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“Huh!?” Cinder stared at the other girls in her group in shock. Well, mostly she was staring at Dawn and Kim, since they had said the shocking things. Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin was mostly hanging in the background, keeping to herself. She puffed up her cheeks and let out a silent sigh.

Dawn and Kim glanced at each other.

“It’s like I just said,” Dawn explained, stepping forward, “Cinder, with that transformation, you should go ahead of us. Hanging back here with the three of us is just slowing you down!”

“Dawn’s right,” Kim nodded. “You can walk through walls now. The smart thing to do is just head for the exit as quick as you can. Seriously- you could win this whole challenge if you applied yourself, Cinder! That’s how good that transformation of yours is!”

Cinder scowled. “But I thought you guys wanted to stick together?” She asked. “What, already sick of me, because I’m not some goody-two-shoes like Ella!?”

Dawn sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose. She understood why Cinder would get defensive like that, but seriously- the other girl just didn’t know how to help herself! “No, Cinder, it’s not like that,” she said, shaking her head. “Personally, I’d love to have you stick around! But this is the smart move to make, don’t you see?”

“Yeah, don’t go easy on us,” Kim said. “We’re working together right now, but you can totally pull ahead! So I would do it. Don’t worry, none of us would blame you for thinking that way, right, Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin?”

She looked to Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin for agreement. The mute girl just kept staring forward.

Kim elbowed her in the side and she jumped. Her eyes flickered wide for a second and she swiftly nodded her head in agreement.

“…There, see?” Kim gestured to the assassin.

Cinder was still unconvinced. She kept biting her lip, and finally sighed. “Look, whatever, okay?” She snapped. “I was planning on ditching you losers anyway and going off on my own, so this is for the best! And just watch, I’m going to win this whole challenge super easy!”

She turned and stormed off through the wall, making Kim and Dawn smile. They were happy to see Cinder taking the initiative and trying to win the challenge, rather than just hang back with them and-

“You guys aren’t going to change your mind, right?” Cinder popped her head back into the corridor, startling the both of them. Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin silently snickered at their screams.

Cinder’s eyes were sharp. “I’m really going, you know? I mean it! I’m doing this for Ella’s sake!”

“Yes, it’s fine.”

“Good luck!”

Sulking, Cinder pulled her head back behind the wall again.

Two seconds later she stuck it back through, “I’m serious, don’t get mad at me if I win you know!”

At this point, Dawn and Kim were struggling not to laugh.

“Cinder, thanks for thinking about us, but we’re fine,” Dawn assured her with a smile.

Cinder glared furiously at her. “Who’s thinking about you three!? Crazy bitches! I don’t care, you wander around this maze and starve to ****, fucking losers!”

With that, she finally left for good.

“Who knows,” Kim said as the two of them walked down the corridor. “If she can keep a good picture of the map in her head, she might actually be able to win.”

“I hope she doesn’t get lonely, though,” Dawn murmured.

Kim shook her head. “Nah, she’ll be fine. Cinder can handle herself.”

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin wasn’t joining in on the conversation, for obvious reasons. She was scanning the passageway with her eyes, looking for… something. She wasn’t quite sure yet. But her instincts as an assassin were giving her chills.

She ran her fingers along the brick wall. No, it wasn’t just her instincts. She definitely felt a chill coming from…

Suddenly, the assassin felt nothing beneath her fingers. There was still a brick wall there, or at least it looked like there was, but… her hands passed through thin air.

She snapped her head around and saw the stunned expressions of the other two girls. A second later, she slipped through the wall completely before sticking her head back out, doing an imitation of Cinder for them.

“What’s that?!” Kim squeaked out, her eyes bulging. “You- …Did you, like, find a shortcut or something!?”

“Looks that way,” Dawn said, sticking her head through the fake wall and seeing a long corridor stretch off into the darkness. She looked awkwardly at the other two girls. “I, uh… guess maybe we’ll give Cinder more of a race than we thought?”

Now they felt bad. If they actually somehow managed to get through the maze before Cinder, the girls would probably never be able to get over the guilt. …Well, Dawn and Kim might not. Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin would probably be fine with it.

“What!? You know the route through the maze?!” Sylvia couldn’t believe her ears.

“Shishishishi! Of course I do!” Lynette snickered. “I was brought to life by the producers, after all! You think they didn’t show me how to pass through this maze?”

“Well, that’s great!” Dani grinned. “Then what are we waiting for?! We can book it right to the end, then!”

“Yay! We’re going to get out of here!” Morgana cheered, jumping for joy. “Finally, I can feel the sunlight on my face!”

Everyone stared at her.

She coughed, her pale cheeks flushing. “Err, I mean… oh no… I love the dark, eerie maze… like any goth… it’s so totally, um, gothy, like-like me, and definitely not weird and creepy and gross and smelly and gonna give me nightmares… going back to the sunny beach, that sounds awful…”

Vivian patted her on the shoulder and gave her a look brimming with amusement and sympathy while Morgana struggled not to look like an idiot.

“Uhum, uh…”

“Why are you only now choosing to help us?” Sylvia asked, suspicious of her so-called sister’s so-called sudden change of heart. “You were giving me the run-around earlier, my girl.”

Lynette’s expression was impossible to read, because she was a doll. “I let you use me to get past all those statues,” she snappishly reminded the other woman. “Shishishishi! I’ve BEEN helping! I just… wasn’t ready to lead you out of the maze just yet.”

Dani frowned. Now that Sylvia mentioned it, she also thought she smelled a rat. The doll girl was being a little too considerate. Sylvia and Vivian had told the two of them all about how Lynette had **** them, and now she was eagerly agreeing to show them the exit? Even if Sylvia copied her Serene Serenade transformation, something definitely didn’t seem to be on the up and up here. But Dani wasn’t sure how to accuse her without causing problems.

Lynette remained mute. “…Things have changed,” she said cryptically, letting out a hysteric giggle. “Shishishishi! Trust me or don’t… I don’t really care.”

Sylvia definitely felt like something was wrong here. But…

“Of course we’ll trust you!” Vivian said it before Sylvia could. She gave Lynette a dewy stare. “I always trust my friends!”

“We’re not friends, bitch.”

“Oh, don’t be like that,” Vivian waved her hand, dismissing the doll’s foul words. “When we get out of here, I’ll make you all sorts of fancy new clothes, you’ll see! We’re gonna be besties!”

“No! Screw you! Cut off your clit with scissors and bleed to ****, cunt!” Lynette screamed at her. Her mommy sewed up her dress just for her! And now Vivian wanted to give her a different one!? Fuck that! Stupid cunt!

Vivian just smiled right through it.

“Okay, things are getting a little heated here,” Sylvia said, shoving Lynette into her bag next to her flashlight. “If you want to help, great! But don’t be mean to my friends.”

“Huh!? Why do I care?!” Lynette exclaimed. “I’m helping you, Sylvia, not these noisy bitches! Shishishishi!”

“Aww, friends?! Sylvia!” Vivian threw her arms around the slender girl and hugged her tight. “You’re just the sweetest thing!”

Sylvia felt a little uncomfortable with how tight Vivian was hugging her. “Um… could… could you let me go please?” Normally she was just fine with touching people, even intimate contact like this, given how much she loved her job as a host. But with Vivian it was a little different.

Maybe because Sylvia was intimately aware of Vivian’s transformations and how her relationship with Nick was developing. It was kind of weird to be “besties” with someone who might eventually become your stepmother. Then again, Vivian and Nick weren’t on the best of terms either, so…

…

Morgana shuffled her feet loudly and adjusted her dress. It felt weird, having all the memories of her other selves. “Lynette, are you… really going to help?”

“Shut up!” Lynette snapped immediately. “I’m gonna be more help than you’ve been, dumb bitch! Shishishishi!”

“Hey!” Morgana cried. “I’m the one who figured out what the Weeping Angels were!”

“Wait, seriously?” Dani looked at Morgana in shock, not sure she heard properly. “Weeping Angels, like from-?”

“Yes,” Morgana bluntly confirmed. “Long story.”

“Well, I’m the one who guided you through it!”

Vivian sighed and looked at Sylvia. The other girl mirrored her slightly exasperated expression.

“If we’re going to get through this maze, then we should really move,” Sylvia said. “Lynette, if you’re not interested in helping us, then we can always have someone get an orgasm to take a look at the map. Morgana-”

“Why me!?” Morgana squeaked.

“No, I just meant with your Sotto Voce transformation- …Never mind.”

“I’m, uh… gonna have to say no thank you to that one,” Vivian said, taking a step back. “I, um… well… just, just no.”

After Little Miss gave her a leap forward the way she did, Vivian wondered if she’d ever be able to have another orgasm again. She felt dehydrated from the amount of bodily fluids she’d exhausted in that box. (No, not THAT box.)

“Morgana also has that spell of hers that can make someone aroused, so that works too,” Sylvia pointed out. “A little help?”

Morgana gulped and nodded, summoning up her spellbook again. But before she could say a word, Lynette interceded.

“Fine! I’ll help! Aagh! Stupid whiners!”

It was obvious she didn’t want to lose her leverage, something Sylvia had been keenly aware of. Vivian met her eyes and gave her a knowing nod of approval. It was good to see Sylvia being sneaky like that.

(Of course, having not been on the show during Sylvia’s tenure as host, she had no idea just how sneaky the other girl could be.)

“So I was right,” Rose said, annoyed for once that she was right about something. It was rare, but it COULD happen. “There’s a puzzle we have to get through.”

It could have been worse. They could have had to get through an actual obstacle, or even some sex beast or something. Compared to that, a puzzle was actually not that bad at all.

…Unfortunately, it wasn’t an easy puzzle. Even if it was a literal one.

“It would appear to be a three-dimensional sculpture,” Amelia noted, walking around the pieces of white marble gathered in a pile in the center of the small room. “We should fit the pieces together and make a shape.”

Rose leaned forward and looked at the assembly of strange shapes. Some edges were smooth, and some were rough. “Should we just fit the rough edges together?” She guessed. “That’s probably the best move…”

She picked up two of the bricks and saw that some of the smooth parts were rounded slightly. She fit them together and saw an arc made, like a half-circle. “Hey, I wonder…”

Rose began digging through the pile of pieces, glad that she still had Dani’s Soft as Silk transformation to help her lift. It made putting the parts together a lot easier. As she tried to work more of the pieces into place, she found that they were indeed making something rounded, but not completely round. Like a large cylindrical pillar…

“Those two will not go together,” Amelia informed Rose, who was trying to fit two rough edges against each other. She stepped forward and showed the other woman what she meant. “Look at the curvature of the arc. If the puzzle is meant to be a perfect circle, these two will not connect.”

Amelia was right, the pieces didn’t form a seamless arc.

Rose cracked a grin. “Glad I have a teacher helping me with this,” she said, trying out some more pieces. “Still, at least we have an idea of the general shape.”

Amelia frowned. She was not so sure. While a good amount of the puzzle pieces were cylindrical, not all of them were. “It may not be so simple,” she said, shaking her head. She picked up a piece of marble off the ground. “See here. This is not part of a cylinder.”

The piece she was holding looked bulgy, slightly rounded, but sticking out in a way that definitely wouldn’t fit on a cylinder. A cone, maybe (though not a perfect one) but definitely not a cylinder.

Looking at the bulging, blobby piece in Amelia’s hand made a lightbulb go off over Rose’s head. She grinned shrewdly and giggled. “Oh… OH. I see what we’re making now.”

Amelia blinked, raising her eyebrow. “You do?”

Rose leaned over and whispered something into the older woman’s ear. Amelia froze, and her cheeks reddened slightly. She almost dropped the chunk of marble. “…I see,” she murmured, adjusting her glasses awkwardly. “How vulgar.”

Not long after Rose’s revelation, the “puzzle” was completed. And yes, it was exactly what Rose had guessed it was.

A giant penis.

No wonder Jess refused to take them any further.

“…Vulgar,” Amelia repeated herself, face hot. She couldn’t even look at it.

“Maybe it’s designed after Nick’s?” Rose guessed, her lack of restraint certainly not winning her any points in Amelia’s book. That was the last thing she wanted to think about right now, a giant reproduction of her stepson’s… tool for reproduction.

Notably, finishing the penis did not in fact make any doors open. Rose circled around it, wondering if there was something else that needed to be done.

“Hey, you don’t think…” Rose tapped her chin thoughtfully and looked over at Amelia, who was doing an excellent job of keeping her discomfort to herself.

Amelia raised her eyebrow. “What?” She asked testily.

Rose quickly shook her head. “No, I just… well… maybe we’re supposed to, um… work with it, a little bit? You think? Maybe?”

Amelia raised her eyebrow. “…Excuse me?”

This wasn’t exactly easy for Rose to say, either! Her face turned red. “I just mean, well… nothing’s happened yet, the exit isn’t open, so… maybe, we’re supposed to, um… …You know.”

Amelia stared at her. But Rose refused to elaborate any further out of her own sense of decorum. She just stared back at the older woman until Amelia understood.

“…Obscene,” Amelia said, a shadow crossing her face.

Rose couldn’t agree more.

Who is going to “service” the penis?

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“Now that’s what I’m talking about!” Carly wore a big smile on her face as she dashed down the corridor. “With this, it shouldn’t be any trouble at all, getting through the maze!”

“Gotta say, my sister does have luck going in her favor if nothing else,” Marley said, trying to keep up with Carly as she rushed down the hall. Not exactly easy to do when her breasts were already bouncing like crazy.

But at least she was handling it better than Gina and Holly.

“Slow down!” Holly groaned. “I’m not made for running!”

“I think my lungs are going to explode…” Gina groaned.

“Sorry!” Carly skidded to a stop and turned around, her eyes wide. “I, uh… kinda got ahead of myself there… hehe…”

“No kidding,” Marley sulked, shaking her head as she caught up. “You almost turned me into slime again, sis! Slow down!”

Carly couldn’t help herself. She’d been so full of energy! Mainly because her Anitrix had recharged, and she was trying out another one of its transformations.

“See, between my glasses, and my new sense of smell as a wolf girl, finding our way through the maze is gonna be no trouble at all!” Carly boasted.

“If you can sniff out booby traps, then I’ll definitely be impressed,” Gina said, nodding. Somehow she didn’t think that was possible though.

Carly shook her head. “Unfortunately not.”

“Bigger issue,” Marley cleared her throat, “is that you’re running so far ahead of me that you don’t even know if you’re going the right way.” She gestured to her bouncing breasts. “Don’t forget, your senses might lead you in the wrong direction, you know.”

Carly nodded, seeing where her sister was coming from. “You’re right,” she admitted, scratching her shaggy hair. “Still though, your boobs aren’t completely reliable either… the best course of action is still the usual way, right?”

She cracked a grin and Marley blushed. “W-well… yes, you’re not wrong,” she conceded.

The two of them had been relying on their gifts so much they’d been somewhat neglecting the main method Dakota had provided them for navigating through the maze.

Orgasms.

“Well, I can’t help you out there,” Holly said, holding her hands up. “I’m not exactly in control of that sort of thing…”

“Oh, but I can!” Gina finally clued in on what the sisters were talking about. “If it’s orgasms you girls want, just count on me!”

Finally, a way that she could help out!

“You sure?” Marley asked, surprised.

“That’d be a great help!” Carly nodded in approval.

Gina beamed from ear to ear. “I’ve got a bunch of transformations that can help out!” She boasted. “See? Just take a look!” She turned and showed off her butt to the girls, practically wagging it in their faces. Marley awkwardly looked at her sister, who just giggled.

“It’s a very fine ass, Gina,” Carly said, compelled to give it a nice swat. “But I think it would be easier to just make you cum with some praise, don’t you girls agree?”

Gina blushed. “W-well, that’s…”

“You’re really smart, Gina!” Marley complimented her.

“Yeah, great job thinking of using your transformations to help us navigate!” Holly agreed.

Gina’s face turned red as her Damned by Faint Praise caused a pleasure overload. She squirmed with a pleased smile on her face, grinning from ear to ear as the kind words of the other girls pushed her closer and closer to the edge.

Now they were on track!