The energy filled her muscles, which began to grow and harden, pushing Robert higher off the bed, but then they suddenly stopped and actually shrunk slightly.

"Ha!" Robert cried out. "You overdid it and it's not working! Serves you right for sneaking the gun behind my back."

Jess looked up at his sneering expression. Oh, he could be SO annoying, she thought, but still she wondered what exactly WAS happening? She could still feel the energy inside her, doing something. She felt her nipples tingling and getting erect. She was getting goosebumps all over. But she wasn't cold. What was going on?

"You tried to trick me, but you didn't get away with it!" Robert continued, lecturing her. "You should have known better, but you're just a little manipulative bitch, that's what you are. That's what you get for going against me, for trying to use me, trying to use your body to get what you want out of me..."

Robert's voice was like a fly buzzing around her head, an annoying drone. Just one slap could get rid of it. She suppressed the desire to swat him, but her muscles twitched, just a tiny bit.

"...but it didn't work, it'll never work because -- Hey!"

The tiny twitch of Jess's muscle had shaken Robert half off her.

"What are you --"

Jess smiled. Could she possibly be that strong? She took a sudden breath, expanding her chest quickly, and knocked Robert off her and onto the floor.

She rolled over and looked down at him on the floor. "You were saying, Robert dear?" She reached for his hand and squeezed lightly.

"Aaaagghh!" he screamed.

"Awww, baby. I'm SO sorry! I mustn't know my own strength!" Jess grinned. She pulled him off the floor and held him in the air, her arm outstretched. Even with his eight foot tall, four hundred pound body, he felt as light as a feather.

"Let go! Let go of me!" he cried. He beat his fist against her arm. "Owwww!"

"Oooooh, I think the gun worked just fine," she smiled. "I hardly felt that. I have muscles of steel!"

She felt the tingle inside her again. The energy was still working, still changing her. She felt an electric charge all throughout her body. It was as if -- she had to try.

She pointed her finger at Robert. A beam shot from the tip of her finger at his chest.

"What? No!" he cried out. His muscles immediately began to shrink, while at the same time hers become even harder and stronger.

While this was happening, Amanda was watching, terrified in the corner. She didn't know what to do, but then Robert had knocked the gun in her direction. He was such a jerk, but Jess was even worse, and now was frightening her to death. She had to help her brother!