Thread: Change For the Better (w/spaceandwitchcraft)

Mindy woke up incredibly dizzy, with strange prickling sensations and pains all through her torso and throat. Her leg muscles were sore, a pain that reminded her of the ballet she used to do as a child. As she adjusted to the cold of what she realized was a cell, she tried to piece together the events that led her there. Even before she blacked out, Mindy had had a strange sort of day. Visiting with her family had grown to be awkward since she went to college, and now that she had her own place and was starting a real office job, she felt that was even more so the case. Her parents had hoped that she would find herself a husband while in school, but all of her relationships had been failures. She had stopped seeking them out halfway through, but no matter what it was the same story. She was so bored by the time they started getting intimate, she had started considering that she might be asexual. In any case, she was more focused on her career, and she had had several fights with her mother about the subject, as if somehow her personal success would be irrelevant until she was married. It infuriated the young woman, and so her car breaking down on top of her having a shit weekend had her wanting to swear up a storm. But she hadn't left straight away. James, her neighbor for as long as she could remember, had been outside his house. It had been nice to see him. He was always so kind to her, and when she was young and her parents weren't home, she knew she could always come over and feel safe. She had never had any sort of weird vibe from him, which was part of why she was surprised when she thought his embrace was a little too affectionate. He was a kind man, older but not so much for it to be weird, and so they hugged when she saw him. She knew that in recent years he had finished medical school and started off in a rather nice practice for himself, but his busy schedule meant that he usually wasn't around when she visited her family. They had had a nice chat, and he had offered to take her home. It was a perfectly nice offer, but she didn't want to give the wrong impression. She had had plenty of experiences with older men, and she noticed that the way he looked at her now was just a little different than she remembered. In any case, the drive would have been far too long for her to feel comfortable with the hospitality. So he took her to the auto parts shop. Except that didn't happen. As Mindy tried to quell her headache, and figure out where she was, she remembered bits and pieces of a lost memory. There was white light. A loss of gravity. She had screamed, holding onto James for comfort. They were violently separated from each other as they were flung from the car, and she remembered so much cold. Strange creatures, and she was sure that it couldn't be but they were. Aliens. She hoped that part of her memory was just a dream, but as she clutched her torso, she remembered being knocked out again and again. There was some sort of changes to her. When she looked down, she realized why she was so cold. She had been stripped of all her clothing. On top of that, she immediately saw that her breasts had gotten at least one cup size larger. She crawled to the wall to help stand herself up, and felt and saw the full changes of her body. Her hips were literally wider. She had no idea how that managed to happen, since there wasn't a single surgical scar on her body, but it was clearly the case. She felt more flexible, though with a slight bit of soreness, and she could swear that her neck was a little thicker and longer, as if her throat at been expanded. Mindy was terrified to try walking, but she did so, getting used to the newness of her body. She rushed to the door of the cell, which had what seemed like lasers stopping her from leaving. James? James, where are you? she called out into the echoing metal chambers. She saw a shadow of a figure lying in the cell across from her, but as she looked closer, she realized it was a corpse. It had been a human woman, probably about James's age, but it looked like she had been torn apart. Her jaw had been torn off by something, and there was bruising around her pelvis, as well as another hole in her torso, her organs exposed and dried up. It looked like the body had only been there a few days, but the sight was so terrifying, Mindy could not stop screaming as she retreated back to the far wall of the cell. Then, there was nothing but silence for a moment. She saw the laser barrier of her cell disappear. She crawled toward it carefully, but then saw a large, strange shadow nearby as she did. Something was coming. She froze in fear, watching to see what would approach.