Matt glanced above his computer screen at Tom one more time. Tom was fully engrossed in whatever he was doing. And to make it even better, Tom rolled over on his side, facing away from Matt on his bed.
His heart beating slightly faster, Matt carefully typed in "D o n k e y" and hit Enter, half expecting his laptop camera to turn on by itself from a website command and place his face over a stock donkey picture like a bad Photoshop image. However, nothing of the sort happened. Instead, the website just said "Answer accepted. Downloading now."
At first, nothing really happened. But the moment Matt touched his mouse again, there was a sudden shock that made him flinch and withdraw his hand. "Static electricity..." he grumbled, closing his eyes. Oddly, his fingers went numb.
It was when Matt reopened his eyes that his job dropped. The hand that got shocked was slowly changing! His fingers were turning black, and hard, and fusing together into what looked like a hoof!
Matt was speechless when he jumped up from his seat and looked at Tom in a panic, who was still not paying attention with his earbuds in and playing music. Matt groaned as he felt his insides churning, changing, growing bigger. His body was increasing in mass, his pants and shirt slowly popping seams and ripping apart.
"Tom!" Matt said in a raspy voice, "ToAAAWWM!" And he clasped his hooves over his mouth as he heard a donkey bray come out of his mouth.
There was a poking from his behind, and Matt grabbed what he felt swishing around. And paled when he realized he could feel his own tail. And the rest of his body was still changing. Ears moving up to the top of his head and growing longer, gray fur sprouting and growing all over...