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Full size PC, Laptop muscle gal 🙂

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That's a simple yet effective drawing.  The tree almost looks pillowy.

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I concur!

Moreover, I've never seen this bodybuilder before, and she looks exactly like the mental image I had when I was writing that nurse story!  😮

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An excioting plot twist.
Why doesn't she attack her own father?  Does he have some preternatural defenses?

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A nondescript number of days passed.  Tommy turned off the television, limped over to his DVD player, and put the disc inside a box with a picture of Maria surrounded by generic extraterrestrial antagonists on it.  He stood and hobbled to the kitchen where he stared at a neatly arranged stack of suitcases.  A grandisonant crash and the doorbell disrupted his reverie.  When he finally opened the door, his jaw dropped as a sensation that felt like being hit by a towering wave of water hit him.

    "Maria!" Tommy gasped, managing to pat his enormous sister.  She let go of him and walked into the living room.

     "Aren't you going to get me a drink?"  She sneered.

    "Yeah yeah…"  he muttered as he poured a glass of skim milk and placed two and a half cups of whey powder and a tablespoon of peanut butter in it.

     She took the mixture and imbibed it fondly.  "How are you?"  She asked, removing her hat, scarf, sunglasses, and trenchcoat.

    "Sister, it's eighty degrees outside.  Aren't you a little overdressed?" 

    "I don't want to be recognized here." 

    Tommy rolled his eyes and studdied the megalithic woman sitting in his father's recliner.  "Whatever you say… you're even larger than I remember!"

    Maria smiled.  "I have a nutritionist in Hollywood.   Apparently a vitamin deficiency was stunting my growth…  Are you ready to go off to college tomorrow?"   

    Tommy grinned spastically, "Hell Yes!  I got into a program that was even better than I thought I could get into."

    Maria smiled.  "What was that thing you did again to get into college?"

    "It's called a disability scholarship…  Apparently they think I have cerebral palsy."

    "Cereal policy?"

      "No…  Cerebral palsy…  I've been having psychomotor difficulties ever since… the accident remember?"

      "Oh yeah.  I thought you had super healing or something."

      Tommy shrugged his bony shoulders. "That was just temporary."

      "You lost your powers?"

     "No, the human body is designed to elimanate gratuitous structures to prevent excessive energy expenditure.  Because I suddenly lost a significant percentage of muscle, my body was slow to deconstruct the concomitant mineral and nutrient delievery facilities.  It's not like I'm a supherhuman of something…"

    Maria's face lit up.  "That reminds me."  She paused to recall, "I got a part in the new She Hulk movie!  Guess which one!"

    "Hmmmm…..  Is it- Jennifer Walters?"

     "No, doofus!  I'm the She Hulk!"

     "Congratulations."

      Maria's countenance softened, despite the muculature that deformed it somewhat, "Actually, I came to thank you about that.  If you did not volunteer for that procedure, this would never have happened.  Thanks to you my dream came true." 

     "great."

    "Do you feel sad about being so small now?"  Maria tried her best to look contemplative.

    Tommy stared at his perpetually twitching hands, his vimenious limbs, the stack of luggage, and his grinning sibling.  After a moment of consideration,he responded .  "Some was lost, and some was gained.  Tell me more about She Hulk," he said, mustering a tepid smile

      "I almost didn't get it because I was too tall, but the director said that camerawork could take care of that."

     "That's a major role for your second movie.  You know, I was just watching your last one."

     Maria sighed.  "Ick.  Me… Halle Berry…  um… whatshername…  Nobody ever seems to like Catwoman movies."

      "Well, many of the fans were put off by the fact that Catwoman's main weapon was changed."

    She blushed.  "That was my fault.   That flimsy leather strap kept burning up when I tried to crack it, so they replaced it with that… metallic whip thingy."

    "That was a wrecking ball attached to a chain inented for hauling vehicles!"

    She shrugged.  "Same difference.  I can crack it like a whip, can't I… Let's play with it now!"

    Before Tommy could remind her that playing with such objects can be perilous within the suburbs, Maria grabbed him, and her heavy movie prop and ran into the front yard.  "What's that?"  Tommy gasped.

    "Oh… I used it to get here."

    "Where did you get that helicopter?"

    "from the movie set…"

    "You stole a helicopter?"

    "No, I borrowed it.  I'm not being like Winona, you know!" 

    "I see.  So can you really make that thing go at supersonic speeds?"  Tommy tapped the chain.

    "Of course!  I can make it go even faster than that."

    Maria swung the ball and chain above her head as if she were swinging a lasso.  After a few minutes of escalating momentum, Maria flicked her wrist, and the sonic disruption caused the windows to burst.  After a few more rotations the iron spheroid glowed brilliantly and began to lose its shape.  The heat caused a sound like thunder, which caused Maria to lose her grip on the chain.  The molten wrecking ball broke free from the chain, demolished a satelite dish, and landed in the neighbors yard, impacting a noticable crater. 

     Maria and Tommy looked at each other.  "Meteorite!"  They said in unison. 

    "Ah, My hearing!" Maria patted her head.  "What's this."  Two earplugs fell out.  Tommy removed a pair from his own ears and explained.  "I had a feeling something would break the sound barrier tonight, so I slipped these into your ears when you weren't looking."

    "You're still the smart guy…  Hey, I promised to return this thing before tommorrow morning, so I'm going to leave now."  Maria kissed her brother on the cheek, and entered the chopper, only to exit it soon afterwards."

    "I ran out of gas and it's a long way to the filling station, so I should go."

     "Maria, Wait!  The 7-11 doesn't carry that kind of fuel!"

     Tommy's advice had no avail.  Maria had already hefted the vehicle on her shoulders and was jogging out of distance.

     Tommy smiled as he saw her sister run into the horizon, laughing so hard he nearly fell over.. 

The End

Sorry if it is too anticlimactic.

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Pretty good.  I wonder where the FMG will come in.

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Maria felt a tug at her arm before awakening to a panoply of flashes and microphones.  Tommy tried to restrain the tide of journalists, but he was somehow shuffled out the door, an enigmatic feat considering the bulk of his wheelchair. 

"What?"  she babbled.  The flood of intrudered clamoured at her cognizanze.

    A microhone was shoved in her face.  "You have been witnessed throwing a tree weighing over one thousand pounds."  The voice faded into the background.

"Strongest woman in the world—"

        "Phenomenal"

    "Would you.."

"Endorsements, documentaries"

       "Millions!"

    "movie contract."

      Maria stared numbly at the flashing babble for quite some time before somebody touched her.  At this, she lept off the bed in alacrity.  "Out!"  She hoisted the unfortunate reporter by his tie and stuffed him swiftly through the tight frame of the window. 

    She turned on the masses, which seemed mollified by this outburst.  Within a minute, Maria was cluthching her head and grunting in solitude.  A third of the strangers managed to flee her virago grasp, but most of them ended up defenstrated on the lawn. 

     Outside, Tommy wheeled up to assess the damage.  Miraculously no one was hurt, not a single piece of equipment was damaged and some of the males seemed inexplicably excited.  He shook his head and addressed the extirpated crowd.  "I warned you not to overstimulate her…."  He began.

    Several hours later, Maria had calmed down and dealt with the abased masses.  She chatted with her brother about the lucrative results over their dinner.

    "… So then I'm going to be on three commercials, and next year I can go to Harvard on a football scholarship."

     She looked at her brother's face.

    "What is it?"

     This incensed Tommy even more.  "That should be my scholarship…"

     "What!  I worked out, and I deserve it."

     "One, some of that muscle is mine! Two, you don't even know what a line of scrimmage is!  Three:  you stole my scholarship!"

     Maria clenched her teeth.  "You knew that procedure would be risky.  I have a whole season to learn what lina skurmidge means.  Lastly, you know I want to go to college- you've always been smart, you don't know what it's like to be frustrated."

    "You've always been the best swimmer, runner, archer, driver, gymnast… et cetera.  You also excel at mathematics.  I joined the sports teams to be just like you!  And for the last ten years I have been known as Maria's little brother..  And now I had a chance to be recognized as a great athlete on my own virtue, and it went to you.

     Maria gripped Tommy's nose, but but the anger had left her voice.  Moreover, tears began to well as she rebutted.  "But you're so smart…  and I don't think you appreciate that….  No one ever calls you stupid…  You don't have severe dyslexia.  People respect you, and not for silly things like lifting really big weights above your head.  I know you can get into college.  Knowing you, you'll find a way to get in on a… weakness scholarship!"  Maria stomped out of the room. 

     Tommy pondered his macilent limbs, and in futility glanced at a tear stained college pamphlet one last time.  Eventually, opening his eyes wide, he laughed and whispered.  "Maria… you found the answer."

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I too await the surely Damoclean fate of Allie.

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Tourist, here's a direct link to the deviantart page with it on. http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/24309901/

The arms seem somewhat thin for his chest.

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The expressions are exquisite.  Additionally, you have managed to portray the wet look using graphite.

A small compunction…  I think the man's proportions seem suspicious, but the genie is the focus of the picture anyway.

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