Well, I guess saw her was quite misleading. More accurately, before I could even register what had happened she had bumped into me, with enough force to knock myself on my ass. I had simply thought she was just a woman in a rush to get out on the way to some other classified area. However, on a second look it was clear I was wrong.
"Ah, you must be Conrad Greene. I'll admit, you look... lighter than what I was expecting."
She was a absolute mountain of a woman, in every sense of the word. Her gut extended across the floor as long as I was tall, and reached high enough into the air that it's peaks were at level to my chin. This gargantuan gut was only one part of this blobbish woman however. I had no scale to confirm it, but my eyes couldn't deceive me, in that she had to have been a ton at a bare minimum.
She was bigger than I could ever imagine. Hell, she even stood taller than me too by a entire foot! But what shocked me the most was the sheer speed. How could a woman so big move so fast?
I'd get the answer to that shortly.
"Sorry for floating right into you, by the way. I didn't expect you to show up so soon, considering how early it was. No matter. Now that you ARE here however, we can-"
"Excuse me, did you just say float?" I asked.
"You expect me to move on my own two feet? When I'm getting to that exciting 3000 pound milestone? No, I have my own means for doing that. Something that's the exact reason you've been brought here. Here, let me call someone who's... well, thinner to show you what I'm talking about. Oh Izzy, could you please come here?"
"Coming, Ms. Flanne!"
I recognized the woman as soon as she had come into view, having traversed hallways before arriving between us. This was Izzy Blanco. She was that sister to the one Emily woman who ran the local bakery in the village mall. She was a rather skinny woman with a average bust and slightly large ass, but I noticed that her stomach was bulging a bit, filled with what I assumed were sweets. I knew Emily had a bit of a sweet tooth, but did not expect that to carry on to the other Blanco sibling.
However, even then recognizing the woman caused me to overlook one detail, one which was beyond my understanding.
She was floating in the air.
"Sorry, I was eating as much as I could, just as you told me to!"
"How much have you managed to gain today?"
"A pound or two... though I'm still waiting for that medicine you gave me to shut down my metabolism..."
"Don't worry, your time will come eventually. At least you've gotten the hang of floating around right?"
I continued to act completely dumbfounded at what I was seeing. There was no trick to it, this woman was quite literally hovering in place above this other person. All I could do was stutter out my own thoughts.
"Her... you... floating..."
"Do not be alarmed. There is a completely reasonable and rational explanation to all of this. It's called Telekinesis, otherwise known as TK here. This lab was designed to study the mind after all, and we've discovered that the mind is capable of much more than one would think."
"B-but... what about-"
"My weight? I assume you mean my weight, right?"
All I did was nod, as words were escaping me.
"Well that's quite simple. Beyond everything else, the amount of nutrients one holds within determines their strength in regards to the psychic arts, though only certain people are capable of actually using it. This isn't a capability thing, more of a understanding and learning thing. Regardless, the most important point is that powers improve with energy and size. Watch."
From there, I watched as she raised a blobbish arm, with thick sausage-like fingers pointing towards a window outside. I turned my head to that direction, only to see a forest in the distance rise up, one tree at a time and with extreme control.
"Now do you see-"
I fainted before I even finished hearing her sentence.
___
When I awoke a hour or two later, I was already strapped to a table with a helmet on my head. The helmet was attached to some cords, and as I tried to move my hands to try to take it off it became quick to see that I was unable to break out of my straps. On the opposite side of the room, Ms. Flanne was already taking notes, writing via levitating a pen rather than her own fingers.
"Incredible... this mind is unlike anything I've examined before. No wonder they sent you my way."
"Let me go!" I yelled, trying to force myself free. "This is insane!"
As soon as I said that, I felt a needle inject into the side of my hips as the blob of a woman let out a chuckle. I was scared stiff and rapidly trying to break out of my binds at this point, but found it completely useless after a certain point. Whatever these straps were made of, they were too strong for me to get out from.
For a second, I thought I was going to go back to sleep again from the needle. Instead however... I felt hungry. Not intensely hungry, but just hungry enough for a small meal. That's when Ms. Flanne held out a sandwich.
"What I just injected into you is a special compound I created. It helps in activating a person's latent psychic potential... though it leaves them a bit hungrier with every injection. An initial dosage should just leave you somewhat hungry, but with each injection your body will create more of the compound on it's own, altering your metabolism. For some like me, that's actually preferrable but for others it's policy to at least let you know."
Well, that explains the hunger at least. Still though, I had a bunch of questions that needed to be answered.
"What are you going to do to me? Am I going to be some sort of lab rat for you? Is this what my life is going to be like now?"
"Well... yes and no." Ms. Flanne said, sighing a bit.
"What does that mean?"
"We will be running tests on you, but your life isn't going to be all like this. Besides today, we'll only be able to test you from 8 PM to midnight. Outside of those hours, you'll be free to live however you want. However, those four or so hours are going to be intense. After all, we need to accurately understand your capabilities."
"Capabilities?" I asked, confused.
"You ever watch Hunter X Hunter?"
"No."
"JoJo?"
"No."
"...One Piece?"
"Kinda? Only the 4Kids Dub though, and I was really young back then..."
"I see... crap. Well... think of it as classes in a RPG game then. Everyone knows what a RPG is right?"
"Yeah, that I can understand." I said, nodding but still confused as to what she was getting to.
"Ok, well TK comes in different... classes more or less. Despite the name, it's not just telekinesis. There's telepathy, psychic amplification, precognition... I even heard rumors of someone setting things ablaze with their mind, and although it was just someone faking psychic powers the possibility of it actually existing hasn't been disproven."
"...Psychic amplification?"
"Y'know, like amplifying attributes in a object with your mind. Stuff like your physical strength, or how much calories can be fit in a sandwich. Speaking of which... focus on it."
"Focus on it? What the heck could you possibly mean?"
"Well how else are we going to test your capabilities? Psychic powers are manifested within the mind, and only by actually focusing on it will we find out what you can do with your god-given capabilities!"
That... made sense. I still didn't know what to believe, but the idea that psychic powers were all connected to the mind at least made sense to me. If focusing on a single object was actually going to help me unlock whatever powers she was talking about, perhaps it'd just get me out of this place faster, so I could never see her again?
"...I'll try. But can I do this alone? Don't want you just out and eating it while I'm looking at it."
"Oh don't worry, I have plenty!" To prove her point, I watched as she swallowed it in a single bite before levitating dozens of sandwiches towards her, even sending one straight into my mouth with only slight breaks for me to swallow. It felt... oddly good? But figuring that out was going to have to wait, as everything else about her I just wanted to be done with.
"...Whatever, just be quiet then."
"Well, I'll try. But I am going to be eating while waiting for whatever happens. It's almost my fourth lunch after all, and I need to not just maintain but add to my immense weight. For science reasons of course."
"Right..."
With that, Flanne undid the restrains around my arms so I could hold the sandwich, before letting me look at it and focus upon it. I kept my brain focused squarely upon the two slices of bread, which contained three different deli meats within alongside lettuce, mayo and two types of cheese. I was tempted to eat this one too, but I withheld myself and continued looking at it until the image of a sandwich was firmly planted within my head.
Eventually though, it happened. Around the time I fully achieved focus, my eyes twinged a bit and my head ached as a psychic reaction echoed out through my body and into the sandwich. I let go, only to see what had happened.
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