The Aftermath-Chapter 11 (Patreon)

Three Minutes Later

Anna smiled at Jeremy’s assurances that Eun-seo had nothing on her. She was about to pick him up and take them to go wash off when her bed shook. A low rumble of thunder followed. Then her bed shook again. And again, more forcefully. “What…the fuck?” Each rumble that followed sounded less like thunder and more like an explosion. There was then an enormous tremor—one that rattled both Anna’s colossal bedside lamp and Jeremy’s “man cave” off her nightstand. The “man cave” hit at its corner; the repurposed 12’x16’ shed walls making up its sides split open and cracked. Either the tremor or the boom that accompanied it also shattered what few windows the converted hangar featured. The sound of Eun-seo’s voice followed. It seemed to come from every direction at once.

“Anna? Jeremy? Are you home? Please be home!”

Anna and Jeremy made eye contact and, with no more than that glance, agreed that this was urgent. So despite their nakedness, Anna closed her hand around Jeremy. She hurried them to her 70’-tall door, pulled it open, and rushed outside. She promptly skidded to an abrupt halt at the sight of Eun-seo.

The slender, achingly beautiful giantess was sitting, nude and cross-legged, on the ground some two hundred yards from the hangar. Nearly six hundred feet separated her knees. Even with her that far away, Jeremy had to move his eyes and neck to take in all of her. She was 1,100 feet tall. And she was sobbing.

Anna gaped up at the enormous-even-to-her woman. As a primal fear welled up in her stomach, Anna realized that this must be what it was like for men to encounter…well, her. Anna was barely ankle-high to Eun-seo. The image of Eun-seo stepping on her came to mind, unbidden. Anna could also see the soil of her “lawn” (a grown-over airfield) buckling and cracking under Eun-seo’s titanic ass. Anna realized that her shifts in weight as she cried, breathed…even just worked her muscles unconsciously to sit upright…were powerful enough to pulverize rock. Eun-seo’s movements were consequently producing a near-constant, grinding rumble.

Jeremy, who was more used to the sounds that heralded the approach of larger women, first noticed the perceptible shifts in the air’s temperature, humidity, and direction of flow as the titaness cried. He found himself at a complete loss for words. Every comfort he could think to offer felt paltry or, worse, false. The reality of what he was seeing—and especially its implications for the wider world—were overwhelming.

Anna chided herself for her fear before focusing single-mindedly on the facts that Eun-seo was her friend, and her friend was distraught. “Oh, sweetie! You’re going to be okay, alright? We’re here.”

Eun-seo swallowed back her tears and nodded, plaintively. She sniffled as she leaned forward and lowered her 120’-long hand to the ground with her 355’-long arm. The movement created a downwash more forceful than one from the rotors of a helicopter. “C-can you pl-please get Ryan down safe-safely? I’m af-fraid I’ll cr-crush him. I c-can bare…I can barely s-see him!” Eun-seo choked back both a sob and the urge to vomit. “I’ve already killed s-so many…so m-many people!”

“It’s not your fault. It’s not, okay? You had no control over this.” Anna patted the side of Eun-seo’s 48’-long thumb, then stepped up the eleven feet onto Eun-seo’s palm. The primal fear in her stomach tried to bloom into a full panic attack. Anna could not help but envision Eun-seo crushing her by simply closing her fist. Or throwing her so high and so far that the fall would be fatal. Or, in a repeat of the post-Auctus world’s most famous and gruesome crime, eating her. Anna was able to keep herself calm, however, by alternating her gaze at Ryan (who was remarkably serene for a man sitting in the middle of a 1,100’-tall woman’s palm) and Eun-seo’s expression of despair. Anna knelt down in front of Ryan and laid her hand at his feet. She was the second-largest giantess on Earth, but her hand must have looked to the titaness like it was barely more than half an inch long. “May I?”

Ryan nodded. He made grim eye contact with Jeremy as Anna picked him up and put the two men in the same hand—presumably so she could have a free hand with which to steady herself as she climbed back down from Eun-seo’s palm.

Despite their shared nakedness and the awkwardness of maneuvering at all when held gently but firmly in a giantesses’s fist, Jeremy did his best to hug Ryan. “You okay?”

Ryan hugged back with his left arm. His right was pinned at his side by Anna’s fingers. “I’m uninjured, if that’s what you mean.”

“You know it’s not.”

Ryan looked back and up at the 67’-tall Anna, who was gingerly carrying him and Jeremy down from Eun-seo’s palm, which he judged to be large enough to hold hundreds of men. His heart broke at the sight of Eun-seo’s face, high above, crumpling back into unrestrained tears. “No, man. Look at how upset she is. I don’t know how to help her.”

“What happened?”

Two Hours Later

Ryan, who was dressed in some of Jeremy’s clothes, sat on Eun-seo’s knee. The two were keeping watch together down the road from the hangar. Because she was sitting cross-legged with her knees angled up, Ryan was nearly 175’ in the air. He was grateful that Eun-seo had stopped crying—not because it solved anything, but because it meant his heart was not constantly breaking. He looked up at her face some 500’ above him and asked, “Do you see anything yet?”

Eun-seo shook her head slowly, and felt a small rush of pleasure at the fact that she had to take care not to break the sound barrier with the tip of her nose. “They’re probably still figuring out how to detain me.”

“I’m going to say again what everyone’s said repeatedly: You’re not to blame for this.”

“That doesn’t matter, Ryan. People are dead. At leat hundreds. Probably…” Her voice broke. “…probably thousands. They need to detain me. Just for people to feel safe.”

“But you were so careful—”

“It’s not just all the people I killed, Ryan. It’s what I signify. This is almost certainly round two of Auctus, and, well…I’m also almost certain that they’ll need to isolate and study me. Think about it, Ryan. That public safety officer knew my name. My name. That means higher-level government involvement, because the government rightly sees this—me—as a crisis.”

“You’re not—”

“I am. Because when all women start growing like this? Or more?” Eun-seo’s stomach growled. She looked down at it ruefully. “We’ll run out of food in days. Humanity will be extinct in, I don’t know. Probably weeks. Months at most.”

Jeremy, now clothed, came out of the large hangar door. Anna had left it open a crack for him. He trudged the 200 yards to Eun-seo. “Okay. I just got off the phone with polic—public safety, I mean. Some people were hurt. Mostly men as everyone ran to safety. But only one person died, and that was apparently an accidental trampling.”

Eun-seo’s eyes nearly bugged out of her head. “What!? H-how?”

“All of the buildings in the area implemented their evacuation protocols as soon as reports about you started to come in. They also said that that alone wouldn’t have been enough. The press, and, more notably, the government, are crediting you with being deliberate and careful. The cell phone videos on the news show your ‘extraordinary efforts to preserve lives despite being in obvious agony’. Which is a direct quote from the Prime Ministress.”

Eun-seo covered her mouth with her hand. The gust of air from the gesture blew up a cloud of dust and rustled the trees on the far side of the hangar. “Oh, my god! That’s—!” She blinked back tears, even though they were tears of relief, so that she did not once again bombard the ground with swimming pools’ worth of water. “Oh, I can’t tell you what a relief that is.”

“Not just a relief. Further proof that you’re not to blame.” Jeremy took a deep breath. “They did ask, however, that you stay here. In quarantine. Ryan, Anna, and I are also required to stay.”

Ryan cocked his head at Jeremy’s choices of words. “She’s asked. But we’re required?”

Eun-seo gave her seemingly fractions-of-an-inch-high lover a fond, but sad, look. She admired his insistence on equal and dignified treatment despite the fact that he was sitting on a kneecap the size of a bus. “They can arrest you. Even Anna, I’m sure. The only thing they could do to stop me is kill me.”

“Hmph.” Ryan crossed his arms. “Still not fair.”

Jeremy grunted in assent. “There’s more.” He winced at the sound of Anna shouting profanities emanating from the now-plastic-sheeting-covered windows of the hangar. She never used her full, literally deafening volume, so both the loudness and her tone were alarming to hear. “Because of the likelihood that this is a new, more potent strain of Auctus—”

Eun-seo snorted through a nose that was ten feet longer than she had been tall just a day ago. The related movement of her muscles nearly shook Jeremy off his feet and made Ryan brace himself with his hands on her knee. “Understatement, there.”

“—the government is sending epidemiologists and virologists—”

“Makes sense.” Ryan nodded.

“—from the Auctus Institute.”

Eun-seo’s left hand balled into a fist roughly fifteen times larger than a wrecking ball. The gesture, and the scowl that accompanied it, was among the most frightening things that Ryan and Jeremy had ever seen. “The what?”

Two Hours Later

Ryan snapped the flare and held it up over his head. He stood smack dab in the middle of the area that Eun-seo had pointed out for him, on the far side of the old airstrip from Anna’s hangar.

She nodded in response to the flare. There was a series of booms and tremors as she planted her hand on the ground, set a knee down, and got to her feet.

Ryan found himself unexpectedly buffeted by near-gale-force winds blowing in towards Eun-seo. Her simply standing up had created a massive updraft, plus a few dust devils. He leaned back into the wind so he would not stumble and was careful not to lose his grip on the flare. Once the tempest ended, he was able to focus on Eun-seo again. Ryan felt his muscles actually relax in awe. Because the moon was full, he could see the enormous, silver-lit contours of her body in exquisite detail. Ryan felt two pangs of emotion: One of sadness as he watched her turn away from him to look down at the city, and one of guilt for staring at her magnificent, 200’-wide ass while she did so. A third feeling—sheepishness—joined those two when his staring at his lover’s vastly magnified (but still lithe) body had the inevitable effect of turning him on. Before he could drop the flare and get Jeremy’s borrowed pants off, his 7’-long erection exploded out of them. “Well. Guess I’m paying for those.”

Eun-seo stared in silence at the sight of the lightless patch near the edge of the city. It was the area she’d demolished as she grew. She turned back at the sound of Ryan muttering something as slowly as she could. Despite everything else, she smiled at the circle of ruddy light illuminating Ryan…and his penis. It was good to know he still found her attractive.

As gently as possible, Eun-seo went through the process of laying down on the ground with her head next to where Ryan was standing. She watched, with a mixture of concern and amusement, as he did his best to remain standing as the ground beneath him shook and while immobilized by the weight of his cock. Eun-seo got down on her stomach, folded an arm under her head so she could lay it sideways on the ground, and inclined her chin at his erection. “So, Mr. Giantesses-are-a-Turnoff. Does this mean I’m a thousand feet’s worth of beautiful to you?”

Ryan was glad that the red light of the flare was hiding the fact that he was blushing deeply. “Still more than.”

“Mmmm. Let’s hope we don’t have to find out just how much more.”

“I think we can safely assume that I’m always going to think you’re hot, no matter what.” Ryan, who had to turn his head to talk to Eun-seo because he could not turn his body from where his erection had him stuck, looked down at his still-huge, throbbing cock. It was resting heavily on the ground. “Um, not to ruin the moment, but could you help me, uh…move?”

Eun-seo was glad for the chance to focus on something other than her growth and its consequences. Plus, the now-incalculable difference in her power versus Ryan’s was, admittedly, hot. She smirked mischievously as she reached out, slowly, with her eleven-foot-wide fingertip and thirteen-foot-wide thumb. She clasped his shaft—which was smaller to her than a twig—no more firmly than one would a cottonball. She was amazed that she could still feel its warmth and the pulse of Ryan’s heartbeat. The sensations made her feel closer to him and less like a living skyscraper. Eun-seo took extreme care to move her hand slowly enough that Ryan could shuffle his feet around as she pivoted his cock around to point towards her face. “Better?”

Ryan felt like he’d just lived through having his penis moved by an expertly piloted, heavy lift helicopter. “Much, thank you.” After a beat, he added, “Now I don’t have to crane my neck to look up at your face.”

She chuckled. “I think Jeremy’s rubbing off on you. Making jokes at a time like this?”

Ryan shrugged. “Life doesn’t stop being life just because your girlfriend is a thousand feet tall.”

Eun-seo gave herself a once-over. Because of the shadow being cast by a passing cloud two tenths of a mile south of her head, she couldn’t see her own feet in the dark. “No, life’s going to change a lot.”

“I didn’t say it wasn’t going to change. I said it doesn’t stop. We’re going to keep going. We’re going to figure this out.”

She scoffed, then felt guilty for rejecting his efforts at positivity. “I’m sorry. It’s just…you keep saying that, Ryan. But figure what out? How to live our lives from here? How to be lovers with me this big?”

“Yes.”

Eun-seo blinked in surprise at the force of his response—and his obvious resolve. “Ryan, that’s…we—”

“—love each other. Which is the most important thing.” Ryan put his hands on his hips resolutely. “So we’re going to figure all of this out. Together. And I’m not going to hear any more doubt about that out of you.” Ryan was actually surprised at himself that he’d managed to sound (and even feel!) commanding despite (1) being anchored in place by his absurdly large penis and (2) the fact that he was lecturing the single most powerful creature on the planet.

“O-oh!” Eun-seo’s jaw dropped and she gasped quietly. “That’s…okay! No more complaining from me, then.” She bit her bottom lip. “Whoo. Jesus. I can’t believe you just manged to get me all hot under these circumstances.”

“Well, I am very sexy. And well-endowed.”

“Heh. More than that. Bossing me around, with me like this? And assuming I love you because you love me? You’ve gotten a lot more ballsy in our brief time together.” She glanced meaningfully at his penis. “No pun intended.”

“Eun-seo.”

“What?”

“Come on. We both know I’m not assuming.”

“Um. What do you—”

“I know how you feel about me. In fact, I know you fell for me first.”

Eun-seo blinked nervously. “Wait, now. How—?”

“You talk in your sleep.” For a split second, Ryan debated whether to add details from this insane day, and decided he would. It was best to start to normalize things. “And while delirious.”

Eun-seo ardently wished for more passing clouds. She wanted the darkness to hide her entire body so she could disappear. “Oh, god. How long have you known?”

“Since, like, day three?”

She covered her face with a 120’-long hand. “Oh, Christ. That’s embarrassing.” Eun-seo nonetheless smiled at the memory. She was about to confess that he was right when a realization hit. “Wait.” She removed her hand from her face and tapped her chin with her finger. “All this time, you knew you had your hooks in me? That you didn’t have to let me do all these things to you to stay in my good graces?”

“I guess? I don’t really think in those terms.”

“Oh, you do. Everyone does, at least a little. Plus, I’ve seen your face when I push your boundaries.”

“Well, yes, but that was about, you know, gauging my comfort level.”

“Mmm. Sometimes. But you have never, not once, hesitated to say yes when I wanted to make your penis bigger.”

“Well, I—“

“Even before you knew I could put it back.”

Ryan started to blush as he saw where her thought process was going. “Um.”

“So if that wasn’t because you felt compelled to please me—“

“Again, not how my thought process—“

“—that means you like getting bigger! Oh, oh!”

“Um.”

“I have just the thing to offer you to buy your silence!”

Confusion washed over Ryan’s face. “Why would you need to buy my silence? I wouldn’t tell anyone.”

“Even Jeremy?”

“Um.” Ryan swallowed and considered whether to admit to his force of nature of a girlfriend that that particular cat was already out of its assigned bag. “Um.”

Eun-seo drew her lips into a line as if to say, “That’s a yes.” “Ryan. No one can ever know that I fell for you first. And certainly not that you played it so cool that even I didn’t even realize you knew. Seriously. It’d destroy my whole brand.”

“I don’t think that’s going to be what most affects…wait. You have a brand? And why would you think I would ever disrupt—?” Ryan fell silent as Eun-seo lifted her head from the ground and rolled onto her stomach, despite (or, this time, because of) the tremors it caused. He had to focus once again on staying upright.

She leaned down on her forearms and brought her face as close to Ryan as she was willing to risk, planted her palms on the ground, and rested her chin on her hands about fifty feet away from him. With her face angled down towards him, her nose, eyes, and forehead loomed over her bug-sized-to-her lover. “Can we just be playful, please? I…I want to enjoy you while I can.”

Ryan swallowed, and nodded.

“So. In exchange for your silence—“

Ryan struggled against the urge to back away. The sheer mass hanging over him was unnerving, no matter how beautiful Eun-seo’s features were. It was like being stared at by one of the sculptures on The Six Grandfathers—except twice as tall.

“—how big would you like to be relative to me?”

Ryan’s voice caught in his throat. He felt suddenly transfixed by the penetrating-yet-impish gaze of his 1,100’-tall lover. “Wh-what?”

“How big do you want your cock to be? Relative to me, I mean. And temporarily, of course. I’ll put it back.” Eun-seo was tickled at the shock on his face. “For example, right now, you’re, mmm, roughly toothpick-sized.”

“Oh, god.”

“Do you want it to be twig-sixed? Small? Average? Big?” Her voice grew sultry. “Huge?” She licked her lips. “Gigantic?” She put a fingertip on top of his penis briefly to feel its warmth and his heartbeat again, then caressed it by drawing her fingertip away towards its head. “So big I can’t even take you?”

“I—“

“The kind of big that makes me squeal in pain, like after the bartender? So huge I have to plead with you to be gentle?”

Ryan made a choked sound.

“Be honest, now.”

“I—I don’t….”

“Anything you want. Wildest dreams, Ryan.”

Ryan pictured Eun-seo at this size riding him, whimpering as her small (to her and her alone) breasts jiggled in their adorable, vigorous way and the ground all around them shook violently. “T-too big. Frightening.”

Eun-seo chuckled. “You little size queen. Hold still, okay?” She focused on Ryan’s minuscule form, and particularly his ever-so-slightly-less-minuscule dick. She narrowed her eyes and stuck out her tongue a little, as one does when threading a needle by hand, then reached out to touch him with a single finger.

“No, wait!” Ryan held up his hands with the ten-foot-wide tip of Eun-seo’s index figure hovering over his shaft. It was like watching a descending bomb simply….pause. “I mean, I want to. I do. God, just the idea of it.”

“But?”

“Are you sure now’s the time for this? So much has happened on the last twelve hours.”

Eun-seo’s playful, seductive expression grew serious. Her sigh created a downwash of moist, warm air that buffetted Ryan so forcefully he had to shield his face. “Ooh, sorry. You okay?"

"Yes, thank you."

"Good. And…yes. Now’s the time. Maybe the only time.”

“What do you mean?”

“Ryan, it's like I said. The Auctus Institute will need to study me. We don’t know for how long. We don’t know when we’ll be together again." Eun-seo choked up. "We don't know if we’ll be together again.”

“But there’s no way they could keep you—“

Eun-seo shook her head. “I’m going to go with them, Ryan. I need to. The world needs to know how to handle this. And, more importantly, prevent it from spreading.”

Ryan paused, then nodded sadly.

“But in the meantime….” She smirked again and the playful expression, along with her slightly teasing tone, returned. “Let’s do something about that little tool of yours.”

“Okay.” He looked down at his penis and tried to imagine it being too big for a 1,000’-tall woman. “Um. Are you sure you can put it back?”

Eun-seo reached to touch the penis-shrinking portion of her Auctus-given powers. She nodded as she felt it, same as it ever was.

“Okay, then. I’m all yours.”

“That’s what I like to hear. And get comfy. Even at full strength, this is probably going to take a while.”

She gently lowered the barest tip of her forefinger onto his 7’-long cock, closed her eyes, and, based on the assumption that growing him to his desired size would be a process given her current scale, activated the growth portion of her penis-altering power at its maximum. Eun-seo’s eyes snapped open at the realization that it did not feel like the usual, finely-controllable flow. It felt instead like thrust of a jet engine—or, because it had the force of her effort behind it, of a heavy-lift rocket. She pulled her finger away as quickly as she could. But, as she would soon realize, she did not think to deactivate her power.

Ryan had heard stories about people being picked up by updrafts in tornadoes. He imagined that this was what it must feel like as the upwelling air from Eun-seo yanking away her finger both made his ears pop and lifted him off his feet. He instinctively covered his ears, which turned out to be good. It saved his hearing from the subsequent sonic boom. Ryan expected to go into freefall and hoped Eun-seo would catch him. Instead, he felt himself land on his feet from what felt like just a few feet up in the air. It was as if he was tethered to the ground.

Ryan opened his eyes to see that he was, in fact, tethered to the ground. Rising ever higher above him and, from the feel of it, surging across the ground in front of him, was his penis. The weight of the already ten-foot-high, twelve-foot-wide appendage had kept him grounded as it billowed out. Ryan watched in amazement and (somewhat shameful) arousal as it swelled even larger, passing twenty feet in width, then thirty. He tried to gauge how long it was becoming from the sensations of its growth along the ground, but could not. He had no frame of reference. Then he felt his glans squeeze up against Eun-seo’s chest, right between her barely-there breasts. He thrilled at the fact that his cock must therefore be nearly as long as Eun-seo’s forearm. That put it at a length of 160 feet or so. He had a cock more than three times the size of The Grain Silo!

For an instant.

The impact of the head of Ryan’s cock on her chest startled Eun-seo. She also felt the transfer of energy to it and realized that her growth power was still “on.” She finally turned it off…after her body had been in contact with Ryan’s enormous glans for just over a full second. She felt Ryan’s cock shudder beneath her. “Um. Whoops.”

“What’s wrrrroooooonnnnaah!” Ryan arched his back, for all the good it did him. He could no more move any part of his blue whale-sized dick than he could move, well, a blue whale. The feelings of growth that had accompanied his cock expanding from 7’ to 160’ were nothing compared to this. It blasted out across the ground, 50’ wide, then 170, then 280’, and finally 330’. Meanwhile, his shaft forced its way under Eun-seo. It actually lifted her and pushed her along the ground, like an ocean wave pushing driftwood, as it erupted from an already astounding 160’ to a truly absurd 1,690’ in length.

Eun-seo rolled off of Ryan’s cock. She generated a series of ground-shaking impacts as her foot, then knee and lower leg, then other foot hit the ground. She got to her feet and looked down at her handiwork. Ryan's cock was almost knee-high to her. She stared at it for a few seconds, gauged its width with her hands, and measured its approximate girth against her hips. Her hands were more than 50’ out to either side of her body. “Well then.”

All that Ryan could see of her over the enormous cliff that was his cock was her face and shoulders. “Um. Please tell me you can fix this.”

Eun-seo reached again for her penis-shrinking power, and again found it intact. She pushed at it to see how strong it had become. It was no more potent than before. “So, first and most importantly, yes.”

“Oh, thank god.”

“Second, uh, good news and bad news.”

Ryan closed his eyes and inhaled slowly, then exhaled over a count of four to keep himself calm. “No use delaying it. Bad news first, please.”

“My cock shrinking ability is the same as it was before. So I can shrink you by, like, a few feet a minute.”

“Oof. And the good news?”

“I am going to have my hands all over your penis for hours.”