Eventually, near the end of ninth grade, Penelope's sadism had caught up with her, and after a particularly traumatic incident, Mari finally figured out the girl's true evilness and unhesitatingly dropped her as a friend. This...didn't exactly work in your favor, as Penelope still attended the same school as you and now had a burning grudge (since, of course, she somehow blamed you for costing her her friendship with Mari). Penelope's treatment of you in tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grade was arguably worse than the earlier years, and you very nearly lost your life several times over thanks to her schemes that put you in horrific situations. It was the greatest day of your life when she moved away after graduating.
But now...you were back to square one. A plaything to satisfy Penelope's endlessly sadistic whims.
After a few minutes, you heard the sound of a door close, and a light turn on. Penelope's pale, soft fingers then dexterously reached into her purse, pinched you, and removed you from its affected-stuffed depths. You blinked your eyes to get used to the light, and then you realized that you were in a small supply closet. Before you was a table, and on that table were five plush seat cushions, and five weird box capsule things. You frowned, having no idea what was going on.
Sensing your confusion, Penelope smirked. "When I first saw the poster for this gaming tournament, I just knew I had to volunteer. After all, you, Mite, are the biggest nerdy loser in existence, so surely other tinies are equally as pathetic. But I never expected that they'd put me in charge of handing out prizes to the winning teams! See, this might just be a qualifying tournament, but there's still official Gauntlet of Goddesses merch being handed out. One set of prizes for the winning team..." Penelope pointed to the cushions. "...and another set of prizes to the runner-ups." She gestured to the box capsule things.
Your eyes widened.
True to Penelope's word, the prizes were indeed Gauntlet of Goddesses themed merch. The cushions had a soft fabric cover over top of them, on which was printed a comically smushed face of a tiny man, like the man himself had been molded into a cushion. The man looked like all the other generic human men taken as slaves and pets by the winning team at the end of each round of the Human Cache mode.
Meanwhile, you recognized that the box capsule things were actually just a Gauntlet of Goddesses branded version of a recent candy product, Infini-Gum. The little box capsules were actually Infusing Capsules, and inside the capsules were tan-colored gumballs (themselves a reference to the Tricky Tiny, a rare jungle monster that granted a huge EXP boost if slain during a match). The gumballs were normal gumballs, but the gimmick was that the Infusing Capsules could be loaded with various flavor and texture boosters that would be injected into the gumball to enhance the chewing experience. Then, once someone was satisfied with enjoying the gumball, instead they could put it back into the Infusing Capsule, where it would be re-shaped and re-injected, to be enjoyed again. Hence, Infini-Gum.
Penelope then slapped you against her cheek, pressing you firmly into her pale soft skin, and facing-out. Once you were but a sticker, she began dumping out the rest of the tinies from her purse, nine in all, and from your vantage on her cheek you were given a front-row viewing of the master sadist at worked. It chilled you to your core.
You watched in horror as Penelope ripped the fabric covers off of every single one of the cushions, only to replace each cushion with a poor innocent affected from the group she'd kidnapped. Stretching and contorting them, she pulled their bodies taut over the cushion, making sure their terrified elongated faces made up the top of the cushion. She then superglued their bodies to the underside of the cushion, locking them in place. Likewise, Penelope tossed out every single actual gumball from the Infini-Gum Infusing Capsules, and instead rolled the remaining tinies into little balls, stuffed them into the capsules, and closed them inside. Even from this distance, you could hear the horrifying sound of the Infusing Capsules shaping their bodies and injecting them with flavor against their wills.
When she was finished, a singular tiny remained unused, as did one cushion and one Infini-Gum capsule. Penelope then peeled you from her cheek, and grinned cruelly down at you.
"This is just a guess, Mite," Penelope began. "But that chick with the fat ass...she's your new girlfriend, isn't she? Or at least a try-out date? She seems quite smitten with you, so why don't I go ahead and be gracious and gift you to her?" Penelope gestured to the prizes on the table. "If her team wins first place, you'll take the place of the last cushion. If her team wins second, you'll be the final gumball. And if her team doesn't win at all? Well, I'll just take you home myself. How's that sound, Mite?" Penelope laughed. "Of course, it's not like I can even guarantee who will end up with you even then!"
You swore a string of curses, which only prompted Penelope to chuckle. The cold-hearted girl then crammed you down the back pocket of her suit pants, crunching you up against her modest but not unperky butt. She then pulled out her phone, brought up the livestream of the tournament happening right outside the storage closet, and watched with great interest.
1) Jessie's team ends up winning the tournament and qualifying for the regionals. As such, Penelope quickly molds you into a cover for the final cushion, and wheels out the prizes to the winners.
2) Jessie's team comes in second, not making it to the regionals. As such, Penelope quickly molds you into the final gumball, and takes the prizes out to the runner-ups.
3) Jessie's team doesn't even manage to complete the tournament. A despondent Jessie temporarily forgets you and sulks home with her teammates, leaving Penelope to fulfill her threat and take you away with her.
4) Jessie's team doesn't even manage to complete the tournament. However, Jessie seeks you for some cheering-up, only to find you missing. Remembering that pretty professor she saw earlier, she seeks out Penelope and asks her for help in tracking you down.
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