Swappers: The Hard Way

First there were the Shifters, now there are Swappers! More playing around with the idea of people with these amazing abilities being able to turn them for a profit. Hope you enjoyed it!

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Lucas was a Swapper. Which meant that he had the power to trade his consciousness with that of another, willing individual and thus take control over their body, while the person he swapped with would take over his. The science behind it? Well, it wasn't in the best interest of the very small global Swapper population, much like the Shifter population, to volunteer themselves for what was likely a one way ticket to slavery, doing the dirty work of the governments...or perhaps just straight into a dissection lab. So how it all worked was still a mystery but it didn't keep Swappers from living relatively normal lives. Lucas, for example, was a 'fitness' Swapper. He loved working out, either at a gym or outdoors, and he also loved helping the people who were trying to improve themselves but just didn't have the same level of commitment that Lucas had. So the attractive and extremely fit young man had taken to hanging out at gyms even when he wasn't working out, taking jobs as a personal trainer and getting to know people on a more personal level. And if his normal training routines didn't work out and his client proved to him that they were trust-worthy...Well, Lucas would offer an 'alternative' solution to get them into shape. For a higher price, of course. The amount of risk the Swapper would be taking had to come with an equal regard, after all. Plus Lucas really, REALLY wanted to open his own gym. And that took a TON of money. Money that a basic data entry job couldn't provide. 

Enter Giselle. Giselle was one of those special cases. Lucas had been working with her for over a year and yet the woman had shown very little signs of self-improvement, despite her intense desire to lose the two hundred pounds from her obese body. She had a impulse problem and despite all of her hard work, dieting had proved ineffective and simply continued to pile on the pounds with junk food and fast food of all types. So thus the dark haired woman was perpetually fat and her mental state had simply grown worse over the last year with no true results. She was ready to give up entirely and just accept her flabby fate...But she was also a good person, save for the impulse eating and laziness when her Swapper trainer wasn't around. And over the past year Lucas truly felt like he could trust her to keep his secret.

"I'm done!" Giselle had wailed, tossing her jump rope to the floor of the gym. She waddled over to the bench and collapsed on it, taking a low drink of her water as tears welled in her eyes, "I'll NEVER be skinny! Just roll me to a pig farm!"

"Giselle, I keep telling you, it's all about the consistency outside the gym! You've got to stick to the food plan and work out at home!" Lucas said, trying to ease his client out of one of her typical drama-states.

"It's just that I feel so overwhelmed with all of it when you're not around! And then when I get overwhelmed I get stressed and then I eat and..." Giselle snorted back a sniffle, "Oh, I just wish you could be with me 24-7 so I didn't mess up all the time!"

"...What if I told you that I could? You're a good person, Giselle" Lucas said gently, You're not a gossip, you do the volunteer thing at the animal shelter AND the job at the sustainable housing place? No doubt about it, I can trust you with a very special and secret training workout. All you've got to do is take my hand and get back on the horse" Lucas put on his most winning smile and held his right hand out to to his distressed client.

Giselle looked skeptical, but Lucas had been nothing but a perfect gentlement, a enthusiastic trainer AND a good friend over the past year. In her mind it was probably just a corny attempt to play on her psyche (or maybe sell some disgusting energy drink powder), but with a roll of her eyes and an extension of her flabby arm, she reached out and took Lucas's hand in her own. The exchange was immediate. One moment Giselle was looking up at Lucas's handsome face, and the next moment she was...looking down at hers!? And what was the THING between her legs!?

"Oh MY GAWD!" She roared in a strange new voice...Lucas's voice! And her old body was heaving itself up from the bench with an amused look on her old face! What was going on!?

"Easy! It's all good! I'm Lucas, and I'm in your body, and you're Giselle in my body!" Her old body said as it grabbed Giselle firmly on the taut, masculine shoulders she now possessed, "I told you, you're a good person and I truly want to help you!"

"CHANGE ME BACK!" Giselle roared, and then in an instant, she was back in her body, looking up at Lucas's face as it shifted from the fear she had felt back into his typical calm. "H-how did you d-do that!?" She whispered, looking down at her engorged breasts and feeling her flab rolls and all the weight that came with them.

"Here, let's sit down and I'll explain everything, and how I can help you..." Lucas said with another winning smile. And the Swapper indeed told her everything, including his plan that, for double his current fee, that he would personally get Giselle's body into peak condition. All they had to do was live each other's lives for three months. Lucas would pose as Giselle, while she posed as him! When her body was in the condition that she wanted, all they had to do was swap back! It was the basic pitch that the body-swapping trainer gave all his special clients and it always worked out. The only catch was that HIS body needed to stay in shape as well!

In the end, after a couple more exploratory swaps, Giselle agreed. Her money was moved into a holding account and the two shook on the deal as Lucas initiated the swap once more. Being a woman wasn't...new to the Swapper, but it was still a novel experience each time it happened. And especially for one THIS obese! Giselle's hulking breasts and lava-lamp adipose tissue meant that he had to work extra, extra hard! But as the days turned into weeks, noticeable improvements were happening! Each weigh in, her body was lighter and lighter! The cravings that came with it were hard to ignore, but Lucas's mind was disciplined and he never gave in to breaking the intense and regimented diet he'd designed for Giselle. By the time the end of the contract had rolled around, Lucas was fending off gym-bros, co-workers and random men on the street! And Giselle's body was fit and healthy (not to mention stunningly beautiful). The time had come to change back and collect his money. But as the new Giselle opened the door to her former apartment, her mouth dropped in shock and dismay! There, beached upon the couch was Lucas's body...but it was fat and flabby! And the apartment was a mess!

"GISELLE! WHAT HAPPENED!?" Lucas screamed, staring at years of hard work wasted as his abs were now just a puffy gut, and his arms soft noodles. Was that...a double chin starting!? What had this woman done to him!?

"OH! Uh...hi! Well, uh, like I said, you sort of need to be with me 24/7 so..." Giselle said sheepishly from Lucas's wilted former temple, "Um, I, uh, you, I mean...well looksl ike you did a great job! Let's switch back!" Giselle held out a male hand for Lucas to shake, but the Swapper simply glowered at it.

"Oh no, mister! You knew you had to keep my body in shape! So get up! You wanna switch back, we're gonna burn ALL of that weight you put on me!" Lucas hissed, switching into 'mean' mode as he forced his old body out the door and out to the gym as it moaned all the while.

In the end, Lucas made far more money than he expected...And Giselle, well Giselle still had to get in shape. The hard way!