This choice: First try out her shapeshifting capabilities. • Go Back... The idea of pushing her new malleable body to the limits came to the blonde bounty hunter. Understanding one's limits is necessary before heading into unknown territory. Though Samus shakes her head in the negative. "Better to understand the basics before jumping headfirst." She raises a hand and concentrates.
As if by command, the fingers on Samus' palm blend together, individual digits fusing together into a single flat mass. Within seconds, Samus found her a flipper in place of where her hand has been. No pain, just a small tingling feeling that dare she say feel "pleasant". Though pleasant in a weird, foreign way of having total control over her body like that. "Interesting." Samus mutters as she wills her hand back to normal. Seamlessly, her flipper splits apart into dexterous hands and fingers once more. "System?" She calls out to the AI.
[Yes Samus]. The AI responds.
"You said that the upgrade has made my body more malleable, care to clarify?" The blonde woman asks, taking the time to stretch her body in the meantime. Her arms, legs, and even torso growing long and thin as they spread further in feet.
[Acknowledge Samus. As previously stated the upgrade enables to user's body to become more malleable to perform a number of tasks. To do so means transforming the user's physical makeup entirely. Despite your current appearance you are more of an amorphous mass rather than the human you were before.]
Samus paused at the revelation. "That's...quite a lot to take in." The notion of just having lost her humanity should be shocking to say the least. Despite that Samus merely shrugs her shoulders. To be honest, with all Chozo DNA in her genetics, the mess with the Metroids, and God knows whatever extraterrestrial energies she has been exposed to in past missions she's surprise she could function before. Most people would have been crippled before with all the craziness the bounty hunter has absorbed. Looking down to her taller, and thinner body, Samus muse that her current state is practically tame in comparison. "So I'm stuck as a blob monster now?"
[Negative.] The AI's voice raises Samus' intrigue. [Though the upgrade has altered your physical body a backup template of your prior state is save prior to the transformation. Safe deactivation and removal of the upgrade will return to who you were before.]
Samus breathes a sigh of relief, "That's good to hear." Craziness aside, her original body being the last living proof her departed parents, both her biological and her adopted Chozo ones. Losing that connection left a sour taste in her mouth. She soon turns her attention to her body. "So I'm actually just a shape mimicking my human body."
[Correct Samus.] The AI answers, [As with the demo from before, you are able to take a multitude of forms. Be if solid shapes, a flatten sheet, or as you are currently demonstrating stretching yourself to reach longer heights and lengths.]
Samus nods in acknowledgment before trying to take a few steps. Not a step in and she can already feel her legs wobble like rubber. "Got that, and other than environmental factors what other limits are there?"
[Mass being the primary one.] The AI answers, uncaring of the slight blush building on Samus' face. [A limit on how much you can shapeshift your body is limited to your current mass. As you have experience right now, stretching your body taller also means stretching your total mass to reach such lengths. The further you stretch, the harder it is to control your elongated body. On the inverse scale, compressing your body means gathering all your mass into a smaller, tighter space.]
"That makes sense, I guess." Samus responds as she shrinks herself down to her original height. "Anything else?"
[Your control over your body does not include changing colors.] At the stations' cameras seeing the confuse eyebrow on Samus' face it continues. [Your body right now is based on your prior appearance before the upgrade, where you were wearing your blue suit. So if you would change shape into a sphere or cube, a majority of your body's colors would be based on your blue suit. However there is a compatible upgrade to change that.]
"Another time." Samus waves the AI out. Best to stick to one level of crazy for now. A though crossed her mind, "I wonder...AI can you give me a mirror?"
[Of course.]
A nearby panel pops up and a panel with a mirror like surface extends out from mechanical arms to before Samus. The bounty hunter takes a moment to examine herself int the surface. Looking at her reflection and focusing on her blonde locks, Samus finds that her hair, despite each individual hair, felt more like an extension of her total being. "I'm going to try something." She speaks out loud.
Focusing, Samus will her body to change. Once again she feels her form tingle, like her face is being rubbed across by a sculptor's hands and her head is clay. She feels her face "smooth" out, with her mouth, nose, and even her eyes flattening into a smooth surface. The rubbing feeling glides across her face, over her head, and down to her back. Samus can feel her blonde hair flatten and smooth out into the surface of her head and back. The sensation pass, Samus opens her eyes once more to see blue.
In her reflection, Samus can see a shade of bright blue where her face has been. As if her Zero Suit now encompass the entire of her head instead of up to her neck. Running a hand over her face, Samus was surprised to not feel any signs of having lips, eyes, or nose. Upon further examination, she was further surprised that hasn't need to breathe. Guess being a blob with no need for a respiratory system has some perks. Weird perks, but perks nonetheless. Looking up, Samus can see a familiar splotch of yellow going from the top of her head to reaching to mid back.
"Interesting look." Samus says, soon alarm that she can talk with no mouth. Her voice having a sort of metallic, wobbly cadence to it. She goes back to looking into the mirror and running a hand through her "face". "Not one for the face lift though, makes me look like one of those 'dancers' into the seedier districts."
As if in response, a pair of blue eyes tinged as if seeing through green visor glass appearing on Samus' face. The new eyes look up and down in test. "Well a step above the more bondage look. I'll stick with this for now."
[Any issues with the upgrade Samus?]
"None what so ever." The bounty hunter responds. Already she can think of a number of scenarios where such an upgrade can be handle while on the field. If not that than at least in a "recreational" sense. But those are thoughts for another time. Time for a change in "look".   indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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