The next day, when Summer woke up, the sun was already high in the sky. There was a fresh pile of clothes laying next to her and she sat up, already wide awake. She turned to Charles, but he was already up and gone.
She was still alive. Really alive. She had never felt better, actually.
With a smile, she sighed and sat up. She looked down at her new body and nearly gasped.
Before the world changed, Summer had been a pretty active athlete. She had been in high school and competed successfully in track and soccer. Her family had just picked her up from a track meet and were at the grocery store when the world dissolved into ruin. She was tired and had waited in the car while the rest of the family went in. Then the rains began and as her family filled the car with groceries, she witnessed her mother and sister mutate in front of her eyes. They then abruptly mutilated her father, tearing him to pieces. Her life was over, but she was still alive only because she had still been inside the car when the rains began. In horror and insane desperation, she jumped in the driver’s seat, hit the accelerator and didn’t stop until she ran out of gas. She got as far away from everything as she could and sat in the car as the hideous green rain poured down outside. From inside that vehicle, she watched the world die.
It rained for days, poisoning the world, killing all life and vegetation. The trees wilted and fell over. Plants rotted. She sat in the car, surviving on the groceries her family had just bought. Finally it stopped raining and she found an old barn to hide out in. The people inside were gone, but had left everything intact, including an old set of weights. With nothing to do, Summer began working out. There was food and a stockpile of bottled water.
So she trained her body to be stronger. She didn’t know what had happened to the world, but she saw what had happened to her mother and sister and wanted to be as prepared as possible if came upon more of those monsters.
And when one did show up, bulging in muscles protruding from places muscles shouldn’t be protruding from, she had defeated it. She wasn’t even sure how she did it, except that she had been able to outsmart it. It had been faster than her and so much stronger, but it was stupid and Summer had been able to lure it into the cellar where it became so enraged that it shook the wall of the barn which crashed down on it. Summer had barely escaped, but now she knew the creatures could be stopped which gave her hope.
She spent the next eight years in search of survivors and keeping herself in top physical condition. As a result of her constant training, she became an extremely fit woman. She didn’t had the genetics or the nutritional resources available to grow any serious muscle, but there was obvious muscle tone and shape on her.
Now, she was enormous. She recalled that Alice had said she had been rather thin and she grew to be able to life over ten tons. Summer had already had some muscle and was pretty strong, and now she was bigger than any male bodybuilder could hope to be.
Naked, she ran her fingers along the deep grooves around her abdominal muscles. It seemed impossible, but they were as solid as stone. She stood up, watching the massive muscles in her legs contract and flex as they moved her once toned but slender legs. She looked at her arms, marveling at the bowling ball sized biceps that sat on top of them. Even her breasts had swelled up on top of pectoral muscles several inches thick.
“My God,” she whispered when she turned and saw her reflection in a window. “I’m as big as they are!” She grinned in excitement and turned to find Charles, but then realized she was naked. She looked at the clothes and saw that they were many sizes bigger than what she would normally wear.
She put the clothes on: a triple X t-shirt that clung to her upper body like a second skin and whose sleeves split as she put her arms in, and a pair of stretchable black workout pants, also triple X. It had a string belt that she had to tie around her waist to make it fit, but ended up being surprisingly comfortable.
Finally, she walked out to the lobby where she found most of the other girls huddled on the floor in a semi-circle. Everyone of them was massive, bulging with muscles. There were no men anywhere.
They looked up at her, fear in their eyes, and her heart froze.
“Where are the guys?”
Alice stood up. She had had her arm around Maya who now looked strong enough to lift a truck single-handedly.
“They came about four hours ago.”
“Who came?” She struggled to drive off the panic that was building inside of her.
“I tried to stop them, but it was a surprise attack. They’re getting more and more coordinated. I wasn’t here. I was outside. I couldn’t get in. I tore into those monsters with all my power, but there were too many and I was too late.” Her voice was a low growl, obviously boiling with anger.
“Where are the men?” Summer repeated.
“They took them all,” Maya said in tears. “We tried to fight back, Summer. Really we tried. But there’s no stopping them. They can’t get hurt. They just keep coming.”
“The men are still alive,” Alice said. “We can get them back. I know we can.”
Summer nodded. She had slept through it all. She was too far in the back, hadn’t heard a thing.
“Is everyone all right?”
“We’re all fine,” Maya said. “Some of us got hurt, but we got better pretty quick.”
Summer nodded again. “How soon can we be ready to move?”
From behind them, they heard Jack’s voice. “Most of the vehicles are demolished. I think I can get the RV going, but it’ll take some time.”
“Jack!” Alice gasped, betraying her relief. “You’re still here!”
“I stayed back,” he said, his voice quiet. “I was scared. I’m not much of a fighter, I guess. When you ran out, I hid in the back.”
“Thank God,” Alice said, wrapping her thick arms around him.
“I was a coward.”
“Bullshit. You were smart. There was nothing you could do against those monsters except get yourself captured. Now you can help us get ready.” She kissed him on the cheek and was a little surprised at the affection she felt for this young man.
“All right,” Alice said, turning back to the women. “We need to get you all accustomed to your new bodies. Jack, can you get the RV rolling on your own?”
“Yeah I think so. It’s on its side, but it should be fixable once we get it back on its wheels.”
“Good. This will be a good way to test each of your strength levels. You won’t all be the same, and you all need to know exactly what you can handle. Lets see who can put the RV back on its wheels. Then we’ll start our fight training.”
“We all know how to fight,” Summer said, starting to feel a little annoyed at how Alice was taking charge. She didn’t even know these people.
“I’m sure you do. But you can’t realize just what you are capable of until you push it to the limit, and I can do that for you. Come on.” She led them all out the front door where scores of mutilated bodies littered the parking lot. The RV was laying on it’s side. The windows were all shattered, but it was still in one piece. The rest of the vehicles looked like they had been through a trash compactor.
“Jesus,” Summer muttered when she saw the mess.
“All right,” Alice said. “I want to see who can lift this thing.”
The RV was more like a tank than a recreational vehicle. It had been retrofitted with several tons or metal armor. There was a massive machine gun bolted to the top. It had to weigh well over fifty thousand pounds.
“You think one of us can lift that? That’s crazy,” Maya said.
“That type of thinking is going to get yourself killed. You can not doubt your capabilities. You either can or you can’t. We just need to find out who can and who can’t.”
“But you said you could lift twenty thousand pounds. I know that thing weighs more than that.”
“Yeah, I’m sure it does. But I didn’t have any muscle when I was infected. Most of you did, which means you are all probably a lot stronger than I became. Plus the virus may have affected each of you slightly different. Now lets see who can lift this thing.”
So one by one, the girls stepped up to the RV. Maya went first. She walked up to it and frowned. “How do I even get a grip in it?”
“Just grab it.”
“All right.” She took a deep breath, squatted down and grabbed the corner of the bus. To her amazement, her fingers literally ripped into the steel. Once satisfied she had a good grip on it, she pulled with all her might. Every muscle on her body tightened, flexing hard and bulged even bigger than before.
She groaned loudly and slowly pulled the RV back onto its wheels, but it didn’t come completely off the ground.
“Holy shit!” she exclaimed, setting the side wheels back on the ground. “I just lifted that thing!”
“Well not exactly,” one of the girls said. “You never got it in the air.”
“You try lifting it then.”
The girl came over. Her name was Valerie and had not much of a contributor to the group. She helped out, as expected, but much and wasn’t really noticed by most of the people. She had been rescued from an attack where her husband had been brutally murdered in front of her eyes not too long ago. Since then, she had latched onto the first man who cared and cowered behind him. Now she was one of the biggest girls and several of the girls gasped at the sight of her. Her arms looked like they had been impregnated with pumpkins. She wore a sports bra that barely held in her DD breasts and spandex shorts. Every bulging muscle was outlined by her outfit. Her abs looked like a cobblestone walkway. Her long blonde hair cascaded over her bowling ball shaped shoulders.
“Valerie? Is that you?”
Valerie smiled. She grabbed the RV by its wheel well and heaved it up over her head with a loud groan.
“Whoa, that virus was good to you,” Maya muttered in awe.
Valerie set the RV back on the ground and walked up to Summer. Both women seemed to be about equal in size. “I’m going to help out,” she said. “I’m sorry I wasn’t always there when I was needed, but I will be now. I swear, I want to kick some ass.”
Summer smiled. “Thank you, Valerie. It’s good to see your feeling better.”
“Much better.”
In the end the only other girl who could lift the RV off the ground was Summer who seemed slightly stronger than Valerie. But the rest of the girls confidence sky-rocketed once they realized just how strong they had gotten.
“So just how strong are you?” Summer asked, looking at Alice once the last girl lifted the side of the RV off the ground.
Alice raised an eyebrow, walked over to the RV and took a deep breath. Her muscles, which at the time were slightly smaller than Valerie and Summer’s immediately doubled in size. Her leather clothes stretched audibly, but maintained their integrity. She reached down and without the slightest show of effort lifted the RV over her head. She turned around and faced the Jack and the girls. Everyone of them had a expression of complete awe and Jack had a major erection. She grinned when she noticed that and sucked in some more air through her nose. Her arms swelled again and let go with one arm. She then began pushing the huge RV up and down over her head with her left arm as if doing a simple shoulder warm up.
Finally she set the bus back down. Her size was unreal. There was nothing even to compare her to.
“My God, do you have a limit to your strength?” Maya asked.
“Yes, I’m sure I do. But I haven’t tried to find it for a while. If I let myself get too big, my muscles will grow bigger than my body can handle. This is as big as I feel comfortable getting. Any bigger and I wouldn’t have much of a range of motion.”
She turned to Jack. “So what do you think Jack?”
“Awesome,” he said.
“Not me,” Alice grinned. “The RV. Can it be fixed?”
“Huh? Oh, yeah. Sure.”
“Good. Then get to work. I want to be on the road before dark, and there’s still a lot I want to go over with the girls.”
“Okay. I’m on it.” He hurried off to find some tools.
“Girls,” Alice said. “This is where the fun begins.”