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  • You first discover your shapeshifting powers.

    Chapter by shapeshift7777 · 18 May 2025
  • You first discover your shapeshifting powers.
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  • Then one day my wish came true.

    "The first time it happened was when I shapechanged into a friend by
    accident," I admitted, reluctantly.

    "How did that happen?" asked Jo. She was starting to relax a little,
    her head canted slightly so that her wavy red hair draped languidly
    into her face. She'd taken her goggles off since the fight, revealing
    eyes that were large, gray-tinted and beautiful. They were familiar.
    I'd once looked through those eyes and I remembered the crystal clarity
    of their vision. "Was it some kind of big, colorful manifestation?" she
    insisted.

    "No, nothing like that." I stopped to clear my throat before going on.
    "Only I knew anything had happened. I was hanging with my pal and just
    patted them on the shoulder, all friendly. Then there was this 'zap'
    feeling as I touched them, like a small electric shock. Suddenly I
    could feel their shape in my head. It was like I held the blueprints
    for their body in my mind. It made me feel weird. I didn't actually
    shapechange properly until later. Not 'til I got home."

    There was a lot I'd left out of this description. The friend had been
    Bill, my bud at school. He's a smart, funny guy. Good grades. Good
    enough at sports and the social round to be at the centre of several
    circles. He hung with the nerd crowd and played in our World of
    Warcraft clan. He was our natural leader and the organizer of many
    online raids and stunts.

    That time I'd felt the zap, the experience had left me feeling so
    queasy and sick that I crawled home, leaving Bill at the arcade where
    we'd been hanging. I stumbled into my bed complaining of a stomachache
    and asked Mom to stop fussing and leave me alone. I dozed off and when
    I woke up I was in Bill's body--or at least a copy of it--looking
    through his eyes and breathing his air.

    "Who was this friend of yours?" Jo asked, trying to gently lever her
    way past my defenses. I licked my dry lips and tried to fend her off.

    "Can we leave my friends out of it, Jo?" I briefly felt assertive and
    defensive of my privacy. "They have nothing to do with this. I
    discovered I could touch people and get an impression of their form
    from the physical contact. Once it …
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