The Tiny Giantess

On the edges of New York City lived Jean Abbot. She wasn’t exactly the average woman. Although she was 22 and had long red hair and emerald green eyes she was still a little odd for a good reason. At 6 feet tall in her school she had been the tallest girl and not really much of a looker. But she had a kind and sweet personality that was unbreakable.
But no sooner had Jean left school her body began to develop into that of a super model. Her legs were long, her breasts were large but not over the top large and thankfully she didn’t grow any taller.
Jean lived with her fiancé Craig. He was a kind man, had brown hair and brown and well built. He had known Jean in high school. He hadn’t really noticed her that much back then but now he was head over heels in love with her. He was average height at 5’10 and Jean was taller then him. When she wore her heels she towered above him. But he didn’t mind having a fiancée and soon to be wife who was taller then him.
Craig had proposed to her a month earlier in one of the fanciest restaurants in the city. There were violinists and everything there when it happened. She couldn’t help but say yes to his proposal.
But for today they were going to see a friend of there’s called Martin. He was a genius when it came to science. The pair had been friends with him since high school. He was the kind of nerdish person that would be the one who was picked on by the bullies and prank on often. But that didn’t stop him from being one of the smartest people in the State. Probably the country. He was 5’7 with longish black hair and brown eyes. Jean would sometimes call him Brundle (After Seth Brundle in ‘The Fly’). But also in high school whenever he was picked by bullies Craig was there to protect him. He was Martin guardian angel in a sense.
Martin had told Jean and Craig about a little invention that could help the world in many ways. He wanted to leave it as a surprise for them. They weren’t exactly sure what they were going to see.
The happy couple eventually got to the door of Martin’s small home. He quickly opened it and he saw the pair of them. He was happy to see them.
“Jean, Craig glad you could come,” said Martin.
“And it’s good to see you,” replied Jean. She then bent down a little and gave Martin a big hug. He enjoyed it.
“You don’t half know how to make a guy feel short.”
“I get that often.”
“So what have you been working on?” asked Craig.
“I’m glad you asked,” replied Martin. “Follow me.”
They then went into the house and Martin led them to a machine that was on the table. He seemed to be happy with it.
The machine itself was only small. It was a lot smaller then Jean and Craig had expected. It was white and seemed to be some kind of ray.
“What is that?” asked Jean.
“This is the solution to many of Earth’s problems,” replied Martin. “This baby can change the size of inanimate objects. Imagine it all the trash and waste in the world could be shrunk down to microscopic size.”
“That’ll help the environment.”
“And I could grow food to send to the poor countries across the world. It might not solve every problem. But it’ll solve a lot of them.”
“If you don’t mind could we see a test?”
“Sure.”
Martin then put a small cake in front of the machine. He then pointed the ray at the cake and pressed the button. A beam of energy went into the cake and it began to grow. In a matter of seconds it had gone from a small cupcake to the size of a pizza.
“Wow,” said Craig.
“Amazing isn’t it?” replied Martin.
“Can we see the shrinking?”
“Sure.”
He then readjusted the settings and went to fire. But something went wrong. The ray was shooting in all directions. Everyone got down to the ground in hopes that they wouldn’t get hit. But the beam rebounded off the wall and hit Jean. Her body felt a little weird. But then the machine died down and they all stood up.
“Everyone alright?” asked Craig.
“Yeah,” replied Jean and Martin.
But then Jean looked at Martin and she looked at him. She noticed that she was having to look a little up at him.
“Err Martin?” asked Jean.
“Yes?” replied Martin.
“Aren’t I normally 5 inches taller then you?”
Then Jean began to see him grow. But then she looked around to see that everything else was growing. She soon realised what was happening.
“Oh my God I’m shrinking!” she shouted.

Both Craig and Martin stared in amazement as the once 6 foot tall woman was now down to 5 foot and still shrinking fast. Jean herself was panicking and she ran up to Martin. She was in hysterics.
“Martin stop this,” said Jean.
“I can’t,” replied Martin. He then went over to the machine. “The machine is totally short circuited.”
By now Jean was down to 3 feet and she was still in complete panic. Thankfully her clothes were shrinking with her so she didn’t have to worry about being both tiny and being in her birthday suit.
“How small will she get?” asked Craig.
“I don’t know I’ve tested this thing on living things and it didn’t work,” replied Martin. “For all I know she may shrink infinitely.”
“Infinitely?” asked jean. “I can’t shrink into nothingness I want to stop.” She began to cry a little.
But by now she was only a foot tall. Craig picked up his shrinking fiancé and put her on the table. There the men could only watch as she continued to shrink. She was crying out to them. But they were amazed to see that they could still hear her clearly even though she was down to 6 inches and still shrinking.
But a few seconds later to the relief of everyone Jean stopped shrinking. But she was still panicky. Everything around her seemed to be huge. She saw two seemingly giant men in front of her.
“I’m tiny,” said Jean.
“Don’t worry I’ll fix this,” replied Martin. “But there’s something I want to do first.” He then got himself a ruler and he measured the tiny woman. He was amazed to see how tall she was. “You’re exactly 2 inches tall. Not a millimetre taller or shorter. Exactly 2 inches on the dot.”
“Great I can see my wedding day now in the papers. Two inch tall woman marries today. I’m going to be a freak.”
“Now don’t worry I’m on the case.”
Martin soon went to his machine and he tried to fix it. Craig picked up his tiny girlfriend and he tried to comfort her. But she was very upset right now. She didn’t know what was going to happen to her now.
An hour past and things didn’t seem to be going any better with the machine. Jean seemed to be getting a little better but she was still depressed. She looked up to her normal sized fiancé.
“Can you take me outside?” asked Jean. “I need some fresh air.”
“Ok honey,” replied Craig.
He then took Jean outside and she began to take a few deep breaths. She seemed to be a little more relaxed now. But then she shed a tear.
“Why can’t I be big again?” asked Jean.
“Martin is fixing this for you,” replied Craig.
“I admit Brundle is brilliant but can he fix me?” She then crossed her arms. “Maybe if I just wish I was big then I’d grow.” She said the sarcastically. But then she felt her body shiver and she saw the world around her shrink. “Hey I’m growing again.”
“Great.”
He then put Jean on the ground as she grew. She seemed to be smiling as well. She was rapidly gaining her former height. She went from 6 inches to a foot, then to 3 feet and finally back to her 6 foot height. She quickly gave Craig a hug.
“My nightmare is over,” said Jean. But then she noticed something odd. Now Craig only seemed to come up to her chin and he was seemingly shrinking. But she knew what was really happening. “I’m still growing.”
Craig took a step back as he watched Jean grow beyond her normal height.

Jean continued to grow and it seemed to be speeding up. Craig just tilted his head up and up as his fiancé continued to grow. There was nothing that he could do for her right now.
“Make it stop!” she shouted.
“What can I do?” replied Craig.
“I don’t know just make it stop.”
Jean had been growing for a few seconds. She had reached 100 feet tall and she was still growing. She was terrified at the same time. Craig himself had to take a few steps back or he would be crushed by her growing feet.
A few seconds later she finally stopped. She panted a little and then she looked down. She guessed that she was a little over 200 feet tall and she saw how small everything looked compared to her.
“Oh my God I’m huge,” said Jean.
“I can tell,” replied Craig.
She quickly picked him up and brought him up to her level. She was clearly in distress and she tried to calm herself down.
“What’s happening to me?” asked Jean.
“I don’t know,” replied Craig.
“What am I going to do? This is worse then being two inches tall.”
“Maybe Martin can fix this.”
“I hope he can.”
After hearing everything that was happening outside Martin came running out. But instead of seeing a tiny size Jean he ran into her big toe. This winded him for a moment but then he looked up at Jean. He was lost for words as he stared at the now Amazing Colossal Jean.
“Jean?” asked Martin.
“Yep it’s me,” replied Jean. She then grabbed him with her other hand and she brought him up to her level. “Look how big I am.”
“My machine wasn’t set to shrink.”
“Can you make me smaller? What if someone sees me?”
“I don’t know.”
“Please you have to or else I’m going to be stuck like this. How am I…”She stopped in mid sentence.
“What’s wrong?” asked Craig.
“I feel weird again.”
Then suddenly Jean began to shrink. She barely had any time to react. But the first thing she did was put the men on the ground. No sooner had she done this she felt the shrinking increase. She closed her eyes in hope that it would go away.
A few seconds later she felt herself stop shrinking. She slowly opened her eyes up and she saw that everything around her was gigantic once more. She gave out a small sigh as she looked up at the men again.
“Guess I shrank again,” said Jean.
“At least there’s still something left of you,” replied Craig. He then picked her up. “But this has to stop.”
“Yes I want to be normal again.”
“That might be very difficult,” replied Martin.
“What’s wrong?”

“Well I’ve been through that machine top to bottom,” said Martin. “I have found what the problem is.”
“You have?” replied Jean.
“Yep there’s a part that’s burned out so I’ve got to order a new one.”
“What’s so bad about that?”
“It takes between six months to two years to get here?”
“What?” Her World came crashing around her. “I’m going to be this small for that long?” Tears were in her eyes.
“I’m afraid so. I can change the size of inanimate objects but the organic is beyond me”
“But what if I keep shrinking. What’ll happen if I become so small that no one will be able to see me?”
“I doubt that would happen.”
“But what will I do?”
“For now all I can say is that you’ll have to get use to being tiny. And you may never know you might actually like it.”
“No I won’t like it!”
Later that day Jean was sitting on a chair. The chair itself was made out of pink plastic and she looked like she was a midget in it. Her feet didn’t touch the ground and the chair almost engulfed her.
She then stood up from the chair and she walked over to a plastic door. The handle was at her eye level and she pushed it open. She went towards one of the windows but she was too short to look above the ledge so she had to stand on a small plastic stool. Then she looked outside.
But the next thing she knew she could hear a knocking noise. She went off her stool and she went down some stairs. It was difficult for her to walk down them since to her it was like going down two stairs at a time.
But when she reached the bottom of the stairs she went to the front door and opened it. In front of her she saw a seemingly giant size Craig. He smiled at her but she still seemed to be very upset.
“So do you like you’re the dollhouse?” asked Craig.
“No I don’t,” replied Jean. “Everything is too big for me.”
“I know but I couldn’t find any dollhouses that were small enough for you. I was lucky to get this one.”
“Thank you anyway. But it’s just a lot to get use to. I’ve been 6 feet tall since the seventh grade. Then I go down to 2 inches then I grow to over 200 feet, then I’m back down to 2 inches and now I’m in a house where I’m barely 3 feet tall.”
“Why not just stay at being gigantic?”
“You can’t be serious. Everyone will be looking at me as if I was some sort of freak. I can’t go through all that again.”
“Through what?”
“People staring at me because I towered over them.” She then gave out a sigh and she sat down. “You saw what I was like at Martin’s. After being gigantic I got really hungry and you saw how much I ate. I felt like a pig but I couldn’t stop myself. And there’re so many things I wanted to do. Get married to you, have a semi-successful modelling career and I can’t have any kids.”
She then began to cry her heart out. Craig felt great sympathy for his tiny size fiancé but right now there wasn’t much he could do.

“Maybe a trip to the lake,” said Craig. “You always enjoyed it there.”
“I guess so,” replied Jean. “Right now I’m willing to try anything out that can make me feel a little better.”
“That’s my girl.”
Craig soon got everything ready and they went to the lake. It was a short car journey but Jean was having to sit on the car seat. She couldn’t put a seatbelt on since it was too big for her.
Normally Jean would have liked to look at the scenery outside but since she was too small to see above the dashboard. She just gave out a small sigh and she sat back. She then looked up to Craig.
“Are we there yet?” asked Jean.
“Not quite honey,” replied Craig.
“I can’t wait. I actually want to see something else besides the car door.” She then sighed once more. “Maybe I can in 6 months to 2 years.”
“Don’t worry you’ll be normal before you know it.”
“But until then I’m the world’s smallest woman.”
“You could try and join a circus.”
“That’s not funny!”
“Sorry I couldn’t resist.”
It didn’t take them too much longer to reach the lake. The lake itself was extremely large and there were normally ferry trips on it so that tourists can see its beauty. But today Jean didn’t feel like going on it. Instead she stayed in Craig’s pocket and looked at the world around her.
“Beautiful isn’t it?” asked Craig.
“If you say so,” replied Jean.
“Come on cheer up.”
“I’m trying. But when your world has been turned upside down it’s extremely hard to cheer up.”
But then she heard something coming from the lake. She took a look and saw that one of the small ferries was in trouble. People were screaming in terror and Jean could feel for them. But then she came to a decision.
“Take me out of your pocket,” said Jean.
“What why?” replied Craig.
“I’m about to try something either very brave or very stupid.”
Craig then took Jean out of his pocket and put her on the ground. She began to think big and at first nothing happened. But then she could feel the strange feeling throughout her body. She then saw the world around her shrink as she began to grow.
Again Jean didn’t stop growing until she had reached over 200 feet tall. Craig and a lot of other people just stared at her.
“Wish me luck,” said Jean.
She then took off her flip flops and she walked into the water. She was hoping that her size didn’t run out on her. But right now all she was thinking about was helping the poor people on the ferry.
When she got there people were still screaming in terror. But a few of them were screaming because of Jean.
“Don’t worry I’m here to help,” she said.

Jean could see that there were too many people on the ferry. If she kept going back and fourth with big handfuls she would likely run out of time before she could save everyone. She looked at the ship itself and she began to do a few things in her head. But eventually she grabbed onto the ship’s stern.
“I hope I’m as strong as I am large,” said Jean.
She then began to pull the ship towards the banks of the lake. But the ship and everything on it was very heavy. She was having a hard time pulling it to safety. It was still taking in water and she had to move as fast as she could before she would uncontrollable shrink down to her tiny size.
“She’s pulling us to safety,” said a random person.
“We’re saved,” replied another passenger.
She continued to pull the ship towards the banks. It took her several minutes to get there. But with one might lift she was able to put it into shallow waters where it couldn’t sink. She gave out a sigh of relief.
“There you go,” she said. She then gave everyone a pleasant smile. “Safe and sound.” But then she began to walk away.
She went back to her flip flops and she put them back. Craig was still there and he was in some disbelief over what had just happened. But the next thing he did was smile at his fiancé. In return she picked him up and brought him up to her level.
“You were amazing Jean,” said Craig.
“I know I can’t believe that I actually did it,” replied Jean. “And I’m a giant a lot longer then I was before.”
“Let’s just hope that it doesn’t last too long.”
With that Jean felt the familiar shiver run down her spine. She put Craig on the floor and she shrank back down to her normal height. The process of the shrinking only took seconds. It was so fast it was like watching a meteor hitting the ground at supersonic speeds.
When the shrinking was finished Craig picked her up and she still seemed to be happy. Craig smiled back at her.
“That felt good,” said Jean
“Becoming tiny again?” replied Craig.
“Not just that. But the fact is that I used my size to help people. It felt good that I was doing something besides sulking.”
“Yeah you are a lot happier.”
“Maybe I can use my size to help people.”
“But its too unpredictable.”
“Then maybe we should get some help from Brundle.”
“I think he’s busy with trying to fix the machine and make you normal again.”
“You heard what he said that part is going to take six months to two years to get here. Right now there’s not much that he can do.”
“I guess you’re right.”
“I think we should pay him a visit tomorrow.”
“Why not now?”
“Because it’s a little late.” She then felt her stomach grumble. “And I’m really hungry.” She could hear her stomach growling.
“Ok I’ll get you something.”
“Thank you.”

The next day Jean was at Martin’s house with Craig. She seemed to be lifting a small weight and she was having some trouble doing it. It was straining her so she soon had to put it back down.
“So how did I do?” asked Jean.
“Not too bad,” replied Martin. “You’ve got a little above the strength of an average woman of your size.”
“Is that a good thing?”
“Yes.”
“Good but now what?”
“Now you need to go through a couple of tests.”
“What kind of tests?”
“Well just to see how your body is coping with your change in size. I don’t know whether it’s breaking down or anything like that.”
“Do you think it will?”
“Hopefully not but we’ll see.”
Jean had to go through some more tests. These included X-Rays and a few to see her physical performance. But a little later they went to a secluded spot where no one could see them. Martin wanted to do one more test.
“Now tell me Jean at what time yesterday did you grow to save that ferry?” asked Martin.
“I don’t know. Five o’clock maybe,” replied Jean.
“Good now I want you to grow for me.”
“Why?”
“I have a theory.”
Not sitting too far from them Craig was reading a local newspaper. It was about Jean’s rescue the previous day. The head line was ‘Mysterious Giant Woman Saves Stricken Ferry From Certain Doom.’ But before he could finish reading it a huge shadow engulfed him. He looked up to see Jean in her giant form.
“Feeling any strains?” asked Martin.
“No nothing,” replied Jean.
“Can you make yourself small again?”
“I’ll try.” Jean then began to concentrate on getting smaller. But nothing was happening. “No I can’t.”
“Interesting.”
“So what now?”
“Now we just wait until you shrink back down to normal.”
“How long will that be?”
“Who knows? Maybe several minutes.”
They all waited for jean to shrink. But at first she stayed at giant size. Martin was timing how long she was large for. At a little after the 17 minute mark Jean felt the shiver run down her spine and she quickly shrank down to her tiny size. He was intrigued about what had happened.
But then everyone heard Jean’s stomach. She looked up at both of them and she licked her lips.
“Can I have something to eat please?” asked Jean. “I’m really, really hungry.” She rubbed her belly.

“Sure,” said Martin.
He then got a candy bar from a bag and gave it to Jean. Although it looked to be gigantic to her she still ate it. She seemed to be eating quite fast. She ate almost all of the bar and she seemed to be full.
“That was nice,” said Jean.
“You do realise that you just ate twice your own body weight,” replied Martin.
“No I didn’t notice.”
“And if you don’t mind me asking. When was it the last time you went to the bathroom?”
“For what?”
“Anything.”
“Well coming to think about it I haven’t been to the bathroom since this whole thing happened.”
“Good now we need to go back to lab and I can tell you what I’ve found out.”
“Ok.”
A few minutes later the three of them were at Martin’s home. Jean was sitting on Craig’s hand and she seemed to be very nervous. She didn’t know what he was going to tell her.
“What’s the results Brundle?” asked Craig.
“Well if anything I would call Jean’s condition a gift,” replied Martin. “Well besides the size problems.”
“You call this a gift?” asked Jean.
“Yes you see your body is more energetic then it use to be. I’ve seen you run for what seems to be miles to you and you haven’t even broken a sweat. Studying your strength levels I’d say it’s still normal for a woman of your size. But I am glad to tell you that your body seems to be more resistant to diseases.”
“What do you mean?”
“Well you should be dead right now because of germs. Since your body isn’t as big as it use to be your immune system wouldn’t be able to cope with a normal infection. But your immune system ahs seemed to adapted to this change. Its simple amazing.”
“That’s great but have you seen any pattern in my size changing?”
“Yes. You see I’ve figured it out. Your body stays tiny indefinitely but you grow when you want to. But your body needs to be tiny sixty times longer then you are large. Let’s just say an hour of being tiny gives you one minute of being a giant.”
“That’s pretty cool.”
“But after you’ve grown and shrank you use up so much energy that your body needs nutrition hence why you ate the chocolate bar earlier. I can create a device that can estimate how long you have at giant size and how much time you have left.”
“To live?”
“Of course not. Its just for when you’re gigantic you know how long you have left before you shrink. And a little bit more good news. Using my device I can actually shrink your personal belongings.”
“You can.”
“Of course. Providing that they’re all non-organic.”
“Great I was worried that I would be wearing the same clothes day in day out.” She then smiled at him.

A couple of hours later Craig had brought many of Jean’s clothes from their home and Martin easily shrank them down. Jean went to put some other shoes on but she found them extremely tight.
“Hey martin you wouldn’t mind making these shoes a little larger?” asked Jean. “I think you shrunk then a little too far.”
“Oh sorry,” replied Martin. He then took them away and grew them a little. He soon gave them back to her. “How are they now?”
“Let me see.” Jean then went to put her shoes on again. But this time they felt very loose. “Too big this time.”
“One last try.” He took them away again and he shrunk them a little. “How are they this time?”
“They look right.” She then tried them on and they were perfect. “You got it right this time.”
“Great.”
Just then they saw something on the TV. It was the local news and there was a segment about Jean. There were a few photos of her in her giant form but that was it really. The Anchorman was talking.
“Yesterday a mysterious giant woman saved the lives of more then fifty people on a ferry that almost sank in the local lake,” said the Anchorman. “Although we have photographs and numerous eye witnesses experts still suspect that it is all a big hoax. Earlier today Natalie Furman went to talk to Professor Henley of the University of New York City.”
The picture then switched to that of an aging man. His name came up at the bottom of the screen.
“Professor Henley what do you think about this giant woman?” asked Natalie. She put the microphone close to him.
“I believe that this is all an optical illusion,” replied Professor Henley. “A human being of that size couldn’t have possible supported her own weight never mind walking or even picking up an entire boat.”
“But there have been several eye witnesses. Surely there must be something to the giant woman.”
“There might be. But one more thing is that she mysteriously disappeared. It is almost impossible to lose a woman who is over 200 feet tall. Until I see her in the flesh I can deduct whether she is truly a miracle of modern science or most likely the con of the century.”
“Thank you for your time.”
This made Jean angry and she was walking around. The men knew what she does when she got angry.
“I don’t believe that jerk,” said Jean. “I save have a century of people and he thinks I’m not real.”
“Calm down honey,” replied Craig.
“I am calm. Believe me you don’t want to see me when I get angry.”
“I think you should just sit down and take a few deep breaths.”
“I’m serious. If I ever see him I’ll…I’ll…” She began to think about what she was going to say next. She knew that she wouldn’t truly hurt him. But she just wanted to scare him. “I’ll see if he has Acrophobia.”

Later that night Professor Henley was just finishing up in his lab. He locked the door and made his way outside. He didn’t suspect anything at all. It was pouring down with rain and he wanted to be quick to his car. But in a blink of an eye a huge hand came down and picked him up. He was caught completely by surprise and he was raised up to see a huge face. He had to admit that it was very beautiful. But he was still terrified at the same time. It was Jean
“W-What are you?” he asked.
“I’m not here to hurt you,” replied Jean. “I’ve just come to prove to you that I’m real and not some kind of hoax.”
“This is impossible. You shouldn’t even be alive. Your body should be crushed by its own weight.”
“I’ve heard that before. I’m sorry if I’m scaring you right now. But what you said about me on the news was very hurtful.”
“I’m sorry about what I said. Just please don’t hurt me.”
“I told you I’m not here to hurt you.”
“But where did you go after the ferry incident?”
“I shrank down.”
“You can shrink to your normal size?”
“I wish I was that lucky.”
Just then she heard a beeping noise from her wrist. She looked and there was a device there. It had 0:30 on it and it seemed to be counting down.
“What’s that?” asked Professor Henley.
“It means I’ve got to go now,” replied Jean. She then put him on the ground and she stood up to her full height. “Please take back what you said about me on the news. I’d really appreciate it.” There was another beep and she looked again. This time the device said 0:10. “I really have to go.”
Jean then began to run away in a certain direction. Thankfully the streets were empty since the weather was so bad. But there was one more beep on the wrist device and she felt herself go down extremely fast. She lost most of her awesome size in seconds. Before she knew it she was back down to two inches and she was in a deep puddle. She was practically swimming in it. She tried to swim to the edge but the current was too strong. She feared that she was going to drown.
“HELP ME!” she shouted.
But no one was around to help her. She was swept to the side of the street and she went down a drain. She couldn’t help herself and she down what seemed to be a waterfall into an ocean. She tried to swim to the surface but it seemed to be very far to her. She feared that she would soon drown.
But with one burst of energy she was able to swim to the surface and she took a deep breath of air. She was greatly relieved of this and she tried to swim to shore. Thankfully the current did that for her and she was able to get out. She was soaking wet and freezing. She didn’t have any warm clothes on.
Jean tried to shake herself dry like a dog. But this desperate attempt to dry herself didn’t work and she was annoyed.
“Great going Jean,” she said to herself. “You could have just let it go. But no you had to go and prove that you were real.” She then looked up at a ladder leading to an exit. “And I’m too small to get out of here.” Just then she heard a squeaking noise. She slowly turned around and saw a rat the size of a bus. “Nice rat.”

Jean was almost frozen in fear as she saw the rat get closer. She tried to think of a way out of this. But then she heard her stomach growling. She realised that she was hungry after growing and then shrinking.
But right now she had to try and get rid of the rat. This would be no easy task since her strength had gone down in proportion to her size. But then she felt her foot hit something. She looked down and saw a rusty old nail. It was huge compared to her but she picked it up nonetheless. It was a lot heavier then it looked and she began to struggle a little. She was having to use all of her tiny strength.
“Come on Rat make my day,” she said.
The rat then went closer towards her and she tried to jab it with the rat with the nail. It hit it a few times which caused the rat some pain. But it soon realised that there was a lot easier prey nearby and it went away. Jean gave out a sigh of relief.
“Just because I’m small doesn’t mean I’m defenceless.” But then her stomach growled again and she felt pain. “I need food. I don’t care if it’s rotten I just need food.”
She began to run down the line looking for any kind of food. But the further she went the more she felt faint. She thought it was her body telling her that she needed food. But right now she couldn’t find any.
But suddenly she caught a whiff up her nose and it smelled like food. She looked to the other side of the sewer and saw a bag of thrown away fast food. She didn’t really care what it was. She just jumped into the water and swam to the other side. This took the last of her energy. But when she reached the other side she saw her reward.
Jean didn’t hesitate in ripping open the bag and seeing a half eaten burger. Normally she didn’t eat burgers in fear that it would make her fat. But right now she didn’t care and she began to eat the cold burger.
Then Jean began to hear another squeak. She stopped eating and turned to see another rat. It obviously wanted some of the burger. But this time Jean wasn’t afraid. If anything she was angry.
“This is my food!” she shouted. “You can’t have any!” Her voice was surprisingly loud and it drove the rat away. She felt proud of herself. “Stupid rats.”
As she continued to eat the burger she didn’t really take notice with what she was doing. But eventually she ate her fill and she felt much better. But then she realised what she had done and felt like throwing up.
But now that Jean’s immediate problem had been solved the next was getting out of the sewers and back to Craig. But getting out was one problem and finding Craig was two completely different problems.
She thought for a moment and then she looked at her wrist device. It had fifteen seconds clocked on.
“That’s it,” she said. “Well I suppose its better then nothing.” She then looked around. “But the sewers is too small for me to grow. I’d cause a lot of damage. Or even worse I might suffocate.”
Meanwhile not too far away Craig was waiting for Jean. He was very worried since now he knew that Jean would have shrank down to her tiny size. He instantly got onto the phone to Martin.
“Hello,” said Martin.
“Martin Jean isn’t back yet and she’s shrank,” replied Craig. “Is there anyway I can locate her?”

“I was worried about this,” said Martin.
“About what?” replied Craig.
“If she doesn’t find you soon she’ll explode.”
“What?”
“Only kidding.”
“Now is not the time for joking around. Please tell me that Jean can protect herself at her size?”
“Wish I could but all my tests showed that she has strength and stamina of a 2 inch woman so she might be in some trouble.”
Meanwhile back in the sewers Jean was still trying to find her way out. She was feeling cold since she wasn’t really wearing the clothes for cold temperatures. She even sneezed a little and she folded her arms.
“This is just great,” said Jean. “Could this day get any worse?” She then heard a growling noise. “I just had to say it.”
She then looked to the water and she couldn’t believe what she was seeing. There was a fully grown alligator. She had heard rumours of alligators in the sewers but she had never believed them. But now she did without a shadow of a doubt.
But there was one more problem on Jean’s shoulders. If the alligator saw her she would stand little chance against it. It could probably catch her if she ran and she couldn’t scare it away like she did the rats.
She tried to stay as hidden as she could. But then she began to hear a squeaking sound. She thought it was another rat. But this one was coming from the water. She then heard a snapping sound and one last squeak before it went quiet.
“The poor rat,” she said to herself.
When the alligator was gone she continued her search for a way out. She eventually found a hole that was four inches off the ground. It looked to be a way back up to the surface. She tried to grab it by jumping. But she was too small and every time she tried to grab it she fell a little short.
“If only I was a little bigger.” She then looked around and saw a small matchbox. “Or maybe.”
She quickly went to the matchbox and she pushed it under the hole and she climbed onto it. She then jumped to the hole and she was able to pull herself up into it. She seemed proud that she had accomplished this.
“And who said this was just another pretty face?”
She then ran through the tunnel. It quickly began to get dark and soon she couldn’t see her hand in front of her. But she just kept running in hopes that she would see some light soon at the end of the tunnel.
To her relief she soon saw a light and this only made her run faster. It only took her minutes to get there and she jumped with excitement when she got out. She took a very breath.
“Fresh air,” she said. “Well it’s not exactly fresh but it’s a hell of a lot fresher then the sewers.” Then she began to hear a hissing sound. She looked up and saw a cat staring at her. “Give me a break.”
The cat went to pounch on her but she quickly concentrated on growing. She soon shot up to her 200+ foot size and the cat landed on her big toe. She looked down and gave it an evil smile.
“Who’s small and defenceless now?” asked Jean.

The cat then looked up at Jean. It gave out a scream of terror and it ran away. Jean felt pretty happy with herself.
“Yeah you better run,” she said.
She then looked at her wrist device and she saw that she had thirty seconds of being huge left and it was counting down. She realised that if she didn’t do something soon she would be back to square one.
Jean began to run towards where she agreed to meet back with Craig. But it was a long way away and she was having to be careful with where she put her foot. She didn’t want to accidentally crush someone.
She could practically see the rendezvous place and she happily began to go towards it. Craig could see her and this made him happier. But before she could reach it she heard the familiar beeping sound. She looked to the device and she saw that it had reached zero again.
“Oh crap,” she said.
Before she could shout to Craig she quickly shrank back down to 2 inches. She watched the world almost instantly grow around her and she fell on her ass. She was frustrated and she slammed her fists on the ground.
“Damn it!” she shouted. She then stood up to her full height. The distance to the rendezvous point was only around 100 to 200 yards away. But at her current size that was a few miles away. “Come on Jean its just like in gym class.” She then felt the rain drops coming down again. They were huge in comparison to her. In a couple of drops she was completely soaked and she was cold.
She then began to run towards the rendezvous point. But she was having to look out for any kind of danger. Even a mere pebble could be a danger to her. But she also had to be fast. At her size if she stayed out in the cold any longer she might freeze to death. She was already beginning to shiver.
Meanwhile Craig had noticed that his once giant girlfriend had now shrunk again. He decided to try and run towards her so that they could meet up faster. But now they had left the city and gotten to a more rural area. The grass hadn’t been cut for a while and it dwarfed Jean. It reminded her of the old TV series “Land of the Giants” but she knew that everything wasn’t big. It was just that she was small.
“Jean!” shouted Craig.
“Craig down here!” replied Jean.
Craig eventually got to where Jean was. She was shivering a lot and he put his hands around her in hopes that it would warm her up. But then he quickly hugged his now tiny girlfriend.
“Jean I’m so glad you’re alright,” said Craig. He then began to catch a whiff in his nose. He then looked at her. “Where have you been?”
“It’s a long story,” replied Jean. She then sneezed. “Crap I think I’m catching a cold.” She then sniffed a little. “But right now all I want to do is get home and have a nice, warm relaxing bath.”
“Ok.”
Craig then took Jean into the car and they began to drive away. I only took them minutes to get back to the house. She had been sneezing along the way and she sat in front of the car heater. It felt very nice to be warm once more. But she was still soaking wet.

Jean felt her stomach growling and she knew that she was hungry once more. Except this time she didn’t really want to eat a rancid burger. She wanted to have some proper food.
Thankfully for her it didn’t take long to get back home. When Craig took her into the kitchen she went to the fruit bowl and she began to eat an apple. She didn’t care what it was as long as it was edible.
It didn’t take her that long to eat her fill and she looked over to Craig. She gave him a smile of some embarrassment.
“Sorry after growing and shrinking I’d eat almost anything,” said Jean.
“That’s fine,” replied Craig.
She then sneezed. “I think I’m getting a cold.”
“Let me run you a nice hot bath.”
A few minutes later Jean was in the bathtub in the dollhouse. It seemed huge to her but she was enjoying a nice hot bubble bath. It made her feel a lot better and she looked at her wrist device. She had already clocked half a minutes worth of giant time. But she knew not to use it yet for obvious reasons.
“Too bad there aren’t any dollhouse TVs that really work,” said Jean. She then gave out a sigh. “But I have normal TV to enjoy.”
The next morning Jean was once again watching the news. She was enjoying her small breakfast and Craig was just running a few errands out. On the TV the Anchorman was just going through the local news.
“Once again the mysterious giant woman appeared,” said the Anchorman. “Several eyewitnesses have claimed to have seen her. But she always seems to disappear as fast as she came. And now even Professor Henley was available for some more commenting. But his view seemed to have changed. We now go to Gail for the update.”
Just then a woman with a microphone appeared right next to Professor Henley. She had a microphone in her hand.
“Thanks Tom I’m standing here with Professor Henley,” said the Gail. She then turned to him. “You wanted to say something about the giant woman.”
“Yes,” replied Professor Henley. “First I would like to say last night I was proved without a shadow of a doubt that she is indeed real and not a hoax. But her intentions right now are still unclear.”
“But she did save all of those people.”
“Yes but she must also learn that she can’t intimidate people with her size. She came to me and intimidated me.”
“What was it like?”
“It was both terrifying and fascinating. I was amazed to see how a woman of her stature could even stand up never mind do half the things she’s done. She’s nothing short of a scientific marvel.”
“Do you think she’d be someone to trust?”
“I’m not sure if I can answer that question.”
Jean then went to turn up the volume but the TV went off. All the electrics went off and she became a little annoyed.
“Of all the rotten timing,” she said.
Thankfully her dollhouse wasn’t too far from where she was so she went to it. She went to see what she could wear today.

Jean went inside her dollhouse and she went upstairs to her closet. She opened it up and she began to look at what she could wear. First she put on some training gear and she looked at herself in the mirror.
“I don’t feel like jogging today,” she said.
She then went through it again. She eventually picked out an outfit that wore platform shoes and disco gear. Once again she looked at herself in the mirror and she didn’t like what she saw.
“Too 70’s.”
Then she got out a yellow top with blue jeans and open toed high heels. She put some jewellery on. For the last time she looked at herself in the mirror. This time however she liked what she saw.
“Perfection. Normally I wouldn’t wear these shoes but since I’ll take anything to make myself look taller I’ll take them.”
She then walked out of her dollhouse and everything was still off. Craig wasn’t around since he had to go to work. He had used up all his holidays previously so if he took today off he would have been fired.
But he had set a few things up so that Jean wasn’t stuck in one place. He had left things like ropes and make shift bridges for her to move around. She used a rope to climb down to the floor and she walked towards the front door. She wanted to go outside to see if everything was alright. The power station was only a couple of miles away and she could see it from their house.
But she was had a problem. She was too small to reach the handle. But too big to squeeze underneath. She had to resort to going to an upstairs window. But this was very difficult for her. The stairs were very high compared to her. Each step looked like they were between 8-10 feet tall. She had to jump and grab each step. Since there were eleven steps this took her a while.
“Now I know how Lara Croft feels in the Tomb Raider games,” said Jean as she got up to the top.
She rested for a couple of minutes before going to what was once her room. She couldn’t believe how big her stuff was. Although Martin had shrunk some of her personal belongings there were some that he hadn’t gotten around to. She could see some clothes that looked like they could be used for a very large parachute. Shoes that she could probably sail in as a boat. Finally there were some old pictures of her. She saw one on a shelf of her when she was 14. She stood next to some other of her school friends and she towered above them all.
But on the picture she could see that her face was covered with spots, she had braces in her mouth and a flat chest. She giggled a little to herself.
“If Amber and Marie could see me now,” she said. “They’d need a magnifying glass to see me. Or they might get stiff necks looking up at me.”
Using some rope Jean was able to climb up it onto her bed that now felt like a small island. She eventually got up to the window and she began to look outside. She was horrified with what she saw.
Thick black smoke was coming out of the power station. Although there was some steam normally coming from the cooling towers the smoke she saw definitely wasn’t steam.
“Oh my God,” she said.

Jean made her way off the window and she had to climb downstairs. This took her a few minutes and she was a little out of breath. Now was the hard part though with the door. She gave out a sigh.
“If this goes wrong I owe Craig a new house,” said Jean. “Well here goes nothing.” She then began to concentrate and she quickly began to grow.
When Jean was tall enough she grabbed the door handle and she quickly opened it. Thankfully the door was unlocked and she went to get out. On the way she had grown so tall that her head hit the door frame. But she practically had to dive outside before she grew any larger.
When outside she began to stand up and when she stood up straight she had just reached her 200+ height. She gave out a sigh of relief.
“Well that was a close one,” said jean. She then looked at the timer on her device. It read 16:47 and it was steadily going down. “Seventeen minutes. Plenty of time I hope.” She then cleared her throat.
Jean then ran towards the power plant. But unfortunately she couldn’t run in her shoes. She almost fell over so she knew that she had to slow it down a little. But she could see the smoke from the power plant. It was a burning smell and she began to hear the alarms going off.
It didn’t take her long to get there and she saw some of the workers getting out. A couple of them looked up at her in surprise. Jean tried to look as least threatening as possible.
“Don’t worry I’m here to help,” said Jean.
“Oh my God she’s real,” replied one worker.
“Where’s the danger.” The workers began to stutter a little. “Please I don’t have too long.”
“Reactor 3 is going to blow everything in a three mile radius is going to a big crater on the map.”
“Not if I have anything to say about it.”
Jean then began to make her way towards the reactor. She could tell which one it was because there was a lot of smoke coming from the building. She quickly began to break the building open and she saw the reactor. It was in flames and she could tell that it would blow if she didn’t do something quickly.
First jean blew some of the fire off the reactor and then she picked it up. This took out a couple of cables. But she could feel the reactor vibrating in her hand. It was very hot and it was burning her hand.
“Gotta cool this thing down,” said jean. “But how.” She then looked around and not too far away was the ocean. “Bingo.”
Jean then ran as fast and as carefully as she could. If she fell over the death toll would be huge. Not only of people who get crushed by her body but also the reactor exploding. She had to go few a couple of tight streets and people stared at her. A couple of people tooted their horns to tell her to get out of the way.
“Saving your sorry asses here,” said Jean.
By now the reactor was shaking even more. She knew that it was going to blow any second unless she cooled it down. Thankfully she had reached the docks and she didn’t wait a second to dip the reactor into the water. She held onto it and hoped for the best. Her heart was pounding in her chest.

Jean could see steam coming from the water. The reactor itself was being cooled very quickly and she hoped that it didn’t go boom. She held it down and she saw people around her staring at her. She turned her head towards them.
“Get out of here this thing could blow any second,” said Jean.
Some people took her advice and began to run. Others just stayed there and watched her. But then she noticed that the steam had stopped. She took the reactor out of water and looked at it.
The reactor itself had cooled down and wasn’t vibrating anymore. She put it down on the ground. Within seconds she saw the police came and surrounded her. She didn’t feel that threatened until she looked at her wrist device. It said that she had only two minutes of her giant size left.
“Now that the danger’s been averted I’ll just be going now,” said Jean.
“Wait!” shouted a voice.
“Sorry but time is something I don’t have.”
Jean then began to run back towards the house. She could see that no one was firing at her. She didn’t know whether it was because they knew she wasn’t a danger. Or that they knew that their guns wouldn’t hurt her.
She could see what seemed to be a news helicopter following her. She was very close to the house and she looked at her wrist device. There were mere seconds left she tried to be as close as she could.
Meanwhile in the backroom of shopping mall Craig was just enjoying his break and watching the news. He had seen some reports that hadn’t really caught his eye. But then the breaking news came through about Jean.
“Right now this mysterious giant woman has reportedly stopped a nuclear reactor from exploding,” said the News reporter. Then a shot of Jean in the housing estate was shown. There was another man in the room with Craig. “As of yet she hasn’t tried to directly contact anyone.”
“Hey isn’t you’re your Mrs?” asked the man.
“I’ve gotta go,” replied Craig.
He then rushed out of the room. The man continued to watch the news. He then saw Jean shrink from her giant size to tiny size. The camera lost sight of her and they looked down but they couldn’t see Jean.
“It seems that the giant woman has shrunk,” said the news reporter. “And at the look of it she either has invisibility powers or more likely shrunk smaller then normal. We’ll keep you posted on this story.”
Meanwhile back on the housing estate Jean had shrunk small enough to stay out of everyone’s view. She gave out a sigh of relief.
“One problem down,” said Jean. “Now how do I get back in?”
The door was still open from when Jean had left. She hoped that no one had gone inside to steal anything. Since this was a relatively quiet neighbourhood she thought that it was unlikely.
Jean then began to climb up the step into the house. She went to the door and using all of her strength she began to close it. Since the door didn’t touch the floor it was of great help to her.
Eventually she was able to close the door all by herself. She sat down on the ground and tried to relax.

A little while later Craig came back home, He quickly slammed the door behind him. He looked around where he stood but he could not see his tiny fiancée. He was still anxious inside.
“Jean!” he shouted.
“I’m in here,” replied a voice.
Craig then went into the kitchen and saw Jean helping herself to a cookie. She seemed to be enjoying it.
“What’s wrong?” she asked.
“Something terrible has happened,” replied Craig.
“What is it?”
“People are starting to recognise you. One of the guys at work could actually tell that it was you.”
“So they were bound to find out some point. I didn’t think I was going to be like Superman with my identity.”
“What do you mean?”
She then took another bite out of the cookie and she swallowed. “When I watch the Superman movies I think everyone who is in contact with him is stupid. He doesn’t wear a mask or anything so people should be able to recognise him as Clark Kent. But no one can not even Lois Lane. But other superheroes like Batman and Spider-man wear masks so they’re not recognised. I find that more believable.”
“I know. But when you grow I think you should wear some kind of mask.”
“Well it’s a little late now my image is probably being aired across the entire country by now.”
“So what now? Wait until those guys from the news or the paper knock on our door wanting to get a picture of you.”
“Maybe.”
“Why couldn’t you have just warn a mask in the first place?”
“I didn’t expect to have to go out and save people. It was just what came naturally really. If I had thought about putting a mask on it would have wasted time and that time would have cost lives.”
He then sighed a little. “We just need to be more careful. It’s not only the media I’m afraid of coming here. What if other people come here?”
“Like who?”
“I don’t know. Some mad scientists who want to some kind of experiment on you to take over the world.”
“You watch too many James Bond movies and besides I’m a big girl. I can take care of myself.”
“But you’re only a giant for one minute for every hour you’re small. When you’re small you’re a hell of a lot weaker then everyone else.”
“I already know that. But I’ve proved that I’ve been able to survive. I was able o fight rats and even evade a full size alligator.”
“I admit you’re not as helpless as most people would think. But you’re still tiny and I worry about you.”
“Well maybe my powers will develop. You might never know one day I might be able to be any size I want for how long I want.”
“I hope so I truly do.”

The next day Jean was doing some of her exercises. She was hoping that no disasters would happen today. She was also hoping that she wouldn’t have to grow again today. She did admit it was fun.
Just then the phone rang and Craig went and answered it. He recognised the number and he was a little nervous to answer it.
“Hello,” he said. “She’s not here right now… I know… Yes I know… I think its best you came around… Ok bye.”
Jean then quickly rushed towards the phone. She looked up at Craig and she was obviously worried.
“Who was that?” she asked.
“That was your sister,” replied Craig.
“What?” It took a couple of seconds to sink in. “You invited my sister here?”
“Yes I was thinking that since people will begin to recognise you, you should at least have your family know who you are.”
“I know but she’s going to freak.”
“Well let’s just hope for the best.”
Almost an hour later Jean’s sister came and Craig answered the door. Jean’s sister was 5’6 and had red hair and green eyes like Jean. But their faces were definitely different. She was also two years older then Jean.
“Hi Sara,” said Craig.
“Where is my sister?” replied Sara.
She then went into the house and she began to look around. She was worried about her sister since she hadn’t received any calls from her for a while. After an unsuccessful search she went to Craig.
“Where’s Jean?” asked Sara.
“I need to show you something,” replied Craig. “It will be a shock at first believe me.” He then saw her panting. “What’s wrong?”
“You’ve killed her haven’t you? You monster.”
“What no of course not. Jean is perfectly healthy. But you need to come with me right now and I promise you, you can talk to her.”
Sara was a little confused but she accepted and he led her to the doll house. Sara was a little curious but she just looked at Craig.
“So where is she?” she asked.
“Ok Jean you can come out now,” replied Craig.
Jean then slowly came out of the house and Sara stared at her in disbelief. Jean was a little nervous.
“Hi Sara,” said Jean.
“This can’t be real,” replied Sara. “This has to be fake.” She then went to grab jean expecting to feel nothing. But instead she held onto her two inch sister and she was in more disbelief. “W-what happened?”
“Remember martin?” Sara nodded her head. “Well one of his new inventions went wrong and now I’m like this.”
“Can’t he make you big again?”
“Well getting big isn’t the problem. How big is the big problem.”
“What do you mean?”
“That giant on the news that’s me.”

“What do you mean?” asked Sara. “Can’t you make yourself normal size?” She seemed to be very worried.
“No it’s either this size or over 200 feet,” replied Jean. “I would demonstrate but my powers aren’t exactly indoor friendly.”
“Then what are you going to do?”
“Waiting for Martin get his machine fix to cure me. But he told me that it’ll take him a while to do it.”
“What will Mom and Dad do?”
“I don’t know I haven’t told them yet. Don’t say anything until I’m actually going to tell them.”
“Ok.” She then giggled a little.
“What’s so funny?”
“This is the first time you’ve had to look up to me since you were in seventh grade. Sorry but it’s a little funny.”
“I guess it is.” She then smiled a little and both sisters began to laugh at each other. It lasted a few seconds. “Don’t worry about me anyway when I’m big I can defend myself, and when I’m small Craig protects me.”
“Why not just stay big all the time?”
“Well first thing is that food bills would ruin us. Second is that I can only be a giant for one minute after being small for an hour.”
“That kind of sucks.”
The sisters talked for over an hour. Sara was still a little worried about her sister. But over the course of the conversation her fear was becoming less and less. She was just glad to see her sister again. Even though she was 70 inches shorter then she should have been.
But eventually Sara had to leave. She gave her tiny sister one more hug before leaving. Jean gave out a sigh of relief and Craig went over to her.
“Well that went well,” said Craig.
“Yeah she could take things like that a lot better then regular folks,” replied Jean. “She could always take surprises well.”
“It is late is there anything you wanted to do?”
“Yeah I could do with another bath.”
“Ok.”
Craig then took the bath out of the doll house and he went away. He came back a minute later. He had filled the bath up with warm soapy water and he put it back into the dollhouse. He then left so Jean could have some privacy.
She quickly went to the bath and she took off her clothes and simply climbed in. She felt a lot more relaxed now. She even gave out a small sigh of relief.
“Is there anything a warm bath can’t solve?” she said to herself. She then lay back a little and just sighed again. “A clean Jean is a happy Jean.”
She then began to bathe herself and she felt more and more relaxed. At first everything seemed to be fine. But then she began to hear a sound. At first she thought that it was in her head. But when she heard the identical sound again she knew that something was very wrong.
“Who’s there?” asked Jean.
But Jean’s question went unanswered.

Jean was feeling a little nervous at this moment in time. Although she had enough time to be a giant again she didn’t want to grow in the house. For now she got out of the bath and quickly dried herself and put some clothes on.
After that Jean went out of the dollhouse and she slowly began to walk towards where she thought she heard the noise. She picked up a sewing needle on the way. To her it was the size of a javelin.
“I know someone’s there,” said Jean.
But then Craig came into the room. Jean began to feel a little safer but she was still suspicious of the sound.
“What are you doing?” asked Craig.
“I swear I heard something,” replied Jean.
“What was it?”
“I don’t know. But it was something.”
“I think you’re tired. Maybe you just need to go to bed.”
She then sighed a little. “You’re probably right.”
“Just go to bed and I’ll see you in the morning.”
“Alright.”
Jean then went back into her house and she put on some of her nightclothes. She then quickly climbed into her bed and went to sleep. But in the night she heard the sound again. She more or less woke up instantly.
“That definitely wasn’t in my head,” she said.
Jean then got out of bed and went back out of her dollhouse. She heard the sound again but this time it seemed to be louder. She had her needle once again and she began to walk slowly to where she could hear the sound.
But the sound was somewhere off the table so she had to carefully climb down the table leg. It only took her minutes to reach the floor. Then she more or less ran towards the noise. It began to sound a little like whimpering.
Eventually Jean reached wall of the house and she could hear the sound on the other side. Thankfully the backdoor wasn’t too far away and there was enough room underneath it for her to crawl out.
Jean then ran to where she heard the sound. It was a little chilly and she felt cold. But all this went away when she saw what was making the noise. It was a small white puppy. It looked very cold and Jean instantly sympathised it. The puppy didn’t have a collar so it didn’t have an owner.
“Oh so it was you who was making that noise,” said Jean. She then slowly walked towards the puppy. “I thought you were some monster. But you’re just a cute little lost puppy.” She then smiled at it. “Well since it looks like you don’t have an owner I guess we’ll be keeping you.”
Craig had also heard what was happening outside. He quickly came out to them because he thought Jean was in trouble. But he was relieved to see that she was perfectly fine. But he was surprised to see the puppy.
“Can we keep him?” asked Jean.
“I don’t know,” replied Craig.
“You can’t leave him out here all by himself. You can’t be that cruel to this cute little puppy.”
“Ok you win.”

The next morning Jean woke up bright and early. She stretched herself and she walked out of her house. She looked around and she sighed a little. She then put her fingers in her mouth and performed a high pitch whistle.
Mere seconds later the little puppy came running in. He went to Jean and she climbed down the table leg onto the ground. She then stroked the little puppy and gave it a little smile.
“Morning Buttons,” said Jean. She then climbed onto his back. “To the kitchen and beyond!”
Buttons then ran towards the kitchen. Jean held on for what seemed to be for dear life. But they quickly got into the kitchen. Buttons stopped dead and Jean climbed down. Her head was spinning a little.
“Ok we really need to practice on that,” said Jean.
Eventually Craig came in. He made breakfast for them both and he went out and bought some dog food for Buttons. But like most days of the week he had to go to work so Jean would be in the house by herself with Buttons.
A little later Jean was in the garden with Buttons. She wanted to play catch with the little dog. But the ball was as big as her and she couldn’t throw it very far. She had to think of a way to keep Buttons occupied.
But then she began to hear a lot of sirens go past. She recognised all three of the emergency services and she could tell that they were going in the same direction. This meant that there was trouble. She took a quick look at Buttons and she gently stroked him.
“Sorry but I’ve got to go,” she said. “I’ll be back a little later.” She looked at her device ands aw that she had 35 minutes of being a giant.
Jean then concentrated and she began to shoot up. Buttons began to walk back as he watched his mistress grow. He had never seen anything like it before in his life. Well most people never saw anything like this in their lives.
It only took Jean seconds to reach her full size. When she had finished she looked down at Buttons and she gave him a smile.
“I won’t be long,” said Jean.
She then began to walk towards where the sirens came from. Thanks to her great height she could see for countless miles. She was able to see what looked like a car crash on the freeway. Without saying a word she jogged towards the scene. But she had to be careful with where she was stepping. The last thing she wanted to do was to cause anymore damage.
When she reached the scene most people marvelled over her size. But she tried to announce herself.
“I’m here to help,” said Jean.
She could see a car on top of another car. Although there was no one in the top car there was a woman trapped in the car underneath. The rescuers couldn’t get to her until the car on top was moved.
“Can you move this car?” asked the Fire Chief. “After that we can easily get the driver out of the car.”
“Sure,” replied Jean.
She then crouched down and easily lifted the car on top. She moved it to one side and the rescuers came in.

The rescuers quickly got the woman out of her car. She seemed in pretty bad shape and Jean felt helpless. There was nothing her size could do right now to help the poor woman. All she could do was watch.
Since there was nothing Jean could do now she began to walk back to her home. She looked at the world around her and she was amazed to see how small everything truly looked. She had been use to living in a world of giants. But now she seemed to be living in a world of dolls.
When she did reach the house she could see Buttons was there waiting for her. He had a ball in his mouth and he looked up at his giant size mistress. Jean looked at the timer on her wrist device and she saw that she had plenty of giant size left. She gave out a large sigh.
“I guess there is time,” said Jean. She then squatted down and put her finger in front of Buttons. He then dropped the ball on her finger tip. She laughed a little as she threw it to the other side of the yard. “Fetch.”
Buttons then quickly ran to the ball and picked it up. He then ran back to Jean and put it back on her finger tip. With her other hand she stroked the dog. Again she was so large that she could only use one of her fingers to stroke him.
“Good dog,” she said.
She played with Buttons for several minutes. But then she heard her wrist device start to buzz. She took a look and she could see that she only had one minute of giant size left. She just looked down at Buttons.
“Sorry but Mommy has to shrink in a minute,” she said. She then stroked him again and she gave him one more smile. “Guess I’ve got enough for one more game.”
She then threw the ball once more and he ran and caught it. He then brought it back to her and she gave him a quick stroke. But then she heard her wrist device buzz again and she saw that it reached zero. Her body then began to shrink rapidly.
“Going down,” she said as she shrank.
Within seconds Jean went from being a towering 200+ foot giantess to a 2 inch tall Lilliput. But she didn’t mind that much. Buttons then walked over to her and licked his now tiny mistress.
“Thanks.”
She then climbed onto his back and he began to walk away. But when Jean was younger she had always wanted a pony but her parents couldn’t afford one. Now she felt a little like she was living out her childhood fantasy. Although the horse was a dog and in comparison to her it was a lot bigger.
Buttons walked back into the house and went into the kitchen. Since Jean had changed size she desperately needed food. There was some fruit on top of one of the tables. Buttons was able to climb up it and Jean got off. She walked over to a huge apple and she began to eat it.
“This is really good,” she said.
It only took Jean a few minutes to eat twice her own body weight in apple. When she finished she lay back a little and gave out a sigh. She looked at her wrist device and she had clocked up 5 seconds of giant size.
She then looked and saw Buttons. He seemed to be sighing at her and she realised what he wanted.
“You want a treat don’t you?” she asked.

"Well don't you worry," said Jean. "I'll get you a treat." She then looked up and saw that the treats were on the top shelf. “Somehow.”
Thankfully not too far away from her was a long piece of string and a small needle. She quickly went over to it and she wrapped some of the string around the top of the needle. Using all of her strength she bent the needle so it became a hook like shape. She then threw the hook up onto the first shelf. It was able to grab onto something solid and she began to climb.
It took Jean several minutes to reach the top of the shelf. But when she did she felt a little pout of breath.
“Well that’s one down and two more to go,” she said. “If I keep this up I’ll never have to worry about dieting.”
Jean continued to climb up the shelves. It was painstakingly slow but Buttons waited patiently for her. He just sat there on the ground waiting for her to get her treats. But by the time she did get to the top she was completely out of breath. She could hear Buttons barking and she looked down at him.
“Don’t worry I’ll throw some down,” said Jean.
She then went into the bag of trees and she was able to pull one out and she threw it down to him. He quickly ate it and so she threw a couple more down. But eventually she thought that he had had enough. But when she looked down she looked a little scared. She was very high up.
“Maybe I should have thought this through,” said Jean. She looked down a little and she saw that the sink was full of water. She estimated that it would cause her some harm if she jumped into it. But it was the only choice she had right now.
Jean more or less jumped from the top shelf right into the sink. The impact was a little painful but thankfully there was no serious damage. She quickly came up to the surface and she seemed happy.
“For once I actually pulled off a good idea,” she said to herself. But then she looked around and saw that getting out was going to be a problem. The water hadn’t been too deep and the sides were too high for her to reach. “Ok maybe this is a problem.” She then looked at her wrist device she had gotten roughly twenty seconds worth of giant size in her. “Hope this works.”
She then concentrated and she began to grow. As soon as she was tall enough to get out of the sink she did and jumped to the floor. But when she stood up her head hit the ceiling and it was quickly pushing against it. Buttons was right next to her and he was trying to get her attention.
“No Buttons,” she said. “If I don’t get out of the house there’ll be no house to live in.” She then rushed to the door and she squeezed through it. She was outside and she grew even more. Eventually she reached her full height. “That was too close for comfort.” She then saw Buttons run to her and she stroked him. “Good boy.”
She stroked him for twenty seconds. She felt herself shrink rapidly but she still stroked him. But eventually she was physically unable to do it and she just looked up at him. He licked her.
“Not at this size please,” said Jean.
She then climbed onto Buttons and he took her into the house. She was tired after her tiny adventure. Buttons also seemed calm so she didn’t think he would try and do anything else.

Jean climbed onto buttons and he took her into the house. He stopped in the front room right next to TV. To Jean it was the size as a cinema screen. She couldn’t wait to put it on. But the button to switch it on was a little too high for her. She was beginning to get a little annoyed of this.
“Higher Buttons,” said Jean.
She then climbed on top of his head and she was just able to reach the button. Using all of her strength she pressed it and the TV came on instantly. But all that came up was the information channel. She didn’t want to watch this and she needed to find some way of changing the channel.
She saw the remote on the sofa and she instructed Buttons to go towards it. He did it very quickly and he climbed onto the sofa. She climbed down from him and went to the remote.
“Normally I wouldn’t allow pets on the sofa,” said Jean. “But this time I’m willing to make an exception.”
She began to flick through the channels and she hoped that she would find something worth watching. Eventually she came up to the news and she watched a report on what had happened today.
“The giant woman who has been popping up a lot over the past week has come to save another life,” said the Anchorman. “It might not have been on a large scale like the ferry sinking or the reactor overload. But it was just as important. Lizzie Spence is at the scene.”
The picture then moved to a middle age woman in front of the fire crews trying to stop any remaining fires.
“Thank you Tom,” said Lizzie. “Our giant heroine was able to help rescuers free a woman from her car. The woman herself is currently in a stable/critical condition but Doctors suggest that she will survive. I also have fire fighter David Fisher to ask him about what happened.”
She then pointed to microphone to the mouth of a tall man wearing a fire fighter outfit. He also wore a helmet.
“She practically came out of nowhere,” said David. “She was like a giant angel coming to help us.”
“What did she do when she came here?” replied Lizzie.
“She helped lift the car so that we could help the poor woman. If it wasn’t for her she would have surely been killed.”
“What would you say to her if you had a chance to speak with her face to face?” He then chuckled a little.
“Well first I’d say thank you for helping us and everyone else in the city. Then I’d probably ask her if she had a boyfriend.”
Everyone laughed a little. But then Lizzie put the microphone back to her mouth to finish off the report.
“Well there you have it,” said Lizzie. “Most men are probably asking themselves the same question. Back to you Tom.”
Jean just sat there and laughed a little. She was happy that she had saved that woman. But also happy that people really appreciated her work. But she would have to break their hearts when she told them that she already had a boyfriend. No matter how big she gets there wasn’t enough to go around.

A few minutes later Craig came home from work. He was tired and he just sat down on the chair. It was the same seat that Jean had been sitting on and she was just able to jump out of the way.
This made her a little angry and she punched his leg. He didn’t really notice this so she had to resort to shouting at him.
“Hey you almost sat on me!” shouted Jean.
Just then Craig realised what he had done and he looked down at saw her. She was pretty angry and she had her hands on her hips.
“Jean,” said Craig.
“What’s the big idea?”
“Sorry I didn’t see you there.” He then sighed a little. “You really ought to wear some kind of bell around your neck so that I can hear you.”
“That’s not funny.”
“I’m sorry.”
“You don’t have to be. It’s not your fault. I only wish I was a little bigger. Heck even being an inch taller would make my life easier. But instead I’m stuck at this useless height.”
“You’re not useless.”
“I am. At this height I can barely defend myself. I can hardly move around and everything is too darn big.”
“Well you’re not that size all the time.”
“I know but it’s just that when I become big I’m too big. I can’t fit into buildings, people are always staring at me and I dare not eat anything. Just in case I shrink and it explodes out of my stomach.”
“That’s just silly.”
“But it could happen right?”
“I doubt it.”
“But I still have worry. What I would give just to be normal size again. Maybe not forever. Even a day would be nice.”
“Well maybe Brundle can come up with something.”
“You heard what he said. Without that missing piece he can’t change my size at all. I’m stuck like this for more then a year.”
“Well maybe something will come up.” But he could still see that Jean was upset. “I know something that’ll cheer you up.”
“I don’t feel like anything.”
“How about some white chocolate?” he could see that jean was about to cry. “You like white chocolate don’t you.” Jean nodded her head. “Do you want me to get you some white chocolate?” Jean nodded her head again. “Let’s get you some white chocolate then.”
Craig then stood up and picked up his tiny fiancé. He took her into the kitchen and he got her some white chocolate out of the refrigerator. Although she wasn’t talking she was still going to eat the chocolate.
After eating almost her own bodyweight in White Chocolate she was able to smile a little at her fiancé.
“A fireman asked if I was single,” said Jean.
“What?” replied Craig.

The next day Jean was trying to relax. She was in the garden and she was trying to get herself a tan. She had a doll size sunbathing chair and she had a bikini on that was just her size. She was just having a little R&R and she expected Craig to be back in a few minutes.
Just then she could hear the door opening inside. She sat up and looked towards the house. She could see Craig inside the house and he seemed to be looking around for her. But as of yet he couldn’t see her.
“Jean where are you?” he asked.
“Out here silly,” replied jean.
Craig then came out of the house. He had a small box with him. He could also see Buttons sitting not too far away. Jean herself was a little curious. She wanted to know what was in the box. She turned towards Craig and she gave him a very pleasant smile. He smiled back at her.
“What’s in the box?” asked Jean.
“A little surprise for a beautiful little woman,” replied Craig.
“Hey no short jokes.”
“Sorry.”
He then opened the box and he took out a bottle of very special and expensive perfume. It was called Lucy’s Diamonds. It was practically impossible to get anywhere. Jean was amazed that he had even got it.
“Oh my God where did you find this?” asked Jean.
“I saw it in one of the stores,” replied Craig. “And the instant I saw it I thought of you.” He then smiled again.
“Oh that’s so sweet.”
“Want me to spray you a little?”
“Sure.”
He then sprayed some of the perfume onto Jean. She was overcome by it at first and she coughed. But then it went away and she felt better again. She smelled her arm and she could definitely smell the perfume.
“Thank you,” said Jean.
“You’re welcome,” replied Craig.
But just then Jean began to hear more police sirens go past the house. There were several cars and that indicated that there was trouble. She then gave out a sigh an she looked back at Craig.
“Sorry looks like duty calls,” said Jean.
“Take care,” replied Craig.
“I will do.”
“But before you go could you at least put a little extra clothes on. I don’t think you want to go there in just your bikini.”
“Ok I’ll put a skirt on.”
Craig then took Jean to her dollhouse. She quickly went to the upstairs and she got herself into a long skirt and she put on a pair of flip flops. She was now ready to go out and help people.
Craig then took her outside and gave her one last kiss before putting her down on the ground.
“Be careful,” he said.

Jean could see where the police cars were heading and she quickly began to follow them. She could see them stopping at a building. She quickly recognised it as the first national bank. When she had been normal size this was the bank she would often visit. She had a safety deposit box there and she didn’t want anyone getting into what was in there.
But she couldn’t really think of anyway that her giant size could help this situation. She was too big to fit into the bank. If there were hostages her sudden appearance could cause panic. She would have to use her head for this one.
Jean walked towards the bank but she stopped a short distance away. She couldn’t be seen by anyone inside. She could see one of the policeman just below her and she scooped him up. She could see that he was in some shock at the sight of her but she just gave him a smile to try and calm him down.
“Don’t worry I’m not here to hurt you,” said Jean. “But I need to know what’s happening.”
“Bank robbery,” replied the Policeman.
“Any hostages?”
“Thankfully no. but these guys are armed to the teeth. We can’t risk going in there without the swat team.”
“But someone could get hurt.”
“Well we’re running out of options.”
“Maybe there’s something I can do. Do you guys have any tear gas?”
“Yeah but they’ve got gas masks on.”
“That doesn’t matter. Just tell them to throw some inside and leave the rest to me. Is that alright?”
“I’ll ask the chief.”
A few minutes later inside the bank the two robbers were getting their guns ready. They were expecting the swat team to come in and try and take them. As expected tear gas went into bank they just made sure their masks were on securely.
But instead of a band of men rushing through the door they could make out a giant hand smash through the glass. They were surprised by this and they were quickly grabbed by the hand. They dropped their weapons as they were quickly brought out. That was when they saw Jean.
“Don’t try anything,” she demanded.
She then quickly put the men on the ground and they were quickly cuffed by the cops. She then checked her wrist device and it told her that she only had thirty seconds before she would shrink again.
“Sorry guys but I have to go,” said Jean.
She then began to walk back to the house. Again at her size this was only a few seconds. When she looked again she saw that she only had ten seconds left. Craig was waiting for her outside the house. She began to count down the final seconds.
But when she reached zero she expected herself to shrink. But she stayed the same size. She looked at her body and then she looked Craig.
“Why aren’t I shrinking?” asked Jean.
“Maybe it’ll take a few seconds,” replied Craig.
“No this hasn’t happened before. I’ve always shrank when this thing’s reached zero. But look at me I’m still huge.”

“What do we do?” asked Craig.
“Call Martin,” replied Jean. “Hopefully he can help me.”
Roughly an hour later Jean was in a very large warehouse. It was almost in ruin but for now it was good for hiding her. Martin was also there and he was examining her. It was very difficult for him to study her at that size. But Jean gave him some help when it came to lifting him up.
She was lying on an industrial scale. It was specifically designed to measure the weight of extremely heavy items. It was measuring Jean’s weight and the results shocked both Martin and Craig. It registered Jean at weighing 3709 tons and 264 pounds. But she was getting lighter. The pounds were going down a little every minute or so. Martin realised what was happening.
Jean still had no idea what was going on. But when Martin called for her attention she quickly turned her head towards him.
“What’s happening to me?” asked Jean.
“Well you are shrinking,” replied Martin.
“If I was shrinking I’d be two inches tall again.”
“Well you are still shrinking. It’s just that its slowed down to a crawling speed. You’re slowly losing weight so I’m guessing that you’re losing a little of your height right now at the same time.”
“So how long will it take me to get back down to two inches?”
“I’m not sure. It might take several weeks.”
“Wait a minute if I’m shrinking slower does that mean for some time I’ll be my normal height?”
“Yes at one point you’ll be an extremely tall woman but then you’ll go down to being a midget. For a time you could be the 50 foot woman if you want to. And for another you could share clothes with a Barbie doll.”
“It might sound strange but that actually sounds exciting. I can actually be normal for some time. Plus I can have some fun in-between.”
“But here’s one thing I don’t get. Why is this happening? Tell me have you been exposed to anything unusual?”
“No not really. Craig bought me some new perfume and I had a little bit of tear gas when I stopped some bank robbers.”
“Interesting. If you don’t mind I’d like to take a blood sample. Just so I can run a couple of tests.”
“Yeah sure.”
She then put Martin on the ground and he went to a case that he had brought along with him. Inside was a normal size syringe with an extra long needle. This was so that it could pierce through Jean’s thick skin.
He put the syringe into Jean’s finger and she started to draw out some blood. He got out enough to fill the syringe and then she took it out of her finger. It had caused her some pain but she could take it.
“I need to run a few tests on this,” said Martin.
“What do I do now?” replied Jean. “Do I have to wait until I shrink to a more manageable size?”
“Well you can leave. Just try to draw attention to yourself.”
“If you haven’t noticed that’s very difficult for me.”

“Well try and stay as low as you can,” said Martin. “In the meantime I’ll run some tests on this sample.”
“Just before I go I need to know something,” replied Jean.
“Where am I going to sleep?”
“Come back here when you get tired.”
“Ok.”
Jean then slowly got out of the warehouse. She had to crawl as best as she could until she got outside. It was a little cramped in there for her. But since she was shrinking it wouldn’t be a problem that would last too long. But she just stood up and gave her body a good stretch.
“That feels so much better,” she said to herself. “But what can I do that won’t panic people? There’s not much.”
Once again Jean sat down and began to think. She leaned her back on the warehouse and she began to hear some creaking noises. She quickly took her weight off before anything happened.
She gave out a small sigh and she was in a world of her own. But then she noticed that there was a young boy on a bike right by her foot. She looked down at him and she thought that he was afraid.
“Don’t worry I won’t hurt you,” said Jean.
“You’re that giant woman who saves people,” replied the boy.
“Yeah I guess that’s me.”
“You saved my pops. He’s still in the hospital but the doctors say that he’s going to be fine.”
“Well that’s good to hear.”
“He would thank you if he was well enough.”
“That’s alright. Just knowing he’s fine is more then enough thanks for me” She then gave him a smile.
“Can I ask a favour?”
“Sure.”
“Can you lift me up please. I want to see the world from high up.”
“Ok.” She then gently grabbed and lifted him up. “Is this high enough for you?”
“Higher please.”
Jean then stood up to her full height and she put him at her shoulder level. “How about this?”
“Higher.”
She then lifted her hand up into the air above her head. She stretched her arm as far as she could. “This is as high as I can go.”
“It’s cool up here. I can see for miles.”
“Well when you’re my height it is nice. Please hold on tight to my finger.” She then lifted her index finder towards him. “The last thing I want is for you to fall off. It’s a long drop.”
“Ok.”
He then grabbed her finger and he held on tight. Jean liked helping him out like this. But her arm was starting to feel funny so she lowered him back down to her level. He was still smiling.
“That was so cool,” he said.

Eventually Jean’s arm started to feel funny so she lowered the boy back to the ground. He was still excited and he began to jump around a little. Jean just gave him a little smile. This did calm him down a little.
“Sorry but that’s it my arm’s tired,” said Jean.
“Thanks lady,” replied the Boy.
“Please call me Jean.”
“Thanks Jean.”
He then rode away on his bike and jean just sat there and thought for a moment. She would have loved to have a child of her own. But while she was having trouble with her size she would be unlikely to have one. She just gave out a sigh and she looked in the sky. It was late evening and the sky was a gold colour. This did make her feel a little better about herself.
“Hey Jean!” shouted a voice from inside the warehouse.
Jean then quickly opened the doors to the warehouse and she looked inside. She could see Craig and Martin standing near each other.
“What is it?” asked Jean.
“Following some calculations I believe I’ve discovered how long it’ll take you to get back to your tiny size,” replied Martin.
“Great how long will it take?”
“About two months.”
“Two months?”
“Yes for the first month you’ll be above your normal size. But the next month you’ll be below your normal height. But for one day you’ll be your regular 6 foot height. You’ll actually feel normal.”
“That’s at least one thing to look forward to.”
“Well we could do something on that day,” replied Craig.
“That’s nice.”
“I’ll come up with something.”
“Whatever you do I know I’ll enjoy it.” She then gave him a pleasant smile before picking him up and giving him a little kiss. “I better enjoy this while I can. Soon I won’t be able to do it.”
“I don’t mind at all.”
“Want another one?”
“Sure.”
She then gave him one more little kiss before putting him back on the ground. He had enjoyed these kisses thoroughly. But she didn’t know exactly want to do with herself now. She thought that she would have to hide until she was small enough to fit into the house. But she’d have to wait until she was at least 10 feet tall before she could do that. But for the time being she guessed that this warehouse would be her home. It was a tight squeeze for her. But she’d shrink into it.
“Can I ask a favour of you guys?” asked Jean.
“Sure,” replied Martin.
“Can I have a TV in here?”
“Sure that should be fine.”
“And a DVD player if you don’t mind?”
“Of course.”

About an hour later Jean was still in the warehouse. She was watching the TV but it was a little small for her. She couldn’t pick it up in her hand because the cord didn’t go that far. She had to lie down and watch it. She tried to put a DVD in but she found it too difficult to press the buttons or even put the DVD in itself. She began to get a little annoyed and she slammed her hand into the ground. This caused everything to shake for a moment. She had to stop the TV from falling. She gave out a small sigh.
But then Craig came into warehouse. He could see that jean was upset and he walked over to her.
“What’s wrong?” he asked.
“Everything’s too small,” replied Jean.
“Well you’ll shrink into it.”
“It’s not good enough. I just want to be normal. I don’t want to be either a giant or tiny. I just want to regular tall Jean Abbot. I admit being a couple of inches shorter but I don’t want to be abnormal like this.”
“Well remember Martin said when he got that part he would be able to make you your normal height. He could actually make you five and a half feet just like you wanted to be. Heck even if it makes you 6 and a half feet tall you’ll still be relatively normal. Ok you’ll still be taller then everyone else but you’ll be able to fit into houses and do normal things like anyone else.”
“Except buy clothes.”
“Ok except that. But you just have to be patient.”
“I am being patient. But its just gets to me sometimes. I remember I used to feel like a giant at 6 feet. Now that feels tiny. But at other times it makes me think I was a skyscraper.”
But then Jean noticed that the warehouse doors were being opened. She quickly shut it again. But there was someone trying to open it. She could feel the other person pulling the door. But she was far too strong for this person.
“Hey open up!” shouted a voice.
Jean didn’t recognise the voice and she didn’t want to risk letting anyone in. She just hoped that this individual would just walk away.
“I know someone’s in there open up.”
She had to stay silent. Even her whispers would indicate that someone was really there. She had already risked a lot when she lifted the boy up earlier. She didn’t want to get any unwanted attention.
“If you don’t let me in I’m calling the cops!”
But Jean still didn’t let go. The individual on the other side of the door stopped trying to get in and went away. But she knew that they would probably have cops there within a few minutes.
“Craig what do we do?” asked Jean.
“I don’t know,” replied Craig.
“We need to get out of here.”
“Well you can run in the darkness. Hopefully no one will see you.”
“We’ll have to do that.”
Jean then carefully got herself out of the warehouse and she stood up. She picked Craig up and she walked away quickly. She needed to get to the wooded area before she was seen.

Thankfully Jean had the darkness on her side. Since it was night she couldn’t be spotted very easily. She had to stay in places that weren’t very well lit. At least there hopefully no one would be able to see her. But her size was going to be a major problem for her. A woman who was 200 feet tall couldn’t hide very well. This as one disadvantage of being big.
But Craig was still with her. This made her feel a little happier. But she wouldn’t be truly happy until she was properly hidden away. The only place she could really do that was in the forests and even then she would have to stay low. The trees were tall but she was a lot taller. She would be seen for miles if she stood up above the trees. But this would be a problem she would have to deal with for a relatively short time. At the rate she was shrinking she would be below the level of the trees in just over two weeks. But that seemed like forever away.
Eventually Jean did reach the forest area and she quickly ducked down below the trees. She was a little out of breath but it was nothing that she couldn’t really handle. But she was happy that she could finally rest for a moment. She looked at Craig who was still in her hand.
“Are you alright?” asked Jean.
“Yeah I’m fine,” replied Craig. “You?”
“I’m as good as I’ll ever be.”
“Don’t worry things’ll look up.”
“In over a month that’s what I’ll be doing to you.” She then sighed. “Sometimes I just wish I had my normal life back.”
“You will soon.”
“But sometimes I think how can I live like this? No other human being has been through what I’m going through.”
“Well maybe a few people in comics.”
“I mean this real people. This is real life. This isn’t some comic book or story. This is all real.”
“I’d hate to tell her.”
“What was that?”
“Oh nothing.”
Jean just lay in an open patch of the forest. There wasn’t much space for her in many other places since the trees were packed together quite closely. It was all she could really do for herself. But she began to feel quite tired. She looked at Craig once again and she gave him a little smile.
“I think I’d better get to sleep,” said Jean. “You can go back home if you want to. I don’t mind.”
“I would do but it’s too far to walk.”
“Ok then I guess I’ll keep you was warm as I can.” She then began to think a little. “Wait what about Buttons?”
“He’s got plenty of food already made for him. And if anyone tries to break in he’ll scare them right out.”
“I hope so.” She then gave out one last yawn. “Goodnight Craig.”
“Night Jean.”
Jean then slowly began to go to sleep. But she stared at the starry for a few moments before closing her eyes.

The next morning Jean woke up fairly early. She quickly sat up and stretched herself. She looked around and saw that the world around her looked a little bigger then it had done the night before. She guessed that she had to have shrunk a little during the night. She guessed that she was now a little under 200 feet tall.
She then looked down to see that Craig was still asleep. She thought that he looked cute and she didn’t have the heart to wake him up. But she felt her stomach growling. She hadn’t eaten anything since she grew. But she had a big problem with this. At her size it would take a lot of food to fill her up.
Just then she saw a deer not too far away. She thought for a moment and it just stared right back at her. At first she was going to let it go. But when her stomach continued to make noises. She then quickly grabbed the deer and she snapped its neck. Its death was quick and painless. She didn’t enjoy doing this but she desperately needed the food. She quickly put the deer into her mouth and she swallowed it.
No sooner had she done this Craig woke up. He looked up at his giant size fiancée and she gave her a smile.
“Hi there gorgeous,” said Craig.
“Hey Craig,” replied Jean.
“What’s for breakfast?”
“I just had it.”
“What did you have? Maybe someone made you some giant size pancakes. Or maybe you had cereal.”
“A deer.”
“What?”
“I ate a deer for breakfast and I’m still hungry.”
“Well maybe you can go and get some food from somewhere else. I thought you didn’t like killing animals.”
“I don’t but I didn’t exactly have much of a choice. If I don’t eat anything I’ll starve before I reach a suitable size.”
“Wait that gives me an idea. Remember Martin’s shrink/growth ray.”
“You mean the one that turned me into this?”
“Yes he said it still worked on non-living things right?”
“Right.”
“Since food is non-living he should be able to increase the size of the food so that you can eat it. We could buy an apple and expand it to your proportion. Then you’d be able to eat it easily and fill up.”
“Actually Craig I think that’s your best idea ever.”
“Is it?”
“Yeah now I don’t really have to wait for a lot of food and it’ll only cost us a fraction of the price.”
“But how do we get to Martin?”
“You’ve got your cell haven’t you?”
“Yes.”
“Then just give him a call.”

Roughly an hour later Martin came in his pick up truck. He had his size changing device with him. Thankfully it had its own battery pack so he could use it in the middle of the woods. He also brought some food for Jean. He carefully picked out her favourites and this did make her happy.
“My favourites,” she said as she picked out some cake.
“I knew you’d like it,” replied Martin. Now just let me enlarge it for you.”
“Wait what if it hits me?”
“It won’t enlarge living things until I’ve added the component.”
“Any word on it?”
“Unfortunately no.”
“Oh.” This depressed the slowly shrinking giantess. Martin saw this and tried to think of a way to cheer her up.
“Look what else I have here for you.” He then opened the car door and Buttons came out. Jean couldn’t help but pick him up and give him a little stroke. “He seemed lonely so I brought him here to you.”
“Thank you Martin.”
A couple of minutes later Martin increased the size of the food until it was large enough for Jean to eat. She quickly devoured all of it and she gave out a small belch. This embarrassed her a little.
“Excuse me,” she said.
“That’s alright,” replied Craig. “But I’m thinking of how we can keep you hidden. Even here it won’t be too long until you’re spotted.”
“Well that’s a problem that’s slowly shrinking away,” replied Jean. “When I get smaller we can go somewhere that’s more suitable. Eventually I can just live in a house like any normal woman. Then after that I’ll have to move back into the doll house. Remind me to redecorate that place. Yellow is such a horrible colour to have on the walls. Maybe white would be better.”
Craig admired her optimism. She was going through something that no other human being had gone through or possible would go through. But she was turning it into some kind of joke. It made her feel happier. It was like she was looking forward to the experience.
Just then she felt something rumbling in her stomach. She then gave a little smile to the men and she stood up.
“Sorry guys but nature calls,” said Jean. She then began to walk away stay here and don’t peek.”
Craig and Martin then waited for her to return. They hadn’t really thought of how she was going to go to the bathroom when she was that size. They just waited for her to return. She did that within a few minutes and she was still smiling.
“I’m back,” said Jean.
“W-where did you…” replied Craig.
“Believe me you don’t want to know.”
“But…”
“Trust me you don’t want to know.”

For now all Jean could do was lay low and out of sight. But for someone of her stature that wasn’t easy. But right now she was also having to do it by herself. Craig had to go to work and Martin was working on a few things back at his house.
Jean lay back and looked at the sky. She began to play a game that she used to play when she was younger. She’d look at the clouds and try to see if she could make a shape out of them
“There’s a clown,” she said to herself. But just then a small bird landed on her nose. She looked at it a little. “Go on shoo.”
As the bird flew off a feather went up one of Jean’s nostrils. She felt a sneeze coming on.
“Oh no.”
She then gave out an earth shattering sneeze. The sneeze could be heard for miles and it caused many birds to fly away. She couldn’t believe how loud the sneeze had been herself.
A mile away the sneeze had been heard from a ranger’s office in the forest. At first they thought that a bomb had gone off somewhere in the forest. The ranger got to a high altitude but he couldn’t see anything that looked like a bomb explosion. Instead he went to a radio and picked up the receiver.
“Alpha to Omega are you there over?” he asked. There was a couple of seconds with no answer. “Are you there.”
“Alpha to omega here over,” replied a voice.
“This might sound like a stupid question but did you hear a ear drum splitting noise a few minutes ago.”
“Let me check.” There was another couple of seconds of silence. “Yep we heard it as well.”
“Any idea what it is?”
“None whatsoever.”
“Any suggestions to cause of action?”
“We could do nothing and hope that it was nothing.”
“Nah if our superiors find out we’re screwed.”
“Then I suggest a search.”
“That sounds reasonable. Muster every man you’ve got.”
“Alright over and out.”
They both then began to get as many rangers as they could and they began to go deep into the forest in hopes of finding the cause of sound. They had no idea that it was caused by a woman who was a couple of feet shy of 200 feet tall.
Jean herself was oblivious to the rangers. She just continued to lie down and relax as best as she could. She saw a couple of animals move near her. But when she moved they would run away scared. This did depress her a little. But since she had eaten a deer whole she could understand them being scared.
But the sun was beginning to set and she thought that she would be in for a relatively comfortable night.

An hour later a few miles away a few of the rangers were still looking around to see if they could locate the source of the loud noise. But for now they hadn’t found anything that would help. It was getting late and they were about to call it a night. But then one of the rangers fell down a hole. The others quickly went to his aid.
“Are you alright Peterson?” asked one of the rangers.
“Yeah I’m fine,” replied Peterson. “But I’ve seemed to have fallen down this hole. Funny thing is that it wasn’t here last week.”
The other rangers then began to investigate the hole. They saw that it was indeed huge and they knew that it had to have been recent. Many of them had been here recently and this whole had never been seen. The hole itself wasn’t very deep but it was very long and wide. They looked inside the hole and they saw some patterns on the bottom. Peterson looked to the other rangers.
“I know this might be completely stupid but does this hole look like a footprint to you?” asked Peterson.
“Don’t be stupid,” replied A Ranger.
“But look there’s the top of the foot where the toes are.” He then pointed to the edge of the whole. “That’s where the heel is.” He then pointed to the bottom of the hole. “And there’s the design of the shoe. I’m telling you if that’s not a giant size footprint then I don’t know what is.”
“You’ve got a point there.” He began to think a little. “Wait remember that Giant Woman that’s been sneaking around the city?”
“Yeah.”
“Most likely to be hers.”
“That hopefully means she can’t be too far.”
“Keep looking men.”
Jean was still unaware that Rangers were looking for her. But she was getting quite sleepy. She did feel a little cold and the ground was a little off for her. She had never slept outside like this. But since she was too large to fit anywhere else this would have to do for her.
Before she knew it Jean had fallen asleep under the starry sky. She didn’t mind the cold right now. But she just slept as if she was in her own bed. She wondered how much smaller she would be when she woke up the next morning.
But a couple of minutes later a couple of flashlights lit up Jean’s body. The rangers moved in closer and they were in amazement. They had never seen anyone this large in their entire lives.
“Wow she’s big,” said one of the rangers.
“Funny I thought she looked bigger on TV,” replied Peterson.
“The cameras must add a couple of feet.”
“Wanna get a picture or two.”
“Sure.”
The rangers then got their cameras out and began taking pictures of themselves next to Jean. She was still asleep but they weren’t doing anything that would make her feel angry in any way.

The rangers were still talking towards each other and having a laugh. A couple of them were still having their pictures taken in front of Jean. But they didn’t know that all the noise was slowly waking her up. It wasn’t until one of her eyes opened that they realised that she was waking up.
“Jesus Christ she’s waking up,” said one of the Rangers.
“Let’s get out of here,” replied another.
They soon began to move away from her quickly. But Jean had already seen them and she sat up. One of the rangers had fallen over and seemed to have hurt himself. He was in fear as he saw Jean’s huge hand engulf him. She had gently grabbed him and brought him up to her level.
“Don’t worry I won’t hurt you,” said Jean.
“I know it’s just…” replied the Ranger.
“I’m a giant.”
“Well yeah.”
“It’s understandable. Big things do scare people. But don’t worry I’m not like any monsters from those movies. I’m a gentle giant. I help people.”
“I know that I’m just nervous.”
“That’s alright.” She then saw that he was holding his leg and seemed to be in some pain. “Are you alright?”
“Not really. My leg really hurts me.”
“Can you walk on it?”
“Let me see.” He then went to stand up but the pain was too much and he sat back down on her hand. “No I can’t.”
“Then let me take you somewhere where you can be treated. Somewhere like the hospital.”
“That’s not necessary. Just take me back to my post. There’s some medical equipment there.”
“Sure.” She then stood up to her full height. She looked around and she felt a little embarrassed. “You wouldn’t mind just pointing out where your post is. I don’t know the way.”
“Oh sure.”
He then pointed towards his post and Jean walked carefully through the forest. She didn’t want to cause any damage to either the trees or the animals. She still felt bad for eating that deer earlier.
With Jean’s size it only took her a couple of minutes to reach the post. But the other rangers hadn’t reached it yet. She didn’t leave the Ranger alone yet and she wanted to wait for the others.
“So err how long have you been living in the forest?” asked the Ranger.
“Only one day,” replied Jean. “I’m stuck at this size and I’m slowly shrinking. When I reach a more suitable size then I’ll leave and go back into my house. And when I get too small for that I’ll move back into my dollhouse.”
“Dollhouse?”
“Long story.”

Jean had to wait a couple of minutes for the other rangers to return. But when they did they quickly saw her and they panicked. But they weren’t sure what they were going to do. They thought she would try and hurt them if they tried to run. They had forgotten that she was gentle.
“Can you p-please put Burtie?” asked one of the rangers.
“Burtie?” replied Jean. And then she thought for a moment and then looked at the Ranger in her hand. “I’m guessing you’re Burtie.”
“Yep that’s me,” he replied.
Jean then looked back at the other Rangers and she slowly lowered Burtie down onto the ground.
“He’s broken his leg,” said Jean. “Any of you know first aid?” Everyone fell silent with fear. “Anyone?”
“I-I d,” replied another Ranger.
“Good make sure he gets to a hospital or something.”
“Err Ok.”
“Good.”
Jean then began to walk away from them and back to where she was sleeping. She knew that the Rangers had been afraid of her. Although she had done a lot of good with her size people were still afraid of her. It was only natural that people would be afraid of something bigger then them.
When she returned to her spot she just lay down and tried to relax. But after everything that had happened it was hard for her to sleep. She could always hear something in the woods around her. They were just the animals but with her sensitive hearing it was like they were right next to her.
She closed her eyes for several hours and she tried to sleep. But eventually she gave up and opened them. She was astonished to see that the sun had already come up. She slowly sat up and sighed.
“Guess its morning,” she said to herself. “I wonder how long Craig will be with breakfast.” She then felt her stomach. “I’m getting hungry.”
She then stood up and saw that the world around her was a little bigger then she had remembered. She guessed that she had lost an additional 10 feet of her height. It was happening faster then she expected.
But then she heard the beeping of a car horn. The pattern of the horn was very familiar. She turned her head and saw Craig’s car coming towards her. She smiled and sat back down on the ground.
It only took a couple of seconds for him to reach her. She waited for him to get out of the car. But Buttons also got out and this made her feel better. She picked them both up and brought them up to her level.
“Morning,” she said.
“Morning Jean,” replied Craig. “How did you sleep?”
“It could have gone better.”

A little later Craig was able to use Martin’s device to grow the food until it was big enough for Jean to eat. In proportion the food was bigger then it was suppose to be. But this was for the better since it would fill her. She just gobbled it up until she was full. The food that remained was reduced to normal size and Buttons just finished it off. He seemed to enjoy being with his giant mistress.
“Oh you’re such a good little doggie,” said Jean. “I love you so much.” She then gently stroked him with her finger. She then looked at Craig. “Heard anything from Brundle?” She was nervous with what he was about to say.
“Well he’s still not sure when he can get the part he needs for this thing,” replied Craig. “And he also says you’ll be down to your normal size in no time. Unfortunately you won’t stop there for too long.”
“Any good news?”
“Yeah no one knows you’re here.”
“Well actually something happened last night.”
“What happened?”
“Well while I was sleeping some rangers found me and they kinda freaked at first. I had to help one of them since he hurt himself. Thankfully they eventually understood that I was gentle. But still sometimes I feel like I could just take over the world.”
“What?”
Jean then giggled. “Just kidding. I’m terrible at politics.”
“And the military would probably stop you.”
They both laughed a little. But Jean didn’t really like sitting around. She wanted to have a little exercise. Not only would it keep her body fit but it would also made her feel better.
Several times she stretched her long body and then tried to touch her toes. But since her legs were so long she couldn’t reach them. This hadn’t been unusually since her legs were very long in comparison to the rest of her body.
She also played with Buttons. She would fetch with him quite often. But she also taught him how to do tricks. He would be on her hand looking up at her and she would ask him to do tricks.
“Roll over,” she asked. Buttons then immediately rolled over for her. “Good boy now play dead.” Buttons then lay on her hand and pretended to be dead. “Good boy.” He then got back up and she held her finger towards him. He then lifted his paw and shook her finger.
But then the ground began to shake violently. Jean lost her balance and fell to the ground. But thankfully the only things that got crushed were some trees. Buttons had been safe in her hand and Craig had luckily been standing in the opposite direction of where Jean fell.
“What the hell was that?” asked Jean.
“An earthquake?” replied Craig.
“In New York?”

“It could be a first,” said Craig.
“I doubt it,” replied Jean. She slowly sat back up and looked around. Thankfully nothing seemed to have been harmed during her fall. But she was surprised with what had happened. Earthquakes didn’t really occur in this part of the world. “You alright?”
“Yeah I’m fine. Just got a little scared.”
“About what?”
“If you’d hurt yourself.”
Craig you know by now that a simple fall won’t damage me.” She tried to stand up and her ankle hurt a little. “Well not too much damage anyway.”
Just then the ground shook again. But this time it was a lot more intense. Jean quickly sat down so that she didn’t fall on anyone. She could hear animals crying out in horror. But she could also hear a couple of screams from people. But a couple of seconds later the earthquake stopped.
“Oh my God,” she said.
“What is it?” replied Craig.
“I think there’re people in danger.” She then put Buttons on the ground and she began to walk away.
“Good luck.”
Jean walked out of the forest and towards the city. She could see a lot of devastation around her. Quite a lot of buildings were destroyed. Almost all of them had no defences against an earthquake.
All Jean could do was try and get people out of their destroyed houses. She had to take a lot of the rubble off of them and put them somewhere where they would be safe. Within minutes of Jean’s attempts of rescue fire engines and ambulances began to appear on the scene. Quite a lot of the rescuers were too nervous to go near Jean. She just glared at them back.
“Are you going to stand there or are you going to help me?” asked Jean.
“Right,” replied one of the rescuers.
They then began to treat the people that Jean had gotten out of the houses. Some of the rescuers also helped to pull people out of the rubble of their houses. Jean was still concerned over what had causes the earthquakes in the first place. But right now she had to concentrate on getting the people to safety. But as she looked around all she could see was devastation. She shed a tear.
“Ma’am,” said a voice.
Jean then looked down and saw what seemed to be a fire chief. She thought about picking him up but she decided against it in the end. She didn’t want to frighten him like she had done with the Ranger the previous night.
“Yes,” replied Jean.
“I need a word with you.”

“Am I allowed to pick you up?” asked Jean. “I don’t want you to be scared of me or anything.”
“That’s fine,” replied the Fire Chief.
Jean then squatted down and she gently picked up the Fire Chief and she brought him up to her level.
“What’s wrong?” asked Jean.
“We desperately need your help,” replied the Fire Chief. “A building’s collapsed a few blocks form here and there are people trapped inside. Some of them are children.”
“Oh my God.”
“It should be to your left over there.”
Jean then turned her head and she could see the house that the Fire Chief was talking about. She quickly walked towards it but she was careful with where she was stepping. She didn’t want to accidentally crush anything.
When she reached the house she could hear people screaming for help. Fire Fighters were trying to get to them but the wreckage was too heavy for them to move. But then they saw Jean right next to them and at first they were a little scared. But as they saw her moving wreckage they quickly calmed down.
As Jean moved the wreckage the fire fighters began to go inside and rescue anyone that was inside. A few of them came out with people. But one woman was screaming her head off.
“MY BABY!” she cried.
Jean then began to move more wreckage out of the way. Eventually she saw a little baby still in its cot. She gently picked it up and gave him back to his mother. The mother hugged the baby tightly and she began to cry. She then looked up at the giant size Jean and she smiled.
“Thank you,” said the Mother. “Your size is truly a gift from God.”
“Wish I could believe that sometimes,” replied Jean.
Just then the ground began to shake again. There was a lot of worrying chatter going around. But after a few seconds the earthquake subsided. Everyone gave out a sigh of relief.
“This isn’t normal,” thought Jean. “Something unnatural is causing these earthquakes. Maybe it’s some kind of mad scientist wanting to destroy New York.” She then paused for a moment. “I’ve watched too many secret agent movies.”
She looked around to see if anything else had been destroyed. But thankfully there didn’t seem to be any further damage. This was somewhat of a relief for her. But her mind still wondered.

Meanwhile a couple of miles below the ground a huge worm like creature was going through. It was over 150 feet long and seemed to be going up. Everyone above was oblivious to what was happening below.
Jean just continued to help out where she could. But she was upset that so many people had died. She just wanted to get out of here as soon as possible. But she couldn’t leave all those people with no help.
For some kids this was exciting. They were playing around in the streets while a lot of the fire hydrants spewing water. The firemen tried to keep them out of the streets but there were too many of them.
Jean had to step in. She picked them up and put them aside to safety. But the kids weren’t very happy about it.
“Hey what you doing?” asked one kid.
“Yeah we were having fun,” replied another.
“I’m sorry kids,” said Jean. “But its not safe for anyone. Stay here until its safe to return.”
“And when’s that?”
“I don’t know.”
Jean then walked away. But there was a smaller quack. But this time she saw the huge worm come up through the ground. This caught her completely by surprise. She had never seen a giant creature before. She thought that only Martin could have done something like this.
“How could he do something like this,” thought Jean.
She walked towards it. She didn’t intend on doing anything threatening towards it. A super size battle would cause a lot of damage and put a lot of innocent people at risk. She’d only fight it as a last resort.
But as she got closer it began to sense her and got agitated. She slowed her pace and put her hand out.
“Don’t worry I’m not going to hurt you,” she said. “Please don’t attack me. I come in peace.”
But the worm ignored her. It wrapped itself around her and attempted to suffocate her. She couldn’t break out of its hold. If she had only been a little bigger she would have had the strength to free herself. But at this moment in time she couldn’t do a thing. And she was running out of air.
“Let go,” she begged.

The worm continued to squeeze Jean. She was running out of breath and she was on the verge of falling unconscious. But she felt the ground shake once more and the worm released its grip. She didn’t have chance to catch it. All she could do was catch her breath as the worm went back into the ground.
When Jean had gotten her breath back she began to walk away from the scene. She was silent throughout the entire journey and eventually she arrived in a familiar neighbourhood. She squatted down right next a particular house and she gently knocked the door. The door eventually opened and Martin came out. But before he could acknowledge that she was there Jean picked him up and brought him up to her level. She didn’t look too happy.
“What’s wrong Jean?” asked Martin.
“You enlarged earthworms,” replied Jean. “They’re causing havoc throughout the city and it’s your fault.”
“What? I’ve done nothing with earthworms.”
“I was attacked by one it almost killed me.”
“Ok I need to tell you something.”
“What is it?”
“I wasn’t exactly the only one who researching about changing the size of objects. I was working with someone else.”
“Who?”
“His name is Thomas Cooper. Like me he was brilliant and we worked on the project together. But we both had different views on what to do with it. He thought that we could use it to take our places in the world. He was vengeful because like me he was bullied in school. But unlike me he didn’t have you to protect him.”
“What happened to him?”
“We split up to continue the research ourselves. I thought I was the only one who’d cracked the code. Obviously he had found a way also.”
“Do you know where he is?”
“I haven’t spoken with him for some time. I have no idea where he is or what he’s doing right now.”
“Can you find out in anyway?”
“Maybe he’s in the Phone Book.”
“This is no time for joking.”
“No I’m serious. I know it’s unlikely but it’s worth a shot right.”
Jean then sighed. “Fine.”

Jean put Martin back down on the ground and Jean sat down in front of his house. She didn’t expect him to get any results. But a couple of minutes later he returned with the phone book and he seemed happy.
“Found him,” said Martin.
“What?” replied Jean. She couldn’t believe it. She didn’t expect someone like that to be in the phone book.
“See right here.” He pointed to the name in the book. Jean tried to take a closer look but she still couldn’t see it.
“The writing’s too small. I can’t see it.”
“Well according to this he lives in 27 Avenue Street.”
“I know where that is. I can get there in less then a minute.”
“You better hurry. The sooner you find him the sooner you can stop the worms.”
“If I’m able to capture any can you return them to their normal size?”
“I can’t not until I get the part I need. If I had it I’d also be able to return you to your normal size.”
“Ok I’ll see you later.”
“Take care.”
Jean then stood up and began to walk to Avenue Street. Like she said it only took her around a minute to reach it. But now she had see where Number 27 was. She looked along the houses and she registered which number they were. Eventually she went to where Number 27 was suppose to be. But instead of seeing a house she saw a burnt out house.
Jean was frustrated. She thought that she had gotten to the bottom of this. But now that her prime suspect was missing. She stamped her foot in anger.
“Damn it!” she cried.
But then she noticed that the ground where she had stomped was cracking. She hadn’t hit it that hard and eventually it crumbled away revealing a tunnel. She knocked hand on the ground to the side of the tunnel and she could tell that it was solid. But a few metres away from the tunnel she knocked the ground again and it sounded hollow.
“Looks like I’m on the right track,” she said.
Thankfully for her the tunnel was easily large enough for her to crawl through. She felt a little claustrophobic but there was enough room for her to move and enough oxygen to breathe.
But as Jean crawled further she could see that it was getting darker and darker. Eventually she was in pitch black and she couldn’t see a thing. She was crawling blindly and she just hoped that she’d reach the end soon.
After almost half an hour of crawling she saw light at the end of the tunnel. She crawled towards it and hoped that it was a lead.

Jean slowly continued to crawl through the tunnel. She was getting closer and closer to the light at the end of it. She hoped that she wouldn’t run into anymore giant worms. She was just able to survive her last encounter with one of them. She didn’t want to face anymore of them. If she had been at full size she would have been able to take any of them on. But since she was still getting smaller her strength was also shrinking along with her.
But when she got to the end of the tunnel she saw a large opening. She could see other worms there and she saw some kind of machine. It looked similar to the machine that had caused her to grow and shrink.
Jean tried to stay out of sight but for a woman of her stature this would be difficult to say the least. But she watched as a man walked by the machine. From where she was she could see a huge smile on his face. She wanted to grab him and make him stop what he was doing. But with all the giant worms around she dared not make a move until the timing was perfect.
“If only I was bigger,” she thought. “At least I don’t have to worry about shrinking to two inches in the blink of an eye.”
She watched the worms disappear in several different tunnels. Out of sheer luck none of them decided to go through her tunnel. This left her alone in the opening with this mysterious man. But she had a good idea about who he was.
Jean crawled out of her tunnel and she quickly grabbed him. This caught the man completely by surprise. At first he was shocked but he calmed down surprisingly quick. This surprised her.
“Thomas Cooper I believe,” said Jean.
“Yes but how did you…” he replied.
“Let’s just say I have friends in high places.”
“It won’t make any difference. My pets are already causing anarchy throughout the city. You can’t stop them yourself.”
“But something tells me you can. You’ve killed a lot of innocent people and injured a great deal more. If you have any decency left in that puny little body of yours you’ll do the right thing.”
“Too bad there isn’t any decency in my body.”
“Such a shame for you.” She then looked at machine. “And what’s this?”
“You leave that alone you overgrown freak. That’s my life’s work.”
“Doesn’t seem to be the best I’ve seen it. Martin made one that was much better then this crappy model.”
“It’s not crappy!”

Just then Jean felt the ground rumbling again. She knew that it meant that the worms were coming back. Tom began to laugh at her. In his mind there was no way she could possible win.
“My pets are coming back,” said Tom. “And judging from your size you’re not even able to overpower one let alone my army.”
“Don’t count me out just yet,” replied Jean. “This isn’t just a pretty face.”
She then placed Tom on a high ledge. He couldn’t get down from it so at least he was out of the way. But the ground continued to rumble. Jean knew that she didn’t have a lot of time.
But then she noticed that the size changing device was still right next to her foot. She looked at it and was a little puzzled. She tried to look at the controls but they were very small compared to her.
“If this thing made them bigger,” thought Jean. “It should be able to make things small again.”
But before she could think it through one of the worms came out from the ground right next to her. This caused her to panic a little and she responded by punching it in the head. This stunned it momentarily and Jean went back to figuring out the controls. She didn’t have a lot of time. She was able to nudge a lever or two and she pressed a red button. This caused a beam to come out and hit the worm.
She expected to see if shrink. But instead it tripled in size. It roared at her and she was scared at this moment in time.
“Wrong way,” she said.
She quickly flicked a switch and activated the ray again. This time when the beam hit the worm it shrank. It kept on shrinking until Jean couldn’t see it anymore. She felt pretty proud of herself.
But more worms began to appear. She quickly used the device again to shrink them all down to size. When they were all down to size she looked up at the ledge where Tom had been. But she was surprised to see that he was gone.
“Where did he go?” she asked.
“Behind you,” replied a voice.
She turned around and saw Tom right by the size changing device. He activated and the beam hit her. He expected to see her shrink but she didn’t change at all. He stood there in disbelief.
“What gives?” asked Tom. “That ray was powerful enough to shrink you to the size of a microbe.”
“I’m already shrinking,” replied Jean. “So your little beam has no effect on me little man.”

Then Jean quickly picked Tom up and brought him up to her level. She gave him an evil grin and he was very, very scared.
“You’re going to pay for everything you’ve done,” said Jean.
“Mercy?” replied Tom.
“That’s for the courts to decide. Not me.”
“But look at you. You’re a Goddess. You could rule over everyone. They could be your slaves and they would do whatever you wanted them to do.”
“No can do. I’m not that kind of gal.”
Minutes later Jean was back on the surface with Tom. She handed him over to authorities and she walked away. A lot of newscasters wanted to interview her. But they couldn’t keep up with her and she just kept walking until she reached the forests again. This was her temporary home until she shrank to a more manageable size.
She began to think about what she’d do when she was smaller. When she reached about 50 feet she could move into a warehouse until she shrank to around 10 feet. Then she would move back into the house. She would be too tall to stand up straight at first but she’s soon shrink into it. When she reached a few inches she would move back into the dollhouse.
But Jean knew that there was a long time before she could get any kind of shelter. And to her rotten luck it began to rain. She was now becoming cold and wet. She had just saved countless people and she was rewarded with rain. At this moment in time she hated her life. But there wasn’t much she could do about it.
But then she saw a familiar car pulling up. She could see both Craig and Martin inside. This put a small smile on her face. They quickly pulled up beside her and got out of the car. They also got out what seemed to be a raincoat and Martin’s device.
“Guys you’re here,” said Jean.
“Yep and we’ve got a surprise,” replied Martin. He then activated the device and he enlarged the raincoat up to Jean’s proportion. She then picked it up and quickly put it on. “Do you like it?”
“Just what I need.”
“Congratulations on today,” replied Craig. “You stopped a terrorist from destroying the city.”
“I know but I’m still stuck here until I shrink small enough to get shelter.” She then sighed. “It’s pretty depressing.”
“You’ll be back down to size before you know it.”
“I hope so.”

A couple of weeks past and Jean was still in the forests. But by now she had shrank down to 50 feet. She was still huge but compared to what she was she felt a little small. But she knew that she had a lot more shrinking to do.
Since the weather was getting colder she was having to dress up in warmer clothes. But it was also wet and she feared that it would snow soon. But she knew that she didn’t have long living out in the forest. Soon she would be small enough to at least go into a large barn.
She sat down thinking to herself. But then she saw Craig’s car pull up. She was happy to see that Martin and Buttons were also with him. This brought a smile onto her face. But she still shivered.
“Hey there beautiful,” said Craig.
“Cold and hungry,” replied Jean.
“Don’t worry Martin says that this time next week you’ll be small enough to go into the barn.”
“The sooner the better. I don’t know how I haven’t frozen to death.”
“Well we’ve got you some food anyway.”
Martin then used his device to enlarge some food and drinks for Jean. They were all hot so this definitely warmed her up. She had a huge mug of warm coco and several pastries that were very warm.
“I shouldn’t be eating all this,” said Jean. “It’ll do terrible things for my figure.” But then she took another bite out of her pastry. “But how can something so unhealthy taste so good?”
“That’s what women ask all the time,” replied Martin.
Just then Buttons ran up to her and began to bark at her. She gently picked him up and looked at him.
“And have you been a good boy for Craig?”
“Woof,” replied Buttons.
“Well if you are when I get do a more manageable size I’m going to give you a nice treat.”
“Woof.”
“Good boy.”
Jean looked at them all a little longer. They seemed a lot bigger then they used to be. She knew that they hadn’t grown. It was her that was getting smaller.
Eventually she finished what she was eating and put what was left down on the ground. Martin quickly shrank these so that they could be taken away with ease. But Jean was still feeling uneasy.

Jean had been feeling uneasy for the past couple of days. At first she thought that it was due to her shrinking but the feeling hadn’t gone away. She felt that something very bad was going to happen soon but she couldn’t put her finger on it. If anything things were going to get better. Before she would know she’d be small enough to move back into her home.
“Martin I’m not feeling too good,” said Jean. “Any chance you can supersize some aspirins for me. I think I’m coming down with something.”
“I guess your immune system didn’t increase with your size,” replied Martin.
“What do you mean?”
“I was hoping that since you were a giant your body would be too big to be affected by viruses or bacteria. This time I was wrong but it could be better for you this way.”
“Why would that be any better? Isn’t not getting a disease a good thing?”
“Well yes but you have to see the flip side to it. When you’re smaller in size your body would be more vulnerable to them.”
“I guess that’s not too bad.”
Just then Jean began to hear something. At first she couldn’t pick it out but as she listened more carefully she was able to pick it up. It sounded like someone was calling for help. The only problem was that she didn’t know where it was coming from. She had to hush everyone so that she could fully pinpoint the origin of the cries for help.
The sound seemed to be fairly close by. Jean stood up to her full height and began to look around. The only problem was that she couldn’t see where it was coming from. If she had been full size it would have been a lot easier. But for now she was relying more on her hearing then she was her eyesight.
“Stay here,” said Jean to the others. ”I’ll be back in just a minute.”
She then began to walk towards where she could hear the cries coming from. She was constantly looking while she was walking, any sight of this person would help her greatly. At first she couldn’t see anyone. But then she saw what seemed to be a man in a tree. He was just sitting there and she could hear him screaming out for help. This she couldn’t ignore. She carefully walked over to him and she gently picked him out of the tree. But he was still calling for help.
“Don’t worry you’re safe now,” she said. But then she noticed something strange. This thing wasn’t even a man, it was a dummy. His cries for help had been through a speaker and she instantly realised what was happening. “Oh crap.”
Suddenly out of the surrounding bushes several armed men came out and began shooting at her. They were wearing green outfits so that they were camouflaged with the bushes. But instead of firing bullets there were firing tranquillizer darts. The needles on the darts were extra-long so that they could pierce her thick skin. The first couple of darts didn’t do much damage, but as more hit their target she began to feel light headed. They weren’t trying to kill her they were trying to capture her.
Jean used her size to brush a few of the soldiers aside. But there were at least a dozen of them and she was trying not to seriously hurt them. She might be in a life or death situation but she was a gentle giantess at heart. But the longer she fought the drowsier she became. It wouldn’t be long before she was unconscious and she only saw one option.
Within seconds she turned around and began to run away. She was running too fast for any of the soldiers to follow but as far as they were concerned they had done their jobs. All they had to do now was play the waiting game.
As Jean ran she called out for Craig and Martin, but she was so disorientated that she didn’t realise that she was running further away from them rather than closer. But after a couple of minutes the tranquillizers finally won and she fell to the ground. The fall caused a minor earthquake but there was nothing around to be affected by it.
As the world around her began to go black she saw more soldiers around her. She wanted to swipe them away but she couldn’t move her arms. They all had their guns pointed at her and their fingers right next to the trigger. This was in case anything unexpected happened.
The next thing Jean saw was a helicopter flying just above her. That was the last thing she saw as the world around her became completely black.

A few hours later Jean began to regain consciousness. At first she was awake but her vision was still blurry but it seemed to be returning. The first thing she tried to do was move her right arm but much to her surprise she couldn’t. It was like it was tied down to the ground underneath.
As her vision continued to return she could see that she was in some kind of warehouse and that it looked empty at first. Her body was covered with chains and they were attached to the ground. She felt like she was in some John Swift novel. She tried to break out of the chains but they were too strong for her. She knew that this would only be a temporary problem though. Soon she would shrink small enough to escape.
Just then she began to hear a loud alarm sound. She didn’t know what it was but within a minute of the alarm going off Jean was surrounded by the same army personnel who had tackled her earlier. They were all armed again but this time their guns had bullets not tranquillizer darts.
Before Jean could say anything an unarmed man wearing a lab coat walked up to her. He was quite short and wore big thick glasses. He looked to be in his mid 40’s and he had a couple of grey hairs in his otherwise black hair. He was holding a clipboard and a pen and had a quick look at the writing on the paper. He then looked at Jean but she didn’t seem to be too pleased.
“Greetings Miss Abbot,” he said.
“How do you know my name?” replied Jean.
“Oh please Miss Abbot did you really expect to just walk around at your height and not get noticed by the Government.”
“Well no but…”
“We’ve been watching you for a while now Miss Abbot. We admit that you’ve helped a great deal of people during your so called superhero adventures. Now however that comes to an end.”
“You want me to stop helping people?”
“Well technically no. You will be helping people just not in the way you’ve been doing for the past few months.”
“What do you mean?”
“You’ll see in due time my dear.”
“Who are you?”
“My real name is not important but for now you can call me Tim. Now with your full co-operation things will go a lot quicker and less painful. If you decide to resist in anyway these men have been ordered to shoot you.”
“What the hell do you want to do with me?” She tried to move again but she still couldn’t break through the chains but she still didn’t have the strength. The soldiers were about to fire at her but Tim raised his arm to stop them. “I’ve done nothing wrong.”
“We know that. You’re just unfortunate my dear.” He then turned around. “If you do as you’re told you just might enjoy it here.”
“I doubt that.”
“Suit yourself.” He then began to walk away. “Make sure she doesn’t go anywhere and start the tests as soon as possible.”

What will happen to her? Find out next time.