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Michael had been working on a special project for a while now: a growth ray. As he was in charge of the project, once the research was nearing completion, he told his wife Nancy all about it. He got home from work that day when he explained things to her.
“Hi, babe,” Nancy said, “Want something to eat?”
“I already ate, but thank you.”
“Oh, well that’s good. How was work?”
“Nancy, darling, I’m sure you’ve been curious as to what I’ve been working on all this time.”
“The thought did occur to me.”
“I know this’ll sound hard to believe, but the project is in its final stages. I’ve been constructing a growth ray, or enlarging ray.”
“A growth ray?” Nancy asked, “What’s it for?”
“It should be able to make anything bigger, my love. As big as you want it to be, and with no nasty side effects. Think what it could do for your garden, for instance.”
“Huh, well when you put it like that, that sounds amazing, sweetie. You did say it should work on anything, right?”
“Yes, dear.”
“What about people?”
He sat down on the couch.
“Well, of course it could work on people. Making someone a giant could come in handy.”
“How can you be sure it’ll work on people?”
“I guess we’ll just have to test it. Although it could be risky.”
Nancy looked a bit disappointed.
“On the other hand, we’ve tested it on plenty of other things, and they came out just fine.”
Nancy now had a small smile on her face.
“So, if you do test it on a human, how will you get a volunteer?”
He stretched out on the couch.
“I guess I hadn’t thought that far ahead.”
“Well…would it be okay if I volunteered?”
Mike looked surprised.
“You, Nancy? I don’t know…”
She sat down on the couch and placed a hand on his cheek.
“Please, sweetie? I want to help you. It sounds so cool! I mean, you made the thing. You’ll be right there. I know you’ll make sure nothing goes wrong. You’re so smart.”
She scratched him under his chin.
“Okay, Nancy, I’ll have a word with my superiors. I’m sure they’ll appreciate it.”
“Yay!”
She cuddled up next to him on the couch. A few days later, when Mike came home, he gave her the news.
“Okay, dear, tomorrow’s the big day, uh, literally. We can finally test the machine on a human volunteer. So after I do a few checkups and such on the machine in the morning, I’ll come pick you up around noon and we can start.”
“I’m so excited, sweetie! We should celebrate.”
“Just what I was thinking, beautiful. Let’s head to the drive-thru.”
The next day, Nancy and Mike were at his lab.
“I know I said it before, but I’m so glad you let me volunteer to help with your project.”
“Why are you so eager to help? Not that I’m complaining.”
“Will you think I’m crazy if I say I want to see how it feels to be big?”
“I admire your curiosity, Nancy.”
“Thank you, baby. It’s just so amazing to think about. So when do we start?”
“Everyone else went home for the day, so it’s just the two of us. We can start right away.”
“Woo-hoo!”
They headed into the adjoining warehouse where the fairly large machine was located.
“Wow, is that the machine? It looks so cool.”
She walked around it and looked it up and down.
“It’s all so fascinating. Okay, so what do I have to do?”
“You see that target on the ground? Just stand right there, and try not to move.”
“Okay, right, don’t move.”
She took off her flip flops, walked over, and stood in the designated spot.
“Mikey, do you think there will be any side effects?”
“This device is still in the experimental stages, so there’s always a possibility.”
“Well, if there are side effects, I’m sure you can fix it, sweetie.”
She blew him a kiss. He smiled as he turned to look at the machine. He powered the machine up and it made a humming noise.
“Ready?” he asked.
She held her arms out at her sides, “Ready!”
He flipped a few switches and then pressed a large button. A beam shot out of the muzzle of the growth ray and hit Nancy. Her entire body was now glowing with energy.
“Ooh, that makes me feel all tingly. Nothing’s happened yet though. How long is it supposed to take? Wait a second…”
She looked at her hands, which were now tingling. To her surprise, the fingers on her right hand grew bigger one at a time, followed by the palm.
“Oh, gosh! My hand is huge!”
She looked over at her left hand, and it also enlarged to match the size of her other hand.
“What’s going on?! Why is it just my -”
She stopped to look at her feet, as they were now the ones with a tingling sensation.
The big toe on her left foot grew even bigger, as did the other toes, followed by the sole.
“Oh my! Is it supposed to work like this?”
Her right foot now grew to the same larger size.
“Look at my feet! They’re too big for shoes!”
Now her right arm grew, stretching across the room.
“I’m losing balance!"
Her left arm grew to a huge size as well. The extra weight caused her to sit down.
“Oof, goodness!”
Her right leg grew bigger, almost reaching Mike.
“Oh, wow! Look out, dear!”
Her left leg followed suit, enlarging and stretching over to the machine. Nancy noticed that her now enormous legs and feet are like fences on either side of Mike.
“I’ve got you surrounded, sweetie!” she giggled.
Now, her backside grew, making her body rise higher.
“Hey, that felt really good.”
Next, her belly grew bigger.
“Oh, wow! This is making me hungry!”
Then, her chest expanded to match the rest of her body.
“Yes! I’ll bet you liked that, didn’t you, babe? Wait, somethings not right.”
She then became aware that her head was still normal sized.
“Hey, what about my head?”
Her head was now tingling. Her left ear grew bigger, followed by her right ear.
“That feels weird!”
Now her nose grew much larger, sticking far out on her face.
“Hey, that’s not cool!”
Next, her lovely hair grew, covering much of her face.
“That will take extra long to comb!”
Finally, the rest of her head enlarged, but also ended up hitting the ceiling.
“Ouch!” she looked around, “This place seemed roomier before.”
Now that her transformation was complete, the machine shut down. Mike walked closer to get a better look.
“Am I done? Wow, you look so small down there,” she giggled, “Well, little man, how big am I?”
“According to the machine, you’ve grown to 30 feet tall (9.1 m).”
“30 feet tall?! That’s so awesome!”
“Are you sure you feel okay, Nancy?”
“I feel great, baby! I wish I could go outside and stretch.”
“What?!”
“I know, that would attract too much attention.”
“Well, actually, my dear, now that you mention it, we’ll have to allow it sooner or later. Right now we’re just making sure the ray works.”
“You mean at some point I’ll get to be big and outside where everyone can see me? Amazing!”
She reached down and picked him up.
“Need a lift to get a closer look at me, little man?”
“Thanks I…wait, have you been calling me little man?”
“Well you are, aren’t you? Compared to me at least. You’re so cute this small.”
“I’m not small, honey, you’re very big. Plus you look absolutely beautiful.”
“You’re going to make me blush, you smooth talker. Anyway, what do we do now?”
“Obviously, I have to return you to your normal size so I can run maintenance on the machine and such.”
“You’re going to make me small already? Aw…”
She placed him back on the ground.
“Nancy, don’t pout. This is just the first test. There’ll be plenty of other opportunities to make you bigger in the future.”
She perked up, “Really?”
He flashed her a big smile, “Really really.”
“Oh, well when you put it that way… Okay, babe, go ahead.”
“Thank you, dear.”
He went back to the machine and activated it once again. As before, the beam hit Nancy, covering her body in energy. Her entire body shrank back to normal size, except her head. She looked like she was about to fall over.
“Hey, this isn’t funny!”
Just then, her head shrank to match the rest of her body.
She sighed, “That’s better. Glad I could help you. So I guess we can call that a success?”
“It certainly seems that way, gorgeous. You don’t feel strange or anything, do you?”
“No, I feel fine.”
“In that case, why don’t you head back home and relax? Grab something to eat, take a nap, that sort of thing.”
“You don’t have to tell me twice. What about you?”
“I’m going to stay here and do some check ups on the machine. You can come pick me up later if that's okay.”
“That's fine, sweetie. Okay then, I’ll see you later.”
She put on her flip flops and started to walk away.
“Oh, but just one more thing. If there are any side effects, call me as soon as possible, okay?”
“I’m sure you’re worrying over nothing, but I promise, sweetie. Bye again!”
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Nancy soon returned home, and the first thing she did was have a snack.
“That was good, but I don’t want to eat too much. I’m sure my sweetie will want to treat me today.”
As she sat down in a nearby chair, she closed her eyes and relaxed. Just then, however, she felt a tingling sensation in her feet. Since she knew the test would be quick, and that she wouldn’t have to do much, she just wore a pair of flip flops. Now that she was looking at them, though, they looked a size too small. Her toes and heels were sticking out past the edges of them.
“That’s weird. Maybe I accidentally bought the wrong size. Oh well. I was going to change into some proper shoes anyway.”
She kicked her flip flops off and went into her room to dig through her closet. She picked out a pair of shoes, sat down, and put them on.
“Ouch! These shoes feel too tight. If I was to walk around wearing them, they'd kill my poor feet. I know my sweetie would give me a foot massage, but the pain isn't worth it. I'll try another pair.”
She picked out several other pairs, and sat back down. When she tried to put the other shoes on though…
“No…not these…or these… All of these shoes are too tight! What is going on here? I can’t have bought all of these in the wrong size. Maybe my feet are swollen or something. I think I’ll just put on my slippers until my hubby gets home. They're more comfortable than flip flops.”
As she slipped them on, her feet started to tingle and they grew bigger. She looked down and gasped at how her slippers barely fit on her feet.
“What’s going on here? I’d better call my sweetie. Where’s my phone? I must’ve left it on that chair.”
She headed back to the living room, which felt a bit awkward due to her much larger feet. As she reached over to her phone, her arms started to tingle, and then they both grew longer, causing her to reach past her phone. She let her arms hang down at her sides and saw that they were now so long that her hands were dragging on the floor.
“Why is this happening to me?”
She was about to reach for her phone again, when suddenly, her neck grew so long that she hit her head on the ceiling.
“Oof! Okay, now I really need to call him.”
Yet again, she reached for her phone, but her entire body tingled and she grew so large her shoulders were pushing against the ceiling.
“Thank goodness I’m all in proportion. Wait, what am I saying? I’m growing again! My phone…”
She finally grabbed her phone, but it was now very small in her hands.
“I might accidentally crush my phone now. I’ll just have to go there in person.”
She felt her body tingling again.
“Oh no! I’m still growing! I better get outside before I’m stuck inside.”
She rushed to the door and attempted to squeeze through, but she got stuck halfway due to her growth spurt.
“Come on!”
The sides of the door were starting to crack. She gave herself a big pull and was finally free, although the door frame was definitely broken.
“Great. Now we’ll have to get that fixed. Oh gosh! I can feel it still happening!”
She kept growing until she was bigger than the house! She looked around at the now much smaller landscape.
“I’m a giantess again. This is cool, but I’d better go back and let him know. Sorry about this, baby, but a lot of people are going to see me.”
She walked back to the lab, garnering a lot of attention, and occasionally bumping into property like cars and buildings.
“Excuse me! Pardon me! Oh, did I hit your car? I am so sorry!”
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Mike was filling out paperwork when she reached the lab and banged on the warehouse door.
“That’s an awfully loud knock. I wonder who that could be?”
He walked over and opened the door. He was greeted by a pair of giant feet.
“I didn’t see that coming.”
“Hi, sweetie!”
He looked up to see the now much larger face of his wife. She awkwardly waved, and then squatted down.
“So, uh, baby, as you can see, I have a small problem.”
“Small?”
“Okay, fine, a big problem. Can you fix it?”
He said nothing as he looked at her large body. She snapped her fingers.
“Baby, I need you to focus!”
“Huh? Oh, right, sorry. You’re just so…amazing.”
“Don’t make me blush, honey.”
“Let me open the warehouse door so you can crawl inside.”
He darted back inside and the big door opened. Nancy got down on her hands and knees and crawled through the opening. He sat at his desk, while she sat down and folded her legs.
“Now tell me exactly what happened, Nancy.”
“I got home, I had a snack, I sat down to relax, that’s all normal stuff. Wait, okay, after I sat down, I got a tingling feeling in my feet. That’s when I noticed my flip flops were too small. In fact, all of my shoes were too small. How am I going to find nice shoes to wear at this size, sweetie?”
“Please try to focus, dear.”
“Right, sorry. So my body kept tingling, and then I started growing. I think I broke the door frame when I squeezed through it, baby. Sorry about that.”
“It’s fine, dear. Then what happened?”
“I walked straight here so you could fix this. Why did this happen?”
“Like I said, my love, this machine is experimental. Obviously it’s some strange side effect. The energy of the machine is still affecting you. According to the ray, you’ve grown back to 30 feet.”
“So what can we do?”
“Well…since the machine itself is still somehow working on you, maybe if I go straight to the power source, I can make an antidote. That might take a while.”
Nancy let out a yawn.
“Oh, sorry, darling, but I didn’t get to take a nap.”
“Go ahead and take one now. It might not be very comfortable here though.”
She stretched out her gigantic body and lay down on her back.
“I’m too tired at this point, sweetie. Growing sure can tire you out.”
She fell fast asleep. Mike walked up to her and gave her a kiss on the cheek.
“I’ll work as fast as I can, Nancy.”
He walked back over to the machine and began taking it apart. An hour or more went by as he removed the power core and grounded it into a fine powder. Thankfully, there were plenty of other supplies in the lab for him to make a capsule.
“I just pour this powder into the capsule, and with that we should have our antidote. I think a pill is the best way to administer it. The difficult part might be getting Nancy to swallow it though. I can't really blame her. This is a pretty big pill. Maybe if we had some water -”
Just then, Nancy's eyes fluttered open and she let out a loud yawn. She stretched a bit and sat up.
“I feel so much better. Oh, hey, babe. How's it going?”
“It's actually going well, my darling. The antidote should be ready.”
She was clearly preoccupied with waking up as she was rubbing her eyes. She then pulled her legs up to her chest and turned to look at him.
“That’s nice, sweetie. I knew you could do it. So how…”
She went silent.
“Nancy, what's the matter?”
“Baby, I'm feeling the tingling again.”
Her body shuddered, and then she had another growth spurt. As she grew, her head hit the warehouse roof.
“Ouch!”
She laid back down as she continued to get larger. Her legs stretched out past Mike, as if two walls had been built on either side of him. She finally stopped growing and tried to prop herself up. Mike looked over at the machine. It said she was now a towering 50 feet (15.24 m) tall!
“Sweetie, look at me! I’m even bigger! Just how huge am I?”
“50 feet tall, dearest.”
“Wow, that is big. Now I can be in one of those cheesy Science Fiction movies. We should watch some of those.”
“Of course, Nancy, but first I need you to take this –”
“Oh, I can't stand it! I have to get out of here.”
“Whoa, wait a minute! You're leaving?”
“I'm afraid so, cutie.”
“You can't go out like this!”
“I already did when I walked here in the first place.”
“Okay, fair enough , but where are you going?”
“Apparently, growing makes you hungry,” she said, patting her belly, “I'm going to get something to eat.”
She maneuvered herself so that she was on her stomach and crawled out the warehouse door. Once outside, she stood up at her full height. Mike ran outside and latched onto her ankle.
“Baby, please -”
“Don't call me baby, little man. Your sweet talking won't stop me. I want food, and I'm going to get it. I need food! After all, I'm a growing girl. Tee hee!”
She reached down and pulled him off her ankle. She then put him down several feet away from her. She winked at him as she walked away, her massive stride taking her towards the city in no time.
“Oh, this is just silly,” he said to himself.
He went back inside, grabbed the pill, and got on his bicycle.
“Well, on the plus side, it's easy to find her.”
He managed to get ahead of her.
“Nancy, angel, down here!”
She was looking around when she heard him.
“Oh, hello, little man. What do you want? Can’t you see I’m busy? I’m still hungry!”
“I know, Nancy, I know, but I need you to take this pill.”
“You want me to do what? What is that you’re holding? Did I hear you right? That thing's a pill? It's so big though. Like I'm one to talk,” she chuckled.
“Yes, Nancy, it's a pill. This should reduce you back to your normal size.”
“Really? Let me see.”
He held it up, and she grabbed it from him between her massive fingers. She brought it up to her eyes, sniffed it, and then dropped it back into his arms.
“No thanks. First of all, that’s a really big pill. Second, I’m not doing anything else until I get some food. I prefer taking pills with my food!”
She stepped over him and walked away, chuckling to herself.
“I should've seen this coming,” he said, “Once she wants something, she won't stop until she gets it. There must be something I can do.”
Mike stopped to think for a bit. He then smelled something.
“What is that? It smells kind of familiar.”
He looked around for where the smell was coming from. He then spotted a nearby restaurant.
“Oh, that’s what it is. I’m sure we’ve eaten there before. Hey, wait a second. That gives an idea.”
He headed back to the lab to borrow a truck and load it with several steel kegs. He then visited several different stores to buy in bulk. He purchased chicken, onions, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, garlic, ginger, turmeric powder, chili powder, mustard oil, chicken masala, garam masala, and salt. Using a trailer hitch, he borrowed a cement mixer. He took all the ingredients back to the lab, and quickly made several batches of curry. The entire time he was preparing the food, he turned on a nearby large fan to blow the smell out the door.
“Hopefully, Nancy will smell the food and come running. She absolutely loves curry.”
Once the curry was prepared, he poured every pot into the cement mixer, filling it about halfway.
“And now for the final ingredient,” he says, dropping in the pill.
Meanwhile, back in the city, Nancy was getting fed up.
“You’d think being this big would help me to find food quicker! I’m so hungry!”
That’s when the smell of the curry wafted past her. She sniffed the air. Her eyes went wide.
“Is that what I think it is?”
Her head snapped back into the direction of the lab.
“Is my little man making curry?”
She eagerly stomped back through the city and quickly reached the lab.
“Sweetie, are you in there?”
He walked outside, “Welcome back, my gentle giantess.”
“The gentle part might be debatable depending on how you answer this question. Did you make curry?”
“Why, as a matter of fact, I did. Just a moment.”
He went back inside and wheeled out the cement mixer full of curry. Her huge toes were twitching with excitement.
“Oh, baby, it smells delicious!”
“And it’s all for you, my love.”
“You made all this for me? Oh, darling, you’re the best.”
She grabbed him and kissed him a few times. She then put him down and easily picked up the cement mixer with her massive hand.
“This’ll be good for starters, but I’ll still need more food than this, little man!” she giggled.
She eagerly poured all the curry into her mouth, licked around the inside of the mixer, and when it was all gone, she dropped it on the ground. She licked her lips in a satisfied manner.
“Yummy! I’m glad you know how to cook, little man. That was good, but not nearly enough to satisfy me. Is there more?”
He thought about how to reply, when her whole body seemed to shudder.
“Oh…I feel funny.”
Nancy began getting smaller.
“What’s happening to me? I’m shrinking!”
“Thank heaven it worked,” he muttered to himself.
She was soon back to her normal size. Mike ran up to her, hugged her, dipped her, and gave her several kisses.
“Goodness, baby, calm down,” she said, laughing.
“Are you okay, honey?”
“Yes, baby, I’m fine. Look at me. I’m clearly back to my normal size.”
“I couldn’t help but be a little worried, Nancy. I’m glad it all worked out.”
“I never doubted you for a second. Still…”
“What is it, gorgeous?”
“It’s just that I liked being a giantess.”
“You were very big and very beautiful. Although you’re always beautiful.”
“Oh, you. So, uh… Can we try it again?”
“I knew you were going to say that. I promised you there would have to be more testing. So you’ll get to be larger than life again soon enough, my dear.”
“Really?”
“Really really.”
“Okay then. Now what I really want is some food. I’m pretty sure it’s time for dinner.”
“Honey, I just made you all that curry.”
“That doesn’t count. I was a giantess when I ate it. That was barely a snack for me.”
“Oh, right…yeah, I guess that makes sense. Okay then, let’s head back to the house so we can change clothes and pick out a place to eat.”
She leaned in close and whispered, “You’re the best, little man.”