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Despite how much I bug you, it is still your story. Just move through it at your own pace. If you rush, then the end result turns out worse.

[El_Roy_1999]

A longer one for today!

Deal with the devil

It was easy to see Jacob’s struggle with himself. He stared blankly at his sister, who barely managed not to laugh. Finally, he lowered his eyes.
“It’s okay. You can have the money. Just leave us alone and don’t destroy my project. It’s not expensive, but I’m really fond of it.”
“It’s fine by me. I’m sorry it’s so out of place, but if you could just step over to my car, we can sign the contract right away.”
She led the way, showing them an older upper class limousine. They got in and found Helena and Mr. Sonborough waiting for them. Louisa signalled the driver to start the car.
“They’re just witnesses, so let’s get it done.”
Minutes later, the papers were signed. Louisa smiled happily, then drove them to her father’s house. As they got out of the car, she lowered the window and added:
“Thanks a lot. By the way, Jacob, I’d really like to see you out of the house by tomorrow and Kim, I heard the police are looking for a woman your size. I took the liberty of calling them, to clear this up. Enjoy the anti-terrorist legislation and be sure to get a newspaper tomorrow!” The car drove away, just as the police arrived.
As the policemen desperately struggled to subdue the enormous blonde, she shouted for help and implored Jacob to see Nina. At last, a group of twelve policemen managed to tackle her and hit her with pepper spray. She howled and screamed, but Jacob couldn’t help her since he was being watched by two police officers, waiting for the fight to end. He tried to get closer, but the policemen just pushed him back, occasionally lifting their truncheons.
Kim was carried into the meat wagon and driven away. She was quickly transported to the police station and identified. Her personal belongings were taken and registered and she quickly found herself in a single cell. She was not allowed a phone call due to anti-terrorist laws. After bringing her to her cell, the policemen left here there to get her to calm down and to make her “easier” to question later.
Kim calmed down quickly. She really wondered what had happened and why she was being arrested and shouted for her attorney. One of the policemen went over to the cell and explained the consequences of the current legislation to her, all the while staying at arms length of the cell’s bars.
Meanwhile, Louisa was elated. It had all worked out perfectly. She had the money, she had disposed of her guinea-pig, and now, her master-plan would come to fruition. She ordered her driver to take her to headquarters. When the car arrived at the elegant domain outside the city, she recapitulated her plans for tonight. The massive cast-iron gate swung open silently. The order had provided her with excellent training grounds, but had been easily deceived into preparing subjects loyal only to her. As the limousine approached the main building, the distant sound of gun-fire was heard. Louisa’s force was getting ready. She checked her make-up and got out of the car.
As she reached the council chamber, she quickly assessed the situation. The other members of the order were here, enjoying their wine and cigars. She sat down, crossed her legs and asked the chambermaid to get her a glass of whiskey on the rocks. Hard facts needed hard drinks. After taking a sip, she turned to the rotund forms of her co-conspirators and smiled. They wouldn’t put up much of a fight.
“Gentlemen. As you have seen yesterday, the project is ready. It has been tested, evaluated and successfully used in public. We are ready to strike.” The audience was clearly happy about this and smiled gently at the young upstart. “Due to my preparations, funding is no longer an issue. Indeed, it makes me unsure whether your part in the whole operation is not over-valued.” She smiled grimly. The elder members of the order stirred, one of them, Alphonse Mackham, actually got up and asked:
”What are you insinuating? We offered you all the support you needed. Of course, we expected such a talented young woman to cope with the fickle challenges of financing!”
“I’m very grateful for your compliment, my dear Alphonse, but still I am unsure whether your future involvement is necessary. Let me put it this way…” She pushed a preset dialing button on her cell-phone. Instantly, the whole area was bustling with activity. Seconds later, several agents secured the entrances to the council-chambers. They were invariably female, tall and dressed in wide urban camouflage suits. The expert eye would undoubtedly recognise that each one of them was well-muscled and trained to fight. They carried large rifles, modern and clearly too heavy for the average soldier. On top of their suits, they wore black combat harnesses, studded with several small steel containers, each one containing a dull red liquid. Their faces were covered by black gasmasks.
“…I think that it’s time for you to retire.” She turned on her heels and left the room. Inside, screams were heard, sometimes punctuated by gunfire. Everything was perfect. She called Helena, offered her a cigarette and smiled. They sat there smoking while they waited that the noise would calm down. Suddenly her phone rang.
“Yes? Oh, hello Frank. What’s up? I’m just in the final phase of testing your invention.”
“That’s great. By the way, we’re doing some further testing on our own.”
“More animals?”
“No, no, we’re done with that. We wanted to tell you about it, but we couldn’t reach you. We have another human guinea-pig.”
Louisa’s mood fell.
“Another human? Who?”
“It’s one of Kim’s friends. A classy lady called Nina. She’s cool. It’s working perfectly with her.”
“Are you saying that there is someone else who knows about the formula?”
Frank felt threatened and stuttered:
“Well, she doesn’t know about the technical details, but she does know that it exists and how to use it. That’s not bad, is it?”
Louisa recovered her composure as Helena held her free hand.
“No. Not at all. It’s no problem that there is a person who knows about my plan. No problem whatsoever. Everything is perfectly fine!” The woman almost shouted the last words. A very intimidated Frank said:
“The worst is, I don’t even know her full name. But I assure you, she doesn’t give anything about your plan. She’s all about looks. Very superficial. No problem at all. We’ll see if we can find her, okay?”
“Definitely. As soon as you know were she lives, give me a call.”

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I am really starting to dislike Louisa. The woman is cruel, sadistic, and just flat out evil. Can we have her duke it out with Kim without Louisa becoming a hugely muscled woman?  👿

[El_Roy_1999]

You are, I hope, aware of the laws of final fantasy boss management?

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Which part? You mean the part where the final boss is insanely huge and can't even fit on the entire screen? Or the part where the boss is so incredibly cheap that one strike removes about half of your health? Oh! What about the part where the boss goes through a ridiculously long scene before we get to fight it? Or MAYBE it's the part where the boss has multiple forms, each bigger and more powerful than the last? Am I getting close?

[El_Roy_1999]

Righto!
That's exactly what I mean.

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That doesn't help! Which one? Or is it all of the above?

[El_Roy_1999]

I guess I should surprise you, but: All of the above! Small BIG small but Eeevil!

New body image

The woman’s face was distorted by an expression of deep disgust. She sat on the hard Japanese cushion and stared at her ex-schoolmate with utter revulsion. She had expected the worst from Nina, but this had clearly astonished her. When she had opened the door, her obscene form had been somewhat disguised by the oversized kimono, but now, all those awfully ugly muscles were showing amidst layers of fat. Colleen had spent years starving herself and desperately eating right while spending endless days on fat-burning contraptions. She had achieved what none of her schoolmates would have thought possible. Her awkward, bulky form had changed into a thin, lithe and elegant look, her repulsively bloated face had become graceful and sophisticated. Her host smiled broadly at her, letting her powerful throat and neck muscles bulge.
“So you’ve made it big. That’s cool.” Nina was genuinely happy for her designer friend. The last weeks had fulfilled all of her life’s wishes so quickly, she could hardly muster enough hard feelings to try bearing their ancient grudge. Colleen smiled weakly.
“You too. I mean, you’re big. In a physical kind of way.” She avoided Nina’s gaze.
“Do you like it? Look at this.” Nina flexed her enormous arm, showing a bowling ball-sized biceps. Suddenly, Colleen felt violently sick. She excused herself to the bathroom as quickly as possible. Nina felt strange. Her “nemesis” was no longer interesting, and creeping her out was hardly satisfying. Just as she thought about what she should do next, her phone rang.
“Hi Nina, this is Frank. We just wanted to tell you that we have a new version available, and that we can bring it to your place.”
“Great. I can come and pick it up, if you prefer.”
“No problem. We need to get out once in a while, you know. Where shall we bring it to?”
Nina gave them her address. Minutes later, Louisa received a text message, telling her what she wanted to know. She quickly walked over to her assembled troops and ordered two of them to get rid of Nina. The others were sent to the government district, the radio and television stations and to military command. They swarmed out quickly in teams of eight.
Seconds later, Nina’s doorbell rang. Colleen was still in the bathroom, being sick. Jacob stood outside. As soon as Nina opened, his jaw dropped.
“Wow. Are you Nina?” he asked.
“I am, yes. And you are?”
“I’m Jacob.”
“The Jacob? As in Kim’s love interest Jacob?”
“Yes. Can I come in?”
“Sure. Make yourself at home.” That’s a pretty one, she thought. No wonder Kim eventually fell in love with him.
Jacob quickly walked in, then told her about Kim’s fate.
“I already called a lawyer, but since our family advocate just betrayed me, it’s no personal friend, and since I’m penniless now, he won’t quicken his pace.” Nina absorbed the information as quickly as she could.
“Do you know which police station they brought her to? We could go there and see if we can help her.” Jacob nodded, but he had no idea about the policemen’s destination. He suggested phoning the police stations, so as to find out where she had been brought to. Nina searched for the phone book and looked for the relevant numbers. Once she found them, she said:
“You call those, I call the other ones. Since she’s easily recognisable, it won’t be difficult to find out.”
“Sure. By the way, who’s in the bathroom? It sounds awful!”
“It’s a friend of mine. She doesn’t like my looks, I think.” Jacob gave her a surprised look, which lingered longer on her amazing shoulders than necessary and started dialling the first number. After a dozen calls, they actually managed to find out that she’d been brought to the central police station. (There had been some bureaucratic mix-up which made them loose time.) At last, Colleen got out of the bathroom and asked:
“Who is this cute guy? What are you doing?”
“This is Jacob, and we’re looking for…” She couldn’t finish her sentence as her two main windows flew into shards.

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Aww… Don't stop there! I want see what's going to happen.

Even if I can kind of predict it. 😉

[El_Roy_1999]

And here's a nice little action sequence for everybody!

Attack of the mutant killer assault commandos of doom and stuff!!!

In the middle of the mess, two muscular women had appeared, readying their weapons. Nina jumped aside, barely escaping the first salvo from their guns. The main room’s furniture was quickly shot to pieces. Colleen backed into the bathroom, hiding as best as she could. Jacob dropped to the ground easily. Years of travelling the south had given him certain useful reflexes when faced with automatic fire. As he opened his eyes again, he saw Nina’s massive form cast in the most dynamic pose. She had grabbed the large heating stone and threw it at the assailants with all her might. The perfect trajectory of her swaying hips, the masterfully unwinding muscles of her back and shoulders, all this fell into an elegant display of power akin to the Greek athletes of old.
The brick’s trajectory ended quickly, namely in the face of one of the warrior-women. The muscular attacker collapsed. Her partner advanced, her gasmask cloaking her aggression. She fired at Nina, but the heavy-set woman had rolled into the kitchen. Her opponent went after her, leaning sideways to shoot her target. Just as she pulled the trigger, a wok-pan struck her gun, disarming her.
Nina charged. She grabbed the powerful woman and started squeezing her in a bear hug. She wrapped her large arms around her enemy’s waist and pressed. Meanwhile, Jacob crawled over to the prone woman and hit her again with the brick. He then took her gun away.
As Nina struggled with her opponent, she noticed that her would-be victim had thrown her head back. This caused the strange tube-like contraptions on her harness to empty themselves into her bloodstream with an audible hiss. Nina tried to maintain her grip, but noticed that the woman she was holding started swelling. Indeed, her foe’s muscles grew harder and harder, forcing her arms apart. The red-head desperately struggled to keep the assailant under control, but was quickly forced to concede.
Nina dropped her, falling back a little. Behind the gasmask, an evil sneer leered at her. The camouflage-clad woman grew more and more powerful by the minute. Her once baggy clothes were now tight on her tall body, her back spreading enormously, more than twice the size of her waist. Thick slabs of muscles piled on her athletic frame, her trapezius muscles reaching to her ears. Nina was aghast. The woman roared with triumph, lifting her massive arms and charged.
Or rather meant to charge, for Jacob used this moment to hit her on the head with the rifle’s butt. The woman turned around, throwing an off-hand punch at Jacob, projecting him neatly across the room. He smashed through the Japanese rice-paper walls, crashing into Nina’s bedroom.
The bedroom’s owner grabbed a large kitchen knife and tried to stab her foe into the bag. Her surprise was great when she noticed that the weapon had easily penetrated her clothing and upper skin, but refused to enter any further. She struck again, but the woman’s flesh was too resilient. Once again, the woman whirled around and smashed her fist into Nina’s bulging stomach. However, Nina had anticipated this blow and had flexed her abdominal muscles. She felt nauseated, but held her ground. She advanced on her enemy, once again trying to grab her.
As they struggled, Jacob stirred, got up and looked around. The first thing he noticed was Nina’s underwear, lying around in a basket. He shook his head, touching the spot where he’d been hit. He’d be sore in the morning. He picked up the basket, emptied it and ran at the soldier-woman. Being occupied with Nina, she didn’t notice him. To her surprise, she found herself blinded by the tightly woven pattern.
Nina used her moment of surprise and smashed her fist on her opponent’s chin. The masterful uppercut lifted her foe in the air, sending her crashing to the ground. Jacob then proceeded to beat her senseless with the brick. Nina leaned against the broken kitchen sink, catching her breath, watching the ordeal. Jacob got back up. He clapped his hands and said:
“I guess they’ll be out for a few hours. We have to find Kim!”
“We can take my car, give me ten seconds to get some intact clothes and I’m with you.” As she put on her hakama pants and a new T-shirt, Jacob removed the women’s weapons. He put them into Nina’s sports bag and examined their harnesses. The small containers were still intact, but one set was now empty. He decided to take the full one with him. When the bag was full, he could barely lift it with both hands.
Nina returned, took the bag easily and started running down the stairs. He followed her quickly.
When they had left, Colleen got out of the bathroom. She looked around, wondered where Nina and her guest had gone and left quickly and silently.

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