(So to deal with the explanations )
Now way back when,when Brendan was a brainy upwardly brilliant research student,she
and the other students had invented a pink mist,that when you breathed it in,turned
you into what Brendan referred to as "Mr Scaley",a big green dragon with a temper.
When tou breathed it out of your system,you reverted back to your old human self.
The effects only lasted a few days at most,and just as long as you kept your
temper in check,you could still continue tapping out your Masters thesis with
your talons.
The years flew by and Rick had gotten into transdimensional atom smashers,time shift
capacitors and mind and form shifting fractal string attenuators.
Basically he was dabbling in transformation,time travel,dimension hopping and movement
through space.
Behind that chemical laboratory where he'd been making up the old "Mr Scaleys Screech"
he'd built a time-tf-space-dimension laboratory,and had planned to have some fun exploring
new species,new worlds,new times and new dimensions.
While Brendan had been upstairs listening to Limp Bizkit,Rick had been in the real lab,placing a
viper named Viperella on the Platform.
He'd acquired a old thick manual called Philbys Guide to Dragon Species,and had decided he
and the viper were going to pay a visit to Dimension 4319,Dragon Species 4319.
Species 4319 was a race of 100 foot long intelligent silver scaled serpents,.
When the Projector zapped the viper on the Platform ,her DNA would change into that
of a member of Species 4319,she would change into a 100 foot long serpent,a change that would
force her new form to travel to Dimension 4319,and anything near her would dragged along
for the ride,a visit that could last days before the Projector chose a new species and
Dragon Dimension,zap the 100 foot long former viper,change her,and drag Rick along to a
new dimension.
Rick had been preparing extra batches of the Mr Scaley college punch,just in case
they preferred him as a big green scaled dragon then a hairless ape.
He hadn't been to sure if the viper would get a brain boost,or just be a
feeble minded viper in a 100 foot long Species 4319 body.
The plan was simple,the viper took the brunt of the risk,changes and getting dragged hither
and thither,whilst Rick could hop in and out of this strange journey as he
pleased.
Over on one side of the 4 story tall special projects laboratory was
fastened a huge metal iris door,so the transformed viper and him could exit into the
New Worlds and return as they pleased,without having to worry that the regular door
was too cramped for the transformed viper-dragon to squeeze through.
Basically the viper would be a shapeshifting horse that Rick could ride to
wherever he pleased.
So everything had been prepared for that first species and dimension hopping trip,the Projector
had been throbbing,powering up and getting ready to transform the viper,when the extra heavy electrical
load of Brendans stereo system had caused a temporary seconds long blackout.
When the lights had flickered back on,Rick had been stunned to find the Projector was now
pointing at him,the flickering computer screen was saying
< Original Program Data Lost SWITCHING TO RANDOM DIMENSION MODE>
Then came the searing flash of the Projector that lit up Ricks skeleton
from within as the TF beam sizzled through him and left a skeletal image of his
body at the moment of impact on the white laboratory wall behind him.
It showed a sooty black image of a skeleton that flung its bony arms in front
of its skull to shield it from the Projectors beam.
Simply put,Ricks humanity had been blasted right out of him and his DNA had immediately
started changing into that of a member of Species 4319.
Meanwhile the viper continued to slither and coil on the Platform,with
nary a concern in the world.
Rick had stumbled out of the inner laboratory,seen the ruined beakers full
of "Mr Scaleys Screech",heard the throbbing strains of Limp Bizkit
and had decided that before he got turned into a 100 foot long snake dragged off to
another dimension in time,space and species,he was going to deal with Brendan.
Alas when he got into Brendans room he got locked in,trapped in billowing clouds
of pink fog,his dragon wings tangled in stereo cables,his snout bound shut by another
twisted coil of stereo cables.
Outside a curtain of sparks had formed at the same time as he felt his green scales
sink in his heaving hide as silver alien dragon scales slowly emerged.
A massive tug on his already lengthy 20 foot spine told him he was changing ...