Contest: Suits Her

Melissa was rather puzzled at what lay before her.

"A... Pikachu costume? Made of latex?"

She had walked into the sitting room to find a package, opened, and the suit in question lying crumpled on the floor. The package was addressed to her friend Haruhi Atsume, but somehow if this was what had been delivered it was not the usual place she would leave such a thing,and not so carelessly.

The blonde picked up the yellow object, a complete human-shaped suit, complete with a hood-mask. The  two eye holes revealed something else unusual. Inside the Pikachu costume was a Meowth costume.

"What the..."

She wondered why the two costumes were bundled inside each other. It didn't make much sense. Were they supposed to be this way? Well, it was Haruhi's costumes... apparently.

"Oh. She must have went to phone them and tell them the package is wrong... She must have only wanted one. But surely she should have put it back in the box?"

She checked the box. It said it had been delivered nearly four hours ago, and contained one Pikachu suit on the invoice. There was also an instruction sheet. It showed how to put it on in pictures, and had a drawing of what looked like a small remote control. But it seemed to want people to refer to a larger manual.

"...I don't see this remote, or the manual."

She inspected the two suits again and wondered why they had been put inside each other. Surely whoever packed it must have noticed there were two? And Haruhi can't have taken four hours to go and phone their customer support...

"Oh, she must have the manual! The number must be in the back!"

She decided to therefore look for Haruhi, and was puzzled to learn she was not on the phone, or anywhere else in the house.

"Weird. Maybe she had to go out really fast..."

A small thought entered her head.

"Well, if she wants, maybe I can... get the Meowth costume. I send the company the money for it, we don't have to send it back..."

There was no one else home and if Haruhi came back she could easily explain... She was confident her friend would agree to that.

Heading back inside the sitting room, she picked up the Pikachu suit, unzipped it at the back, and removed the Meowth carefully. The gentle tugs still caused both rubber suits to squeak and squeal, but in the end, the deed was done. She lay both suits beside each other on the sofa.

"The Meowth one is pretty cute..."

Quickly, she made sure she wasn't wearing any clothing that was too loose, and made to try the Meowth on. Unzipping it, pulling the hood back, and stepping in, she noticed the suit seemed to tighten a little as it was pulled on.

"Wow, even through my socks it feels like a second skin..."

Pulling it on required more squeaks, and a little effort to pull it at some moments where there was too much friction from the suit getting a little tight over clothes, but overall it did not take too long. Leaving the hood down, she zipped it up.

"Snug... It feels like I wasn't wearing anything under it at all... But it's not too warm. That's nice."

She twisted and turned, small squeaks from her movement. The rubber tail swished behind her. She pulled it, and the way the rubber where it connected stretched it felt a little like she was gently tugging a real tail.

"Heh, nice. Must be the vacuum. But if this suit was airtight I should feel warmer..."

She looked in a mirror, and admired it. She was a rubber meowth, with a human head.

"Looks kind of silly... I guess I had better fix that..."

She pulled the hood on, but did not zip it up, for as she reached for it, she swore she heard a voice...

"Melissa!"

"...Haruhi?"

There was no response. Melissa paused, but then spotted something. There was a small booklet lying on the sofa.

"Maybe the manual?"

She picked it up, held it open in one rubber-clad hand, and sat down. As an afterthought she also zipped up the hood.

"Let's see... Hm, this hood isn't warm either. I guess this latex must be breathable or something..." She said, sitting down.

She heard two things.

First, the voice again.

"Melissa! Take the suit off, nyan! The remote's on the sofa!"

"Remo... Wait, Haruhi, I hear you in my head!"

"That's right! I'm the costume!"

"How can you be the costume? Are you hiding somewhere? Is this ventriloquism?"

A second later, she heard a beep.

"What was that?"

"Transformation Activated for Suit Two- Second Suit Change. Timescale - Maximum. Selected Species - Charmander."

"What was...." Melissa began, as she heard Haruhi yelp in surprised.

"That was bad news, Nya! The costume I ordered has some special features built into it!"

"What fea..."

She was cut off by the feeling of a tingling all over her body, and then she found herself beathing out... and collapsing.

"What's happening?! It's like I'm deflating!"

"You are..."

Wind escaped as Melissa's vision went downwards, as she shrank in on herself. The edges of the Meowth costume's eyeholes became visible, and there was the odd sensation of her skin folding. And the odd sensation of feeling hollow...

"But how? And how can you hear me thinking?!"

"Nya... Um, the suit has four settings. It can be worn on its own like a normal suit. But it can also go hollow and turn you into a living balloon Pokemon..."

"What?"

Haruhi's voice continued as Melissa felt herself slump back entirely. She could see, but only out of the two eyeholes of the Meowth suit above her.

"Eh, well, it's something fun. It's got automatic time settings, so do the rest. The third setting turns you into another suit and I set it off and turned myself into a Meowth and you just did the same but you're a Charmander, nya."

"The third setting does what?"

"Well the idea is you turn yourself into a suit and a friend wears you so you can talk to each other. Or you get turned into a balloon pokemon after it. But I didn't know it let the suits turn other people into suits..."

If her eyes were not apparently now the eyeholes of a Charmander costume, Melissa would have blinked in confusion.

"What's the point in that?"

"Kind of fun, nya..."

Melissa sighed.

"Well... surely we can turn back, right?"

"Well, yeah but I made a mistake and it's on max setting, and right now if I turn back I'd be part balloon so I could take you out of me first... And then my clothes would come back and so would I... I forgot to say it absorbs your clothes too for safekeeping..."

"Haruhi? How long is max setting?"

There was silence.

"Haruhi?"

"Er... A month... Nya..."

"A MONTH?!"

"Kya! Loud! Don't worry, if someone finds us and reads the manual they'll figure it out!"

"Or put one of the suits on!"

"Just gotta wait?"

Melissa had the mental image of Haruhi performing a sweat-dropping catface.

"Tell me you can't send little pictures to my mind. Wait, how are we even able to see and think?"

If Haruhi had an answer, it was silenced by someone entering the room.

"Hello? Anyone home? Huh... I thought Haruhi only ordered one of these suit things..."

The pair felt themselves picked up, and Melissa's obscured veiw could only just see the person who picked them up.

"Chelsea!" Both of the suits shouted, but she did not hear.

"Huh... There's a Charmander suit inside the Meowth?"

She paused.

"Uh oh..."

"Nya... I have a bad feeling about this..."

"I wonder if Haruhi would mind me trying the Charmander one on. Why is it inside the Meowth anyway..."

Both suits mentally facepalmed.

"Let's hope she doesn't sit on the remote too..."