Emi woke up feeling extremely groggy. She stretched, still with her eyes closed.

*Is it really morning already? I feel like I ate literally all of the sugar...Oh yeah! Zoe turned me into a cake.*

Emi froze her stretch, then felt around her body, checking for missing slices. She was all there, although she could swear her boobs felt bigger and fluffier than yesterday. That was strange, maybe less so considering Zoe, but acceptable.

But what was this strap across her chest. It felt like a seat belt?

"Finally awake?"

Why was Scarlett here? Emi finally opened her eyes.

She was in the passenger seat of a fancy car. Something low to the ground, probably a sports car of some sort. "Where ?...What's going on? The last thing I remember was half of me being eaten."

Scarlett grinned. "Grace said you were a heavy sleeper. Once the rest of us woke up and worked off the weight, we made arrangements with some friends for today. You're guaranteed to be squeeing or mush by the end of the day." She paused and looked up, daydreaming. "Maybe both."

Emi gulped. "Whole day? What arrangements could take that long?"

"Well, you know, we needed to reserve the building, get a few people to help out..."

"HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE WATCHING THIS?!"

Scarlett smiled. "Nobody we don't trust."

"And I'm still keeping an eye on things."

Emi looked over her shoulder. Grace was smiling in the back seat. "If anyone messes with you too much, they'll be part of my toy collection for a day. Of course, after last night's experience, I decided to have some fun with everyone too!"

Scarlett laughed. "Anyway, you can think it over while we drive."

Emi staring at the floor, regretting her recent decisions. "This is a lot to take in first thing in the morning."

Scarlett turned the key, and the engine roared. "Let's go!"

"Where are we go-IIIIIIIIIIIIING!"

Scarlett took off across town at high speeds. "I've been working on this car since I learned what a wrench was. I've tuned it to speed up really fast, though I've had to rebuild it after a few race accidents exploded both of us, and..."

Emi and Grace could hear Scarlett talking, but they were not used to Scarlett's high speeds. The G-Forces alone were enough to press them into their seats. Their forms rippled and spread as they flattened, losing cohesion and limbs starting to fuse them into long sheets.

Emi was biting her lip, eyes closed. Two transformations into the bet and twice she was feeling her body flowing against itself, blissfully losing any semblance of a solid shape. She already felt herself stretching around the seat, flapping in the breeze. She had to hope the ride would end before she broke apart and shouted for joy.

Grace had no such restrictions on losing bets. "WHEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!"

*SPLAT*SPLAT*

Scarlett laughed, seeing a bit of Grace's hair gooped against the rear window. "Well, at least one of you is enjoying the ride."

*Grace is splattering back there?! UUUUGH! How long do I have to hold myself together for this ride?*

The thought just made Emi squeeze her eyes shut tighter.

* * *

"We're here!"

Emi felt the car come to a stop. She knew she didn't splash into the seat, but she felt her whole body flow forwards, almost like a dizzy hangover. Somehow, she managed to restore herself a little.

She tested flexing her fingers. *Uuuugh, everything feels loose like I'm going to fall apart any second. But I can't give in either.*

Emi opened her eyes. Zoe and another red head were opening the doors for her and Grace.

"Where...where are we?"

Scarlett answered with one leg out her door. "At the finest spa this town has to offer. And by that I mean the one a friend works at."

The passenger side doors opened. Zoe offered her hand. "Well? Does a high speed squishing feel good?"

Emi blinked, trying to will her body solid. She could feel her backside clinging to the seat, stretching as she peeled herself off to get out. "I'm supposed to say yes when I didn't even get coffee today? I'm barely awake."

She tried to push Zoe out of her way, but her semi-solid arm compressed into itself. She got one foot out of the car, but the second was a challenge. Her heel slid along the ground, gliding along her own unstable body, partially gooped from getting squished into her seat. Like a rookie ice skater, she fell backwards while moving forwards. Her body gave up on reforming in that instant, splattering on the ground in an Emi shaped puddle.

Grace had slightly better balance. She made it out standing on wobbly legs, then laughed lovingly at Emi's state. "Okay, I made it two steps. I think I proved my point, Emi has the right idea."

*SPLOOSH*

Grace stopped trying to hold herself together, and her body twisted to the ground. Layers of her body expanded as she spun towards the ground like a whirlpool, splashing into herself, only to burst apart when more of the liquid lady puddled up.


* * *

Zoe and Ally collected Grace and Emi in clear buckets. Then they walked into the employees entrance of the large brick building they parked behind, "Melt The Day Away Day-Spa." They climbed stairs to the roof, while Scarlett went to prepare the next session.

Grace's face was grinning on top of her gooped body. "Okay, the car ride was fun, but where are we? And when can I get up?"

Zoe laughed. "Whenever you want. Though honestly the next trick is easier if Emi stays in her bucket."

Emi's face coalesced and shimmered atop her black and neon pink ooze. "No fair! You know I'm not great at rearranging myself!" Two tendrils briefly rose out of the gooey ooze, attempting to form arms, before splashing back in.

Zoe wagged her finger. "And that's why we recommended yesterday's training seminar to you. But I am serious about it being easier if you stay that way. I need to pour you into a mold, and unless you *want* to get squished into a tiny opening..."

Emi visibly gulped, producing bubbles on her surface. *What the hell is she planning?*

It wasn't long before Zoe and Ally opened the door, giving Emi and Grace daylight. Once they felt the thuds of buckets being put down, a swirl of silver and red emerged from Grace's bucket, twisting and gelling together into her normal shape.

Ally called across the roof. "Sorry about the wait Cassie. We're back!"

With Grace's normal point of view restored, she saw Zoe's two friends for the first time. The red haired woman with the white shorts she recognized from some of the restoration beam demo videos as Allison Ables. The woman with long green hair wore a fancy denim jacket over an outrageous short black skirt, and a top that more resembled a lacy bra. Why she stood in front of a green screen and photography lights was a mystery to her.

Grace held her chin. "You're planning on giving Emi a photo shoot? Some sort of photo transformation?"

Zoe chuckled. "Not exactly, but I need to remember that idea."

The green haired woman, Cassie, was not amused. "Allison, you told me I was here for photos that would be seen all over town. If you so much as think green paint, or having me touch..." She motioned at Emi's, oozing and splashing around her bucket, "...that...I'm throwing you into the air conditioning intake and not waiting to restore you."

Zoe picked Emi up, walked to a nearby machine. It had a small intake on the top, and a 3x3 foot door with a conveyor.

She poured Emi in. "Oh I wouldn't worry about her Greenie. She's getting treated to something arguably more devastating than you."

Emi lost whatever organization her goop had. Re-reduced to spilled paint, she felt her body flow and stretch through the tubes, filling weird compartments, bubbling through herself...

*Oooooooo I'm glad they can't really see me in here. I'm ready to melt all over again...*

Emi's attention quickly turned to the strange feeling of getting molded. Most of her hair was pulled to the top of her container, getting stretched into a cone shape. The rest of her was getting pressed into a cylinder, but there was something else she couldn't quite put her finger on. She felt like she had a tail.

*DING*

Emi exited the machine on the conveyor to all 4 women staring at her.

Grace almost squeed, but immediately clapped her hands over her mouth.

Cassie had a more malicious laugh. "Hohoho! This is too good. I didn't think my shoot would get fireworks in the background."

Emi's face, painted on the side of her rocket body, expressed wide eyed shock. "I'M A WHAT?!"

*I guess that tail is my fuse...*

Zoe laughed. "Well dear, if I'm trying to find an unusual transformation method, I thought I should try something spectacular. And don't worry, you're not blowing up alone."

Cassie laughed. "Oh? Did Allison volunteer to explode for that guy she's always flattening herself for?"

Allison grabbed her shoulders from behind. "Maybe in a private show, but today we're fulfilling a promise to show you off across town."

"WHAT-MMMPH!"
*SQUOOOOSH*

Zoe and Ally grabbed Cassie, and jammed her into the machine. The force of both women squishing her into the small opening made her pliable body collapse into green Cassie dough, easily squishing under their capable hands. She fought to restore herself, but only succeeded in having eyes and boobs briefly stretch and overflow before they thrust her all the way into the machine.

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRG! LET ME OUT OF HERE YOU-AAAAH!!!"
*WRRRRR*
*HISSSSSS*

A moment later, Emi had a fellow firework.

Grace, even without knowing Cassie yet, looked a little worried at this development. "So wait, you're sending my best friend to explode in the sky with...is she always that self absorbed?"

Zoe gave her a smile. "Oh heavens no. If I'm known for anything in this league," she stuck her chest out prominently, and pointed her thumb at herself, "it's being a bombshell."

Zoe jumped high into the air, landing directly in the intake chute.

*BWOOMP*

Her legs squished in, shunting mass into her butt. Zoe lifted her fists, and forced her newly enlarged hips into the machine.

*BWOOOMP*

Zoe sank into the machine up to her breasts, the new destination of her squished self. She ballooned to huge size, hiding most of her head inside her ridiculous bosom.

*WRRRRRRR*
"Mmmmmm I need to use this machine more. Aaaaaaaaaaah..."

Zoe's head disappeared into her boobs, which then seemingly deflated into the machine.

Grace bit her lip watching Zoe crumple, listening to the oos and ahs from inside the contraption. "Oh dear...if this is half as much fun as it sounds, I'm borrowing this machine later."

With one more loud SPLUUUURCH noise, a Zoe firework rocket appeared. Like the rest, her face was painted on the front, though her braid served as her fuse. Ally picked her up and placed her and the others into launch stands, several yards away from the firework making machine.

Emi squirmed. "I still don't know about exploding!"
*I can't wait to feel this...*

Cassie struggled. "I did NOT sign up to be a cheap light show! I am so much more than a two second experience. AND it's still day time."

Zoe laughed. "That's honestly for Emi's benefit so it's harder to see us. My black dress will show though. Grace, care to do the honors?"

Ally motioned to the long lighting tool. "I was promised I wouldn't disintegrate in this story. I'd light them myself, but I'm not chancing anything."

Grace took the long . "Zoe and Scarlett promised that? They're nicer than I thought."


"Alright girls, time to send you on your journey."

Grace lit the ends of each lady's fuse, being careful not to knock them over. She was squeezing the trigger with excitement. Once her job was done, she dashed back to where Ally was standing. Grace was so eager to see Emi's lights in the sky, she didn't notice Ally calmly stepping away.

Zoe counted them down. "Three...two...one..."

*WHOOOOOSH*
"AAAAAAAAH!"
"WAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"WHEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!"

*BOOOOOOOOOOOM*
Cassie exploded into a bright green firework of her face, enraged and surrounded by a red firework aura. The anger made her burn out and fade from the sky faster than the others.

*BA-BOOOOOM*
Emi exploded next. Lost in the thrill of rocketing, too stunned to react to her body bursting apart. All that while trying to hide how much she loved the intense pressure shattering her. Her face lit the sky with huge pink Xs for eyes, barely twisting her mouth into a more shocked scream than one of pleasure.

*BADOOOOOM*
Zoe exploded into a huge full body pinup between the others. She appeared as an array of black and tan streaks and sparkles burning through the sky. They formed her bombshell beautiful self blowing a kiss, but as the explosion spread through the sky, it looked as if Zoe was inflating to huge proportions before falling apart, as if popping again.

As the lights faded, they each plummeted to earth as a collection of smoldering ash, complete with intact pairs of eyes.

Grace and Ally stood on the roof, watching the display. It wasn't long before three piles of hot ash fell in heaps in front of them, matching a burned out color scheme of their friends.

Of the three, only Zoe's eyes looked pleased.

Grace gave them a round of applause. "That was beautiful! But I'm not sure how much Emi will like having to restore from that."

Emi's pile of ashes shook, scattering apart on the roof. Her voice was as disheveled as her smoldering ashes. "I...hate...being...in...this...many...pieces..."

Cassie somehow shook harder, her enraged eyes hopping on top of green powder. "I SHOULD NEVER BE ANYTHING BUT MY GORGEOUS SELF!"

Zoe's eyes closed, laughing atop her remains. "I usually hate it, but sometimes it's worth going up in smoke. What I really despise is when it catches me by surprise, like Grace and the lighter."

Grace looked around, suddenly worried. "Huh?"

Only then did Grace notice the lighter was near a pile of reddish ash on the ground. One of her pigtails was burning up like a fuse, only inches away from her head.

"EEEEP! OH CRA-"
*FWOOOOOOOSH*

Grace was engulfed by flames. Her silhouette was visible in the fire, blue eyes perfectly visible, quickly falling apart in waves of ash. She burned brightly for all of 5 seconds, before poofing out. Grace was left as a very burned, stick thin version of herself, without her poofy pigtails. She instantly collapsed into red and silver powder on the ground.

Cassie managed to laugh. "Hah! Serves you right for igniting greatness. I think that look is an improvement for you."

Zoe's disembodied eyes somehow raised an eyebrow. "I'm still trying to figure out how she didn't turn into a sparkler or Roman candle."

Grace's blue eyes, plopping on top of her dust, were spinning. "Ooof...disintegrating is no fun. Can one of you hurry up and mush me back together? That's the fun part."

Emi meekly replied. "There's a fun part to being a pile of ashes?! Just fix me already!"

Ally, safely several feet away, slinked towards the door. "I'll...go get Scarlett. She can restore you, I'm escaping before Flex remembers to disintegrate me too."

* * *

After Scarlett and Ally got some water and reintegrated everyone, they led Emi and Grace inside.

Grace was chatting with Scarlett as they walked. "Does she always hate these games that much?"

"Cassie? Oh, she's weird like that. We kinda expected her to run for it as soon as she gelled back together."

Grace laughed. "Is that why you restored her on a roof with no guard rails?"

Scarlett shrugged. "She may have impacted into a painting of herself, but I'm sure she'll be okay. They're not scheduled to pave today...I think."

Zoe would not stop prodding Emi. "Well? Did that blow your mind? Did you enjoy raining down? Rocketing up, bursting into colorful flames, and showing off in the sky?"

"NO!" Emi continued trying to hide her emotions. *The pressure was exquisite! It was actually great until I was fluttering through the sky reduced to ash...*

"Reeeealllyyyyy?" Zoe wouldn't let it go.

*SQUIIIIIIIIIIIIISH*

Scarlett swung the door open, squishing distracted Zoe against the wall. It bounced away from the wall revealing Zoe's postered body, back flat against the wall and boobs squished extra wide, hands holding her mouth open to stick out her tongue.

"Let it go Zoe. We need to get changed so she can enjoy the single best transformation."

Emi knew Scarlett well enough to know what was coming. "Best is a relative word, but melting...does..."

She hoped nobody saw her gulp.

Fortunately, Ally had a distraction. "Hey Scarlett, care to make this interesting?"

* * *

Moments later, they were sitting in the sauna. It was a moderately sized room, with wood benches along the walls. All surfaces were covered with 3 inch square tiles in various shades of blue, surrounding them with wavy patterns. In the middle of the floor was a drain back to the locker room. The floor was slightly tilted towards it to help liquid patrons escape the heat after they had enough.

Grace assured them the temperature was "only" set to moderately melty.
Emi sat next to Grace. Scarlett and Ally sat to their sides, opposite each other. Emi and Grace wore sleek two piece swimsuits. Grace's was silver with yellow trim. The bottom was skirted, and her top was actually slightly more revealing than her usual low cut shirt.

Emi's was perceived as a two piece, but its top and bottom were actually connected by her traditional netting over her tummy. It showed off off her boobs as well, barely covering her collar bone, squeezing her cleavage into more netting. Her bottom piece was otherwise a bikini bottom, letting her thighs shine.

Scarlett wore a tiny, bright blue bikini, mainly because everyone forced her to not be naked under a towel. In a way, she had the most modest outfit even if it had the least coverage.

Ally wore a tight red one piece swimsuit with a plunging neckline, practically reaching down to her stomach. She sat opposite Scarlett, looking directly at her blue eyes, occasionally licking her lips, leaning to show off more side boob, and in general doing everything possible to tease Scarlett.

The pale beads on Scarlett's skin suggested Ally was getting a reaction.

Emi was breathing slowly, willing her body to ignore the wonderful heat surrounding her. She looked a little stressed out.

Grace leaned back next to her, eyes closed, beads of sweat and self collecting on her skin. "Relax Emi! Just enjoy this."

"I'm not melting before Little Miss Melts-a-lot."

Ally laughed. "I don't think you have anything to worry about. As soon as it gets hot in here she's as good as goop. She has a reputation for melting to uphold. That's why I bet against her staying solid."

With that, Ally squeezed her arms against her sides.

Scarlett, dripping a little more, harrumphed. "Sure I do, as the more experienced TF League member I should resist longer."

Emi took another deep breath. *I will not melt first. I will not enjoy my gooey...no think solid think solid damnit!*

A few drops of Emi ran down her thighs. She tensed up, feeling more of herself slide around the bench.

Scarlett grinned. "And so it begins!"

Ally countered. "And you're dripping faster just watching it."

Scarlett pouted and looked at Ally's eyes. "So what? I can still outlast her."

Ally leaned forward, letting her boobs sway, showing just how revealing her swimsuit was. "Can you really though?"

She winked, tilting her upper body just so.

Scarlett's jaw stretched to the floor, splatting into a little goop. Her eyes tried to look away, but she really wasn't a match for anyone that cute. "N...No? Don't you have a boyfriend?"

Ally shrugged. "Oh, I'm definitely still his. He's really good at melting and squishing me out of this like toothpaste, like he will later tonight. I just like messing with you."

With that, Scarlett splashed through the bench, instantly melted by Ally's wiles. Globs of Scarlett dripped to the floor, stretching with her puddle until snapping back together. She flowed in waves of red and peach gooey girl, quivering while oozing along the tiles.

Scarlett bubbled near her eyes, complaining as she drained away. "No fair, Ally chea-blblbl..."

Her eyes split apart as they swirled through the grate at the drain, completely lost to her lusty melty fate.

Grace and Ally laughed, watching Scarlett lose the side bet to Ally.

Emi let out a sigh of relief. "Whew...I knew I was stronger than-"

*PLOP*

"Eeep!" Emi blushed, feeling most of her shins drip away loudly. She looked down, and found two gooey creamy puddles.

"Relax Emi." Grace dripping now, streams of red hair running down her skin, but she remained just as calm as ever. "It's not like you've never been puddled before."

Emi blushed harder weakly pointing at Ally. "Okay yeah, but not, you know, with..."

Ally pulled out a remote and laughed. "Me? Please, I'm just here to win a bet by gooping a fangirl, then melting myself for the author and my Boo. Besides, we barely turned up the heat."

Grace and Emi looked at each other, then back at Ally. "Huh?"

Ally cranked the remote. "I'm saying now that nobody's watching you Emi, we can actually enjoy ourselves."

Jets of steam erupted from the walls, and the temperature shot up. Emi and Grace could feel the infusion of warmth assaulting their bodies, soothing away their aches, pains, and solidity.

Grace leaned back, sinking into herself and spreading her butt across the bench. "Oh this is wonderful."

Emi felt her body start to give too. "Whoa whoa! I can't...I shouldn't..."

Ally laughed, rapidly becoming a melted mess. "Hey, you two are the professionals here. I'll see you in the locker room."

Ally kept sinking onto the bench, morphing from cute inventor to cute pink blob. She folded over herself, waves of featureless peach paint spilling over melting red clothes to the floor.

"Mmmmm I feel squishy. Good thing Boo isn't here to his Strawberry Shake."

Of course Ally leaned forward after that, splatting and mixing herself into a pink puddle.  Her gooey butt hung in the air from her fall, slowly spreading over the rest of her like melting ice cream, while she flowed to the drain.

"Aaaaaaaah...see you later girls."

She winked, and blubbed away.

Grace wiped melting hair out of her eyes, leaving a splotch of red goo on her arm. She looked at Emi. "How ya doing champ?"

Emi looked at Grace like a boxer begging her manager to let her go another round. "I'm surviving these transformations. They'll never catch me enjoying a long, slow....relaxing..."

Grace, now half her height and looking like melting pudding, cut off Emi. "You know, Ally's right. You need to have some fun. I won't tell anyone if you enjoy this."

Emi looked at Grace, smearing melting pink hair out of her eyes. "...Promise?"

Grace nodded. "Just this once."

Emi finally breathed out, and her eyes rolled back into her head.

 "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh..."

Almost as fast as Scarlett, Emi melted to the floor. She loved the feeling of each drop of herself splashing, scattering and recombining with herself. The planks of the bench running through her, almost tickling her whole body as she flowed through. She loved the sensation of every glob of herself splashing down hard then seeping between the boards. In seconds, she was a hot pink splash of paint with an Emi face, rippling blissfully away.

Grace watched Emi's smiling face flow along the floor, mixing into herself as it spun down the drain.

"I wonder if she's doing that on purpose to hide her smile. Ah well."

Then Grace felt her butt flow over the edge of the bench. Her time was up. She flowed in one piece, almost like going through rollers only as a large ball of goop. Parts of her layered back, thick goo piling up before the silvery red puddle melted away.

"Mmmmm...this was too nice. I wonder how much longer Emi can hold out..."

* * *

Fortunately for Emi, she had plenty of time to calm her emotions while flowing through the pipes. Splashing along and getting mixed into a uniform gray-pink pudding, all she had to do was stay quiet while the solid restored Scarlett questioned her.

"Wasn't that fun?! You can't tell me you didn't love sliding along yourself, dripping through things, just..." Scarlett blushed and smiled sheepishly, lost in her own fantasies. "...glooping!"

Fortunately, Emi had a friend to cover for her. Grace interrupted Scarlett by spooling into a pile of silvery red ice cream next to them. She melted to the floor as her layers piled up, spreading into an wide lumpy puddle. Once she finished glooping down next to her, Grace's face stretched up, pulling her head out of the ooze, and took in the situation.

"Are you giving Emi a hard time? You know she isn't the best at restoring herself. Give the girl a minute!"

Melting wasn't that hard to recover from. Emi probably could have gooped together by now if she wanted to. But it was nice to just float around on the floor.

*Oooooh thanks Grace. Best to stay quiet and play dumb a while longer.*

Scarlett kept pressuring though. "Oh come on, you can't tell me she didn't LOVE feeling every bit of herself sliding and touching her-"

*WHAM*

Ally's large mallet turned Scarlett into a seven foot pancake, flopping around the floor under the hammer. "Come on Scarlett, not everyone thinks like that. Let them pull together and get to Zoe's next idea."

Scarlett's eyes were spirals. "O...kay..."

Emi mentally released a deep breath, making her puddle bubble. *I definitely was thinking like that.*

Grace's colors slowly collected into something resembling her womanly figure. She stretched her arms up, dripping from the puddle, reaching for the ceiling and growing into her normal shape.

Restored, she grabbed a bucket and kneeled next to Emi. "Here, I think I see a pattern developing."

* * *

Emi relaxed through the walk outside. She didn't attempt to restore any features while sloshing around her bucket. She only knew they were there because the cool breeze rippled the surface of her thick fluid form.

*Mmmm...I don't even care about the stupid bet anymore. This is the best day I've had in a while.*

She heard Zoe, Scarlett, Ally, and a new voice talking to Grace. There were some eeps and yelps from the new one, then the rattling of another machine, and a dazed "Whooooa....".

*Hmm...Whoever that new woman is, I guess she's not quite as into this as we are.*

After that, Zoe shouted something, Emi heard loud squishing and slurping sounds, then moaning as Zoe's body was molded by the contraption.

Emi was content to flow around herself, grays and pinks layering and moving through the bucket, until she heard Grace whisper.

"Your turn."

Emi felt herself flow, pouring out of the bucket, then crash against steel. She felt something stringy join and mix with her; Grace probably brought her fishnet shirt since she never reformed in the locker room. Blades spun through her, probably intended for gooping Zoe and her other friend. Once she was stirred into a bubbly goop, pressure forced her through another tube to collect in some reservoir.

Just Emi got comfortable, she felt something get pressed through her. Then she was blasted with cool air, forcing her out back to solidity around the strange object. Large pistons slammed against her, pressing with incredible force, pounding her flat. The harder they pressed, the more Emi felt hollow inside, but most importantly...

*YEEEES This pressure feels great! It's a shame I was already mush but...aaaaah..."

*DING*

Metal rollers carried Emi out of the machine. Scarlett and Grace were waiting.

Emi was in a sort of wake up haze or transformation hangover. When she saw the bright light it she realized she could sense her flattened face on the surface of...whatever she was now. "Huh? Where?"

Grace picked her up. "Relax Emi. You're in the parking lot again. I just need to hook you up to a tank next to Zoe and Phoebe."

Emi felt Grace's fingers touching something...was that near her toes? And her feet were fused together? Grace stretched the void between her fused feet over something.

When she saw Zoe and the blond...that must be Phoebe...she realized she was done for.

*Uh oh...after melting, there's no way I'm holding a straight face through being a balloon like that.*

Zoe and Phoebe were already four foot actual round balloons. The machine must have squished and molded them into a true balloon shape rather than just jamming an air hose into a questionable location. Both of their faces dominated their balloon shapes, their bodies relatively tiny near the bottom where the hose was.

Zoe was grinning ear to ear as air filled her, making a soft rubber creaking noise. Phoebe looked cautiously optimistic, swaying in the breeze and trying to enjoy her new shape.

"Wheeeeeeeee! Ally was right, this was a great way to spend my break time."

Emi's face, painted on her body like the others, raised an eyebrow. "Your break?"

Zoe laughed, bobbing in the breeze. "She has a side gig here. How else could we get into a spa so early to play with you like putty?"

Emi and Grace looked at each other. Grace shrugged for both of them. It made sense.

"Now Grace," Zoe shouted her orders, "inflate her!"
The knob turned, and Emi felt air filling her. Her round rubber body grew, stretching in every direction. She felt the pressure building, her body succumbing to the the urge to get bigger, sending a wonderfully strange feeling through her. She was getting lighter, floating up to join Zoe and Phoebe in the air.

*Ooooh this is nice. I don't think I can...*

Zoe's voice interrupted her thoughts. "Is that a smile I see on your face?"

Emi tried to be snappy. "Calm down air head. Just because you're boobs are always puffed up-"

Zoe huffed. "I assure you they're that big naturally."

Emi didn't acknowledge her. "...and have an over inflated body all the time doesn't mean that I'm...I'm..."

Just then, Emi's body stretched enough that her fishnets went to work. She felt her skin trying to force through the special material, patches of her bulging out. The pressure was building up within her, and even though she would still grow much bigger than her current size, she knew she would really enjoy it.

"IIIIIII'm caught in my fishnets and it feels greeeeeeeaat!"

Zoe cheered. "I KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING WEIRD ABOUT THOSE!"

Scarlett cried out in dismay. "Oh come on! It's not even the inflation?!"

Emi, no longer trying to hide anything, let herself grow. She knew how to force her clothes bigger, feeling them press against her with each growth spurt. Each hiss of the pump was accompanied by her happy squeals, reveling in the pressure building up inside fer. At ten feet across, her surface resembled a pineapple, lots of square bulges fighting through the nets and ready to burst at a moment's notice.

Phoebe, getting to be a seven foot balloon herself by now, squeaked. "Eep! Isn't that a little big? This is fun, but...is Emi okay?"

Zoe cooed too, loving the sensation of expanding to be as big as Emi. However she morphed herself, her lower half had grown enough to show her clothes were doing the bare minimum for covering her inflated body. Her face dominated most of her form, stretching towards her limit, but clearly smiling.

"Mmmmm this is great, but I wonder if Emi likes the real prize."

Emi, contorted face caught between fun and holding together, peeked at Zoe. "You mean this isn't it?"

"Grace? Scarlett?"

Emi looked down. Grace and Scarlett both held long swords, sparkly at their extra sharp points.

Her eyes bugged open wide, and her surface started rumbling unstably. "Wait wait wait are you seriously going to-?"

Zoe screamed. "YES!"

Scarlett stabbed Zoe. Her face contorted with pleasure as her inflated form ripped apart.
*BOOOM*
"AAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh"

Black and tan scraps of Zoe fluttered across the parking lot, still twitching from the shock.

Emi tried to gulp, but realized even that might make her explode. She looked down at Grace.

Her best friend smiled warmly, the sword down at her side. "Do you even need the help, or...?"

Emi smiled. "Nope! I'm not going to last long."

Grace laughed. "You're loving this one way too much aren't you."

Emi's body stretched another few feet. She was becoming transparent. "Yeeees! I'm glad you're okay being friends with a silly woman who-OOOOOOOO-OH!"

Grace stabbed her anyway.
*BOOOOOOM*

Emi's fishnet shirt snapped through her skin, returning to its normal size. She loved feeling it tear through her, ripping her apart into tiny pieces. It shattered Emi's ballooned body into hundreds of black and white scraps, collapsing in a messy pile around her shirt. A few pieces were tinted pink, but the largest scrap with her face showed her two eyes turned into big pink hearts.

"Ooooooh...that was fun..."

Scarlett had to adjust her hair. She was loving what she was seeing, but now she was lost in thought, thinking about the bet. "I can't believe it..."

Grace laughed. "Don't worry, I think you get a chance to match Zoe."

Scarlett nodded. She pulled out her phone, and swiped something quickly.

The largest pile of Emi scraps groaned. "Ooooh...as much as that felt good, can someone help put me together again? Restoring myself sucks."

Everyone laughed.

Grace eventually spoke again. "That's always been your problem. The squish is fun, but you need to get back up."

Scarlett sighed. "The choices we make for fun in life."

"Uuuuuuh, little help?!?!"

Everyone turned to Phoebe's voice. Forgotten in the contest, Phoebe was a whopping fifty foot balloon floating above the spa. Her cheeks and eyes were puffed to the point of absurdity, her body almost completely spherical. Even her painted on curves were threatening to overflow her clothes, shirt stretching into her boobs, pink striped underwear visible at her base. Her usual bright colors were fading into transparency, stretching thin from her expansion.

"Sure I like playing with Ally sometimes...but I can only take so much...EEP!"
*BOOOOM*

Like the others, Phoebe exploded. She felt shards of her body flying everywhere, leaving her to worry how she could put herself together again. "Waaaaaaaaaah! I might need a restoration beam after that."

The force was strong enough to scatter Zoe and Emi even further, covering the lot with their scraps. Grace and Scarlett fall backwards, forced into the ground so hard their bodies rippled apart, liquefying instantly. They were reduced to paintings of themselves on the asphalt, looking shocked towards the sky.

Grace spoke weakly. "Aaaah! I don't think I can peel myself off!"

Scarlett squeaked. "Yeah...we'll be here a while."

* * *

It took a while for Emi, Zoe, and Phoebe to pull their bodies back together. Their piles of rubbery scraps were still reassembling, Zoe piecing an ragged arm together just enough to help with the others. Even then, Grace and Scarlett only regained a fraction of thickness to their paintings.

Fortunately the door opened, and Amber walked out of the building with restoration equipment. "There you are! I came as soon as I got Scarlett's message, but didn't realize you were back here. I know this is play with Emi day, but...wow?"

Scarlett's painted face looked "down", up to Amber. "Less talky, more zappy!"

A few green flashes later, and the six of them stood restored in the parking lot.

Eventually Phoebe realized she had to get back to work. She waved as she ran back inside. "Thanks for coming! Oh, and recommend us to your friends!"

Everyone waved back, but then Zoe was back to business. "Well? Emi loved blowing up and popping. I don't think anyone can deny that one."

Emi blushed, smiling and giggling at the recent memory.

Zoe's head snapped back to look at Scarlett. "So either you make her squee again, or that's only the first time Scarlett becomes a happy little painting today."

Scarlett suddenly wore a very serious face. She leaned over to Amber, whispering in her ear. Amber nodded, then Scarlett looked back to the group.

"Okay. I was saving this, but it seems I have no choice."

Grace scratched her chin. "How many things were you planning to do to Emi?"

Zoe laughed. "Don't worry, we sent the cement mixer and the paper shredder back home."

Emi stuck her tongue out, disgusted. "Please keep the shredder out of this! It's enough of a pain reassembling from popping, I don't need something as complicated as becoming paper mache in my life."

Scarlett nodded. "Good, just follow me then."

They walked across the parking lot towards the cars.

Amber snickered, pausing to look at the green painting on the ground. "I know Ally's crew was here. Should we help her?"

Zoe rolled her eyes. "Yeah, I guess we should be nice and restore Cassie."

Amber stopped to zap and restore her, while the others continued a few more feet. They ignored the sounds of Cassie's heels and screams running away,

Then Scarlett stopped suddenly. "Oh! Hey, can you wait there for a second?"

Emi and Grace stopped a few feet away from Scarlett and Zoe. Emi asked, "Sure? What's up?"

Scarlett nodded, and a shadow fell over all of them. Grace and Emi turned around, seeing giant sized Amber for the first time.

Grace jumped back, legitimately surprised. "Oh wow! I had heard giants existed, but I never thought-ACK!"

Amber's size sixty shoes cut her off.
*SQUIIIIIIISH*

Emi threw her arms up, but that only squished her elbows faster. Her arms were squished into her shoulders, and her boobs expanded from the mass. Her body was crushed to the ground, crumpling her legs into her butt. The hourglass boost to Emi's squishing figure expanded her into her fishnets again, threatening to tear them or her apart.

Just the way she liked it.

"OOOOOH YEAH!"

At two feet of squishiness, Emi's flattening body started cutting through her fishnets. The bite of the strange fabric had her slicing into smooth peach cubes for the smallest instant, before Amber's foot crashed down splattering her back together.

Emi groaned, lost in the feeling. Her mind was as sharp as her mushy body under Amber's foot after getting worked over all day.

Grace had a much tamer reaction, simply yelling "WHEEEEE" as she splatted to the ground. Her hair bunched around her, cushioning her pancaking body. She spread wide, glooping just as much as Emi, leaving her face smiling on top of a red and silver splat of toony gum.

Amber looked down at her footwork. She could see Emi and Grace's colors oozing out from under her shoe. "Did I get 'em?"

Scarlett put down her camera. "Got it in slow motion even! But keep going!"

Amber grinned with a hint of maliciousness in her eye. "With gusto."

She lifted her foot, letting Scarlett and Zoe see the splattered Tinkerers. Emi was reduced to layers of goop on the ground. Occasionally she bubbled and twitched, her eyes floating around with pink hearts instead of irises.

Grace stuck to Amber's shoe, but just as messy. Her gummy body stretched from the pavement to Amber's foot, stretching and breaking into strands of silvery white mixed with red gooey hair. Her eyes and smiling face were painted on the side, clearly having fun.

"Oh my! I've been caught under pistons, but never a giant's-OOOF!"

*SQUISH*
*SQUASH*
*SPLOOOOOOOSH*
*SPLAAAT*
Amber stomped the pair enough to generate every squishy sound imaginable. Emi and Grace each became more and more disorganized splatters of paint, stretching and splashing about. Drops of them scattered outside Amber's shoe while their bodies molded to the shape of her foot. They gradually resolved into a single multi-colored splat, as if someone threw buckets of Grace bright red and Emi pink-gray onto the same spot.

Grace was still enjoying her body stretching and splatting together, finding the whole experience funny. She was slowly feeling something else stretching with her though, and then Emi's muddled thoughts mixed with her own.

*Ooooooooh this-SPLAT-feels great...*

*Emi? Is that you? Did Amber stomp so hard we got fused again? This hasn't happened since...*

*SQUOOOSH*

*Ooooh a little higher...Grace don't let them stop...*

Grace just laughed, happy Emi was having a good time.

Amber kept stomping and splashing her foot in them, making sure they would be completely obliterated to Scarlett's liking.

"Alright, I think they've had enough. What do you think...babe?"

Amber looked to Scarlett to make sure she was satisfied. Where Scarlett once stood, Zoe was holding the Scarlett's phone, bits of melted red hair and peach fingers dripping off. A matching puddle of red and blue was pooling below.

Zoe shouted her reply. "Oh, I think she liked it. I might need to ask her if it really counts as Emi liking it if she melts from watching it."

Emi and Grace's goop wobbled beneath Amber. Grace's head glooped up, but with Emi-pink pigtails and pink highlights in her red hair. She reformed as far as her shoulders, now wearing silver fishnets.

"Ooof...I think Emi is completely checked out. She's demanding someone named Leonardo not stop squishing her back. She's going to be distracted for a while."

Amber grinned. "I guess I shouldn't stop then."

'Graci' looked up, smiling. "Oh good, this is too much-"

*SQUOOOOOSH*