But down in the Underground, you'll find someone true

Amelia was not in a good mood.

“What is the meaning of this?” She growled, looking behind her. Her svelte, slender figure, which had always been a point of pride for her, was drastically warped. Particularly, her rear end. Her graceful ass had grown from the model thin style she was accustomed to, ballooning out into a massive bubble butt that jiggled when she walked. It wasn’t just uncomfortable to heft that extra weight around, but it was incredibly humiliating.

Having avoided any significant physical transformations up until this point, Amelia was not at all pleased to be on the receiving end of this one.

“This is certainly a result of an audience vote,” she muttered to herself as she maneuvered around the plastic hallways of the strange section of the labyrinth she’d found herself in. Somehow, she had ended up in what she could only describe as a scaled dollhouse. Everything was fake, colored in pinks and creams and light blues, and made of plastic just like a child’s toy. But it was large enough to suit a human being. An uncomfortable and very, very creepy area. Amelia may not have watched horror movies, but she knew how unsettling dolls could be.

And carrying that rear end behind her wherever she went wasn’t helping matters either. At least it wasn’t large enough to get her caught in any doorways. But that didn’t make it convenient.

Her guess was right on the money. Her enhanced booty was indeed the result of an audience vote, and she’d be carrying the consequences with her for quite some time.

• I’m Trying to Sneak Around, but I’m Dummy Thicc and the Clap from my Ass Cheeks Keeps Alerting the Monsters: Self-explanatory.

If Amelia could read what her transformation said, she would have rolled her eyes. But for now she would have to settle for general frustration and disappointment.

“There must be some way out of this place,” she said, trying to put the clapping of her thicc cheeks out of her mind. She tried a door in the hallway, and it swung open only to reveal an empty room behind it. Another dead end. Of course, Amelia knew full well that it WAS possible to find an escape from this strange section of the labyrinth.

She just couldn’t bring herself to stoop that low.

The only way to get a map out of this place is by… achieving sexual release. Just the thought of it made her feel sick to her stomach. I’m not that sort of woman. But… if I do nothing, then I will certainly come in last place again.

Recalling her terrible performance in the previous challenge also left her feeling somewhat ill. Amelia prided herself on being a realistic person who handled her problems objectively and efficiently.

Being stuck like this? Not at all the sort of situation she wanted to find herself in. Not when she was actually seeking to score high in this challenge.

And that was the only way she could get enough Victory Points to remain in control of her faculties by the conclusion of this show. The only way she could tolerate, at least. The other method involved committing sexual acts with her stepson, and doing that…

Amelia couldn’t do something like that, certainly not? That was an absolute, definitive last resort. And even then…

Sucking in a breath of air, Amelia shivered. She could feel a twisted bargain rising up in her breast, and realized, as much as she couldn’t stand this situation, that she needed to make a choice here.

Simply put- she couldn’t afford to place poorly in another challenge. Either way, she was required to compromise her sense of decorum and her morals. So if that was the case regardless, then she saw no other choice.

The next door she opened reaffirmed the decision she had arrived at. Another dead end. This room was clearly a bedroom of some sort, and when she stepped inside and checked the closet, hoping to find a connecting path, she just found fake doll clothes, sized up to fit a real person.

Sighing, she acknowledged her fate. She sat down on the bed (which was thankfully not made of plastic) and pulled up her pencil skirt. It was harder and easier, thanks to her enhanced rear end, but she managed to access her vagina, and got to work.

Putting her embarrassment aside and focusing on the mechanical action helped, but it made things incredibly awkward. Amelia was the sort of woman who needed genuine stimulus to achieve release, and that required being in the proper mental space. Merely touching herself would be far too cumbersome. So she closed her eyes and tried to think arousing thoughts, embracing the sexuality that she had neglected for far too long.

She was so enamored by her actions that she didn’t even notice the knob of the door twisting open, or the hinges swinging…

“Okay, here we go!” Sylvia’s face lit up as the beam of her flashlight flickered across a door. “This has definitely gotta lead somewhere!”

She turned the light on herself and felt a flash of ecstasy shoot through her body. “Just… oooh, ju-just hold on a s-sec, Vivian,” she stammered, reaching down beneath her skirt. “I’ll just… make sure we’re really going in the right direction, then… oooh…”

“No… no need for that!” Vivian shoved past the former host, her face hot. “We don’t need to check we’re going the right way every time!” She tried to keep her tone sounding casual, but she couldn’t help herself. She was overwhelmed with embarrassment by Sylvia’s actions, touching herself all the time. Vivian was very private when it came to sexual matters, even though she behaved so casually. And seeing Sylvia so nonchalantly masturbating in order to get an edge, it was really starting to wear Vivian down.

She had no idea how long the two of them had been exploring the maze together, but it was starting to wear on her.

Vivian opened the door, and when she saw what was on the other side, a sigh of relief and awe escaped her lips.

“Oh my,” she breathed, looking at the cavern in front of her. “It’s lovely…”

“Wow!” Sylvia’s eyes bulged in amazement. She rushed up to Vivian’s side without hesitation. “Look at this place! Isn’t it amazing!?”

Before them was an underground grotto. A large lake stretched out before their eyes, water shimmering like crystals. The chamber was illuminated by veins of glowing ore that traced their way through the rocky walls, giving the entire cavern the appearance of something out of a fantasy movie. Vivian would have appreciated the beauty of the design, but she was too preoccupied by finally having the freedom of a room that was lit by more than a horny flashlight.

Letting out the breath she was holding, the heiress slumped against a stalagmite, relief washing over her like water from the lake.

“So this is cool and all,” Sylvia said, tapping her cheek, “but where do we go from here? I mean…” She looked around the cavern, and gestured emphatically towards the walls around them.

It took Vivian a second to get her bearings and process the problem. The two women were standing on a spit of rocky beach, at the lip of the giant lake. But the small beach was the only bit of land they had to work with. It was hemmed in by two tall, imposing walls of rock and glowing crystal, arching out towards the lake.

They had reached a dead end. A pretty one, but a dead end all the same.

“So… if we can’t keep going on land, there’s only one direction to go, right?” Sylvia turned the redundant beam of the flashlight towards the water, and the strip of rock jutting out into it like a natural dock. A tiny wooden rowboat was lashed to the makeshift pier.

“You do any sailing in your time as an heiress, my girl?”

What awaits the two of them in the water?

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“We… we must be pretty far through the maze by now, right?” Ella asked nervously, looking over at Dani. It was a little tough to do, given how skimpily the tomboy was dressed. Ella’s clothes were similarly fetishistic (at least she suspected they were) but most of her body was covered. The same could not be said of her blue-haired temporary teammate.

“Hard to say,” Dani replied, scanning over the brick walls with her eyes. “It’s not like I have a map of this place. I have no idea where I’m going!”

She paused and a lightbulb of realization flashed over her head. She turned to Ella and the two looked at each other, both realizing the same thing from the mention of the word “map” just now.

Dani’s cheeks turned red. “J-just to be clear, I’m not suggesting we do anything like that, or anything!” She said hastily, waving her hands. “That’s a little too much for me!”

“R-right,” Ella nodded in agreement, her cheeks flushing. “I-I feel the same way…”

Both women knew that the most effective way to get through this challenge was to get a clear picture of the map of the maze to help navigate. But that involved orgasms, lots and lots of orgasms. And while Dani was fine with that, she knew it would make Ella uncomfortable. And Ella DEFINITELY wasn’t fine with it, and she knew Cinder wouldn’t be, either.

Dani bit her lip. Maybe she had made a mistake in partnering up with Ella so early. It wouldn’t matter if they both came in last due to the maid’s prudishness! But what was she supposed to do? Say “Sorry, Ella, but I’m gonna ditch you now, because masturbating in front of you is way too uncomfortable!” or something?!

That would be just awful of her!

Dani pushed away those negative thoughts with a quick shake of her head and powered forward. She could do this. She didn’t need to rely on masturbating to find the map! She just had to follow her instincts!

And her instincts told her to push open the creaky, rusty door in front of her and see what was on the other side!

A blast of fresh air practically smacked the two of them in the face. The girls were nearly bowled over, having spent so much time in a musty, dirty corridor until now. This wasn’t exactly a fun time for either of them.

“What is it?” Ella leaned forward curiously. “Is that… outside? Are we done?! Are we seriously done now?!”

She couldn’t hide the eagerness in her voice, but Dani wasn’t so certain. “Let’s be careful,” she advised, stepping through the door. Their surroundings were dimly lit and the area was doused in fog, so it was hard to see properly. But she definitely felt the humidity of the outside.

How was that even possible in an underground maze? Dani was done questioning how things were possible on this island. With a sigh she shook her head and pushed forward, only to find herself bumping into a bush.

“Okay, I definitely think we’re supposed to be outside,” Dani informed Ella as the two girls headed deeper into the fog. “There are plants here. Grass beneath our feet, bushes, trees… and vines.”

She stepped over one such vine carefully, trying to get past.

“Hyeeeeek!”

Dani whipped her head around in surprise. While she’d stepped over the vine, Ella had stepped right on it. And the vine had immediately coiled up around her food, and hoisted the petite girl up into the air.

The first thought that crossed Ella’s mind was relief that she wasn’t wearing a skirt anymore, so she wouldn’t be flashing anyone with her panties.

Of course, that was a cold comfort given the coiling vines wrapping all around her, stretching from her legs down to her thighs, and curling up over her belly, chest, and arms. In seconds Ella was splayed out like a fly in a spider-web, and there was nothing she could do to free herself but thrash and wail like a little girl.

“Heeeeeelllppp! DANIIIIIIII!” Ella pleaded. It was all she could do. She couldn’t even make a grab for her rubber-band to suppress her other self, and she could already feel Cinder trying to reassert dominance over her.

“Ella!” Dani cried, rushing to free the other girl. But she didn’t get far. As soon as she was in reach, the forest came alive again, like it could sense Dani’s intentions and was moving to stop her. More vines shot down from the trees, reaching out and wrapping around her, hoisting her into the air to join Ella and keeping her suspended there as well.

In the end, they both found themselves tied up and bound, helpless against the fog-glistened vines that held them prisoner, left only to struggle and rub their bodies against the plants in a way that would certainly entice the audience, but left them both feeling incredibly embarrassed and humiliated.

How are they going to get out of this mess?

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“Dawn, you sure you don’t want me to give that little tail of yours a pull?” Carly cheekily offered.

“I told you, I’m not lost,” Dawn grumbled, shooting the cosplayer a sour look. “I’m doing just fine. I know where we’re going.”

“Do you though?” Marley asked. “Because this long hallway looks exactly the same as the last long hallway we were walking down, which looks exactly the same as-”

“I get it,” Dawn cut her off, rolling her eyes. “No tail-pulling. It’s just a maze. Puzzles like this are my specialty.” She really just didn’t feel comfortable cumming in front of Carly and Marley. Doing that sort of thing in front of the two of them was embarrassing, damn it!

She turned the corner and arrived at a fork in the road. A fork in the road where her mental map had told her there certainly would not be one. Her eye twitched in annoyance.

Great, just what I need.

“Wait, hold up a second!” Carly jumped forward, her eyes sparkling with determination. “You may not be up for this, Dawn, but I can bear a little of that burden!”

Dawn looked at her in surprise as Carly reached up and began playing with a lock of her long hair.

“You sure?” She asked Carly dubiously.

The cosplayer nodded. “Yeah, you bet! Look, you’ve been helping us get through the maze as it is. It’s time for me to start pulling my weight, don’t you think?” She winked at Dawn, and began to play with her hair even more.

It took Dawn a second to realize what she was doing. But the flash of pleasure that streaked across her face made it suddenly apparent.

“O-oh,” she said, taking a step back. Her cheeks flushed. “Gotcha. Yeah, uh… you… you do that, go for it,” she mumbled with a nod.

Dawn stood on the sidelines as Carly worked herself to orgasm with a smile on her face, while her sister just looked mildly embarrassed.

“Yeah, leave stuff like this to my sister,” Marley advised. She sensed that Carly had been feeling kind of useless recently, not able to contribute as much as Dawn, and this was her way of doing her part.

“Oooh, yeah! That’s the ticket!” Carly let out a loud moan, her legs quivering. She leaned against the wall to support herself, as she regained her composure.

A second later she straightened up, and turned to Dawn with a satisfied expression on her face. “Alright, I know where to go.”

Dawn gave her a begrudging smile. “Great,” she said, nodding. She appreciated Carly taking the initiative like that, and doing what she acknowledged she was too embarrassed to do. “That’s-”

“Wait, was it left or right?” Carly turned back to the fork and frowned. “Sorry, I was so caught up in my orgasm, I didn’t get a good look.”

Dawn’s eye twitched.

“Oh, come on!” Marley rolled her eyes in annoyance.

“Wait, wait, I remember now! It was definitely left!” Carly said confidently, taking the path to the left. “Left was definitely closer to the center!”

Dawn and Marley glanced at each other, neither having complete confidence in the cosplayer’s decision. But they didn’t argue and followed her down the path.

A couple turns later, and the trio arrived at a large, ornate door carved into the side of the wall.

“Well? Do we go through the door?” Dawn asked. “Or do we keep going?”

Carly shrugged. “I don’t know,” she replied. “I hardly remember the map at all. Um…”

…Yeah, Dawn could appreciate Carly’s willingness to bring herself to orgasm, but clearly the other girl didn’t have the memory she had to properly utilize what she saw when she did.

“…We should go through,” Carly decided. “They wouldn’t just put a door here for no reason, would they?”

“Unless it was a trap,” Marley pointed out.

“You’re so negative!” Carly rolled her eyes in exasperation.

“I’m just being realistic here!” Marley groaned.

“Okay, enough,” Dawn said, clapping her hands together. Someone needed to take charge here. “I think… we should go through the door.”

“Yes!” Carly made a fist of triumph.

“You sure?” Marley asked.

“No,” Dawn admitted, shaking her head. “But… I think it’s the right call. If we just keep wandering through the halls, we won’t get anywhere, even with the map.” To win these challenges, you couldn’t just have the best strategy. She’d learned that well enough by now. You needed to take risks.

That was how Dawn had won her first and only challenge, after all.

So she opened the door and stepped inside, only to find…

“Welcome!” A girl with bright pink hair and sparkling eyes greeted them from stand set up in the cavern. “You’ve found the special bonus room!”

“Special bonus room?” Carly repeated dumbly.

“Huh?” Marley just stared, not sure what was going on here.

Why was there a weird cutout section of the middle of the maze, with a short little pink-haired woman hidden inside it?

“Yep!” The woman chirped. “This is Little Miss’s Secret Bazaar! A hidden room for helping lost contestants get what they need to journey forward!”

A shaky smile crept up Dawn’s lips. This may have been just what they needed after all!

What will Little Miss give the girls at the Bazaar?

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Not everyone was as lucky as Dawn, Carly, and Marley, though. “The Age of Gina” was off to a somewhat rocky start.

“I’m not lost, I know exactly where I’m going!” Gina asserted, with far more confidence than Dawn had said.

“Right, sure, of course,” Kim said, rolling her eyes.

“I just got a peek at the maze!” Gina insisted. “There’s supposed to be a fork in the road here, I’m sure of it!”

“I was there when you got your ‘peek’,” Kim said, her cheeks reddening. “But do you see a fork in the road? Because I don’t!”

She waved at the corridor stretching in front of them. It was weird. The ground at their feet started with tile and brick, but it was like the territory was being encroached on. Plastic floorboards stretched across the floor, and walls were smeared with cracked pink wallpaper, like someone had tried to redecorate the hallway but had given up halfway through.

Or like pastel-colored plastic walls were growing outwards, consuming the rest of the maze like kudzu.

While Kim and Gina bickered, Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin tensed. She was immediately on alert and scanned around the corridor with a paranoid gaze.

Something was watching them.

She could feel it.

What could it be?

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