There was a pause of about half a second between the moment Amanda pulled the trigger and the moment the gun charged up and fired its blue laser. That half a second was just enough time for a previously unseen girl on the other side of the aisle to stand and block Amanda’s shot.

The girl that stood was tall, very tall in fact and once she was fully standing Amanda could only see her chest, but she’d seen the girl’s face as it had moved past the opening between books and Amanda’s heart sunk.

Amanda had just enough time to think to herself: What’s Brenda Bishop doing doing in the library? I didn’t even know she could read.

Then the blue beam blasted from the gun’s barrel and enveloped Brenda while Amanda was frozen in place to watch the horror unfold through her small window.



The trouble was that Brenda “The Boulder” Bishop was, to put it mildly, a bully. She was an enormous girl of 18 and the youngest of 5 children; all boys save for her. Their father was a champion powerlifter and had passed his oversized girth to all of his children. Her brothers had all followed in their father’s footsteps on at least some level and spent enough time in the gym so that even the smallest was still the strongest kid in school in his own day. Growing up Brenda had to make sure she was tough enough to put up with torment from her 4 super strong brothers who picked on her from the moment she could walk. By the time Brenda had entered junior high she was 6 feet tall and built like a tank. She looked husky, but she’d left little doubt that her mass was mostly muscle and not fat when an older kid had picked on her about her size. She’d lifted the kid into the air, held him above her head, and then tossed him like a rag doll into a nearby trash can.

From that day on she made everyone who she considered to be inferior regret the day they’d ever heard of Brenda Bishop; and that was nearly everyone.

By the time she left junior high for high school Brenda had reached her full height of 6’ 5” and weighed in at 265 pounds. Brenda always felt awkward in her own skin and found that her frustrations could be worked out by lifting weights in the gym. She loved showing off just how strong she was and began following her father’s regimen to build power even more. She watched with excitement as her already impressive strength increased quickly making her arguably the strongest person in school. Brenda was bench pressing over 500 pounds which was a full 100 pounds greater than anyone on the football team could manage.

She began looking at her school day as a place to work out rather than study or learn and her already poor grades slipped into the dismal category. She’d been told that if she didn’t get her act together she’d be cut off from using any school facilities. Even though there were plenty of weights for her to use at home her brothers always got first pick and tended to not let her in, so the school was the one place she could get full access to everything she wanted.

Grudgingly she accepted to do a little extra credit to try to bring her GPA back up to merely bad instead of horrible. Thus her morning trip to the library.

All of this was before Amanda shot her with the muscle expanding gun.



Amanda watched, frozen in place, as Brenda’s already massive body redefined the word “muscular.” Even though the setting was lower for Brenda that it had been for Amanda it was clear that Brenda would end up being superior since she was starting from a much more advanced base.

Right off the bat Brenda’s height increased to 6’ 11” while her body began stacking muscle onto muscle. Her powerlifter physique vanished as any excess fat melted off of her body and her expanding muscles surged forth with insane definition. All her life she had tended toward baggy, loose fitting clothes, but now her jeans and t-shirt were pulled tight across a chest and shoulders that were already bigger than Amanda’s and still growing. Moments later Brenda’s t-shirt morphed into a dark green camouflage tank top which exposed her bowling ball sized shoulders, foot thick shelf of pectoral muscle and a pair of arms that were quickly surpassing Amanda’s record breaking biceps. Brenda’s pants turned into a pair of loose fitting cargo shorts that were still filling with quads that already looked big enough to perform leg lifts with school buses. Brenda’s Doc Martin boots remained on her feet, but the tops were pulled apart around her enormous calf muscles which

By the time Brenda’s growth finished and the reality altering wave exploded outward Amanda could only see a small bit of Brenda’s massive pecs through the gap between the books on the shelf that separated her from the beast she’d created. Had she been able to see all of Brenda what she would have seen was a 6’ 11” monster who was made out of 490 pounds of the thickest and strongest muscle to ever walk the face of the earth. Brenda’s chest was a wall of sinew over two feet thick and her head looked comically small between her bulging delts which swelled larger than her skull. Brenda’s arms had blasted beyond Amanda’s 34” guns becoming 48” cannons while her legs nearly doubled Amanda’s powerful quads reaching a mind boggling 81” around.

If Brenda hadn’t lived up to her namesake before she’d certainly outgrown it now. Though “The Boulder” was still what everyone called her now referring more to her density than her size (though that clearly applied as well).

Amanda didn’t have to see Brenda’s full size to know that she was clearly the strongest human being on earth and likely a danger to every living person.