Scarlett approached the impressive manor where Allison "Ally" Ables and her friends lived. She adjusted her clothes, still nervous about her opportunity to show off her technical skills in the inventor's lab. She stood at the door, wondering if she should knock or ring the bell.

*SLAM*

Her decision was made for her when the door fell on her. Scarlett felt her body collapse under the weight of the surprisingly heavy door, spreading and smearing on the steps under the pleasant pressure. Her squished hands, hair, and wide pancaked boobs were visible around the edges.

On top of the door was a similarly flattened blond with her back to the door, wearing a blue blouse and white skirt. Her eyes were spirals, and her arms were raised in a shocked position.

"I TOLD YOU TO STOP THAT RACKET PHOEBE! How do you survive with that?! UGH!"

Scarlett recognized the voice of the ever irritated green haired beauty named Cassie. She should have stayed further away from the door. She might be stuck here a while, unless...

"Cassie! Phoebe's allowed to have some fun!" Scarlett smiled, recognizing Ally's voice. She could feel and hear Phoebe getting peeled off the door. "Now I need to fix the door and...Scarlett? Is that you??"

Scarlett's muffled voice came through the door sounding dazed from the door's impact. "Hi Ally...excited to...work...oof!... together. Do you have any spatulas?"
 
Ally frowned. "Well this isn't a proper welcome at all!" She shook out Phoebe with an audible pop, then tossed the heavy door to the side with ease. Scarlett was an inch thick double wide sticker on the ground under the door, tongue goofily suck to her face.

Ally took out a small pistol, one of her restoration beams, and zapped Scarlett. She shook and *POP* was restored, standing next to Ally. Satisfied her guest was in a normal shape, she immediately turned to yell into the house.

"Cassie!!! How many times have I asked you not to use Phoebe to flatten our guests?"

Cassie sneered "Well I wouldn't if Phoebe wasn't so annoying! I've told her before, don't bring Jupiter flowers into the house because....becau-A-CHOOOO!!!"

Cassie forcefully sneezed into her elbow. It was so strong, her head *FWOOMP*ed to five times its normal size. She quickly shook her head, making it comically deflate to normal size.

"AAAARG this sneezing is so aggravating! How was I supposed to know your weird friend was stand-HURK!"

*SQUIIIIISH*

Scarlett was surprised how fast Ally was able to produce her trademark hammer and crush Cassie to the floor like a cheap tin can. One moment the green haired woman was confidently strutting around, the next she was a widening zip zaggy crumpling mess about to be a disk on the rug.

Ally put her hammer back in her pocket and turned back to Scarlett. "Sorry about that. Cassie is...well, Cassie."

Scarlett smiled and adjusted her hair, slightly embarrassed. "Uh, thanks? But you didn't need to squish her for me."

"Oh, she would squish Cassie anyway." Ally's other flat mate Phoebe put a consoling hand on Scarlett's shoulder. "I still don't know what she has against cat videos."

Scarlett turned, and actually saw Phoebe for the first time since arriving. She opened her arms for a hug. "Oh, hi Phoebe!"

"Scarlett!" Phoebe returned the hug. Both ladies briefly squeezed each other hard enough to force the air out of their chests into the rest of their bodies.

"Alright you two. I'm going to show Scarlett around the lab. Phoebe, try not to force Cassie to watch too many videos."

"Okay. See you later Scarlett!" Phoebe trotted over to Cassie's disked body, picked her up, and ran further into the house.

Scarlett watched Phoebe run into the house, her skirt bouncing with every step she took. "What's she going to do with her?"

"Probably set her up in the couch to watch TV, forget she's there, and fall asleep on her. But Cassie deserves it. Come on, let's go downstairs and have some fun."

* * *

Ally led Scarlett into the basement laboratory. Scarlett looked around wide eyed like a kid in a candy store while Ally gave the quick tour.

"Those are the paper rollers, stay out of those unless you want to be a ribbon. That's the cube compactor. I built it and I still have questions about it. Oh, and watch out for that ring on the floor. Your writer is always looking for an excuse to melt someone in that tube or use these flamethrowers." She kicked the metal panels in the floor where the fiery devices lived with a satisfying *CLANG*.

Scarlett grinned and walked directly into the circle behind Ally. "Wait, this is a melting thing?"

"Yeah, it-" Ally double taked, seeing Scarlett standing in the trap. "Oh no, I didn't sign up for this today!" She yanked Scarlett off the spot to continue the tour.

Scarlett looked back longingly. "Okay, but can I try it later? And what do you mean my writer?"

"It's a long story. Actually, THIS is a long story. Aaaanyway," Ally pushed Scarlett in front of her around a corner. "This is what I wanted you to help out with."

Scarlett stumbled after Ally shoved her. "But you always say these weird things like we're characters in some...SQUEEEEEEEE!!!"

Scarlett cheered and jumped in the air at the amazing sight in front of her, before melting out of the air into a puddle instantly like the fan girl she was.
Parked before them was an impressive steamroller. Its raw dimensions were something to behold. The seat was easily 10 feet high atop the bright red body. The roller's drum had a custom design on its shiny steel surface too, black lettering spelling "SQUISH HERE" with an arrow pointing down at a silhouette of Ally.

Ally looked at her enthusiastic puddled friend with a sweat drop hanging over her head. "Are...you okay?"

Scarlett instantly popped back into shape. "Is that a Fantastic Flats STEAM-4000i Roller with the 18,000 pound drum made from pure steel and a V10 engine?!"

"Yup!" Ally smiled and walked over to pat the side of the machine, making a satisfying metal THUNK noise. "WITH the custom finish."

Scarlett zipped around the machine admiring it, before stopping on the side near Ally. She pointed at a classic yellow painted spot that looked familiar.

"It's beautiful! But why does this spot look like a flat you?"

"Oh, my Boo and I painted it red on one of our early month anniversaries together. I distracted him while he was rolling paint on it and let him squish me. I matched the paint so it took a while for him to find me! Of course we had to do the other side afterwords too."

"Aaawwww!"

"Yeah I know. It's due for maintenance though. Some basic things like an oil change, but I think we could give it a speed boost too. I know how to do it, but I need a second pair of hands. That's why you're here."

Scarlett reached into her belt and tied on her banana. "Alright boss. Let's get to work."

* * *

*CRANK*

Ally turned her wrench one last time, securing one last adjustment under the roller. "And that's...it!"

Scarlett paused waxing to raise her fist in celebration. "Woooo!"

Ally slid out from under machine, looking it over. Scarlett did a great job polishing it after they finished the heavy lifting on the engine. There was just one thing left to do.

"Hey Scarlett, you want to give it a spin?"

The room was silent enough to hear the cloth thud on the floor next to Scarlett.

"Are you serious? Don't you want to give it a try first?"

Ally tilted her head and smiled. "I am positive Cassie will give me an excuse to squish her soon."

"Well, if you insist!" Scarlett scrambled up the side of the roller like a child rushing to open a present. Ally smirked, noticing Scarlett didn't need to ask where the controls were before starting the engine.

Just one more step in the plan. She inspected the drum. It was absolutely flawless. She wasn't sure it shined like this since she bought it. It really made the "Squish Here!" markings pop.

That just made her trick a little harder to pull off.

Ally waited to hear Scarlett stop shuffling to shout. "Hey Scarlett! Did you see this chip down here?"

"What?! No! I was extra careful on that! I didn't see anything!"

Ally responded, still calm to not scare off Scarlett. "Maybe we both missed it then. You want to come take a quick look at it?"

"Sure!"

Scarlett hopped down from the driver's seat, her leg clipping the controls as she did. She slid down the side next to Ally, looking at the roller where Ally was pointing. "I don't see anything here. Where did you see it."

Ally smiled. "You don't see it? There's a big red spot all over it."

"Huh?"

The roller lurched forward.

"I mean you did jump down so fast you clipped starting lever."

Scarlett cringed, realizing her mistake. "Meep!"

Scarlett tried to flee, but Ally grabbed the back of her shirt to hold her in place. "Oh come on, you know you're going to enjoy this as much as I am."

Scarlett felt cold steel press against her back, and stopped struggling. "Yeeeeah you're right."

Both fell to the floor as several tons of steel flattened their legs to the concrete. Before either could yelp, their legs were spread half the width of the roller into each other's under the intense pressure.

*SQUIIIIIIIIIIISH*
"OOOOOOOOOOO!" cooed Scarlett.
"WHEEEEEEEEE!" shouted Ally.

The crushing weight creeped up their backs, every inch of their bodies searching for any direction to spread in, forcing their bodies to cover half of the roller and be literally attached at the hip.

As the weight forced mass up to their chests while continuing to stretch and squish them, Ally looked over to Scarlett.
"Is this fun or what?"

Scarlett was losing her solid body, lost in the thrill of not only getting flattened, but by such a quality roller.
"Bluaaarara yeeeeeeeeeeah..."

Ally giggled at Scarlett's enthusiasm. "Pffft hold yourself together gir-MMMF"

With that, the roller completely flattened them. By the time it finished rolling over, it was covered completely in their legs from side to side. It kept rolling, showing Ally's flat form had clearly defined edges and features, but Scarlett's became more and more smeared around the waist from when she started melting.

The roller made it another 20 feet and two revolutions down the lab's passages before halting. The loud metal SCREEEEECH of brakes echoed through the room, leaving Ally's face and Scarlett's collection of colors facing forward.

Ally was positively beaming. "It worked! I need to give it a real test later, but the automatic stop feature worked perfectly! Thanks again for helping me test it Scarlett!"

The mess of bright red and pale pink wobbled, and Scarlett's dizzy goofy voice came out. "Weeeelcoooome..."

"Heh! Okay, now..." Ally's ribbon body wobbled.

"UUUUURG come on arm." She wobbled more.

"Huh...note to self, turn on the auto restoration beams BEFORE testing new squishing devices."

Her eyes moved in Scarlett's direction again. "Hey, can you move?"

Still lost in her transformation, Scarlett only said "I don't wanna go to school today..." before oozing off the roller, pooling in a puddle on the floor.

*PLOP*
* * *

Eventually, Ally did peel her arm free with a loud *SHLLLLRRRRRRRRP*. She used it to peel the rest of her head off, then pull her legs out from under the roller. They creaked and stretched, but Ally got them out without tearing herself in half. After that she found a restoration beam for Scarlett, who was still an unrecognizable blob of red and ice blue.

Both ladies restored, they walked back to the stairs back to the main level of the mansion, until a strange machine caught Scarlett's eye. She stopped and pointed at the large entry bay. Within they saw pistons and rollers coming apart and slamming together in oddly rhythmic patterns.

Scarlett walked up to the opening, the look in her eyes saying she needed to experience this. "What's in there?"

Ally grinned. "Oh, that? You don't want to go in there. That's where I process materials to get rolls of cloth and sheets of metal. I also use it on myself every now and then when I want a fun massage, but I should probably check upstairs to see if Cassie threw Phoebe in the garbage disposal or something. Phoebe really jams it up when she can't pull herself together."

Scarlett cracked her neck, still shaking off her enjoyable steamrolling from earlier. Her eyes remained locked on the pistons.

"I can't stop looking at the rhythm of the crushers. It almost looks like it's supposed to be avoidable..."

Ally cocked an eyebrow at her. "Are you sure you haven't been in one too many of your crazy league events? You see something and it's automatically a weird obstacle for you to run through?"

Scarlett shrugged, slightly embarrassed. "That, and if it is, I want to watch Amber get squished in it."

Ally chuckled. "Well don't feel bad, because it is. I've put Phoebe through it a few times, and never been disappointed by her, uh, blue ribbon performance. That girl is way too eager to help me test things, but it helps me work the kinks out. I think it's all ready for my Boo to get a me-blanket now."

Scarlett went from embarrassed to excited. "I knew it! Mind if I give it a try?"

Ally extended her arms to the side in a flourish. "Of course! I'll never turn down watching another test subject get splattered."

Scarlett spent a few seconds to windmill her arms and stretch while studying her impromptu short course. It looked simple enough. A few conveyor belts, smashers coming in from the sides and above, a weird set of rollers in there too. She thought it was a strange thing to have in a lab. Then again, her day job was getting pulverized by these machines, so she wasn't in a position to judge.

"Alright, here goes! You have a stopwatch or something?"

"Are you kidding me?! This place is calibrated to record just about everything. Boo would want to watch me in there anyway, so it was a required feature. So," Ally walked to the machine pushed a button on its side, "you can show this to Amber later if you want."

All of Scarlett's study came to an end in that instant, and she sprinted into the machine.

She slammed her feet down to skid to a stop in front of the first horizontal smashers. She tumbled past with the conveyor's speed through the small opening the moment they came apart. The next crusher came down from the ceiling attached to a single piston. Scarlett had it timed so she ran across the top of it, giving her just enough time to try and dive through the closing rollers up ahead.

She was pinched a little, but managed to slip through with most of her depth. Her body stretched a little, twisting and oozing through with a *GLOOMP* while staying solid and three dimensional. Only her butt got a visibly squished outside of her being taller.

She heard Ally voicing mock concern from outside. "Watch out in there! That one almost had you!"

Scarlett looked for a camera and stuck her tongue out at it, knowing Ally was watching. "You worry about the machines, I'll worry about the traps!" She knew she still had a moment between traps, so she stuck her thumb in her mouth and popped back to her normal shape.

"Better be quick then. It was still on easy mode!"

*CRAAAAAANK*

Scarlett heard Ally do something, heard the classic *WHRRRRRR* of machines powering up, then lost her balance as the conveyors sped up underneath her. "Uh oh..."

*WHAM*

The ceiling came down, leaving a huge square shaped stamp of Scarlett on the floor, her body spread in all directions.

"Grrrrrr..."

Scarlett, still moving slowly on the conveyor, rumbled and popped back up to her normal shape. "Alright, time to get seri-OOF"

*SLAM*

The walls closed on Scarlett. When they pulled apart, a square sheet hung in the air instead of a cute red head. It had a gradient from pale pink to blue to deep red, vaguely resembling a very smeared Scarlett. She collapsed loosely to the floor with a groan.

"Ooooooh...."

"Sweet!" Ally's voice echoed from the speakers. "I wasn't sure you would stay solid enough to squish like that after reading stories about you melting all the time."

Small bumps bulged on the sheet, like someone inside was fighting their way out. The blanket of Scarlett used the momentum to stand up, until on the fifth punch, the sheet resolved into Scarlett's normal shape. "There you go not making sense again!"

"What? The TF League is in the news. I read things!"

Scarlett almost argued the point, before realizing Ally was probably right. "Whatever. I just need to get through this..." Scarlett grunted and cracked her neck, looking at the crushers ahead of her. She backpedaled on the conveyor, double checking her timing, then ran.

The ceiling was coming down on her a little sooner than she anticipated, so Scarlett went into a slide.

*SLAM*

Scarlett was still quite three dimensional on the other side. "Made it! Now to finish thi-OW! Hey, what gives?"

Looking back, the end of her hair was caught under the crusher. It wasn't releasing its catch.

"Hey, what gives! HRRRRN" Scarlett pulled on her hair and kicked with her legs, looking for anything she could use for leverage.

The only thing solid was the walls closing around them.

*SQUISH!*

"Ack!" Scarlett's legs were squished from the knees down, making it harder for her to get up.

Both walls retracted, releasing Scarlett to roll on the conveyor belt. Unfortunately, the crushers were above conveyor segments moving together in opposite directions, forcing Scarlett into the gap between them.

"Okay, time to get up and...Aieeeeee what is that?!"

Ally grinned outside the machine. Scarlett would probably enjoy it. "Oooo, you might be in there for a while!"

Scarlett struggled to get up, but felt her butt getting drawn into the rollers. "Oooooh I should have left you flat!"

*SHQUIIIIIIIIISH*

The way Scarlett was getting pulled in, her body was forced into itself as much as it was pulled down. Waist and thigh jammed together, while her stomach and knees rippled and folded into each other above. She tried to push herself out with her arms, but they got caught in the rest of her body as it rapidly lost cohesion.

"Ooooooh this does feel kinda good!"

Then her boobs made it over the gap. They absorbed a little of the mass beneath them, and jammed the rollers as they tried to pull them through.

"Aaaah!"

The conveyors backed up and forcefully came together, trying to unjam themselves. Again and again, they tried, causing all of Scarlett to wiggle and jiggle. All of this was too intense for Scarlett, and on the fourth try, Scarlett's body gave up its solid form.

*SPLOOOOOOOOOSH*

Bursting like a water balloon, Scarlett goop went everywhere on the conveyor belt. A mix of blue and pale skin and red were everywhere, covering the conveyor. The belts didn't stop, and as they spun around and around, they were covered completely in splattered Scarlett.

"Oooooooooooooooooh yeeeeeah...."

"Bwahahaha! Awesome!" Ally was cackling outside. "I wonder what Boo would think if he saw this happen to me, and I was came out for restoration like that and...wait, how is she going to get out?"

Scarlett's dizzy voice ran through the machine, clearly not concerned about her predicament. "WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!"

Ally watched the conveyors and gears get coated in more and more blue and red Scarlett goop. Then she heard the motors strain, and a *BANG* and saw smoke above the machine. Scarlett was such a mess in there that she was actually clogging the machine.

"Oooooh that's bad." Ally looked at the entrance to her own death trap, and looked to the machine's failing internals.

"Uuuugh, I should have seen this coming. Anyone else walks in this lab and things explode on me. I guess it is Tuesday."

She grabbed a restoration beam, and ran in.

"Ugh, need to hurry up and restore her, then fix that. Now, how did this go again?"

*WHAM*
*SQUISH*

The side walls immediately squished Ally paper thin, catching a surprised face on her profile view. She stayed upright on the conveyor for a few seconds before falling over like the cardboard cutout she was.

"Ooof...wasn't ready for that one yet. Gotta pop back to normal now before-"

*SLAM*
*SQUIIIISH*

The ceiling crusher came down. Ally wasn't sure how, but it felt like it actually twisted to grind her into the floor even thinner. When it retracted, Ally was still looking sideways, but her profile was significantly more rectangular than curvy, smooshed out to a satisfying 5x10 foot sticker. Her features were still painted on the top, but her everything was stretched out to fill the space under the crushing weight.

"Whaaaaow...okay that stung a little. I need to...get...up..."

Ally's floppy form started wobbling as she fought for a third dimension. She wasn't doing great given the force of her 2 recent squishings. She was starting to punch her way up like Scarlett did, but only succeeded in having her two side ends roll towards the center, like mishandled wrapping paper.

Ally wasn't exactly happy. "Oh great. Scarlett's about to blow up my machine and I'm a pair of cardboard tubes. Now what?"

Then she felt the rollers come together in front of her.

"Aaaaah....right, the rollers. Why do I always question my fate in these stories?"

*SQUOOOOOOOOOSH*

Ally's features splurtted and stretched to the sides of the rollers as her tubes squished through the small opening. Her body was taking enough of a beating that her features blurred and mixed into the rest of her, leaving as a long narrow pink ribbon coming out the other side.

As much as Ally enjoyed the massage, she didn't really want to blow up the mansion again this week. "Arg...okay, really Allison, get yourself together. HRRRRRRN"

The ribbon curled together, merging with itself into a bumpy pink blob, until *POP* Ally forced herself back to a relatively normal state. Her limbs were all droopy after using so much energy to snap back to normal from being so flat, feeling heavy at her sides.

"Okay...just need to stay solid-WHOA!"

The next crusher came down directly in front of Ally, barely missing her.

"Think three dimensionally, think three dimensionally..."

Ally managed to slip past that crusher and the next, and get out the restoration beam while not slipping on Scarlett herself. By at this point, she was smeared into a sticky red-violet paste on the floor.

*ZAP*

The Scarlett goop peeled itself off both conveyors, flying into a blob of Scarlett's colors in the air in front of her. The color started rearranging into Scarlett's vague shape. A surprisingly large amount of red and blue slime seeped through cracks and screw holes in the walls, globbing onto her reassembling body.

*THUD*

"Ooof...thanks Ally...Hey, when we get out of this, can we do that again?"

Ally put a hand on her shoulder. "Maybe later. I need to figure out what you managed to break in here first.

They both laughed, neither one paying much attention to the last few obstacles. Both had their heads forced into their body by the last ceiling crusher, crumpling their legs to the floor before splattering the rest of their bodies above into a pair of red smears on the belts.

* * *

Eventually, two long ribbons, one pink and one red-violet, emerged from the machine. A minute later, they rolled up into large gooey blobs that grew into the air and reformed into Ally and Scarlett.

Ally stood up first and stretched. "Woooo! That was a ride."

Scarlett collapsed to the ground smiling, too lost in how enjoyable her whole lab visit was to this point. "I wanna go again! Are you sure you've never tried making machines like that professionally?"

Ally jerked her shoulder with a *POP* like something moved back into place, and sprinted to the stairs. "Scarlett, that's nice, I really do have to get back upstairs. Cassie was mad and it's only so long before she does something to Phoebe."

Scarlett finally stood up. "Alright, alright. I'll be right behind you in a second." She followed to the stairs, stopping by a light blue piece of crumpled up paper on the floor. "Just going to throw this out first. Did we have anything in a pastel blue wrapper to clean up?"

Ally froze. "Wait, is there some yellow mixed in?"

"Yeah, whatever this is has some yellow and cream too. It's kinda sticky. I'm tossing it."

"Wait, Scarlett no! That might be Phoebe!"

Scarlett closed the trash lid behind the Phoebe paper, frozen in place. "That...uuuh...oops?"

Ally ran over to the machine Scarlett thought was a trash bin. She pushed some buttons and looked inside the lid. "Uh oh...she's already getting processed."

Color drained from Scarlett's face. "Did I just incinerate her?"

Ally shook her head while furiously typing. "No, if we just incinerated her this would be easy. She's stuck in the candy cooking machine now."

Scarlett looked around for some way to help. She started looking in the gaps between pipes and shafts, looking for a way to fish out their friend. "There's gotta be some way in."

"Probably not, but there might be something near the general purpose power mixer. Too much stuff that's supposed to be in there gets jammed inside so there's a chance we can fish her out."

Ally turned to charge past Scarlett, at the same time Scarlett was backing away from the machine she was staring into. Ally bumped into her hip, sending Scarlett tumbling into the depths of machinery.

"WHAAAAAAAAaaaaa!"

Ally slowed and smacked her forehead. "Scarl-...damnit now I have mochi AND cotton candy coming."

* * *

Phoebe, still crumpled up, tumbled through Ally's seemingly infinite machines down to a conveyor belt. She was still dizzy from her initial squishing, fighting to get back into shape in the dim machine lighting.

*Come on body! Come on body!*

Eventually Phoebe's conveyors dropped her onto a grated surface. She was assaulted by ambient humidity in the dark, making her feel sticky like a hot summer day. Fortunately, that expanded her body and gave her some flexibility. The crumpled piece of white and blue paper grew and uncurled into a very wrinkled Phoebe, before *POP* returning to her normal shape.

"Whew. I didn't think Cassie would be that angry when I switched the videos from cute kittens to otters. Now where am I?!"

Phoebe looked around. There wasn't a lot of space to move around inside whatever machine this was. She knew some of Ally's machines could be fun, and were never *too* bad, but she wanted to stay normal today. But then why did she stop?

"That's strange, Ally usually keeps people moving through these machines. I guess she put in a secret door or something?"

She looked around. "No way up, the walls look solid. I am standing on a grate though. I wonder what she put below this thing...oh no! I don't want to be Phoebe fries!"

Phoebe looked up at the ceiling and raised her arms defensively, waiting for it to come down on her and squish her through the grate, but it did not move.

"Huh...but then what's down there? It's getting hot in here. And really steamy, and not like the fun romance story way."

She stared down in the dim light through the grate. She could see something moving. "Is that another conveyor? But how to I get there? Maybe if I get my phone out?"

Phoebe reached into her pocket with a *SQUOOSH* and felt her arm scrunch up against her waist.

"Squoosh? My arm isn't supposed to make that sound outside of Hot Yoga classes."

Phoebe held her arm up to her face. It was a gooey scrunched up mess down to her forearm. She poked it with her other hand, and watched her finger stick at first, before snapping back with a strand of her skin hanging in the air.

"Uh oh. I didn't want to get goopy in the sauna today Ally!!!"

Despite Phoebe's wishes, she was in for her just desserts.

Phoebe's body started sinking as her body succumbed to the mochi machine's steaming process. Her skirt extended as it melted, hiding the melting pillars that were her legs from view until they all merged into a huge drippy pile beneath her. Phoebe's blouse and midriff melted over the top of it, coating her gooey skirt with a gooey tummy. Phoebe's head dripped into the expanding mass of her melting chest, which was getting hot enough to bubble as it melted on top of the rest of her body.

Phoebe was completely reduced to a bubbling melted mess on the grate.

"Bluuuuugggh...usually Ally warns me when she needs to untwist me like this. But I guess it feels nice? Cassie did crumple up my neck too much, it probably needed this? But that still doesn't explain where I'm going..."

*PLOP*

"Oh..."

Phoebe's body was finally melted enough to drop through the grate. At first goopy strands of her skin sagged through the grate, then she started dripping down in large globs. By the time Phoebe noticed and started resisting it, she was a veritable cascade of white and blue and blond pouring into a pool of Phoebe goo beneath.

Her puddled boiling body bubbled beneath the grate.

"Bleeeeeeh...Hopefully that's as bad as it gets here?"

The sound of large wooden objects echoed from down the belt.

*WHAM*
*WHAM*
*WHAM*

"Meep!"

*SQUOOOOOOOOSH*

Phoebe went from a relatively color consistent blob of herself to a splattered mess under the weight of the wooden mallets. Blond and blue splashed everywhere along the production line.

*SPLOOOOOOSH*

Thick bands of Phoebe's skin and blouse clung to the mallet as it pulled back, her pleading eyes visible on it, watching more of her body splatter around. She snapped back, compressing her rapidly mixing body and sending waves of herself in all directions.

*SPLAAAAAAAASH*

More and more mallets came crashing down, stretching and folding Phoebe goop for several minutes until she was nothing more than a light blue blob with spinning eyes drawn on. Still more hammers struck her, kneading the gooey blob of Phoebe as it solidified, until Phoebe lost track of the sensations running through her.

And then it stopped.

Phoebe's groggy eyes eventually stopped spinning. "Ally...likes...weird...things...needs less...hammers..."

The Phoebe blob wiggled and shook, but she had no hope of restoring herself soon.

"I've gotta get back to normal before..."

*SNIP*SNIP*SNIP*SNIP*SNIP*

Phoebe's pile of goo somehow got pale at the sound of scissors ahead. "Uh oooooohs..."

She felt her body get scrunched into an opening. Her body folded onto itself, scrambling the melted bits of herself yet again as she filtered through.

*SNIP*
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!"

Phoebe felt parts of herself separate, and fall into a soft powdery substance. It wasn't the first time Cassie led to her getting sliced to bits this week. Unfortunately, unlike her red haired friends, Phoebe wasn't the biggest fan of getting split up.

* * *