That morning, Stephanie came back with some groceries in her arms.
Each bag is filled with some essential food inside to last for now.
All they need to do is to wait until everyone is gone from the scene.
Mentally, she was surprised at how empty it was in the store she entered, relieved that none of them saw her once she got inside.
She had to use some of her powers to gather some food up and pay for it all.
After she had entered the room, she went over to the other side of the lobby and opened the bags.
Since she has excellent listening skills, she could hear everything surrounding either her, the room, or the hotel.
Right now, she hears someone getting up from the beds she set out for her 'visitor.'
Glancing up from getting the groceries out of the bags with her second pair of eyes, she sees the man she dug out from the destruction of the laboratory getting up from the beds.
Now that he has his eyes open, she could see what his eye color is brown.
Then, a creak from the bed underneath his bottom perked her senses.
"You know," she spoke, getting his attention. "You should lay back down."
A surprised expression appeared on his face after Stephanie talked, but did not heed her warning about the bed underneath his weight.
Before he could say something to Stephanie, the bed underneath his weight finally gave out and broke in half, causing him to collapse on the ground with a thump!
But, he was lucky that the mattress underneath him softened his harsh landing.
He winced from the impact of the ground underneath his bottom as Stephanie sighed and rolled her eyes.
"Warned you." Stephanie sighed as she pulled out a canister of baked beans from the grocery bags in front of her.
Since she is about 14 ft tall, it was about the size of a pin from her sewing kit in her hand.
Not only that, she can still see him with her first pair of eyes while the second was looking at what she is pulling out.
"Wh-What happened?" he stammered, turning around and readjusting his suit while staring at her.
She was glad that she used her stitching talents on his suit to make it look good as new again.
Usually, it would be rude of him to stare at her, but it is common for Stephanie.
But, she always gets that a lot every time she is out in public.
"You've been in an incident," Stephanie answered calmly, brushing back a strand of white fur from her face. "You survived through it, and luckily, no one else got hurt from it."
"But…" he paused and scanned her body with his eyes. "You're huge!"
Stephanie quietly 'seriously?' expression on her face while cocking an eyebrow.
"I'm not 'big,'" she corrected him calmly while quoting the word 'big' with her fingers of her first pair of arms while her second pair was finishing sorting through the bags. "I'm only big-boned. There's a difference between that. Especially someone who is 14 ft tall and 4 inches."
The man glanced down at his hands in confusion as Stephanie stared at him with curiosity and suspicion.
"What do you mean I am…" he drifted off again when he noticed his surroundings, seeing how small the couches are compared to him. "Big… like… you?"
She pulled out the last container of food out from the bag and glanced back up at him with her second pair of eyes, pushing back another strand of fur from her face as she watched him glance around with slight confusion.
"I swear," he groaned as he placed his hands on his knees, getting ready to stand up. "If I was put inside a room filled with miniature objects to mess with my mind, I'm going to lose it!"
Stephanie cocked an eyebrow at him and shrugged her shoulders, as her second pair of arms crossed over her chest.
"Alright," she shrugged while sighing slightly. "If you insist. I'll just let you walk right out of this mansion and continue on with your date with someone."
A blush appeared on his cheeks as he instantly got up from the cracked bed underneath him.
"No, no, no," he shook his head. "I'm not on a date. I was on something important before that-"
He stopped when he realized something.
"Wait a moment," he perked and had a slightly panicked expression on his face. "Walter!"
He ran towards the front as Stephanie perked more, her second pair of arms uncrossing form her chest.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!" Stephanie exclaimed, reaching over to him and grabbing his wrist with her right hand before he can exit out of the hotel. "Hold your horses! Who's 'Walter,' and what is this 'importance' if it's not a date you both are on?"
He gritted his teeth slightly and glanced back at the front door.
Moving forward as Stephanie stood still while holding his wrist, looking confused as he struggled to get to the front door.
"I. Must. Find." he gritted as he moved forward. "Walter!"
Apparently, he did not get to the door because Stephanie was firmly on the ground, still holding onto his wrist as his feet dragged across the wooden ground.
"Alright, Mister Fancypants." Stephanie sighed, yanking him back towards her with incredible strength, but not hurting his arm she is gripping onto. "If you don't have about now to explain everything that is going on, I might hold you here until tomorrow."
Stephanie looked stern as she had a firm grip on his wrist, luckily not making it turn purple and glaring at him slightly.
He looked slightly surprised that she had pulled him back with some strength and was 'heavy' enough to keep him still on the spot.
"You're not going to let go of me if I spill the beans?" he asked.
"Puns? Really?" Stephanie cocked an eyebrow with slight amusement as her second right hand mentioned to the can of baked beans that is sitting on the table behind her.
Stephanie chuckled softly and asked, "At this moment?"
"Bad timing?" he questioned, cocking an eyebrow slightly.
"Slightly," Stephanie nodded, before shaking her head. "Okay, changing the subject, my name is Stephanie, Stephanie Nova Rose Allen, and I was human. Well, a cybernetic human, but you get the jazz."
A slight unamused expression appeared on his face after Stephanie introduced herself to him.
"How are you a 'cybernetic human?'" he asked.
"Well," Stephanie began, before pausing while sighing and glancing over at her second pair's right hand.
Smiling slightly, she revealed her palm to him, showing her right arm are metal, as the second arm tapped her first right hand that is holding his wrist, as a metal clinking noise came from it after each tap.
She even tapped the side of her eye with her first left hand, hearing a metal tapping from it.
He shuddered slightly from the sound of the tapping as Stephanie moved her hand back down from her eye.
"See?" Stephanie smirked slightly. "Cybernetic human."
He looked slightly surprised at first, before looking suspicious of her.
"Okay…" he spoke, sounding slightly confused. "You were transformed into a half cybernetic human."
"No, I am a cybernetic human," Stephanie corrected him again. "But, I am unexpectedly transformed in this form and semi-don't know how this happened."
"Wait a moment," He turned his body around towards her from trying to go through the front door. "You were not freaking out when you noticed you turned in this form?"
"Yes," Stephanie nodded. "I have been in other forms and this…" she paused as she glanced at all four of her arms. "Is the most unexpected form I had ever come up with."
He cocked an eyebrow after she had explained.
"'Other forms?'" he questioned with a tone of disbelief in his voice.
"Yeah, let's not get off-topic again," Stephanie sighed, placing a hand against the side of her head. "Now, what's your name and what's your position then?"
He paused for a moment after Stephanie asked, looking thoughtful.
"Promise you won't tell everyone else?" he asked.
Stephanie nodded her head, smiling softly.
"I promise." Stephanie nodded and finally released his wrist.
He rubbed it gently after she released it, mentally surprised that she did not use too much of her strength to hurt his wrist after she had grabbed it.
"My name is Lance Sterling," he answered, adjusting his suit. "I am a super-spy of the H.T.U.V., which stands for Honor, Trust, Unity, and Valor."
Stephanie nodded his head gently with a slightly impressed expression.
"Impressed?" Lance asked, smirking slightly.
"Yes," Stephanie nodded, before exclaiming, "But, you can't just walk out there at this height!"
A slightly surprised expression appeared on his face after Stephanie exclaimed to him.
"And I'm not pulling your leg," Stephanie sighed. "I am speaking the truth."
Lance cocked an eyebrow with suspicion, and Stephanie sighed with a slight groan to it.
"Okay," Stephanie snapped the fingers of her right hand, projecting an image of an average 6 ft tall him on the ground. "This is your 'normal' height."
He nodded with slightly confused but had an impressed expression seeping through a little.
"But, you're at this height," she showed another image of Lance, taller than the 6 ft tall man. "14 ft tall and 4 inches."
Lance glanced around at his surroundings, still looking confused.
He glanced back over at Stephanie, with an unamused expression on her face.
"You're still not getting the hint, are you?" Stephanie asked, sighing slightly.
"No, I perfectly got the hint," he chuckled. "You are pulling my leg! I'll walk out there and see that it is-ow!"
He tried going through the door but got a little stuck on the way, and bonked his head on the doorframe.
"Being 6'4 is a little too tall for me." he groaned as he tried again, successfully going through the doorframe and out the other side.
Once he had stepped out from the doorframe, Stephanie groaned and mumbled something to herself in Spanish, before using her powers to make the collected food bubbled and disappear after being tapped on the top.
After she had put the food away, Stephanie followed behind in pursuit, worried about what the other people outside might react to.
Meanwhile, with Lance, he was halfway down the block of an abandoned alley, looking for something.
As he glanced around for a moment, noticing that the scenery looks a little… tiny compared to him.
'Okay…' he thought to himself as he adjusted his suit again, trying not to get Stephanie's 'joke' to make him panic. 'It's just something I ate.'
He exited out of the alley and entered an empty street, still glancing around for something.
'There's nothing to-' When he took a step forward, he tripped over something, causing him to yelp and fell front first on the ground, and hitting some bruises on his body that was leftover from the incident.
"Ow." he softly winced.
Stephanie followed behind him, too, before finally seeing him on the ground.
"There you are!" Stephanie exclaimed and walked over to him to help him up to his feet from being on the ground. "I have been trying to-"
Stephanie also tripped over what he did and landed on his back, hard.
Her body did land on some of the bruises on his back leftover from the incident.
"Ow!" he exclaimed, before gritting his teeth.
"Sorry!" Stephanie winced. "That's going to leave a mark."
They both glanced over to see what they had tripped over, only to see a piece of wire.
"Where on earth did that-?" Lance spoke, before glancing forward, seeing two people in front of him, jaw gaped wide open.
The first person wears a red hat that covers his eyes and hair, with fair skin color.
He wears a pair of silver headphones that completely cover his ears.
He also wears a stone-colored shirt with small white polka dots.
A red and orange jacket is over his shirt and wears a pair of blue jeans.
Topping things off, he also wears a pair of white shoes and has a hearing device in his hand.
The second person is a female, and she has long orange hair pulled up into a high ponytail bun and a purple cloth headband.
She has steel-blue eye color and fair skin color.
She wears a pair of large square glasses and a white undershirt, with a yellow jacket over it.
Topping things off, she is also wearing a pair of purple tights with white shoes.
They both were staring at him with shocked expressions on their faces, which made Stephanie move back to hide behind Lance with shame and fear.
"Ears? Eyes?" Lance spoke with confusion. "How did you two-?"
He was about to speak when a slick, black car appeared in front of both of them.
The door opened, and an elderly woman stepped out.
"Oh, no." groaned Lance. "It's the director."
Stephanie peeked over Lance curiously to see who is the director again but is still hiding behind him.
She has short white hair flopped over to the left with steel-blue eye color and fair skin.
The director wears a pair of triangular silver earrings, along with a necklace that has a blue gemstone.
A pair of half-rim glasses that have 'wooden' like appearance.
The director wears a dark blue dress that reaches down to her knees and has black tights underneath.
Over her dark blue dress, she is wearing a long-sleeved light sky blue jacket that is open and topping things off, she is also wearing a pair of black boots, that reach up to her knees.
She looked slightly surprised at first to see both Lance and Stephanie taller than her but sighed.
"Director," Lance spoke, doing a slight push up with Stephanie on his back. "I have a lot to explain."
"Don't even," the director spoke, before sighing as she pinched her nose bridge. "Who else had this incident besides you and the girl on your back?"
Lance and Stephanie glanced at each other for a moment, before glancing back at the director.
"Just me, ma'am," Stephanie spoke nervously, as her second pair of eyes glanced over to Ears, the one who is wearing headphones, slightly flinched after she talked. "I-I don't think anyone else was at the incident besides me, Lance or this 'Walter.'"
A pause came from her as she stared at the two, before asking again, "What is your name, sweetheart?"
"Stephanie," Stephanie answered the director's question. "Stephanie Nova Rose Allen, ma'am."
She paused for a moment as Eyes and Ears snuck around her, as the director then asked, "Did you see who else came out of the damage?"
Stephanie shook her head no.
"I was knocked unconscious after that blast, ma'am," Stephanie answered honestly to her again. "After I had woken up after being unconscious, no one else was at the incident, except Lance."
The director paused for a moment again after Stephanie honestly spoke again, glancing over at Ears as he nodded his head.
"She's speaking the truth," Ears spoke softly.
"Yes," nodded Eyes. "I can see there is something else going on with both of their bodies."
A worried expression appeared on Stephanie's face when she mentioned that, along with Lance.
"What's happening?" Stephanie worriedly asked before Lance could ask.
Eyes glanced over at the director, and the director glanced over at the worried giant and giantess.
"Come with us," the director answered. "The laboratory will show you what is going on your bodies."
The director turned around and exited from the scene, as Lance sighed.
"Hoo, boy." Stephanie groaned to herself, slowly getting off of Lance's back and landed right next to him, on her side. "Laboratories."
"What's wrong with laboratories?" Lance asked, flipping over to his side slightly to look at Stephanie.
"I… had a bad encounter with one of them, and…" she drifted off, whimpering to herself slightly. "I can't and won't enter another one! No, thank you, and no way, José!"
She crossed all arms over her chest, and her fur ruffled slightly, groaning to herself slightly.
"Listen," Lance spoke reassuringly to Stephanie, before getting comfortable laying front-first on the ground.
He was lucky he did not land on any cars.
"There's nothing wrong with laboratories," Lance assured Stephanie as she perked. "I know you went through a bad one in your life, but I assure you, there's nothing wrong about this one."
A slight judgemental expression appeared on Stephanie's face as she listened to Lance.
"I have been through this a lot in my past," Lance chuckled. "It's best to trust me. Imagine it like a walk in the park. You walk in and walk out, without anything happening to you."
Stephanie cocked an eyebrow at him, still having her arms crossed over her chest.
"If you want," Lance held out his hand towards her. "I could hold your hand after we get inside the base and headed over to the laboratory."
She still did not answer to his words and gritted her teeth for a moment, before finally taking his hand with her right metal hand.
"Alright," Stephanie nodded, before warning him, tightening her grip on his hand slightly. "But, if you do break that assure, I will scratch that pretty face of yours off!"
Lance cocked an eyebrow for a moment, before chuckling, releasing Stephanie's hand as she released his.
"It's always my face, isn't it?" he chuckled, moving back on his front and started to get up to his feet.
"Well," Stephanie spoke, shrugging slightly while patiently waiting for him to get up first. "You are pretty and handsome."
Lance blushed slightly and readjusted his suit with his hands as Stephanie shook her body after she had got up to her feet.
"Thanks," Lance thanked. "I don't usually get that many remarks from civilians."
Stephanie chuckled too, and responded, "I don't usually encounter many spies in my life."
He glanced back over at her with a slight smirk on his face before hearing the sounds of something whirling.
Glancing back over to the front, Stephanie and Lance could see a massive plane coming towards them and landed in front, revealing to be their height.
"Now, that's awesome!" remarked Ears.
"I agree." nodded Eyes.
Stephanie nodded in agreement and asked, "Who wants to be first?"
Ears and Eyes glanced over at Stephanie with a slightly confused expression on their faces, before jabbing their thumbs towards it.
"I think that's mentioned for us?" Stephanie question, as they both nodded.
Stephanie shrugged her shoulders again.
"Alright then." she sighed.
'Okay,' Lance sighed to himself as Stephanie was the first one to board it, as Ears and Eyes followed behind her. 'Maybe she was right being at 14 ft tall. How hard could it be?'
He shrugged to himself at the thought and boarded along with Stephanie, sitting in front of her and buckling.
From the way of how Stephanie's tail wagging from beside her, she looked excited.
The entrance of the plane closed and went up into the air, heading over to the secret base.
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