Remotes: Tenacity

The afternoon was a bit of a blur. The police had been called and the school was soon overrun by yellow jacketed scene of crime officers, forensics teams and the mass media clamouring to get a story to go with the bizarre events that unfolded just after lunchtime. Katie and Leanna had both spent the last hour and a half walking around in a daze, being questioned by serious looking men and comforted by well meaning policewomen; they were in shock, after all they had just witnessed a popular young maths teacher pump up like a balloon and explode like one too. In reality however the girls’ shock was more to do with fear of being caught than with horror and sorrow at the unreality of it all. A few minutes earlier one of the fire crew brought in to help search through the wreckage of the former Miss Calland had discovered a small pellet and recognised it immediately as a compressed helium pellet of the type used to minimise fire risk in tanker fires. The police had quickly moved to the conclusion that there was an accompanying remote control somewhere and were looking for suspects in a murder inquiry. They had also caught Sam eyeing them suspiciously and were worried that she would mention the weight loss cakes. The carrier bag of remotes had been hidden away as soon as they could inside a vaulting horse in the school gym and the girls were now wondering how they could destroy all evidence of the connection between the cakes and the pellets without exploding any more of their classmates.

‘Once the girls are inflated then they are helpless, like Miss Calland was just floating there unable to speak’ Leanna said, with a tone of unease. ‘If we can get the girls who ate the cakes on their own then we could inflate them, they wouldn’t be able to call for help and we could then just take them somewhere out of the way and keep them prisoner.’

Katie was, for once, the voice of reason; Leanna was overly panicked at what she had been party to, but Katie was more than aware of the power afforded to her by the remotes and had calmed down somewhat.

‘It’s a nice idea’ she replied, ‘but with two major flaws: firstly we don’t know where the line is between the girl simply floating up and her popping; secondly we can’t just keep them prisoner forever, they would know it was us when we took them away and once deflated they would give us away’.

‘OK’ Leanna said, resignedly, ‘but we have to do something, maybe we just have to ‘pop them off’ as it were, one by one. I mean none of the girls who ate the cakes were particularly friends with us, they were all those shallow bitches like Sam, full of themselves. Let’s fill them with something they can’t contain so easily, I’m sure you wouldn’t mind seeing Joanne, or Kirsty, or Kaori blimped up, and would you really miss Harriet if she just… burst?’ Leanna blurted the last word out a bit too loudly and Katie had to peer out of the ladies toilets into the corridor to see if anyone had heard. Fortunately the girls had taken refuge in the gym building, on the opposite side of the school to the maths department where they had blown Miss Calland up, and everyone was still down that end, so the gym was completely deserted.

‘Sounds like we have no choice’ Katie replied, hanging her head at the thought of being a serial killer ‘I suppose we’d best try and find Sam first, she knows the most, but you can be the one with the remote this time’

‘No!’ Leanna snapped, ‘you got us into this, so you can get us out. Besides, you are the one with the experience of inflating girls so you’ll know when to stop inflating her. I’d run the risk of overinflating her and then she’d go bang before we could get her somewhere out of earshot of the school’.

Katie sighed; it looked like she was going to have a lot on her conscience by the end of the day, and then crept out of the toilets into the abandoned hallway.

The two girls made for the gymnasium, where they opened the top of the vaulting horse and Katie climbed in and searched the carrier bag inside for the remote labelled ‘Sam’. Once they had it they ran out of the room, leaving the rest of the remotes still hidden. Katie hid the remote under her blouse and they walked as calmly as possible outside and down the line of school buildings towards where everyone else was.

They entered the main building walked among the milling people, looking just as terrified as they were, which in the eyes of everyone else, was understandable. Katie noticed Sam alone inside the nurse’s room sat on the gurney at the far side of the room, looking scared, still rubbing her swollen abdomen.

‘In here’ she whispered and disappeared into the room grabbing and pulling Leanna along with her.

Inside the room, the two girls stood over Sam, who looked up inquisitively at them.

‘What do you want?’ she asked nervously.

‘We just wanted to check you were OK’ Katie replied, sounding genuinely concerned.

‘Er, well I’m feeling a bit bloated’ Sam said, sounding shaky, and rubbing her distended stomach, ‘it’s been like this since I had one of your cakes.’

‘Ah’, interrupted Leanna, ‘that’s what we wanted to see you about; you weren’t planning on telling anyone about those cakes were you?’

‘Well, of course I was’ Sam squeaked crossly, ‘If it has anything to do with what happened to Miss Calland, then I should tell the nurse right away!’

Katie nodded towards Leanna, who nodded back before walking over to the door, dropping the latch and drawing the black curtains on the door’s little window. Katie then stepped towards Sam and lifted her leg over, straddling the petrified looking girl and sitting on her lap. Katie, shifted to gain comfort but also made Sam look even more uncomfortable, then, suddenly she felt herself smile, the power she had over Sam exciting her. She leaned towards Sam who stared at her open eyed, before flinching away.

‘We can assure you, you won’t be telling anyone’ Katie said, menacingly under her breath as she removed the remote from her blouse and held it in front of Sam’s face, letting the girl see the label ‘Sam’ before pressing the green button.

There was a hissing as Sam’s already bulging stomach blew out, quickly doubling then tripling in size, making her look nine months pregnant. In a sequence of pops, four buttons burst off Sam’s blouse; her eyes became wide as billboards and her mouth shaped into a little O.

‘Ohmygod I’m blowing up like a balloon!’ Sam shrieked, causing Leanna, still stood by the door to jump and peek through the curtains.

Katie quickly leaned over the bloated girl’s belly, rapidly expanding between her legs and put her hands over Sam’s mouth, reducing her distressed shrieks to a muffle.

As Sam kicked her legs frantically and her abdomen rounded out pushing her back in the reclining chair, Katie struggled to reach over it to keep Sam muffled, but it became easier as her stomach reached three feet in diameter when Sam’s butt and thighs decided to join in the fun. Sam’s rear visibly widened, pumping up beneath Katie and lifting her upwards so that she could lean over the balloon girl’s stomach with more ease, and the pressure inside her made her legs more turgid, reducing her kicking to a gentle bouncing. Katie’s initial remorse had lightened and she was enjoying herself again as she turned to Leanna and laughed as she bounced up and down on her human space hopper.

‘Be careful’ Leanna reminded Katie ‘Don’t let her get too big in here, we have to get her out of the fire exit yet, and if she explodes in here half the building will hear it, she’s looking pretty taut.’

Sam was indeed becoming quite tightly blown up, and her whole body was now becoming bigger and rounder as it pumped full of helium in similar fashion to Miss Calland. The seams of her trousers began to burst off, and with a ripping sound they tore halfway down her sides. Katie felt Sam’s cheeks puff out underneath her hand and removed it, allowing Sam to make useless little mmmphs and pmmphs. She used her free hand to stroke Sam’s left breast as her bust too began inflating like two balloons. Katie felt Sam’s nipples between her fingers becoming hard underneath the stretched cotton as the flesh underneath bulged ever outwards and upwards, while Sam watched, wide eyed and helpless. Katie smoothed both hands from Sam’s breasts around and underneath the swollen orbs around the girl’s sides where the fabric was pulled tight. She rubbed her hands down Sam’s curved sides until they reached her plump hips, squeezed them together, feeling the inflated girl’s buoyancy and hearing her straining flesh creaking she gave Sam a mischievous little wink.

At that moment, Sam, looking like a blimp taking flight, lifted clear from the seat hovering just above the seat. Katie gripped the fabric of Sam’s torn trousers and slid down and off her, onto the floor. The release of weight caused Sam to bob upwards. Leanna walked over with a length of bandage she had removed from a first aid kit and tied it around Sam’s ankle.

‘We have to get you out of here now puffy’ she said and walked around Sam’s big round body, giving the end of the bandage a little tug causing Sam to spin around to so that her feet were pointing towards the fire exit, with a clunk Sam’s head knocked a desklamp off a desk, she let out a muffled squeak as if to say ouch. Katie pushed open the fire exit and Leanna walked out of it, pulling Sam behind her like a giant party balloon. Sam bumped against the sides of the door as Leanna tried to pull her out and became stuck, so Katie had to get behind her and push her out of the door.

Katie and Leanna took the inflated Sam from the back of the nurse’s room out behind the main buildings of the school where they wouldn’t be seen. Leanna dragged Sam behind her who bobbed around in the wind, like a helium balloon, looking scared and helpless. They came to a spot behind the sports hall fire exit where they decided they could leave Sam while they went and continued their inflating spree. Leanna bent down holding her end of the bandage and tied the end to a metal support in the ground, usually used for setting up the cricket nets. She pulled on the bandage to bring Sam down to her level and Katie grabbed her with both hands as though bringing in a blimp to land, pulling her towards her so that she could look straight into Sam’s dinner-plate sized eyes.

‘We’ll just leave you floating around here for a bit while we take care of something’ she taunted Sam, ‘remember, If you try to escape…’ Katie held the remote in front of Sam’s face and with a cruel smile pressed the green button briefly. Sam winced as with a short hiss she felt a little more helium released into her body. Katie put the remote back into her pocket and let go of Sam so she bobbed up for a couple of metres until the bandage became taut, stopping her rise so that she just floated helplessly watching as Katie and Leanna ducked into the fire exit which they had left open before.

Inside the sports hall Katie and Leanna could see in another corner Kaori, Jennifer and Penny practicing circuit training, three more of the bimbos who had swallowed the pellets; news of Miss Calland’s incident hadn’t reached them yet. Quickly Katie and Leanna ducked behind the vaulting horse and watched the girls, in their sweats limbering up at the start of the circuit.

‘We’ll have to blow them up before they make it round to us’ Leanna whispered and then carefully lifted the lid, partly off the horse to reach in for the carrier bag. Meanwhile, one of the girls Kaori, an Asian girl had started a light jog in their direction. When she had the remotes for the three girls she gave them to Katie who pressed Kaori’s green button.

The girls watched as Kaori stopped jogging and moaned slightly as she held her crotch. It appeared that the pellet had moved further down her body and her tight training belt was preventing the gas from moving further up, because the girls could only see Kaori’s crotch and ass inflating. Kaori doubled up as though she had a stitch and then bend backwards, pushing forwards her bloating crotch. She placed her hands on her ass cheeks as they bulged behind her and rubbed them as they strained her leather training shorts. Then she realised what was going on and hysteria immediately ensued.

‘Oh my God, I’m blowing up like a balloon!’ Kaori screamed towards the other girls, who ran over to see. Kaori’s shorts pumped up like a rubber ring around her.

‘Why are your shorts blowing up?’ enquired Penny, a sweet petite girl with mousey brown hair wearing a leotard.

‘It’s not my shorts’ Kaori gasped ‘It’s me!’ as she squeezed her legs together and wrapped her arms round her expanding waist, trying to contain the pressure. A button burst off Kaori’s shorts, revealing her silk panties inflating beneath, it was obvious that Kaori herself was the one swelling up as her bare legs were also plumpening up as the helium spread downwards. Still though, her belt held tight and prevented her upper body from joining in the fun.

‘Ooooh’ she moaned ‘I feel like an explosion waiting to happen!’

Katie reached for the remotes for Penny and Jennifer and placed them all on the floor so that she could press all the green buttons at once.

Penny shrieked ‘Yeeeek, It’s happening to me too’ as the helium inflated her tiny figure more rapidly than anyone else so that her whole body quickly barrelled out. Kaori’s lower body now looked like a pair of blimps, meeting at the top in an impossibly stretched leather band with two round orbs where her bum was, while her belt still held firm. Jennifer, a tall, dark haired girl was inflating belly first, like the others, holding her hands on her belly as it protruded further and further outwards before her thighs and backside began inflating too.

‘What’s happening?’ Jennifer screamed, ‘Why are we all getting fat? Will we go pop?’ Jennifer held on to a scared Penny, who was quickly becoming balloon shaped as the helium filled out all parts of her small body.

Then there was a loud bang and Jennifer and Penny quickly turned to see that Kaori’s belt had burst off her and her upper body was whooshing outwards like an inflating airbag. Kaori squealed as her breasts blew up into her face muffling her and her arms pinged out at right angles as her whole body became turgid and immobile. She lost her balance and fell backwards; remaining straight, she bounced onto her back and lay there helpless, eyes wide making muffled umphs as her body continued to pressurise and rise like a bag of popcorn in a microwave.

It was Penny though, the lightest of the three girls who was the first to contain enough helium to lift of the floor.

‘I’m floating!’ she gasped ‘It’s helium we’re filling with!’ The girls all watched as Penny slowly rose off the ground and bobbed about in the air. Penny was about 5 feet into the air when Leanna suddenly realised they had a problem.

‘Katie stop!’ she said, a little bit too loudly ‘If she floats up to the ceiling we’ll never get her down!’

‘Oh shit!’, Katie responded and immediately took her finger off Penny’s remote as Leanna abandoned their hiding position and ran frantically over to Penny’s almost spherical form as it rose through the air. Leanna grabbed a skipping rope on the way, but by the time she got to Penny the balloon girl was out of reach and even when Leanna jumped into the air, she couldn’t reach Penny. Katie came out of hiding, still with the other two remotes but the four girls could only watch as Penny drifted up towards the high sports hall ceiling. Kaori and Jennifer were still inflating but Kaori was lying on her back and saw neither Katie nor Leanna. Jennifer was now inflated all over, and was losing mobility.

‘What’s going on?’ Jennifer barked ‘Do you two clowns have anything to do with this?’

‘We put helium pellets in those cakes’ Leanna replied as she watched Penny bump off the ceiling, there was no hope of getting her down. Kaori who was aware of events now that Leanna was speaking wobbled about helplessly before starting to rise off the floor herself. This time Leanna wasn’t going to let a girl float out of reach and tied a skipping rope around the alarmed girl’s ankle, letting her float up at the end of it so she was upright and could see everything. Jennifer was now too pumped up to move properly and could only waddle angrily towards Katie fuming through puffed out cheeks.

‘Mmmph, You won’t get away with this, when I’m deflated I’ll get you ppmph!’ It was no use though, and as Jennifer widened she became rooted to the spot and unable to speak at all; only watching herself bloat though horrified eyes. When Katie heard the first creaks and moans coming from Kaori’s body she stopped blowing her up. With Jennifer, her sports bra burst at the front with a pop underneath her tightly stretched t-shirt as her breasts burgeoned forth. Then she too bobbed upwards until the tension of the skipping rope Leanna had tied round her waist stopped her so she was floating on her back. Katie stopped inflating her too.

‘So, what shall we do about Penny?’ Leanna asked as she held both inflated girls’ tethers as though she had won them at a fair, ‘We’ll never get her down.’

Katie thought about this for a while before turning to Leanna.

‘Well there’s no-one else about I don’t think; I guess we’ll have to give Kaori and Jennifer here a demonstration of what we plan to do to them all, then we’ll have to get out quick before anyone else hears the explosion.’

At the mention of the word ‘explosion’ Penny’s eyes widened with terror and the other two girls began bobbing around frantically at the end of their tethers. Katie took out the remote labelled ‘Penny’ and hovered her finger over the red button, looking menacingly at the stricken Penny on the ceiling before pressing the green button.

‘No quick exit for you Penny’ she said with a malicious glee, ‘this one’s being such an overinflated little bitch’.

Penny’s eyes widened more than ever possible, as with a hiss the ball shaped girl began increasing slowly in diameter, making a series of high pitch squeaking noises and flapping her hands and feet uselessly as her two friends below struggled and made muffled screams. The high squeak morphed into a low groaning and creaking noise which tapered out with a

KABOOOOM!

The girls watched as Penny blew up into a shower of leotard shreds and scraps of other pieces of clothing. Penny’s trainers fell to the ground too; one of them bouncing off Kaori’s pumped up stomach, causing Kaori to flinch and the pellet clattered noisily to the ground.

Quickly, Katie got the carrier bag with the remotes and gathered up the shreds of Penny’s clothing, her trainers and the pellet, putting them into the bag so that the girls left no evidence of the exploded girl. Then they headed to the fire exit, Leanna pulling the ‘balloons’ down under the doorframe and outside where Sam still floated at the end of the bandage. The expression on Sam’s face said she had heard the explosion, and she watched as Kaori and Jennifer were tied down either side of her, so the three expanded girls were now left bumping gently off each other as they swayed in the gentle spring breeze. Katie and Leanna made sure the fire exit for the sports hall was locked before heading off over a field and out of the school grounds to find the other girls they had to inflate.