The first thing which registered in Isaac's brain as the light smashed into him from behind was a blast of pure fear-driven adrenaline which had no way to expend itself. Why? Mainly because Isaac was suspended in midair, in a sort of diving forward motion, totally unmoving.

Isaac tried to speak, but he couldn't. He tried to move, but he couldn't. He tried to do anything other than think or try, but he couldn't. Then he realised something that he had missed earlier in his fear: he could see. His eyes wouldn't move in the least, but they were still sending images to his brain. Quickly, a second thing registered in his brain; everything was still the same. Everything. Not a thing had changed. It was almost as though someone had frozen all movement of that instant in order to preserve it for their own pleasure.

Well, if someone did, decided Isaac, they're an effing wanker.

Then, quite suddenly, everything around him was moving again. Not in the way it normally would or should, though. First a piece of universe here began pulling away from this piece here, and darkness filled the space. Then it sped up, with pieces of universe getting smaller and smaller in size flying everywhere. It was like some great beast had brutally torn the entire cosmos apart into tiny fragments, so that all that was left was darkness.

One of Isaac's greatest fears was the dark. His heart pounded loud enough that he could hear it in his ears. But then again, that wasn't saying much seeing as nothing else existed. Uh, great cosmic being out there? he asked hesitantly. I didn't mean what I said about you? Could you please, just, you know, put the world back together?

Almost on queue, Isaac felt himself fidget. Not much, really, but it was something seeing as a moment before he couldn't even blink. Then he fidgeted again. Finding that he could move again, he pulled up into a standing position. Then he fidgeted athird time. Then a fourth, and again, and again, continuing faster and faster until his entire body was being racked by unnatural spasms.

An itchy feeling passed through his entire body as he bent forward into the foetal position. It wasn't quite unpleasant, really, just strange. What he didn't see was the pastel shade of brown fur which was sprouting out of every pore, covering each and every bit of his skin with the short, soft hairs. Even his face and ears weren't spared as the fur passed relentlessly over him.

Isaac, still shuddering and spasming, not really knowing if he was above the ground, upon it or whether the ground even existed anymore, wrapped his arms around his knees. As he did so, both arms and legs got grinding sensations in them as they got smaller and slightly thinner. As he shrunk, his clothes reorganized themselves to fit his form. His heavy orange jacket thinned out into a comfortable orange vest, and his normal shirt turned into a too-big forest green long-sleeve shirt. His pants turned into large brown shorts which covered him until just below his knees.

His fingers, knitted togetherbefore his shins, slowly underwent a strange change, going from their normal human proportions to a shorter, thinner, and incredibly more dexterous and nimble form. As this happened, the knitted brown gloves he wore changed, losing the fingers after the knuckle in order to prevent them from hindering movement.

Then, much to his own surprise, Isaac was rocketed out of his foetal position so that his now much smaller chest puffed out and his back almost bent backwards a bit. His eyes flared with white light as a few final changes befell him in a few seconds. Despite the speed of these changes, they were the most dramatic by far. First, his ears grew so long that they were about three quarters as long as he was. At the same time, a spiky red orb grew from the top of his head and lifted away, remaining attached by a thin string-like piece of skin. His fedora, strangely enough, changed its shape to allow for both ears and spiky ball thingy as they grew in. Finally, a smallpairof dark orange batwings grew out from his shoulder blades. All this happened in a few short seconds.

Once this was complete, Isaac's eyes stopped glowing and he just hung in space for a moment. Then, he slowly turned his gaze down upon his new form. He reached up to scratch his head and found a large, rabbit-like ear in the way.

"Kupo," he muttered.

The moment he finished speaking that one word, the world decided to come back together around him. He looked around as whiteness and a light bluecascaded around into a mix of the two coloursto surround him, and varying shades of dark green carpeting down below him.

It took Isaac about point five seconds to realise where his new location was.

"Oh," Isaac said. "Darn it."

Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, the entire world started working the way it was supposed to. One of the things on the 'supposed to' list was gravity. Due to this gravity, Isaac, several hundred feet up from the ground, began falling at an alarming rate.