Kate the wolf had a very consistent morning routine. Every single morning, without fail, she got up, brushed her teeth, took a 10-minute shower, took her hormones, had a nice breakfast, made herself a cup of strong coffee, and asked herself if this was going to be the day that she changed the world.

The answer to that last one was usually no, but she still had to ask. You couldn’t rush science, after all.

She considered herself extremely lucky, to live in a time when so much was being done with new and exciting technologies every single day. She would be constantly reading about new breakthroughs in robotics, transportation, medicine, and in doing so, she would be spurred on. Her passion, however, lay elsewhere. Kate’s specialty was genetic engineering, and hers was a lofty goal:

Kate wanted everybody to be able to have the body they always dreamed of, no matter what that might be.

As a transgender woman, this was something very near and dear to her heart. True, modern science had done wonders for her, but the problem with those wonders was that they were extremely slow and gradual wonders. Wouldn't it be nice, she had always asked, if people unhappy with their body didn’t have to wait to try out something new? In the future that Kate dreamed of, trying on a new body would be a matter as simple as trying on a new hat. And while that was a long way off, she had already made great strides with her new experimental hormone solutions. All tested on herself, of course, because she would never dream of asking somebody else to do something that she wouldn’t have done. New advances required boldness, after all!

But today was different. This day was going to call for much more than boldness. For once in her life, she was actually nervous. For while Kate’s latest experimental results were showing some results, she had the feeling that she was beginning to hit a plateau. She needed to shake things up. She needed to do something drastic. And so she’d sent out an application, and after much deliberation and review of her work, today she was going to get results.

There were so many things that she could have been doing today, but she wasn’t doing any of them. She was just sitting in her lab, tapping her foot and stirring her coffee, waiting for a message.

“Hey, Kate, did you hear back from the-”

Kate yelped, nearly hurling her coffee cup across the room. “Dammit, Taylor, you can’t sneak up on a girl like that!”

“I was not even remotely sneaking,” said Taylor, gesturing to their feet. They were wearing large black boots with steel toe caps. “I was just coming up to ask if I could borrow a ream of paper, my printer’s run out. What’s gotten into you?”

Taylor was a brown-furred bat with a perpetually tired expression, dressed in their standard uniform of a lab coat over an eye-searing cartoon T-shirt. They worked in the botany lab across the building, and the two often compared notes.

“Sorry, Tay, I was lost in my head a bit there,” said Kate, now twiddling with her pen. “I’m expecting a delivery.”

“I have a feeling that you’re not talking about lunch,” said Taylor, pulling up a chair and sitting on it backward. “What sort of mad science are you up to?”

“Less than I’d like,” said Kate, managing a smile despite her nerves. “Which is what this is all about. Have you ever felt just, like... stuck in your research?”
“I once spent a whole day taste-testing modified cucumbers. You don’t have to tell me about being stuck. Happens to the best of us. Sometimes you just gotta push through it.”

“Well, I’m going to do a lot more than just push through it!” Kate pounded her fist with her hand for emphasis. “I’m going to absolutely blow it out of the yeek!”

Kate jumped for the second time that afternoon as someone knocked on the door of her lab. Before Taylor could get a word in, she jumped out of her chair and bolted for the door, taking the briefest of moments to dust herself off before opening it, revealing a lanky gecko in a crisp suit and sunglasses, carrying a metal briefcase that he was handcuffed to.

“How can I help you-”

“ID, please.”

Kate blinked, then flashed her official ID. The gecko took a small device from his pocket and scanned it. It beeped and flashed green. Then he took out a tablet from the crook of his arm. “Sign.”

Kate did so with the attached stylus. The gecko nodded, then held up the briefcase, entering in a very long password on its attached number pad, and with a faint hiss, it opened up, revealing a much smaller metal box, cube-shaped, small enough to fit in the palm of her hand. Kate’s heart began to race as she picked it up. It was lighter than she’d expected.

“Good luck, ma’am.”

And with that, he snapped the briefcase shut and left, leaving Kate alone with the cube.

“Don’t keep me in suspense!” said Taylor, who had scooted over in the chair. “What the heck is that?”

Slowly and reverently, Kate opened it up. Inside was a glass vial, no bigger than her thumb, full of a bright blue luminous fluid. Taylor’s eyes went wide as plates.

“Get out,” they said, jaw on the ground. “Is that... it can’t be... is it?”

“It absolutely is,” said Kate, grinning ear to ear. “Pure liquified chaos energy.”

Taylor gasped, putting a hand over their chest. “Oh, you lucky dog! I would give my left wing for a sample of this to play with! We’d be eating cucumbers the size of my arm!”

“Honestly, I didn’t think I’d get approved,” said Kate, unable to stop smiling. “Guess it just goes to show that it’s always worth shooting your shot.”

“Well, I’d hate to get between you two,” said Taylor, patting Kate on the arm. “I’ma get back to my lab. Good luck, and don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.”

“Taylor, I can’t think of anything you wouldn’t do.”

“Exactly!”

And with that, Taylor quit the room, leaving Kate along with the most valuable substance she would ever get her hands on.

She could still barely believe that it was real. She was holding in her hands the distilled essence of the most primordial force of creation in all of existence, capable of anything and everything. If wielded carefully, it could work miracles. In the wrong hands, it could tear worlds asunder.

Kate really hoped that her hands were the right hands. She had no idea if pure chaos cared the least bit about your intentions, but she liked to think that she had good ones. She didn’t want to conquer worlds or become a god. She just wanted to make people happy.

Well. No time like the present to get to it. She was going to have to adjourn to her special lab for this. And she was going to need a lot more coffee.

~*~

The room that Kate had converted into her secondary lab had once been an ordnance testing chamber. It was in another building, far away from places where anybody else worked. She was firmly of the belief that, no matter how boldly you were striding forward in the name of science, there was no such thing as too much caution. If something went wrong and she tore a hole in the fabric of time and space, she didn’t want anyone to suffer for it from her. She would never let anyone else be her guinea pig. (Not even Fred, the cranky night janitor who was constantly stealing her snacks, and he actually was a guinea pig.)

She sized everything up one more time. All of her equipment was set up. The door was sealed, and the only other person who had the access code was Taylor, who had been instructed to come by if they hadn’t heard from Kate in twenty-four hours and not a second before. And most importantly of all, she’d set up a video camera to record the whole process, both so she could see what was happening in real time, and so she’d have proof if everything worked as planned. With all of that settled, there was nothing for it but to plow forward.

“Here goes nothing,” she murmured, and with that, she turned on the camera.

“This is Kate the wolf, recording experiments performed on... heck, what’s the date today? It’s... Tuesday, right? Nevermind, I’ll edit it later. Anyway!”

She cleared her throat.

“For the past six months and change, I’ve been doing extensive research into the effects of chaos energy on biological life forms. There’s records of subjects having been exposed to it and undergoing rapid mutations, sometimes beneficial, but usually... not so much.” She hesitated for a moment. “But I’ve got a theory. Chaos energy is everywhere. It permeates everything. Some say that life as we know it only exists because of it. I can’t confirm or deny that, but I have made an observation. Chaos cannot be controlled. At least, not by most people. But it can be guided. Chaos energy is malleable, and it can take new forms and shapes depending on what it’s exposed to. To that end, I have created this.”

She held up a glass vial filled with something blue and luminous.

“Using a chemical process that I won’t bore you with the details of, I’ve bonded the chaos energy to synthetic progesterone and some other choice substances, as well as a small sample of my own DNA. I’m hoping that... well, perhaps it’s better to show you rather than tell you.”

With that, Kate shrugged off her lab coat, showing that she was completely nude underneath it. She gave the camera a little smile.

“Not bad, right?” she said, putting her hands behind her head and wiggling a bit. And in truth, it wasn’t. She’d come a long way in the past few years, far enough that looking in the mirror no longer made her skin crawl. She’d developed a modest set of B-cup breasts, and her hips had begun to develop as well. But while it was far better than how it used to be, it was still a long way from ideal.

“My hope is that the chaos energy will supercharge the hormonal supplements and, best case scenario, a process that would ordinarily take years could be done in minutes. Worst case scenario... well, you let me worry about those. I know the risks involved. In case something terrible happens, all of my notes are on my work laptop. The password is ‘kateisgreat888’. Yes, I know, don’t judge me.”

That was everything that needed to be said. Nothing for it but to take the plunge. She loaded the tube into an injector she’d borrowed from the medical labs, made to introduce chemical compounds into a body more rapidly than a standard injection. It was loaded up and all systems were green. She looked straight into the camera, took a deep breath, pressed the injector against her arm, counted down from three, and...

The injector let out a little hiss as she pushed the button. The first thing she noticed was that it made her arm tingle, like she’d had pins and needles, but that sensation passed quickly. The next thing, minutes later, was that she felt warm, her face flushing.

“Good thing I’m already naked,” she said, laughing nervously as she fanned herself with a clipboard. “Everything seems normal so far. I have no idea how long it’s going to be before I–”

Kate gasped, clutching her chest as she dropped the clipboard. She braced herself against one of the workstations, panting heavily. The warm feeling sank down into her stomach and was beginning to spread, flowing through her extremities, and now the tingling sensation was returning, except it was now concentrated around her chest.

“Something’s happening,” she murmured. “Burning... I’m hot, so hot... but it also... feels good!”

She tried her best to stay in the camera’s field of view as she concentrated on the tingling around her chest. No, wait, not her chest... her boobs?

She looked down at herself, and nearly fell over in surprise. Her breasts were growing, right before her eyes, filling up like an inflating balloon. It was like watching a time lapse video. And as soon as it had started, it was done, leaving her with a set of double D-cups.

“Holy crap!” she said, giving her new tits a playful squeeze. They were raw and sensitive, but they were real, soft and yielding and wonderful. “It’s working! Holy crap it’s actually working! It’s- oooh!”

The chaos energy running through her body wasn’t done yet, it seemed. She could feel something moving through her body, flowing downward, and she could feel herself continuing to fill out, as her waist narrowed, her hips widened, and her butt bulged. Not to mention - as she couldn’t help but be painfully aware - her dick had emerged from its sheath, hard and throbbing. She couldn’t help herself. All of this felt so good, and it was exciting! She wanted so badly to touch herself, but all of this was strange enough as it was; jerking off on video, potentially in front of the entire scientific community, wouldn’t have been a good look. There would be plenty of time for that later.

“Look at me,” she said, running her hands over herself, tracing her newfound curves with her fingers. “I’m gorgeous!” She had the biggest grin on her face as she jiggled her tits and wiggled her ass, watching the entire thing on her monitor. Forget the scientific community, she wanted a copy of this video for herself! This was her, the way she’d always imagined herself. The body she’d always dreamed of, but never dared to hope she would actually achieve.

“I think it would be safe to call this a huge success,” she said, giving the camera a wink as she lifted up her breasts and let them drop. “I’ll continue to monitor myself for any further changes, but I don’t think I’m getting ahead of myself here when I say oof!”

Kate suddenly fell to her knees, clutching her stomach and wincing as an enormous cramp ripped through her.

“Nothing to panic about,” she groaned, pulling herself up. “Probably just a side effect. My body’s undergoing a lot of rapid changes, so some muscle cramps are only to beeeheeeee!”

There it was again. She could feel that tingling sensation again, only this time concentrated in her midsection, and not nearly as pleasant as it was before. The tingling once again gave way to a feeling of warmth inside of her, and it now felt warmer than ever before, like a tiny furnace in her guts. Part of her wanted to kill the camera and get help, but the reason she was even here in the first place was because she was a curious soul. Let it happen, her inner scientist said. Let’s see how this plays out.

She sighed, pulling up a chair as she continued to rub her stomach.

“Still not sure what’s happening here,” she said, rubbing herself. “But it has to be part of it, right? So we’ll see what... happens?”

Kate hesitated, freezing in place as she felt something under her hand. She moved it away and saw that her belly had bloated outward, like she’d just had a long night at the all-you-can-eat buffet. And it was still bloating. She couldn’t bring herself to comment on it, watching as her belly grew outward, even faster than her breasts had grown. She gave it a curious pat, and found the surface to be firm and tight.

“This is an unexpected development,” she said, rubbing in little circles. It was quite sensitive, and the rubbing felt good. “If I didn’t know any better, I’d almost swear I was- oh!”

Kate’s eyes went wide as plates. Going into this experiment, she’d had theories, but theories had been just that. She didn’t know for sure what would happen when she introduced the chaos energy into her system.

But there was unexpected, and then there was downright shocking. And as she felt something inside of her move, this indubitably fell into the latter category.

“This... this can’t be,” she stammered, poking herself again. This time she could see it, a little ripple bulging outward on the surface of her belly, and now she could feel it from within. “This can’t be happening! I can’t be... pregnant? How? I don’t even have the right parts for that! How can this... this is... nnnn.”

A wave of gentle tension washed over her as her belly bulged outward again. The warm feeling had settled into it now, and it was an oddly pleasant warmth.

She looked into the camera, trying to think of something to say, but words failed her. This was bizarre, it was impossible, it was…

...It was what she’d always wanted, deep down inside. Getting the body of her dreams was amazing, of course, but more than that, it felt attainable. Modern science could do some incredible things, but there were some things that Kate didn’t think she would see in her lifetime. But here it was, right in front of her eyes. It couldn’t be, and yet it was. Had the chaos energy done this to her?

She was suddenly snapped back to reality as she felt her muscles seize up again, and she started to groan. It felt like something squeezing, and she pulled herself out of her seat to give the camera a better look.

“So as you can see here, we’ve had a bit of a development,” she said, giving her belly a pat. “I’m still trying to figure out... well, everything about this. I need to get back to my lab and perform some additional tests. So I guess I’ll-”

Then she gasped as the squeezing sensation intensified, accompanied by an immense sense of pressure deep inside of her. It felt almost like she needed to have a serious bowel movement, but different in a way she couldn’t put her finger on. Then she cried out as something shifted inside of her, and the next thing she knew, she felt something running out of her body. She looked down to the floor, saw the puddle of clear fluid she was standing in.

“...What? What the... did my water just break??”

She leaned over onto the desk and spread her legs, peering over her shoulder at the monitor. She sent a command for the camera to zoom in, and as it did, she could see her anus, puffy and bulging and gaping open.

And she was now very suddenly aware that not only was there something inside of her, that something wanted out. And since her body wasn’t naturally equipped with a passage for its exit, the chaos energy had made one, in a way.

She felt her muscles continue to squeeze, and with it came a feeling of building pressure, and there was nothing she could do but give into it. So she grit her teeth, bent her knees, and pushed.

Something began to move inside of her, and she could feel her baby (holy shit, her baby) begin to move, descending into the birth canal she did not possess mere hours ago. Groaning, she instinctively got down onto the floor, leaning on her hands and knees, because it felt right in the moment, and bore down once again.

“Oh god, I can feel it!” she cried. “Feel it... moving through my body... stretching me oooout!”

She could feel it coming now, hard and fast, pressing against her bulging hole. She took several deep breaths before letting out a deep grunt and pushing once again, and she could feel her ass burning as it began to stretch. All of this was so bizarre, and yet it felt so right! She was so close now, she could feel it, so she redoubled her efforts and pushed harder and harder, feeling herself open up wider and wider.

The pains subsided for a moment, and Kate looked up over her shoulder, peering at the monitor, where she could see herself, on her knees, ass in the air and tail held high, and emerging from her body was a little head, with light pink fur, a tuft of lavender hair, and little lupine ears. Just like hers.

Her head started to swim as she tried to comprehend the implications of that... but in a way, it didn’t matter at all. What mattered was that this was her baby.

“Hey there... little darling,” she cooed. “Hang in there for me... you’re... nnn... almost done!”

The urge to push hit her again, stronger than before, and she put everything she had into the effort, groaning deeply as she struggled to birth the baby’s shoulders. She could feel it happening, feel it moving out of her, mere inches at a time with every effort. She reached up to grip her desk once again, pulling up into a crouch for one last big effort.

“Come on, baby! Mama’s ready for you! Come... nnn... out!”

And with a triumphant cry, she felt the body slip out of her. She leaned back, and there she was, right between her legs; a squirming baby wolf, still bound to her mother via the umbilical cord. Panting heavily, she scooped her impossible miracle up into her arms, where she immediately began to paw at Kate’s breasts, which - perhaps predictable - began to leak. Kate couldn’t help but laugh as she clutched her newborn daughter to her chest, where she latched on with no trouble.

And as Kate looked back at the camera and smiled, she wondered if perhaps this had been the day she changed the world.

It was hard to say. But she had certainly changed her world.