Spartan Falls was getting hit by the storm of the century, a blizzard that left the town in a white blanket.  Alex Anderson and Steven James came up with the perfect way to help out the town and the image of giants everywhere.  Alex called the city hall and talked to the mayor.

“I think this will benefit us all,” the mayor told Alex.  “After everything you have done for my daughter.  I think it will most certainly help with the town’s views on Gaea House.”

“Good, then it’s settled.  All the giants will help clear the streets and even help out a few stuck humans,” Alex said with a smile.

“If anything, you’ll be helping save the town some money by not running the snow plows.  I’ll have to send a few dump trucks out though.  You sure your giants can be careful about loading the trucks?”

“Perfectly Mr. Johnson, I’ll send our men out as soon as possible,” Steve answered the human on the other end of the conference call.

“Anything to get that Harper’s ass off of this whole, trying to shut down Gaea House kick.  That bastard needs to get off his high horse anyway and see that you’re all good people out there.  Isn’t that your land anyway, Mr. Anderson?”  Mr. Johnson asks.

“After the town sold it to me, yes it is,” Alex answered the mayor.

“What a miserly prick,” Mr. Johnson mumbled into the phone.  Alex and Steve smiled at each other.  Both were always grateful to have one more human on their side.  “Let me go to the radio station first so that I can let the citizens know that you’ll be out on the streets.  Widow Foster had a near accident the last time she saw Brad Hester out.  Been meaning to ask, what did you feed that man to make him so huge?”

Alex and Steve laughed.  “He’s just the way he should have been without his disorder.  That’s the way Brad Hester would have looked without the Downs Syndrome,” Steve explained.

“No matter, he stopped her before she hit that light pole,” the mayor responded.

“That sounds like our Mr. Hester,” Steve said in a hearty voice.  “He doesn’t like to see anybody get hurt.”  Steve knew that Brad used his own hands to stop the car.  One rule the Gaea House had for all giants was that they were not allowed to use their special abilities in front of unknown humans.  The humans living and working for Gaea House knew that the giants had these abilities, not the world outside of Gaea House.

“We’ll turn on the radio, Eric.  I won’t send our giants out until you us give the all clear,” Alex tells the mayor of Spartan Falls, fifty five year old, Eric Johnson. 

Eric Johnson’s daughter fell ill with the virus in the summer months, her fiancée followed shortly after.  Eric was on the fence about the whole giant phenomena until he realized his town was quickly put on the map for it.  After his beautiful and only daughter fell ill and began her evolution into a twenty-seven foot walking goddess, Eric did what he could in his power to help The Gaea Foundation.  He even developed a kinship with some of the giants.  Adam Jones was one of those giants.  Eric knew that Adam secretly kept watch over Spartan Falls after the crime rate plummeted.  Some of the giants even helped clean up the old downtown area by painting and repairing the beautiful old buildings.  They even knocked down the ones that couldn’t be saved.  Spartan Falls was becoming a wealthy small city because of Gaea House and the giants residing there and on the outskirts of town.  Eric was proud to call Spartan Falls his home…

“I’m sorry I can’t be of any help to you,” Sven tells Alex and Steve.  “It’s that whole Calvin Harper thing.  He thinks I left the country.”

“It’s alright Sven.  Molly has offered to help instead.  We should have enough giants out there.  You can keep watch over the kids.  Cody, Lindsey, Anne, Robby and Kylie can keep the Gaea House property clear.  You and Roderick can keep an eye on them for us,” Alex tells the tall blond giant.  At one time Alexander Anderson was considered the tallest giant in the world until Brad Hester and Sven Lindquist evolved.

“You also have that wonderful little lady of yours to take care of,” Steve said, talking about Jane Powers, a special human to a very special giant.  Sven gives him a crocked yet boyish smile.

“That I do,” Sven said.

“How did her latest testing go?” Alex asks.

“She’s still human but we won’t know anything about how the baby is doing for a couple of more weeks.  I swear I can almost hear its heart beat,” Sven said.

“Well, we’re all proud of you big guy.  I know she likes to come see Jacob even though she can’t hold him.  All women seem to love babies no matter the size,” Steve tells him, proud of his own baby giant.

“I’m going to watch her like a hawk.  I don’t want to have this pregnancy be the end of her,” Sven said, letting his accent slip again.  The Swedish giant always let his accent slip whenever he felt the slightest bit of stress or pain, now it was his concern for a human that caused it.

“We understand,” Alex said, patting the bigger giant on the shoulder…

All the giants that offered to help clean up the town stood in an empty hangar at Gaea House.  Each of them were dressed in track pants with strips going down the legs and t-shirts the said Gaea House on the breast with the picture of the goddess logo on the back.  Alex and Steve had shovels made special for all the giants.  It was no secret that the cold and wind didn’t affect the newly evolved like it did their human counterparts.  The giants really had no need for clothing or shoes but wore clothing out of respect for the humans.  They were the Adams and Eves of the world without the poison apple.

Cody and the other giant children of Gaea House stood in with the group.  Cody held Lindsey Smith’s hand while Kylie and Robby seemed to be hitting it off lately.  Then there was Anne who was eleven years of age.  She felt like the odd giantess out.  Her parents volunteered her for the Titan Project after discovering that her leukemia had gotten worst.  They were planning her funeral when her doctor called and told them about the giant’s project.  Anne’s father had worked at Anderson Corporation for years and stayed on even after he found out the owner was now a titan of industry quite literally.  Anne’s mother jumped at the chance of her only daughter beating her cancer while her father wasn’t as easy to convince.

Alex Anderson came to their house one night and Anne was in awe of the giant man that was bigger than their house.  Alex frightened the mousy nearsighted girl at first but as she got to know him, Anne wasn’t afraid of him.  The giant even held her and she got to see his world.  The excitement was almost too much for the dying Anne.  Her red curls were completely gone and she was nothing but skin and bones but Alex Anderson gave her a night she would never forget. 

The following day, Anne was on her way to Gaea House hooked up to breathing tubes, barely able to keep her eyes open.  Death was not just knocking on her door, but it was ready to break in at any moment.  The injection came none too soon as she was ready to breathe her last breath.  Anne was unaware of her mother’s tears when a dark haired giantess declared that Anne’s breathing had become steady within moments of receiving Titan XL5.

Anne’s health improved with every new day.  Her red curls started to grow back much quicker than they have before but they looked different, not as frizzy and much darker.  The freckles on her checks fade and disappeared and then Anne felt her body begin its most drastic changes.  She didn’t need her glasses anymore and her clothes became tighter and the sleeves of her shirt and pant legs started getting higher with each passing day.

Anne started noticing the face in the mirror looked different.  Her sickly body had been steadily gaining weight.  Anne’s appetite increased and she felt the strongest she ever felt.  Then came the day she had a six inch growth spurt in front of her parents.  That was the first day in her entire life that she had to look down at her five foot nine father.  Anne was so scared.  She went from being small for her age to being too big for even her parents.  That was also the last day she got to see them.  They had an accident on their way home from visiting Anne but Anne knew the truth.  Her parents were afraid of the monster they allowed to be made.  Anne was now an orphaned giantess.

“Anne, were you listening,” said the giant name Sven.  Anne shook her head.  “You, Robby and Cody are going to shovel around the hangars while Lindsay and Kylie are going to shovel to the main road.  Are you up to doing this for me?” Sven then gently said to the girl.  Anne nodded and Sven gave her a gentle smile.  “Good girl,” Sven said, patting her shoulder.

Sven Lindquist, more than anyone at Gaea House understood the fragile adolescent giantess.  His parents died when he was around her age, his father of cancer and his mother of suicide.  He looked upon Anne as special out of all the children and like all the giants; he adopted her as one of his own.

Anne liked the big scary blond giant known as Sven, he reminded her of her love of comic books.  Sven was like a living and breathing version of her favorite comic book hero, Thor.  Anne was a comic book freak when most little girls should be playing with Barbies.  She compared Gaea House to Xavier’s for the gifted in the X-men comics.  She witnessed many amazing gifts that some of the giants possessed.  Her favorite gift had to have been Brad Hester’s ability; he was like a male version of Jean Grey.  Sometimes she called Cody, Flash.  She couldn’t wait till she developed her ability.  Anne wanted it to be something cool.

Anne also thought of her friend Ashley who had went home with her parents.  Ashley was test subject twelve.  She was African-American and she was from California of all places.  Anne and Ashley were quite opposites in every way.  Ashley was outspoken and athletic while Anne was bookish and mousy but the two became close friends during their time of change.  Anne was surprised to find out that she was actually tall for her age; she was taller than Ashley who was a whole year older than her.  Ashley even taught her how to play tennis that Anne found to be fun.  Anne’s life before Titan XL5 consisted of hospital stays and breathing tubes, she never got to be a normal girl.  Her growth was stunted from all the treatments and lack of exercise.  Anne actually didn’t mind being a growing giantess.

“Okay kids, let’s get this finished,” Sven tells his small group of helpers.  He held up his hand and each kid gave him a five.  When he got to Anne, he gave her a warm smile and a wink.

“You come with me, little one.  I want you to shovel under the cars I am going to move,” Sven tells Anne as he led her out to the parking lot that all the techs use.

Sven used a giant hand broom and cleaned off each car before moving them.  Anne gladly shoveled under each car.  Sven gently put the cars back to where they went, satisfied that not a one got broken.  He then had Anne join the boys in shoveling the paths and drives of the property.  Sven went inside to check the monitors to see how the girls were coming along.  Eight feet of snow was a lot for a human to handle but the giant children seemed to handle it with ease.  Roderick and Sven kept a close eye on the children…

The residents of Spartan Falls were all amazed to look out their windows to see towering legs in their field of vision instead of the usual plow trucks.  Dump trucks followed the giants as they cleaned the streets and roads of Spartan Falls.  News trucks even came out to cover the story of the charitable giants and their small gesture of goodwill for the residents of Spartan Falls…