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Into the Labyrinth

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It all started when Theo received the stud in the mail. The stud that looked like the one that was commonly found on the Tauros pokemon. When he looked at the return address, he just shrugged. Peter wasn't exactly the number one friend to him, the two met once in the underground but that was it.
"Thanks," Theo said as he placed it in his pocket, ignoring the gift. Knowing Peter it was probably some kind of small sphere that was found in the underground of Sinnoh and wasn't worth that much.
Theo actually was a big underground person unlike most people who were so big on training. That's where he met Peter a few times, he snuck into his home away from Hearthhome and tried to steal a flag from him. Theo tracked him down, tackled him, and then got the flag back before they started to trade spheres. But that was more or less the extent of it all.
In fact Theo didn't even remember that much about Peter as was. Maybe if he had a Diglett he would help dig through the underground and reveal all the spheres, but they weren't native to Sinnoh. (Although some people did bring them....they did dig a large tunnel over in Kanto)
Looking at the clock, he cursed when he realized that it was a little too late for him to go to the underground tonight. Why did he wait so damn long just goofing off? According to everyone else he should have had a pokemon but he just didn't think he could take care of a pokemon properly.
Thus, Theo walked right up to his room and brushed his teeth, combed his shaggy blonde hair and then went to bed for the night, leaving his undergrounding Khakis on the floor. And the stud in his pocket. It was small enough for him to not notice.

The next morning, Theo decided that he would immediately try and chart more about the massive underground tunnels in Sinnoh. Last time he actually found a nice Fighting Plate that had something engraved on it. Earned him a lot from the museum when he offered it.
Taking his mining kit, Theo walked right to the massive labyrinth that was the underground. Putting his hat on, Theo then made his way right to the nearest entrance. Still having worn his pants from yesterday, the tiny stud lay right in the bottom of his khaki pocket.
Theo then vanished right into the underground labyrinths. He reached in to get a flashlight as he walked into the labyrinth further and further, into the darkness. Every now and then though, he'd come across a few flares and lights that marked trainers secret bases. There was also a crunching sound as he stepped on a few old flares, crushing the bits of plastic into the highly compacted soil beneath him.
After  who-knows-how-long of walking, Theo then arrived at a tunnel that marked his secret base. It was purposely hidden in an alcove that had been hollowed out and abandoned after its spheres were mined dry. The human squeezed into the hole, feeling something poking into his thigh from its contact against the solidified walls.
"What the heck?" he asked himself entirely into his secret base. Theo groped around for a nearby box, feeling a few glow sticks that he kept here al the time. Locking around a small plastic tube, Theo took it into his hands and with a crack, the room illuminated in an eerie yellow colour. Thinking he only needed this one to see what it was that was poking him, maybe it was a sphere he kept in his pocket, Theo looked for the small plastic hook hanging from the base's "ceiling" to hang it from.
Finally, he reached into his pocket and his hands closed around something metallic, but it wasn't a sphere. Theo then took it out, wondering if this was some kind of button, only to find a silver stud in his hands. Weird.
"...oh yeah, Peter sent me this," Theo said to himself as he finally remembered where the stud had come from. Thinking he'd set it to the side, Theo then looked away, only for the mysterious silver stud to jump right out of his hand and then smack his forehead.
"WHAT THE-" He said in surprise. The fact that it moved of its own will would be enough to make anyone freeze solid. It didn't feel metallic, maybe it was his body heat keeping it from feeling like ice against his forehead. Theo reached up and tried to push the stud away from his forehead.
Unfortunately, this caused it to suddenly feel a bit warmer, like it had adapted to his body temperature, which indeed it did. But meanwhile, an odd feeling assaulted Theo's nerves. His skin suddenly tingled.
Not saying a word, Theo took his finger away, then poked it again. It felt similar to keratin, or something. Touching it with his thumb and forefinger, he tried to pull it off his head, but it didn't move. It seemed to be imprinted within his skull, the skin around it didn't even stretch as he tried to move it.
"what in the hell?!" he asked himself in a paniced whisper. Suddenly, his clothes started to feel very very tight. Theo gasped for air as the fabric around his shirt and pants stretched. Kicking off his boots before they ripped, Theo at least saved himself from ruining those. The area around his torso, especially his shoulders started to feel extra tight.
"What's-What's happening to me?!" Theo asked. His voice was gradually becoming deeper and deeper. A warm feeling started to spread up his face, and across his hands. Raising an arm to see in the light, Theo could see that he suddenly had gained quite a bit of muscle. It looked almost like a Machoke's musclemass.
His jaw dropped as all of a sudden, something felt heavy around his head. His hat felt too tight, like it was strangling something. The changing human reached up to remove it, when two pairs of curved heavy horns reduced the hat into a pair of twisted metal. They weighed quite a bit, but he didn't even start to slump over.
"What is this thing?!" He asked. Theo didn't recognize it as his hair suddenly started to vanish, engulfed. Theo begun to feel his face changing, it was like he was growing a beard in fast motion. Touching his hands to his cheeks, the human felt not his rough human skin but rough fur. It was too dense for a beard.
"I'm...." Theo was now interrupted by hearing a much deeper voice coming from his mouth than normal. He wished he had a mirror or something! Some tearing came from his shirt and pants. Looking down, Theo soon started to feel a swelling sensation on his face, noticing a swelling body that looked like a human-sized machoke standing beneath him. Thick dark brown hair poked its way out of the rips of his shirt around the tops of his torso. Suddenly, a clicking sound hit his ear.
Looking up, Theo then noticed his face poking forth, giving him a very very odd almost bovine look. His nose, feeling like it was just above the tip of his mouth suddenly reached right into the soil. He opened his larger mouth only to taste soil coming down into his much larger tongue.
The changing human then looked down and started to spit out fragments of dirt and saliva, horns suddenly poking into the ceiling, causing more and more soil to fall down onto his changing body, Two more studs poked their way out of his forehead, just above the larger stud. The room became much MUCH smaller, as more and more muscle and bone expanded.
Finally, it was too much as Theo's shirt ripped off entirely. Turning his bovine head down, Theo noticed a torso that most Miltank would glomp him for. His mane of thick brown hair blanketed his shoulders like a poncho. Smiling, Theo scratched an itch behind his bovine ears hidden behind his horns.
"Hm, weird," He said to himself, "My hand," he looked at his other hand just in time for his fingers to swell immensely. His previously five fingered hands dwindled into three, with a massive opposable thumb. The fingers were tipped in hooves, much like his feet. Sitting down, Theo looked down at his own hoove and...wait a sec...Those weren't hooves!
"What's happening to me?!" he gruffed, looking at his feet. They looked awkward, they didn't belong on his body. A massive sigh of relief erupted from his lungs as he noticed his feet swelling, bulking his legs up even more as the balls of his feet poked forward, forming a massive hoof to support his size. Some day, he'd find a miltan-Wait a sec.
"Why did I just think of a Miltank?" The human said, but frankly he didn't look like a human anymore. Standing hunched over, the fragments of his pants fell to the ground as they fell off of his legs, three tails snaked out behind him, each ending in a tassel, like a whip.
"But I'm a tauros!" The anthropomorphic tauros said, looking left and right. Something rushed to his face as he facepalmed. Of course he was a Tauros! Why would he think of himself as anything else?!
Sitting back down in his lair, the Kentauros then laid on his back. The lair was big enough for him, but he rarely spent more time in his lair than sleeping. most of his time, he spent guarding and exploring the labyrinth. If it'd keep it safe from all the Digletts, he'd go everywhere in the Sinnoh Labyrinth.
Finally standing up, he crawled to the opening. Immediately, his horns got stuck in the hole.
"Those stupid digletts..." He grunted to himself. Instinctively, his tails whipped his back as the burly Tauros's hooves sent him out of his lair, leaving a much bigger hole. "How'd they make it smaller?!" He growled to himself as he stood up to his full height of over eight feet. The perfect size for guarding the labyrinth.
For =werechu 's pokemon stories. Something rather quick I did.
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NaughtyBudgie's avatar
I skimmed over it.