The sorrows I've been through

Dawn staggered woozily out of the chamber, panting like a dog in heat. Or a cat in heat, as may have been more applicable.

Her head was spinning, throbbing, pounding, all sorts of words to describe the flurry of sensations swirling through her skull as her tail flicked wildly behind her and her eyes rolled in her head.

She braced herself against the brick wall just to keep herself standing as smoke billowed out of the room behind her, lingering in the air like a residual reminder of what her body had just been subjected to.

Not that she could say for certain what that was- her head was still in a tizzy.

A grim part of Dawn knew that was likely one of the effects of whatever chemical concoction she’d just been dosed with. After all, it was obvious, wasn’t it? Pink door, pink room, pink smoke, the clear connection to the color pink and Dakota’s barely-restrained contempt for Dawn’s intellect led her to draw only one conclusion.

The gas was turning her into a bimbo!

Well, you expected that, right? You moron? That’s why you chose that door in the first place! Dawn berated herself, even though she knew that she wasn’t actually at fault. There was only one “correct” door, after all. And the path had led her right to this room. Nothing she could have done differently. Clearly, Dakota (or the audience) had set her up for this conclusion.

As she worked that out, it was like a fog lifting from her brain. And she realized…

Wait, if I’m a bimbo now, how did I even figure that out? Dawn’s mind was drawing a blank. She stroked her chin thoughtfully, furrowing her brow as she tried to work out just how smart (or stupid) she really was. After all, she was thinking pretty clearly for a bimbo, wasn’t she? And could a bimbo do advanced particle physics equations in her head?

…

Wait, Dawn couldn’t do that before, either, because she wasn’t a physicist. Damn it, she really was getting dumber! …Right?

Dawn stared off into the inky blackness of the corridor, her brain drifting away like a fluffy little cloud. Then she quickly shook her head and slapped her hands against her cheeks.

“Stop zoning out!” She shouted to herself. “You’re not some braindead invalid! So what, maybe you’re a little dumber, or maybe you’re just tired, or whatever, big deal! Stop being stupid!”

She paused as the meaning of those words sank in, and then she started giggling up a storm. Wow, that really WAS dumb of her to say.

“Hehe.” Rolling her eyes, Dawn stepped forward, and then let out a yelp. She felt a tugging sensation on her chest and her eyes immediately shot down. To her shock, horror, and, although she would never admit it, joy, she saw that her boobs were starting to grow.

“Shit!” She marveled in surprise as her shirt stretched out, and then she started to hear a tearing sound. Not good! Quickly Dawn managed to work the hem of her shirt up over her expanding breasts, which would have broken out of her bra if she’d been wearing one. Once they swelled to the size of modest D-cups that stopped growing, resting nicely on her chest.

Flustered and more confused than she would have been under normal circumstances, Dawn struggled to hide her breasts with one hand as the other hung limply by her side.

Eventually, she managed to maneuver her shirt into looking like a very weird tube top, leaving her entire midriff exposed. But it definitely felt weird. Not just the breeze she felt from below, but just having breasts this big to begin with. Having lived most of her life with practically nothing in the sense of breast tissue, Dawn had grown to more modest sizes several times since coming onto this twisted show. And even, on even rarer occasions, she’d grown to truly comical, gargantuan proportions.

But this time, she actually had breasts that were large without being ridiculously so. And it was actually kind of nice.

A dopey grin spread across her face as she reached down and heft a tit in each hand, getting a feel for their size, shape, weight…

“…Wait, what am I doing!?” Dawn dropped her boobs like a couple bags of flour, her face heating up. “This is no time for me to be playing around with my breasts like some slackjawed bimbo moron!”

Shaking the blush off of her face, Dawn stormed forward and tried to ignore the bouncing feeling of her boobs beneath her shirt. She felt like she’d stepped right out of a porno, and if that gas was supposed to make her LIKE that fact, then it had failed! Massively!

Almost as massively as her new boobs had grown.

Stop thinking about it!

But Dawn couldn’t help it. More times than she could remember since puberty she’d wondered what it was like to have large breasts. Maybe not THIS large, but… well, larger than she’d had, anyway.

The rational intellectual side of her had always discouraged her from thinking about it. She’d reasoned with herself that the back pain wasn’t worth it. That it would make buying clothes more difficult. That it would mess up her gymnastics career. That big boobs weren’t really that important anyway, what mattered was what was on the inside.

That was called “cope” as the kids said. Dawn’s brain could fight the breast envy, but her heart still saw how men would look at women with desire. The only time Dawn found herself the subject of such feelings was when meeting men that couldn’t be trusted within 50 meters of a school.

…And Nick.

Dawn stopped walking and looked down at her enhanced breasts. Nick had never thought less of her because of her breast size. He’d started liking her before she’d even gone through puberty in the first place, and now his feelings for her were so much more serious than some little schoolboy crush.

She felt her face heating up as she processed something that was only just now occurring to her: Nick was watching this whole challenge. He’d seen her breasts grow, he’d seen her show them off to everyone! He was probably looking at her right now, in fact!

The thought made her heart race. It must be the gas making me think this way, she reasoned. It must not have affected my intelligence, it must have just been, like, horny gas or something! Made my boobs get bigger and made me more aroused! Yeah, that’s gotta be it!

Dawn didn’t feel like an idiot. She definitely didn’t feel like a bimbo. She was just as smart as she always was, as far as she could tell.

More importantly, even if she was numerically dumber, that didn’t change her ability to reason and plan. She could still look at things objectively and understand that she probably shouldn’t be focusing so much on her boobs right now. No, she had a challenge to win!

And if Dawn wanted to win the challenge, then she should probably pick up the pace, right? No sense in taking things slow and easy. So she broke into a light jog, which soon became a decent sprint once she picked up enough speed.

…And, if running like this happened to make her breasts bounce all over the place in her shirt, well, that was just the price she’d have to pay. Dawn couldn’t do anything about that! She certainly wasn’t planning to show off her chest or anything, that would be the smart thing to do, and the gas had made her stupid, right? Probably. Maybe. Or maybe it hadn’t.

Whatever, Dawn didn’t want to think about that, those sorts of worries were for dumb people who didn’t know what they were doing. Dawn was going to put her genius to work in finding a way out of this maze!

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“Great, another fork in the road,” Kim sighed, scratching her head. She looked right and left. The two branching points looked completely identical, as always. “…I guess we’ve gotta figure the right way, huh?”

She turned to Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin, who immediately started pointing intently at herself.

Kim was thrown for a second. “…Wait, you mean you want to, uh… …Get the map?” Her face grew hot at the innuendo in her statement. But it was impossible to avoid.

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin nodded her head eagerly, eyes smoldering as she looked at her friend.

Kim bit her lip. She’d been handling the brunt of the “heavy lifting” in that regard, and Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin obviously wanted to help out.

“…I guess so,” she conceded. Kim had done enough now where she didn’t feel like a leech. She could let the other girl have her moment in the sun.

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin didn’t waste a second. She reached up and tore her right sleeve off at the elbow, exposing her skin. Immediately she let out a silent shudder and her knees knocked together.

Kim had to admit- after how much work the girls had gone through to bring the assassin to orgasm in the last challenge, seeing it just happen was a little… disheartening.

It was also kinda weird. Kim didn’t really do things with other girls, except with Dani that one time. So seeing another woman cum right in front of her like that… she couldn’t help but blush a little in secondhand embarrassment. And a little bit of embarrassment in herself as well. After all, she’d been right there in the assassin’s position not too long ago, and had felt the other woman’s eyes staring at her as she pleasured herself.

Did it look as… gratuitous as this? Or maybe it was because the orgasm was completely silent, so Kim’s eyes were drawn more to the gestures associated with it. The emphatic expression on the other woman’s face and the way her body trembled…

…Kim quickly shook her head. This was getting weird. She felt like a total creep, watching like this. Turning around, she cleared her throat. “Just, uh… let-let me know when you’re done, alright?” She asked, only realizing a moment later that she wouldn’t be able to get a response from her friend unless she turned to look at her again.

Yeah, no thanks.

A few seconds later, maybe a minute, and Kim felt a tap on her shoulder. She turned to see the sweaty, fresh face of the smiling assassin as the mute girl waved cheerily at her.

It brought the smile back to Kim’s lips. “Okay, you good? You got it all worked out?” She asked.

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin nodded.

“Great!” Kim felt relieved. “Which way?”

The assassin pointed past her and Kim turned on her heels, heading down the corridor with her friend in tow.

Yeah, this was definitely one of the more awkward challenges Kim had taken part in, due to how blunt their sexuality was put on display. At least in Dakota’s last challenge things had ended with a single orgasm for her.

But again, she wasn’t thinking about it. After all, she had to focus on getting through the maze, not on whatever sexual stuff her friend was going through.

Soon the two women reached a new room, and this one was… also really gross.

Four sex dolls were lying on the ground, and four chairs were set up in a row. While Kim took a look at the obvious puzzle, Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin, as usual, dispensed with the bullshit and went to go try the door.

Of course it wouldn’t open. Which meant Kim had to figure this mess out. She took another look at the chairs. They were all different colors, one orange, one yellow, one brown, and one black. Again, definitely weird. Kim didn’t get what was going on until she (begrudgingly) looked at the sex dolls again for a clue.

“…Oh, come on, this isn’t even a challenge,” she groaned, rolling her eyes in exasperation. “It’s just gross!”

The sex dolls each had a different hair color. There was a blonde, two brunettes, and a redhead. The two brunettes had light brown and black hair, respectively.

Dakota couldn’t have made an easier puzzle if she’d tried.

Rolling her eyes again, Kim hauled the redheaded sex doll up onto the orange chair, maneuvering its body into a seated position. Getting the idea, Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin did the same thing with the blonde doll.

About a minute later and all four sex dolls were upright, ready to be used. Again, gross. But the puzzle was finished now. And the click of the door unlocking was proof enough of that.

“If we’re getting puzzles this easy then Dawn’s probably at the finish line already,” Kim joked. She expected her friend to do that silent, smiling laugh of hers, but no, Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin was quiet as could be.

She stared at Kim with a determined expression on her face, and Kim was caught off guard for a second. It was only then that she realized why the other girl was looking at her like that.

“…Right, yeah… I guess we don’t know how the other girls are doing, do we?” Kim admitted, scratching her cheek sheepishly.

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin shook her head.

That little detail was enough to take the wind out of Kim’s sails. She wasn’t quite sure how long it had been since the whole mess with Lynette and the maze restructuring itself to separate the girls, but it had to have been at least an hour, right? More likely it had been a couple of hours given how much Kim had been playing with herself.

Not that she had enough experience with self-pleasure to get a sense of what her average time was. Kim wasn’t used to relaxing like that.

Still, she resolved to pick up the pace. For all she knew, the two of them were the final two girls in the challenge, and she didn’t like the idea of that one bit!

“Come on,” Kim agreed, throwing the door open and heading down the corridor. “We need to get through this maze!”

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin couldn’t agree more. With a sharp nod she was hot on Kim’s heels, and the two girls made their way through the labyrinth, keeping an eye out for any puzzles or traps that might impede them.

Instead, they ran into someone else entirely.

“Oh, hey!” The other girl waved to them.

It took Kim a second to recognize her. She squinted and rubbed her eyes, trying to make out her face in the darkness.

“…Dawn?” She asked, tilting her head to the side in surprise. “Dawn, is that you?”

“Hey Kim!” Dawn giggled, waving again. “Oh, and Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin, too! Who’da guessed you two would hook up?”

She snickered. “Heh. To be clear, I didn’t mean it like that. But I could have. I’m definitely clever enough to come up with a joke like that.”

Kim just stared at the giggling cat girl.

“…Dude, are you drunk?” Kim asked. “…And what happened to your boobs?” It was a dumb question Kim realized, but it just slipped out. Obviously Dawn’s boobs had been boosted by an audience vote or something similar.

Dawn, genius that she was, ignored the dumb, obvious question.

…Then again, they were both dumb, obvious questions, but one was dumber and more obviouser.

…Shut up, Dawn was the genius here, she could use the word “obviouser” if she wanted to.

“No, I’m not drunk,” Dawn said indignantly, crossing her arms over her chest. “I just got dosed with a bunch of gas that made me super horny, that’s all. And it made my boobs grow huge, too!”

She rolled her eyes. “Typical Dakota, am I right?”

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin raised a curious eyebrow. Kim was right there with her.

“…Are you sure it made you horny?” Kim asked, looking at Dawn. She didn’t seem that horny. Her eyes weren’t glassy and unfocused, she wasn’t panting, her cheeks weren’t even that flushed. And even though her tail was sticking up, it wasn’t whipping around frantically the way it did when Dawn got really turned on.

Not that Kim noticed stuff like that on purpose or anything. It just sort of happened.

“Of course it did,” Dawn huffed. “Why else would I be thinking about my huge new boobs all of a sudden, Kim?” She pointed out.

Kim blinked. “Uh…”

“Exactly!” Dawn stated triumphantly.

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin giggled silently and shook her head, quite amused by this whole thing.

Kim felt her cheeks flush.

“Look, uh… so we were just making our way through the maze,” Kim said, glancing back the way they came. She looked down the hallway Dawn had just stepped out of. The two trails merged together like a “Y” shape. “…You want to come with?”

“Sure thing,” Dawn nodded. “Might as well use my genius to help you two out! And since I’m horny, well, I can definitely find the map for us,” she bragged.

“That would be useful,” Kim agreed, and Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin nodded as well. “So have you been cumming a lot since, um, the gas?”

Talk about an awkward question. But Kim didn’t mean anything bad by it. She just wanted to get the full specs on how Dawn was functioning. She had gotten gassed, after all.

Dawn frowned. “Oddly? No,” she said, shaking her head. “I haven’t felt like cumming at all for some reason.”

Kim stared at her.

“…You’re sure the gas made you horny?”

Dawn pouted. “How many times do I have to tell you?” She scoffed, rolling her eyes. “Why else would I be thinking about my huge boobs?”

She kept using the phrase “huge boobs” Kim noticed.

“I’m not some bimbo,” Dawn continued. She glanced at Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin. “…No offense. What, you think the gas made me stupid and absentminded or something?”

Kim hadn’t even suggested that, but now that Dawn said it…

The cat girl gasped and went pale. “Shit! The gas totally made me stupid and absentminded, didn’t it!?” She groaned, slapping her palm against her forehead. “Damn it…!”

“Whoa, hey, I don’t think it’s THAT bad,” Kim said, shaking her head. “Trust me, from where I’m standing, you’re just coming off as weird. Not some stupid bimbo or anything, right, Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin?”

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin stepped forward and placed a comforting hand on Dawn’s shoulder. She gave her a tearful, apologetic smile.

Dawn’s eyebrow twitched. “…Very funny,” she muttered. “Ugh, what a pain… …I can’t even describe it.” She massaged her temples with her fingers. “It’s like… I know I’m still plenty smart, but just not AS smart, you know? It’s weird… I’m not a moron, but I’m not a genius, it’s like…”

“You’re average?” Kim suggested.

Dawn gasped in horror. “Average?!”

“Gee, thanks a million,” Kim said, not liking the way Dawn reacted to that. As a woman of average intelligence herself, that sort of response was practically a slap in the face.

Dawn winced. “…That came out wrong, didn’t it?”

Kim nodded. “Yup.”

“Haaah…” Dawn rubbed her temples and sighed again. “Well… we’ll just have to make the best of this, then,” she decided. “What do you guys think? Want to group up?”

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin nodded gleefully, her eyes full of bad intentions. Kim agreed, just to keep anything bad from happening between the two of them. And because she kind of wanted to get to know “Average Dawn” a little better.

She just hoped they wouldn’t run into any difficult obstacles while Dawn was acting so weird.

What kind of difficult obstacles will they run into?

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