Interlude One

The Multiverse - Realm of Equal Opportunity Growth Potential
System Atalanta - Planet Archonia (Alt Zero-Zero)
Continent of Washington
Megalithic Mountains - Mount MacLeod
The High Castle - The Hanging Gardens

Giselle never tired of visiting this place - the heart and soul of The Realm - The High Castle. It possessed an aura of strength and majesty reminiscent of The Capital - the seat of power for the Alliance of Good Gods and Goddesses. However, while that was strictly a governmental center - this was both the home, as well as the seat of government for the Two Deities who jointly ruled the Domain of the Realm. Located on top of Mount MacLeod in the Megalithic Mountains and overlooking the Plains of Hope on the planet Archonia, it was truly an awesome sight of Mega proportions. The towers, structures and walls were vastly off the scale of any Mortal structure, they rising into the clouds of the stratosphere. The architectural layout allowed for inner and outer courtyards that performed many functions of leisure or for great ceremony - such as the transformations of people. Some places that were special for Immortals, while others for the ones made into Giants or Giantesses that personally served the Rulers of the Realm. There were rooms and towers dedicated to various disciplines of learning or instruction, as well as one that acted as a vast library. Contained within and on its vast shelves, stacks or cabinets was knowledge that had been collected from all over the Multiverse.

On the outside, the Hanging Gardens of The High Castle were a particular favorite place of the Overlady and the Overlord of the Realm. All of the trees, bushes, plants or flowers were hand picked and grown under their powers as God and Goddess. The scale depended on the particular garden - from normal Human scale to those that were as Mega as the rest of the complex. As with the two Deities who loved this place, Giselle too never missed a chance to stroll through their handiwork when she came here.

The reason for this occasion was not a social visit, but one of business for the Civil Administrator and Co-Ruler of the Realm - Goddess DeniseH - had formally summoned her presence on a matter of state. Normally as a Goddess, Giselle preferred to dress accordingly for the moment and this was no exception. In form she was like many of her IRT sisters - extremely drop dead gorgeous in a superfitness physique way. Somewhere between a female volleyball player and natural bodybuilding as some would call it. The wide shoulders, moderately wide back, long legs that went all the way up, prominent breasts with large areolas, narrow waist, wide hips and a very toned muscular look gave her a ultra athletic package. A few Goddesses of the IRT were larger in muscular form as were many of the Ruling Goddesses.

However, most of their Order chose the tall and very fit style as they were not interested in governing, but wanted to appear powerful without being overpowering. Like that archetype, she was muscularly built without it being too extreme, yet it would have been impossible to deny if she was a Mortal that she worked out and dieted in a serious manner. The fact that her mammaries were almost oversized in form and the abs were like an ice-cube tray would only have added to the impression of a superfitness supermodel. Naturally round and full, but without any of the tell-tail evidence of a plastic boob job so common to that profession. In her choice of clothing she had picked a black stretch tube top, an extremely short pair of gray pants and a pair of black sandals to display her combination of muscle and female equipment. This outfit only added to her dark brown tanned complexion and short length, dark colored hair, which barely moved in the light breeze.

As she looked over one such garden of various kinds of roses, Mega-sized of course for she was 900 feet tall, a Starlight flash occurred - the Goddess DeniseH had joined her. As was her want, being a supermuscular and powerful Goddess in form, she was dressed in a fashion that was extremely revealing of her contoured and very developed body. Yet at the same time her 1000-foot body was teasingly covered, too. In this case, a short skirted white slip dress. The thin material was barely able to restrain her amply swollen breasts or contain the contours of her exquisitely sculpted and symmetrically defined femusculature. The spaghetti straps stretched over her thick traps and half-moon delts and crossed on the other side over her wide back, which pulsed and flexed as she moved. On her large feet was a pair of matching white colored sandals. The sun beautifully shown through her brown-reddish hair with just the tint of yellow that was within the structure of the material. In the light breeze strands of it were gently puffed and flowed as though her hair was a living thing.

"Greetings Giselle," pronounced DeniseH, "it's been a while hasn't it?"

As per customary protocol of the IRT, she gently bowed her head slightly in respectful acknowledgement of the other, a Queen of a Domain.

"My Lady," replied Giselle, "greetings to you as well - and it has been too long. I don't get to come here as often as I would like these days. My online persona and other Infonet businesses take up far too much of my time."

"I know, its not easy being a Goddess of the IRT is it?" DeniseH said sympathetically.

"No," Giselle answered, "most think its all fun and games, but as with your position it's a full time occupation and obligation to make certain that the right ones get transformed and who are not correctly don't. Especially in this Realm, however that's precisely why I took you up on your invitation to be the first resident IRT Goddess here of Male and Female Growth. I've very partial to helping out deserving couples."

"I know and a very good one you are - but come, walk with me. I know how much you love our gardens here at The High Castle."

Giselle agreed to that and off the pair of them walked down one of the many stone laid paths within the Hanging Gardens. From what she could see, AlexG and DeniseH were still working on the place and ever improving it with differing verities of flora. Some of them were incredibly colored and the scents that she smelled was like a vision of Elysium.

"When I first suggested that you come here my dear Alex thought I had totally lost my mind knowing how many of the IRT Goddesses could be with Mortals. He had visions of all sorts of trouble he'd have to deal with if things got out of hand - but now he's a major supporter of your work on the worlds under your influence. As an experiment to restoring to the Multiverse some of the lost enchantment it needs to be as a place that Mortals can have wonder and mystery also requires careful planning and orchestration by beings such as ourselves."

"True," Giselle smiled, "in my case I only take them up to limited size. Or as one of my most recent subjects has said purple powered Krunk and She-Krunk levels of size changing enhancement, of course I'm not going for the skin tone change - it just would make it harder on them."

"Excuse me? Who?"

"Tsk tsk, my Goddess Civil Administrator. You should keep up on the pop-culture of some of the worlds you rule over within this Realm. It's their world's version of the Multiverse famous Hulk and She-Hulk archetypes. In this case purple colored."

"You're kidding - purple, really?"

"No, truly - it seems on that world it's a serious format for comic book growth fantasists. On others it's used as part of a popular cartoon series in satirical short shorts about Superheroes."

"Yes, so many variations on the many Earths - but purple? By Zed - I almost want to laugh. Everyone knows for such radiation transformations green is the real thing - fictionally and in the real world."

"Well, he's orange - but big and ruggedly handsome looking, too. But as I was saying the world that they live on would not be suited for true Giants and Giantesses, unless I made them into Immortals."

"Are you planning such?" DeniseH asked. "It is allowed if you feel it to be necessary, we both gave you permission to do so. Or do you plan to make their growth enhancements reversible - that is always the more logical method whether they are Mortals or Immortals."

"The latter definitely," nodded Giselle, "it will make their lives easier to manage. As for the Immortality factor - I could with these two; they are worthy of it. With the powers that they do have as Titan and Titaness, they are already hard to kill - molecular density increases and so forth. Later I might even give them the gift of full Giant and Giantess growth. However, I want to wait and see how they react and work with what I do give them for now. Its takes getting use to if you were short and small and then the next day you have the power to be seven or eight feet tall and hundreds of pounds in size. Not to mention a superstrength that is impossibly powerful by Mortal standards."

"One step at a time then - that is a good method and one preferred by many Deities."

"Yes, very much so. I remember what happened when Goddess Evilvira changed that Terran Gammazon Danielle into a Mega Giantess - what a mess that was. I don't ever want that to happen to the people under my care and guidance. They are like my own very special children and I love each and every one of them as such."

"If you can help it that is," DeniseH sighed, "or as my wise husband would say, these things do have a way of turning awry when you least expect it."

"What do you mean?" asked Giselle - concern in her voice. "Has something happened that I don't know about? If so . . ."

"There could be a problem - for the lack of a better word, hence it's why I summoned you. The Goddess Rowena requested entry into our territory - and of course under the Agreement of Hyperspace Free Transit that the Realm is signatory to we were obliged to do so.

"Rowena - yes, she's also Goddess of the IRT, but very different in scope and intent then me."

"I know. She's one who believes in balancing wrongs against individuals - certain perceived wrongs - and does her very best to act as equalizer with Mortals. In this, we allow ones like her to perform their work, even here. However, only up to a certain point - the protocols we have set down for treatment by the Deities towards the Mortals is strictly enforced - especially in the nature of abusive behavior."

"And you cannot do anything unless she outrightly breaks your laws."

"Correct, she can make passage through here, even stay for a while. Only declared enemies of the respective Rulers as threats to state security can be refused entry. As the Civil Administrator of the Realm and your old friend I felt it my duty to warn you."

"Thank you. I've crossed swords with her before - but that was a long time ago when we were but young women and newly made Goddesses in the Multiverse. She couldn't understand my love of male and female growth or wanting to be a Matchmaker to the lesser beings."

"I know. As of now, and by my Guardian-Knight husband's approval, you have temporary authority as an arm of our Vassal forces to protect those worlds you have influence over as a Goddess of the IRT. If she does disrupt things in your sections . . ."

"I'll pull her plug and disconnect her," said Giselle grimly. "I won't have her harming my people, not if I have anything to say about."