Captured Cat, Collars, and Watches “Here you go Nickie, safe and sound,” Alkali hummed. They handed the pocket-sized, blue cat to Nickie and patted the feline on his head with a single finger. The little gremlin tried to bite Al’s finger, but the Dewott pulled away before he could get those tiny teeth around anything. “And if you ever need another respawn, a snack cat, a sole cushion cat, whatever you have in mind… just come visit again. Easy to make when it comes to micros!” The Lycanroc grinned and thanked Al for taking good care of his boyfriend during the experiment. Theo, the blue, micro cat in question, crossed his arms and grumped in Nickie’s palm. The genomic, proteomic, and full-spectrum biochemistry scans he’d requested would be stored on backup servers now in case of any vorny or micro shenanigans that went too far, whether accidental or not. And that meant they’d be safe to create more Theos when needed. There wasn’t much difficulty in performing those assays so Alkali was glad to help out Nickie with his boyfriend. Gotta make sure to be safe during any horny play. The Lycanroc pocketed Theo with a barely audible ‘mew’ and left the lab satisfied. “Now then, as for you, test subject,” Alkali said, turning around to his lab bench. “You and I get to have some fun of our own. The quality control cloning was successful but it’d be a shame to just get rid of you. So instead, you’re mine.” Another Theo, tied down with pieces of autoclave tape on his lab bench, twitched his tail nervously when the looming Dewott’s face broke into a grin. He’d watched Nickie leave with a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach. Now that the Lycanroc was gone, truly no one knew he was here except Alkali. And he did not feel safe at all, not with those devious Dewott eyes nor the fact he’d been left completely naked. Alkali held up a Hypno’s pendulum with one hand and rubbed Theo’s tiny, but rock-hard dick with the other. “Now I want you to pay attention to what I say. Repeat after me, and watch the pendulum. You’re big.” “I’m… big?” Theo repeated, eyes starting to swirl with purple shaded rings. “You’re big. You love growing, being huge.” “I love being huge…” “Empty that brain of all thoughts. Think of nothing but growing. You’re big.” “I’m big.” “Good boy. Again.” --- “Hey Alkali, I’m here. Need to pick up another Theo,” the Lycanroc said, knocking at the closed lab door. Nickie’s other hand fidgeted in his hoodie pocket out of habit; it felt strange to not have a boyfriend in there to tease, grip, rub. Behind the doorway something crashed to the ground and music cut off, followed by a string of curses. Maybe he’d caught Alkali at a bad time. He didn’t need to wait long though before the looming, 15-foot-tall Dewott ducked through the door. The scientist handed Theo, good as new, to Nickie with a winning smile. “No problem. As requested here’s your boyfriend, same as when you left him last time. What happened to the last one?” Nickie shrugged. “Someone was hungry, and I fed Theo to him.” Alkali nodded. “Fair enough.” “What about you? It has been a few weeks, what have you been up to?” “Oh, the usual growth experiments. Nothing too weird,” Alkali said. Nickie raised an eyebrow but didn’t push the subject further. What part of ‘growth experiments’ wasn’t weird? “Fair enough,” he replied with a shrug. “See you later then, in stream or otherwise.” He didn’t want to spend a ton of time at GroLabs on the off chance he would be caught up in an accident. “Let me know if you want any bigger-than-usual cat boyfriends. The door is always open,” Alkali replied with a sing-song tone. He kept the smile on until the lab door was fully closed, letting the customer service demeanor fall away. He sighed with relief. Al didn’t think Nickie would mind a second clone of Theo being kept at GroLabs, but he didn’t want to have to explain the changes. The naked form of Theo loomed even above the giant Dewott. The only thing he’d been able to wear since the first day was an industrial-strength, growth-capable collar with a cat bell hanging from the front. Somehow the hypnosis had taken permanent hold in the cat’s mind. Maybe hypnotizing him every day for weeks on end had completely brainwashed Theo permanently. Al had to mentally pat himself on the back just thinking of the results of improving the cat. Even in this lofted roof warehouse Theo was forced to stay hunched over, sitting toward the back of the lab. Not that Theo would ever be leaving this lab. No, he was far too large to get out of here. Checking again Al mentally confirmed the cat was 30 feet tall, just under 10 meters. Alkali didn’t plan to ever let him leave. Sure, he planned on installing some more floor drains to help clean up after Theo got off, and the ceiling would need to be raised again at some point, but leave? Never. “Think I grew again,” Theo rumbled. The feline squirmed in place awkwardly, looking down at his body with an embarrassed expression. Maybe a bit of a turned-on blush mixed in too. “Oh that’s not new, you’re always growing,” Al said, pulling his lab coat and button-up shirt off. “Mmm… Aaallll, I need to get a boost. Make me bigger, pleaaaase~” Theo said, tail flicking idly back and forth. His dick, constantly hard these days, throbbed its agreement. That long tail vibrated the ground gently with each thud against the walls or floor. The weight of too-much-cat moving in the lab was a gentle reminder that Theo was a fixture in the lab at this size that would not easily be moved. “Well it’s either that slow acting growth ray I made you eat, or the potion cabinet you smashed into earlier that has you getting larger right now. Don’t know that I have anything else really ready at the moment. Could see how your watch reacts to growth commands at this height,” he muttered. He pulled a phone out of his shorts pocket and opened the GroLabs test environment app. He pressed the ‘GrowTheo’ command a few times, reveling in the surprised moan each time Theo expanded half a foot taller. The Dewott scrolled through all of the available options, height and weight and body type and species… along with lots of beta tests. Those could come later, like turning Theo into a goo-covered drone. When they found the ‘hypnosis’ tab, Alkali tapped on the box so a checkmark appeared. It started by describing the current hypnotic suggestions, making it clear how deeply ingrained the ‘growth’ desire was. With a hum and stroke of their chin, Alkali turned on the ‘suggestivity’ checkbox to make sure that Theo was properly listening. “Yeah, I think this is a huge improvement. Massive really,” Alkali said. “But let’s take this outside Theo. See that doorway down there? Crawl through please.” They pointed to a set of double doors, far too small to fit the cat, but Theo obeyed regardless. On hands and knees he crawled toward and into the doorway. Each movement knocked away lab desks or cracked the walls and floor. Once Theo was halfway through the doors, Alkali whistled at the sight and took a few pictures. That would be good reference material for later growth experiments, and it wasn’t a bad thing that the feline was hotter at this size. But of course, that wouldn’t be enough for the Dewott. They opened the GroLabs phone application once more and flicked the ‘Height’ slider further to the right. A label for ‘constant growth’ appeared beneath the slider. Theo’s body shuddered before exploding to fill the entire doorway with his hips. Then it expanded even further to destroy the drywall surrounding the doorway too. An entire wall was knocked aside by the cat’s torso. “Mmmm… better crawl quickly, or I’ll have to grow you out of the lab again~” Outside of the immediate lab space, scientists and technologists watched black furred arms and legs, a face, a tail, pushed through the walls and into their workspace. Rooms were filled with expanding, growing cat fluff without regard to how much space was available. Every small twitch and tingle of growth spasms got Theo purring. The hypnosis made him crave it, on a deep level, to fill each inch of GroLabs and then keep exploding outward and upward from there. Between his legs his dick throbbed thicker… that wasn’t from the growth, it was something from the phone app. His purring deepened from ground shaking to a vibration throughout the entire building. He… he NEEDED to get off, but that phone app would not let him get large enough or horny enough to release. Alkali was happy to just watch the confusion and growth proceed without getting involved, and was about to speed up Theo’s growth so that this could properly go into the city. But at that moment, a leg knocked into his chest. Alkali lost all the breath in their lungs and dropped their phone to the ground. Now that they’d lost the phone app, the growth would not be stopped until the phone was recovered. Theo curled up tightly to his chest, balling up until the small amount of available space was gone. With a rumbling purr and moan, he stretched out as far as possible and exploded through GroLabs as if it were all made of paper mâché. Climbing to his feet, and looking over the results of his experiment, Alkali’s eyes lit up with horny menace. Theo was… enormous. Titanic. And still growing. They would regret that damage to the labs later, but for now Alkali could enjoy being on the naughty list. “Hey Theo. Head to the city. I’ll give you some more attention and treats there. It’s time to destroy buildings and flood streets.” They left the phone behind, still working away, still growing the hypnotized cat. --- “So… I wanted to give you something as a gift, but wasn’t sure what to do. Needed to ask around a bit for what you might like. But let me know if you don’t like it, I can always make something different.” “No, that’s alright. Thank you Al,” Nickie replied, opening the small box wrapped in a plain red paper and a ribbon. At the bottom of the package surrounded in form-fitting foam was a phone. Apparently the same model as what Nickie already used but completely new. “Why did you get me a new phone? I didn’t need one,” the Lycanroc said, tilting his head to the side. He wasn’t going to complain about this gift, but he was still confused. The phone booted up and before it showed the startup screen, a GroLabs icon appeared at the center of the screen. Otherwise it seemed to be an ordinary replacement for his phone. Pointing to the apps screen, Alkali pulled up the custom application that they installed on several phones before. This one was tied to Dem’s collar and displayed location data, size, hunger, and other functions. It reminded Nickie a little of an electronic pet toy with the simplified UI and emphasis on stats that the cat was currently feeling the effects of. “I needed to find some way to apologize for the trouble with your boyfriend. It wasn’t a good idea for me to clone him without you knowing, or parade him through the city. Especially not without permission. So… this app is how you can always be in control. It keeps track of all the Dem clones currently around, and I’m pretty sure you’ll find some vore features interesting.” “Awww thank you Alkali. It’s okay, as long as my boyfriend still comes back. I’ll keep the phone app for fun later, but I forgive you.” The Lycanroc offered a hand forward, shaking Alkali’s palm to make amends. It was fine but Alkali would learn to be less secretive and ask permission anytime in the future. There was a second gift underneath the phone; a modified collar, something similar to what Theo currently wore on his hypnosis-fueled growth rampage. Nickie didn’t put it on right away. He knew that this collar would allow others to purposely cause some size changes, maybe convince Nickie to be prey for vore situations. But he did drop it into his pocket along with the updated phone. Maybe he’d try it on later and see how it looked… despite the danger from hypnosis, vore, and macro. Theo, Alkali, or anyone else with that phone app could use it against him. Better to wait before testing it. In fact, Nickie missed the ‘WARNING: MACRO ALERT’ on his phone screen from the still ongoing rampage from a city stomping cat. Inside his pocket, the phone could not warn anyone about the still growing cat looming over an entire city. On his hands and knees, Theo purred loud enough to shake a metropolis to its core and a dripping dick in anticipation of getting more rubs to get off. “You could always… feed the giant Theo your tinier version of the cat,” Alkali suggested. “Just a suggestion. Plenty more clones where that came from~” Nickie scoffed. “Alkali, what the fu-”