"And what is that?" Nathan the Charizard said.
"I need your chemistry knowledge to figure out what it is that is making the rain outside cause furs of all types to shrink down. This is also making everyone hostile towards body positivity and eating most foods!" Ty said this with a very worried look on his face.
"Um, I haven't really done anything with chemistry in a long time. I don't think I have the equipment."
"Where could we find some of the equipment?"
"I... don't really know actually. I'm ready to help stop whatever is in that rain, but I don't think we should steal anything."
"That seems fair, but what can we do?"
"Identify what it could be and where it is coming from."
"Good idea."
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3 Hours Later...
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The Charizard stared cautiously at a cupcake. He poured a vial of rain onto it. Absolutely nothing happened. He still waited a few minutes longer until something happened. When something happened, it took him a few moments to process it. The cupcake seemed to turn from brown to dark purple for a moment, and it had something yellow and something white come out from it and vaporize in a matter of milliseconds. It turned purple when it vaporized. "You were filming that, right?"
Ty turned off the camera. "I got it." They went over to the computer to look at the footage. After slowing it down and analyzing it for a few minutes, they both concluded it was the fat, sugar, and salt content from the cupcake. Nathan quickly put his jaw back where it belonged and came to a final conclusion.
"It has to be synthetic. It melts off fat faster than we can even see. It must also be some form of neurotoxin since it changes behavior."
"Why would anyone do this? Everyone here was happy the way they were. If anyone could speak for themselves right now, they would be very confused instead of just moving on!"
"Obviously somebody wasn't happy with the way things were. Otherwise, everything would be normal."
After a few moments of silence, they both stood up.

"All we need is to find who made this and why." Tyler said this with determination in their eyes, which scared the Charizard just a bit.
"I would absolutely love to help, but we both know I can't go out there. Even if it were normal rain, I still couldn't take the risk. I can try to see where it came from, but I would really just be guessing by that point."

With the mildly concerning look of determination still in his eyes, Ty said the one thing Nathan was afraid of. "I will go out there and find who did it! If I can just-"
"NO!"
Seconds passed by like minutes before the silence was broken.
"I'm sorry for that, but I can't just let you out there by yourself. We don't know who is doing this. They could easily be very dangerous. I can't just let you go off like that. Who knows what would happen? I need to find a way to come with you if anybody will leave this house."
Ty looked at nothing for a few moments before suddenly announcing a creative idea. It scared Nathan a bit considering he just said nobody would leave the house without a plan, but what else did they have. They both exchanged phone numbers before Ty went out the door into the rain.
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Ty arrived at a white and orange building which could easily be an office building from the looks of it. He called Nathan. "I'm here. You want me to go in using this key card right? Are you sure they are still going to allow you into there after all this time? Really? Ok."
When the key card surprisingly worked, he entered the building to find nobody there.

There were many abandoned pizza boxes and leftovers piled high in trash cans. Unnameable scientific instruments were on large tables which had unpronounceable fluids in them. Ty followed his instructions to go up to the very small eighth floor and look inside a lab coat closet, put the keycard into a pocket protector for a few moments, and enter the honors room. It seemed that there was a green glow coming from backlights as the only light source in the room until a light switch was found. Once the room was illuminated, Ty saw what he came for. A strange elastic material that was clear but unfamiliar to the person staring at it. Taking a moment to look at the room around him, he noticed that there were more advanced-looking machines than the ones on the floors below. It also felt like it was more advanced in general because more complex monitors and even more filled-up whiteboards were up there. He rushed back down the stairs while trying to confirm he found the right thing through his tired breaths.

"Now I want you to take the scale from the bag I gave you and touch the suit to it." After questioning what he was doing in his head for a brief moment, Ty did as he was told. The suit stretched out in his hands to resemble a perfect replica of the Charizard he needed to deliver this to. After several confused and panicked questions, Ty was able to understand that this was made by Nathan himself and it just needed to be "activated" by something that was his. It was initially made to allow safety in case of dangerous situations in the college labs (which happened rarely since there were many safety precautions made.) "Ok, now what?"
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In the rain, Nathan wondered how they were going to find who was responsible for this. He had no idea what they would do if they found them at all. "Shut them down, that's what." The Charizard continued to have conversations in his head while completely ignoring the human beside him by accident. It didn't matter though, as Ty was having some doubts as well. What can we do to stop them? Are we even powerful enough to? Will the storm ever end? "Please just stop, we will find a way. In fact, I am going to talk to Nathan right now about what we will do." Ty said this out loud by accident instead of in his head, but Nathan's thoughts drowned out everything else at the moment.

He snapped out of the thoughts he had once he heard Ty say they needed a plan.
"The plan we need right now is one to find where we are going. How do you think we should do that?"
"We can try to find the origin by finding the eye of the storm."
"That only counts for hurricanes."
"Oh."
They continue walking aimlessly until Ty said "We should go back to the labs now that you can come out here. Maybe we can find a way to reverse the effects."
"We can't. We have to stop this first. If there is too much happening to the brain at once, it will cause permanent damage. We have to stop the storm first."
"I think that makes sense."
They continued walking until they stopped at a building that had a small clearing from the storm above it. Ty wasted no time in saying
"I think I was right!"
Nathan stared at it while contemplating some things he thought he knew when he realized they needed to get up there as soon as possible.
"Do you think you can fly up there and see if anything is causing it from there?"
"I'm a lot heavier than I look. I haven't tried to fly for a while, but I don't think I can with this suit on either. This place does tend to pack pounds on anybody, but I never really minded that."

Ty took this moment to take a longer look at the Charizard next to him in person. He already looked heavy with a fair-sized belly. He noticed that some pudge had accumulated somewhere else as well. There was some in his cheeks as well as his legs being a bit thicker than most Charizards. There was even a small amount of it on his tail as well, but it wasn't noticeable unless you looked hard. Overall it was well-rounded along his body other than the gut. He wondered why he didn't notice before. Maybe it was because he didn't ever pay close attention to how anyone looked but instead focused entirely on how the person acts. This seemed to be why he could never recall the more intricate details of anybody. He realized he had been paying so close attention to the appearance of the Charizard that he ended up staring. Upon noticing this he quickly responded, "I guess we will have to go through the building itself."
"I always hated stairs. I hope they have an elevator I can go in."
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Nathan tried to relax to the elevator music above him but ultimately failed to. He had a small hope that they were wrong about this being the right place. He was scared that something would go wrong and they couldn't save the city. He wished he could talk to Ty about this, but Ty had taken the stairs. He forgot why, but he recalls it had something to do with splitting up. He panicked realizing he forgot what to do and tried to call Ty. No answer. "He didn't answer. Is he alright? Did something happen to him? We never should have split up! He is only a teen, he has no defense! I have to get up faster! What can I use? Maybe I ca-" He was cut off by the ding of the elevator.

He hopped off it and went to where he thought the staircase was. He saw no sign of Ty anywhere. He decided that the staircase might be wide enough for him to try and glide down it. He was standing near the railing before he decided to figure out if he was being irrational or not. He took a deep breath before thinking about what would be the most logical decision to do. He concluded that Ty was just tired from running up the stairs and was distracted from their phone. That made him calm down. He reflected upon what he was about to do. If he had jumped down, he may not have made it back up. Was he actually about to risk his life for somebody he met a few hours ago? He didn't know if that was a good or a bad thing. He then thought more about why he actually would do something like that for somebody he just met. After sitting in his thoughts for a few more moments, he heard exhausted wheezing from the staircase. He decided not to say what just happened and move on. They had a mission after all.
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"That....was..the worst...idea...I ever...had." Ty said while barely being able to catch their breath.
"Relax for a bit, you really shouldn't have done that."
Ty proceeded to collapse onto the tiled floor.
Nathan looked around the room. Now that he wasn't panicking, he could observe that some strange vats had lit flames beneath them. He saw one emitting purple vapor and immediately knew they were in the right place. Ty had finally regained strength and was ready to climb to the top of the tower.
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What awaited them up there was nothing they had expected. Nobody was there. There were a couple of machines processing the vapor and condensing them into clouds. A few computers here and there. Each computer was password locked. Ty suggested they go down a few levels and see what they find. Nathan agreed and down the elevator they went!

The floor below them had some strange smelling vats that were bigger than what they had seen before. Going close to some allowed a sweet scent to invigorate them to continue exploring. Another few had no scent. The last ones also smelled of nothing. They found that these must be all of the fat, salt, and sugar content the rain vaporized. There was no time to question how this happened, but it happened so they moved on.

Down another floor, they had heard talking through the doors so they went up again before the elevator doors opened and went down the staircase. Ty listened against a door that was labeled "Genetics and Neurology". He heard something about a new and more permanent neurotoxin that would keep things the way they are now. He had to stop once one went too close to the door. From around the corner of the staircase, he saw a purple wolf in a lab coat come out of the door. Before the door fully closed, Ty had stuck Nathan's key card into the slot the door would possibly lock through so it could look closed, but easily be opened.
"Nice thinking."
They waited until they heard everybody leave for dinner before entering. "How lucky are we that they all took the elevator! My card trick would have failed if it weren't for that." Ty pointed this out with some minor confusion on their face. Inside the room, vials, formulas, and more confusing scientific instruments were scattered around. Ty saw that there was also another staircase placed in a corner that could lead down to somewhere. After Nathan was dragged away from the scientific wonders around them they descended again.

More vats of weird things. This time, it seemed to be unfinished batches of the neurotoxin and whatever you would call the other part of the rain. There was one vat that caught the attention of the two. It was labeled "Permanent Genetic Catalyst". Ty went up a ladder on the side of the vat and saw that it was liquid.
"We need to ruin this one Nathan! If we don't, this will be what makes the rain permanent! Grab whatever stuff you think will be safe to put into here to deactivate it!"
As Nathan reluctantly agreed, they both heard sirens.

With quick thinking in mind, Nathan went to the lab but was stopped by security. He quickly ran away as fast as he could. (Mental note, maybe go running sometime.) Other security officers quickly were chasing Ty back up the ladder to the vat. Ty was cornered. As he was making his way around the thin rim of the vat, he started to fall away from the vat. As he balanced himself, he tried to go too far towards the vat that he fell. Into the green catalyst he fell.
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Ty and Nathan search for answers to what is going on, but they find too much.
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Hello! It is currently 11:52 p.m. and my third time trying to upload this. I am really happy with how this came out! I did not expect to have more character development on the part of Nathan, but I did do it! I hope all who read this have a great day, but I seriously need to have a good night. Good thing this is a Friday!