Introverted shut-in and aspiring writer/artist Yasmin had a complex life, she has struggles with love due to her tough dating experiences with Human boys that didn't turn out to be very good near the end…After recently losing another Job Yasmin started feeling like a failure in romance, and all she ever wanted to do was to find something greater in her life, her own desires that she wanted.

But one day, following another bad date, her life was soon changed when she thought playing a game would help take her mind off her bad romance experiences. There she remembered having this on her desk, an PC disc copy of what appeared to be…

“Sonic.EXE…?”

Yasmin said to herself out of curiosity, though she remembered having a PC where a CD disc works inside of it on her computer and decided to play it…

“Here goes nothing…” Yasmin said it to herself as the game starts…

HILL ZONE
ROOM 1

“That game reminds me of the original Sonic games I’ve used to play…”

Yasmin said to herself upon starting the game and noticed that she was playing as her favorite character, Tails. Everything seems normal at the beginning until…The screen suddenly cuts to black.

“What the…?”

Yasmin said to herself in concerning tone…and noticed the white and then red lined text reading…

"HELLO YASMIN"

“Huh?? How does that game know my name…?” Yasmin said in a shocked but quiet tone, not knowing what’s gonna happen next. Yasmin, playing as Tails, was now in the flatter version of the Hill Zone…but something went wrong. The hills and the trees along with the plants started rotting and there’s dead badniks and critters everywhere, with Tails’ expression getting worried…leaving Yasmin concerned, she doesn’t know what’s going on with this game…

"WELCOME BACK!"

The text spoke with a blood-splattered exclamation point, accompanied by a familiar cackling sound of an old demon, startling her. Yasmin saw Tails, looking scared as she controls him throughout the decaying hill zone, more plants and fields including trees started decaying and rotting until for a matter of seconds, a quick, menacing glow and smile of a familiar Lord with the red text reading “I AM GOD” next to him appeared in a matter of seconds…

Tails looked more terrified, tears are coming out of his eyes as the skies turn orange, the plants and the trees become more grotesque…and uncanny…Yasmin was nauseous.

“What’s…What’s going on…?”

Yasmin said with an easy expression and tone in her voice. She kept on controlling Tails while trying to figure out what’s happening in this game until there Yasmin noticed was Sonic nearby, leaving Yasmin relieved, thinking he would maybe help Tails…would he?

Tails expression changed from neutral to looking easily concerned and worried. Yasmin would then watch as “Tails” would come any closer to “Sonic” until…

CRRRRRAAAAAACK!

“…?!”

What the fuck…?!”

Yasmin said, looking petrified, thinking that familiar Lord wasn’t Sonic…

"REMEMBER THIS?"

ANGEL ISLAND ZONE
ROOM 1

Yasmin was in the “Angel Island Zone” level, that level was one of her favorites during her childhood days playing Sonic…but something’s wrong…“Tails” was crying, begging Yasmin to help…perhaps she’ll maybe try to help him while figuring out what’s going on in this game, believing it might be…

Cursed…

Yasmin would keep on controlling “Tails” while trying to figure out what to do until then…

"HOW ABOUT A GAME? FOR OLD TIMES SAKE"

The text coming from a familiar Lord spoke…

“What game…? I’m already playing my game…What’s going on here?”

Yasmin said in a confused but nervous tone…

Just as ALAN began to quickly sprint while Yasmin controls him, a grayish and grody-looking hedgehog with black and red eyes and a huge “X”-shaped scar on his torso then started levitating and chasing after him as Yasmin thought he’d try to make him go faster and said…

“I don’t get it, is this another Sonic.EXE game…?”

Yasmin said to herself in confusion as she keeps going until she finds a ledge that lets Alan jump off and try to fly away from the menacing Lord.

Yasmin keeps on controlling Alan in the hopes to get away from him until…

CHOMP!

“AAAAAAHHHH!!!”

Yasmin watched in horror as one of the monstrous trees have bit two of Alan’s tails off, Alan couldn’t even fly anymore…

Yasmin tried to keep controlling Alan, thinking he needed to find a way out of here. Then suddenly…he tripped and fell over, as Alan laid there and began to cry. This moment was rather upsetting as Yasmin was forced to watch in tears, she couldn’t control him in a matter of seconds as the remix of the Drowning Music from the Sonic games play. And then it stopped as the “Lord” flew past him…and Alan got up.

“Okay, go this way and pretend this’ll be all over…”

Yasmin said as she controlled Alan to the left to try to find another way, just then…

SCREEEEEEEECH!

All Yasmin could ever find was…Alan near a dead end that manifested…Yasmin felt hopeless…

Then suddenly, Yasmin noticed a presence behind Alan…

CRRRRRAAAAAACK!

The demonic Hedgehog Lord then grabbed Alan by the neck, strangling him, as Yasmin helplessly watched Alan about to meet his unfortunate fate…

CRACK
CRACKLE

Yasmin covered her eyes in fear, wishing it’ll all be over repeatedly until…

The screen turned blue, and the game froze, crashing back to her desktop.

“Damn it, I want to see what happens next…I hope Alan’s okay…” 

Yasmin said to herself as she tried booting up the game again.

When booting up the game once again, it looks like a title to the first Sonic the Hedgehog game, but something’s off…

Yasmin suspiciously noticed the ominous red eyes from the distance and…She saw Sonic…but the red glowing eyes and that yellow, menacingly, demonic smile WASN’T “Sonic” …Despite the cheery music and the well-known finger wagging animation.

“Huh…What the?”

Yasmin watched in horror as she saw the “Fake Sonic” showing his real form…A grotesque, demonic lord in the vessel of a Hedgehog, as he wags his finger and smiles menacingly at Yasmin.

The Lord then comes alive, and two bony-like monstrous arms come out of his mouth and outside of the monitor, causing Yasmin to get up from the chair and back up in fear…he chased after Yasmin as he leaped and levitated. Yasmin tried to get out of the room when suddenly…a presence was close to her as she flinched in fear. She tried to cover her eyes, wishing that it’ll all be a nightmare when she hears the Lord’s voice…

“Hello, Old Friend…”

He spoke to Yasmin as he revealed himself to her, she uncovered her eyes to see the face of the lord…To her surprise, she realized that’s the same demonic old Hedgehog that captured Alan!

“W-who are you?? A-And what are you doing?!” Yasmin said, shuddering in an anxious tone.

“Don’t be afraid, old friend, I am Lord X. I am the Lord of all EXEs and Oddities in my Dimension.” Lord X introduces himself.

“I-I got a question for you, sir, w-what have you done with Alan!?" Yasmin then interrogated Lord X

“Oh? About my old friend? Don’t worry about him, he’s just enjoying my world. Besides, I need you to do me a favor.” Lord X told Yasmin as she responded with “Hmmm, what is it? Are you trying to be persuasive?”

“This is an important favor. I have about only six guardians consisting of Prayer, Disgust, Joy, Rage, Despair, and Fear…now all I needed was the last, seventh one ending with Desire.”

“You need…the Guardian of Desires??”

“Yes.” said Lord X as Yasmin then told the Lord her story.

“Well, you don't mind if I could fill in for the Guardian of Desires because...I really wanted to find my own desires I want because I keep losing each job and I've kept on failing in romance. And now that I’ve lost another one along with having a bad dating experience with another boy, I’ve taken a turn for the worse and I needed to make my wish come true to start things over…if I fill in as the Guardian of Desires for you, my wish fulfillment would be complete...right?”

Upon hearing Yasmin’s story, an idea suddenly popped into Lord X’s head, his devious smile crept back across his face.

“Ah, I see how it is, so because of your dark and troubled past experiences you wish to become a Guardian of Desires so that your wish is complete, huh?”

Lord X then started rubbing both of his hands together

“Perfect. As your Lord, you are officially welcome to be the seventh guardian of X as the Guardian of Desires. But first, I’m gonna make some BIG changes with you…”

It was almost easy. Just as Yasmin was about to be ready, Lord X opened his jawline and…

CRACKLE
CRRRRRAAAAAACK!

Two skeletal and slightly fleshy and purple skeletal arms with sharp claws appeared from the inside of his mouth, holding two red ear piercings with two black “X”’s on them.

“Now hold still and don’t squirm, cause it’s gonna be quick and might hurt a little.”

Said Lord X as he holds both of his arms on Yasmin’s body to restrain her. Two skeletal arms then pierced both red piercings on both sides of Yasmin’s ears as Yasmin she groans and yelped due to the sharp pain coming from the ear piercings. Both skeletal arms went back to the inside of the Lord’s mouth as he lets her go.

“There we go!” Lord X said as Yasmin groaned, feeling slight pain from the piercings in her ears.

“Ow! Ow! Ow…I-I’ve never got my ears pierced before…but I—Ow! Didn’t know you were good at it…Ouch! Still hurts though…”

“Don’t worry about the pain, it’ll go away any seconds once before the miracle happens. And if by a miracle happening along with a wish fulfillment, it also means I cherish the moment that you’ll soon JOIN ONE OF US.”

“Wha…? Y-You didn’t—”

Yasmin said before her speech was interrupted by a pain turning into a strange, itching sensation coming from both of her ears.

“Ugh…My ears feel funny…I can feel them ringing…”

Suddenly, the piercings have a powerful effect, starting with Yasmin’s ears as they grow pointy, golden fur starts growing as they move upwards, becoming Hedgehog-like ears. Yasmin, with a stunned expression on her face, feels both of her changed ears as they twitched.

“Huh? T-They’ve become exactly like you and Sonic’s…”

She said as she held one of her ears, resulting in her needing a mirror. She ran out to the mirror reflection and saw her new, Hedgehog ears…to her surprise! Suddenly, the golden tone then started spreading throughout her beige hair as she feels them…and gasped in shock.

“What’s happening to my hair…?”

She said to herself as once the golden tone reached her hair, she felt her wavy hair hardening and then shortening into a set of spiky, Super Sonic-esque quills, with two locks of her frontal hair growing from her bangs.

“What the fuck is going--?”

Yasmin tried to finish the sentence to herself in a shocked tone but felt complete pain from her face as it started changing along with a burning sensation coming from her neck.

Her eyes grew larger and cartoony, with both of her eyelashes becoming golden and two hazel-colored eyes becoming the same colors as her new eyelashes, with one of the right eyes becoming nothing but a golden-lined scar on the right, covered up by her hair. She felt her nose growing black as she felt two golden furs growing from her face, her nose along with her muzzle grew and elongate, and more animalistic as she groaned in agony. Her neck arched and re-structured as her soft and quiet feminine voice lowered and deepened, sounding masculine yet soft and charming with reverb effects. Yasmin then heavily breathes as she felt her new eyelashes, a her Mobian Hedgehog-esque muzzle and nose, and her male Mobian face as she blushed at herself.

“My face feels—”

Yasmin says just as she covered her mouth in shock upon speaking in a new masculine tone of voice, as she felt a lump from the inside of her throat, realizing her voice now sounded very masculine with no signs of feminine tones left.

“I don’t believe it…I looked like a Male Mobian but sounded like a Guy now…does that mean I’m turning into…a Man?”

Yasmin quietly questioned herself as she felt her hands growing, becoming cartoony and masculine as pawbeans appear from the form of her hands complete with claws. Lord X, who was watching on the transformation, then handed out two pair of tanned gloves with dark red ribbons and red circular pins with black “X”’s on them.

“You might need these for your hands.”

He said as Yasmin takes the gloves from Lord X that he handed to her at one point and then, she puts them on, they fit perfectly for her new hands as she felt the sleeves of her yellow hoodie disintegrating, both of her arms suddenly bulk up and grew a bit of muscle as she groaned, shiny gold vein-like cracks then formed on her changing arms.

“Ah, yes…It’s working…”

Lord X said to himself as he smirked, knowing that Yasmin would soon be joining the Guardians as the new Guardian of Desires.

Yasmin then felt a cramp on her shoes as golden patches of fur started growing on her feet. She tried taking off her vans, only for them to torn open to reveal that she had grown golden paws with beans from her soles and under her toes and her toenails turning golden and sharpening.

“Oh my, looks like I’ve got to give you some new shoes that fit you.”

Said Lord X as he snapped his fingers, her torn black vans were then morphed into gold-accented sandals with black soles to fit her new feet. Once that happened, the yellow patches of fur slowly formed on her legs as particles of her baggy pants disintegrate, both of her legs bulked up a bit, growing a bit of muscles, the same vein-like cracks on her arms formed on her changing legs.

CRRRRRAAAAAACK!

“A-AAAAAGH~!”

Yasmin's waist cracked and became less curvy much to her pain, she felt her hips retracting back and becoming less feminine and more masculine, she almost got shorter, her feminine structure has become more masculine. Her disintegrating baggy pants were then reshaped into a dark maroon cloth on his waist that trails behind her.

The golden patches of fur then spread all over her back and half of her torso as her spine arched, her shoulders and neck broadening. Yasmin lifted her hoodie and felt the gold fur all over her body.

“The fur grown all over me felt soft, but this feels new…” Yasmin said to herself.

“Of course it is, but we’re not done yet.” Said Lord X as Yasmin felt her chest tingling and twitching.

“Huh…? What’s this weird feeling coming from my chest??” Yasmin said as she took off her entire hoodie, only for her to find that she felt both of her pair of breasts slowly receding in a matter of seconds. To her shock and horror as she watch them deflate, Yasmin grabbed both of her shrinking breasts to try to frantically pull them back out of her chest.

“N-No…! W-Wait…! G-Grow them back…Grow them back! I-I can’t have my girls gone! I-I…!”

“Too bad you’re unable get the mounds back out of your chest because you’re already feeling them receding back into your flatness. You see, Guardians including me were genderless, but we all resemble and look exactly like men. Embrace it, Yasmin, embrace your own desires of becoming a Man.”

“N-No, Wait!! Y-You can’t do this to me! I-I--!”

Yasmin tried to frantically stop Lord X, only for her to feel her breasts quickly shrunk down back to her chest and morph into a pair of nice, mobian-esque pecs as she moaned. Six packs of abs form from her masculine torso as her entire t-shirt then shifted into a set of brown and red bands over her exposed pecs and abs with the red bands forming an "X". Yasmin then gropes her new pecs that formed on her chest as she tried to resist her “Desires”.

“A-Agh~! T-This isn’t what I—OooOoOoooh~! W-wanted! C-Change me back…P-Please!”

“It’s already too late.” Lord X said to Yasmin as he smirked deviously “It’s too late for you to go back and resist yourself. It looks like you’re almost done. The path of you becoming a Guardian of Desires is almost complete.”

He said as Yasmin’s legs shook and fell to her knees, she’s losing her resistance hopelessly…

“Be prepared for your uncomfortable but arousing part.”

Said Lord X as Yasmin felt a weird but burning sensation coming out from her thighs and in between her legs. It started growing and pushing outwards of her crotch as she moaned in agony and arousal. Both of her hormones and reproductive system becoming an opposite sex, her Feminine Chromosomes become masculine chromosomes.

During that, Lord X placed his hand on Yasmin's head and grabbed her, and using his powers and abilities, Yasmin's mind was soon warping and clouding away as Lord X started removing her past as a Human, saliva was dropping out of her mouth.

"You were no longer an introverted and lonely NEET and shut-in, you're not an aspiring writer and artist anymore...you are a guardian, the seventh guardian, a guardian of desire! An extremely arrogant guardian who believes himself to be perfect and often boasts to your victims about your status. You can manipulate one's desires, creating images that reflect said desires and fog up the other's minds. You're no longer a Human named Yasmin; you are Yokubo. Don't fully resist yourself, Yokubo. Give in, Yokubo."

Just as Yasmin lost hope in resisting, Manhood had finished growing and formed from HIS crotch, losing all traces of Womanhood as he finally gave in as…Yokubo, Guardian of Desire. And then…he blacked out once the transformation’s been completed.

“Now, it’s about time to welcome to your new home. Sweet dreams.”

Lord X said as carried Yokubo and both disappeared together back into the inside of the monitor…

A FEW MOMENTS LATER...

Lord X then placed an unconscious guardian into the bed chambers.

“Once you’ll wake up, you’ll completely forget about your past as a Human and remember who fully are in no time.” Lord X said. 

Just then, Yokubo then started shaking and trembling, making his movement as he opened his eyes and smiled for the first time.

“M-Mmmaah…M-Muh…Mmmmm…M-My…My lord.”

Yokubo said, finally have completely forgotten his past as a Human named Yasmin as recent memories of himself caved in.

“I, Yokubo, has thank you for resurrecting me and returning here to your dimension.”

“It’s good for to have your return, Yokubo, my Guardian of Desires.” Said Lord X as he smiled.

“Now that I'm so kind, I'll let you serve me and keep my world in check for now on, just like the rest of my guardians…Even though you’ll still be able to gloat to yourself, especially about your status”

“Yes, my Lord.”

Yokubo said as he got out of the bed chambers of his castle and went outside while continuing to serve Lord X as his guardian and keeps checking on his world. He then slowly takes a deep breath in and lets it all out of the fresh air he needed. Yokubo then smiled at himself, admiring his newfound form and his new life and how he now works for Lord X despite his arrogance and his spoiled brat vibes.

“It’s glad for me to be perfect again…” said Yokubo to himself, as he watched as Alan, the same soul in a Tails vessel that’s been trapped inside of and that Lord X was usually chasing, just arrived to Lord X’s castle where he and the guardians were at…

THE END.