Multiversal Primal Zerg (Semi-SI)

SCP Universe, IKEA Store

The dimensional jump dumped Adrian and Derflinger onto the infinite floor of the IKEA store. Adrian immediately began stacking up and constructing a platform out of various blocks high above the shelves.

"This should be high enough," Adrian said as he placed the final cobblestone block. The platform was nearly one hundred feet wide, giving him plenty of space to work with.

"Ready to start?" Derflinger asked from his back.

Adrian nodded and focused on the egg first. He placed the same 1 egg in each crafting slot of his Crystalline Pearl, forcing reality to resolve the paradox. His body began tearing itself apart as the egg transformed, becoming perfectly spherical and emanating a slight purple glow.

"One down," Adrian gasped, consuming a Golden Apple to heal the damage. "Ninety-three heads to go."

He converted three of the female Ender Dragon heads at a time before letting the Golden Apple's regenerative effects restore him. The heads grew massive as they escaped Minecraft's constraints, each one nearly as large as his current body.

"These are going to take forever to digest," Adrian commented as he finished converting the last head. Blood dripped from his nose, and his limbs trembled from the strain.

"At least you won't go hungry for a while," Derflinger said.

Adrian approached the first head and sank his teeth into the scales, swallowing down with each bite. After ten minutes, he had fully stuffed the head into his stomach.

"This might be a good time to tell me stories about your past wielders," Adrian suggested as he settled in for what would be a very long process. "We've got about two weeks of this ahead of us."

"Well, there was this one wielder back in Germania..." Derflinger began as Adrian's body started processing the first head's Essence. "She used me to fight manticores in-"

Adrian exhaled a ragged breath as the first changes began. The Ender Dragon's DNA started merging with his own Primal Zerg genetic structure, causing his scales to darken from their usual green to a deep obsidian black. The transformation wasn't just cosmetic… his scales became denser, stronger, as void energy began infusing into their molecular structure. Each scale now contained microscopic chambers that could store and channel void energy, making them far more resistant to damage than before and capable of warding off fire and lava.

"You okay there, partner?" Derflinger asked with concern.

"It feels... different from other Essences," Adrian managed to say through gritted teeth. His spine was elongating, vertebrae splitting and reforming as new neural clusters developed along his back. These clusters would serve as secondary processing centers for handling the vast amount of void energy his body would eventually channel. "Keep talking. It helps distract from the pain."

"Right, so this vampire hunter..." Derflinger continued his tale while Adrian's body underwent more changes. The first head's DNA was restructuring his skeletal system, making his bones hollow yet incredibly dense. New cavities formed within them, creating a network that would help further distribute void energy throughout his body. His muscle fibers began breaking down and rebuilding themselves with enhanced protein structures that could handle the strain of his eventual larger size.

By the time Derflinger finished his first story, Adrian had grown nearly two feet longer. His neck had extended slightly, and the first hints of wing buds had appeared along his shoulders. The void energy from the head had permanently altered his cellular structure, making his body more capable of channeling and storing magical energy.

"Ready for the second head?" Derflinger asked after Adrian's body had fully processed the first one.

Adrian nodded weakly. The… evolution was exhausting, but he could already feel how much stronger he was becoming. He dragged himself over to the next head and began consuming it while Derflinger launched into another tale about a knight who had used him to slay a dragon.

The irony wasn't lost on either of them.

Within three days Adrian had consumed ten more heads. Each one brought new changes, building upon what came before. The wing buds expanded into proper wings, spreading outward as new bones and muscles formed. The membrane between the wing fingers started as thin and delicate but quickly strengthened as specialized cells produced an incredibly resilient tissue that took full advantage of void energy. His chest inflated to accommodate the massive flight muscles needed to power these new appendages, and his heart split into four chambers to handle the increased blood flow his larger body would require.

"You're starting to look more dragon than lizard now," Derflinger commented as Adrian flexed his wings, and the force of the air current buffeted the sword. He had kept Adrian entertained with stories ranging from epic battles to embarrassing mishaps of past wielders, helping distract him from the constant pain of transformation.

Adrian's neck had lengthened considerably, and the original enhanced photoreceptors that allowed him to see in near-darkness remained, but they merged with new void-sensitive cells. These specialized cells arranged themselves in a unique layered structure of which the outer layer maintained his night vision capabilities while deeper tissues responded to void energy emissions. His pupils mutated to process both visible light and void signatures simultaneously, creating a dual-spectrum vision system that overlaid both types of information into a single cohesive image.

The adaptation changed his irises from blue to deep purple, with microscopic crystalline structures forming throughout the eye tissue. These crystals acted as natural amplifiers for void energy detection, allowing him to perceive the faintest traces void energy use in magic or beings.

"I need... more heads," Adrian growled, his voice deeper than before. The hunger for evolution drove him forward despite the exhaustion. His digestive system had adapted to break down the heads more efficiently, but each one still took hours to fully process.

By the end of the first week, Adrian had consumed forty heads. He now stood twice his original height, and his wingspan stretched wider than a small airplane. The void energy saturating his cells had begun affecting his existing adaptations. His heat regulation system merged with the void energy network, allowing him to survive in even more extreme environments. His enhanced senses became attuned to the void itself, letting him detect spatial disturbances through subtle humming in the Void Crystal organ responsible for his Void Step.

"The Staff creatures haven't bothered us up here," Derflinger noted during one of Adrian's rest periods. "Maybe they can sense what you're becoming."

Adrian snorted in agreement, purple energy crackling around his nostrils. The transformation had reached his respiratory system, creating specialized organs that could produce and expel concentrated void energy. This would eventually become his breath weapon, but for now it appeared as occasional bursts of energy when he exhaled.

The second week brought even more dramatic changes as Adrian consumed the remaining heads. His skeleton finished reconstructing itself with void-infused bones stronger than steel. His muscles became dense enough to crack concrete just by flexing, yet remained incredibly efficient thanks to the void energy flowing through them. The spines along his back developed into proper spikes that could channel and store even more void energy, creating a reservoir he could draw from in combat.

"Last head," Adrian announced on the fourteenth day. He had grown to nearly full size now. Only the dragon egg remained after this, which should complete his transformation.

"Make it count," Derflinger encouraged from where he lay nearby. "You've come too far to mess it up now."

Adrian consumed the final head, and the changes began immediately. The void energy concentrated in his claws and teeth, creating microscopic spatial distortions around them. When he scratched the cobblestone platform, his claws didn't just cut through the block… they partially phased through it, bypassing a portion of the material's structural integrity. The effect consumed stored void energy with each use, but the results were devastating.

"Now that's interesting," Adrian rumbled, examining his claws. He could feel the void energy flowing into the bone and keratin structure from the void energy network all throughout his body. The metal he had consumed in the past, particularly the Netherite, were still incorporated into the molecular matrix, creating weapons that could shred through almost any defense.

"Ready for the egg?" Derflinger asked.

Adrian turned toward the spherical object that was still emanating purple light. This would be the keystone of this large-scale evolution, containing the core genetic material needed to fully stabilize his Essence. He opened his jaws, now large enough to swallow a car whole, and consumed the egg in a single bite.

The reaction was immediate and overwhelming. The egg's shell dissolved in his stomach, releasing pure void energy that flooded every cell in his body. His muscles seized as new neural pathways formed, creating a dedicated network for channeling and controlling void energy. The secondary processing clusters along his spine lit up with purple light as they integrated with this network.

"Jeez..." Derflinger whispered as Adrian's body underwent its final changes. The sword watched in amazement as Adrian's scales became even darker, absorbing light itself. They developed an iridescent quality that shifted between black and deep purple depending on how the light struck them.

Adrian roared as his throat transformed one last time. The sound contained subsonic frequencies that could disorient and nauseate anyone who heard it. The specialized organs in his chest cavity that produced his void breath weapon finally reached maturity, allowing him to project concentrated streams of void magic that would corrode both matter and space itself.

When the transformation finally ended, Adrian stood at his full height of ten feet at the shoulder. His body stretched thirty-five feet from nose to tail tip, and his wingspan reached fifty-five feet when fully extended. He had retained the best aspects of his Primal Zerg heritage while gaining the power and majesty of a realistic Ender Dragon.

He was now a Primal Void Dragon.

"How do you feel?" Derflinger asked after several minutes of silence.

Adrian had the draconic equivalent of a smirk on his face. "Complete."

"Let's test the human form," Adrian continued, still with a slight smirk on his lips. The change began as usual, scales shrinking and reforming into skin, wings folding into nothing, tail disappearing...

Something felt very wrong.

Adrian's smirk vanished and he blinked as the transformation completed, immediately noticing the different center of gravity. He grabbed a mirror from the cobblestone platform and froze at the reflection.

Long black hair framed a delicate face with deep purple eyes. The muscular male body he was used to had been replaced by a slender female that stood 5'9". He glanced down at his chest and immediately looked away.

"Well..." Derflinger broke the awkward silence. "This is unexpected."

"Shut up." Adrian's voice came out higher pitched than before. He grimaced as he held up a stranf of black hair that reached down to his mid-back. "This has to be from the egg, right? That damn Ender Dragon must've been female, and considering I took in so much Essence to undergo a complete Evolution, those genetic markers must've affected the human form in turn."

Derflinger made a sound suspiciously like suppressed laughter. "At least you're still wearing clothes?"

Adrian looked down at the tight black shirt that showed off way too much cleavage and the form-fitting pants that hugged curves he definitely didn't have before. "This isn't funny!"

"You have to admit it's a little funny." Derflinger wasn't even trying to hide his amusement anymore. "The big bad Void Dragon turns into a beauty!"

Adrian grabbed Derflinger and pointed him at the mirror. "Look at me! How am I supposed to blend in looking like this?"

"I am looking," Derflinger replied smugly. "And I'd say blending in won't be your biggest problem anymore."

Adrian dropped the sword with an exasperated groan. "I need to figure out how to fix this."

"Why fix what isn't broken?" Derflinger asked from the floor. "You're a Primal Zerg, right? You've told me you didn't even have a concept of gender before consuming the original Adrian."

Adrian stared at his D-cup breasts and sighed deeply. "That's not the point-"

"The point is you're making this a bigger deal than it needs to be," Derflinger cut in. "Make a new identity. And if you really want your old appearance back, just find some shapeshifter to consume in another world. Having a female form could be useful."

"Useful how?" Adrian crossed his arms, immediately regretting the action as it made his chest situation even more obvious.

"Well..." Derflinger's tone became suggestive. "People tend to underestimate beautiful women. And you are quite the beauty now-"

"I need clothes." Adrian marched toward the platform edge. "These were made for a male body, and they're about to fall apart."

"I'm not complaining about the view!"

Adrian ignored the perverted sword and jumped down to the store below. The clothing section wasn't extensive, but anything would be better than what he currently wore. The shirt had ridden up to expose his stomach, and the buttons strained against his chest.

"You know," Derflinger called from above. "You'll need a new name for this form!"

Adrian paused while rifling through a rack of shirts. The sword had a point. He couldn't exactly introduce himself as Adrian while looking like this.

"How about... Ariana?" He suggested after a moment.

"Keeping it similar to Adrian. Smart!" Derflinger yelled back. "Now hurry up and find something that fits properly. Not that I mind the current outfit-"

"Just shut up already," Ariana grumbled as she picked out some black cargo pants and a plain dark purple t-shirt that actually fit her new body. She changed quickly, glad to be out of the too-tight clothes that had been practically bursting at the seams.

She looked up at the platform, ready to Void Step back up... and nothing happened. The required void energy wasn't there. She reached for it again, but found nothing to grasp.

"Great." Ariana transformed back into her true form, immediately feeling the network of void energy stored throughout her body. The microscopic chambers in her scales held a large portion, while her bone network and spinal spikes contained the rest. These structures didn't transfer to her human form at all - or rather, only the bone network carried over, but there was too little space in her human body compared to her true form, and thus the amount of void energy transferred was not enough to use Void Step when she already didn't have all that much in her true form.

But… she did notice something odd in her storage. Void energy was trickling in from out of nowhere, appearing in small amounts throughout her body. This wasn't from the Ender Dragon, that beast drew power directly from the End Dimension's Void.

Wait.

The Void Magic Fragment she had taken from Louise... it must be generating this energy. The specialized neural structures she had developed weren't producing it directly. No, this energy seemed to be generated within her soul, then distributed at least in part to her physical storage systems.

"At least I won't run dry," she muttered, shifting back to human form. "But I still want to find a shapeshifter somewhere."

"Still bothered by the gender swap?" Derflinger asked from above.

"Yes." Ariana stacked up by placing cobblestone blocks under her feet. "I got used to being male. And..." She hesitated before continuing. "I still find women attractive. Men do nothing for me."

"So you're a lesbian dragon now?"

"I'm serious!" Ariana pulled herself onto the platform. "Doesn't that mean I'm still male inside? I could probably force another large-scale evolution by consuming enough essence from some male creature, but..." She shook her head. "This Void Dragon form is too valuable to undo just because of one annoying side effect. Unless it was a very powerful male creature, it wouldn't be worth it."

"There are infinite worlds out there," Derflinger reminded her. "We'll find a shapeshifter eventually."

"I'll add it to the list," Ariana nodded. "Right besides finding a safe world for the IKEA people." She pulled out her Dragon Helm and focused on using paradox to convert it. The strain hit her, but nowhere near as badly as before. Her enhanced durability seemed to handle the process much better now.

"That wasn't so bad." She grabbed her Netherite armor pieces and converted them one by one. The process left her slightly winded, but nothing like the bleeding and tearing she used to experience. When she touched the complete set, the armor split apart and reconnected around her body, automatically adjusting to her new proportions.

"Ready to try a new world?" Derflinger asked as she picked him up.

"More than ready." Ariana's purple eyes began glowing bright blue. Reality twisted around them for five seconds before depositing them in a nighttime forest.

The sight took her breath away.

Bioluminescent plants surrounded them, pulsing with beautiful blue and purple light. She looked up through the canopy and froze. An enormous blue gas giant dominated the night sky, filling nearly a quarter of the visible space above.

"This is incredible," Ariana whispered as she walked through the glowing forest. Strange six-legged creatures scattered at her approach, and spiral-shaped plants retracted into the ground. The remnant memories from Adrian identified this place immediately as Pandora from the Avatar movie.

Ten minutes passed as she wandered around enjoying the sights of the alien ecosystem. Then she felt the first tickle in her throat. The air was becoming harder to breathe, and she knew why after thinking on it. The atmosphere here was toxic to humans, high in carbon dioxide and other compounds. She had thought her current adaptations would be enough, but it seemed they weren't able to handle this mixture of air.

"I need to find something to eat," she told Derflinger as another cough escaped her lips. "And fast."

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Notes:

Adrian being stuck as a woman in human form will be temporary for just this visit to Avatar, he'll find a solution in the next world through either a shapeshifter or a powerful male creature he'll consume.