Alternate Paths

While Mick is reeducated in the basement, Kris works out upstairs and grows ever more horny, with his staff ready to serve him. Two of his bois report on Mick's progress and worry about how he is adjusting. The next morning Kris wakes up among his harem, more virile and hungrier than before.

Mick is strapped into the Disciplinarium, a machine that quizzes reduced boys and answers every wrong reply with robotic spankings and electric shocks. He learns that he has been made a dependent ward of Kris Evans and legally renamed Micky Kriswald. Only the right answer to the first question will make the discipline stop.

With Bradley's help, Kris picks a staff of personal boi servants and meets them for the first time. Although he is increasingly horny, he decides to put off breaking them in for now. Then Master Connor, the superintendent of the school, arrives, and Kris asks about his boyfriend Mick.

Earlier that day, while Mick sits in his first classes, Kris is shown around the spa by a bellhop and then to his suite, where he meets Bradley, the overseer of his future staff. Left alone, Kris finds that the atmosphere of the spa makes it hard for him to settle.

Kris catches his boyfriend Mick in a compromising situation with another augmented man, and Mick learns why the spa's pheromones leave him so little control. Back in Kris's suite he meets the staff of servants his partner has taken on, and the senior one soon takes him off for a lesson in discipline.

Mick has just defied Hank, one of the spa's augmented men, and now discovers how deeply his treated body responds to an augmented male. Hank takes full advantage of the moment and points out how differently their two treatments have changed them, while Mick fights to keep his pride.

Mick is starting to find his feet at the spa and learns that two other boys in Degressol reduction therapy, Jonah and Topher, are a couple. In regulation string bikinis the three head for the pool, where Jonah and Topher hope to catch the eye of Hank, an augmented man, while Mick is far less impressed.

Kris and Mick arrive at the Transgenus Corporation spa for the last stage of their treatments. Mick is sent off in a uniform to a full timetable of classes with the other men in therapy, and he begins to doubt what the curriculum is really meant to teach him.

As Kris sleeps, Mick makes one last attempt to win back his old role, but Kris wakes up and turns the tables. By Day 20 the doctor's measurements show how far the two friends have grown apart, and the changes are just as strong in their minds.

Mick still hopes to hold on to his old strength, but Kris insists that he read the tutorial and accept what Degressol is doing to him. Two weeks into their diverging treatments, Mick starts to embrace his new role as Kris takes charge.