Golden Shadows Pt. 2 - TG Caption

Part 1 

Part 2

"Man, I am so screwed."

The goddess spoke, her words honeyed gold, glowing with radiance, filled with importa-

"Sooo far over my quota. Maybe I can dump you on Debbie?…What a pain in the ass."

"Goddess, I serve!"

"Yeah, you sure do buddy. Good for you. Now, shut-up a minute, I’m trying to think."

Her golden body moved in time with her words, light pooling and reflecting from a form defying perfection itself. Meaning, incomprehensible to my weak senses, transmitted across a limited electromagnetic spectrum and beyon-

"Ok, let’s just get you back for processing. I’ll deal with this crap later, or dump you on Debbie, whichever." 

As she spoke a metallic line snaked out from her open palm and wrapped itself around my neck. We connect and I am instantly, infinitely more! I am a part of her!

"Please stop drooling. God, you're weird even for a newbie. The sooner I get you into an assimilation tank, the better. Come on…"

- - - 

"And here we are. Welcome to Hive CXT-2, also known as #2, but we don’t call it that anymore, way too many poop jokes. Now I know you’re eager to bow and scrape and prostrate yourself or whatever, but let’s just skip over all that mess. My time is almost as limited as your thought process so let’s solve both those problems, 'kay? Hey, Debbie! I’ve got another live one for ya!"

"Seriously, again?! That’s the third one this month! You've got to start being more careful!"

"Hey, it wasn’t my fault! This guy smashed right into me and 'poof', one drooling idiot. What was I supposed to do, leave him there?"

"Yes? You know resources are limited right now. Ugh, whatever. Tank number seven is free. Drop the newb in there and we’ll see what we can do with him. With what I have left to work with, she may not come out 100% but I’m sure we can make…"

The words of the goddesses were sadly lost to me as I was lowered into a dart pit, filled with a golden warm, viscous goo. It burned on contact, but the burn was good. How could it not be? These actions were ordained, decreed by not one, but two of the holiest. I looked up, hoping to catch sight of their beauty, but the entrance began to close, and I knew no more. 

All was darkness, burning warmth, strange comfort. Time stopped forever until a crack split the world. Hands reached down, and pulled me up into the light. As my mind swam into something resembling consciousness, I took in my surroundings and the two forms standing in front of me. Golden Shadows, The enemies of humanity, no... Goddesses, but that wasn't right either was it? Sisters? The harder I tried to concentrate, the more my thoughts slipped away. I 'looked' down and felt my mind fracture further as I discovered my new form. This wasn't me. I looked like... one of them? Golden fingers reached for my newly expanded chest and squeezed. Pleasure from my body matched the pain in my head and I squeezed again, and again. I hit a threshold and something intangible broke off and floated away. Suddenly, everything felt so silly. I giggled and spoke for the first time...

"Ohh! I’m all shiny!!"

The two shadows looked at each other. Some communication seemed to pass between them and finally one turned to me and asked, "Heeeyyy there new girl. How ya feeling?"

"Hmmmm... warm and happy and kinda oily (poke), and squishy. (poke, poke)"

"I know you said resources were limited, but what the hell? Why is she still acting like an idiot?"

(poke, poke)

"Maybe the process hasn’t fully taken yet? We could try putting her back in there?"

"No, if we do that, we'll definitely get caught. Let’s just… Get her hooked up for testing. While we do that, do you want to bring her up to speed on the whole master pla-"

"I’m so squishy! Should these be squishy? I don’t think they were before."

"Oh boy, you’re a special one aren’t you? Yes dumb dumb those are boobs. They're supposed to be squishy."

"Ohhhhh… I like boobies! (squish, squish) You look squishy too. Want to hug?!?"

"Maybe later. Let’s start you on the simplest tests first to see how everything turned out..."

Several hours later…

"Ooooo-kay. The machine and I have determined that you're fit for…nothing. We can’t even make you one of the silent watchers. I knew there weren’t enough resources left for another conversion this month. What-... Would please stop poking me in the boob!"

"I’m sorry! Want to hug?!?"

"F#@$ me…"