So my Cinder-girl, Blaze, made a new friend, and I'm sure they're gonna be a lot more than well aquainted.

This isn't an alternate timeline, by the way. This is something that happens to Blaze in the near future.

Made in Gachalife, but I do plan to actually draw these two some day. In the meantime, I did take the liberty of editing the sprites to try and make them a little more Cinderace-ey.

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Blaze woke up in a weird room without the faintest idea of how she got there. What wasn't helping things any was a certain tan-colored brother wrapping his arms around her head in a hug the instant she saw she was awake.

"She's up!" Sparky said to seemingly no one with the happiest and most relieved expression in his voice. "I never had any doubt!"

"Sparks?" Blaze asked, gently shoving Sparky off of her, "what's going on? Why am I-- hang on..." Blaze looked around her left hand side, suddenly recognizing the room she was in. "We're in G.A.S. Lab's rehabilitation wing," she said, "what am I doing here?"

"... You got in a pretty bad accident." Sparky said, smile eroding from his face. At the utterance of those words, Blaze's memory was jogged enough to recall what happened. They were in Area Zero, and an Ancient Pokemon- Great Tusk she thinks it's called- caused a cave in. there was an incredible pain in her right side, but everything after was still a blur.

she checked her right arm and looked under the covers to see she had both legs. as she inspected herself though, she turned her head too far to the right and bumped into something that was just right in her face. "oof~!" said someone to Blaze's right. as Blaze adjusted her head to get a better view, Sparky immediately chimed in, saying "now don't freak out, Bee! We didn't have a whole lot of options..."

Blaze found herself face-to-face with a Cinderace she didn't know. a spitting image of herself, aside from the sadder eyes and nervous expression. "um, hello." the mystery bun said, noticably struggling to keep eye contact, "Mr. Sparky told me a lot about you. you two seem very close..."

Blaze was at a loss for words. she felt control of her limbs slip from her as the Cinderace beside her used the to readjust herself- themselves- in bed. "I would have spoke up sooner," the Cinderace said, "but I figured that'd be too much for ya. apart from the whole 'permanent' thing..."

"Permanent?!" Blaze stammered. her attention shot back to Sparky and she lifted herself out of bed and shouted, "Sparks, what the hell?!"

"I had to make the call because you wouldn't wake up!" Sparky shouted back, slightly saddened, "It was to save both your lives!" Blaze fell silent immediately, she slowly looked over to the now frightened stranger she was joined to and without breaking eye contact with her, asked Sparky, "h-how bad was it?"

Sparky took a deep breath and said "With you, your entire right side was destroyed. we had you in a life support chamber for a while, we didn't know what to do. that's when Kai--"

"Kai Mele?!" Blaze asked in a angry, hurt tone, directing her gaze back to Sparky, "You went and turned me into another of that sick freak's pet projects?! how--"

"It wasn't like that, let me finish!" Sparky snapped, immediately clapping his paws over his mouth. he couldn't believe he just did that. it had to be done, she probably wouldn't listen to him further otherwise, but...

after a moment, Sparky sat down beside the two-in-one Cinderaces and gently told Blaze, "He suggested I use G.A.S. Labs to join you with her." nodding towards the mystery Cindy, he continued, "she was born with a weak heart and lung, and she had a condition where her body rejected prosthesis. neither of you would have lasted long without the procedure."

"they said the fusion would make us compatable," Blaze's bodymate spoke up, finally, "i-I didn't understand it totally, it was all nanomachines this, and molecular rewiring that..." she rested her paw right in the middle of their shared chest and continued, "but the gist is that we can live a long, healthy life together, without me having any more, uh, complications."

Sparky took Blaze's paw in his, and said, "Honestly, if things were any different, I would be the one in her place... but as it stands, I believe she needs you more than I do." he reached behind Blaze's head and brought her in for a sibling forehead touch. "I'm so sorry I went over your head on this. I thought you'd be okay with it if you knew the whole story."

after a moment, Sparky heard something out of his sister that at first sounded like crying. he prepared for the worst, only for the 'crying' to get louder, sounding more like snickering than sobbing. finally Blaze pulled her head away from Sparky's and with a cocky smile, chuckled and said, "You silly bun~!"

once she was sure she got a smile back from her brother, Blaze turned her attention back to her new bodymate, this time a lot more open and friendlier than before. Blaze buried her face in her mystery-bun's cheek fluff and giggled, "Sorry if I spooked you!" mystery-bun's face warmed into a smile of her own and she replied, "nah, I get it. this was certainly a lot to take in for me as well!" Sparky just sat back down in silence, relieved that the two were getting along so well now.

Blaze pulled away from the Cinderace's face and said in a much chipper tone, "Well! I suppose since we're gonna be seeing a lot of each other for the foreseeable future, we may as well get introductions out of the way!"

Blaze winked and gestured a paw in the closest thing their shared species had to a "point thumb at self" gesture and continued, "Sparky's probably already told you, but my name's Blaze!"

"Oh, yeah. that's my name too!" the Cinderace replied, giggling, "although my name's spelled with an S instead of a Z."

Blaze looked at Blase stunned for just a bit, but she shook her head and replied smiling, "ah, it's cool; We can both be Blasze!"
(Pronounced the same as 'Blaze')

"I mean, I suppose we may as well be, considering...!" Blaze finished, as both she and Blase shared a laugh.