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Happy and Young

By CalexTheNeko

Frinkel blinked several times slowly processing what had just happened. The former raccoon couldn't help but notice that his entire room was suddenly noticeably bigger than it had been a few minutes ago. His once striped tail was longer and completely black colored now. The black stripes were gone from his back as well... But he also had a scarf of black fur around his chest and upper back. His foot paws were completely black and larger now while his hand paws were blue and had small steel guards on the back of his arms. He still had a mask of black fur over his face but his muzzle was longer. He also had two large... not ears but some kind of sensors hanging off the side of his head. They almost looked like dog ears.

"Wha-what!?" Frinkel gave a shout. His voice was so high pitched. He was slowly processing what had just happened.

"Congratulations!" A voice boomed from his computer. "As requested your wish to be happy and young again has been granted! Enjoy your new six year old Riolu body brought to you by YourWishGranted.com! Thank you for using our service and enjoy your new life!"

"Wait no!" Frinkel shouted. He had to stand up in his desk chair to be able to see over his desk and use the laptop. "That's not what I meant! Change me back right now!"

"We're sorry! But YourWishGranted.com is only for adults aged 18 years and older! We are unable to honor this request without a signed permission slip from your parent or guardian!"

"But I am over eighteen!" The riolu kid cried. "I mean I was!" He flailed his paws.

"We're sorry! But again YourWishGranted.com is only for adults aged 18 years and older! Further illegal access attempts may result in consequences and permanent banning from our web site!"

"But just!" Frinkel tried to object further. "I just want this undone!"

"We're sorry!" The laptop replied in an energetic voice. "But that is three attempts of a minor attempting to access YourWishGranted.com! We are now happy to inform you that you have been banned and your laptop will self destruct to prevent future access attempts!"

"Wait what?" Frinkel fell out of his chair.

"Goodbye!" The laptop shouted. Then the laptop exploded. It wasn't a very fiery explosion... But it was impressive to watch laptop pieces fly in fifty different directions leaving behind only a small scorch mark on the desk.

"But whyyyy!?" Frinkel gave a shout after climbing back to his feet. He climbed up onto the desk chair to survey the remains of his laptop. It wasn't great looking. He fretted unsre of what to do. Then he remembered his cell phone! Frinkel quickly ran out of the office and down the hall to find his bedroom where it should be charging. But once inside he found his cell phone was gone! Well... That wasn't entirely true.

There was still a cell phone there. It simply wasn't his. At least not how he remembered it. Instead of the usual smart phone the cell phone looked a bit more like a brick. It was also made of a see-through plastic and appeared to be filled with candy. Frinkel stared at it unsure of what to make then looked around the room. It wasn't just the cell phone. Everything was off.

"Did I always sleep in a race car bed?" Frinkel asked noticing the twin sized bed in the corner of the room. That was his bed? Right? Yet... Something felt off. Like... He was pretty sure there hadn't been a toy box in his room a few minutes ago! And yet... Now there was one shaped like a pirate's treasure chest just sitting there in the center of the room. That wasn't supposed to be there!

The young riolu slowly crept towards the toy box. He was feeling a little overwhelmed and wasn't sure what to expect right now. He reached it and slowly lifted the lid. Then inside he saw...

The James Turbo Flame Charizard Action Figure! With real fireball action!

Frinkel completely forgot his trepidation or his recent transformation as he marveled at it! The charizard action figure was dressed in a pair of jeans, an open vest, and a bandanna because you knew he was one bad fire breather! Then you could load up a little plastic fireball into his mouth, and by pushing down on its head bam! The fireball would fly across the room! And! And that wasn't all! That was far from the only toy in the box! There was... There was...

Dirk Omni Dark Devimon! James Turbo Flame Charizard's sworn nemesis! In his dark robes and skull shaped hat he looked quite intimidating! Then he was of course complete with real skull launching action!

And then the box was also full of all the monsters that Dirk Omni Devimon always used to fight James Turbo Flame Charizard! Each of them had real um... Being a monster action!

For a very brief moment Frinkel questioned why he knew these facts or was excited for them. The moment passed though. Coming in contact with these toys was practically intoxicating. They were so popular they were always out of stock! Frinkel forgot his worries and laid down on his stomach and began to play. He acted out epic battles as the evil Dirk Omni Devimon attempted to defeat the hero!

James Turbo Flame Charizard was outnumbered! Dirk Omni Devimon's evil monsters had him completely surrounded! James launched his fireballs! But he didn't have enough! The package only came with three and there were still so many more monsters!

"Ahahaha!" Frinkel let loose his best impression of an evil laugh as he held up the Dirk Omni Devimon toy. "Foolish James Turbo Flame Charizard! You have opposed my plans for the last time! Today we'll put an end to you once and for all! There's no possible way you could ever defeat me now!"

"That's what you think!" Frinkel changed his voice to be more heroic as he picked up the charizard toy. "I may be out of fire... But the spirit of a warrior's heart still beats within me!"

"Ha!" Frinkel shifted back to his villain voice. "There's nothing you can do to oppose me! You should just give up and die!"

"Heroes never die! And besides... I CAN FLY!" With this Frinkel lifted the charizard up into the air! He then began to make airplane noises with his mouth as he ran around the room circling it with the charizard. He leaped up onto the bed, and then onto a bookcase before running back to the rug where the monster toys were. He then crashed James Turbo Flame Charizard into each of the monsters knocking them down.

"THIS CAN NOT BE!" Frinkel shouted in his evil voice. "But I won't give up here! I will defeat you! Have at you!" With this Frinkel began to clash the charizard and devimon toys together. This largely consisted of bashing the two toys next to each other while shouting "Bam! Voosh! Kaboom!" After several minutes of this he crashed them together again before throwing Dirk Omni Dark Devimon back into the toybox. "NOOOOO!"

"Ha ha!" Frinkel held the charizard above his head with both hands and spoke in his heroic voice. "Once again! Evil is vanquished and cast back into the abyss! He laughed triumphantly the fight complete.

And as the fight finished the intoxication and excitement of finding these cool new toys finally left him. Frinkel realized what he had just spent the last few minutes doing and squeaked. He dropped the charizard toy and backed away. What was he doing? He was supposed to be looking for a way to reverse this! Not... Doing what was admittedly really fun and he kind of wanted to continue for a bit longer but it was not a good idea right now! He had to go help!

Well maybe he could play for just fifteen or so more minutes.

1 hour later.

"Oh shoot right! Reversing this!" Frinkel stood up from where he had been laying on the ground. He needed to get help! There must be someone else who had a computer he could access that web site! He just had to find someone who could help him get on the web site and get changed back to normal!

Frinkel quickly headed for the front door. He then retreated to the kitchen, fetched a few phone books and stacked them on top of each other so he could reach the doorknob. Once the door was open he stumbled out into the front yard. He paused noticing the mailman at the end of the driveway dropping off letters. It was an older dog... One he had seen almost every day for the last ten years. He'd know pretty quickly that something was up. After all there shouldn't be a little riolu kid coming out of Frinkel's house.

"Oh hey Frinkel!" The mailman waved at Frinkel as he came out. "Where you off to little guy? Gonna play in the park with your friends again?"

"Wait what?" Frinkel tilted the head. "You recognize me?"

"Of course!" The dog nodded. "I've been delivering your mail for the last ten years!"

"But I'm six right now!" Frinkel pointed out. "And I'm not-"

"That's right!" The mail dog nodded eagerly. "I've been doing this route since before you were born! I've known you since you were just a teeny infant in your mother's arms. Um.... Whoever she is." The mailman paused just briefly as if something bothered him but he then forgot about it. "Well have a good one say hi to your friends!" With that he began to walk off.

"H-hey!" Frinkel chased after him. "Wait up! Um!" Frinkel didn't even know what he was doing. He was confused at the idea the mailman knew he was a kid. At the same time he remembered he was supposed to be trying to change back to normal. "I um! Need help!"

"What's wrong?" The mailman paused. The dog looked down at Frinkel with a look of concern on his face.

"Um well uh!" Frinkel tried to think. He realized explaining that a magic website turned him into a pokemon kid probably wasn't going to go over to well. Considering the guy seemed to remember him always being like this he'd just think he was an overly imaginative kid. But... He was an adult and most people had smart phones these days! Maybe he didn't need to explain the problem if he could just use his phone to access the site. "I just need to borrow your phone! I wouldn't ask but it's an emergency!"

"Is there someone you need to call?" The mailman asked. "Is it your parents? What's wrong?"

"No nothing like that!" Frinkel tried to explain. "I just... Need to access the internet for a few minutes."

"I see what this is." The mailman squinted at Frinkel. "Kids these days spend too much time online. You should be playing outside."

"Wait what?" Frinkel tilted his head. This was not where he expected this to go.

"I bet your parents took away access to your computer." The mailman said. "Well you shouldn't be trying to trick adults into giving you their phones. Go play with some other kids outside! If you run off now I won't tell your parents what you just tried."

"What but I didn't-" Frinkel objected.

"Go on shoo!" The dog insisted. "You got to the count of three if you don't want to be in trouble!"

"But I-"

"One."

"But that's not-"

"Two."

"I'm going I'm going!" Frinkel shouted as his ears flattened. Why were adults always so unreasonable! He just needed to- Wait. Why was he thinking of adults as some kind of separate entity from him! He was an adult! That's why he knew they were unreasonable! No! Wait... Adults were reasonable it was just.

Ugggh why were his thoughts so screwy right now!? He was an adult! And also a raccoon but that was less important right now! The point was he shouldn't be thinking like this as if all adults were just stupid face fun ruiners! I mean they were but he shouldn't be thinking that and wait a second he was doing it again!?

"Hey Frinkel!"

"GAAAH!?" Frinkel gave a shout as his thoughts were interrupted. Looking in front of him there was a squirrel kid standing before him. "Who are-"

"Oh yeah guess we haven't talked before." The squirrel chattered happily. "Not sure why since you're only two houses down from me. Guess just cause we're in different classes at school."

"Wait I go to school?" Frinkel tried to interject.

"I mean unless you're homeschooled or something." The squirrel continued. "But uh anyway! Me and the others-"

"Who are you?" Frinkel asked. Come to think of it... He had seen the kid around a few times. His parents lived down the street but he never really paid attention to what their kids were doing. But now he was kind of hoping that they might invite him to play sometime and... WAIT! He meant that they might have a computer he can use to reverse this!

"You don't know my name?" The squirrel looked sad. "I know we haven't talked much but we've lived on the same street our entire lives." His tail sagged at this. "But I'm Chip. And we need one more person to play ball! Do you wanna come?"

"Absolutely!" Frinkel responded without thinking. His tail wagged rapidly in excitement at the prospect. He couldn't believe he was being invited out with the other kids! And... And... And... That wasn't important! He still had to find a way to change back! "I mean! I need to use a computer! Or a cell phone!"

"Ah come on." Chip muttered. "You can play video games later! We've gotten the entire neighborhood together for this."

"But..." Frinkel thought about it for a moment. It did sound fun... And he had gotten so excited when he was invited. Maybe it wouldn't hurt just to play with them for a little bit. Besides, they'd probably be more likely to let him use their computer if he got to know them a bit first.

Frinkel followed Chip to his backyard. There was a decent sized groups of other kids assembled there. Some of them were normal animals like Chip, others were pokemon like Frinkel, and he was pretty sure at least one of them was a veemon. Apparently Chip and the veemon were the team captains. They each took turns calling different kids. Frinkel began to worry he might be picked last. After all he didn't know these kids and what if none of them actually wanted to play with him and maybe he should make an excuse to go home now and-

"Frinkel!" Chip gave a shout. Frinkel was the third person Chip had called to his team.

"Me!?" Frinkel was surprised. He was sure he was going to be left out.

"Yeah! Why not, haven't seen you play. If nothing else ya got like steel for bones or something right? Should be able to hit the ball pretty hard."

"Uh.. Uh right!" Again Frinkel felt his tail wagging. He couldn't help but be excited that he got picked that early! To think they'd really choose him! Without even having seen him play! He eagerly ran to stand behind Chip with the rest of his team. He tried to play it cool... But tails just seem to be incapable of telling lies. His hadn't stopped wagging since his name was called.

The game started soon. Frinkel couldn't recall himself having ever been exceptionally good at sports. But... His pokemon body was probably naturally more athletic than his raccoon body would have been. He was probably technically stronger as an adult raccoon... But he felt proportionally stronger for his current body size and age. Still... The first time he stepped up to bat he couldn't help but feel nervous.

He gripped the metal bat in his hands and stared down at the pitcher. It was an eevee girl. She eyed him down... Hid the ball behind her back for a moment... And then she threw the ball!

Frinkel swung and he missed!

"Strike one!" The veemon who was acting as catcher for his team gave a shout. Frinkel huffed and prepared himself for a second attempt.

Again the eevee girl stared intently at Frinkel. Then she threw the ball. This time the ball was slower. Frinkel swung his bat too soon! The edge of the bat made contact with the ball as it flew in the wrong direction landing in the neighbor's yard.

"Foul ball!" The veemon gave another shout. "That's two strikes!"

Frinkel's tail moved between his legs nervously. One chance left. He couldn't miss this. The other kids were relying on him. This was his chance to impress them so they'd want to hang out more! That was the entire reason he was playing with them? Right? He...

He just wanted to continue hanging out like this.

Frinkel took a deep breath. He calmed down. If that was what he really wanted here... He was sure even if he struck out they'd still invite him to play sometime. He had to just not freak himself out again. He looked at the eevee. She tossed the ball again. He swung his bat.

There was a loud 'clack' as his bat made contact. Then the ball was flying away from him. Frinkel stared in awe as he saw the ball go all the way to what would be outfield.

"What are you waiting for!?" Chip's voice sounded. "Run Frinkel!" Frinkel snapped back into alertness at this. Remembering how the game went he dropped his bat and took off running.

He rounded first base as the other kids were scrambling after the ball. A canary boy picked it up in the field. He was almost to second base when the ball was thrown. Frinkel dove for the base. The charmander playing second base caught the ball. For a brief moment everyone except for those two stared to see who was faster.

By the tip of his paws Frinkel managed to touch second base. The charmander reached down to tag him just a half second too late.

"You got lucky." The charmander huffed before tossing the ball back to the pitcher. Frinkel responded by standing up and sticking his tongue out at him.

With that the game continued. It went late into the evening. By the time it was over Chip and Frinkel's team had won by just a few runs. Most of the kids were laughing and plotting revenge about how they'd win the next time. Then most of them were heading back home. Soon the only ones left on the field were Frinkel and Chip.

"Hey everyone else has gone home..." Chip said looking over Frinkel. "Um... Did you still want to use my computer?"

"Nah it's fine." Frinkel shrugged. He had completely forgotten about that. It seemed like such a long time ago.

"Well I guess you should be getting home then." Chip responded as he stood up. "My mom and dad probably want me to come in for dinner soon. I'm sure your parents will want you home too."

Frinkel fell silent at this. It was hard to think about the state he had been in this morning. It was almost like a dream... Yet despite that he was fairly certain there were no parents waiting at home for him.

"Frinkel?" Chip picked up on his conflict. "Is something wrong." Then after a few moments realization seemed to dawn. "Hey... I've never seen your parents before."

"It's uh... Complicated." Frinkel managed to say. That was the truth! It was so complicated it was hard for him to think about why it was complicated though.

"Well um... How about!" Chip smiled. "How about... You stay for dinner! Heck you could spend the night! I'm sure mom and dad won't mind!"

"R-Really?" Frinkel stared at Chip in awe at the idea.

"Sure why not!" Chip smiled. "I mean we've lived on the same street our entire lives right? Seems criminal we've never had a sleepover! Usually kids the same age like us practically treat each other like brothers!"

Brothers. That word kind of had a funny sentimentality to it. Especially with what would come later once Chip's parents learned of Frinkel's living conditions. That however was not on Frinkel's mind tonight. Instead he just smiled and nodded happily as he followed his new friend and future brother into the house.

The End