Everything is according to protocol (Patreon)

Charles stood on the bustling street, dressed in an elegant, form-fitting dress that he hated more than anything else in the world. His long hair flowed down his slim, feminine shoulders, and he clutched a stylish designer handbag tightly in one perfectly manicured hand. He seethed with anger as he stared at his reflection in the storefront window across the street from where he stood in high heels. Everything seemed completely wrong and alien.

"Zis ees not what I signed up for when I agreed to la protection des témoins!" Charles shouted into the phone as his eyes locked angrily onto the reflection of his chest. "I av signed up to be safe, not to be stupide like Stephanie Dupont and live as a wife!"

Federal agent chuckled in the phone, amused by the woman's accent and frustration and attempting to appear professional. "I understand that your new lifestyle is a little different, Stephanie. You need to adapt."

"Non! Mon nom est Charles! Non!" Charles screamed, frustrated by the agent's misnaming him. "Ugh! You don't comprendre. 'Ard talk English parce que votre stupide programme change même la langue! Oui?" He tried to sound angry but instead came across as helpless and frustrated.

"French is a beautiful language, Stephanie, but so is English, ma chére. And I don't understand everything you just said, so please calm down. I'm already looking into your case file." The agent paused to read the information from the paper file folder with inscription 'Victoria Dransko'.

Charles seethed in the phone, taking a deep breath to calm down and collecting his thoughts, though the high-heeled shoes made him stumble slightly. "Qu'y a-t-il là? Pourquoi si longtemps?!"

"Well, it looks like everything is correct, Stephanie. As I understand, 3 weeks ago you went through extensive and highly effective psychological reprogramming while your body was changed physically through extensive biophysic treatments... By the way, as I see, now you can also have children! Aren't you excited by this? I read that before you joined the program, you couldn't reproduce! Isn't this good for you?"

"Je suis un homme! Je suis un homme! You stupide...! UGH!"

"Oh, Stephanie! Please stop yelling to-"

"STOP CALLING MEA Stephanie!"

"Okay okay, sorry... I mean, Victoria. Don't call us anymore, please. Everything is according to protocol, and if there's a problem we are informed. This number will stop working after we hang up. Have nice life." With that, the federal agent hung up without even waiting to hear Charles' response.

"Qui diable est Victoria?!" Charles screamed helplessly into the phone in bewilderment. In front of his very eyes, the phone turned off, completely shutting itself down and ceasing to exist. He stared at it angrily.

In agency records, he was the criminal known as Charles Blanchi, who worked in arms dealing with several known mafia organizations. Charles help a very important role in the underground special operation program designed by the Federal Agents, who promised him protection in exchange for information he could provide on certain organizations in which he was working in.

And when the operation was over Charles was supposed to be a free man again with new documents, new ID and even new body with new DNA, so nobody would ever be able to find his trail! But when he had woken up after his transformation procedure, he found himself in woman's body. They said this is temporarily procedure until they'd prepare all documents for his new identity. But three weeks passed, and nothing happened! And now agent had call him a Victoria, who was supposed to be Stephanie, but thanks to the mistake during transformation she ended up in man's body intended for Charles. And agents, who were responsible for transformation, decided to keep their mistake a secret instead of reporting it and correcting mistake.