(BiggerBetterBarbie; idea by italianblackcat)
It was another day in the life of 17-year-old Rin. After getting up from her
bed, giving her teddy bear a hug, stretching her legs and wiggling her toes, she
brushed her short red and white dress and later her long red hair. Then she
walked back to her bed and picked up the tablet, first looking at the mail icon
and sighing.
"Sigh… no new messages in 2,541 days." Rin said. It would always bug her first
thing in the morning that she was the only other human being around, but then
she would always remember. Her tablet made sure there was always a world for her
to explore. There would always be a mountain to climb. A river to sail. An ice
cave to hear the virtual sounds of wildlife (and maybe even a monster or two). A
street to ride a bicycle in. She could do anything she wanted and go anywhere,
all with either a tap or swipe on the very same tablet she was holding. And that
would bring a smile to her face, making her forget the harsh reality that she
would always wake up to.
For today, Rin decided not to make something new. She wanted to revisit one
of the many locations she crafted up this time. She kept swiping through the
saved locations part of the tablet. Eventually she settled on the grassy plain
icon.
"I'll go here today." Rin said. She tapped on the icon, and she watched the
world change around her cube. Pixels of numerous colors galore flew all around,
merging together to form the landscape Rin desired. It took a couple of minutes,
but finally Rin was staring at a plain with nothing but grassy hills that seemed
to stretch for miles, aside from a forest to the side. Rin ran out of the cube
with the tablet firmly in her hands.
She eventually made her way into a forest area, smiling as she looked up and
saw beams of sunlight peeking through the trees. She firmly stepped through the
slightly taller than usual grass.
"Mmmm… it feels so nice to be walking through nature." Rin said as she felt the
grass tickling her soles. It was so cool and so soft as it touched the delicate
skin on her feet. Such a pleasurable feeling, she thought.
But suddenly, just as she's approaching the edge of the forest and about to exit
it, she feels something go crunch under her feet. That was definitely more than
grass, she thought. She lifted up her foot and turned it so she could look
underneath her sole. There she saw a bug… or rather the contorted remains of a
bug.
"Eeeeep…" Rin said as she felt grossed out over the unpleasant sight. Actually,
a whole range of emotions went through her mind as she stared at the squashed
bug. She was grossed out, then confused, and then she actually felt sorry for
the bug even though it wasn't real and only virtual.
"Gee… to think it's that easy to take a life away." Rin said. And that's when it
dawned on her. The fact she ended that bug's life with just one stomp gave her
an entirely different sense. A sense of power.
Before she could wonder any more, she then heard faint noises of the grass
rustling around. She leaned in to get a closer look, and that's when she saw
more bugs scurrying around. They probably saw what the girl did to their fellow
bug and wanted to escape with their lives. Rin, on the other hand, couldn't
shake off the feeling of wanting to crunch these bugs as well. So she chased
after them. One by one the bugs met a violent end to the giant girl's soles. Rin
would scrape these soles on the grass to wipe their remains off the skin, but
she still had a mess of grass and bug body parts even when all was said and
done.
Once all the bugs were gone, Rin took a deep breath and relished in what she
just did.
"Wow… I can only imagine how gigantic I must've looked to those smaller beings."
Rin said.
She next stepped out of the forest, where she looked downhill and saw a large
city in the distance. She held two fingers together close to her eyes and
pinched them, making it look like she had the city's tallest building in between
those fingers.
"Teehee… that building looks so small from here. I could squish it flat with my
two fingers." Rin said. She stretched one of her feet out and wiggled her toes,
pretending she was stomping several buildings with that one 'step.'
That's when she thought back to the bugs she crushed in the forest.
"What if those were people I were crushing instead of insects? Oooooh… I HAVE to
explore this kind of alternate world." Rin said. She sat down on the grass and
got to work on her tablet.
It took a couple hours to design everything to her liking, but eventually she
had her scenario in mind. She was about to create a world where she was hundreds
of feet tall, big enough to crush dozens of buildings under her bare feet. The
people in this city would be genuinely terrified of her, like the apocalypse had
come and there was nothing they could do to stop or avoid it. She paused briefly
when she thought about those tiny people. It made her feel gulity that she was
soon going to be taking so many lives under her soles, but she quickly shrugged
it off.
"It's only a simulation." Rin reminded herself. Once she put the final pieces of
the puzzle together, a quick tap made the world around her vanish except for the
patch of grass that she was sitting on. It took a couple minutes, but the world
was reshaped just as she drew it up on her tablet. The world basically looked
the same as before… but it was much, much smaller. The city that was in the
distance was now a few yards, relatively speaking, away from her feet. The whole
landscape, really, looked much smaller than before. Even distant mountains
looked no bigger than bumps in the ground.
"Oh my gosh. The city is so small now…" Rin said. Then she smiled as she helped
herself to her feet, leaving the tablet on the ground not too far from the city.
She put her hands on her hips and looked down at the city, listening to all
sorts of sirens going off and people screaming. It was a beautiful sight to
behold. Buildings that would've towered over her now barely rose past her toes.
"Mmmmm… no time like the present to act like the giant monster they think I am."
Rin said. She confidently took her first steps into the city.
Each step wreaked untold havoc on the city. People were crushed into bloody
stains. Cars and trucks and other vehicles were reduced to flat pieces of scrap
metal, but most important of all, buildings toppled over like dominoes… if they
weren't crushed flat beneath Rin's bare feet. Already she was loving it. No way
was she feeling lonely and sweet now. She was the ultimate harbinger of
destruction.
"Hahaha! You can run, puny insects, but you can't survive!" Rin said as she made
another mighty stomp on the city, causing a massive earthquake that brought down
nearby structures if they weren't already underneath her feet. Rin could just
make out tiny specks running away from her toes. Some of them were dumb enough
to stop running and look up to see Rin's white underwear as clear as day, only
for them to watch their world disappear underneath Rin's sole before it crushed
them flat.
All the crunching and popping of whatever was under Rin's feet made her
smile, especially when she dragged both her feet, one at a time, from side to
side, causing a huge swath of destruction. Where buildings once stood was now
carved out earth with mass destruction left behind. It made her giggle a bit
when she wiggled her toes and felt buildings stuck in between them, much like
feeling sand if she were walking on a beach.
"Teeheehee! They kinda tickle!" Rin said. After wiggling her toes some more, she
lifted up one of her right foot and looked at its sole. The once squeaky clean
skin was darkened in dirt and almost everything you could think of crushed mixed
in numerous colors thanks to the many different building materials used. There
were also many sprinkles of red, which she assumed were the blood stains of
people she crushed. It made her wince, but only briefly.
"Wow… this is what sheer power feels like. Oh? What's this?" Rin said as she
took note of a larger object that was coiled like a snake. She peeled it off her
skin with her fingernails. She was confused over the object at first, but later
recognized it as a bullet train.
"Ah, now I remember. One of those trains that goes at high speed. It kinda looks
like a wet noodle now, teehee!" Rin said. With that charming thought in mind,
she slurped the train into her mouth. It tastes like a ramen noodle, she
thought. But then again, she programs everything to taste like ramen noodles.
That got her thinking again. So she got down on her knees and dug her fingers
into the ground, ripping an entire block of the city from the ground. She
squeezed that hand into a fist and lifted the group of buildings into the air,
watching as pieces, as well as specks which were humans that were unable to
escape her grasp, fell to the ground. Rin moved the clump of dirt and structures
towards her brown eyes.
"Peekaboo! I see you!" Rin shouted. Then she sprinkled the mess she held onto
her legs, giggling as it touched her skin and fell back down to the ground. Any
building that managed to stay on her legs she crushed with her fingers. Rin then
helped herself back to her feet and walked back towards the edge of the city not
only to tackle that region, but also to reacquire her tablet.
After taking a few more steps and crushing more and more buildings, she then
got another clever idea to cause mayhem. She stretched her arms outward, holding
the tablet in mid-air. Then she let go, causing the tablet to fall and land flat
on the ground. Puffs of smoke flew out in every direction from beneath the
tablet, and the boom sound left behind from the landing seemed to echo forever
along with the booms from each step Rin had made.
"Hahaha!" Rin laughed, clapping her hands and enjoying seeing her tablet get in
on the destruction act. It especially made her smile when she picked it up and
saw the distinct square-shaped hole in the ground left behind. Rin then looked
behind and saw another section of the city, and again got creative…
"Timber!" Rin shouted as she fell backwards, landing on her back and crushing
more of the city beneath her legs and clothing, vehemently shaking the ground
and leaving behind the most thunderous boom any living being, real or virtual,
would ever hear. Rin laughed and tucked her tablet against her chest, once again
relishing in her newfound power.
But then… something changed.
Suddenly there were very little screams compared to before. Rin sat up, tucking her tablet up against her chest and curling up her legs, and realized why that was. The entire city was in ruins. Save for a few lucky buildings, everything was gone. Demolished underneath the mega giantess. A countless number of people were crushed flat to their deaths, even though she knew they weren't real.
Still… she felt… alone. Again.
A look around and seeing nothing else around, and then up at the slightly distorted blue sky as pixels flew around to keep it together… there was nobody else to brag to over what she did. Just like every other aftermath after she has her fun in her created environment. In the end, she was still alone, and there was no shaking that feeling no matter how hard she tried.
It actually made her cry briefly.
But a few seconds later, after sniffing and then wiping the tears off her
face with her arm, she cracked the smallest of smiles.
"Well, at least I have another new hobby to help cope with my solitude." Rin
said. She was eager to do this again the next day, as the wonderful thing about
her world was that she could use her tablet to magically hit the reset button
and do it all over again. And she had every intention of making another city to
destroy beneath her feet. Besides, she really wanted to feel that sensation of
her feet being tickled by buildings and bullet trains and 18-wheelers and
whatnot!
For now, though, Rin got up and walked away from the totally destroyed city, walking through the tiny landscape and crushing a couple mountains along the way. Eventually she returned to her cube home and pixelated the world away (for now) with a series of taps and swipes on her tablet.
END