CHAPTER 9. UNFOLDING (Illustrated)

Ron played the third video once more in his tablet. It was low quality; they told him that surveillance teams were still not in place and that they only had feeds from cell phones and other less than optimal sources.

Then, he played video 2 again. The security camera at an ATM had taken it. It was black and white and had no sound. Still, the short 5 seconds clip was impacting. For a second, the security camera was recording only an empty stretch of road. Suddenly, most of the image was filled in with a foot which, compared to its surroundings, was massive. The image shook noticeably, effectively replacing the impact that sound would have had. The road easily creased as the foot sank on the tarmac. A second later, the toes flexed and the foot raised again, chunks of concrete raining from it for a brief moment. Then, the foot disappeared. Ron played the video thrice more. 

Then, he went back to video three. It had been taken from a cell phone, probably from the roof of a building. It showed a gorgeous young woman, totally naked, walking down the street. The cell phone could only catch the whole of her for a couple of seconds. Then she became too large, getting into a moment when the only thing the cell phone was recording was flesh. A few seconds of sky told Ron that the man holding the cell phone had probably lost his footing. After some shaky moments, its camera was focused back on the young woman, now on her picture perfect behind.

Ron moved back to the beginning of the video and froze the image. He stared for a few seconds. Then, he moved back to the folder where videos and images kept on uploading. The thumbnail of the video he had just seen was quite centered on the smiling face of the giant woman he had just seen. Next to it there was a still picture of another familiar face, a picture he knew he should be even more concerned about. Images of Casey’s head emerging through the roof of the prison that had held her over the last 6 years were much worse news than anything else. And still, Ron found it difficult to stop thinking on the smiling face of the woman in Video 3. He had lost his virginity with her less than a week ago. 

“Nerd” 

The loud words startled him. Sykes was right behind of him. He had been so absorbed in the videos that he had not heard him arriving. Ron needed a couple of seconds to react, then he frowned and in a tone he had never used before, he said:

“All this is your fault, you bastard”

He realized it had been a mistake the moment Colonel Sykes’ eyes opened wide. Without giving him time to react, Sykes grabbed him by the throat and slammed him against the wall. There were a few agents with him, but none of them made any move to try to stop him.

“My fault?” Sykes said in an enraged tone. “My fault?” he repeated. “You were the one who turned them into monsters in the first place. And you are the one that has been unable to explain how that could happen after six years of investigation”

“We are close…” Ron said

“Bullshit! If I had been the one calling the shots I would have burnt them the day I got my hands on them. You managed to convince the ones in charge that you needed them, to investigate. They’ve given you everything you’ve wanted: equipment, money, test subjects, both willing and unwilling… And here we are, 6 years later, without the slightest idea of what happened and not even able to predict that 2 of the girls would grow again” Sykes hissed as he let Ron’s throat go.
Ron coughed a couple of times and then managed to straighten himself and regain his composure. Sykes and he had never got along well. Thankfully, Sykes’ power over Ron had always been limited. He knew that Sykes had now smelled blood and was looking for his head, but the orders had come down and while Sykes had been given full authority to deal with the threat, Ron still retained autonomy into investigating how to revert it.

Encouraged by it and feeling very mad at the Colonel, Ron replied, something he did not usually do:

“You triggered it, you know? For all your posing and acting as the shield that protects people and the whip who punishes giant girls, you are actually the one responsible for having unleashed them again”

Sykes’ face was the living image of puzzle. Ron secretly enjoyed it.

“The readings we got were new and unexpected, but they were almost negligible, as well. They could not have explained what happened to them. Not in such a short time, anyway. Unless there was a catalyst for the process. You were kind enough to provide that. Nothing is so stressful for the human body as dying. This provided the only stimulus that was powerful enough to unleash the chain reaction. Congratulations!” Ron said with as much sarcasm as he had ever used

Sykes needed a second to recover. Then, he hissed:

“Lying bastard”

Ron then rolled his eyes and said:

“There is only one person here that got his 2 PhDs at 23, and it isn’t you”

Sykes looked as if he were mentally choosing how he would kill Ron. Just then, someone interrupted and up to some point, broke the tension.

“Dr. Howard, you are required”

Ron turned and asked “Why?”

“Miss Cooper… I mean, Mrs. Callaghan, is quite upset and demanding to see you”

“Ok, I’ll go now” Ron said as he turned his back to Sykes and walked to the elevator.



She did not know how long she had been walking. Blackrock was very isolated and while Casey had chosen the only road out of it, her path had not crossed with anyone since she had left the prison. Or, to be more precise, what she had left standing of it.

The feeling of the breeze all along her naked body was wonderful. But, of course, it could not compare with the elation she felt about having regained what she had been robbed of. Suddenly, the frustration of the past 6 years seemed like an old memory. 

Her feet sank in the tarmac, making she feel like she were walking on wet beach sand. It was barely uncomfortable, once she got used to it. And it made her think on the fact that her return to giant status had come with very welcome boost in size. Memories of the bullets of the guards’ rifles harmlessly bouncing off her skin made her smirk.

“I’m back and this time I’m here to stay” she thought as she leisurely walked. “They won’t be able to stop me. They barely could, last time, and now I’m bigger and stronger. And there is no blonde bimbo around”

A flash of the beating she had taken at Lisa’s hands ran through her head and made her clench her fists. 

“This time I won’t hold back. I’ll show the little bugs who is in charge. And they better accept it”

She then smiled. 

“I’m going to take over the fucking world!” she then said aloud



The intersection in front of her had been so packed that once she had set her “fan” and the “photographer” down, Kelly decided to make a left. Any attempt at staying in the same road would have ended up in a little massacre at her feet, and Kelly was not interested in that.

Besides, the road she had been at did not seem to be the most direct route to Downtown, so she decided that she might as well divert. 

Kelly did not know Hollner too well, so even if she had almost a GPS navigator view of the city, she ended up roaming the streets without too much purpose. Six blocks down she made a right, thinking that this would take her back in the path to her destination, but when the road abruptly ended in some sort of cul-de-sac, she had to make a left again until she found a larger avenue.

People were much more scattered in this area, so she did not have too many issues avoiding them. The fact that she had to focus on the spot her feet would land and could not observe the world around her annoyed her a little though. Cars were fair game, so at least she could enjoy crushing a couple more as she advanced.

It was only after she had turned the second car into a metal pancake that it occurred to her that she was assuming that the cars were abandoned but that she had actually not checked. She felt a brief moment of doubt. Then, she thought:

“If anyone is stupid enough to hide in a car when a 25-stories tall woman is walking down the street I can hardly be blamed for anything that happens to him”

A few steps later, Kelly was standing in what had to be the biggest intersection she had been at since she had grown. The road she was on, which was 4 lanes on each direction, joined another large avenue that headed straight to Downtown. She took it. Buildings on both sides started getting taller as she advanced. First they got as high as her waist, then they reached her chest and finally, as she got further into the city, she met a building she did not tower over. 

It was still an isolated case, standing quite taller than the rest of the buildings around, which had clearly been the intention of the architect when he had designed it. Kelly stopped in front of this new circumstance. After most of the morning standing quite taller than anything else, meeting a match felt a little weird and even slightly frustrating. She knew that there would be buildings downtown that would be quite taller than this one, but she reflected that being the size of a small skyscraper was definitely not something to be ashamed of.

The building was not especially remarkable, as far as architecture went. Rectangular and completely flat, the architect had seemed to rely on its height and its shiny mirror surface to make it stand out.

To Kelly, the building offered the first possibility at seeing herself in her new form. It was the perfect full body mirror. She smiled as she admired herself, a full section of the city serving as the perfect background. She loved what she saw. Kelly had never been humble with her looks. She knew she was incredibly hot and she loved it and the effect it had on other people. Unconsciously widening her stance a little, she brushed her hair a little with her fingers and brought it back in place. She smiled as she admired once more how her breasts managed to defy gravity.

“They must weigh a few tons now” she thought naughtily, not knowing that each of them was actually well over a hundred tons.

Kelly started fiddling her breasts as she admired her gigantic form. Her nipples were as hard as diamond, a direct consequence of how exciting the whole situation was for her. Without thinking, her right hand met her crotch and she casually slid a finger inside. Her moan was loud. 

Then, some shadows reminded her that she was not looking at her reflection in a mirror but that what she had in front of her was actually a building and that there had to be dozens of people inside. Kelly removed her finger from her pussy and blushed, realizing that she had given the audience a preview of a soft porn show. Then, she could not prevent chuckling as she imagined dozens of people glued to their windows as she played with her boobs and fingered herself. She wondered if her size and power would make them hornier.

Looking straight at the building, Kelly smirked and then said:

“Are you enjoying the show? I know the situation is a bit weird, but I guess you’ve never seen tits like this before” she added, as she cupped each breast with a hand and then squeezed, letting out a light moan.

She could see some shadows moving behind the windows and this encouraged her to go further. Placing her hands back at her hips, she bent forward, to get a closer look at the building and the little people inside.

“Do you want to have a closer look?” she asked

She did not wait for an answer. Bringing her hands to the back of her head, she pulled her hair back and then pushed her chest out and slowly advanced towards the building. The movement of the shadows became more frenzied as she approached.

As most of his coworkers, at least the male ones, in Harris and Keller, Clive felt awestruck first and a little horny later. She had appeared out of the blue, preceded by thuds and shakes that had been growing in intensity for some time. Soon, all they could see through the paneled windows of the 18th story of the building their firm was at was a woman. A massive woman. And an incredibly beautiful one, too.

Clive was glued to the windows, like many of his colleagues, ignoring the screams of the ones that had immediately fled away from them. He was startled, trying to understand what he was seeing, to comprehend where a woman like that could have come from. Then, the gorgeous titaness started pleasuring herself. Her moans made the windows rattle. Clive was getting hard. 

Suddenly, the woman’s face, which had seemed to be taken over by bliss recovered an aware expression. Looking in Clive’s direction, she addressed him, together with everyone else in the building. Then, her face got even closer, to the point where her happy and curious expression was almost blocking the sunlight in his office.

And then, her face moved away and her monstrous tits started getting closer, until they were all they could see through the window. Clive realized, like many others, that these were not good news. Still, he could only manage to slowly walk back as he kept his stare fixed on the giant nipples that had now met the windows directly ahead of him and made them complain in a loud groan.

 
Her nipple filled most of the window and started to flatten as it got pressed into it. Soon, though, a crack formed in one corner of the window. Then, another.

Clive realized what would happen. By the time a third and significantly larger crack joined the first two, he turned and started running away from the windows as quickly as he could. He had to avoid desks, chairs and other colleagues as he did so. The noise of the glass shattering was deafening. Screams intensified. And then he felt the floor shake as if there were a strong earthquake.

He did not risk looking back. He could just hear what felt like furniture shattering and concrete breaking. The shakes became too strong and Clive tripped with a paper bin. He tried to quickly get to his feet, but the floor refused to remain still and this made him fall on his butt when he thought he had almost achieved it.

Turning, he saw the nipple and the mountain of flesh behind it bulldozing straight towards him. He was frozen. A desk turned into splinters as the advancing flesh mercilessly trampled it. The ceiling and floor broke as if they had been made of crackers. Clive realized that he would be the next victim. He screamed. And then, it stopped.

He needed a second to realize that the breast was not advancing anymore. The massive nipple had stopped mere inches from him. He felt thankful at first. And then, he could not prevent the urge to reach out and touch it.

When he heard a quick and curious moan coming from outside, he realized that it had been a mistake. The nipple moved again, this time backwards. Soon, sunlight got through the wide opening and Clive could realize how much of his former office was now gone. He could not be concerned by that, though, since just a second later, window-sized hazel eyes locked on him and he heard an invisible mouth say:

“Hello, lover”

He knew those were bad news. Taking advantage of the fact that the floor was not shaking anymore, Clive stood up and tried to run deeper into the building. His attempt was short lived since barely a couple of seconds later he felt a vicious force pushing him on both sides and then he was pulled back with the initial acceleration of a rollercoaster.




Kelly knew that she had let herself get carried away, but the cold feeling of the glass in her nipples had been so exciting that she had not been able to stop. Feeling the building break as her tits advanced had then been intoxicating and she could not prevent herself from going all the way in.

She was exhilarated. The feeling of what looked like a sturdy building easily breaking under her tits was definitely wild.

Ever since a late growth spurt had equipped her with her current 34E’s, Kelly had been very aware of the effect they had on the rest of the world and she had been happy to use it. Her chest had enjoyed an unbalanced amount of attention from her boyfriends and her lovers, despite how amazing the rest of her figure was, and in time this had also spoilt her.

And now, in this amazing situation she was living, her tits were at their peak of sensitivity. It was maybe because of this that she could clearly notice someone touching her left nipple. She quickly checked it out, finding the tiny man to blame easy enough. A couple of seconds later he was dangling from her fingers as she carelessly dusted her tits off with her free hand.

Waiting for him to recover a little, she smiled and said:

“Hi there”

The man just screamed. Kelly did not like it, but she just waited as she softly hushed him. Once he looked calmer, or at least more silent, she said:

“I won’t hurt you”

The man looked startled, so she widened her smile and said:

“I just have a proposition for you”

He finally seemed to find his valor.

“Wha… what?” he asked

“You seem to like my tits. So, I’ll let you have a go with them”

Without saying anything else, Kelly dropped the man in her open palm and got it closer to her left breast, placing him right in front of her nipple. Then, in a less friendly tone, she commanded:

“Suck!”

The man hesitated and Kelly coughed, to make him aware that she was waiting. He finally got to work. And it soon became obvious that her nipple was way too big for him to fulfill her command. Kelly rolled her eyes, which the tiny man did not see, and then, in a tone that was more mocking, she said:

“Ok, I got it. You are too tiny for that. Lick, then. Rub. Anything. Just try to get me excited”

She was pleasantly surprised when the man got to work and she realized that she could feel his efforts perfectly well. She lightly moaned, both to express pleasure and to let her little lover know that she was happy with his work.

Keeping her hand next to her tit and leaving the man in autopilot for a while, she looked to the front and chuckled as she observed the impact she had had on the building. Its perfectly flat and shiny surface was gone. Directly ahead of her chest, there were two massive holes that spanned over at least three stories of the building, a narrower trench merging them together. The thought of her tits having the impact of wrecking balls was funny.

Cupping her hand so that her nipple man would not fall, she took a step backwards and stooped, looking again through the opening her right tit had made on the building. There were still several little men to be seen. And it was obvious that they did not like her attention.

In a mocking tone, she asked:

“Does anyone want to join? There’s plenty more of me left. I’m afraid I’m too much woman for him”

She could not prevent a giggle as she finished.

All she got were louder screams and people trying to get even deeper into the building.

“Oh, well. Good bye, then” Kelly added and then, only to play, she blew them a kiss. She had not expected the results at all. Neither had the people. 

Despite the fact that she had just tried send a gentle kiss, the truth was that the wind generated by her lungs and channeled through her thick lips was much stronger than expected by her and, especially, by the people inside the building. The dozen or so in the path of the stream were thrown off their feet and a few even flew a few feet backwards, some crashing into walls. The ones that got the worst part of the deal were those who got hit by the flying furniture, though.

“Holy shit!” Kelly said, more surprised than concerned.

Her mind quickly went over what had happened: “What the hell was that? I mean, I’m big, but I shouldn’t be able to blow so strong, should I? I did not even put any effort into it. I wonder what would have happened if I had really tried blowing hard!”

The possibility of actually trying to blow hard ran through her mind, but the truth was that the people inside the building did not seem to be in a great shape. Still, she was very curious to find out more about what had just happened.

She was taken out of her thoughts by a loud noise coming from down below. It was a siren. Looking down at the street for the first time in a while she was surprised by the lone presence of a squad car half a block away from her toes. A single cop got out of it and “hid” behind the door of the car.

The truth was that ever since she had started her trek through Hollner Kelly had not wasted a second thinking about an encounter with authority. Unconsciously, she had not been not too worried about it.

But now that she was finally facing it, she felt disappointed. She surely deserved more than a single car with a single cop, didn’t she?




Ray Lombardi had not believed the reports on the radio first. As a matter of fact, almost no one had believed them. When they started getting more frequent and they started to match, the situation began bothering him. He had to go and check. 
He did not need to get too close. She was easily visible from very far away down Liberty Avenue. God, she was massive.

He approached down the road, having to split his attention between the giant woman and the task of avoiding the abandoned cars. It took him longer than he had expected at the beginning, but the truth was that he had been pretty far away down the avenue, her size having deceived him when judging the distance.

As he was getting closer something started bothering him. Then, he found out what it was: there were plenty of reports on the giant woman, but no one was doing anything! There were no orders from HQ and no units were taking on the task. As a matter of fact, the only reports he could understand were those of units getting AWAY from the woman. What the hell was everyone doing?

He unsuccessfully tried to get instructions from HQ a few times. Then, he decided to take matters into his own hands. He had a reputation of being bold, and it was well deserved.

He did not have second thoughts until he stopped the car and got out of it. Then, direct sight of her massive right foot, partially sunk in the asphalt, made the difference in size sunk in. He had second thoughts, but a giggle from above told him that any chance of leaving unnoticed was gone.

Ray looked up… and up and up… all along the naked body of the massive woman. And then, when he had craned his neck as much as he had been able to, he felt her huge hazel eyes lock on his. And maybe for the first time in his life, he did not feel so bold.




Kelly looked at the tiny cop with curiosity as she kept her little lover in position, letting him go on with his task. Her smile widened when she felt the eye contact and realized that despite the distance and the miniature size of the man, she could still see the details of his startled expression.

“Hello tiny” she said in a cheerful tone

On one hand, the presence of the cop was annoying, but on the other she felt curious. She did not feel concerned at all.

Without saying anything, she moved the hand containing her nipple lover away from her tit and then gently closed it around him. With the man now safe, she proceeded to crouch in the catcher’s position, in order to get closer to the cop.

She chuckled when she noticed that the cop had moved his sight and had not been able to prevent a glance at her now quite exposed cunt. The cop moved his eyes away from her womanhood and back to her smiling face.

“So, what do you want?” she asked in a confident tone

She could see that he was confused. Still, he was brave enough to address her:

“You are ordered to stop”

Kelly let a laugh out. It was thundering this time, and the tiny cop had to bring his hands to his ears. 

“Let me see if I understand this right” she said in a sardonic tone. “YOU think that you can give orders to ME?”

Then the cop did something she had not expecting. Reaching to the side, he took his gun out of its holster and aimed at her.

Her expression changed immediately, her smile replaced by a frown as her eyes got colder. The truth was that Kelly did not feel threatened by the cop. It would have been ridiculous for someone the size of a building to be threatened by someone so ridiculously small. But she felt very annoyed by him.

Dozens of possible reactions run through her mind, and none of them was even close to following the cop’s request. She was basically trying to strike a balance between showing who was in charge and plain mindless violence. Then it occurred to her.

Pushing her lips out, she blew a short and strong gust of wind in the direction of the cop. She put quite more on it than she had done just back in the building, but she had not had so much air in her lungs to start with.

The results were spectacular, nonetheless. Kelly’s mood changed from incredibly annoyed to incredibly excited as she saw the man get caught by the strong stream of air and be thrown as if it had been a Category 5 hurricane. He landed about a block away. Even more impressive was seeing his squad car move backwards until the fight between the parking brake and her lungs was won by the latter and sent the car rolling over itself.

“Oh my God!” Kelly said, exhilarated as she stood up.

She was impressed. She had not expected that the results would be so spectacular. She knew the car probably weighted a couple of tons, and she had sent it rolling just by blowing! And as for the man… she searched for him and found him in visibly bad shape in the middle of the next block.

“This is not just me being big! This something else! Like a side effect!” she thought. It was a very welcome side effect, of course. One she would have thought impossible had it not been for the fact that once she was skyscraper-sized, nothing else seemed impossible anymore. Things were getting better and better. She felt incredibly powerful and wondered what else she might be able to do.

She opened her hand and saw that her former nipple-man seemed to be in a pretty bad shape. She decided not to make it worse for him. Without saying anything else, she gently dropped him in a roof.

She turned towards Downtown, with a very wide smile in her face. A second later, she was walking down the road with an incredibly strong sense of purpose. Of course, she made sure her second step ended with her left foot right on top of the upside-down squad car.




From the roof of a 15-story building across the street from where he had been working, Clive finally managed to stand up. He was incredibly bruised, but her felt lucky. Walking towards the edge, he rested his hands on the railing and looked down the street, watching the almost perfect body of the giant woman from behind, slowly getting away from him and down the road.

Clive then caught himself muttering between his teeth:

“She’s a goddess”




Colonel Sykes was back in the command and control room, constantly getting updated by the army of people working in the different tracks of Operation Goliath.

“Fort Andor reports all preparations are on track” someone said

Sykes just nodded, but looking at the digital clock in the wall, he could not prevent thinking that no matter how much on track the preparations were, they were still late. They had initiated the operation when the two women had already grown. And to make things worse, one of them had done it right in the middle of a large metropolis. They had all the resources he could imagine; the only thing they did not have was time.

“Did we get any closer to live feeds on the subjects?” Sykes asked aloud, refusing to treat them like women.

“We have a surveillance satellite in place over Hollner” someone said as the image of several city blocks filled one of the large screens. If Sykes had not known what he was looking for, it would have been hard to realize that the brown mass that was moving in the image was nothing else than the top view of a woman the size of a building walking down the street.

“How long for a closer view?” he asked

“Choppers are on the way. 10 minutes. In the meantime, we are trying to get connected to anything we can find from the city” the watch-stander said.

“What about the other subject?” Sykes asked, referring to Casey Morgan

“We need some more time, sir. Blackrock was isolated and farther away

One of the agents on the far side of the command room stood up, visibly anxious. Sykes looked towards him:

“Sir, we have a report. It is unconfirmed, but comes from Tulson. There were two calls, to the FBI and to the Governor’s office. Both referred to a giant woman. The first one contained several references to destruction. The second one contained additional references to victims. We have been trying to contact them back, but both the landlines and cell phone network seem to be down, right now”

“Thanks” Sykes said with a somber face. “Bring the map up and mark the encounter as confirmed”

A large screen in the center of the room filled with a map of the area. A bright spot flashed in the area where the small town of Tulson was. There were two other bright spots: one in Blackrock prison and the other in the location of a gas station that had been the source for the first call reporting a giant woman. A red line connected the bright spots. 

Sykes swallowed hard. The line had been basically straight from Blackrock to the gas station. He did not know if Casey Morgan had taken any detour, but judging from the time it had taken her to reach the gas station, it did not look like that. Now, the third spot marked a change in her direction. She had turned north. He had feared that, despite the fact that it was by far the most likely possibility. Now he knew his fears were real. The road and direction she had taken had a clear destination: Interstate 37. And I-37 only led to one place: Hollner.

He mentally cursed, trying to hide his fears from his team. Then, he stood up and started barking commands:

“Contact Fort Andor. Task forces G1 and G2 don’t need to split anymore. Get me a line to General Madsen. Tell his staff to focus all their strength in Hollner”

Then, he looked at the map and asked:

“I want and ETA to Hollner given Miss Morgan’s current course and speed. Now!”

A couple seconds later, someone said from the front of the room:

“20 minutes, sir”

“20 minutes?” Sykes asked. “She’s over 30 miles away!”

“Yes, sir” the agent said. “She is moving very fast, sir”





Ron had patiently waited in one corner of the room, as the two security guards that had walked into the room with him restrained Lisa and handcuffed her to the table. She had insulted him, tried to hit him, insulted him a little more and finally tried to fight the two much bigger men that had protected him.

She had been handcuffed for 10 minutes already and had stopped insulting and cursing him a couple of minutes ago. She seemed exhausted, now.

“Leave us”

The two security guards looked at him with a surprised expression, but Ron just smirked and said:

“It’s not as if she’s going to be able to do anything like this”

They left.

“You fucking bastard” Lisa said once more, visibly more tired, this time

“I had no idea they were going to treat you like this. I would have not approved it” Ron said

“You would have not approved it? I thought you were calling the shots here, you treacherous slime” she spat

“It’s far more complex than that” Ron said

“Where is my daughter? And where is my husband?” Lisa asked

“They are safe. They won’t be hurt” Ron said, not really knowing where they were

“I want to see them. I want to see them now!” Lisa said

“I’m afraid this is not going to be possible” Ron said as he shrugged

“What the hell is going on, here? I did everything you wanted. Went to every interview, approved that fucking book, lived where you told me, went through every test you wanted,… why are you doing this to my family and me?” Lisa asked
“We need your help, Lisa” Ron said

“My help?” she asked, surprised

Ron did not say anything else. He just took his tablet, loaded a video and clicked play as he turned it so that Lisa would be able to see.

“Kelly… what… what?” Lisa asked

“This is barely an hour old, Lisa”

“How… how could… Kelly?” she asked again

Ron did not say anything, he just moved his fingers through the screen, loading another video and showed it to her as well.

“Oh my God!” Lisa said. “Is that… oh fuck! That’s Casey. What the hell is going on, Ron?” she asked

“It’s happened again, Lisa” Ron said in a dark tone

“But that is impossible. How could they? There is no more formula left, is there? You destroyed it, didn’t you?”

“We did” Ron lied

“Then, how?”

“Lisa, I need you to listen to me” Ron said. 

Lisa did not say anything, but her body language told Ron that she would listen.

“Look, Lisa… over the past 6 years, we have been keeping some things hidden from you” Ron started. It should have been quite obvious to anyone, but then again, Lisa was quite naïve, so he wasn’t sure. “All this research center has been exclusively dedicated to finding out how you grew in the first place. I was requested to help, at first, like an advisor. When the original research team did not get results, though, I was fast tracked through college and the different PhDs so that I could take over the investigation. And that’s what I’ve been doing for the past three years. And while I progressed a little more than my predecessors, we still don’t have a perfect understanding on what happened back in Henford”

“But you invented the original serum” Lisa said, surprised. Despite how often she had seen Ron, this was actually the first time in 6 years that they talked about the origin of it all.

“I did. But no matter how much it hurts my ego to say so, it was a lucky strike. I know more or less how it started, but I’m afraid that I don’t know as much as I should about the details. And despite the progress over these last years, no one still knows” Ron said

“Then, Kelly and Casey…?” Lisa asked

Ron evaluated his options. Then, he decided that the naked truth would not be too good of an option.

“They grew at the same time. Apparently, the counter that finally reduced you, back in Henford, did not undo the effect of the original serum. It just hid it. For some reason we do not understand yet, the counter failed in both Lisa and Casey at the same time. And they grew” Ron explained, trying to keep a cold face that would not give away the fact that he was not explaining everything to Lisa

Lisa remained silent for a while. Then, she realized.

“Then, why didn’t I grow?” she asked

“We are not sure, but we think it has to do with your pregnancy. In some of the regular tests just before you got pregnant we saw some weird traces of something unknown in the results. We wanted to investigate more, but you became pregnant right away and no results after that showed anything weird. Kelly and Casey both showed the same traces in some tests last week. We were ready to investigate more on them, but unfortunately it was too late. In your case, it seems that the hormonal changes in your body because of your pregnancy and the nursing period have prevented anything else to happen”

Lisa’s eyes opened wide:

“You mean that I will grow again, once the nursing is over?”

“We don’t know. Now that we know a little more about what’s going on, we would probably be on time to stop it” Ron said

This did not seem to calm her down too much.

“We have a problem, though” he said

“Apart from Kelly and Casey being big?” Lisa asked, sardonically

“Related to that” Ron said

“How big are they, by the way?” Lisa asked, recalling the video that Ron had shown her and realizing that their size had seemed odd

“They are bigger than you were. We don’t know their size yet, but at least twice as big” Ron said 

“Twice?” Lisa asked, surprised. “How can that be possible?”

“We don’t know” Ron said. “We have no clue on why they grew, on why they became so large and on how to make them small again” he finally said
Lisa’s expression changed. She seemed to realize about the magnitude of the problem for the first time.

“But that… Oh my God” Lisa said. “What is Casey doing?” Lisa asked, visibly concerned

“We don’t know too well. She broke free from prison. We know she killed some guards, but we don’t have details. We don’t know where she is heading now, but she’ll end up in a city, sooner or later” Ron said

“She killed guards…” Lisa repeated

“Look, you know Casey. You know how she was, back in Henford. And she’s spent the last 6 years in a maximum security prison, surrounded by scum”

“Oh my God” Lisa said. “Kelly?”

“She’s in Hollner. She grew there. We don’t have too much information on what she is doing, yet” Ron said, trying to hide his own mixed feelings about her

“She’s not as bad as Casey” Lisa said

“We don’t know. I hope she is not. For her own good, but also for everyone else’s” he said

“What are you going to do?” Lisa asked

“I don’t know. The military is getting ready” Ron said

“Military? Are you going to send tanks to stop them?” she asked, trying to picture the situation with her two former friends facing soldiers, tanks and helicopters, as if they were some sort of monsters.

“Not me, but you can imagine that a lot of people have got very nervous at having two giant women moving among millions of people” Ron replied, looking down

“Will they kill them?” Lisa asked, with some concern in her voice

“They will certainly try” Ron said

Lisa caught his tone and asked, a little incredulous:

“What? Do you think they won’t be able to?” 

“I’m not sure, Lisa. Look, we never told you, but you did more than just grow” Ron said

“What?” Lisa asked, caught by surprise

“It’s curious how much this was ignored by mainstream media, but some more serious analysts already pointed this out: back in Henford, you should have never been able to survive to your sizes”

“What?”

“It’s pretty simple science. You were too big and heavy to move or even to breathe. Mass increases with the cube of the height, but strength, bone resistance or lung capacity barely increase with the square or even less. In simple terms, you got so big that you should have died, crushed by your own weight. But you did not. We have never been able to work the exact details out, but the only plausible explanation is that your strength and resistance increased in a much higher proportion”

“We were stronger?” Lisa asked

“You had to be. It’s the only explanation. Meaning that whatever the serum unlocked in you, it did not only make you grow. And now Casey and Kelly are much bigger” Ron said in a dark tone

“So they are stronger?” Lisa asked

“It’s the only explanation. Otherwise, they would not be able to move as they moved in the video you saw”

“But they cannot be… I mean, the army… you cannot think that they….” Lisa started

“I don’t know. I’m not so sure as the colonels and generals in the top floor, that’s all” Ron said

“But, what will you do if this doesn’t work?”

“That’s where your help comes in” Ron said