Biomorphers: Becoming a Monster Shifter - A Bedtime Adventure

0:04 Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world. I'm Martin, and you are listening to Dad's Bedtime Stories. And today, well, really, I'm just posting this story because I just made up a part two, which you've probably never heard before. And I thought it would be easier to repost this one than for you to have to find part one since it was quite a while ago.

0:28 So this is Biomorphers part one, which you may or may not have already heard. And that'll be followed by Biomorphers Part 2, which I'm sure you haven't heard. Unless you listened to it first, of course. Anyways, here is the original intro with the original story ideas, followed by the original story. I hope you like it. Tonight we have a very special bonus episode of the podcast. Basically, we had a wonderful person out there who wanted everyone to have an extra story this week, and that's exactly what we're going to do. Thank you to Deacon, Duke, Dutch, Micah, and Justin for making this extra episode happen, as well as their pets, Luna and Harley. Let's check out the suggestions here.

1:28 So these are kind of like monster collectors that have a type of watch. It's kind of like a robot watch that you get drilled onto your hand at a young age. And so it has like this thing on it that's like a shifter and you can shift it around kind of like Benton. But you have to travel around the world to scan different type of monsters to get them located into your watch.

1:55 So.

1:56 Once you get them located into your watch, you're able to scan them and then morph into it.

2:02 I believe that one comes to us from Deacon, and it is a wonderful idea. I used to actually like watching Ben 10 when I was a kid, if you can believe that. I also think that's the kind of idea that could become more episodes if anyone else out there has some suggestions for types of creatures we should capture and turn into. Now, I believe I also have an idea here from Duke.

2:28 My idea is a Batman mac and cheese round. It's like mac and cheese that's alive, and it's wearing, and it's like Batman, and like superhero, um, mac and cheese that's alive dressed up in suits and like the mac and cheese sometimes they blast out of the refrigerator and they can form into like bad guys to be.

2:57 Disguised duke very creative and very mac and cheese focused now i can't add batman to my stories because uh he's actually somebody else's creation i believe uh property of DC Comics but I do believe I have an idea for how to incorporate mac and cheese so I hope you like what I come up with let me know because now it's that time again time to get as comfy as you can in those beds close your eyes and imagine yourself doing what the kid in the story does Now, this story takes place in a universe that I believe I'm going to call the Biomorfer Universe. And today is in fact a very special day. The day you are finally old enough to apply to become a Biomorfer. Now, I mean, in case this is your first time in

4:06 this universe, I should probably explain what a biomorpher is. You see, there's a small group of people who are trusted to become biomorphers and give in a special device installed on their wrist that allows them to scan new creatures and even turn into them. Everyone can apply to be one, but not everyone makes the cut. So, well, you find yourself both nervous and excited. It might be the day you become a biomorfer, or it might be the day you find out you never can be one.

4:53 You stretch, get dressed, eat a quick breakfast... And then you jump into your family's hover car. Luckily, it's a self-driving deal. Where would you like to go? The hover car asks. Take me to the biomorpher headquarters, you order. Understood. The car lifts up off of the ground, shoots into the air, and before long... you arrive at a large, very futuristic-looking city, and in the center of that city is a gigantic building, the Biomorfer Headquarters, a sleek, towering building in the heart of the city. The flying car floats down in front of the building and comes to a gentle landing beside the curb. Destination reached. The door automatically opens up and you step outside. You walk through the large doors of the building into a huge and

6:09 futuristic looking lobby with its very own waterfall and, well, a sort of miniature indoor garden. You walk up to the welcome counter. Hello, can I help you? The person at the counter asks. Um, I'm here to apply to be a biomorfer. Well then, you're in the right place. Just step through those doors there. The man points towards a large set of doors off to the side. You walk towards them, swing them open, and find yourself in a large room... Surrounded by a bunch of other kids your age. Some look tough. Some look nervous. Some look overly excited. A calm but commanding figure walks in. A biomorfer.

7:14 She's wearing a sort of military uniform. But she definitely has a biomorfer attached to her left wrist. Welcome one and all to our program. Today is a very auspicious day. For today, we will see if you have what it takes to become biomorphers like me. First, I must stress the importance of this role. As most of you probably know, Our world is often inhabited by strange creatures. Some refer to them as monsters. But the truth is, they are the results of passing through what we call quantum uncertainty fields.

8:15 Fields that exist throughout the universe where probability sort of changes. As the earth passes through these fields, there is a certain sort of confluence. And some living creatures, or even objects, well, they sort of interact with the field in surprising and wildly unpredictable ways, sometimes creating wonderful things, and other times creating creatures who are less than helpful for society to continue. Now, of course, these creatures aren't inherently good or evil, but they certainly can be dangerous. Biomorphers are entrusted with wrist devices.

9:18 which allow them to scan these creatures, transform into them, and even capture them. Today, as part of a test, you will each be given a temporary biomorph band for your trial. If you pass, your band will bond permanently to you, and if you don't, It will detach itself forever. Now, for those of you who have spoken to others who have been through the trial before, I guarantee that your trial...

10:00 will not be the same. We switch them up regularly to ensure that no one can cheat and that no one has an advantage. We want to see what you can do. So, if you're ready and accept the risks and the possible life of being a biomorpha, step forward. Not a single person in the room decides to walk away. One by one, they all line up, and one by one, they each have a little band strapped to their wrists.

10:44 You enter the back of the line since, well, you were the last one there. And when you finally get to the front, the woman slaps a band around your wrist too. It automatically closes and shrinks to the perfect size. Now, your bands have a few special functions that I should explain. Number one is the scan function. Using this will allow you to scan the quantum anomalies, which in turn will allow you to mimic their powers and turn into them, or a version of them anyways. All scanned creatures will be available on your dial. Simply turn to the creature and hit Accept. you will feel a strange tingling sensation as the quantum anomaly will pass through your being as well, turning you into a creature just like the one you scanned. Second,

11:57 each device has a set of capture disks inside it. Now, Capture discs can be used to absorb and capture these anomalies or monsters as many call them. However, capturing is not an easy thing. You can't simply shoot a disc and absorb a creature. The creatures must be perfectly still, either unconscious or willing to be absorbed. Once absorbed, they can be stored in the device. Whenever you reach a biomorphous station, they can be transferred into our system, though some do choose to keep certain friendlier creatures as pets, companions, or helpers. You listen carefully, even though You've studied every single thing you can about biomorphers, and you're pretty sure you know the use of these devices better than the

13:10 person explaining it. Now, each of you will step up to one of the doors behind me. You will enter an elevator that will take you to your trial. Someone in the crowd raises their hands. A tall boy with a blue mohawk. Yes, you, the tall boy with the mohawk. Um, like, how do we know if we passed the test or not? And, like, how do we know what we're supposed to do? He asks. Well, the thing is, I can't tell you that. You must simply enter the room you're given. and do your best to do the right thing. We will be monitoring, watching, and judging. At the end of the test, you will discover if you have passed or not. Uh, okay, the boy says, putting down his hand, and looking rather uncertain. Now, Step up to your doors. You and all of the

14:31 others your age step up towards their doors. The woman presses a large button on the wall and at once each of the doors slides open. You step inside what looks like a little elevator. The doors close behind you and the elevator shoots upwards. With a ding, the doors hiss open, revealing, uh, well, an apartment. What looks like just a normal, everyday apartment. Windows to the outside, a living room, a kitchen, bedroom and washroom off to the side.

15:19 You carefully step inside, looking left and looking right. trying to find, well, whatever it is you're supposed to be trying to find. The kitchen looks like lunch has just been made. There's a giant pot on the stove and a huge bowl on the counter. Both of them are full of mac and cheese. You walk past and look at the mac and cheese. It smells delicious. but nothing of interest seems to be going on there. You explore the living room, you peek into the bedroom, which looks pretty ordinary, and you even check out the washroom, but you don't see anything. You walk back out into the main area, and your watch begins to beep. Quantum anomaly detected.

16:25 Quantum anomaly detected, the watch says. Quantum anomaly? You quickly spin around in your place, only to see the mac and cheese from the bowl, and the mac and cheese from the pot, and even the mac and cheese from the fridge, rising up out of their containers and forming themselves into balls. some kind of humanoid creature. A creature made entirely out of mac and cheese. Mac and cheese, it says, and then it reaches its mac and cheese arm out towards you. A stream of mac and cheese shoots towards your body. You quickly dodge to the left.

17:20 It passes by you and smashes into the couch. covering everything in a sort of gooey layer of macaroni and cheese. Its other hand comes towards you, and again you duck out of the way, roll off to the side, and hide behind a chair. You take a second to think, to breathe, and to calm down. You really didn't think you'd come across a giant living mac and cheese creature, Out of all the things you were prepared for and all of the different kinds of creatures you'd heard about, you'd never heard of this. It also wasn't clear how you'd defeat Mac and Cheese. You look down at your watch and you start flipping through the screens, but all of them are empty. All of them except the scan button.

18:20 And you suppose that that's really the only thing you can use. You hear its voice again. Mac and cheese! It says as a huge plume of mac and cheese flies through the air above the chair. As soon as the attack stops, you roll out to the side of the chair, you point your watch towards the creature, and you hit the scan button. A bright blue light shoots out scans the creature, and the watch says, Quantum information acquired.

19:01 A new picture then appears on the dial, a picture of a mac and cheese person. You quickly press the picture, and a weird tingling sensation passes through your body. You suddenly start to feel less solid. your body begins to shift and transform into, well, mac and cheese. The other mac and cheese creature attacks again with another blast of macaroni and cheese. You instinctively try to move to the side, but instead of moving like you normally would as one solid person, all of the individual pieces of mac and cheese sort of break apart and reform themselves over to the side. Mac and cheese, you hear the creature say again, though somehow... You hear something else behind those words, as if you can tell what the words really mean. You

20:17 feel a sense of loneliness emanating from the creature, a sense of fear. It's saying mac and cheese, but it means, I'm lonely, help me. The creature unleashes another blast of mac and cheese, and this time your body sort of forms a giant hole in the center of itself, allowing the blast to pass through. Instead of attacking, you decide to take another tactic. You reach your mac and cheese arm out in front of you, hold up your mac and cheese hand, and you say... Mac and cheese. Though, what you mean is, it's okay. Mac and cheese? The strange mac and cheese creature says, looking at you. Mac and cheese, you reply. It turns out that the strange mac and cheese creature is simply confused. And wouldn't you

21:34 be if you were simple macaroni and cheese that had suddenly come to life? Mac and cheese, you ask, inviting the other creature to sit down. The macaroni and cheese separates and reforms itself into a sitting position. You hold up your left wrist, which still has the temporary biomorpher on it. You switch through the screens until you find the one for the capture discs. You press a button and a little disc shoots out of the watch. You place the disc on the ground below the mac and cheese creature and it begins to glow. The glow spreads out towards the creature and slowly, bit by bit... The creature turns into blue energy and is then absorbed into the disc. The disc shoots up and snaps into your

22:42 watch once more. With the threat gone and the creature captured, you turn the dial on your watch once more back to the human mode. You again feel that strange tingling sensation and slowly... you revert to your normal human form. A door at the other end of the apartment, one you hadn't noticed before, opens up. You walk through the door and find yourself in another room, in front of Commander Lyra, the same woman who explained the whole thing in the first place.' Congratulations!' She says, Most people are stuck on fighting the creature, but you have demonstrated a character trait that we really need in the biomorphers. You showed sympathy at a very difficult time, and you remained calm and used your brain throughout. As such, I am

24:00 happy to announce that you have passed your trial. Suddenly, the temporary watch on your wrist sort of transforms itself. The band disappears, and the watch attaches itself to your wrist. Somehow, you don't feel any pain at all, but the device, well... It becomes one with you. And you feel different too.

24:35 As if you have another sense. You don't even have to look at the watch anymore to activate it. Somehow you can just think about what you want it to do. Now, there are a couple more things that I should probably explain. Your biomorpha comes equipped with a map as well. Try activating it now. Mentally, you decide to activate the map.

25:10 And sure enough, a map appears in your field of vision. One that you can see, but you're pretty sure nobody else can. It displays a map of the entire world. You can see a little blue dot where you're standing and thousands of little red dots flashing on the screen. Different continents, different cities. Each of those dots is a quantum irregularity. As a biomorpha, it's your job to travel the world to find more quantum irregularities and to put a stop to them. You will capture many different powers and many different forms throughout, and, as I said before, you may even find some creatures that you'd like to keep as pets. Oh, and, well, we can't send you out there with no way to get from place to place, so.

26:24 I've programmed your biomorpha with a bit of a surprise. I recommend traveling up to the top floor before using it. New quantum signature acquired, a voice inside your head says. You think about exactly what that means, and a picture appears in front of you. A picture of a gigantic bird. A gigantic bird that looks like it's on fire. Pretty much a phoenix, if you were to have to name it.

27:04 That form should help you get from place to place. Now, child, it's time to go off into the world. TIME TO ACQUIRE NEW SIGNATURES AND TO SAVE THOSE WHO NEED SAVING. GOOD JOB TODAY. I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU. THE COMMANDER PRESSES A BUTTON ON THE WALL AND YET ANOTHER DOOR OPENS UP, ONE TO ANOTHER ELEVATOR. YOU CLIMB INSIDE AND LOOK AT ALL OF THE BUTTONS ON THE WALL.

27:45 You press the one for the very highest floor. It's labeled Flight Deck. The doors close and the elevator zooms upward. Before long, they ding again, the doors open, and you find yourself standing at the very top of the Biomorfer headquarters. On the roof, actually. You look down at your biomorfer, turn the dial to the new phoenix-like creature, and hit accept.

28:25 The same strange feeling passes through your arms and legs, only this time, you start to feel warmer as well. Your body transforms into Your arms stretch out into huge wings, your legs shrink down, and you grow a really big feathery tail. By the time the transformation's finished, you find yourself in the form of a gigantic phoenix. You spread your wings out in the air, and you sense something else too. An ability that you've never felt before. You activate the ability, and your body lights on fire. It doesn't hurt or anything, but it does feel really cool.

29:23 You instinctively activate a blast of fire out of your wings, and you float up gently into the air.

29:32 Cool. Cool.

29:35 You imagine yourself going forward and the blast of fire chimes. directions shooting you up into the sky you spread your wings and you shoot forward like well like a living jet you blast through the sky away from the city and over top of forests, trees, and mountains. The map appears in your field of vision. So many blinking lights.

30:12 You look for one of the closest ones, one at a nearby mountain, then you start heading straight towards it. You feel very relaxed, just sort of floating in the sky, effortlessly shooting forward at incredible speed. And as you fly, you enter a sort of meditative state, floating over top of the world, and your mind begins to wander. You begin to sort of daydream about new adventures or Other new things to come. Good night, everyone.

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