Nicholas cried out in agony, or at least he would have had bone deep anguish not lit up every single nerve ending in his body effectively paralyzing his breath in his lungs.  Had he been mugged on his way home by an assailant with a stun gun?  The man had never been hit with five-million volts of electricity, so it seemed within the realm of reason.  Could explain the flash of phantom green fire if the charge was capable of messing with his brain and thus his perception.  But if that was the case why the hell was it lasting<em>so long</em>?  The instant before he felt his consciousness leave him, Nick was actually thankful his body had reached its limitations.<br/><br/>A soft groan escaped his lips as he finally begun to stir after who knows how long of being out.  Practically dreading what he would find when he opened his eyes, he decided to take stock of what he could from where he lay.  First and foremost he found the ground beneath him surprisingly soft for concrete, meaning he was not presently laying on the sidewalk.  What's more was the lingering warmth still in the ground despite the fact that the cool night air should have sapped it away shortly after nightfall.  The ease that that realization came to Nick alarmed him much more than the softness of the ground.  The feeling of the ambient temperature so clearly on his skin verified that he was, in fact, entirely nude.<br/><br/><em>This does not bode well.  This does not bode well in the least.</em><br/><br/>Not wanting to allow his anxiety to build without fully knowing what sort of mess he had gotten himself into, he opened his eyes wide and took in as much as he could in the first moments of doing so. He was outside, but the towering structures he had expected to find were nowhere in sight.  There was ambient light, perhaps dawn has come?  Testing his arms for binds, Nick was extremely grateful his arms were not being restrained.  At least they responded like they were his arms, but he didn't remember them being so toned with lean muscle.  Lifting his head upward to take stock of his own situation, he was even more surprised to find that his birthday suit as a whole was of far finer quality and cut from when he had last seen it.<br/><br/><strong>"The fuck is going on here?"</strong><br/><br/>Rolling to his side, he went to lift himself off the ground only to flinch as a black curtain appeared out of his peripheries.<strong>"The hell?"</strong>Running his fingers through the curtain, he realize that it was hair that was attached to his scalp and rather than being black it was actually a deep crimson that could only be seen when the fading rays of sunlight hit it directly.  As he went to pull his new long locks behind his ear, he realized that they had a misshapen quality to them.<em>This just keeps getting weirder and weirder.</em><br/><br/>Looking around once more he found other naked people, that is if people was a term that could describe individuals that were clearly not human.  Given the obvious bewilderment on their faces, Nick was thankful he was not the only one who was struggling to comprehend exactly what was going on.  As he lifted himself to his feet, he had been about to cover himself up before taking another glance at his new body and felt it would have been a crime not to wear his new statuesque frame with pride.  As the shortest of the group spoke up, Nick turned his gaze to the horizon opposing the sun and instantly noticed the menacing clouds looming ever closer.  At least one of the group members was positively ecstatic about their situation, he preferred to wait until he had fully grasped what exactly was going on.<strong>"The name is Nick and I'm with the fuzzy one on this.  We should take cover before the weather turns nasty."</strong>