"Thanks for filling in again Scarlett. I didn't realize Jess was busy today when I signed us up for today's race."

The red head looked back at Zoe, who was barely contained by her uniform, and tried not to drool. Tried. "But...uuuuh Zoe...I thought she could..."

Zoe picked Scarlett's jaw back up off the ground. "Okay maybe, but she wouldn't let me have any fun. It's been a while since I was in a race with a goal of publicity. How about you darling, you ready?"

Scarlett took stock of her own outfit. She wasn't threatening to escape her shirt like Zoe, not that many were, but she definitely felt like her orange and brown outfit was tight. This was definitely some sort of Zoe edition of the Dust Bunny gear. If she saw herself without realizing it, she might have ended up puddled.

"I'm...uh, okay I guess? I think my uniform's tight today. Do you feed me anything weird last night to fill it out?"

Zoe scoffed at the question, waving a hand while laughing. "Oh goodness no. I just washed it on hot to shrink it a little."

Scarlett bit her lip. "So that's your secret."

"Well that and blowing myself up a few sizes like an old teacher of mine. Enough about that though, you saw the course summary right?"

Scarlett nodded. "Yup. All sorts of mountainy type stuff. So rocks, climbing, camping..."

Zoe rolled her eyes. "You know we're not climbing right?"

Scarlett's head tilted. "But I thought you'd want to fall and splat for your adoring public?"

Zoe laughed. "No no no, it's much too much work for that. Besides, the boulders can do that faster. I almost guarantee you there's a helium tank for me there."

Scarlett immediately began sweating bullets. "You mean...you'll get even bigger...ooooh .....oh my..."

Zoe grinned. "Yup! So you better get ready because this shirt will barely stretch large enough to-"

*SPLOOOOOSH*

Zoe looked to where Scarlett was, only to see a gooey red headed puddle on the floor, and face palmed.

"Right...maybe this wasn't such a good idea."

* * *

Scarlett and Zoe stood before a long dirt trail. Tall rocky cliffs lined it on both sides. They recognized Laura's voice booming over the loud speaker to signal their start.

"Ready...Set....SQUISH!"

Scarlett sighed. "Does she have to say Squish every time?"

Zoe scoffed in response. "Are you telling me you and Amber are NOT going to watch the slow motion replays of exactly that?"

Scarlett blushed, looking up extremely not-innocently. "Okay, yes, but have you seen Tracy melt down? She really-Oo!"

Zoe gave Scarlett a shove forwards, rolling her eyes. "Calm down melty one. Race first, liquefy later."

The red head stumbled forward before regaining her balance, though she took it in stride. She spun and took bounding steps backwards, motioning for Zoe to follow. "Alright, alright, let's get moving so we can-"

*RUMBLE*
*SQUIIIIIIIIIIISH*

A boulder rolled across the path right through Scarlett as she was turning. Zoe caught a glimpse of Scarlett's stupefied face plastered against the stone, legs getting pasted to the floor. It rolled mass up her form, rippling through her like a tube of toothpaste, giving her bigger thighs, bigger hips, and huge breasts as she was flattened. When the rock was done, rolling up and over the other side almost like a half pipe, Scarlett's basic shape was smeared into an orange and red sticker a good eight feet along the ground, getting wider towards her huge head with spiraled blue eyes.

*SHLLLLLLLLLRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRPP*

Zoe jogged up to her flat friend, loudly peeling her up. One quick flap, a comical wobble noise, and Scarlett *POP*ed back into shape, stumbling around with stars over her head.

"Come on dear, if you want to build up your fan base, you have to do it like this."

Zoe trotted away, sauntering her hips, snapping Scarlett out of it. She shook her head, rattling around whatever was inside like a hollow tin, so she could properly focus on the butt bouncing away in front of her.

Zoe picked up her pace, skipping and waiting for the next rock. "I sure hope nothing bad happens to me on this trail..."

She was making surprising progress. So much that she threw her hands into the air and screamed, "Oh come on already!"

*SLAM*
*RUUUUMBLE*

A boulder twice her size fell into the path from behind, rushing towards her. It only needed seconds to roll up her feet.

"Well it's about friggen' ti-"
*SQUIIIIIIIIISSSSH*

It threw her forwards. Her legs were crushed to the ground instantly, thighs spreading like clay under the incredible force. She breathed in sharply when the stone pushed against her butt, loving the intense pressure on her back.

*SQUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH*
"OOOOH-MMMPH!"

Her shorts made a huge orange splat, butt smeared more than a few feet across. The rest of her squished fast, flesh pressing out like dough under a rolling pin. It paused over her upper back, needing the extra moment to obliterate Zoe's boobs, expanding out from under the boulder along with her crossed eyes, until-

"NNNNNNNNGYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"
*SPLAAAAAAAAAAT*

The boulder continued on, leaving a ten foot long splattered Zoe spread face down across the ground. Her flattened form lay there for a moment, shaking and twitching.

Scarlett approached quickly but cautiously, tip toeing to not flatten Zoe further...even while her eyes lingered on huge flattened tan hips. "Z-Zoe? Are you o-"

"Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaahhhh---<3 "

Zoe moaned, peeling off the floor, rolling herself up face first with silver hearts bubbling over her head.

Scarlett daintily grabbed her feet, biting her lip while trying not to gawk at Zoe's massive flat chest. "Come on! I know that looked great and we'll watch it on loop later tonight, but we need to keep going! Remember the prize money!"

*FLAP*
*WOOOOOBBLE WOBBLE*
*POP*

Zoe's form wobbled bigger, puffing into three dimensions as Scarlett shook her until the last snap restored her to normal. She shook her head, waving her braid around behind her, still smiling and blushing from her experience. "Whoooooa...that was pretty good. But you're right, we should go."

They nodded at each other, and took off. The pair made it half way to the door before the floor started shaking.

Scarlett threw her arms out for balance. "What the heck is that?! Are Sonia and Amber here or something?"

Zoe was essentially vibrating in place. "No they would invite me to that. I don't know what this is!"

Neither saw the huge shadow growing around them until the boulder was on top of them.

*WHAAAAAAAAAM*

The slow motion cameras caught their stupefied grins. The boulder crushed them like clay figures, smashing their bodies into mush almost instantly. In half a second they were double stretched width, smushed into big eyes above mass shifted boobs and butts, each shaking wildly from the pressure. Then they vanished with a loud SQUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISH sound.

The rock rolled on, revealing two massive pancakes in its wake, one dominated by a smooth sheet of red hair, the other a black braid. Both women's flattened breasts were drawn extra large on top, their butts sadly hidden within their squished tops.

The rock rolled away. After a few seconds of silence, both floppy messes started shaking. Their hair bulged upwards, and...

*BOP*
*VVVVVVVVVVVVVV*

Two colorful accordions bobbed up and down on the trail. Both of their faces were drawn on the front of the flesh colored bellows with spinning eyes, though the brown trim of their shorts was visible on the bottom, barely containing flattened butts.

"Zoooeee..." Scarlett moaned between noisy bounces. "I wanna go home."

Zoe snapped back to her senses first. "Gotta finish first dear. I'm going to need a minute to mold myself back into shape too, just follow me."

Zoe's tan body flexed forward, like an out of tune slinky rattling towards the exit. Scarlett blinked at the bottom of Zoe's accordion butt a few times before realizing she should follow, stretching and squeaking to the next room.

* * *


Two minutes later, the twin sexy accordions slinkied their way into the bottom of a huge cylindrical room. The floor still looked like patches of dirt and grass, but now the rocky walls extended at least three hundred feet up. A steel platform stuck out of the wall neat the top, where a neon sign was blinking, "GO" with an arrow pointing to it.

The accordions stopped in the middle of the room, noisily bouncing back and forth. The tan one bent all the way back, both ends on the ground, Zoe's face looking up. "Oh, a big climb? There's gotta be a pump in here. Are you alright Scarlett?"

"Uuuuugh..." Scarlett groaned again. "I should be under Amber's dump truck sized butt, not here."

"Wait, you said she wasn't-" Zoe stopped mid sentence and looked "up" thoughtfully. "You know, tell me more about that later. HRRRRNNNG!"

*POP*

Zoe's arms formed out of the sides of her bellows, making her frown. "I wanted to pop my whole body back! Not just arms. That rock was bigger than I thought. Ugh..."

She grabbed both ends of her body, then smashed herself together with a haunting noise and a fleshy squish. A few tan droplets escaped her form from the slam, but she didn't care. She pulled her body apart, straining her folds to their max length, until *POP* her body finally shook and reshaped itself back to normal, flowing around herself like living ink.

Now lying on her back, arms splayed, Zoe rolled her eyes. "Finally. Now, as I was saying, there should be a pump around here..."

Zoe reached out to collect her scattered droplets, then got up to look around.

"Hey, what about me-Whoa!"

Zoe gave Scarlett a hard pat on the head as she passed, making the pale red head's body wobble erratically. The braided beauty had her eyes locked on a small opening in the cliff, full of large metal tanks.

"I'll be with you in a moment dear. I just need to grab one of these."

Poor Scarlett's body was bobbing up and down, unable to stabilize in any way. "What's over there that you need it before fixing meee-OOOMP!"

*POOOMP*

Zoe jammed a hose into Scarlett's mouth. Her cheeks puffed out immediately from her bellows, eyes going wide looking at the tank.

And the letters "He".

"Hmmmeeeeeemmm?"

Zoe nodded. "You bet it's helium. Looks like it's your day to be the balloon."

*HIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSS*

Scarlett's body filled with helium, quickly uncrumpling and *POP* restoring to a normal, if shiny, shape. The hose was still in her mouth, and the creaking from her hips announced her butt was already growing.

She pointed at Zoe, muttering through the hose. "Mmmdt oooo?"

Zoe shook her head. "No, not me. There's no basket, and I can't have you melting after looking up my skirt yet again."

Scarlett tried to look innocent, though her blushing cheeks made that impossible. She could feel the air filling her, stretching her curves larger. Threads groaned as her expanding bosom fought for freedom, pushing and shoving against her orange uniform. Her shoulders puffed up with a hollow *THUMP*, expanding enough to restrict her movements.

*HIIIIIIIIIIIIIISS*

The red head's belly billowed out next, making her shirt ride up her air filled body until it looked more like a cheap sports bra. Her thighs grew fuller, thickening to ridiculous sizes until lifting her toes off the ground.

"Oh, that's my cue!"

Zoe stretched her arms impossibly wide to hug her 10 foot balloon. She looked like a tiny tan Stretch Armstrong, hanging from Scarlett's growing but floating body on long tan arms. She had to practically tie her arms together too, since parts of Scarlett will still bloomping to huger and huger sizes.

By now Scarlett couldn't see past her beanbag chair breasts. She rocked back and forth floating higher, more rubbery creaks echoing through the room as her forearms and legs puffed full of air, then got sucked into her almost spherical body.

"Whooooaaaaaa!!!!" Scarlett fought to get the words through the hose. "Are you sure that's okay?!"

"Yeah! Just swim a little more to the side! We'll float to the top in no time then we'll figure out how to get you-"

*RUUUUUUUUUMMMMBLE...*

The women looked at each other ominously as the rocks shook around them. Or they would have if Scarlett wasn't still growing.

"Uuuuuh Zoe?" Scarlett barely made the words intelligible. "I think I need to dodge some rocks!"

"Huh?"

*CRAAAAAAAASH*

Zoe looked down, and saw a boulder had fallen down. Its broken chunks were flying through the air when Scarlett started swimming through the air side to side.

"WHAAAAH!!!"

With the unfortunate side effect of swinging Zoe around like a rag doll.

"Scarlett what are you-!"

*WHAM*

Zoe fought to stay in three dimensions. Getting flattened was one thing, but falling off a cliff face immediately after restoring was another. "Ack! Be careful up there! I'm losing my grip!"

"Sorry! Watch out, here's another!"

Scarlett fluttered her tiny hands to swim to the side again, but Zoe's long dangling form was slow to swing over too.

Putting her directly in the boulder's path.

She screamed. "WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAA-ULP!"

Zoe's form rippled around the stone falling into her mouth. Tan toony flesh bulged out, clearly outlining the rough edges of the rock within. It was big enough to force Zoe into an almost spherical shape, sucking her limbs in and reducing her clothes to a pair of orange censor bars. She was a huge Zoe colored rock with her face painted on it, hovering below Scarlett until gravity took over.

"Nooooo I don't wanna fall shaped like th-IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSS!!"

"Mmmmph! Zoe!"

*CRAAAAAAAAAAAASH*
"ARRRRRRRRRGH!!!"

Scarlett tried to spin around so she could see Zoe's fate. Her suddenly stone-filled friend tumbled end over end towards the ground, flapping the hands sticking out of her new form in futility. The moment she hit the dirt, her body shattered. She exploded into chunks of tan stone flying in every direction, breaking apart much like the other falling obstacles before her. Her frustrated groan echoed up the chamber, not really coming from any specific piece of her.

Still, Zoe being Zoe, her remains scattered into a rough outline of her face, with two giant orange Xs for eyes.

Scarlett felt herself blushing. "Oh dear...that either hurt or felt great." She spat out the tank to should down to her team mate. "Don't worry Zoe! I'll get down and help you get back...wait..."

The blimp sized woman realized mid shout that if she wasn't forcing more air in...

"Uh...oooooh..."
*WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH*
*PBBBBBBTBTBTBT*
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!"

Air flew out of Scarlett's ridiculously puckered lips, zipping her through the air balloon butt first. Her entire form rippled and she shrank, bouncing off walls with pneumatic sounds, until she was back to normal size.

A few hundred feet in the air.

Scarlett looked down, a more than slightly concerned look on her face. She gulped, and looked down.

*PEW*

Immediately, everything from her hips down plummeted, stretching her waist.

"Whyyyy did I look down?! YAHH!"

Her top half snapped back to her butt, sending Scarlett into the ground even harder than Zoe.

"GAAAAAAAAAAAH-"
*SPLOOOOOOOOOOOSH*

Scarlett's battered body squished awkwardly against the ground before popping like a water balloon. She was liquefied by the impact, splattering orange uniform and pale flesh colored paint everywhere, along with a splash of red.

"Uuuuuuugh..."

Her goop burbled for a few seconds, unable to form or say anything coherent. Then it fell silent, both ladies incapacitated until one could restore themselves.

* * *

Zoe's pile of rubble began rattling around first. Pebbles and dust rolled to the center of her stone face drawing, climbing and slamming into each other like blocks of clay, until shaping into a sort of rock monster version of Zoe's sleek form.

"Uuuugh...I hate hate HAAAAATE shattering. Scarlett dear? Are you here?"

The sound of bubbling goop was her only response.

Zoe sprinted over, running her hand along her blocky form as she did. Each swipe of her hand brought her back back to its normal, smooth, and in some places bouncy self.

"Dear me, I know I don't turn you on this much by breaking apart. What happened to you?!"

She kneeled by Scarlett's puddle, picking up a glob of goop. Scarlett bubbled again.

Zoe noted the red head's consistency was closer to gum than water, tugging her body into the air with Zoe's handful. "So you've solidified a little. This gives me an idea..."

*SMISH*SQUISH*

Her arms moved in a blur, spinning Scarlett's wet clay body together. Zoe's face twisted with focus as she worked faster than the eyes could see, with bits of Scarlett escaping only to get sucked back in.

When she finished, Zoe held a big ball with Scarlett's confused face painted on it, right between drawings of her huge breasts and juicy butt.

Scarlett spoke as soon as her eyes stopped spinning. "Uuuugh...hi Zoe. Um...thanks for molding me into...a shape, I guess...but why can't I feel my arms?"

"Because you're easier to re-inflate this way."

Scarlett's face approximated a nod. "Ah, that makes sense I guess WAIT wha-MMMPH!"

*WHOOOOOOOOOOSH*
Zoe breathed in deep, making her chest swell to 5 times its normal size with air. Then she pressed Scarlett's mouth against her own...

*HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSS*
...and promptly filled the melty one to capacity. Zoe's powerful lungs pushed all the air into her new Scarlett ball, blowing her up to a huge diameter. Scarlett filled so fast, as much as her curvy bits tried to out-grow the rest of her in fits and bursts, Scarlett's spherical shape just sucked them back up.

Then Zoe broke the blow-kiss and pointed Scarlett's mouth at the ground.

Scarlett forced the words out while struggling to hold the air inside her huge ball body. "Zoe...I'm not sure...this is a good idea..."

Zoe stretched her arms to hug the size of Scarlett's inflated bouncy butt. "Nah it's a great plan. If I squeeze you'll float up faster this time. Let's go."

"I really think-"
*SQUEEEEEEEEEAK*
*WHOOOOOOOOOOOOSH*
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!"

Scarlett's air-filled body rippled again as she blasted off. They shot past the falling rock traps this time, reaching the top in only a few seconds. As they shot past the top platform, Zoe jumped off her inflated team mate, though her arms kept stretching up with Scarlett, unable to pull her back.

"ZOEEEEEEEEEE!!!"
"I have you!"

*BONK*

Scarlett felt herself bounce off something. She winced, expecting the worst, but for once in her left the red head held herself together, rocketing straight into Zoe.

"AAAAAAAH!"
*SQUIIIIIIIIISH*

Zoe didn't resist Scarlett flying into her. Her body pancaked against the platform like clay, showing off lots of tan skin from her curvy bits around her eyes, the only visible part of her face.

Her arms were still holding onto Scarlett, who managed to stop rocketing around on the edge after bouncing off Zoe. "Whoa...just need...to deflate now..."

"Mm-hmm!" Zoe relaxed her arms, letting them flop to the floor like loose noodles. She was about to work on restoring herself when she noticed what Scarlett hit.

The giant neon "THIS WAY" sign was rocking back and forth.

"Uuuuh, Scarlett?"

"Not now Zoe I need to focus."

"Scarlett can you roll to the side? You need to move now!"

Scarlett's face turned red, focusing on restoring. "Not now! I need to focus before something else happens to-"

*SNAP*
*BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ*
"Meee-eee--yaaaa-eee-yaaa-eee-ayaaaaaa"

The light's wires snapped, and naturally swung straight into Scarlett. Electricity coursed through her inflated body, making her flash briefly until the energy was too much for her body.

*BZZZZZZZZZT*
*KABOOOOOOM*

Scarlett exploded into tons of colorful scraps around Zoe. The blast of wind was powerful enough to lift her body off the floor, flopping her and her long arms to the side.

"Well, that does solve the deflation problem AND the one of us needed to pop for the cameras problem."

Zoe's body pulsed, reeling her arms in until she could jam a thumb into her pancaked face hidden behind her boobs. One puff and *POP* Zoe was restored to her normal shape.

She ran her hands over her body, making sure she was all there, then looked around at her new collection of Scarlett confetti. "Now I just need something to carry you in while we keep moving..."

* * *

Zoe sprinted through the corridors to the next obstacle. Through it all she shook her new jar of Scarlett, trying to mix her friend's body back together. The colorful mess of red and orange and pale flesh long ago stopped looking like a mix of confetti and more like a soupy mess... but then again, it was Scarlett.

Only when Zoe reached the big door with a Toy Tinkerer behind it, did she finally hold the jar to her face to look at her handiwork.

She stared into her teammate's goop. "You okay in there dear?"

Two white orbs with light blue spirals materialized. "I think my everything is everywhere... can I go back to bed yet?"

"Nope!"

Zoe unceremoniously opened the jar upside down, and emptied it with one good shake.

*SPLOOOOOOORRT*

Scarlett loudly splooshed to the ground, though her goo acted on its own. Her body rebuilt itself, slime climbing and forming the cute red heads usual busty figure.

Still off balance though, holding her head stumbling. "Whooa... thanks."

"Good!" Zoe gave Scarlett a slap on the back. Her hand almost sank into Scarlett, making her lurch forward into a face plant, splattering her unstable form all over again.

*SPLOOOOOSH*

"Oh pull yourself together, I mix better drinks than that and you know it."

Wet sounds of working clay accompanied Scarlett's head and neck reforming into the air. "Sorry! I'm trying!"

"Good. I have a bad feeling about what's in there..."

They both looked at the giant stainless steel doors, with a the letters CAMP KITCHEN coldly printed on them.

Scarlett formed her arms, then pushed her body into reforming up to her waist, making her chest jiggle a little. "Don't we know from the notes?"

Zoe nodded solemnly, then reached into her cleavage. She dug around for a moment, then pulled out an orange chef's hat matching their uniforms. "It's the moment I've been waiting for."

* * *

Through the big doors was a large commercial kitchen. The room's center was dominated by a steel table. The walls had more counter-tops, drawers full of implements, and appliances big and small.

Zoe pointed to the freezers as she walked in, glancing at Scarlett. "Watch those. No need to become an ice cube."

"But Scarlett makes such a great frozen treat! I love it when you two come to the bakery."

They both looked to the voice's origin in opposite corner. Sitting next to the exit was Grace, wearing a red and gold chef's jacket with her cream colored skirt. She stood and flipped her huge red hair tails, then pulled a huge over-sized meat tenderizer out of them. She gripped it in two hands.

Zoe locked eyes with her, then reached into her bust again. She needed to work her hands over it a few times to pull out the six foot long, six inch thick rolling pin.

Her boobs still quivered, sounding *wabba-wabba*. "What do you know about getting frozen? Stick to baking Red."

Scarlett looked back and forth between them, thinking. "Uuuuuuh..." She reached into her comparatively smaller assets, knocked over a pile of something inside with a metal crash, then pulled out a large wok and half a chef's knife.

She had to tug again to get it out. "Come on you..."

*POP*
*HISSSSSS*

Scarlett quickly pinched her deflating breast squeezing it until she felt the puncture heal, then blew into her thumb to restore it.

That caught Grace's attention. "Oh my goodness.... whooooo-" Grace put a hand on her heart to stop it from exploding out of her chest seeing Scarlett deflate, stumbling out of her stance.

Which Zoe took as an opening. "Come here you over hyped cookie maker!"

Her charge snapped Grace out of it. "Eep!"

*SLAM*

Grace barely dodged Zoe slamming her rolling pin down. She was fine, but the chair behind her was turned into a sticker.

A duel ensued. Zoe would somehow stretch her arms enough to swing her massive rolling pin, then bring it up in time to deflect Grace's tenderizer. Each crack of wood on wood was followed by tables smashing and squishing under them.

Which gave Scarlett quite the show. She gulped, trying to control herself. "Okay, okay, two of the cutest women I know are trying to flatten each other. But I need to get Grace somehow..."

She looked at the light sparkling off the end on her knife, then back to Grace. "This isn't going to be easy. Gamer girl..."

Zoe jumped back, but stumbled. Grace raised her spiked tenderizer again. "Too slow ya wanna be Betty Boop!"

Zoe grimaced, wondering how much she was about to splatter in defeat.

"LET'S GOOOOO!"
*THUNK*

Scarlett jumped in, slicing the wooden handle in two. The hammer head spun into the air.

"What the?!"
*POKE*

Zoe prodded Grace back, knocking her into her plushy rump. She stepped forward, towering over her opponent. "Well? What do you want to be for dessert? Cutie pie?"

Grace curled her legs in and winced.

*WHAAAAAM*
*SPLAAAAT*
*KONK*
*SQUOOOOOOOSH*

Grace could hardly believe her luck.

Zoe felt the spikey end of the tenderizer fall straight down into her head. It squished and stretched her head across her shoulders. Her torso rippled wider, trying to send her shrinking mass someplace before she went splat. Her boobs ballooned out, as they did whenever Zoe's mass moved around, but she could already feel her embiggened butt squishing. Her silver eyes opened wide from inside her cleavage one more time before she knew she was crushed, and the exquisite force had her way with her.

"AYEEEE!"

Globs Zoe's colors splattered around with a loud *SPLOOOOOOSH*, reducing her to a sticky orange and tan mess.

Worse, her rolling pin toppled directly onto Scarlett. The red head normally didn't mind having her legs squished, smeared, and the wonderful feeling of her butt and breasts growing from her body being squeezed like toothpaste. In fact, even now she loved it.

"Ooooob yeeeeeeeaaaaaaa-mmmph!"

Unfortunately, she also knew she was in a competition, so getting turned to a half inch thick sheet of doughy toon flesh wasn't at the moment.

But it sure made Grace smile.

"Ooooo! You're already half way there! Don't move red!"

Scarlett muttered through the squish. "Wait...I thought you...were red...and....uuuuuugh..."

Grace ignored her, dashing to the corner for a bucket and a rubber spatula. She immediately put them to work, collecting what was left of Zoe. She put the bucket of sloshing woman on the central steel workspace, then peeled Scarlett off the floor.

*SSSSHHHHLLLLLRO*
"Are you ready, friend?"

Scarlett's speech was slurred. "Iiii thooought weee were teeaam reeed... head... uuuugh..."

Flattened Scarlett's features we're a mess. her butt and boobs were at least four feet wide, matching the rest of her double width self. Her spiral blue eyes kept spinning while Grace flopped her gently into the table, not wanting to accidentally tear her.

"Now then..."

Grace floofed her hair, then reached below the table for flour. A TV camera dropped in across the table, and Grace spoke straight into it.

"You want to flour your friends a little so they don't stick, things get a little too messy even for me if you forget. Use starches to thicken any gooey friends too."

Scarlett and Zoe both groaned at what was coming, feeling Grace work with them.

"Now, fold your dough in half, and roll and stretch it..."

Grace grabbed Zoe's rolling pin...

*FLOP*
*SQUIIIIISH*
"Aaaayyyyeeeeeee!!!!"

Scarlett screeched as Grace worked her over. Oranges and reds blurred together with her pale flesh, folding and squishing her tighter until she really did look like a strange blob of dough on the table. Grace gave her one last squish, satisfied with the rich redstone color Scarlett's body settled on. By now, she was a huge 9 by 9 foot sheet.

"Now as much as I'd like to make crepes, I know Scarlett's cinnamon flavor is a little strong. We want just a hint of Zoe in here, so..."

Grace reached below the table and pulled out two cookie cutters, suspiciously shaped like Zoe and Scarlett. She held them overhead with a mad look in her eyes, then...

*BOP*BOP*BOP*BOP*BOP*

Her arms became a blur, and after a flurry of movement, the Scarlett dough was cut into many cookies, with a few floppy scraps left around the table.

Grace swept the leftover Scarlett aside. "We'll work with the rest of her in a moment. I'm putting these bits of friends on this cookie sheet to decorate. Remember to preheat your oven to 1,000 degrees before the show starts. I know it seems high, but it really bakes your friends into a nice crispy texture that..."

Scarlett's dough quivered. Zoe's goop bubbled. This was going to take a while.

* * *

A few minutes later, there was a disorganized pile of burned red cookies decorated with black icing forming outside the chamber. As each one fell off the conveyor belt, Scarlett and Zoe's groans echoed through the room in a cacophony of defeat. Their voices came from the pile, garbled without a true source.

"Zoe? Are you okay?"

"Uuugh...I think all of me is here?"

The pile rattled before Scarlett tried to speak again. "I'm pretty stuck. I hate to admit it but Grace is a good chef."

Bits of the black icing started moving, swirling into different designs as Zoe tried to gel herself back together. "Yeah, she's good. But I've been mash potatoed into worse. Hang on...one second...Yyyyyeah!!!"

*GLOOOOMP*

Zoe's tan arms sprouted from the pile of cookies. They immediately flexed fingers together, stretching and cracking knuckles.

"Okay red. This is going to get worse before it gets better, so hang in there."

"Zoe? When did we all start being red? Also..."

The cookies that still had eyes drawn on looked up. Dots of icing turned into wide circles of fear seeing Zoe's hands ball into fists.

"...What are you-?!"

*PUNCH*
*CRUUUUUUUUUNCH*
"AYEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!"
*PUNCH*CRUNCH*PUNCH*CRUNCH*PUNCH*CRUNCH*

Zoe slammed through the cookies, punching herself and Scarlett down to crumbs. Her arms kept going for a minute, ensuring neither of them would be recognizable as a cookie without another visit to Grace's bakery. Both felt their bodies shattering apart yet again, though there *was* a strange comfort from not being locked into a dessert shape anymore.

When they were naught more but a pile of dust with two arms, Zoe waggled her fingers. "Now to mold us back into shape."

Another blur of motion, and the ladies felt their forms mushing together. Scarlett felt helpless pieces of dust mash together, fleshing out into a thigh. She gasped when her butt bounced back into existence. Zoe savored the moment when her torso came back together, briefly considering building her boobs slightly larger than usual before remembering the league office frowned on that during races.

When the swirl of motion ended, Zoe was standing next to a dazed Scarlett, both back in restored human forms.

Zoe gave Scarlett a pat on the back. "Alright! Ready for round two?"

Scarlett still hadn't found her balance, and fell forward. "Give me...a minute..."

*THUD*

Zoe sighed. "At least she didn't break into crumbs this time."

* * *

When Scarlett and Zoe walked back in, they found Grace washing a baking sheet and cookie cutters. Both had burned residue with familiar coloring.

Scarlett was slowest to realize it. "Oooooooh! There's the rest of me. That's why it feels drafty under-"

Zoe thrust a hand over Scarlett's mouth. "Remember dear, we're on TV."

Grace held a hand to her mouth, trying hide her laughter. "Well like you're so fond of telling my poor Emi, that's how the cookie crumbles, Zoe."

Zoe grabbed the chef hat off her head in disgust, throwing it aside. "Ugh, that's it. If I can't win playing by your rules, I'll just have to try something else."

She reached into her cleavage, rattling around the hammer space for something useful, and came out with...

Scarlett and Grace both blinked their eyes wide in surprise, exclaiming simultaneously. "A shield?!"

"Yup!" Zoe banged her fist against the large slab of silvery steel. "Jess always says I should keep one of these around. Watch this!"

Zoe flipped the steel on the ground with a running start and jumped on, grinding along the tiles as if on a skateboard. She was gliding towards the industrial appliances along the side wall with the other two staring.

Grace tilted her head and emphatically put her hands on her hips. "What in blazes are you doing over there?"

Zoe didn't answer. She stuck out her hands and started messing with whatever she could.

*CRAAAAAAAAAASH*

Pots were knocked over. Oven and stove dials were spun. All sorts of counter top machines from microwaves to mixers were powered on.

And Grace looked panicked. "What?! No! You're going to ruin all of my prep work! Stop that!"

Grace chased after Zoe, leaving nobody paying attention to Scarlett. "Huh...I wonder what's so special about the sink?"

*CLAAAAAAANG*

Across the kitchen Zoe kept making a mess. Besides generating a lot of smoke from ovens, she was just emptying cabinets. If it was somewhere Grace put it, she was throwing it.

Which drove the resident chef positively mad. "Zoe stop this instant! I can't bake you quickly if you keep this up! How are we supposed to-"

*WHAM*

One of Zoe's thrown pans crashed into Grace's face. She stood still, solid copper stuck to her face, and sighed. Chef Grace grabbed the handle, and pulled it off, stretching her fair skin a foot away from her face like peach taffy until it finally detached.

"Uuuugh...did anyone...get the number...on that frying....uuugh wait a second."

Grace's flattened face wobbled back into its half-sphere shape, scowling at Zoe. "That's it. NO MORE GOOD CHEF!"

First, she shook her head to get it back to normal. Then, she reached into her restored hair, sticking out her tongue as she dug around. She pulled out a moderately sized culinary torch, then gave it a test fire.

*FWOOOOOM*

Rather than the expected tiny fire, a huge gout of flame erupted. "COME BACK HERE!!!"

"Nya nya!!! Come make me!"

Zoe tried to get further away, but the kitchen was only so big. She stopped knocking as many things over, more focused on escape now.

*I wanted her to lose focus, but this is a little ridiculous...I wonder... oh Scarlett's by the sink! I need to get to water!*

Zoe tried to bank her shield off a cabinet, but she finally messed up her movement. She jumped towards Scarlett, hoping to heck the red head had something ready.

"Scarlett! You find anything ther-"

Scarlett looked up in time to see the flames.

*FWOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH*

The chef finally caught up with her. Zoe felt her body stiffen, knowing she was cooked. The flames died, and the busty piece of charcoal coughed. The sound of an egg cracking echoed through the room, and Zoe's body crumbled to a pile of dust, her silver eyes landing gently on top.

Grace looked much more disheveled after the chase. Her red hair was frazzled, her chef outfit had scorch marks. Her eyes were huge, and she was talking in disjointed grunts. "Alright! That's one! Where's the other?!"

All of this had Scarlett panicked. "Oh shit! Zoe's burned to a crisp, Grace is stalking towards me, and even if I dodge those flames I'm probably gonna melt! What am I gonna do?!"

She pounded the counter top in frustration....

With enough force she flipped the drying rack...

"You can't escape me fore-...oh my..."

And sent knives flying at Grace.

*THUNK*THUNK*THUNK*THUNK*
*POYOINT!*

Scarlett was still locked in place, tensed up from the shock of sending the cutlery flying over her head. A second ago she was terrified about Grace, but now from the sound of it...

She slowly looked over her shoulder. She had to stop herself from laughing.

Grace was pinned up against the wall by a classic outline of knives around her. The edges of her skin were clearly stretched like a sheet to the knives. They even had her big poofs of hair held up and spread out against the wall. Her body was twisted with limbs bent in all the wrong places to try and avoid getting sliced and diced.

Except for the one actual skewer that caught her in the stomach.

Scarlett thought Grace was taking a deep breath to calm down and regroup. As those breaths got shorter, and Grace's eyes rolled back and her face turned redder, she realized Grace wasn't panicking.

She was in ecstasy. "Okay, I didn't get sliced up, that's good. But this...oh no no no I couldn't...not here. But I can't just let them run past me."

Grace gulped with a mad look in her eyes. The same look Scarlett knew she got when she felt her insides melting, or Zoe's face when her legs got caught in a roller.

*She's actually thinking about...ooooh Emi mentioned carrying Grace around like an empty balloon before! She's convincing herself it's okay to let go...There's no way this should work, but I guess I've gotta try.*

Scarlett tried her best to keep a straight face while filling a glass with water. "Come on Grace. You know Zoe's not going to be happy about getting incinerated. Better stop me while you can!"

Grace's usually stoic demeanor vanished under Scarlett's teasing. She bit her lip, trying to tug the skewer out of her center and the wall. "Gnuuuuh. But, I had her! And you'd just melt anyway! And...and!"

*POP*
After the central Skewer was freed, the other knives bounced out of Grace too.
*pop*pop*pop*pop*

*HIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS*
"EEEEEEE-YEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaahhhhh...."

Scarlett blinked, utterly transfixed on what was happening to their nemesis.

Grace started deflating the moment she freed herself. Her skin looked like a balloon, flapping as air rushed out of the new hole in her stomach and her arms. At first it looked like she was trying to plug the gap, but Scarlett soon realized Grace was forcing more air out. She squeezed her midsection, moaning and eyes rolling back as her torso collapsed into a deflated shell of herself. Grace's huge poofy hair tails sagged against her too, losing all volume. Once Grace lost too much air, her legs folded up, lowering the rest of her gently to the ground. The loud hiss grew softer as her face disappeared into the pile of deflated woman.

"Thanks...that was...*YAAAAAAAAAAWN*....wonderful..."

Scarlett's jaw dropped. "That...what just..."

She looked back and forth between deflated Grace and Zoe's pile of ashes. Her friend's silver eyes were pleading with her to do something.

"Oh right! Uuuuuh sink! Water!"

Scarlett remembered her glass of water and hurried to Zoe, before Grace could recover. Not that she was sure Grace wanted to right now.

*SPLASH*
*GLOOORP*

Zoe's remains congealed into a black ooze, then snapped back into her usual bust figure. She smacked her head once to regain her balance, then looked at Scarlett.

"Oh my God that was amazing! Did you see that woman deflating?"

Scarlett was still a little stunned, stuck in place while Zoe walked over to Grace. "I mean...yeah? But like...that was..."

Zoe picked up Grace's deflated body like an empty yard inflatable. "Like you every time you see Amber melting? Yup, it's that bad."

"Um...okay...but...how are we...?"

Zoe slapped Grace down on the countertop, then looked around. Let's see, if I remember from my time as icing right, we just look at our studio audience there..."

Zoe pointed at a camera, then gave it a toothy grin.

"...then I just grab a blender, add our food coloring..."

Zoe threw Grace in. The empty balloon grunted. "OOOF!"

Scarlett watched in awe as Zoe continued. "And just add milk!"

Zoe caressed her chest for a moment, licking her lips...then stopped when Scarlett's hand hit her shoulders.

"Uuuh...as hot as this is...You know this is for normal TV right?"

Zoe blinked. "Oh yeah. Sorry."

Grace mumbled, slowly snapping out of it. "Sorry...about..."

Zoe turned on the blender.

*CLICK!*
*GAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!*

Inside the pitcher, Grace's body was torn apart, almost instantly liquefied. Streaks of her white and red colors were visible in the jog, along with the obligatory swirling panicked eyes. When she mixed long enough to be a light red foamy drink, Zoe finally stopped the mixer and poured Grace into two glasses.

She raised one to the camera. "Remember to hydrate everyone!"

"Zoe, we need to keep going!"

"Oh, right." Instead of drinking her, Zoe unceremoniously poured her Grace goop onto the counter top. She reached her arm into it, disappearing up to her elbow, and pulled out a big key. "Talk to you later red!"

Grace's goop bubbled as Scarlett and Zoe ran off to the next room.

"You can't just...blub...call us all red!"

* * *

Scarlett and Zoe emerged from the kitchen through an almost sci-fi metal door. "Outside it" (as they were still within the studio) was downhill path winding between some trees and fences, with an obvious FINISH line at the bottom.

Scarlett looked at Zoe and shrugged. "I guess we go down there."

Zoe nodded. "Yes, but let's be quick. This feels too easy and-"

*KABOOOOM*

They both turned and looked up the hill. Something resembling a volcano was erupting, spewing flaming boulders everywhere.

Scarlett gulped. "How did they even fit one of those in here?!"

She felt Zoe tugging her arm to pull her down the hill. By the time to looked back, Zoe had stretched her arm out 10 feet.

"Come on let's go! I don't want to find out how hot those rocks are I just want normal squishing on TV!"

Scarlett nodded. "R-right! Let's go-OOO!"

*TWAAAAAAAAAANG*

Scarlett's elongated arm rubber banded her into Zoe hard. With their momentum already going down hill, Zoe lost her balance with the collision and they tumbled ahead. Their limbs tangled up, and in seconds they turned into a black and red blur, rolling downhill pretty fast.

*BOOOOING*
"WAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!"

They bounced and bounded ahead, a blur of colors with their eyes visible. They miraculously made it over fences designed to slow them down for the natural disaster behind them, but there was one problem.

There was still one huge wall ahead.

*WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAM*
*SPLOOOOOOOOOSH*

The toony ladies splattered on impact, forming a massive mural on the wall. Zoe's skill somehow focused them into a pin-up painting of her in bed. She was lying across uniform-orange sheets, covered by Scarett-red lingerie.

Zoe's painted eyes looked their new form over. "Well, I think I got this right for TV. You there Scarlett, we need to keep moving!"

Scarlett's voice was obviously disoriented. "Did anyone catch the number on that rock? I can't feel anything..."

"That's because you're my outfit dear. Let's go before this wall gets blasted and we're scattered everywhere."

Scarlett's blue eyes blinked open on Zoe's bra. "Wait what?! I'm-....oh....oh my...why?"

Zoe rolled her eyes. "Because I can get myself out but the easiest way to unsquish you is to make you melt silly."

"Ooooo I'm touching...your...aaaaaaaaaaah"
*SPLASH*

The red almost instantly dripped off, Scarlett too overwhelmed knowing she was tightly hugging Zoe's flesh. Unfortunately, Zoe had nothing else on under her.

"Oh wow that was faster than I...ah crap I better get decent for television."

Zoe pushed against the bed to pull herself out, making her butt suggestively wiggle behind her. The whole image twisted with her until *POP* Zoe ripped herself out of the wall, clothed in her uniform again, and holding Scarlett's. Zoe threw that into the puddle of red next to her and tapped her foot. "Come on silly, let's get moving"

Scarlett managed to reconstitute fairly quickly. She always was able to focus a little more on race day. "Okay...sorry. Let's move!"

They both wound up to dash, and were about to take off when *SQUIIIIIIIIIIIIISH* A giant boulder pancaked them against the ground. They both rattled around as thick 2 foot coins, taking seconds to come to a complete stop.

Zoe blinked from her compressed tan shape, mostly cleavage but looking at Scarlett worried. "Can you get up?"

Scarlett got flipped over to "Tails", her butt flattened to generous proportions. "I...think so?"

They stretched up with rubber creaks, struggling after all of their transformations today but still able to force their bodies back to normal. They gave each other quick looks, and took off.

They were near the end now, but things were still crashing around them. They were hopping over random pits and other traps that neither wanted to discover the purpose of, but the volcano's eruptions were only growing louder.

"Zoe! Anything else you think we should look out for?"

Zoe grunted. "This is where I usually let Jess take over, jumping through traps like the mad beautiful woman she is. I think we're okay though, just be on the lookout for something that looks like a board holding-"

*SPRIIIIIIIIING*

Zoe was mid jump and mid sentence, hurtling towards it when she finished, already sounding defeated. "Holding a tight wire mesh."

"Huh?"

*SHHHHHHWWWIP*

Scarlett turned to see the side view of Zoe shooting through the gate. The bombshell went in frowning, but came through looking unharmed. Scarlett wasn't sure what there was to worry about, seeing Zoe look back at her too, until she hit the ground.

*TUMBLE*BUMP*BUMP*BUMP*

Zoe fell apart into a neat collection of 5 inch cubes, utterly decimated by the wiring Scarlett was only now noticing. She bounced along the ground as a collection of quivery fleshy cubes, some of them clearly from naughtier places than other.

The melty one had to focus herself solid, but looked around panicked. "Shit! I can't just leave you here, we both need to finish. Uuuuh..."

Zoe's eyes blinked from separate cubes. "Gather me up and run you fool!"

"Oh, right!"

It took Scarlett a few seconds but she gathered up all of Zoe into her arms. She hugged the pile of black and tan building blocks and made a dash for the exit. More and more fiery boulders landed around her, but Scarlett was able to dodge them.

"Hah! I knew all of those video games would pay off someday. Let's go Zoe!!!"

The cubes rumbled in her arms. "You're doing great, just don't drop any of me."

Scarlett was running as fast as her tired legs could spin, though she found one last boost of strength when the noticed the shadow growing bigger over her. She looked up to a massive flaming rock blocking out the sun above them.

Fortunately, she was close enough to the finish line. "I got this! I got this!"

Scarlett dove, lunging in a crouch just through the finish line door to relative safety.

She stood up, hopping and smiling. "Yes! We did-"

*SMAAAAAAAAAAAAASH*

*FWOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH*

Relative safety, because getting incinerated by the rock after finishing didn't really matter. Flames from the boulder rushed through the room, burning the red head to a crisp. The only good news was by hugging Zoe so tight, Scarlett took all of the fire, and the jiggly Zoe cubes were not further harmed.

"*COOOOOOOOOOOUGH*...we did it...Pleeeeeeeeh"

Scarlett crumbled, chunks of her crashing into black ash on the floor until her blue eyes hovered in the air over the suspended collection of Zoe cubes. They all crashed down together, bounding to an eventual stop, neither woman having the energy to pull their bodies together.

"MEDIC!"

* * *

That evening, Amber and Jess were still helping their friends recover back at home.

Amber walked in from the kitchen holding another take-out carton. "More dumplings babe?"

Scarlett, sitting in an easy chair with her arm in a cast, and actually still ashes from the waist down, nodded. "Yeeeah...maybe then I can get my butt back together."

Amber dashed back into the kitchen, returning with another 3 cartons in less than a second. "If this helps with that, then eat up!"

Zoe rolled her eyes across the room. "Oh calm down."

Amber stomped her foot on the rug, then walked to give Scarlett more food anyway. "You're one to talk. Why aren't you back together yet?"

Indeed, Zoe was covered in tape and bandages. Her outline was also out of alignment, pieces of her cubed up body still trying to mesh back together.

"Oh I'll get there. But if you want your babe's butt bigger, just get a big hose. Come on, it's been too long since we filled her up with water to bursting."

"Mmmmm..."Scarlett sank in her chair, though it was more like dried clay crumbling around her lower ashes than her usual meltings.

Jess walked in from the kitchen next. "Hey Zoe? I haven't watched the tape yet, but someone from the League just called. They're fining you?! I thought you stopped going naked on TV!"

"WHAT?!" Zoe jumped out of her bandages in a rage, scattering them across the room. "Oh come on, melting Scarlett off of our painting was a brilliant play! And I'll do it again if it gets us more views on-"

*TUMBLE*
*XYLOPHONE NOISES!*

Zoe really did need those bandages, as being hopping mad really did make her fall apart again.

Amber just laughed. "Jess, if she stays like that much longer, you mind smooshing her into our clothes? I think Zoe owes us all a favor for the fine."

"Hah!" Jess started smooshing Zoe pieces together way too hard, morphing her already fragile body into a pile of tan clay. "I like the way you're thinking."

Scarlett just smiled in her seat. "Yeeeeeees!!!"