Zelda was escorted through the doors of the devo chamber by the armed guards and felt almost blinded by the sudden change. Instead of the dingy, dark prison cell that she had been in before, this room's sterile white walls looked almost too bright to her.

The metal stilleto heels of her thigh boots scraped against the floor as she was escorted around the corner. What she saw frightened her. There was Princess Peach releasing the latest victim from the devo chair. Another unfortunate soul had been devolved by the cruel princess, and Zelda knew she was about to join her.

Try as she did to struggle, she was forced into the chair by her guards and held into place by Princess Peach. Her handcuffs were undone, and her arms were placed onto the airms of the devo chair, where metal shackles were fastened around her wrist, each with a snap and a series of clicks as they were tightened.

"This isn't right! Pauline is campaigning to end this cruelty!" Zelda shouted.

"Who's this?" Daisy asked.

"Her name is Zelda. Pauline's running mate," Peach explained.

"Looks like she'll be a different kind of mate now," Daisy chuckled.

"Oh, Daisy. You're so naughty," Peach giggled.

Daisy went back to the devo chair's console, ready to reset the machine for its next victim as the guards resumed their regular duties in the prison.

Pauline, now known as Candy, watched Zelda struggle against her restraints. The squeaking of her rubber arm length gloves and leotard and the clicking of her metallic thigh boots made her smile as a warm feeling grew in her chest.

"Why don't you take a moment to greet your new playmate?" Peach said to Candy, and nodded to Daisy.

Daisy took the hint and refrained from activating the chair's mechanism.

Zelda's heart raced as she watched the devolved creature step toward her. Her hands tightly gripped the arms of the chair when Candy bent over to face her.

Candy smiled sweetly at Zelda. She was beautiful. Those eyes were so beautiful. Candy brushed her fingertips over Zelda's brows as she stared deeply into her eyes. Those blonde locks of hair that cascaded over her shoulders and down to her breasts were divine. Her breasts themselves were perfect, heaving up and down with every shuddered breath. Candy reached out and ran her hand over Zelda's breasts, taking in the softness of them as they were gently caressed.

Zelda's whole body shivered as she felt the smooth, cool surface of Candy's gloved hands grope her. She wanted to shout. To lash out and kick Candy away. Instead, she clenched her hands tigher around the arms of her chair and pushed herself backward in a futile attempt to escape.

Candy wouldn't relent. She traced her hands up Zelda's chest, rubbing her collarbone, then up to her shoulders. She then noticed Zelda's mouth, which had opened ever so slightly. How her lips looked as full and soft as her own breasts. Candy began to lean in.

"No..." Zelda said, barely a whisper, as she pushed herself further back into her chair.

It was a mistake to lean so far back, as she put her head right in the exact spot for Princess Peach to fasten metal prongs around her head to hold it into place.

She was truly trapped now. Strapped to the chair by her wrists with her head restrained, Zelda had nowhere to move and no way to defend herself when Candy's lips came closer to hers.

Any of Zelda's protests were muffled by Candy's passionate kiss. Candy kept her hold on Zelda's shoulders, even though she tried to escape.

"I don't know why you resist like that," Peach said as she leaned on the devo chair from behind. "She obviously loves you. Finding anyone who truly loves you is a hard thing in this world."

"well, not with this technology," Daisy said, as she rubbe her leather gloved hand over her console.

"Very true, Daisy," Peach giggled.

Zelda struggled to push Candy away. Peach gently placed her hands on Candy's hips and coaxed her away from Zelda, then wrapped her hands around Candy's waist as Candy rubbed her hands against Peach's butt.

"You don't know what love really is! Pauline is going to put an end to your reign and rule with compassion and honest! Nothing you'd know about!" Zelda said.

"Zelda! I'm so hurt. How can you say that I don't know about love, compassion or honesty?" Peach asked, as she rotated herself and Candy to face each other.

Candy tried gently pulling down the front of Peach's strappless jumpsuit, but had her hands placed on Peach's waist.

"I love all of my royal subjects," Peach said. "I love every one of them. But sometimes, they stop loving me and act like I'm some kind of monster. They say terrible things like how I'm a narcissist ro an egotist who only cares about indulging myself. And what what is Pauline said? That I wasn't fit to rule? Well, I remember saying that you could replace Pauline with a monkey and not tell the difference." She kissed Candy's cheek. "And it looks like I was right."

Zelda watched in horror as Candy started kissing Peachs neck. Pauline had been the one hope for life to get better in the kingdom in a long time. And now there she was, a mindless slave of the ruling tyrant.

"Daisy," Peach began, "Devolve this usurper."

Daisy had already finished resetting the machine. She reached down to set it to devolve the chair's next victim, when she and everyone else heard the doors open around the nearby corner.

From arond the corner, another woman appeared escorting another prisoner. The guard was instantly recognized as police captain Rosalina, wearing the same uniform as all of the devolved criminals, but hers was made entirely of leather. The prisoner was unfamiliar. She was quite young. In fact, she couldn't have been more than eleven years old. Stranger than that was how she too was wearing the same uniform as the devolved, except that it was much too big for her. The rubber gloves were bunched up around her wrists and elbows. The leotard's shoulder straps were tied up around her back to keep it from falling. and her metal boots reached all the way up to her hips. and Around her wrists were a pair of silver handcuffs.

The girl's green double ponytails whipped around as she struggled against Rosalina's firm hold, and didn't let up when she was stopped in front of Princess Peach.

"Rosalina, this is an unexpected surprise. Who is this?" Peach asked.

"Her name is Mallow. She was causing a lot of trouble for the other guards, so I decided the best thing to do with her was to scare her straight," Rosalina said.

"I see. And what was her crime? she seems awfully young to be a prisoner."

Daisy and Rosalina were both silent for a moment as they smiled knowingly.

"I guess the cat's out of the bag," Daisy said, shrugging.

"Looks like it," Rosalina agreed. "We wanted to surprise you later, but we have really good news. Me and the rest of the police force were able to track down and arrest everyone who was involved in Pauline's campaign. This little gutter rat was passing out 'Vote for Pauline' papers to people."

"Pauline's going to be the next ruling Princess! You-You won't stay our princess long!" Mallow defiantly said, though her face was frozen in fear.

"Oh, the minds of children are so easily manipulated," Peach giggled as she tousled Mallow's hair. "As you'll find out soon enough."

Mallow saw the way the other adults were all looking at Zelda strapped into her chair, and her eyes began to well up with tears.

"Are you going to kill me like everyone else you did?" Mallow asked, her voice choking.

"Heavens no! I'd never kill anyone who I loved," Peach said, as she wiped away Mallow's tears.

Rosalina saw that her service was no longer needed and passed Mallow along to Peach. she turned aorund and walked out the way she came, the thong back of her leotard revealing her backside was as toned as her front.

Peach took Mallow by the arms and guided her to the front of the devo chair, right next to Candy. Mallow gasped at the sight of Candy, who smiled down at the girl.

"Don't be scared. She's really very sweet. That's why I named her Candy," peach said, as she reassuringly squeezed Mallow's shoulders.

Zelda watched in horrified awe as Peach passed Mallow over to Candy, who knelt down to the girl's level, turned her around and wrapped her arms around her, before running her fingers through Mallow's hair, picking out any pieces of debris or dirt that she found.

"Looks like she thinks she's your mom," Daisy joked. She then thought about what Rosalina said about scaring mallow straight. "So, what do you know about devolution?"

"I...I don't know," Mallow said trying not to cry.

"You're in luck. Now is the perfect time to learn," Peach said, as she walked over to Daisy's console and turned the monitor on it to face Mallow. She then nodded to Daisy.

Daisy smiled sadistically and toggled the switch on the console to devolve the victim.

"-DEVOLVE-" a computerized woman's voice buzzed.

Zelda's spine tingled as she heard a slow, deliberate clicking of a dial being turned. Finally, the voice from the console said "-FURRY-."

"Now that the machine has been set," Peach said, as she turned on the monitor, "It's time to place the victim into the devo chamber."

Mallow looked at the screen, not sure of what she was seeing. It looked like a small room with mechanical parts all around it. Parts that looked like they were designed for pain.

Daisy adjusted her bikini top slightly, allowing her cleavage to be shown just a bit more as she leaned over the console. She winked at Zelda, before pushing the buton that would send her into the machine.

Zelda jumped slightly from the sudden motion. She let go of the chair's arms and started pulling her arms against her restraints. It was no good. In seconds, she was beneath the devo chamber. When the chair stopped rolling, she looked up and saw the opening in the machine, ready to swallow her up.

"The victim has their head inserted," Peach explained to Mallow.

Daisy pressed another button in her console, and the devo chair launched upward. On the monitor, Mallow saw Zelda's head appear from the opening in the bottom of the room she was looking at. Zelda frantically looked around at the different parts and started shaking her head side to side. Looking at Zelda in her chair, Mallow saw her struggling against her restraints still.

"We usually like to give the victim a few seconds to struggle, just so they realize how futile their efforts are," Peach said directly into Mallow's ear. "Now, if you'll turn your attention to the screen. Daisy."

Daisy nodded and reached for the next button.

Mallow took hold of Candy's hand, which was still wrapped around her shoulders, as her eyes froze onto the screen. All she heard was Daisy press the button, and the show began.

Zelda began rapidly at each moving part. Mallow watched as a light begain spinning around Zelda's neck, and how two slivery needles were bobbing bck and forth from Zelda's face. With each motion, Zelda's head began stretching far past its normal shape. She was having her whole cranium expanded, then squashed to an unatural shape.

"HUWWUH! HUWWUH! HUH-HOOOOH! HOOOH-HOOOH! HOOO-HOOOWAAH-HA-HA-AH!" Zelda shouted from inside the chamber.

There was no sound from the monitor. Mallow turned her head and saw Zelda thrashing against her restraints, unable to escape the torment of the devo chamber, where all of the screams were coming from.

"As you can see, there's nothing she can do to escape now," Peach began. "Right now, every cell in her body is being rearranged, making it into a different shape."

She gently turned Mallows head by her chin and directed her back to the monitor. Zelda's head had indeed changed shape. Her face had almost taken a triangular shape, the way that the top of her head had expanded. Her hair was receding back into her scalp, leavig her head bare. Zelda clenched her eyes shut for a moment as her head thrashed back and forth. When she opened her eyes, Mallow saw that they had changed from blue to purple. Her ears were changing shape too, becoming more fin-like in appearance. After that, blue scales started appearing on Zelda's scalp.

Mallow tried to run away, but was stopped by Candy tightening her grip and forcing her to watch the screen.

"Good girl, Candy," Peach said, stroking Candy's cheek. "As you can see, her body is reverting to a different form, based on what her genetic code has dictated. However, it's not just the body that changes."

Peach pressed another button on the monitor, and the image changed to show an x-ray of Zelda's head. Inside, there was a colorful image of a full sized brain.

"This is the first image from when the victim's devolution began. But, as the process goes on..." Peach pressed another button, and the images began cycling.

Mallow watched as the shape of Zelda's head morphed with each image. Worse still was how her brain got smaller and smaller with each passing image.

"Devolution isn't just about changing the body," Peach said, changing the monitor back to Zelda in the chamber, whose skin had taken on a bluish white color. "The brain reverts to its more primitive form, making it almost useless to the one using it," she said, as she held the sides of Mallows head and stroked her hair.

Candy continued to comb her fingers through Mallow's hair, and sniffed it lightly.

"WAH-HAAAA-HOOH-HOOH-HOOH! HUH-HOOOOOH! HOO-HOO-HOOWAAAHHH-HA-HA!" Zelda shouted.

"It makes what was once a traitorous scum into the perfect servant. Loyal. Obedient. And above all, affectionate," Peach said, as she turned off the monitor.

She dircted Mallow's attention to the chair, where Zelda was still thrashing around. Mallow noticed that all of Zelda's exposed skin had changed to the same blue color as her face had. Daisy ended the devolution and pressed one last button.

A stream of antibacterial mist showered out from the inside of the devo chamber, hiding Zelda's new form as her chair lowered from the chamber. Mallow watched Zelda's chair roll closer, holding tightly to Candy's hand. In seconds, she saw what had become of Zelda.

Once a blonde haired woman was now a statuesque fish creature with blueish white scales and purple eyes. Whatever fear Zelda had, this creature had none, as she sat smiling at her captors. Candy smiled right back at her and dreamily held Mallow a little tighter.

"Let's go greet her, shall we?" Peach said.

Mallow resisted as Candy led her over to Zelda's chair, but found her to be surprisingly strong. Zelda crossed her legs as Peach, Daisy, Candy and Mallow all approached her. She smiled and rubbed her fingers against the arms of the chair.

"Looks like we needed a bigger bodysuit for this one," Peach said, noticing how the tops and sides of Zelda's breasts were peeking out of the neckline and armholes of her leotard.

"Nah. I like this whole 'one size fits all' thing we're doing. It lets me pick which one is my favorite," Daisy said, as she fondled Zelda's breasts.

Zelda closed her eyes, leaned her head back and sighed contentedly. She then felt something rub her thighs and slide back to her butt and squeeze ever so gently. She cracked an eye open and saw Candy running her hands to her backside. Zelda uncrossed her legs and wrapped them around Candy's rear, pulling her in for a passionate kiss. Candy was taken by surprise, but quickly sank into Zelda's love.

"Awww. They're already getting along," Peach said, as she held Mallow by the arms. "Daisy, would you like the honors of naming this one?"

"Mmmm..."Daisy thought. "What are those seafood snacks that you like? The fish cakes?"

"Naruto?" Peach asked.

"Yeah, that's it. But, it's not really a good name for this girl," Diasy said, as she watched Zelda kiss Candy. "What about just 'Ruto?'"

"Ruto. It has a nice ring to it," Peach said. "From now on, she'll be Ruto." She passed Mallow to Daisy, who held tightly to the girl as Peach placed her hands on Candy's hips and pulled gently. "Candy. Off."

Candy did as she was told and stepped back from Ruto, though she had trouble escaping from Ruto's legs. The whole time, Ruto watched Candy with a lusty grin on her face.

Peach started undoing the prongs around Ruto's head, but didnt' even get to the other side when Candy started undoing them as well. Peach then undid the shackle from around Ruto's wrist, and didn't even have to command Candy to start undoing the other.

The very second she was free, Ruto sprang out of her chair and jumped on Candy, wrapping her arms and legs around her and passionately nibbled her ear. Candy supported Ruto by grabbing her butt, holding her up and rubbing her lower back. The whole time, she busied her lips by kissing Ruto's neck.

mallow watched the two creatures lavish each other with affection, and watched as Princess Peach knelt down to look her in the eye.

"What do we think? Are you scared?" Peach asked, as she straightened Mallow's gloves and shoulder straps.

"Uh-huh..." Mallow said, her voice cracking.

"Not nearly enough," Peach said, before she glanced to the chair.

Mallow gasped as Peach took hold of one of her arms and Daisy held the other, and was forced into the devo chair.

"No! No! No! Not me! Please!" Mallow pleaded, as Daisy unlocked her handcuffs with her spare key.

The wrinkles on the wrists of her gloves were straightened and smoothed out, before her arms were placed on the chair and strapped in.

"No! Please! I don't want to be devolved! Please! Give me another chance! I promise I'll be good!"

"I know you will," Peach said, as she untied the shoulder straps behind Mallow's back.

Mallow began quietly crying.

"Oh no. Honey, don't cry. Devolution isn't so bad once its over. You'll never have to think for yourself again," Peach said, as she wiped away mallow's tears. "You won't have to make any difficult decisions. You'll always be loved. You'll have everything you'll ever need given to you. And best of all, any children in the devo chair always come out grown up. So, even if your brain gets small, everything else gets nice and big," Peach sweetly said, hovering her hands over Mallow's chest.

Mallow looked down at her chest, and for a moment wondered how her body would look when she matured. Before she could think anymore on it, her leotard was lifted higher, almost up to her chin.

"So that nothing slips out during the devolution process. You saw how Zelda was thrashing around before with her shoulders popping up and down" Peach said.

Mallow managed a smile and nodded slowly.

"Just remember that I still love you," Peach said, before planting a kiss on Mallow's cheek. "Never forget that."

The doors ot the chamber opened again, and from around the corner came Rosalina gripping a handle with a chain attached to it.

"Move it!" Rosalina ordered.

More guards appeared, pushing along an entire chain gang that was led by Rosalina. each of the women in the chain gang was dressed in a devo uniform, awaiting what was in store for them.

"Surprise," Rosalina said.

"Rosie! Daisy! I'm impressed. There must be a dozen perpetrators on that chain," Peach said.

"Just about a dozen. And this isn't even half of them. There's a whole cell block loaded with Pauline's collaborators," Rosalina said.

"And they're all here to become my loyal retainers? Oh, I'd kiss you both if you didn't have so much work to do." She turned suggestively to Mallow. "so, I guess we'd better get started."

Mallow's heart skipped when she saw Daisy smile and start resetting the machine.

Nearby, Candy and Ruto had not stopped kissing, and were about to fall over, but Candy's footwork saved them both.

"Rosie? Can you spare a few guards to take my new pets to the training room? I need them prepared if they're going to be my personal bodyguards," Peach asked.

Rosalina ordered two of her guards to cuff and muzzle Candy and Ruto, before they were led away out another door.

Mallow watched them go until they left her line of sight. then, she heard a computerized woman's voice. "-DEVOLVE-"

Auhor's Note: Mallow becomes Tsareena.