Punch held on as tightly as they could, gripping the edge of their desk as they felt the tentacles behind them wrapping around their ankles. A second of wild wriggling and kicking dislodged them both, only for a third tentacle to wrap around one, tugging insistently.

Their other foot barely reached the ground, three-toed feet trying to claw Punch further back in the portal before it was grabbed again.

"Come on! Let GO!"

It was supposed to be a quick session: Try a few mods for Starbound, see if they work, then use them the next time a friend asked to play. What Punch didn't expect was for one of the mods to immediately generate a save that was already on the tentacle planet you had to journey to at the climax of the game's main story, nor for it to load that instead of a new game.

What Punch _*definitely*_ didn't expect to happen was a giant eye to be in the background, look at the camera, _*then reach tentacles through the screen to pull them in.*_

Punch was too shocked to prevent themselves from being pulled halfway through, looking down to see their pants and boots replaced with an orange hakama and sandals, feeling the membrane of the screen squeezing their body and clothing into a more fitting shape for the game's setting.

Namely, that of a male Hylotl judging by their blue & orange legs and three webbed toes they can feel kicking at the planet's many tentacles. Tentacles that while not exactly winning the tug of war, certainly made Punch fight with everything they had to keep it a stalemate, one only allowed because the tentacle planet didn't intend on ripping the intruder in half anytime soon.

A state of affairs that lasted two more minutes before they felt a graspy tentacle wrap around a foot and accidentally slide down a slick sole, which was enough to make Punch slip with a yelp- And now their hands barely caught the monitor, head-down changed. The only parts left human were their fingers now.

Their head swam; Binocular to trinocular vision, with eyes that saw a wider range of light that was too much for now; Hair giving way to orange fins, red hoodie becoming a red sleeveless top tied above their orange hakama; Alien hormones flowing through an alien brain, now better able to parse their new body's signals even as old instincts clash with newly ingrained ones.

More sensitive, slick skin with new nerves-

The tentacles paused for a moment.

Oh.

Another tentacle wriggles lightly on their other foot, making them reflexively clench their sides and pull it back.

Oh no.

The tentacle planet wastes no time striking at an exposed weakness, digging into their feet, legs and sides with fervor. Their face flushes an orange-crimson color.

"Nnn! NNNNH-! Hhh! Hhhnh!"

Teeth grit, then funny breathing as their fingers nearly spasm. A gasp, made up of little panicked inhales as another few tentacles find their kidney spots (Hnn! Hhhnhnhnn!) while even more rub and squeeze and tease whatever they can find. Toes, soles, legs, sides, all gain direct attention to Punch's detriment.

"-H-Hhh-Hehh-N-Neheeheheh! Stop! S-SN-NEHEHEH- HAHAHAHAA-"

Skin always slightly damp because of an amphibian origin becomes a liability when it makes you even easier to tickle.

All the while Punch laughed, even their dislodging kicking impossible under the attention of dozens of tentacles holding their ankles, feet and individual toes taut. The struggle of it all made them start sweating, which made the tickling worse, so they sweated more, which made it even *more* intense-

Their palms are damp. One hand slips, then a thumb. Only now does Punch wonder if the portal will stick around if they fall all the way through.

They don't even have a player's matter manipulator.

"No, heh-w-wait! W-WAIT! N-heh-NO NOHOHOHOOO NO, ***NO, NOOO***-" were the last words they uttered before their grip finally slipped off the monitor, swallowing them entirely into the game world.
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...Dang, who knows how long Punch is going to be stuck under the tender mercies of an entire planet's worth of tentacles? Is it gonna keep them busy for a day or a week, or is someone going to have to go in after and rescue the newly fishy Punch?

No TFTG this time, just wanted to draw that specific scenario of being pulled into a screen with an alternate body and clothes being yours the second that part of you crosses over. Beyond the tentacles themselves, adjusting to having two less + webbed toes, an extra eye and all the other little differences would be both hell and heaven for me.

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