I used to watch WordGirl when I was a kid, and I always thought Dr. Two-Brains’s storyline where he merged with a mouse as a result of a lab experiment gone horribly wrong was really intriguing. I think, between him and Lady Redundant Woman, that a lot of my “TF caused by weird machine” fetish came from this show. Anyhow, it kind of seemed like this TFability picture was giving a similar energy. Here’s a link to the original TFAbility image (last photo in the sequence): https://www.deviantart.com/tfability/art/new-pet-1269157329
In a parallel world (I wrote this, not AI):
After stepping into the alley behind a dance club to smoke, a coked-up Nadia was kidnapped by a group of men. They had been paid to capture a random young woman by a team of investigators conducting a secret experiment aiming to bridge the cognitive gap between humans and cats. The scientists proposed that humans and animals might be able to understand each other’s neural impulses via a temporary, manmade ion channel link and thus communicate with each other.
After Nadia’s kidnapping, she was held in captivity for 2 weeks with only meager food and water while preparations were finalized. A stray cat was adopted and brought to the lab. A shelter had named “Trixie” because she was mischievous.
After her 2 weeks in waiting, Nadia was dragged to an experiment chamber and placed in a box lined with shreds of an anti-conducting material and hooked up to an unstable device through her head. Trixie was connected via her own skull as well. Experimenters armed the machine, and as it whirred to life, a terrified Nadia could sense faint buzzing noises. They conveyed only faint emotions like hunger, fear, and thirst.
Dissatisfied, the lead investigator disabled a voltage protector in the laboratory’s fuse panel as an attempt to urge his desired result along. Suddenly, a power surge shot through the lab, shorting the safety equipment and causing both Nadia and Trixie to howl in pain. The lights cut out.
When power normalized and the lights came back on, the cat was nowhere to be found. Nadia’s arms and legs had developed fur and been reshaped, and her human ears had wilted into her head and replaced by furry cat ears. Her new tail was twitching slightly as Nadia lay there pawing at her new body. As a result of the unexpected voltage spike, Nadia and Trixie the cat bizarrely merged, and the woman had absorbed the cat’s brain and body into her own brain and body.
Nadia smiled for the first time in 2 weeks as Trixie’s instincts and personality flooded her own mind. It became clear only in that moment that Trixie had been in heat at the time of the transformation, and as she pawed her remaining clothes off and presented out of new animal instinct, the scientists stared at each other in horrified, delighted disbelief.