[PMD Inspired] PokeWorld Island Mystery RP

[Neo Emolga]

Chris Waters the Emolga
Hurricane Alliance: Normal Rank (Not really formed yet)

I awoke with a shock, almost gasping.

I swore it was like a freezer in here and I first looked around, seeing nothing but dimly-lit, rocky cavern walls. How did I get from the abandoned amusement park to here, wherever the heck this place was!? My first thought was we had been kidnapped and now this was some kind of hostage situation.

I looked around, trying to get a bearing on where I was and what was going on. And I saw there were shadows and things moving around. Creatures I didn't recognize at first, but then I swore they were familiar with the limited light I saw. Pokémon. Or at least that's what I thought they were. I had recognized a few of them from old books and videos, but there were some of them that should have been extinct. Well, so much for that. Looks like they weren't so right after all. I hadn't seen too many of these Pokémon before, but every now and then we ran into them. It seemed really weird to have so many in this spot. A sight like this should have been pretty rare.

I decided to get up and maybe see if there was some explanation to this or a possible way out. And I almost tripped and felt smack on my face with what happened next!

It was the feet that I saw first. Man, I'll never forget that! Small white furry feet that were not mine, but... well, yes they are! How did the rest of me get coated with white fur and...!?

I stopped breathing for a moment while I realized I now had arm flaps with yellow fur on the front and dark gray on the back. In fact the back of my arms were gray now as well! And I now had... a tail. A brushy dark gray tail. And I could move it and swing it easily like it was nothing more than waving my hand! I had to force myself to breathe or I was just going to pass out. Maybe I was just dreaming. Nah, that would have just been denial!

I couldn't help but keep looking at these new features. Then I realized my ears were now large and rounded like a mouse and I even found out I had electric sacs in my cheeks and could discharge electricity. This... was insane.

Am I... I think... I think I might be an Emolga now...

I nodded, because that's exactly what I recognized it as. All the features akin to that flying, gliding sky squirrel. Yeah, I didn't have a mirror but I could see enough on my own to tell that had to be it! This was crazy!

But how!? Or even why? I tried to remember as much as I could and the last thing I remember hearing prior to this was "I'm so sorry but we really need your help." What exactly did I need to do? And was there a reason it had to be done like this? And who was that? Where did they get that crazy silver orb that floats on its own? Yeah, I knew I wasn't going to get the answers to those questions so I didn't really think about them too much. I could try to figure out that stuff later when the here and now stuff needed to be figured out first.

I just looked around, not sure if all these other Pokémon were those other students or if these were Pokémon that had always been as Pokémon and I was the only one who was now like this. In case it really was the later, I tried to shake off my shock and surprise and at least try to act normal, like a normal Emolga would in this situation. I had to take this as a "When in Rome, act as Romans do" kind of way. But that was a little hard considering I didn't really know much about how these sky squirrels really live! Well, I was sure they didn't exactly look like they were shocked and bewildered all the time, so I really had to shake that off and pretend like all this bewilderment was just me.

"Eh... heh, sorry," I smiled with a bit of embarrassment, speaking in this new lighter, almost cute-sounding voice as I was at least trying to pretend like me being an Emolga was totally normal and nothing out of the ordinary! "My bad, that was kind of a weird dream I had just now. Hey, anyone know where we are? I think I dozed off, it's been a long day."

There, just an innocent question to the rest of these guys, whoever they were. I was convinced whoever wanted my help needed me to have this disguise, so in that case, I needed to wear it well and not break concealment no matter who these other guys are. Would have been nice to get a heads up about it, but I could go along with it for now. There had to be a good reason for this. And well, of course, besides the fact that if someone told me "hey, you're going to be an Emolga, one of those electric gliding sky squirrels" right up front, I really don't think I would have immediately said "oh hey, yeah, sure, totally cool with that now, have at it!" Yeah, that had to be the reason why.