Hello! Satoru Taiyo here!
So in my original story "Welcome to a World called Earth", my Glaceon character was quite mixed in his views of being a Pokémon. Here, I'm more true to my character, I honestly would like being a Pokémon. Well.. I do enjoy PMD. Here is my own story, based on "30 Percent" by Jackboy0815. It's a great story, please give it a read. It's what gave me inspiration for this anyways.
Enjoy
"Speech"
"Thinking"
'Telepathy'
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Chapter I: The great cosmic screwup
Yamhill County, Oregon, April 22nd, 2021
1:22 AM Pacific Standard Time
I was playing Pokémon Silver on my GameBoy Color, sweeping everyone with my overleveled Eeveelutions. In the meantime, I had been binge watching DBZ with part of season two playing in the DVD player.
Goku had just arrived to save Gohan, Krillin, and Vegeta from the Ginyu Force. I loved this part, Goku was beating down on the villains.
I love this show, it's older than me, actually. Late '80s. I was born in 1999.
Eventually I set the game down, my eyelids getting too heavy to continue from the strain. With the press of the remote, my tv turned off.
7:58 AM
"Darn, I knew I should've gotten sleep earlier…"
I never knew this would be my last few minutes as a human.
I was so close to nodding off, as I only got 5 hours of sleep. All my outside work was done, I had several hours to sit back and relax. I sat on my couch, phone in hand.
Reddit, that app for reading and posting stuff, such as people requesting certain Pokémon fanfiction in R/Pokémon and R/Pokémonfanfiction.
"Not currently interested…".
I felt my stomach growl, that feeling of emptiness inside it, I was surely hungry. I got up and made a bowl of soup. Meh, canned chicken noodle soup.. it's ok, staple food. Don't know if it's healthier than top ramen or not.
8:09 AM
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Man... I'm so bored. I might as well sleep, I laid on the couch, phone on the low sitting coffee table next to it.
I thought about what I could do later. "Biking? Probably. Reading? Was previously doing that. I could try drawing…". it was getting harder to think, my mind was drifting off. I awaited the embrace of sleep.
8:14 AM
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"Ugh.. I don't feel so good..". I shot up, not feeling tired anymore. I felt like I was going to puke. I stood up, walking to the bathroom.
8:15 AM
I stood over the toilet, awaiting whatever would happen.
…
Aghh!!!
Everything in my body lit up like fireworks, a burning sensation pinged everywhere.
"What.. oh g…". I couldn't help myself, my body lost all control as I spammed on the bathroom floor.
"Am I having a stroke?.."
My eyes burned, blocking my vision.
I wished it would stop. I felt as my body.. changed. It was being compressed, I could barely breathe. My hands and feet lost about all sense of touch for the whole endeavor. I felt something growing and receding on my head, and it was freaky.
I whined, I wanted this to stop, I had to use all my power to attempt to stand. I almost did, when I felt my legs snap and I fell onto my hands. I could barely see anything, everything was so blurry. It felt weird when I fell onto them, I could almost feel a squishy sensation. I could barely feel it because of the pain anyways.
My breath felt hot on my tongue, but I didn't really care that much as I was in enough pain to not notice it that much.
"Nghhhh… ahhh!!! Pfff…". I screamed as something ripped out of my spine. I just gave up at this point, and let myself spasm on the floor.
Just like it came, it just disappeared. I felt sore all over. My eyes were stinging like I was underwater, so I laid there, in between the bathroom and hallway.
"Ahhh…". I seethed as I felt sore. I noticed that my vision had started to come back.
Then I noticed something, everything seemed larger, or.. I was smaller. I… felt somewhat cold inside. The noises of the fridge and pipes were easier to hear. Because of that, I could feel my ears doing something as the noises made them move towards it.
Looking down, I noticed a black nose and two red-orange dog forelegs. Wait… this is familiar. I remember reading fanfiction where people turn into Pokémon. This felt really familiar.
I decided to flex my fingers, and I watched as all 6 of the animal toes moved, I could feel them move. Those were my paws, I had paws. … "holy crap!".
Something happened to me, I kinda recognized the color, 3 toed paws, and this.. fluffy mane on my neck. Problem was that I was this creature, so I couldn't look at its face. I need to find a mirror. My body reminded me of a certain Pokémon, but am I one?
"I.. I'm an animal, possibly a Pokémon?". I tried to stand up, but was unsuccessful. Plus, I felt tired, and could barely hold myself up.
I belly crawled over into the kitchen, glad I live in a single story house, I wouldn't make it up any stairs right now. I probably should be freaking out about now, but if what I think happened actually happened.. maybe not?.
On the other side of the kitchen was the entrance to the other living room, it's where the main tv is, and a closet with a mirrored door. I was surprised by what I saw.
"Holy hell… I'm a Flareon!". I was correct, I had become a Pokémon, not to mention one of my favorites. I really like the Eeveelutions. At least I was this over something else.
I looked at my reflection in the mirror. Red-orange fur, check. Fluffy mane, check. Tail, check. "Ok?.. what now? How did this happen?". I said out loud. My fur was a slightly darker red over the orange that Flareon usually is, most older art shows red, most modern art shows orange. I guess I'm the older color.
Maybe this wasn't so bad? I mean, I'm a Flareon, which is awesome. It was pretty mean that turning into one hurt though...
I tried to walk again, I slowly stumbled as I tried to step forward. I really was sore, but I wanted to walk!. "Ok Aleksey… one foot at a time..".
I wobbled slowly on my legs over to the coffee table, and laid down. The hard floor felt quite uncomfortable. I decided to turn on the tv, and what I saw going across the screen was frightening. A loud buzzing noise, and a bar of text. It apparently had been cycling several times. My now better ears almost hurt from the noise. There was an automated voice speaking the text.
"AN UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENON IS IN PROGRESS. ALL CITIZENS ARE ADVISED TO REMAIN INDOORS. DO NOT USE THE TELEPHONE, THE TELEPHONE IS TO BE KEPT OPEN FOR EMERGENCY USE"
"H..holy crap!...". What the hell happened?!
"This is in effect for all counties in Oregon, Multnomah County, Clatsop County, Columbia County, Washington County, Tillamook County, Yamhill County, Clackamas County…"
It continued, naming all 36 counties in the state I lived in. I managed to press a button to change the channel, the bar was on every channel, then I found the new channel.
Breaking news from San Francisco, California. A helicopter was flying overhead, there was damage to some buildings. The clock on the new channel showed it was 8:51 AM.
"No.. Nono… oh my god..". I suddenly felt sick, this had happened all over.. this is terrible!
I felt like I could have possibly caused this..
Suddenly, I heard an announcement on my phone from the other living room. My head was almost spinning, I was fine this way, but.. not this.. not everyone!
I heated a loud ping, something startling coming from the other side of the house. The other living room!
I slowly walked over to the front living room. I was able to tap on my iPhone, which was good at least. There was a large message, which read:
"A NATIONAL EMERGENCY IS IN PROGRESS. A MASS TRANSFORMATION EVENT HAS OCCURRED. MANY ACROSS THE UNITED STATES HAVE BEEN CHANGED INTO CREATURES OF UNKNOWN SPECIES. DO NOT PANIC. REPEAT, DO NOT PANIC. ALL CITIZENS, REMAIN IN YOUR HOMES UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. MARTIAL LAW IS IN EFFECT, DO NOT INTERFERE WITH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN YOUR AREA"
"Oh my god..".
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What happened? Ok, I need to call mom. I looked in my contacts, which wasn't too hard. I'm glad I'm fast with my password, and at least my paw nails can interact with the screen.
Calling…
'You have reached the voicemail box of…'
"Aww crap!".
Mom wasn't answering.. I called my stepdad too with no answer. I then remembered the phone was backed up by emergencies too…
I had no choice but to wait here. Mom was taking my sister to school, before going to her job. She was the owner of a dog grooming salon.
I had an Australian cattle dog, named Justice. He was currently running around outside. I had no idea how he would react to seeing a red dog, fox whatever I am.. a Flareon. I should probably stay inside.
I looked at the news again, there were many car pileups in Portland, Salem, Silverton, Eugene, basically all across the Willamette River Valley.
"First a pandemic, now a mass transformation? Crap…"
I sat there on the couch, good thing I could push a step stool to get up there. As I looked on my phone, it seemed that the government was trying to downplay certain aspects of the transformations. That wasn't working very well.
After saying that the Southeast was quite affected, there was some footage from the city of Raleigh in North Carolina.
"Here we are over the city, as you can see, many of the transformed are in the streets". I saw a horrific sight, hundreds of Pokémon, mainly those from the Eevee line wandering the ruined city in a daze. A some buildings were damaged by larger Pokémon.
Some were not moving at all. Even the camerawoman gasped as she saw this.
They got closer and the details became clearer, some of the Pokémon were bloody, trampled over, mostly panicking and getting killed by vehicles. Fires were rampant. At this second, the camera turned around after there was an explosion, a gas station had erupted. No screams could be heard over the sound...
"Oh.. oh my god!". I decided I had enough and turned the TV off. I had to keep myself from upchucking my soup from earlier. My new body… was I even still digesting the canned food?
I felt tired from this, so I just laid there. I wanted to forget what just happened.
Then I realized, most of the Pokémon I saw on the news were Eeveelutions. Huh… did we become Eeveeland or something?
I didn't want to joke about this, even if I thought being my favorite Pokémon was cool, what was happening out there was a tragedy. I couldn't even contact any of my family. Can I even sleep, knowing my mother and young sister possibly being in conditions like in the news?.
"Ughh… this is good and bad at the same time…".
With nothing else I could do at the moment, I decided to fall asleep. I'll figure this out in a few hours…
-End Chapter-
Hey friendo, kolega, whatever… I may be Polish-American, But that doesn't mean I actually speak Polish, sorry if I butchered that(google translate), I have a Discord account, my account is listed in my bio.