Giants are supposed to be things of myth and legend. History is filled with tales of giants and their exploits. In America giants were not woven into the culture as much as in the old world instead there were tall-tales that told the stories of individuals who were larger than life and were metaphorical giants.

One thing was for certain for Hannah she was no tall-tale or storybook giant but she was now very much a giant among people. She had always been tall even really tall but now she had left that adjective far below.

She took up the better part of a room. Her wingspan could easily reach across her bedroom, which was a good-sized room. She couldn’t stand up straight anywhere in her home. Everything that she had and knew was too small and no longer worked for her. Her cell phone was useless. Her shoes, her pants and shirts everything was much too small for her. He only real option to be dressed was to wrap up in her bed sheets like some kind of toga.

She was frantic while she waited for her mom to get home. All the while she worried if another growth spurt was coming. She cried at the thought of growing any larger.

When she had called her mom she could barely use the phone since it was not big enough to reach between her ear and mouth. She wondered if this was like the story of Alice in Wonderland. She could understand the panic of the character better now that she was kind of living through it herself.

She tried to eat while she waited on her mother to get home and found that her normal snack size was not anywhere near big enough any more. So she ended up eating a six pack of yogurt and was still hungry but stopped because she didn’t want to eat through all the food in the house.

At last she heard the keys in the front door and the front door opened. Her mother called out to her and so Hannah replied back. “I’m in the kitchen mom.” Hannah had not known what to tell her mom when she called so she had made it sound serious without giving a lot of details. Hannah’s mother walked into the kitchen sitting down her purse and other items in her hands. She then caught a glimpse of her daughter. She did her best to muffle a scream “Oh dear God Hannah, baby what happened?” “I don’t know mom, I just got home and was in my room and I just grew and grew. I was so scared. What are we going to do? Help me.”

Hannah’s mom seeing her oversized daughter wrapped in a bed sheet felt like weeping. It had been such a challenge to raise her daughter who had always been taller and bigger that not the girls but boys she grew up with. Her and her husband had comforted her through many nights where she cried herself to sleep from bullies torment. She had no easy answers for her baby girl. “Hannah people don’t just grow that much all at once. I don’t understand how this could have happened. We need to call your dad and get you to your doctor and see what is going on.”

Looking at her daughter again she wasn’t sure if she could get her daughter in her car. She was also pretty sure she wouldn’t fit into her own truck very well anymore. She was not crazy about calling an ambulance though. She called Hannah’s doctor and told him something had happened and that they needed to see him right away. He accepted the urgent request and told them to come in as soon as they could and that he would see her when they got there. She called Hannah’s father and told him that they were on their way to the doctors office and that he should come too.

“Hannah baby we are going to see the doctor now so lets see if we can get you into your truck and I’ll get us there. Just stay calm and we will see what the doctor has to say about this.”

Hannah wedged her way out of the house and quickly climbed into the cab of the truck she had to more or less lay the passenger seat down and lay across the bench seat in the back and stick her long legs out of the window. It was the most uncomfortable she had even been in her life while riding somewhere since she was a pre-teen and had to be stuffed in the back of her mom’s old SUV.
Her mother drove quickly to the doctors office. Once there she walked in alone to sign her daughter in. The real trick was going to be in getting Hannah out of the truck and into the office without drawing to much attention.

Hannah grew tired of being cramped up in the truck though after a few minutes of waiting and climbed out of the back seat and stood outside of it stretching her legs for the first time maybe since she had grown to this new height. She was easily taller that the truck and could reach up and touch the windows on the second floor of the building with out barely having to raise her hands. Her dad arrived about that time and got out of his car mouth standing wide open.

“Dear Lord.” Seemed to be all her father could say but he said it often enough that it made up for his lack of other words. Hannah went into the building and waited against a wall until her name was called. The entire time every eye in the building was trained on her massive body.

When her name was called every eye followed her as she made way into the back. The nurse stood there slack jawed taking in the sight of her. After a moment a level of professionalism surfaced and she went about her work. She tried to weigh Hannah but couldn’t with the scales they had on site. A couple of nurses measured her height, which was 10’2” tall. She tried to take her blood pressure but it was too high to record. Her pulse was very fast.

Dr. Jefferson had been Hannah’s doctor for the better part of ten years. He had became her doctor once it was noticeable that she was way above normal height for her age and he did a lot of work with people of advanced height. Still the doctor was floored by what he saw in the young woman. He had last seen her a little over a month ago and there had been no signs of anything like this kind of growth from the tests they had run. He had been prepared to say she was finishing up with her growth since her average growth from year to year had started to creep down some. This came as a total shock.  

The girl could barely fit in the room and even sitting down was a challenge. He was afraid for the girl’s health. People were not supposed to get this big. He knew her heart had to be straining to pump blood and he also knew that her mass was going to make it very hard for her to stand or walk. Just as these thoughts were finishing in his mind he swore that he saw her grow a little before his eyes.
Hannah felt a surge flow through out her body. It spread like fire from her chest out to her fingers and toes. Her body began growing again and this time people were there to see it along with her. Her legs stretched, her feet elongated. He calves and thighs swelled larger. Her waist expanded as she grew. Her torso grow longer, her shoulders broadened. Hannah moaned as her breasts expanded outward as she grew each one larger than an inflated beach ball . The bed sheet she had wrapped around her became to small and just fell off of her. He arms and hands got larger. The floor groaned under the added weight and Hannah began to crowd out the others in the room as she was soon outgrowing the room she was in.

Everyone in the room made a hasty retreat toward the door. Just as it seemed that she was going to burst through the walls she stopped growing. She had to be more than fifteen feet tall now. She was crammed in the room like a person in a suitcase. How was she going to get out of the building without bringing the whole place down on everyone’s head? She didn’t know but she was more scared than she had ever been before in her life. She worried what if she grew more what was she going to do?

Two days had passed since the growth spurt that left her standing over fifteen feet tall, and she had been moved from the doctors’ office under the cover of darkness and taken to the research hospital close to the CDC in Atlanta. She was in a much larger room now and she wore a gown that specially made for her. Eyes took their time when they looked her up and down now and she felt as uncomfortable as ever.

Hannah was hooked into multiple machines and monitors. The doctors had run test and poked and prodded her from head to toe for the better part of those two days and she was growing tired of the ordeal. No one seemed able to explain her rapid growth spurts that had almost doubled her in height, weight, and strength.

There were no deformities in her bones. Her heart seemed to be under no extra strain. Her blood work showed no real problems or issues. Her panels all seemed to be more or less normal. She was just thankful that there had been no more growth in the past two days.  
Her parents had taken shifts watching over their “little” girl. Even their eyes on her bothered her more than she wished they. Not because of the wonder in them but because of the worry in them. Eyes are supposed to be the window to the soul and Hannah was scared of what she saw in so many souls. So many of the eyes looked for a way to exploit her or her condition. She did not like the idea of being a freak or a meal ticket for any one. Still she knew that her days of being somewhat normal were behind her although she would prefer to be just eight feet tall as compared to her towering fifteen feet.

She was tired of sitting and so she sat up in the massive bed that had been made for her. She threw the covers back and slung her legs over the side of the bed. She wanted to stretch her long legs for a bit but was more or less confined to the room she found herself.
Still she stood up in the tall room and stretched out to her full height for the first time in a day. Her bones and joints creaked and popped. She groaned a little as she stretched out her arms and back. She shook herself and felt like a normal person for just a moment. Then the moment was gone when her mother and a nurse walked into the room and she was reminded of just how much her world had changed. Neither of the two women were much taller than her knees and reaching her waist would be a challenge for both women. If she wanted to she could pick either of them up with both hands. Her hands alone were almost the size of her mothers’ torso.

Hannah looked down at the women and greeted them before asking when she would be able to go outside and really walk and stretch her legs just standing up was not doing the trick. “Baby they are looking into letting you outside in just a couple more days if you don’t have another episode.” That was what everyone seemed to be calling her two growth spurts. It seemed kind of funny to Hannah but what could she really do she was at the mercy of the doctors and her parents plus she wanted to know what the reasons were behind her “episodes.”
The thought that she was bigger, stronger and couldn’t really be stopped if she wanted to get up and leave had not occurred to her at least not very strongly. In Hannah’s mind she was still just a really tall teenager not the powerful thing she had become.

The nurse did her checks and left the giant room only her mother stayed behind. She sat in the chair beside Hannah’s bed. With a good deal of reluctance she sat back down on her bed. Even sitting down she towered over everyone that could enter the room. At last she sighed and lay back down. She was restless. Her mother sensed this and tried to make small talk with her daughter. They talked about Hannah’s schoolwork which she still did each day. That was a task that seemed more trouble than it was worth. Her change in size made it harder to hold the small pencils and pens she had used before. Even her books were much too small now and as such the words seemed smaller as well. Still she managed to get through her work as best she could.

She was getting hungry again. Since her growth spurts she ate a good deal more food than she had before. Her metabolism was much faster than before so she required more food. Of course the doctors were trying to figure out how much she should eat how often she would have to eat and if it was fueling her growth spurt in some weird way. So far the best they could do was tell her that her increase in size just required her to eat more.

The evening wore on and her mother left for the night kissing her on her cheek and left with the promise that her father would be back in the morning to be with her. Hannah put her arms around her mother and gat her a light hug not wanting to squeeze her to hard and risk hurting her.

Alone at last Hannah turned the lights down in the room. Even in this hospital room you couldn’t completely turn off all the lights. The nurses would have to be able to see as they came in and out during the night to check on her and the machines.
She left the TV on because she normally slept with it on any way. Her latest addiction was the paranormal investigator shows. She had gotten hooked on them and watched them all the time.

She watched for a while before her eyes got heavy and she began to fight sleep. She fought so hard she almost jerked herself out of bed when she felt her head tilt forward. When that happened she made herself lay completely down in the bed. She got comfortable and closed her eyes for the night.

She had just gotten settled and fallen asleep when she felt heat gathering in her chest. She startled awake hoping it had just been a dream but the pressure was still building and she had a bad feeling about what was going to happen. The monitors began to beep wildly. She tried to press the button for the nurse but a couple where coming through the door as she was trying to call for them.
One of them looked at her and asked “are you ok?” Hannah began shaking her head “no I think its about to happen again.” The nurses looked at each other and quickly turned on the lights to the room. One of them ran from the room. Hannah didn’t know why she was running but it scared her.

Bones began to lengthen and stretch right before her eyes. This was the third time something like this had happened to her and it still amazed her to see it happen. The pain was terrible. She felt her vision blur as the pain became to much for her. She felt the room shrink around her only in reality it was she who was getting bigger.

This growth spurt was different she could tell that. It was more intense. She watched in horror as her legs and feet shot off the end of the bed and made for the wall several feet away. She felt the super large gown creep up her thighs from below her knees where it had been just moments before. Her waist and hips spread out wider and the gown struggled as it was getting pulled in to many different directions. Her already long toned torso stretched even longer. Her ample bosom swelled larger as her chest also grew wider. Her arms and hands grew longer and she struggled to use them at all as though they were just to long and her brain could no longer send the message to them quickly enough. Her back spread out ripping the strained gown apart in the back. Her shoulders got wider. Her neck grew longer even her head got larger along with the rest of her. She had no idea how much larger she was going to be after this “episode” but she was afraid for a moment that it might not stop. With this growth she noticed that her normal skinny limbs were beefier than before with what appeared to her to be muscle. Her legs looked strong and her arms were cut and defined. She had an honest to God bicep.

Hannah was cramped up in this large room like a sardine might be in a can. Even in the middle of the night doctors came in and began running more tests on her. The only real problem was that they were having trouble drawing blood as her skin was becoming very hard to break with the small needles they had. Still they tried very hard to understand what was happening to her. They also went to work trying to cover her massive body with something since she was a very large nude young woman.

Hannah strained to hear them. The voices all seemed so small and weak. What she did catch though told her everything that she needed to know. She was over twenty feet tall now and she weighed almost twenty five hundred pounds. She was massive in every way a person could be measured. Despite everything that had happened she grew tired and fell into a dreamless sleep.

“There is absolutely no where to hide a person her size. The media is already circling this place like a pack of jackals. There is video of her all over the Internet. This is too big. She’s too big.” The administrator of the hospital made as if to wash his hands of the issue before continuing. “The military is coming to take charge of her since she could become a security threat to the nation.” “She is just a scared teenager doctor.” Hannah’s mother pleaded with the man who sat before her. Again the doctor made as if to dismiss the issue. “It is really out of my hands Mrs. Prat. The US army is send in some people to take custody of her until such time as she can be relocated and deemed safe to the public. Your daughter is twenty feet tall there isn’t much on this earth that could stop her if she decided she wanted to do something. Her strength is immeasurable. Worse of all she may have another episode any time and grow even larger.” The doctor walked away from Mrs. Prat but left her with one last thing before leaving for good. “Besides she is eating us out of house and home.”

Hannah Prat all twenty feet of her sat curled up in a gymnasium that was on the campus of the CDC hospital. She could stand up in the building if she wanted to but just barely. The past couple of days since her last episode she had moved her in darkness trying to keep unwanted attention away from her. She ate a lot stood a lot and watched a lot TV on the projection screen that had been installed just for her. She was getting restless. It was obvious to her that the doctors were clueless about what was happening to her and she could see fear in everyone’s faces. She was so much larger that her eyes had trouble seeing people’s eyes but she could still see faces pretty well. Her entire perspective of the world was in upheaval. She was bigger that three, six foot tall men and as such her eyes were having a hard time adjusting to the smaller world from her new size.

After her last episode she had caused a lot of damage to the hospital while trying to get out of the room she had been in. Once she had gotten moved to where she was now she had taken stock of her new body. She had noticed that she seemed to have more muscle than before. Her arms were lean and trim, she had abs where she had not really had any muscle tone before. Her breasts were also much larger in comparison to her body than before.

She had heard people talking about the military coming in since she was a growing threat to the nation. She thought that was silly. She didn’t understand how her status had changed since she had gotten big enough to move a tank with her bare hands and withstand small arms fire without so much as a scratch. People talked a lot around her but unless they really raised their voices she struggled to understand everything they said.

Her thoughts were elsewhere when a group of men walked in. All of a sudden a voice cut through her thoughts and she was brought back into the world of here and now. A man in a military uniform stood holding a bullhorn and was waiting for her to acknowledge him.
Hannah knew she had to be careful when she spoke her normal voice was kind of loud to normal people now so she spoke softly “I’m sorry I didn’t hear you sir.” The man with the bullhorn began again. “Ms. Prat, I am Lt. Samuels with the United States Army. My men are here to take you somewhere safe and secure until such a time as we can determine what risks you might pose to the country. I am sorry for any inconvenience this might cause you but for your safety and everyone one outside of this compound it is something that must be done.”

Hannah listened and she was scared now. The military really was taking her somewhere to keep people safe from her. They were more or less arresting her. “Sir, I’m not dangerous to anyone. I don’t want to hurt anyone. I’m just scared and you arresting me and hiding me away from the world is not helping.”

Hannah stood up to her full height and did her very best to look mean. “I don’t think I want to go anywhere with you or your men Lt. Samuels.” A very stern voice called through the bullhorn “Ms. Prat this is a direct order and is not open to discussion. I would prefer not to have my men be aggressive toward you but if you choose to not give yourself up to this process then we will use what means we have at our disposal to ensure our safety as well as the safety of everyone on the outside. This is not personal Ms. Prat but you have to understand what a risk you pose to the outside world.”

Was she really a risk to everyone? She looked at herself. It was very possible that she could hurt a lot of people just by falling on them let alone meaning too. “Lt. I don’t want to be any trouble to anyone but I don’t like being threatened either. How are you wanting to move me and to where?” “The where is classified but the how is pretty basic. We are going to put you in the back of a trailer and move you that way. It will be pretty comfortable and the way that offers the least risk to anyone.”

Hannah thought on it and it made more sense than she wished it did.  She was not use to the idea that she could be a threat to anyone but after knocking down a good chunk of the hospital just trying to get out of it she was beginning to understand her need to be careful and maybe even safeguarded.

So again they waited for darkness so that she could be move a little more easily and true to the Lt’s word the trailer looked very comfortable. She wouldn’t have a lot of room to move around but she could lay down and rest pretty easy there was a very soft bottom almost like a bed and the inside of the trailer had plenty of light.

Hannah climbed into the trailer without any real reservations but just before they closed the door she did think to ask, “any idea how long it will take to get there?” The two young looking soldiers looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders then the door on the back of the trailer shut and was locked. After what seemed like a long while the truck began to move.

Hannah lay in the trailer not trying to move too much, afraid she would topple the truck in the process. The trip seemed to be taking forever but in her trailer cut off from the outside world she had no real good way of knowing just how much time had passed. It could have been minutes, which she doubted or it could have been hours, which was much more likely. Still though she figured that they had been traveling for a pretty good length of time.

She tried to sleep and normally riding in a vehicle she sleeps pretty easily but for whatever reason she was not able to drift off on this trip. She had never been the type to be claustrophobic but she was feeling a little cooped up and anxious. She felt her heart rate pick just before the now familiar tightness gripped her chest. “Oh God not now.”

No amount of prayer would help now. Hannah screamed and hurt her own ears as the sound bounced off the steel of the trailer. She looked around desperate for a way too let someone know what was happening and just like that the growth began.

She held her hands in front of her face. Like always the finger grew longer as the wrist thickened her forearm got longer and she could see muscle develop on her arm as if it she was some type of body builder. Without meanings too her arms were soon pressed against the steel as she continued to grow. Her feet spread out as her legs grew bigger and more muscular. Soon her feet, shins, and thighs were all mashed against the trailer. She watched in horror as her body bulked up and before very long there was very little space in the trailer. Her breasts were pressed firmly against the top of the trailer as they continued to expand out and away from her broad chest. She could hear the steel of the trailer straining to hold together.

Outside the trailer it was becoming clear that something was wrong inside the trailer. The trailer had sunk down on it’s wheels, as well as the trailer it’s self was shaking back and forth. Those soldiers who were following the truck and trailer stared on helpless as they watched the steel container more or less explode apart in every direction and the massive girl that had been inside fall to the asphalt the impact of which shook the very ground they were driving on. The girl created a crater as she slid and rolled a little.

The Army Private who had been driving behind the trailer slammed on the brakes a moment to late and the Hummer he had been in crashed into the crater and rolled over it’s self ending up on it’s roof. The world was disoriented enough as it was but now he was upside down and a giant woman was getting to her feet just outside of his wrecked Hummer.

The only good thing the Army had accomplished was that they had managed to get her south of Atlanta and into a much less densely populated area but now the cat was going to be out of the bag. There was a giant among them.

Hannah stood up and looked around and the world looked very different that it had just a week or so ago. She had no idea how big she was now but she knew one thing she was about to become a very big deal to everyone

Congress, Senate, and the President were all in meetings with top military aides and the rest of the world was buzzing with the news that there was a real live giant woman on the earth. Several countries went on high alert when the news was confirmed afraid that the US would use this new weapon against them. Other nations scoffed at the news figuring it was nothing more than propaganda.

The fact remained that in Central Georgia there was a young woman who stood very close to fifty feet tall who remained under constant watch by several members of the US military.

Hannah stayed where she was and didn’t cause any problems because really she didn’t know what else to do. She understood that she was way to big to just go moving around without causing damage but like most teenagers with nothing really to do she was becoming increasingly bored. She didn’t have a way to get online or do much of anything so she just sat there. All she could really do was wait on the next meal that they could give her.

Three days passed since her last growth spurt and so she was hoping that maybe just maybe she was as big as she was going to get. She was happy with the fact that she was at last again somewhat clothed. She had on a top and bottoms. They were not very fashionable but then again she had always been too tall to wear anything that was really cute. Still her mid section showed because it was seen as a waste of material to cover her entire torso when they were mainly concerned with her privates.

More days passed and doctors came one after another each one trying to figure out what had happened to her. Each one had a different idea and so there were many theories floating around. Hannah didn’t believe any of them but then again she wasn’t sure what to believe in any more.

She felt the same as she always had the world was just much smaller. She could pick people up like they were bugs. Cars and trucks were like toys to here. To Hannah she felt like she was a girl surrounded by her old playthings that had suddenly sprung to life.
As days turned into weeks she constantly had to remind herself that the people around her were real and that she couldn’t just do whatever she wanted. But with more and more frequency her mind was telling her that these little things didn’t matter and that she could do whatever she wanted because no one could stop her.

Those thoughts both scared and excited her so she tried to put them out of her mind. A giant movie screen was brought to her and for the first time in a while she was able to watch movies and TV. That helped keep her grounded. Her mother and father also tried to visit her often but that didn’t really help very much because while she had out grown them height wise years ago she struggled to reconcile the change in stature between herself and her parents. She could hold each of them in a single hand. It made no sense to Hannah and she had that feeling that these people couldn’t really be her parents because of the massive differences between them and her.

It is rare when a person knows that they are losing their grip on reality but Hannah was losing hers. She felt it slip away every with every day that passed. She began to believe that these little people were going to try and hurt her very soon just because she was so big. There just wasn’t anything left that connected her to the world she had know not so long ago.

Hannah had made up her mind to begin doing what she wanted and not worrying about the little people when after nearly two weeks of nothing the now familiar pains racked her and for the first time the world would watch Hannah get even larger.

Her moans and screams sounded like thunder without the lightning. Her limbs swelled with muscle. Her shoulders grew broader across than most naval war ships were long. Her hips spread and her torso grew longer as the muscles in her midsection grew more pronounced and bulged out. Arms and legs stretched and stretched longer and longer. Her breasts, which were each larger than a full sized truck, grew even larger. The clothes she had been wearing for over a week began showing signs of strain and stitches began to fray and rip.

The pain was so much that she jerked up right to her growing feet and began shaking all over. She staggered and flopped down shaking the earth around her. She rolled around begging for it to stop and while she rolled around she got bigger and heavier and grew faster. She also crushed cars, trucks, material, and more than a few people.

Then almost at once it ended. Hannah gathered herself and tried to take in her surroundings. After each of the growth spurts Hannah seemed to wake up in a different world because everything has changed so much. This time was no different. She could sort of tell vehicles apart but the little things scurrying around could be anything. She could no longer make out details on individuals at ground level. To her she couldn’t even tell if they were people or bugs.

She was growing very frightened when the pain that had just subsided washed back over her and she blacked out as she grew and expanded even more. The big deal was becoming an even bigger deal. She fell flat of her back and she just got larger and larger.

Her clothes ripped completely off of her expanding body. Her hands crushed the camera that had been set up to record her. The nipples of her breast grew hard and pushed out from the breast even as the breasts grew larger than the tanks that had been parked on the now to close perimeter. One of her feet pushed against a small farming town and soon knocked most of that town flat.

This growth did not seem to want to stop and with a heavy heart the Governor of the state order and evacuation of the Capital and soon the President of the United States stood before a horrified nation ordering a military blockade of Georgia and that the giant young woman would not be permitted to leave the state.

All the while Hannah just grew without regard for state boarders or even international ones. Soon there would be nothing on the face of the earth that could stop her and all the leaders of the world didn’t even understand that their time was drawing to an end.

The reality of being a living being the size of the tallest skyscrapers is not as grand a one might think. Hannah had been awake for almost an hour and this world she was living in now was a very harsh one. It was very hard for her to breathe. It was as though she was in a room with not enough air. Her vision struggled in that she could not make details of the ground. She was pretty sure she close to the road or maybe even standing on it but unless she lay down on the ground she could not see it very well.

When she did lie down she didn’t like what she saw. She had caused a lot of damage when she grew the last time. She had hurt a lot of people. When she was standing it was hard to think of them as people but now looking at the aftermath she understood again the those little things were people and that now she posed a very serious threat to them.

The ground around her looked like a war zone and so not knowing what else to do she wept for everything that had happened. She sobbed and carried on for longer than she might have normally but she realized now that if she kept growing she was going to be the end of the world. Even if she did stop growing she figured it would only be a matter of time before the world would not be able to feed her enough and then the world would starve. Either way it went she did not see a good way for this to end. She did not want to be the end of the world. Sure the world was a messed up place but there were a lot of good people in it who deserved to live.

After a while she saw people and she tried to speak to them. “How bad is it? Is there anything I can do to help?” To the people though it was like the sound of thunder right next to them. Each of them fell to the ground blood leaking from the noses or ears. In return Hannah could not understand their small voices. Trying to communicate was trying and after a while both she and the people near her gave up.
She could see enough at ground level that the stuff she hadn’t crushed had been turned over so she began setting things back up like they were supposed to be. She picked up cars, trucks, and tanks. After a while she had things more or less turned back over and the people around her got into those vehicles and drove away leaving her alone.

Ever since this had began happening to her she had never been left alone but now she was and she couldn’t help but wonder why. She had, had a hard time seeing expressions on the faces of the people she had helped. Some of the people had to have been military because they moved the tank. Regular people couldn’t drive a tank she didn’t think so any way. If that was true then the military and government were leaving her alone.

Hannah struggled with what that could mean. She was afraid that it didn’t mean anything good for her. She was growing hungry and without someone to bring her food she wasn’t sure where she would fine a meal. She was also getting tired of lying on her stomach. She first rolled over on her side hoping that she could get up slowly enough and easy enough that she wouldn’t cause too much damage. When she did she saw a good reason why the military people had left. She had at some point fallen and crushed a number of tanks and other vehicles. She was pretty sure that there were people there in the wreckage.

She wanted to vomit but at that moment she had nothing in her stomach to vomit. She slowly climbed to her feet again and when she did she looked around her. She could see for miles and miles in every direction. Hannah figured that the break in the horizon had to be cities or towns. She was not crazy about wading into a populated area but she had to find some food and she knew that cities meant food.

Hannah was a good hundred and fifty miles from Atlanta but with her stride she was less than ten to fifteen minutes away. The United States military had set up a defensive line just south of the city and was working like crazy to get some type of communication up and running so that they could try to talk to the giant who was walking in their direction.

Their orders were to stop the young woman at the city limits if they could and if all else failed to engage her and try and forcibly stop her from coming any further north. The death toll was still coming in but it was believed that roughly three thousand people had already died when the girl had last grown.

According to top scientist they could not expect that the young woman would stop growing. They also believed that she was already past the tipping point. Meaning that she was to big to feed and to big to care for. She was larger than any animal that had ever lived on the face of the earth. The estimates showed that in another week she could very well be larger than North America and in two weeks the earth. Not that it would matter once she was the size of the country the world would be on its final legs. Her weight alone might destabilize earth’s orbit. Not to mention all the people that would have died before then.

No one was happy that they were going to have to kill an eighteen-year-old girl regardless of her size. Still the human race was at stake and it was not a fight that they were prepared to lose.

Just as Hannah walked through the southern defensive line without really knowing it was there the giant light board came on line and words began flashing up on the screen. Loud music also played to let the girl know that she should come toward it and see what the people had to say.

Hannah stopped just south of Turner Field and looked at the giant screen and read the words that flashed up. “Hannah, Stop here please. For everyone’s safety you must not come any further north.” Hannah made the motion of nodding her head and whispered “ok” which was still very loud. More words came up on the screen “You have cause a lot of accidental deaths and damage and for that reason you must not come past the city.” Again she nodded and said ok. More words “Understand that if you do you will leave us with no choice but to defend ourselves and the citizens of the United States.” Hannah was more than a little shocked. They were stating more or less that if she went into the city they would attack her. She was more than a little angry but after moment she knew they were just trying to protect people from her still it left her feeling angry. Hannah asked about food. The sign spoke again “we will try to provide some food for you but understand that we can not and will not do so at the expense of all the citizens of the country.” Again Hannah was mad but again she understood what they were trying to do. A last set of words flashed on the screen “Hannah understand that if you grow any more then this nation will have to attack you not because it wants to but because it wants to survive.”

A tear slid down her cheek as she knew full well that sooner or later her own countries military might would be used against her and even though she wanted to live with her whole heart she prayed that when the time came that the little people won because the world was not meant to have someone her size in it.

Then almost as if on queue she started growing again and in the distance she heard the low roar of jet engines and very small pops as the ground troops opened up fire.

The golden roof of the Capital building in Atlanta, Georgia gleamed in the distance. Hannah had no problem seeing it from where she stood. The only problem was that she was taller than the any building in the city, and she was only getting larger. For the last half hour the US military had tried their very best to destroy her but with no success. Instead they had leveled most of southern Atlanta and the area around the baseball stadium.

She was not advancing to the north but that didn’t matter any more. The shots had been fired and her nation was at war with her. She had swatted several airplanes down when they had flown to close. She didn’t want to hurt any one but they were buzzing around her head like gnats at a picnic.

Missiles’ had been fired at her and exploded when they hit her and while they stung her they had no real effect. The Tanks and men on the ground had fired on her non stop and more than a few had paid with their lives.

Hannah really didn’t know what to do. It just didn’t seem like she was going to stop growing. Even if she didn’t move the little people where going to keep fighting her. So she began moving north. She would stick to the interstate and she would just walk to her home in Cassville, Ga. It was about seventy or so miles from where she was but with her long strides she could be there soon.

She didn’t know what good it would be to go home but she knew that she wanted to go there and these people were no longer going to stop her. She tried to tell them what she was doing and her voice shattered glass with it being so loud. When she began walking north the fighting against her picked up. Really it wouldn’t matter she thought. “I won’t attack them I won’t swing at their planes or step on their vehicles I will just walk home and when I get there I will just sit down and rest and figure out what is next.”

She grew larger and heavier with each passing mile. Still they fired away at her. More planes swooped down on her. Rocket launchers moved in and began firing. Nothing even slowed her down. After about twenty miles she was getting away from the urban sprawl that Atlanta is famous for and just as quickly planes stopped flying over and the military vehicles all pulled away. She was long on her walk. She couldn’t tell if people where still left in the area where she was walking. She hoped that this meant they were going to leave her alone and just let her go home.

As she walked further north she began to notice that her weight was destroying the ground with every step she took. She could feel her foot get kind of stuck in the ground like she was walking in mud only she wasn’t walking in mud she was walking on dry land. She began to notice that she was leaving crater-sized footprints with every step. She was easily the largest moving thing to every walk upon the earth and she was also the heaviest. For a moment she thought about tip toing the last thirty miles but she doubted that would make any real difference. She hated tearing up the road and ground the way she was but she couldn’t help it. Honestly one foot was bigger than the entire width of I-75. To her it had stopped being a road so much as just a trail.

She was getting tired and hungry and she wasn’t sure how much further she needed to walk. All that she knew for sure any more was that she wasn’t being shot at, and that she had not seen another living soul in a long while.

What she didn’t know and could have no way of guessing was that when she had broken the containment area south of Atlanta she had given the President no other choice but to order the first nuclear air strike on US soil ever.

At the very moment she thought she would be home soon, she heard an airplane flying very fast and very high above her. She looked up and saw it. A stealth bomber was directly overhead. She wondered if that was how they were going to keep an eye on her so no one else got hurt at ground level. It made good sense at least to her. They could keep their distance and see what she was up to without having anyone get hurt.

When she lowered her head from the plan she caught the glimpse of something in her eye moving to fast to see and to her enormous eyes to small to register. Whatever it was hit her like a ton of bricks. Then the world exploded. She was on fire. She watched as everything around her almost disintegrated in an instant.  She couldn’t help but think as she fell “the bastards nuked me.”

All around the globe the world breathed a sigh of relief as they saw the giant woman fall stuck down by a nuclear weapon several times more powerful than anything that had ever been used before. Most of the southeast would be a wasteland for generations but at least Hannah was down and the country would have a future.  Then after a moment it struck home that the greatest super power on the planet had just nuked one of their own people and destroyed a huge part of their country to try and save the world. It was a very sobering fact for everyone even America’s enemies had to take notice.

That last for all of five minutes and was ended when Hannah got back to her feet and started walking again. The ultimate weapon and show of might had failed. Hannah was large and pissed. Her target had changed from going home and trying to figure out what to do next to destroying as much of the world as she could before there wasn’t anything left to destroy.

The President and the rest of the world had to make a decision drop more nukes on this giant or accept their fate? Sometimes there are no grand solutions or even good one. It seemed like this was one of those times. So with a phone call the President of the United States gave the order and within seconds multiple nukes were in the air and on their way to the target. No one was sure how much she could take. No one was sure how many the earth could take.

The biggest question being debated hotly on the squawk boxes around the world were. Who would cause more damage Hannah or the US military? That remained to be seen but the world would have it’s answer soon, but would anyone like the answer when it came?

Hannah figured that more would have to follow the one and so she did the only thing that came to her teenage mind. She began running from the spot where she stood. To her she figured that if she could move faster than they could evacuate people she could get to a city and have the attacks on her halted at least that way. She just wanted the chance to get to Washington D.C. and confront her enemy.

Great strides can only carry a person so far. Even her giant strides could only carry Hannah to the edge of the Carolina’s before she grew tired and had to rest. The best she could say was that she had not been attacked since she had crossed the Georgia state line. So as she lay her head down to sleep she worried about what the morning would hold.

As Hannah slept, around the world governments went to work solidifying their boarders to prepare for what they believed would be Hannah’s invasion of their sovereign territory. A few nations though were intrigued by the problem she presented. They understood better than most that if her growth was not halted that she would destroy the planet and everyone on it. Those nations banded together and began researching her condition pouring through every last one of her medical records to try and find something that might give them a clue to the root of the issue.

The nations interested in protecting humanity not just their boarders reached out to the United States and pleaded a case to allow them to study the girl and to stop the madness that had gripped the world in the past few days. They promised to be able to halt her growth. A promise that at the time it was made they were unsure they could keep.

With that promise though a shaky kind of peace was made. The American military would stand down and some of their top minds would join the group of nations to work on the problem at hand.

Planes lifted off from countries all over the world heading for the United States. Most hoping they could get there before the girl awoke so that she could be made stable. The girls parents were flown to the area where she slept so that they could try and beg her to stay put so people could study her. So that maybe they could help her stop growing and maybe keep the rest of the world safe.

As the world raced either toward oblivion or toward salvation the girl continued to grow larger as she slept. In the US screens were built and sound systems rigged so that once again the President could beg the girl to not move any further north and allow the doctors and scientist from all over the world a chance to solve her problem. As the world feared what would happen boarders became contested in Europe. Old rivals France and Germany broke out into a regional war that threatened to bring the rest of the world into play. Countries in the Middle East began fighting with each other. Over a third of the world found themselves in conflict as the sun began to rise in the Eastern United States.

Only a handful of the scientists that were coming were on the ground when Hannah began to awaken. Those that were could not believe what they were seeing. The girl was as large as a skyscraper. Each of them were amazed that there was almost no trace of radioactivity left on the girl. It was as though the girl had shed all the radio activity in a single night. Most were at a total lost to explain her or anything about her. She simply defied science. She simply shouldn’t exist. She was to big.

Hannah sat up rubbing her eyes when she noticed that a pretty large screen had been erected overnight near her location. She also noticed that there were a lot of people in the area but no real army people so that was something.

The screen came to life. The sound system crackled to life and in an instant the president of the United States was on the screen. “Hannah please accept my sincerest apologies. I had to look out for the very best interests of my people and we perceived you as a grave threat. Honestly most of the world sees you as one. I am not sure that I do not share that sentiment. However I have been told that there is a group of people there on the ground with you who are completely dedicated to helping you by stopping your growth and maybe even being able to get you back to normal.”

Hannah had been ready to smash the screen and continue marching northward but she had to listen to anything that might help her get back to something approaching normal. “Really you think these people can fix me?” The president continued, “I am willing to let them try and hopefully peace will prevail. This country will take no more hostile action against you as long as you remain out of populated areas. If they can not fix this please do the people of this country a favor and go east to another continent and allow the people of this nation in peace. As is I have to try and piece together the state of Georgia.”

The president disappeared from the screen and Hannah’s parents both appeared. Her mother spoke directly to her “baby please stop moving. Let these people try to help you. You don’t have to forgive the president what he did was unforgivable but right now there are so many people willing to help you please let them try. We just want our daughter back.” Her father echoed the same thoughts and so with that Hannah sat still and waited on what she figured would be a very long day on tiny people trying to understand her and what caused her to grow like she had.

Hannah doubted very much that anyone could answer that question she even doubted that they could stop what was happening to her as she seemed to get larger with every passing hour.

Hannah had kind of gotten use to the idea of being nude. Still knowing that people were around and were working around the clock to stop what was happening she was a little self-conscious and so she sat in a manner that kept her from being so exposed.

In the war room where scientist kept pouring in from all over the world theories came in all shapes and sizes. The one that seemed to be gaining the most traction was one that seemed to fit what they knew about her. She had abnormal growth hormones in her system. The human body normally stops growing because there is a set in genetic marker for height. People only function so well at certain heights so anything that harms the function has to be stopped. Growth hormone turns off because at some point a person is to big to function and can not consume enough food ect, ect. For whatever reason her growth hormone seemed to be in hyper drive. How it had been missed for so many years was a mystery. How it had not been treated was just as big a mystery. Still though the hormone should have checked itself and shut down in her body when she reached a certain height but now it was like her entire body was increasing the amount of the hormone instead of cutting back. While she should be slowing down in growth she was speeding up. Her body was in a war with thousands of years of evolution.

The plan that was being floated at the moment was a type of mixture that would shut down the bodies functions to produce the hormone. It would allow her body to stop growing. As to getting her back to a kind of normal that was something that at the moment had most of them stumped.

A couple of very well intentioned fellows from the Ukraine had introduced a shrink ray that they had been working on. It was mostly scoffed at but a team was developed to check the viability of the project. The two fellows had some success making a banana a little smaller before it exploded all over the work room still it was a lead worth checking out.

Hannah was feed daily as much as the area could provide for her and each day she grew more, and was becoming uneasy sitting there like a sitting duck. Each day she was given a briefing on what they thought was going on and each day there was talk of a new plan on how to help. Soon though a decision would have to be made she was as large now as an entire county. People had to be moved all the time just to keep them safe. She even gave the idea of heading to the ocean some serious thought maybe then she wouldn’t hurt anyone any more.

On the fifth day of waiting, when she was nearly to the end of her rope the scientist came to her about the idea of a hormone suppressant along with a so called “shrink ray.” They were not in love with the idea of the “shrink ray” but it was the only real option they had to even try and make her smaller. They were pretty sure they could stop the growth but she would have to take medication for the rest of her life otherwise she would risk undoing all the good that they had done. The plan was to try and “shrink” her a little at a time. That is after she drank a town entire water supply from a water tower that was loaded with bunch of stuff the doctors all said would help her. The way they figured it would take the better part of a week to get her back down to something approaching normal. They would start the next day.  

Wars raged on every continent. Overnight a military coupe was thwarted in Washington D.C. the very first attempt in the nations history. The world was on the verge of tearing it’s self apart in fear over what the giant woman might do if the last ditch effort failed. Everyone in the US doubted that the President would make it through the impeachment process that was about to begin. Turmoil was everywhere on the day that science attempted something it had never tried before.

At around noon the water tower was ready for her to drink. She took it in her hands as if it were a small Sippy cup. She turned it up as the world held its breath. If she didn’t grow any more that day then it would have worked which would be a huge victory but she would have to drink more each and every day until they got her back down to size if they could even do it. She had head about the exploding fruit and was not overly impressed with the idea of being exposed to it.  Honestly the people who were working to keep her from growing were not even sure if they could continue to produce “the cure” each day since the country was trying it’s very best to fall apart.

Still by around three in the afternoon it had been determined that she had not grown any and that at least phase one of their plan had worked and so now they were ready to try the ray. It was the most desperate thing they could think of. They had no idea of what kind of long term affects it could have on her but everyone agreed it was worth the risk.

So with a little fear of the unknown the ray was charged and turned on and ran for close to thirty minutes as everyone there watched in amazement as the gigantic woman in front of them became less gigantic. She had been as large as a small mountain and after the first use she was only as large as a large skyscraper. Peace broke out in most places of the world all while the US continued to slide toward anarchy.

By day three the government was on it’s last legs several states had withdrawn from the union. The good news was that Hannah was still drinking her medicine and was now the size of a pretty good-sized house. It looked like the plan was working and the world was ready to rejoice.

Two more days passed and civil war had broken out in the Americas. The lone good news was that Hannah was under ten feet tall and she was almost back to the height she had been before this whole crazy business had started. She and her family were taken into safe keeping by what amounted to the Southern States Union.

A lot of talk was had as to if she should be allowed to grow again so she could be a weapon on their side. It was tabled however when the leader of the Southern States said that she had been through enough and she was allowed to continue her treatments.
On day seven Hannah Prat was smaller than she had ever been as a teenager. The last day of the treatment had been used to give Hannah something that she had never had before. A sense of normalcy she was taken to a very reasonable height of 5’7” tall the average height for a girl of her age.

The world might have been falling apart around her but Hannah was able to wear a dress that her mother got for her. It was the first real dress she had ever worn that was a normal size and to her it was beautiful. It was white with big blue flower prints on it. A blue belt/sash tied around the waist. She looked like quite the lady. Now if only she had a place to wear it.

It had been five years, since Hannah Prat had experienced the massive growth that had forced her into growing into the planet threatening giantess she had been. Five years years since her country had plunged into Civil War. A war based out of fear of both her and the meas the country would go to, to protect itself from her.

For Hannah though none of that had mattered to her then. What did matter was that she was no longer a giant freak. The joy of being able to lead a semi normal life was all consuming. People still talked about her and her growth like it could happen again at any moment.  Since very little was really known about the process of making her normal.

Over the years the southern states that had taken her in had kept some very good people on hand to keep her checked out and keep her medication in line with what was needed.
She had built up a resistance over the years and the dosage always had to be upped just to make sure that no more issues were had.

Hannah had lived mostly in peace and her fame was mostly just a thing of legend as parts of the world tried to put themselves back together.

The United States had completely splintered into more than a dozen warring factions and each had fought a hard and bitter conflict to be the one that held Hannah. As she was seen either as a Goddess, a weapon, or simply trouble. In the end the cobbled together nation made up of the old states of Georgia, Tennessee, and South Carolina held onto her without to much trouble.  

In that time something else occurred in Hannah's Life, When she was 20 she meet a young man who was the son of one of her doctors. A year older than herself they took a liking to each other, eventually it blossomed into romance.

David Norton's family had came from London on the eve of the global collapse to help with the research on Hannah's condition. In the beginning David had not been very happy about leaving the only home he had ever known. He did not like the idea of having to leave all of his mates behind.

Most of that changed the first time he got to see a woman who so completely towered over everything on the earth. David had watched the news, and had understood that a person like Hannah existed but a part of him didn't want to believe it. He wanted to believe the world was just crazy. Seeing her though for the first time even as huge as she was he fell for her.

The wait though would be much longer because even as she was medicated and shrank she would be under constant watch for most of the first year or so. He wasn't able to really get close to her until she was twenty.

It had taken a while for Hannah to wrap her mind around the idea of a relationship, she was concerned that David might try and use her or something, but over three years David wore her down , and when it came time for when he popped the question, she was all to happy to say yes.

Hannah wasn’t completely sure how she had found herself where she was after her weird and strange life, but as she stood in front of a mirror and her mother began zipping up the back of her wedding dress

"Do you think it's silly to try and get married with things the way they are? Is it selfish of me to want this so much?" Hannah asked her mother as she stood there looking at the mirror as her mother put the finishing touches on her look. Her mother simply smiled at Hannah "that's kind of the whole point. Baby you have given up so much in your life due to what you went through it's good that you have this chance to experience all that life has to offer. Plus it would be nice to hear the pitter patter of little feet."
Hannah blushed as she had not even thought about the idea of having a child. She had been told that if she did she might transfer or pass on her condition to her child. She was not a huge fan of that. Still the fact that she could choose to do so was just beyond belief. A few years before when she was a giant that threatened to wipe out the earth just by her sheer size she wouldn't have ever guessed she would get that chance.

But now the day was here, as she stood looking at her dress, the same white gown with blue flower designs all over it that she had worn for the first time when she had been brought down to normal size, only now a blue ribbon around the waist had been added, along with a bit of fluff to the skirt. Her hair was done up in a nice fashion with a few things in there to keep it in place.

Hannah heard her mother sniffle a little bit and turned to face her mother "Are you okay Mom?"
Hannah’s mother waved her daughter off before saying "I'm sorry, it’s just that, I never thought I would see this day given your condition, my little girl is all grown up."
"Not as grown up as I have been." Hannah said with a giggle and her mother laughed as well. Her mother ever the mindful one added “That reminds me, have you taken your medication today?"

Hannah sighed a little feeling a little exacerbated at the question. "Mom I have been taking my medication every single day for about five years. I know what will happen if I don't." She broke out of the sour mood quickly though because she knew her mother was just worried about her. Plus it was very hard to be in a bad mood when very soon she was going to walk the aisle and marry the one man who didn't look at her still as if she was a freak or a ticking time bomb.

Every day for the past five years she has poured the liquid into a glass drank it without a second thought because it was all that kept her from growing all over again. The doctors explained it like the medication acted as an inhibitor.

That morning when she had taken her drink she had pulled the cup away from her lips with a smirk. "All these years and they still can’t make this stuff taste any better.” It had been a long running joke that they could make a medicine that could keep her from growing. A shrink ray could be invented to shrink her but they couldn’t make the stuff taste any better.

Her thought was broken up when the wedding march began playing inside the building. A little bit of nerves bundled up in her stomach but her mother placed a hand on her arm and helped her calm down.

David stood at the front of the church. It was a nice building. One of the nicer old churches left standing after years of air raids and battles over the area. It was the last one in the area with a pipe organ.  

The crowd there in the church was not very large but it was everyone in the two's lives that mattered.
When he saw the door swing open he held his breath. When he saw her break through the entrance he found that he could not take a breath. To him she was the most absolutely beautiful woman he had even seen. She was amazing. He held his hand out for her to take it well before she got close to him. She could not get to him fast enough. He was ready to start their lives together.

As the two stood at the altar the priest began to read out from The Bible, for Hannah and David it didn't matter to them at the moment, they held each others hands, blushes evident on both of their faces as the priest began to have them recite their vows.
However as Hannah began to say hers she stumbled a little bit, out of nervousness everyone assumed.
Only that was not the reason, her shoes had suddenly gotten tight and began to break a bit before they got back to normal. The same thing had happened to her dress, as she went through the vows she heard a little pop.
Her mother looked at her back, and saw that the zipper had slightly parted in the middle. She was cornered. Had the dress shrunk..or had Hannah grown.
Hannah felt the pressure leave her as she finished her vows and she and David kissed.
Butterflies flew through her stomach as David wrapped his arms around her..and it's at that moment he felt Hannah's body shift, it expanded slightly the zipper parted a bit more and the heels on her shoes broke off.
They pulled away from each other in shock. Hannah breathed deeply a little bit in and out.
The crowed cheered for them as the two stood at the front of the church.  As David held his wife's hands, he began to feel them expand a little bit, contract..and then expand again

David wanted to hang onto his new wife tightly but it was very clear that something was going on. She was getting larger right in front of him and the few guests they had present. She had been a head shorter than him most of the time he had known her since she had been brought back down to a normal human size. Now she was inching up above his head. The dress was popping and cracking as her body stretched it. The cute little blue sash she had tied around her waist was ripping at the sides since the knot that held it was stronger than the fabric. When her hands outgrew his he had no choice but to let her go. Fear filled every eye in the room. "Oh Hannah..." echoed from her mother has panic set in.

Hannah didn't know how to respond. She was scared, she had taken her medicine and this was supposed to be the happiest day of her life. Had she developed an immunity to her medicine?She began to feel sick and then she began to take deep gasps of air. The ribbon was cutting off her circulation. She began to sequel when suddenly she stopped.
All eyes stared at her as suddenly she began to shrink down a little bit, the dress seemed to be relieved by this as well as she shrank till he was only a little bit taller than David. She gasped for air.

"What in the world was that all about?" David almost screamed at her. In an instant his new wife was surrounded by military and escorted away from the scene. David gave chase behind the group as they hustled her from the area. "Where the hell are you guys taking her." The group placed Hannah in the back of an SUV and began driving away quickly as they could as the crowd outside the church stood there in a mode of panic and fear. Hannah's mother came to David "Where are they taking her? What happened? I watched her take her medicine just before the wedding?"

David could only shrug his shoulders “I don't know but I intend to find out.”

With the world so fractured and resources so hard to come by, vehicles were solely for military personnel. Normal people didn't have access to them unless it was mass transit. So David quickly rushed home to try and get some information from some of his father's old contacts. He had to admit it would be easier if his father was still alive, but he wasn’t so he would have to try and work with what he had.

Inside the SUV Hannah was scared for her life. She didn't know why she had been grabbed away from her wedding not to mention why she had grown. "Where are you taking me?" she asked nervously as one of the men turned toward her.

"You are being taken to containment until we can figure out your problem, we can't have an incident like the one five years ago."
"Containment!?" Hannah exclaimed. "You can't do that!"

“We can and we will, our orders one and very clear on that” one of the men said.
Hannah began to breathe a bit heavily she was nervous really nervous now. Suddenly the SUV Began to veer to one side. "What's going on!?" one of the men asked. Not noticing Hannah was beginning to get bigger.

Her dress began to suffer a bit more, as she took in a deep breath. The cute little ribbons sides split open and it fell off. Her dress had been made from some strong fabrics back before the world had went all crazy. Still she doubted it would last forever. Along her chest there was a seam, and one bit of it began to pop. She gasped as she felt it begin to pop open as the string snapped. The already strained zipper began to pop open as one of the men took notice.
"Hey she's growing SHE's GROWING!" "STOP THE CAR!" One of the men shouted as the SUV skidded to a stop.

Hannah took the SUV stopping as an opportunity She swung her fist and punched a guy right in the face, breaking his nose. She threw up her feet and kicked the main guy into the front seat, shattering her heels in the process and did so to another man. As the agents tried to recover Hannah grabbed the door and tore it off it's hinges. She tumbled outside onto the roadway, Her gown spread out. She picked herself up off the ground noting happily that she wasn't injured.
She got to her feet and began to run. Stress filled her as she kept running and she wondered if she would be fast enough?

Her body seemed to read her mind as she grew a little bit so her feet had clearance of the bottom of her dress. She began to run faster. However she heard the sound of an engine revving. She turned back and saw the SUV coming right toward her. It dashed right up to her legs and bashed them. Hannah stumbled a bit and then grabbed the SUV by the bumper and gave it a mighty kick. The bumper was torn off the vehicle as it flew backwards and smashed into a wall.
Hannah stood there taking a few deep breaths as she shrunk back down a little bit till her dress was touching the ground once more.

Cell phones had been mostly extinct for around 2 years as the networks fell into disrepair but land lines still worked and so David burnt up the lines trying to find out anything he could about what was going on with Hannah.

To this point he had assurances from several people that neither the military or the government had anything to do with what had happened. Of course that did not make him feel any better. Someone had taken her and he was pretty sure someone had messed with her medication and now as a result no one knew where she was or what her condition was. The medication that she had in her body might hold her growth at bay for a while and keep her from becoming a huge problem but sooner or later the levels would be depleted and her growth would be unchecked and most likely unstoppable.

As he raced to find answers he heard a knocking at his door. David tensed up. Was it the government or was it someone else? He edged toward his door and grabbed the nearest blunt object and peeked through the keyhole..to see Hannah's face on the other side, her eyes peering in and a concerned look on her face

The door wasn't opening fast enough for Hannah's liking she figured David had to be wondering what was going on how she had got away but still he should open the door faster. "David come on open up." She went to really knock but the door opened up before she knocked it off the hinges. She had to duck a little to get through the door. She knew that she had to look a mess. Her dress had popped seams and the outer skirt layer was tattered, and her face and arms dirty as anything. Her feet and shins also showed more dirt than she would have liked.

When David slung the door open he  embraced his larger bride quickly "I was so worried I didn't know what was going on. How did you get away" he asked but wished he hadn't asked. It was pretty plain that from looking at her she had fought her way out and she had gotten a little bigger still. Hannah bent down and kissed her new husband before slamming the door behind her. "I don't know who those people were they just said they were taking me to a place to try and contain me." She was crying now she felt silly she was bigger and stronger than almost any man and now she was acting like a little girl.

"Well at least you're here now. I was told that the Government said that they hadn't sent any men to our wedding..." But they believe that your medicine has been tampered with maybe for a while now..
"W-What!?" Hannah asked stumbling backwards in shock. She hit a wall and she heard her zipper pop a little bit more. "Why would someone do that?" She exclaimed. as she gasped she began to grow a bit more. They both heard a small ripping and Hannah felt a breeze down below and her bra clamp burst. Her chest expanded out a little bit and pushed at her seams even further.

"Hannah I think they have been messing with your medication for a while now. Your levels must be getting really low if you're starting to grow like you are. We have to get you some medicine that we know hasn't been tampered with. I have a few of the people that worked with my dad on their way over to help. Just please say calm for now. Your stress is making things worse. Your dress won't take much more of you growing." David was trying to be responsible and take care of his wife but the simple fact was that as her bust increased in size it was hard for him to not stare at them. It was also hard for him to focus on what need doing.

"o-Okay." Hannah said with a sigh. She sat down and looked over her dress. Seams were split and popped and the skirt had been torn open a bit showing the petticoats and the like.
"Hopefully I can get this thing fixed." She said with a sigh as she leaned back. As she listened to David try to work things out thoughts began to echo through her mind.
She and her family had been promised up and down that she would never grow again and that the Government would NEVER take her hostage again. So why were they doing it now, had they gone back on their word. What about her family were they safe-
The sound of popping seams filled the air as Hannah started to grow a bit more, the chest of the dress was stretching to it's limits

Dropping the phone David rushed over to Hannah "Please don't get all worked up. We will figure this thing out I promise. If you don't calm down though you won't be able to fix the dress it will be rags at your feet."

Hannah cracked out a sob a little bit and bit her lip. "i'm sorry, I-I can't..i mean I--" She said as tears welled up in her eyes.

David just held his wife. He didn't know what else to do. All the two of them could do now was wait and see if her medicine would get to her in time since the "shrink ray" had been non functioning almost the entire time it had been in exsistance. The medicine was their only hope. So David did the only thing he could do at the moment. He held his slowly enlarging wife.

Hannah hugged him back which unfortunately resulted in David getting enveloped by her dress and chest. She giggled a little bit and then proceeded to shrink slightly as she pushed him out. "Get out of there, not until the honeymoon." She said with a laugh

"Hannah this may very well be the honeymoon." David replied with a grin on his face. So he didn't hesitate when she stood up and held out a hand to him. The two made their way into the bedroom. She took a seat on the bed with back to him so he could attempt to unzip her dress and allow the young couple the chance to make love for the first time as husband and wife.

However as he was about to unzip it, a rush of excitement filled Hannah and she began to stretch out even more.
'Hannah what's going on!?" David asked.
"i_Don't know!" She cried out as the bed creaked and moaned Instead of splitting the sides of her zipper began to separate from the dress itself!
Hannah got off the bed and anto the floor as she grew more and more

Hannah's dress was literally coming unraveled right before before their eyes as she continued growing and expanding. The chest of the dress ripped apart as her breasts swelled along with the rest of her body. The waist of the dress strained against her lean body. David knew it was wrong but he was sure that he had never wanted her more than he did in that moment, but he was not sure how that would work any more.

"Any more growing I'll be naked..and I'll end up destroying the house!" Hannah moaned as her head bumped into the ceiling.
Just then they both heard a knock at the door. David hurriedly made himself presentable and ran outside and opened it, finding a group of doctors, and the current leader of the little nation they called home..
"We came as soon as we could" Benjamin Holten said. President Holten had been a US. Senator who had opposed the deployment of a nuclear weapon on US soil and had been one of the main people behind the movement to separate the state of Georgia from the United States after it was used on Hannah. He looked and the large and mostly undressed Hannah before he looked David in the eye. "We had to make a new batch, someone has been sabotaging Hannah's medication, and they've been doing so for a few weeks now."

"Ok but we are going to need the new batch of stuff as soon as possible." David motioned toward the bedroom where Hannah was struggling to keep what was left of the dress on and not to burst through the roof.

"We've already started on a new batch, non tampered with. It should be ready before dark sets in tonight" Holten said and walked over, keeping his head low. "Hannah, we are going to stand by our promise. We will protect you and do every single thing that we can to keep you from growing like before. Just stay calm and we will be through this very soon."

Kind of stuck in the position she was in she reached out toward Holten. "I'll take whatever you have. Anything to slow this down and hopefully I'll be able to shrink back down a little when my nerves calm down." As she finished the vehicle the military had arrived in exploded. An explosion that blew in the windows of the house. David and Holten both ducked to escape the flying glass. Hannah watched as the shards of glass just bounced off her skin after slicing her already tattered dress to ribbons.

Everyone looked outside as the SUV that Hannah had escaped from earlier sat with another one, a group of men began to walk out from nearby cover.
A man held up a hand and the men stopped walking forward. “Listen Holten, give us the girl and no one will have to get hurt. She’s coming with us, and we are going to put this country back together with her at the front of the army.”

David and Hannah both looked at Holten for some kind of sign as to what he would do. The man’s face was without any emotion and thus was hard to read. Holten shuffled toward to front door which had been blown in from the blast. “I’ don’t know who you think you are or what you really plan to achieve here but Hannah and her entire family are under the protection of the Southeastern States Alliance. We are not going to hand her over to you or anyone else. She is a human being and will not be used as a weapon against anyone else.”

A political power move was at the root of what was happening to her now. Hannah grew panicked and her body grew along with the panic.
Her body pressed against the walls and her wedding dress stretch it’s last stretch and ripped apart. She would tear the walls down soon.
The Alliance’s military who had accompanied their leader moved to face these unknown terrorists. The first man to approach the unknown leader of that group with handcuffs was a shot from an unknown shooter.

"What do you want?" David demanded
The man laughed. "Your wife destroyed the world, she leveled by country, now I'm going to use Her to take it back! I mean fair is fair."

"All you’re going to do is help her destroy what is left of civilization. Without her medicine she won't stop growing. She will just keep getting bigger and bigger." David was trying to make the man understand that there was no way of controlling her growth. It was either on or it was off. While he knew Hannah would never lift a finger to harm any one at her size though she would hurt people just because they were there. She would never be the enemy. Her size would be though.

The man only laughed as his men came swarming from behind every nearby building. Shots were fired men began falling all around David. He didn't understand how this could have all happened so quickly. He looked around and took cover behind the burning wreckage in the street and as he looked back toward the house he saw the roof crack and break away from the walls as Hannah grew out of the house she had been sitting in.

Hannah let out a cry of fear as she grew, pushing down one of the walls of Davis house, What was supposed to be their house. She watched as aprt of it began to collapse.
"Our Home..our Dreams" she said with a sob. Her sadness quickly turned to anger as she whipped her head around toward this unknown evil man.
"YOU!" She boomed standing up, her massive lean body tensed as every muscle in her body rippled as she stepped toward the man with ill intent on her mind..
The man shuffled from the front of the battle that was being waged on their front yard. He yelled for his men to concentrate their fire on her and to get her under control. Every enemy weapon on the ground turned towards her and opened fire. The bullets unable to penetrate her skin only bounced off of her. She kicked enemy, and friendly soldiers every direction as she moved after the man who had caused all of these problems. Before the Madman could continue or even move another inch Hannah raised up her foot, and brought it down on the man. Smashing him flat on the ground. She had broken the man and his followers simply laid down their weapons when they saw what had happened to the man she had smashed beneath her foot. The blood ran out from under her foot and stained the ground.

David looked up at his still growing wife and gasped. She had done something he thought she would never do. He along with everyone else still standing started to back away from her. She was easily thirty plus feet tall now. Her body was exposed to the entire crowd of people and in that moment Hannah looked every bit the nightmare the world had feared for the better part of half a decade.
.
David could see the rage in her eyes. She was now capable of doing very bad things. "God help us all." He took off in the opposite direction. The world's only hope now was to help get the medication from finished and stop her growth. That or the world may be doomed.

Hannah took a few deep breaths and looked around, a destroyed house, dead people....she couldn't believe it.
"I-...I-" She said her hands began shaking. She saw David running in the other direction, He was fleeing.
From her.
Holten the leader of the Alliance that had help protect her for years looked at her with a panicked look in his eyes.
I-I'm sorry." Hannah whimper. Holten did the only thing he could think of and he placed his hand on her foot and called up to her. “I believe you Hannah, I believe you.”

David didn't stop running until he made it to the regional lab. It wasn't very far away but the chaos around the area made the run longer than it should have been. Once inside a group of scientists ran in every direction trying to get a new batch together but everyone knew it would take at least another 7-9 hours to get the formula ready then to mass produce.

One of the scientists was looking through data when David rushed into the lab. “What the hell are you doing here? Are you trying to get us all killed?” David not understanding only stared blankly at the man who continued “Damn it man, don’t you understand that right now she’s an emotional wreck her emotions are keeping her all ramped up and causing her to burn through what medication remains in her cells.” David replied “So you’re telling me that her emotions are forcing the explosive fast growth.”
The man in the lab coat nodded his head but before he could speak David continued “she will still continue growing until this stuff is ready so the best place for me is right here helping to get this shit ready as fast as we can." David pushed past the man and jumped in on the work. This was supposed to be a great day, a happy day, and instead it had turned into a horror show.

"Well currently she's growing even faster...her emotions are flaring!" Another researcher stated.
"We're pushing it as fast as we can!" One researcher said, who was Scottish. "IF we dunno work fast she canna take the strain!"

David shook his head at the man. “Just stopping the growth can’t be enough.” The Scottish man looked at him as if to say what’s wrong with you of course that’s enough.  David continued “Ok fine the medicine will stop her from growing but what about getting her back to normal size?"

The man that David had started calling Scottie in his head replied "We’ve got no way to make that happen. The stuff they had her on was it's half her medicine half growth hormone of some kind. Shrinking her, Boyo that is not what we are trying to do here. We just want to stop her from growing any more and destroying the planet.”

David screamed at the Scottish man "damn it man, don't you understand we have to find a way to shrink her. With the shrink ray busted, we have to find a way to make her smaller with the medication. If not, even at her size now the world is going to be destroyed."

The scottish man conceded the point and allowed David to join the men working to get the formula ready. He wished he knew a way to get the old shrink ray to work but it was a technology that even at the time it was created  was barely understood and since the men who invented it had died or went missing years ago the chances of it every working again were very slim. He just wanted his wife back.

Meanwhile as darkness started to settle in around Hannah, she had finally managed to calm down, the leader of the Alliance has gotten her to sit down. Hannah used whispers to talk with him and the leader talked back with a bit of a loud voice. Had had struck up the conversation in order to keep her mind off certain things and it seemed to be working, at least for the moment.

Her nerves were totally shot though. She couldn't believe what she had done to those people. She had never done anything like that before but they were trying to use her and take her away from her life. She wasn't going to allow that to happen again. Still though even now she may have lost David forever. He had seen her kill those men. He had ran away from her, to where she had no idea. She just hoped they could fix her soon.

Holten however showed a good bit of sympathy for her, he had been someone who had seen Hannah's situation from the very start and had felt sorry for her since the beginning.
Then they heard the sound of a truck pulling up a liquid tanker trunk, and much to Hannah's joy David stepped down out of it.

"Hannah" he yelled up at his huge wife. "I had to get something to stop this madness."

Hannah's frown turned into the biggest grin David had ever seen and he smiled as well. Hannah's personality, what he had loved most about her, had returned. There was no rage or anger in her eyes.

"We have to see if we can tap a vein, though Hannah we have to get this stuff into the bloodstream as fast as we can." The looks everyone gave David said everything he needed to know Tapping a vein on a woman that was larger than a house and bullet proof was most likely not going to happen. "We have to try, just drinking this stuff may not have the proper effect."

Hannah whimpered a little bit but nodded and David placed a hand on her leg

God she is so big David thought to himself. He wondered what would happen if he couldn't get her growth to stop. He was also worried that if he did what size she would be. The idea of a shrinking serum was kind of new. He had ran the numbers with the people back at the lab they seemed sound but whenever you were trying something for the first time you just never could tell. No one had any idea if it would even work. Still it was the best option they had. "Just hang in there, we are going to see if we can't fix this. Now to find a needle big enough to do the job. Back in a few minutes." He placed a small kiss on her leg where his hand been and walked back over to the truck to help fashion a needle strong enough pierce her skin and deliver the medication.

“Needle” Hannah said with a gulp as she looked down at David a look of fear in her eyes.

From over his shoulder her yelled back toward Hannah "Yes a needle how else are we going tap a vein, and get this stuff into your bloodstream."
Hannah nodded a little bit in understanding but she was still afraid, would there be a lot of blood? Her fears went unchecked and she grew a bit more.

Creating a giant needle was not easy. They were using for the lack of a better term a modified gas pump. At the moment they were making the nozzle sharp in the hopes that it would break her skin but they really had no way of knowing if that would work. This woman as a giantess had withstood a nuke but they had to try.

However another team of scientists had been attempting to pour over the notes of the old Shrink Ray in the hopes that if the Needle didn't work they could somehow understand and bring it back online. To say the least it wasn't going very well

Hannah continued to worry and stress, and in turn she continued to inch closer to the sky. Everyone around her was working hard to try and fix the problem at hand. The only problem was that they were running out of time.

Eventually they had something that they believed would work well enough to break her skin.

"Just understand Hannah this is so we can try to get all of this to stop." David was pleading, because he could see the fear in her face. He was just hopeful she would not panic.

Soon the needle was all set up and in place, on a count of three, the needle was pushed forward, David watched as it broke into Hannah's Skin and he saw it inject her. For them the process was slow but the needle breaking her skin was a painful experience due to it more or less having to be drilled into her arm.

Medicine flowed up the pump and into the needle. Then it flowed into her arm and blood stream. It would take a lot of it and a good bit of time to see if it worked. "Here goes nothing" David whispered to himself.

Thankfully the pump was working. Hannah seemed to be handling the process well but everyone stepped back just in case she decided she didn’t like the way things felt. Hannah wiggled a little bit as she began to shift unevenly.

Her breasts began to shrink and contract and the medication began taking effect. Her toes shrank, her fingers. It was a strange sight to see since most people had never seen a person shrink before. A collective sigh could be heard when the first signs could be seen of the growth being reversed. "Its working" David yelled up at his wife. He continued to watch nervously as the medicine made its way from the tanker they had brought with them. They would have to reload a second vat once it was empty. Right now everything was going well and he wanted to make sure that it did. Turning towards the crew he had arrived with "prep the second tank, and have the third ready on stand by." The men ran off making his orders a reality. He placed a hand on her shrinking wife's leg. "This is going to work."

The words had barely gotten out of his mouth when the hose detached from the makeshift needle and the medicine began spraying everywhere. "Shit, kill the pump kill it right now." The men scrambled to cut the power but with each second more and more of the medicine found it's way to ground and became useless to them.

The men managed to shut off the pump, thankfully not all of the medicine hadn't been lost, but roughly 30%, of the container had been lost. It was very a big blow.

"Get that hose reattached!" Holten ordered as the men worked fast, while others went to secure the 2nd tank.

For the moment Hannah's growth was stabilized she was only about twenty feet tall at this point. David knew that it was important to get the formula back pumping into her if there was going to be any chance of undoing the damage that had been done to her. Truth be told he was concerned about the long term effects all the growth and shrinking was having on her. That would have to be worried about later though right now they had a pump to fix and a new tank to hook into.

They hooked the hose into the tank and Hannah stilled herself as more of the serum was pumped into her system.

It was a slow process but it was a steady one. The formula was doing it's job. After a couple hours Hannah was under 15 feet and was beginning to look more and more human sized. David stood nearby and now the two could talk freely back and forth without yelling. They were on the fourth tank of the stuff and they only had one more left. "I think this is going to do the job pretty well" David told her. Hannah held out her hand and he held it with his smaller hand. It was still amazing at how much larger she was even at this greatly reduced height. Parts of her were smaller than others as it seemed the serum worked much differently than the old shrink ray had. Different body parts shrank at different rates. Some times she looked down right odd. David did wonder briefly if they would be able to make her look somewhat normal with the unevenness of the growth. In the end though he decided it was fine with him as long as he had her back.

Hannah smiled as the medicine continued to do it's job As the fourth tank finally ended she was under 10 feet tall.

It seemed that amount that had been spilled had kept her from getting back to her marriage height but still she was back down to a somewhat manageable size. David and Hannah embraced as the needle and all the hoses were put away. It was strange to David seeing as she was still almost twice his size.

The crowd left the two alone with Holten running the remaining people away from the site. Neither she nor David minded that she was more or less nude. Honestly David wanted to join her but since their home was in rubble getting some privacy for the moment wouldn't be easy.

Holten secured a vehicle for the couple and had the driven to Hannah's family home as they took them into their own home and set them up in Hannah's old room

Everyone left the two lovebirds alone in the house. Now finally alone for the first time since the wedding the two worked toward consummating their marriage.

Within a few days another batch had been made and they brought it to Hannah, who had taken up to wearing bedsheets, however the formula could only get her down to 7’3.” It was deemed that would just have to be good enough. The medication would make her no smaller. A new formula was created to help with any growth.

"It's most likely the best we are going to be able to do for now" David was trying to explain to Hannah. Still David thought to himself this was much better than even her ten foot frame she was easier to hold onto and though he would never say it out loud. Her being so much bigger made his job of pleasing her a little to hard.

Her family tried very hard to find clothes that would fit her frame and it was not easy. Yet some how they came across another version of the dress she had wore to her wedding.

She just had to try it on to see if she could still squeeze into it.

She pulled it over her head and tried to pull down down.

The skirt portion barely came to her waist. The waist of the dress rested tightly on her midsection, while the top of the dress stretched as best it could to accommodate her massive upper body. Her breasts looked to spill completely out of the dress or tear it apart, and honestly in that moment it looked like it could go either way. Hannah tried to do a little twirl in the dress to show it off. David laughed at all the effort she had spent on trying the dress on and trying her best to look sexy in it. She looked ridiculous but at the same time she had never looked better to him.

"Well it somewhat fits." Hannah said with a giggle. "at least I can maybe pull this off"

"Sure thing, whatever you say Hannah." David laughed as she shook his head "What is it you are trying to prove other than you are still too big for that dress?"

Hannah shrugged and laughed a little bit and then looked at David. "So, is there any hope of me getting back to normal?"

"You can never rule anything out but honestly Hannah this is kind of normal for you. Before you had that stupid growth spurt that threatened the world you were over eight feet tall. You're shorter than that now. So I guess we just have to accept that at this point."

Hannah sighed as she sat down "I guess your right." As she sat down the dress began to creak and pop a little bit. "And maybe I should find a tailor.." She began as the dress began to come undone at the seams on the sides. Each breath she took seemed to make the problem worse. "Maybe that wouldn't be a bad idea. We may have to get you all new clothes."

Hannah looked down and back at David. "Could we maybe get another version of this one too..so we can at least pretend the Wedding went okay?"

“You mean the wedding didn’t go just as planned?” The two laughed as Hannah smiled before taking her husband in her long arms, and  kissed her him. While he pretended to struggle between her large breasts.

The problem with things that are broken is that they seldom if ever go back together. In this case the world was broken. The United States had been broken apart and dissolved for nearly a generation.

Several factions had tried over the years to pull the old republic from the ashes of the burnt up ground but far too much water had traveled over the dam, or under the bridge, or wherever it is that the damn water flows.

Hannah was now in her mid early thirties. She and David tried to lead humbly and quiet life for the most part in the Georgian Territories. The leaders of the territory left the two alone mostly except to make sure that Hannah took the medicine she had come to depend on as her size stabilizer. There was always talk about the day when they could no long provide her with the medicine.

With her presence in being known, the territory she called home was some of the most fought over land on the entire continent. As a result the Georgian Territory had grown more than a little weary of having her as a resident. That along with the continued manufacture of the medication she required taxed the small ragged nation without mercy. None the less they could not allow her to fall into the hands of someone who would use her as a weapon. So the nation's options were very limited to say the least.

She loved her home but Hannah was sure that it did not really resemble the land she had grown up in and come to age in. She often wondered about the day when the government either could no longer give her the medicine, or no longer wanted to. She fear that day because whenever that happened and for whatever reason she had no doubt that the world, even the broken down version of it that she lived in would come crashing down.

Hannah and David’s options were also pretty narrow as well. David had more or less fallen out of favor in the Capital of the band of old southern states, due to his push back against the territory becoming essentially a military state. So their connections had dwindled down to next to zero in the last ten years or so. They were more or less powerless to affect any kind of change in the territory, and the nation they called home had become essentially the bully on the block of the area around them. The territory had grown to include good parts of what were Alabama, and Florida. The territory was working to capture parts of Kentucky, and North Carolina so as to finally have a buffer zone between them and Hannah.

The ceaseless war though was causing more and more casualties since the further north they fought, the closer the Georgian armies came to the old republic and the military might that had been stored there. There were also rumors that the old CDC in the area had been repurposed into a weapons manufacturer.

With Hannah’s hometown being one of the most northern towns from the secured zone it was also home to the territories largest northern base of operations with a fort and a medical hospital. A hospital that David worked at, and that Hannah helped at.

After their shift one evening both David and Hannah sat on their front porch talking. “Are you sure that you don’t regret not having children David?”

It was a discussion that Hannah brought up with David on a pretty regular basis, and so he was ready to answer without any real hesitation. “Hannah, I don’t regret a single moment with you or our lives together. We can not help what it does to you. We can not change the fact that without it you would have out grown this world long ago and we would never have gotten the chance to grow old together.”

The two shared a laugh, if an uneasy one. Hannah sometimes mourned the fact that size stabilizer she took every single day also had the effect of acting as a form of birth control. It was a sad fact that if she wanted to be as she was she could also never have children. Of course she had never really felt the absence or lack of children in her life until the past couple of years.

The first grey hair in her head had sent her off the deep end about her own mortality and her inability to know of a life beyond her own. She had even thought about stopping her medicine just so she could have a child, but she knew that within days of stopping she would start to grow again.

The last thing the world need other than a giant woman roaming the earth was a almost equally large baby smashing its way across the globe. So she resigned herself to the fact that she would not have children. Still she regretted the idea that David would have no children of his own. Sometimes she thought of ending the marriage so he could go and find someone normal to have a family with. That idea hurt as badly as her not being able to have children and so she put that idea away just like she had put away so many other idea’s because of the way things had worked out.

The alarm from the hospital sounded and even though it was almost a mile away from their home they both heard it without any real problem. It was a high pitched sound that was designed to be heard at long distances.

Hannah looked at David and before a word was spoken the two stood up from their seats on the porch and began down the steps of their home and rushed toward the hospital.

In the past when the alarm had went off it had been because of some type of military incursion by a foreign force as some sort of raid or attempted invasion to either capture or kill Hannah.

Hannah figured that would be a possibility but with more area north of here secured than ever she had serious doubts about that being the case now. Still she began to steel herself against whatever it might be that she would see.

She had seen men blown open, and ripped apart. She had seen things that most people could not imagine. War made all of those things possible.

The closer they got to the hospital the more Hannah wondered just what was happening. People she knew were running away from the hospital instead of toward it. Most of the people in her old home town had been given some level of medical training since they were the staff for the military hospital.

Screams could be heard coming from each and every direction. Every face she met seemed to be covered in both fear and blood.

Could it be that the military had met its Waterloo and had lost control of the zone north of them? Could a full scale invasion be underway?

She stopped running and David who had been steps behind her stopped along her side. “Dear why did you stop running? We have to go and help those who are wounded. They are counting on us to keep our heads Hannah.”

Hannah looked down at her sweet husband “David don’t you understand the line has fallen whoever has defeated our men are surely coming for me. We have to get out of here. We won’t be safe here much longer.”

David grabbed his large wife’s hand and tried to pull her along with him “Don’t you see that is all the more reason to get to the hospital. We have to try and get as much of your medication as we possibly can. The hospital will also be the most secure place in the territory. While I may not love all these jack booted thugs they do their jobs. They will hold onto this area with everything they have until more reinforcements can arrive.”

His reasoning was sound but from the crowd that was fleeing the area around the hospital Hannah doubted what he said in her mind but followed along with him because after all he was her husband. She wouldn’t leave him not now not ever.

As they reached the hospital block gun fire began to breakout as screams could be heard from inside the building. The husband and wife duo looked at each other.

True doubt was starting to show on David’s face as though he was starting to understand that maybe help would not be coming as quickly as he had hoped, and that maybe it had been a mistake to come to the hospital after all.

“Oh sweet Jesus, they aren’t dropping” they heard as automatic gunfire sounded through the hospital.

Hannah looked at David “what in the hell is going on here?”

David could only shrug his shoulder as blood curtling screams replaced some of the gun fire. They each started up the stairs of the building when a man in uniform came rushing out of the dark building blood pouring from his arm and neck as his rifle hung over his shoulder.

The man tumbled over and fell down the stairs audibly breaking bones as he crashed down the steps. More blood started to run down the steps as man started to bleed out on the steps.

As David and Hannah rushed to the man’s side they noticed what appeared to be several savage looking bite marks covering his neck and right arm. Blood oozed out of each ragged piece of flesh.

The man gasped for breath in Hannah’s arms as David went to work trying to stop the bleeding. “The bastards just wouldn’t go down. I emptied three clips into this one and he just kept coming, even when the bullets ripped him in half the torso just kept coming.”

Hannah tried her best to calm the hysterical man but his breathing was worsening and she knew that this soldier didn’t have very long left. He had lost too much blood. She needed to know something though and so she asked the dying man a question that she hoped he could answer.

“Who did this too you?” She was afraid she knew the answer, but she had to know for sure.

The man with a last shallow breath answered her worst fears “they did, the ones who wouldn’t go down…”

The gunfire which had been a constant since she and David had first arrived in the area was started to peter out, but the screams and now moans from inside were only increasing in their pace and severity.
Hannah took David by the hand and pulled him away from the dead man on the ground “He’s gone, baby. We have got to get out of here.”

“Hannah, we can’t leave. I’m a doctor, I have to try and help these people” David replied as he pulled away from his wife’s powerful grip.

This was one of the things she loved about David, but it was also the one thing that was going to get him and her killed if he didn’t get a move on. “Didn’t you hear what he said” she asked a reluctant David. “Can’t you hear what is going on around us. This place is lost. If we don’t go right now we will be lost right along with them.”

Just at that moment people began stumbling out of the front door of the hospital. Each moaning a sicking moan. Eyes blank and uncomprehending. Mouths opening and closing rapidly as if trying to eat the very air itself. Their teeth chattered each time they brought their teeth together.

Hannah knew what they were when she saw them. She had seen the movies growing up. She recognized a zombie, in the actual flesh when she saw one. Fear coursed through her veins her adrenaline started to kick into high gear.

She grabbed her much smaller husband by the arm and started to drag him away from the stairs just as the dead man they had been helping reached up and tore a chunk of meat out of David’s right forearm, and would not let go.

David screamed at the very top of his lung capacity as he tried in vain to pull away from the thing that was gnawing on his arm like it was a side of beef.

Hannah’s heart sank in that very moment. She knew what that meant. He husband of over ten years was going to die, he was going to become one of these horrible monsters. Her heart started beating so much faster than it had in years.

She pulled on David with all of her considerable might and freed him from the grip of the dead man who now struggled to get to it’s feet only it could not since it had broken so many important bones on it’s initial fall down the stairs moments before back when it was a living and breathing man, and not the dead eye thing it had become.  

Hannah wasn’t sure what she would be able to do with David. She couldn’t save him, and she could leave him behind either. She scooped him up into her arms and began trying to run back to their home a mile away.

As she did so she passed several more of the dead things that had escaped the hospital earlier as living being but now had loved ones and friends pinned beneath them and were doing their level best to eat every last piece of meat from their bones.

She tried to avert her eyes. David was starting to lose consciousness as she arrived back home. “Don’t you close your eyes” she yelled at him as she sat him down on the couch in the living room.

He simply groaned in reply. Hannah left him there and went back to the door securing it as best she could. She took notice however that her run back home had drawn the attention of several of the corpses and so they were shambling their way toward her house at that moment.

Her heartbeat was picking up more speed. She knew that wasn’t good because if it continued to climb even her medicine wouldn’t be able to stop her from growing. Stress was a trigger for her growth and well the dead deciding to get up and walk around was pretty damn stressful to her.

She heard David get up from the couch behind her. She turned and saw the light gone from his eyes, and his mouth making the same unnerving movements the other freshly turned had made back at the hospital.

Tears threatened to run down her face but in that moment she felt an old feeling that she had not felt in over ten years. She felt her bones crack as they started to grow longer. Her growth had always seemed like a major inconvenience but now that the world seemed destined to end not at her hand after all she welcomed it.

It might be the only thing that would save her. She just hoped she would grow fast enough to keep from being able to be turned into one of those things. David’s body shuffled across the living room floor toward her as her pant legs grew tighter around her legs while also rising up her increasing in size calves.

Her shirt creeped up her midsection leaving it exposed while the few buttons at the top of the shirt started to pop off of her chest as her breasts grew along with the rest of her. She was pretty sure she was over teen feet tall now. As David’s body got closer to her it reached out to bit her and so she grabbed it and threw the body of her former husband across the room and through the front door. It’s teeth had been unable to break her skin as it had chomped down on her hand.

His body spilled down the steps knocking a majority of the things outside of her house down to the ground in a sickening wet thud.

Her shoes ripped apart easily, she wanted to cry a little over that because they may have been the very last women’s size fifteen Converse tennis shoes in the entire world. Her ankle ripped the trademark star apart as it burst through the side of the old worn in shoe, as her toes pushed through the front of the shoe.

Hannah was starting to fill up the large open room she was in as she crossed the twelve foot mark. She had lived in this house also for over ten years. Lot of good memories were held there inside of those walls.

Of course at the moment the walls meant very little to her. They were just an obstacle to be hurtled. She would have to outgrow the house so she could be outside and then she could start to go to work on those things that had taken her life away from her.

Her pant legs ripped up the sides and across her backside as it grew larger as well. Her shirt sleeves had risen up as high on her arms as they could and now were splitting apart at the seams as well.

Hannah pressed her swollen chest against the front wall of the house along with placing her huge hands just abreast from her chest pushed with all of her might. With a little strain the wall gave way bringing much of the house down on top of her. She picked up a large piece of lumber broke off pieces that had been attached to it.

In truth the piece of wood had one been a truss beam that had held up the roof. Now though in her still growing hands it was a club. At nearly fifteen feet tall she was no longer scared of what was going on outside of her destroyed home.

The dead things started coming at her from every direction and with ease she used her newly minted club to bash the things away from her. She sent broken bodies in every direction most continued to get back up however and come back for her.

From her new height she could see fires burning throughout the town. Screams rang out in every direction so much pain and so much fear. Hannah wanted to help everyone but at the moment the smell of death was just simply too strong in the air. Too many people had been lost.

So Hannah kept swatting the zombie horde at her feet. Smashing as many of the bodies as she could stepping on and crushing as many as she could under her immense weight. Still they kept coming.

She had no idea how long this went on but soone darkness seemed to fall over her old home town. Fires raged out of control, smoke filled the air, screams were almost as thick as the screams.

Her club had broken a few different times and now she was left with just her body as a weapon. She had topped out at twenty some odd feet in height. She was for all intensive purposes nude. Her super long legs and feet were covered muck and mire of the dead things.

A few survivors had sought her out and stayed as close to her as they could. Hannah knew that would not last long because she would have to sleep at some point and then those few who were left would have to fend for themselves as she tried to recharge her body.

Of course recharging her body would not be easy since at her new massive height she would require much more food than what would be available. It really was a pretty shitty situation. She had lost so much that day. Of course so had everyone else.

Her thoughts were broken as the sound of a helicopter flying nearby caused her attention to be drawn there. The small survivors on the ground shouted out in relief hoping that at last they would be saved.

Hannah briefly hoped for the same thing. Right up until the moment when she noticed that it was a gun ship and that it was firing at the people around her feet and then her.

Nothing every really changed. Even now with everything falling apart around them, with the dead walking around and trying to eat people. The military was again trying to kill her. Hannah’s hell on earth had returned from beyond and climbed out of it’s long ago forgotten grave to consume her.

Even though she had allowed the growth to overtake her body once more it was so she could help people. Only the people didn’t seem to care. To those that clung to power she was still just a threat to them. Maybe even a larger threat than the swarm of dead eating the city beneath her gigantic body.

“Hannah, my darling little girl, dry your eyes.” Through teary eyes Hannah looked at her mother. She was in her old bedroom back in Cassville. A home she had not seen or lived in for over fifteen years. She knew that couldn’t be right. Still she tried to listen to her mother as she spoke only words didn’t come out.

BOOM   BANG-BANG-BANG  BOOM  AHHHHHHHHHHHH

Hannah swiveled her head around looking for the loud screams and the sounds of weapons being fired but the sounds were gone and were replaced by her father's voice.

“They are just not used to seeing someone your size at your age is all. I know it’s hard to understand right now but baby one day you will understand why God made you this way.”

Hannah had not heard her father’s voice in nearly ten years. She was now even more aware that something wasn’t right. He had died in a flu outbreak several years before.

BANG-BANG-BANG-BANG-BANG   BOOM  HELP US AHHHHHHHHHH

There the other sounds were again. She looked around the room desperately and found nothing.
Looking back at her parents though she knew that both of her parents were dead. Had been for a very long time. Yet here they stood before her as she sat on her childhood bed, in her bedroom, in her old house. She looked toward the door where her father was standing and noticed all the marks along the door frame. The highest mark on the door frame was 6’5”.

Hannah thought for a moment. How old was she when she was that tall? I was eight or maybe nine.

HANNAH PLEASE DEAR GOD WAKE UP HELP US. BANG-BANG-BANG-BANG

Hannah looked for the sounds again but could not placed them. Hannah though could feel the tears running down her cheeks. She wanted nothing more than to hold both of her parents in her arms again. Only her body wouldn’t react to her will.

“Someday baby girl the world is going to realize just what a big deal you really are and they are going to be thankful to have someone like you on their side” her mother added in as Hannah’s eyes came back to her.

Oh God I miss you guys Hannah screamed inside of her own mind but the words would not leave her lips. Instead old words left her lips. Words of a scared and misunderstood child “I don’t care, I just want to be like the other girls. I’m just a giant freak.”

FORGET HER SHE’S GONE, SHE CAN’T HELP US NOW… BANG   BOOM  BOOM  BANG-BANG AHHHHHH SHIT

Hannah started to look for the sounds again but her mother and father who were normal sized people put their arms around their young daughter as they tried to make her feel loved and comforted.

HANNAH SNAP OUT OF IT.  BANG-BANG-BANG

Then there was the smell. A smell that Hannah was pretty sure she would never get out of her nose. A smell though that had no place in her old life. A smell that her parents had thankfully never had to endure. The smell of living dead and gunpowder. Both in equal measure.

She felt her eyes flutter open and instead of her ancestral home she was out in the open. She was on the edge of town. She immersed back into the fresh baked hell of the end of the world. She didn’t understand what had just happened, why she had seen her parents in her old house.

She was sluggish and was slow to come back to her senses. Then she remembered the military had turned their weapons on her she had to fight both them and the undead.

Death filled the air. Then just as the last whatever had happened moments ago wore off she caught an old familiar smell on the air. That of her mother’s old perfume.

Somehow during the fighting she had fallen and was on her back. Massive tears rolled down her cheeks as she rolled over to her side. As she did she felt bodies crush under her weight. She froze for a moment, afraid she had hurt several people then she realized that it was just dead things that she was smashing beneath her humongous frame. So she finished rising up into a sitting position.

Of course a few dead things survived her smashing roll. They went back to gnawing on her exposed flesh. Of course their teeth broke against her skin. She kicked at them and they went sprawling away from her.  

Hannah heard people shouting “Oh thank God she’s awake”as she started to climb back to her feet. She started to look around and she saw people come out of nearby rubble and battered buildings.

Soldiers were no longer firing at her as they seemed to have turned their focus to fighting the dead things that were beginning to surround the town courtyard.

Hannah staggered to her feet and she towered over the few remaining survivors. Her mind swam as she tried to figure out what she could do to help those down on the ground.

There were less than a dozen people near her and several of them were struggling with the undead ghouls near them.

“You tried your best and that is all that really matters.”

Hannah recognized the voice as her mother's. Hannah was shocked at the words as she found herself once again seemingly transported back in time. She noticed that she was again sitting on her bed only it was a much bigger bed. Her room had changed a lot. There were shelves filled with basketball trophies. Posters hung on the wall.  Her father like her last vision stood in her doorway.

Both of her parents looked older than she remembered them at that time. Hannah also noticed the measurement markings on door frame and the wall just above the frame She noticed the markings go right up to the eight foot mark.

Her own voice responded  but not because she wanted to really respond at the moment “so what my best wasn’t good enough. If I can’t win at basketball at my size then what good am I?”

She was in high school. She had to be because it wasn’t until then that she was allowed to play basketball again. This moment was right after the team had lost their chance at a championship.

“Today was just one game, on one day baby. There will be other days. You just have to win those days.” Her father had smiled brightly at her and Hannah believed him in that moment.

Then just with her vision earlier she came back to her senses. She took in the landscape. She longed for the old bedroom and the comforting words of her parents, but for now she had some work to do.

Hannah was not used to throwing her size around, but now she had to. She had to win the day, she had to try and save these people. There was a picnic area nearby in what passed for the park. The picnic area held a pavilion which meant that she had a place to put people so they could be off the ground.

So Hannah went about grabbing up people and carrying normal sized people like they were pets and setting them up on the roof of the picnic shelter and away from the dead things that worked at trying to grab and eat the living.

The remaining soldiers seeing that she was trying to help those that were still alive rallied to her side and helped secure the survivors. Right up until it became clear that the area was going to be over ran and so Hannah scooped up the last five men. Cupping her breasts with one of her arms she stuffed a couple of the men in her massive cleavage so she could carry them all safely. She hurried them toward the picnic shelter’s roof.

The dead things bounced off of Hannah as she mowed through them without very much trouble. She pulled the couple of soldiers from between her breasts. "Sorry I know that's not the most comfortable way to travel" she said quickly. She went to sit the last of the men on the roof just as she felt another growth spurt. Hannah could not sit the men down gently as her body was wracked with massive pain and growth.

Her already nearly eight feet long legs stretched even longer. Her waist which was several feet around expanded outward. Her massive and very long and lean torso began to grow longer and thicker as she mass increased. Her arms branched out like the massive limbs on a centuries old oak tree. Her mountainous shoulders widened to a size that would allow her to perhaps carry the weight of the world upon them.

Her bare breasts already larger than any other person who walked the earth swelled larger still. The last time she had grown so much and so large she was still just out of her teens. She had been a firm physical specimen then. Of course now she was no longer a spring chicken, and she was well into her thirties. She was still in pretty good shape and age nor gravity had ravaged her body to harshly yet but it was apparent to her the her swelling and enlarging breasts were not the perky things she had sported when she was younger. They did not sit up high on her chest but they hung slightly and softly against the very top of her midsection.

Not that it matter in the slightest but in the moment she noticed it. The dead things on the ground near her attempted to bite and eat her enormous uncovered flesh covered foot that was now every bit as large as a old Sherman Tank. The dead creatures had almost as much luck biting her feet as they would have if they had gnawed on a piece of armor plating from an old tank.

In just a matter of moments Hannah had added almost ten feet to her frame and once the growth stopped she looked down at the tiny things on the grown and decided to go about winning the day just like her parents had encouraged her to do several years ago.

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