This is something I made for Surge_Gamer on discord after he made me a piece of art I needed for a very special day, so a big thank you to him. So I made him this story in return that features his character Ericfox.

Ericfox knew what he was getting into when he won a free tour around the candy factory, but one false lead can turn his whole life upside down.
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He feels like he is the luckiest fox in the world. Ericfox, a male skinny fox with orange fur, a long snout, some pointy ears, brown and white fur on his paws and legs, and wearing a full blue suit with yellow buttons and a red belt around his waist, had just won a chance for a tour inside the most popular candy factory around his area. Ericfox has always wanted to know what lies inside the factory and if there are any secrets that he’ll discover. He walks with the owner of the factory, a white-furred wolf, and some of his workers that were doing their jobs. They all arrive in this strange room, filled with machinery and sounds of clanking all around them. Ericfox could smell two things: metal and blueberries. He wasn’t sure why he could smell blueberries since he couldn’t find any in the room. “Wow, this place looks cool. What do you do here?” Ericfox asks the wolf who turns towards him with a smile on his face.

“Oh here? We just test things out. For example….” The wolf looks around his surroundings before turning back to Ericfox. “I’ll be right back, just wait here and don’t touch anything.” The wolf walks off to somewhere as the fox does as he is told and just looks around. He never understood what these machines were used for since he’s never seen them. Just from examining them, he could tell that there was one that copies and pastes, like how a computer works when writing. Still, he was pretty excited to learn about it all. The wolf comes back a second later with what looked like a sugar cube. “Check this out.”

Ericfox wasn’t sure what to make out of it, besides that it looked like a normal sugar cube. “It’s a sugar cube?” He said, puzzled and confused. He grabs it from the wolf’s paw and takes a closer look to see if there was anything different about it.

“It is, but eat it. You’ll know what is different about it.” The wolf insists as Ericfox does indeed eat the sugar cube. It dissolves in his mouth like a powdery substance but something about it was very different. He thought it would be sweet and tasty to have in his mouth but the burning sensation of eating a chili pepper was what caught his attention. He lets out an ack, sticking out his tongue in hopes to cool it down.

“H-hot!” Ericfox tells him, panting like a dog as he rubs his tongue with his paws.

“Yep, best for pranking your friends with this new invention. We were going to wait until April Fools Day which is next year so we have enough time to test it some more.” The owner explains, ignoring Ericfox’s whining and panting. “I have something that can take the burning away.” In his pocket, he pulls out a piece of gum with a blueberry as the logo. “It should help.” Without questioning why blueberry gum can help with his burning tongue, the fox grabs the gum and quickly unwraps it. The gum itself looked just like any regular gum, like one of those gums he grabs from gas stations or grocery stores. Popping the gum in his mouth, he chews and squishes the gum right on top of his tongue. The juice soaks into it and just as the wolf predicts, his tongue wasn’t on fire anymore. “There, feel better?”

“Yeah, thank you.” He said, gratefully and relieved that he didn’t have to deal anymore with that spiciness. “This gum really tastes good.” Chewing the gum was very relaxing and pleasurable to him. So instead of spitting out the gum, he keeps on chewing it.

The wolf grins at him, knowing something that the tourist doesn’t. “Thanks, it’s our most popular thing here. So many people have tried it before and they love it!” Something about his tone saying those words didn’t sound right to Ericfox, like he was making a story out of it. The wolf takes Ericfox to this open space, right behind this large door. It was big enough for a huge elephant to fit in.

“What’s with this huge door?” The fox asks, wondering what they could use this door for. As he stared at it, he didn’t notice that his nose slowly turned into a dark shade of blue. Because of that, all he could smell were full of blueberries, no machinery nor metal. He sniffs as if he had a cold, questioning why he can only smell the blueberries although there were none around.

“Oh that…..let’s say that we use that to ROLL our experiments.” The wolf grins again, crossing his arms as he sees the blue from the fox’s nose spreading all over his face. The poor guy didn’t even know what was going on with him until he noticed his paws changing color.

“W-what!?” Ericfox shockingly says, wiping them as if they were wipeable. He couldn’t see the blue spread anymore with his blue suit covering up most of his body besides his tail and feet that already changed color before he even saw the transformation. “I don’t understand! Why am I turning blue!?” He still kept chewing the gum, but this time faster in fear.

“You’ll see soon enough my juicy experiment.” He lets out a devilish chuckle before the sounds of groaning and bubbling come from the fox’s body. Ericfox groans with sickness, putting his paws on his belly area and rubs it. “It’s starting soon….” The wolf was ready to enjoy the show.

“What’s starting!?” Although he couldn’t see what was happening to him besides the change of colors on his fur, he feels more heavy and bloated. It was like he was already putting weight on indulging at buffets and fast foods. “Nrgh….I feel so full…..” He grunts, also feeling how tight it was getting around where his red belt is at. He tried to adjust it, but it just kept getting worse. That’s when he could see his entire abdomen expanding outwards like a balloon inside of his. “I’m swelling up!” He panics, pressing his gut as it grows bigger. That wasn’t all though, his entire bottom, including thighs, waist, and butt were joining in on the fun. His thighs swell up so much that his inner thighs touch each other. His waist rounds out and begins to take up his space. Even his butt, which was once flat as a pancake, turned itself into two watermelon-sized cheeks. His belt stretches out, pressing his gut and hips as tightly as they can. It really made him feel so uncomfortable that he needed to take the belt off. “Gosh….the belt!” He whines as his paw reaches to the belt’s buckle. Just one soft touch, and with a pop, the belt bursts and his belly bwomps to a smooth round shape. “I look fat!” He complains, rubbing his growing body. His legs were too huge and fat for him to walk normally so waddling was the only thing he could do. Ericfox tries to escape his fate and hopes that someone that’s not this crazy wolf can help him.

“Oh, leaving so soon?” The wolf stands in front of him, his paws pressing on the fox’s round belly. “My workers will have to make sure that you stay still. Workers!” He shouts, grabbing their attention. About six of them came up around the two surrounding their area. Ericfox whimpers as his body gets even rounder and wider. He watches as his fingers swell up like salamis, his forearms stiffing up to where it straightens out on his sides and making it impossible to move them. His feet stopped touching the ground, only making him able to flail them around. The workers get closer to the fox as the factory owner backs up a couple of feet back. They held onto Ericfox, keeping him still and steady. “Try to get out of this one, juicy fox.” He was sounding more of a villain rather than a generous factory owner. Even the evil laugh at the end shook Ericfox to the core. The wolf then looked right where his suit stretches, with it’s buttons on the edge of bursting any second. He could even see the gaps of blue fur sticking out. “Oh my you bloated fox, I hope that suit wasn’t expensive.” He goes closer, playing with one of the buttons before it pops on its own. It didn’t even scare the white wolf a bit but instead made him chuckle with joy.

“Please, don’t...MMMPH!” As he tried to reason with the wolf, his cheeks swelled up and silenced him. “Mmmph! [I’m too big!] His arms begin to sink into his round body, only leaving his paws insight. Like his feet, he flails them helplessly and his head slowly sank in a little bit, only his lower jaw is consumed. “MPH!” [I can’t move!] He muffles in fear. The blueberry fox was about three times the wolf’s size, and he’s about six feet. The rest of the buttons couldn’t take any more pressure and popped off the suit, shooting across a couple of feet in the air before landing on the ground or at the machines. It exposes a lot of the blue fur and the round belly. The wolf happily rubs the poor fox’s belly with pleasure. “I have to say, this might be one of our best experiments yet…..” The wolf buries his face in the fluff and nuzzles.

“Mpfh!?” [Experiment!?] The pieces were all coming together for Ericfox. The sugar cube he ate before was a way to get him to chew his experimental gum in which he still regrets chewing. Not only that but saying one of our best experiments means that he wasn’t the only one who’s been turned into a blueberry. The question is what happened to those people? After a while, the wolf notices how huge Ericfox was getting, a bit too big than what he expected it to be.

“It seems like our berry fox here is getting larger than the others. I think it’s best we take him to our juicer and use him for more of those blueberry gum experiments.” He said, telling his workers to roll the fox to the juicing room. But as the door opens, a panicky-looking worker comes out, rushing towards the wolf.

“Sir….we got a problem….” He pants and shakes, afraid of something. The wolf was all ears to hear what his worker had to say. “The juicer, it stopped working! We can’t turn it on!” Now this was really a problem. The juicer never had any issues before and right now wasn’t the best time to have his only hope broken down. Even The fox whines louder than ever, hearing that he won’t be able to get the juice out of him. The wolf scratches his head with concern and a bit of worriedness. Luckily, he did have a second plan which included more moving than the juicing room.

The wolf turns to the workers, ready to give them their orders. The growling inside Ericfox increases with volume and vibration, not to mention that he was still growing and getting rounder. His suit creaks and makes small tears while his feet and paws sink in more. “Alright boys, we need to take this growing blueberry into the large area of a field just a few miles from here, we cannot let him destroy our factory just by swelling up larger!” He wanted it quick and safe. The best way for that is to transport him by the largest helicopter they have in store. Mostly it was used to transport candies and chocolate by air but now it will be used to carry a giant inflating blueberry. All the workers got on one side of the fox, using their strength to push and roll him to the huge door. Just an inch, and he would have been stuck while the rest were doomed. Ericfox still whines and groans, feeling dizzy from rolling around in the hallway. He can still feel himself getting bigger and rounder with each second that goes by.

Later, they arrive in what seemed to look like a carrier with helicopters surrounding the place. The biggest one they said they have was just right in front of the doorway. Fortunately, they didn’t have any packages stored inside the helicopter so they were able to save time and roll the fox into the back of the vehicle. EIght of the workers stayed in the back with the swelling blueberry dangerously as two of them got in the cockpit and started the engine. “Mmmph!?” [Where are they taking me!?] He wasn’t sure what field the wolf said or what it had to do with his swelling juicy body. How big was he really going to get and would he burst? The helicopter flies out of the carrier as fast as it can. From how impatient the pilots were, the blueberry rolls around in the back, increasing the chances of being crushed underneath him. Even one of them shouted at them to be careful about how they move.

Of course, that wouldn’t change the fact that Ericfox was still taking up the space in the back. Only his fingers and the top half of his head were still exposed out of his growing body. Some of the workers were already trapped and pinned with no way to get out of. “Hurry up! He’s gonna crush us!” A worker said with grunts and howls. The pilots knew how dangerous it was to take it slow on their flying but it really didn’t matter now since they finally arrived in the huge vast expanse of grass. Ericfox grunts and growls, feeling the pressure inside the helicopter tightens around him. If these workers don’t get him out of the helicopter fast, he’ll take down everyone inside. “Alright boys, you know the drill!” One of the pilots gets out of his seat while the other one still controls the helicopter and opens the backdoor. His weight lowers it forcefully though they weren’t that high in the air. Just only a couple of feet from the ground in case if the blueberry bounces right back up and somehow rolls towards somewhere that could lead to a ton of damage. The pilot frees some of the workers who were able to help push the blueberry some more out of the helicopter. Just sticking out of the opening, one worker rams into his belly and gets the blueberry fox out of the helicopter. With some little bounces and a tiny roll, he was on his feet, or where his feet pointed at the ground rather than getting the chance of being upside down. “Have fun getting bigger, you oversized fruit!” The pilot mocks and laughs at him harshly before the helicopter takes off without a hitch.

“Mmmph!?” [H-how big will I get!?] That same question keeps going over and over in his head. Right now, Ericfox was about the size of a house and his body wasn’t done yet. The sloshing, gurgling, and growls filled his ears where he couldn’t hear anything else besides those three. Not even his whines or grunts could be heard. “Mph!?” [What if I burst!?] He doesn’t know yet but still feels like he couldn’t at all. There was no sign of any limited stretching or creaking for that matter. As he swells up bigger, rounder, and wider, his head is fully sunk into his orb-shaped body. His paws no longer could be seen from the outside and they moved around to feel his squishy and furry body. At this point, he could never tell how big he will or might be getting. His suit tears with more holes everywhere, but remains strong and unburstable. The field starts to get covered by the blueberry, getting to the size of the entire candy factory he was just in minutes ago. Just as Ericfox believes that he’ll be the size of the entire state, he stops growing. The sloshing and growling can still be heard but just more quietly and all he can see is his blue fur staring at him. Ericfox was relieved at first to know that he didn’t have to swell up more, but he still worries about how he will get back down to size. He also hopes that wolf and his workers won’t try to use him as their own personal blueberry for the factory, like making him produce juice for their own products. He’s read that kind of thing in articles and the news with cherry and lemonade furs. “Mmmph….” [Welp, this is what I get for being a winner.] He muffles, remembering why he was at that factory in the first place. The only thing that Ericfox can do is wait and hope for the best. But how long will something new happen and who will it be?
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It was an entire week, seven whole days with Ericfox being a very immobile blueberry who has now shrunk back down to his size slowly. Although he was still purple and had a bit of a potbelly. His suit was so big that he had to use it as a giant blanket to cover himself up. It was a shame that those workers never even checked up on him, unless he just didn’t know about it since his first three days were him without any vision of the outside world. “Maybe next time, I should say no.” He said, learning a very valuable lesson to never go on tours alone. Still disappointed about his permanently stained fur and the bloated belly he’s got, he was a bit happy that he actually got to move again. Something about it was strange though, something that he’s never done before. He twists his entire body like a pretzel, which was indeed surprising to him. In fact, impressive that he’s able to do that kind of stuff like he didn’t have any bones. “You know what, I think I’ll love this-” And just before he could finish his sentence, a familiar sound was back. The suspicious and fearful growling and gurgling can be heard again. “Oh no, not again!” He said, right as he watched his body expand up with juice. This time, going quicker than he expected it to be. Ericfox was more annoyed rather than scared now that he has experienced this before. So now, all he can think of is to get his revenge on that wolf. And once he finds a way to get back to his size for good, he’ll make sure that the wolf will swell up bigger than the fox.