And this person, Sam saw her before. It was Celina Ryner, The current champion of the Montgof Sumo League. Even Sam who never cared about this sport at this moment in his life knew who she was. But something was off... Well, a lot of things.
First, as implied by this situation, Celina was tied to a chair with multiple layers of ropes. Then, Sam discover the source of the noise, but it only brought more questions. Celina was wearing some kind of oxygen mask, and it was connected to something that looked like a small compressor. Was this thing filtering the air, affecting the pressure, or adding some poison or drug to the air? No way for Sam to know. He couldn't even tell if this device had any link with the last disturbing fact about Celina, she was missing around 300 lbs.
When the light turn on, Sam realized Celina was already staring at him, but she didn't make any noise... She was probably unable to do so because of what this device made her breathe. Celina looked lethargic, struggling just to raise her face toward Sam.
Sam on his side was lost in all the questions he had about this situation. But one thing was clear to him, he already saw too much, and if the hyena above find out he was there, they will make him disappear no matter if he helped the prisoner or not. Since he loose in both cases, why not try saving her?
Sam walked to Celina and removed the mask from her mouth, she took a deep breath in before coughing multiple times. Sam instinctively cover her mouth, afraid of the noise it made. Above them, they heard could distinguish the voice of a kidnapper saying "What did you say ?", probably asking the other guy. Sam realized instantly that helping her to get out also meant more chance to get caught and he regretted instantly his choice, but it was too late to flee now.
He waited about 30 seconds before releasing Celina's muzzle. Hopefully, she didn't react emotionally and whisper to Sam, trying to keep her voice at the same level as the device's noise level.
Celina: "Do you have a plan ?"
S: "Well hum... no I just ended here by accident."
Celina's face dropped down visibly afraid, but she quickly looked back at Sam.
C: "Anyway, just untie me then."
Sam moved around the chair and try to undo the multiple knots. But the knots in question were way too complex for him, and he was lacking both in strength and knot-knowledge department. After a few minutes of trying in vain to undo the knots or cutting the ropes, Celina suggested something else.
"I have another idea, can you put the mask back on my face?"
Sam was very confused about the request, has she gone mad after being stuck here for too long, or was this thing indeed a drug? Sam took the mask back from the ground, but he didn't want to do anything without getting more info.
S: "What is this device doing exactly? Looking at your face when you were wearing it, I fail to see how it gonna help us out."
C: "The device looks like a modified compressor... Well, I think it's that, I'm not sure. All I know is that it was reducing the amount of air I could breathe to the minimum vital to prevent me from escaping."
Sam realized it was quite a vicious plan, which meant she was both limited physically and mentally. But that was also very uncommon as a kidnapping strategy, it requires very specific material and medical knowledge. But more importantly, how putting the mask back would help them in any way to escape.
S: "I don't get what you hope by putting this back on."
Celina open her mouth to answer, but she didn't whisper anything, instead, she start to look around rapidly lost in her thought. After a few seconds, she shook her head and replied to him.
C: "It's too complicated to explain here. I know what I'm doing, just put it back on my face, and then turn the blue button on the side to the right."
Sam look at the device on the ground and noticed the button in question. Currently, it was set at a value just under 1, and the max value was 50. Sam wasn't sure to understand, or more exactly he was afraid of getting it right. If this compressor was reducing the air in this setting, the logical action this action will do is blow a lot of air into her face. It sounded very dangerous.
*Is there another button I'm not seeing? Is she sure about that button function? 50 sounds like a lot, maybe she underestimate the power of that thing.* Sam thought to himself.
S: "I still don't get why you want me to do that"
C: "Stop asking, just do it already. If you can't remove those ropes yourself that is our only way out."
Saying that Celina accidentally raised her voice a bit too much. Both she and Sam froze in place and waited for any kind of noise coming from above.
Nothing, no noise at all... In fact... Not enough noise actually, no way to know why but now there was a chance of one of them coming here at any moment. Celina Looks back at Sam and nods her head toward the mask. Sam walked very slowly toward her and put back the mask on her muzzle. This made Celina act dizzy, slowly letting her head fall as struggled to stay awake.
Sam turns around and grabs the button. He was still not sure if he was doing the right thing but with the reaction from above he couldn't lose more time to think. But just in case, he only pushed the button to 10. He then turns around to watch what gonna happen, frightened but curious.
The noise from the device starts getting higher, and as it did, Celina's head rose back up, and her breathing became slower and stronger. Once the noise of the device reached its peak, Celina close her eyes and start breathing... weirdly. Deep intake, and barely any exhaust.
Sam's theory on what she was trying to do was becoming harder to deny, and more than that, it could be an explanation for why she was so much smaller than usual. But being a rational guy, he rejected this idea despite all the proof he had already. Like, it's just too silly, normally made body can't just...
A creaking noise pulled Sam out of his thought, He slowly looked back at Celina and noticed something off. But before he could think any more about it, Celina took another intake, and her boobs instantly doubled in volume.
Sam fell on his back, shocked and paralyzed as all his trust in biology vanished instantly. All he could do is stare at Celina's body crushing his understanding of reality with each puff she took.
Craking noise coming from the rope intensify. If at first glance it felt like only her breast and butt were growing, but it was only because almost all the rope where tied around her middle body. Until a first rope broke, then another, each of them letting her belly expand by an inch. By that time, her body was no longer looking like a person, but more like a weirdly distorted hourglass, and she wasn't stopping to deform any time soon. Two more ropes snapped, and her belly suddenly spring out and grew to the size of a beach ball as her breast and butt deflated a bit. She wiggles and wobbles as the air inside moves back and forth in her body. The remaining rope slipped above and below her massive guts, freeing her forearms.
She start to pet her belly as if she was hugging a friend she didn't saw for a long time. She felt the last rope about to give up. And suddenly... the compressor stopped. She turned her torso around to move her giant boobs out of her field of view to look at the ground where it was and realize why it stopped.
C: "What are you doing, I'm almost free!"
Sam, had brought the regulator back to one. He was shaking and sweating.
S: "I can't let you do that... You... Your body is about to explode, I can feel it's not supposed to do that."
He was totally shocked and lost all capacity to think. He only acted by pure fear of being stuck with a human-sized bomb.
S: "Idiot! You don't understand what I'm doing, you gonna get us killed!"
Sam's gaze starts moving desperately between Celina's face, her belly, and the door, unable to take a decision. Celina saw that and remembered that if all this was normal to her, it was groundbreaking for Sam. He had all the reason to be traumatized by her view, and to have to the stress of the situation, they heard fast step noise from the house above.
Celina stopped and asked Sam again, but with a calmer voice.
C: "Please trust me, I did this before and I will be fine."
Sam looked back at her, his ears moving up a bit showing he started to calm down upon hearing her voice. But he still didn't restart the device, and immediately after that, his head turned toward the noise from the roof. So Celina tried to get his attention back.
C: "Once I'm free, I will protect you from them."
Sam looked back at her, then at the compressor. He closed his eyes and turn the regulator back to 10.
Celina took one big puff of air and pushed forward with her waist. The ropes struggled for a few more seconds before ripping apart. Celina jumped out of her sit as her body wobbled even harder than before. She lands on her feet with weight.
Sam shut the compressor down, His fear had vanished as Celina start taking back the shape she had on TV. He still wasn't sure of how and why this was possible, but at least she no longer look like she was about to blow up. She was looking particularly agile, as she start to do some stretching to recover from staying on this chair for too long. Actually, her current shape felt way more comforting to Sam, as she now looked capable of protecting him against the two hyenas outside.
But from Celina's point of view, it wasn't that simple. Maybe she was free to move around, but she was stuck in a room with only one exit and no idea who was waiting for her outside. And her current shape was maybe helpful to fight, but way too wide for the door.
Her reflection where stop but a violent shake of the door in question. Apparently, the guy who came to fix it earlier did his job a bit too well, and now he couldn't open it. The lack of more movement in the following second meant he moved away, probably to get his tool, meaning it was a matter of a minute before the door will open.
But Celina had an idea, maybe not the best, but the best she could think of right now. She walk to Sam and the compressor and took the device from Sam's hand. Sam's tried to hold onto the device and was raised from the ground with it. He understood quickly that he will not be able to contest with Celina for even a second. He released his grip on it and falls on Celina's belly. As much as he was stressed, he was surprised to find this to be very comforting. He shook his and took a few steps back as it wasn't the moment to lose focus. Celina gave him a friendly wink.
C: "Thank you so much for all that, Now more than before you gonna need to trust me."
Looking back at her, Sam nodded back. Whatever she was about to do, it can't be worst than what would happen if they wait here.
Celina turned the compressor back on and pushed it all the way up to 50 this time. Her breast and belly suddenly grow shoved the device out of her hand, and with her inflated arms she was unable to catch it back, but thankfully, it was still pumping air into her mask. So she opened her mouth wide and let herself be filled up like a blimp.
At that point, Sam felt way less confident in this method, and once again, he was questioning the logic of this plan, but this time, he knew he should trust her. Celina's body was losing its humanoid shape and was looking more and more like a ball with only her only breast and arms coming out as extra spheres on top of a bigger one. Sam couldn't see it but he was pretty sure her butt cheek on the other side was probably sticking out of the belly shape, and he almost slap his own face for thinking about that at the instance. I mean... It's not like this kind of body was attractive... why would it be, it looks so... like, not normal.
But he was pulled out of his weird thought as the giant overinflated boobs of Celina reach him. Using the remaining mobility she had, Celina rolled on her belly to not get her face crushed against the ceiling. But doing so, she rolled over Sam. But to his surprise, he was fine, Celina aimed so he would land between her breast. Sam managed to poke his face out of her cleavage. Now, he was stuck in this position, and weirdly enough, he wasn't afraid of that anymore, since all his thoughts were taken by the question "Why do I find this hot".