Pikachu on Parade {Pikachu Parade Balloon}

            “I’ve always wanted to be part of a parade,” Ryan sighed to his Pokémon, a female Purrugly named Dylan and a trans-Braixen girl named Kit. The two, both once human, smirked as they looked at each other, dark thoughts crossing both of their minds as they listened to their trainer’s lament.

            “Well, I think I might know a way to get you into a parade,” the Braixen girl giggled, rising to her paws and posing dramatically, as Kit tended to do ever since her transformation. Well, she’d always done it, it’d just grown more pronounced.

            “Oh?” Ryan perked up, looking away from the large, annual parade that thundered throughout the entirety of Goldenrod City, with floats, large balloons, marching bands, and of course Ryan’s local crush Whitney and her Miltank, Dylan’s crush.

            “Oh yeah, you just have to totally trust me!” the Braixen said, cackling. While Ryan was inclined to trust his friend-turned-Pokémon, that laugh wasn’t reassuring.

            “Don’t worry, I’ll keep her in line,” the fat Purrugly said, rubbing against Ryan’s leg. Well, with Dylan here Ryan was sure Kit wouldn’t do anything too strange.

            “Alright Kit, but if you do aaaanything-”

            “Oh shush! Close your eyes!” the playful Braixen laughed, pulling a bright pink ribbon from nowhere, the kind any good magician should have on paw, and wrapped it around Ryan’s eyes.

            “You didn’t give me much of a choice,” Ryan pouted, but he was growing excited, and hopeful. Kit might’ve been a little whacky, but she did tend to have good ideas...When they weren’t straight out bonkers.

            “Shush! Now...Count to three,” the Braixen said, giggling as she readied whatever horrendous scheme she’d concocted in her twisted mind.

            “One...Two….Thmmph!” Ryan found something thrust into his mouth, and no matter what he could not part his lips, or push the metal thing out of his mouth!

            “Tada!” Kit trilled, standing lightly on Dylan’s back, the Purrugly struggling to not collapse as the fox’s pads massaged her pudgy back. Dylan looked down, seeing a rubber hose extending down from his mouth to a nearby canister. The side of the canister had but a single word: helium.

            “Mm?! MMM!” Ryan protested, trying to tug the tube out of his mouth, but to no avail! The villainous magical girl fox had outfoxed him with her jinxes! Or glue, one of those two.

            “Dylan? If you would,” Kit bowed, before leaping lightly off of Dylan and posing again, Ryan forced to watch helplessly, and with growing excitement, as the chubby Purrugly trundled over to the helium, sitting beside it. Ryan could do nothing but watch, in slow motion as Dylan purposefully took her time to flick the switch. Immediately, a rush of flavourless helium rushed into Ryan’s mouth! He cried out, muffled by the tube, reaching up and grabbing the hose as he felt the helium flood into his belly. He looked down, watching his already chubby belly start to expand, though the strange thing was that his normally pale skin had taken a yellow, shiny tone. He gently prodded it, a task that was becoming more and more arduous as his limbs began to inflate as well, likewise gaining that shiny, yellow look.

            “What does every parade have that like, everybody likes?” Kit asked rhetorically, grinning, tail wagging as she skipped around, carefully tying ropes to Ryan’s wrists and ankles, before ending up right back in front of her trainer and smooching his nose.

            “Balloons!” Dylan chimed in, licking herself clean, “So we’re gonna bring you in as the biggest balloon there!” This both worried, and thrilled Ryan! He knew his friends wouldn’t let anything happen to him, but at the same time? There were only two of them, so how could they stop him from flying off if he was going to be that huge?

            His clothes didn’t last too much longer, digging into his skin. Seeing this, Dylan took pity on his trainer...and ruined his very expensive clothes by clawing them free from Ryan’s changing body, leaving him naked. Luckily? There was nothing to see, as everything to see was smooth and yellow. He felt a small, splitting sensation from behind, turning to see a big Pikachu tail inflating behind him.

            Then he saw the notch. Ryan blushed, he wasn’t a boy anymore!

            Well, she was a balloon now, so technically she really didn’t have a biological gender, but even so? She felt ‘she’ to now be more fitting. Her feet changed next, bloating out into big, lovable paws, three toes splitting down their seams to form separate digits, and at this moment?

            Ryan started to rise, kicking her feet helplessly as she began to float, going horizontal, forced to look downwards at the world as it slowly grew further and further from the hollow girl, her hair falling away, ears growing into tall spires atop her head, nose and mouth pressing out into a small snout, eyes becoming large circles painted upon her face.

            Finally? With everything physically altered? The tube fell from Ryan’s mouth, but before even a molecule of helium could escape, her lips had already sealed, flattened, and a wide Pikachu grin was painted on, red colouring her cheeks.

            “Looking good!” Dylan cheered from below, Kit pausing as she realized the dilemma of having four ropes and only two people to hold them. Well, one person, there was no way she was doing any work herself. She solved her problem easily, tying everything to Dylan. The Purrugly’s every step she felt like it may be her last as she floated briefly before descending, but to the triumphant Braixen? Her BRILLIANT scheme had worked.

            “How you doing Ryan?” Kit asked the gigantic Pikachu balloon. No response. “Excellent! Now let’s go join that parade! From the back! It’ll only take a few hours to get through the walk! Then we could just let you deflate, should only take a few hours, or days! Whatever!” she cackled, picking up the heavy cat and smooching her, carrying her, and the attached Pikachu parade balloon.

            Ryan couldn’t really reply to anything Kit said, or anyone said. She was too lost in the excitement of seeing the world from so high up, and being lighter than air! She was going to enjoy every moment of this parade!

            Of course, she better enjoy being a female Pikachu as well, for unbeknownst to all three of the Pokémon Kit only knew how to undo the balloon part of her spell.