Cat Got Your Town
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"There on the table." The swaying, floating feeling was replaced by a soft embrace. Limbs splaying out limply, head landing on the cushy mattress, the quiet thump reverberating inside it. "...ate some weird berries and then it, it..." The familiar voice sounded strange and echoey, muffled by the fading consciousness and trailing away again, turning into but hollow mumbles as the darkness drowned everything once more.
A sudden sting seared into its spine. Eyelids tore open, pupils narrowing into slits surrounded by amber irises shining in the stark, artificial light. Every single muscle in the little cat's body contracted and lucidity battered it back to its senses. Its claws dug into the fabric of the thin sheet atop the flimsy metal frame as all of its limbs pulled tight. The piercing feeling turned into a warmth that shot into the tips of its ears and the ends of every fiber of its being, a quiet creaking elicited as it spread along as the small jolt of expansion ran its course.
The Shinx sat up, gasping quietly, squinting from the bright, tube-shaped lamps on the ceiling blinding it. The blurry schemes of its surroundings gradually began to take on defined contours. Plain, off-white, yellowed walls and a tiled floor. A few cabinets and tables along the sides, containers with various trinkets set upon them with more or less of an order, as well that screen that most places had somewhere for people to look at and tap around on the box with buttons really fast. Just a small, high-up window providing any sunlight, out of reach for both the mon in the center of the room and the men in the corner, still talking about it.
Before it could call to its trainer, a tingle went through the Shinx' body. It hit as suddenly as the piercing feeling previously, but instead of a jolting grip, it was more like a warm embrace that made it shudder in response. Its fur stood on end, its tail thumped happily against the mattress and a small mewl escaped its throat. The brief rush of air caused its whiskers to bob in the currents, the creaking of its expanding figure a little louder this time. Limbs stretching, muscles thickening, its entire form enlarging with an almost joyous bounce.
The sudden addition of weight made the flimsy metal frame of the gurney tremble, the squeaking of its bending wheels doing the job of garnering attention. The two people turned around, one adjusting his cap, the other his glasses. The pair of familiar eyes went wide at seeing the previously passed-out feline now awake, upright and happily looking back at him again. "Snugglecat!" His voice was almost a squeal, relief washing over him as he spread his arms, stumbling a little as he barely dodged past the veterinarian and rushed toward his fluffy friend.
The Shinx tried to respond with a likewise elated call, but the next whirl of warmth turned it into a huff instead. The mattress shifted beneath it. With a crack, a wheel of the rolling bed broke off. The stamped metal frame crumpled from the undue strain placed upon it, pipes bending inwards and bolts popping from their holes. With a noisy clatter, the entire thing hit the ground in pieces, followed by a series of padded thumps as the creature it held landed more or less on its paws, avoiding striking the floor in a similarly ungraceful manner as the gurney did.
Its trainer's approach came to a skidding halt, his expression shifting from elation to confusion as the small cat he'd carried in his arms a minute ago was now large enough to stand face to face with him. Behind him, the doctor dug his fingers into his hair. "Counteragent!" He blurted out, feverishly looking around the room until his gaze fell onto a cabinet on the other end of it. Without delay, he rushed toward it, but taking a wide berth past the growing feline, keeping his eyes on it to see if it would decide to turn its attention to him.
It didn't have any intention to do so. With its trainer frozen in place, it began to approach him instead, its size alone making the motion seem unduly menacing. Its paw swinging through the air, landing on the floor with a thud, underscored by another series of creaking and groaning as the Shinx' body jolted larger once more. Its eyes shifting down as its purported master's neck craned back, his feet starting to shuffle away from it. Its joyous purr getting louder as the next surge made its ears brush against the ceiling, the previously quiet, high-pitched noise now a bassy, rumbling roar that caused the glass implements around the room to clink into each other, jingling like in an earthquake. Another step cracked the tiles that the paw landed on, sinking into the stone by a few inches, the volume of displaced air pushing into the quivering man and shoving him backwards, accelerating his attempted escape.
After almost slamming into the cabinet, the doctor yanked out one of the drawers and began to rifle through it with trembling hands. Hearing the purr get even lower, the stretching of sinew as another bout of expansion hit, the glass of the tube lights cracking as the Shinx' back squeezed into them. Plaster rained from the ceiling as it bent from the pressure below, the monstrous cat's head having to bend down, its mouth opening like to a happy smile wide enough to fit a person whole, chin sliding along the floor. Finally, the fingers wrapped around the corked vial with clear liquid inside and "goliath b." plaque stuck crookedly to it. He turned just in time to see the yellow, star-shaped tip of the happily swishing tail barrel toward him, only to see more stars upon impact.
Vet, vial an cabinet were collectively flung across the room in a wide arc, sending them tumbling, shattering and crashing to the ground respectively. Hitting the floor chest-first, the air was pushed out of his lungs, sliding along the smooth tiles as their rims tore the buttons from his coat. Gasping, he turned onto his back, rising up and heaving for oxygen. His vision returning to him as if it were emerging from a tunnel - into a view filled entirely with blue. The breath would only get a short time before being pressed out of him again.
With a deafening crash, the massive rear slammed down on him, cratering the floor, wall and ceiling simultaneously, hands pushing into the plush mass, strands of fur like a thicket engulfing him. The cabinet flattened into a thin sheet, colorful liquids spewing from its tears and splashing onto the cat that caused them, intermixing with the transparent fluid from the broken vial and seeping into the skin. The tables along the sides of the room were folded up despite not being naturally foldable, flinging swabs through the air, unrolling bandages like streamers and disassembling the computer in a thoroughly warranty-voiding, sparking manner. The Shinx' mouth shut again as its head had to squeeze into the space running out, feeling another burst of warmth radiate from where the purported counteragent began its rapid action. Eyelids fluttering as it spread from behind throughout its body, stoking the subsequent surge flaring within it only further, an ominous rumbling making the building's foundations vibrate in kind.
It let out a comparatively quiet "mrrf", nose bumping into its trainer and shoving him straight toward the exit. Ripping the door open with so much force that it hit the stopper with a heavy clunk, he came flailing from the vet's office and careening into the hallway wall, hat bouncing away and onto the ground. The strange looks of the center's staff having approached to investigate the odd noises didn't phase him in the slightest, instead his attention remained fully on the way from whence he'd come, eyes widening, mouth parting for a very short yelp that was quickly interrupted.
As the door attempted to recoil shut again, its swing was terminated by a giant paw smashing straight through it. Splintering the wood and bending the too narrow frame, it playfully batted at the trembling figure barely the size of one of its digits, trapping him in the cleft between them, muffling his whine and leaving him to but wiggle ineffectually. Smooth pads hit the wall with the force of a jackhammer each, pushing themselves into brick and mortar like they were simply parting a curtain, tearing deep fissures across the facade of the Pokemon center.
The whole building shook as the Shinx tried to shift within it, feeling the next bout of expansion about to strike. People and their pets pouring from all available exits, screaming as they ran from the giant monster filling the entire structure. The roof caving in as a pair of rounded ears peeked out, flicking and tossing the shingles stuck atop them into the streets below. Hindpaws kicking through the back wall and into the one of the neighboring shop, digits pressing into it and imprinting clear indents before the toes curled in response to the surging growth flaring up again.
Unable to handle the cat exploding in scale inside of it, the center came apart at the seams, crumbling down in a cloud of dust. From the billowing plumes rose the house-sized head of the gigantic feline, eyelids squeezed shut as it sat up from its confined, hunkering position. Leaving the rubble far beneath its swelling frame, the Shinx arched its back to stretch it, tail straightening out across the street behind, abruptly blocking all lanes and knocking a tractor trailer flat on its side. The noises of its body simply moving louder than that of the collapse, the displaced air dispersing the smoke like stormy gusts of wind.
Now high above the settling dust, it opened its eyes to look across the toy-like city below, mouth widening to a joyous smile as its gaze crossed over the countless tiny people, the vehicles squirreling away from it with screeching tires and the skyscrapers hardly as toweringly tall as they used to be. It could barely feel its trainer wiggling between the digits of its right forepaw and doctor lost in the forests of tushfluff starting to fuzz up again as the next growth spurt already began to tingle at its roots. Its happy mewl was a deep, deafening roar that rung out far and wide, shaking structures to their foundations and cracking windows for many miles around.
Meister_Li / manikobunneh
