Thunderstruck, Part 6
#19 of Codename: Stinger
Previously in Codename Stinger...
Charlie: Francine, NO!
And now, for what I'm sure is what you've all been waiting for. ;)
Part 6.
Francine announced nothing as she unceremoniously injected herself; Charlie had been too slow to stop her. The sight of the doctor forcing the syringe down on her arm made Charlie's mind flash back to Lexine Masters', Omega's last moments as a human. "I'm going through with this, either with or without you." The phrase rung inside of Charlie's head.
"You don't know what you've just done to yourself...!" the heroine reprimanded.
"I don't care about the repercussions!" Francine shouted back as she grunted, feeling light-headed all of a sudden, "If I don't stop Voltaic, then I don't want to imagine how many more people will end up like uncle Pierre! Th-the suffering..." she stuttered, shaking her head as she gasped, holding by her abdominal section, "I don't want that guilt...! Ahhh!"
"Francine!" Charlie insisted, smashing her tail against the ground in frustration, but it was done.
Francine lost her balance to the rapid changes manifesting inside of her. "It feels warm, h-hot, I'm on fire...!" she cried out as she doubled back in pleasure. Charlie could only watch on as Francine's arms stretched out and began to tremble, the physical changes following suit. The woman's fair white skin started to darken and shed off as scales grew underneath, spreading from her finger tips all the way up to her shoulders. Nails sank into flesh to assist in the formation of claws while a thin film bridged each finger to form webbed paws. And Francine could feel the same process was taking over her feet as well, her toes ripping clean through her designer shoes. "Nnngh... I feel it on my chest... what is this sensation of... ohh!" a moan escaped the scaled woman as she instinctively brought her hands to her swelling breasts. Clawed fingers tore through the fabric of Francine's ruined blouse and bra, her hands desperately cupping around the expanding flesh, black scaled flesh. Like balloons the chest pillows inflated, their mass pushing Francine's hands away as they went from modest B-cups to impressive DDs and continued to enlarge. "M-mon Dieu, my breasts are enormous...!" she thought to herself as her eyes focused on her darkening, swelling mounds, as if responding to puberty several times over in the span of a few seconds. The sight of her nipples was not there either, the pink nubs having been concealed behind scales. Nipples or not, the expanse of her round orbs only stopped when they were near the size of Francine's head each, and at that point the metamorphosing woman was being driven crazy by the mounds' sensitivity.
But the changes to her figure were not done with that. Francine felt a tingle run down her spine while the same segmented membranes on Voltaic's back made their job to cover hers. The only difference was that the membrane on Francine was a lighter blue color while Voltaic had a black one. Once the segments reached her tailbone a different process started; Francine was brought to her knees when a slick black tail suddenly pushed out above her rump. Charlie winced a bit, reminded of her own transformation when her tail had come out. Knowing the process to be unstoppable until it finished, the scorpion metamorph kept her distance and tried not to stare, although it was difficult not to.
Francine's tail grew out, the scaly extremity making her shriek out in pleasure. The transformation continued to add the membrane all the way down to the tip of her long tail, Francine's new claws clenching as her torn skirt began to stretch over widening hips and enlarging buttocks. The pleasure of feeling her ass cheeks devour her underwear into her deepening crack was only comparable with the fabric being forced to stretch over her groin. Thighs becoming muscular to support her wider hips made Francine finally bring her claws to her skirt, tearing it right off as her tongue lolled out and drool dropped to the floor. Charlie blushed; averting her gaze as Francine's fingers clumsily grazed the stretched string of her underwear. It wasn't that Francine wasn't enjoying the fabric grinding against her more sensitive areas. Francine was almost lost in a sea of bliss. But the growing woman knew there was no time to enjoy this. Fighting the pleasure she regained control of her claws, finally managing to snap the string of her underwear, relieving her womanhood of the confining thong-turned-panties.
In an attempt to force herself back up to her feet, Francine clumsily slipped and broke her fall with an arm. She gasped, "I feel so much heavier with these..." the young scientist thought with a pant of pleasure as she felt the stimulus of barely rubbing her voluminous chest against the floor, giving her the hint her invisible nipples weren't spared of touch. Francine growled and Charlie saw her push her black scaled face down against her larger bosom, as if cushioning her face with pillows. There was a short pause before Charlie heard a muffled moan. The torn blouse finally split open down the middle as the spinal membrane finished slicing the fabric open on its way up as it started covering Francine's neck and the back of her head. Her ears melted into her skull, replaced by small, webbed fins like Voltaic's but light-blue in color. Francine felt her face was beginning to push out, finally taking on its animalistic shape as her jaw line stretched out to accommodate rows of sharp fangs instead of teeth. Her snout made her nose change into barely noticeable nostrils to complete the facial transformation.
An electromagnetic field started to outline Francine's eel body as her newly formed electric organs tested their capabilities out. Charlie stepped back as Francine's electric powers caused random bolts of energy to shoot out almost erratically. The silken mane of blonde hair that had once adorned Francine's head began to fall off as the finned crest advanced over her scalp and, like a cherry on top, finalized her advanced metamorphosis.
When Francine's change was done, the eel girl's EM-field finally died down. After the sizzling from the static electricity stopped, Charlie saw the opportunity to approach her. The S.W.O.R.D. agent reached down to help the recently changed metamorph, "Francine, how do you feel?"
"Powerful," gasped the young woman, "But not nearly enough to stop Voltaic." She looked over to the power breaker on the wall.
"Get that idea out of your head, Francine, you don't know the risks!" Charlie seized Francine by the arm before she could step away. The building shook as if a quake had hit. Charlie assumed Voltaic had already broken through the ceiling.
"Let me go, Stinger!" Francine tugged away from the scorpion, wanting nothing less than to catch up to her rival, "Let me go or we're all doomed!"
"I can't let you do this! What if something bad happens and you short yourself out?!"
"Worse things will happen if I don't! Voltaic has become an addict to electric power. Anyone approaching his magnetic field will become shocked or worse. I now have the ability to cancel his electromagnetic-field out, so I am the only one that can face him!"
"But at that size he'll squash you like an insect!"
"That's why I need to make myself more powerful! I have a plan, and you have to let me go through with this!" Francine shouted, making Stinger pause.
"What if you become an addict to electricity too? Then we'll have twice the problems we have now!"
"Oui! It will happen!" Francine explained, "But that's exactly why I'm doing this. We need to fight for the power to give you time!"
"Time for what?" the scorpion blinked.
"To fabricate an EMP bomb!" Charlie's eyes widened at the suggestion, "Our electric organs are constantly storing and using the electric power we generate and absorb through electromagnetic fields. Our rising power levels depend on the generation of these fields. Detonating a series of pulse charges set to the opposite frequency of our fields will cancel our growth- maybe even reverse the effect!"
"Alright, but what will you do?"
"There's a power plant due north, the city is powered in great part from there. With the rate at which Voltaic grows, he'll soon realize he can only receive so much stimulation as his size increases. He'll go for it, I just know he will, I can feel my every nerve screaming for me to absorb power right now. If I can keep control over my mind for long enough, you'll have more time to figure out what to do!"
"How do we even get that frequency?"
"It'll involve lots of careful calculations. You don't want to detonate haphazardly, or you could end up making our EM fields even stronger!"
"Why don't YOU calculate it then?" Charlie tried, the building shaking violently again. For a few moments Stinger and Francine had trouble to even stand still. Voltaic had most likely risen through the ceiling and was ready stepping out.
"There is no time!" the aggravated eel woman was starting to lose her patience, "If he reaches that power plant undisturbed, he will become unstoppable! You have to let me grow so I can hold him off until you can plant those bombs at the power plant!"
"This is too dangerous! What if we get the frequency wrong?"
"It'll be a lot harder to actually get it wrong like I described earlier. That's the worst case scenario. You'll have more than enough time to find the frequency to stop both of us. If not, then use the default frequency to completely disable us..." Charlie stared directly at Francine's eyes, "Permanently."
"No! There has to be another way!"
"Ça suffit!" Francine focused her mind into releasing energy and pushed her electromagnetic field out in every direction at once. The resulting shockwave electrocuted Charlie with enough voltage to send her flying into a wall. "Mercí for your help, Stinger. But this is something I must do!" With that, Francine rushed over to the power breaker. Jolts of electricity suddenly began to jump at her, taken in by her electromagnetic field. "I can do this... no, I need to do this!"
Charlie got up from the floor, still feeling tingly all over, "Urk, sonuva... I feel like a bird stupid enough to fly around during a storm." Once her head cleared, Charlie saw the cracking of electricity on the wall as Francine grabbed the electrified power breaker. "She's doing it..." she silently contemplated. Francine started to moan as she felt raw power course through her veins, becoming trapped by her new body, transformed into energy, stored in her electric organs and then released only to be reabsorbed by her hungry electrocytes. The expansion began to happen without a hitch, for which Charlie was thankful, but soon enough she was treated to another reason to get away from the laboratory.
Just as with Voltaic, Francine's body began to bulk up, although less noticeably than with the male eel. While muscles became increasingly defined on her once petite frame, Francine's curvy form stayed predominant for her build. Power was making her swell in every direction at once, leading Francine to increase her height as the process went on. "This feels... it feels wonderful...! This feeling, like having every cell in my body filled to the brim with energy!"
Astonished, Charlie could only watch as the already Amazonian Francine gripped the breaker tighter until eventually it broke apart. Determined to feast her body with more power, she smashed her fists into the wall, tearing the cabling out. "It's not enough! More!" she growled, desperately cramming the cables into her mouth, chewing and sucking them like straws while her claws scrambled the connections for more. The electric eel's growth only accelerated, making her womanly hips swell thicker, lady-like legs becoming longer while her breasts seemed to blow larger still. The euphoric female was hooked.
"She's rapidly filling the laboratory. If she wasn't listening to me before, she won't start now. I have to get outta here!" Stinger flipped herself around and rushed to the exit, stopping only to look back at the 15ft. tall and growing Francine. There was nothing to say, only hope Francine's plan worked. The ceiling shaking as the growing metamorph reached it with her head; Charlie had her cue to leave the growing to Francine.
"Finally..." Francine felt relief as Stinger left. "I can go all out." The mini-giantess let go of the cables before she turned around, heading over to the testing grounds. Francine had to bow her head to go through the doorway, forcing the frame to widen thanks to her new geometry. Once Francine was inside the laboratory, her green eyes instantly set on four super-batteries in storage. One of them was barely filled, but the other three were full. "I can go all the way out."
Charlie used her communicator on the way out. "Jim, listen! There's some weird stuff going on here!"
"Stinger, we know about the situation. Shade contacted us, we're on our way."
"Glad to hear! How's the doc?!"
"Stable. The ambulance was in time since they already had victims of electrocution they had been called in for."
"Thank god..." Charlie felt as if metric tons of guilt had suddenly become less crushing. But it wasn't the time for respite, "Jim, you won't believe this, but the doc's niece has become a metamorph herself!"
"My God..." there was a brief pause before Rogers said: "I think I see her."
Charlie dashed even faster.
Francine roared out in relief when the upper half of her body finally emerged from the basement facilities, concrete and glass harmlessly bouncing off her chest and shoulders as she stretched her arms behind her head, the empty super batteries disappearing in the vastness of the eel woman's deep cleavage. At 40ft. tall, the muscular yet feminine metamorph had become a gigantic walking hourglass.
Voltaic had been steadily growing, but without the amount of power from the multiple super-batteries Francine had consumed, his expansion had fallen behind. Since outgrowing the demonstration stage, Voltaic had found very little amount of electricity to satiate his endless appetite; the power lines were transferring only small amounts of power at a time to him; he needed more, way more.
But it didn't take long for Voltaic to see the Boulder institute get further demolished by another eel outgrowing it. "What is this?!" the muscle bound giant fumed as he saw the clearly female metamorph climb out of it and at nearly his height to boot. "Impossible...!"
"More possible than you think, Voltaic!" Francine growled as she stomped out, the giantess looming over the bystanders as well now. "I'm here to stop you!"
"Holy shit, look at those knockers." Shade was standing atop the ruined institute when she was joined by Stinger, "Don't tell me. Ms. Spontaneous Boob-Job up there is Francine."
"She's on our side though," Charlie said from the wall she was stuck to, "How long until backup arrives? I need to explain the plan to Jim."
"What plan?"
"We're going to build an EMP bomb that'll save everyone from these two, including themselves."
"Uh, Sting, bomb and saving usually don't go hand in hand in the same sentence."
Charlie took a deep breath, "I just hope we can get our guys to prove you wrong."
"Are you mad at Beth for suggesting we come here? 'Cause I am."
"Thought you liked danger?"
"I like bad odds, like all those combat robo-dogs earlier. These are house sized tits we're talking about. We can't do anything without either getting electrocuted or being smooshed down into a pancake."
"We're going to need Beth and his Knights, and our speed, though. Someone has to distribute the bombs, and we're the faster and stronger choice for manual distribution."
"Right, with the electromagnetic interference, there's no way aerial navigation's gonna be easy." Shade looked down as a familiar-looking van arrived, "There's Rogers!"
"Let's go!"
Captain James Rogers sat at the van's control room with a serious expression. "Her plan is to cancel or reverse the effects of their power conversion treatment by using a series of EMP bombs attuned to a specific frequency." Charlie nodded, "With Pierre out of commission, we don't have many specialists in electromagnetic frequencies, so this will take time. We're working with the military here, so procurement of the explosives will not."
"Hold on, the military's backing US up?"
"S.W.O.R.D. is backing the military up as a specialist team, Stinger," Rogers responded, "Claiming accidental work hazard gives us time to try to find a non-ballistic counter-measure."
Shade blinked, "You don't mean..."
"Means if this contingency plan fails, then they're authorized to use deadly force against both Voltaic AND Francine." Charlie finished.
Francine and Voltaic roared at each other, their bodies at similar heights edging around 50ft. tall. Probably the biggest creatures Boulder had ever seen, panic did not wait to break out. The streets were flooded with people and vehicles attempting to escape the insanity of two monster-sized bipedal eels fighting it out in the middle of town. Francine didn't hold back against her more muscular adversary, but with his greater mastery over his electro-kinesis, Voltaic was more than putting pressure on the curvy female. "You stand no chance! I'm the one who's superior!"
"You're superior to nobody; you're just a spoiled brat! Odieux bastard!" Francine shouted out loud, taking her frustrations out on the muscular male with her own series of punches. What she lacked in strength she seemed to make up in agility, so Voltaic soon was backed onto a row of abandoned houses. Tripping over one of the ill-fated buildings, the giant toppled over and fell with a quaking thud. Francine wasted no time in pinning him down, straddling Voltaic under her own weight. With her enormous chest looming over his face, Voltaic felt both humiliated and turned on at once, no end of confusion griping at his mind. "How dare you harm my dear uncle?!" a sudden blow to the face snapped Voltaic back to reality, the dose of pain helping in kind.
"The fool stood in the way, I wasn't aiming at him!" Voltaic justified himself, managing to expand his EM field in time to repel another incoming blow. "It is you I wanted to smoke, LeFleur! You and your pathetic little science fair project!" Francine grit her fangs as her blows were repelled by Voltaic's field each time, but she was managing to use her own EM field to at least keep him down while she beat his protection down. "The only good thing Project Galvanika spawned is me; the most powerful being on this world!"
"Ça suffit, you egomaniacal fool, ça suffit!!" In her bout of rage, Francine managed to focus enough emotion to channel her incipient power and tear through the repellent EM field Voltaic was using. "You can't destroy Project Galvanika!" After landing a successful blow, Francine delivered a second one, "I AM GALVANIKA!" she roared. The surprised Voltaic, although hurt, became increasingly aggravated, which he eventually piled on top of his impressive physique and used his claws to stop Galvanika's arms. The male titan smirked once he had his break, pushing her back while he rose to his feet. His big muscles tensed up and swelled larger than ever, his bulk suddenly increasing beyond Galvanika's. He let her go and used the moment to rear his fist back before he punched. Voltaic's fist made contact with Galvanika's face with a thunderous clap, sending the giantess skidding back into the ruined institute.
Voltaic's tail finally let go of the city's power lines, cracking his knuckles as he loomed over the comparatively smaller eel. "You're all I need to destroy then. And I know just the easiest way for me to do that!" he grinned, looking in the distance at the northwestern power plant.
To Be Continued...