“Whew, I’m so glad that this day’s almost over with!” Petra sighed as she finished taking down notes. “I thought we were never going to finish with these samples!” She took another look at the various vials of blood and other fluids taken from all different kinds of Pokémon.

“Indeed. Sometimes you never truly realise just how many Pokémon there are until you see things like this.” Leroy chuckled as he put some of the vials away in storage.

“It makes me wonder how some people have the patience to try to fill up their Pokédex. I think Peter’s around three fourths of the way there!”

 “Really?” Leroy whistled. “That’s amazing, though I wonder what he’ll do when it comes to trying to find Legendary Pokémon. That’s the kind of stuff you’d have to turn to professors to!”

 “Well I think he got lucky with one or two. He told me he spotted a Ho-Oh flying through the skies towards Johto one time and he was able to get it’s data. And if I remember correctly, I think he told me that some time in the next month or two he’s going to head to Altomare to try to get the data for Latias and Latios. I think he’s quite fond of the whole legend of them being the town’s guardian gods.”

 “Sounds like he lives a pretty interesting life. Maybe I should have opted to become a trainer instead of doing scientific work, at least that way I wouldn’t be confined to a lab every day!”

 “It’s never too late to do that kind of stuff, ya know that right?”

 “True, true... the pay for this work’s good though, so it’d be a shame to lose out on that.”

 “Well that’s your loss. I’ve been thinking about it for a while, and I might head out once I get a few more paychecks.” Petra told him.

“If you do that, then I’ll wish you the best of luck... hrm...” He paused when he noticed that two of the vials he was about to put away were missing the stoppers - one being a vial of Charizard blood, and the other was meant to be genetic samples of an Eevee, mainly samples of the various imperfections in its DNA that allowed it to evolve into eight different evolutions. “I better find the stoppers for these before I put them away!” He placed the bottles down on the desktop as he looked around for the stoppers.

“I think you might have left them by the testing equipment.” Petra pointed towards the table that held various pieces of equipment, ranging from scientific microscopes to computers.

“Ah, thanks!” He picked them up from next to a keyboard as he went back to the vials to plug them up. Unfortunately for him, the vial he picked up slipped from between his fingers, crashing down atop the other as they both shattered. The blood bubbled and darkened as it absorbed the genetic material from the other vial. “Aw crud, that’s not a good thing!” He mumbled. “Now I gotta clean all this up!”

 “I’m sure it won’t take too long to clean.” Petra handed him a cleaning cloth. “I just hope for your sake they had more Charizard and Eevee samples to work with!”

 “This is a lab, I’m pretty sure there’s not going to be a lack of materials!” He laughed as he cleaned up the mess. “Although it might be worth saving some of this to see if it mutates further.” He picked up an empty vial, wringing the cloth above it as the corrupted blood dripped into it, placing a stopper in it. “I’ll keep this here for now, but I better write up the incident. Pass me the accident forms, would ya?”

 “Ok!” Petra nodded, picking up a yellow piece of paper from a nearby desk as she handed it to Leroy, pausing for a moment. “Uh, Leroy? You might want to look at your hands...”

 “My hands? Why?”

 “Just trust me on this.” She said sharply. Confused, he raised his hands to his face, and was more than understandably shocked when he saw what looked like orange scales growing across him as his human skin flaked away, crumbling like dust as sharpened claws emerged from the tips of his fingers.

“What the hell?” He gasped at his hands, the scales creeping up his arms. “How is this happening? I didn’t cut myself whilst I cleaned up the mess, did I?”

 “Not what I saw, and if you did, I think it’d take more than just a little bit of blood to cause a reaction like this... but at the same time, it combined with Eevee DNA... You might have inadvertently created a virus!”

 “I don’t know if I should be happy or worried then...” He tried to chuckle a little bit as his biceps broadened, his clothing beginning to feel tighter as his body began to rapidly expand. His pectorals enlarged as his stomach gurgled loudly, his body beginning to swell in size as his lab coat was torn apart by his scaly bulk.

“I’d be a bit of both, myself.” Petra just watched as cream coloured scales spread across his stomach and chest, his body looking larger by the moment as a pair of bumps formed on his back, a singular bump on the base of his spine.

“Well given what’s happening... maybe I should be happy.” He laughed, his legs shifting to the side as they grew much larger, haunch-like as they reduced his trousers to shreds. His feet stretched, soft pads forming on his soles as his toes fused together into three large digits, talon-like claws emerging from them.

“I suppose, it’s better than turning into an Eevee!” Petra smirked as Leroy lurched forwards, a long, draconic tail emerging from the base of his spine, taking off the remnants of his trousers as it whipped the floor behind him, an orange-yellow flame igniting at the tip of it. A pair of broad dragon wings then grew out from his back, the front of them lined with blue webbing.

“Now THAT would have been embarrassing. Turned from a lab worker into a pet!” He groaned as his neck stretched longer, getting thicker.

“It wouldn’t have been that bad. I’d have made sure you were nice and happy, and hope you’d evolve into an Espeon!” She giggled as his hair fell away, the scales covering his face.

“You....ghh... really like your cute things, don’t ya?” He smirked, or tried to at the least, his jaws stretching forwards as his nose sank into his upper jaw, nostrils flaring wide as his jaws formed a dragonic maw, teeth growing into razor-sharp fangs as his tongue grew long and forked. His ears shrank away into tiny holes, a pair of blunt horns emerging from the top of his head as his eyes moved to the sides, turning from green and yellow respectively into a mix of the three colors, pupils pulling into slits.

“Well you know me. And sometimes I do find things like big, murderous dragons to be cute, ya know?” She winked, causing him to blush. “So what are you gonna do now?”

 “Honestly, I have no idea. This is going to take a LOT of paperwork to explain, that much I do know.” He rubbed the back of his had with his clawed hand.

“You have a witness to what happened, so that should make some of it easier to do... I hope, I’ve never had to write a form that explains how my friend got transformed into a semi-human Charizard!”

 “Semi-human?” He blinked.

“Well you’ve got some human muscle definition in the arms and upper chest, and you’re capable of human speech. Also you should be human enough to avoid being captured by any form of Poké Ball too.”

 “Ah yeah!” He grinned. “We better get this done before it gets too late though.”

 “Way ahead of you!” Petra picked up the accident form again as they sat together to fill it all in.