(Cubed Cinder)
Twintelle opened up her eyes just as a massive explosion went off behind her.
Just then, a deep male voiceover spoke above her head.
"Twintelle is… THE HAIR BLASTER. Coming to a theater near you." the voiceover
said. Bells suddenly went off in the distance.
"Cut!" a male voice said. Twintelle then flashed a dirty look over at the man
who shouted that.
"The Hair Blaster? Really!?" Twintelle said.
"I know, I know, it sounds corny. It's just a working title for now." the
director said.
"Pfffft. It better be. It makes Attack of the 50 Arm Woman sound like an Oscar
winning picture." Twintelle said.
"Twintelle… are you really sure you want to be doing a movie like this?" the
director asked.
"I told you, Mr. Director, I'll be fine. I gotta branch out from A-movies once
in a while. I don't want to look like some stuffy punch-haired broad who does
nothing but the best." Twintelle said.
"Good point." the director said.
"Now, if you'll excuse me, I gotta go refresh in my trailer." Twintelle said as
she strutted her way off the set. One man watched the way she walked off and
whistled.
"*whistles* Such a sexy walk… OW!" the man said, only to be smacked in the head
by the director's clipboard.
"Say that again and you're back to washing concrete steps." the director said.
Several minutes later, after indeed relaxing by resting on the sofa drinking
a bottle of sparkling mineral water, Twintelle came out of her personal trailer
and started to walk back on the set, only to suddenly hear a female voice to the
side.
"Excuse me, Twintelle!" the woman said.
"Ack! For goodness sake!" Twintelle said as she clutched her chest like her
heart was beating out of it. She turned to face the green haired woman wearing a
business suit and shades covering her eyes. Little did Twintelle realize this
woman was actually the notorious Dr. Coyle in disguise.
"Huh? Who are you? I don't recognize you being on set." Twintelle said.
"Forgive me. I'm Doc… er… Mrs. Taygent. I would've been here sooner but traffic
was excessive." Dr. Coyle, aka 'Mrs. Taygent', said, as she flashed both her
badge giving her permission to be on set and also her business card.
"Yeah, it's often hard to get around this studio lot." Twintelle said.
"Anyway, I apologize for cutting to the chase, but I've come to make a
proposition." Mrs. Taygent said.
"What's that?" Twintelle asked.
"As both an up and coming talent agent as well as an independent movie director,
I feel you'd be perfect for the lead role of a movie I'm working on. It's
literally a BIG movie." Mrs. Taygent said.
"Well, I hate to burst your bubble, but I'm under contract. You'll have to first
ask my superiors as well as my agent…" Twintelle started to say, but before she
could finish, Mrs. Taygent pulled out a folded piece of paper, unfolding it and
flashing it to Twintelle's face.
"Already done. I made them an offer I couldn't refuse, and neither will you… not
that I'm trying to be blunt." Mrs. Taygent said.
Twintelle took the paper and read every last word of the contract… Mrs.
Taygent could tell that from watching Twintelle's eyeballs going left and right.
She raised her eyelids when she got down to the bottom of the paper. Amazingly
enough were signatures from all the important people she mentioned… including
her attorney!
"Well, okay then. I don't understand why I wasn't consulted on the matter, but
it seems I am your property until further notice." Twintelle said.
"Thank you, Twintelle. I promise the time and effort we spend together will be
well worth it. Heh heh heh…" Mrs. Taygent said.
"So when do we start?" Twintelle asked.
"Right now!" Mrs. Taygent shouted excitedly.
"Huh? Now? But I have another couple more commercials to shoot for my next
movie." Twintelle said.
"That can wait… we must start NOW while the weather is perfect! Come with me."
Mrs. Taygent said as she gently grabbed Twintelle's hand. However, the actress
slapped it away.
"I can walk by myself, thank you." Twintelle said as she made her way off the
set. Mrs. Taygent smiled in an evil manner as she watched the actress leave.
"Heh heh heh… oh, she's going to be perrrrrrrrrfect for stomping all over the
city." Mrs. Taygent as she lowered her sunglasses and showed off the purple and
black eye mask that Dr. Coyle was partially famous for.
Eventually, the two jumped into a parked limosuine. Mrs. Taygent took the
front seat and slipped several coins into the pocket of the driver.
"To the destination we talked about, please." Mrs. Taygent said.
"Yes, ma'am." the driver said. As he fired up the limo and prepared to drive
away, Mrs. Taygent looked back at Twintelle in the back seat.
"Excuse me, Twintelle, but can you please put this blindfold on?" Mrs. Taygent
said.
"Huh? What for?" Twintelle said.
"It's… ahem… it's a matter of security. I don't want anyone, not even my top
actress, to know where I'm filming. The last thing I need is competition at my
front door." Mrs. Taygent said.
"Sigh… fine." Twintelle said as she wrapped the blindfold around her head,
covering her eyes.
A few minutes later, the limo arrived seemingly in the middle of the city
block judging by the large area of unoccupied space. Mrs. Taygent got out of the
car first and opened the door nearest to Twintelle.
"Okay, here we are!" Mrs. Taygent said. Twintelle helped herself out of the
limo, which soon drove away rather quickly. Twintelle looked around and saw the
city around her and nothing but grass for the next 100 or so yards around her,
and she didn't look impressed.
"Not exactly the big, glamorous set you were teasing in the car." Twintelle
said.
"Now now, let's not be hasty. Final preparations are being made as we speak. But
first, I need you to put this on." Mrs. Taygent said as she reached into one of
her pockets and pulled out an earpiece.
"Huh? An earpiece?" Twintelle asked.
"This way I can direct you from afar. Trust me, you're gonna need it!" Mrs.
Taygent said. Twintelle rolled her eyes.
"Like I have a choice." Twintelle said as she put the earpiece into her right
ear.
"Good. Now I'd like you to drink this." Mrs. Taygent said.
That's when she pulled out the shot-sized solid green bottle labeled 'Helix
Juice - 100% guaranteed to make you feel big and strong with everlasting energy'
with a picture of the ARMS fighter, Helix, on the side. Twintelle had a WTF?
type look on her face next.
"Ugh… really? I have to do commercial endorsements? Especially for something
that isn't tea…" Twintelle said as she scanned the bottle from top to bottom.
"Just this one, I promise! And besides, it's all natural… it will make you feel
all good inside when it's time for your big performance." Mrs. Taygent said.
"Alright, fine." Twintelle said. She opened up the bottle and drank every last
drop of the juice inside. Once she moved the bottle away from her lips, that's
when Mrs. Taygent was quick to action. She wrapped the blindfold around
Twintelle's eyes again.
"Hey, what!?" Twintelle said.
"Alright, Twintelle! It's almost time! I need you to count to 20 and then you
can take the blindfold off. Meanwhile, my crew is gonna get the set completely
ready, okay?" Mrs. Taygent said.
"Yes, oh mighty weird and strange director." Twintelle said in a sarcastic tone.
Mrs. Taygent, aka Dr. Coyle, thought to herself, 'Wow… what a hard case for a
mega popular actress. The villainess in disguise soon floated away just as
Twintelle started to count.
"1… 2…" Twintelle counted.
Just as she did that, what happened next brought a devilish smile to Mrs.
Taygent. Twintelle was growing, and she had no idea of that just yet given she
was blindfolded. Most importantly, Twintelle was almost done counting.
"18, 19, 20." Twintelle said as she reached behind her head and undid the
blindfold. Twintelle rapidly blinked her eyes to regain her vision, dropping the
now giant blindfold onto the grassy block she was towering over. Twintelle
lightly gasped. Everything looked vastly different. The same buildings that once
towered over her no longer did so. She was either the same size as these
structures, or maybe even taller than some of them. Twintelle didn't know it,
but the Helix Juice had enlarged her by a factor of 30, making her stand at a
touch over 175 feet tall.
"Hahaha! Ahem… what do you think of our set, Twintelle?" Mrs. Taygent asked.
"Ooooookay… what's going on? Where am I, and where are you, Mrs. Taygent?"
Twintelle said as she looked around trying to find anyone else.
"Don't worry about me, now listen carefully! We have to do this quick while the
light is perfect! So as you can see, we built this tiny city around you. You are
a villainess who has grown giant and is wreaking havoc on the city!" Mrs.
Taygent said.
"I see…" Twintelle said as she scanned the area. She looked out in the distance
and could see people in the city either looking up out of curiousity or already
running for their lives.
"Hey, wait? Where are the cameras?" Twintelle asked.
"Err… don't worry about that! We've got little robotic cameras embedded in the
ground! Now go and destroy the city we worked so hard to build!" Mrs. Taygent
said.
"Well…" Twintelle said, showing a little bit of reluctance all of a sudden.
"Twintelle. Didn't you say once in an interview you'd never back down from a
lead role?" Mrs. Taygent said.
"Yes… I did say that." Twintelle said.
"So show me why I hired you for this film! Show me the great Twintelle in
action!" Mrs. Taygent said. Twintelle smiled and thrust her fists (both her
regular fists and the Chilla fists on her hair) upward.
"Yes! You can count on me, director!" Twintelle said.
"Annnnnnnnd… action!" Mrs. Taygent proudly shouted. With that, Twintelle marched
deep into the city, sending people panicking like crazy.
Twintelle was already getting a kick out of seeing the people run away from
her high heels. Of course, thanks to the saleswoman work of her new director,
Mrs. Taygent, she was convinced these people were nothing more than disposable
robots. So she made sure there wasn't a lick of mercy in her veins.
"Hahahaha! Run, itty bitty fools! And tell your leaders that the Silver Screen
Queen will soon be the gigantic ruler of this little city! And if they don't
like it, well…" Twintelle said. That's when she raised her leg up and slammed
her high heel down on a group of people, crushing them to their (non-bloody)
deaths.
"Things will really hurt." Twintelle said. She soon got back to casually walking
around the city block, playfully coming within inches of crushing more people
underneath her heels. She then set her sights on a couple parked cars. For the
first one, she slammed her heel down, crushing into a flat piece of metal that
sent parts flying in every direction… in fact, one of those parts, a metal
brace, flew into the stomach of a gentleman with a white T-shirt, blue jeans,
and golden wings.
"Ahhhh… those pink stripes in her hair, they remind me of that girl…" the man
said before he fell unconscious.
For the other car, Twintelle decided to take a different approach. She picked up
the car in one of her Chilla gloves, immediately encasing the car in a block of
ice.
"Au revoir!" Twintelle said as she casually tossed the frozen car up and then
slapped it with her other glove. The force of the impact combined with the
frozen nature of the car caused it to shatter into many pieces, most of which
literally raining down on the civilians as the heat immediately melted these
chunks of ice.
"Hahaha! I guess the weather is calling for sleet today. Fantastique!" Twintelle
said as she marched onward.
Her walk eventually brought her to a skyscraper that was taller than her,
though this didn't bother her too much. Instead, she focused her attention on
the stunned businessmen and women inside the building.
"Hmmm… I bet you little people are getting quite the view." Twintelle said as
she twirled around showing off her gigantic body, though as her hair got
dangerously close to the structure, many of these people backed away. The cold
temperature from the Chilla gloves caused these windows to cover themselves in
frost.
"Whoops, sorry! Allow me." Twintelle said. She then gently pressed one of her
fingers against the windows and drew her name out. Soon, the building was
autographed with her name out of the frost.
"Ahhhh… Magnifique!" Twintelle said as she blew the building a giant kiss and
then walked away from it. As she did so, the voice of Mrs. Taygent suddenly rang
in her ear.
"Hey! How come you didn't destroy that building!?" Mrs. Taygent shouted.
"Huh, really? I don't believe everything has to be smashed and destroyed. Even
those giant lizard and monkey monsters had a soft spot from time to time."
Twintelle said.
"Well, I'm the director and I'm in charge, and I say NO SOFT SPOTS! Got it!?"
Mrs. Taygent said.
"Yes, yes. Loud and clear. Sigh… maybe it's a good thing I can't find you,
otherwise I'd stomp you flat like I wish I could EVERY director who acts like a
jerk to me." Twintelle said. She clearly picked up on a nervous gulp from the
director.
"Just… do what I ask, okay? Try and not be as compassionate next time." Mrs.
Taygent said. Twintelle softly moaned, like she was acknowledging her comment,
as the giantess kept on walking.
She came across an apartment building next, which was about half her current
size. Like with the office building, there again were a few citizens that were
staring up at her from the rooftop. Obviously Twintelle was surprised to see the
courage being put on by these 'robots,' though she didn't realize they were real
people.
"Soooooo… Mrs. Taygent. What rating is this movie going to be?" Twintelle asked.
"Oh, um… M! That's right, M! So put on whatever dirty show you feel like! Hee
hee…" Mrs. Taygent said. Twintelle raised her eyebrows considering she had never
been in that high of a rated movie. But, once again, she swore never to give
anything less than perfection when it comes to a performance. And so she put on
a rather sinister smile down at the people on the rooftop.
"Well, hello down there, little ants from a picnic. I bet you're enjoying the
view, aren't you?" Twintelle said as she did a quick improvisational belly
dance, softly moaning like she was enjoying things herself. But she really gave
the people imaginary nosebleeds when she suddenly turned around and proudly
showed off her behind. Her pants did not do a good job of hiding her butt
cheeks, which always made her a target of prying dirty eyes (and why she usually
had a security team no matter where she went). But Twintelle wasn't ashamed at
all of showing off her behind as she leaned down a bit and gave her booty a good
shake. Some of the people just stared point blank at the booty, while others
simply fainted, unable to take much more of the show.
"Hmmmm… that's the best show you'll probably ever see. Au revoir!" Twintelle
said as she suddenly jumped high in the air… almost too high, in fact, for a
giantess. But she made sure her butt was lined up dead center with the apartment
building and then…
BOOOOOOOOOM!!!
Twintelle landed squarely on the ground, completely flattening the building.
The giantess gazed upon the remains sticking out from her behind.
"(whistles) Good thing this is only a set, and yet it looks so real the way the
building crumbled apart…" Twintelle said. She stood back up, and after brushing
a lot of debris off her pants, she marched onward.
As the next couple of minutes went by, however, Twintelle was looking a bit
tired. She had destroyed much of the city already, and so she felt it was time
for a break.
"Mrs. Taygent, I need to take my tea break now." Twintelle said as she moved her
hair around towards the ground to allow her to sit down (and cross her legs)
like she was sitting on a chair.
"WHAT!? No! No! No tea break unless I say so!" Mrs. Taygent said.
"Sorry, but I can't act any further unless I have my tea. Surely my friends and
bosses made you aware of that." Twintelle said.
"Er… um… yes… but this is MY movie and you'll take a tea break when I say so!"
Mrs. Taygent said.
"Sorry, but that's non-negotiable. No tea, no more acting from me." Twintelle
said.
"Arrrrgh… stupid spoiled actresses and their give me this and give me that
attitude…" Mrs. Taygent said as she clearly could be heard grumbling in the
headset. Twintelle just rolled her eyes and waited patiently for Mrs. Taygent to
show up at any minute with her tea, unaware she was just as speck-sized as the
rest of the people in the city.
And speaking of those tiny people, she didn't totally ignore them while she
sat and waited for her tea. On occasion she would reach down and pick them up,
throwing them down into her mouth like crumbs off a chocolate chip cookie. She
made sure to chew them up into smaller pieces, with people screaming loudly
until they got crushed in between the top and bottom molars.
"Mmmm… delicious!" Twintelle commented. Suddenly, she heard a familiar voice
down below.
"Twintelle! Down here!" the male voice said. Twintelle followed the voice all
the way down to her high heels, where she saw Spring Man jumping up and down
from her tips of those shoes.
"Oh? Even Spring Man has been made as a tiny robot?" Twintelle asked.
"Twintelle, listen to me! This is not some movie set! You really are a giantess!
Please stop!" Spring Man shouted. Twintelle stared at Spring Man for several
seconds before finally bursting into laughter.
"Hahahaha! Oh, I see. This Spring Man robot must be the 'hero' of this movie. I
thought maybe a giant Springtron or something would come by." Twintelle said.
"Twintelle, I'm serious for once in my life! This same thing happened recently
to Min Min and Ribbon Girl. Just sit tight and you'll return to normal soon."
Spring Man said.
"Do you take me for some fool, little 'hero?' I am Twintelle, the evil giantess
from outer space who has come to destroy this city! I don't take lip from
insects!" Twintelle valiantly said as she stood back on her high heels, kicking
Spring Man off, who made a daring landing with his springy arms. By the time he
was standing up straight, he looked up to see Twintelle walking towards him and
her high heels just inches away.
"I suggest you start running, little hero, before I turn you into crushed ice!"
Twintelle said as she wound up the Chilla fists in her hair.
"Yipes!" Spring Man said as he turned around and got running, just narrowly
avoiding the slam from the Chilla fists.
Spring Man just ran as fast as his legs would allow him. Occasionally he
would look back and see how close Twintelle was coming to stepping on him.
"Waaaaah! Again, what is it with me and getting chased by giant women!?" Spring
Man said, thinking back to running away from Min Min and Ribbon Girl when they
had their days as giantesses. Like with Min Min, however, Twintelle was
relentless. As Spring Man ran past a tall building, he could hear Twintelle
letting out a warrior like scream as she literally split the building in two
before walking right through it. Twintelle didn't treat every building in her
path like that, however. As she came up towards a building that was half her
size, and when it looked like she was going to plow right through it, the
giantess instead hopped over it without touching one speck of it, not even with
her long hair.
"Hmmhmm… able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, am I right?" Twintelle
said as she blew the building a quick kiss and got back to chasing after Spring
Man.
Finally, though, Twintelle had finally had enough of the chase. Wanting to
put an end to this particular scene of the movie that she thought she was acting
in, Twintelle extended one of her Chilla gloves out from her hair and slammed
the ground just in front of Spring Man. The ground didn't crack apart, but
instead thanks to the Chilla gloves, they became covered in ice. Spring Man
tried to put on the brakes, but found himself running into the icy ground and
slipped and slid everywhere until finally landing on his bottom. Every time he
tried to get up, he only fell back down onto the ice. He could only watch
helplessly as Twintelle walked up to him and picked him up. Worse, she was using
her Chilla gloves to pick him up, so right away, Spring Man's teeth chattered as
he felt the cold air rush through his body inside and out.
"Any last words, mighty hero?" Twintelle said.
"Twintelle, p-p-p-p-p-please! T-t-t-t-this is not r-r-r-real!!!" Spring Man
tried to say. Instead, Twintelle brought Spring Man closer and closer to her
open mouth, although she did so slowly waiting for Mrs. Taygent to say CUT! into
her ear.
But something else happened. Twintelle watched as not only Spring Man, but
the city around her was getting bigger.
"Huh? What?" Twintelle asked. After setting Spring Man down on the ground,
warming back up instantly, he watched as Twintelle shrunk and shrunk until she
was back to her normal size.
"Oh good… it wore off for you too." Spring Man said.
"Wore off? I demand an explanation here!" Twintelle shouted.
"Like I told you… this isn't some movie set. You really were dozens and dozens
of feet tall and rampaging around the city." Spring Man said. Twintelle suddenly
looked like she had just seen a ghost… a real ghost and not some guy in a
costume like in those murder mystery movies she was in.
"So… all those buildings I destroyed? All those people I crushed or ate?"
Twintelle said. Spring Man slowly nodded.
"Real." Spring Man said. Twintelle collapsed onto her knees.
"What… what have I done?" Twintelle asked.
"Hey, hey… don't get distraught. Min Min and Ribbon Girl felt the same way and…"
Spring Man said, only to suddenly watch Twintelle quickly stand back up and
press her earpiece closer to her ear with her fingers.
"Mrs. Taygent! I demand an explanation! Are you responsible for me being a real
giantess and tricking me into thinking this was all a set!?" Twintelle said.
But there was no answer.
"Mrs. Taygent? Mrs. Taygent!!" Twintelle said, but she didn't hear a single
word. Only constant static like the connection was broken. Twintelle
frustratingly took the earpiece out and slammed it to the ground.
"J'en ai ral le bol!!" Twintelle shouted as she crushed what was left of the
earpiece with her high heel.
"Who is Mrs. Taygent?" Spring Man asked.
"Some director, talent agent, whatever… or so she claimed. She said she needed
me for her big monster movie, and she had already gotten approval from the
studio bosses and my agent. I guess that was a lie too." Twintelle said.
"Huh… I wonder if she's the brains of this operation. Min Min and Ribbon Girl
were gigantic too the day before." Spring Man said.
"Hmmm… so I see." Twintelle said.
"But hey, if it's any consolation, Twintelle… at least you played the part
well!" Spring Man said. Suddenly Twintelle had a smile on her face.
"Why thank you, Spring Man. But don't think this will get you any mercy at the
next ARMS Grand Prix!" Twintelle said.
"Er… I wasn't going to ask for any." Spring Man said. Twintelle then turned
around.
"Sigh… guess I better find the nearest phone booth and contact my ride. Don't
know how I'm going to explain this to the director." Twintelle said. Spring Man
followed from behind to walk out of the area as well, but thoughts lingered in
his mind.
"Min Min, then Ribbon Girl, and now Twintelle. What is going on here? I'm
starting to think there's something sinister afoot…" Spring Man said.
Back at [NAME REDACTED], the automatic doors opened and walking inside was
Dr. Coyle, ripping off what was left of her Mrs. Taygent disguise.
"Blast it all! If only goodie good shoes Twintelle didn't ask for that tea
break, she'd be giant queen of the city! But noooooooo… that had to happen, and
Spring Man had to interfere, and worse… again the duration of the modified Helix
Juice was too short!" Dr. Coyle said as she frustratingly pulled a chair out
from under the table and sat in it, staring at the computer monitor in front of
her.
"(sigh) Okay, Dr. Coyle. Deep breaths. I feel like I'm at the halfway point now
thanks to the fear being set onto the city. They've gotta be talking now with
three of those ladies growing big. HAHAHAHA!!!" Dr. Coyle said as she laughed
manically.
Dr. Coyle then cleared her throat and opened up a file on the computer's
desktop. She was looking at a video playing of Lola Pop standing atop a giant
red ball while juggling a few bowling pins, all to the thunderous approval of
the people watching her.
"Ah, yes. Lola Pop. And if I remember correctly, she has the power to inflate herself like a balloon. Hmmmm… if she were big and were forced to inflate to defend herself against the city's army. Oooooooh… what a delectable display of destruction that would be!!!" Dr. Coyle said as she closed the video file and excitedly got to work on the modifications she had in mind for the next version of her Helix Juice.
END