Zee-Zee the pachirisu giggled and kicked his legs impatiently, drinking milk from a sippy cup as he lay on his back on the changing table. “Hurry up, Mommy!” he squeaked, lifting the cup away from his lips – he had to hold it in both paws, now he was so much littler than he used to be.
“I’m going as fast as I can, sweetie,” Zena laughed, as she tried to get the small diaper around the big, fluffy pachirisu tail. “Just try to stay still a little longer, while Mommy remembers how to put a diaper on such a little cub...”
“Uh-huh, okay,” Zee-Zee chirped, contentedly. “But I’m still a big squirrel, um, I mean a big pachirisu, I’m not a little baby and I only wear diapers because my pull-ups don’t fit any more!”
Zena smiled at Hinata. In the five minutes since Zee-Zee’s transformation, they’d had to reassure him on that subject many times – it was hard to avoid using words like ‘little’ when you saw the cute little pokemon in front of you. “That’s right, darling, you’re my big squirrel, and you’re just borrowing these little diapers for today, then we can put them back with the things waiting for your new little brother or sister! There we are, all done!” she said, finally fastening the final tape on the squirming, hyperactive little white pachirisu and stroking his fluffy tail.
“Yay!” Zee-Zee chirped, springing up to his feet and leaping into his mommy’s arms for a cuddle. “Watch how fast I can run now!” he squeaked, wriggling out of her hug again and leaping down to the floor. “Wheeeee!” He darted around the room with a big smile, pausing for a second in one spot to wave and then zooming away again.
“And I thought he was a handful as a squirrel...” Zena chuckled.
“He’s got a pretty much inexhaustible supply of energy in this form, I’m afraid...” Hinata said, as Zee-Zee leapt up to the open window and jumped out into the yard, looking for more space to run around and test out his new pokemon powers. Zena followed him to the window, ready to tell him not to run too far, but by the time they got there, Zee-Zee was out of the yard and almost out of sight.
“Zee-Zee!” Zena called. “Come back!”
“I’ll get after him,” Hinata said, leaping through the window herself. “Don’t worry, nothing can catch a pachirisu, he’ll be perfectly safe from everything. And I’m sure he’ll make his own way home even if we lose track of him...”
Zee-Zee was two streets away before he remembered he wasn’t allowed out of the yard by himself. “Oops,” he said, coming to a halt. “Mommy’s not gonna be happy. Which way is home?” He spun around a couple of times, finding that the neighbourhood looked different now he was pachirisu-sized. On the second spin he noticed his tail was following him, and he tried to grab it. It slipped out of the reach of his paws, so he spun round and round, faster and faster, and tried to catch hold of it, giggling and squeaking with excitement until, completely dizzy, he stumbled into a hedge and fell out the other side into the front yard of a big house.
“Ooh! I know this house!” he giggled. “It’s right next to...” He darted over to a tree and climbed part way up to look into the back yard next door and confirm his suspicions. Sure enough, there was a familiar pool, and a familiar little brown cub swimming in it.
“Nate! Hi!” Zee-Zee squeaked, running at top speed over to the pool and starting to dive in before he remembered he was wearing a diaper. “Eep!” he gasped, spinning around in mid-air, grabbing the side of the pool and scrambling back onto dry land. That was close! Being seen in a diaper was one thing, being seen with a waterlogged diaper was much worse! If Nate saw him as a tiny pachirisu with a soggy diaper drooping between his legs, he might think Zee-Zee had turned into a baby! He’d have to just call to Nate from the edge. “Nate! Hey, Nate!” he yelled, bouncing up and down and waving.
No good. Nate had dived under water and couldn’t hear. He might be down there for anything up to a whole minute, and to a pachirisu that feels like waiting for an eternity! Zee-Zee put his clever mind to work and quickly came up with a clever attention-grabbing plan. Pachirisus were electric-types, Nate said. And electricity and water don’t mix, Daddy said. So maybe if he zapped a tiny little bit of electricity into the water of the pool, Nate would notice and come out and say hi!
Zee-Zee concentrated hard, and then giggled as his cheeks started to sparkle with electricity (it tickled!) Carefully, he dipped the very tip of his tail into the pool...
“YEEOWWWW!” Nate squealed as he came flying out of the water and landed on the grass, gasping with surprise and feeling like he’d just been fried like a fish. He shook his head, trying to clear it, and opened his eyes to see a little pachirisu suddenly appearing right in front of his face, peering closely at him with oversized glasses and asking “Are you okay, Nate?”
“Wh-who are...” Nate panted, trying to catch his breath, and then he realised that the glasses, and the voice and even the excited tail-twitching were very familiar. “Zee-Zee?!”
“That’s me!” Zee-Zee chirped, clapping his paws and spinning around so Nate could see his new body all over. “I’m a pokemon now!”
“I can see that!” Nate laughed, standing up and cautiously feeling the back of his swim diaper. Zee-Zee had given him a real shock for a second there, and he was hoping that it hadn’t made him do something he really hated doing. All clear – he hadn’t eaten anything for a while, so his body had metabolised everything, as it normally did. The front of the diaper, on the other hand, was completely soaked. “What happened? Did you get on the wrong side of Ninetales?”
“Uh-uh,” Zee-Zee giggled, taking Nate by surprise by grabbing him in a warm, happy snuggle. “It was Riolu, being naughty, but it’s okay, cause Lucario’s gonna catch him, and Hinata’s gonna change me back when I wanna be a squirrel again, and now I get to be a pachirisu, and it’s fun! Bet you can’t catch me!”
He scampered across the yard, and Nate laughed. “Well, I’ll try!” he said, stretching his wings, shaking the water off himself and taking to the air. He’d always wanted to test his skills and try to catch something incredibly fast and agile. And he incorporated all the best bits of a squirrel and an otter, a little bit of dragon and a good pair of wings, he was sure he could do it! He chased Zee-Zee all around, trying to cut him off and guess which way the little pokemon was going to head. After a little while, the two of them were interrupted by a call from the house.
“Nate! Is that Zee-Zee?” It was Zoe, leaning out of the door and holding a phone in one hand. “Yes, Zena, he’s here,” she confirmed when Zee-Zee had stopped for a moment and smiled up at her. “Zee-Zee, your mommy says you shouldn’t have come all the way here by yourself, but she understands that you were excited to be something new and different, and she knows you didn’t mean to be naughty.”
“I’m sorry, Ms Zoe,” Zee-Zee said, shuffling his feet and blushing. He’d forgotten again that he’d done something wrong. He decided that was probably the fault of the pachirisu part of his mind. “Um, do I have to go home now?”
Zoe listened to Zena on the phone for a little while. “Your mommy’s going to walk round here with Hinata, and we’ll all have a talk while we wait for Lucario to bring Riolu back,” she smiled. “You can play with Nate here for a little while until they get here,” she said.
“Yay!” Zee-Zee and Nate both squealed, and darted away at top speed. Zoe chuckled and went back into the house, telling Zena how cute the two of them looked.
A little later, Zee-Zee suddenly screeched to a halt, with an extremely cute look of surprise on his face. “Eep!” he gasped, instinctively side-stepping out of the way of Nate as he came swooping down to try to catch him.
“What’s the matter, Zee-Zee?” Nate asked, landing neatly beside him and watching the little pachirisu bouncing up and down on the spot.
“I gotta go potty!” Zee-Zee squeaked. “Right now!” It occurred to him that he shouldn’t have drunk a whole big-squirrel-sized sippy of milk when he had a little-pachirisu-sized bladder now. And in a new body when he wasn’t used to how pachirisus hold in their pee-pees, he’d wet his diaper a little tiny bit before he even noticed! He zoomed into Nate’s house, trying to remember where the bathroom was and squeaking “Pottypottypotty!”
Nate laughed and followed after him. He wanted to ask why Zee-Zee was so worried about getting to the potty, considering that he was wearing a diaper, but he knew what his friend could be like when it came to questions like that. For his part, Zee-Zee desperately didn’t want to have an accident in his diaper – even he was having a hard time remembering that he was a big grown-up squirrel, he was so little and cute, so he didn’t want to give anybody else any reason to think he was a baby again!
He made his way to the bathroom, stopped and looked up at the huge grown-up-sized toilet towering over him. “Eep!” he squeaked, squirming frantically and remembering that Nate’s house didn’t even have a toddler seat for their big potty, or a little potty-chair, and certainly nothing that was the right size for a little tiny pachirisu!
Well, there was nothing else for it but to use the big giant potty! Zee-Zee took a run-up, leaped up to land on the seat, couldn’t quite stop quickly enough, slipped and tumbled down towards the water below. “Uh-oh!” gasped Nate, who’d followed Zee-Zee into the bathroom to ask if he needed help with his diaper. He ran to try to catch his little friend, but before he’d got half-way there, a tiger-striped blur shot past him, grabbed the squeaking pachirisu by the scruff of his neck, expertly stripped off his diaper and sat him down on a little pink plastic potty that had somehow appeared in the doorway.
“Arcanine!” Zee-Zee giggled as he emptied the last few drops remaining in him into the potty, smiling happily at the knowledge that at least he hadn’t completely, totally had an accident. “Thank you!” he chirped, remembering his manners.
“You’re welcome, little one,” Arcanine said, giving Zee-Zee’s face a gentle lick, which produced a little crackle of electricity.
“How did you get so good at potty-training?” Nate asked with a giggle as Arcanine licked him too. “And where did the potty come from?”
“Some things just come naturally,” Arcanine replied, modestly. “And with all the size-changing and regression that happens in this house, I’m used to handling little ones of all shapes and sizes!”
“And as for the potty,” said a voice from the doorway, “that’s because a good mommy is always prepared for anything!”
“Mommy!” Zee-Zee chirped, jumping up from the potty and leaping up into her arms.
“Hi, Auntie Zena!” Nate smiled, joining in the hug too.
“Hello, my little darlings,” Zena smiled, nuzzling Zee-Zee happily and stroking Nate’s headfur. “On my way over here, I remembered that one of our neighbours has a little girl, who has a doll who has a potty chair just the right size for a pachirisu. So I borrowed it, because I thought it might come in useful. I was just showing it to Arcanine when we heard you running to the bathroom!”
“Now, I think it’s time to put new diapers on both of you,” Arcanine said, sniffing Nate, who smiled and nodded.
“Uh-huh, let’s get changed!” he said, noticing for the first time that he was still wearing nothing but his wet swim diaper, and pricking up his ears as he sensed something else, too. “And quick! Lucario’s coming, and I don’t want to miss the fun when he gets here with Riolu!”
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