Another day, another race. Amber and Scarlett had a respectable finish, and were off to the bar with some of the other teams for a well deserved meal. Scarlett jogged to the door to get inside, but had to wait for a pouting Amber to catch up.
"Did it have to be at the Bucket Seat though?"
The Bucket Seat was one of the newest and "hottest" wing joint in town. It had unique chairs that it's clientele could opt to use, and the ladies of the Transformation League always did. Each seat had a bucket underneath with holes to drain into, as was standard in toony wing joints for insurance reasons. Their special model came with a weight sensor. If it detects a significant weight change long enough, allowing for everyone's occasional celebratory jumps, it snaps up. That usually results in splattering whatever was left of whoever had a meltdown, or putting the squeeze on the occasional airhead.
It wasn't that Amber hated melting down. It was her low tolerance for spice.
"Oh come on Amber. It'll be fun! Just stick to the sweet sauces."
Amber rolled her eyes. "Yeah, because I always escape melting that way."
Scarlett blinked, unleashing her secret weapon of puppy dog eyes. "Aaaaw but I love these contests!"
Amber embraced her lover and best friend. "Oh I'll do it. But only because you love it so much."
Scarlett squeezed Amber back hard enough to squeeze the mass from the middle of her body to her head and hips. "Aw! You're the best babe!"
The response barely eeked through Amber's inflated head. "Don't...mention it!"
* * *
Counting the Dust Bunnies, four teams showed up. Kara and Bella from the Sparkling Icicles, Sophie and Tracy from the Booming Bloomers, and Yuki and Lily of the Ratpack. They spoke about the course that day while waiting for their wings, mostly complimenting Sophie and Tracy for somehow packing that many explosives and flamethrowers without destroying the course.
Yuki was especially excited about one room. "Oh and that room with the trapped floor! Kara you need to see this gif of you exploding that everyone's sharing."
She turned her phone around, showing a ten second loop of her charred body flying away from an explosion, everything below her waist engulfed in flames, splatting into a huge poster of her backside at three times her normal dimensions. Her inch thick saucered boobs and butt were visible around her edges against the wall, and her whole body was covered in soot. A few seconds later, she crumbled to dust, starting at her feet creeping up through her head, leaving two pleading blue eyes to plummet off screen afterwards.
Everyone laughed, mostly because something similar happened to all of them. Still, Kara rubbed her temples with both hands before calmly reaching across the table and turning the phone down to the table. "Come on now, we don't need to stare at my ability to become a fine powder."
Tracy held up her own phone with social trends. "Yeah, that's because the whole internet already is. The only thing above # KaraDust is # MeltyScarlett."
Scarlett started blushing and was about to respond when Amber brought up the next trend. "But # TracyTroubles is next."
Two phones dueled for attention at the table. One showing Amber running into a very hot room and sliding across the floor melting like butter on a skillet. The camera focused on Scarlett watching this from the doorway, blushing beet red watching it, and melting down herself with hearts in her eyes.
The other phone showed four images of a Tracy as a brown and red pancake, each bigger and showing wider flatter curves than the last. The last shot of her backside even had a little bit blurred out.
There were more laughs, though Yuki pounded the table the hardest, laughing too hard to control herself. "Oh Scarlett! Is there anything you won't melt at?"
Scarlett gave her cutest fake pout. "Heeeeeey. I don't melt from everything."
Now everyone laughed more. Kara's voice cut through. "Yeah, only mostly everything."
Scarlett was saved by their blond waitress with red hair ribbons showing up. "Okay, wings for everyone! Jalapeño, Habañero, hot hot Buffalo, Carolina Reapers, and..." She squinted at the last two labels. "Teriyaki, and sweet Honey BBQ."
Amber grabbed the honey BBQ wings. "That's me!"
Scarlett blinked, recognizing their waitress. "Hi Phoebe!"
The blond smiled and waved back. "Hey Scarlett!"
"Did they make mine extra hot?"
Phoebe winked and pointed a finger back at Scarlett. "They said it was just the way you like it!"
Amber scratched her head. "Hi...wait, didn't you work at the hotel?"
Phoebe shouted back while walking away. "Only some weekends!"
They shrugged. Bella quietly took the Teriyaki wings during the exchange. Everyone else looked over their own hot wings, and started digging in.
* * *
Yuki finished off one of her habañero wings. She was staring at Scarlett, who was somehow looking very solid after eating one of the Carolina wings. "Okay, but really Scarlett, how many of those can you eat?"
Scarlett's grin covered her whole face as her eyes narrowed. "Oh, are we doing this?"
"Oh no, not again." Amber groaned in exasperation. "Guess I better eat my real food fast." She started devouring her honey BBQ wings as fast as she could.
Yuki looked around the table. "Everyone's had one by now, right?"
There were murmurs of agreement, while Amber and Bella continued cramming sweet wings into their mouths.
One by one around the table, the ladies grabbed one of the jalapeño wings. Scarlett, Lily, Yuki, Kara, Sophie, and Tracy all ate their wings fairly quickly, barely breaking a sweat from their second hot wing.
Kara eventually poked Bella. "Um, Bella babe? You know you need to eat one too."
Bella looked around nervously. "Uuuuh, okay. Is everyone else really already done?"
"Cooome ooon" and other smiles came from the table.
Bella sighed. "I don't get paid enough for this. Might as well get it over with." She grabbed a jalapeño wing and jammed it into her mouth.
A few seconds passed. "Hey, this actually tastes pretty good."
She chewed for a moment, but her body was slowly turning red from her legs up, like mercury rising in a thermometer. Once the rising tide of red hit her face, she froze in place, and started shaking. Steam started leaking out of her body. Her arms tensed into her sides, hands squeezed into tight fists, and her head and neck curled impossibly far into her chest. With one final squeeze, her whole body merged together, then
*CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO*
Bella turned into a huge light red train whistle with her black hair for a top, floating above her seat. The black lid floated and danced on top of a huge burst of steam a full foot above her head. Her body fought to release as much heat as possible from, at least for her, the super spicy wing.
Unfortunately, she was floating above her seat a little too long. The bottom snapped up, catching most of her cylindrical body, flattening her lower half against the back of the chair. Goop matching the color of her clothing sprayed out of her head like a fountain, sending her hair-hat spinning into the air and tumbling into the bucket below. After a moment, she was completely deflated. She stopped spraying the air, flopped over the chair. The rest of her body started dripping, flowing down her chair and into the bucket below.
"WOOOOO!!!"
"YEAH!"
Cheers and laughs came from the others, watching their comrade fall apart spectacularly from the heat.
Tracy laughed. "I didn't know she could do a train whistle."
Sophie cackled. "That was classic!"
Lily giggled. "Okay then. Amber needs to catch up now. And Scarlett? Don't go melting just from watching her, that still counts.
"Oh come on!" Scarlett waved her arm dismissively. She also blushed, and quickly locked her eyes on Amber's.
"You are going to eat it, right?"
Amber rolled her eyes and slowly shook her head. "I can't enjoy one trip here without this happening can I."
Scarlett smiled and shrugged, then pushed the jalapeño wings closer to her.
Amber sighed. "The things I do for you Scarlett."
She grabbed a wing with both hands and tore into it, ripping half of it off. She chewed, clearly starting to sweat.
"It's way too hot, but I can't deny it tastes good."
As soon as the words left her mouth, Amber collapsed into slime. Every inch of her dripped down herself. Hair coated face and shoulders. The circles of her eyes flowed down her face down to her stomach. Her arms collapsed into puddles on the table before being dragged into the rest of her as she sank. Her breasts and butt spread into giant globs of Amber colored goop and dripped through her seat. As she shrank she spread over the sides, sending even more of herself cascading below.
Once Amber was a half height unrecognizable slime creature, the chair snapped on her.
*SPLOOOOOOOOOOOSH*
The ladies at the table screamed and laughed, lifting their arms to shield from Amber's blast.
"EEEEEEEK!"
Huge globs of the blond ran down the chair, falling into her collected mess with tremendous splashes. Once she finally collected herself, Amber kept bubbling, almost boiling from her inability to handle a little spice.
Scarlett licked her lips, cleaning off a little Amber in the process. "That's why I love her!"
The table laughed.
* * *
The remaining Jalapeño wings were consumed without incident. Some of the six started sweating and coughing, but everyone held their forms together. Bella and Amber still simmered beneath their chairs.
With five wings down each, Kara reached for the habañero. "Well ladies. Time to get something with a little more flavor."
"Oooooo!" Everyone at the table displayed varying levels of fake sincerity at the admittedly hotter wings.
The wings served, Kara raised a glass. "Let's eat?"
"YEAH!"
*CLINK*
They toasted, splashing a little beer. They each drank some more, and went to work on the wings.
Scarlett ate first. Some steam shot out her ears, but nothing more.
Lily and Yuki ate next. Lily coughed a little, and Yuki fanned away some sweat, but neither was worse for wear.
Then Kara ate. She was turning a red, and tears streamed down her face.
Scarlett wiped a tear away from her own eyes, slowly leaning over the table. "Come oooon! Go to goop!"
Kara burped, and blinked her eyes many, many times. "Sorry friend, not today."
Scarlett leaned back. "Awww."
The others laughed as Scarlett pouted. Eventually, she pushed a wing to Tracy. "Alright, you're up!"
Tracy eyed the wing suspiciously. "I don't think I've gone to habañero before."
Sophie gave her a pat on the back. "Come on! You're fine with jalapeño. You'll like it."
Tracy grabbed the wing and dug in.
Her eyes immediately opened as wide as her face.
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
Flames shot out of her mouth across the table. Everyone ducked under the blast, but eyes peeked above the table under tufts of hair.
Tracy managed to look up, keeping everyone out of harm's way while her body gave up. She melted like a candle, big brown drops flowing away from her mouth and down her sides. She spread out as she sank, still sending flames to the ceiling, while her arms flailed at her sides. Once enough of her blobifying body dripped away, her chair smooshed her, putting out the flames. Bits of brown and red squished woman squeezed her oozed through the holes of chair like play dough, before splashing into the rest of her melted body below.
Lily climbed back into her seat first. "Wow...that seemed dangerous."
Scarlett climbed up next. "Not really. You'd be surprised how often that happens here."
Then Sophie. "Yeah, the ceiling isn't actually painted black. That's just scorch marks from every time that happens. There's usually at least one a night."
And finally Kara. "I would expect nothing left from your team. Feels like one of you is always lighting something on fire and...Sophie? Is your hair burning?"
Everyone looked to the remaining Boomer next to Kara. Sure enough, her long blue hair was burning from the end like a fuse. A line of sparks crept towards her head, turning her hair from luscious blue to grey ash.
Sophie reached back worried, pulling her hair in front of her. She saw only grey, and it crumbled from her grasp.
"Oh crap, not ag-"
The fire touched her head, and Sophie's body expanded instantly. Her torso ballooned out, absorbing her limbs leaving only her bloated hands and shoes. Her eyes bulged out of her head, and she floated above her chair as a ten foot sphere for just a moment. The chair didn't even snap shut before
*KABOOM*
Sophie went off in a fiery explosion. It was relatively small, sparing Scarlett and the Ratpack, but Kara was less fortunate. She was sent rocketing across the room. Much like the video earlier, she face planted the wall. Kara was a huge poster spread out ten feet on the bricks. She looked back at her friends with a shocked look on her face, before flopping off the wall into a heap on the ground.
The remaining three ladies looked at each other through the scraps of Sophie fluttering in the air.
Scarlett broke the silence. "Wow...that was something."
Lily nodded slowly, before Yuki pushed more wings in front of everyone. "Welp, can't stop now!"
* * *
The habañero wings were slower to go, but Scarlett, Yuki, and Lily downed them all. All three looked shinier, more and more like they could melt at any moment, but not one gave in to the urge to goop. Between wings, they also managed to collect Sophie into her seat, and retrieve the flattened Kara. Amber and Bella had cooled off enough to stop boiling, but steam still rose from Tracy's tank.
Yuki stared down the others, a determined look on her face. "Okay then. If we must we must. I give you, the Carolina Reaper sauce." She defiantly picked one up, put it in her mouth, and smoothly removed all the meat from the bone. She briefly shook as her eyes turned to temperature gauges that shot up, cracking her eyes when they filled to capacity. It looked like she was out next, but with one deep breath she was able to calm down and avoid blast off, blinking her eyes back to normal.
Huge beads of sweat ran down her face. "Heh heh heh. Alright Scarlett. Let's see you even try to handle one of these!"
Scarlett reached for a wing, and took a bite. Then another. She finished the wing, licking sauce off her fingers. She cracked her neck, and her hair more flowed between her shoulders like water more than anything solid, but she did not give in. She pounded the bone into the tray with a look of madness in her eyes.
"Okay Lily. You're up."
Lily grabbed the next one. Not willing to do worse than Yuki, she also ate the whole wing in one go. Nothing happened.
"Easy. Those wings are deli-"
*FWOOOOOOOOM*
The heat finally got to Lily, and she spontaneously burst into flames. Yuki and Scarlett backed up, not wanting to get burned or melted by Lily's intense heat. It took a full ten seconds for the flames to die out.
Lily was completely charred and coated in black ash.
"-cious. Would eat again."
*SNAP*
Lily was reduced to a spray of ashes by her chair, dust collapsing and piling up in the bucket below her. Only her eyes remained hovering above. She looked down, then back at her friends, before falling into the rest of her.
Yuki and Scarlett laughed. Yuki called to nobody in particular. "I think we need some water!"
"Oh Yuki." Scarlett tapped the table to get Yuki's attention. Yuki turned to see Scarlett licking half of another killer reaper wing into her mouth. "You need to eat again."
* * *
Much to Yuki's surprise, Scarlett, the meltiest woman in the entire Transformation League, was SOMEHOW still solid after ten, no ELEVEN reaper wings. Sure, both of them were starting to sag in their seats, but this was already more heat than she planned on taking tonight.
Yuki reached for her tenth wing, but her arm dropped onto the table with a wet *SPLAT*. She tried to pick it up, but her bicep stretched and oozed away, leaving melting strands of skin connected to the rest of her. She looked down, and saw her body finally giving up and dripping away. Much like their friends, her butt was oozing through the seat, her shoulders were slouching into her breasts, and in general she was becoming one big blob of herself.
Scarlett was still smiling. She was definitely dripping everywhere, but her shape was staying pretty consistent. She wiped a streak of liquid red hair out of her face and back onto her head, before shaking drops of red and really all of her off and scattering a bit on the table.
"How Scarlett? You should have been the first one out! You always melt!"
Scarlett grinned, leaning over the table in a way she practically stretched and flowed.
"Well, that's my secret Yuki."
Scarlett grabbed her own hands, and her arms quickly turned into one long rope of pale skin. She flipped it over her head line a jump rope, and pulled it through herself. There was a splash of her blue shirt as her arms came back out the front, but Scarlett appeared whole and unharmed by this. That only left Yuki staring even more befuddled.
"I'm always melting."
"Bwaaaa?"
*SPLOOOOSH*
Yuki was finally squished by her chair, splattering into a mess of colors before dripping down below.
Scarlett giggled, and pulled her arms apart. She shook the ends, but could not make hands reappear there. She tried to stretch the rest of her body back into shape, but with all of her buddies vanquished, the adrenaline left her.
"Ah well, it was fun. See you soon Amber."
The blond puddle next to her gurgled in acknowledgment, and Scarlett dropped into her bucket like water out of a bucket. She was all the way in before her chair even noticed she was gone.
* * *
A few minutes later, their young blond waitress came back to check on things. She huffed, making the red ribbons in her hair shake around.
She tapped a button on her headset.
"Hey boss?"
"Yeah Phoebe?"
"Cleanup at Scarlett's table."
"How many."
"All of them."
"Again?!"
"Yeah. Again."