Editor’s note: This is a very old story I decided to publish. It doesn’t really hold up to my standards anymore, but its shameless indulgence has never failed to entertain me. I might revisit this story and redo it at some point, so give the original a read now that you still can.
Mid was in bed having a lazy Saturday morning. Today wouldn’t be his normal lazy morning however. Unbeknownst to him something was swelling up inside his enormous 13 feet tall body. That is huge, even for a Thallier who easily stands a foot or so taller than humans which meant everyone stares right at his crotch and so he always had to hunch down. In fact he was so large that he slept on multiple queen sized mattresses together and his house was purposely made with ceilings of 20 feet tall. 20 feet is high even for his 13 feet stature, but with a good reason.
Some time ago Mid started to grow bigger, actually proportionally larger. He was never able to discover why but when he nearly doubled in size he realized this was no delayed teen hormones and he had to do something. He went on to add a functionality to his wrist AI Truxton. His growth ended up not stopping and he grew larger still when trying to make it work, eventually ending up to be 50 feet tall. Truxton was able to compact his size, but Mid still grew bigger. So he made Truxton account for his growth to be able to keep him at a fixed size. However Truxton could only account for his consistent growth. He slowly desynchronizes with Mid when he has a spike in growth which is caused by his many growth triggers. He has yet to discover what those are so he can combat them, but for now he resynchronizes Truxton every evening which will set him back at 13 feet, which is the smallest he can be as this was his original size.
However today Mid was about to experience a whole different side effect of compressing his growing body for so long as Truxton started beeping. Mid looked at Truxton and read “Compressing failed, immediate reboot.”. That confused him for a second as Truxton always talks to him, even for an error message. But he quickly puzzled 1 and 1 together and he realized what would happen if Truxton had to reboot. He immediately jumped out of bed and hit his head on the 20 feet tall ceiling in the process. That meant he had already grown 7 feet so fast he didn’t even feel it happen. But now he did, and it felt good. He had never known or remembered growing felt this good, but then again he had never grown this fast either. He could feel his body growing larger and larger in all directions as everything around him started to look smaller to him. His growing body was pushing him into the ceiling forcing him to hunch down. In these few seconds he had already grown too big to even think about using the door, which his growing leg was now creeping towards as the room started to creak and groan. On the other side of the room his hand grew into a table and smashed it over.
“What the fuck was that?” Came from his housemate upstairs followed by loud thumps on the stairs.
The door slammed open and a koala could be seen. “What is happening he-” he said as he stopped talking when he saw the growing mass in front of him.
“H-hey Alexis” Mid shamefully replied looking down at the koala in the doorframe whilst knocking down another table as his limbs grew against the sides of the walls.
“WHY ARE YOU SO BIG? Weren’t you big enough already?”
“Well yea, but-” Mid was interrupted by his growth suddenly picking up pace and speeding up which forced him to sit flat on the floor. Mid knew it wasn’t gonna stop before he broke the house. The two looked at each other, both knowing the koala’s room was upstairs.
“No, don’t you dare” he said.
But he did it anyway. He stood up and crashed through the ceiling like it was cardboard. It felt so good, he loved the sheer feeling of unstoppable power as he could see his vision inch up higher and higher and the floor crumbling around him. It felt amazing to grow this big, why had he never done it before?
Alexis then ran upstairs to meet Mid’s giant face right inside his room. However he was already reaching the ceiling again, which this time was the roof of the house. Mid realized the house wasn’t gonna hold much longer, so he grabbed Alexis and put him on his nose for safety. He sat there comfortably with his legs dangling off the side of his nose. Mid then stood up with all force and crashed through the ceiling, the structural damage making the house fall around him with only 4 small walls left. He looked at the small koala sitting on his snoot and it was then that Mid stood to think for a second. How big was he actually gonna get? He was surely enjoying it, a bit too much maybe.
One of his questions got an answer when Truxton came back online and said ‘’Good morning Mid. Sorry for leaving you for a bit, how are things?”
“Uhh well look around Truxton, doesn’t anything seem off?”
“Oh I see now Mid, you have grown a bit. Something is blocking my ability to control your growth, there is too much pressure on the compression. However it seems to be going down slowly. You may have to grow a bit more” Truxton explained.
“Truxton do you know how big I’m gonna have to get for that?” In that train of thought Mid realized he has probably never been this big before. “Actually how big am I now even?” He quickly asked Truxton.
“You’re physically 50 feet tall right now and your uncompressed body is 8 miles tall. That is 400% larger with a 3200% increase in growth speed compared to yesterday.” Truxton said as he enabled a live scale of his size on his screen “My calculations say the strain on my compression will have lowered enough for me to re-enable at around 2600 feet.”
Mid stood in awe, how did he grow that much? 8 miles is gigantic! But before Mid could respond to Truxton a large growth spurt hit him and washed him in a wave of pleasure as he let out a slight moan.
“Truxton, please find me a good empty area to grow.” Mid could see his size on Truxton’s display read 200 feet. He had doubled in size twice. He looked down to see that he forgot to step away and his house was now covered by his paws. He also noticed a large group of people forming around his growing body which reminded him Alexis was still on his snoot. But instead of having a snug space to dangle his legs off the side, the koala now had plenty of space around him to even sleep on if he wished.
“Determined the Archslake in the West to be the safest location.” Truxton notified Mid.
And so the growing Mid started walking towards the Archslake. With every step he grew bigger and bigger and it brought with it a good feeling. His paws caused shakes down below and cracked the concrete and he left a growing pair of paw prints behind him.
He could see the world shrink away around him and Alexis getting smaller on his snoot. With pleasure of his growth he dozed off into an idle heaven. He was so distracted he had little care for who or what ended up underneath his paws and occasionally hit things on accident as his paws were struggling to fit on the road as he had already doubled in size again.
With how big he had already grown it wasn’t much of a trip and he arrived at the Archslake quite quickly. Despite that he had still grown a lot, but the Archslake provided more than enough room. Truxton seemed to have found the perfect place. Mid could see the lake stretch out for miles as his view creeped up higher ever so slowly, he had clearly not stopped growing. Even though it seemed slow to him now, down below his paws were growing and expanding in all directions faster than people could run from them and it was only going to get worse.
Mid got a second large growth spurt which jolted through his body so hard he fell over into the lake. An enormous amount of water was displaced by his body creating a massive wave which he could be seen rapidly growing out of. He doubled in size from 400 to 800 feet, and immediately doubled again, and again, not stopping. Alexis practically vanished from his vision, Mid’s snoot now probably being big enough for him to build his house on and live. Mid was not done growing yet however. His legs stretched longer and longer across the once gigantic lake and the trees around him started looking more like tiny blades of grass.
It eventually cooled down and Truxton informed him “You are now 4300 feet tall, would you like me to re-enable my compression for you?”
“No” Mid simply responded as he laid there in the lake, growing larger still and knowing perfectly well it was not going to stop.
Truxton more than understood what that meant. “Alright, I’ll be on stand-by. Just give me a sign” Truxton said as his screen turned off to wait for commands.
Mid would just keep growing without stopping and reaching a mile tall, he was enjoying every moment of it. In fact after that last spurt his growth speed didn’t calm back down. The lake area was getting cramped so he stood up in the water, his movement creating massive waves below. He lost his balance for a moment as he was shocked how high up he was now and he could see the tiny village he lived in at what seemed to him to be only a few inches away from his paw. He noticed his growing paw was getting closer to the village as it grew larger, so he tried to carefully make a light step to the side. The air displacement from his careful step made the glass windows in the village burst and triggered the car alarms, which he could faintly hear from above.
The sound of the tinies below reminded him of his friend Alexis on his snoot. He pinched his eyes trying to find him, but he grew too large to see him already. He loves being so big but he wished Alexis could grow along just a little, so he could see him.
And so he did, slowly a blue koala started appearing from Mid’s snoot. While that happened Truxton was awakened. “Mid, your growth is experiencing large fluctuations.” he said just to notify and deactivate again.
“HEY MID!” Mid could faintly hear the koala scream now.
He didn’t dare to talk back as he could guess what that would do.
The possibilities that came with Mid’s growth were still largely unknown to him, and so he discovered that by merely touching something and focusing he was able to grow it. His own growth was so strong he was able to fuel it into others. As soon as he started thinking about that instead of the koala’s growth, it stopped again. He approached 8 miles tall which was his maximum size only a few minutes ago. He knew it would be more now, but surely not a lot right? He would stop growing this fast any minute now.
But it didn’t stop, he kept growing bigger and bigger only faster and faster, doubling his size again in just minutes. His body refused to stop. He loved the feeling but he was getting concerned about his effect on his surroundings. His one paw was now bigger than the entirety of the village and his head started poking into some clouds. He then doubled in size again as he grew to well over 40 miles tall. The highest mountains around him were now at his ankles and so he had free reign to look as far as the horizon let him, seeing the sea and other countries.
“Truxton, re-enable” Mid said, but nothing came back. Truxton didn’t reply and he didn’t start shrinking yet. He then realized Truxton could probably not hear him anymore, that’s a massive design flaw if he ever wants to do this again.
He had a big problem now though. He was still growing bigger at increasing speeds and with no way of contacting Truxton he could not control it.
Then at the worst time possible, another wave hit him. His growth exploded beyond proportions. 100 miles, 200 miles, 300 miles, his body kept growing larger in all directions destroying everything and carving its path into mountains. He was growing so big that he started poking into space, so he had to lay down on the planet. His body spanned across the entirety of the Thallium kingdom as he laid on his belly looking down to the earth growing larger and larger still and landscape around him becoming miniscule. He could no longer make out cities. It became apparent this wasn’t gonna stop, ever.
This spurt hadn’t ended yet and he doubled in size again, and then again, and again. It wouldn’t stop, every growth larger than the previous. He outgrew Thallium and the surrounding places as he realized his body was now stretched over half the planet which was quickly shrinking away under him. At this moment he also realized he drifted into space, but wasn’t dying. One more condition of his growth was that the absence of air or pressure did not affect it, all to make sure his body could keep growing bigger and bigger without interruptions.
He realized again that his friend was still on his snoot, who may not survive in space. He focused on growing his friend again and so he did and found out that in fact his friend had seemed to have gotten the same treatment when Mid made him larger.
Now they were both there, growing. Mid easily doubled in size again and outgrew his planet with no way to stop growing, with his tiny koala friend on his nose. Even though he appeared absolutely miniscule to him and probably had enough space on his snoot to build a city, he was huge and growing fast, but not as fast as Mid.
It was then that he got peace with the fact he would never stop growing, and so he remained there in bliss with the euphoric feeling of growth as the planet shrank to the size of a tennis ball as he kept growing bigger and bigger.