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Alice's Lab Results


by ashgann11

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     My name is Alice, I’m a Snot Jubjub. I wasn’t always like this, I was once beautiful. Do you want to hear how I became like this? Ok, I’ll tell you.

      It all started when my owner first joined Neopets. It was 5 years ago. Sunny day in July. I was the first pet she ever made. I was a beautiful Red Kougra. Oh, you should have seen me. I remember it like it was yesterday. I always had so much fun prancing through Neopia Central showing off my beauty. My owner even bought me pretty clothes to wear. I had a closet full of beautiful dresses and shoes and so many accessories I could almost never pick what I wanted to wear for the day. My favorite place to spend time was Mystery Island. I love the aroma of the Cooking Pot and all the flavorful things they make there. I love the smell of the flowers blooming everywhere you look. Flip flops and a tank top with shorts was normally my go to outfit for our Mystery Island outings.

      About a year ago, my owner started searching for and buying what she called, "Secret Laboratory Map Pieces." At first when I heard "Secret" and "map" I was excited. I thought we were going to find this secret map and go on an adventure together. Boy, was I wrong. Once my owner found all of these "Secret Laboratory Map Pieces" she told me we were going to try something out and that it could make me even more beautiful. I kind of laughed to myself and thought, "More beautiful? No way! I’m already the most beautiful pet I can be." We turned in our map pieces and went to this secret laboratory and in the lab there was a pretty strange guy. He appeared to be a Scorchio but he wasn’t like any I had ever seen. He looked crazy, he had big white hair that stuck up from the top of his head and he had a creepy lab coat on. I immediately wanted to run for the exit but my owner assured me everything was ok and I was going to be just fine.

      This Scorchio had me sit in a chair in the middle of the room next to this big laser type machine. I was very nervous but thought to myself that if my owner brought me here and assures me that everything is going to be ok than it must be true. The Scorchio fired all of the machines up and this beam of light came out of the laser machine and hit me. It didn’t really hurt but it sure scared me. After the light subsided, I looked over to my owner and she was beaming. She put a mirror in front of me and said "Look how beautiful you are now Alice! I told you that everything would be ok and you would be fine." I looked into the mirror at the new me and much to my surprise, I was more beautiful than I was when I walked in. This machine that I was so scared of made me into a Faerie! I was so pretty I couldn’t quit looking at myself in the mirror. I still had my beautiful tail and my cute paws but now I had wings! Not to mention my color, oh my my color. The most beautiful shades of purples and blues in just the most perfect places to accent my features. I was so happy. You would think now that I’m so gorgeous my owner would stop there, right? Wrong.

      Our next trip to the Secret, well not so secret now, Laboratory, I was more excited than nervous but couldn’t help but wonder if you could get any more beautiful than this. We walked in like we did about two months before and there was the weird Scorchio scientist guy. I went over to the chair and sat down like I had once before not too long ago and I sat in anticipation. The only thing I could think that may be more beautiful than me would be my idol, Sasha, the Cybunny. She’s so brave and spread joy and hope to her people in times of desperation, but surely this machine couldn’t make me a completely different species, could it? The scientist flipped his switches and pushed his buttons and once again a beam of light came right out of the laser machine and hit me. This time it stung a little but nothing I couldn’t handle, I was about to be like Sasha. Maybe I could help people out in hard times. Maybe I could spread hope and joy to the people of Neopia. Well maybe I should just start with looking in the mirror to see what beautiful face is going to look back this time. My owner held the mirror in front of me and I closed my eyes. I was so scared to see what I might look like this time. I loved being a faerie. I was so beautiful, people gasped when I walked by. Ok, Alice, you can do this. Face your fear and just look to see what you look like now. It can’t be that bad. I opened one eye, then the other and to my surprise, I was a Cybunny, just like Sasha! Oh, it was a dream come true! I couldn’t believe it. I was so happy.

      The next day we set out to buy more clothes for me since, of course, my Kougra clothes didn’t fit me anymore, being a Cybunny now. We walked into Uni’s Clothing and were very politely greeted as we had been the times before. This time, the shopkeeper asked my owner what the name of her new pet was. My owner laughed and said "Oh, this is Alice. We just got back from the Secret Laboratory." The shopkeeper gasped in amazement and said " Well she was beautiful as a Faerie Kougra of course but look at you now, Alice. A Pastel Cybunny, you are just stunning!" I smiled at her and said "Thank you." She led us to the Cybunny clothing and we started rummaging to see what we could find. Thankfully, with my owner, money was never a problem. My owner played games diligently and earned all the money I could have hoped for and she always knew just how to spoil me. She bought me the Cybunny Carrot outfit for when I wanted to have a spa day or just relax. We found a Cybunny Ocean Warrior clothing set and I just loved it so of course, my owner bought it as well. My owner stumbled upon a Cybunny Pocket Watch and thought it would be so cute for me because my name is Alice and the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland had a pocket watch very much like this one. I found a Little Red Riding Hood outfit that I just had to have because it would be the most perfect Halloween costume! Once we had made our purchase and I changed into my new Shenkuu outfit, we set off back to our Neohome.

      I should have known that that wouldn’t be the end. It was like my owner was addicted to going to the Secret Lab now. Five months after I became a Pastel Cybunny, we headed back. We went through the usual motions. I sat in the chair, switches were flipped, buttons were pushed, the laser came out and my owner walked up with the mirror. Since we had been having luck and I was getting more and more beautiful, I gladly looked into the mirror this time. When I saw what was looking back at me, I screamed. This has to be a trick. This can’t be right. I WAS BEAUTIFUL!! Staring back at me in the mirror was a nasty, green, Snot Jubjub. I looked at my owner and she was laughing! Laughing!? I started to cry and my owner, I guess trying to lighten the mood said, "I’m sorry, I think it’s funny but I guess it’s snot." Know what she did then? She fell in the floor laughing so hard. I trusted my owner and she betrayed me. She says she’s going to keep me this way. Something about being conceited and needing to be taught a lesson? We went straight home after that.

      So, now you know my story. Now you know how I went from beautiful to this. I’m still holding out hope one day that she will zap me again and maybe I can go back to beautiful, but until then, I sit in my room most days. I look out over Neopia Central at all the beautiful pets and their loving owners and miss those days. Maybe I was bad, maybe I took what I had for granted. I think I’m going to go apologize to my owner now. It was nice to get this off of my chest. Thank you for listening.

     

The End.

 
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