“God, the holidays frickin’ suck!” Casey complained to himself as he walked into his apartment, letting the door slide shut behind him. “At least it gave me a three day weekend though. I should see if Daniel’s free later.” He tossed his bag and jacket onto his couch and made his way to the kitchen where he rummaged through the fridge and cabinets so he could have lunch. Having an entry level data entry job didn’t pay much but it at least put a roof over his head and put food on the table. Although, the food his job could provide wasn’t exactly the best quality as he had a few opened bags of chips, a case of beer, some bread, and a handful of condiments spattered about the kitchen. “Looks like it’s PB&Js… again.”

Casey sat down the paper plate that housed his sandwich and chips before popping open a can of cold beer and sitting down at his desk. He opened up the browser and made his way over to Youtube to try and find something to entertain him while he ate. Eventually he found something semi-entertaining to watch but part way through his lunch, on the bottom left corner of his screen he saw a steam pop-up appear, ‘Man the Dan is playing GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-’. “Looks like Daniel got his Christmas bonus early this year.” Casey unpaused his video, finishing his lunch and sipping on his cheap beer when another pop-up appeared, ‘You received a gift!’ 

“He must’ve gotten a pretty good bonus!” Casey spoke out loud to himself as he clicked the popup, seeing that Daaniel had gifted him Guilty Gear as well. ‘Casey, I know you aren’t into fighting games but this game is seriously fun! Get good at it so I have someone I can play against. XOXOXO, Man the Dan’ Casey sighed, “I guess I can give it a shot. I’d be a hypocrite if not after subjecting Daniel to Stellaris.” He clicked the green ‘Accept gift’ button and let it download in the background as he grabbed another beer and finished his video.

After a considerable amount of time he finally got the pop-up that his download was done so he grabbed his spare Xbox controller from his desks drawer and plugged it in before launching the game where it took him to a tutorial. “How hard can this game be?” Casey sat through the tutorial, following the inputs it told him to press as he learned the basics of how the game controlled. “It’s moving, attacking, and countering. How hard can this be?” He skipped the tutorial, not having the patience to be coddled by something that probably wouldn’t teach him the game all that well in the first place. He fidgeted around the menus for a bit before settling on using the arcade mode. “Man, this game has a lot of characters. I don’t even know where to begin… I guess I’ll just play as the hottest character.” There was one thing Casey knew about fighting games, especially Guilty Gear, and that was the fact that the game had some hot female characters in it. And of course he could’ve picked Jack-O or even Baiken but he eventually landed on Giovanna. Three was just something about her personality and look that drew him towards her, plus he was always a sucker for redheads. “Fuck it, let’s pick her.”

He selected Giovanna and watched as the game played the first stages into screen where he’d be playing against an AI Axl Low. Casey started out the round with a vague idea of what he was meant to do. He closed gaps and tried to determine when to trade hits or when he should counter but inevitably began to button mash as his hitpoint bar fell further behind. “Damnit!” Casey missed the timing on his counter and ended up losing the first round to Axl. “This is a bit harder than I thought it’d be… but I was so close!” The second round went a bit better for him as he barely managed to edge out the fight in his favor. By the third and final round he had gotten better at countering Axl’s attacks and managed to win by a substantial lead in hitpoints.

Casey continued through Stage 2 and 3 against Ky and I-No respectively with varying degrees of success. For Ky he managed to keep his momentum going and sweeped him in two rounds although he was still taking a lot of unnecessary hits. On the other hand he was one to one against I-No and barely scraped a victory for the third round where he felt like he was taking a lot of sloppy hits. “Okay! I feel like I’m getting the hang of this.” The fourth stage was against Potemkin who Casey thought was going to be a breeze to beat yet he couldn't have been further from correct. Something about this character's kit was simply punishing Casey’s basic mechanical skills at the game. Each missed counter and each sloppy trade chunked his hitpoints down as Potemkin hit away at him like a truck. “Fuck!” Casey readjusted himself in his chair as he lost zero to two. “I was doing so well up to that point. I know I can at least get past him!”

Casey reselected Arcade mode and moved the selection box over Giovanna. His second attempt at the game mode went about the same with him flying past rounds one, two, and three just for him to be bodied yet again at round four. “God! I need to be taking less damage throughout that fight!” Again he hopped into arcade mode and selected Giovanna, already being quite used to her moveset. Over and over he threw himself at the gauntlet but with each loss against Potemkin he could feel himself getting more hasty and sloppy with his plays. Eventually he was struggling with I-No and then Ky started bodying him. It wasn’t until he lost against Axl, a relatively simple fight, that he decided he had had enough of this game.


Casey rage quit the game, taking a large swig of his now room temperature beer. “Maybe somebody has posted a guide or tutorial online?” He reopened his browser and opened a new tab where he googled ‘guilty gear strive tutorial’ with the first link opening up a nearly thirty three minute long video on how to play the game. He clicked on it and watched for a bit, grasping the basic concepts of the different attacks but as soon as the Youtube video began explaining roman cancels it had lost him. Casey ran his hands down his face as he let out an exasperated sigh, “I can’t tell Daniel he wasted all that money on a game I can’t play. Maybe there’s an easier tutorial?” He clicked the back button, taking him back to the google page with his search results on it. Directly underneath the tutorial video was a reddit post that claimed to have some sort of cheat mod that made the game easier to play. 

Casey thought on it for a moment before inevitably opening the link to the reddit post. The post claimed that the mod would help you not only get good at the game but would help you master any one particular character you wanted to get good at. “I mean… I could use the mod just so I can play against Daniel. He wouldn’t know anyways and he’d probably still kick my butt.” Casey scrolled down the page, seeing that the post had 1.7k upvotes yet no comments but the install was literally just downloading the files and dropping them into the game folder so he figured it wouldn’t hurt to see if the mod worked.

He downloaded the mod and extracted the zip file, dropping the mods files in with the game files before launching the game just like the reddit post instructed him to. Casey picked up his remote as the game booted up, skipping the intro cutscene and making his way back to the arcade mode. “I guess I’ll just stick with Giovanna. At least I have some eye candy to look at while I play this miserable game.” He pressed down onto the button on his controller to select Giovanna and as he did a small spark of electricity zapped his thumb. “Fuck!” He pulled his hand back, waving it in the air as if it’d help the tingling feeling subside from his hand. “Looks like I’m going to need a new controller soon.”

‘Mankind knew that they cannot change society.’

“Fuck, it’s already starting.”

‘So instead of reflecting on themselves, they blamed the Beasts.’ His computer speakers played out. ‘Heaven or Hell.’

Casey picked up his controller again, this time ready to at least beat the first fight now that he had some cheat mod to help him. “I just need to counter some of his attacks.” The match started and although the mod was installed and Casey had at least a basic grasp on the mechanics he found that he still lost the first round to the bot. “Did I install the mod correctly? It didn’t seem to be doing anything?” The second round started which Casey tried to push through, barely getting even a quarter of the way through his opponent's health bar before ultimately losing. “I knew that mod was too good to be true.” He set the controller down and leaned back in his chair, arms crossed as the defeat screen popped up and froze his computer. “Great! So it was malware then?” The game finally crashed along with all other applications and windows Casey had opened, being abruptly closed as the command prompt launched itself.

‘Krypt Keyper Rune Batch Loading…………………………………’ The command prompt automatically typed out as 1’s and 0’s flashed rapidly washed over the window. ‘Detected Game: GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-, Character: Giovanna’ Another window with a disappointed ascii face opened itself up and swapped between two different sets as if it was opening and closing its mouth as more text appeared in the command prompt window. ‘So you wanted to take the easy way out? Harmlessly cheat in an online game? I’ll help you get better without artificially boosting your elo.’ 

Casey’s computer suddenly blue screened as the same binary matrix that was just fluttering across his monitor began digitizing its way up his body, starting at his legs. “Woah, woah! What’s happening!?” The flickering binary creeped its way up his body replacing his socks with a pair of white and green heel pump sandals. It continued to creep up his leg, replacing the cuff of his jeans with a pair of black pants where the leg holes were far too big. Not only were his clothes changing but also his body as his rough, white skin was replaced with soft, olive toned skin. As the matrix reached his thighs and hips he found them ballooning outwards as soft yet toned flesh filled his lower half out. As it passed over his crotch he suddenly felt vast emptiness, reaching down he no longer felt the bulge of his average dick but instead felt two soft mounds that were parted down the middle. “Wait! I don’t like where this is going! I’ll uninstall the cheat, I swear!” But the force that was transforming him neither heard him nor cared as it made its way up his arms and stomach, covering his now dainty hands with brown fingerless gloves and changing his t-shirt into a white button up shirt. It eventually reached his chest where his wide frame was replaced with a smaller frame which now sported a perky pair of C-cup breasts that had had his cleavage fully shown to the world. It continued further, passing over his face and along his hair as his face became rounder and more feminine, his hair, now an unnatural red, cascaded down to his neck.

Casey looked down at his, now her, hands as she tried to make sense of what just happened but before she could get far in thought she heard her PC booting up. Turning to the black monitor she saw the familiar face of Giovanna looking back at her, mimicking her movements and expression of shocked terror. “What!? No that- That’s not real!” The monitor turned on and rather than the normal bios screen displaying it was replaced with a new one titled ‘Krypt Keyper Rune Bootup’ which had that smug little ascii face smack dab in the middle of the screen.

‘Improve and you’ll return to normal. Press Enter to launch….8….7….6’

Casey hastily pressed the enter key and watched as the smug fucking ascii face disappeared and his computer booted up normally. “Deep breaths Casey, deep breaths.” His deep yet feminine voice threw him off guard. He brought his hands up to his face and lightly smacked them, feeling his dainty gloved hands gently press against his cheeks which only further caused him to panic. “No. No, this is just a bad dream, I’m probably just stressed from my job.” Casey pushed against the desk and got up from his chair as he made his way to his bedroom. He ignored the natural sway of his flared hips and the weight on his chest, refusing to think for a moment that this was all real. I mean- It couldn’t be real! “It isn’t possible!” He lifted his blankets and crawled underneath them as he nestled into his bed and closed his eyes.

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Casey groaned and rolled over to his side as the light spilling in from the window hit his face before eventually giving in and waking up. It’s not like he set an alarm last night so of course it was later than when he normally got up. He sat up, feeling the odd sensation of flesh shift on his chest as its soft weight was pulled down by gravity. His swollen nipples brushing against the thin yet scratchy material of his button up shirt- “Wait!” Casey opened his eyes and looked down, his vision filled with his own cocoa colored tits strapped to his chest as their cleavage poked through the unbuttoned window of his shirt. “Fuck!”

Casey hurried over to her computer, grabbing the mouse and shaking it violently back and forth as the screen turned on. His steam library page was open and on Guilty Gear Strive with just 2.4 hours on record. “Fine! I’ll play your stupid game!” He grabbed the controller, plopped his soft butt mounds down in his chair, and launched the game. He selected the arcade mode and rather than the character select screen popping up it instead instantly put him into the game with Giovanna as his selected character. “I just need to beat the arcade mode.”

He took a deep breath in and steeled his nerves, reeling to just get this over with. He was much calmer than yesterday despite his sudden transformation shaking him up a bit which reflected on his matches against Axl. The first round went poorly as Casey adjusted to his new body, the way the controller felt in his smaller hands and the general way his assets sat uncomfortably on his body but his learned knowledge of the game carried him through the next two rounds. He carried his momentum through stages two and three as he easily managed both Ky and I-No, finding himself yet again against his former roadblock, Potemkin. With no real practice against him since yesterday Casey found himself losing two to zero. “Damn this stupid game and that stupid mod!” He slammed his controller onto his desk as the defeat screen displayed itself across his monitor but unlike every other time the defeat screen morphed until the text said ‘Punishment’. The binary matrix manifested around Casey, floating in flickering rings as they orbites his waist and chest. “Punishment? What does that mean!?” The rings shrunk and absorbed into Casey’s body but unlike previously the matrix caused the areas of his skin that it touched to build up in heat. His skin glowed green as it shifted and centered itself along his waist and solely in his breasts as they both suddenly inflated in size. His hips and butt pressed into the fabric of his loose pants while his breasts swelled up a couple of cup sizes, spilling further from his unbuttoned shirt. “Really? I- Fine Fuck it!”

Casey minimized the game and opened up the tutorial he found earlier. He forced himself to sit through it and watch it all the way through but a lot of the concepts still went over his head. Fighting games were very different from his preferred 4X grand strategy games afterall. He watched it once over again, trying to internalize what he needed to know about the game before re-clicking into the game and throwing himself to the grindstone.

He didn’t improve much at first, still managing to lose before reaching Potemkin every now and then but he did feel like he was getting better at countering and performing the mechanical skill of inputting attacks into his controller. But regardless he still lost multiple times over, each time his rear and chest growing ever larger as he filled out his given clothes with more womanly flesh. After two hours of grinding he finally managed to squeeze out a victory against Potemkin and even managed to carry that momentum past stage 5 against Zato, barely losing in the third round against Millia. After three hours he was consistently making it up to stage 6, even occasionally getting a chance against Sol on stage 7, but his ass now had a sizable layer of supple flesh on it which was causing him to subtly change how he sat in his chair. After six hours he finally beat Sol and moved on to the final stage, stage 8 which was against Nagoriyuki. His victory streak was short lived however as for the second time today he lost two to zero which caused his breasts to balloon out to hefty F-cups.

“God, I’m so close! I just need to improve a bit more.” Casey continued his grind, each loss adding more layers of soft meat to his already alien body. He sat in his chair, his hips now wider than any other part of his body as his ass jutted out a respectable 2 inches from his back side. His breasts now strained the poor buttons of his top as he hefted his H-cup heifers up by his arms. “That last one was so close! Come on!” He started another arcade run, barely making it past the first round as he landed a lucky last minute counter. “Okay, this is the run!” The second round didn’t fare much better for Casey as he got too greedy and overextended his attacks, allowing the bot to punish him and close out the round. “Come on, we got this. We still have one more round.” Round 3 started off rough as Casey missed his first few counters, taking some sloppy damage in the first few seconds but he managed to pull the game back. He used Giovanna’s more offensive kit to deal damage when possible, even managing some basic combos as he pulled ahead until- “Yes! Oh my god yes!” Casey managed to finally beat Arcade mode, finally seeing the credits roll after the two characters traded some dialogue with one another-  Wait a minute! Casey reached up to his bust and looked down at his chest half expecting it to suddenly swell in size yet it never came. “Oh my god! They didn’t get bigger! But…”

The game booted him back to the main menu as Casey’s mind churned for an answer. He had beaten the Arcade mode so why hadn’t he been changed back yet? Unless…? “You have to be fucking kidding me!? Do I have to become a competent Giovanna player?” Despite his recent accolade and disheartened that what he had overcome wasn’t enough to undo his transformation he decided to call it a day after 8 hours of nonstop gaming. Hell, he hadn’t even eaten anything yet and was starving! He got up from his chair and nearly toppled over from the sheer change in weight distribution he was now under. His ass wobbled and bounced as he regained his footing, his thighs rubbing together as his tits tried their darndest to pull him to the ground. He eventually got the hang of it as he made his way to the kitchen to have a ‘celebratory PB&J and a beer’ before relaxing for the day, watching some videos with ‘Tips & Tricks for improving with Giovanna’.