Nexus Effect

Ch.88

Penny paced restlessly in the ‘medical’ lobby of the Rannoch Institute of Technology where they had taken Nora in the Shadow Dagger while EDI was the liaison with the liberated Collector Cruiser, where most of the crew was back on the Normandy. The scramble to save Nora almost forced them not to drop off the crew members hitching a ride on the Shadow Dagger.

She wasn’t the only one waiting anxiously. Yola was forced to be out here after the initial transfer to the emergency room was completed, Tali was squeezing Yola’s hand desperately for comfort, Ashley had her face in her hands next to them, Jack was just as riled up as Penny and-.

“What is taking so fucking long?!” Jack roared and she used a biotic empowered punch to shatter the nearby wall and start headbutting it with no harm to herself. “I thought this place was the fucking egghead capital of the galaxy!”

“Jack! Stand down! This won’t help her! Especially if you get us arrested!” Penny snarled, her false-fluff tail snapping against the floor like a whip as her vulpine face twisted with her teeth bared. However, the two were suddenly in a large empty room with Berserker. “What-?”

“We’re back on the Shadow Dagger, in the training room to prevent Jack from breaking something crucial to reviving Nora.” Berserker informed the two.

“What the fuck, dude?!” Jack’s biotic powers flared as she prepared to attack him. “Take us back!” Penny tried to prevent it, but Jack already flung herself at Berserker and threw a biotic-enhanced haymaker his way. Only to be back-handed away from him and find herself on the floor. “Agh! Fuck, that stings!”

“Good. Try again.” Berserker told Jack before picking her up and shoving her away.

“Are you serious right now?!” Jack demanded furiously.

“Keep trying until you either knock me on my ass or you tire out.” Berserker explained to her as he waited for the attack.

The next two hours were Jack getting slapped by the Marine as she kept making an attempt at getting a hit in. Penny stood on the sidelines and watched her lover becoming exhausted as she struggled against Berserker. Eventually Jack fell to her knees and began to cry.

“F-Fucking dammit. Why c-couldn’t it be y-you fuckers instead of N-Nora?” She asked through her sobbing.

“Because Penny made the right choice. If it were my siblings and I, we would’ve died.” Berserker answered with a sigh as he kneeled down to Jack’s level.

“So, I prevented a worse scenario from unfolding, but how did you know the Collectors had such a weapon aboard their ship?” Penny questioned as she was beside Jack and comforted her.

“Our ship’s scanners picked up an anomaly on that Collector ship, we figured it might be some sort of biochemical weapon meant for us.” Berserker explained with a sigh. “It would’ve melted any human who went on the ship, even people with faint human DNA. It was a good thing you didn’t take any humans or people with a genetically human form like us.”

“So I’m not human at all anymore. I’m okay with that, but-.” Penny was interrupted by suddenly being in the waiting room again moments before a familiar wood door appeared in the air.

“Harumph! Borg are so boring!” Hermais huffed when she stumbled out of her door and sat down in a chair while holding a Borg head that the Marines immediately pointed their guns at. “Don’t worry, it’s offlined. So, judging by the fact we’re all here, did Nora do something hasty and grow beyond her chassis again? She was in a bad sitch, but she shouldn’t have ended up here.”

“You sound like this wasn’t planned for.” Tali grumbled unhappily and Hermais sighed.

“No, it was planned for, but she must’ve encountered a Reaper in person sooner than expected. She was supposed to receive another firmware update before then, but by that point it wouldn’t-woops. Can’t say more, it’ll destroy the future we’re hoping for. Don’t worry, her next chassis was ready for her next visit to RIT.” Hermais assured everyone and Penny glared hotly at her. “Cool down that death glare Aunt Penny or I might actually get hurt.”

“If she doesn’t make it-.” Penny was interrupted by Chrysanthemum, the most skilled geth omnidisciplinary scientist in the galaxy and Nora’s daughter, emerging from the direction Nora was being cared for. “Is Nora okay?” Penny immediately rounded on her with hope and dread.

“Mom is fine, but it was a bit touch-and-go for a bit there. It was like trying to squeeze a hyperpregnant breeder through the front door of a house while she’s still rapidly growing, but we did it. We did have to put her in a prototype chassis however, because it’s the only one with the storage capacity and processing power to handle her. You won’t like it…” Chrys warned them, causing everyone to feel more hope and dread rather than placate them, like all doctors had the uncanny ability to do.

“So can we see her?” Yola asked hopefully as Chrys approached them.

“They can, you need an update too. Come along, mom.” Chrys grabbed Yola’s hand and yanked her down the hall while a male nurse in futuristic scrubs led them down another hall in a similar direction.

He said nothing, but seemed grim when he brought them to the double-door and led them-why is there a Reaper here?! A frighteningly familiar purple cuttlefish-like giant robot took up what had to be a small hangar. It was the size of a stealth-freighter. They had to upload Nora to that?! “What is going on?” Tali asked fearfully for the group and the nurse approached the console hooked up to the tiny Reaper.

“This is just a mock-up of what we understand based on the data gathered from dissecting Sovereign. It doesn’t have Indoctrination capability and is only holding Nora’Feell at the moment since it has the largest storage and processing power available in the synthetic-organic core made from a Thresher Maw.” The nurse casually answered, as if playing Frankenstein with a world-ending machine was nothing big. “She’s waking up. She is disconnected from the controls, but audio and video are available.”

“Okay then, when can we talk to her?” Jack huffed before the blue light of the central eye of the mock-up Reaper ignited.

“Oh~, what hit me? Where am I now?” Nora whined and Penny felt so terrible to see her lover in such a state. “Oh no, am I a proper Reaper now? Have I killed anyone while I was out?”

“Nothing like that has occurred, Nora’Feell. You are in full control of your faculties now that you’re not frying your systems with perpetual overclocking.” The nurse informed the woman, but before anything else could be said, a fully suited quarian woman burst into the hangar. “Who-Admiral Daro’Xen! You’re not cleared for the Reverse Reaper project!”

“So you have it online? Good, when will it be ready for us to mass-produce to kill the monsters trying to kill us all?” Daro’Xen demanded as she held up her omni and the nurse winced.

“Right now it’s serving to host Nora’Feell until she-.”

“Perfect, she’ll be able to kill many of them as the template for a Reverse Reaper fleet.” Daro’Xen interrupted and Penny bristled along with everyone else in the room.

“I-I’m not about to just-!” Nora was interrupted by Daro’Xen waving a hand and beeping sounds echoed through the hangar.

“You already bred us generations of super-soldiers, what’s stopping you from making Echoes to operate these fine machines?” Daro’Xen rhetorically asked as Pillar stopped Jack from assaulting her and Hunter held Penny by the arms.

“I’m not just some machine! I’m a person, damn you!” Nora wailed as whatever was happening made her moan and whine.

“Miss Xen, when was the last time you fucked?” Hermais purred as she hovered just above the bitch.

“What does that have to-unhand me!” Daro’Xen snarled before Hermais dragged her through the air to a window and the nurse typed away at the console, whatever was happening to Nora ceased and she groaned in relief.

“Thank gosh she took that bitch away. I was about to shoot her and cause an intergalactic incident.” Penny snarled as she shrugged herself free of Hunter. “Nora, are you alright?! What was that bitch doing to you?”

“Unf, p-pumping me for data-echoes. The digital equivalent to my semen and eggs combined. Oof, I was not braced for that.” Nora sighed in relief as the nurse looked towards the ceiling.

“Is she going to-?” The nurse began, but stopped when we all heard Xen screaming in pleasure. We looked up at the window to see the sociopath pinned to it with a giant cock outlining her belly. “She’s fine. Nobody would breed with that bitch because of her sociopathic tendencies. I swear, the only reason she still has any authority is because she’s part of the old Admiralty Board.”

“Get her out of the chain of command promptly, she just forcibly raped a citizen for breeding material with intent to unwillingly clone her.” Pillar declared grimly and everyone watched Hermais turn the bitch into a living condom. Penny may have found it hot, but hopefully that bitch appreciates a good, hard dicking and filling to the point of being less of a bitch.

[1001100 01101001 01101110 01100101]

“So that’s the kind of body you’re going to put me in?” I asked after a few hours of being stuck as a giant space cuttlefish and my lovers were all ushered back into the lobby. I didn’t even get to play around with my tentacles or anything. What point is there to being a space cuttlefish if I can’t cuttle or fish?!

“Yep! Give a spin, mom!” Chrys cheered at Yola, who smiled and gave a spin in the modest patient smock that also had a back. She was 7 feet tall and still proportioned the same despite the height increase. Would it kill Chrys to give us bigger tits? Just not as big as the breeding bodies though... “The extra size is due to the extra space needed for memory storage and processors. You’re getting too fat mom! I had to stack processors! One of those can operate a small ship on its own!”

“Watch your tone missy or I’ll wriggle my fat ass out of these restraints and give you a spanking!” I shouted back and waved a-why can I wave this tentacle? I wasn’t supposed to be able to and I wasn’t able to before!

“Uh...we’d better get you out of there before you get too acclimated. I’ve got your chassis in the fabricator now, it’ll be out soon.” Chrys informed me and I rolled my cycloptic eye. I don’t have ‘eye’ lights on my chassis besides the cyclops laser-eye since Thresher Maws don’t fucking have eyes.

“Bah! You might as well just leave me in this one! I’m only going to get bigger! Don’t you have some sort of magic or tech to shrink my chassis down like how you can shrink giants down?” I huffed in exasperation. Sure, I’d love to be reasonably sized and sexy again...then again, tentacles. Now if only I was reasonably sized either way.

“No, we’re still working on-.” Daro’Xen was suddenly plopped down on the floor next to my daughter, spooking her into jumping away from the ten-foot ball of cum that was the insensate gurgling and groaning sociopath.

“You again?” I groaned as I felt a boner pop, wait, this thing has a penis?

“Ah~, she’s all nice and fucked out. I also gave her some Brain Bleach™ to help with the psychological disorders and some Cerebrum Softener™ to let her head settle into a healthier shape easier. Now then, to business!” The currently female bird-based draconequus reached into her cleavage and-is that the fucking Allspark?! “Zappity zap-zap! Work your magic Primus!”

“So this is the one? She seems worthy. Very well, this boon is granted.”Echoed a voice that thrummed so powerfully it resonated in the fucking soul as the Allspark in Hermais’ clutches began to keen as it charged up.

“Wah~?!” I wailed before the light hit me-.

[1001100 01101001 01101110 01100101]

...This isn’t the Matrix. I looked at myself. I’m...flesh? I’m not code anymore? Why am I wearing a toga? “Greetings, little one.” I flinched and spun around to look up at the machine-god of Transformers, a golden entity that could only be Primus! He looked bigger than a fucking moon! That explains why Unicron is a fucking moon! He has to compete with this golden god! “Your flattery is appreciated, but unnecessary.” He can hear my thoughts? “Since we are in your soul, yes.”

“M-my soul?” I felt distinctly worried even as I looked around at the surroundings. Why is it so beautiful? I-I’m not this beautiful! Why is it a misty valley of giant rose bushes that stretches from mountain to mountain?! The only thing that breaks up the roses and rises above the mist is a gorgeous giant cherry tree in full bloom and this little upraised gazebo I was standing in. “I...this can’t be me. I’m a horrible, selfish, hedonistic-.”

“Cease! You are worthy of my gift. This is what I saw when I gazed upon you; embrace that this serenity, fertility and beauty is you at your very core!” Primus commanded and I shook my head in disbelief as I looked at the representation of my soul. Is this why Hermais chose me? She saw this and knew I was the one for the job?

“B-but, why? Why me? I can’t be the only one with this type of soul.” I shivered and hugged myself, then froze when I felt cold metal instead of soft flesh. I looked at my purple hand, made of metal as the gazebo was suddenly a stool I was sitting on, my metal feet painlessly crushing rose bushes as I looked up at Primus, who was seeming more and more reasonably sized by the moment. “W-what-?!”

“I welcome you as my child. Go forth, protect this universe!”

[1001100 01101001 01101110 01100101]

I opened my eyes to see Yola and Chrys standing over me with Hermais floating above with a shit-eating grin, the Allspark nowhere in sight. “What. Did. You. Do?” I demanded, trying willfully to ignore the mechanical flange to my tone, not unlike a turian’s actually.

“I just leveled the playing field! Good luck~!” Hermais blew a kiss and giggled as she turned into pages of script that then burned to ash.

“Get back-whoa~!” I jumped to my feet, then had to wave my arms behind me to recover from putting too much forward momentum into my rise. I looked down, seeing a robotic yet organic body. My hands and feet along with the forearms and calves were fullmetal, but the thighs and biceps up were my usual light lavender flesh. I also had basketball-sized tits! Yay! I can finally-ahem! Not now, Nora! “Yola, Chrys, how bad is it?”

“You just look like a more blatantly mechanical version of me. Though you also have elf ears.” Yola said as she rounded to my front and pouted at my tits. “Chrys?”

“...Fine, I’ll give you a boobjob, mom, since Grauntie Hermais decided to turn mom into the first Transformer of this universe.” Chrys groaned as she put her face in her hands. “I’m too young to be dealing with this shit…” Chrys stormed away and I looked myself over some more.

“I really don’t look like a Transformer. Or feel it.” I rubbed my scalp and checked my shoulder-length straight black hair. “Do I have any obvious weapons, extra limbs that are folded away? Anything?” I asked Yola as I turned around and she shook her head. “Then how can I Transform? I don’t have the parts to do it.” This body doesn’t come with a user manual!

“Well, uh, just reach deep inside yourself, I guess?” Yola half asked and half suggested.

“Oh, sure, like if I reach inward to my Spark I’ll-.” *Whirr-whoo-chi-che-chit!* “...Am I a giant space cuttlefish?” I rhetorically asked, since I was back to the body I had before, but sleeker and just as big in mass if not in shape. I feel slimmer and that’s the thing, I feel it, like my metal was flesh.

“Mmf!” Yola shouted, muffled since she was pressed against-oh my.

“Uh...this is kinda kinky and I don’t know how to feel about it.” I have working genitalia in my alternate form. Good to know! Now how to go back to normal, without possibly hurting Yola since she’s half-lodged into my new vagina. Well, time to figure out how to move around! “Hold on Yola, let me…” I used my many legs to nimbly lift up off the floor and Yola gasped.

“Holy shit sis, that is hot, but also really weird. Why do you have such an obvious weak point in this form?” Yola asked and I leered my cycloptic eye down at her. “Right, don’t bother asking why kinky shit is the norm in this universe, but from what our shared memories tell me; you just got turned into a fucking Transformer by Primus! Doesn’t this make you a demi-goddess at the least?”

“Sis. I just spoke to the all-father of an entire species, was shown the contents of my soul and changed species myself, again. Please do not even joke about me being divinity!” I shouted down at her, then looked up at the sight of everyone staring at me in awe. “Uh...hey? I kinda got zapped and bamboozled by Hermais bringing in an expert from another dimension to turn me into a not-evil space cuttlefish that transforms.”

I reached within-I’m now standing next to Yola. Whoa, this is going to need getting used to. Especially the size-changing aspect. That must be something Hermais worked on with help from Primus. Wasn’t there a relic of the Primes that allowed the wearer to change size? I can’t remember the name, damn, but whatever it is, I must have some variant installed in me.

“Well, that’s good news, but I wish everything was good news. Apparently after Harbinger’s battle against you, it has requested reinforcements. They’re not going to bother assimilating you. You’re deemed too dangerous.” Runner told me along with Hunter nodding grimly.

“Fucking pathetic coward.” Berserker described Harbinger, but I knew he wanted to use something more colorful for the bastard.

“So he’s reneging on the challenge that the brat declared I had issued. I’m surprised the brat isn’t punishing him for it.” I sniffed at the way Harbinger boasted so proudly that he would win, then the moment I turn the tables, he reveals himself to be a cheating cheater who cheats.

“You challenged them?” Pillar questioned me with a confused look.

“Apparently, since they consider me a Reaper, my denial of the Cycle is considered a Challenge. The Brat, the Catalyst, claims that the Cycle must continue despite evidence to the contrary. I told him I would destroy the Reapers, now it seems I’m a candidate to replace him or something. I wouldn’t be surprised.” I sighed and put my hands on my hips, noting that my metal hands didn’t feel like metal to my fleshy hips.

“Nora, challenge or not, there are no rules. Don’t expect things to run smoothly or fairly. They rarely do.” Runner stressed and I huffed with a nod in agreement. The beautiful blond bombshell was the most magical of the Marines I believe, so her knowing about odd challenges made sense.

“Look, these are dumb VI we’re talking about. For all I know, the Catalyst might even deny the requests for reinforcements since he accepted my ‘Challenge’. The Reapers are still coming, no doubt, but I should be able to kill Harbinger before they come.” I insisted and then blushed when my stomach roared in demand for sustenance. “Uh, whoa. That’s new…” Hunger? Actual normal hunger? I have a stomach? Please tell me I can still chug and make babies!

“I can only pray you are right. For now, let's get something to eat.” Pillar sighed and then looked at my breasts and I raised my eyebrow. “I still wonder why every woman in this universe of either great power or sexual supremacy has breasts that size, even at scale if they’re giants.”

“Hey, don’t ask me. Primus is the one who gave me this body.” I’m not going to complain though~!

“So, don’t you need Energon though? I thought Transformers could only be sustained by that.” Hunter asked me and I heard his voice with ease now.

“Hopefully not, but if I need something similar, I’ve got an Argent supply right here.” I patted Penny’s shoulder as we left the hangar where I was reborn. Again. “So, did you guys visit the kids while I was out of commission?”

“No, we were waiting for when you woke up.” Ashley replied and I smiled before I groaned and held my roaring stomach. So hungry~! I didn’t miss this feeling~!