[This story contains flattening and mild spoilers for Xenoblade Chronicles 3]
The Syra Hovering Reefs were, among the many breathtaking locales in the land of Aionios, one of the most impressive. Dozens of brown, craggy islands hovered above a near-endless drop below like a series of buoys floating on a vast and unknowable sea. With only a series of zip lines connecting the rock formations to each other and a heart-sinking drop below, it took a brave soul to even traverse the area. If that wasn’t enough to scare most people off, this area was also the home to Keves Castle, the headquarters for one half of two nations locked in a fruitless and endless war. Guarding the castle were the soldiers of Colony 11, an infamously vicious group of soldiers led by none other than Undying Blade Ashera, the commander of the colony. However, commanding wasn’t on Ashera’s mind today. Instead, her mind was much more focused on-
“Girl time!”
The merciless killer commander opened her arms in welcome and grinned at the three companions accompanying her.
Eunie, Mio, and Sena stared at Ashera with varying degrees of confusion and annoyance. Being the more feminine half of Ouroboros, the three adventurers had a pretty good idea about the “girl” part of the phrase Ashera had been repeating to them all day, but were a bit foggy about what the “time” entailed.
“Yeah love, you still haven’t explained to us what it is you’re talking about,” Eunie stated with a biting flatness to her voice. The brash healer made sure her annoyance was conveyed in her tone. It was bad enough to have her time wasted, but no one could get under her skin the same way Ashera could, making her frustration even worse. Her brown hair and High Entian head wings shook back and forth as she looked around for the reason why she and her friends were dragged to what seemed like the middle of nowhere.
“Agreed,” Mio added, “If you were just lonely and wanted some traveling buddies to follow you to this isolated rock, we would have just come with you if you asked.” Unlike Eunie, Mio was much more patient and understanding. Her caring nature for others would lead her across the whole world if it meant making the world a better place… Though she did wish Ashera would just spit her motives out already.
Sena tilted her head and checked the time on her Iris device. As usual, her head was up in the clouds, metaphorically as well as literally in this case. “So, is 06:29 when the girl time starts, or is it like an all hour thingy? I made plans to do squats with Lanz in like 30 minutes…”
“Ah, don’t you worry those silly little heads of yours!” Ashera’s tone matched the casual way she walked between Mio and Sena and placed each of her arms around the girls’ shoulders. “You won’t need a workout after this anyway…” Ashera’s characteristic aloofness stood in contrast to her lethal nature. She could kill a man as nonchalantly as she chatted with the gang, and despite the friendship between her and her three companions, the girls couldn’t help but be a bit put off by her unpredictability.
“I won’t…?” Sena asked, straining ever so slightly from Ashera’s tight hold on her. “Are you sure? Cuz this was gonna be like a whole body thing. Arms, legs, glutes, the whole thing!”
Eunie crossed her arms and leaned toward Ashera confrontationally. “Are you gonna tell us what the spark this is all about, or do I have to employ some advanced Kevesi interrogation techniques to get you to spill it?”
“Oh Eunie, don’t threaten me with a good time,” Ashera teased, causing Mio and Sena to awkwardly look away. “Besides, I’m about to show you the big surprise! Don’t you like surprises?”
“Depends on the kind of surprise,” Eunie flatly stated, “This isn’t gonna involve killing a bunch of people, or monsters, or Consuls, or whatever else, right?”
Ashera feigned a look of shock. “What? Killing? Me?”
Eunie’s eyes narrowed as she stared back at her.
The commander looked disappointed that she didn’t even get a verbal response “...Right. Well, you’ll see in just a few moments!” Ashera declared, releasing Sena and Mio from her grasp. She turned and began walking toward the large vertical rock structure at the center of the floating island.
Sena called after Ashera, “Ooh, is the surprise a cool accessory? Or maybe a new recipe for Manana to try?! Oh, or some cool new workout gear!”
“Nope, nope, and nope!” Ashera yelled over her shoulder, “Keep guessing though!”
While Sena continued to shout guesses across the island, Mio fanned herself with her hand. “Ugh, I hope the surprise is a nice oasis. It’s so dry and hot up here!” Her triangular ears drooped toward her white head of hair.
Keeping her eyes on Ashere’s backside in a totally heterosexual way, Eunie more or less ignored her friends and thought out loud, “She isn’t usually this coy… somethin’s up…”
Ashera turned a corner around the rock in the middle of the island, disappearing behind the monolith. Soft, electrical humming could be heard soon after. The three girls looked at each other for just a brief moment before the source of the sound came screeching into sight! The girls instinctively summoned their Blades and got into combat stances, recognizing that a mechanical shape was quickly approaching! However, just before reaching them, the machine came to a stop, a cloud of dust rising up along its path.
Ashera sat up from her position on the back of the machine. “Hey girls, check this baby out!”
The shape was one they had all seen numerous times before. The massive front arms, the smaller back ones, the blue lights, the white “face” with red eyes; it was the Equites model of Keves Levnis. Though this was a common model of combat mech, it bore a unique modification that immediately caught the three pairs of eyes looking at it. A standard Equites had four limbs with a wheel at each end, and the front arms and wheels were much bigger than the back. Instead of having a wheel at the end of each frontal arm, the two arms each held onto one end of a large, metal cylinder which was even wider than the normal wheels. The Levnis rolled forward a couple feet, like it was showing off its new “wheel.”
“Whaddya think?” Ashera smiled with a mix of pride and hints of menace.
Eunie’s mouth hung open in a way that was more flabbergasted than amazed. “...Snuff is that thing for? You just wanted to show us you ruined a perfectly good Levnis?”
Mio withdrew her Blade and scratched her head. “Well… I can’t say I’ve seen anything like it before, so I suppose I am surprised.”
“Yeah,” added Sena, “It’s… unique! Like a big rolling pin!”
Ashera chuckled. Her deep, performative laugh set the other girls on edge. “Hahaha! I’m sure you’ll have something more to say about it once I show you what it can really do…!” With that, she patted the Levnis, signaling it to charge straight in Mio’s direction!
“Whoa!” Mio exclaimed her surprise and jumped to the side with her cat-like reflexes just in time to avoid the sudden charging attack! The Levnis left a completely smooth stretch of ground along the path it had just traveled. Mio looked down, then back up at Ashera, who was already turning the machine she piloted back around to face them. “What the-”
“Snuff was that?!” Eunie yelled at Ashera, “You tryin’ to pave a new road over us?!”
“Not quite,” Ashera replied while revving up the Levnis’s engine, “Just sharing a little Colony 11 rite of passage!” A persistent smug grin didn’t leave her face as the Levnis launched forward at alarming speeds, this time heading right toward Sena!
Sena tilted her head. “A rite of pass- wait, heading right toward Sena?!” The bubbly gym-bro in a cute girl’s body froze in place like an Anlood in headlights. If a split second decision wasn’t made, she would be crushed harder than someone hit by her hammer! Luckily for her, she didn’t have to use her singular brain cell on this decision. Unluckily for Mio, her natural defender instincts kicked in at this moment.
“Gyah!” Mio dove at Sena with her arms out, pushing her friend out of the line of fire. However, this just meant that she was midair in exactly the place Sena had just been! Her mind didn’t even need to think about how she was going to land on her feet and dash-
Squelch! Splat! Smush! Squorch!
Accompanied by a series of squishing sounds, Mio appeared to have vanished as the Levnis zoomed by. Mio was put through the disorienting ordeal of her body being repeatedly crushed by tons of metal over the course of a few seconds as the Levnis slowed down to a halt. Each roll felt like a massive Ferronis was stomping on her for a brief moment in time. Once the charge officially ended and the Levnis came to a stop, Ashera turned it around to show the results.
Eunie and Sena gasped at the sight before them. Pasted onto the massive front wheel of Ashera’s mount was Mio’s body, pressed tightly enough to the roller to pass for a painted-on decal! Seeing as how she had been crushed mid Sena-saving, her body stretched horizontally across the roller with arms and legs outstretched to reach her companion in time. Unbecoming of her usual poise and grace, her eyes spun dizzily on the side profile of her face. Maybe a defensive tank like Lanz could withstand a blow like that, but a more dodge-oriented tank like Mio couldn’t take such a crushing direct hit as well, physically or mentally.
Though the sight might be humorous to some (and really hot to some of you weirdos out there), Eunie and Sena weren’t very amused by the sudden introduction of cartoon physics into their very grounded world of floating islands and magic catgirls.
Sena summoned her trusty hammer and angrily called out, “You hurt Mio!”
“Firstly, that’s not your line,” Ashera rebuked, “Secondly, it’s fiiiiine! You’re doing just dandy down there, right Mio?”
Still dazed, Mio mumbled through flattened lips, “I’ve… been better… oooughh…”
Eunie grumpily summoned her own staff-gun thingy as well. “I thought you just said no snuffin’ violence…” she said, ready to cause more violence herself.
“No, I said no killing,” clarified Ashera, “Like I said, this is a rite of passage in Colony 11! We get new transfers to the colony, I lure them here and crush them, everyone has a good laugh at them, and they learn a lesson in humility or something like that. And, since you’ve been accepted by Colony 11 as a whole, I figure-”
Schrrp…
Ashera was interrupted by a sound like an adhesive bandage being ripped off. Mio grunted as she managed to peel an arm off the face of the roller! It flopped and dangled as she tried to regain control of the limp limb.
“Oh, quite the fighter, aren’t we Mio?” Ashera teased. With very little effort on her part, Ashera bid the Levnis to roll itself back and forth a few times.
“Gah!”
Splat!
“Ack!”
Squelch!
“Eep!”
Splip!
“Hey! Cut that out right now!” Unable to stand the sight of one of her favoritest people in the world being smushed repeatedly right in front of her, Sena charged at Ashera. With a cry of “Hiyaaaa!”, she leapt in the air, preparing a devastating hammer attack from above!
“H-Hold on!” Eunie cried out, “We have to stick together! You can’t just run off on your own with no strategy!” Then, as an aside to herself, “Queen’s wings, I sounded just like Taion there…”
Ashera’s smugness persisted as she watched Sena leap into the sky. She piloted the Levnis forward just a smidge, winding up right under Sena’s shadow…
“Yaaaaaa!” Sena screamed a war cry as she brought down her hammer with all her might!
…Then Ashera quickly backed up the Levnis, dodging the fearsome blow Sena just delivered to the empty space where the arrogant commander once was!
Sena had put her all into that blow and completely forgot to cancel it, leaving her in a state of end lag as she recovered from the strike. This was all the time Ashera needed to prep her Levnis for another forward charge. To her credit, Sena’s battle instincts were keen; she felt the attack she overcommitted to was going to whiff halfway through, so she unsummoned her hammer so she wouldn’t have to lug it around for the dodge. However, her timing was off. She unsummoned her hammer while her body was still being carried forward by momentum, and without her weapon breaking her fall, she wound up face planting on the ground. Stunned from her own miscalculation, Sena didn’t even have time to lift herself up before-
Squelch!
Seeing Sena’s blunder, Ashera elected to roll over the girl with the gal a bit more slowly than her triangle-eared friend. Sena’s vision went dark until the roller rotated a bit more, revealing a grinning Ashera looking back at her. Then, as it kept turning, Sena found her world flipped upside down! It made sense, seeing as how she was flattened head first with her face down toward the ground. The logic of it didn’t make Sena feel any better about being uncomfortably crushed into an upside down poster of herself stuck to a mecha steamroller. She already felt pretty vulnerable and helpless from being flattened out like this, but her arms being held up defensively at either side and her legs spread to form a V above her made her feel even more like a damsel in distress.
“Urrghh… h-hey there, Mimi…”
“Hey Shena…” Mio replied dejectedly. The Agnian offseer’s mouth was pressed even flatter from all the repeated rollings and her cheek squished her mouth into a pucker, making it a bit harder for her to form words. “Dat wash a good try at leasht…!”
“R-Really?” Sena stammered out, her eyes moving along the flat plane of her face to approximately where Mio was squashed on the giant wheel. The two could tell they were overlapping slightly; Sena’s midriff overlapped with Mio’s, but since they were perpendicular to each other they formed a cross shape.
“Not good enough,” Ashera teased. She rolled the Levnis forward again, causing Sena and Mio to both groan from the unnecessary extra crushing. After being subjected to the unbearably heavy weight of the roller yet again, they wound up thinner with their body masses spread wider than before. Sena’s comment about the Levnis being like a giant rolling pin was accurate, but she didn’t account for her and Mio being the dough in the analogy.
“Nnngh… no fair…!” Sena whined, “Friends aren’t supposed to flatten friends!”
“You already got ush with thish big thing…” Mio complained.
Ashera leaned over the front of her Levnis to get a good look at her victims. “Sorry flatties, but all is fair in love and war!”
“Couldn’t agree more, love!”
BLAM!
Ashera was suddenly blasted from behind, sending her flying a few meters in front of the Levnis! Landing with a thud, she rubbed her head and looked up. Jumping from the Levnis’s back to the ground was Eunie! She pointed her gun staff thing at the prone Ashera and grinned.
“Thought I’d sneak up on ya while you were getting so worked up about my friends,” Eunie taunted, keeping her weapon trained on Ashera, “Looks like Team Ouroboros wins this girl time!”
“Yay Eunie!” cheered the Mio and Sena posters from behind.
After a moment of being stunned, Ashera laughed.
“What’s so funny, love?” Eunie asked.
“Well, you got me…” replied Ashera, “But what about my teammate?”
“Teammate? Gah!” Suddenly, Eunie was knocked to the ground from behind! Before she could react, Ashera kicked her weapon away from her position on the ground and she felt pressure pinning down her legs up to her calves. Like, a lot of pressure. Eunie’s eyes went wide. She looked back, confirming her fear that the Levnis had already started rolling her over and crushing her as thin as her paper-thin compatriots.
“Sparkin’-! Are you snuffin’ serious!? It was an Auto-Lev the whole time?! Gaah!” Eunie ranted aloud, her frustration exacerbated by the fact that the machine was oh-so-slowly rolling forward on top of her and crushing her flat as it went.
Ashera sat up and dusted herself off a bit. “What, did you think that just because I was riding it I was piloting it? I had a bit of influence over it, but it was mostly working on its own. Of course, I did program in special instructions beforehand.” Ashera squatted and leaned her face close to Eunie’s, “Like, for example, telling it to go extra slow while it flattened you thinner than one of your friend’s little paper things.”
“Eunie, try to shtruggle out!” Mio encouraged from behind, “Alsho, the paper thingsh are called Mondo!”
“Yeah, you got this Eunie! Don’t let this weirdo win!” Sena chipped in with her own cheering.
Eunie struggled to free herself. Trying to push herself forward with her hands, attempting to pull her hips away, wriggling back and forth to pry herself loose; none of it did any good. The Levnis was already flattening up her thigh, and, despite how much she didn’t want it to be the case, she was firmly stuck.
“Oooh, I didn’t realize how fun it would be to watch you struggle,” Ashera teased, “Would you do me a favor and moan my name as you try to break free?”
Eunie felt her face burning up. She had been tricked and led on by this woman at every step of the day, and now she was taunting her! Right to her face! After all the audacious, nonsensical things Eunie had seen Ashera do, this had to be one of the craziest! She opened her mouth to give the crazed commander what for, when suddenly-
Squelch~
“Ahn!”
Eunie quickly covered her mouth with her hand. The roller had just crushed her hips flat, as well as the rest of the anatomy around that area of the body, and the result was an involuntary moan escaping from Eunie’s already open mouth.
Bearing a look of genuine surprise, Ashera dropped character for a brief moment. A look of realization hit her, then her grin crept back, even more smug than before. “Hit a sensitive spot there, did we?”
“Grrrrr…” Still covering her mouth and despite her flushed red face, Eunie growled at Ashera like a chained Volff watching a tasty Bunnit frustratingly out of reach. The feeling of helplessness, the crushing pressure, the humiliating sense of defeat, it all swirled together in Eunie’s mind like a vortex. She looked up at the arrogant, irritating, attractive, annoying woman before her. Something about the fact that she was doing this to her, that she was in control… that she would make sure she came out fine in the end… that she did it out of a sense of genuinely liking her… Eunie’s heart beat faster. Maybe it was because the roller was actively crushing her chest. Maybe other reasons were involved too. Wait, what was that third adjective she thought of a couple seconds ago…?
“How ya feeling there?” Ashera asked.
Eunie uncovered her mouth. “H-How do you snuffin’ think?! Nngh!” She responded as defiantly as before despite any inner emotional turmoil. She grunted, the roller crushing her chest flat and leaving only her head and arms retaining their third dimension. Despite whatever her deeper emotions were for Ashera, she still couldn’t decide whether she hated the physical feeling of getting crushed or the humiliation of her defeat more. Either way, she was determined to not be happy about any of this.
Ashera lifted one of her arms. “Y’know, maybe I should just stop it here. You could still drag yourself around on your little adventure using your arms! Maybe learn how to walk on your hands! Of course it would be hard to heal people if your hands are doing the walking… You have good balance?”
“...I seriously hate you.”
“I love when you get that annoyed look on your face.”
“Well, you’re not gonna like it when I- hrrmm mmph mmrrrph!”
Eunie’s threat was cut off by the unyielding machine finally reaching her head, pushing her face to the ground to be flattened out like the rest of her. Ashera let go of her hand. She couldn’t help but smirk at Eunie’s twitching arms slowly disappearing from under the roller as the last bits of movement were completely crushed out of the sassy bird girl.
Ashera closed her eyes and took a few steps back. When she opened them again, the Levnis had made another full rotation, and she was greeted by Eunie’s flattened face plastered to the roller. Somehow, Eunie’s face still had enough depth for her eye to twitch in barely-contained rage.
Ashera looked her up and down. “So, how ya feelin’-”
“HOW AM I FEELIN’?! HOW AM I SNUFFIN’ FEELIN’?! YOU RUN ME OVER WITH A MULTI-TON WAR MACHINE AND YOU ASK HOW I’M FEELIN’?! I’M ‘FEELIN’ LIKE I JUST HAD AN ENTIRE SPARKIN’ MILITARY PARADE TRAMPLE ME!!”
“Oh, good idea!” Ashera snapped and cheerfully replied, “All those marching stomps would really drag out the whole flattening experience… I’ll remember that for next time!”
“NEXT TIME?! THERE’S NOT GONNA BE A SPARKIN’ NEXT TIME!” raged Eunie, “NEXT TIME, TAION AND ME ARE GONNA GO OUROBOROS ON YOUR ASS AND CRUSH YOU FLATTER THAN ONE OF HIS PAPER DOLLS!”
“Dey’re called Mondo,” Mio helpfully added.
“I DON’T SPARKIN’ CARE WHAT THEY’RE CALLED!”
“Hey, don’t be mean to Mimi just because you couldn’t clutch out a win!” Sena shot back, looking up at Eunie from her flipped position on the roller. She could tell Eunie just barely held back another tirade from exploding out of her. The three flatties all managed to wind up plastered across the same side of the roller, creating a perfect view for Ashera to admire her handiwork in squashing all three powerful fighters.
“She’s right, Eunie. Don’t be such a sore loser!” Ashera sauntered up to Eunie’s flattened form. She pinched the flatty’s cheek and tugged on it, causing half her face to peel off the roller and half to stay stuck on. Eunie’s face stretched like rubber, causing an extended groan from the enraged decal.
“S-Stop that right now!” Eunie threatened through her half-stretched mouth.
Ashera obliged, letting Eunie’s face snap back to the roller with a plap.
Eunie winced at her face being treated like a launched rubber band. “F-Fine then!” Eunie stuttered out, “You win then! Congratu-snuffing-lations! Now peel us up and take us back to the boys! Uuugh, we’d totally thrash you with our full team!”
“Y-Yeah, and you owe us dinner!” Sena demanded from her precarious position, “I’m so hungry I feel like I’m gaining 15% less experience than usual…”
Mio looked up with her best pleading kitty eyes, “Pleeeeeashe, I’ve had way too much shquished for thish lifetime…”
Ashera placed a finger on her chin, putting a minimal amount of effort into acting as though a lightbulb just went off over her head. “Hmmmm… What if I don’t want to, though?”
“Huh?!” the three flat girls anime-gasped in unison.
“I mean, what would you all do to resist? Flop at me? Give me a paper cut? I could use you for whatever I want, and you all wouldn’t be able to do a thing about it!” Ashera cheerfully declared. Sena blushed and averted her eyes. Mio looked around for an avenue of escape. Eunie’s glare went up a level of intensity. All this, yet none of them could muster up a convincing comeback. Each had been trying to peel themselves off the entire time, but their efforts were to absolutely no avail. Despite all of their defiant, anti-authoritarian natures, they had no choice but to accept the physical reality that none of them would even be able to stand up straight, let alone take on Ashera of all people.
“Sena, you’re looking quite absorbent,” Ashera squatted down to meet her upside-down face, “And you could still participate in exercising if you were my new post-workout towel…”
Sena’s eyes got wide at the suggestion. “T-Towel?! But you rub those e-everywh-where…” Her speech failing her, Sena’s face went beet red at the realization of just how intimate Ashera’s suggestion was.
Ashera turned her attention to her first victim. “Mio, you would make such a cozy blanket for whenever I have to travel somewhere cold!” Mio growled in response, thinking of someone else she’d be much happier keeping warm at night.
“And Euniiiiieee…” The sadistic commander was having too much fun with her taunting. “You would look perfect as a pretty little decoration in my private quarters. I can just see you now, a useless flattened healer pasted on the wall right beside my bed… I could just stare at you for hours!”
“D-Decoration?! Useless?! Stare at me?!” Eunie gasped out. The nerve of her! And yet that strange feeling came back… The excitement from being at the total mercy of someone so dangerous but so protecting, so over the top but so relatable, so fierce but so beautiful… Could she really admire her for hours?
Ashera slammed her hands onto the roller on either side of Eunie’s face. Eunie snapped out of her reverie and remembered she was supposed to be really angry about this.
“...And I could especially admire how your body has been flattened out…” Ashera continued her thought from earlier. She pushed the roller back, moving Eunie’s body up until she and Eunie were face to chest with each other. Ashera couldn’t help but admire how well-endowed her prey was. Due to the redistribution of mass from the squishing, the depth Eunie’s breast had lost was pressed outward to the point of her boobs seeming to spill out from her top. Suddenly, the teasing commander’s train of thought switched to a different track. She was stuck admiring what details there were on the smooth skin, how soft it all looked, how enticing the long sliver of cleavage felt…
“Oi, you had enough of a peep show down there?!” Eunie called out from above.
“A-aah!” Ashera cried out in surprise! She had completely lost where she was, and, in an instinctive bid to have her hands at the ready to defend herself, she lifted them off the Levnis’s roller. Her hands, however, were keeping the roller in that position, and without them in place, momentum carried the heavy hunk of metal forward!
SPLAT!
The Levnis’s autopilot carried the momentum forward for a few extra rolls to ensure it had stopped on solid ground. The mindless war mech didn’t seem to care that it had just squashed its own master underneath its massive weight. Unlike the others, Ashera was plastered face-first into the massive weight. Also unlike the others, she had some cushioning. Rather than let the whole world see the wonderful sight of Eunie’s squished boobs, Ashera now unintentionally blocked them with the back of her head, as her face was now firmly pressed into the squished healer’s well-developed chest.
Eunie was dazed from the roller for a moment, but shortly after realized what had happened. Her eyes getting wider, she felt Ashera’s face squeezed against her chest. Actually, she really felt Ashera’s face squeezed against her chest. This was probably because Ashera’s mug and Eunie boobs managed to occupy the same paper-thin thickness of depth. Eunie’s breasts were much more sensitive than usual, and she stifled a gasp as she felt her face turn more than a few shades redder.
“Wh-What are ya d-doin’ down there?!” Eunie asked with her feathers in a ruffle. Metaphorically of course, her actual feathers were neatly pressed flat.
“Hrmm mmph mrrmph hmmmm…!” replied Ashera. She had some trouble enunciating in her current state.
“S-Snuffin’... what am I gonna do with you…?”
“Umm, what is this Levnis gonna do with us?” asked Sena.
“Hm! Mmmph hrrmph mmrhrmmn mmph!” Ashera answered helpfully.
Wincing with embarrassment, Eunie tried to decipher the message. “W-Wait, did you say patrol mode?”
No longer detecting the three-dimensional presence of its master, the Auto-Levnis’s programming instructed it to perform the very helpful task of patrolling the nearby area for hostile entities. It dutifully began its task, carelessly plowing forward along its route regardless of any soft, malleable Agnians or Kevesi that happened to be stuck to its roller.
The unfortunate girls were subjected to roll after roll after roll after roll in a merciless cycle of looking up at the sky, seeing the repeated trail ahead, splat, then back to looking up. Any belief that they couldn’t possibly get any thinner was crushed out of them as they registered the feeling of having less and less depth with every pass. Of course, like Eunie’s chest, the rest of their soft, doughy bodies spread, smeared, and distorted with each unforgiving rotation. As minutes turned to hours, the rhythmic yet intense crushing turned their minds as mushy as their bodies, leaving their thoughts as a smear of pressure and scattered coherent fragments they could piece together. The unfortunate group of girls wound up getting lost in what felt like an endless now of squishing…
…
Some time later, after noticing Ashera, Eunie, Mio, and Sena had been missing for a suspicious amount of time, their location data was found. The data brought the boys of Ouroboros to the floating island to rescue their other halves. However, instead of seeing who they were looking for, they just found a strange Levnis that had run out of power. Even weirder was the colorful design imprinted on the huge front wheel of it. There were splotches of dark blue, smears of white, a big blob of dark purple and black… The boys found the pattern strangely compelling, but they needed to find their companions! The three split up to cover more ground. However… Taion figured it would be a waste to just leave a unique Levnis abandoned. He left a message for the mechanics from Colony 11 to come by and pick up the hunk of junk whenever they had a chance, figuring that they might be able to clean the gunk off it and get it working again. In the meantime, all the colorful smear stained on the Levnis could do was sit there in dazed discomfort of ultra-thinness, hoping that the soldiers at Colony 11 would go easy with scraping the roller clean… and that they wouldn’t be ridiculed too much for winding up in such a ridiculous state.