Dr Science walked the halls of Science Laboratory. The squirrel scientist was responding to a panicked email from the botany department that the tomatoes were acting up again. But since it was just the botanists, she wasn't rushing.

They reaped what they sowed, which was sometimes radioactive wheat.

But still... she was the head scientist of Science Laboratories. Her name was on the building and the tote bags. So she did need to pop her head in to make sure it wasn't a looming catastrophe.

She passed Dr Careful as she went towards the Botany Department. But there was something different about the uptight master of chemistry that had her double-take.

Dr Science turned around and power walked to catch up to the ferret.

"Excuse me, doctor. I couldn't help but notice..."

He sighed. "I meant to tell you weeks ago but you were... busy. Giving birth to an alien baby."

"Little baby Chimera," Dr Science said, smiling. "She disassembled the microwave and her crib the other day. She's just like her mom."

"I fear she'll be the doom of us all..." Dr Careful muttered.

"We need to encourage babies into STEM! The modern generation sure aren't building the future. Look at our interns! Anyway, this isn't about little Chimera. When did by-the-book Careful start dressing so flashily?"

"What?" Careful asked. This wasn't the question he was expecting.

Dr Science pointed at the gold dress Dr Careful was wearing, far more fit for a club than a laboratory setting. "I thought something was different about you and then I realized, our stodgy Dr Careful doesn't dress with such flash!"

When Dr Science pointed at the dress, Dr Careful found himself posing with his hands above his head. Cocking his hips and thrusting out his uncharacteristically bouncy chest.

"Dammit, Somnus," he muttered, forcing himself back into a natural standing posture. "I'm not stodgy! I just dress... just usually dress without focusing on fashion!"

"Understatement," said Dr Science. She wasn't too focused on fashion herself but she owned a couple of nice outfits. And, for some reason, a bimbo outfit. It was important to put a good appearance forward when you were the face of the lab. "While your new look is a lot fancier, I think it might be inappropriate for a work environment. Reinventing one's look is fine but it's important to have restraint. I know from the calendar that you want to be a sexy scientist but there's a time and place for it!"

Dr Careful gaped in disbelief. "You really haven't noticed that I've grown boobs?"

Dr Science stared. Sometimes she wasn't very attentive when details changed in someone's appearance. "So you have. You must be very proud of your research."

"No, I don't want to grow amazing breasts on myself! It was a lab accident. And changed the whole package... so to speak."

Dr Science mentally calculated how much sympathy to offer. There were worse transformations one could undergo when there was a lab accident. On Dr Careful's first day a chemical spill made him big, buff and dumb. A sex change still left him small enough and smart enough to go through a doorway. Plus, there were worse results to a lab accident than a temporary transformation. Dr Careful's predecessor spontaneously combust and the one before that turned into goo and disappeared into the plumbing.

"Keep your chin up," Dr Science settled on.

Dr Careful sighed again. But vague frustration was better than swearing to make them all pay. Dr Science congratulated herself on picking her words well.

The temporarily-a-lady ferret turned to continue down the hall when Dr Science stopped him.

"I still must insist that you change into something more appropriate though."

"And I insist that I can't!" Dr Careful snapped, surprising Dr Science. "Dr Somnus hypnotized me to wear only the outfits she provides. And she's been using me as a dress-up doll!"

Dr Science scoffed. "Don't spread rumors out of grad school, Neil! Our Dr Somnus would never recklessly hypnotize her coworkers."

Dr Careful rolled his eyes. And then deadpanned, "Eichhörnchenbrust."

Dr Science grabbed her shirt and pulled it open to flash her breasts. She hopped in place while humming a jaunty tune. Then she re-situated her bra and buttoned the shirt closed.

"See?" asked Dr Careful, indignantly.

"See what?" asked Dr Science, obliviously.

Dr Careful sighed a third time.

Elsewhere in the labs, the tomatoes broke through the botanists' last desperate barricade and made it into the death ray storage room.

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Chances are if you work at Science Laboratories and are a pretty lady, Dr Somnus has hypnotized you at some point and left behind some trigger words. She's a dirty old lady and titty keeps her going.

Dr Careful is learning this now that he has temporary titty.

Although temporary is lasting longer than he hoped. The chemical delivery he needs to fix Jessica and himself keep getting delayed for mysterious reasons. So mysterious. So definitely not Serena.

Oh, well, what can he do but be patient. Be patient and show off his pretty dress whenever anyone calls attention to it.

Dr Somnus put too much effort into picking out something for him to wear for him to waste her effort by slouching like a gargoyle and pouting.

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April 5 edit: Forgot I already named the baby Curiosity and gave her a different name in a later story. So this story has been edited to match.

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Dr Careful owned by me
Art by  xizana