! What do you have for me?”

    “Just a little something I’ve put together. Kate said you might be interested…” Penny turned to the table by the door, resisting the urge to roll her eyes, setting down her tablet. Reaching into the pockets of her lab coat, the edges tattered and singed from a few of her more interesting experiments, she pulled out a small metal case.

    “Hah! Yeah, of course I am. Whenever you’re ready, Doc- Penny.” She craned her neck around, trying to take a look at whatever Penny was pulling out of the case.

    “Alright,” Penny turned around, smiling, her tablet in one hand, holding out something small and shining in the other, “could you hold this for me?”

    “Uh, sure,” Jaime took the nugget of silver metal from Penny, holding it carefully between two fingers. “This some new kind of pill? Not really sure I fancy swallowing this.”

    “Not exactly,” Penny replied, cheerfully but unhelpfully, tapping away on her tablet, activating the block of nanites, the surface of the nugget shimmering slightly. “Okay! We’re good to start!” Another finger press and the nanites began their work, the nugget melting instantly and flowing over Jamie’s fingers.

    “Hey!” Jamie flinched as the cool layer of nanites spread across her fingers, running down across her palm, a tingle of static running across her skin as it spread. “This feels really weird…” Grimacing, she shook her hand, as if hoping the silvery goo might fly off. Instead, it began to sink into her, gradually at first, the nanites working their way between her cells and into her body.

    “Don’t worry, everything looks good at my end!” Penny answered, just as cheerful as before. Humming to herself, she watched the display on her tablet, bright dots showing the nanites dispersing through Jamie’s body.

    “Are you sure? It just sort of… tingles” Jamie asked, rubbing her fingers together, watching the last of the nanites flow into her skin, and for a moment Jamie was sure nothing was going to happen. Across Jamie’s body, the nanites began their work, breaking down her skin cells. Nanites worked to recombine human proteins into cellulose, working them into cotton fibres woven impossibly tightly together across her body. Jamie watched the changes flowing over her skin like a wave, for a moment becoming hazy and indistinct, minute creases and imperfections evened out as they became a criss-cross of fibres.

    “Oh! You might want to lie down for this,” Penny said, barely looking up with her screen, watching with delight as the nanites continued their work. Jamie didn’t hear, too distracted by the sensation of her changing skin, the interweaving threads pulling tight across her body. Running a hand down her arm, she could feel the subtle criss-cross pattern, the occasional stray thread curling out of her skin. Moving her hand further down, her body started to feel heavy and sluggish, arms slumping to her sizes as a wave of dizziness hit her.

    “Woah, this is… weird…” her voice slurred, her mouth feeling awkward and uncooperative, recalling the time she’d been turned into a mannequin. Her muscles had rebelled in a similar way, her movements slowing until her joints locked up, frozen in a pose. This was different, though, she could tell. Though she couldn’t move, her body was still loose, flexible, starting to slump in her clothes as Jamie collapsed onto the bed. Inside, the nanites were working to break down her muscles and bones, dispersing the unnecessary material into the air around Jamie, her clothes billowing around her collapsing body.

    “Try not to move too much, you might strain yourself, just relax into it,” Penny said, stepping closer to take a look at the slumped Jamie, a giddy expression across her slowly deflating face. Jamie could feel the changes progressing through her body, the oddly peaceful feeling of her organs quieting, shutting down. Her breathing slowed, exhaling slowly as her lungs flattened completely, her heartbeat growing fainter.

    “You doing okay? I hear the whole… not breathing thing is a bit weird.” Penny’s face appeared over Jamie, staring down with a look of concern. Jamie tried to speak, but with her mouth barely moving and with no lungs to exhale, it came out as muffled cries. Rolling her eyes, Jamie just nodded, limp body shifting back and forth as she did.

    “Okay, now comes the fun part!” With a flurry of fingers across her tablet, Penny activated the next phase of the nanite’s program. The nanites responded instantly, Jamie feeling a rush of pleasure through her body as the nanites swarmed around her nervous system. The nanites began to tweak and tug, bundling branching nerves together into intertwined bundles, converting and twisting them into elastic fibres running through her fabric skin. Jamie had little idea what they were doing, but she knew it felt amazing, the thousands of tiny stretches and pulls feeling like her whole body was being massaged with honey.

    With Jamie still giddy from the changes to her nerves, it took her a while to realise her body – little more than collapsed, cotton skin aside from her head and nerves – was starting to move, her shorts sliding off her deflated body. Limp legs dangled awkwardly over the side of the bed, steadily pulled upwards. Losing definition as they went, they looked like little more than loose rectangles of flattened fabric. Her toes curled, spreading apart from each other while her feet spread outwards to match the uniform outline of her legs, hardening into plastic hooks and loops.

    Soon, almost nothing remained of Jamie’s torso, her limp arms and legs sticking awkwardly out of her tank top. Pulling it off, Penny looked down at Jamie’s changing body, the nanites slowly shifting her legs so they stuck out to her sides, her arms pulled up under her head.

    She could feel a pulling sensation in her face, her head collapsing in on itself, her brain pressed between layers of cotton skin, merging with her arms. Her face squashed flat, features merging into her cotton skin, her eyes and mouth visible as stitching across her cotton skin, framed by the curling pattern of her hair. Jamie’s horn stuck out in defiance of the nanites, though even it flattened cotton like the rest of her. WIth her eyes pressed flat, their green colour seemed to flow out like spilt ink across the rest of her, soon colouring her entire body jade.

    “Oh, you’re coming along great! This is amazing!” Penny cried, so thrilled the nanites were working perfectly, her voice sounding strangely muffled and muted, picked up by Jamie’s cotton body.

    Her arms now emerging from the top of her head, the nanites continued their work stretching them out thinner and thinner, looping them back down either side of her head, pulled on towards her legs. They pressed painlessly through her legs, a strange tightening feeling as cotton in her legs hardened into plastic around them, letting her arms loop back on themselves. She felt an instinctive urge to wrap her hands around her arms. Her fingers flowed together, palms stretching out, her hands looping around her arms and hardening into plastic fasteners for tightening the straps her arms had become.

    Her body started to settle, the changes slowing, nanites working to shape her head like the invisible hands of a sculptor. Her face stretched out wider, rising out in twin mounds, forming the cups of the bra Jamie had become, the outline of her face plunging down between them. Jamie could feel her face stiffening slightly around the edges, her fabric curling around itself to form sturdy seems around the edges, keeping her shape. Their work complete, the nanites powered down, waiting inactive throughout her changed body.

    “Yes!” Penny cried, leaping into the air, almost dropping her table. “It worked! It worked! It worked! Yes!” Back in the observation room, Kate couldn’t help but grin as well, amazed to look at what Penny’s nanites had done to Jamie.

    “Hey! I still don’t know what I am!” Jamie tried to shout, little more than muffled murmurs from her cotton body, her stitched eyes looking around the room. Everything seemed distorted slightly, like looking through a fisheye lens, but she could see in the mirror something crumpled and green lying on the bed where she once sat.

    “Oh, sorry, Jamie!” Penny set down her tablet, carefully reaching down to pick up Jamie by her shoulder straps. The world spun around Jamie, her body flopping this way and that, arms stretching a little from the weight of her face swinging around.

    “What the hell? I’m a bra? Seriously!?” Jamie looked at herself held up to the mirror, her mouth moving almost silently with her muffled words.

    “Sorry, I can’t hear you, it’s just noises. Kinda cute, though,” giggling, Penny set Jamie back down onto the bed, smoothing out her straps. The feeling of fingers running across her body was strangely pleasant, like being massaged by giant but gentle hands.

    “You’re going to turn me back, right? Doc? Penny? Hey! Are you even listening to me?” Jamie could hear the door to the lab open, the sound of familiar footsteps, straining to see who had entered, catching a flash of pink fur. “Kate! Why are you- don’t tell me- no!” Jamie was too busy protesting to hear the conversation between Penny and Kate, Penny’s footsteps walking away, the soft click of the door locking. 

    “Wow, Jamie, I really am impressed by Penny’s work, you look like a great bra. I just hope we got the fit right.” Kate smirked as she began to undress, draping her lab coat down next to Jamie.

    “Wait, no…” The expression on Jamie’s front changed to a grimace. Being turned into a bra was bad enough, but being worn? “Hey, no! Put me down!”

    “Oh, you sound so cute like this,” Kate said, ignoring Jamie’s muffled protests. Picking Jamie up, Kate spun her around to face the mirror, letting her watch as Kate tugged at her straps, pulling her arms through them one by one. Her cotton skin brushed against Kate’s own, a slight heat of friction, the sensation of being tugged this way and that. Jamie’s face hung limply from her arms, brushing gently against Kate’s breasts.

    “Cute?! I’m not cute!” Her voice ticked against Kate’s skin, Jamie’s cotton body vibrating slightly with each word.

    “Oooh, that tickles. It’s kind of nice…” Kate smirked, knowing it would only wind up Jamie even more.

    Kate gripped the hooked ends Jamie’s feet bad become, stretching her legs around her body, pulling her head tight against her chest. Jamie could feel the soft flesh of Kate filling her out, the heavy weight of her breasts settling down into her face, stretching her out. Though Jamie would never admit it, it felt really good, the weight and warmth of Kate’s body filling her, the sound of Kate's heart beating behind her. Kate tugged tighter, squashing her breasts flat into Jamie, flesh threatening to spill out of her for a moment as Kate hooked Jamie’s feet together. Letting go of Jamie, her feet took the strain, her fabric straps digging slightly into Kate’s body as Jamie settled against her.

    “Mmm… you’re really comfy,” Kate smiled at her reflection in the mirror, turning her body this way and that, gently running a finger up one of Jamie’s straps. Catching sight of herself, hugging Kate’s body, Jamie couldn’t help but blush. “I might just have to keep you like this for a while…”