Chapter 9: Heroes

Kyo finished her booming proclamation, then marched farther into the city. Buildings smashed against her knees as she neared the denser regions of Tokyo. All the better for her, as at her new size it meant she got to enjoy the enticing feeling of buildings and people falling en masse against her sole. Whatever scant military resistance there was that ran up to her was trampled with ease and scarcely noticed under her footfalls.

The 1000ft woman’s latest fun was short lived, however. Fives flares of purple light caught her attention as they shined atop a chest-high building to her side. She took a look and, when the light cleared, she saw five women clad in purple body suits with white boots and gloves. Each one was took up poses that, while different from another, were roughly equal in extravagance and ridiculousness. All of their heads were covered in circular, silly helmets as well with black visors of varying shapes.

“Stop right there, giant monster woman. Your terror tantrum terminates today!” said the seemingly leader of the group. Her star speckled costume had a bit more white-star patterns on its purple base than the other costumed women did.

Kyo laughed at them, letting her breath billow their way.

“What are you five supposed to be? The bug brigade?”

Kyo was rather proud of that insult as, at 1000ft tall, they were very much bug sized to her.

“No, I am Violet!”, said the leader, striking another pose.

“Lavender!”, said another, who also changed up her pose.

“Lilac”, said a third, who pose swapped.

“Grape”, said a fourth, who struck a different pose too.

“Eggplant!”, said the fifth, who also did a different pose, but it was just a mirror of her original pose.

Violet spoke up again.

“And together we are the:”

“Powerful”
“Idealistic”

“Sentai”

“Squad”

As the team said the words, Violet and the others swapped poses again: hands to the air or to the sides, legs kicked out or hovering with just one foot off the floor on a tippy-toe.

Kyo had to squint to make it all out, of course.

“So you’re PISS?”, said Kyo.

“That’s right, we’re also known as P Eye Es Es just as you said aloud, one letter at a time, and we’re here to take you down!”

“And you’re all just purple you know that?”

“No, we are varying shades clearly. The differences in tone reflect how the strength of our differences makes us stronger together. Like the colors of a rainbow, we combine to form a greater concept which-”

“Hold up!!!”

The voice came not from Kyo nor any of the Sentai Squad, but instead emanated from the bright blue blur soaring through the sky towards the rooftop. It settled onto the roof slowly and gracefully, where the glowing light disbursed to reveal a young adult woman with a gem-studded staff. Blue sparkles surrounded her as she gave it a spun and struck a heroic pose.

Her hair was blue and done in a ponytail. She had black flats on with little blue bows at the front in a shade that matched her hair. Her legs were bare save for the covering provided by a black pleated skirt. Her black and blue top was a short-sleeved variety, mostly black but with some blue stripes and a small amount of white frills near the shoulders terminating before reaching more towards the center of her chest near her cleavage. A bright blue bow-tie hung below her neck, covering some of her otherwise exposed collarbone. Lastly, though Kyo couldn’t see it quite as easily, the young woman’s irises were a light blue.

“Never fear, for Yuri, magical heroine is here!”

“Great.”, said Kyo. Her warmth breath washed over the new arrival as well.

“More weirdos. Well, nice to meet you I suppose. I’m Kyo.”

The gigantic woman stood back up and crossed her arms below her chest. Her comparatively massive chest to most. It took up the majority of Yuri’s view. The magical heroine swallowed as she felt a warmth form on her two cheeks.

“I’m not a weirdo I, erm. Am a heroine of justice and friendship and-”

“Yuri!”, shouted Violet, who quickly swarmed the magical gal alongside her squad members.

“Thank goodness you are here. Together, we can team up to take down this threat with greater ease.”

Yuri shook her head till her blush faded away.

“Yes. Teaming up, good idea. But on one condition. You can’t hurt or clothe her in anyway.”

“We don’t hurt foes unless we have to.”, began Violet. “Justice is like an egg, and if you treat it too harshly, it cracks. One has to beat the yolk of justice with responsibility.”

Kyo continued watching, more than a bit bemused.

“An egg? Justice is an egg? Who lays it?”, she said.

“The human spirit.”, said Violet and the other squad members in unison. They didn’t miss a beat.

Kyo blinked a couple times.

“Welp, that’s enough of this. I have a city to wreck so.”

She raised her right fist high above the building.

“Bye bye!”

And slammed it down.

“Friendship barrier!”, shouted Yuri.

“Shield formation!”, shouted the Sentai members.

Kyo’s fist crashed into a large blue and purple barrier. For once, she didn’t break something when she tried to! The 1000ft woman pushed forward with all her strength, but the shield was powerful enough to stop her. The force behind her fist couldn’t even get through to buckle the building, let alone hurt the 6 heroines standing against her.

“Now!”, shouted Yuri.

The barrier flashed, then exploded with kinetic force. Kyo flew backwards. Her naked hindquarters landed atop a crowd of pedestrians--they were all over the place really--and the back of her shoulders crashed through buildings on the other side.

While getting back up, Kyo stretched out her legs, slamming her heels down atop whatever bits of Tokyo happened to be beneath them. People, cars, and a small building in fact. She rose up from the large swath of destruction that blow had made.

“Good job!”, shouted Yuri. “We saved this building.”

“Yes.”, said Violet. “But we still need to take the giant down. You hear that Kyo! It’s time to be picked on by someone your own size.”

“Several people in fact!”, added Yuri. She started spinning her staff and flew into the air.

“Magic magic come and glow, magic powers let me grow!”

The squadron members jumped up high and did a series of chants and poses that neither Yuri nor Kyo had the predilection to pay attention to. At the end of the strange ritual of waving arms and pointing palms, they too started sprouting up in height.

Yuri and the 5 purple heroines grew up and up. The building they were on disappeared beneath their bulk as they grew 100s of feet at a time. Their footwear started encroaching on the cheering crowd that gathered below, tripping and crushing more than few. By the end of it, the 6 of them were each 1000ft tall: matching Kyo’s height.

“Dammit!”, said Kyo. “Why can’t you just leave me alone. I’ve had a bad day, I’ve earned the right to level a metropolis.”

“That’s where your wrong!”, said the newly giant Violet. “Surrender now and no harm will come to you!”

The 6 of them advanced towards Kyo who, in turn, backed up deeper into the city. Kyo certainly wasn’t paying mind to her steps. The poor people at her feet were the last thing on her mind. Any building that met her heel fell. No normal person or car down below could withstand it. Some military helicopters flew by to shoot at her legs, but she didn’t seem to notice it as the limbs just plowed right through them should they fly too close in their fruitless task.

The heroes, though, weren’t too careful either. The Sentai squad slowly advanced, with Violet walking alongside Yuri, and the other 4 Sentai squadron members following close behind.

To Kyo, the helmeted heroines seemed physically incapable of moving without making some flailing hand gesture. Their pointed finger karate poses haphazardly cleaved buildings to either side of them, and the rigidness of the poses often included stamping down their white boots with little regard for who was beneath them.

“Where did you all even come from?!?”, asked Kyo.

Yuri walked with a little more care at first. She tried to position her flats to cause the least amount of destruction possible, yet her cyan gaze couldn't help but fall onto Kyo’s form time and time again, and she’d find herself slowly advancing without much care elsewhere.

The rather flat soles of her flats made for an especially unforgiving thing to be looming above ones head. Some people had managed to survive beneath the curve of Kyo’s arch, for instance, but no such luck with Yuri’s steps. The heroine’s staff was also angled diagonally to the side, so it cut through any buildings unfortunate enough to match that somewhat lofty height.

“Give up Kyo.”, she said. “There’s no place in Tokyo for someone as big and destructive as you. Someone with silky raven locks of hair, whose flawless figure is fit only to carve paths of destruction with every graceful step of those perfect legs.”

Yuri was very clearly blushing.

“Someone with such a massive, fully nude form shouldn’t be looming it over the skyline, soaking in the gaze of a terrified or bewildered populace. You need to stop this. Yeah...”

Yuri felt more than a bit warm and flustered. Her steps became increasingly careless, and her gaze increasingly dreamy.

Kyo grunted.

“You, I didn’t ask to be naked you know! I know what you are doing. Shame on you for fetishizing a giant naked woman. Who would do such a thing!”

Kyo noticed some flashes of white light from roof tops to her side. A few adventurous types were snapping pictures of her with their cellphones. They took snapshots of Kyo which, due to to her sheer scale, had to be stored as jpg_large.

Kyo raised her palm over them and swatted them, and the building, down.

She continued talking.

“I can only imagine what kind of twisted woman would do such a thing. I bet you even spend your free time fantasizing about stuff like this. Maybe you even write about giants, or being giant. The depravity...”

Kyo chuckled, the notion was too absurd for her to believe, even after all she had seen.

In any case, the heroines were steadily advancing. They weren’t actually attacking her. Yuri was clearly too enamored to cast a single spell, and the sentai were, well, themselves. It didn’t seem like they would actually hit her unless she hit them first, even if they had no problem carelessly cleaving buildings with karate chop poses.

They were still pretty annoying though.

“Shoo, go away!”, said Kyo.

Kyo’s steps felt different. She felt small clumps of trees and bushes beneath her soles as opposed to the usual mix of screaming citizens, metal, cement and the like. Looking down, she saw grass by her toes and figured she had entered a city park.

Indeed she had, the city’s *nuclear* park. A swath of PR-friendly greenery surrounding a vast nuclear power plant complex.

The heroines still pursued, mostly because they didn’t seem to be paying attention either, despite the towering smokestacks and foreboding wire fencing being quite noticeable even at their height.

Kyo’s foot broke through said fencing and she stepped into the concrete complex itself. Yuri nearly followed her in, but Violet put up her arm to halt the giant magical woman.

“Stop!”, said Violet. “Look down there.”

She pointed her white gloved hand towards a teeny tiny yellow sign.

“Do not enter?”, said Yuri, reading it.

“Yes. We can’t go in there. It’d be trespassing.”

“But she’s heading straight for the reactor core!”

“Sorry, but the sign says we can’t go in. Gonna have to wait for the owner’s permission, or until she comes out. Don’t worry though Yuri, she can’t stay in there forever.”

“What are you all gabbing about?”, said Kyo. She kept moving backwards of course. Some of the lesser buildings of the complex disappeared under her steps all the while.

“Kyo you have to be careful, you’re in a nuclear plant complex!”

“I am?”, said Kyo. She was in the process of one more step, a step which placed the square concrete core containment building square under the ball of her right foot.

It flattened with ease, containment broken. The core quickly began a meltdown. Alarms blared over the complex and a glowing blue light began to squeak out from beneath Kyo’s foot.

“Uh oh.”, she said.

Yuri raised her staff high.

“Friendship barrier!”, shouted Yuri.

A great blue shield dome appeared over the entire nuclear plant complex.

Kyo moved her foot and raced to pound on it from the inside.

Yuri placed her hand against the semi-transparent blue field of force.

“I’m sorry Kyo, but this is the only way to save the city from a nuclear meltdown. I’ll miss you. Even though we only just met, my heart will never forget this loss of you.”

Kyo looked back at her glowing footprint. The nuclear cores she had stepped on were starting to fizzle. The heat was getting pretty hot, even for her. She couldn’t help but be a bit worried.

But, she had somewhat of an idea of what to expect. As the bright hot light erupted out, she turned back to Yuri with a smile. Just after that, the light became so blinding Yuri couldn’t see inside.

Then, Yuri clutched her staff as the barrier shook.

“What’s going on in there?”, said Violet.

“I don’t know, but the barrier won’t hold. Something’s pushing against it.”

The magic barrier started to crack. Yuri was relieved to see no super-hot nuclear light flowing out of it. Still, there was an odd green glow.

The barrier started vibrating.

“I can’t hold it for much longer! Brace yourselves!”

With the sound of shattering glass, the magic barrier broke and disappeared. Rising from the destroyed containment dome was none of than Kyo! She was curled much like a ball, soles the ground, growing rapidly and glowing bright green. She was past 2000ft, and hitting 3000, then 4000. Her burgeoning body was ripping into the road nearby, with the sides of her feet and hindquarters tearing the asphalt, people, and cars aside with ease.

The 6 heroines had to move back to make way, the Sentai squad members doing so with heroic poses between their steps of course.

Slowly, Kyo started to unfurl from her posture. She wasn’t trying to be dramatic. Instead, simply, it was that her most potent radioactive infusion yet had left her body in an intense state of warmth and tingles. She didn’t want to go too fast.

Kyo thought it felt quite good, but not so good as to distract her for long.

She sat up as the ground trembled from the mere movement. The shifting of her weight cracked the road. When she fully extended her legs, the glowing giant was over 5000ft tall. As the glow dimmed, she kept expanding till hitting one mile exactly.

Kyo opened her eyes and glared down at the 6 heroines. Each one was now but the size of a large doll to her: didn’t even come up to her knees.

Naturally, she was thrilled.

“You fools! And to think people call me stupid. You just locked me in with an explosive power-up! I’m even huger now! More big! You have no chance against me now!”

She lifted up her foot and moved it above the heroines. She wanted to savor the step.

Of course, they quickly dodged with magical flight on Yuri’s part, and some acrobatics from the Sentai squad. Still, as Yuri settled back down, she was powerless to save anything and anyone else caught in the shadow of a foot nearly 800ft long. It came down and flattened an entire block--and then some--in a single step.

Yuri’s eyes weren’t there for long though. She was looking up, at the giant, nude woman who was now even bigger. Every feature of her body more enormous and appreciable. She felt her blush returning and her body getting all warm and putty-like again.

Violet’s hand squeezed her shoulder.

“Huh wha-”

“Yuri! Kyo has exploited our respect of justice to get even stronger. There’s only one way to beat someone that big, and that’s with exceptional, intense...”