You sat there in the wreckage for hours, waiting for Maddie to return, it was incredibly tedious, you were too big to touch most things, and things you weren't too big for you had no interest in, still it would get better, just as soon as you were returned to your real size, this one was awful, I mean through there life, thousands of people wish to be taller, but now you were here, you realised they were all wrong, this was terrible, you felt like a monster, you were to big, too tall, to large, if anyone saw you, you bet they would run of screaming, you sighed, and looked at your watch, shouldn't be much longer now, you thought.
And sure enough Maddie came running in, with all her friends now back at full height, holding the size ray, "is it finished?" you asked, Maddie nodded, "then change me back to normal already," you said, Maddie nodded, she pointed the ray at you and fired, a blue beam shot out, hitting you square in the chest, you smiled this was it, you were going back to normal, but strangely no, nothing happened. You stared down, the ray was still hitting you, and it was defiantly on, but you weren't shrinking. Maddie stopped the beam, and stared, you waited hoping it would be something like a delayed reaction, but still nothing happened, you waited for fourteen minutes, and nothing happened you were still freakishly tall.
"What's wrong," you shouted, now looking worried, Maddie fired again, but again nothing happened, she turned up the power, the energy, the rate, everything, but nothing made any change, you were still a giant, and for some reason the ray had stopped working on you, they tested it on a paint can, and sure enough it shrunk to the size of a screw, but when it hit you, it merely tickled. "What is wrong," you shouted, Maddie looked up timidly, "its stopped working," she replied, "I can see that, why?" you bellowed, "I don't know," Maddie cried, "I'm sorry, please don't hurt me," once again you were overcome with shock, you had to keep your temper, you were scary to her when you were normal size, now you were giant you must be terrifying.
"it’s okay," you said in a softer voice, "just go get your friends parents, they built it there no how to fix it," all eyes turned to her friend, who was looking particularly sheepish, "we can't," she frantically said, "why?" another friend asked, she didn't answer, your eyes narrowed at her, "why can't we ask them?" you said in a firm voice, she remained silent. "Tell me," you shouted, scared now she backed away, "tell me now, before I get angry," you shouted the girl, looked terrified, "okay so I took it without telling them, I meant to return it I'm sorry," she cried. You stared at her shocked, of course, it had been nagging you why to great scientists would leave such an important invention in the hands of a little girl, "well you still have to tell them," you shouted, "or I will be a giant for the rest of my life," still frightened, she walked off to tell them, while Maddie left to tell your parents, somehow you could sense this wasn't going to go well.
You sat there on the hospital bed, it had been four hours since you go here, and you had had so many experiments run on you, that you felt like a lab monkey, the doctors had examined everything, very furiously. Now you just sat there, of all the doctors you had seen you felt sure that at least half of them had just come in to stare at your giant height, you felt like you were in a freak show, because truthfully that’s what you are now, a freak, and that’s where you belong, it felt so weird to be so tall, to have everything no matter how strong groan when you sat upon it, to be strong enough to lift another man like a doll, it was so odd, that was something you had to remember to ask about, what was all this new found strength, even at this height, it wasn't natural.
The door opened, slowly you looked over, standing there was your sisters friends parents, "hello," her father said, "how are you," her mother said, you stared at the two, "skip the formalities," you said, "when can you fix this problem?" the two of them remained in silence, you could sense something was wrong, "what is it?" you asked, her father sighed, and walked forward, "I'm terribly sorry Fred," he said sadly, "But there nothing we can do," you stared at him, "what? But the ray, it changed size, you just need to fix the..." he cut you off, "you see," the mother began, "the ray was a dismal failure, the project was cancelled, all the prototypes were called into be destroyed, except that one that was used, that was kept purely for nostalgia."
"But it worked," you replied, "yes," she said, "it worked, but the thing is, after a while, your body gains immunity to its affects, and adjusts to your new height, making it impossible to change your height any further." You couldn't believe what you were hearing, "but the girls, they changed size, and they changed back," "but they never had such a drastic change as yours," the man said, "that spread up the rate of immunity building, I'm sorry, but you’re stuck like this." You were to shocked to speak, standing up, your head hit the celling and that drove you mad, "NO," you screamed, swing your fist into the wall, you hand collided and went right through the plaster, into the brick, only for that to smash as well, her parents ducked, pulling your hand back, the shock of this, interrupted your sadness. "Why am I so strong?" you asked,
Her father smiled, "that’s quite an interesting one, quite simply, your muscles have all been greatly compressed, to adjust to your sudden great increase in mass, this leads to your strength being increased twelve times, or at least that’s how many times your body weight you can lift." You stared, but in this form you must have weighed over 400 hundred pounds, that meant you could lift over two tons. This shook you to the core, not only were you freakishly tall, but you were unnaturally strong. This was all too much, a simply accident had transformed you from an ordinary, mostly happy teenager, into a giant, with superhuman strength, it was just all too much, you sat down again, and once more were left to think.
You couldn't believe it, despite being transformed into a giant freak; you still had to go to school? You gulped, already worried about how the others were going to react to this, it had been over a week since you had grown, the girls had been severally punished, but that hardly made you feel better, and all your expenses had been cleared, by their family, and you had time to adjust, you now shattered everything you held, and you could now control your strength to a degree, but still? You had to go; this was going to be purgatory for you. Sighing, you walked up to the doors of the school, there was no body outside, and so you were spared the misery for a moment.
But your luck did not last long, suddenly door burst open, another student ran out, straight into you, he was knocked back "hey watch it, you big u..." he trailed off as he continued to look up, before eventually finding your head, his face turned white, he turned around, and he ran off screaming, you looked after him, and as you did you hung your head. Still sad, you walked through the corridors, all heads turned to face you as you past, the worst part was, your school had high ceilings, and yet you still had to bend down to walk through them, you felt exactly like a freak, a giant freak of nature. Almost crying you made it to your classroom; you had to kneel down to get through the door.
The moment you got through silence fell, all eyes stared at you, except one pair. Your teacher Mrs Jenkins, wasn't looking she was looking down under her desk, not looking up, she said "Are Fred is that you?" "Yes miss," you replied in a hushed voice, "well take your seat," she mummed, you looked at the tiny chair, and you knew you would never fit in that thing, not now. "I can't miss," you replied, "and why not," she said, still rummaging below her desk, "I don't think I'll fit," you replied, "what you talking about, of course you’re... MY LORD WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU," she screamed finally catching sight of you. "I had a Growth spurt" you causally replied.
Laughter broke out through the class, your eyes narrowed, the laughter vanished, "seriously, what happened to you, growing like that's not natural," Mrs Jenkins said, of course people couldn't know that there was a machine that shrunk people in existence, so you had been briefed not to tell, and given a cover story. “you know how we grow?" you asked, "your pubic gland in your brain, secretes a special hormone, well my dams all burst." You paused but only silence replied, "For the last week, my brain kept spilling out this hormone, causing me to made this sudden and shocking increase in height, according to the doctor, it’s called, selected Gigantism, it only effects on in every billion people, and it’s never been on this scale before."
"but growing that much, should kill you," someone said, you turned to face them, "well it didn't happen all at once," you replied, "it was a gradual process that lasted almost all week." the class seemed to take your explanation, but most didn't seem to care, sighing you sat down on your table, well aware that almost all eyes were on you. After class it didn't get better, as you walked the halls everyone avoided you, no one got in your way, they were all clearly far too afraid of you, to get her, eyes followed you, whispers echoed behind you, everywhere you went, you knew they were watching you, it was as you feared you were a freak, now and forever...
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