Chapter 05 – Orientation Part One


Later that day, 20 September 2020, 08:00 in the morning.

 

Wendy woke up from her deep sleep. The red-haired girl felt as if she had a little hangover and tried to orientate herself where she was. Still in the same room and still on the same bed where she fell asleep yesterday, wearing only simple white a shirt and underwear.


She tried to piece together what happened yesterday and if she hadn’t dreamt the whole situation.


Sunlight seemed to come in through the windows at the side of the room where the desk was located and a blue sky with white clouds was visible. The young woman stared at it for a while and saw it was artificial sunlight with a digital screen behind the glass of the windows which made sense, knowing this room was deep beneath the surface.


Wendy decided it was time to get off her bed and did so. Her bare feet made contact with the soft fluffy fabric of the floor. She walked up to the desk and saw that her stuff was still there, it was still as shrunken.


She picked it up and examined her once 2 feet long blue-green colored backpack, to her perspective now reduced to 2 inches. She couldn't believe that this was hers. She tried to carefully open her backpack and that took some effort and skill to loosen the clips without breaking them. Wendy was fed up with the last clips and applied a little more force to it which ripped the entire bag open. All her accessories came pouring out but fortunately, she had her hands close to the table so the distance and impact were minimal.


She used her right index finger to stir through the pile of her clothing and beneath it she found what appeared to be her laptop. Her 12-inch wide laptop looked like a 1-inch toy and her 5-inch cell phone next to it was barely visible. She held it between her fingers and saw that both her thumb and index fingernail were bigger than the phone.


Wendy was totally absorbed in analyzing her own equipment, clothing, and other stuff as if they were the cutest things in the world. The longer she examined them, the more details and evidence pointed out that it was undeniably hers. Almost, but because of the small size of it all gave her brain conflicting thoughts.

“So familiar and yet something so strangely unique I’d never seen before”, Wendy thought.


After that, her attention focused on the other stuff on the desk like the laptop, tablet and cell phone that were made for her new size and thus more normal-looking to her than her own. They all seemed to have some logo on them with a double helix and the words Genetics Tech written under it.

She sat down on the desk chair and opened the laptop and pressed on the power button to turn it on.


It booted and the start-up screen showed the words “Ydrassil OS” with a big infinity logo above it. Wendy had never seen this operating system before but its layout had familiar characteristics she had seen in other well-known operating systems.


She continued checking out the tablet and phone who appeared to have the same OS as the laptop. All 3 devices had a plain design and were colored silver-blue but felt very sturdy in her hands. Wendy had seen enough for now and turned the devices off again as she looked at the opened box on the floor near the crème colored light-brown couch.


It was the welcome gift she received from Helga. The beautifully detailed model of a yacht she examined a little yesterday, a Princess V40 model named The Sea King. It brought back memories of the time her father bought her detailed dollhouses, miniature dolls, models….


“Tring, Tring, ring, ring”, The wired phone on the wall rang.

Wendy walked to the phone and picked it up. “Good morning, this is Wendy, with whom am I speaking?”


“Good, you are already awake. Good morning my dear, this is Helga. Ready and excited for your first day”, Helga said cheerfully.

“Well I’m awake and excited, but still have to shower and dress up”, Wendy said.


“Then meet me in half an hour in the cafeteria, I’ll be waiting there. The instructions on how to get there are on the wall outside your door. Also, there are shoes, socks and other clothing in the closet for you to wear”, Helga said.


“Ok, got, I’m going to take a shower now and get dressed up and will see you then”, Wendy said.


She hung up the phone, went straight to the shower room and undressed.


While she was in the shower washing herself three pairs of eyes were staring down in the room from the ceiling behind a metal grille. They had been staring at Wendy in particular since before she was awake.


“She is out of sight now, sir. What should we do now?”, A man in his early thirties in army clothing said to his superior.

“Nothing, we have all the info we need, isn’t that right doc?” the older man in his late forties said.

“For now, we have gentlemen, but I want to observe this very interesting specimen a few more times in the foreseeable future”, said the doctor. Let’s go back.

“Can I stay a little longer, I want to observe her a little more?”, the young man said.

“Do what you want, but the doc and I will leave now. See you later back at home base.” The man in his forties said.


The young man saw them moving through the vent system and then turned around a corner and were out of sight. He then moved through the vent system in the direction above the shower.


He could hear an enormous stream of water coming out of the shower that sounded just like a waterfall. It served as an extra guide to finding his way to through the almost dark vent system with only a simple flashlight.


He was now almost above the shower and found the old part of the vent system.

That part was neglected and a new vent was built in somewhere else in the shower. All that was there now, was a 3 meter (10 feet) in diameter round grill with rusted aluminum bars covering an equally large hole in the ceiling. There were relatively wide spaces of 30 centimeters (1 foot) between the bars.


The man was now above lying on the bars and looked down. Seeing the body of a naked young woman magnified like that was a sight to behold. The Red-haired giantess was clearly enjoying her shower as she had a satisfied look as the gallons of hot water rolled off her body.


The man wanted to take a better look at her breast and cleavage. He took out his binoculars and waited when she would turn around again exposing her front body to the horny man.


Suddenly he felt the bars were moving downwards. Before he could process it became loose and he felt down the whole. Luck would have it that the metal didn’t come loose entirely and he could just hold on at the last moment. His binoculars fell down a long way and into her cleavage.


As Wendy washed her pair of breast and pressed them together, the binoculars were crushed into little pieces.

The man looked down and gulped.


She didn’t even feel the impact of the binoculars on her body or that she crushed it between her beachball sized breast.


“If I reacted just a second later, I would have been crushed and seeing how in a happy trance she is, I think she wouldn’t even know it and my bloody remains would have just washed off her into the sinkhole”, The man whispered to himself full of adrenaline.


The man decided he had enough excitement for one day and quickly climbed the bars before the last 2 bars would break off.


He looked back one more time at the young woman, who totally oblivious to the whole situation, before returning to the place his other teammates went.


After Wendy was done washing and dressing, she walked up to her front door and looked back at living quarters one last time then turned around and opened the door. Walked through it and closed it behind her.


Wendy found herself in a brightly lit large hallway. It was a little cooler than in her room and it smelled like a doctor’s office. Wendy saw two frames hanging on the wall with what appeared to be maps with a layout of the part she was in and one with the entire structure of the facility.


She stared at the map for a while studying details of the layout. In the center of it was a circle drawn and around it a form of a hexagonal figure. On each point were long two lines drawn with at the end of each pair a rectangle was attached to them.


A red arrow on the map pointed out where she was. “Sie sind hier” and “You are here”, were written next to it. She appeared to be in one of those outer rectangles. When looking at the scale of one of those rectangles she was somewhat amazed, followed by doubt and disbelief. That rectangle structure alone was the size of a city.


Wendy had received instructions from Helga where to go when she woke up. She looked at the map. That place was on the same floor as her apartment, approximately 4 kilometers away from her room.


“Wow, what an enormous distance. Helga could have told me that”, Wendy said looking a little up to that task.


“Well nothing like a good exercise in the morning and testing one’s stamina”, Wendy thought out loud.


She immediately started jogging through the large corridor. After a minute she noticed something strange. She was already nearing the place Helga told her to go and was confused. At the very least the trip should have taken her twenty minutes she thought.


Wendy smiled as she came to the realization if she were giant 12 times bigger than a human, that distance would have been only like 333 meters to her. When calculating the time that distance would have taken her, she concluded that the 25-minute time frame sounded perfectly plausible.


Every little hint and clue that she got along the way that she was in fact gigantic, gave her a satisfying feeling. Even if the feelings and perception of being normal-sized were always stronger than those clues and hints that pointed to anything but normal-sized.


She now had arrived at her destination and stood before a big double door and through one of its windows she saw Helga sitting with food on the table and next to her were some small carrier cages.

Wendy opened the door and walked into what seemed like a mess hall or restaurant. The ceiling was much higher here and the whole place had a beautiful modern look with on one side the kitchen and counter where two female ladies seem to prepare the food.


Helga noticed Wendy standing next to the door looking around in the direction of the kitchen, eventually looking in her direction. Helga waved at Wendy to come to join her.


"Good Morning, Wendy, have a seat, your sandwiches are ready."

Wendy sat down at the table and started eating.


“Well Wendy, how do you feel today? Already got used to your new form?”, Helga said.

Wendy thought of what to say. She didn’t feel really different.


“Hard to say, I mean I’m feeling fine, but to be honest I don’t feel any different as before……. I don’t feel gigantic”, Wendy said reluctantly. She didn’t want to sound negative or with disbelief.


“Nothing to be ashamed about. It is an interesting answer for other candidates in the past didn’t feel that way, but your case is unique. Those people had a much slower growth that spanned over a period of several months until they reached the size you are now.”, Helga said.


“Now that I think about it, it feels more than I woke up from a dream yesterday. It feels like I came back from a shrunken state back to normal size.”, Wendy said.


“That kind of feeling is understandable. I think when spending just a couple of weeks here in this facility and on this Island will convince you more of your new stature, Wendy”, Helga said.


While she ate the sandwiches, she looked around and saw what looked like 2 big hamster cages next to each other. There appeared to be some fury animals inside of them. On closer inspection, she saw something that she never saw before. A grizzly bear the size of a rat and in the other a miniature Siberian tiger.


"These are my 6 and 9-year-old daughters' pets, Baloo and Shere-Khan. Want a closer look", Helga said as she opened the cage with the bear in it and grabbed the creature who started struggling in her hand. Clearly not liked being picked up.


“Hold out your hands, Wendy”

“There we go, one North American Grizzly Bear in the palms of your hands”


Wendy was in total awe while holding this tiny brown-colored bear in her hands. She couldn’t resist starting to pat the furry animal and it seemed to calm down. It looked so adorable and helpless that it was hard for Wendy to imagine that this harmless little creature was a full-sized bear.


“Wow, this is so incredibly awesome, I wouldn’t mind having a miniature bear and tiger as a pet”, Wendy said in excitement.


“Hehe, you can have a few, my dear. But you haven’t seen nothing yet”, Helga said with a subtle smile.


“Come, walk with me to those large windows over there. I want to show you something that you might find interesting”, Helga said.


Wendy gave the bear back to Helga and she put the now exhausted little bear back in his cage. They both stood up and walked to the window.


The windows were tilted forward so you could lean on them. Wendy looked down through the thick glass and saw houses, people, and some farms. It seemed like a small village that looked like it was enormously far down below. She stared at it for a while and blinked her eyes because something felt off. She then realized that the town wasn’t so deep down but was actually a miniature village with tiny people in them.


“Oh my………”, Wendy said glued to the glass as she watched some normal village life going on.

Helga looked at the young woman in delight as she saw fascination in her eyes, eyes that were absorbed by the spectacle of tiny people just living their lives in a tiny village.


“This is just one of our habitats for little people, we have many more of them spread throughout this facility. We also have all sort of flora and fauna habitats with special types of plant and some unique animals that you don’t see every day.

I would be stating the obvious if I said you want to take a closer look”, Helga said

“Yes sure”, Wendy said


“Well follow me then, Ms. Wendy”. Helga said.


The pair of equally tall women stood up and left the cafeteria.

After walking through some hallways, they came in front of 2 elevators. The right one opened first and the two entered the spacy elevator. Wendy noticed they were on the 4th floor underground and the buttons on the panel showed that this elevator went as deep down to 13 floors underground. The upper floor numbers 1,2 and 3 were strangely missing on that panel.


Helga pressed the button with a 6 on it and they went down to floor 6. The excitement was building up for Wendy as she was lost in thought about the interesting things she would encounter. It was just one amazing discovery after another.


They finally reached a green door and entered a small room that seemed like a doctor’s office.

“Please remove your clothing and stand on the weigh scale please”, Helga said.


The red-haired college-sophomore stepped up the scale and saw figures that raised her eyebrows. She saw the figure 118,55 T.


“Hmmm, 118.550 kilograms or one hundred and eighteen and a half-ton, I little more than was measured yesterday on our systems in the growth accelerator control room. Good to see it is fairly accurate, only a little more than one thousand kilograms off.”, Helga said.


“OK, now please follow me to this rod so we can measure your height.”, Helga said.


Wendy looked at the wall-mounted digital height rod. It looked the same as any she saw when visiting the local doctor, but the numbers on this height rod didn’t measure centimeters from 0 to max 210. It started at 0 from the ground all the way up to 25. She realized these were measurements in whole meters and she got butterflies in her stomach as she could roughly estimate how tall she was. She was nearly as tall as the measurement device and when lowered her head she spotted way below just around her ankle height the 1,7 and 1,8-meter mark knowing she was 1,75 meters before she came to this place.


Wendy stood now flat against the wall with only the rod behind her back and let Helga measure her gigantic height.


“Length, 21.17 meters. Seems everything is in order”, Helga said with a professional voice devoid of any hint at joking, sarcasm or deception.


Wendy let those incredible numbers sink in her conscious as she processed and then concluded those figures sounded more fitting for one of the larger whale species on the planet.

“Wow, that means I’m the size of a sperm whale. If only my friends could see me now”, Wendy said with a chuckle.


“To be more accurate, your mass is a little bigger. Mindboggling, isn’t it”, Helga said while winking when she mentioned her huge mass.


“But everything seems to be in the right proportions, an equally 12-times-expansion in all 3 dimensions of your body. That concludes these examinations.

Let’s go to the next room for some final tests. They are just a formality, but alas mandatory”, Helga said.


Wendy and Helga just watched a movie about safety and other guidelines and ground rules and were now sitting in a large hall in the corner at a table. The hall was dimly lit. Wendy noticed there were different objects on the table, some very lifelike little dolls, and a few toy cars.


The pair were sitting opposite of each other. Helga than pulled out her laptop from her briefcase onto the table and started it up. Wendy could see the words Genetics Tech and Ydrassil were printed on the backside of the screen, just like the one in her room. When the Yggdrasil operating system completed its booting process, Helga began clicking and typing.


“Ok, Wendy. What I want you to do is to pick up the male doll.”, Helga said looking serious.

Wendy complied and did just that. The male doll looked and felt real to Wendy when she held it in her fist.


"Good Wendy, now pick up the female doll with your left hand."

Wendy complied.

“Good”, Helga replied.


"Now. Throw the male in the air and catch it with your same hand.", Helga commanded.

Wendy did as she was told and threw it up high and caught it clean in her hand,


“Very Good, you can put both test dolls back on the table”, Helga said.


“Now I will throw this yellow jeep at you and you have to catch it.

Ready?!”, Helga said a little louder.


Helga threw it gently towards Wendy and caught it with both hands. I felt incredibly light in her hand.


“Ok, now catch the next one, with one hand”, Helga said while also concentrating on her laptop screen.


Wendy caught it but was surprised as the metal of the vehicle got dented in the grip of her right hand.


“Sorry, I ruined this model”, Wendy said apologetically when looking at Helga.


For a split second, Helga looked surprised and then her confident happy demeanor returned.


“You know, these dolls and these yellow jeeps have sensitivity sensors built in them, they measure the pressure that is put onto them with great detail”, Helga said.


“I did a terrible job I guess with the last one”, Wendy said.


“On the contrary, I expected the last jeep to be much more damaged by your grip. Most first-time candidates have a harder time keeping it this intact as you did just now”, Helga said in earnest.


Before we end this test. I have to show you something.


Helga picked one of the dolls up and then let it fall. When it hit the ground, it got broken up and some fairly large amount of red liquid came pouring out. It had the color of blood. Wendy immediately knew the point Helga wanted to make.


“You see, it is not like if someone shrunk and were to fall from that height he or she won't get hurt much. Sometimes an inexperienced handler of little people can forget because, with the special way of the growth treatment, we almost feel the same in our environment after it.”, Helga said.


Helga than put another doll in the car, picked the car up and slowly put increasing pressure on it. The poor vehicle didn’t stand a chance against the huge yet feminine fingers and with little effort crushed the car and doll inside it with ease. Leaving only a tiny metal cube in her hand with some blood-colored liquid dripping from it.


“What I wanted to show you is how incredibly strong we are at our current size. You’re not just 12 times stronger than before the procedure as you can deduce from your measurement results. You now have the strength and mass of over seventeen-hundred-and-twenty-eight yesterday’s Wendies.


“When you move around in the labs, habitats or just outside on the Island, you have to be constantly aware of that.”


"But as expected, my laptop indicates that you have excellent hand coordination control and you have no problem walking after the Brobdingnag treatment, so you are qualified to move around in the little people habitats and work in the labs in this facility accompanied by a senior. Also, some recreational walks on some parts of the Island are allowed."


"Congratulations!"


"Now let’s go through that big door behind me and show you around."