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"Greetings my assorted muppets and moppets! I have an important announcement! Do you wanna guess what it is?" Caine said after teleporting everyone to the main hall while raising his teeth like suggestive eyebrows.
"Caine, it is 5 in the morning, just tell us so we can go back to bed."
"Really, Zooble, I thought you of all people would be more excited about this! Here! I'll even give you a hint: It involves that bed you're so eager to get back to."
"Just tell us." Zooble groaned.
Caine sighed, "Fine, though this is way less fun than my guessing game. I've decided to give you all the ability to make some… modifications to your character models." Caine snapped his fingers and a booth, similar in appearance to a beach changing room, appeared before them. In front of the door was a sign reading 'under construction'.
"What does that have to do with beds?"
"Does this mean I won't have to deal with my masks anymore?" Gangle asked.
"Woah woah now! I'm not talking about any major changes to your already perfect bodies I gave you. Just some… you know… some small changes. Not even changes really. Just the addition of certain body parts, allowing you to perform certain actions."
There was a momentary confused pause before Jax suddenly burst out laughing.
"No way! We're actually doing this?! Holy [$#!+] We're… we're actually doing this?"
Zooble blinked. "Oh. Have you been able to do this the whole time?"
"Are you kidding me? I can't even do it now!" Caine pointed his staff towards the 'under construction' sign, "Just… give me a week or two to reprogram myself. Remove some mental blocks."
"Is reprogramming yourself… safe?" Pomni asked.
"Of course! It's no different from giving yourself brain surgery!"
"Hey, I have a question about all this," Jax waived his hand, "Am I gonna have like a stupid rabbit [&*%^] or will we be given options?"
"Oh yeah?" Zooble looked over, "What kinda options were you thinking of?"
"Just you know!" Jax looked away, "like a horse… whatever… you know."
"So basically you're worried yours won't be big enough."
Jax laughed, "Well, not as big as yours but whose is?"
Zooble merely groaned and rolled their eyes.
"UhhhUhhhUhhh" Caine was frozen in place making the exact same noise on repeat. He turned into a pink and black checkerboard for a moment before returning back to normal. "Okay see you in a week or two. If you don't it means something went wrong and I'll be brain dead. Toodles!" And with that he vanished in a puff of smoke.
"So, hold up," Pomni commented after a moment, "Is this actually happening? This isn't a prank or a goof? It's actually happening."
Zooble sighed and pinched the area of their face where their nose would be, "I don't know. But I think at this point we have to… just be prepared, don't get our hopes up or anything. But… This is a lot to think about." They shook their head.
"So what is it that's happening?" Kinger asked.
Jax put a hand on Kinger's shoulder, "After all these years, Caine is finally giving you a [(*@%] my man."
"Oh. Is he giving me a chicken too?"
"That… what…? No." Jax narrowed his eyes in confusion. "Whatever. I don't really care about any of this. I mean it's awesome. I'm just… I'm just going to go back to bed now. Who knows, maybe I'll wake up tomorrow and find out all of this was a dream." Jax muttered something else under his breath and walked away, back to the dorms.
"We should all go back to bed. Face this fresh in the morning." Ragatha stated.
Everyone had gone back to their rooms to sleep, then got up a few hours later and went about their lives as they usually did in the downtime between adventures. Pomni sat in her room, reading a book she had found.
There was a knock on her door. Pomni put a bookmark in the book and got up to answer it.
"Hey pom-poms." Jax stood at her doorway. He leaned down and kissed her lightly on the cheek. Pomni blushed a little.
"Hey yourself." She responded back, smiling at her boyfriend.
"Ya know, I found a real nice spot. Thought we could hang out there for a bit."
"sounds lovely."
The two walked out of the dormitory hall walking side by side, chatting idly all the way. When they made it to the main hall, Jax glanced over and saw the changing booth. His eyes shot away like a hand from a hot stove. He blinked in confusion at his own response. Shaking his head slightly he made a quiet noise, blinked, then smiled.
They left the circus grounds and came to a quiet corner with a small lake. The completely still water was an unnatural and opaque shade of blue, but it was still calming nonetheless.
"This is pretty beautiful." Pomni commented.
"Yeah," Jax responded, gently putting his hands around Pomni's waist. "And you know what the best part is?"
"What's that?"
"This."
Jax hoisted her up and tossed her into the lake.
"Jax! What the [#3|£]!" She paused. "This water isn't even wet."
Jax laughed on the shore.
"I was going to pull you in and make you wet with me. Now I don't even get the satisfaction of doing that."
Jax continued to laugh, "I know, it's great right? Told you it was the best part."
"Maybe for you, ya goober." Pomni laughed as she crawled up to the shore.
Jax flopped down to the ground next to Pomni and the two cuddled together. Pomni nestled her head into Jax's chest. She could feel his heartbeat, and his chest rising and falling with every breath.
Pomni looked up at Jax.
"So, pretty exciting. Being able to finally have… all of our parts."
Jax grunted. "I wouldn't get your hopes up. I'm sure in the end Caine'll just reveal that he was lying. Or he gives us, like, trumpets instead of genitals. So instead of coming, we just shoot out loads of circus music."
Pomni giggled at the bizarre imagery. "Yeah. Still, it's nice to dream. How long have we been dating? A month or two? I can never keep track of time here. Still, It'd be nice if we could… you know."
"Y-yeah…" Jax shifted uncomfortably.
"Or, I mean," Pomni started to backpedal, "We don't have to do it right away if you don't want to. If you'd be more comfortable waiting a while, that's totally cool with me."
"Uh huh… Just… Whatever, it doesn't matter. Caine isn't even going to do anything. So don't even worry about any of that." Jax shrugged and stood up. "I just remembered there's something I need to do. See ya later or whatever." And with that he lurched forward and quickly trudged off leaving Pomni to sit and stare at his retreating figure.
Out of earshot, Jax started muttering to himself, "Stupid. So stupid. Why are you even getting upset? What… What is there to get upset about? You're so stupid." His hands twitched at his sides.
It had been two days since Pomni and Jax had talked by the lake. Since then, Pomni hadn't seen Jax once. She initially decided that the best thing to do would be to give him time. But now she was starting to get worried. And so that morning after waking up she walked over to Jax's door. Hesitantly she brought up a hand and knocked on the door.
Pomni waited for a response.
She waited a little longer.
Pomni's fear only got worse.
She knocked on the door again.
She waited for a response before calling out.
"Jax! Can we please just talk? It doesn't have to be a long talk. Just… I just want to know that you're… I need to know that you're still in there… That you haven't… AGH! Open up!"
Inside, Jax lay on his bed. He groaned and stood up. Slowly he trudged over to the door.
"Jax! Jax I'm serious if you don't open up I will break down this door and– Woah." Pomni's hand froze mid knock as the door suddenly opened. She backed away to avoid getting hit by the door as Jax quickly walked out and slammed the door shut behind him.
"Jeez, Poms, you're gonna wake up the whole floor. I'm fine!"
"No. Shut up. You don't get to call me cute pet names and act like everything is fine."
"Uh, everything is fine."
"Fine? You call this fine?" Pomni spread her arms, "you've been ghosting me, not to mention everyone else for days. I thought you might be… [&*(#] Jax. I thought you might have abstracted." Pomni hated the little crack in her voice as she talked.
Jax rubbed his forehead with his hand. "Seriously, it's been a day–"
"Two days." Pomni cut in
"Two days, whatever." Jax laughed, but there was no mirth to it, "Am I so irresistible that you can't go two days without seeing me."
"You promised that you wouldn't be like this." Pomni muttered.
"What?"
"When we first started dating, you promised that you wouldn't be an [@#$] and try to turn everything into a joke. That you could be serious." Pomni said, louder now.
"Okay well, I seriously don't see what the problem is."
"Jax…! You… I don't even know what the problem is, because you are the one who clearly has a problem. I ask if you want to have sex and you freak out. If you don't want to have sex with me that's fine. Just say you don't want to and we can move on. But don't ghost me and make me worry about you, you [@$&]."
"That's not…" Jax paced slightly and grumbled. He turned back to Pomni. "I never said I didn't want to have sex."
"Well, when you freak out like this, what else am I supposed to think?"
"That's… God! I don't know."
"It's…!" Pomni took a breath and calmed herself down. "It's really fine if you don't want to."
"I never said I didn't want to! I just, I don't know. That [&@#$] changing booth just freaks me out."
"Do you… want to talk about it?"
"Talk about what? It's nothing. It's literally nothing, there's nothing to talk about." Jax suddenly gave a wide smile. "Come on. Who cares about a stupid changing booth? Let's just hang like we always do, eh Poms?"
Pomni blinked twice before slowly responding, "Okay. If that's what you want."
The rest of the day went fine. Neither Pomni nor Jax broached the subject of sex or anything sex adjacent. Just two cool dudes hanging out. Maybe a little hand holding and kissing here and there.
The next day also went well.
The day after that the whole group was together eating breakfast. Ragatha swallowed a bite of her muffin then idly commented, "Caine sure has been gone for a long time."
"He's probably still… reprogramming himself." Zooble responded.
Pomni silently looked over at Jax. He appeared to be focusing more on his food than the conversation, a bored look on his face.
"What… happens if he makes a mistake?" Gangle asked, prompting the others to turn towards her. She wilted a little, but continued. "What if he dies? Will the circus just end and send us home? Or will we just be… stuck here without him?"
Zooble stared at their food in silent contemplation before responding. "Honestly? Neither of those sound that bad. Is it wrong that now I kinda hope he messes up?"
"I don't know," Ragatha responded, "It would be nice to have… Well, anyways! I think that Caine doing this is a good sign! Maybe one day he'll even give us back our original bodies and names."
Jax burst out laughing. Pomni shot him a warning glare and opened her mouth, but was unable to say anything before he spoke up, "I'm sorry, but you guys are just way too hopeful. We have zero reason to trust anything that [%@$^@&)] says. I wish we had money in this place so I could bet on just how wrong you're all going to be."
"Jeez, what crawled up your butt?" Zooble muttered.
"Nothing! It's just… who cares! You think having our original bodies will make us sooo happy!" Jax put his face in his hands and laughed, "And he won't even do it is the funniest thing! So why even care one way or the other? There's no reason to care about any of this!"
"You seem to care a lot…" Ragatha said under her breath.
"You think I care? Oh that is rich! [%^(^] you guys." Jax stormed out the room.
Pomni decided to give Jax a few hours to cool off before she started to look for him.
She went through various areas of the big top to no avail. She considered going to the dorms and banging on his door again, but she suddenly had a better idea and went outside.
She found him back by the lake.
"Hey" she approached him. He groaned in response.
Jax flopped down on the grass. He looked up at Pomni, "look I already know what you're going to say. Yes, I know I'm an asshole. And no, I don't want to talk about it."
"Hm." Pomni grunted. She sat down on the grass and lay down next to Jax.
The two lay in the grass in silence for several minutes. A calm breeze blew by.
"You know, it would be nice if you realized that you're being an asshole before you do it instead of after."
Jax sighed, "Yeah."
The pair were silent for a moment. Jax suddenly turned towards Pomni, "Are you… actually that excited to get your vagina back?"
"Yeah? Aren't you?"
"What!?" Jax sat up.
"Aren't you excited to get your penis back?"
"Oh. Yeah." Jax shook his head and lay back down. "Sure. Of course. Who wouldn't be?" Jax coughed and looked away. He muttered, "What's it… like?"
Pomni blinked. "What's what like?"
"What? Nothing." Jax turned back around to face Pomni. He cupped her face in his hands. He pulled her forward as he leaned in and the two kissed. After a few seconds, Jax pulled away. He looked into Pomni's eyes. "You really are beautiful."
Pomni blushed. "I'm a cartoon jester."
"Well, you're the prettiest jester I've ever met. I wish I could be…" Jax shook his head slightly, " Wish I could be as… handsome as you." He coughed and looked away.
"Well, I think you're pretty cute. Cutest rabbit boy I've ever met."
"Yeah." Jax sighed.
Pomni leaned over and kissed Jax on the cheek. She hugged him tight. The two cuddled together, safe and warm in each other's arms, and fell asleep by the lakeside.
For the next two days, things were normal if a little strained between everyone. Excitement and fear mixed together with a hope for the future tainted by the knowledge of past misfortunes.
Pomni saw Jax at times, and the two hung out, but there was an awkwardness between them that neither side was willing or able to address. Tired of feeling like she was walking on eggshells, Pomni found herself hanging out with him less and less.
Another day came and went and Zooble and Gangle were spending some time together playing a board game. Zooble rolled a pair of dice and moved their character forward.
Gangle grabbed the dice. She spoke up as she shook them.
"So, any plans for after Caine gives us our genitals?" She suddenly blushed and stopped shaking the dice, eyes wide, "Wait. That came out weird. You don't have to answer that."
"Maybe I want to answer it." Zooble responded smoothly, "Assuming Caine actually comes back."
"Did somebody say 'Caine comes back'?"
Zooble reared back in surprise from Caine appearing on top of the board. They blinked and sighed. "Don't just show up like that."
"I'm not certain how else to show up." Caine responded innocently. "Anyways, I'm just here to give you an announcement. Ah, but first," Caine snapped his fingers and Ragatha, Kinger, Pomni, and Jax appeared in the room.
"What the…!" Jax looked around in confusion. "[)@&#] it Caine! Wait… Caine?! You're… uh… back."
"Does that mean you successfully… reprogrammed yourself?" Asked Ragatha.
"Correct in 1! You get a gold star!" Caine pointed to Ragatha and a large gold star with a face appeared in her arms. It stared up at her, then immediately started screaming. After about 3 seconds Caine shuffled awkwardly. He waved his hand and the star exploded into confetti.
"I… wait… for reals…" Jax shook his head.
"As real as it gets, Jax my boy!" Caine nodded.
"So, does that mean that you're going to finally let us–" Zooble started before getting interrupted by Caine.
"Yes indeed! Tomorrow I'll finish up the changing booth and then you can all do whatever it is you humans feel like you need to do to your bodies in there. But First! I need to lay down a few ground rules." A giant sheet of paper appeared behind Caine, which transcribed what he said.
"1. Humans may only have sex with each other. No matter how much you beg, I will not engage in your bizarre acts.
2. Never ever, have sex while I'm watching you."
"We… really weren't planning on doing either of those." Said Zooble.
"Oh sure, you say that now. But who knows what you'll be doing in the future. Breaking the rules will lead to a month-long restriction of sex privileges."
"You can't just–" Zooble started indignantly before groaning, "whatever. Sure I can agree to that."
"Hold up." Pomni stepped forward, "Just to be clear: Caine, this isn't a lie, or a prank, or a goof, or anything else? Right? You're going to let us have… normal human sex. With normal, anatomically correct body parts"
"If that's the kind of sex you want then sure." Caine shrugged.
Gangle raised a hand, "Are we… is there a risk of us getting pregnant if we do this?"
Caine turned towards her. "Do you… want to get pregnant?"
"Not particularly. At least, not any time soon." She muttered under her breath, "Probably not here."
Caine considered for a moment. "I'll just give you the option to remove your ovaries in the changing booth. Honestly if two digital humans had a child I'm not sure what would happen. So it's probably best that you all opt out of that for the time being."
"So, you are giving us options? I kinda assumed the changing booth would just give us whatever we had as humans." Zooble asked.
"Oh yeah, all sorts of options. I don't actually know what any of you had going on down there and frankly I don't want to know, nor do I want to know what you give yourselves." Caine looked everyone over, "I'll also give you clothing options for those of you who aren't wearing any. In fact:" A new rule appeared on the page,
"3. No being naked in front of me."
"Still wasn't planning on doing that." Zooble muttered.
"Any other questions? No? Good! See you all BRIGHT AND EARLY tomorrow morning!" And with that Caine vanished yet again.
"That's just… great… Really awesome…" Jax mumbled to himself. "I'm going back to my room." And with that he left. Not long after the others filed out one by one.
Zooble looked down at the board and grimaced. "Caine totally knocked over all of the pieces."
"You were about to win anyways." Gangle responded.
"I guess. play it again?"
"Sure." Gangle smiled and the two started to set up the board.
Later that day, Pomni saw Jax standing motionless in the middle of a hallway, seemingly in a daze.
Should I… say something? She thought. What would I even say? Still it would feel weird just walking away without saying anything.
Pomni looked around awkwardly a bit. She was just about to turn around and slink away when Jax's head moved slightly and made eye contact.
Jax and Pomni's eyes both went wide and they stood apart in a hallway that suddenly seemed to stretch on forever, both silent and frozen.
After a few seconds passed, Pomni blinked. She decided to break the silence.
"Hey." Pomni greeted
"Hey…" Jax responded in a weak voice.
"You… are you doing okay?"
Jax stared.
He blinked.
He smiled.
"Yeah of course. Why wouldn't I be?"
"Why uh… Why are you standing in the middle of this hallway?"
"I like the yellow wallpaper here. It's very relaxing." He continued to smile.
"Uh huh…"
Jax laughed, "Jeez, you look so tense. Are you fine?"
"Yeah. I'm just, I'm worried about you, Jax. You've been… I don't know, weird? I… I don't know where we stand or where we're going. Or… I–"
"Poms, relax, we're fine. Everything is fine. It's all just… [%*($]ing great! Couldn't be better in fact!" Jax groaned. He sighed. "I… I'm doing… whatever… doesn't matter. But I do love you Pomni, if that's what you're asking. So just don't worry about anything else."
"But–"
"Seriously, don't worry. Don't worry, and don't hope. It's the best way to survive here. Whelp see ya." Jax turned around and practically fled, leaving Pomni confused and concerned behind him.
And so, the next morning came and every member of the cast was unceremoniously warped from their beds to the main hall… about 2 feet off the ground. They fell in a pile and slowly pulled themselves up and dusted themselves off.
"Good morning everyone!" Caine called out. "Just wanted to announce that the Changing Booth is fully operational and can now be used at your leisure!" He stared blankly for several seconds. "I don't need to be here for this. Have fun!" And with that he vanished.
Everyone stared at the booth in trepidation. No one wanted to be the first one to test it out. After some time of everyone looking back and forth between each other, Ragatha stepped forward.
"I guess I can be the first to try it. If no one has a problem with that?" Taking their silence as assent, Ragatha took a breath to steel herself and walked into the booth. Everyone waited with bated breath. Jax absently felt his hands twitching at his sides. About a minute later Ragatha walked back out looking more or less the same. "It uh… It works!" She smiled and gave an awkward thumbs up.
Zooble shrugged and walked forward into the booth. Not long after, they exited wearing a suit and tie with a yellow and orange polka dot pattern resembling their main body pre transformation.
Jax blinked and momentarily snapped out of his anxiety spiral. "That's the outfit you went with? Seriously, polka dots?"
Zooble crossed their arms and glared. "The stupid booth didn't give me a whole lot of choices."
Jax opened his mouth, but immediately closed it when he saw Pomni enter the booth.
Inside the booth Pomni found a touch screen control panel. Clicking the Start button she was suddenly inundated with more pictures of erogenous zones than she had ever before seen in one sitting. Just an absurd number of choices for various body parts. Most of them didn't even look human. Who on Earth wanted six breasts? Pomni scrolled through and picked options that she thought most closely resembled what she had on Earth. There was something a little disturbing about the fact that she couldn't quite remember what her own body looked like.
As soon as she tapped an option she immediately felt them.
"Oh…" She gave a small involuntary moan. She really had missed these sensations.
She scrolled through to clothing options. Just as Zooble said, these options were surprisingly limited, Pomni was only presented with a few slight variations on her jester outfit. She sighed and exited the booth.
Outside, she saw Ragatha putting a bucket over Kinger's head. Ragatha looked towards Pomni. "It's kinda dark in the booth, but we thought it would be a good idea to give him a moment to become lucid before he goes in."
Pomni nodded. "Makes sense."
Ragatha turned to Jax, "Jax, do you want to go in while we wait for Kinger to be ready."
"What?" Jax looked up. He smiled widely. "Uh yeah, of course I do! I've just been eagerly awaiting for when it would finally be my turn."
He swaggered up to the booth. He hesitated slightly upon reaching the curtains before quickly making his way inside.
Not long after Jax came out. Jax's pants were replaced with a less skin tight, baggier version. Along with the baggy pants was the addition of a baggy hoodie.
Zooble raised an eyebrow. "Interesting outfit."
"The [#&/;] do you care?"
"You commented on my clothes." Zooble flatly responded.
"At least this hoodie is stylish."
"I told you, this was the best the stupid machine offered. At least I don't look like I'm–"
Kinger piped up, "I…think I'm ready."
Zooble and Jax went quiet.
Kinger exited soon and so it was Gangle's turn. When Gangle left the booth she was wearing a white dress with a black ribbon.
Pomni couldn't help but idly wonder what exactly Gangle's new body looked like, was it still just ribbons down there, or…? Pomni shook her head. Wasn't her right to know. She looked back towards Gangle who was walking off to the dormitory with Zooble.
Pomni turned to Jax, only to suddenly realize that he wasn't here. She looked around and saw no sight of him. Pomni walked over to the lake to see if he was back there, but to no avail. She sighed and wandered around the circus for a bit before turning into bed for the night.
Pomni sat in her bed that night not sure what to do. It felt like a waste to have these new body parts and not use them but…
On the one hand there was nothing wrong with masturbating, but she kinda wanted her first time using these parts to be with Jax. But, of course, he was going through something and not talking about it.
Is he just not into me? I mean, I know he says I'm the prettiest jester he's ever met, but how pretty can a short little cartoon jester really be? Ugh, what if my stupid small body makes it so he looks at me and just sees a child? Cute sure, but not exactly fuckable. Would I feel better or worse if he was into kids? Probably worse. Definitely worse. Ugh, why didn't that machine give us any height options?
In the end Pomni ended up masturbating for a bit but was too distracted by all the thoughts swirling in her head.
I'll just… finish doing this tomorrow. Or maybe Jax will finally tell me what's up.
Pomni sighed
I don't want to rush him. Whatever this is. It's not fair to force him to talk about things that are clearly making him uncomfortable.
She rubbed her clitoris a little more
But leaving me hanging isn't exactly fair to me either.
And with that thought Pomni finally drifted off to sleep.
The next day Pomni didn't see Jax until sometime in the evening. As she was returning to her room, she saw Jax exiting his.
"Hey there." Jax closed his door. Pomni kept hers open.
"Hey, I was just turning in for the day. Maybe read a book." They both stood facing each other. "Do you want to come in?" Pomni asked, not sure what she was expecting.
"Sure." Jax responded.
Before either of them knew it, they were both on Pomni's bed making out. As they made out, one of Pomni's hands slightly brushed Jax's chest. His eyes went wide and he suddenly stood up.
"[$#!^] sorry. I didn't mean to freak you out." Pomni pulled back
"I'm not freaked out." Jax muttered as he looked away, arms crossed.
"Look, Jax it's okay–"
"No it's not! It's…" Jax froze and shook his head. He smiled. "It's fine. Everything's fine.
"Jax."
"Whatever… It's just… It's stupid…"
"I…" Pomni sighed. "You can tell me, you know. If it's me. If you're not… into me."
"What?" Jax looked up in surprise. "Poms, of course I'm into you."
"Really? You're telling me you don't look at me and just see a kid?"
"No? Aren't you older than me? Pomni, I am into you, I just…" Jax groaned and put his head into his hands. "I [&@(*]ing messed up in that stupid changing booth."
Pomni blinked. "You… messed up?"
"I just… I panicked okay! It was a complete accident and I picked the wrong option and I don't know why and I just I I Just I–" Jax started hyperventilating.
"Woah! Okay, breathe." Pomni started rubbing Jax's back and spoke in a soothing whisper. "Just breathe. Okay. Breathe in. Breathe out. You're okay."
Jax followed Pomni's directions and started to breathe slowly. After some time, Jax finally calmed down a little. Pomni got up and grabbed a glass of water. She handed it to him.
"Thanks… I… Thanks."
"Of course." Pomni murmured. She went back to rubbing Jax's back. She leaned over into his shoulder. "Do you want to go back to the booth and fix it?"
Jax recoiled like he had been hit. "I… I… [$#!&]… I could have done that all this time. I didn't even think of… Why didn't I think…" Jax started to moan.
"Take your time. The booth isn't going anywhere."
"It should be so obvious. It's so obvious what I should do. So why can't I do it? Why can't I go back…?" Jax muttered absently to himself as he slowly started to rock a little.
Whatever Jax was going through, Pomni was completely in the dark. Did he actually give himself a horse penis? Or… something else? There were so many weird options on that panel it could be anything.
Part of Pomni wanted to speak up. To say something. That they both would probably be fine with whatever options he picked. Or that it was fine to go back and change.
Part of Pomni had to admit that she was fairly horny right now and it was kinda biasing her thoughts towards saying something that would lead to them having sex sooner rather than later.
Instead Pomni kept quiet for now while Jax continued to mumble indistinctly and work through whatever he was working through.
After a few minutes, Pomni realized that Jax had gone silent. She waited a bit longer before speaking up.
"You doing okay? Do you need more water?"
Jax remained silent.
Pomni sighed, "Jax, you have to talk to me. I want to help you, but I can't if you don't tell me anything. You… you say you want to have sex, but then you get upset when we get close to having sex. You say you gave yourself the wrong parts and need to fix it, but also you don't want to fix it. But also we can't have sex until you fix it, which you may never do. So what am I supposed to say or do? Just sit here, forever in the lurch! I…!" Pomni groaned and laid down on her back. She had ranted and raved and did all the things she thought she wasn't going to do.
She continued, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say all that. Not like that. I don't want to rush you Jax, but I don't want to sit in the dark with no idea what is going on."
"You're right…" Jax said so quietly Pomni almost didn't hear him. "I'm sorry… I just… I don't know what to do, Pomni."
"Jax… would it help if you showed me?"
"What?" Jax looked terrified.
"Whatever parts you gave yourself, I promise I won't make fun of you. Just… I think it would be a good idea if you showed me. Then I would know what's going on and we could figure out the next step together."
Pomni sat back up, she leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. "You don't have to if you really don't want to." She murmured, "But I really want to be here for you."
"You… you promise not to make fun of me?" Jax said, in a whimper that sounded like it came from a particularly wet cat.
"Of course."
"Okay… Also, you have to promise not to read too much into it."
"Alright." Pomni nodded.
Jax started fiddling with his baggy hoodie. He quickly got embarrassed and his face flushed redder and redder. He stopped and looked up. "L-look away while I'm getting undressed. I… want to just rip this band aid off."
Pomni blinked, then she stood up from the bed and turned away. She felt her pulse quicken. She heard the sound of the hoodie being unzipped and then soon heard the sound of it being thrown to the ground. As she stood there she heard what sounded like three more articles of clothing hitting the floor.
There was a silent pause.
"O… O–Okay… Okay… you can… you can look now." Jax struggled to get out.
Pomni slowly turned around, she took in Jax's appearance.
Still a beanpole, except curvier. Jax had a pair of decently sized breasts, wider hips, and a pillowy reddish purple vulva.
Pomni's mind was completely blank for ten straight seconds as she processed what she was seeing
Oh. She finally thought to herself. Followed by, Oh!
"You're reading into it! I can tell by your face!" Jax's face turned redder as they crossed their legs and covered their chest.
"I… I'm just taking all this in."
"Whatever…" Jax reached down to grab their clothes off the floor. "I'm just gonna get dressed and give myself proper body parts…"
"Do you want that?"
Jax paused. They sat frozen for a second before looking up with a smile. "Yeah, of course."
Pomni sat back down on the bed next to Jax. "It's okay, you know. Whatever body you want is okay."
"Yeah well… Obviously not this one." Jax laughed quietly. They smirked. "I mean, seriously, what kind of weirdo freak would want something like this?" They gestured towards their breasts and vagina.
"I mean…" Pomni brought up her hands to her chest and indicated her own breasts.
"No… I didn't mean like… It's different… because… you know…" Jax started laughing again. "You know what I mean… it's like… I'm not supposed to have these parts because… I mean, are you even into… women?" Jax's voice descended to a barely audible whisper.
"I'm bisexual, so yeah."
Pomni and Jax sat together in quiet stillness. After a moment, Pomni broke the silence, "Listen, I'm not… I don't want to force you into anything. Like I said, I'm fine with whatever body you want. But I want it to be the body you want, you know?"
"I don't know what I want." Jax muttered.
"...But, you think you might want this?"
Jax only nodded slightly, eyes scrunched close.
"Hm. Well, like I said, the changing booth isn't going anywhere. We could always… test this body out."
"Test it… out?"
"Yeah. You know, like…" Pomni reached out a hand and slowly cupped Jax's breast.
"Oh." Jax said in a breathy whisper
"If you want to of cour–"
Jax lunged forward and locked lips with Pomni's.
Pomni moaned slightly and wrapped her arms around Jax. Pomni and Jax made out for a bit before slowly pulling apart, a trail of spit connecting their lips. They rolled over so Pomni was on top. She started kissing Jax's neck, working her way down slowly towards Jax's chest.
She rubbed Jax's left nipple with one hand and kissed and sucked on the right. Using her free hand, she started to unbutton her outfit. Once unbuttoned, she quickly pulled it off along with her hat and threw them onto the floor.
Pomni paused
"Are you doing okay? Do you want to keep going?"
"Yes… God… Yes."
"Okay."
Pomni wrapped her legs around Jax's, she moved her hips so both of their clitorises rubbed against each other.
"Unh… [&@(#] Yes!" Jax moaned.
She continued to grind her hips. Moving up and down for a bit before switching to a side to side motion, followed by a circular gyration. The flaps of their vaginas occasionally brushed against each other.
Jax leaned down to kiss the top of Pomni's head, then softly grabbed Pomni by the chin, tilting her head and pulling her into a French kiss.
Pomni moaned as she used her hands to lightly massage Jax's breasts.
As Pomni used her tongue to explore the inside of Jax's mouth, Jax used one hand to brush and pet Pomni's brown hair and used the other hand to grab at her ass.
Pomni grasped Jax's hand and gently guided it to their mingling vaginas, and the two started fingering each other.
"It's so… wet down there… does it always feel like this?" Jax commented.
"Mmm, pretty much." Pomni said, then started to kiss the nape of Jax's neck.
Jax's hands suddenly shot to the side and tightly grabbed at the bedsheets. "Holy [%*(#] … I'm…" Jax moaned and fell down on the bed.
Jax blinked a few times then spoke in a daze, "Wow that was… wow…" After blinking a few more times Jax suddenly sat up, "Wait did you come? [$#!+]. Let me finish you off." Jax flipped over and started giving Pomni cunnilingus.
Pomni laughed a little. "'Finish me off'? You make it sound like you're a contract killer trying to assassinate me."
Jax looked up and smirked. "Maybe I am. Ever think of that?"
"What does that even mean?"
"You know, they don't call it the little death for nothing." Jax said, voice muffled due to going back to licking Pomni's labia and vagina.
Pomni couldn't help but giggle some more, both from the silliness, but also from the tickling sensation.
Pomni grabbed the back of Jax's head and started to moan. Jax pulled back a little and started to kiss and suck Pomni's clit.
"Ooough… Jaxxy… [%*(@] …" Pomni came
Pomni pulled Jax's head up to her own and they kissed. They both closed their eyes and fell down onto the bed cuddled together.
"So," Pomni looked up at Jax, "Was it everything you hoped it would be?"
"Yeah I really like this body. It feels more like my body than my body on Earth… Even with the rabbit ears." She said, smiling a smile that seemed warmer and more genuine than one she'd ever had before.
Pomni blinked. "I was actually asking about the sex."
Jax blushed, "Oh."
Pomni kissed her. "But I'm happy that you're happy, Jax." She paused, "Do you… still want to be called Jax?"
"Huh? Oh, I dunno? I… didn't really think that far ahead."
"I think Janice would be cute. If you like it." Pomni commented.
Jax shrugged, "I honestly think it's kinda cringe when trannies pick new names that start with the same letter as their old names."
Pomni stared. "I… don't think you can say that word."
"Actually," she pointed at Pomni, "You can't say that word. I can say it as much as I want."
Pomni laughed, "If you say so."
"I do say so! And as for a name… I don't know. I already picked the name Jax for myself. I have no idea what my name was… in the real world. And I kinda don't care? I always kinda thought if I got out of the circus I'd legally change my name to Jax. Cause it's something that I picked. For myself. It feels like me." She shrugged. "Dunno. Maybe I'll change my mind later, but I'll stick with Jax for now."
Pomni nodded. She snuggled in closer.
"I wouldn't mind changing that outfit I picked out, though. Something… I don't know, cuter? Like a frilly dress or something? Course if I wore something like that, then I'd have to come out to everyone else…" Jax groaned, "Not exactly looking forward to that… like at all. But I guess I have to do that at some point."
"It's up to you when and how you want to do it. I'll support you no matter what."
"Yeah, yeah. But that's in the future. For now…" Jax grabbed at Pomni's boobs. "Wanna go another round?"
"Oh you know it."
Later that day, Zooble saw Jax skipping while humming Daisy Bell quietly. They quirked an eyebrow at the sight and gave Jax a once over.
Well then. Zooble thought to themselves, I'm not gonna say anything, I'll let Jax be the one to tell us. Still, good for her.