Casey dashed past Kelly and tackled Lisa as she tried to recover from the strong impact of the bus in her face. Both women started falling down on the street below. Lisa was still shocked, so Casey quickly sat on top of her and hit her in the face as hard as she could. Lisa screamed. Then, Casey reached for a parked car, and slammed it in Lisa’s face.

Lisa tried to fight back, but Casey had her very well immobilized. Hitting her again, Casey mocked her:

“Where is that fucking brown belt that you had?”

She easily deflected another attempt from Lisa to hit her and then hit her hard on the face once more.

“Did you just get chubbier?” she then asked in the same mocking tone

Casey became overconfident, and this is what gave Lisa the window of opportunity to react. Placing her elbows on the road, she pushed herself a little farther away from Casey and as she tried to reposition, Lisa managed to get a foot between Casey and her. Casey realized about the danger, but Lisa had enough time to push her away from her.

The results were far from expected for Lisa, Casey and Kelly, who had put some distance between her and her former friends and was observing the outcome.

Lisa had not just pushed Casey away from her. She had sent her literally flying for two blocks. Kelly followed her flight until Casey’s body hit hard against a building. The façade easily caved in as Casey’s body tore through it and through layers and layers of the tall skyscraper. It was too much for the building, which quickly started crumbling on itself. A few seconds later, the whole building had come down, effectively burying Casey.

Lisa had stood up and walked the distance to the building. Her lip was swollen and her cheek was bruised. Kelly had also approached.

“How did you do that?” Kelly asked

Then, Lisa started sobbing.

“There… there must have been thousands of people on that building”

“It was not your fault” Kelly said

“They are all dead” Lisa said

Kelly hugged Lisa and whispered to her ear:

“You have to listen to me, Lisa. It was not your fault. The little people will not see it like that, of course. Right now they feel relieved that you just got them rid of Casey, but then they will blame you. They won’t understand. You have to come with me. I’ll help you, but you need to forget about the stupid morals that got us in trouble 6 years ago”

“What do you mean?” Lisa asked

“Stay with me, help me rule this city you just saved” Kelly said

Lisa got away from Kelly, trying to compose herself.

“I have not come here to rule anything. I came here to stop Casey and to talk some sense into you” Lisa said

Kelly chuckled.

“Talk some sense into me?” she asked

“Can’t you see that you cannot live like this forever? The only option is to become normal again”

“You know, Lisa, six years ago you somehow managed to put that idea in my head. Now I know it was bullshit. The last six years of my life have been a fucking disaster, and all this time I’ve known that I could have had a wonderful life. Now I can finally have that life, and there is no fucking chance I will throw the opportunity away”

“But what the hell are you going to do with this size?” Lisa asked

“Rule! Have fun! Do anything I fucking want!” Kelly said passionately

“But can’t you see that people will never let you do that?” Lisa said

“This is what I thought, back in Henford. This is what made me wimp out. Now I know it is not true. People cannot stop me. Believe me, I know it for a fact. And I already told you before, if we do things right, it’s a matter of time before they accept us”

“I’m not playing along with you” Lisa said

Kelly rolled her eyes and said:

“It’s fine with me. It’s a pity, though”

“You did not understand me: I won’t let you do it”

Kelly stared at Lisa and said:

“Don’t do this, Lisa”

“I cannot let you do it!” Lisa repeated

“I can promise you that I’ll be fair. You know I will. But I won’t let you or anyone challenge my position”

“You are crazy” Lisa said, her voice sounding desperate. “You are a fucking megalomaniac”

Kelly let a laugh out:

“I’m two-hundred and fifty fucking feet tall. Of course I think big!”

Their conversation was interrupted by the sound of a concrete avalanche behind them. Both women quickly turned. The pile of rubble that had buried Casey was coming apart. Soon, they could see a hand. Then, the rubble exploded and Casey’s head and torso came out of it. She was bruised. And she had the eyes of a mad woman.

Casey jumped to her feet before Kelly or Lisa had any time to react. She charged Lisa and moved her away from Kelly. When Lisa tried to fight back, Casey just grabbed her hair and pulled strongly backwards. Lisa let out a very loud cry. Casey then pushed Lisa’s head forward with all her strength. Lisa’s face crashed against the mirrored façade of a building and tore through it like paper, pushed by Casey’s incredible strength.

She risked opening her eyes and saw people off their feet right in front of them before Casey pulled her head out of the building again. Lisa coughed and tried to get free from Casey’s grip. She was unsuccessful. Casey just pushed her to the ground, tripping her with her foot. Once Lisa was on her knees, Casey kicked her hard in the stomach, sending her flying half a block backwards. She landed on her back in the middle of the road. Casey’s threatening figure soon was on top of her. She kicked her in the ribs, making her scream and roll over herself.

Lisa was lying now face down. Casey was next to her in no time. Soon, Lisa felt Casey’s foot on the back of her head. Her face was soon pushed into the road. The asphalt cracked and dug as her face sunk deeper. She was having a very hard time to breathe. Then, she stopped feeling Casey’s foot. Lisa instinctively realized what was going to happen and managed to gather her remaining strength to roll to the side. An instant later, Casey’s foot stomped hard on the sport where her head had been.

“Still have some strength on you, don’t you?” Casey asked, from above

Lisa could barely move; fighting back was not an option right now. Lying face up, she looked at Casey’s vicious face. She was waiting for another stomp when, instead, Casey started to crouch. Soon, she felt Casey’s hands under her armpit and at her thigh. And then, with strength she had never felt before on anyone, Casey began to raise her.

From the distance, Kelly was amazed at what she was just seeing. Casey had lifted Lisa from the ground as if she were full of air and was now standing straight, with Lisa’s body completely over her head.

Then, without warning, Casey tossed Lisa forward. Her gigantic body flew over two blocks before it crashed through a building. Her body then came through the other side and fell over the building next to it. The top half of the first building was now coming down, while the second building was crumbling as Lisa fell through its floors.

Casey walked confidently towards Lisa. Soon she was standing next to her, with her hands on her hips, looking at her like a fallen enemy. Walking until she had Lisa between her legs, Casey looked down and evaluated how to deliver the final stroke. Then, without warning, Lisa’s leg kicked upwards and sent Casey into the building in front of her.

Her upper torso dropped floor after floor, until Casey was lying on top of Lisa’s body, her face still buried in the building. Lisa’s hand then tore through the walls. Unprepared, Casey could not react before she felt her hand grab her throat and close with vicious strength.

Casey could not breathe. She moved her head out of the building and tried to pry Lisa’s fingers open, but they had an iron grip around her throat that she could not get free from.

Scared, Casey started to punch Lisa. She could tell she was hurting her, but Lisa still did not let go. Casey was beginning to suffocate. She increased the frequency of her blows, but still Lisa kept pushing. Casey realized that she was about to pass out and got very scared. In a last desperate move, she pushed with her legs and tried to jump. Lisa’s hand did not let go, but Casey managed to separate herself a little from Lisa’s body. As she dropped, she kneed Lisa as hard as she could in the ribs. Lisa’s hand finally opened. Rolling off of Lisa, Casey looked up and grasped as much air as she could get in her lungs. She heard Lisa moaning next to her. She was weak. The problem was that Casey was not in a much better shape, right now. She needed some time to recover.

Both girls were looking up when a green chopper stopped, hovering not too high. They could hear a couple more choppers in the distance. Then, something exploded just over their heads and, suddenly, a greenish smoke covered them.

Kelly was looking at it from a distance and felt a chill in her heart. She understood what had happened.

“They are trying to reduce them. This is a fucking reducer!” she thought

She looked at the helicopters turning and saw that they were going after her. She felt adrenaline pumping up. She did not know what to do. Suddenly, everything seemed to be at risk.

“I don’t want to be fucking small again!” her mind screamed as she looked to the sides, to try to find the best option to get away from the immediate danger.

She knew they would eventually get her, though. If they had a reducer, it was just a matter of time. Kelly’s mid was crying at how unfair that was when a hand got out of the greenish smoke. It was a very big hand, and it grabbed the chopper, its overconfident pilot having flown too low. Soon, Casey’s body emerged from the smoke and the hand moved the chopper to her face.

“What the hell is that smoke supposed to be? What did you want to do? Poison us?” Casey said as she walked down the street, looking into the choppers cabin with mad eyes.

Kelly’s mouth was still open when another hand moved out of the smoke and grabbed Casey by the shoulder. Turning, Casey slammed the helicopter in Lisa’s face, which was just getting out of the smoke as well.

Lisa fell on her back. Soon, Casey was over her again, trying to hit her as Lisa tried to block the blows.

Kelly’s attention was not on the other two giant women, though. It was not centered on the two helicopters that had been flying higher than the one that had delivered the gas bomb. They had turned and were now getting away from the scene as quickly as they could. Kelly narrowed her eyes as she followed their path. They were flying east, which made things much easier. The fight had brought them to the section of Downtown were buildings were already getting lower and Kelly could follow the path of the aircraft very well over the rooftops. Her curiosity only got higher when she saw both helicopters landing on the roof of a pretty distinctive building.

A scream from Casey momentarily got her attention. When she turned she saw that the fight between her and Lisa was going through the same pattern: they were hitting each other with pretty amazing feats of strength, destroying most of the cityscape around them in the process, but even if Casey always seemed to be the one on top, she also did not seem to be able to get close enough to definitely beating Lisa.

Kelly thought that they would be at it for a while. As much as she wanted to know who came out on top, since her strategy might have to depend on that, there was something more important she had to do now.