Clo the Lopunny, ringmaster (or mistress?) of her very own Pok�mon circus, was interested in recruited some new talent for a new show. She and her Braixen friend, Cherrelle, had traveled to a region inhabited mostly by Ghost-types and had set up a recruiting booth. The Braixen was rather puzzled by the decision to recruit here, of all places, but Clo insisted that ghost clowns wouldn't end up nearly as scary as the average viewer would think. Clo had an eye for Pok�mon that could do things nobody else could, and ghosts were something she'd never tried before.

Unfortunately, the recruiting booth was failing to attract much attention. Most of the ghosts were just shrugging it off. Possibly due to Clo's "no scaring" policy.

"You know maybe we ought to re-think this," Cherrelle suggested, "Ghosts live for a good scare, so we have to give them that, I think."

"The circus is NOT for scaring," Clo said, folding her arms and pouting.

"Well, even if they scare, that doesn't make them evil, you know?" Cherrelle said, now turning her attention to the potion ingredients in the shelf under the booth. Seeing as Clo wouldn't listen, she may as well turn her attention to potion-making, which was a bit of a side hobby for her she picked up from her mother, a reknowned witch. Her real passion was pastry baking, but the two professions weren't entirely unrelated. And plenty of rare items could be found in this part of the world.

"I'm gonna go find something to eat. Pumpkin pie or something, I dunno," Clo sighed, taking her leave. "Watch the booth for me, okay?"

"Yeah, yeah," Cherrelle said, looking at the ingredients available. For some reason she'd brought vinegar, baking soda, some weird-looking berries...it was a few minutes before Cherrelle noticed someone had been standing - well, floating - in front of her, which startled her. "Ah, um, hello there?" she stuttered before getting a good look at the visitor.

She was a Drifblim, the strange yet interesting ghost balloon Pok�mon. The Drifblim seemed nervous but spoke in a muffled squeak. "M-my name is Blimpette...S-so you're recruiting...for a circus?" she squeaked.

"Yeah," Cherrelle said, putting the vials away. "What sort of talents have you got?"

"Ah..." Blimpette seemed to slowly deflate as she spoke. "Well, you see, I, uh...I'm..." She took a deep breath and sighed sadly. "I'm a balloon."

"Oh..." Cherrelle said, "Anything else?" Blimpette shook her head sadly. Cherrelle felt bad. This girl had that air of dreaming of doing something with herself but not feeling capable of accomplishing much. Then an idea struck. "Say, do you know what your maximum size is? Being a balloon and all?"

Blimpette's eyes perked up. "Oh, oh I can get very big!" she squeaked excitedly, "Very big! Like a hot air balloon!"

Cherrelle smiled. She owed Clo something for dragging her out here. "Alright...we'll have a little...audition," she said, quickly whipping up a potion that was sure to make things interesting, "First take this little bottle of magic, then I'll have to ask for a demonstration of your skills..."

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Around ten minutes later, Clo returned to the booth muttering about finding no food anywhere, and found that Cherrelle was there with a strange rubber...something in her hand. "Hey Cherrelle, what's that? You come up with a new trick?" Clo asked.

"Oh, something like that...Clo, I think we've found ourselves a new clown," the Braixen said with a sly grin.

Before Clo could ask who, what, when, where, and why, Cherrelle suddenly pitched the rubber object straight at the Lopunny, whose open mouth caught it. Clo moved the object with her hands with one end still in her mouth - it was some kind of...deflated Drifblim whose coloring had been altered significantly, now pink and sky blue instead of purple, and with rosy red cheeks as well as a clown hat. Without thinking, Clo blew a puff of air in Blimpette, causing her to puff up.

Clo smiled, thinking the Drifblim very cute, and continued blowing into her, using her nose to breathe in air. Blimpette began giggling and squeaking loudly - at least, loudly to Clo. The Lopunny suddenly felt a rush in her. This balloon was so fun to inflate. Clo lowered her arms and let them fall to her sides as she felt herself inhale a sort of hypnotic gas.

Soon she was on her knees, breathing in through the nose, and puffing out into Blimpette's form, inflating her up to the normal size of a Drifblim. Eventually Blimpette was so big, Clo couldn't resist holding the Drifblim in her hands and squeezing her slightly, and eventually Blimpette was so big Clo was hugging her against the belly.

Clo felt so relaxed and didn't want to stop yet, though. She kept inhaling, blowing, inhaling again, as the colorful Blimpette became more and more visible, more and more...big. Soon the wonderfully colorful figure was all she could see as the giggling, squeaking Drifblim was now twice as big as her head, puffing up bigger and bigger still. Blimpette's hands could now move, and reached out to the Lopunny to hang onto her and stroke her face, making her blush hard. Cherrelle was watching with glee - it was working even better than she thought.

As Blimpette reached four times the size of the Lopunny, her tail slipped out of Clo's mouth with a POP. Clo slowly started to regain her senses as she looked over the huge balloon. "W-woah...that was cool," Clo giggled.

"Hee...it's only the beginning," the Drifblim squeaked. Clo was still weak in the knees, only able to look up as Blimpette suddenly began to inflate on her own, puffing in and out, growing bigger and bigger with every breath!

Cherrelle scratched her head. "Wait a sec, that's not..." she panicked and looked up her recipe book, and gasped. "Oh no...that was WAY too much vinegar and baking soda...!" She looked up to see Blimpette puffing higher and higher still, now three times as big as she once was. Cherrelle scrambled to find one of her tools before things REALLY got out of hand.

Meanwhile, Clo was still under the gas's hypnotic effect. Watching the inflation of the giant Drifblim was making her giddy and gleeful, as Blimpette finally stopped inflating at four times the size she was when Clo finished with her. The wobbling of the giant balloon was hypnotic, and Clo could barely think of much besides what was right in front of her. Blimpette was also entranced by how much fun she was having, and wiggled her figure to tease the Lopunny. Then she took in more air and inflated the sides of her mouth. Two big cheeks puffed up on her sides, making it appear that two big balloons were attached to the even bigger balloon.

Clo's instincts kicked in just in time for her to roll out of the way when, all of a sudden, Blimpette descended upon where the Lopunny was and squished into the ground below. Blimpette squealed and started bouncing up and down on the ground, and made a dive for Clo again, but Clo's clown dexterity was slowly returning, and she was now running away from the clingy balloon.

"Awww, don't play hard to get!" Blimpette squeaked, her voice filling Clo's mind as she ran and jumped to avoid getting bounced on. The constant squeak noises and Blimpette's teasing were having yet another hypnotic effect on her, and she was slowing her leg movements. Suddenly the bouncing stopped for just a moment. Clo checked behind her to see if Blimpette had stopped, and as soon as she did, she saw Blimpette and her puffy cheeks looming overhead as they descened upon her, squishing her against those puffy cheeks into the ground.

Clo groaned loudly as the rubber ghost balloon pressed hard into her body, the rubber meeting her fur at every inch possible, but Blimpette wasn't done. She suddenly bounced into the air and came back down on Clo, smushing her into the ground again. The balloon was giggling loudly as she bounced on Clo over and over, giving Clo only enough time to get one foot in the air before she was pounced on yet again, squeezed between those cheeks every time. Eventually Blimpette pressed so hard that her mouth was now kissing the poor, flustered Lopunny. The noises had reduced her to feeling nothing but the soft, comfortable rubber bouncing on her, and now a big sweet kiss. Boing, boing, boing...smooch.

Clo began to struggle under the undulating rubber balloon, wiggling under the thick mass as her breathing puffed up the balloon bigger and bigger, making it harder to breath. But the kiss was just so lovely and intimate, so much sharing of air between the two of them. It was so wonderful, being surrounded by a balloon giving her these lovely feelings. Just as Clo was ready to let herself be at the mercy of Blimpette and enjoy her situation, however, there was a loud BANG.

Suddenly, Blimpette was squealing in delight again as there was now a giant hole in her cheek. Next to it was a figure holding a fork - it was Cherrelle. "Geez, stay in one place so I can find you easier," she said, annoyed. "Are you okay?"

Clo shivered as she sat up, the weight of Blimpette now off of her. She didn't want to admit it, but she was kind of enjoying it. The two watched Blimpette fly into the air, oxygen rushing out of her like a balloon letting its air out. Blimpette was flying in circles, clearly enjoying the rush, before she slowed down and started to float gently back towards them. Like a parachute, the big, wide deflated balloon was landing on them, as if it was a big rubber blanket. Clo was still a little dizzy and wound up underneath the deflated Blimpette.

Clo wiggled under the rubber as she struggled to find a way out. Cherrelle sighed and got on top of the lump of rubber and tried to find where Clo was. Blimpette's face was visible on this side, and Cherrelle was getting the very strange feeling it was watching her. Then she found where the hole she made was. Wait. How did she make a hole in a ghost balloon, anyways?

Suddenly the hole closed up. Cherrelle stumbled backwards as the balloon cheek underneath her suddenly inflatable and caught her. Cherrelle's body sunk into the soft cushion of rubber as she could see Blimpette giggling at her. "Forking me wasn't nice, sweetie!" Blimpette teased as the other cheek inflated into a big balloon and the two smushed together. Cherrelle gasped as she was sandwitched between the rubber cheeks. They rubbed up and down her body, back and forth, the squeaking and giggling giving her the same hypnotic feeling Clo had felt.

"Naughty little witch, you're gonna puff me back up!" Blimpette teased further as she put the squeeze on Cherrelle, a small pocket opening near her muzzle, forcing the Braixen to inhale and exhale Blimpette's air as she struggled, her movements becoming weaker as she was squeezed harder and given more love and attention.

Meanwhile, Clo was finding it hard to move under the lump of rubber. It felt kind of nice, the flat surface surrounding her head. She blushed. Cherrelle wasn't watching. She could...indulge freely. She laid on her back and allowed the rubber balloon to surround her top half. She could hear Blimpette giggling again.

Suddenly, she could feel the deflated rubber balloon underneath her. Clo felt another rush as, much to her surprise, Blimpette was wrapping her deflated form around her body like a blanket. Clo was scooped up in the fold of the rubber balloon and felt a tight squeeze on all sides as she was surrounded and wrapped in the soft, slick frame. She squealed in delight, struggling against how tight the space was. Then she began to blush, feeling rather embarrassed at enjoying this strange situation. "L-let me go, please," she pleaded.

"Awww, but why?" Blimpette teased, squeezing and cradling the Lopunny in her grasp. 

Clo was moaning in pleasure now, the rubber was just so soft. But she felt an urge to struggle for freedom. "J-just let me out," she moaned.

"Awww, don't be shy! You love your new balloon prison!" Blimpette giggled, "Just relax and enjoy the tight squeeze...you're not going anywhere, sweetie-buns!"

Clo's tight embrace suddenly became even tighter as her head was filled with a hissing noise. Blimpette was inflating! While wrapped around her! She was in an inflating blanket! The space she was in grew tighter and tighter as it squeezed harder and harder. Her wiggling became weaker and weaker as she moaned and pleaded for release, but Blimpette only continued to tease and tickle her.

Meanwhile, Cherrelle was reduced to helpless groaning as she too was wrapped up in the inflating balloon blanket. "P-please don't..." she managed to squeak as Blimpette was inflating more and more, getting back to her previous massive size, aside from being wrapped around a Braixen and a Lopunny and squeezing the love out of them. Breathing became harder and harder. The balloon prison was getting tighter and softer, the gas keeping them relaxed and happy.

Their pleasant moaning and groaning grew quiet, and they could barely breathe when suddenly, there was a loud and pleasant POP. The two captives blinked. They were now floating inside of a large sphere that they recognized as the inside of Blimpette, who was now back to her usual perfect sphere self. They shook their heads and looked at each other. There didn't appear to be any gravity at all.

Blimpette started giggling and wobbling again. "Ooh, you two are so much fun, and we're not even done yet!" she taunted.

"Th-this is getting crazy!" Cherrelle complained, in spite of enjoying it quite a lot. "Y-you can be in the circus, just, put us down!"

"Awww, what's the matter? The show's not over yet!" Blimpette giggled. Suddenly, Clo and Cherrelle felt a groan in their stomaches. They realized, then, that they'd inhaled so much of the strange gas. There was no telling what would happen now.

Clo was the first to feel it. All at once, her entire body started to bloat, inflating like a giant balloon. But instead of her parts simply getting bigger, they were all getting rounder and rounder as they puffed up. The same was happening to Cherrelle. They were both feeling tighter as their bodies hissed and inflated, bloating bigger, and bigger, and bigger...getting rounder and rounder...

Until, POP and POP. The girls suddenly felt gravity take hold of them again. They hit the inner walls of Blimpette, who was now swinging around in a circle like a pendulum. Clo and Cherrelle suddenly began rolling around the Drifblim like a marble in a bucket - because, as they had realized, their bodies were now perfect rubber spheres. They were giant balls with faces. And as they spun around Blimpette, it felt GREAT. Rolling faster and faster, nothing stopping them.

They were both giggling messes when they reached the center of Blimpette, where there was a hole. They slipped inside and popped out of her tail, landing on the ground below, where they got a good look at one another.

"Yaaaay! You're balloons now!" Blimpette cheered, bouncing in mid-air and giggling as she watched the new balls roll on the ground and bounce up and down.

Clo and Cherrelle blushed. These new bodies felt bouncy and fun. Cherrelle could probably fix it at some point, but neither of them were really interested in going back to normal quite yet.

"Clo, I feel...bouncy. I need to squish on something, fast!" Cherrelle said.

"Yeah, I feel it too!" Clo said, bouncing happily. "Let's get back to the carnival. We're gonna bounce on every one of my clowns until they're all blushy!"

"Yeah! Let's make em' our playthings!" Cherrelle said, bouncing happily.

"Ooh, there are more?" Blimpette said eagerly, "Oh, there's going to be no end to the fun I'm going to have!"

The massive balloon grabbed her two new balls with her hands and carried them off towards the carnival. For certain, there would be no end to the fun they would have, as the carnival was about to be terrorized by beach balls.