Free Teddybears
by Relee the Squirrel
November 2nd, 2011

"Are you sure this is where we go to get our free teddybears, Sammy?" asked Relee, the short red squirrelfolk looking warily at the dilapidated, snow-covered warehouse in front of them.

"This is where the note said to go, see?" replied Sammy, the taller grey dogfolk pulling out a torn piece of paper and offering it to Relee. It said "Free Teddybears 166 Warehouse Rd" in black magic marker.

Relee squinted up at Sammy and said, "You know, I'm pretty sure that's fake. I mean, it's just a scrap of paper somebody wrote on. I thought you'd at least have a panphlet."

Sammy's expression turned up all of a sudden and he pointed at a door on the side of the warehouse and said, "No way! Look there, Free Teddybears!"

Relee turned his head and the words "Free Teddybears" was written with spraypaint next to a door, with an arrow pointing at it. The window on the door had been broken to reach the lock, so clearly the building had been broken into at least once and nobody had replaced the glass since then.

Relee was about to raise a protest when he saw Sammy was heading straight to the door. "Wait Sammy I'm not sure it's safe!" he said, his booted feet crunching in the early winter's snow.

Sammy tugged open the door, which was loose on its hinges, and said, "Come on, Relee, I want a free teddybear!" before going inside.

Relee shivered in the cold, and hurried in after him. Someone had to take care of that dumb dog after all.

The warehouse had a small foyer room that had been ransacked and graphitti-tagged in a few places, and another door inside leading to the main room. Sammy was already going into the inner area and Relee quickly followed. The large storage area was mostly empty, except for a ring of shipping containers stacked two high in the centre of the room. Old liquid drums were stacked in the corners of the ring except for one spot, which had a few small metal boxes stacked up. There was a spray-painted sign that said "Free Teddybears" and pointed under the boxes; Sammy and Relee would have to crawl to get in there.

Sammy of course was already on hands and knees while Relee stared in shock. "Sammy you're not seriously going in there are you?" asked Relee.

Sammy's canine tail wagged happily as he went through the boxes and disappeared in the dark. All alone in the intimidating open space of the warehouse, Relee darted over and crawled in after him. "You're gonna get us both killed, Sammy!" he muttered.

Sammy and Relee didn't notice that unlike the concrete all around the ring, the floor here was metal. What they did notice was that the floor suddenly shifted and slanted, becoming a slide that swept them both down, down, down into the darkness. Sammy shouted "Wheeeee!" while Relee gave a scream of fright!

THUMP! THUMP!

Sammy and Relee landed on a soft, padded platform. The two of them were collapsed in a heap. Dim lights came to life around them and they discovered that they were in a strange metal box. The floor was padded with a black rubber material, but the four walls and ceiling were made up of hinged metal bits. The light was coming from the thin spaces between the metal bits.

Relee rubbed his bum as he sat up on his knees. "Owww... where are we Sammy?" he asked.

Sammy rubbed his nose, that got bumped on the slide. "I'm not sure Relee, do you think this is where we get our Teddybears?"

Suddenly one of the hinged bits in the wall moved, sliding out. It had a wide black rectangular bit on the end, and it moved so as to display it to the pair. Suddenly it lit up with a perculiar stylized pink face, done all in ascii-art.

"Well well, I wasn't sure anyone would fall for my trap. You two must be very SPECIAL." said a strange, synthesized voice.

Relee fell back off his knees and onto his sore bum. "What the heck? Is this some kind of a stunt?" he declared.

Sammy leaned forwards on hands and knees, mystified by the pink face. "Is this where we get our Teddybears?" he asked.

The face on the screen smiled and said, "Well aren't you two a pair of little chatterboxes! Well, I'll soon fix that. You can call me Mistress Computer, for as long as you can talk."

Suddenly the whole room seemed to come alive. The walls and ceiling were all made of little robot arms that started wiggling and swaying. There was nothing Relee or Sammy could do as they were grabbed and held, then quickly stripped of their winter clothes.

Tiny arms slid down to wrap around their shoulders, knees, hips and wrists, hanging them from the ceiling. The other arms on the ceiling formed a sort of person-shaped box around them, making it so that they couldn't move, while their front-sides were completely exposed. The floor slid away, revealing more and more little arms down there.

Relee and Sammy yelped and whimpered at the rough treatment, unable to find any purchase to move or do anything, but finally the motion seemed to stop for the moment, though there was a loud mechanical sound in the background.

The digital face on the little screen was looking up at them both from below, and Relee finally caught his breath enough to say "What in the world are you doing to us?" Sammy just whimpered again.

Mistress Computer laughed a synthesized laugh and said, "Why, I'm going to make you two into teddybears! Doesn't that sound fun?"

Relee gulped and said, "What? Um, do you mean you're going to kill us and stuff us like toys?"

Mistress Computer's glowing face pouted and said, "Oh goodness no, I wouldn't kill you! You'll be quite alive. Now, hold still while I make you two a little more PG. Nobody wants a teddybear with bits like that, no no no!"

Mistress Computer's face-screen slid away into the wall, and the floor began to raise towards the two boys, or perhaps the ceiling moved down. It was hard to tell. Buzzing saws slid out on the arms from the floor as the pair drew close, and glowing red triangles. They cringed and whimpered, terrified, and suddenly they both felt something pierce their skin from behind, and everything went numb. There was a wet noise and then a loud hissing, and their genitals were completely gone.

The two were completely entombed in mechanical arms, and completely numb. With their eyes shut, it was like they didn't even exist. But suddenly their eyes were forced open by little mechanical hands, to make sure they could see. They were rising again, or the floor was moving away at any rate, and a mirror slid out to show them that they had no genitals; just empty patches of seared skin on their crotches.

With their bodies numbed they couldn't speak, only listen. The voice of Mistress Computer came from speakers in the robot arms on either side of their head, and she said "Isn't that much better? Now you're not even boys anymore! Next step in our process, I'm going to remove your skeletons. Doesn't that sound like fun?"

The pair were lowered by the arms into the center of the room, and all around them little arms came to life. They didn't feel the incisions, and barely felt the sensation of having their bones slowly passed out their bodies, one after another. Even their skulls were removed, ever so carefully to make sure the brains remained intact. The process took a long time to complete, but Relee and Sammy didn't know. It could have been a minute or a year, to them.

The voice spoke again, saying "There we go. You scarcely have any bones left, now. Just the ones in your ears so that you can hear this. I'm quite enjoying this! I hope you two are as well. I'm going to insert your new cyberskeletons now. Then you'll be almost done!"

Relee and Sammy knew something was going on, though they were still mostly numb. They felt their bodies stretching in some places, compacting in others. Their skin wrapped tightly around a mechanical framework, padded with stuffing. The mirrors were still there, and they could see their new shapes. They looked like identical teddybears, at least in shape. Their colours were all wrong of course.

Metal arms started fidgeting with their hands, feet, and faces. The teddybear shapes didn't have any fingers and toes, so they had to be tightened around the big mitts. Plastic heart-shaped noses were pressed into place on their faces, and their mouths stitched shut into smiles. Their eyes were modified as well, stretched out twice as big as before, cybernetically modified and coloured a perfect white with a little black cartoon iris.

Mistress Computer piped up after their faces were done and said, "It's time for colouring! Isn't this exciting?"

The pair were slowly lowered and the room filled up with a pink liquid as the whole cage assembly was dipped into a vat of dye, over and over again, followed by a few other vats of chemicals to make their fur a perfect, plastic pink.

Finally they were raised through the ceiling of the cage by the little arms and deposited on its surface, surrounded by shiny pink padded floors and walls. Enormous pink bows were stitched into place on the back of their heads, and the floor slid shut, leaving the cage of robot arms in their memories and fears.

A monitor hanging in the corner lit up with Mistress Computer's face as the two bears tipped over and fell limp on the floor. "You two are all done now! Aren't you cute! You two are on your way to your new home, but it'll take a while for the sedative to wear off. Take your time to get used to your new selves!"

The monitor turned off, and Relee and Sammy were alone.

They laid there for what seemed like hours. They may have slept some as well. Gradually they started moving, crawling, and ultimately standing. Their bodies responded a little differently, but they moved under their own power. They were weak and soft at their best, but they were mobile.

Finally Relee looked at Sammy and tried to speak, though his mouth was stitched shut. Suddenly he said, "Please play with me!" in a high-pitched, girly voice. His eyes went wide in surprise, he hadn't intended to say that. "I wuv you!" he said. It seemed like when he tried to speak, a voice box in his throat would say something instead.

Sammy looked up at Relee and said, "I'm your teddy bear!" then covered his mouth with his chubby paws.

Relee and Sammy looked at eachother, then hugged eachother softly. Whatever was happening, they were in it together.

Strangely they found that they were incredibly turned on by one-anothers touch. They began squeezing and cuddling with eachother, rubbing their flat crotches together, but nothing they could do would sate their hormonal needs.

They cuddled together for who knows how long, untill finally the monitor lit up again. They both sat up and said, "I wuv you!" in unison, since they had so many questions and couldn't resist trying to speak. Mistress Computer said, "I wuv you too girls! Hee hee, you're so cute. You've arrived at your new home, the Cuddle Club. It's exactly what it says on the tin! You two will be fed and taken care of, and you're free to do anything you like in the club, but you're not allowed to leave. If you try to go out the door, you'll get a nasty shock and your bodies will go limp, so don't try it!"

Two of the padded panels making up the wall next to the monitor slid away, revealing a rosy light from outside. "Have fun, girls!" said the voice, and the back wall started closing in on the pair. Sammy and Relee hadn't intended to stick around anyways, so they didn't need forcing, but they didn't have a choice either. They walked down the short hall together and into the pulsating lights of the Cuddle Club.

It was a strange sort of place. Everything was padded with softly glowing red and pink rubber, save for a few plush couches that were covered in pink fur. A dozen other teddybears that looked just like them were either lounging around the club or cuddling with half-naked or naked folk, with suits and ties discarded on the floor.

Seeing the new pair emerge, a grey wolffolk wearing an unbuttoned dress-shirt and nothing else waved at them and patted the padded chaise lounge he was sprawled out across. Relee and Sammy looked at eachother, then nodded and walked over to the lounge, climbing up.

They cuddled with that wolf for hours, squeezing and being squeezed, and futilly rubbing their empty crotches on him untill he was exhausted and fell asleep. A much larger bear came from a side room and picked the slumbering wolf up and carried him out, while two other bears the same size as Relee and Sammy tidied up his clothes and took them after him.

Relee and Sammy relaxed on the lounge, they were rather exhausted themselves. Burnt out from being overfed hormones. The world blurred and they went to sleep. They finally arrived, Free Teddybears.