Speaker 1: Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.
I'm Martin, and you are listening to Dad's bedtime stories. Tonight,
we're going to be jumping back into one of my
new series, the shape Shifter Universe, a world where you've
recently been given the power to shape shift into anything
you've touched, I guess, any animal or anything like that.
And I finally got my first suggestion for it, so
I thought we'd go with it. Let's check it out.
Speaker 2: B'm my name in August. I live in Calgary, Canada,
and I'm eight years old. I would like a story
for the Shifting series where there's green aliens and everything
they touch turns into bobs of goo and you stop them.
Thank you. I love your podcast, ten stars.
Speaker 1: Thank you, August. Honestly, when I said people should write
in and give me suggestions for the shapeshifter universe, I
thought it would be about turning into different animals and
stuff like that. But you came up with aliens who
turned things to go, which I think is pretty fun too.
Before we get started, I just have some show notes
to give to some of the listeners. As many of
you know, I'm doing a March social share contest where
if you share the podcast with other people you think
might like it on social media or whatever, you get
entered in a draw for a possible guaranteed story idea
and an interview for me. And I've had some more
people join the contest. So thank you to Keisha J.
For joining the contest, perhaps on the part of a child,
or maybe you are the child. It's hard to know sometimes.
Thank you to Christina J. For joining the contest. Thank
you to Wilder for joining the contest, and thank you
to Olivia N and Mom Lisa for joining the contest.
You guys have all shared the podcast and I now
consider you Dad's Bedtime Stories ambassadors. People willing to find
someone who looks like they need a better night's sleep
and suggest the podcast to them. If you want to
check out that contest as well, in case you're interested
in joining or taking submissions to the end of March.
All of the details are in the show notes. But
now it's that time again, after a possible word from
a possible sponsor, because podcasts need to be funded, after all,
close your eyes, get as comfy as you can in
that bed, and imagine yourself doing what the kid in
the story does. Imagine yourself waking up in your very
own bed, in your very own home. Just the other day,
you met a wizard that was disguised as a dog
who gave you shape shifting powers. It's been pretty fun
to experiment with them. Since first you collected the form
of a cat, then a bird, then a gorilla, and
a tiger, and since then, any animal you've come across
you've gently called over to yourself, placed your hand on it,
and absorbed their DNA signature, allowing you to turn into
them as well. Luckily for you, it also seems to
have given you the ability to calm down animals and
speak to them, making it a lot easier to acquire
the powers. Today, you're hoping to gain even more animal forms.
You head out of your room and pass the room
with the TV in it. This just in Strange alien
ships have arrived over cities around the world. Strange green
alien creatures have been appearing and reportedly turning people into goo.
Uh is that right? They're actually turning people into goo?
The reporter asked to somebody off screen. Yes, apparently that
is correct. They are turning people and even things into goo.
Stay tuned for more. The TV switches to images of tall,
green alien creatures touching cars and melting them into goo,
or putting their hand on innocent people and turning them
into goo as well. Even stranger than that, the goo
seems to come to life. After the things are melted,
they sort of move around, join together, creating gigantic blobs.
The blobs begin capturing more people and more things for
the aliens to turn into. Go Oh, no, you say,
I can't be good. You hear a voice coming from
the window. Where are you plading on helping it all?
The voice says, you look over to see a bird
sitting in the window. The bird hops inside and slowly
transforms into that same wizard wearing green robes. Now, I
told you when you accepted the power that you would
be drawn into adventure. I believe this may be one
of those situations. These green goop aliens have bothered me before.
But don't worry. There is a simple way to uh well,
defeat them by giving them a taste of their own medicine. Ah,
what do you mean, a taste of their own medicine? Oh,
you'll figure it out, toodlu. The wizard transforms once again,
back into an eagle, of sorts. It flaps its wings,
flies out the window, and disappears into the distance. Wait
a second, as he's saying, it's up to me to
stop these green alien guys and giving them a taste
of their own medicine is the way to do it. Ah, Okay,
You head outside. You focus on the form of the
bird that you absorbed the other day, and your body
begins to feel sort of wobbly, less solid. Then you
begin to change shape. Your arms stretch out into wings
that then shrink down to the tiny wings of a bird.
Your legs become little bird legs, Your head stretches out
into a beak, and you begin to flap your little wings,
soaring higher and higher into the sky until you're high
enough up to glide. You realize that you're really going
to need a better bird form than this. Certainly it
gets you from place to place, but it's not a
very big bird or a very scary bird. You'll have
to research something more scary, something larger and able to
fly or really long distances. But that's a problem for
another time. You realize you glide high above the world,
looking down on the tiny people and tiny houses below,
until you eventually come towards some of the chaos that
the news was reporting. You see large alien ships floating
in the air over the downtown center. Below, you see
groups of aliens moving through the streets, turning everything into
goo and then commanding the giant piles of goo to
attack people and things. It's all really strange looking. You
think for a second, which of your forms could possibly
take on these strange aliens. The strongest ones you can
think of are the gorilla or the tiger. So as
you swoop down towards one of the aliens, turning everything
in to go, you allow yourself to transform. As you
fall from the sky, your body reforms itself into a
very powerful gorilla. You swing on a lamp post, perform
a perfect backflip and land straight in front of one
of the aliens. You beat your chest using your arms
and run straight for the alien ready to attack. You
jump in the air attempting to tackle the creature, when
a stream of goo hits you from the side, pins
you up against a building. You can't get free, at
least not in this form. You allow your body to
become less solid again, and as you sort of melt
into the bird form once again, you get loose from
the goo and fly up into the air. Obviously, you're
gonna need another tactic, maybe something stronger, maybe the tiger.
You swoop down towards the alien, allow yourself to transform
into the tiger, and begin running with your powerful tiger legs.
As soon as you land on the ground, you charge
directly towards the alien again, when once again, Goop shoots
you from the side and slams you up against another building.
Trapped once again, you transform back into the bird, slip
out of the goop, and fly high up in the air. Obviously,
you're gonna have to think about this a little more.
How exactly are you gonna give them a taste of
their own medicine, especially if you can't touch the creatures.
The thought pops into your mind that if you could
put your hand on one of the creatures, maybe you
could transform into them. Maybe you could get goo powers
as well. But to do that, you'd have to sneak
up on them. They'd have to not see you coming.
How exactly could you achieve that goal, you wonder? Your
bird form is pretty agile. Maybe you could just swoop
down and land on them before they can hit you
with a blast of goo, or maybe there's something smaller
and less noticeable. You land on a nearby building and
you see a little spider web. Trapped in the web
is a fly, maybe you wonder. Walking up towards the fly,
you lift up one of your legs and place it
on the back of the thigh. You focus on absorbing
the fli's DNA, and you allow your body to become
wobbly once again. You start to shrink down, smaller and
smaller and smaller, until you are a fly. Your vision
suddenly looks super strange, as if you can see in
every direction at once. Fly eyes are really cool. You
buzz up into the air and dart straight down towards
one of the aliens. You loop around behind him and
carefully and sneakily you land on top of his head.
You focus on absorbing the alien DNA. A strange sensation
passes through your body as you acquire it, and you
fly away into an alleyway. You land on the ground
and once again allow yourself to transform, this time focused
on the alien's DNA. Your arms and legs grow back,
only they grow a lot longer than they were before.
You feel stronger than your human form, more capable perhaps,
And strangely, you feel a sensation you've never felt before,
as if you can sense something that's not inside your body,
but outside your body, the goo. You walk over to
a set of trash cans near by, place your hands
on them, and allow your alien instincts to take over.
A strange surge of power shoots through your hands into
the garbage cans, and they immediately melt into goo, along
with all of the garbage inside them. Only this goo,
you seem to be able to manipulate as you move
your hands. The goo obeys. You move your hands left,
and the goo rushes across the ground the left. You
stretch them up into the air, and the goo stretches up.
Your thoughts alone seem to be able to mold it
into any shape you can imagine. You practice this by
turning it into a large goo dog for a second.
Cool you imagine the dog running forward, and the dog
made of goo does exactly that. In order to take
on these aliens and give them a taste of their
own medicine, though you're gonna need more goo, you quickly
run down the alleyway, touching everything you can, garbage cans,
recycling bins old bikes that were left around a trashy
old car, and one by one you turn each of
them into goo. You wave your hands, commanding the goo
to move together into a larger blob of goo. Then
you make your way out into the streets where the
other aliens are commanding even bigger blobs of goo. Now
that you've had a taste for it, you can understand
why they want to turn everything into goo. It's pretty
fun to command this stuff. You see some nearby cars
and turn them into goo with a simple touch. The
lamp posts change to goo, the garbage cans in the
street change to goo. Every inanimate object you can find
is quickly transformed into goo, and to your delight, the
other aliens don't seem to notice that you're not one
of them, So before you decide to take them on,
you decide to collect more goo. The only thing slowing
you down is the need to walk everywhere. Then you
realize you don't have to walk, you have goo. You
command the goo to sweep out under your feet, lift
you up in the air, and move you down the
street as if you're riding a wave of goo. Each
car you pass by is transformed into goo, every street lamp,
every garbage can, every stand of any kind, until you
have a mound of goo that rivals the mound of
goo that the aliens have. Then you turn around because
now now it's finally time to give them a taste
of their own medicine. Hey, aliens, you yell as you
roll up on your wave of goo floating high in
the air, using the green substance as a sort of
extension of your body. Stop turning everything into goo. I
totally understand why it's fun. This is actually really really cool,
But this is my planet and you can't turn it
all into green gobly gook. In response, the aliens say nothing.
They simply send their blobs of goo straight towards you.
You sink down onto the ground, lift up your hands,
and order your goo to form a shield around your body.
The blobs of goo colle creating a really strange, sticky
sort of sound, and you begin to push against the
other aliens. Unfortunately they have too much goo there. Mounds
of goo start to wrap around yours and you feel
like you're losing the battle. You back up down the
street and turn more things into goo to add to
your arsenal. A bike a scooter, a bank machine. Hopefully,
hopefully that's not a crime. But no matter what you do,
you just don't have enough goo. The goo starts to
push towards you. Your goo is swallowed by the others,
and the aliens fly up in the air on little
streams of goo above you. A bird lands on your shoulder. Well,
may I ask why you're only commanding your own gou?
The voice says, Ah, what do you mean? I figured
that was the way it works. Oh, no, it doesn't
work like that at all. You have the ability to
command any goo. It's really more of a battle of
the mind than a battle of the goo you've created.
As long as you assarch your influence over the gou
stronger than the goo aliens, there'll be nothing they can do.
And as someone with shape shifting powers granted, do you well,
I feel you'll have a bit of an affinity for it. Really,
You turn back to the giant mounds of goo approaching you,
and you reach out towards them with your hands and
with your mind. Something clicks in your brain as it
links onto all of the goo around you. You feel
other forces from the other aliens pushing against you, but
you decide to simply not listen. This goo is yours
and they can't have it. In a burst of mental energy,
all of the goo surrounding you suddenly decides to obey
your command instead of theirs. You drop the streams of
goo that are holding up the aliens, and they fall
with a very satisfying PLoP into the goo below. You
wrap them each up tightly in your own goo and
command the goo to surround you once again. The goo
moves underneath you, lifts you up in the air, and
you begin to move down the streets, capturing the goo
of the other aliens with a simple command of your mind.
Street after street, you collect all of the goo from
other aliens, bring it into your giant goo ball, and
wrap the aliens up in a tendril of the stuff.
By the time you've captured each and every one of them,
you're floating high above the town center on a gigantic
blob of goo as tall as a skyscraper. You use
the tendrils of goo to shoot the aliens back into
their ship, and you yell you want more of this,
come and get it. In response, the aliens shut the
hatches on their ships and simply fly away. Now the
question of what exactly do you do with this giant
mound of goo? Eh, well, may I suggest returning it
to its proper place. It's made up of a lot
of things and little people that would probably prefer not
to be goo. I can do that, you reply, of
course you can. Just as you command the goo, now,
you may command it to return to its rightful place,
its rightful state. It's all in your mind. So you
close your eyes, you sit cross legged a top the goo,
and you imagine it all moving back to where it
came from. You imagine it forming back into cars and
trash cans and lamps and people and pats. And slowly
the goo begins to lower you down towards the ground
as it moves and stretches back out over the streets,
through the alleyways, and slowly it begins forming itself back
into the objects that were transformed in the first place,
the cars, the lamp posts, the garbage cans, the particularly
shocked male man who had no idea what had just
happened to him. The streets transform from empty, lifeless places
to a flurry of activity once again, and with a
final thought, the last piece of goo solidifies and you
look out over the street. The cars are back where
they're supposed to be, The garbage cans are too, the
lamps everything. The people, on the other hand, look rather disturbed.
You find them staring at their hands and legs and
then around at each other, silently asking if that actually
just happened, And then they catch a glimpse of you.
An alien uh oh, you realize. You allow yourself to
transform once again, shrinking down into the shape of a bird,
and you flap your wings and fly away as quickly
as you can, before anybody can ask any real questions.
You fly higher and higher and higher until you're high
enough to begin to glide. Then you simply spread your
wings and glide through the world on the wind as
you pass over all of the houses, the trees, the lakes,
the rivers, until you spot your own home, a familiar place.
You swoop down towards it, land in front of the door,
and transform back into your human form. As you do,
it feels good to be you again, having your own
arms and legs and fingers and toes. You make your
way inside and head directly for your bedroom. There's something
about transforming and commanding giant blobs of goo that's left
you very, very tired. You crawl into your bed, pull
the covers up to your chin, and you close your eyes.
With each breath, you let go of a little more
tension from your muscles. You allow your legs and arms
to sink down deeper into the mattress. With the next breath,
you release your shoulders, then your neck, and last your face,
allowing it to soften into a nice half smile. And
with each breath you sink down deeper and deeper into
the mattress, and your mind begins to wander off to
thoughts of new dreams, new adventures, and new shapes to
shift into. To come good night, everyone.
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