As I potter about my apartment, preparing for the day ahead of me, I quickly fiddle with my phone. If I was going to be rushing around my cozy little home I at least wanted something to listen to in the background.
Hemming and hawing at the screen I flick my way through YouTube, selecting random videos to act as ambiance as I get ready. As I cast the first video to my TV I'm immediately hit with the off-putting blaring noise of an ad, one that I had heard many times before.
It's time for a change, an X-Change
The commercial plays out, sadly being unable to be skipped over. Half-baked explanations and testimonials as to the relatively newly minted medical marvel play out on screen.
Coming in six, twelve, and twenty-four hour varieties you can take a walk in your
alter egos shoes from a calm afternoon at home to a wild night on the town
Images whirl past of examples showing men and women shifting into what looks almost like some sort of sibling, each one performing different actions. With the large degree of potential variance, though with each still retaining a certain level of familiarity, I watch as they use their new bodies to build outdoor decks, go for nature walks, dance wildly in a scantily clad crowd, and even simply sit with a cup of wine and a book as they curl up by a fire.
For those looking for longer breaks from the 'them' they know, out 'Plus' pills
provide extended longevity with duration ranging from a week to a month
Images of longer-form activities run across the stream. Groups of women taking theirs before suddenly their apparent 'brothers' can be seen backpacking across Europe, a giddy group of college students taking theirs before showing them relaxing on a gender-bent spring break.
Bundles and specials soon come out in quick succession, from the 'Date Night' bundle for partners to enjoy an evening as the opposite sex to the 'Change-Chump' party game in which the X-Change is hidden amongst a pile of 'duds'.
As I prepare for the ad to wrap up, having been required to watch it numerous times to view anything online, I'm instead met with a new little addition on the end that I hadn't seen before.
For those looking for a 'Premium' experience, our new X-Change Duo are now
available for online order and in stores (subject to availability)
Our latest product allows for a greater level of customization for the user,our online portal and survey allowing for the purchaser to design a body subject to their wishes
Our latest design allows for a truly limitless experience, with the changes
having no limitations on their duration and lasting permanently by default
Don't worry about returning to the real you, simply place a hair or any genetic material into provided container along with the 'Return' pill and give it a little shake. Ti become the real you again simply take your return pill once you're done with your regret free fun!
Images on screen shift between a pimply and chubby looking woman in her thirties and a young awkward-looking rake-thin man in his early twenties filling out a survey in some rather plain looking website. They each in a split-screen are soon opening a parcel, taking out two pills in a little plastic box that barely holds the two.
They both retrieve a blue pill from the container, the camera zooming in to show the fine black wording on the side reading 'Uno', as the woman places a hair in the container and the man spits into it. They each shake the container, a slow-motion show showing a red pill inside jostling around with the word 'Duo' printed on it.
Cutting forward the advert shows what is assuredly the same two people, though they look nothing like they did before. On the woman's side if the screen shows an athletic blonde man, his firm muscles on display in a tank top and shorts as she effortlessly hikes up a mountain. On the young man's side sits a cute young woman, nervously sipping coffee as she flounces through an art gallery.
Can't access our website, or simply don't have the time to wait for delivery?
Our X-Change Duo line is also available in limited supply from select
pharmacies
Choose from a number of 'Pre-Set' bodies, the Jason, the Samantha, and the
Kyle just to name a few
Various pictures of men and women flash across the screen, each one a practical image of physical perfection that would immediately out whoever used the Duo as a fake.
Or take a walk in the shoes if someone more familiar. Simply add some genetic
material alongside either of the pills included to override the preset,
allowing you or another to take the form of another willing participant!
The ad quickly cuts to a loving couple dropping a pill into each other's glass of sparkling wine before downing the fizzy liquor. Moments later it shows the same two out on the town, the short blonde woman clinging to her towering husband's arm as she blushed a deep crimson and stumbles in her heels as though she had never worn them before.
Purchase your Duo* today! Only available for a limited time!
*Warningusemayleadtoshiftsinmentallityandsexualityascopiedbrainremappsandhormonelevelsadjust.
Largescaledecreasesinmassmayresultindischargeofexcessmaterial.
X-changecirporationtakenoresponsibilityforfailuretoproperlyfollowinstructions.
PleaseassureallthosewhotakeDuoorwhoseDNAisusedconsenttotheprocedure.
I blink rapidly as I listen to the deluge of words at the end of the ad, barely being able to keep up with the verbal equivalent of fine print. With a small shrug I return to getting ready, searching for my keys and wallet around the messy apartment as the first real video begins to play.
While X-Change had certainly thought about the consent issue, they really didn't think it would be that much of a problem. However, even with the limited supply of X-Change Duo on store shelves it didn't take long for people to begin to claim their bodies had been stolen.
Many attributed it to the ad itself, the married couple spiking each other's drink in a romantic gesture merely acting as inspiration for would-be thieves. Baked into cookies, hidden in a meal, or even simply dropped into a drink these rare pills soon began to turn people into someone new against their will. All it took was for the thief to pluck a stray hair or take a lipstick smear glass and they would have a one-way ticket to claiming a new life.
It was a perfect crime, with the matter being a very odd case of 'he said she said'. Most never went anywhere, with determining who was who being something that the authorities simply weren't prepared for when one person was the other down to the genetic level.
The pills would soon be pulled from the market, their limited stock being pulled from the shelves within the first few weeks of hitting the shelves. However, this failed to stop the underground market which was more than willing to sell these rarities for absurd markups.
For now however, they were merely limited by availability with cities selling out nearly immediately while the odd rural pharmacy that got stock would later be forced to pull them all down without selling much at all.
As I find my wallet, quickly patting down my pockets after sliding it into my black jeans, I mutter to myself.
"Phone, wallet, keys, all good" I mumble with a sigh, adjusting my moss green cable-knit sweater over my black t-shirt as I try to get them to neatly line up. Slipping on a pair of large and well-worn dark brown boots I quickly head out the front door of my apartment, stopping for a moment to turn off the TV and to save on electricity.
As I pace towards the stairwell my mind ruminates on the ad I had just seen, the images of the Duo lingering in my head. X-Change had been on the market for some time now, I had even used a very short-term one a while back. However, after seeing my 'alternate self' I hadn't really found the drive to use it again.
Being a tall and slender man I had figured I would be a tall and slender woman. However, I had not expected to look that slender with my female form appearing to be more lanky, pasty, and awkward than I wanted. Not only that but my massive cock didn't translate into much at all in this new form, my body being flat and lacking any sort of curves.
Spending an awkward evening like that had been enough for me, leaving me to swear off X-Change ever since, but the thought of what was possible with the Duo simply kept piquing my interest.
As I reach the landing I still had no clue just how my day was going to pan out, having no idea that I would end up...
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