Doctor Crilly could feel the life being squeezed out of him as Dawn’s grip continued to increase. He had never been squeezed like this before and he was gasping for air but his lungs were constricted so much that he could not breathe. It would only take a few more seconds before he passed out and if Dawn’s grip increased any further she would most likely crush the poor man in her hand. He could see the hatred in her eyes and he was truly afraid that this would be his last few moments. He began to think about all of his regrets and whether there was an afterlife or not. He had never been a religious man but he began to fear that he would soon meet one of the gods that was worshiped on Home.
All of Dawn’s rage seemed to be getting the better of her. Instead of seeing Doctor Crilly in her hand she could see her mother but eventually reality did start to set in and she realised that she was crushing the life out of the poor man. Almost instantly she loosened her grip and fear began to overtake her, she had stop squeezing just short of Doctor Crilly passing out and as soon as he could he gasped for air but this time he could actually breathe. Dawn was horrified with what she had just done and she placed him back on the ground. She had almost killed a man and if she had of done she would have regretted it for the rest of her life. She had thought that people thought of her as a monster and if she had squeezed for a few more moments she would have indeed became a monster.
As soon as Doctor Crilly was released from Dawn’s grip he fell to the ground in pain as he felt his broken rips. He was in agony and Dawn just looked down at him before she increased the sizes of both the wrist device and her belt of pouches. As soon as both were large enough to fit her she stopped increasing their size and she belted herself up. When she had the wrist device back on it seemed to feel right on her, ever since she was a little girl she had wanted to be an agent like her mother but after the last few years she had almost completely changed her mind but she had to admit one thing, it would be difficult to find a job for a two hundred foot tall girl.
Just before she left the lab she looked down at Doctor Crilly who was still on the ground gasping for air but he seemed to be recovering. A tear rolled down her cheek and it fell to the floor landing right next to him. The tear caused a large puddle and he looked up at her, before he had seen rage but now he could only see sorrow. He watched as she turned around but she never took her gaze off him.
“I’m sorry,” said Dawn in a timid voice. The next thing Doctor Crilly felt were the tremors of Dawn walking away. They were strong at first but each tremor was weaker than the last and he realised that she was walking away. But now he felt that the universe was doomed, now that Dawn had her wrist device back it meant that he couldn’t find a way to send her back to her own time and from his calculations Home might only have a couple of hours before it ceased to exist.
Dawn stepped out of the lab through the large hole that she had made in the wall. There were still no additional security personnel on her just yet but they were en route along with several super powered agents and it would most likely be enough for her to fail, but she still had an ace in the hole. Now that she had her wrist device back she could discover Tucker’s location and go there almost instantly with the mini vortex generator that was built into the device. Since it was only designed for relatively short distances Graham had been able to build one that would be installed into the wrist device. It wasn’t powerful enough to take anyone to another planet but it could still take a person from one side of Home to the other in mere moments.
The first thing she was press a couple of the buttons on her wrist device and a holographic screen appeared in front of her. On the screen was a map and she could see a blip on it indicating Tucker’s exact location, she noticed that it seemed to be moving away from her position and she did not like that one bit. It meant that Tucker was been taken away from the facility but she would not allow them to get far, she had sacrificed too much to let herself lose him now.
As soon as she could a definite location she began to press a few additional buttons on the device. Graham had showed her how to use it but he had never intended her to go through time with it. He had only wanted her to ever use it as a means of transportation, he probably wasn’t very happy about her using it the way that she had. But she didn’t have to worry about him at this moment in time, Graham wasn’t even born yet.
Dawn was setting up the co-ordinates so that she could travel through a vortex and reach Tucker. She noticed the blip stop but by then it was some distance away, she could only assume that a vortex had been used to transport him so quickly but if she got there fast she could pick him up in mere moments. Her only problem right now was that it would take a few moments for the device to make all the calculations it took to transport someone of Dawn’s size, it also needed to take other factors into account. It needed to make sure that she wouldn’t appear in a wall or anything like that. Unfortunately taking all this into account would take a little time.
She was beginning to become impatient when she began to hear what sounded like an army coming towards her. She looked over her shoulder and saw several more security personnel coming right towards her, normally she would not have to be worried but she could see that these were equipped with different weapons and they most likely would cause her harm. They looked similar to bazookas but they packed a lot more firepower, they were probably the only handheld weapon that would actually be able to hurt her. That wasn’t the only thing that was causing her some concern. She could see that there were several agents amongst the security personnel and she recognised a couple of them from her own time. They were not powerful enough individually to stop her but together they would be more than a match for her size and might.
It only took a minute before the security personnel and agents had mobilized a short distance away from her and they all aimed their weapons at her. They didn’t fire straight away but a tall man that Dawn recognised as an Agent Davis stepped forward ahead of the pack. She knew about his abilities and he was definitely someone that would cause her a lot of problems. But she also knew him as a very nice person and she hoped to use that to her advantage as there were only a few seconds left before the vortex was ready for her to use. She needed to stall them as much as she could.
“Stand down!” shouted Agent Davis at Dawn. “We have you outnumbered and outgunned. Either return your time travelling device or go back to your own time or else we will have no choice but to fire upon you.” She had always had a bit of a crush on him in her own time but seeing the younger version of him she couldn’t help but find him cute. She could see his longish black hair but she could not get lost in her teenage fantasy, she had other pressing matters to focus on. “We will use deadly force if you give us no choice, now choose one of the two options and I promise that no harm will come to you.”
“Ok I give up,” replied Dawn as she seemingly began to lift her hands up into the air. She had to be careful just how high she raised them because the ceiling was still relatively low, it was high enough for her to stand up but not to raise her arms all the way above her head. “Is there any chance we can just talk about this? I think there’s been some kind of misunderstanding.”
“There’s been no misunderstanding little lady. You’ve caused millions in damage and injured several of my colleagues. Now please either surrender your time travelling device or go back to your own time before you destroy us all.”
“Well actually…” She heard a bell toll and this was her signal that the device had finished its calculations and was ready for use. “I think I have a better idea.”
With her hands above her head she pressed the button on the device that opened the vortex, instantly one appeared right in front of her and it was large enough for her to travel through. The light was blinding and since it had completely took Agent Davis and the others by surprise they did not have time to shield their eyes and they were temporarily blinded. Dawn took the opportunity to make her escape as she stepped through the vortex while her pursuers were disorientated. The light only last for a moment but when it subsided it took even more time for Agent Davis and the others to regain their sight, but by the time their vision return they saw that Dawn was gone. She had not simply run away or else they would have heard her footsteps, they knew that she had used a vortex since they had seen numerous vortexes before and it wasn’t too hard for them to recognise it. But now they had an enormous problem. Not only was Dawn gone but so was the device that allowed her to travel through time, without it there was no hope of sending her back to her own time. In their minds the universe was now doomed.
All over Home the anomalies were increasing in both numbers and ferocity, already some small areas of the planet were being wiped off the map and it would only continue as the time space continuum was ripping itself apart. Thousands had already been wiped out without a trace that they had even existed, once mighty mountains disappeared as if they had never been there at all. Some of the great forests of Home were being reduced to nothingness, it was not only the trees that was disappearing but also the animals that called the forest their home. Many species had become extinct within the blink of an eye and within the hour there would be no life left on the entire planet.
At an undisclosed location both Agent Barnes and Chloe had arrived with Tucker. They had travelled through a vortex and for now this facility was not yet affected by the anomalies that were plaguing the rest of the planet. There was a small squad of soldiers waiting for them when they arrived, they had been mobilized very quickly but with the information they had just received they weren’t taking any chances. Word had reached them that Dawn had escaped from her cell but for the moment they did not know that she was on her way to their location. This facility was mainly underground so even if Dawn was here it would be extremely difficult for her to get inside and reach Tucker. For the moment he was outside the facility but it would only be a couple of minutes before he was safe inside. One soldier out of the squad stepped forward towards Agent Barnes and he gave him a salute that Tucker did not recognise. To him it looked like the soldier was giving Agent Barnes the Bird which in Britain was an offensive gesture but on Home seemed to be a sign of respect.
“Agent Barnes, Agent Lane I am glad to see that you were able to make it here on such short notice,” said soldier. It was obvious to Tucker that out of all the soldiers present he was the high ranking one except he didn’t seem to be a colonel or a general but more rather a sergeant.
“Thank you Corporal,” replied Agent Barnes giving him an identical hand gesture. Tucker couldn’t help but snigger a little, if he had done that to someone in the UK he would most likely have been punched or at the very least experience some kind of verbal abuse. “You’ve heard that the situation is dire, we have been given orders to make sure that Mr Martel here kept safe at all costs. His survival could be the difference between salvation or damnation.”
This took Tucker completely by surprise. This was the first time he realised that his survival was so important to everyone else. Dawn had told him that he was going to be a hero but before leaving he had been told that everything that she had told him was a lie. He wondered why Dawn had lied to him and why she had been so eager to see him. He couldn’t fathom it, he had never met her before and he was now even doubting that she was even a time traveller, he also felt stupid for believing what she told him. After everything that had happened to him while he had been on Home he had become gullible when it came to all this new technology he was seeing. He thought that he had watched too much Doctor Who and it had allowed him to practically believe anything he was told. The agents had not told him that Dawn was actually his eighteen year old daughter.
The agents and the corporal were just discussing on what exactly was happening and what was to be done about Tucker. Their discussion was only going to last for a few more moments until they saw a flash of pink light. All Agents and soldiers instantly recognised what that flash meant and they instantly became worried, there was no other expected travellers at that moment in time and when they saw the enormity of the vortex that appeared their worst fears were becoming reality.
“Oh fuck she’s here!” shouted Agent Barnes. He looked over to the corporal who was standing right next to him. “Corporal get one of your men to take Mr Martel to safety, the rest must do everything within their power to make sure that she doesn’t get to him. If she does Home is doomed.”
The corporal nodded and one of his men quickly stepped towards Tucker and gently grabbed his arm and told him to come with him. No sooner had this happened Dawn came through the vortex and she landed on the ground and it caused a tremor that knocked a couple of the soldiers to the ground but it did not cause any harm to them. Most of the soldiers marvelled over Dawn’s size, many had seen Jessica before but Dawn was much taller than her and her white hair also seemed to be an oddity to them. But they could not allow themselves to be caught in the moment. They had a mission to complete and they would not let Dawn destroy all that they held dear to them.
It only took Dawn a moment to spot Tucker on the ground and she was not happy to see that he was being taken away from her again. As soon as she appeared all the soldiers began to fire on her but much like before their bullets were not strong enough to pierce her skin and they just bounced off her. Her focus was not on the soldiers at all, she had eyes on Tucker and Tucker alone. Everything else around her didn’t matter and she reached down to grab her father, but she stopped herself when she felt a sharp pain in her shin.
When she looked down at her right leg she saw that Agent Barnes had jumped up and punched her in the shin. His strength was enough to cause her pain and if he had punched her any harder he would most likely have broken her leg. Almost instantly Dawn raised her foot above him and drove it down upon him trying to crush him. Much to her surprise he was strong enough to stop her foot from reaching the ground. As put her entire weight down upon him he was still able to stop her from crushing him. The strain that Agent Barnes was under was intense and even though the soldiers were still firing on her they weren’t inflicting any damage. He wouldn’t be able to stop her from crushing him forever and his great strength was beginning to fail him. She had met Agent Barnes in her own time and she knew about his fantastic strength. She knew that even if she was able to crush him that he would most likely survive.
“The day I let an overgrown bratty teenager get the better of me is the day I retire,” said Agent Barnes as he continued to push Dawn’s foot up. But his words had only angered her and she lifted her foot up again and slammed it down on him, once again his strength was the only thing that prevented him from being crushed but if she kept the pressure up any longer he would eventually lose out. “Hey Lane how about a hand here?”
Chloe did not stand there idly as Agent Barnes was fighting for his life. Already she began to stretch her body and she made her way towards Dawn with her feet still firmly on the ground. Tucker could only watch in amazement as Chloe’s long rubber like body began to wrap itself around Dawn. The giantess could only watch as Chloe wrapped herself around her and in almost no time at all Dawn was completely wrapped up. Chloe had wrapped her body around Dawn in what looked to be at least a hundred times and if she was unwrapped her body would be close to a mile long and yet it didn’t seem to be any strain for the Agent. If she wanted to she could keep herself going and wrap herself around a million times if she wanted to but for now it was all she needed.
Now that Dawn was completely wrapped up Agent Barnes was able to escape but surprisingly Dawn was still on her feet. She was wrapped up so tightly that she couldn’t move and as Tucker watched it reminded him of someone being tied up by rope, but the rope itself was an actually human. Also by now the soldiers had stopped firing at her as they saw that she was more or less defeated. Both agents had a couple of training sessions with each other on how to take down a giant person and so far only half of the exercise was complete. While Dawn remained on her feet she was still a threat but the next part of the plan was actually quite easy. Using his phenomenal leg strength Agent Barnes jumped up into the air and slammed himself onto Dawn’s abdomen, the impact wasn’t enough to really hurt her but it was enough to knock her off balance and she began to fall back. She tried to stop herself but with Chloe completely wrapped around her she still could not move and the agents allowed gravity to do the rest.
All hopes that Dawn had seemed to dash away when she hit the ground hard. Chloe was still wrapped around her so she still couldn’t move but the only thing that she was thankful for was that she had fallen on her back. If she had fallen on her chest she would have crushed Lucky but since it was on her back he would be safe. The only part of her body that she could still move was her head and she turned so that she could see Tucker. She could see him being hurried away and she shed a tear as she thought that she had failed.
“Daddy please don’t leave me!” shouted Dawn and it seemed to grab Tucker’s attention. Almost instantly he turned around to look at her and he could see her disappointed eyes look at him. “I don’t want to lose you again!”
At first he thought that she might have been talking to someone else but it took him a few moments for him to realise that she truly was talking to him. It also hit him what he had been seeing before. When he had looked into her eyes the first time they had met he definitely saw some familiar about them. It was only now that he realised that he had seen those eyes practically every day of his life. Those eyes were his own and he could see that she also had his ears. In her face he could definitely see Jessica and it was obvious from her size that she was definitely Jessica’s daughter but he never thought that he could be her father. The only part of her that he didn’t recognise was her hair, he had black hair and Jessica was a brunette but Dawn’s hair was still as white as snow. The ramifications almost blew his mind and for a moment he was dumb but he couldn’t just leave her. Breaking from the soldier’s grip he began to run towards her and the others began to panic. They knew that they couldn’t be together, one or two of the soldiers tried to grab him but he around them and continued to run towards Dawn. He didn’t know what he was thinking but all he could do was try and reach his colossal daughter.
On her chest Dawn could feel something ticklish and she realised that it was Lucky moving around. He wanted to get out from her costume but he couldn’t Chloe’s body was wrapped around so tightly that he could not escape. To make things worse it was restricting Lucky’s oxygen supply and if he did not escape fast he would suffocate.
All seemed lost for Dawn but she saw Tucker coming towards her and she couldn’t help but feel that things were getting better for her but she was still incapacitated. With Chloe completely wrapped around her she couldn’t move and it seemed that all her efforts had been for nothing. But in a matter of seconds that all seemed to turn around.
As if Dawn had planned it herself one of the time rifts suddenly appeared out of nowhere directly behind her. The bright yellow light had taken everyone by surprise and Tucker had stopped running towards her. It was still some distance away but she was close enough to actually affect her. The sudden appearance of the rift had made all the soldiers begin to back away and both the agents knew that it wasn’t good that the rift was even here. Chloe didn’t hesitate in unwrapping herself from Dawn and retreating to a safer distance. The light was blinding and all the soldiers and agents could do was get away from it but Dawn had been too slow to react and the light was beginning to bathe her body. She slowly sat up and she could feel herself begin to grow taller and taller. By the time she had sat up she was far enough away from the rift to be affected by it anymore but by then the damage had been done. She was beginning to get older and due to her increase in age her body responded by growing as if she had aged naturally. As she slowly stood up to her feet she could see everything shrinking around her and she could see everyone look at her in amazement. In a way what she was fearing the most was coming to pass as her head continued to raise higher and higher and higher. She felt like a true colossus as the world around her continued to grow smaller and smaller with each passing second. Her body had absorbed a large amount of the unknown energy and it would not stop until its full effects had been realised. She was terrified that the energy had caused her body to grow non-stop and she would eventually grow until her head was above Home’s atmosphere.
After a few seconds her body stopped aging and thus had stopped growing. She had aged by thirty years but she still looked like she was eighteen. Her body itself had aged by roughly seven months but it would have taken her thirty years to reach this point. Due to her increase in age her height had also gone up accordingly and now she was frighteningly enormous. Less than ten seconds ago she had been two hundred feet tall and still lying on the ground. Now her height had more than tripled up to six hundred and fifty feet tall and she was standing up to her full height. Despite still having the body of a nineteen year old she was in fact forty eight years old and more than five times the height of her mother. All of her clothing and personal effects had also grown along with her body; her ability to change the size of objects had come as a great use to her once again. If she didn’t have these powers all her clothing would have been shredded and she would have been as naked as the day she was born. Also the wrist device that she depended on so much would have also been destroyed and the universe would have been doomed.
Dawn looked at her hands for the moment and she couldn’t fathom just how big she had become. She knew that she was enormous before but now it almost seemed insane just how small everything was to her now. She took a moment to look back at the rift behind her and it was the first time that she realised that what Doctor Crilly had told her in the lab was true. Although she didn’t fully realise that her increase in height was actually an increase in age. If she aged at the rate of a normal person she would most likely be at the age of menopause but since her aging had been slowed to a crawl thanks to Jessica’s genetics she still looked like a nineteen year old. The rift behind her was still growing and she looked down at all the soldiers and both the agents. Before they had been a couple of inches tall in comparison to her but now they were only two thirds of an inch. She could see the terror on all of their faces and she could even see that Tucker was terrified of her. This hurt her more than any weapon that existed on Home.
“Err what do we do now sir?” asked one of the soldiers quietly to the corporal. At no point did any of the soldiers try to fire upon her.
“We retreat and then we call in the big guns,” replied the Corporal quietly. He wanted to make sure that he wasn’t heard by Dawn but her hearing had increased along with her size. She knew that she couldn’t remain here for long but she wouldn’t leave without Tucker. That was one thing that she knew for sure.
Tucker couldn’t help but stare up at his mega sized daughter. When he first came to Home he thought that he would never see anyone taller than Jessica, if she had stood next to Dawn she wouldn’t even reach her knee. That was almost insane for him to even contemplate and although his mind was telling him to run away his heart was telling him to stay. He even saw the two agents stare in amazement as they began to contemplate their next move but they had a problem. They had never trained to take down anyone of that size and they couldn’t risk knocking her any further back. If she got too close to the rift again she would absorb more of its energy and once again grow older and thus taller. She was big now but they didn’t want to make her so big that they literally couldn’t stop her. She was practically already an unstoppable force and they didn’t want to make the situation any worse for her.
“I think that we might have made a big mistake,” said Chloe as she looked up at Dawn. Although she could stretch herself until she matched Dawn’s height it would not be very practical right now.
“Remember your training Agent Lane,” replied Agent Barnes with a somewhat lack of confidence in his voice. “She may be bigger but remember what’s at stake here, we cannot let her win.”
“I know but how are we going to take her down now?”
“I don’t know Agent Lane.” He was beginning to break down inside. He admitted to himself that they could try their technique again but it didn’t seem like it was a good idea. If they made her fall back again she would be close to the rift and she would grow again. If she fell forward she would land on the facility itself and the destruction would cause the deaths of numerous friends and colleagues. If she fell to either side there was no guarantee that she would be far enough away from the rift. The rift itself was still growing and before long it would affect Dawn and everyone else making her grow even larger and everyone else become old age. The normally tactical Agent Barnes was now completely lost. “I just don’t know.”