Colleen struggled to get up, shaking off the painful electric surge that had run through her body. But as she tried get up, something felt wrong. She blinked her eyes to try and clear away the blurriness, and then once more to make sure she wasn't seeing things.
As she watched, the fingers of her hand began to fall limp, she tried to move them, but they wouldn't respond. then her hand suffered the same fate, flopping from her wrist like a water balloon. Her other hand was going through the same thing and judging from the numbness in her feet, they were too.
She tried to crawl to the doctors who were approaching her and felt even more weirded out as her paws simply slipped out of her shoes. It was when the changes reached her knees and the became unable to crawl that she began to panic. For some reason she just couldn't talk, not even gasps of panic left her mouth as she tried to extend an arm to the scientists that was limp up to the elbow. By not the softening had reached her pelvis and she shuddered as her spine began to melt, causing her torso to sag inwards on itself.
As the changes finally consumed her torso and moved up her neck, she felt the changes seem to reshape her features slightly. Part of her wished she had a mirror and most was glad she didn't. Her skull softened and her muzzle sagged slightly with no bones in it. She swirled her tongue in her mouth and felt her teeth were still there, but they'd all gone soft, like cartilage more than bone.
She lay there, a boneless sack, her eyes the only thing she could move as she wordlessly pleaded to the scientists to help her. Which thankfully they did as one drew close and carefully scooped her up.
Sometime later Colleen was on the nearby table, carefully spread out so she looked as if she was just laying on her back, but without her bones she was little more than a rag-doll.
Of course the other Rovers had been called in and they all gave her empty apologies for not having been there for her, but it was meaningless as most were simply glad they weren't in her place. The lab guys had assured all they'd find a solution to the problem, but as the days passed with Colleen kept alive by nutrients fed into her arm and still no hope of fixing her, she began to fear this might be her life from now on.
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