At the sound of the doorbell, the little Totodile leapt to his feet and hurried down the hallway to answer it. Excitedly, he threw the door open and looked out.
"Hey Benny, how's things been today?" he asked, looking up at his postmon "The new bike working ok now?"
"Hi there Shiny, good to see you. New bike is great now, nothing I couldn't fix. Looks like I've got a big parcel for you today."
The turquoise pokemon's eyes lit up as he saw the massive box waiting in the trailer for him.
"Oh, awesome, it's arrived. I didn't know it was going to be that big. Hope it's no problem for you?"
"Don't worry about it." the big Machamp replied, lifting the box in one pair of arms and passing it over.
"Wow, thanks dude, this is going to be the best day. You have fun too, I hope."
"I'm sure I will, soon as I get these last few deliveries done. I'd best be on my way, looks like it might rain soon." he gestured towards the dark clouds that were starting to loom over the quiet suburban street.

As Benny turned and hopped back onto his bike, Shiny dragged the big box into the hallway, closed the door behind him, and pushed his new arrival safely into the study before his excitement got the better of him and he ripped the box open, letting the contents fall out onto the floor. The jumble of plastic and rubber tumbled out everywhere, looking a bit of a complicated mess. The box promised a whole huge mostly transparent pokeball to climb inside, complete with balloon furniture, but it looked like some assembly was needed first. Undeterred, Shiny spread the whole lot out across the floor, clambered right into the middle and got started on the easy looking bit, blowing up one of the big balloon chairs. Flopping down onto the smooth red rubber now spread across half the floor, he grabbed for one of them and started puffing away, watching the big balloon swell bigger and rounder between his paws with every breath, until it was half as big as himself and still going.

By this point, Shiny was unaware that his actions laying out and climbing over the new play thing had activated the pokeball's pump. Slowly and steadily the main structure of the padded chamber was rising up around him on all sides, the air filled red and transparent rubber filling bit by bit, a ring of it lifting up around the happy Totodile and his big balloon. By the time he was quite sure the first balloon was blown up big enough, tight and squeaky and shiny, he was surrounded by quite a considerable wall of air filled rubbery material as the enclosing structure rose up and up, already waist high on its occupant before he hopped atop the big balloon, splayed out comfortably atop it, and noticed what was going on.
"Ooh, Totodily awesome, it's doing all the hard work for me and leaving me to play in here with these fun balloons. Best toy ever."
Shiny grabbed a second balloon, turned his music on and lay on his back, blowing in time to the cheerful, upbeat song, tapping his toes against the increasingly thick and full air filled wall of the pokeball as it blew up into shape, bigger and rounder it rose up around and above him as he lay resting against his already filled balloon seat.

Before long, though long enough that the excited little pokemon had blown up a couple more balloons and was lounging atop the pile of them humming and tapping along to the music, the walls of the structure were starting to close together above him, forming a big clear, shiny smooth dome of air filled rubber. Still whirring away slowly to itself, the pump kept filling, firming up the big ball until the lower portion rose up, rolling its occupant and the bundle of big, squeaky tight balloons into the centre, sealing them all inside the giant inflatable pokeball, the seams squeezed tight and close together until they almost disappeared.

Shiny grabbed the biggest of the balloons, belly flopped atop it, rested his feetpaws on another, and lay sprawled out inside the ball, singing along happily to his music. He had his own entire room to hang out in whenever he wanted, a big soft, squishy room full of fun balloons to play with, this really was the best toy. He paid no attention to the way the soft, air filled rubber floor rose up and up under him, or the way the bundle of big, brightly coloured balloons slowly and steadily pushed closer together, rolling and pressing against him. He did eventually notice when the tight, air filled rubber of the outer wall pressed against his feetpaws and made it hard for him to tap along to the rhythm.

Rolling over, the Totodile looked up and around at his pokeball, even at his small size, it seemed a tight space, the air filled structure continued to swell thicker, tighter, bloating up and filling more of the space around him, squishing and squeezing in on all sides, the floor rising up under his feet, the bundle of fun balloons he had blown up pressing against him on all sides. Unsteadily climbing to his feet atop the squishy soft surface, his head bumped into the clear, shiny smooth dome of the roof, and moment by moment he felt it pushing down closer and tighter against him.
"Huh, if this keeps up, I might run out of room for more of these balloons. I'd better turn that pump off for a bit."

Shiny pushed against the transparent walls, getting quite firm and tight now as they blew up with ever more air, he struggled to pull apart one of the enclosing seams that had walled him inside this structure, but straining against the increasingly tightly inflated ball, he could barely squeeze even a single arm through the gap, part way to the outside, before realising he was stuck. Struggling to tug his arm free again, pulling against the firm but squeaky soft material, he squirmed and wriggled and strained against it, and at last was free, tumbling backwards as he pulled his paw from the tightly enclosing gap. Luckily he did not have far to fall, as almost the entire space left inside the big inflatable ball was filled with giant balloons. Shiny slipped amongst them, struggling to keep on his feet even as they closed in and pressed tighter against him. He clung to the big soft, slightly squishy balloons, even as they clung around him, wrapping around his body and hugging close to him all over, crowding in as though eager to snuggle up against him.

"Well, this is an unusual situation, but I'm sure it's meant to do this. And at least it's nice and comfy in here, and safe from all that rain pouring down, even if we get flooded I'll float nicely." The little Totodile tried to pull one of his legs free from the big balloon heap under and around him, but it was stuck tight, squeezed into place and getting tighter by the moment as the smooth rubber wall edged closer. Resting a paw against the lowering, closing roof of the ball, he tried to drag his other leg free, only to find both it and his arm now trapped in place, held tight and being squeezed and squished ever more tightly by the moment.

The multi-coloured balloons around his middle hugged close to him, wrapping themselves around as they creaked and squeezed snugly against him, soft and comfy and cosy as the last of the space filled and the squeaking, creaking tight rubber pressed against his whole body, holding him in place. Shiny wriggled about as much as he still could as the balloons around him squeaked loudly with each tiny movement, and pressed tighter against him, until at last he was pinned quite firmly in place, the rubber encasing every part of his body, hugging close and tight against every last inch of him, and still the pump kept humming away to itself, the giant room filling pokeball with the now trapped motionless totodile at its centre grew ever tighter and firmer and more solid as the air pressure rose and squeezed and squished, pressing tighter and tighter against its captive as he was held up in the air on display in the middle of the big clear ball.


Eventually, there came the sound of the front door opening and someone else entering, it did not take long for them to look into the study and catch sight of the massive inflatable pokeball filling half of the room, the tiny squished figure of a totodile pinned in the middle, held helplessly in place.
"Oh, Shiny, what mess have you gotten yourself into this time?"

Crossing over to the creaking tight ball, he shut off the pump, let the constant whirr of the engine slow to a stop, and pulled the plug free, the massive ball quickly starting to go soft and sink downwards, almost flopping atop him as it did so. The walls of the structure pulled apart and opened, letting the captive free. As the tight, restraining balloons fell away, Shiny fluttered down atop the soft, sinking air filled material, by then pressed into a single flat sheet of totodile shaped rubber.

"Looks like I'm going to have to pump you back up into shape as well, but I'm sure you had a good time of it in spite of that."