Keys jingling in my hand as I pushed the door open to my small apartment. It wasn't much, but it was mine. One bedroom, a decent-sized full bath, the living room, and kitchen in an open floor plan. I had gotten a used couch and chair from a thrift shop. I had a nice TV, but I never really used it. I just use my laptop. Kicking off my ankle high boots, I tried to shake the cold off me as I let out a happy sigh of relief. Finals were done for the semester, well, for me at least, and winter break had just started.

  I touched the picture of my grandparents that rested on a small table by the door. They were the ones who raised me; I don't remember my parents aside from vague images. They were killed in a car crash when a bus full of clowns on their way to some convention hit some black ice. It was no one's fault, but I still harbored a dislike of clowns even to this day. Two years ago, my grandmother passed away from old age, and then a few days later, Grandpa passed. Honestly, I think it was just from a broken heart; they were the ultimate love story. In many ways, I am a very girlie girl. I like pink, I played with Barbies, all that stuff, but my true love was taking things apart to see how they worked. I was really close to my grandfather. He often helped me take apart random items, then explained the different parts and how they worked. Yet despite knowing my own interests and strengths, I still hadn’t decided on a major.

  The picture was taken about six years back when we were on vacation in the Bahamas. I took it with my phone during dinner at one of the local restaurants. The sun had just hit the ocean with a burst of colors. The sunset framed them in the background as they were pressed cheek to cheek, smiling at me. Taking a big breath as my eyes started to tear up, I slid my jacket off and forced myself to think of some other things while flopping onto the couch. Well, I would have if big white words in a blue background hadn't appeared in my vision.

  Congratulations, you have been randomly selected to test the System 2.0 beta (v 10.1.1.1.1) in advance of your planet’s integration. For helping to test out the system before integration, you will be rewarded with perks and boons from the system, as well as a unique class designed just for you. Aren't you lucky? You are welcome

  Please wait....

  The room coming back into focus, my first thought was Holy Shit, the System is real. My head hurt, like a lot. There was a pounding that went in rhythm to the beat of my heart. I slowly sat up. must have slid down after I passed out. Perhaps I had been reading too many System novels. Lately, I have been completely obsessed with the genre. It was then, with a soreness in my body and thinking with a bit more clarity, that I saw the little blinking light in the corner of my right eye.

  “No fucking way!”

  Yes, I am the type of person who would press the big red button. So I willed the blinking light to expand. Not sure why, but it made sense to do so.

  System updating to the current version...

  Please wait....

  System updated. New version Beta 2.0(V 10.1.1.1.2)

  Initializing ….

  Please Wait....

  There I sat with my mouth open, watching the little dots move, waiting for it to finish. 'Wait, what? System, beta, what the hell is going on?' Then I passed out again.

  Don't know how long I was out, but now my body felt extremely sore, like my skin was stretched too tightly over my body, and the smell. 'What the hell was this awful smell? ' As I forced myself to sit back up, flakes of black stuff dropped off my face. Now that was freaking me out a little. Standing up, heading to the bathroom to take a look in the mirror. I don't know what the hell it was that covered my body like dried tar. 'It was nasty. Just fucking Nasty!'

  “Gross.”

  I quickly stripped out of tight jeans that framed my tight little ass with just enough roundness not to be called flat. Pulling my sweatshirt over my head, I saw it was ruined by whatever this was. A sigh of relief as I freed the girls, and I mean freed. My best friend called them anime tits. They were fucking huge and definitely didn't fit my body properly, at least not in my opinion. Yet these puppies have gotten me lots of attention, out of trouble, and I've never lacked for sex. Men or women didn't matter; everyone wanted to play with them. They were my not so secret weapon. Still, it wasn't like I was ugly. I was pretty, I knew I was pretty.

  My face had a good cheekbone to show good structure, and was still soft enough to scream feminine. My eyes are a deep baby blue with naturally long eyelashes. Often, all I had to do was give a bat of my eyes at a professor or a person in authority, which got me out of major trouble with just a light scolding. My hair was blond, full, with a natural silkiness to it, making it soft to the touch with minimal work, and it rested right to the small of my back. I wasn't tall, maybe five foot two on a good day, with the majority of my weight in my tits. That thought always caused me to giggle, but not today, as I just saw this film covering every inch of me. I rushed my barely one hundred and ten pound toned frame right into the shower as hot water blasted me the moment I turned it on.

  While I scrubbed myself, the blinking light was moving urgently. There was no way I was going to deal with it till I got whatever this was off me. The scrubbing was paying off as I could see the color of my pale flesh come into view. This crap was like fucking disgusting. With winter, my skin lost all of its color. I could use tanning beds, but I always felt the look was so fake. I preferred the feeling of the sun over a tanning lamp.

  It took a while; I had to scoop the gunk from the drain a few times and toss it in the small waste basket. 'Yeah fuck this. I am throwing it away and getting a new one.' Finally feeling clean, my skin never felt so clean in my life. Maybe it was some secret ingredient I could market. Yeah no. Disgusting.

  Feeling better as I turned everything off and stepped out of the shower. I wrapped myself in my favorite fluffy towel. Finally, all clean, I headed to my small bedroom.

  A simple metal framed queen bed that was still messy from this morning. I didn't want to be late for my last exam, who was I kidding? I never made that thing. Across from it stood a waist-high dresser with my knick knacks on it, along with a photo of my parents holding me as a baby. Sure, I didn't really remember them, but that wasn't their fault. Plus, I guess in a way it felt like they were watching over me. Near my closet door was a makeup table, still disorganized from this morning. I would clean up everything later. Next to it was my free-standing mirror. I took a closer look at myself.

  I really wasn’t sure how to describe it, but I had somehow gotten hotter. One of those things that was hard to quantify with thoughts or words, but there was... I didn't know, something different.

  In that thought, the System decided it had had enough waiting, as white letting with a blue background once more filled my vision.

  System Initiation complete.

  Welcome, Sara Garner, to the System and early integration.

  Would you like a guide or prefer to explore on your own?

  Well, I wasn't expecting that. From everything I've read, discussed online in forums, or even discussions with Katie, the majority of stories about the System just threw everything at you and didn't care if you understood or not. Shrugging, I selected yes.

  You have three options.

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  1. One week with a guide.

  2. Six months with a guide at the cost of one perk

  3. A lifetime guide at the cost of two perks: One preplanet integration and one after.

  More options? Some good ones too. I chose option three. I didn't think it was a sacrifice or a waste of said perk, even if it was my only one. To have someone knowledgeable to explain things, I felt, would be a huge advantage in the long run. Of course, I could always get one of those guides that were just helpful enough, but made you do most of the thinking. Yeah, wouldn’t that be my luck?

  Or spoke in riddles. Even worse.

  As soon as I chose it, a warm, fuzzy feeling spread over the expanse of my left breast. 'Wait, did these things get somehow perkier?' I looked closer at the mirror in fascination as they seemed to defy gravity. They did not stick straight out. Considering how big they were, I don’t think that would be possible. On closer inspection, they seemed to just rest better on my chest.

  My eyes widened as I watched what I could only think of as a color tattoo forming over the pale flesh. In full technicolor, it began to take the shape of a pin-up girl, and it looked like she was lying over my breast, her body turned at the waist. Her legs were slightly twisted, revealing a well shaped rear. Then a long tail, formed with a pointed end, came into view, extending down the outside of my breast.

  Wings spread out from her back with long jet black hair spread out over her head like she was lying on a bed. More of it quickly filled in. Long leather boots ran up to her well shaped thighs, with had to be six inch heels. A leather thong around her shaped hips just barely covering up her sex with a black leather tight corset with white laces that pushed up full, perfectly shaped tits onto a small frame. Toned arms rested on her stomach; her face and skin held a very slight reddish tone. Her face was perfectly heart-shaped with full, cupid-shaped lips. The points of her ears could be seen between strands of hair, along with two small, cute horns colored in on her forehead.

  'Holy fucking shit.' Yeah, I tend to swear a lot when confused, surprised, getting railed really well, and frustrated. Never mind, I just swear a lot. This intricately detailed tattoo was better than anything I've ever seen, even life like. Her eyes were pitch black with red irises that seemed to watch me. Unable to stop myself, I touched the finished work, feeling a sudden jolt of energy from my fingers to my tit and extreme lightheartedness. The last thing I remembered before I passed out was.

  “Well, those have got to be the best set of tits I have seen in a thousand years.”