Rosa was rather pleased with her haul. Having explored the underwater Abyssal Ruins for a few hours now, her bag was filled with enough Relic Coins and artifacts to fetch a fair few Pokedollars. But it was about time for her to head back home. All of the wild Pokemon had gradually chipped away at her team, leaving all of her Pokemon knocked out. That was fine, though. She had already left the underwater labyrinth and was beginning to rise back up to the surface. Perched on her fainted Surf user with the ability to breath given by its Dive, Rosa could see the Unovan sunlight flickering at the surface above her. But suddenly…
*A wild Frillish appeared!*
A pink Frillish came into view just a few feet ahead of Rosa. Level 19. It was barely even a threat… But Rosa had no Pokemon. With a huff, she reached her arm back through the water into her bag, grabbing one of the many Dive Balls she had on hand. She tossed the ball, letting it glide through the water until it tapped the Frillish on the head and absorbed it with a flash of white light.
*Shake*.
*Shake*.
And the Frillish popped out of the Pokeball. With Rosa's turn now wasted, the Frillish responded with its own. But not in the form of an attack. No, the Frillish simply responded by flicking its tentacles, swimming about a foot closer to Rosa.
How strange…
Rosa threw another Pokeball. No use. The Frillish escaped without a single shake, and responded by closing the gap just a little more.
Another. No good.
Another. Nuh uh.
Rosa started to get nervous. She couldn't run away, she had no Pokemon to do so. Her bag was running low on Pokeballs, but that wasn't her most critical issue. What worried her the most was that the Frillish was now at arm's length from her, without showing any signs of slowing down! It just stared at her with those red eyes, smiling at her…
Rosa threw one more Pokeball in desperation. But it proved no use. The Frillish escaped without a single shake, and didn't have any closer to get. Instead, the Water-type reached out one of its tentacles, and draped it over Rosa's shoulder. It was perfectly smooth, like a sheet of wet, slightly slimy rubber. Rosa reached a hand to grab the tentacle and pull it away, but soon found that hand restrained by another tentacle, gripping with just enough force to keep her in place, like a weighted blanket. It was squishy, smooth, and shiny enough to where Rosa could see her panicked expression in the reflection on the tentacle. That wasn't good…
Rosa tensed her arms and tried to pry them away, but with no use. The Frillish tightened its grip around Rosa's forearms, squeezing tight enough to where her arms felt tingly and numb. Two more tentacles wrapped around her thighs just under her yellow skirt, pulling her up and away from her Surf Pokemon and into the open sea. With Rosa fully restrained, the Frillish pressed its head and body against the trainer's chest. Barely audible through the water, a wet, squishy *squelch~* accompanied the Frillish as it rubbed all over Rosa's neck, chest, and stomach.
Rosa couldn't notice through her numbed extremities that she was rapidly losing what made her human. Her fingers fused together into one, just as her toes. Her blue and white sneakers ripped off her feet as they blimped up into two bulky, squishy pink tentacles, completely identical to the ones that held her legs in place. At the same time, her hands turned pink, hairless, smooth and squishy, beginning with the fingers and traveling up the numbed arm.
The Frillish stared Rosa right in the face with those barely-blinking red eyes. And looking back at them was… The same face. Rosa's hair fell off her head like she was shedding, her buns and locks of brown hair floating down to the ocean floor. Her scalp turned a faint pink at the same time her torso shrunk down, rendering her much the same size as her Frillish companion. Her eyes turned from deep blue to bright pastel red, and her clothes, now much too small for her torso and legs, simply fell off her body and sunk down into the depths.
The Frillish finally let go, and swam back a few inches to give her new partner a moment. Rosa, now another pink Frillish, instantly took to her new form. She waved her squishy pink tentacles around like she had spent her whole life in the ocean, always having been a Frillish. She couldn't remember being a human or a trainer at all - because she never was, and she never would be. She wasn't a trainer. She was a wild Frillish.
A wild Frillish with an identical best friend.~
The two Frillishes smiled at each other before swimming away in tandem, far away from the Abyssal Ruins. Rosa had made a new friend.~