Comm: Becoming Clay: A Popgum Story (Part 4)

Summary: When Popgum can't stop a mutation beam from changing an innocent woman into a being of clay, mud and sand, she takes it upon herself to show her the ropes of being a malleable girl. Commissioned by jack2112

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Though Sonja had encountered several curveballs as part of her orientation—perhaps an appetite for literal dirt was the least of her concerns there—she thought she had been settling in rather nicely, consummating her new form, and perhaps doing some remodelling on her own. Her skin was more luscious in her human facsimile than it had ever been when she was wholly human.

One thing that Sonja found not to her tastes was the whole... fighting business. Sonja prided herself on her outstanding moral fibre, calling herself an environmentalist, a feminist, and above all, a pacifist against all forms of violence. So Sonja had some objections to being urged to come out to what Penelope euphemistically called the Splatterdome.

"So! Me and Kess are gonna do a little sparring match!" Penelope explained with her typical bright, bubbly grin, her entire inflated gummy body squeaking with each exuberant bounce. Kess was not as impressed, the towering kobold scoffing and folding her arms, her tail wagging indignantly to the side.

"A... a sparring..." Sonja repeated the words carefully. "O-oh, is this a regular exercise then? All in sporting fun, haha... I-I suppose neither of you can hurt each other, so perhaps this is-"

"Actually, we want you to watch!" Penelope pointed out with a nod. "See how the pros do it!"

"You are to observe our strategies and learn." Kess explained, her clawed wrist tensing up. Sonja felt a little bit silly about interacting with the alien, considering Kess had at least three feet on her. And her chest protruded in such a way that Sonja couldn't make eye contact with her.

"...Learn... what, exactly?" Sonja gulped. She had a bad feeling...

"To become a great warrior, of course." Kess explained. "To defend yourself so that no evil man or foul beast will stand against you ever again."

"Also to protect the people!" Popgum added with an encouraging pat on Sonja's shoulder. "You can be a superhero too!~"

"S-Superhero!?" Sonja blurted. She felt herself breaking out into a cold sweat... or maybe those were streaks of mud. Sonja had to raise an objection! She focused inward towards her core, urging herself to stretch upwards. She rotated her arms, swaying like a rearing cobra, before she could look Kess straight in the eye.

"E-excuse me, I know you squish sisters mean well, b-but I am no fighter!" Sonja protested, clasping her hands together. "The thought of doing a fight is just, just abhorrent, perhaps there is some other way I can help-"

"OI!" Kess bellowed at such a volume that Sonja nearly toppled over right then and there. "I am offering my EXPERTISE! Is it not GOOD ENOUGH for you!?"

"NO! I mean, no, that's not... nnnn..." Sonja, at a loss for words, choked back her words, swallowing back a lump that travelled the length of her outstretched neck. Kess stomped forward with cacophonous steps, pressing a single meaty clawed finger against Sonja's head.

"You will sit..."

Squish! With a single gesture, Kess pressed down upon Sonja with incredible strength in merely her outstretched index finger! As it stretched with a rubbery creak, Sonja could feel herself pushed towards the ground, collapsing in on herself as a pool of mud, sand, and clay pooled out around Kess' finger.

"...and you will study." Kess growled, twisting her finger in the oozing puddle that used to be Sonja for emphasis. Retracting her distended limb, Kess rose up, glaring towards Penelope. "To battle." Kess lumbered to the far side of the arena...

"D-don't worry Sonja, Kess is a big teddy-bear when ya get to know her..." Penelope kneeled down to whisper towards a mud-drenched face poking up from the puddle. "It's really important you stick around, okay?"

"Okay..." Sonja whimpered, slowly pulling herself back together.

"It'll be fun, I promise! Kess and I are kinda the captains of the squads when all the Squish Sisters go superheroing together, and... she takes her job preeeeetty seriously, heh."

Penelope bounced up onto the soles of her soles.

"Okiday! No need for introductions, let's goooooooo!" Penelope stretched her arms towards the ceiling and swung into action.

"Starting already!? A-at least let me be getting to my seat!"  Sonja, still dripping with mud, continued to protest, sliding along the ground towards the bleachers...

Though her butt didn't seem to make square contact with the bleacher. It was softer, malleable... Sonja froze up as, in her ear, she heard the sultry purr of a woman, an unseen hand stroking her muddy arm.

"AH! Devi!?" Sonja yelped, sliding over to sit on the bleacher proper. The air seemed to shimmer at her side, until it revealed the image of Devi... she licked her lips, turning to Sonja with a passionate look in her eye. Sonja recoiled slightly, as Devi's arms had split into six separate appendages, each massaging some curvarious, soft part of her body.

"What's the matter?" There's plenty of room on my lap~" She patted her thigh as she cupped her fat breasts. Sonja forced a polite smile, before sliding further away. Sonja had so many questions—where did Devi come from? Did she teleport over? How long was there? Was she stalking her?—but Sonja decided that, perhaps, it would be better to pay attention to the sparring match between Penelope and Kess...

Their styles were remarkably different, at a glance. While Penelope was keen to cartwheel and twirl to and fro, splaying out a dozen arms in a perfect, tumbling circle, Kess planted her enormous feet squarely, stretching out her tail into a narrow whip. With rapid whipping strikes, the tail whip cracked, thunderously reverberating through the entirety of the arena. Kess struggled to land a clean hit on Penelope, however, only grazing her pink hands... and as one hand deflated, two others shifted to take its place.

Sonja watched the exchange play out with curiosity. This seemed awfully strenuous. She could see beads of sweat trickle down Kess' enormous stature, and Penelope was looking a little goopier than usual.

"Hey, Sonja, what'd I miss?" A familiar friendly voice chimed in from above her. Vera, using the power of flight, hovered over Sonja, trying to lower herself gently...

"Whoa whoa whoa!" She dropped herself suddenly, before Sonja reached out with a long, outstretched arm; like a vine, it wrapped around Vera's chest, easing her down to the bleacher. "Thanks Sonja..."

"Harumph... you'll hug her chest that way, but not mine?" Devi remarked with a playful chide. "You know how to make a woman feel like chopped liver, mhm~"

Sonja didn't have a response for that. Rather than attempt to muster a response proper, she turned back to Vera. She liked Vera.

"It's no problem," Sonja nodded. "They are, um, performing sparring match. For my benefit. It is awful tiring..."

At this rate, with all this rushing about, they'd surely tire themselves out. Sonja wondered if there was anything she could do...

"...Ah!" Sonja had an idea. "Vera, when this is over, could you help me with something? I believe it is you who I need to make this possible!"

"Mm? What?" Sonja leaned over to whisper in Vera's ear; the superheroine nodded slightly, a look of realization crossing her face. "Yes, I think I... if I was careful, I could... I'll try."

Sonja nodded affirmatively, turning back to the ongoing fray. Kess grunted and stood her ground, the tip of her tail forming into a wide fan and, with a wide sweep, kicked up a powerful blast of wind that finally put Penelope's circus-antics to a halt. Penelope flopped to the ground, inflating her ass just enough to cushion her fall.

"NOW!" Kess bellowed, finally getting to throw her weight around with a mighty leap; she arched forward, her breasts inflating to the size of miniature vans, and they came crashing down on Penelope! Her breasts seemed to have lives of their own, each one rising and pounding as if to pound Penelope into the ground! Sonja gasped, covering her mouth, watching the woman who rescued her being pounded to a pink, pasty consistency.

Kess whooped with laughter... only to pause abrupting as tendrils of pink ooze, animated on their own, slithered up her curves in sticky undulations, pouring into her mouth! She tried to force it closed, but the goo was able to wrest her jaw open, clambering inside. Kess' eye twitched indignantly, her skin crawling as Penelope's gummyform had crept to her insides.

"What are you doing in there!?" Kess shouted, balling her fist into a wrecking ball and pounding her protruding gut. "Get out of there you conniving... o-ogh..."

Kess didn't feel so good. There was a moment of uneasy stillness. Sonja watched with worry as Kess simply froze up.

"What is happening...?" Sonja wondered aloud.

"Shhhh..." Devi whispered through lusty moans. "We're almost at the climax..."

"...?" Sonja turned her head slowly to see what Devi was doing, but stopped herself, forcing herself to look straight ahead. Whatever Devi was doing, through the slopping and the sucking and the rhythmic moving, it had to be something lewd. There were people around...

Kess grunted, her head rising from the ground as she seemed to visibly inflate in front of everyone. Her belly and chest outpaced the rest of her body in rhythmic pulses, rolling over on her cartoonishly protruding gut. She felt fuller, as if Penelope was growing inside of her, waves of ooze trickling to her extremities. She wobbled, flailing her stubby limbs as she looked all the part of an overtaxed waterballoon, her fat fingers wiggling! A subtle, uneasy creak filled the air as Kess' skin went tense...

RIP! Sonja let out a squeak as Kess' body finally ruptured, collapsing in on itself as strands of pink, gummy ooze mingled with her navy-black skin in undulating waves. Sonja and Vera got up on their feet to examine the damage; Demi did as well, though she seemed to be turning away from everyone else.

"Excuse me girls, just need to get a little something... out of my system here... ooohh..." Devi swooned, nearly falling over herself as a mess of noodly limbs continually groped her practically naked form; looking all the part of a tanned tentacle monster, she slithered out towards the dorms.

Sonja and Vera, paying little mind to the rampant hedonist, hurried over to Kess and Penelope, groaning as their bodies began to reform... though not quickly enough, considering they had only reconstructed their torsos...

"Hah... that ended up being pretty close." Penelope chuckled, wobbling as she peeled off stripes of Kess' flesh from her body. Penelope looked positively obese, swollen with gum. "We can call it a draw! Everyone wins!~"

"False modesty doesn't suit you." Kess growled. "Ready for round 2... when I pull myself together..." Kess growled, trying to stand on a knee... it collapsed under her own weight like a deflated tire.

"No, no, that is plenty enough!" Sonja objected. "You two fought valiantly, yes!"

"Yes, it was, um, very creative."  Vera added. Penelope and Kess glanced to each other.

"Mm... I guess we let it all hang out a bit..." Penelope concurred. "'Specially you, Kess, with your prehensile badonkadonks, ihihi!~"

"Don't lecture me about enormous breasts." Kess grumbled.

"I think I can help!" Sonja stepped forward and, before Penelope and Kess could get a word in, Sonja was already going ahead with her plan.

She sunk to the ground, her lower body melting away into slick, viscous mud. A ring of clay formed around the mud; Sonja tensed up, hardening this ring into solid brick, with clay patching up any cracks. As she swelled upwards, and as the wall of clay and brick accumulated hire, the two leaders gawked at Sonja's effortless display.

It was only when Kess and Penelope found themselves waist-deep in mud (well, Kess was more knee-deep) that they realized that they were standing in a mud pit. Vera was already settling down, her head poking above the surface.

"C'mon you two, relax." Vera encouraged them. "Never been in a mud bath before?"

Vera focused inward in turn; her skin began to glow and positively radiate with an intense heat that flowed through the mud. As the mud began to bubble and heat up, Penelope and Kess gasped, before letting out satisfied sighs of relaxation.

"Ohhhh that hits the spot..." Penelope swooned. "It's like sitting in hot chocolate fondue all over again..."

"This takes me back to my homeworld..." Kess added, sinking lower. "To the acid baths on the Velkar Bathworks..."

"Yes, well..." Sonja purred, feeling heat coursing through her distended body, the bubbles tickling her form. "I feel that this... perhaps this is something only I can do."

"Real sharp thinking, Sonja. See Kess? Toldja she was clever!" Penelope beamed.

"This is one less project I'll have to sort out..." Kess beamed. "Very good, newcomer. There may be hope for you yet..."

With their encouraging words, Sonja felt like she could truly relax. Even as the mud bath continued to heat up...

"Ahhhh... I could simply melt away..." Sonja cooed, leaning her head back. She was in total bliss... at least, until something terribly bright shone in the corner of her eye.

"Vera...?" She muttered, a muddy tendril trying to cover her eyes. "What're you... o-oh."

Sonja grimaced, shielding her eyes. Vera wasn't just glowing now, she was as bright as a spotlight! It was hard to look at her! And the mud was reaching a boiling point!

"You were right, Sonja!" Vera hollered over the boiling mud. "This is so relaxing!~"

"V-Vera, couldja bring it down a notch?" Penelope laughed nervously. "You might boil us alive at this rate..."

"Speak for yourself." Kess muttered. "This temperature is perfectly sweltering."

Sonja couldn't agree with that assessment. She trembled, as did her entire mudbath form. If this kept up, even the slightest shift would risk ruining everything...

"YOU GUYS HAVING A SPA DAY WITHOUT ME!?" Ling shouted, already breaking into a running start well past human limits, bouncing up and curling into a ball. "CANNONBAAAAAAAAAAALL!~"

"LING, NO-"

Sonja's protestations fell on deaf ears as the newcomer barreled into Sonja's structurally-compromised form, causing it to explode in all directions! When the mud, dirt and dust all settled, the squish sisters in attendance had all been liquidated into oozing forms, mixed in technicolour streaks. Their formless bodies writhed, stretched along the floor, clambering along each other, sticking to each other in trembling heaps.

Well, the mud bath was a success, as a trial run. Sonja would have to adjust with the temperatures the next time she tried this form out...