Thunder boomed as Professor Joltier - a name which those who knew of him were reasonably certain was not his legal name - set down the now-empty beaker. He knew many would have called him mad for drinking an untested chemical solution like that, but he knew that it would work. His experiment would be a success!

...Wait, did it count as an experiment if the goal wasn't the acquisition of information? Bah, he wasn't going to let semantics get in the way!

He flipped the switch to open up the roof, then another switch to raise the platform he was standing on. The wind blew his lab coat around - the lab coat he wore purely for style, of course - as he gazed toward the sky. Thanks to the solution he drank, he would easily attract the lightning, at which point the experiment would truly begin.

It did not take long for him to get his wish. Being struck by lightning hurt at first, but then that changed to a strong tingling sensation. He could feel it! It was working!

He was too busy maniacally laughing to notice white fur growing on his body, accompanied by spots of yellow fur on his cheeks and a blue stripe going from the top of his head to right above his tailbone area. Nor did he notice his ears moving upward, forming triangular fuzzy blue ears atop his head.

The ripping sound, however, he could not ignore, nor could he ignore the sensation of a large new appendage forming behind him. He looked and saw a large tail, perhaps as large as the entire rest of his body. It was covered mostly in white fur, with a blue stripe on top and a group of three large blue spikes on the stripe.

He looked at his hands, then his feet, finding cute little paws in place of each. Then suddenly, he shrunk down dramatically, his clothing falling around him as he landed. He was barely above a foot tall!

He could feel the power surging through him. He felt like the world should fear him! But... how could anyone fear someone so adorable as him?