It was nearly evening, and the sun was setting behind the neighborhood houses; Carla and Sofia were walking down the street towards home, discussing animatedly.
They were still dressed the same as when they had gone to the gym in the afternoon (or rather, Sofia had gone to the gym, and Carla had been brought along in the form of a towel), Sofia in black shorts and a sports bra, while Carla was still wearing her home pajamas and was barefoot.
"...and that's why we should get back at Mia for what she did to us, don't you agree?!" Sofia was saying, in an excited tone.
"Nah, what's the point? She let us go before evening, and she even released Jane right away. You know she likes to have fun with these things" Carla replied, in a conciliatory tone.
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--A few hours earlier--
Mia and Jane exited the gym, the former in athletic wear bouncing a ball on the ground, while the latter seemed like the last person on earth who could ever leave a gym, clearly uncomfortable.
"T-Thanks for letting me go, Mia. A few more minutes trapped like a t-towel and I think I would've lost it" said Jane, bowing deeply. The bespectacled girl had spent the last few hours stuck with Carla in the form of a towel, drying off Sofia's sweat, and the experience had left her quite shaken.
"No prob, Jane. I know you don't want to be involved in these shenanigans" replied Mia, in a cheerful mood. "They, on the other hand, are players, and now it's their turn to pay the price" she added, chuckling, looking at the ball that was still bouncing on the ground.
The ball, the size of a basketball, was composed of the compressed bodies of Carla and Sofia, each occupying about half of the sphere.
The sisters had been vertically compressed, with the soles of their feet forming the poles of the sphere, purple shoes for Sofia and bare feet for Carla; their faces met at the center but were not visible, covered by the rest of their bodies that formed the ball.
Sofia's huge boobs broke the symmetry of the two bodies, fully occupying one entire side of the sphere. Listening closely, one could hear protests emanating from the ball with each bounce.
"Now, I bid you farewell, Jane. I've got a great idea for how to spend the afternoon" Mia said, with an enthusiastic expression on her face, turning and heading home, continuing to bounce the two sisters on the ground.
"Y-Yes, thanks again!" Jane bowed again before making her way home.
Now that she was finally free and her body back to its original form, her thoughts turned to her Magic deck left at the sisters' house, but she'd have Carla bring it over.
It would be quite some time before she returned to the house of those absurd sisters!
Meanwhile, Mia headed home, absentmindedly bouncing her ball on the ground while typing on her phone with the other hand.
Once she arrived home, she headed straight to the garden, a spacious lawn beside the house.
She placed the two sisters on the ground, their spherical bodies immediately swaying and rolling in place, while she went to fetch the garden roller leaning against the house wall and waited.
It didn't take long before POP, Carla and Sofia's bodies, compressed into spherical form, suddenly returned to normal; Sofia lay prone and appeared quite dazed, while Carla found herself lying on her back atop her sister, with a sleepy expression.
"Yaaaawn... Hi Mia" greeted the former ball, yawning. "Hey Carla" Mia replied. "Mind if I..?" she asked, wielding the garden roller and making her intentions crystal clear.
"Go ahead, it's not like I've got anything else to do today" Carla replied, stretching, still sitting on top of Sofia. "Still better than being a towel anyway."
"True that" Mia said, and decisively passed the garden roller over both sisters, with a loud SQUISH!. In the wake of the roller on the ground lay Carla's flattened body, arms still outstretched while stretching, with her body slightly elongating after the flattening.
Sofia's body was hidden beneath Carla's, except for her boobs, which had expanded beyond the silhouette of her body due to the squishing.
However, Mia's work had only just begun, and she rolled the roller over the sisters several times, intending to give them a specific shape. At the end, she wiped the sweat from her forehead and admired the fruit of her labor.
Carla's body was flattened on the ground in a circular shape, about 2/3 meters in diameter: her face and chest occupied the upper half of the circle, while her legs occupied the lower half.
Carla's circumference was defined by her arms and hands in the upper part and by her bare feet in the lower part, which entirely composed the outline of the girl's flattened body, whose thickness had been reduced to a few centimeters.
"What a nice massage.." said Carla, with a absent-minded and blissful expression on her flat face.
"I'm glad" replied Mia, who proceeded to examine the bodies of the two sisters and flipped the huge flat sheet they had become to the other side.
Sofia had remained attached to Carla, back to back, and had been flattened similarly to her sister on the opposite side of the sheet, with arms, hands, and feet outlining the circular body and legs forming the lower half of the circle; the difference lay in the upper half, mostly containing Sofia's huge boobs, which had expanded enormously, leaving little space for her face, of which only the eyes were visible, still showing a dazed expression.
"Perfect" said Mia, "and now for the second part". Carefully calculating the distances, she took some stakes and began to drive them into the ground, ensuring they were firmly planted but with a portion remaining outside.
When she finished the job, the stakes were arranged circularly on a circumference of similar diameter to the current size of Sofia and Carla.
She then took the bodies of the two sisters and tied their body circumferences to the stakes, leaving Sofia on the upper side and Carla on the lower side. "This side is definitely softer" she chuckled to herself, ensuring that the two flattened sisters were well tensioned suspended between the stakes.
At the end of the work, in front of her was a nice makeshift trampoline, with Sofia's flat body prominently displayed on the upper side, constrained in a circular shape. "And now let's give it a try" she said, taking off her shoes and jumping onto the trampoline.
BOING!
The elasticity was perfect, and Mia bounced up about a meter high before bouncing again on Sofia's body and jumping up again. "Perfect! You two seem made for this" said Mia, landing on Sofia's huge boobs and feeling a pleasant sensation of softness through her bare feet, bouncing slightly higher than before.
"This spot seems to be more comfortable and elastic than the others, good to know" she said excitedly like a child. "The others should be arriving soon, it's going to be a fun afternoon!"
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--Back to the present--
"She turned us into a trampoline and used us all afternoon, inviting the entire soccer team!" exclaimed Sofia, exasperated by her sister's attitude.
"It was relaxing, almost like a massage" replied Carla, stretching.
"Speak for yourself, I was trampled the whole time, and I'm still covered in bare footprints all over my body" complained Sofia, stretching her back and checking for small prints she hadn't cleaned off yet.
"Still better than someone who forced me to dry off her sweat, in a..." Carla shuddered, "...gym." She concluded, with a disgusted expression.
"A bit of exercise would do you good for a change! And if we're talking about grievances, you squished me into a card after stripping me naked, shrinking me and painting me" Sofia exclaimed, arms wide open to emphasize her point.
Across the street, a couple of people turned their heads toward them with puzzled expressions.
"You were sooooo cute!" replied Carla, clasping her hands together and with sparkling eyes. "Luckily, I made high-definition scans before you broke free, so I can print 'Sofia, magical girl' again as much as I want! Although they'll never be like the original. I've always told you that you should be a model!"
"...yeah, right" replied Sofia, accustomed to not giving too much weight to her older sister's absurd statements. For a moment, she imagined herself as a model, camera flashes all around her wearing a stunning dress, but she quickly pushed the thought away. It was impossible, after all.
Meanwhile, the two sisters had arrived home. Sofia opened the front door, but to her surprise, she found someone welcoming them. "Here you are, I was just wondering if you'd be back for dinner" said the woman who had stopped at the entrance to greet them.
"Welcome back, Mom. When did you arrive?" greeted Sofia, surprised.
Sofia and Carla's mother was a woman in her fifties but still retained a youthful charm; she was slightly taller than Carla but not as slender, with a more curvaceous body than her eldest daughter.
She had thicc thighs and a generous bosom, showing that in Sofia's case, the apple didn't fall far from the tree (the same couldn't be said for Carla, though).
Her kind face with a cheerful expression was framed by her currently loose hair, but she usually wore it tied back.
"Your father was called in to work, and we had to come home a day earlier" she explained, approaching her daughters to hug them.
"He's already eaten and has gone out, but dinner is almost ready for us" she added, heading to the kitchen and indicating the table already set for three to the girls.
"Yay! I'm starving!" exclaimed Sofia, heading straight to the table, followed calmly by Carla. Meanwhile, their mother was busy in the kitchen, and after a short while, she returned to the living room with a tray full of sandwiches stuffed in various ways.
"I didn't have much time to cook anything else, so make do with these" she said to her daughters, who, however, seemed anything but disappointed and had already begun to grab the food.
The dinner continued with some quiet chatter about their parents' trip until "How did the exam go this morning, Carla?" their mother asked the eldest sister, who, with a mouth full and unable to speak, responded with a double thumbs up.
"I had no doubt" smiled the woman. "And now, could you explain to me why you were outside in pajamas and barefoot?" she added, maintaining a friendly smile but with the tone of someone who wouldn't accept an unsatisfactory answer.
Carla swallowed the sandwich and replied, "Ask this one, who squished me and Jane into a towel and dragged us to the gym against our will, using us to wipe off her sweat" she quickly shifted the blame onto her younger sister.
"Hey!" Sofia retorted, standing up and slamming her hands on the table with half a sandwich in her mouth. "Tell the whole story! You kept me stuck for TWO DAYS, putting me through hell, stripping me, shrinking me, and flattening me onto a playing card!" A slight raise of the mother's eyebrow could be seen, but she remained silent, listening to her daughters.
"I had to do it, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to study in peace!" Carla retorted, also standing up. "Twice you tried to trap me knowing I was studying for an important exam! We had a deal!" The eyebrow on the mother's face raised even further, but again, she remained silent.
"This doesn't authorize you to..." The two sisters continued their argument, raising their voices and almost yelling at each other, until their mother interrupted them with a cough, wearing a serious expression on her face. The sisters suddenly fell silent and looked at her with guilty expressions.
"Girls, this is not okay. Carla" said their mother, addressing the elder sister "I've told you several times not to overdo the timing of your pranks. Two days? What if she had received an important call, or had another commitment?"
"She never has any..." Carla started in a subdued tone, but a glare from her mother immediately cut her off, and she fell silent, her face contrite. Meanwhile, Sofia was triumphantly observing the situation.
"And you, Sofia" their mother continued, turning to the younger sister "can't you leave your sister alone, especially when she has to study for exams? At your age, can't you tell when it's time to joke around and when it's not?" Sofia instantly went from a triumphant expression to a contrite one, mirroring her sister's demeanor.
"Since you seem to love your shenanigans so much, I have the perfect punishment in mind that will allow you to reflect on your mistakes" said the woman, getting up from the table and approaching the two sisters.
With a maternal gesture, she caressed the back of their necks, and then SPLAT! forcefully brought the palms of their hands into contact, squashing the girls' heads against each other.
With expert hands, the mother manipulated the headless bodies of the girls, deforming and squishing them together.
After a few minutes, all that remained in the woman's hands was a malleable substance resembling play-doh, spherical in shape and roughly the size of a baseball.
This piece of play-doh bore no signs of the girls' bodies but was characterized by pink (from the girls' skin), black (Sofia's clothes), and gray (Carla's pajamas) colors.
The mother squished the small stress ball with one hand to test its malleability, satisfied to find that it was easily deformable even with just one hand.
Continuing to squeeze and release her two daughters in her hand, she walked over to the window and opened it, facing the window of the neighboring house, a few meters away.
"Isabella" she called out to the window in front of her. It didn't take long before the window opened, revealing a little girl with long black hair.
"Good evening, ma'am, did you have a good trip?" The little girl greeted her politely. "Excellent, thank you. I have something here that you might like" replied the woman, showing the small elastic ball to Isabella.
"The magic ball!" the girl exclaimed, her eyes sparkling. "May I?" she asked, reaching her hands out of the window.
"Of course" replied the woman, tossing the two sisters toward the window of the neighboring house. "Just remember, as usual, not to break it, and bring it back to me tomorrow morning."
"Yes, thank you!" thanked Isabella, who had already begun to stretch the magic ball.
"And please tell your mom that I'll come to say hello tomorrow" added the woman, smiling. "You can count on it!" Isabella shouted back, already running off, eager to play with that fantastic toy.
Carla and Sofia's mother closed the window and sighed. Would there ever come a time when her two daughters would get along again like they used to?
"Well" she said to herself, "at least in the meantime, messing with them is definitely amusing."