SpyWatch Chapter 3: Pheromones
“Alright, here are some clothes. Change in to them now. We’re leaving. The faster we drive, the lower the odds we’ve been followed.” Phillis says sternly. “Come on! Take off those suspenders and pants. Slide on that shirt!”
Cal was so confused but agreed. “Ok so can you please explain what’s going on? Who are you? How do you know about the watch? Where are we going? What’s with the clothes!?” Cal said completely baffled and bewildered in his big body.
“In that order? My name is Agent Phillis from a government agency that’s off the books. I’m the one that made that watch you’ve been running around with this whole time. And we’re headed away from that area. You were tracked to this place because of the watch. Our info on the project got leaked... we lost contact with a good agent nearly 24 ago to show for it... but that info gave some very bad people the means to find some very expensive gadgetry. So I’m speeding down this small town till you detransform.”
“Detransform? Oh! Like turn back into me? Sweet! How do we do that? And you still didn’t explain the outfit change!” Cal asked, eager to prevent even more people from attacking him.
“Well in general the watch bio links to the user and the timer is set for specific mission durations. However, it’s gotten damaged since I last inspected it. It’s probably going haywire. I won’t know for sure till you change back. In the meantime your entire being is one large energy beacon that people have the ability to track. New clothes not created by the watch reduce your energy signature! So thank you very much for changing. You can drive right?”
“What?” Cal managed to say as Phillis pressed a button. With a single swift motion the car changed around them pushing Cal into the driver’s seat as the exterior changed into an innocuous bus.
“There. Now even their visuals won’t recognize us in a new car.” Phillis proudly stated.
“Holy crap! You have a car that could just do that? Is this some cool spy car!?” Cal was smiling ear to ear, now driving with ease.
“Yes. Now shut up. I’m thinking... We’re still able to be tracked as long as you’re in that form... but! If you could recreate the scenario from before, when you returned to normal at your apartment, that may do the trick. It could be what triggers your transformation back into yourself!”
Cal blushed heavily at this, remembering what he was doing when he returned to his apartment. “Do... I have to do exactly that?”
In the distance they could hear screeching tires. Phillis turns around and sees a set of cars racing down the street, but taking a turn, not able to pin down their exact location. She begins to raise her voice. “What? Of course?! Your life could be in danger! Didn’t take a genius to figure out where you are, and I simply had to look up some basic personal info online to get your name Cal! Please whatever it is, just do it!”
“Um... ok... I just need you to... take the wheel... I need my hands for this...” Cal says blushing immensely in embarrassment.
“What? Oh. OH! I see.” The car soon reconfigures and Cal is given some space in the back seat to of the car to ‘work’.
Cal focuses on himself and begins to reach his hands down his tight new pants. He looks at the sleeve of his shirt and smiles. When he put it on, he saw the size L on the tag, but even as he lightly stroked himself he could see how big his biceps strained the fabric with each motion. Soon, just like before, images floated through his head. Leo in his lifeguard outfit! That woman with the gun! The women by the beach! All the hotties playing volleyball! “AH!” Cal moaned as he let out a huge surge completely coating the insides of his new pants and passing out.
When Cal woke up, night had fully fallen and the car had stopped. Not only that, he found himself in the back seat still wearing a huge shirt over his previous clothes, and some soaked sweat pants.
“It’s real.... it’s real... this is definitely not a dream.” Cal said as he removes the much larger clothes and heads out of the car. He sees Phillis exiting the gas station with a bag of food.
“Eat up, we’ve got another trip to do.” She tosses the bag to Cal who was admittedly hungry.
“Where are we going. I changed back! I thought things were, you know? Safe.” Cal asked, concerned, but still dug into the gas station food.
“Safe for now. Your energy signal returned to normal, but it’s only a matter of time before someone finds the watch. And i can’t exactly remove it from you in its damaged condition. You know, unless I remove your arm.”
Cal nearly dropped all the food in panic.
“Which I won’t do Cal. I may work for a shady government organization, but I’m not one of the bad ones. Trust me. You’ve met the ones that shoot first and ask questions later.” Phillis sighed.
Inside, Cal knew she was right. His mundane use of the watch, seemed to pale in comparison to what was happening now. If he was in danger, he knew this agent Phillis would be his best bet of staying alive.
“Ok... then I’ll go with you, but I’ve got even more questions! If I can ask them...” Cal said, much more meager without his big firefighter body.
“You can ask them on the road.” She said getting into the car and ushering Cal to ride beside her. “We’ll be headed to one of the only places I could get some decent equipment around here.”
Cal nodded and boards the vehicle. “So... this is a watch that can change you into anyone you want, right?”
“Not anyone. The watch uses a form of solid organic light to replicate the forms of specific individuals for a set duration. Each of the preset templates were created to serve a specific purpose in the field, with individual DNA templates serving as the foundation of the change. The first unit you used was the Aquatic Template for water traversal.”
“Water traversal? Oh! You mean the swimmer! I was able to swim so fast as him! Not to mention hold my breath longer than I ever had before.” Cal remembered fondly.
“That’s the point of the aquatic template. Increased lung capacity, underwater eyesight adaptation, and the perfect body for hydrodynamics. Increase to foot and hand size for example to help propel you through water.” Phillis explained. “Then of course you’ve seen the Fire Adept.”
“I call him Ignis!” Cal chimed in.
“What? You can’t name them! Whatever. That one was meant for extreme temperatures. He has lungs that filter smoke, skin resistant to heat, and even an empowered vocal system to give commands across burning buildings. The idea was that if Milan needed a specific persona or expertise... he’d have it with that watch.” Cal could see Phillis grow a little sad at this explanation.
“Who is Milan?” he asked curiously.
“Milan was- I mean IS my partner. I made the watch specifically for him to operate in the field. The perfect spy who could blend in anywhere. That was the goal... he was the one that reminded me to add in sexualities and quirks to all the different template bodies to make them more human.”
“Oh! So that’s why I was so into women when I became them... wait. Did he ask you to include an inclination for fire puns to?” Cal accused.
“Haha! I forgot about that one. Yes he was. We’d never field tested... Ignis... as you call him. So we weren’t sure how much of our creation would carry over. There were vocal tendencies for a few of the templates for ‘authenticity’ sake as Milan put it. We were dealing with some bleeding edge technology... that is until our mission went sideways and we got separated. Our communication was cut off and I could see from my station that he’d sent the watch somewhere far away. Likely to avoid it being captured alongside himself. Knowing Milan, he would’ve left some clue on it to help me find him.”
There was a long silence after Phillis finished explaining.
“Oh... so that’s why you need it fixed. You can’t find your friend until the watch is back to normal.”
Phillis simply nods at that, letting out another sigh. Without all the zooming cars and weapons, Cal could get his first good look at the woman who’d saved his life. Her longer dark hair hid some tired looking eyes and he could see how easily her hands tensed mentioning Milan. Despite her small frame she appeared tough and determined.
“I’m... sorry I took your watch. I honestly had no idea what it was... I was just using it to get this guy’s attention. But I promise I’ll cooperate and do what I can to help.” Cal offered.
Phillis smiled. “Thanks Cal. I’m probably gonna lose my job after all this, not to mention get fined for all the damaged property, and endangerment of civilians... but I appreciate that. Actually maybe I could- Oh. We’re here.”
Their car pulled out in front of a small roadside area a little outside of town. Cal hadn’t even seen this place except maybe in passing. This place had some small diners, an all day gym, and a rundown bar, with little else for miles.
“This is where we’re going to fix the watch?” Cal asked in disbelief.
Phillis shook her head. “No. This is where I am going to fix the watch. You stay in the car. Probably the safest place for you right now. I’ll be out in a few minutes.”
“But wait! Don’t you need this?” Cal gestured holding out his wrist.
“I need you and the watch to stay out of trouble long enough for me to get what I need. And please don’t think about using the watch while I’m gone. I’ve got my phone locked on any energy surges, so I’ll know if you do.”
Cal was about to protest more when, Phillis simply left him and closed the door. Part of Cal couldn’t believe it, the other realized he didn’t really know what he could offer. It just felt like for a brief time he could be useful for…something. He decided to take out his phone and check his texts. Nothing from Leo, nothing from his friends, lots of news about a burning frat house, some news about a mysterious firefighter who saved some people in the area.
That made Cal smile, knowing he managed to help even just a little. The thought gave him some solace, but before long he realized almost an hour had passed. Still no sign of Phillis. Instead, he began to see more and more very plain looking cars pull up to the bar. It was weird at first, but then Cal could see men and women in identical suits exiting the vehicles before making their way in.
“I’ve got to warn Phillis somehow! Shit. I don’t have her number... but I do have the watch!” He knew one thing would definitely get her attention. Looking down Cal was about to press the machine before he thought of something. He put down his phone on the seat next to him giving it some distance, and then he pressed the button.
There was another flash of light at this point and he could feel the collective change in his body. Suddenly, there was a lot more of him and he could feel the car slump to one side. His seatbelt was so tight on his new frame he felt like he couldn’t breathe for a second till it snapped off! He was certainly uncomfortable! Especially with what felt like a hairy torso pressing against too tight of an outfit. Unfortunately, he realized now half of those people in suits got an alert on their phones and turned directly to Cal’s car! The same urge that would notify Phillis had apparently alerted these guys too.
With considerable effort, Cal tried to duck under parts of the car, but realized it was a lot harder to maneuver in whatever body he had now. Each arm motion and core turn, felt like a huge endeavor. “I gotta get out of here.” Cal said in a strangely deep voice, grabbing his phone which hadn’t changed with the rest of him.
With a desperate pull, he opened the passenger side of the door and stumbled out, waddling to the nearest area. The gym!
Cal entered to a pretty much deserted front desk, as buff guys in the distance worked out. Looking around for places to hide he thought the men’s locker room would at least halve the amount of people looking for him. He began to take off what little clothing his new body wore. It all felt restricting! Soon he grabbed a towel and got his first good look at himself as he passed a mirror.
“Woah. Wasn’t expecting this. How’s this guy good for espionage?” Cal thought to himself gesturing to his big frame and hairy body. “He’d stick out in most areas for sure!”
Soon official sounding voices echoed through the halls.
“The sensors lead us in here. Fan out!”
“He can’t be far!”
“Finish this fast and reconvene at the bar!”
Those words sent shivers down Cal’s spine and he began to nervously sweat, which seemed to come easy to this body!
“Gotta hide! Gotta stay hidden!” He did his best to waddle his way through the rows of lockers drawing in the attention of some guys calling it a night for their workout. Desperate for anything he saw a closed off room in the locker area and opened the door, only to enter a sauna. Inside were other big burly men, much like Cal was now. If he was sweating before, it got even worse in here.
“Woah, where’s the fire big guy.” One of the older hairier guy asked.
“Oh uh… nothing just… long day… really sweaty.” Cal explained.
The men inside laughed, all eyes on him.
“No kidding,” one burlier bearded man said. “I can smell you from here, why don’t you sit down and relax?”
“Yeah man.. your musk smells absolutely great, let’s put more steam on the coals.” Another guy said running some water along the burning coals, causing even more steam and sweat to fill the room. When the vapors cleared Cal saw the men inside all smiling at him seductively and approaching him.
“W-what? What are you doing?” Cal asked so nervously, sweating even more.
“What ever you want big guy.”
“We could rub your big belly.”
“Or give you a kiss.”
“Maybe take you back to my place.”
“Or mine!
“Mine too!”
Before Cal could respond he felt a flurry of bare hand rubbing every inch of his body. Somewhere in the tussle he lost his towel and a set of hands were rubbing every new inch of his lower half as well. Each stroke against his bulging stomach felt like heaven. Each gentle caress between his thick thighs felt divine. He was so overcome by pleasure he nearly forgot what he was doing there.
“Wait…” Cal moaned. “The… bar.” He managed to utter.
“Oh across the street?”
“Hell yeah, let’s get you something to drink big guy.”
“You a beer guy? Of course you are.”
“Let’s go!”
And just like that Cal felt their hands retract and reach for his shoulders and back, patting him encouragingly. The pleasure diminished slightly. Enough for Cal’s head to clear and realize the amount of influence he was exerting over these guys. His smile widened at the possibilities with all these shirtless handsome men of all sizes bending to his every whim. But first. He had to save Phillis. Marching out with his new harem of men, Cal wrapped the towels tight around his body and led the charge to the bar.