Zoe was out on the town with Sonia, shopping for a few odds and ends. Jessica was busy with some explosives class, and Sonia said she wanted a new anklet, so it was a good excuse to hang out.

"That looks great Sonia! Are you going to wear that to your next shoot? Won't you need something other than your usual leggings too?"

Sonia held the box containing the gold chain with tiny emeralds up to her eye. "Yup! After the last shoot with the green dress worked, I thought some accents would work nicely." She put the chain back in the bag as they approached the next intersection.

"True. Do you have shoes to go with it though?"

Sonia stopped five steps into the street and turned around. "Oh my, you're right!" She looked further down the street to where the Converse store was, and grinned. "Look! The converse store has a sale! We can just go there and I can get another pair that mat-"

*WHAM*
*SQUIIIIIIIISH*

Zoe winced, but didn't look away, as a bus effortlessly squished Sonia to the pavement. Sonia's tongue and eyes stuck out of her face upon being struck from behind. Zoe saw her friend's legs stretch as she was smeared along the pavement, her butt scrunching up when the bus passed over it. Sonia's body did not give into its flattened form cleanly, and there was a loud *CRACK* sound when her waist touched the pavement, and her upper body was thrown hard to the ground. Her boobs spread on the pavement, and the bus tires further smeared her as they passed over. She was already flattened to twice her size, and the extra squish printed the tire's tracks through her boobs and squished them out just a little longer.

Zoe kneeled on the sidewalk, hiding a smile at her flattened friend's transformation, but wanting to make sure she could get up. As accident prone as Sonia was, she wasn't great at peeling herself off the ground. "Hey, are you okay?!"

Sonia sounded groggy but happy. "Oooooh...How can something so bad feel so good?"

Zoe laughed gleefully. "Oooo...yeah that can definitely feel good, but come on Sonia." She looked closer at the where tire tracks squished her. "I don't want to clean you up after getting splashed around by the street cleaners again. At least on actual streets." Zoe thought about her friends getting spun and splashed around more, and added, "You know, I think Jess knows how to get one if we wanted to do that..."

Sonia grumbled, her body loosely wobbling on the ground. "But I don't want to get up yet..."

"Sonia, if you want to get squished like that more, you know we can lend Pepper some toys."

Sonia's flat, noodly arms trembled, but still didn't pull free of the pavement. "Oh, Pep can do this too, but I really shouldn't feel this waaAAAAAAAAAY!"

A dump truck passed by, squishing Sonia and spreading her another five feet.

Zoe shook her head. "Tsk tsk Sonia. You really need to be able to peel off of the street!"

It took Sonia a moment to focus again. It was clear to Zoe she enjoyed this far too much. Sonia's edges were even starting to shine with a familiar goopiness of someone too into their transformation, not unlike a certain red head she knew.

"Just a minute Zoe...I can do this."

Sonia's body shook, and started rolling up. Zoe frowned. It was better than Sonia's usual attempts, but she wasn't getting back to three dimensions at all.

Sonia completely became a scroll, her face looking up to the sky. "Okay. We practiced this." She took a few deep breaths, gearing up for the next step.

"Here we go." Sonia's cylindrical body bounced with each count. "One...Two..."

*SQUISH*

A pickup truck passed over her face, making Sonia the scroll become Sonia the pancake.

Zoe couldn't help but laugh at her friend's misfortune. Part of her wanted to film this for later, but she couldn't do that to poor Sonia.

She finished the count for the laughs. "Three?"

Sonia's body shook once more, and actually did pop into three dimensions. Except...

*ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ*

Sonia's head sat on top of a pleated set of accordion bellows painted with her features. The truck may have merged her cylinder back together, but she still couldn't get back to normal. Now she was bouncing around making dissonant noises now with the ribbon in her hair fluttering about.

Sonia's dizzy eyes looked at her musical body while bobbing up and down. "What? An accordion?" Her face showed concentration, and her body flexed up and down a few more times. "This is new."

Zoe broke down laughing. "Wow, you haven't had this happen before? Okay, Sonia? We are going to work on your restoration speed tomorrow. In fact...you know, Scarlett's usually the slow one. The two of you were practically made for each other. Maybe she can help you."

Zoe picked up her new Accordion, and walked down the street playing her friend perfectly.

Sonia felt strangely in tune with her new shape, and couldn't think clearly enough to snap herself back to normal. When she eventually found her voice, she asked, "Zoe? How are we working on this tomorrow?"

"Oh, you'll see. Just bring Pepper. She'll want to watch you get squished."

Sonia's notes went wildly high pitched out of tune for a moment. Pepper watching her get squished? And Zoe did this for a living in the TF League, so she knew how to show off messy squishes...

"Oh no...What have I gotten myself into..."

* * *

The next day, Pepper and Zoe convened at the Dust Bunnies's remote mountain training facility. Zoe gave Pepper the mini tour, before bringing her into the control room, and offering her into a seat to watch the monitors.

"Oooo, I love a room with a view." Pepper twirled a finger through her braid. "So Zoe, run this by me again?"

Zoe smiled, and gestured to one of the screens. "Well, our friends are over there in the start room. We're going to watch them from up here go through a bunch of traps. The idea is Scarlett and Sonia are both terrible at piecing themselves together, so it's a trial by fire for both of them. Scarlett is usually a little better at it when she knows something is coming like this though, so I'm hoping she can teach Sonia a thing or two today."

Pepper rubbed her hands together, leaning in to look at the screens with hunger in her eyes. "And I'm hoping Sonia has...*eh-hem* plenty of opportunities to learn."

Zoe grinned even wider. "Yup. Jessica is going to be in there with one of her favorite toys to give them a hard time like a proper TF league race, and since this is practice for everyone, Amber has some toys too. Did she talk to you last night about what you wanted to see?"

Pepper grinned. "Yup! She's going to live up to your team name!"

Zoe paused at that. The dust bunny name? She'd have to think about it later.

She reached for the microphone, and pushed the red button.

* * *

While Zoe and Pepper were getting comfortable, Scarlett and Sonia were stretching in the plain, empty corner of a hallway serving as their starting area. Scarlett wore her usual dust bunnies dark orange shorts, but wore a tight blue tank top instead of the rest of the uniform. Sonia's gym outfit consisted of short black shorts that hugged her hips, and a light sky blue tank top that strained to cover her above the waist, leaving her tummy exposed. Fancy text read "Hold Me Tighter" across her chest. Both ladies shirts were worn in intentionally revealing fashion.

The area before them was lined with stone walls and floor tiles under the hanging fluorescent lights. They couldn't see what was above them, but Scarlett had her suspicions.

"So that's why I think this room is going to be all crushers. That's what happens to us the most, right? The bad thing about this honestly? Given Zoe said this is training, we're almost GOING to get squished. But that is the point with us and the league, people love to see it."

Sonia tried to smile through her frown. She adjusted her short shirt, still feeling strange about showing off to Pepper by squishing herself repeatedly, and letting her flattened body flop around in front of everyone.

But she knew Pepper would love it.

"I guess you're right about that. So...any advice for pulling myself back together?"

Scarlett scratched her head through her red hair. "Um, I donno? Think three dimensionally? I guess it's kinda like standing up and-"

Static and feedback through the speakers signaled the control room was talking, and Zoe's voice came through. "Okay ladies, are we ready?"

Pepper's voice shouted across the room at the microphone. "GET SQUISHED REAL GOOD SWEETIE! I'LL GET YOU A FANCY OUTFIT TONIGHT IF YOU MAKE ME HAPPY!"

Sonia blushed, visions of being cloaked in Pepper blue silk pajamas that night running through her head. She fought the warm feeling inside her to stay solid and focus on the task at hand.

Scarlett responded instead. "Woooo! Let's go!"

Zoe's voice returned. "Okay ladies! Ready, set..."

A loud click sounded from the speakers, and walls about ten feet away started slamming together, fast.

"GO!"

* * *

Scarlett looked at the walls smashing together, then at Sonia. Her friend had a hand raised to her chin, probably trying to figure out what was happening. If this was supposed to be a training session for Sonia...

"Zoe! Is this from Jessica's stamina course?"

"Yup!" Zoe's voice shouted through the speakers. "No choice but to go through it!"

Scarlett looked at Sonia. The realization was slowly dawning on the non-native toon that she would be getting a lot of experience with her new physics.

She also realized she would have to go first, or they would stand there all day.

"Here Sonia, this is pretty standard. What does Zoe always say...just think forward, and hold yourself together, and..."

Scarlett ran at the crushing walls, and dove between them, leaving Sonia to gasp at her friend's enthusiasm.

*WHAM*

Scarlett felt her body getting scrunched, and focused on rolling ahead. She felt her neck crunch, and her legs compress into her butt. Her whole back was getting kneaded together, fusing into itself, and truth be told it felt very relaxing. She just kept a mantra of "roll ahead, roll ahead..."

When the walls opened, Sonia saw a giant wheel with red ridges, still a few inches wide, rolling forward. As it wobbled ahead, Sonia got a look at Scarlett's goofy face on one side, and her wide flat butt on the other. Scarlett was flattened into a giant coin of herself, squished hard enough that her body took on a metal shine with a red tint all over. She got crunched a few more times as she rolled along, but she never stopped. Her pancaked body was pounded thinner

*WHAM*

And thinner

*WHAM*

Until she was maybe a half inch thick but ten feet across.

Her momentum finally lost, Scarlett fell to one side, clattering around on the ground with metallic sounds until she wobbled to a stop. Her ridiculously huge flattened butt was facing up.

"That's tails Pepper, you owe me a dollar!"

"Aw..."

Sonia tried to put Pepper's playful attitude out of her mind, and focused on Scarlett's recovery efforts. She was thoroughly pulverized, but she was at least in one solid piece. Sonia wasn't sure she'd ever managed that, but it should still be taking Scarlett minutes before...

"HRNNNNN"

Sonia heard Scarlett's grunt, and saw the coin wobble. Scarlett's metal butt was wiggling up from her coin.

*CLANG*CLANG*

Scarlett's butt popped out from the coin, one cheek at a time. The entire coin flexed again, and

*CLANG*

Her legs came out, flipping the coin over. Scarlett stumbled around, giving Sonia a look at her nervous face on the head side of the coin, looking around like she was only half sure of what she was doing. Once she got her balance back,

*POP*POP*

Sonia's arms popped out the top of her body, and grabbed both sides of the coin.

"YAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!"

The coin shrunk, and Scarlett's body creaked and crunched itself back into shape.

"There! See Sonia? Just stay focused and-"

*WHAM*

The walls rudely closed on Scarlett.

"Scarlett, what did we say about celebrating your recoveries?"

The crushers pulled apart. The wall on the left had a giant red splat with two blue eyes smeared across it. A mouth opened in the middle of the goop and muttered "Make sure I'm not getting squished again first."

Scarlett's excuse for a body slid down the wall, before falling in red globs to the floor with loud wet SPLATs. Sonia watched the red ooze crawl past last crusher, fighting the hungry emotions building inside her from watching her friend's experience.

She wasn't sure if knowing she was next was helping her anticipation or not, but she couldn't take her eyes off the red blob spiraling into the air and shaping itself back into Scarlett.

"Okay Sonia Sweetie!" Pepper's voice came through the speakers. Sonia knew that tone meant Pepper was as excited to see this as Sonia was to experience it. "Go for it!"

With her girlfriend's encouragement, Sonia had some confidence. Scarlett got through it okay, and she was bad at this right? She ran forward, focusing on moving ahead and not getting so up tight about

*WHAM*
"EEK!"

Sonia felt the walls hit her and lost all concentration. She squeaked as her everything collapsed on itself, all thickness in her body gone in an instant. A familiar pleasant tingle and intense pressure washed over her...

The walls pulled apart, and a cardboard cutout of Sonia slowly tipped over. Her face was beat red, her smile lost in loving her situation.

*WHAM*

Sonia's body folded up on itself, the walls not kneading her together into a flattened smattering of black and light blue. The letters on her shirt were folded up just the right way to read "FOLD TIGHTER" on the side.

The walls happily obliged.

*WHAM*WHAM*WHAM*WHAM*WHAM*

Sonia's friends watched the model splatter from pleasantly flattened cutout into an absolute mess of colors splashing and stretching around between the crushers. By the eighth smash, she was little more than strands of blue and black goop with a pair of emerald eyes randomly hanging within them.

This went on for a minute. The wall was slowly getting stained with Sonia. Zoe must have decided the poor girl had enough, because her voice came through the speakers again. "Pepper, can you stop the walls?"

"Huh-wha? Stop?"

There was a brief pause before Zoe said "Oh you're as bad as Scarlett!" Scarlett heard something loud moving around the control room, and the walls stopped.

Like Scarlett before her, Sonia's body slowly dripped off the wall. The strands hanging between them sagged and dripped and snapped and fell into the goop soup of her body.

In the middle of it all, her Picasso-ed face had spirally eyes, blushing cheeks, and a huge smile.

Scarlett looked at the Sonia puddle on the floor. She looked up and around, as if that helped the control room hear her speak. "Zoe, can I go in and check on her without you squishing us together?"

"Yeah, but see if she can pull herself together first."

Scarlett hustled to the pool of blue, black, and brown hair, and kneeled beside it. "Sonia? Are you there?"

Sonia's voice sounded almost out of breath, if a puddle could do that. "Oh? Huh? Pepper you sound different? Is it time for the steam press again already? I don't know how much more I can-"

Scarlett and Pepper's voice shouted in unison "SONIA!"

Sonia blinked, and her spirals resolved into green eyes on top of the mess of colors on the floor. They looked around, saw Scarlett, and skittered away, leaving ripples in her goop. "Oh! Scarlett! Never mind the Steam Press."

Scarlett started blushing, thinking about what fun those two must have in their spare time. She saw a red drop come down from her hair, and shook her head to refocus. "Sonia! Your team needs you! Pull yourself together and let's go! I heard you did this at the race track, so let's go!"

Sonia finally remembered where she was. This was a training course. "Oh, right! I'll try!"

Sonia focused on being herself. It took several seconds, but she felt a quiver from...something. Her body was so beat up she wasn't quite sure where any of it was. Slowly but surely, the Sonia goo on the floor collected in one spot, crawling over itself slower than honey pours from a jar.

It was hard to move, but Sonia knew it was happening. She closed her eyes and concentrated. She could feel something...that was a leg! It had toes! And it was actually touching the floor. Her whole body felt like it was collecting and getting together. She was going to actually restore herself!

"I'm doing it!"

"Pffffft!"

Sonia felt her body sag at Scarlett's laughter. She was back together and....wait how far was she sagging and spreading?

Sonia opened her eyes and looked around. She *was* in one piece, that was good. Judging by the way her head was gyrating on top of her body though, something was wrong. She looked around the ground, and found her round shadow.

"Scarlett, am I the blob?"

Scarlett fell over laughing. "You look like a flan monster from some video game!"

Sonia slid along the ground to look at the metal door at the end of the hall. She was a 4 foot tall blob, with an extra layer of slime for hair.

"Look on the bright side Sonia!" Zoe's voice surprised her, making her jump and spread out five feet on the ground when she landed. "At least your body's in alignment, arms and legs in the right places."

"Hrmmph." Sonia huffed. At least she was halfway there. That was still better than usual.

She tried to reach for the door. To her surprise, her arm extended as a slimy tentacle, and was able to grab the door. That was something. "Scarlett, are you coming?"

She was still laughing on the floor, smiling. "HAHAHHAA! YOU'RE SO CUTE! I love little melty people!"

Sonia grumbled. Scarlett could at least show some support, and there she was, getting smaller on the ground laughing at...smaller?

Sonia re-evaluated herself again. She was growing. She hadn't thought about growing while transformed in a while, but it did remind her of the hurricane incident. Well, if she could do this...

Sonia extended a huge arm-tendril at Scarlett, wrapping it around her. Scarlett yelped, slightly squished by Sonia's force so her feet and eyes bulged from the edges of the grip. Sonia pulled Scarlett back to her, and Scarlett *PLOPPED* right into her giant slimy body. She felt a weak struggle inside her as she wobbled towards the door.

She looked down at her captive team mate, and saw Scarlett's body floating apart, wobbling as if Scarlett were more liquid. Only then did she remember Scarlett would melt if you so much as said "splat."

"Oh, guess I should hurry." Sonia squeezed herself through the door, leaving a thin trail of goop behind her.

* * *

"Hurry up Sonia! We're not ready to throw you into the centrifuge to split you and Scarlett up yet!" Zoe turned from the mic to her control room partner. "Right Pepper?"

"Yeeeeah." Pepper wiped her forehead. "I didn't know she had that in her."

Zoe couldn't help but smile. Pepper was doing her best to act nonchalant, but she was clearly sweating drops of herself to the floor. She was pretty sure Pepper was a few inches shorter too.

She turned back to the mic as Sonia slid up to the next room. "Alright ladies..."

* * *

Sonia pulled to a stop in the next room, feeling a little strange. She was thinking about what Zoe said, wondering how to "spit out" Scarlett, when her head blew up bigger. A red ball of slime grew out of her, growing pale skinned arms that squished Sonia's own head down and propelled Scarlett out.

Scarlett looked back at her. "So, finally ready for the next trap?"

Sonia's body squished down and bounced off the ground and pulled itself back up. She walked over to Scarlett. "Hey, that felt REALLY weird! You just grew out of my head and...wait, when?" Sonia looked at the hand she was pointing at Scarlett, and realized it was quite solid.

Scarlett gave her a pat on the back. "See? You're a natural."

"Alright ladies! I hope you brought some glue in with you!"

*CLICK*

Sonia and Scarlett looked over the industrial setting ahead of them. It looked like a typical wide open TF League room with grinders on the floor, gears spinning, and pistons smashing. They moved much slower than the first smasher.

Sonia saw an opportunity to stay three dimensional. "Okay Scarlett, let's go! I think we can do this without getting squished at all!"

"I don't know Sonia, this feels too easy. Keep your eyes open."

"There's nothing here Scarlett! Let's go and finish so we can-"

*SHWP*SHWP*SHWP*SHWP*

A flurry of blades surrounded Sonia, making her disappear in a blue of silvery steel.

"Finish..."

Sonia didn't feel the same amazing pinch of a squish or the warmth of a melt, but she did feel...lighter? Free? The cool feeling cut right through her, like something was touching hundreds of pressure points at once.

Sonia fell backwards, parts of her body falling away. Her arms separated at the shoulders, breaking into smaller pieces when they struck the ground. Her head fell off and split in half vertically, leaving her face planted on the floor. She wasn't cubed, just disassembled.

The pieces of her body rolled towards Scarlett. She shook her head with her hands on her hips. "See Sonia, if you don't have a plan, you just fall apart in these things."

Sonia's arm felt around for Scarlett's leg, patting her foot a few times to make sure it was her. Realizing what was happening, Scarlett pulled her foot away just as Sonia pounded the floor, stepping into the middle of the scattered Sonia bits.

"Hey, you can control your disconnected arm! That's actually pretty good! Can you put yourself back together?"

"I-...hey you're right!" Sonia was surprised she could do anything like this. "What should I do?"

"Same thing as last time. Just try to pull yourself together so the pieces touch, and let your body do the rest."

"Make the pieces touch...okay." Sonia tried to focus on where her pieces were. A foot here, an arm there...were those two pieces her butt? Whatever, there was more of herself to focus on.

She tried to bring them closer together. There was a lot of her to move at once, and she hadn't even realized she was moving her arm at first. Stretching her consciousness across this many pieces of herself was new for her, heck she wasn't even sure how this was possible, but she tried.

From what she could tell, she was getting closer together. A few pieces of herself were even touching each other now! She just needed to keep going.

* * *

"...let your body do the rest."

Scarlett watched Sonia's pieces wobble and shake as her friend focused on pulling together. This was actually better than Scarlett herself originally was at this. Hopefully it would be faster than the puddle to gel together, but then again Sonia could at least flow like that. She wasn't sure Sonia knew how to roll her stomach around. But if Sonia could start glowing all over, then she had some control.

Scarlett tilted her head in thought. Did people glow when they did this? What was this chunk doing?

She walked closer to two similar looking pieces They were getting closer, but it didn't look like they were moving much. Just wobbling. She poked one to test it.

"OOOO! Scarlett please! Don't touch me in that spot right now! It's hard to concentrate with you teasing me!"

Sonia's pieces all tripled in size in that moment. Only then did Scarlett realize she just poked at the top of Sonia's inner thigh, as both halves of her butt grew together to squish her. She felt Sonia's soft growing rear end force her to the floor, and had no answer to resist being squished by a butt.

She felt her body start to spread on the ground under intense pressure from Sonia's soft but huge thighs. She reveled in it, not even trying to stop her body from bubbling and flowing apart.

*SPLOOSH*

* * *

Zoe saw the pool Scarlett's red hair flow out under Sonia. "Of all the times I've seen Scarlett melt, this might be the most forgivable. Hey Pepper, how much Sonia can you take before..."

Pepper was definitely shorter now. Her pants were starting to look more like water balloons than the flowy design Pepper walked in with. Her arms were dripping down her sides, and her braid was melting ice cream on her back. Pepper's torso had almost completely disappeared, leaving her head on top of her hips staring eagerly at the screen.

Zoe smirked and didn't bother interrupting. It looked like Sonia was almost in one piece. That was a start.

* * *

"Done!"

Sonia felt the last disconnected piece of herself click into the rest of her. She opened her eyes to see how she looked.

"Okay, let's stand up and WHOA!"

Sonia paused as her limbs tried to slide out from under her. "What's that red stain? And...is that my hand?"

Sonia saw her hand on the floor next to her foot, both in a large red puddle of what could only be melted Scarlett. So that's what she felt earlier...

She held her arms out and...looked up at them? Was her face in her stomach? At least it was a matching foot and hand combination. She bent her body so she could look up to where her head should have been. Yup, those were her boobs on top of everything.

"ZOE! How do I fix this!"

"HAAAAHAHAHA!" She heard a cackling noise through the speakers. "It's been a while since I've seen this one. Uuuh, let me think." There was a pause while Zoe thought about it. "Honestly? Just try to curl up and move yourself around like a bunch of legos."

"What?"

"Trust me!"

Sonia took a deep breath. She was already a discombobulated mess, what else could happen?

Sonia became a whirlwind of activity, arms and legs flailing in a cloud of dust.
*POP*
*WHRRRRL*
*SLAP*
*BOP*

Sonia's head tumbled above the cloud, carelessly tossed in the air before falling back in. Other pieces of her followed. Sonia felt like she was held together by some sort of weird string, pulling her apart and back together all at once. It felt like someone was applying force to all of her pressure points at once, relieving some unknown stress.

When the dust settled, Sonia was standing as her normal self. She looked at her hands, checked her feet, everything was in its place!

"That...felt..."

* * *

Zoe stood smiling in front of the monitors. Another student making progress. Sonia pulled herself together, and even if it took some work, she was once again whole and...

"That...felt...AWESOME!" Sonia raised her fists on the screen, and instantly collapsed into a puddle, bubbling on the floor.

"Oh...I guess she didn't know how good that could feel. Pepper, I thought you would have done something like that with her by...oh my. Are you okay?"

Pepper was breathing heavy and somehow dripping more of herself. "Yeah...She's just SO CUTE!"

Zoe smiled. "Pepper, you know your pants melted together right?"

Pepper's eyes moved down the front of her now completely blobby body to investigate. "Hmm...I guess they have. I....ooooooooh."

*SPLASH*

Pepper's body lost all form, drops flowing down her sides as she finally collapsed into a puddle of cream and blue slime on the floor.

Zoe was just happy she didn't splash all over the equipment.

She sighed and rolled her eyes. "Can't anyone stay solid today? Hasn't everyone seen a girl get squished by a butt and lots of melting and..." Zoe felt her own insides start to get warm, before she took a deep breath to calm down. "Okay, I guess you have points."

* * *

Some time later, after everyone flowed into a normal shape and got solid again. It took some guidance from Scarlett, and maybe some out of the box thinking from Sonia, and they were traveling through another short hall to the next room. Scarlett was still complaining about Sonia's methods though.

"Okay, we did clear it fast, but did you have to get huge and throw me across a room full of spinning blades?"

Sonia rolled her eyes, dismissing the complaint. "You said there was a rope to pull me up from there! It seemed like the best way to get time back!"

"Yeah, but you threw me through how many knives and buzz saws?!"

"I dunno, twenty? Hey, you're okay right? It's not like I dipped you in acid or something."

"I keep telling you, acid I can handle. Fifty slices of me flattening on a wall stung a little!"

They walked into the next room, still arguing over the wisdom of Sonia's tactics. It was a large room wall to wall carpeting, and a fireplace. Sonia paused to look around while Scarlett walked in to sit on the nearest couch.

"Look Sonia, all I'm asking is that if we do that again, ask first. I don't mind being chopped to bits, I'd just like a little warning next time."

"Okay Scarlett but...who put a couch showroom in the middle of an obstacle course?"

*CLICK*
*VRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR*

Both ladies looked across the room. Amber the maid stood in a frilly, revealing yellow blouse and skirt. In her hands was the newest suk-o-lux brand stick vacuum.

She made eye contact with each of them as she spoke. "Sorry babe, but if you thought the last room sucked?" Amber clicked another button on the device, and it got even louder. "You might not be cut out for this."

Scarlett chuckled, but looked back questioningly. "Uh, hon? The only thing you're not cut out for is making puns. Why if you...uh-oh gotta run!"

Scarlett and Sonia dove to the sides to avoid Amber's charge. She slammed the vacuum onto the couch, letting the hungry device suck up an entire cushion.

"Oh this is going to be fun."

She popped open the canister to release the compressed pillow before pursuing, letting it spring back into shape on the couch. She looked to Sonia, cautiously scampering along the side walls, and let her go. She needed to be trained in restoration, not mercilessly squished. It would be playtime with Scarlett first.

Scarlett ran in a zig zag through the couches, looking for anything useful she could use to squish Amber. Unfortunately, there wasn't a mallet anywhere to be seen. She heard a the sound of furniture being knocked over behind her, and knew Amber was close. "Damnit Amber, you're supposed to put something useful around here! How am I supposed to HMMMMFF!"

From across the room, Sonia saw Amber slam the vacuum down on Scarlett's head. It vanished instantly, stopping at Scarlett's shoulders. She wasn't big enough to jam up the vacuum, but she did grab hold of the stick to try and hold herself out. She jumped and wrapped her feet onto the stick, looking for leverage to pull herself out, but with a loud *THUMP* sound, she was sucked in past her breasts to her waist.

Sonia wiped sweat off her forehead. She couldn't stop staring at Scarlett being reduced to a butt with four limbs attached to a long thinning string of pale flesh going into the vacuum.

Scarlett gave a yelp as her strength gave out, and her butt slammed into the vacuum. It got stuck, but the suction kept pulling. With the vacuum demanding more mass to make its way forward, Scarlett felt her legs get sucked into the rest of her butt. It did help her keep the vacuum jammed, but there wasn't much she could do but enjoy her butt getting bigger.

Sonia needed to keep herself focused watching that unfold. One second Scarlett's butt was getting bigger to jam up the vacuum, the next it was scrunching and rippling and shrinking and possibly even melting into the vacuum. Amber lifted it high over her head, shaking it to help draw Scarlett in. The last of her big butt crumpled and squished into the vacuum with a satisfying *PLOP* sound.

"Oh Scarlett, you made it too easy!" Amber popped open the canister again. This time the cylinder was decidedly Scarlett colored, skin tones with a smattering of her blue shirt, with her big blue eyes on the side, topped with red hair. "Now to take out the trash. You know how that's done, right Sonia?"

Sonia gulped as Amber made eye contact. "What are you doing with Scarlett?"

Amber tossed Scarlett around in her hand. "Now, I know we're teaching you things, so I won't do this to you today. But eventually you will need about this."

She tossed Scarlett into the fireplace.
*FWOOOOOOOOSH*

A charred Scarlett tube rolled out and blinked. She said "Ooooow...." before crumbling to dust on the ground.

"Now Sonia, I think you know the best way to restore her is to grab some water." She pointed to the corner. Sonia noted there was a water cooler just standing there. "Until then, maybe Scarlett has figured out how to pull together from this, but it's a tough one. But for you..."

Amber very deliberately pointed the vacuum away from Scarlett and flipped a switch. Everything that was drifting towards it started moving away as the vacuum reversed air flow.

She slapped the tube menacingly in her hand. "I heard you like getting bigger."

Sonia ran through her options. She could try to run, but that didn't work out well for Scarlett. Didn't she say Amber was an actual track runner at one point too? She didn't see anything useful around for squishing Amber either...

But she had to admit, she did like getting bigger. Maybe she would take Amber's suggestion.

Sonia grinned, a mischievous sparkle in her eyes. "You might regret saying that Amber." Sonia focused on that little light deep inside her. She took strides towards Amber, slowly getting bigger and shaking the ground underneath her.

Amber was not going to let Sonia get the advantage. She charged in and jabbed the vacuum at Sonia's mouth, trying to make herself a nice giantess balloon.

Sonia spun to the side of Amber's clumsy attack, and raised a foot to squish Amber. Amber scrambled to the side, but Sonia wasn't big enough yet anyway.

She had to be bigger.

Their dance went on, Sonia dodging Amber, with Amber somehow still trying to get the vacuum into her face. Sonia was starting to think something was wrong with her growth, but found relief in Amber still being smaller than her, and the couches appearing as small as doll house sizes. She just needed a way to slow Amber down and keep her in place long enough to do something.

Sonia did some guesswork in her head, going off an idea Allison gave her weeks ago at the race track. She could probably take it.

Amber jabbed again, and to her surprise, Sonia opened her mouth to chomp on it.

*HAAAMMMPH*

The rush of air was a little more than Sonia was expecting, but it wasn't that bad. Air flowed through her mouth into her body, and she did feel it enhancing her curves, but it wasn't hindering her movement. If anything, it helped her feel lighter while growing.

She pushed Amber back with a gentle kick, just enough to make her lose her grip on the vacuum. Sonia laughed at the feeling in her barely inflated foot, as Amber momentarily dented it. She felt heavier than Sonia expected.

Spitting the vacuum out into her hands, it was time to turn the tables. "Sorry Amber, I'm not the airhead you think I am."

"Alright, I'm sorry about the jo-MMMMPH!"

Sonia excitedly jammed the vacuum into Amber and squeezed the trigger. The reaction was immediate. Amber's whole head puffed up as the air rushed in. There was a rubbery creaking noise, followed by her arms poofing into giant immobile balloons.

*FMMMP*FMMMMP*

Sonia held her in place. She was mentally torn between making sure Amber got inflated and staring at Amber's giant body puffing up. She was still puzzled at how Amber was holding up this well, but at least her chest was starting to get bigger. Amber was flailing her inflated arms against Sonia, not doing anything meaningful beyond making bouncy balloon noises, but it kept Sonia stuck with the vacuum. Amber was dancing around, getting bigger from the inflation and somehow generally holding her human shape. Sonia was almost jealous, still getting bigger herself to keep her under control...

*BONK*

Sonia's head hit the ceiling fifty foot. Amber was still probably half her size, and not at all transparent. Maybe Zoe was right that the others had better capacity than she herself did, but this was ridiculous.

Amber grunted through the hose, still fighting to remove the source of her inflation. "I...can't...pop...yet..."

"Uuuh, Amber?"

Both women looked at the tiny red spec on the floor. Scarlett managed to pull herself together during the struggle.

"Babe? How are you so big?"

Amber suddenly looked worried. "Hmm? I'm just focused on winning."

Sonia looked back and forth between her friends.

Scarlett kept talking. "No, you were already pretty tall when Sonia got you. How?"

A light bulb appeared over Sonia's head as it dawned on her. "It makes sense! You should have been tiny for me by now! I didn't know you could change size too!"

Amber was confused. "Then you're saying I'm a gian-"

Her adrenaline rush gone with new revelations, Amber lost control and immediately shrunk back to her normal size...WITH all the air still inside her. Once she shrank to 30 feet, her body was sucked into a spherical shape to hold everything in. By 25, she was turning transparent, and her features were puffed to ridiculous proportions, her body creaking violently, not able to hang on any longer.

*BANG*

Amber exploded into hundreds of yellow scraps of confetti swirling everywhere around the room, propelled by the massive release of pressure. Sonia was closer to the epicenter. Even her giant body was wobbling under the force of the explosion, rocked by the shock waves. Scarlett was sent flying back against the wall from her distant point on the ground too, reducing her to a big flat eight foot poster of herself.

Sonia's body was still rippling from shock waves when she got a clear view of Scarlett on the wall. "Heh...Did it?"

Scarlett grinned. Sonia was taking too long to stop shaking. "Good job! I'll pick you up in a minute."

"Huh?" Sonia just couldn't stop vibrating. She was starting to worry about what Scarlett said. She tried to step forward, but felt much too stiff. In fact, a tingling sensation was coming over her, and she was starting to get that sliced up feeling again...

*CRKSSSSSSSH*

Sonia's body gave in to the shockwaves and simply shattered. Glass shards of Sonia's body fell from the room's ceiling, breaking apart even more upon striking the ground. There was enough Sonia to bury a quarter of the room's couches with her.

Scarlett smiled, dripping from watching Sonia's bode break apart, and melting from watching a classic transformation befall the giant. "At lest I know how to get off the wall now."

*SPLASH*

* * *

Given the situation, rather than the usual TF League race setting to see if Amber as the opponent could restore herself before the others, everyone agreed to let Sonia piece herself back together at her own pace. The weak sound of broken glass shaking around filled the air as Sonia attempted to rearrange herself into her normal form. Over the course of at least a half hour, the colors of her body shifted around into a pile of broken shards that resembled a Sonia mosaic.

"Come on Sonia! You can do it!"

The cheers of her friends kept her going. Once she thought she was in one piece she shrank to her normal size. She felt an arm squeeze at the air. Piles beneath her became rough edged legs.

She heard Scarlett giggle. "Sonia! You look...pixelated, I guess? Very blocky, but kinda whole!"

Sonia turned to Scarlett. "Hey it's a start! And...what are you doing?"

Amber and Scarlett were sitting on the floor, a few cards between them. Scarlett put down a card with a large number 1. "Playing Love Letter. Amber are you the Baron?"

Amber slammed her card on the ground. "How do you do this?!"

Sonia was still processing what she was seeing while Scarlett did a little dance. "What? You're playing a card game now?"

Amber stopped pouting long enough to answer. "Well...you were out of it for over an hour. But you're this far back, so that's progress for you!"

Sonia scratched her head. Amber was right, but...that was a while.

"Don't think you get out of this Amber!"

Sonia's attention was brought back to Amber standing in front of her, smiling and shrugging. And Scarlett right behind her.

*WHAM*

Scarlett brought a large hammer down on Amber's head. Amber's body flared out wide and squished to the floor, ponytail fluttering to the ground next to Scarlett.

Sonia jumped back. "What did you squish her for?!"

Scarlett peeled Amber's six foot pancake off the floor and started folding her up. "She lost Love Letter again. So..." Scarlett took the index card sized folded up Amber, and tucked her into her tank top. "Now she's my love letter!"

Sonia stared at Scarlett patting her chest, trying to look like she wasn't fondling the Amber section of her shirt, then looked at the door. "So...how do we get out of here?"

Scarlett stopped touching Amber, the stunned look of "uh oh" on her face. She held up Amber and looked at the folded up piece of yellow. "We...uh...take Amber's key and..."

Zoe's voice came through the speakers. "Oh for crying out loud Scarlett! I'll open the door for you."

Sonia and Scarlett both smiled for the cameras. "Thaaaaaaaaank yooooooooou!"

* * *

Not wanting to give Zoe time to change her mind, Scarlett and Sonia scampered through the door and down a long, narrow hallway. The other side of the door contained a spacious cavern. A quick look showed they were probably coming out of a room built into the middle of the large space at the center of the facility. They walked out to take the whole area in.

Sonia shook Scarlett's shoulder and pointed straight ahead. "Look! I think I found the end." Her finger pointed to a "FINISH!" banner, held up by two tall poles with balloons floating above them.

"Wait a minute..." Scarlett stepped slowly into the familiar looking room. "This looks too familiar...Wait, is the same place Jess and I put Zoe and Amber when we built this place and she chased them with a steamroller."

*VROOOOOOOOOOM*

Scarlett winced at the roar of the roller's engine. She grabbed Sonia's hand. "Quick! I don't think she's going to go easy on us!"

Sonia, oblivious to the peril, was slow to move. She grabbed Scarlett's arm to question her, without trying to escape. "Wait, steamroller? Are you serious?"

*SQUIIIIIIIIIIIIIISH*

Both ladies were caught by the heavy machine and flattened wide on the ground. Sonia's leg mass briefly squished into her butt as they flattened into wide rectangles. Scarlett smiled seeing Sonia's body get stretched under the roller and squished nice and wide, making a nice large sheet out of the model.

Then it was her turn. She did not fight it, squeezing herself as she was flattened just as wide as her friend. She felt her body stretch and splatter, forcing a growing bulge of mass up her body, only serving to make her bigger, wider and longer, until she was a big blue, orange, and red sheet on the ground.

Jess stopped the roller and looked over her shoulder at her results. "Had enough ladies?"

Scarlett's sheet moaned before attempting to form a sentence. "Ooooooh you good thing driving at." Her body shook before rolling itself up towards Sonia, a making a SHLURP sound as she smooshed her body back together to mold it back into shape. A roll of her pale skin tone twisted itself together, and red drops splashed out as she somehow forced her body into its normal shape.

Jess gave her a slow clap. "Not bad! Guess I'll have to squish you again!"

"Meep!"

Scarlett fled over Sonia, and she wasn't gentle. Each step made a soft squish noise, and left an imprint in Sonia's flattened body. Sonia let out soft moans with each footfall, strangely enamored with her backside being further squished and molded. Scarlett tried her best to ignore Sonia and force the pleasant thoughts of doing this to Amber out of her mind.

Naturally, Jess followed. Even if she was chasing Scarlett, she made sure she smooshed Sonia again along the way.

*SQUIIIIIIIIIIISH*
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-URG"

Sonia was stretched longer and squished her even flatter, smoothing the footsteps out of her back. Her Converse and bits of her hair no longer had smooth edges on the ground, her body getting slightly goopy from the hot steamroller's pressure.

Sonia was still dazed. "Oooof....I...wow..."

Scarlett, figuring she had enough distance, spun around and got to the side of the steamroller. It was too close for Jessica's turning radius, allowing her to run past the machine...

...and over Sonia again.
*SQUISH*SQUISH*SQUISH*SQUISH*SQUISH*

Sonia's muffled voice came from the sheet. "Mmmmm....what is that wonderful feeling?!"

Scarlett smacked her forehead. "Wow, is this what I'm like? Come on Sonia, get up! You can do it!"

Sonia wasn't sure she could until she heard Pepper's voice encourage her through the loudspeakers. "COME ON SWEETIE! If you like this one, I just realized I never showed you my collection!"

Sonia wasn't sure why the thought of Pepper flattening her into a sheet in yet another way was enough to get her moving, but she felt a surge of energy. In that moment, it felt like she could recover from any transformation her friends could come up with. She was going to get up and finish this course! She gathered her energy, pushed down, and focused on her normal shape...

*BOING!*

To Sonia's credit, popping even just the 4 limbs she did was her fastest restoration to date. Unfortunately, the way only they pushed straight down, while the rest of her body was still a big flat sheet, left a lot to be desired. Her appearance was like a giant tent pavilion, a cloth top to four fleshy posts with a few inches flopping over the ends.

Scarlett saw this over her shoulder. "Well, I guess that's progress? At least Jess can't squish you again."

"Oh, couldn't I? I'm going to let her work on her situation a little more though. You, however, are as good as a red splat!"

Jess was focused on Scarlett, and tried to drive "under" Sonia. What nobody counted on was Sonia's own strength giving out on her. As Jess drove under, Sonia's lost the strength to hold herself up, making her flop towards the floor.

Directly onto Jess and her roller.

"I've got you now Scarlett! Just a little more and...Wait what? I can't see!"

Sonia was partially caught and stretching by the roller, but most of her stayed stuck wrapping up Jessica and the rest. With no way to steer, and with Sonia's goopy body smearing and sliding around the drum, Jessica's steamroller turned wildly, directly into a wall.

*CRASH*
*KABOOOOOOOOM*

Sonia's already weakened body lost all solidity from the explosion's shock wave. Her sheet body was forced up, breaking apart into thousands of drops. She felt the euphoria of splattering all around as globs of goopy girl, feeling everything around the bits of her body flying apart.

Scarlett held her arm up to guard against the spray of black and sky blue Sonia, getting covered in quite a bit of her friend. When the explosion cleared, all that remained before her was the charred body of Jessica hovering in the air where the driver's seat would have been. Her skin was covered in scorch marks, her purple hair frayed on the ends. The only bright colors on her body were her white eyeballs and purple irises, blinking.

"Why...do I keep...exploding?" Jessica asked in dismay. She looked down when she felt a cool draft creeping up her legs, watching her body fall apart like sand draining through fingers. Bits of her green and blue sand bounced around, piling up with her brown and purple head, until her whole body crumbled except for her eyes. They fell last, rolling to separate sides, blinking.

Scarlett raised a fist. "Yeah! Good work Sonia! But can you really recover from that? And what happened to the steamroller?"

On cue, the drum cylinder crashed down on Scarlett.

*SQUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISH*

Scarlett's body instantly vanished under the heavy metal machinery. It clattered to the side, revealing a 10 foot wide pancake of Scarlett embedded in the ground. Her breast were huge saucers covering the bottom of her face, and the outer ring was clearly her enlarged wide hips trying to flow out of her pants.

Scarlett's eyes were spinning in the pancake. "Oooooff...I need syrup..."

* * *

Sonia finally got over the intense feeling of being blown apart. Her vision was a blur of her own colors, a smattering of blue and black and peach and brown. It slowly dawned on her that she had no idea where any of her actually was. She couldn't really move anything...except she could feel everything.

Whatever was going on, she knew she needed to pull herself together.

Sonia felt two drops come together.

Then another two...but they were somewhere else. Far away somewhere else.

Whatever happened to her, she felt too far apart. And if earlier was any indication, there was one easy way to get pieces of herself closer together...

* * *

Zoe held up a bag. "Hey! I'm back with lunch!"

Jess looked up at Zoe. "Already? Is Sonia really taking so long that you got lunch and made it back?"

Pepper shrugged. "Hey, she's gotta learn sometime."

Everyone laughed.

Scarlett tried to wave at everyone to calm down so she could defend her. "Hey, she wasn't too bad as a team mate. She did think to throw me across the room that time and...why is everything glowing?"

They watched the thin film of Sonia coating everything grow into a layer of dripping goo. It kept growing until it was dripping off the walls, coating the ground up to their ankles.

Zoe started taking big steps, Sonia dripping off her every time she trudged through more of the gooey giant. "Uuuuuh, Sonia? If you can hear us, this is a good time to stop growing! Just pull yourself together! Pepper, can't you do...oh."

The fashion designer was happily shrinking into the waves of Sonia. "I'll give her a heart to heart and help her blblblblblblb" She said, before the puddle of cream and blue spread and sank into the pool.

The pool stopped growing, but started gurgling.

"Uh, ladies?" Everyone looked to Zoe. "Maybe we should give them some alone time."

Amber followed along with everyone else. "Okay. But I want to talk with her before she leaves."

"Yeah" Scarlett felt herself blushing. "If she can get you more control over that...oh my I need to leave before I join them."

Zoe took the food, and they all retreated to a back room to eat, while the puddle of Sonia and Pepper had a little fun.