Note: This story takes place just after the events of the last episode of Zeo, Good as Gold, and more specifically the Rangers' growing into giants at the end of the episode when they battled Mondo!
Late one afternoon at the Youth Center, Kat was sitting at one of the tables alone. She looked like something was bothering her, almost like she was nervous about something. A few moments later, Tanya walked in. Spotting Kat, she smiled and walked over toward her table.
"Hey girl!" Tanya said warmly. "You said you wanted to talk alone right? Everything ok?"
"I….guess so." said Kat in a somewhat strained manner.
"That didn't sound too convincing." Tanya replied as she took a seat across from her at the table. "What's up?"
"Look, I can tell you anything right?"
"Of course Kat! You're my best friend!" Tanya replied emphatically, grabbing one of her hands into her own.
"Okay." Kat nodded nervously, taking a more hushed tone. "I just…..look, have you been having weird dreams at all lately? Since the fight with Mondo?"
"Oh my god, you too?! I thought I was going crazy!" Tanya replied, her eyes going wide. "It's always the same! I'm huge again just like I was when the Gold Ranger grew us!"
"Yes!" Kat replied, her facial expression totally changing now. She seemed more than a little relieved to know someone else was going through the same thing as her. "I keep dreaming about growing again too! It's so weird, because I grew once before when I was under Rita's control but I never dreamt about it afterwards like this. I mean it's happening every night! And I daydream about it too- sometimes I just close my eyes and I'm instantly thinking about becoming a giant again!"
"Well, at least we're both going through the same thing." said Tanya, as Kat nodded. "Maybe the last time you grew it didn't have this kind of effect on you because you were just a brainwashed monster. I mean I wasn't there but you've told me about it- you were some kind of….cat thing, right?"
"I know, a cat because my name is Kat, so original." said Kat as she made a little face. "But maybe it's different this time because I was really me when I grew, you know? All I know is, Tanya, in the dreams…..I like being big."
"Me too!" Tanya nodded emphatically. "I mean, we're normally Power Rangers and the Zeo crystal is incredible, but it's not the same kind of power. There's just something about being so huge. Having experienced it once…."
"I just want to do it again so bad!" Kat exclaimed suddenly, a little too loudly, causing other patrons of the juice bar to look at her strangely. "I'm sorry." Kat said sheepishly as Tanya gave her an are-you-serious look. "But like, Tanya…..do the dreams feel kind of…."
"Sexy?" Tanya asked, causing both of them to blush. "Yeah…."
"We're so bad!" said Kat as she squirmed in her chair out of embarrassment.
"I wonder if the guys feel the same way?" said Tanya, thinking for a moment.
"Who knows." Kat replied. "Men are used to feeling strong, right? It's different for women."
"Right." Tanya agreed. "To be gigantic again, have the whole world literally at our feet…."
"I'd do anything." said Kat dreamily, as Tanya quickly nodded in agreement.
Anything, huh? came a very familiar, gruff voice in both girls' minds.
Both of them tensed up immediately.
"Lord Zedd!" Katherine exclaimed, standing up out of her chair in a fighting stance.
"Where are you?!" Tanya practically yelled as she did the same.
Girls, girls, girls, relax! came the voice of Rita, also in their minds. We're where we always are, up on the Moon! That's the magic of telepathy, hahaha!
Yes, only the two of you can hear us. Zedd agreed. So you might want to sit down because even from all the way up here we can see that you both look quite ridiculous right now!
Kat and Tanya embarrassingly looked around and realized nearly everyone else in the Youth Center was looking at them like they're crazy, and slowly sat back down.
"Well what do you want?" Kat finally said quietly.
Yes, no need to yell, we can hear you just fine! Zedd laughed in their minds.
What we WANT for once, my dears, is the exact same thing the two of YOU want! Rita exclaimed.
"I somehow have a hard time believing that." said Tanya through gritted teeth.
Well, believe it Yellow Ranger! Rita laughed.
We want to make your dreams come true! added Lord Zedd. Specifically the dreams the two of you have about becoming gigantic once again!
"What?!" Tanya exclaimed, again a little too loudly (and causing some weird looks once again).
Surely you remember that we can make things grow! laughed Rita.
Yes, it's kind of a specialty of both of ours isn't it? Zedd agreed.
"But why would you want US to grow?" Tanya wondered aloud, as Kat sat there deep in thought. "Wouldn't that just make it even EASIER for us to foil your evil plans?"
Would it? Perhaps. Zedd replied quixotically. Perhaps we're just feeling generous today!
Either way, all you need to do if you want to take us up on our offer is walk outside your precious little Youth Center right now! screeched Rita. Then you'll see just how little it can REALLY be! What do you say, Rangers?
This is a one time only offer, by the way! added Zedd.
Yes! Use our growth lightning or lose it! Rita cackled.
We'll kindly excuse ourselves from both of you young ladies' minds so you can make your decision. said Zedd with mock kindness.
Yes, but be quick about it! Rita added in her usual obnoxious fashion.
Kat and Tanya looked at each other with pained expressions.
"It has to be a trick…" Tanya finally said after a long, awkward silence.
"Yeah." agreed Kat. "But didn't we just say that we'd do anything to be big again?"
"I know, but take an offer from Zedd and Rita?" said Tanya in disbelief. "Plus it's a little too convenient isn't it?"
"What, that they come along offering this just when we've been having nonstop dreams about being gigantic again? Of course." Kat said with a wry smile. "But Tanya….I need to be big again. Don't you remember what it was like?"
"I do." said Tanya wistfully. "The ground literally shaking beneath our feet…."
"Everyone walks all over you when you're nice." said Kat, her smile suddenly becoming more sinister. "Here's our chance to walk…..over…a whole lot of people of our own for a change!"
Tanya still looked more conflicted than Kat, but Kat seemed to have made her mind up as she stood up from the table dramatically.
"Well, I'm doing it with or without you!" Kat exclaimed, before turning toward the exit. Tanya thought about it for a moment, before she quickly reached out and grabbed her friend's arm to stop her.
"Wait! I'm coming with you!" Tanya exclaimed.
Kat nodded silently as Tanya stood up behind her. She wasn't surprised at all at her decision. The dreams and fantasies of turning back into a giant had been driving young Katherine positively mad for the last week, and based on what Tanya had said it sounded like she was going through almost the exact same thing. Kat wasn't stupid- she knew on some level that Rita & Zedd must have been behind both of them having the same strange fantasies. But as she was now, she just didn't care. She would give anything to have that power back, to be massive once again. That was all that mattered to her now, and indeed to Tanya too.
"Let's get going then." Kat finally said after a long pause. Tanya gave a slow and very conflicted nod.
Meanwhile, up on the Moon, Zedd and Rita watched this all unfold from outside their RV with the kind of purely evil glee you could only get from watching a plan go exactly as you had intended.
"Hahaha! This is all going perfectly!" exclaimed Lord Zedd.
"You really outdid yourself this time Finster!" Rita laughed as he came out of the RV to join them. "Your Dark Suggestion has them practically begging to be giants again!"
"Yes, well, the two girls really DID love being giants." Finster confirmed. "That's what makes the Dark Suggestion so effective. It grabs onto something that's deep in your subconscious- the kind of dark desire you'd normally be able to keep under control- and makes it positively unbearable! It haunts them in their dreams, even their daydreams, until it's all they can think about. Now this desire for power is a real desire the two of them have- it isn't just some simple mind control spell that the other Rangers can break. It's become their real personalities."
"We get it, dog breath!" said an annoyed Rita, her short attention span causing her to become exasperated with one of his exposition dumps as usual. "The Rangers are gonna be stuck with two power mad giants forever! Hahaha!"
"Indeed, what a great plan!" Zedd exclaimed. "I'm glad I thought of it!"
"Hey! This was my idea!" Rita yelled.
"Actually, I think it was my-" Finster tried to clarify, but is quickly interrupted.
"No sis, I think it was Ed's idea!" Rito said as he too came out of the RV.
"ZEDD! ZEDD, you moron! I'm going to have my new giant Power Rangers crush your bones into dust!" Zedd raged.
"Who cares about Rito, let's get to it Zeddy!" Rita yelled impatiently, as Goldar also came out of the RV to watch. "Look, they're standing down there just like we told them to! I don't want to leave our new teenage friends waiting!"
"You're right, it's time for the next phase of our plan." Zedd agreed.
"Magic wands, make our Rangers grow!" Rita yelled as she and Zedd crossed their wand and scepter together. The blue growth lightning was sent down to Earth once again….
Back on Earth, Kat and Tanya had been standing awkwardly outside the Youth Center for a few minutes, wondering what exactly was going on (and of course having no idea the delay was caused by yet another silly fight among the evil space aliens!).
"Maybe this whole thing was just a big joke." said Tanya finally, interrupting the awkward silence. "'Let's tell the girl Rangers we'll make them into giants again, haha. Wouldn't that be a fun trick to play, my evil wife?'" she said jokingly while trying to sound like Lord Zedd.
"I don't know, do they even play jokes?" Kat wondered aloud.
"Hey, why haven't we morphed yet anyway?" Tanya asked her friend.
"Oh, I don't know. I thought about it but I actually kind of want to know what it's like to be a giant just as myself for once. Not in a pink Ranger suit or…..fur…."
"But then won't everyone know who we are?!" Tanya asked suddenly.
"Well, they'll know we're two very large women they'd better not make mad!" Kat replied with a laugh, and Tanya smiled and laughed too.
"God I hope they come through, though. I need to be big again…." said Tanya wistfully.
"Wait, Tanya, look!" Kat exclaimed, pointing upwards.
The magical storm clouds were suddenly gathering above their heads, and both quickly realized what that meant.
"It's happening!" exclaimed Tanya, the excitement taking over her.
"No backing out now." Kat smiled.
The lightning indeed struck them both, and just like with Zedd & Rita's monsters, both grew to a gigantic size almost instantly. Kat and Tanya had become giants once again, each standing at about 250-feet-tall (though they retained the same proportional height to each other, as Kat remained a little taller than her best friend). Of course, the sudden appearance in downtown Angel Grove of two giant 18-year-old girls caused immediate and widespread panic, as people began running for their lives. As far as they knew this was just another giant monster attack- a very, very strange one to be sure, but nobody was going to stick around and find out why the monsters of the week looked like two human teenage girls.
Meanwhile, Kat and Tanya were both looking down at the chaotic scene unfolding around their giant feet (their clothes had grown with them but their shoes inexplicably hadn't) with faces of pure glee. Both girls were practically panting, in a state of total pleasure. Becoming giants again was practically all they had been able to think about for a solid week straight, thanks to Finster's Dark Suggestion. Now that it had just come true, it somehow felt even better to both of them than they could have ever imagined.
"Kat, LOOK at them!" the giant Tanya boomed. "They're just SO tiny!"
"No they're not." the equally giant Kat corrected her with a sly smile. "They're the same size they've always been, the same size we were until a few moments ago. We're the ones that are huge!"
"We're gigantic!" Tanya agreed with an equally dark smile.
"Come, my fellow giant!" boomed Kat, in a purposefully exaggerated tone. "Let us take our first steps since being restored to our massive sizes!"
Kat held out her arm with a grin, which a beaming Tanya quickly took hold of. Together, the two giant Rangers each raised their enormous bare feet upwards and then brought them down into the street in front of the Youth Center. They were careful not to step on anyone, but the tiny people running around below them sure didn't know that, and their screams got even louder as the two giant women took their first steps forward.
For Kat and Tanya, the feeling of their bare soles hitting pavement was positively incredible. They both moaned in pleasure.
"Oh my god." Tanya said. "Oh my god!"
"Oh yeah." Kat smiled.
"That felt even better than it did in our Ranger boots! Why did that feel so good?!"
"I'm not sure." Kat said, still smiling. "Something about the flesh of our giant feet hitting the earth below, shaking it, and getting that tactile response really seems to be bringing us both a massive amount of pleasure. Perhaps it's simply because it's a very physical reminder of the incredible power we both now possess." she theorized, the always scholarly young lady trying to make logical sense of what she was feeling. Little did she know that it was actually a side effect of the Dark Suggestion, which had made every feeling of being a giant feel like the greatest thing in the world to both of these suddenly power tripping girls.
"You sound just like Billy." the giant Tanya snorted.
"Well, no matter the reason, I just know I want to experience it again as soon as possible!"
"Agreed. These little people better get out of our way if they know what's good for them!" Tanya laughed. She had no real desire to step on any people per se, but much like earlier (when she couldn't think about anything but growing again), it was getting harder and harder for her to think of anything but how good that giant step had felt.
"It's their funeral if they don't." Kat added coldly as she stared downward. Tanya looked at her friend funny for a second but then just gave a little (well, for her!) nod in agreement.
Both girls raised their white and black feet up one more time and both stepped forward into the street a second time. Again, the simple act of stepping felt so good that each of them moaned with pleasure. This time they had also been more reckless with where they stepped, with Kat's enormous foot only missing an old man by mere inches! He screamed as he just barely managed to dive his elderly body onto the very edge of the sidewalk to avoid the young giant's huge foot. Kat, who was looking downward the whole time, noticed him there but really couldn't find it within herself to care as she took her giant step, and didn't feel any particular sense of relief when he narrowly avoided being stepped on by her giant foot either.
That's not like me at all, is it? Kat managed to think to herself through her haze of pleasure. Well, I guess making a deal with Zedd and Rita to become a giant wasn't really much like me either, but I'm loving every second of this. This is just the new me!
"Hey Kat?" the giant Tanya boomed, trying to focus for a second through the haze of pleasurable feelings being so massive was giving her.
"Yeah?"
"What are we planning to do when the guys show up?" Tanya asked her equally huge friend.
To be continued…..
