WHAT DID YOU DO?

Yeah . . . that's Adam.

From "He-Man: Year One - October"

Orko came to a complete stop and Adam and Cringer stopped behind him. They were about a mile away from the Palace, between two small hills.
“Okay, Orko, what’s your spell?”
“Okay! Ready for this?” He pulled up the top of his hat and pulled out a small mouse. “Forces of magic, power and sway! Mouse, house, mouse, douse! Fender bender gender gander!” The mouse began to glow. “Mouse one, mouse two, mouse three mouse four! Mouse turn and transform!”
At the last minute, however, the glow of mouse vanished. Instead, the glowing turned into a beam of light and struck Adam squarely in the chest. There was an intense burst of light and Adam felt light-headed for just a moment.
“Ummm Orko? I don’t think your spell worked quite right,” Cringer said, staring at Adam.
“Uh-oh.”
“ORKO!” Adam shouted, but it wasn’t so much a shout as it was a shriek. Adam looked and felt himself up and down. As he suspect, Orko’s little spell had messed up big time. Instead of changing the mouse into whatever it was supposed to turn into it, Orko had transformed Adam into a six foot anthropomorphic mouse – and a female one at that!
“You better change me back, Orko!” said the new female Mouse Adam.
“Uh, yeah. Sure thing.”
Orko tapped his scarf in deep thought. Adam turned away from the Trollan, his/her new tail swinging around. “This is very odd,” Adam said, touching his/her new chest.
“Okay!”
Adam turned back around, ready to change back. A light suddenly overcame him/her and instantly, Adam was back to normal.
“Thank the Ancients!” Adam said, his voice manly once more.
“Whew!” Orko breathed. “Close one!”
“You’re telling me,” Adam responding, patting his restored chest

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So how exactly did this come about? All right. I'll tell ya.

I had to have this scene where Orko and co. go out from the Palace. I figured "well, I'll just have Orko show Adam a spell and have it (as usual) go horribly wrong." I thought long and hard about this. While searching for a spell to go wrong and it what way, I toured my DA galley. I stumbled across the old pic "Princess Adam?" [link] and thought "oh! gender-bender! that would be fun!"

Then I realized, "Well, I kinda already did that with Flipshot and then I would have comb through THAT story and make some mention of Adam having been turned into a girl for a while and I don't want to do that." So I was purusing again and I saw "Red Planet Heroes" [link] and thought (as I usually do whenever I see that picture), "Man, Lucas looks like Adam."

And that's when it dawned on me. Why don't I do both gender-bender and anthro-mouse? Make it brief, like when Orko turned Adam into a sunflower in the new show! Yay! So that's that.

It's also a secret homage to the much-neglected "Biker Mice" fanfics.

Drawing by (great Orko, by the way)
Colors by me

~W~