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Metamorphosis
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Brock and Misty decide to head for the hospital café for a little bit for lunch being offered to them. Soon they've encountered May and Max, who both happened to both heading in the same café as Brock and Misty were coming into.
Max asks, "Misty? What are you doing here?" Brock followed, "What is Misty doing here? What's May doing here?" Misty stammered, "I thought Max——" May couldn't speak due to the sudden surprise at the moment.
"Great. Maybe you could join us." May said, with a quick yet joyful smile, finally.
What none of these four don't know is that Jessie, James, and Meowth set them up to try to settle their problems peacefully with lunch.
5 minutes later during their lunch, the four of them are laughing away while talking about the good old times they had together. Apparently, the trio's plan is working; they did this out of sympathy.
Brock started feeling something wrong with him, Max asks, "Are you okay, big guy?" Brock waves his hand at the younger man to calm him down, "This shrimp must be bad somehow. I'll be alright." Everyone watched Brock as he walked off.
Brock didn't want to tell them that his guts were making a mysterious gurgling sound that isn't like hunger or normal nausea and felt like they were all expanding to a point of internal organ explosion because if they'd worry about him… they'd be upset if he was going to die from it.
Meanwhile, the trio felt offended by Brock's words as they continued cooking. Misty and May decided to talk.
Misty said, "Are you happy with Ash?" "I haven't been with Ash for 3 years," May replied "I can't help it ever since those first days since he came to Hoenn and into my life. First, on the day got my Torchic as my first Pokémon, his Pikachu barbecued my bike then when I was about to beat him to a pulp next morning, just before my Pokémon journey started, I saw a different light around him. Sure there were also times we get into fights, then we make it up between us later on… but the most memorable parts of our relationship was when I've lost my disliking for Pokémon, when I've started loving them as much as I loved to travel, and when we first kissed."
Misty sighs, "He's two years younger than me and three years older than you, yet you got feelings for him faster than I did. When I first met him was the very first day he went his Pokémon journey; I was fishing, then when I thought I've caught a fish, I've caught him and Pikachu instead. I've slapped him across the face that day when he thought I was asking him if he was okay, I was asking his Pikachu if he was okay. During that awful night of the same day, there was a terrible storm, and when Spearow attacked him, his Pikachu let out a powerful Thunder Shock attack and it defeated all the Spearow but virtually destroyed my own bike in the process. The next day, I went to search for him and kick his butt until he promises to buy me a new one. Then I've learned that he's such a gentle soul as he is tough. On the next day of his journey, we've encountered a Caterpie, I've told him that I had a disliking for carrots and peppers but also I'm scared to death about bugs. Soon I've grown on him, liking him slowly. But I never had the strength to actually admit my feelings like that."
May sighs, "You're slow as a turtle, Misty." Misty scoffs, "And you're such a slut." May looked ready to choke Misty, when Misty spoke up some more, "I mean, I haven't even begun to develop breasts until I was 12, while you were beginning to blossom at a young age of 10. You were already large before the space mission and now here you are, with a bigger bosom than before. I wonder how Ash would feel if I had a big chest too…"
May felt inferior to Misty at that comment, she was unaware that she began to disappear like she was fading out of existence, except for her hospital patient clothes as if they were just floating there. At the same time, Misty while wishing for a bigger bosom than May got what she thoughtfully wished for in 3 seconds flat. Only Max and the trio (disguised as waiters/cooks in the hospital) are aware of the sudden changes on May and Misty!
As May's clothes motioned in a way of starting at Misty, she gave off an invisible "Ack!" Misty looked back at May and froze in surprise.
May's voice was heard as she asks Misty, "Why are you looking at me like that?" Misty, still looking spooked, says, "I'm not." May's voice sounded a bit confused, "What do you mean 'you're not'? Look at me and answer me first!" Misty looked like she's starting to continue to freeze in terror, "I can't."
May became furious, "What the heck do you mean 'you can't'? Look at me and answer my questions, you water balloon chested water dancer!" Misty growled, "What do you mean 'water balloon chested', Ms. Invisible?"
Realizing what the other said, both of them looked at their own bodies; Misty felt her breasts and squeezed them a bit… "They're real… and feel like… large and ultra-comfy water beds… and I can lift it like it were my regular chest." And May noticed that her hospital number band was still on her wrist and her hospital gown is still on her but none of her body was there in her point of view, "My body's gone, but my gown's still here! I've gone invisible!"
Ash showed up, "Guys! Something weird just happened——" A blast of a pale and transparent gold-colored energy shout from May's body towards Ash, sending him crashing into another café table! Before a cake on a plate that was on the very table could go splat on his face, Misty luckily caught the dessert with one hand without a single mistake. The thing was that Misty was still sitting in the chair across from May at their table on their side of the café, with her arm stretched out longer than physically possible! She brought her arm, with the cake in hand, back to normal length.
She placed the cake on the table as May came out of her invisible state. The two girls looked at each other, Misty asked May "When did you turn invisible?" and over Misty, May asked, "When did your boobs inflate quickly?" in unison they answered "Just when I looked away from you."
Max said to them, "Both those symptoms happened at the same time. What were you two thinking when that happened to you girls?" May said, "I felt so incompetent to Misty's new chest that I felt like I was going to…" then she realized "disappear." Misty said, "And in my head…" she realized "…I've wished for a bigger chest."
Then they looked to Ash and asked in unison, "Did anything happen to you, Ash?" Ash shook his head, "Well nothing like you guys." Misty concentrated on shrinking her chest back to normal size, it worked in a matter of seconds, "Wow… it works."
A lot of female voices called out from outside the hospital café, "Call me, Gary!" Gary came into the café, with just a towel wrapped around his waist since all of his clothes were burnt off earlier. He said to Misty and May, "Hey, everyone! You are not gonna believe what just happened to me!"
Misty and May blushed a bright red like a tomato at the sight of a half-naked Gary before them! Gary looks confused, "What?" Jessie was the first to answer, "Wow, you've been working out." Gary looked down at the towel he's wearing, "Oh. Well, I can explain this."
Then everybody remembered—— "Brock!" If the cloud affected Gary, Misty, and May like this, then it must've affected Brock as well!
As Ash was about to walk out of the café first, he felt like his feet were stepping on something that resembled slime… he looked down and found a peach skin toned blob spilled out on the floor, but there was a tinge of blue like James' hair! Ash jumped, he asks, "Are you okay, James?"
James' head bolded out from the ooze and said, "To be honest, kiddo… I didn't feel a thing." Jessie slapped both her cheeks as she screamed in immediate fright! "Hmm? Did you say 'hmm?" Max asked as Jessie stopped screaming, her body has turned into a human glow stick (colored pink) as the lights turned off by Ash's hand as he jumped off of James.
James literally pulled himself together as Jessie looked at her glowing body in surprise. Ash was surprised, "Nothing like this stuff's happened to me so far. In fact, nothing's happened to me."
Then they all heard a very loud scream of pain that echoed through Pr. Maple's medical facility. Ash and his friends recognized that scream, "Brock!"
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In a shadowed location, Giovanni felt his hair… he said, "That's odd… I could've sworn I've had it cut this afternoon… now it's grown even longer."
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Brock vomits into the toilet in the bathroom in his room in the hospital, but the color from it wasn't from his dinner… it looks more like mud. He breathed heavily, feeling a sense of worry that he's petrifying like a fossil from the inside and moving out.
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Everyone told Pr. Oak and the others about the situation while heading for Brock's room——
Ash said, "It's got to be the cloud; it's fundamentally altered the DNA patterns of Misty, May, Brock, Gary, Jessie, and James." Pr. Oak said, "Let's not jump to conclusions." Misty agrees, "Yeah! But why leave yourself out, Ash Ketchum?" Ash answers, "The individual interior shield pod I was in must've given me the maximum protection." Pr. Maple says to everyone, "We need a massive amount of evidence before making that leap. So don't assume anything just yet."
"Whoa! Hey, guys! Look! Check this out!" called Gary. Everyone all stopped and looked at him; Gary snapped his fingers and a small fireball appeared above them, then he clicked them again and it disappeared. Gary repeated this several times, and he and May were getting more and more excited and amazed about this. He said, "Now picture that, but everywhere! It… it was… everywhere! Allover! What?"
Jessie place her hand in a shadowed area in the hall near them and it glowed pink again. "That happens to me… but only I'm… a pink-colored fluorescent human… allover. And James is capable of becoming an ugly blob that feels no pain. Do we all agree that it's disgusting?"
Misty turned red with embarrassment, but showed off what happened to her to Pr. Oak… who got a massive nosebleed before falling backwards! In a daze, he submitted in defeat, "We stand corrected; the cloud has fundamentally altered the DNA of everybody on the station excluding Ash and the lucky ones who escaped."
May and Gary cheered "Yay!", Max cackled in excitement, "Cool!" Ash said to Gary, "It could've been my imagination, Gary; but I think you were flying back there." Misty asks him, "What about Brock?"
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Back in Brock's room… he was grunting, growling, groaning, and moaning as his pain continued. The monitors beside him showed his vital functions are reaching elevated levels; much more than a normal human should handle! He slid under his covers as the pain got worse! His weight and muscle mass went off the scale! Brock let out an inhuman roar that shakes up the hospital!
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That roar reached his friends. Ash said, "I don't like the sound of Brock's voice from there." Misty held onto a pole on the wall next to her, "I didn't like the sensation of that." They've reached Brock's door… but it was locked from the other side!
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The monitors flashed out 'ERROR' in big bold red letters; signaling that Brock could be in big trouble! The bed shattered beneath Brock under his new weight!
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"Ass: 1, bed: nothing!" joked Gary, hoping to lighten the mood. It didn't work!
Ash said, "Try breaking the glass, it can't be that hard and thick!" Pr. Maple said, "Unfortunately, it can. I've been assured on that for imprisoned patients. But don't be afraid, no one's a prisoner here!"
Nobody has any keys to the door, even though there's a keypad on the side… Misty had no other choice; she knelt down and placed the back of her hand on the floor with it just touching the bottom of the door. It then flattened as it moved under the small gap under the door. Her hand then came out the other side and regained its normal shape as her arm was still flattened under the door.
The others were shocked at what she was doing.
Misty then stretched her arm up on the other side of the door, while she looked though the window to see what she was doing. Her hand then reached the lock on the door and she unlocked it. She then brought her arm back though the door, once it was back on her side of the door it immediately regained its normal shape.
She stood up and turned to the others.
"That's gross!" said Gary after the few seconds of silence.
Suddenly, a huge and very loud explosion of thuds and crashes was heard coming from Brock's room! Ash was the first to open the unlocked door and go in…
The place is a disaster area; bed in pieces, a massive hole in the wall, and Brock's clothes in shreds!
Gary noticed something… he saw out the hole and saw a massive figure running away from the building, through the woods, and towards the city… he asks, "What is that thing?" Ash said, "It's Brock." Everyone looked at him, he explained, he was outside of the station but the airlock wasn't closed yet, so he got full exposure to the cloud."
May asks, "Where on our world are we? Then we could figure out where our big friend's going!" Pr. Maple answered, "We're in the region of Neos; that city Brock's heading towards is Metru City."
(A.N: Neos is a fictional country in the Pokémon world that I made up. I know it may sound stupid, but bare with me, okay.)
Everyone grew worried… Ash said, "We're going after him!"
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In Metru City's southwestern end… which is full of railroad tracks and so on. A massive figure ran out of a railroad package car and into the city.
Once there, the big thing raided a store with 'Men's Clothing; Big & Tall (selections available)' for clothes for its size. It said in a gruff and rocky voice, "I can't believe I've been reduced to doing what Team Rocket would do." It placed a check signed for the repairs and goods taken on the counter, then ran away. The goods it took were a very large jacket, a pair of pants, a porkpie hat, a belt, and some underwear; all perfect for his size.
At a phone booth, as the humanoid creature tried to make a phone call… his rocky green fingers proved to be much too big for the little buttons. "Oh… you've gotta be kiddin' me!" His hands are each large enough to be twice the size of a normal adult hand. But each hand has three thick fingers, each one much too thick to be human.
But he tried dialing a number anyway, because of their size he couldn't dial a number without having his fingers overlap the other buttons. He growled out in frustration, "Little buttons!" then he clicked the receiver's holding switch, "Hello, operator?"
Later on… the creature called up Brock's family back in Kanto, Jiroo answered first, "Hello, this is the Harrison residence. How may I help you?" The creature answered, "Jiroo, nice to hear from you." Jiroo recognizes the voice, "Brock? Is that you back on Earth? You sound a little different." The creature, which is really Brock, chuckles nervously, "Just tell everyone that they may never see me again. Goodbye."
Jiroo wanted to talk to his big brother some more, "Brock, wait——" but it was too late, Brock hanged up. Brock took off the hat, revealing his new head to the first dawn's light…
He has mutated into this muscular, green rock-like giant. He is twice his normal self's size and very rocky than he was before. His ears have disappeared into the rocky green hide and his fingers have minimized to three main fingers and one thumb on each hand while both of his feet are with three toes instead of five. But he still has facial features like his eyes, nose, and mouth. Even his hair was the same shape as before, except it turned into a green crystal-like form as his skin turned into a rocky green skin. What is he to do?