- Moomoo Farm -

Luckily Kyle and Sui were the only humans Alexa ended up turning into pokemon by the time they found the first sign of the expanded group's next destination. With Kyle still working with Alexa's team on the new moves as a Mephagic with a good degree of success, and Sui having mostly moved towards the back of the group where the new Vipercury was in deep discussion with wild pokemon about the merits of having more pokemon on a team. Which mostly seemed to be wild pokemon trying to get onto a team with a strong looking Starter like Milotic.

That said, Alexa didn't expect a Miltank with a translator to be standing guard at the edge of the good sized expanse of farmland. "Oh, there are a lot of you," the Miltank said as the group approached, and Alexa was not sure about the way the pokemon said that. "We currently have a major problem with the Moomoo Milk, and unfortunately we are not able to provide normal operations." This was not how pokemon normally spoke. "I'm... I'm sorry, but we are probably going to just have you move along for now."

"You were human," Charizard said bluntly. "Something is turning humans into Miltank?"

"The milk is turning anyone, human or pokemon, that drinks it into Miltank," the cow pokemon clarified with a wince. "We know it wasn't all of the milk, but everything we could sell after about half a week ago has been doing it, and we don't know how long it lasts." There seemed to be a bit of desperation that it must be a matter of 'how long'.

"You mean Miltank and Tauros, right?" Kyle asked with an uncomfortable look on his froggy face.

"No, it is just turning pokemon and humans into Miltank, and only Miltank," the Miltank sadly clarified. "We've managed to collect everyone who got some before we learned what happened, and everyone who was changed is safe, but we have no idea how to fix this."

"Suicune is with us," Kyle said with worry. "Maybe she could-"

"I'll take a look at it," Alexa decided to cut him off. "I have some experience with transformative effects," she understated to the nervous amusement of the group she had arrived with. "Alexa Larch, my dad is Professor Larch."

"Mary, and yes I do know 'Mary Miltank' sounds funny, but it really isn't right now," the now named transformed human complained. "I suppose it wouldn't hurt to see if you could help. Um, is your father also a lava lobster?"

"I am a shapeshifter of sorts," Alexa admitted at the reminder of her current species. "Originally human, but with a few forms now. It makes trainer cards a bit tricky, I've got a small stack at this point," she tried to joke to lighten the mood.

"This might be close to a type change," Charizard pointed out thoughtfully when that didn't work. "If it is a pure Normal type shift we might actually be able to do something."

"Worst case we just need to break a change on someone else," Alexa agreed with a very uneasy thought. "But we might need to get changed ourselves to figure that out." Her Starter looked nervous about the prospect of being a typically female only species.

"I'll try too if you can turn yourself back, but I don't want to be stuck as a Miltank for a while," Charizard sighed, but Alexa gave him a wobble to say no to the offer. "Maybe we should start by looking at the milk? We do have a Pokedex that is already setup to scan for that sort of thing."

It was a good reminder, and a massive relief for the farmworker turned Miltank when Alexa confirmed to Mary that they could in fact check the duration with their Pokedex. "We've been trying to find the nearest place that could spare something like that," Mary said gleefully as Alexa went over the results of some Toxin Contagion as an example. "This is really specialized, we thought we would need to wait for an artifact hunter, who wouldn't make it for at least another week. I wish we had heard about you earlier, we could have sent someone out to find you. We have a few solid battle Miltank that could have handled the trip."

Alexa took in the somewhat famous farm. It was a set of at least a dozen good sized buildings, far larger than she could recall from shows and games that featured the location, with quite a few pastures with pink and black Miltank crowded along the nearby fences. In the yard at the front of the farm itself was a larger crowd of more interesting looking Miltank, with the former humans apparently more typically colored, while the changed pokemon all seemed to have kept their normal color patterns no matter how strange that ended up.

"I don't see any humans," Alexa nervously noted. "Or any pokemon that aren't Miltank."

"Most of the trainers who didn't get transformed are in the inn we have for travelers." Mary pointed to one of the medium sized house-like buildings. "And we've been advised to keep the pokemon out of pokeballs to see if that speeds up the reversal," Mary explained. "We were just lucky that Sylph Co sent out all of these translators. We run a full Pokemart now due to how many people stop here, and just got a shipment when this happened. It is the only reason we're still able to talk easily."

"Found some more, Mary?" one Miltank that had started towards them immediately asked. "We had to stop Beth from trying to get into the treatment building again, so I hope you've explained the issue already."

"I've found some help, Mark," Mary said, and Alexa paused at the names both beginning with 'm'. "This is Alexa Larch, she has experience with transformations."

"Beth?" Charizard asked curiously.

"Our newest proper Miltank," Mark complained with a huff. "A couple of months back one of our other farmhands, Mitch, decided to quit, and for some reason he thought getting us another Miltank to take on is a way to make up for giving us one less worker."

"Beth is taking this whole mess the worst, and seems to want to help," Mary sighed. "I think it might be Betty and Betsy that are pushing her to do it to get her in trouble. They haven't been taking a new Miltank well this time."

"Are all the Miltank at the farm named something that starts with 'b'?" William asked with a raised eyebrow.

"It might be a theme," Mary nervously admitted. "Anyway, most of you should probably wait out here."

"Alexa," Suicune cut in from behind the Lobasalt. "I'm going to check out the fields, see if anything feels off." The Legendary Beast shifted back to pokemon form. "This could be big." The Legendary sounded worried.

William motioned to her as well. "I'll keep an eye on everyone out here, and keep our little group from drinking any before you have answers," he said. "I think some are curious about this stuff to the point they might try if they knew they could turn back."

Alexa nodded at both of them with a bob of her body, and then followed Mary as Mark clearly went to take over watching the road, with Charizard just behind her and her team ready in their pokeballs.

"So, we're keeping this quiet so far, but we have worked out where it is happening," Mary quietly said. "We have a treatment machine that makes the milk safer to drink, we can't sell any that hasn't gone through it, but right now the machine seems to be what is making the milk change people." The Miltank led them into a barn with a large collection of metal tanks and machinery that were all connected by twisting pipes. "We haven't had time yet to go over the whole thing, but right now we're worried it will all need to be replaced." Mary walked over to a valve next to some bottles. "Please don't drink this."

Alexa considered the Pokedex, then her current size as a Lobasalt, finally if she wanted to be a normal looking Miltank in the worst case or a funny colored one, and arrived at the conclusion that she wanted to be a Spectslurry for this. "Just a second," she said with a burst of Fire typed energy followed by quickly getting out a vial of Earthen Contagion. "Okay, let's see what we have."

Charizard looked amused, while Mary was clearly quite confused. "Well, I guess that proves you are used to shapeshifting," the Miltank slowly said and passed over a now filled bottle.

Alexa barely handled the container, setting it down and switching the Pokedex to the mode made for substances in glass containers. A needed one given how hazardous stuff like a Contagion or even more hazardous substances could be to handle. That immediately gave her surprisingly standard results for the sort of thing she typically used it on.

"Well, first off, the good news is that it does end on its own," she started, with Charizard leaning over to read the results as well. "The bad news is that this stuff lasts a full month."

"A month!" Mary the Miltank shouted before Alexa could continue. "We can't have all of these trainers stuck as Miltank for a whole month!"

"We have methods of reversing changes like these," Charizard tried to reassure the former human. "Alexa, that pattern over there looks familiar," he added and pointed at one of the sensor outputs.

"Oh, that might be a good sign," Alexa agreed as she went over the readings. "We might have some easy options if that works the same." Mary let out a sigh of relief. "It will need testing." Alexa frowned at another display. "I hate to ask, but can you get some milk that isn't contaminated? I want to see something, and it might be some more bad news."

Mary paused for a long moment, and then got a bucket and went to a small fridge. "Would some that is almost bad work?" the Miltank questioned, and got out another bottle. "Oh, maybe some that just is bad? We might need to check this fridge out too, it isn't keeping stuff fresh as long as it should."

Alexa considered for a moment. "As long as it is still milk it would work," she specified, and got a nod in response. She started by checking the safer bottle of milk, and found next to no readings for type changes. At most it would be an ingredient for another method of causing a change, which unfortunately was what she needed to test. "Okay, put some into that bucket," Alexa requested, and cringed at the slightly off smell. "I'm going to test it now." She tipped a splash of the contaminated milk into the bucket, and cringed harder as the smell immediately vanished. "I'm not sure I even need to scan it," she admitted, but did anyway.

"It turns other milk it touches into milk that transforms," Mary sighed, and Alexa was able to confirm with the scan results. "We're going to have to clean out the whole system." The Miltank groaned, then froze and looked horrified. "We're going to have to check the storage tanks. That could be a month's worth of milk."

"That might help work out what happened," Charizard pointed out carefully given how bad that sounded. "Do you know who was the first to get changed?"

"We do, there is this trio of birds who always hang around stealing stuff," Mary complained. "A Pidgey, a Spearow, and a Murkrow. They were the first ones this happened to, which was funny until it started happening to everyone else too. We put them in a small pen out back if you want to try and get a good answer out of them." The Miltank took a moment to consider something. "I have to get everyone around to get this cleaned out now. Will you be fine with that on your own?"

"We can handle that," Alexa agreed with one last look at the bucket of milk that was now just more of the problem. "This way?" she asked and pointed to the back door they didn't enter from, fairly sure from what had been outside that she could easily figure out the right Miltank.

Mary nodded and headed back the way they had originally came. Alexa led the way out, and immediately spotted the three Miltank they were after. The first was dark brown along their back, with a light tan belly, black splotches around their eyes, and pink hooves. The second was black backed, with red sides and forelegs, a tan belly, and pink hooves. The third was entirely black except for a yellow face and hooves.

"Moving wet dirt?" the former Pidgey questioned with concern.

"Hello," Alexa said in response, with a flick of her tail at the half insult. "We just have a few questions about how you ended up like that." The former birds looked between her and Charizard.

"We're trying to find out how everyone got transformed," Charizard said calmly. "If we learn that we might be able to change you back more quickly." Which wasn't entirely true, they probably had a fast method already, but it would at least mean they didn't need to worry about this happening again.

The three cow pokemon looked at each other cautiously. "Your fault," Spearow said to Murkrow. "You had us go to other building. If we drink normal milk we not get changed. See other birds safe."

"You lost my shiny in other building!" Murkrow complained. "If you not lose shiny, then we not drink from other building."

"I did not lose my shiny!" Spearow shouted with emphasis on 'my'. "Pidgey knocked it out of claws."

"It was my turn with shiny," Pidgey firmly stated and turned away. "You didn't give."

"It is my shiny, I got it first, you two both should not have had," Murkrow sneered at the two other former birds.

"Our shiny," Pidgey argued harshly. "Cat gave all of us shiny, not just Mur-cow." The former bird seemed very happy about that wordplay.

"Cat?" Alexa asked with a very worried thought about her luck. "What cat?"

"I believe it might be this cat," Suicune said, and the three former birds fell very silent. The Legendary Beast had a giggling Mew scruffed in her jaws. "I found her out in a field laughing about all of this."

"It worked better than I expected," the pink Legendary kitten with a very long tail laughed. "So many more cows to make more milk!"

"You did this to everyone, on purpose?" Alexa asked, a strange feeling coming over her. Like anger, but deeper in a way. "Without asking them or anything?" she questioned.

"Not everyone, I just gave the trinket to the birds. I thought it would just get them changed," Mew rather smugly said. "But more Miltank is better. More milk for everyone."

"Only if you want to be a Miltank too," Charizard said with an angry growl that felt like it was right, even though Alexa wasn't sure she had heard that sound from him before.

Suicune was looking at them surprisingly calmly as Mew... just dismissed their concerns with a huff. "I can change myself back, and it wears off," the cat said. "And it isn't that bad. Being a Miltank for a bit is a nice change of pace."

"Changing forms can be a nice change of pace when you are prepared for it," Alexa agreed without really agreeing. A strange feeling was in the air, but she could only barely place it and couldn't quite tell what it was. The three former Flying type Miltank had all clustered at the far end of the small pen they were stuck inside.

"But being in a form you don't want to be in is always a problem," Charizard pointed out for her, and Alexa found herself unsure if the rest of her team should be out for this, or spared this violation of their principals.

"It can't be that bad," Mew argued with the tone of someone who had never had a problem of the kind. "My mom made me spend entire days as the same thing."

Alexa floated closer, anger making her grab the Mew by the head to make the cat look her in the eye. "You don't change people without making sure they are okay with it," she said more strongly than she expected, watching as the Mew's body was converted into clay rapidly. "Why don't you see what it's like to spend a month as something you can't change!" she hissed and threw Mew onto the ground.

"Ugh, gooey," Mew complained from where the cat had splattered and Alexa somehow just knew that this Mew wasn't a fan of the kind of clay she had made the cat into. Mew quickly reshaped into a few different pokemon forms, each made of the same somewhat damp clay. "Wait, I'm not changing?" The cat looked over at her with worry and changed back into a Mew shape. "Mean!" the other Legendary declared and flew off quickly.

Alexa stared at where there had just been another Legendary pokemon for a moment, suddenly slightly confused about why she had actually done what she just did. She turned to Charizard, and found him looking a bit mystified as well. "I think I was about to do worse," he admitted to her.

"Honestly, you both handled that very well for your first time dealing with Legendary anger," Suicune said thoughtfully in response. "A measured reaction, and a consequence that fit the issue, in response to a violation of your own domain." The Legendary Beast moved in front of them. "I probably should wait for the whole team to be out for the detailed explanation, but that sort of anger towards others is one of the Legendary things I need to explain to you." The canine shrugged. "One I had hoped to hold off on, I thought you would just talk it out with her, but this could have been worse."

"I just forced a Mew to be made out of clay for the next month," Alexa admitted to herself as much as explained. It didn't sound quite as dangerous when she accepted she was also a Legendary, but-

"I would have given a similarly harsh punishment to her for causing this mess," Suicune cut off that thought. "Perhaps worse, although I don't know how well that particular Mew will take that change." Suicune made sure to catch Alexa's eyes. "This is a major disaster, many trainers and their pokemon altered heavily during the League. When a Legendary causes one of these it is up to other Legendary pokemon and Champions to make things right. You stepped up admirably when confronted with the hazard's cause."

The area was quiet for a moment before Charizard broke the silence. "We should probably try and find that 'trinket' Mew gave the birds."

Alexa looked over at the transformed bird pokemon, who all seemed very sad now. "Shiny was trap," the former Murkrow muttered unhappily.

"We'll make sure to be back when we know how to fix this," she reassured them, and set off back to the barn, followed by Charizard and Suicune.

Inside a whole collection of Miltank was working with milk canisters and plumbing. The three of them were quickly spotted by Mary. "Alexa, were you able to figure anything out?" the first Miltank farmhand they met here questioned.

"The birds apparently dropped something into the machine that caused this," Alexa explained with a look around. It appeared that they were going to store the contaminated milk somewhere. Hopefully it wasn't as bad as Mary had feared, but that wasn't looking like the case.

"The only thing we've found so far is Beth's little good luck charm," another Miltank said in a gruff voice, and held up something Alexa would call a 'trinket'. "She lost it a couple of weeks ago."

Alexa quickly got out the Pokedex again, to double check what she was now going to question, "How long has she had it?" That being in there, plus what she had been told of the newest apparently natural Miltank, was too much of a coincidence.

"Since we got her," Mary said wistfully. "It was a nice thing for Mitch to give her. Something to feel better about a new place."

"Was Mitch there when you got her?" Charizard asked, clearly having come to the same possibility as Alexa.

"No," Mary huffed. "He just left her pokeball in the mailbox with the note..." the former human trailed off, and all of the Miltank in the room turned to look at the trinket. "She better not have done what I'm thinking she did!" Mary then bellowed, and moved quickly to grab the trinket and head out the front door.

Alexa really wanted to get a better scan of the obvious cause to this whole mess, so she followed along with her small group. William caught her eye for a moment from halfway across the yard, but seemed a bit swamped with the crowd of changed people and pokemon asking for help.

"Beth, get over here!" Mary shouted at the pasture the farmhand had pointed out when they first arrived at the farm. Most of the Miltank scattered to the sides, leaving just the newest to spot the trinket and sadly trudge forward. "Would you rather be called 'Beth' or 'Mitch'?" Mary questioned darkly.

"Beth, please," the Miltank answered in a way that confirmed it was the correct question. "Please tell me it wasn't the problem. I, I had hoped when nothing happened after I lost it that the worst case was you finding 'Mitch' in the field later. Then-" Beth cut off to sob. "Then this happened, and I don't know how my trinket could have gotten there, and I don't know what to do!" Beth then began to openly cry. "I was just supposed to let me be a Miltank."

Mary's expression softened slightly. "You should have said something about wanting to be a Miltank before you did all of this," Mary criticized sympathetically.

"You've had people turn into Miltank before?" Beth questioned half hopefully, while Alexa tried to work out if she wanted to keep eavesdropping.

"Um, no. At least nobody who actually managed to turn into one," Mary said with a blink. "But if we knew you would be going this far we could have known how important this was." The Miltank held up the trinket. "And you wouldn't have spent the past few months lying to us about who you were."

"Sorry," Beth sniffled. "Sorry."

"What is the trinket supposed to do?" Alexa asked to try and get at least some more details. "It might help me turn everyone else back."

"It was supposed to let me make milk I put it into for a bit turn me into a Miltank, or keep me one if I wear it," Beth explained with embarrassment. "If I haven't drank any of the special milk, or didn't have it on for a month, then I change back. The Fairy I got it from said that it would be 'like a Mephagic's slime', whatever that means."

"Oh good," Charizard sighed with relief that Alexa agreed with. "We can cure a Mephagic's 'slime' already."

"We actually have one right over there," Alexa admitted and pointed at Kyle, who appeared to be helping William with talking about being a pokemon. She couldn't see Sui, which was a concern she would get to later.

"Mary, please tell me you didn't find a Legendary just to fix this," another Miltank demanded from nearby.

"I'm pretty sure she isn't a Legendary, Betty. Just a Professor's kid," Mary muttered. "So you can start fixing them now?"

"We probably still want to test on ourselves," Alexa admitted unhappily after considering the question to see if she could get out of trying something they just might not be able to easily reverse on herself. "But with a bit of luck we just need to use our standard reversal method."

"You sure Alexa?" Charizard asked.

"Being a Miltank for a bit might be a nice change of pace," she said, and he clearly got the joke.

"I'll admit it isn't that bad," Mary said with a look at Beth. "But I want to be human again after this is over."

"I can stay though, right?" Beth questioned hopefully.

"Yes, Beth, you can stay on the books as a Miltank," Mary sighed. "But you're explaining yourself to everyone while we can talk, and maybe even helping with fixing things."

"If Beth gets to help with the machinery, then I want to help too," another of the natural Miltank complained, and that seemed to start up what felt like an old argument from how the various Miltank made their cases on if they should or shouldn't be allowed to do farm work.

Alexa got a break at that point, as the farmhands wanted to get everyone calmed down after the news that they knew what had happened and why before moving on to testing any cures out. Charizard ended up taking the Pokedex to check the storage tanks to see just how bad the problem was, with somewhat good results of only a single large storage tank being affected. Unfortunately that was still a couple of weeks of milk, as they only used two or three of them at a time, and Alexa didn't really get a good idea how long those tanks could store the milk compared to normal containers. Some degree of high end stasis containment was probably in use if there was the chance to hold at least a month of milk.

"Are you sure you want to be the one to do this?" Kingler questioned from the other side of the mostly empty barn they had been told to do the testing in for privacy. "I'm up for trying stuff that would actually make me a different shape after everything I've had to deal with."

"Alexa can see the energy best," Bellossom pointed out, currently a Fire/Electric lizard. "If it does take a full break she has the best chance out of us."

"Well then let me try it after we know it can be reversed," Kingler argued with a clack of claws. "I don't get enough chances to actually try different shapes."

"Aren't all Miltank girls?" Herman asked with confusion, about a topic Alexa was trying to avoid thinking about too much with this mess. "I don't think I want to be a girl."

"How does that work when we merged with the Spinel?" Rhydon asked thoughtfully. "Or is it more complicated than that?"

"It is more complicated than that," Charizard said with a huff. "Almost all Miltank are female, but that isn't the same as being a girl. A lot of the people caught in this are still guys or whatever even though they are Miltank right now." He looked at all of them. "However, just because you aren't changed to be a girl doesn't make it better. Actually that's part of my problem with this, I have an uncle who gave the entire family a whole speech about this every year."

"Dad has a list of things that cause that sort of thing too," Alexa agreed. "He went over why I wouldn't be getting anything on that list before we started this project. Which is why I'd rather avoid anyone who isn't a girl using this one, even you Charizard."

"I'm fine with that," her Starter admitted with a sigh. "I've been dreading it all day."

"Still want to try this," Kingler reminded all of them.

"I'm still going first," Alexa declared and turned to get the Pokedex. "Charizard is in charge of scans, and you can try next if this can be reversed easily, Kingler."

With a bit of concern, Alexa got one of the bottles of milk she had been given for this, and took a drink. The first thought she had was that it was nowhere close to the exceptional taste that everyone claimed Moomoo Milk featured, and she wondered if that was a side effect of the change in effect.

Since she was a Spectslurry the first thing she felt was her body solidify into a more bulky and much more compact form. With four short legs that ended in two hooves each, a thin tail that ended in a small ball shape, a lump of a head that connected directly to her body, two floppy ears, and a pair of short horns. In other words a typical Miltank shape, only different from normal because her body was dark tan with purple spots.

"Has anyone hit me with Soak before?" Alexa questioned first as she felt out the shape. "Because now that I'm feeling it, I'm not sure I've been monotyped before." She didn't entirely dislike the shape, but it wasn't an instant favorite.

"Well?" Kingler asked curiously.

"I've been worse?" Alexa admitted. "It doesn't feel any different from the changes we usually make, and I can tell I can break it easily enough, but I wouldn't pick it for something to be without a reason."

"I just came in to check on you guys, and I have no idea why I didn't expect to hear something like that," William sighed as he walked in. "Good news, I've managed to reassure everyone that this is a normal thing for you to handle. Bad news, I think I accidentally convinced a few of them to just stick with us in order to try out being a Miltank longer."

"The trainers or the pokemon?" Rhydon asked, and William just gave him a look.

"Just Miltank, or are we going to get requests too?" Charizard complained. "We were just about to test Contagion Cure."

"Worst case, fancy alternate typed Miltank," Kingler suggested. "Which I might go for if I like this one."

William looked at the crab pokemon with confusion. "She wants to try more stuff that doesn't end up about the same shape," Alexa explained. "Might as well try the Cure on me now." Alexa's now somewhat impatient crab pokemon splashed her before she even finished the sentence, and her body liquefied immediately back into a Spectslurry. "Well, I think that's proof enough."

"My turn yet?" Kingler questioned, and Alexa just passed her the bottle. The crab pokemon took a drink, expanded outwards into a purple backed and grey bellied Miltank, and then returned to normal in a burst of Normal typed energy. "Nope. No. Not going with that one," Kingler immediately declared.

"I didn't even get a scan," Charizard said with a chuckle.

"That was terrible. If this is the kind of thing that makes you not like the Grass type, or Alexa not like Psychic, then I apologize for any criticism," Kingler spat. "Because just a moment of being that- that mushy. Like, the squish while still being solid. Is that what being a mammal is usually like?"

"Miltank are a bit different than the usual mammal when it comes to 'squish'," William answered, clearly trying to not laugh. "But if you're used to shells then it might be a more general problem." The illusioned Zoroark collected himself. "So, should I start getting the others to get fixed now?"

"We probably should just head out there ourselves," Alexa admitted and started towards the door. "That way all of my team can do it a bit faster."

The farmhands had already asked to be the last to be done, and William turned out to be right that some that were changed who didn't want to change back just yet, but it still ended up being a very large crowd of people who really wanted to not be Miltank anymore. Some as badly as Kingler, but without the ability to make it happen quickly, were focused on first. Others who weren't entirely sure if they wanted to change back went to the back of the line. It was fairly late when everyone other than the farmhands had worked out if they wanted to change back, and everyone had decided that they were spending the night at the farm by that point.

"Are you alright with waiting until morning?" Alexa questioned Mary and the other farmhands once her team was done with everyone else. Done and back in pokeballs, which Alexa was probably going to go with to sleep too once this conversation was over with.

"Well, we actually decided that we're waiting it out entirely," Mary started. "We have way too much of this stuff now, and we aren't sure we can get rid of it safely, so we want to make sure it only lasts a month."

"Also we need the extra help to get back on schedule," the gruff voiced Miltank said firmly. Alexa was fairly sure this was one of the guys who got turned into a Miltank. "The League is always a hard time for us to keep stock ready to sell, and this at least gives us a way to make up for it too."

Alexa blinked at that. "Are you sure? I can do it tomorrow easily enough," she offered. "I've been in bad forms before, and it isn't worth it to stay stuck."

"I'll be honest, miss Larch, nobody whose worked with Miltank as much as we have will have that sort of problem being one for just a month," Mark said with a chuckle. "Besides, with the new translators we can handle normal stuff even like this. It was lucky timing honestly, this late in the League with those around."

"Don't make me think of this happening near the start of the League, Mark," Mary complained. "I'm already worried enough about how the Miltank will handle us working like this. We already know they argue about Miltank working all the time."

Alexa felt herself thin down to a really runny almost water state at the idea of the early League, when this many people could be traveling a route in a single day, getting caught in this mess. "Yeah, let's not talk about that bad," she said as she tried to get back to a useful thickness. "This was already terrible enough."

[Author's Note]
So I've had "Miltank transformation might end up a thing here, just for some non-typechange fun" metaphorically penciled in the notes for what to do here for months now. Admittedly it only turned into "this is an Incident" recently, with the addition of the translator plot, but I had been considering this kind of thing for here well before we reached this point.
I think it works nicely as a third part to the translator plot, and also a bit more Legendary plot too.