Prinzy's Plushies (TransSec 2)

(Man to teddy bear)
(Woman to seal plushie)
(Woman to alpaca plushie)
(Woman to panda plushie/chair (expansion))

The world whirled around Team Saber, their teleportation runes ebbing to a halt. It left the tell-tale sign of a burn emblem in the ground—their return point. The four smartly checked their surroundings, then the leader activated his communicator.

“Base, this is Saber. In position now, moving in.” Gabriel kept it terse, partly to be professional and partly to keep the team’s second in command from finding fault with his statement. The dark-skinned man sent the Frenchwoman a quick glance to check if she’d had fault.

Lueur wasn’t that bad of a magician, but she’d only been a stage magician beforehand. Unfortunately, that directly led to the next largest strain to this working relationship. The other two members of the team, Becca and Dani, were her assistants. Neither of them had a problem with being led by Gabriel, but it drove their master positively mad.

“What’s the assignment?” Becca asked, ignoring the withering scowl Leuer sent her. The valley girl could be awfully ditzy at times, but her skills with healing magic were nothing to sneeze at.

Gabriel sighed. “Ever since Hammer encountered the entity known as ‘Raptor’, we’ve been working with the government to focus on any and all strange disappearances. This house has been home to quite a few, so we’ve been sent to see if anything is wrong with it.” He explained.

“Oh, send the expendables in first?” Dani asked, frowning slightly as Lueur gasped. The half-Asian was a born pessimist, which made her the perfect counterpart to Becca. Unfortunately, right now pessimism was exactly the last thing they needed.

“Have more confidence in yourself!” She said with a frown. “We have been chosen to serve in TransSec, and as the second-in-command of this team, I will not have such pessimism!” The Frenchwoman flipped some of her golden hair behind her head.

Gabriel considered correcting her on her status, but he figured it wasn’t worth the hassle. Instead, he just sighed again, cursing the luck that he was on this team. “Relax, ladies. We’re just here for recon—get in, get out.” He shifted the pistol at his hip, just to check it was there.

In truth, he was spooked. This job didn’t sit well with him at all, and the sooner they were done the better. The reminder that his magical focus was at hand was a great comfort to the mage. He sighed, looking to the doorway.

“It might not be anything too. Like, it might not be something like Raptor.” Becca rocked back and forth on her heels a little.

“So it’s just a normal set of disappearances? Yeah, that’s a huge comfort.” Dani snapped, grating her own teeth as she sent a nervous glance to the older members of her team.

“Relax. Raptor used contact-based transformation. Following that logic, we just need to keep our distance.” Lueur smiled at Dani, doing a good job to reassure her.

“But if you do run into anything like that, don’t even try to fight it. Just run, get to this circle, and get back to TransSec.” Gabriel reminded them. “We have magical recorders, but live experience is always better than what a recording can provide. Sync in three.” He lifted his hand to the side of his head

“Got it, got it.” Dani waved, copying the motion.

Lueur and Becca followed, and the team activated their sensors at the same time with a coordinated pulse of magic.

“And what’s the deal with these, anyways?” Dani blinked a few times, her eyes going from glowing violet back to their usual green. “We can send data to TransSec, but they can’t reach us?”

Lueur smiled. “It was my idea, actually. In case if the worst happens, our connection to headquarters is virtually undetectable. Were they to communicate back to us, the risk of detection would be that much more. We’d risk scaring off anything like Raptor.”

“So we are bait.” Dani sighed. “Lovely.”

“You’re not afraid, are you?” Becca looked at her friend. “Relax, worst come to worst, we’ll get changed back when the backup arrives.”

“Or we get eaten.” Dani muttered. Still, she’d read the same briefing as the rest of them. She knew that the creature they’d encountered had mentioned having an ‘affinity’. If that was a standard of their race, then the team would still be safe, even in their transformed bodies.

Unless if nobody would recognize them after they were changed.

The thought hung heavy over all of their heads, but they had a job to do. Gabriel waved his team behind him, heading to point. He unslung his pistol, its flat muzzle glowing green with energy, and knocked at the door.

“Anyone home?” He called. It was a stupid thing to ask, but there was always the off chance that this might be the wrong place.

Unfortunately, not only was there no response, the door also creaked open slowly like something straight out of a horror movie. Its loud scream seemed to echo in the air,

“That’s not foreboding at all.” Dani muttered.

“Quiet, you. We’re supposed to be professionals.” Lueur hissed, following their leader as he headed into the building.

“Yeah. Professionals.” Dani ignored her pounding heart, instead focusing on the task at hand. In and out; that was the plan. In and out. She repeated it like a mantra, only to flinch and squeak in distress as the door slammed shut behind her.

“Okay, I’m beginning to have some reservations, Mister Gabriel.” Becca looked back, biting her lip nervously.

“Right. Well…” Gabriel sighed, loading a little more of his own magical energy into his weapon. “Stay here with Lueur. I’ll try the doors on the right.”

“And split up? Are you serious?” Dani exclaimed, her eyes wide. “You’re just asking for trouble!”

“Even I think this is a bad idea. And not for the usual reasons.” Lueur put a hand on Gabriel’s arm. “Just… Be careful, okay?”

Dani arched an eyebrow, but she waited for their team commander to leave the room before giving voice to her concerns. “Why did you do that? You’re not normally so… caring.”

Lueur sighed. “It’s a status monitoring charm. If anything happens, I’ll be the first to know.”

Becca’s eyes widened. “But isn’t that doing exactly what he told us not to—and what you told us not to do, too? Like, won’t that give away where he is and make him less safe?”

Her mentor fixed her with a hard frown. “And tell me, do you think he’s safe right now? We’re in strange and uncharted realms right now. He wouldn’t have accepted to us coming with him; he’s too headstrong. But I can do at least this much.”

Becca hugged her mentor tightly. “You do care!”

“Just… If we get out of this, don’t tell him.” Lueur blushed slightly, fixating on her magical anchor to Gabriel. He was there, in the other room. Then the doors flashd, there was a flash of magic, and she lost all sense of him.

She visibly flinched, racing to the room he’d entered. “No!” She shouted, slamming open the doors.

A bundled TransSec uniform lay on the ground, next to Gabriel’s pistol. And beside it stood a young girl in a sky-blue dress. “I’m sorry, was this yours?” The girl asked, reaching down into the pile to pull out a teddy bear.

“You’re not a human, are you?” Lueur’s eyes narrowed as she dropped to a low fighting stance. She summoned powerful energy to her form, sending crackles of energy dancing across herself.

“And you’re not very observant.” The girl smiled. “Your kind bested Raptor, which I should thank you for. He and I didn’t quite get along.” It tossed the teddy bear in her hands up and down, pouting. “His stupid little animals kept playing with my dollies.”

“Such a shame.” Lueur muttered, lancing an arm forward. A bright crackle of energy accompanied it, striking the girl in its chest.

“Oh.” It said with a small smile. “That was actually fairly powerful.”

Lueur grinned evilly. “You haven’t seen anything yet.” She swept her hands together, then brought them apart with a sudden, violent motion.

The girl’s eyes widened as its hair began to burst out from where Lueur had hit it. “Oh, quite good!” It applauded as fur continued to grow from its body. “But not nearly good enough, I’m afraid.” It smiled as the fur’s growth slowed, stilling to a crawl.

“Wh-what?” Lueur stared in shock. She then shivered, doubling over as though she’d been hit in the gut.

“Don’t tell me you didn’t notice when I infected you?” The girl beamed. “It was back when you were connected to my new teddy.”

Lueur groaned again, falling to the ground. Already she was beginning to shrink; feeling stuffing begin to fill her body. Her whole form fell lighter, and she reached out a hand to the fallen body of her compatriot.

Then Lueur jerked her hand back, feeling it begin to twist and reshape. Her fingers flattened out to a fin as the magical line she'd cast sent Gabriel's gun back to her apprentices.

“R-run!” She managed, her last words before her lips began to press together. She looked down in distress, watching a thin line of stitching forever conjoin her lips. She  huffed slightly in distress, feeling her face begin to stretch out into a muzzle.

As a stage magician, she'd certainly been transformed before. But it was never like this; it was never so cottony. Or so pleasant... She could feel her mental defenses beginning to crumble, no doubt eroded by whatever dark magic was assailing her body.

From across the room, Becca and Dani stared in horror as a vapid smile settled across their teacher's face. Lueur slid from her clothes, white furs coating her entire body as she went. That same smile settled on her face as she brought her fins together in an abhuman clapping.

Becca couldn't take any more of the sight. She formed a series of magical barriers between the creature and herself, just as she stooped low to pick up Gabriel's gun. “We have to go!” She shouted, turning to run.

Thankfully for her, Dani caught on remarkably quickly. The other apprentice spun on her heel too, with one last glance to their transforming mentor.

Lueur felt them go, a sigh of relief escaping her lips as the changes overwhelmed her. Her legs conjoined to a pinniped's tail and her feet flattened out as she lost all motion in her body. Her bones and muscles had completely given way to soft stuffing.

“Oh, you're too cute!” The demon in a girl's body squeaked. It stooped low, picking up the transforming stuffed seal. “I can't wait to change your little friends, too.”

Lueur could only feel herself grow more bubbly in response. Her personality had been mostly erased by now, and she could only think about how pleasurable this change was. She was becoming a huggable stuffed seal!

What little remained of her mind was full of concern for her students. But instead of worrying they'd be transformed, she began to worry they'd be unchanged. Lueur loved becoming a stuffed seal: she was so much cuddlier this way! Her owner would love her lots and she'd be a good toy.

The girl giggled, nuzzling its toy's still-human face. As it did, Lueur's face pushed out into a cottony muzzle, her skin soon replaced with fur. The woman's eyes slowly darkened to a pair of glass marbles, and her nose became a black-stitched snout. Her hair simply fell out, and with that she was indistinguishable from any other stuffed animal.

“Perfect.” The girl squeaked, cuddling its newest toy to its chest. It placed the seal on the ground, turning to the fading barrier. “Now to deal with those two.”

Dani and Becca had run as far as they could, ignoring the instinctive feeling that something was awry. Dani outpaced her friend, taking the stairs two at a time. From the outside, the building had a large window there.

Sure enough, she could make out the reflection of its stained glass, and her heart soared. Dani spun as she made the last stair, shouting with exertion as she slung a bolt of magic at the window.

It was like throwing an exploding fastball, and should have shattered the glass in one hit. But the window held firm.

"Damn it!" Dani cursed loudly, spinning to see if they could head back downstairs. But instead of salvation, she only saw the horrifying sight of Becca growing a thick coat of cottony fur.

"Dani, I don't thing we're gonna make it out of this." Becca groaned, wobbling in place as her muscles and bones began to turn to soft cotton.

“N-no! But she didn't get anywhere near you!” Dani gasped. Her mind raced with the implications; there had to be something that they'd missed!

Gabriel's gun clattered to the floor as Becca's fingers twisted, fusing into a cottony hoof. “I don't know how, either... I just...” Becca trailed off, turning to see the creature arriving behind them.

“Infection.” The girl smiled, its body rising through the floor as though it was water. The wood rippled around it as it came, and it smiled at the two. “This is my house of contagion.”

“What are you talking about?” Dani took a wary step away from Becca, who'd just grown a complete coat of fluffy fur.

“Well, I like cute things. I just want everything in the world to be as cute as possible. There'd be no conflict; no pain; everyone would just be Prinzy's playthings!”

“Is that your name?”

“Oh, I'm Prinzy. Nice to meet you.” It extended a hand.

Dani recoiled from it, and Prinzy laughed. “Now, now.” The creature said. “I've already made a first host. That's how it works, you know. I change one person per group, then they'll change the rest!” It pointed to Gabriel's gun with a huge smile.

Dani looked to it, her jaw dropping as she then sent a glance up to Becca. Sure enough, the girl was changing more and more, a rapturous smile on her face.

Becca didn’t even realize she was smiling; she could only focus on how nice it was to transform and get blanker and blanker. Her head lolled a little to the side even as her neck started to grow out from her body, which took the time to fall to all fours.

“What… What are you doing to her, you bitch?” Dani shrieked, hurling a transformative spell at Prinzy. It dodged out of the way, cackling as a drawer behind it exploded in a shower of sparks.

“Making a stuffed alpaca, of course. With natural fur, of course.” Prinzy picked up Becca, shrinking her as it lifted the changing girl higher. “I have high tastes.”

Becca slumped lifelessly in the girl’s arms, too far gone to pleasure to care about what was happening to her. She instead just let herself go with the transformation, slumping over like a lifeless toy. That’s what she was, after all—and she loved being it! Her eyes glassed over, and her dumb smile only grew from there.

“Becca, no!” Dani cursed, clenching her hands as she fired yet another bolt of energy. This one exploded in front of Prinzy’s face, showering it with sparks. Dani knew that her time had come, and she only had one moment.

She dove for Gabriel’s gun, rolling to stand and lift it at Prinzy. “Come on, whore. Show me what you’ve got.”

“Gladly.” Prinzy smiled, its form seeming to ripple and distort as it exuded vast amounts of black magic.

Dani stiffened immediately, her fingers almost dropping the gun. By some miracle of endurance, she managed to hold on, working her own unique form of magic. She channeled the creature’s poisonous influence in her veins, accelerating them but also raising her own magical level to its maximum capacity.

The transforming girl could feel her left arm balloon out, along with her legs and body. She got puffier and puffier, her body filling with stuffing even as long fur grew from her every pore. Her arms were covered in black fur in seconds; her torso covered in hairs as white as snow.

But her right hand remained human, clutching Gabriel’s gun in a white-knuckled grip. She fed it every last bit of her own energy and some of Prinzy’s own for good measure. Then, with a grim smile, she fired.

Prinzy’s eyes widened as it realized what it had done by feeding the transformation spell. “Whoopsie.” It muttered.

The transformation beam struck it full-force in the head, which reshaped from that of a human to that of a bovine’s in seconds. Its ears pulled out to long and floppy cow’s ears, its teeth flattened out, and its nostrils broadened as it let out a loud and mournful low.

Prinzy glared as its eyes shifted to the sides of its head. The untransformed parts of its body began to shift as well, skin splitting to reveal purple insectoid carapace. “You little… Little… Human!” It snarled, its voice devoid of all attempts at cuteness.

Dani stuck out her tongue, feeling it become soft and velvety as she did. Her own ears slid do the top of her head and a goofy smile settled across her face as she grew a muzzle. The smoking gun fell from her fingers as they sank back into her forming paw, and she fell back onto her fluffy tail.

“I tried to change you into something cute and you make mee—ooo something ugly like this?” Prinzy shrieked in anger, sprouting more scuttling limbs as it forced more magic onto Dani’s form. “I was going to make you a plushie, but now you’re gonna be chair-sized toy! A big, fat chair!” Prinzy slammed her foot on the ground.

Dani groaned, her last human sound before her vocal chords turned to cottony stuffing. Her whole body ballooned out, her head growing even larger just as her belly expanded. She was getting so big; she felt that she could almost burst. Her clothes certainly did, tearing off of her and falling to the floor in tatters. For a moment, the girl feared it would be too much for her stuffed body.

Yet somehow her seams held, and she simply sat on the ground: an oversized panda with her tongue perpetually hanging out. But while Dani’s body had completely changed, her mind remained intact. The apprentice had diverted just enough of her magical energies to account for that. She watched Prinzy rage behind her glass eyes, and a small sense of victory filled her heart. She knew that in the end, she’d still won.

***

Back at TransSec HQ, Hastur scowled at his monitor, watching the last of Saber's lights wink out. He reviewed all of the footage once again; then keyed in a code into his communications system. “Bastion, you're greenlit.”