The George Fox Chronicles: Paw Simulator 2014
Whiteness enveloped George’s vision again. He could see in the distance a figure of some sort, almost like a mirage in the complete whiteness of trans dimensional space. As he walked closer, the figure stood up from what looked like a chair and started walking towards him.
This was strange. George remembered just being his 5’ 9’’ size only moments ago, yet this person looked like a living building. The blur subsided, and a Foxcat which looked to George around 10 stories tall towered over him. He had blue pawpads, white toes and a black foot.
“Never thought I’d be seeing you here.” A geekish, slightly embarrassed voice came from up above. He had the tone of a typical office IT support person, but on his day off from work.
George had never heard this voice before, so why was he calling out to him as if they had known each other? Before George could answer that question, the geekish voice spoke again.
“Remember the eggplants and the oranges?” he said.
George then realized that this was his long time friend from this realm, Eggleston. He was finally finding out what he really looked like… or at least his paws.  The mirage like effect blurred his upper body, so George was unable to make out his face.
“Eggleston? Is it really you?” George exclaimed.
“Yeah. I finally managed to trigger a wormhole redirect to my area of interdimensional space.” Eggleston said. “And… you can call me ‘E’.’’
“Okay, E…” A pause… George had to let the first thought he could come up with slip his mind. ”What’s with your voice?” George was wondering why he sounded so different from the sophisticated accent he was used to hearing on his communication devices.
“Oh, right… I was using a voice modulator to make me sound better to you this whole time. I guess there’s no hiding my real voice now.” E said.
“No, I wouldn’t have minded this voice. I was wondering why a sophisticated British accented person would be trapped in interdimensional space. But being a technical geek, I guess it makes more sense now.” George said. He was still fixated on the paw as he spoke, noticing every twitch of the foot, even if it was of one of his besties that had provided him with all the equipment he had for the past few years.
“Not to say there aren’t any mysterious men in Fezzes around here, but they occasionally visit without saying as much as a hello. My realm is invisible to them…” E exclaimed. He then reached down with his hand with a multi colored door. It wasn’t remarkable, the colors looked like they were from a 60s peace banner, and it had a frame surrounding it.
E placed the door on his left paw and opened the door. George couldn’t believe what he saw, as inside the door was not a wall of fur, but a simple bamboo mat and darkness.
“Lay on the mat with your back facing up. If this works, I could make an amusement ride out of this for micros that visit me.” E said, holding back some embarrassment.
George entered the dark area with the bamboo mat and did as E had said. E closed the door and darkness was all George saw for a brief moment. Then, he had the weirdest feelings he had ever experienced in his entire life. When his vision came to, he wasn’t limited by how much he could normally move his eyeballs and was able to see E towering over him and the white material of the ground below. E then wiggled his toes and George felt the movements of the fur in-between E’s toes over what he thought was his skin.
E took a deep breath, and prepared himself for what was coming next. “Okay, time to make things more interesting.” he said.
The white expanse soon turned into a living room, Carmelita’s living room by George’s interpretation. George then felt his fur change, and feeling more lightweight at the same time. He knew the doorway out of his place had a full wall mirror, meaning he could check out what he looked like as a foot, from the perspective of a foot.
E laid his foot down onto the carpet of the living room. George felt the fibers hit the pawpad in what would have been his chest area. The pressure didn’t overwhelm George much as E continued walking to the front doorway. To George’s complete and utter surprise, Carmelita was standing at the mirror, with his perspective at ground level, looking straight out of her left foot. The view was crystal clear and he could see Carmelita’s face from a low angle.
“Liking the view? Chose her because I know you totally wish you were her paw.” E said, in Carmelita’s voice.
So E could shape shift in this dimension into anything that walked on 2 legs… George pondered the possibilities, of making himself into a shoe or boot for Carmelita to unsuspectingly wear. The thought didn’t last long as E walked up the stairs to a bedroom. E opened the door, took stockings that “she” had lying around, and put them on. The stockings were a perfect fit for “her” as George felt the silky fabric envelop him.
E walked downstairs again, to the shoe closet, and got Carmelita’s current pair of everyday boots. George wasn’t sure if the perspective would see through footwear, as he was trying to look through the mesh of the stockings to see what was going on. With a slip and an audible zip of the zipper, darkness enveloped George. He was beginning to sweat. Even without visuals, this experience was like nothing he’d ever experienced.
E decided to take a walk around the neighborhood, initially stepping in the grass of the front yard. The clack of the heels on the cement gave George a jolt whenever the foot hit the ground, translating to the pleasant tingling sensation that he was so used to when he was normally under a paw.
E was sweating too. He had a hidden affinity for cross-dressing when he was his normal self, but he only recently figured out shape shifting. He was actually a woman right now, walking down the currently empty streets with no worries anyone was going to judge him.
15 minutes passed. George wondered how long this would go on. “Hey E, when you have a chance, can we go home to swap shoes?” George said.
E was still able to hear George, as his words travelled up the nerves in the leg directly to his head. “Alright sweetie!” E said in Carmelita’s voice. The sheer fact his best buddy had his girlfriend’s voice was surreal. E even called George “sweetie.” Was he taking himself being his best buddy’s girlfriend a little too seriously?
E returned to the door and re-entered the house. The heat of the boot was completely let go as the foot slipped out of it. George wanted to breathe, but remembered paws can’t breathe. It wasn’t too bad though, being the foot in the boot only felt like a hot summer’s day. He pondered if he was the foot actually during a hot summer day, but the thought was something he wasn’t ready for.
E sat back onto the couch. He took his stockings off and put them on the floor. George was still sweating from the boot, and the view had completely cleared up once the stocking was off. The slip of the stocking felt like fine silk being moved over his entire body.
Light blue socks were next to E as he went for another body change. George’s vision once again got obscured as E put the blue socks on “her” feet. George had felt the foot size change, and he knew he was another body now, but he didn’t know what this one was. There was no use looking up as solid fabric now covered his vision.
Walking to the front doorway, which was a slightly different direction than before, E grabbed tennis shoes and fitted them on “her” foot. E was about to go out for a jog. He was now a female fennec in a track suit. George had no idea E was pulling from his memories for all of his shape shifts.
George heard something that made him cringe to the core. Raindrops were tapping on the shoes E was wearing. It was just like the dream he had while in Anika’s sock.
E took a step forward and splashed his way through thin puddles. He was so fascinated by the fact that he was taking a run in the rain as a woman that he completely forgot George was still his left paw.
George screamed. “E! Stop this right now! I don’t want to drown!”
E had heard his buddy’s cry for help in his head and immediately ran back to the house, avoiding the puddles and heading into the house. “She” took of his shoes and started talking to the paw. The soothing early-20s fennec woman’s voice caught George off guard. “George, are you okay?” E said in the fennec’s voice.
George still couldn’t see anything. The sock had completely obscured “her” face and he couldn’t see a thing. Not to mention he was pointing “her” foot so that George’s perspective was that he was viewing “her” face upside down.
“I’m fine, for now. This memory had been haunting me since I was a kid.” George said. He was breathing heavily in his words, but it only translated to twitching muscles on the foot.
“Oh no… I should have remembered…” E said.
The “simulation” ended and E returned to the environment to whiteness once again. George felt the foot increase in size and blackness returned as he was resting on the bamboo again. The door above him opened and George crawled out.
George was still catching his breath. “That… was… so… fun.”
“Really?” E’s geekish voice returned. “I thought you’d be mad at me for using a nightmare for a run in the…”
“…Until that point, yes.” George said. “I never did find out what that fennec looked like.”
“I am so sorry about this. The thing is… I… kind of wanted to do this for a while.” E said embarrassingly.
George was confused. “You wanted to be a woman?”
“I read up that my kind could only shape shift if another person had memories of certain things, and that the person had to become a body part to access a database of things to shape shift into.” E explained. “It’s like plugging a USB flash drive into me, but I needed a person with memories I could shift into.”
George was slightly taken aback to E’s sudden openness to reveal his desires. “You wanted me… cause you wanted to be Carmelita?” George was conflicted. On one hand, he satisfied E’s need to become Carmelita for a while. On the other hand, why did E want to literally step for 15 minutes in Carmelita’s shoes?
“You know… when I’m your paw… I can’t treat you to the same stuff I treat Carm cause I’m busy being a foot.” George said. “That’s a design flaw.”
E sat down. The mirage effect still prevented George from seeing E’s full body, but he could still see the outline of a sitting giant, head slumping down with his footpaws up.
“I’m so jealous. You and Carmelita do things I can only dream of. I just wished I could be at the other end of some of that, just for once…” E sounded snubbed of joy, with his hands resting on his thighs.
George had to make it up to him somehow. He only knew one way, and the clean environment of the whiteness of trans dimensional space was the only way he was going to do this without spitting out dust. George started licking the blue pawpads of E.
E felt the licking from the sensitive parts of his foot. Surprised his buddy would go to such lengths, and satisfied at the same time. “You… you’re okay with this?” he said.
George stopped briefly. “I still find your everyday paws to be cute, buddy.”
E blushed. He didn’t know what to say. George proceeded to hug each of E’s feet and began massaging them, as he often does with Carmelita.
After rubbing the main pawpad, George poked his head through E’s toes. “All you needed to do was ask.” He squeezed each pawpad on each toe and spit shined each one.
E finally felt relieved. He allowed George to do his work for another 5 minutes before he grabbed George to bring him up to his face. He was a mix of blue, white and black fur with glasses on. He was colored just like his paws. “Thank you George.” E kissed George’s body.
George took a minute to let the feeling of his giant lips kissing him sink in. However, before he could let out a breath, he threw George up into the air. “We’ll talk soon!!!” E shouted.
George was still going up into the whiteness of the dimensional space. There were no rules for gravity, he felt like he kept going, like a rocket. The world started fading to black, and George felt the familiar blankets over his body feeling once again. He had also felt an arm wrapping around his neck and left shoulder.
George opened his eyes to see his bedroom with Carmelita’s snoring in his right ear. It was the spot Jin was sleeping in before he fell asleep during his paw treatment. George guessed E sent Jin back. He turned to face her, lips touching, as he gave a kiss to her. Carmelita, half awake, continued the kiss until both were hugging each other tight. Once she was fully awake, she got to talking.
“Hey sweetie. Where were you?” Carmelita said. “Tried to wake you up but you were sleeping so deeply this afternoon.”
E had setup a decoy George for him when he was away… The clever one he was… “I was having a dream… a good one. I was dreaming that I became your paw.” George said.
“My paw? The whole time? Trust me, you wouldn’t want to be that during a job. I deliver pretty rough kicks to bad guys.” Carmelita said. She lifted her foot to George’s face. “Besides, you’re the one that pampers it. If you were the paw, I’d have to massage them myself.”
George gave a quick kiss to the paw and Carmelita chuckled and put it back down. As soon as her foot reached the end of the bed again, her phone alarm went off.
“Oh right, 5AM call time… I promise I’ll be back for you tonight, okay?” Carmelita said as he jumped out of the bed.
“It’s alright babe, I have all the time in the world.” George said from the bed.
Carmelita winked with one eye to George as she bolted downstairs to get dressed. George remained in the bed, imagining how a powerful kick to Carmelita’s adversaries would feel like if he was her paw. E had planted the seed of a thousand imaginary trips for George, and he was ready to daydream the upcoming day away.
*tap tap tap*
Someone was at the window. George got out of bed, expecting to see an “early bird.” It was 5AM after all, and those kinds of birds were common where he was.
He was shocked to see Sly Cooper, standing on the windowsill, tapping at the glass. The card George gave him in 2002 had unblurred, with his precise address and photo printed on. He knew right away what he had come here for… but was he ready to truly change the time continuum?
TO BE CONTINUED
(Huge story arc incoming!)