Big Trouble in Little Dock
Written by HarmonyMotion with Au Goose
Edited by Au Goose
Shard-Strike Universe created by Au Goose
Chapter 1
"Look at this mess!" Titaness groused, knee deep in rubble. And she was currently twenty feet tall.
"Stop complaining and get to work. I can't clean up if you're just going to complain the whole time."
"Ugh! I'm Titaness, not 'Crane Girl'."
Titaness kicked a particularly large piece of rubble into the air with her bare feet. She was dressed in her more casual wear: a black sports bra and painted-on lycra-looking shorts. It complimented her voluptuous figure well, but that was merely a side effect. It was also a bit of misdirection. People assumed she had to wear expensive fabrics that could expand to over 100 times their size and not tear into little pieces if she wanted to keep her modesty. The truth was far stranger, and gave her an edge she hadn't had to use. Yet.
Raceway waited impatiently below as Titaness's shadow loomed ever larger, her foot blurring as she tapped it on the concrete rubble.
"Ahhhh..." Titaness groaned as she stretched her limbs at their maximum height.
"Careful!" Raceway blurred away.
"Oops, sorry. Feels good to go full size once in a while, you know?" Titaness extended her arms above her head and twisted her torso. Her thirty-foot tall calves also swelled with muscle as she curled her foot, resting on its heel and exercising that elegant swell of power also. Her soft sigh of excitement echoed through the financial district.
"Come on, come on, let's get to work," Raceway urged impatiently.
"Okay. Sheesh, I forget how old you are sometimes. You look as young as me!"
Raceway rolled her eyes. But it was true. At 39, she didn't look a day over 20. Mature enough not to be offended, Sofia accepted the backhanded compliment with grace. Besides, she couldn't deny that she loved the way she looked ever since that fateful Shard Strike.
Titaness picked up some of the larger pieces of the rubble of 239 Montgomery Street Suite. The large pieces of useless mortar looked like mere toy blocks in her enormous palms. She crushed the useless material into dust.
Titaness reached for another one.
"No, not that! That can be salvaged!"
"How can you tell?" Titaness's voice boomed from above.
"It's marble! Expensive marble! Can't you tell?"
"I dunno. It all looks the same to me."
"Dura," Raceway muttered under her breath.
"I heard that!"
The two continued their tag team cleanup, Titaness crushing the larger valueless pieces to dust while Raceway zipped around the perimeter, sweeping the small pieces out of the way and performing general tidying. She also supervised her large teammate to stack up the salvageable material.
"I swear, can't Marathon behave himself for once? I can't believe he brought down the whole building and cratered the street!"
"Must have been quite powerful girl he found too. Maybe Trace. Enhanced toughness, perhaps?"
"Guess she'd have to be to survive... this. And you know how embarrassed he gets in bed. He'd really have to know that the girl could handle it."
"Oh really?" Raceway asked, raising an eyebrow toward Titaness's head far up in the sky.
"I mean, I mean, I heard! Come on! You know the rumors," Titaness blushed.
"Okei."
"I'm just saying, for once, he should clean up after himself."
"Ah, to be young again," Raceway smiled in amusement as she stacked up another column of rubble for Titaness to stomp to dust. A small crowd of fans watching from beyond the safety line cheered. Titaness had always had her special fans since she'd revealed herself as part of the Golden Guard.
"Don't tell me you approve!" Titaness crossed her arms underneath her bust and huffed.
"You will understand when you get to be my age. The children need to have fun and love too. Marathon is good one. I forgive him."
"Oh come on, you can't be excited to have to clean up after him! He should fix his own mess, like a proper adult!"
"He's responding to store robbery. You are too big for this."
"I bet he's just having another go! I bet there's nothing left of that store but rubble after he's done with his new lady friend."
"Marathon is good one," Raceway reiterated. "And what about you, Titaness? We all know what happen when you first experimented with your power. Hmm?"
"That's different!" Titaness looked away as she crushed more asphalt to dust under her bare sole.
"Nudaaa..." the Russian expat speedster moaned.
Chapter 2
Last Year
"Come on Markus, I have something to show you!" Cathy ran toward the campground, practically dragging her boyfriend along.
"Slow... down... Cathy..." Markus panted as he was nearly pulled off his feet!
"Come on! Really! I don't think I can contain it much longer!"
"Contain what!?" Markus managed before he had to swallow his voice to keep up with her new, inexplicably more beautiful girlfriend whom he'd lost contact with for a month. He'd made detective during their hiatus, but his big surprise for her barely even registered on the scale compared to her... developments.
Finally they reached the vacant camping space she'd reserved in the middle of November. Thanks to the hard nighttime chill of the Mojave desert in winter, the remaining campsites were completely unoccupied. Plus, people were still worried about the strange fires that had broken out that had happened just a few months prior. People thought it might have been another one of the shard strikes that had changed the world.
Cathy knew first hand they were right.
They stood in the open clearing, surrounded by empty storage and trash bins, fire pits, and vacant parking spaces. Markus was clutching his chest with both arms, shuddering from the cold and sucking in chilly air into his burning lungs.
"Aren't... you... cold?" he asked in between raggedy breaths.
Cathy was dressed in nearly nothing! Just a plain white bra and a matching pair of briefs. He would've admired her new, incredible good looks if he weren't so exhausted and worried about her well-being. And not only had she somehow become more beautiful, her bosom so full, her legs so long clad in her flawless brown skin, she seemed... taller too.
Okay, didn't just seem taller. Was taller....And growing taller by the second?
What the hell!?
"I was out here when the fires happened. It was one of those things. A Shard Strike, Markus!" she chirped gleefully as she grew from her original slightly above average height to around what must have been just over eight feet tall, judging from the gnarled desert trees which she now stood as tall as.
"Are... are you okay?" Markus asked stupidly as he craned his neck to meet her eyes.
"Pfft. What do you think?!"
Cathy's head continued to rise, surging past those twisted branches. Her torso lengthened, her legs grew longer and packed on more flesh to support her incredible height, and her bosom expanded to keep pace with the rest of her body.
Markus could no longer meet his girlfriend's gaze, but he didn't have much to complain about. Cathy's normal sized bra should have barely covered her brown, protruding nipples now, but somehow it was keeping up with her. So were her panties, until she slipped them off, dropping the now massive undergarment where it almost completely covered an unsuspecting joshua tree. Her luscious legs towered over him in such glorious, real-life high resolution, so smooth and bare, fit and toned. Even her bare feet looked fucking irresistible.
And Markus wasn't even into feet.
Staring at the most glorious underboob the world would ever witness, Markus was content to just drink in the sight of his still-growing girlfriend. Those breasts had to be as large as basketballs now, but they simply looked normal-to-large on her sky-piercing frame.
Cathy playfully arched her back, a slight look of concentration. She kept growing but now her bra didn't, In seconds, the fabric could take no more. Her last scrap of clothing exploded, the cloth blown away by the wind along with her delighted laughter.
"So..." Cathy's voice rang out from above. "What do you think?"
She was still growing!
"Cathy! Um... can you even hear me up there?" Markus asked, both fascinated and nervous.
"Yup, I can hear you just fine. I'm reaching my limit!"
"How tall are you!?"
"Dunno. Haven't really been able to measure it," she giggled. "Certainly way taller than the Getty or Griffith Observatory."
"Well, no shit."
Cathy squatted down, bending at the knees. Her long legs flared outward, surrounding him on both sides. Her bare, glistening sex was on full display, still taller than him. He gasped as he stared at that wonderful gate. He couldn't decide if he was more aroused by her brazen nudity or more fascinated by the most detailed diagram of the fairer sex's reproductive system that he'd ever seen.
"So... you like it?"
Her slim but enormous arms rested on her knees. She was leaning forward far enough that Markus could actually see her face, should he choose to. But there was so much luscious flesh on display that he had trouble looking away from her heavy breasts, her chiseled abs, or her smooth, polished thighs.
"Earth to Markus. Or maybe I should say, 'Sky to Markus'."
Cathy laughed at her own joke.
"Huh. Uh, yeah. It's really... um... cool."
"You really think so?" Cathy smiled. Even at her size, she could see the erection tenting his jeans. "That's all you think about it? It's cool?"
"Um, I dunno what to say. I guess the Strike really changed you, huh? It's not just the growing thing... you're really sexy too. I mean! Even sexier than before. By a lot."