Mark had just finished playing nearly 5 straight hours of Sonic games. He has always loved sonic games and had played them from the day the very first one came out. His constant playing of them drove his mother nuts. After finsing one day, he said
“I really wish there were other ways I could help Sonic out!”. Hearing him say this, his mother felt the need to say something.
“Mark! It’s just game! You really need to start getting out more! Sonic isn’t real! I mean your 14 years old, most other people your age gave games like this up years ago.”. Looking at his mother with contempt, Mark said
“It’s more then just a game! Sonic rules! And I really wish there was more I could do for him then just sit here with a controller, I wish I could fight along side of him”. Now looking very worried, his mother spoke
“Mark, your really starting to worry me”.
“I’m fine Mom, no need to worry”, he responded.
“I didn’t want to have to tell you about this, but some kid who also liked these games actually got turned into one of the characters after he played it too much! If you don’t stop playing them so much the same thing is going to happen to you!” his mom said, in a very worried tone.
“Oh come on Mom! That may have worked when I was 5 years old, but I’m 14 now! People don’t get turned into things in real life!” Mark responded with.
“Okay, but don’t say I didn’t warn you!”. Ingoring his mother warning, Mark resumed playing the games.
Later on, it was bedtime and Marks mother told him to take a shower, brush his teeth and to go to bed. Almost like a child, Mark refused to take a bath and said his teeth were fine, and that he didn’t want to go to bed. Getting very annoyed by this, his mother finally had to carry him upstairs and put him in his room. He was very annoyed by this and banged on the door before finally giving up. As he was about to step into bed, his clothes started looking very odd, alomost if they were glowing.
“What the hell?” he said as his clothes brightly glowed and appeard to change shape. The glowing toning down, he look at his clothes. They had become the pjammas of a little kid.
“That’s not right” Mark said as he felt them. His clothes suddenly turning into kid clothes made his realise how immature he had been acting. Still finding himself wishing he could help out Sonic, he suddenly found himself getting very sleepy, so he got in bed.
As he drifted off to sleep, he found himself feeling a bit odd. Thinking he was dreaming he looked arround his room, and then at himself. Much to his embarasment he saw that his clothes had vanished, and that he was laying there, on top of his covers naked. His entire body was starting to feel very itchy, and his head felt very strange. While it was difficult to tell in the dark, it almost looked like fur was growing on his chest, and that his torso was shrinking and getting much plumper. Sitting up and watching the changes, he was still sure that he was dreaming. He Slowly began to shrink and looking in the mirror, he saw his ears become pointed and move to the top of his head. Lifting his hands up to feel his ears, he saw that his arms were now thinner and were covered in greyish brown fur. As he looked at his now furry arms in facination, he saw fur growing all over his chest. His torso continued to become plumper, looking almost round. Touching it with his hands be giggled, as it felt soft. Again looking at his face in the mirrior, he saw that it was pushing out into a gentle muzzle, and that whiskers were growing out the side of it. He started to realise that, not only were these changes happening to his body, but that he was also shrinking. Saying
“This is so cool!”, he noticed his voice sounded much more higher pitched then normal, it almost like a little kids. Feeling an odd pulling sensation right above his butt, which was starting to look less and less like human butt and starting to look almost like the rear area of a cartoon character, he saw a small tail pushing itself out from the area. It grew longer and longer, until finally it was a long and furry tail. Like the fur on the rest of his body, it was a greyish brown colour. It had 5 black rings on it. Standing up, he realised just how much shorter he now was, he was no taller then your average 5 year old. His torso was now almost competly round and it was fully covered in fur. His arms and legs were quite long and skinny in proportion to his torso. Has the changes stopped, he admired himself in the mirror. He looked very much like a sonic style raccoon. He was very cute and his fur was very warm and soft. Feeling tired again, he got back into bed curled up into a little ball and fell asleep.
Waking up the next day, the sun was shining. Getting out of bed he thought
“Now that was a cool dream.”. But he quickyl realised that he was still short, and still furry.
“Whoa, it wasent a dream” he said, again realsing his voice sounded like a little kids. He noticed that one more change had occurred, he know had large shoes and large gloves on. Lifting his tail up into the air, he opened his door and walked down stairs. Seeing what looked like a cartoon raccoon walking down the stairs, his mother immediately walked over to him.
“See what I told you!”. Giggling, he wasent annoyed that his mother was right but was happy. His new body felt enjoyable to him.
“Well, your probabbly going to end up in sonic land soon, so have fun. Just make sure to visit every once in a while. That kid I told you about went there as well, but visits his parents every week. Maybe you should meet up with him.”. Eating breakfast, he made sure to reassure his mother he would visit everyone on a reuglar basis, alotogh he found the idea of actually going to sonic land too good to be true. But then again 12 hours ago the idea of becooming what he had become would have been impossible. After finishing breakfast he decided to play outside for a little while.
Sure enough, about two hours later while he was playing outside, the world started to fade. In a matter of seconds, it came back into focus, but it now looked very much like sonic land.
“This is so cool” he said to himself. Taking a short walk, he saw what looked like tails running over to him. Tails turned to him and hugged him.
“Hi, I’m Kyle, but everyone here calls me tails, you must be new here!”.
“So that story about that kid who became tails after playing to him sonic is real?” Mark asked.
“Yep and I’m him” Kyle answerd.
“So whats your name?”. Thinking for a minute, Mark responded
“My ‘real’ name is Mark. But you can call me Rascal, Rascal Raccoon”.
“Hey Rascal” tails responded with.
“Common, lets go meet the family” he said he they walked together towards the city. Finally, Mark was going to get to help Sonic as he had always wanted to.