Play Testers Wanted Pt. 09

"Why do you want a book on minerals Ghost?" Steph asked her voice weak and frail.

"I was thinking of spending part of my vacation looking for the Lost Dutchman's Mine. If I found it, I wanted a way of removing the gold easily." I said hoping she didn't choose now to test the veracity of my words. She didn't. Steph looked ill. I had never seen a character grow ill if a quest or storyline wasn't attached. Yet when I checked my HUD, she wasn't offering a fetch quest to heal her or any relating to any obvious illness. "You look like shit Steph. Can I help?"

"Yeah, you can." She grumbled weakly. "Take this, I wrote it myself. It is some of my favorite signature spells. Give them a shot and tell me how easily they were to learn."

I accepted her generous gift and grabbed the other spell book. I conjured a cup of coffee and Angela and Loki sat next to me as I skimmed Annur-Kai's tome first. It was a mystical analysis of rare and artificial materials that ranged from Adamantium to something he called Xeno Metal. Buried in the pages was the spell I sought. It allowed me to name a mineral, a source, and a destination. If cast properly I could touch a vein of ore and a mine cart and the spell would do the rest if I maintained it. I could also name an element or mineral, point at or touch a source, and likewise name or touch a cart, bucket, or whatever and boom extraction complete.

"Perfect," I giggled maniacally.

"What are you really up to?" Loki asked smiling.

"Well, since you asked," I chuckled as I leaned close and shared the idea with both.

"I do not understand." Angela replied and I told her my entire plan. "Ghost, that is wicked!"

"That is the idea." I replied and we all laughed.

I added the spell to my personal list of spells in my HUD. Every time I learned or in rare cases developed my own spell it wound up there. I attacked with great enthusiasm the spell book Steph had given to me. I opened it and the very first spell was the Crimson Bands of Cytorrak! I checked my remaining skill points and decided I needed to hoard the rest for later. I added the gift to my inventory and took the time to read Annur-Kai's tome more carefully. Buried deep within its pages was my first encounter with a name that would inspire me, Dark Star Alloy. It was the very material all dark elf technomagic was built upon. I took what little notes I could on it and finished reading the book. Angela had slipped out and was sparring with the students of Kamar-Taj. Loki grew board and portalled back to Asgard. I didn't blame her. How exciting could it be to sit while someone read a book? Steph was still looking puny and I approached her.

"I... feel strange. I think I need some down time." Steph said her voice distant and looking alarmed. "No, it is okay." I pulled down my HUD and looked at my existing quests.

"Get some rest Steph. Angela and I are off to the Wakandan embassy," I informed her. "I have a sexy brain to consult and some much-needed training to do."

"Did someone say my name?" Shuri's voice came over my commlink.

"I have a goddess in tow, can we come over and play?" I asked and Shuri could barely contain herself.

"Absolutely! I have a few questions about that material you dropped off." She giggled cheerfully.

"The Cortosis? I'll be right there." I declared.

The guards had been alerted to our arrival and let us in. Angela found the use of female guards quite satisfying. King T'Challa greeted us in the main hall and I didn't miss his reaction when he saw Angela for the first time. He shook off the impact of her beauty and led us to Shuri's main laboratory.

"I would like to once again thank you the gift of seeing the origin of my country's wealth and the power behind the Black Panther." He said smiling.

"I wish I could have been there with you but if anyone was there, I am glad it was you and Shuri. This entire revelation has been emotionally taxing." I admitted.

"My resources are open to you. If you wish to rest I have just the place that is remote and yet accommodating. All you have to do is ask friend Ghost." T'Challa offered with a gentle hand on my arm. "Shuri, you have guests. Be well Ghost."

The ever-changing laboratory was in yet another configuration as a new set of experiments were being performed. To my pleasant shock was a mostly naked Mary Jane Watson. She lay prone on a hovering hospital bed as a variety of metallic spider limbs poked, prodded, and scanned her. She lay still but I could sense that she was getting testy.

"Ghost man!" Shuri greeted me. "You must be the goddess he spoke of."

"Angela is Thor's sister," I explained. "Angela this is Princess Shuri and the other redhead is Mary Jane Watson or MJ to her friends."

"We... I mean I am glad to meet you," MJ said fighting the effects of having bonded with the Venom symbiote.

"A pleasure to meet both of you. How long have you been bonded?" Angela asked surprising all of us.

"Nearly nine months," MJ replied. "You've encountered one of us before?" She continued in the dual voice of the joined. "We've never bonded with a female before."

"Let me help," Angela offered and placed her hand upon MJ's forehead. Arcane syllables spilled from her lips and Mary Jane's body shivered and then relaxed as she panted. I would have sworn she just climaxed.

"She did," Angela said responding to my thoughts. "The binding spell isn't widely known outside a narrow circle of Heven's most elite. You two should feel better." Angela addressed host and symbiote.

"We feel better, thank you goddess." MJ purred.

"I will teach Ghost the spell. I trust him and he will need it in time." She said and I looked at her confused. "Your armor carries a larval symbiote. I can sense its presence."

"Reed!" I exclaimed. "He spent time studying and trying to reengineer a new type of symbiote. I forgot that my armor was a hybrid of it." I admitted after its so many different incarnations. Whenever it blended or merged the symbiote must have been responsible and made it possible. She touched my forehead and cast the spell.

'Surprise!" Surfer giggled. 'Now we are bonded without need of that silly wrist thing.'

'What happened to Traci?' I asked.

'We are joined. Traci and I were always close, very close.' Surfer explained and the realization hit me between the eyes. Traci was just a persona adopted by Surfer. She had slipped her bracelet before it was officially given to me by Kat. Surfer had bonded to me early on, but why?

'When I learned of your bonding with the nanites I needed to join with you. I used the game to facilitate your safe conversion. I guided the nanites just as I was programmed to do for Nick. I already knew where they were meant to go. I copied myself into a node at the base of your skull. I am sorry I didn't tell you earlier.' She explained and I could feel her genuine discomfort.

'You are why I can spend so much more time in game than the others.' I said reaching out for an explanation.

'No Ghost, that is all you. Your little grey cells have been streamlined and improved. You process information vastly more efficient than any other human except maybe Kat. She is more than she seems.' Surfer said. 'I want to help you with your new persona if you'll let me. I've pulled up patterns for your uniform.'

"Sweet!" I said aloud and realized they were all looking at me strange. "Bonding complete. Speaking of bonding. What the hell happened?" I asked MJ.

Cut Scene: To bond or not to bond...

"I can't believe he fucked around one me!" I screamed. "Where the hell am I?"

I had walked in on that slut Felicia riding Peter like the man whore he is. Why did I let him do this to me again! I thought She-Hulk was bad enough. Peter had claimed he was trying to calm her down, so she'd revert to normal. Then it was that rich MILF Norma Osborn while she was trapped in her Goblinette form. I felt like such an idiot once he fucked Felicia. He tried to say her was trying to rehabilitate her. Rehabilitate! How does having your dick buried in her ass do that?!

The soft rustle from off the jogging path caught my attention. I stopped and listened. The smell of night bloomers filled my senses. The soft cry of an owl in the distance relaxed me. My body felt so weird. It was like I was outside looking in. I was aroused despite my anger. No. I was aroused because of my anger. Someone was touching me through my clothes. I looked down and tried to scream but something was thrust between my lips. It was firm yet yielding like a guy's cock. The thing had burned off my clothes and was crawling up my body like an oily black mass. I watched as it formed a second rigid cock like member and thrust it into me. Oh yeah... bond baby bond! Not my ass... I am a good girl!

'No, you're not.' The other purred as she slid into my butt. 'So tight! Take me baby! Let me in.'

"Take me, fill me up!" I moaned as I was completely enveloped. My world went black. I awoke with a man in my grip, our grip.

"Let me go you bitch!" He yelled.

"Not bitch... Venom!" We said as we looked around. A girl lay semiconscious on the ground near the back of the alley. The stench of the garbage was so strong, the scent of his fear was like a shot of lust directly into our vein. "You are afraid of us. Good. You like fucking defenseless girls. We can fix that."

He screamed as we ripped off his offending thing just before we ended his miserable existence. We leapt up and clung to the side of the building. We had always envied Peter his abilities now we had them. We spent the rest of that night and many after it roaming the city as only the powerful could. We were no longer weak, we were no longer just Mary Jane, we are She-Venom!

Fade to Black:

MJ sat up and leaned close and sniffed me. She licked my neck with an impressive elongated tongue. The smile that crossed her lips was feral and primal.

"We can taste it on you," MJ purred. "Estrogen. You have become female yes?"

"Mystique pushed my bounds." I admitted fearing how Shuri, Angela, and MJ would react.

"Enlightening isn't it?" MJ said in a soft reassuring tone. "Strength comes from understanding."

"I... I need your help." I blurted out since I had been revealed. "Please don't laugh."

"Explain." Shuri said and she was equally open to my concept. I told them everything and held little back. I didn't use the term professional players but instead described them as foes. "Show us. I know I want to see the other you."

"Yes!" Angela and the others agreed. I stripped down to nothing and shifted into the form I had been developing for a few weeks now. "Interesting, I like the tail. What kind of help do you require?"

"Heels." I whispered and displayed the uniform I had researched with Surfer's help. "Apparently female armor requires some seriously crazy heels. I've never walked in them and combat in them borders on a nightmare."

"You help me, and I'll help you," Shuri promised. "This Cortosis is very hard to work with."

"I will show you a few tips and tricks," Angela offered. "I respect your fear of feminine armor."

"We will teach you how to walk, to move, MMMMM to entice." MJ growled.

"I have a suggestion." Shuri offered as her brain went into overdrive and attacked my problem from odd angles. "Show me everything... weapons... armor... gimmicks..."

Thus, the most embarrassing training montage the world had scene played out. I spent months training with them. Walking in heels was a bitch on steroids. Fighting in them was a long series of falls, bruises, and even a damaged hip. Female body mechanics is so much different than what I was born with. It felt so weird not having something between my legs. Just basic center of gravity and breasts were a challenge. I pushed myself as I had in previous training. The feline humanoid form offered me some serious benefits. I could leap nearly twice as high as I was used to. My speed stat was improved while in this form.

Shuri tinkered with Reed's acrobatic belt and redesigned the housing to fit my new persona. It made me sickeningly flexible, agile, and blisteringly fast. With it I could easily leap from the street to the roof of a four-story building. While I showed her how to work Cortosis we sat, designed, and built my weapons.

"When did you get so clever?" Shuri asked as she slid the power pack into my modified blaster, a blaster based off dark elf technomagic. We deconstructed one of the rifles and reverse engineered it.

"You inspired me." I offered as finished attaching the handles to the matching whips. "I am going to need a ton of combat training. This persona uses weapons I normally don't. Guns. Whips. Grenades. Speaking of grenades, what do you think of my design?"

"Wickedly clever. You really created an entirely different identity. I think you've outdone yourself. How goes the pole dancing program I wrote for you?"

"Embarrassing." I admitted. "But seduction is a key element to the character."

"Now that we have finalized your two sets of armor, I want to thank you for all of your help." She said blushing. "I missed you. It has been nice spending 'time' with you." She purred reminding me of the time spent away from the lab.

"I missed you too," I said as she suddenly hopped to her feet and grabbed my arm.

"How could I have forgotten? Come with me!" Shuri demanded. "Do you remember that container of sand you left with me to analyze?"

"Yeah. What of it? I figured you use it for glass sculptures or whatnot." I admitted.

"I examined it and found an unknown element along with the naturally occurring Vibranium." She said as we reached a second lab. "This one is dedicated to pure research. This is where I discovered it."

I hadn't seen her so excited in a long time. She touched her bracelet and a holographic display was activated. Hovering in the air was a model of the unknown element. The display looked wrong and I wasn't sure why.

"This is how I first viewed it." She said. "I was as perplexed as you. Then I was watching television and there was a program about black holes. We can't view them directly, but we can find them by how they affect visible things. In the case of a black hole it is viewing erratic orbits of stars near the core of our galaxy. I had an epiphany and added unseen portions of this element and poof, dark matter."

"Dark Star Alloy," I gasped. "You figured it out."

"Oh no," she said. "I have a theory but clearly you know what this is."

"I think it might be the key element for Svartalfar technomagic." I said trusting her completely. "My legacy I suppose."

"I want you to see my tests so far" She tugged eagerly on my arm to another workstation. She keyed in a passcode and the top of the table split open and a glass cube rose up. The sides glittered under the work lights but the heart of it was pitch black. "This is the purest form of Glass Vibranium I have produced so far. It was a bit of trial and error to be honest. It is one of the finest superconductors I've ever seen." She moved to a second station as the cube descended. A second cube rose up at this station and it shimmered with a distinct silvery blue hue. "This is a blend of the sand and raw meteoric Vibranium. It is highly prized and is responsible for the scanner you saw earlier. It is at the heart of that entire lab a one terabyte quantum computer."

"Whoa." I gasped as she slid a ring onto my right ring finger. The band was purest meteoric Vibranium while the square cut stone set in it was the finest hybrid Vibranium. "What does it do?"

"Scanner, holographic projector, and a few surprises." She giggled. "It is the least I can do for supplying us with yet another treasure."

I did a quick look in my inventory and checked out the ring's properties. It would improve my accumulation of experience points when it came to technology, magic, and of course technomagic specifically. It was just the thing I needed to reach my goal of learning how to craft the key element for dark elf technomancy. We returned to her main lab and finished up on the last bit of crafting for my female persona.

Later than night.

"Ass up head down," Shuri purred in my ear. "I am in lust with this new you." She growled as she lapped at my exposed parts.

"Damn you Mystique!" I whimpered as the alien pleasure slithered through me. "I'm close!"

"Not yet," Shuri backed off and disappeared for a minute or two. She returned carrying a small metal case.

"Shuri. What is that?" I asked feeling a tremor of fear alloyed with an equal amount of excitement.

"Just as I inspired you, you inspired me." She giggled as she unlocked the case and an unearthly blue glow shone from the interior of the box. "Perfect." She lifted the device from the box. The gleaming toy glowed with a deep sapphire light. Its proportions were patterned after my own male anatomy. "I think you know where the business end goes." She moaned. "The other end slides into me and makes connections to my nervous system. It lets me feel through the device. I can feel what you usually experience. Ready?" She asked as she slid one portion of into her soaked slit. She took out a bottle of lube and soon the business end as she described it was glistening.

"Aw hell," I said in surrender. "I knew this was going to happen... again."

"Again? Oh... OH! You and Mystique." Shuri moaned as she lined up the toy and pushed slowly.

"UNNNN!" We moaned together. "So strange!"

Shuri was awkward at first for obvious reasons. Her hip movements were slow and deliberate. She quickly adapted and picked up speed and confidence. Soon Shuri was slapping my ass, tugging on my tail, and pounding me like a pro. I screamed when I came. A moment later MJ in full Venom mode battered down the door.

"Aw hell..." I whimpered seeing the look in MJ's eyes.

"We smell sex! Angela! Hurry!" She Venom roared as she entered.

I was used to being the center of attention but not like this. I lost count of my climaxes and they used and abused me.

Ding! Trophy earned: On the Receiving End! Trophy earned: Double P feels good to me!

Thank god this was a closed universe. We lay gasping and covered in sweat and bodily fluids. I now knew how it felt to be someone else's plaything. I lay surrounded by the trio and picked up Shuri's new play toy. It felt so damn real and looked like something Jack Kirby would have drawn back in the day if he did adult comics.

"Well?" Shuri purred in my ear. "You are always inspiring me."

"I hate to ask this, but did you enjoy yourself?" I asked and she kissed me in a way that removed any doubt.

"This never has to happen ever again." She added. "I understand how strange this must have been and I want to thank you for trusting me... um... us... with tonight."

"All I have to say is thank god for my healing factor." I laughed. "Definitely puts things in perspective for me."

She snuggled close and I closed my eyes to rest. A message from my HUD flashed behind my eyes. Do you wish to upload this scene to the Numenor web site? I clicked on the question mark and there was an anonymous option for uploading videos. If I did it there was no going back. No. Well, not yet at least. I saved it to my personal holocron though. I drifted for a while as my stamina bar recharged. The next scene began with me waking with the morning sun. I was still in my new persona form. I showered in it, relieved my bladder, and let me tell you what that was freaking weird. I caught up with the ladies after they had washed up and gotten dressed.

"Do you want to see the final fitting of my gear?"

"Of course! We've earned it." MJ giggled.

It still felt weird being female. I set out my gear from my inventory. I did a quick seductive dressing scene for them. I slid on the thigh high boots just before the matching jacket. I cursed and took off the jacket, slipped the dual shoulder holster on, and then put the coat back on.