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( Transformation M human - F inflatable, no sex, occasional swearing )

"So, err, just wear swimming trunks?" I asked. The soldier nodded.

Well, he was the guy with the gun, and his commanding officer was paying me, so...

I was a contractor that the military had called up, and summoned to Walter's Water World. All I knew about the place was that some incident had happened there and it had been under lockdown for the last two months. And now I had been instructed to come with my maintenance tools, directed to the changing rooms, and told to get into my swimming trunks.

Glad to be away from the military guys, I got changed in the empty room, feeling nervous and clueless about what was going to happen next. By the time I had put my clothes into the locker I was getting a bit creeped out by the silence. I hastily picked up my tools, and walked through the opposite exit into...

"Hi, welcome to Walter's Water World!"

I had just entered into a large, cheery, well lit water park. And the person who greeted me was a tall, mascot-like creature. She looked like an inflatable panda doll, yet human shaped. And frankly, attractively human shaped. She wore a fetching bikini that was apparently made from the same material as her skin.

"Ahhh... hello?"

The... mascot? Waved me through, her movements smooth and humanlike, not at all like an animatronic. I could see right through the colourful, translucent plastic of her body, and I had no idea what was animating her.

A few dozen men and a smaller compliment of women were relaxing round the pool with drinks, or swimming. They were all fit and pretty young, all dressed in swimming costumes like me.

Soldiers maybe? I thought. No guns, which I guess is reassuring.

They were being attended on by other inflatable mascot animal people, as if this was an everyday thing.

"I'm Alice," said the panda mascot next to me. Her voice had a very slight electronic edge, but otherwise sounded very human. "Can I get you a drink?"

"I... suppose an orange juice..."

"Oy, new guy, incoming!" shouted a large man in speedos towards me. He hurled a can and I just about caught it. Alice tutted loudly at him as I realised he had just chucked me a beer.

"I'm glad they're having fun, but they shouldn't throw hard objects around," said Alice, disapprovingly.

I watched her short muzzle move as she talked. Her lips shaped the words convincingly, but it sounded like she was talking through a speaker.

"It's all weird, isn't it," she added, with a grin.

I nodded quickly, feeling overwhelmed. Overcome by her, by how innocuous, bright and happy the water park was.

She sat down at the poolside and dunked her feet into the water, though they mostly floated on the surface. I followed her down and sat nearby.

"So, Walter the owner is a mad scientist or something. Two months ago he released some robot things and they turned some of us into these inflatable dolls."

"He..." I started. I had no way to process what she had just said.

"Yep, I was a human, now I'm not."

"I'm... sorry?" I managed. I didn't want to sound like an asshole, but I couldn't read her artificial face to get an idea of what she was feeling. I looked into the mascot's expressive, painted rubber eyes, looking for... something. Grief? Anger?

Surely it was a joke, and she was just an animatronic. But how would that even work? _How was she moving?_

Alice smiled a little. "Yeah, I'm taking it well. I was pretty shook up about it at the time. Walter thought that turning us into pool toy people and having us serving people would be a unique draw. He thought we'd all just go along with that. I told you he was mad, didn't I. Anyway, we beat him up and tied him to a chair. The robots just let us do it, which is nice."

"How did he... turn you?"

The inflatable panda woman shrugged. "Your guess is as good as mine. So the police took him in and the government locked the water park down for the last two months. But the machinery needs maintenance, and so now we have a new visitor!" Alice's voice became quite giddy at the last few words. She smiled widely at me.

"Well... I've got some experience with leisure tech and rec machines," I said, more confident now the conversation had gone in a direction I could actually contribute meaningfully to.

"No hurry. Would you like to enjoy the beer first? I can give your back a massage."

"Well, I... I shouldn't drink before I do my work. Massage?"

"I've not touched a human in two months," said Alice, desperation suddenly tinging her voice. "I... sorry... the scientists thought we might be... contagious or something. Please..."

I felt a pit open in my stomach. As well as she was taking her... situation, she still seemed to be hurting in some places. I nodded.

The doll eagerly scooted behind me and laid her hands on my back. I felt the rubber surfaces press against my bare skin. She was trembling a little, and just laying her fingers there.

Some of the soldier boys at the poolside looked over, curiously. I wondered why what we were doing would interest them.

Oh fuck, what if she _is_ contagious?!

I sat in place, rigid, as Alice's hands finally started to work on me. She seemed to be pressing as hard as she could, but her digits just buckled against my muscles. But when I looked backwards she had a daft grin on her muzzle.

I slowly relaxed, glad to be able to help, even just by providing contact. And it did feel pretty good.

---

Alice led me past a no entry sign into the back rooms. The work corridor we paced through was pleasingly clean, tidy and well painted, unusual for non-customer facing areas. The pool toy, or doll? Was extremely light on her feet, almost moon walking with each step. She held my hand, adjusting her grip, enjoying my contact. It felt to me like I was holding an inflated rubber glove, which pretty much described Alice's hand perfectly.

Alive unlocked and opened a door with a big DANGER warning sign and showed me the wave machine that was broken down. I gave the great assemblage a professional look over.

"It's a hydrofoil type," I said eventually. "Something's caught in the cogs. Looks big and metal. Probably someone's toolbox."

Alive stayed well out of the room while I started the machine up and set it to a slow reverse, hoping to free whatever was trapped.

The large metal box fell out from between the cogs and clattered on the ground. Now it was out of the machinery, I could see it had caterpillar tracks and a metal arm, which suddenly flinched and swung around. The arm pressed into the ground and the machine levered itself up and onto its tracks.

What the heck is this?" I asked myself. Another arm sprouted from the box, this one with a camera attached.

"Get out of there!" shouted Alice with panic in her voice. I back-pedalled quickly.

The panda doll stepped into the doorway between me and the box. She sighed with relief.

"I think you're safe," she said. "It won't harm me, and there's no way I'm letting it through the doorway. It's one of the robots that turned us. Looks like they missed this one."

I looked right through the panda's semi clear skin to the automaton she was blocking. It was looked like a mobile car factory robot, badly dented by the wave machine. It trundled up to the doorway and stopped.

"Let's go back and ask to see the Major, let him know there's a robot here," said Alice to me. "Give me a sec to lock the-"

A hose shot out of the box, whipped between Alice's legs and connected with my stomach.

"Aaahhhh!" I managed. The hose sealed to my flesh. I gingerly touched the area and felt no join at all. I grabbed at the tube and pulled, but that only stretched my skin.

The pipe hissed and I felt air pour into my stomach. Alice looked at me with horror, an expression I returned.

My stomach inflated, then... returned to normal as the air flow reversed and I felt very, very empty. Then the air rushed back in.

If the air gets into my bloodstream I could die. But it feels so... soothing...

I had a go at panicking but really didn't feel it. The machine seemed to be breathing, pumping me with air then pulling some out. Each time more and more air remained within me. By the forth 'breath' the gas seemed to fill my torso and reach down into my groin.

Where were my insides going? Was it all turning to air?

I rubbed my stomach and noticed that my hair was dropping off and my pores were smoothing into a silky sheen.

Alice picked up a big spanner from my toolkit, with both hands and a lot of effort. She raised it high above the robot.

"Ahhhh, hhhhh, don't!" I managed, just as my lungs dissolved. It was too late - if she broke the machine, I'd probably be a goner. I extended out a hand. Alice dropped the spanner, reached over and held it. I tried to say something but could only wheeze as the robot thing breathed for me. I managed to smile serenely, acceptingly to her. If this was my fate then so be it. Alice was proof that it wasn't really _that_ bad.

I noticed I was becoming... shapely, like the panda doll. My chest puffed out with two increasingly buxom domes. I blushed as my masculinity drained away, leaving sculpted feminine curves. As my arms and legs started to hollow out they also lost muscle definition and became more supple, delicate and graceful. I knew I was going to become a doll like her, but, well, I thought I'd still be a male? Apparently not.

"I've let a guest get into an... accident," said Alice. "I'm so sorry."

I felt more bad for her than for myself. What happened really seemed to hit her hard. But I was impressed by her actions, her attempts to save me. I just had no way to communicate it.

I experimentally squished my new, plastic bosoms. The two rather shapely curves had no _detail_, per se. They were white, like the rest of my front, while my sides sides and back were turning orange. Already I could see through my chest. Inside was no muscle or bones, no _anything_ except space. And yet I still moved.

My hands flexed and twitched as they hollowed out, their fleshy contents just going away, being replaced with mere gas. The skin on them turned black, like silky gloves.

The air that was already rushing through my wind pipe, now also filled the rest of my neck. Ohmygod, I realised, my head was next. What was going to happen to my brain and stuff?

"Aggghhhlllllllhhhh..." I gurgled, wide-eyed.

"It's okay, it's okay!" said Alice in what was probably her best attempt at being soothing, but she was just as panicky as I was.

My head swelled a bit. My cranium felt like it was hollowing out, most likely because it surely was. I felt terror as my brain eroded and evaporated.

Don't lose myself! Don't loo... +++ ... 444... 445... myself... don't lose myself...

Oh thank fuck I'm still here! I'm still me! What the hell am I thinking with? Doesn't matter, I'm still me!

I closed my eyes. And somehow started to see anyway. I rubbed over my eye sockets with my new hands and felt a plastic sheen, saw my fingertips in blurry super close up. I knew my eyes must now be like Alice's - painted on, yet still somehow working fine.

My face elongated before my eyes. I was growing a snout. I lolled my tongue out, then licked at my pseudo-mouth with its little, inoffensive teeth.

What of me was still human? Just my feet, and I could feel them emptying already. My bum itched oddly, then sprouted a long growth from what used to be my spine, which spilled out of the top of my trunks. The growth filled like a long and thick balloon. I realised I was now the proud owner of a tail.

And finally, my body finished its changes. Just like that, and with little fanfare, I left humanity forever. All there was left to feel was the air rushing into me and pumping back out.

Thinking of which, a seam had formed around where the hose connected into me. I gingerly reached down, pulled and it unplugged from what used to be my belly button but was now a valve. I quickly sealed the opening while the robot retracted the hose back into its body, then became motionless and inert.

I realised I could still breathe, though I didn't really have to. I pulled air past my lips and it joined the gasses that filled my body, inflating my plastic shell. I exhaled again, in the normal fashion.

Huh... maybe I can...

"Hhhhhhhhhh..." I managed to say as I breathed out, the tone tinged with the same synthetic edge as Alice's voice. I curled my long plastic tongue back towards my throat and felt a metallic grill where my tonsils used to be. Was it a speaker? Or an air filter?

"Thhhiis is..." Oh, I sounded female. Quite nice, too. I looked over my body, stretching and flexing my synthetic shell. I had turned into a ladylike version of my favourite animal, a fox.

"I'm sorry I couldn't save you," said Alice, morosely.

I smiled a little, curling up the edges of my snout, and squeezed her hand. My sense of touch was somewhat the same, though my skin felt more smooth and slippery.

"Yhhoo... tried," I responded. "It waas juhhst sneahhky."

The panda doll looked relieved.

"How are you feeling?" she asked.

I lashed my new tail. It imitated a fox's floof simply by being much thicker, like a lizard tail. I had no idea how I was animating it, though now I was a... doll? I could feel the air passing through my joints in a measured, automatic way. Pneumatics played a part somehow. But that only started to explain it.

"Diffehhrent... not bad..."

"We need to get back and tell the Major what happened. They'll probably keep the water park shut for even longer."

My heart sank at that, and Alice's frown showed the same. But... why did I care?

Because I wanted the park to be open. I wanted to be surrounded by people having fun. I wanted to serve them drinks. I couldn't drink anymore myself, and didn't want to. But I wanted to see folks happy and relaxed.

I had a whole new set of needs and priorities. It felt a bit... intrusive having my mind rewired like that. But I was still me, more or less, and I was, if anything, excited to explore what had changed.

"Well... lehhts go, I guess," I said.

The panda doll closed and locked the door, trapping the robot inside.

I started to walk back with Alice, lost my footing almost immediately and fell over. I weighed almost nothing and even dropping took a half second longer than I expected. As I bobbed around the floor trying to get back up, Alice giggled a little, guiltily. I chuckled back, seeing the humour, and let her effortlessly pull me back to my feet.

I figured out how to walk with almost no weight, taking a step and waiting just a moment for my body to float back down to make the next. We managed five steps, then I stopped and looked back towards where we had been, a grimace on my face.

Alice grinned. "I bet I know what you feel."

"Yeah," I replied. The wave machine still needed work, and that _bothered_ me. No waves meant less fun for the people in the park.

I had just undergone some bizarre transformation into a completely different being. And now I _really_ wanted to finish the job they called me in to do. My new mind wanted happiness and harmony in the water park. Indulging it was like recovering with a nice stiff drink.

"If you gho and tell the Major, I'll check the mahhchinery and start it up if it's fine."

Alice nodded and handed me the keys. As she paced away I locked myself in the room with the robot and quickly got to work.

Using my tools turned out to be harder than I expected. I just didn't have the strength of my fleshy old body, but at least I also didn't tire out no matter how much I exerted myself.

When I failed to turn a spanner the robot returned to life, making me flinch. It reached over with a telescoping claw and did the operation I was attempting with enviable ease. I suppressed the urge to thank it, given it was the little bastard that had transformed me in the first place. But I did marvel at what a miracle of engineering it had to be.

I guess I'm also a really advanced machine? Or... something.

A few minutes of hard work later I heard a hurrying of footsteps from outside. I peered through the door's glass panel to see a bunch of uniformed soldiers forming a line.

I pressed a button and the wave machine rumbled into life. The hydrofoil slid along a groove in the floor and somewhere above me a swimming pool entered choppy seas. I felt a wonderful sense of accomplishment, as if the world had become a better place. The feeling doubled as I heard a distant but hearty cheer from the park attendees.

I almost literally floated on air as I returned to the door, just as someone thudded their fist on it. I slowly opened the door, to be confronted by twelve assault rifles, all pointed in my direction. That diminished my spirits a bit.

The Major coughed. "Sorry, sir... ma'am... I'm going to pass you some instructions on how to disable the robot. Please close the door and carry them out as soon as possible."

I smiled again. "I'll be pleased to help!" I said, genuinely.

---

The day passed eventfully. I served the doctors, psychologists and scientists with drinks as they looked me over and carried out their tests. I talked to the other dolls, particularly one who had started out as a private in the Event Response Force and was now, having been a casualty of the war with Walter's robots, a cute inflatable crocodile.

A few hours later, I noticed something odd.

"I'm... uhhh... deflating," I said to Alice, a little worried. Now I looked at her I realised she was too. We sagged, our limbs flopping.

"Don't worry," she said. "You've been through a heavy day, and you need to sleep. Let's go to the shelves."

I got permission to break off the trauma debrief and counselling session. Truth be told, there was little they could do for me, and little that really needed to be done. I didn't feel traumatised or injured. I was... different. In fact, I was going to embrace this new life and explore my new goals. Unlike Walter's robots, the humans didn't consider us to be a threat, and it was looking likely that soon we'd be allowed out of the park. And while I loved it here, there was plenty more water out there to welcome folks into.

But that would be the future. This night, the first since I stopped being a human, I was sitting on a staff room table and deflating. I experimentally squished my flattening head with my sagging hands. In the nearby mirror my partly scrunched up face looked pretty freaky, with the same disturbing vibes as a horror movie doll. I grinned unevenly at that.

Despite losing control of my limbs I felt content and sleepy. Alice had opened the valve at my belly button and it hissed softly. She folded up my tail and squeezed it against her chest in a bear hug to remove more air, and I wheezed from the valve and my mouth.

"Whhh haaaappppnnnnssss nnnnxxxxt?" I managed.

Alice pressed all the air out of my arms and legs and folded them into my torso. I twitched the limbs and wiggled my wrinkled, flat fingers and toes weakly. The doll's hands felt soothing on my plastic flesh.

"We'll sleep for seven hours," she said. "Then the night crew will reinflate us at the end of their shift. And then we can welcome more visitors. Hopefully we'll get an update about opening to the public, or at least to the other branches of the military."

"Thaaaaat'd beeeeeee niiiiiii..."

All of my air was gone. Alice lifted and folded me up again and again until I was the size of a cushion. The world started to drift away as she placed me gently into a shelf above a few other deflated dolls.

"See you tomorrow, sweetie," she said with a grin, and the last thing I experienced that night was her patting me on my folded shell.

I fell into a deep sleep, on my way to experiencing my first full day of many as a mascot, fixer-upper and eager entertainer for all the humans coming to enjoy Walter's Water World.