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Darren was walking along the street one day, thinking about life, when a little pink thing suddenly appeared in front of him. He gasped; it was Mew, from hit series Pokémon!

"Mew?" It said as it looked over him.

Darren was stunned. He had so many questions! Pokémon were real? How did it get here? Was Mew really the ancestor to all Pokémon? Was this even real? Had he tripped down the stairs and fallen into a coma? Was he ever going to wake up? Would his family miss him? How was Mew able to fly?

Before he could say anything, though, the Mew raised its right hand towards him. It glowed slightly, and Darren was engulfed by a puff of smoke.

When it cleared, he noticed that he'd become a lot shorter. He looked down and realized that he'd become a Fennekin, with his pants and shoes crumpled on the ground in front of him, and his shirt baggily draped over his new body.

"(W-what the hell?!)" He tried to exclaim, but all that actually came out was Fennekin's name. "(Oh my God, this can't be happening. Why did it turn me into a Fennekin!? I don't want to be a Pokémon; I'm supposed to go to work in two hours! How am I gonna explain this to my b—)"

Darren's panic was interrupted by the sound of stifled giggling. He turned to see that the Mew was holding back laughter. "(What?)" he asked.

The Mew couldn't hold it any more; it burst out laughing, falling to the ground as it kicked its feet in the air. It laughed until tears formed in its eyes, leaving Darren utterly lost.

Finally, it wound down with a heavy exhale. "(I'm sorry; I couldn't help myself.)"

"(...okay?)" Darren didn't understand why it was laughing, or why he could suddenly understand it, but he was too shell-shocked to question much of anything at the moment.

"(It's always funny to see the look on someone's face when they get turned into a Pokémon.)"

Something clicked in Darren's brain, and he frowned. "(Are you saying that this... was a prank!?)"

"(Yup!)"

Darren spent almost half a minute trying to figure out how to react to that.

Finally, he sighed. "(Okay, you got me. Now, could you please reverse this?)"

"(Oh, it'll wear off in about a week.)"

"(A week?!)" Darren yipped. "(But I can't—)"

Suddenly, Mew started to float again. "(Well, I gotta go now. See ya!)" Before he could even blink, it had vanished.

Darren sat there for a moment. His eye twitched.

Then he screamed.

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See? Just a harmless prank!

Thought this up after watching a video about canon Pokémon transformation a few days ago, and also loosely inspired by some art I've seen floating around by various artists such as  CrizBN and  Rataros.