Rolling out the Awkwardness

Bowser finally comes too. “Ugh… I feel like I have a hangover right now.” As he rubs his face he remembers that he is currently a thick rubbery sheet. He also notices that he is hanging upside down from a bar. “Why am hung out like laundry? And when did it get so late in the day?” Seeing the orange sky as the sun beginning to set.

“Lord Rubber Bowser You’re finally awake!” Dusty says as he suddenly pops his head around some equipment.

“Oh Dusty! How long have I been hanging here like this?”

“Several hours.” He says nervously and hiding themselves more behind the equipment.

“WHAT!?” His shock causes him to fall off the bar and into a folded mess on the ground. “Hmph!”

“Oh dear! Are you alright!?” As he scurries over to him.

“I’m fine, I’m fine!” He grumbles. His voice somewhat muffled.

“Oh ok.” He stops his approach.

Still muffled. “Now’s a good chance to see if I can standup and move anyways.” He manages to unfold himself and stand up in his flat form all by himself. He is very wobbly while standing tho. “Woah! It really is tricker to move around while flat then stretched.”

“You seem to be adjusting quite well to being like that, very quickly might I add.”

“I do seem to be getting the hang of things quicker as thing go on.” He says as he’s looking over himself.

“Well It’s a good thing you’re alright my Lord.” Letting out a sigh of relief.

“I feel fantastic!” Turning to face Dusty. “Where are Kamek and Jr.?”

“They left after we hung you up.”

“Oh so it’s just us for the rest of this evening then.”

“Uh what do you mean by that?” Sounding nervous.

“Oh I’m just saying that I’d like to do more with what little daylight I have left.”

“Oh, what do you want to do then?” Dusty asks Bowser.

“Well first I’ll move around for a bit to get used moving while being flat. Then after that I’d like to do some stretch tests while flat too.” He says with a big grin on his flat face.

“Would you like me to leave you be then?”

“No. I rather have someone around incase things go wrong.”

“Alright. W-would you like to head back into the rest of the equipment? I’ve been rearranging things while you were out.” Sounding like his usual extremely nervous self.
“Lead the way then!” Bowser proceeds to follow Dusty. As he walks his body is warping and flexing. “Hm. This is surprisingly easy to walk around like this.” He mutters to himself.

They both walk back into the majority of the machinery and equipment. Bowser (finally) notices that things look different. “Things look different around here.” Looking around.

“I already told you that I did some rearranging while you were out.” Sounding annoyed at him.

“Oh I wasn’t really paying attention to everything you said…”

“If you want to safely use anything here you better listen to what I say!” He says angerly while pointing at Bowser.

Bowser is completely taken back by Dusty’s sudden shift in demeaner. “Woah! What’s with the attitude!?”

Shocked at what they just sad to their king of all people. “I am so sorry Lord Rubber Bowser! I didn’t mean to yell at you like that! I-I-I um uh!” His body begins to rattle as he begins to panic.

“Hey, hey, hey! It’s alright calm down! He approaches Dusty and puts his hands on his shoulders to try and calm them down. It doesn’t seem to be working. “Sorry about this.” Bowser proceeds to slap Dusty in the face, but when he does so he knocks off his sombrero and causes his head to spin. His flat hand slapping against Dusty’s skull makes quite the loud noise.

“Aaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!” Dusty screams as his head spins with great speed.

Bowser tries to stop Dusty’s from spinning with his flat hands. It does work only because Bowser’s arms wrap around his head stretching a bit in the process.

With Dusty’s head no longer spinning thanks to Bowser’s arms wrapping around his head. Bowser askes. “Are you alright now?” He barley hears Dusty sighing through his arms. “I’m just going to, um, yeah…” He slowly unwraps his arms spinning his head back around until his arms are no longer wrapped around his head.

Dusty looks like he’s ready to curl up in a corner as he retrieves his sombrero. Bowser is just awkwardly standing there with his long flat arms.

Dusty breaks the silence by saying. “What would you like to do?” In an unhappy tone.

“Hold on. First of all, are you actually ok?” He says as he retracts his arms.

“No… I’m not good with people and I always mess things up with them…”

“I don’t know you enough to know how correct or wrong that is, but you’re pretty good at all of this!” As he gestures at everything around them. Dusty mood seems to get better after hearing such uplifting words from his king as he shines in the light of the setting sun.

“Wh-why thank you my Lord.”

“As king of the Koopa Kingdom I have to actually take care of my subjects.” He smiles. “Now what shall we use to do some proper flat stretch tests.” As he looks at his surroundings.

“We could use this Lord Rubber Bowser” As he points to a machine that is a covered roller on a track with a handbar across a gap from the roller. “We also have that too.” Pointing to what looks like a wide clamp on a wall with matching wall with clamp on the other end of a long track.

“What do they do?” Bowser asks with great intrigue in his voice.

“The first one first one has a roller with a slightly sticky coating that we could use to roll you up on. The handle is there so you can hold onto to stretch yourself as you get pulled onto the roller.”

“Sounds like I’ll get stuck in something like that.” Sounding a bit uncertain now.

“No need to worry about that. The adhesive used isn’t very strong so removal is not an issue.”

“Alright then.” He looks at the other machine and says. “I assume that I would get clamped in at both ends and then one end moves across the track and pulling and stretching me across.”

“Precisely!”

“Lets start with the clamp puller then.” He begins to walk over to it.

“Alrighty then, I shall hook you up in there then.” Dusty scurries over and clamps his hands in at one end and his feet in the other one. (Bowser is laying in there face down) “Are you ready my Stretchyness?”

“Yes, go ahead and full send it! I want to go all the way!” Dusty nods worriedly and turns on the machine. Bowser is immediately pulled and stretched across the entire length of the frack. (30 feet/a little over 9 meters) His body, arms, and legs are stretched taught across the length of the track.

“Whooooooo! That was a rush! I tried to resist being pulled, but I didn’t stand a chance against your machine. Haha!”

“Thank you so much my Lord.” Dusty is all bashful now.

“I wouldn’t mind staying like this for a while but were already burning daylight! That and there’s the other contraption to try~”

“Alright, I’ll begin the retracting process.”

Before Dusty can initiate the retracting process. “Don’t worry about doing that just go ahead hit the quick release button! I’ll be fine!”

“Alright.” He says nervously. “How does know that there’s a quick release well lever?” He thinks to himself as he pulls said lever. Bowser’s hands and feet are freed from the clamps causing his body to slingshot into himself in the middle.

WHAM! “Oof!” He becomes a flat, stretched out, and folded up mess on the ground. “Ow! Maybe you were right Dusty…” He’s feeling a stinging sensation all over his body.
“Ignoring safety around large machinery and equipment is extremely dangerous!”

“Anyways lets get to the sticky roller before it gets dark now.” He stands up in his elongated and flat form and wobbles over to the sticky roller with dusty following behind him.

“Just stick the bottom of your feet on here and hold onto the bar with your hands as I get things started.”

Bowser gets into position. Dusty turns on the roller causing Bowser’s body to begin wrapping around the roller. First with his long legs then with his body. He lets midsection get stretched extra long as it continues to wrap around.

“That’s enough Dusty.” He simply tells him. Dusty stops the roller. Bowser lower half is stretch and wrapped around the roller. While his upper half/chest and arms are also stretched but not on the roller, his hands still holding onto the bar. “This is quite nice~” He looks up at sky as the give’s orange gives way to deeper blues. “I’d love to spend the night here like this.”

“It sure is nice out.”

“Yes, it is.”

The nice moment is interrupted by the sound of Bowser’s stomach growling from somewhere within the roller.

“Looks like is time to have supper now.” Sounding slightly embarrassed. “Could you help get me off so we can eat?”

“Yes, my Stretchyness.”

Dusty helps Bowser off of the sticky roller. (he retracts his body to its normal length) Bowser makes sure to grab the electric air pump saying. “Just in case I need it.” He says with a smirk on his flat face. The two of them head back to the castle to enjoy some food.

What a Successful Day of Testing.

Art made by  GrichyinkReally who I can't thank enough for doing this!
I had ran into issues with the artist I was originally commissioning for this part, but Grichy helped me a lot with that mess (as did several of my friends) and saved the day by offering to do the art for this part. So again thank you my good friend! 💛

I hope that you liked this silly thing I've done. Comments are welcome. Please keep them SFW.