The charizard stumbled, falling to his knees as the trainer stands over him. The trainer is talking to his pokemon, a Lucario, but he cannot hear them quite clearly, as he is quite dizzy after the fight, almost like he is about to faint. With one click of the ball, he watches through blurry eyes as the Lucario begins to glow red, it beginning to float as the ball begins to take him in. His eyes shoot wide as he watches the bangs on the back of their head shrivel away, sliding back into their head as the Lucario seemingly does not even care about what is occurring...

Its bone spurs, once long and proud begin to pair down, the points seemingly caving in as they shrivel away back into their skin, which had begun to lose fur as they too were sporadically sucked back into their body. Their wide smile depreciated as their teeth sank in one-by-one, their joy-filled expression warping as their snout crumped back into their body. Their tongue fell limp, long exceeding their now non-existent snout, but that too was quickly retracted back into their body, their jaw sealing itself shut as its face lost all of its fur...

The fur continued to vanish, moving like a wave across their head, and upon reaching their ears, they shed it all at once, them shooting straight upright before they folded forwards, clogging up the holes they would have left behind if they were to simply slink away like the rest of him. They shut their eyes for the las time, their eyes rolling upwards as both sides sealed shut, leaving their head a featureless black circle... This wasn't the end, however, as the skin began to tighten around his featureless head, it briefly showing the withered outline of the beasts skull before suddenly jolting smaller with a decisive crack, their body momentarily going limp before their arms shakily came back up. The charizard was not just scared, but petrified as it sat and watched on in horror as the misshapen orb that once was a Lucario's head shrunk smaller and smaller, eventually shrinking to the diameter of their neck and slowly pushing it down into their scruff as the rest of their body began to shake...

Their tail began to wag, a sudden sign of life before that too began to shrink, it sending another wave that took out not only the fur on its tail, but all of the fur on its thighs, revealing how thin they really were. He placed their arms over their chest as their paws began to twitch, each of their beans shrinking one at a time, their wrists cracking and being overtaken by nothing as their arms slowly began to slink away into their body bottom-up, losing all the fur on their arms and torso in the process. There was a quiet crack as they ran over their lower arm, then their upper arms, and finally their shoulders as the long, round padding that connected their shoulders to their bodies imploded like a pierced cushion, sinking in and causing their entire torso to become misaligned, their spine sending out a painful sounding crack...

Their legs joined together in response, but it was not long until they were gone too. Their paws, which had begun to twiddle like thumbs with each other lost their length, seemingly dislocating as their ankles dislocated. Their canine feet became shorter and shorter until their paws were where their ankles were, their paw toes being crushed together into the vacuum left behind. It was not long until their legs themselves began to break down, Both sides of them amalgamating together and forcing themselves in place of their pelvis, which had long since vanished. With no where else to go, the energy started working on their torso, their already thin physique becoming deathly thin, shrinking down to their bones as if their skin had nothing else left to hold onto. The Charizard watched with teared up eyes as their spine started to vanish link by link, allowing the body to shorten until it was only the ribs left...

Their skin continued tightening around their ribs, that had begun to thin and warp, now without a breastplate as their torso was pared down to a single, small ball. As long as they had held out, their skin finally tore away, being vacuumed up by an unseen force as it revealed a small, red ball of energy, surrounded briefly by a few sporadic ribs, which clutched it as long as they could before they were finally dissolved into it. The balls beam finally claimed its prize, dragging the orb into its gaping maw before snapping shut, all semblence of light fading away as the trainer simply placed it into his bag as stepped forwards...

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The Charizard shot back in terror, using his injured claws to shuffle back as far as he could before hitting a tree. It was far too weak to fight, and expected a similar faith to the Lucario before him. He held his head behind his arms as he watched as the trainer held his arm to him, only mustering the bravery to see that they weren't holding anything after a couple of seconds of silence. A moment of silence was shared between the two, followed by the trainer clarifying:
"Well? You lost the match, so you owe me those Pokedollars!"

The charizard was just more confused, they knew what Pokedollars were, but he did not have them, nor did he ever start any bets with the trainer who had attacked him. He would pipe up about the misunderstanding, but he did not know how to speak, at least in a language that he could understand. He was just thinking to just try to escape, but the thought was struck from his mind by a sudden jolt that surged across his entire body. Startled, he shot to his feet, looking to his tail, the source of the sensation to try and see what the problem was, only to realise in horror that his tail had gone out.

A cold sensation fell over his body, which he could not tell was even related to his tail going out, or was born from fear. He flapped his wings, only to have their skin tear as he extended them, holes appearing all over as they begun to unravel. The Charizard stared back at them in pure terror. He felt no pain, despite the holes widening like a burning tapestry, but the Charizard was convinced that he was about to meet the same faith a the Lucario. He fell back to his knees and begged the trainer for mercy as the skin binding his wings dissolved away. They straightened themselves out before pushing in, small cracks and pops coming from them as they slinked into his back, nver to be seen again. The trainer just laughed, reaffirming the strange tangent he was on earlier, simply telling the Charizard:
"Come on, no takebacks! I won fair and square!"

The charizard felt a strong jolt in their stomach as it sucked in, rolling onto their back in order to inspect as his gullet continued to suck in, his legs occasionally twitching, growing thinner with each twitch. It tried to look back to see if they even had wings anymore, but were stopped in their tracks by a painful twinge, only now realising that their neck had become shorter and less agile while they weren't paying attention. Luckily, being on their back, the Charizard had a front row seat to their tail beginning to slink and squirm back into their body, somehow not even making a dent in their sinking stomach. They felt every segment of coccyx vanish into thin air one at a time as they squirmed to get off their back, only managing to do so once their tail was barely 8 segments long, being fully erased soon afterwards.

The Charizard stood tall and felt their throat tighten, going still as it shrunk in width and length until it matched the proportions of a human neck, complete with exposed collarbone, before looking about and assessing their changes. Their gullet was continuing to shrink, trying its best to match the desired outcome as the bottom half sucked itself in, its soft belly getting softer as a belly button formed over it. Their legs had straightened out fully, now strangely disproportionate to their feet, which were still quite inhuman and nearly twice the width of his legs and his entire body had seemingly changed size, being a lot shorter than the towering dragon he once was. He lifted up his arm to confirm his suspicions, and as if on cue, he watched them shift too...

The now anthropomorphic Charizard watches as his claws crack, the space between them and his wrist bloating up and forming a disc-like extension, extending his palm to a usable length. His bone claws retracted into his fingers, before they too cracked, becoming shorter and thinner until they were proportional to something a human would have, the empty space created by his fingers being so thin causing his palm to sprout two new fingers: a middle one and a pinky. His thumb had also changed, shrinking down and thinning in a way not too dissimilar to his original fingers, although it stopped before it became as thin as his other fingers, instead embedding far into the side of his palm with a mighty ker-chunk, creating his thumb. His skin began to soften up, the orange scales on his knuckles turning pale, before the rest of his arms became much paler in color, more matching descriptions of peach than orange. His suspicions were confirmed: he was slowly becoming a human! Although strangely, he also watched as a strange brown strap appeared from out of his sight, wrapping itself around his wrist...

The rest of his body began to discolor, trying its best to dilute itself to the same colors as its hands. He continued concentrated on the strap, however, as it began to shift and change. Holes began to form on the underside, a lip forming and causing the whole thing to loosen, before a piece of metal emerges from the void between and holds it in place, a buckle forming out of it to hold it shut around his wrist by the mentioned holes. A steel strap wrapped itself around the other end, stretching out across the top half of the strap as it formed the base for a circular object over itself. He watched as the edge stretched itself upwards, many small cogs and gizmos popping into life inside before being covered over by a piece of white filament, numbers etching into it before a single rod pierced the middle, growing two pointed hands that rapidly spin around to display the current time.

Charlie thought about the item on his wrist: a watch. He had never known what a "Watch" is until this very moment, but now it feels like he's known his entire life... it felt strange to think about... other oddities began to pop up, such as the fact he now had a name! Charlie never even thought of one, he'd never really needed one all his life, yet now he was thinking about it like he had been called it all of his life... it was terrifying and strange and threw him a bit off-kilter, or rather his torso did as it began to twist and churn...

He sat bolt-upright as his spine readjusted to his upcoming body, his chest receiving a line between its chest and stomach as they rapidly sloshes, his anatomy rewriting itself internally as his body continued to change. His gullet sucked in further, going from the size of an obese to a slim human stature as it became nearly flush with his upper body, a strange sensation to say the least. He watched as his upper body tightened as well, his ribs showing briefly through them before those shifted as well, his spine having a similar song-and-dance as his bones became smaller, yet more dense as they no longer needed to be hollow for flight. His upper body segmented into two sides before nipples grew from his now scaleless torso, completing its transformation, at least outwardly. Charlie watch on in confusion, not sure how to feel about this when he felt a strange sensation across his back. He did not have to even look back to see what was wrong, as he watched strips of white fabric lurch over his chest and torso, covering it over in what could loosely be described as clothing. From to to bottom, buttons formed and bonded the two sides, slowly tightening over his torso as it fit firmly over his exposed belly, leaving no way to see around it. It then produced a sliver more of itself to cover his shoulders, a button on each end tightening the fabric around and giving him a quite snug fit.

He looked back down, only to see the color in his legs begin to drain, them becoming soft and smooth as they drained of their vibrant scales and his feet began to shift. His claws retracted, and in their place, five toes slinked up from the now thinning physique of his feet, which started to mold themselves into a more curved shape. Nails sprouted out of each of the toes, eliciting a response from his hands, which did the same as white fabric began to overtake his feet, forming into socks as they began to slide up his legs, stopping halfway up each calf as he felt more clothing form in a different part of his body...

He watched as a rubber sash wrapped itself around his waist, dribbling down fabric that neatly knitted itself into a pair of underwear. Overtop, a strip of blue fabric came over it, around 6 loops appearing around the sides before a button appears in the middle, the two sides separating into two different ends held together by it. The fabric starts to slink down over the underwear, zipper teeth appearing underneath the newly created fly as it binds itself together, the final tooth bloating into a zipper, a pull growing out of it for convenience. The fabric continues to slide down either of his legs, growing in length and giving back some of the warmth he had been lacking since he had begun the transformation, ending around his ankles as a new sensation took over, something forming on the bottoms of his feet...

He looked over to watch as a hard substance began to coat the area under his socks, becoming thick and wide as it sprouted leather from its edges. It wasn't long until they had consumed his socks, now forming into a robust pair of slip-on shoes. Charlie stood up, looking over his new clothing as he felt a strange sensation on his shoulders. He watched as his collar formed, and woollen fabric draped itself over his body, coming together around his breastplate before running all the way down his torso, forming into a sweater vest. Delighted, the former Charizard smiled, before hearing a pop in his jaw, realising his transformation wasn't done just yet...

He opened his mouth as his teeth began to twitch, and his snout began to shorten. He felt the teeth at the back of his mouth shrink away one by one as his gums began to shorten along with it, but also his front teeth begin to pair down, becoming blunted, then smaller and smaller until they had reached his face, in which case, they had already been turned into human teeth, with more coming in to fill in the gaps between. His tongue also lost a lot of mass and length, becoming thin and rounded, a far cry to the reptilian mass he once had...

He then felt his nostrils begin to crack and shift as they danced around his face, eventually pairing together and shrinking, a nasal bone to support them as they flipped themselves downwards, much to Charlie's discomfort. One last clothing item formed as a metal bar grew on the front of his nose, forming a lip under either eye as his vision dulled, eventually forming glass between as they were turned into a pair of glasses. They grew arms, and sure enough a pair of lips on the side of his head caught them, them growing and pushing out his ear canal to form a pair of humanoid ears. With not much left of his former self, his horns shrunk away, the bones inside breaking down until they were nothing but flat head. This was not accurate for long, however, as his head began to inflate, giving his head a more oblong appearance. Brown hairs began to appear on his freshly made scalp, slowly filling out his head, him losing all which had previously identified him as a Charizard and transforming him into a bonafied human!

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His shock and awe is swiftly interrupted when the trainer clears his throat, and turning around, Charlie spied his arm was still outstretched. Recognising his new humanity, he tested out his vocal cords a bit before pleading with him:
"Come on, I don't have any Pokedollars, let alone Pokemon!"

The trainer thought for a moment before snapping his fingers, and causing a poof of sparkles to fly into the air. A leather sash begins to form on Charlie's shoulder, running down the front of his shirt and connecting at the opposite hip. Two buckles form between them before they pull apart, a zip forming between them that unfirls like an accordion. More leather surrounds the zip, extending down around 10 inches and filling in its own bottom, become a sort of shoulder bag.

Opening it up, Charlie watches as several possessions form. A large, clear bubble formed in the middle of the bag, slowly morphing unt it was the shape of a spray bottle. The fresh bottle was adorned with a white head, which inflated into a nozzle, the spray tube inside extending down and filling the bottle with an unknown purple liquid. The second item formed first as a small scrap of bark, which had fallen in during the forming process. It shaped itself into a seed before it began coating itself in dense, yellow flesh, bloating out into a heart shape before growing a pink, fuzzy hide. The third item folded itself out from one of the walls of the bag, and turned brown as it folded over itself. Slits opened up along it, with crisp Pokedollars forming inside. Before it could even make any more progress, the trainer snatched it out, taking whatever Pokedollars were inside, much to Charlie's shigrin...

Although the last item was the most interesting: another bubble formed, this one red, which adjourned itself with a black strap, it's bottom being covered by a white mass that rose from the base. Charlie took it out and inspected it; if was very clearly a PokeBall... But he didn't own any Pokemon... Confused and curious, the second he saw the white button appear, he gave it a smack causing a shot of red lightning to shoot out, narrowly missing the two and hitting the nearby foliage!

Both of the twos attention was concentrated on where the beam had hit, a lone white cap mushroom that was beginning to turn green... They watched as it's stem swelled three times its girth, the mushroom itself poorly trying to match it as they both began to grow...

Two bubbles would swell from its cap, bright red in color as it began to wriggle, the bubbles opening up to black holes as the mushroom began it's first twitches of life, reacting to its new consciousness. They watched as it uprooted itself, falling limp on the ground as its roots began to wind over and over, forming into a pointed tail that began to stretch out from what was assumed it's new backside...

Meanwhile, it's body began turning green, swelling more and more as a set of limbs poked out of its orb-like body, growing longer and fatter with each passing second. It's "Arms" grew large, although their body far outpa Ed it in growth and soon size as two claws emerged from its tips, it feeling about as it felt the first sensations of touch it had ever felt...

It legs recieved a similar treatment, for a brief moment mirroring their upper body counterpart before growing longer, their base swelling into large, thick thighs, powerful enough to support their entire body. It stumbled to its new digigrade feet, it's now massive tail growing spore pods as it stumbles about, trying to make sense of it's surroundings...

Finally, a beak began to press itself out of its stem-neck, a mouth ripping open as it let out a screech, it's eyes opening wide as its black eyes shone a frantic glance at everything... Before promptly fainting. The trainer turned back to Charlie and handed him his now empty wallet.
"See? I won."

And with that, the trainer was off, leaving Charlie alone with his unconscious behemoth. Seeing what would happen if he put it back in its ball, he elected instead to drag it back to the pokemon center... Whatever that is...