Sean adjusts his black tie as he looks at himself in the mirror and takes a deep breath. Today is his first day on the job today and it was really making him nervous. He took a job as a nightwatch in an old pizza place. It doesn´t really pay well, but after being rejected from multiple other jobs he had grown desperate.

He would have to be at work in about an hour but he knew he would not be able to calmly sit around for that long so he decided to head out early to make himself familiar with his new workspace. On his way out he grabbed his black cap with white letters reading “security” which was a part of the work uniform and tried to ignore the heavy feeling in his stomach as he passes by the pile of unopen letters full with overdue bills and useless advertisement.

He arrived at work roughly 15 minutes later. His Boss told him he would leave him a message at the phone tonight so he was not surprised to find the place already empty. He pulls out a ring full with keys for every door in the building. He had to do some trial and error until he found the one for the front door which he then closed again behind him before heading for the main dining room.

Despite the very few costumers the place gets nowadays, the building was still rather big but really showed some marks that time left on it. The floorboards and walls had multiple bits where the color was peeling off making the already mostly grey well look even uglier. On one side of the room there was an old wooden show stage. Sean remembers that this place used to have these weird robot animals to entertain kids but had to sell them due to the constant pricy maintenance they required… In all honesty Sean was happy that those things where gone. They already freaked him out from the posters alone.

Sean walks down a dark corridor with a flickering ceiling light and soon reaches his new office, a claustrophobic little room with two entrances and an old naked light bulb hanging from the ceiling. The buzzing of electronics came from the monitors on the desk which displayed the camera view of the facility. Crumbled paper balls and old soda cups where laying around everywhere making the room look even less inviting but at least Sean finds a clean coffee cup among the chaos.

Coffee sounds just right to get through a long night shift so he took it an headed for the kitchen. His luck did not run out as he finds a coffee machine and a bag of coffee beans in it. He set up some water and prepared everything when he noticed something in the corner of the room. It looked like another dark spot in the wall at first but upon closer inspection it seems to be mold… in the kitchen of all places. How swell. No wonder the place is going bankrupt if this is how they run it. It may not be Sean´s task to keep the place clean but this was just disgusting.

He decides to take matters into his own hands and plans to remove that stuff. He heads back to the dining room and spots a heavy looking black door at the other side of the room saying “Employees only”

“Maybe this is the supply closet!” He thought to himself as he heads over and pushes himself against the door. It did not only look heavy it really was kinda heavy and Sean is not really what you could call physically strong.

After he opened the door he took a moment to adjust his round thick glasses and looks around the room. There were empty shelves hanging from the wall which had a thick layer of dust and spider webs on them. In the middle of the room was a single box labeled “spare parts” maybe this used to be the maintenance room when the place still had robots and arcade machines to do maintenance on… sadly no cleaning products in sight tho. Sean was just about to leave when he noticed something red peeking out from behind the box.

He made his way over to the table and pushed the box aside to reveal a pair of red rubbery looking gloves. Maybe they were used for handling electronics? They may not be what Sean was looking for but they would still come in handy in removing the mold since he was not planning to touch that stuff with his bare hands.

He blew the dust off the gloves which in return caused him to sneeze as he pulls them over his hands to try them on for size. He did not notice it until the glove was fully covering his hand… but this glove only had 3 fingers. A rather unusual design choice for sure. In what scenario would you need a 3 fingered glove?

He would not have time to think about that for long tho as he noticed an odd greenish glow coming from under the glove. He was just about to remove the glove to check what´s going on when all of the sudden he could feel an alien feeling in his fingers.

Under the glove he could feel his fingers begin to merge together in their respective finger hole of the glove. Sean flinches under the weird feeling as he grasp his right wrist with his left hand as his fingers fully fuse into three digits with a curved sharp looking shape…

He carefully moves his fingers to test what happened and shockingly confirming that his fingers indeed where reduced to 3 which felt incredibly off to move.

“W-what the…” Seam exclaimed under heavy breathing as the glow creeped out from the gloves and up his arms. It wasn´t just a glow tho, his skin was getting covered in a green digital looking pattern which was forcing his arm into a thinner and shorter shape before creeping up to reveal shiny looking purple skin.

Not only felt this sensation unpleasantly unusual but it also made Sean increasingly more panicked. He was completely frozen in place for a good while staring at his rapidly changing arms. It wasn’t until he could feel the glow spread to his chest when he realized he had to stop this.

His first instinct was to try to pull the red gloves off but either they were stuck to his hand or he could not get a good grasp on them with his new hands but they were not coming off either way. He had to get help… he had to get help fast! He made a dash towards the door, through the dining room, down the hallway and into his office where he hastily grasps the telephone receiver and clenches his three fingers around it. He moves his other hand towards the number pad hesitating on who to call when suddenly before he could even press a single button a weird voice spoke to him:

“Hehe you gonna cry for mommy now?”

It took Sean a moment to realize that the voice came from the receiver. His lip was trembling and his heart beat like a drum in his ears as he tried to find words of what to say all the while the glow was claiming more of his torso making it unnaturally round and smooth with the same shiny purple skin.

“W-who is this?! W-what is happening?!”

Asks Sean with a shaking, almost dying voice.

“Calm down looser! We´ll show you soon enough! Put your hand on one of those monitors in front of you!”

The voice on the other and had an exited tone in every word it spoke.

“What?!”

Sean did not understand how that would help him at all and was obviously hesitant but as the glow moved down his legs leaving his upper body fully purple with a yellow scared looking smiley with glasses he realized that he did not really have any other option but to trust the stranger on the phone.

He slowly reached for one of the monitors and pushes his palm against the glass as he was told feeling like being messed with at first but then the screen began to show static all of the sudden before the screen glitches out with purple, yellow, white and red colors.

Sean pulled his hand back just in time as a small impish looking creature pushed its head straight out of the screen.

“Ahhh it’s good to be back!”

Said the creature with a wide toothy smile as it crawls all the way out. It had the same purple looking skin that Sean was currently developing and a similar yellow mark on his belly but instead of a smiley it was a yellow smash logo and a pair of brown pilot goggles strapped around its round head.

The creature seems to completely ignore Sean at first reaching back into the screen to pull out another similar looking creature wearing a pink jacket with a happy yellow smiley with little fangs sticking out on its belly.

And then another came out of the screen this time a smiley with silly round cheeks and wearing green glasses.

“hehe see Mia? I told you it would work!”

said the first imp with the goggles.

“He´s still not done yet? Not even I needed that long to change!”

Said the one with the glasses while impatiently tapping his foot on the desk.

“Well not everyone is as welcoming as you Tim”

Said the pink wearing imp who’s name seems to be Mia with a somewhat kind sounding chuckle.

This was all too much for Sean to understand as the glow reached his feet causing them to swell into a round purple shape with 3 sharp claws sticking out at the front.

He raised his leg… his whole body felt so alien to move… he was so confused. This whole situation was so confusing… so terrifying.. so… hilarious. He had just enough time to question what he just thought in his head before the glow reached his neck and head making his head rounder smoothing all those edges like chin and cheekbones.

His cap was being pushed off his head by two purple ear-like extensions to his head which kinda looked like floppy horns or a jester hat. His face itself was becoming awfully pale to the point where it was almost purely white as his teeth sharpen into pointy fangs.

His mind was racing. He could feel thoughts leaking into his head which weren´t his own… thoughts about how much better he looked… how slick his body was… how much malicious fun he could have now… but… but this wasn´t right. No this doesn’t feel right at all… does it?

The imp with the goggles jumps down from the desk and approaches Sean with a smug grin as he looks into his eyes to observe the internal struggle of Sean. The imp grasps the now oversized tie which was still hanging around Sean´s neck and gives it a strong tug, stretching it down and letting it shoot back up with the tie suddenly changed into a red bandana which Mia now firmly ties with care behind Sean´s neck.

Despite these imps being so sketchy and sounding so malicious, Sean could not help but appreciate the somewhat kind gesture as he adjusts his big glasses which remained even after his body now fully changed. These imps… they… they are his friends…

The pilot goggle wearing imp suddenly grasps the newly changed Sean imp and warps his arm under his neck while rubbing his knuckles against his scalp.

“Hähä even as an imp your still rocking the nerd look!”

Said the imp in a mean yet somehow friendly sounding voice.

“Don´t be so rough with him Fabio!”

Said Mia to the pilot goggle wearing imp chuckling a little which made him release Sean from his grasp snickering to himself while Sean adjusted his glasses.

“Well hope your ready newbi” said Fabio with a grin.

“We have some trouble to make!”





This was a collab between me and a friend commissioned by SpringGreen

Original lineart was done by my friend while clean up, color, shading and story was done by me

This is my first real story i think so please let me know what cha think. English is not my first language so I apologise for any mistakes I made.

Thanks so much for commissioning me. I am honestly incredibly thankful that people actually seem to somewhat like my content now and that someone would like it enough that they would be ready to pay me is honestly mind blowing to me. Just two months ago I was unhappy with my art and barely ever got more then 10 favs if I was lucky but now I actually feel motivated and was even able to make some new connections. Drawing is actually consistently motivating and fun now and just recently I broke the 100 watcher milestone... i dont even know the words to really say how much this means to me so just... thanks to everyone who is along for the ride. Sorry for the little positive rant I am just incredibly happy about this.