I Never Asked For This! Adventures in Humanhood!

[vela_nova]

Who: Team Sonic
What: What's that thing we found--OH GOD WHY ARE WE HUMANS NOW?
Where: Storage Room to start
When: Saturday Night
Warnings: B for WHY AM I SO BALD

Blaze wasn't exactly one for scrounging, but given the state of subsistence they'd all been reduced to since coming to the mansion, she'd had to learn to make do. And one such circumstance sent her looking for towels, tarps, anything she could find to keep things dry. With the rainy season starting and seemingly never wanting to end, things were getting very damp very quickly.

Finding a storage room, Blaze rummaged through boxes, trying to find anything to fight back the encroaching moisture. But what else would she find on her search, I wonder?

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[yournewcaptain]

The door into the storage room slammed open to reveal a very soaked, very grumpy raccoon.

"CRIKEY!! This bloomin' RAIN!!" Marine shouted, nearly straining her voice. She sloshed in and kicked the door closed behind her, flicking rain water off her arms and hands angrily.

"I don't mind a bit o' water, but I'd like to remain dry for longer than three minutes!!"

[mach_n_roll]

"Oh come on, Marine, it isn't so bad." Sonic chimes in, following the racoon inside. He notices a cushion that had the misfortune if being under a ceiling leak, and picks it up, wringing about a liter of water out of it with an unimpressed look.

"Yeah okay, so maybe it IS that bad." He concedes, but his mood changes when he notices Blaze behind a pile of boxes.

"Hey gorgeous!" Sonic scrambles into the boxes over her and jerks a thumb at Marine. "Yanno, if you're looking for a wet blanket, there's one right over here."

[vela_nova]

Things were so quiet just a moment ago... She jumped when the door slammed open, but caught herself quickly and recomposed herself. Even if her tail was still standing at attention.

"Hi, Sonic, hi Marine," she said with a small smile. "I think there's far too many wet blankets around here already. I was hoping to find something to dry up with. But now that you're both here, you can give me a hand."

[mach_n_roll]

He grunts thoughtfully. "Well... Alright. I'll look around up here."

He leans against a box, still standing atop the pile and decidedly not looking around yet.

"Say, Marine, maybe you can find the parts for some kinda turbo-drying gizmo in here too!"

[yournewcaptain]

As Blaze spoke of sifting through loads of boxes, Marine scrunched up her nose. Eugh, so much work! But Sonic's mention of gizmos caused her to change her tune.

"Strewth!? I KNEW there'd be something useful in 'ere! Maybe I can find some materials to fashion a new energy converter..!" she exclaimed before practically diving at a cluttered stack of boxes, determined to emerge with "that final piece" she'd been hoping she'd find in the future.

[vela_nova]

Blaze rolled her eyes. She had a boyfriend who seemed determined not to do work, and a friend who seemed determined to make a mess. But she wouldn't have had them any other way... She cracked the smallest of smiles at the thought, as she got back to her own searching.

But when she opened one of the boxes, something strange caught her eye. A glint, that the low light of the room amplified off of cut and polished surfaces. She curiously reached in and drew out...

"A Chaos Emerald...?" she asked. It sure looked like one, but it wasn't any color she recognized. It was... pink??

[mach_n_roll]

That makes Sonic's ears perk up. He leans precariously above her to get a better look, still in top of the box pile.

"Hey yeah! That sure looks like one, anyway! It's kind of a weird color though, and I don't feel any power from it."

Nothing he could identify as a chaos emerald, anyway. There was SOMETHING there, but he can't really get a sense of it yet...

"If I've got the Chaos Emeralds and you have the Sol Emeralds, then maybe this is one of the ones for this world?"

[yournewcaptain]

Marine stopped her box shuffling to listen in on her friends.

"Wot? EMERALD?"

Without hesitating, she ran to Blaze's side, shoving Sonic out of the way. She snatched it up and held it out in front of her to better look it over.

"Croikey, it sure is a shiner, innit? It must be worth heaps!"

[mach_n_roll]

It wasn't just him she shoves; when she tramples over and through part of the box pile he's perched on, it loses what stability it had. While she's admiring the gem, Sonic wobbles on his crumbling perch for a single moment, bristling and wide-eyed as he realizes what's happened, and then starts to topple over with comical slowness.

"Whoa whoa whoa WHOA--"

Look out below! Hedgehog and boxes incoming!

[vela_nova]

"It could be," Blaze replied. "I'd never even considered that this world would have it's own--"

She was cut off by Marine barging over to do her own investigation. And in the process, causing the box stack to topple over, with Sonic right on top of them.

"MARINE!" Blaze shouted, grabbing on to her to try and shield her from the falling debris. But as she took hold of Marine, the gem in her hand started to glow, brighter and brighter, until the light enveloped all three of them...

[yournewcaptain]

"Wot the...?!" Marine shielded her eyes from the light just as the boxes tumbled on top of her. A double-whammy of a disaster in a matter of seconds, yes.

Her cursing was muffled beneath the boxes, which shifted mildly as she tried her darndest to get free. With one final kick, she sent them comically flying in all directions.

She emerged out of breath with quite a few bruises, but that wasn't what was bothering her at that point. There was... stringy stuff in her eyes.

"Oh, what's all this, then?" she ranted, pointing at her face. "Did a mop fall on my 'ead?" She reached around her head to grab for a broom handle but, in the end, she came up with nothing.

[sexyspybat]

"Hello? Is anyone here? I heard a series of thumps and wanted to make sure no one was injured."

Rouge poked her head into the room with mild concern. Well, she WAS concerned, but mostly the excess rain had left her stir crazy. Finally, something a tidge exciting... loud noises!

She gasped as she realized what she was seeing: potentially heavy boxes strewn about the room haphazardly with her friends among them in varying degrees of "smushed." Except...

"Um, hey, you. With the pigtails. Are you new here? I haven't seen you around before." The girl seemed familiar, but she wasn't sure how. She reminded her of that little obnoxious raccoon girl. But the person in front of her wasn't a raccoon girl...

[mach_n_roll]

"Ugh, aow..." Says a rather large box next to her with a THIS END UP arrow pointing down emblazoned on the side. It shifts drunkenly, then overturns itself to reveal lanky swaths of pale skin and blue hair... and not much else, save for a pair of sneakers. Sonic sits up, cross-legged and dazed.

"Man, what HAPPENED? Why's it so cold in here alluva sudden? And why... am... I so tall..."

...

"NNGYAH!" A lot of things parse at once, but he quickly grabs the nearest thing available to cover himself with, which happens to be that water-soaked cushion he'd played around with with before. He throws it into his lap with an audible and unpleasant-sounding SPLUTT! "What the HECK?!"

[vela_nova]

"Ah... My head..." A girl with long purple hair done up in a ponytail poked her head out of the stack of boxes next. When she did, the jewel toppled out of the box pile to land at Rouge's feet, and she rubbed her head. "Marine, next time you want to take a look, you should just... ask..."

Something felt different. Slowly she lowered her hand. Was her arm always that long? She lifted a hand to touch her cheek. "Wh... What happened?"

She looked around quickly, vision coming back from the blinding light. That's when she saw Sonic and Marine. "...WHAT?!"

[yournewcaptain]

Marine gave up trying to sweep her bangs behind her ...weird, small, rounded ears and let them hang down in front of her face. At least her pigtails were still intact. When she looked up, she gasped and pointed at Sonic.

"SONIC!! YOU'RE DIFFERENT! ...gack, and NAKED!!" She turned away, flustered. "I don't know what's going on, but 'ave some common decency, ya ocker!"

And then she noticed Blaze was different, too.

"GYAAHH, BLAZEY!! You're missin' your fur, too!!"

[sexyspybat]

Rouge looked on awkwardly as the three freaked out over their new appearances. Humanization wasn't THAT big a deal as she'd seen it quite a lot before, but clearly it was a surprise for these guys.

"Calm down, everyone, calm down," she coaxed, approaching them and their glorious mess of boxes. "It looks like you've found yourself a Humanization artifact. And on accident, apparently."

[mach_n_roll]

"Whoa, I heard of those things! But I never thought we'd find one like this..." Sonic replies, not quite invested in the conversation yet because he's got more pressing things on his mind. Like how imperative it was that he find something to wear. Much as it would probably chafe, he couldn't count on fur and clever biology to cover him right now, and he's already heard enough of Marine's yelling.

"Can... someone throw me something?"

[vela_nova]

"Whatever it is, what's it doing here?!" Blaze demanded, fighting an urge to hide herself. She wasn't naked, but she felt so embarrassed by this, and she wasn't sure why. This wasn't her!

Although after taking a look, Sonic looked like he had a LOT more to be embarrassed over. She quickly covered her eyes, but then remembered... it's not like she's never seen him naked before. But that being said, it wasn't like they had an abundance of outfits for him. She unzipped her purple coat and slid it off, leaving her in the white unitard underneath, and threw it to him. "You can use this around your waist for now."

[mach_n_roll]

"Uh..."

Oh, he's grateful. There's no doubt about that. It's just that Blaze's new willowy form sliding out of that coat and leaving just s snow-white bodysuit underneath, leaves him without the words to express it. He realizes that he's staring, and takes the coat with a nod and a vague thankful noise, suddenly blushing wildly.

[yournewcaptain]

Marine watched the exchange and grew a little flustered. How dare they forget she's there

"SONIC!!"

She stormed over and smacked him upside the head.

"Just WHY are you blushing?! Stop looking at Blaze like that and cover yourself!!"

She turned to Rouge, still clearly peeved.

"So I'm a 'uman now? Wot, am I stuck like this forever?!"

[sexyspybat]

Rouge rolled her eyes. These guys were such prudes.

She took a few steps closer and placed her hands on her hips, grinning at Sonic.

"Don't be so shy, sweetie. If you've got it, flaunt it. That's what I always say. You don't look half bad. Blaze is a lucky woman," she teased.

She gestured in a calming manner as she explained things to Marine.

"No, twerp, calm down. You should be able to change back. The process is different for each artifact, but it's easy. Now, where's the item? Let's take a look at it."

[vela_nova]

"T-that's not the point here," Blaze replied, face red, trying to divert attention away from Sonic's, er, gifts. "Look, the item is at your feet, whatever it is!" she shouted, pointing at the gem.

[mach_n_roll]

Aside from the quiet "Aow!" When Marine whapped him, Sonic had been peculiarly silent for a while. He isn't sure which was more surreal; the fact that he was now human and so were most of the others, or the fact that Rouge was complimenting him on it... He does his best to wrap the coat around him as a makeshift purple kilt, and then tries to stand up.

The operative word here, is TRIES. To best describe his first attempts to get to his feet, first imagine a newborn giraffe, and then give it nitrous oxide. He wobbles and lands on his nonexistant tail, tries again, and thankfully synapses reconfigure in a hell of a hurry for him, and he gains his balance after about twenty seconds.

"Does it have anything to do with the way it triggers in the first place?" Wobble, step. "Because it didn't even do that until I fell on it off that pile of boxes."

And that was when he DID have proper motor coordination.

[yournewcaptain]

Marine was miffed. Answers weren't forthcoming as quickly as she'd like and she was growing very impatient.

Ignoring Sonic's plight, she stomped over to the gem, snatched it up, and carried it to Rouge, shoving it into her hands.

"Yeah, yeah, alroight already! Quit dawdling and start explainin', ya scrub!"

[sexyspybat]

Rouge giggled at Sonic's bumbling.

Upon contact with the gem, Rouge FWASHed into her own human form. Once the bright light subsided, she blinked the shock out of her eyes and looked down at her body, curious as to why her top suddenly felt unusually tight.

"Well, my my my, look what happened," she said with a distinct lack of surprise. "I guess that answers that question." And apparently her human form was just as busty as her bat form, if not more so. She adjusted it to cover more of her breasts to spare the others more awkwardness.

"Every transformation artifact is different, Sonic," she continued. "I've seen some that activate with a simple touch and others that take some epic concentration of chakra or some nonsense like that. It seems as though this one is pretty straightforward. And I find it ironic that the speed demon prime himself is having so much trouble simply standing up in human form," she said, grinning widely.