The movie must have been going on for fifteen to twenty minutes, and Ema felt miserable. She could barely concentrate on the crappy content of the film as it played, because her stomach was doing donuts, she was sweating profusely, and her body tensed up. There was something about some ducks in the movie that ate the concoction and turned the size of a minivan each, but she couldn't find herself giggling once at the idea of it, or laughing at the bad greenscreen on the supposedly giant ducks. Though she couldn't remember in her current misery, she was sure she was groaning the whole time her stomach was hurting, and pissing off the fellow movie-goers in the process.
Apollo didn't look any better, upon Ema's inspection. He looked like he was halfway about to hurl at any given moment, and tossed about his seat as much as he was able too without being obtrusive to others. The movie date was not turning out well, clearly, Ema figured it was best if the two of them left, but felt regret at seeing they had gotten to the supposed growth scene start in the film. Ema leaned in as the dialogue began.
"Apollo," she whispered, "I think we might have picked up a stomach bug. Maybe we should go back to my place, have some soup and just crash on the couch?"
"Yeah, we're just being inconsiderate now." Apollo replied. "Let's go, you look awful. I'll give you my shoulder to lean on." As the two got up, the action on-screen was beginning, much to Ema's disappointment.
"Now, no chickening out, alright? Here, Joy, try it."
"Alright - if you say so, Beau."
Perfect, the group of punks were about to go giant in just a couple of seconds, and Ema was going to miss all of it. As she was dismounting from her seat with Apollo, she caught a glimpse to her side of a shady figure, not unlike a phantom, in the seat next to her, out of view. She was rummaging through Ema's popcorn bag, throwing kernals to the theather floor with reckless abandon, looking for something intently. Ema didn't exactly tolerate people stealing from her - but she tolerated less the wasting of food that seemed perfectly good.
"Hey!" she shouted, "That's ours, get your own!" Ema broke from Apollo to try and fight off the thief, grabbing her arm to try and force her out of the bag. As Ema held the thief's arm, she locked eyes with the thief - her expression was like ice, or a dead fish, cold, unfeeling, and dangerous. Before Ema could even shout the woman down, she watched her produce something from her sleeve, long, thin, and sharp - a needle, of some sort, likely Chinese in origin.
"Die." the woman let slip from her lips, like a snake's hiss, before she plunged the needle into Ema's stomach. Unbeknownst to Ema, the assailant's needle was coated in a potent boomslang poison that would cause the attacked profuse intenal bleeding and speedy death as the poison coursed the bloodstream. If allowed to flow normally, Ema was doomed in minutes, and Apollo - who only now just caught look of the speedy action - couldn't do a thing.
This was under normal circumstances. The next couple of seconds would be anything but normal for the couple.
"Wha... What the...?!" Before Ema could even process she was stabbed, right as the movie's action was starting, Ema's body was beginning to change, and she was rapidly starting to realize it. As the groovy music started, and the punks began to grow in the film, Ema's body began to mirror what was happening on-screen. Her frame was beginning to expand at nearly the same rate as the characters on-screen, Ema's clothing was beginning to tighten around her body, and rip in key seams that kept her outfit intact. The assailant, shocked by what was happening, withdrew her needle quickly and stepped back to gain some distance - her look of unfeeling coldness was beginning to cloud over with genuine human panic, as she watched the clumsy girl beginning to grow taller and taller, shedding her clothing in the process like a chrysalis. Apollo was going to react to his growing girlfriend, before he felt something funny in his core, coursing through the rest of his body.
"H-Huh...?!" Apollo's body, much like Ema's, was starting to rise taller and taller, and his clothes were tightening around his body. He was much like Ema now, lagging by only a few seconds behind - as his shirt was opened and beginning to tatter, pants beginning to go at the seams, Apollow watched as Ema's body was finally free of all her clothing, as her shirt and sunglasses broke into two, and her pants fell apart, exposing her pink and black floral-print underwear to Apollo - as well as the rest of the theater-goers. Ema's face went red at the misfortune, that her underwear she bought especially to show Apollo when she took him back home after the film, was exposed to all - it went far redder as both the bra and the panties split and left her nude, right as Apollo was left only in his boxers, almost appropriately enough.
The assailant - Ms. 3 - was beginning to panic. She had never seen anything like this before, any of those she was contracted to kill mutating in such an odd manner. She figured the venom she plunged into the girl's body was likely dilluted now by the expansion of the girl's bloodstream, making the foreign poison completely useless, and undoing the assured kill. More distressing was the fact that the two appeared to be growing fast, threatening to bring down the theater as the two got larger and larger, both now having gone fully nude with the male's underwear having popped to shreds like a balloon.
"So this... This is the power of GS-2001...!!" she thought in panicked frenzy.
The theatergoers all thought what was happening with the two in the front row was all some sort of strange promotional event for the movie at first, both growing coincidentally at the film's growth scene, but were now starting to panic as the two were starting to expand to the size of tractor trailers, with no sign of ceasing. The seats were beginning to be displaced and broken by the woman and man's enlarging feet and legs, and the audience reacted as any normally would at the sign of disaster. They all started to scream, and leave the theater seats, running out of the theater as if a fire broke out, or some sort of monster invaded the theater to feed on the viewers.
"A-Apollo!!" Ema covered her breasts and crotch with her arms, trying to keep her privates covered as she turned to face her boyfriend - Apollo adopted the same motion, covering his stiffening member as his face got red at his growing, naked girlfriend. "I-I'm scared! Wh-What's happening to us?!"
"I-I don't know!" he replied, just as he felt his head collide with the low ceiling, forcing him to his rear as he continued to expand. Ema, having been growing earlier than the lawyer, was the same - the two naked giants were forced to sit as they kept growing, engulfing the seats and handrails under their expanding mass as the film played in the background. Apollo did the only thing he could think of doing and hugged Ema tight, her expanding flesh pressing into his as they got bigger and bigger. "Just hold onto me! We'll get through this together - whatever's going on!"
"O-Okay!!"
With that agreement, Ema's elbow broke through the projector screen, finally putting a stop to the film, as the two lovers began to finish growing and acting out the key scene in their date movie. They burst through the confines of the theater, as the ceiling came down around them, and their skin began to be exposed to the night air...