Jason burst into the briefing room.
"General! Guys!" Jason said.
"What is it, my boy?" Dr. Cockroach said.
"She's back!" said Jason.
"Who is back? Who are you talking about?" asked Susan.
"The kids right. You are NOT gonna believe what the news choppers in Atlanta picked up that burst out of a mega-mart." Monger said as the viewing screens showed the familiar sight of a girl with long auburn hair towering over everything around her, looking scared and understandably upset.
"Oh no, not again," Susan said quietly.
"Seems our former giant bio-bomb. Miss Christina Woods, has suffered some sort of relapse," said Monger, "Local authorities and media are flooding the area but they're just gonna cause problems!"
"We gotta move!" Susan said.
"Hang on a second!" Jason said. "This isn't like the first time you picked her up in the middle of the desert after Chinooks failed to get her back to the base. She's moving out, but she's still growing. Shes trying to get out of the city before causing any more damage, but those damn media choppers are following her.
"She's already hit 420 feet and growing! We gotta get those choppers off her before she gets too big!" Monger said, "I'll put word to the President and see if I can get some people fired on the job! You lot get over there and contain the situation before it grows way out of proportion!"
"Little late for that." muttered Link.
"Split up! One group diverts the choppers, and Susan goes to her with another." Jason said.
"We'll all get the choppers out of her way. I'm thinkin the Newbie should go to her personally." Link said.
"Wait, you want ME to get Christina to calm down… all by myself, WHILE she's still growing?!" exclaimed Jason.
"Jason can't go Link, it should be me. Tina trusts me as much as she can throw me and that is pretty far!" Susan said.
"But i don't think what you did will stop her now. There's already a height she's going too and she will not stop growing until she reaches it. Her growth levels seem to have a limit after the last time, she wont continuously grow but she will reach a rather dizzying and destructive height!" Dr. Cockroach said.
"Well, i guess i'll do it. By the time we get there, she'll likely have stopped." Jason said.
They came to her location and successfully routed the choppers away as Jason made his way to the most colossal woman he had ever seen in his entire life. Sitting outside the city and sobbing into her lap.
"Please don't have a bigger voice, please, don't have a bigger voice…" Jason said making his way to her. "Uh… hi."
"H-HELLO!"
"Big voice! BIG VOICE!" he said as he was blown backwards. "Hey, could you turn it down?"
"Sorry, I forgot about the last time I was...I was…" she began to well up again and Jason had to dive out of the way from the waterfall of tears coming down.
"Uh… maybe i can fix that." Jason said revealing a compartment in his armor and sticking something in her leg.
"Ouch!" she said.
"Oh come on, you hardly felt that." Jason said. "So, how's the voice volume now?"
"How do you mean I...I...oh my god, what happened?" she said, her hand on her throat.
"Hacked your vocal chords as well as your visual and auditory nerves, you can speak easily now as well as see and hear us little people much better." Jason explained.
"Oh thank god." she said.
"Gotta say, the reports mentioned a lot of big cases of ferals…" jason said. "But you gotta be the biggest one ever. No offense…"
"None taken. But...why has this happened to me again? It's been years and I've just been getting on with my life. And then suddenly…" she gestured to her whole body.
"It can't be that bad, it's probably a reaction to residual quantonium still left in your system. Did any get on you?" asked Jason.
"I haven't seen any of that green alien stuff since the day Susan and her friends shrunk me!" said Tina.
"Hmm, maybe there was an airborne release of Quantonium nearby, impossible to see but ultimately noticeable for those who still had small traces left in their bloodstream. Ratfinks contingency plan no doubt." Jason said.
"Him? Even after stepping on him, he's still a problem, huh?" Tina asked.
"That's what the video said. You must've absorbed a lot." Jason said.
"I think I shot past the height i was last time. Couldn't really tell, since I sat down after I had evaded the choppers." she said.
"Anyway, it's nice to meet you, Christina. I'm a new guy in the Monster Branch. Call me Jason." he said as he stood on her giant knee.
"Nice to meet you. And thank you for not screaming and running away from me like all the others back home did." she said, wiping her eye.
"Susan and the others are taking care of the media and the local authorities so they won't be bothering you anymore. Now comes the interesting part: what are we going to do with you?" he said.
"I dunno. I haven't really gotten a good measure of how big i am now." she said.
"My armours got scanners that can calculate how big you've grown and if you want a second opinion then Dr Sprocket can come by and scan you himself?" Jason offered.
Tina nodded and Jason brought his faceplate back down so he could begin scanning, he turned around to start at her feet and began scanning the length, he slowly looked along her body till he reached the top of her head. Soon he had the results.
"Holy cow!" Jason said.
"Well? How big am i now?" Tina asked.
"I think you can tell by my expression, you broke all the records of giants everywhere." Jason said. "Cristina Wood, you have just reached cruising altitude."
Tina glared at him for a few moments and then began to hyperventilate, "Thirty five….thirty five...thirty...five…."
"Easy! Easy! No paper bags around here!" Jason said, trying to keep her calm.
Tina calmed herself down before her panting caused a tornado.
"Wow… 3500 feet?! That's more than Susan's clone was!" said Tina, still in a state of disbelief.
"You saw her with your own eyes. And punched her in the face in a titanic brawl in the desert," said Jason.
"I also remember she also kicked several shades of black and blue out of me!" said Tina, remembering the tussle she had all too well.
"She's tame now but living as a recluse. I heard she's really into deep self-loathing these days. Soon we may need to pay her a visit…" Jason said. "If we knew where this island was. How do you feel about being the biggest giantess alive again?"
"Well, i actually like it now." Christina said.
"So there was a part of you that actually liked being colossal?"
"When I first returned to normal I was relieved. I thought the worst days of my life were behind me, than the next day it felt as if none of it ever happened. Got up, went to work, got home, went to bed. Back to a mundane routine. Being big made me realize there was more to life than doing the same boring stuff over and over. There's a whole world out there and you can see so much more of it when you're big!" said Tina.
"Got that right. Wanna talk a bit? Just got a report that your old friend and her team are bolting to Mt Rushmore. Says there's some unknown anomaly happening there," Jason said.
"Sure." Tina said.
"So, Christina…" Jason said.
"Actually, all my friends called me Tina, which I prefer." said Tina.
"Really, even your boyfriend? I mean...if you have a boyfriend which is understandable not that I was...Oh boy!"
Tina smirked at Jason awkwardness, he was glad his faceplate was down so she couldn't see his red face.
"No. I don't have a boyfriend. I was just looking out for myself at the time this happened. Susan taught me I don't need somebody in my life to make me feel good about myself. She spoke from experience." said Tina.
"With all those big girls in the base, Susan was like a mother figure to em. I'm glad for that. And how you weren't turned feral on top of nearly becoming a bio-bomb." Jason said. "Boy that was close… if you turned colossal and stomped around the desert in rage, it would have been no joke…"
"Tell me about it." said Tina, "I'm thankful that what happened to me was ALL that happened to me. Things can always be worse."
"Too true." said Jason. "Ugh… reading the report of you eating susan to disarm yourself… I almost threw up."
"Yeah well the same couldn't be said for me! I filled up an entire cave system when I hurled and Susan only survived by holding onto my uvula!" said Tina, feeling a slight twinge in her throat at the reminder.
Both of them ended up laughing as a result.
"Man, I dont think youve ever had this much of a good time, huh?" Jason asked.
"Not for quite some time." she smiled, "I could never really talk about my experiences with anyone back home because there wasn't anyone who had gone through what I had, or even KNOWN what I had gone through. I was told it was all covered up."
"General Monger does love his cover stories, he must've had a field day trying to cover all that stomping you and Satanica did while you were fighting." said Jason. "Every hard step the both of you took causing a seismic quake of such a global scale threatened to shake the tectonic plates apart!"
"He probably told the world the planet's core was having a bad case of indigestion or something like that?" Tina joked.
"Something like that." Jason echoed. "Still, that fight had to be one your high points. I mean, you DID get a few solid hits on Satanica, right?"
"Guess I did. Though I've never been in a real fight my entire life. I'm a good girl who doesn't go picking fights with people." she said proudly, "I'm not a rough person. I am kind and gentle. Just as my parents raised me to be."
"Nothing wrong with that but if you want to survive out in the harsh world you need to learn how to defend yourself." said Jason.
"Have you seen me lately? I'm basically a mountain with limbs! What's there around that could hurt me?"
"I hear Russia have ways to wipe out entire countries. Korea too."
"Well if they think they can take me down using Gangnam Style then good luck to them." said Tina, not taking his words of warning seriously.
"Anyway… you're back in the game again. Guess you need a name. What was it that Susan named you… uh…? Darn, the file didn't get the name!" Jason said.
"Hugina. She called me Hugina. And whilst I'm like this I guess Hugina I shall be." she said.
"You said it yourself, you missed being like this." Jason said. "Well, we should probably head back to base, though… I doubt we'd be able to fit you."
"I think I might know a way to get inside if General Monger approves. By the way, was I the only one who grew again? You said Ratfink had contingency plans in place. Are there others?"
"I haven't heard anything yet but I'm sure as soon as there is even a whisper we'll know about it." Jason said. "But I think they can handle their size on their own. Ready to walk again? We can talk along the way."
"Sounds good to me." Tina said. "Hold on, i'm standing up."
"Where should I grip, shoulder blades, hands, navel?"
"How about you just hold onto my hair and then afterwards you can sit on my shoulder on the way to the base?"
"Sure thing." he said.
He grabbed hold of several thick strands of her long auburn hair and held on as Tina began to rise, the ground she been sitting on giving way as her form rose from the craters she had made. She kept on rising till finally she stood at her full height. Jason then swung from hair to hair like he was Tarzan till finally he landed on her vast shoulder.
"Okay, I'm ready!"
"Er, can you give me directions? I don't know the way." she said.
"Alright, I'll be your personal GPS who guides you to your destination and keeps you company with light conversation. Go. Straight. Ahead." he said, trying to sound like a satnav to witch Tina chuckled.
"Here goes." Tina said. She lifted her massive foot, connected to her leg, now possibly the size and thickness of the average skyscraper and carefully planted it down. The ground shook and there was a loud 'boom' but no cracks appeared and nothing fell over, Tina sighed with relief, "All good. Away we go."
She was surprisingly able to keep a good stride the first time she walked at 420 feet. Only this time, at 3500 feet, she was able to cover a quarter of a mile in one easy step. In just four steps she had covered a mile and very few things could get in her way, trees, telephone wires or even various hills that were too long to walk around.
"Man, talk about a massive level up. You got far by walking at just 420, try taking a brisk walk when you're larger than the Burj Khalifa! And that's the tallest building in Dubai!" Jason said.
By car it would have taken over 30 hours to get from Atlanta to Area 50-Something but with Tina's strides she made it there in under half the time, the sun was getting closer to the horizon now as evening approached. Tinas feet were a little sore from walking barefoot so long.
"Sorry about that. I finished your suit, but it was hard to replicate and size up the sneakers Susan uses all the time." Jason said.
"I don't think I would ever get a shoe size now. Though I was never much of a shoe fanatic like those women you see on TV, going ballistic over the latest footwear. Geez, you've only got TWO feet!" said Tina.
"So, how strong do you think you are now? I know you and Susan talked a lot about your previous record size." Jason said.
"I wouldn't know where to start, if I had to guess I'd say if you put the largest city in the world on a platform i could probably lift the whole thing above my head, I wouldn't try that though, people need places to live," she said.
"Well we could try something just as a small example, there are plenty of rock formations around here that you can lift up, if you can." said Jason.
"Okay, um….how about this one?" Tina asked, pointing to a tall tower or rock that came up to her navel.
"Oh no, thats Bessy!"
"Bessy?"
"Yeah, Monger, he...named the ones he liked."
Tina turned to look at Jason sitting on her shoulder and frowned at him, "Seriously?"
"I am. How about that one over there? The General never liked that one. I heard he said that one always looked like a hippie. Don't ask me why."
Tina stepped over to the tall tower of rock and got ready to grab it.
"By the way, what are these things called?" she asked.
"They, er...they're called...a butte."
Tina almost lost balance as she tried not to burst out laughing.
"You're kidding?!"
"I'm not. Wiki it."
"Well, I will grab this butte with both hands and see if I can lift it." she smirked.
"Please don't make any jokes like that. General Monger doesn't approve of them, nor does Susan or Sarah. The amount of butt jokes Link and Fang is never ending." sighed Jason.
Tina returned her focus on the butte, it was taller than 'Bessy' as it came up to her hips. As she pulled she heard loud cracks as the base of the butte began to crumble. With one huge heave she lifted the rock out of the ground and held it out in front of her, it was as light as a book.
"Monger said he didn't like this one?" she asked.
"Yep." said Jason.
With minimal effort Tina squeezed the rock with both hands and it shattered into a million pieces, falling into a pile below.
"Phew! That's...exhilarating!" she said, "At this level I feel I could benchpress Mt Everest!"
"Let's hope there never comes a situation where you need to try that. Monger and the other monsters should be back soon hopefully and then we can discuss your living arrangements. You said you have an idea?"
"I do. I remember they're underground cave networks went on for miles and some were tall enough to fit the CN Tower inside. If the General agrees I could make my own access into those tunnels and then I'll be able to have a place of my own to call home."
"We'll wait until he arrives. Anyway, I heard you and Susan talked about a lot of changes to your body over the course of rising to 2750." Jason said.
"Yeah, I was upset that I had gotten so huge and that I would never find someone in my life cos I felt like such a huge, ugly freak. Susan pinched my leg to snap me out of it and told me that no matter how big you are nothing is impossible, she showed me a picture of her sister and nieces. Though fifty feet she was still able to have a family and live a normal life. She has a knack for cheering people it. That seems to be her true superpower right there." said Tina.
"I was talking about you too. Back before, you looked different in height. Being more… er, curvy?"
"Yeah, and no surgery required either so a plus on that one. I spoke to Susan about how wide my rear was before, I'm really good at maths, I did a lot of calculations to find out how big various parts of me were to pass the time. Susan said the quantonium changes various aspects of body, for her and her sister it was hair colour, for me it was an hourglass figure. With this new height it looks like I've got more calculations to do." said Tina, putting her hands on her vast hips.
"Let's do em together." Jason said. "Counting where you were at 2750, you elevated upwards by an extra 1750 feet so you are now 700 times bigger than you were when you were human sized,"
"Demonstrating my strength again…" Tina said grabbing another plateau and hoisting it out of the ground with ease.
"Yeah, Monger thought that one was too much of a jerk to the others. He may be a great leader but sometimes i feel he has more rocks in his head!" said Jason as Tina held the mass mound of rock above her.
"I feel so much stronger than i was before. I bet if i ever got a rematch against Satanica, now that I got at least an extra 500 feet on her I'd kick her ass!"
"You won't get the chance, Satanica, or Sharon as she prefers now, is back to fifty feet in height and never speaks to anyone, not even those on the island she shares with have seen her." said Jason.
"Oh… forget i said that then." Tina said.
"But yeah, you're strength and overall physical stats have improved." Jason said. "You were able to get from Atlanta to the middle of Nevada in under a few hours."
"WAY better than traveling from where I was at 420 feet. By the way, seeing as the sun's setting how about the issue on clothing we discussed briefly, you said something was being made? At this size I still think I'm gonna get a little chilly!"
Jason gestured to her body to see a black thermal insulated suit on her that just finished making itself. It covered all her body except for leaving a hole where her stomach could be shown and leaving her feet bare.
"Shoes will take some time given the fact that they're freaking complicated to make for someone 3500 feet. You'll have to remain barefeet for now."
"It's okay. Here it feels like I'm walking on the beach." said Tina, feeling the sand shift beneath her toes.
"So continuing our discussion, i guess the curves you got from last time really got beefed." Jason said.
Tina reached behind her and compared the size of her butt, "If I had to guess...I'd say my butts now as big as the Peachtree Tower back in Atlanta if it were laying down on its side!"
"And that would be…?"
"About 770 feet….Geez! I got a 770 foot wide ass!" Tina said to herself.
"You said you could demolish an entire town with that? I bet about now, you REALLY gotta watch where you're sitting." Jason joked.
Tina giggled and decided to follow along. "Yeah, but the power I can hold over people! Tiny people, you will do my bidding or I will give you the dreaded TINA TWERK! MWAHAHAHAHA!" she joked, trying to sound like a crazy madman.
"Yeah, that level of crazy is more the Docs thing." said Jason.
"Anywho," said Tina, after calming down from her fit of giggles, "Now that I'm like this, and probably staying like this for some time, does that mean I get to help save the world and stuff!"
"I don't really know, you're not an official registered monster, Monger has to approve that first, I'm sure Susan and the others would put in a good word for you," said Jason. "But, If you want, you can hang with me. I don't think there's room in either team for ANOTHER monster but i'm sure there will come a time when your services would be required. I still don't know what else Ratfink has hidden out there…"
"I think just me and a few others got ballooned up. If I know Ratfink he would try and cause panic across the world, he already got me scaring people in Atlanta, who knows where else," Tina said.
"Yeah, but… I bet that'll do nicely being big." Jason said.
"You said it." Tina said.