Cassie's world was dark. It felt like at least once a month, she would politely use her hammer to ask Phoebe to stop annoying her because she was, well, being Phoebe. Then she would wake up, and Allison would magically have yet another new contraption to ruin her day.

Today she was fed through a wringer feet first, wearing clothes she didn't recognize. She remembered screaming at Allison while getting rolled up, with her face on the inside. Allison said "Good luck today! You're going to need it!" before packing her into a shipping tube.

That felt like hours ago.

It had been 20 minutes.

She heard the *POP* of the tube opening. Light blinded her, and the green tube sometimes known as Cassie fell out, clattering to the ground with the classic hollow cardboard *THUNK*

She grunted and forced herself to unroll. Her beautiful body was stretched out ten feet long, barley fitting in...whatever this room was. She could make out the metal siding in the dim light, but the style wasn't anything Allison would use in her lab. Cassie had been transformed through tubes and smashers and saws and boilers down there more times in there than she wanted to remember.

"Uuuuugh...what happened? Where the hell am I Allison?! Tell me this instant!"

"Oh, hi Cassie! You made it!"

Cassie wished that wasn't the first voice she heard. She buried her face in her floppy hand, trying to keep composed. "Phoebe...if you can help me get out of here, I promise to try not to squish you for a week."

Phoebe picked Cassie up, and with one swift snap, restored her to normal.

Back on her feet, Cassie looked around. The whole room was mostly metal panels, though one was reflective.

That was her first good look at her new clothes. "WHO DARED DRESS ME IN THESE LITERAL RAGS?! And WHY do these shirts say Team Cuddly Kitties?!"

Both ladies wore low cut tank tops, Phoebe's pastel blue and Cassie's black. Phoebe still wore her white skirt, and Cassie had a matching synthetic cloth skirt in denim blue.

Phoebe giggled. "Kitties are cute! We're both cute too, so...Go team!"

Cassie knew she wouldn't like the response, but had to ask. "Team???"

Allison's voice cracked through a speaker. "Yup! Some friends wanted us to test stuff. Since you're so fond of two dimensional fun, you're going to help. Now that you're awake..."

Two walls pulled into the ceiling with a smooth mechanical *WRRRRRRRRR*
Lights flickered on down the hall with a *TCHNK*TCHNK*TCHNK*TCHNK*TCHNK*

One wall was now a thick glass barrier. On the other side were two women. Both wore cheap orange tank tops and shorts. The uniforms that said "Dust Bunnies" across the tops. Cassie did not recognize the tan skinned woman with a long black braid. She wore clothes clearly too small for her huge chest.

Cassie a hated tacky ways of showing off.

She was talking with the other woman, who Cassie did recognize. Jessica was the purple haired dark skinned woman who ran that ridiculous table whatever game night Allison insisted she attend.

Cassie scowled at them. Scarlett and her friends were addicted to flattening themselves more than Allison was. Their presence here couldn't possibly be good. "What are you two doing here?!"

Jessica smiled. "Training."
The braided woman gave a mischievous grin that rivaled Allison's. "Splatting."
Scarlett's voice came through the speakers. "Settling a bet."

Cassie was losing her patience. Steam shot out of her head, flaring her luscious green hair in the wind. "WHAT IS GOING ON?!"

"Scarlett and I made a bet." Allison's voice crackled through the speakers again. "You and Phoebe test the easy mode of my new obstacle course, Jessica and Zoe over there test the pro version. The winning team gets any favor or transformation they want from Scarlett and myself."

Zoe laughed. "AAAANY favor?"

Allison laughed back. "Okay Zoe, maybe not ANY favor. I'm not sure I trust you in a hot tub any time soon after reading those After Dark stories, but I'm sure you'll think of something fun. I just hope today will help SOME people here learn to get along better."

Cassie spun her head at Phoebe. She grinned sheepishly while comically shrinking into the corner.

Allison's voice continued. "Oh, one more thing. There are restoration beams near your doors, but they have a twist. Cassie and Phoebe's needs 3 minutes to recharge after each use. Zoe and Jess are professionals, so theirs has 20 minutes of cool down."

There was a crash over the speakers. Scarlett's voice boomed through. "Oops, sorry Ally! Alright everyone, other than that, it's normal league rules and almost everything goes! Get moving in three, two, one..."

*BOOM*

The four competitors, rather than sprinting, looked through the glass at one another.

"What was that?"
"I don't know."
"I hope they're okay!"

Allison's voice weakly came back through the speakers, "Just...go..." followed by the sound of sand falling and rattling against steel.

Cassie shook her head. "Disintegrated again? That girl needs explosion insurance."

Zoe and Jessica were already running through the door on their side. "See ya!"

Cassie was stunned anyone could be excited about this. "But...This entire idea is absurd! How can you be so anxious to do this?! Who would do these things to-ACK Phoebe get off me!"

Phoebe was behind Cassie, leaning into her to shove her along the path. "Come on Cassie, we've gotta go!"

The race was underway.

* * *

Zoe and Jess ran to their first challenge. They were high above the usual array of mincers to punish falling competitors that was common to league challenge rooms. Their platform was lined with simple pole railings, hanging from a long latticed steel beam slanted down across the room. In the air were 5 large hoops held up on tall metal poles, with all manner of fans and saws and other outrageous traps in the way. The only other thing of note was on the corner of their platform.

Zoe didn't look twice before sprinting to the machine.

"Oooo! It's a Super Squisher's Roller! I think this model is a few years old, but I haven't been squished by one yet."

Jess laughed while surveying the room. "Are you going to get squished on purpose even more since this isn't an official league race? We don't even know why it's here yet."

Zoe studied the controls on the machine, not even looking at Jessica. "Well whatever it's here for, they put stickers on for some defaults. Ultra wide and paper thin."

Jessica paced around the edge of the platform, looking for some method of crossing. Her face almost formed a scowl, looking for some hint about what to do, before spotting the slightly wider, plaque-like section of the railings.

She burst into laughter reading it.

"Well Zoe, you get your wish."

"What's it say?!"

"Go through the rings."

Zoe tilted her head, thinking about it. "How are we supposed to do that."

Jess shook her head and rolled her eyes, wishing Zoe thought of it. "I don't think we can hang glide through, but I'm not bad with paper air planes. Get squishing!"

"Yeeeeees!"

Zoe hopped into the feeder for the rollers head first. Things got dark fast, but her vision stretched ultra wide as it happened. The opening was extremely thin, so her head was spreading and rippling as it jammed into the narrow passage. Her rectangular paper sheet head was coming out just as her chest made it in. She was as wide as the rollers, a full 10 feet.

"Oooooh this feels great! You need to try this lat-EEEEEEEEEER!!!! Oooooooh yeah!"

She moaned mid sentence when her boobs hit the rollers, making a loud *SQUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSHH* sound as they went in. Her upside down shirt barely contained her beauties. Above the rollers was a building mass of orange shirt and tan skin rippling and squishing as Zoe spread to fill the whole space between the steel rollers. Her flattened face was drooling and loving every second of it.

* * *

On the other side of the glass, Cassie and Phoebe arrived to the ridiculous sight of Zoe's butt threatening to jam the rollers as it got squished through, with Jessica dragging the ten-by-ten and counting Zoe sheet across the platform.

Cassie brought a hand up to her shocked mouth. "What could they possibly be doing that she's already caught in some contraption?!"

Phoebe looked a little frightened. "Do you think she'll be okay?"

At that moment, the rollers finally forced Zoe's butt through, and the rest of Zoe *SLUUUUURUPED* through.

"YEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!!!"

Cassie's face showed abject horror, mouth hanging open.
Phoebe's was more one of confusion and curiosity, head sideways and eyebrow raised.

Jess started folding Zoe, and Cassie quickly figured out Zoe was getting folded into an airplane. For the first time she looked out across the obstacles on her own side. Four rings, bigger than the ones on the Dust Bunny side.

"Allison expects me to fold myself up and humiliate myself by flying through this?"

Both Flatmates turned back to see Jessica throw paper airplane Zoe at the rings. She looked ridiculous, folded up with her eyes on the plane's nose, and her flattened shorts ending halfway down her wings. Jessica, using both arms, hurled her into the air with pretty good speed towards the rings.

Cassie stared shaking her head. "I still can't believe she's smiling through this."

Zoe, still folded up, was concentrating on her task. Tiny folds appeared in her wings as she straightened her flight towards the first ring. She welt through, and the ring lit up.

"Nice! Four more!"

Now things got harder. Zoe started to veer left, but a huge buzz saw swung in front of her.

"WHOA!"

She dodged to the right, but her body started spiraling. She tried to flex her wings to get back to the left, but flew into the path of a large fan. The breeze sent her off course and into the barrier between the teams.

*WHAM*

Zoe's noise crinkled on contact, and she went cross eyed, surveying the damage. She didn't have long. Gravity took over, and Zoe fell to the mincers below.

"Uh oh..."
*BZZZZZZZZZZZZRRRRRRRRRRRR*

Zoe was shredded apart on the ground. Everyone was treated to scraps of orange and tan paper flying around as she was torn apart and chewed into a viscous orange paste. Once all of her was caught in the machinery, she was sent through the pipes in the floor like orange juice with two spiraled eyes along for the ride. The pipes carried Zoe in a clear tube to her platform, where she was spat onto the floor as a large blob with a wet *SPLOOOORT* noise.

Jessica shrugged, looking at the restoration beam in her hand. "Well, no sense not using it immediately If it takes time to recharge."

*ZAP*

The orange paste swirled into the air, and resumed Zoe's shape.

As Zoe stretched and cracked her neck, a loud goal scoring horn went off. Zoe and Jess looked around, and their platform lurched forwards along the rail, moving to the same position as the first ring. They high fived, and Zoe jumped in feet first to get squished again. This time she shook her hips and danced as it happened.

Phoebe looked on a little confused. "Wow! That looked...maybe fun until she crashed? Are we really going to be able to do this?"

"I'm sure you'll do great Phoebe."

"Do you really-Wait, what?-AAEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

Cassie lifted up Phoebe by the hips to partake in her favorite pastime, knowing the roller would put the over energetic blond in her place. She forcefully threw Phoebe in, butt first, and the machine started eating up. Like Zoe's, the opening was paper thin, causing Phoebe's blue shirt and white skirts to jam in the machine.

Phoebe was clawing at the roller behind her, trying to scramble out, but she could not escape.
"WAAAAAAAH!"

Phoebe gave up on her escape, worrying about the sensation she was feeling in her midsection. Everything between her waist and her thighs was a growing mess of light blue clay mixing and spreading the width of the rollers. Her stomach rippled out as she finally started squishing through. The thin blond woman would be coming out the other side as a ridiculously large flat sheet.

She looked down at her body getting morphed and molded. "This is a lot more intense than Ally's roller tag."

Her boobs were starting to squish and ripple out, making the machine gear up and smash a few times in attempts to pass her through. That left her as a head next to two feet attached to a large blue sheet.

"You are good with paper planes, right Cassie?"
"I've made a few here and there."
"Well, be gentle. This is almost everything I can take as it is and...ack! Fold those on the inside so nobody s-mmmph-mmmmph!"

Phoebe's white heart polka dot panties popped out the other side just as her head was drawn into the rollers. It was the last thing Phoebe saw before her world went dark and her head was stretched beyond reasonable proportions.

Cassie tugged at the bottom of the Phoebe sheet, and dragged her body into position. "Okay, a few simple folds here, apply the right force there...viola!"

The airplane in front of Cassie blinked, with her eyes on the front nose. "I feel funny"

Cassie picked her up, took a few steps away from the rail, and lined up a throw. "Oh don't worry Phoebe. I'm stronger than I look. I know you'll inspire me to a powerful throw!"

Phoebe's eyes looked around, nervous about her upcoming flight. She moved her flattened arms, flexing her wings and testing herself out. "Okay, I'll try. Can we get a good look at what's out there before you thr-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Cassie hurled Phoebe into the air on a high arc towards the first ring. With fewer obstacles on their side, it looked like an easy trip...

...until Phoebe started to nose dive.

"Pull up!"

"WAAAAAAAAAAH!!!"

Phoebe figured out how to flex her wings correctly at the last moment. Her tummy brushed the bottom of the ring, but she made it through.

"Whew. I think I'm getting this. Good throw Cassie!"

"WATCH OUT!"

Phoebe was still trying to look back at Cassie. "For what? I'm already going to the second ring and-"

*BZZZZZZZZZZZZZT*

Phoebe flew straight into a buzz saw. She was unceremoniously sliced in half. Two blue pieces of paper with other highlights of Phoebe's colors drifted through the air towards the ground. The floor sucked Phoebe in, twisting and blurring her features until she was a blue paste stretched and stuck to everything below, getting shunted through tubes to be poured back out on the platform.

Cassie may have been upset at Phoebe's clumsiness, but she loved watching the blue chunks of Phoebe flying everywhere. Even if this race was ridiculous, she could have a little fun reminding Phoebe to leave her alone and not show her any more otter videos.

* * *

Cassie was not having fun.

Zoe and Jess cleared their last ring minutes ago. Phoebe was getting shredded for at least the 30th time, and she had only flown through one more ring. Even that was only through Allison's mercy, since only half of Phoebe made it. Every trip, she was either crumpling on the ring, hitting a saw, and once she claimed a light in the corner looked like a fluffy kitty and flew directly towards it.

Worse, Phoebe was needing more and more time to restore herself. She looked like a monstrous slime, trying to rearrange colors and reshape arms, but only succeeding in sending a few pastel blue and red tendrils into the air before splashing back to the ground in a gooey mess.

"UUUUGH Phoebe! Pull yourself together so we can continue!"

The puddle of Phoebe bubbled on the ground. "I don't wanna go to school today."

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARG!!! I can't believe this."

Cassie shot Phoebe with the restoration beam AGAIN, bringing her back to a nice solid human shape despite her lack of stamina. Phoebe looked woozy, stumbling around completely off balance.

Cassie sighed, putting both hands on her forehead. "I can't believe what I'm about to do. Phoebe, never speak of this. AND YOU!!!" Cassie pointed directly at a camera on the ceiling. "If footage of this sees the Internet I will scatter the scraps of you so far you WILL need weeks to pull yourself together."

Phoebe tilted her head. "Cassie? What are you..."

Cassie jumped head first into the rollers.
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!"

An explosion of green goop flew around as her head and all its hair were squished, widened, and forced through the rollers. Her trim figure and black shirt were next, rippling wider as the rollers flattened her into a huge sheet of paper. Her arms tensed up and her legs were kicking the air as she was dragged through, her enlarged butt needing a few back and forth pulls to squish through from all the mass squished up her body.

"OOOF! ACK! KYAAAAA!!!"
*SPLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORSH*

Cassie clearly did not want to do this, but Phoebe wasn't giving her a choice.

Her face came out the other end of the rollers, huge and wide like every squishing before. She angrily stared at her team mate.

"Okay Phoebe. Time to teach you about air planes. Fold there."
"Here?"
Cassie flexed a corner of her body. "No HERE!"
"Sorry!"
"Okay, now pinch there and-EEP-NOT THERE!"
"AAAAAAAH!"

A minute and several scoldings later, Phoebe had Cassie folded into an excellent air plane.

"Okay. Now throw me."

Phoebe picked up her new green paper airplane, hefted it over her shoulder, and charged.

"Here, we, go-OOOH!"

Phoebe slipped, killing most of the momentum behind her throw.

"Phoebe! Watch your step! I'm barely going to have enough speed to-"
"AEEEEEEEEEE!!!!"
*SQUISH*SQUOOSH*SQUISH*SQUOOOOOSH*

Cassie chanced a look back, unable to resist seeing Phoebe get ripped apart one more time. "Well, at least that happened. Now..."

She flexed her flattened feet to adjust her flight, weaving between the blades. She flew through one ring, then dove under the set of rollers in front of her. She spun through the air, dodging all manner of swinging traps, and was through the next ring.

By the time Phoebe was spat on the platform, Cassie was resting on the exit platform, having cleared the entire course in one go. Her eyes were the embodiment of fury, and a dark aura was building around her.

"ALLISON! Just restore her so she can restore me and we can move on already!"

"Cassie, you're telling us you could have done that from the beginning, but you kept throwing Phoebe?"

"OF COURSE a natural athlete like myself can do something as simple as this! I still can't believe anyone would WANT to fold themselves up. This is insane! Now get Phoebe over here IMMEDIATELY so we can win this bet and I can figure out what to do with you."

"As you wish."

The platform rattled forward, swinging all the way from the first ring to the goal with surprising speed. When it crashed into the goal area, it created a large gust of wind, enough to pick up the green airplane resting there and float it over the edge.

"Wait! What?! We're here! WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO M-"
*SPLOOOOOOSH*

* * *



"Okay, stand back!"

Jessica backed away as Zoe asked, watching her open their tenth door. It felt like they were in this room forever. They had a choice of 40 doors compared to the 6 through the glass on the "easy" side. It was probably this tedious by design, since there was still no sign of their opponents. Anything too straight forward, and they would easily outrun their competition.

The first 9 doors were already a small adventure. Three were actually connected to each other in different parts of the room, with traps in the passage. One door fell on top of Jess, pressing her into a floor decal. Another froze Zoe solid before throwing a huge spear, shattering her. She had a feeling there was a little bit of everything in here. That just left her wondering what was about to happen to her girlfriend.

*SHWIP*SHWIP*SHWIP*

Zoe froze. Jess saw lines criss cross through her body.

"I HATE blade traps."

*SPLOT*SPLORT*SPLAT*

Zoe fell to pieces in big chunks of herself. Her arms and legs split in half and rolled around, leaving smooth ends with her colors where the blade passed through. Her torso fell, splitting into uneven quarters. Her breasts popped off and bounced around like schoolyard balls after striking the ground, striking her head and leaving it spinning in place to get tangled in her braid.

Try as she might, Jessica couldn't stifle her laughs. Zoe thought she couldn't look cute falling to pieces, but she couldn't be more wrong.

She picked Zoe's head up above her head by the end of her braid, and gave her a quick kiss on the forehead. "Sorry babe. Let me help you get together a little before trying the next one."

Jess used her foot to gently roll over part of Zoe's chest. Then she held up a hand, and caught one of Zoe's pinballing boobs. She swung Zoe's head around so it could *SPLAT* sort of merge back into place, then hurled her breast back into place with a satisfying *BOING*

Zoe was blushing and smiling with her eyes rolling back into her head, loving the feeling of popping back together.

Jessica winked at her. "You finish up, I need to keep this team moving."

Jess left Zoe to get over herself and start bouncing back together. The next door was labeled number 18. Jess cracked her knuckles and tilted her head from side to side, unconsciously lifting a hand to make sure her body was still whole after watching Zoe go to pieces. She got in front of the door, bounced on her toes to get ready to dodge, and cautiously pulled the door open.

There wasn't much inside. Only three feet deep, a concrete wall sealed the passage. There was some sort of screen and machine panel inside though, so she had to investigate.

She took two steps towards it before the door panel flew open, and a long hose sped towards her mouth.

*THOOMP*

Jess tried to pull the hose out, but it kept pushing, unwilling to let go of its prize. When the air flow hit her, Jess sighed, half frustrated and half relaxed. This would take some time, but at least it would feel good.

Her body grew from air flowing into her. It started slow, making her arms a little puffier and her curves a little bigger. She hopped back and forth on her legs to test her buoyancy, loving how light she was already feeling.

The hissing sound intensified and Jessica's body ballooned bigger. She grew past ten feet, smiling and hugging her expanding body, feeling it get tighter from the pressure building up inside her. It squeaked and creaked as she filled past 15 feet, the excitement building as her sensitive areas stretched and signaled their approval. The rubbery sounds of just trying to move were getting louder, building anticipation for what came next.

*HIIIIIIIIIIIISS*
*CREEEEEEEEAK*
*FWOOMP*

Jess's limbs finally inflated to an immobile size, sticking into position half sucked into her body. She was growing faster now, air rushing into her practically spherical body and pushing her larger to twenty and thirty feet. She could feel bits of the room pressing into her, and she was pretty sure her butt was against the glass. Her breasts were themselves each eight foot balloons, pressing into doors across the room. Jessica tried to shuffle back and forth to massage them however she could, knowing she wouldn't stay in piece much longer.

There was something else strange behind her. As her butt pressed up against the glass, she felt something squishy there, almost fighting back. She flexed her bubble butt, feeling whatever it was squish and spread between her and the glass. In fact, it almost felt like...

"OOOOOH YEAH! Keep growing baby!"

Yup, that was Zoe. Jess made a point to keep wiggling her butt, knowing Zoe would love the footage of herself getting squished from the other side. Besides, she felt good. It made expanding through the whole room more fun knowing Zoe was enjoying it too.

* * *

Phoebe was still a puddle of herself on the platform when the floor retrieval system poured Cassie out. She was able to get a green tendril around the restoration beam and zap herself, so she could drag her pastel blue slime of a teammate into the next room.

They entered a room with 6 doors, each conveniently labeled 1-6. The room was otherwise empty, although the clear center wall between them and their opponents was still there, letting them see...

The eyes on Phoebe's goopey body opened wide in shock. She managed to form her head out of her blob to get a better look. Seeing Jessica's huge butt and thighs pressed up against the glass looked strange to her, but that wasn't as weird as Zoe's state. She was squished into a pair of 10 foot wide pancakes, one containing her blushing face with a huge smile.

"Oh my goodness! Jessica is huge! At least Zoe's happy. Do you think they're okay?"

Cassie looked truly horrified. "If I even look that big, I swear I will smear Allison across an entire mile of highway."

Phoebe knew Cassie didn't always like these games. "Come on Cassie, they're having fun. I bet they're-"

*KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*

Phoebe winced when Jessica popped. Shreds of her brown skin and orange clothes whirled around the room like a snow globe. Zoe's pair of pancakes got extremely distorted by the blast, her inky body spraying all over the glass wall.

"Eeep! Cassie, are they okay?"

Zoe answered. "OOOOOOOOOOH YEEEEAH...never better..." before her body cascaded to the ground in inky black and orange puddles.

*THUD*

Phoebe looked to Cassie, finding her lying on her back on the ground, completely pale.

"Huh...I guess she fainted. Silly Cassie!" She looked around the room, pondering her situation. "Okay, I guess this is pick any door or something? Uuuuuh..."

Phoebe scrunched her face in thought, before grasping her Special Rose Pendant. Her eyes flashed with a bright blue light, and a ghostly kitty with oversized ears and a flowing ribbon materialized in front of her.

"Which way Sparkles?"

The strange kitty meowed and hopped a few times before trotting to door #4. Phoebe followed, finding a long hallway on the other side.

"What's in here?"

Behind her, Cassie woke up, and shook her head. "Phoebe, what are you doing?"

Phoebe looked back with a huge smile on her face. "Chasing a kitty!"

The strange kitten with a soft blue glow ran through the door.

"Hey, wait for me!" With that, Phoebe ran into the winding if empty passage.

"What the...Phoebe, wait! What the hell was that?!" Cassie chased after her. "I can't have you getting lost and losing the race on me!"

Phoebe thought she heard a loud rumbling sound behind her, but there wasn't anything else in here. She trotter along for almost a minute before reaching another door. She opened the door and rediscovered the empty room they started in.

"Huh?"

She walked into the room and looked between doors #4 and #1 for a few seconds before realizing they were connected.

Several second later, she heard Cassie groan behind her. "UUuuuuuuuuuggh..."

Cassie, looking completely disheveled, dragged herself through the door. Having experienced all the traps Phoebe avoided, Cassie was squished to half her height and twice her width. She was holding her completely flattened and detached left arm under her right, her uniform was torn and singed, and her hair was completely frayed behind her.

She shook her head. "Phoebe, what are you doing?"

"I figured these doors were like a game show, and one would have a big prize or some ice cream behind it. Kitty picked an empty hall way though, not something we need to win the race."

Then Cassie's body gave out, disintegrating into a pile of fine green ashes on the ground, leaving her eyes hovering in the air. She said "Oh, okay," before her eyes dropped into the pile, rolling towards the glass between them and the Dust Bunnies.

"Eep! Cassie!" Phoebe kneeled down to collect her team mate, but both were distracted by looking through the glass to Zoe and Jess. Both saw the bits of Jessica crawling into each other to form bigger blobs of Jess ooze, and Zoe's colors were swirling back into place.

Phoebe pulled out the restoration beam, and zapped Cassie's ashes. She disintegrated in reverse, reintegrating into the green haired beauty.

Cassie jerked her head at the restoration on the other side of the glass. "Phoebe, I don't care where we go next, but I don't want to think about being that. Let's go."

She ran to door #2, opened the door.

Her eyes immediately froze wide open and she jumped away, slamming the door shut. "Bottomless pit. Not going that way. Nope nope nope no more flatting Cassandra today. Once is two times too many for any day."

Phoebe walked to door #6. "Okay, I'll check this one."

She opened the door and two mechanical hands in white gloves came out on long steel cables. They picked Phoebe up, and threw her to the ground head first.

"EEP!"

Phoebe was instantly reduced to half her height and spread twice as wide on the ground, with her legs kicking helplessly in the air. The hands smacked the sides of Phoebe together, rippling her body and smooshing her together in one big pile. Then they went to work kneading her. Phoebe stretched and her colors mixed and blended together, until the hands were stretching and punching down a uniform pastel blue ball.  Muffled eeps came out of Phoebe's body as the hands worked, squeezing bits of her between their fingers. She was caught between enjoying her massage, and the embarrassment of being helpless in front of Cassie.
She heard footsteps, probably Cassie walking over. "Hah! Phoebe, I know  you like kitchen fun, but you really need to keep yourself in shape." Phoebe felt Cassie poke her body a few times, her doughy body squishing at the lightest touch.

Fortunately, Phoebe's kneading session wasn't that long. Satisfied with their work, the hands tossed Phoebe in the air, spinning her round and round as a finishing touch. She splat on the ground as a ball of dough, wobbling back and forth with the consistency of a pile of jello. She managed to form her spinning eyes on the surface to see Cassie.

Cassie was grinning. Probably laughing at her more. "You pull yourself together. I'LL find the way forward. I guess we should feel lucky you're still occupying three dimensions!"

Cassie threw open door #5, and was immediately assaulted by a blast of steam.

"Ack! How hot is it in there?! This doesn't make any senaubulblWAAAAAAAH!"

The steam was hot enough that Cassie instantly started melting. She tried to step away, but only succeeded in pulling a strand of her goopey leg into the air. She lifted her arms, seeing them already dropping peach skin and black clothes into the blob of her lower body. Her hair was cascading in a thick green mess around her, dragging her liquid head down with it. She looked down to see every bit of her body slide and splash away, and her eyes were dripping down after them.

*SPLASH*

Cassie was a boiling bubbling mess of a woman on the floor, reduced to little more than a mish mash of her colors.

Phoebe, still just a ball of blue dough herself, giggled at her friend's transformation. "Tee hee! Cassie, you're all bubbly like that!"

Cassie's puddle was quickly surrounded by a dark aura, and erupted into green flames. "RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!!!!"

"EEEEEEEEEEEP! Sorry! I'll find the restoration beam!" Phoebe's eyes looked around for their dropped small gun, and wormed her doughy body towards it, stretching out and pulling herself together again. Reaching out with a stretchy tendril, she grasped it, and zapped the splatter of green on the floor.

*CLICK*CLICK*

"Huh?"

A soft voice came from the gun. "Beam fully recharged!"

The dough ball blinked. "Oh yeah." Then zapped Cassie.

*SHHHLLLUUUUURP*

Cassie's body was pulled up by the green light grasping a bit of her puddle. Light surrounded her green goop, molding it in her body's shape like a clear sack of green liquid in the air, before blinking out and leaving Cassie restored with a green splash.

"AAAAAAAAAAAARH! WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ALLISON!"

Phoebe bounced over towards Cassie. "Hey! Help fix me! We can't use this for another few minutes!"

She landed on Cassie's foot, making the green haired woman scream. "AAAACK! A blue blob monster!"

*STOMP*
*SQUELCH*
"PLEEEEEEEEEH!!"

Cassie froze in the middle of her second stomp. "Wait, I'd recognize that 'PLEEEEH' anywhere. Phoebe? Why are you rubbing against my foot in that condition?! I won't have you leaving blue stains on my clothes again."

Phoebe remained stuck on the floor with a giant footprint squishing her dough form down. "Restore...please..."

Cassie opened her mouth to scold Phoebe, but paused. "Uuuugh, fine. But only because we can't both get squished again."

Phoebe felt Cassie's hands pick her up and tug her around. Cassie was never gentle, and she felt her mind and body spinning. But after a few seconds, even if it felt weird, her body felt vaguely normal shaped.

"Okay Phoebe, try and pop back."

Phoebe shook, and *POP* returned to her normal shape. "Oof! Thanks! But...now what?"

* * *

Cassie ran door #3, the only unopened one. "Easy. There's only one door left. Let's leave those flattening addicts here and run ahead."

She threw open the door and walked in.

*WHAM*

A giant boot, attacked to a swinging metal arm, swung through Cassie, sending her flying towards the glass.
"KYAEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!"

Coincidentally, Zoe opened the exact same style trap on her side.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!"

*WHAAAAAAAAAAM*

Cassie and Zoe both slammed into the glass. Cassie was a tangled mess of flattened limbs spread out in a ten foot pancake. The side of her face was pressed against the glass, her noodly arms were splattered around her black clothes and green hair, and she was vaguely aware of a drafty feeling around her exposed butt spread across all ten feet of her flat form.

Zoe was also ten feet across, but she was all smiles. Her hands were on the sides, giving two thumbs up.

"Mmmmmmmmmm...that squish really spread us out, eh? But the boot swung a little too hard. Gotta take points off for that. I'll give it an 8."

Cassie slowly slide down the glass, stretching and distorting her features even more. "How...can...you...like...this?"

Zoe peeled off the wall to fall down her own side faster. "Wow, you never learned how to have fun did you?"

*POP*

* * *

Both ladies fell to the ground into a floppy mess, to get restored by their partners. Phoebe ran over and picked up Cassie.

Jessica waved to her through the glass while she picked up Zoe. "You doing okay over there?"

Phoebe smiled awkwardly, not quite sure how to respond. "Um, I think so. Cassie's only squishing me to help now. She even fixed me a few times."

Jessica laughed while she flapped Zoe back into shape. The tan skinned woman stumbled around, tripping over her long braided hair before Jessica continued the conversation. "Well, I think they gave us a ton of doors on purpose. We're only through half of these."

"Oh wow, you have a lot. That's like...uh...5 times as many...6 times? Five and a half?" Phoebe strained to do the mental math while Cassie's flat body squirmed in her hands. "Oh, sorry Cassie!"

Phoebe gave Cassie a good shake to pop her body back to normal. "But the doors...we already opened all of our doors. There wasn't anything there."

Jessica put a hand on Zoe's shoulder. "Hey, they had no way forward. You know what that means?"

Zoe shook her head, making an audible rattling sound. "It means I get to squish myself against the glass in a more extreme pose?"

Jessica literally face palmed. "No, it means we should go jump in that pit."

Phoebe clapped. "You had one too? That makes two traps we both had."

Jessica laughed. "Phoebe, you're too nice. If you want to help Cassie stay off Instaglam, you should grab her and jump in the pit. It's the only way forward. I just can't believe they actually made the worst looking possibility the actual way forward..."

"Hear that Cassie? We know where to go now!"

Cassie's head was still spinning. "Whoa...wait, you want us to jump down a pit now?"

Phoebe waved to Jess and dragged Cassie to the pit. "Thanks Jess!"

Jessica laughed, grabbed Zoe, and gave a quick wave back. "No problem. And...oh what was your character's familiar's name...say hi to Sparkles for me!"

* * *

Cassie heard the conversation. She still didn't believe what was about to happen. She was hoisted her over Phoebe's shoulder, and she was running for the pit.

"Phoebe, are you sure we should listen to the pirate storyteller we're racing against?"

"Of course! Sparkles trusts her. WHEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!"

Phoebe jumped in. Cassie felt the air rushing by them. After about 20 feet, Phoebe bumped against a wall, lost her grip, and started spinning around. Cassie, now alone in free fall, stared into the darkness below them. Eventually a slanted metal floor appeared, rushing up at them.

Cassie's eyes telescoped out of her eye sockets in terror. "WHAAAAAAAAT?! HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO NOT GET SPLATTERED EVERYWHERE IN THIS RACE?!"

*SPLOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH*

Both ladies were pulped and splattered everywhere on contact, Cassie green on one side and Phoebe blue on the other. Both pools of goop managed to move their eyes to the surface as they slid and dripped down the slope. Cassie realized she was sliding towards Phoebe, and studied their surroundings more.

This was a funnel.

"WHAAAAAAAT?!"

They slid into each other. Cassie felt her eyes slam into Phoebe's. It was a strange feeling. She quickly lost track of where her body was and where Phoebe's started as their blue-green goop and mixed and drained down the funnel.

The other end of the funnel spat out a uniform blue-green goo, pooling and rippling on the ground as drops poured in. Once all of it drained out, it rose up and took the form of a strange woman. Her green hair was a lighter green than Cassie's, almost a light grass yellow-green. She wore Phoebe's blue blouse sleeves and Cassie's black bra, but with highlights of the off color. She had darker red versions of Phoebe's bows, Cassie's gold necklace, but with Phoebe's silver flower pendant attached.


Cassie made the body stand. She looked at herself, confused about the new outfit. She wasn't sure how her restoration could go this wrong.

Then she heard someone else in her head.

*Cassie! We look so cute! We should have tried this a long time ago! We're going to have so much fun!*

* * *

Sonia and Amber were drinking tea, going over notes. Amber pointed at some Xs and Os. "And that's the strategy we're going to use. Just keep your wits about you, and remember you're in charge of that room."

Sonia nodded. "Right. And you just need to remember you're in control of yourself. Think big."

Amber nodded. "Yup! As long as we're focused, maybe we can get that favor from Ally."

Sonia smiled. "Yup! Well, good luck."

Amber nodded. "Same to you."

Sonia walked to the door. "How do far along do you think everyone is?"

An ear piecing scream echoed through the halls, as if one voice cried out with the terror of millions.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!"

Speakers popped with static and feedback, lights flickered, and loose objects in the room rattled around.