Part 1 "You've got to be kidding me," Tifa muttered under her breath. "There's just no way," Yuffie grumbled. "How is this possible!?" Aeris gasped. It seemed impossible, yet as the three ladies jiggled, squirmed and jostled in a valiant attempt to fit into their clothing, there was no denying it. They'd all become notably, unmistakably fat. It wasn't just a tiny amount of chub either. That could have at least been easily explained and attributed to bloating, but this was weight gain of a considerable and unmistakable amount. Yuffie's thighs and hips had become so plump she could barely pull her shorts up, let alone squeeze into them. It was fortunate her style was always to leave them unbuttoned, because there was no way she'd be able to close them with the considerable paunch she had going on. Aeris wasn't faring much better. She was thankful that her dress had enough give to button up, but it was a struggle to get them closed, and the buttons were obviously strained against her bulk. She worried they might burst if she breathed in too deeply, the dress was so tight on her! It was unbelievable how much of her new found curvature and bulges were visible through the fabric of her dress. The garment did little to hide the sheer magnitude of her butt, that was for sure. Despite being fully covered, Aeris couldn't help but feel a little naked. Tifa couldn't help but feel she had the greatest struggle of all. She had just barely managed to fit into her tank top, and her tight leather skirt was proving to be even more impossible. Even if it wasn't real leather, the material only had so much stretch to give, and it didn't seem to want to cooperate at all with her gigantic back side. The cheeks of her butt bounced and wobbled as she pulled harder on the garment, trying with all her might to force it on. "For once," she grunted, "I really wish I wore pants!" With a series of fierce tugs, the skirt finally complied with her wishes and slowly, surely inched its way around the curvature of her buttocks, until Tifa eventually felt she had pulled it on high enough to be satisfactory. She panted, winded from the effort, and took a minute or two to rest before finally slipping on her belt (which she was dismayed to see could only buckle as far as the first hole) and suspenders. Finally she was dressed. Well, as dressed as she could hope to be. She reached for the doorknob and hesitated. What would the others do when they saw her like this, fattened like a pig? Yuffie would undoubtedly tease her relentlessly, and Aeris, despite her best efforts to be polite, would probably still giggle at her expense. Still, she couldn't just hide in this room all day. With a sigh, and mustering up as much courage as she could, Tifa opened the door and walked out into the main hotel room. By some chance of serendipity, it seemed Aeris was doing the same, and Yuffie was already there waiting for the two of them. The three girls all stopped and gawked at one another in silence for a minute or two. "What the hell happened to you!?" --- Part 2 It didn’t take much for the three ladies to realize something was wrong. Putting on a little weight wasn’t exactly abnormal, but this was more than just “a little weight.” Not to mention it had only taken a night for them to go from slim and trim to fat and bloated. Plus, that this was happening to all three of them couldn’t have been a coincidence. All that said, Yuffie couldn’t see the benefit of trudging through the forests and grasslands near Costa del Sol, and decided to voice her concerns as diplomatically as possible. “This is STUPID!” She whined loudly. “What good is wandering aimlessly in the middle of nowhere going to do us?” “We’re not wandering aimlessly, we’re looking for something,” Tifa called over her shoulder. “And we’ve explained it to you seven times already!” “Yeah sure, marching in circles, hoping to run into some monsters that we aren’t even sure are in this area, that’s not wandering aimlessly,” Yuffie grumbled in response. “Except we know they’re around here, we ran into them yesterday!” Tifa snapped. “How do you not remember?” “Look, all I know is we ran into some weird looking ladies in bathing suits who did some weird magic that didn’t do anything and then ran off,” Yuffie answered. “I doubt they were actually monsters and they’re both probably long gone by now. I hardly see how that ties into our problem of being total fatasses!” “Yuffie,” it was Aeris who spoke this time, her voice calm and pleasant. “Don’t you find it a little bit strange that we encountered those lady monsters yesterday, they cast some sort of magic on us and then we all wake up ‘total fatasses?’” “Well… yeah but-“ Yuffie protested. “I know the whole thing is weird but it can’t just be a coincidence,” Tifa interrupted. “I’ve heard of monsters like that living way in the north, but there shouldn’t be any like that around here.” Aeris nodded in agreement. “You have to admit, the whole thing is suspicious, and this is probably our best lead if we want to find out the cause of all… THIS is.” The flower girl grabbed her belly and gave it a light shake for emphasis. As difficult as it was to believe that it had been flat as a board the night before, what was more shocking and worrisome was that it was notably larger than during the morning. Earlier, even if it was just barely, Aeris could button her dress around the girth of her belly and be completely covered, if a little tightly packed. Now however, she was fat enough that the lowest button of her dress had given up the ghost and popped off, revealing a small amount of her lower belly and panties, and even the remaining buttons were drawn so taught and strained that gaps were appearing between them, exposing just a little more bare skin. The rest of her had grown notably thicker as well, giving her a rather stocky and wide appearance. Not that either Tifa or Yuffie were faring much better. The two of them had also become notably more plump and round since the morning, as evidenced by the great, jiggly bulges of their love handles, or the fact Tifa’s butt was now hanging out of the tight belt of a miniskirt she wore. “Yeah well,” Yuffie pouted, “I still think it’s a waste of time.” “Well, if you have any other ideas I’m willing to listen,” came Aeris’ reply. “Forget it Aeris, I don’t think she has any additional leads,” Tifa sighed. “She’s probably just whining because she’s tired of walking.” Yuffie’s face felt hot. She didn’t want to admit it, but she was exhausted. Tracking down some monsters would normally be nothing to a ninja like her, but the extra pounds made moving around a lot more difficult and before she knew it she was huffing and puffing and barely able to keep up. “I’m NOT tired!” Yuffie snapped back. “I’m just sick of looking at your jiggling butt is all! Why don’t you wear decent clothes for once?” It was Tifa’s turn to turn red with embarrassment as she did her best to pull down her skirt in back. “Wh-what, you’re one to talk! You can barely keep your shorts up half the time!” “Whatever, Boobs! At least I don’t flash my undies when I kick high!” “Wait, did you two hear something?” Aeris interrupted, though neither of the other girls heard at this point. Tifa’s hands were tightening into fists and Yuffie was reaching for her giant shuriken as they both eyed one another. “Um, Tifa? Yuffie?” “I told you not to call me that,” Tifa seethed. “Make me!” Yuffie taunted. “You know what, maybe I will. You’ve been asking for a beating ever since Wutai and I think it’s finally time you got one!” Tifa glared, cracking her knuckles. “Will you two knock it off!” Aeris yelled and batted Tifa lightly in the stomach with her staff, pushing her away from Yuffie.” “Yeah, you tell her Aer-“ “That goes double for you!” Aeris cut Yuffie off with a bop on the top of her head. “I know you’re frustrated by what’s going on but I think I heard something moving around nearby! Listen!” All three girls stopped for a moment, listening to the sounds around them. Somewhere nearby they could hear the sounds of something moving about, rustling the grass lightly. “What’s that?” Yuffie whispered. “I think we’re about to find out,” Tifa answered, balling her hands into fists again. Only a moment or two later a pair of monsters leapt out at them. Despite having been ready for the attack, the three ladies were all still a bit surprised at what they saw. The two monsters were unlike anything they’d ever experienced. “What are those things?” Aeris wondered aloud as the two creatures wobbled and jiggled before them. “Blobs?” Tifa asked. “I dunno they look more like flan to me,” Yuffie stated. “I can kind of see it with the one on the left, but the other looks a bit more like a pudding than a flan to me,” Aeris added. “Whatever, Flan, Pudding, who cares,” Tifa interrupted. “Call them jellies or mousse or whatever dessert you want, but I think these guys are here to eat US.” “Then let’s give them indigestion!” Yuffie quipped gleefully. Tifa and Aeris merely groaned at the attempt at a one liner. --- Part 3 For such wiggly, jiggly monsters, these “Flan” as the girls had taken to calling them were proving to be quite durable monsters. Tifa dashed forward as fast as she could and delivered a flurry of punches and kicks on one of them before quickly retreating, but all that seemed to do was making the red mass of jelly wobble a bit before growling at her. “We need to hit the harder!” Tifa called out to the others. She looked to both Aeris and Yuffie, and the three of them nodded, a plan having silently formed between them. Tifa dashed forward once again, this time attacking low with a sweeping kick to catch both monsters off balance, and followed it up with a rising uppercut to launch one of them into the air, where Aeris was waiting with her staff and brought it crashing down on the Flan’s head. In the meantime, Yuffie kept the other Flan distracted by hurling her oversized shuriken at the creature. The team attack funished, Tifa and Aeris retreated back to where Yuffie had been waiting. “Did ya get him?” Yuffie asked. A look back at the two monsters was all the answer they needed. The yellow one, the one Tifa and Aeris had tag teamed, lay slumped on the ground in a large mass of goo for a moment or two before springing back up, growling more angrily than ever. Its friend joined in as well, quite unhappy with the large throwing implement that had been stuck in its eye. The two monsters waved their arm like appendages at the party and began to glow brightly with energy. “RUN,” Aeris shouted, and the three ladies quickly scrambled out of the way just fast enough to avoid the large fireball that had been hurled their way. “This… is going… NOWHERE!” Tifa gasped and panted from behind the cover of a large rock. They’d been fighting these Flan things for what seemed like forever, and yet they still showed no sign of progress. The little boogers were nothing if not resilient. “Who’d have… thought…” Yuffie wheezed between breaths, “that these… these blobs could take a hit!” Aeris said nothing, but simply nodded in agreement. It certainly wasn’t helping that the three of them had inexplicably grown even larger over the duration of the fight. It wasn’t noticeable at first, but now she and the others could definitely feel it. The added weight and bulk to their bodies made them almost as soft, wobbly and jiggly as the monsters they’d been struggling to defeat. Only their labored panting and the gurgling and growling of the Flans could be heard as the three girls fell silent for a moment. Finally, Aeris spoke up. “If our regular attacks can’t hurt these guys, maybe we should try magic on them?” “It’s worth a shot,” Tifa nodded in agreement. “Yuffie, give us our Materia.” Yuffie’s features tensed notably for a moment. “Wuh- who me? What makes you think I have it?” “This,” Aeris answered, and smacked the side pockets of Yuffie’s shorts. “Hey quit it!” Yuffie protested and attempted to fend Aeris off, who had proceeded to grab onto the canvas material and started shaking out Yuffie’s pockets as best she could, nearly removing the shorts in the ensuing struggle. Sure enough, several round, colored orbs popped out of her pockets and clattered to the ground. Tifa merely rolled her eyes. She wasn’t sure how Yuffie managed to hide so much Materia in her pockets without them knowing, especially considering how tight they’d become as of recent. Instead, she merely knelt down and started picking up Materia to slot into her gloves. “Hmm… yeah, I think these will do nicely!” She thought to herself. It was time for a counter attack! --- Part 4 With their Materia returned and properly slotted into their weapons, it didn’t take long for the girls to turn the tide of battle. Aeris focused intently on the round bauble linked into her staff, causing it to glow a bright blue, before waving it like a magic scepter at the nearest Flan. A beam of bright, colored light leapt out from the end of the staff and struck the Flan square between the eyes. Before it could even react, the red, gelatinous monster froze solid within a large mass of ice. “My turn!” Tifa exclaimed and dashed forward towards the frozen monster. While slinging Ice 3 spells was nothing to sneeze at, Tifa had her own preferred way of using Materia. Her hands glowed bright orange as magical flames emanated from her fists, a result of utilizing a blue Support Materia to add the magical effects of her Fire Materia to her gloves. Throwing as much force and weight (which was quite impressive at this point!) as she could into her attack, she delivered a mighty haymaker that shattered the frozen Flan to bits, destroying it instantly. “Hah, how did you like THAT?” She taunted at the shattered remains of the creature. “That punch wasn’t quite so easy to shake off, was it now?!” “Tifa, look out!” Aeris cried. Tifa reacted just in time to see the Yellow Flan creeping up behind her. It extended its body up as high as possible, growling and burbling angrily, obviously upset at seeing its fellow Flan get smashed to pieces. Before it could even attempt an attack it was struck by a powerful bolt of lightning. Tifa stumbled backwards and fell flat on her backside in surprise as the Flan convulsed and shrieked before slumping to the ground and dissolving into nothingness. “Tsk tsks, getting sloppy, are we Boobs?” Yuffie teased with a wink. “Good thing I had your back!” Tifa fumbled and squirmed to get back on her feet, which was no small task considering how round and plump she was now. By the time she managed to upright herself, her skirt had ridden and bunched up around her hips leaving her panties completely visible to any and all casual onlookers. “I could have handled it,” She fumed, tugging her skirt back down. “And I thought I told you not to call me that!” “Calm down you two” Aeris intervened before the two of them could start fighting. “Let’s not forget, we just won the fight! And you know what that means!” “Woo! My favorite part!” Yuffie exclaimed. “Yeah, okay, I’ll ignore that “Boobs” comment THIS time,” Tifa agreed to set aside the dispute, not wanting to spoil the moment. With all three girls in place, they proceeded with the most sacred of post battle rituals- The Victory Pose! Yuffie, retaining all the energy and enthusiasm she was known for, tossed her giant shuriken into the air. She then proceeded to leap several feet after it despite her expanded bulk and weight, and upon landing, did a little twirl before tossing said shuriken into the air a second time. Aeris simply gave a sigh of relief and brushed the dust off her dress, while Tifa straightened out her clothes to the best of her ability and then, fingers locked behind her, stretched and arched her back. That’s how it would have gone normally, and at first it seemed this would be a victory pose like any other. That is, until Aeris felt her dress suddenly grow taught against her belly, far tighter than it had been already. She gasped, feeling the pressure push all the air out of her lungs momentarily, and then as instantly as the pressure had built, it was released when several of the remaining buttons on her dress were sent flying off simultaneously. “Wh… WHAT!?” She yelped. It hadn’t just been her underestimating her dress had become when bending forward. Her belly was definitely growing larger again, and even faster than before! And not just her belly, but the rest of her along with it. The final button of her dress strained as her breasts bulged and ballooned out, and her panties grew snug and tight as her hips and butt widened and rounded. “AHHH!” Yuffie cried, her own body rapidly ballooning up in mid air, causing her to come crashing back down with a heavy thud. “What’s happening!?” Tifa cried out as she felt he own body slowly grow more and more exposed, her clothing appearing to shrink as she grew wider and rounder with each passing moment. --- Part 5 "I think... I think it stopped," Aeris panted. She held her belly in an attempt to quell the jiggling. Silence, save for their panting and gasping for breath, fell across the three girls for a few moments. "What's happening!?" Tifa exclaimed after a pause. "We just keep getting bigger and bigger and we still don't know why!" "I can't be a ninja when I'm all big and fat like this!" Yuffie added. "Everyone calm down!" Aeris urged her friends. "We won't figure out anything if we lose our cool!" "How is keeping calm going to help!?" Tifa snapped. "Look at us! I'm tired, half naked, I weigh a ton, I can barely see past my own breasts, AND I have a wedgie like you wouldn't believe! There's no way in hell I'm going to stay calm now!" "When I find who did this to us I'm going throw my shuriken so far up his or her butt they'll taste metal!" Yuffie exclaimed. "I'll kick their ass so hard they'll be seeing stars for real!" "Wait, please! I know you're angry but-" Aeris pleaded with her friends to calm down, but it was futile. Tifa and Yuffie were on a rampage and were already charging off in a random direction as quickly as their meaty legs could carry them. In reality it was more of an awkward waddle, but considering Aeris could move no faster herself it took all the energy she had to try and keep up. "Huff... please... puff... stop for... just a... second!" Aeris panted as she waddled after them. Abruptly, Tifa and Yuffie stopped and Aeris collided into their backs. It was a wonder that none of them managed to topple over. "Hey Boobs, move those blubber buns!" Yuffie shouted. "Why'd you stop!?" Slowly, Tifa turned to face the other two. "I think..." Before she could continue speaking, her belly gurgled and groaned, and slowly began to expand outwards again. "...It's happening again..." Tifa concluded. "Oh god no!" Yuffie exclaimed. She tried her best to run in the opposite direction, hoping that putting some distance between herself and Tifa would spare her the oncoming growth, but she barely managed a step before she two felt a rumbling sensation deep within her, followed up by a swell of pressure that caused her to begin swelling up again. "Not again!" Aeris wailed as she too began to bloat and expand bigger and rounder than before. Within seconds, their bellies, sides, hips, just about every part of their torsos began expanding, giving their bodies a rounder, ball like appearance. Aeris' dress popped another button, leaving only a single solitary one left to hold it together and exposing copious amounts of her breasts. Not to be outdone, Yuffie's shirt was stretched so tight that it slowly began to rise up her chest, exposing the bottom thirds of her own breasts. Meanwhile her shorts creaked and groaned as they were stretched to their limits, while Tifa's skirt rode up the curves of her butt and hips, bunching up underneath the bulges of her love handles and belly until it was essentially reduced to a belt. "Oh god... so... big... buh..." Tifa moaned as she stumbled and waddled around. "It's not stopping!" Aeris exclaimed as she felt the expansion continue. This wasn't like the other times, where their growth had been either incredibly slow and gradual over prolonged periods, or come in quick, short bursts. This time they were swelling rapidly and extensively. "Someone help!" Yuffie shouted. "Before we turn into blimps!" --- Part 6 "Help!" Yuffie cried, her fat arms and legs flailing uselessly as she rocked to and fro on her back. "I've fallen and I can't get up!" "Yuffie, this isn't the time to be joking around, we have a serious problem here!" Tifa scolded the young ninja. "I AM being serious!" Yuffie shot back. That much was clear just by looking at her. The poor girl was so hugely bloated and heavy that she was pinned on her pack under the immense weight of her belly. Struggle as she might, there was virtually no way to upright herself. "Will you two stop arguing already?" Aeris snapped. Her voice seemed distant to Yuffie, as it came from the other side of her titanic belly curvature where she couldn't see anything. Had she been able, Yuffie would have realized just how well off she was comparatively. Aeris was even more colossal than she was, with a belly so enormous it ballooned out well past her feet, filling the entire space between her gigantic thighs and legs. "I'm so tired of hearing the two of you bicker! It isn't going to help us get back to normal any time soon!" "Oh shut it Aeris," Tifa replied. "I am sick of hearing you play mediator! Not ONCE have you said a single damn thing that's been helpful since this all started!" "Me? What about you!?" Aeris shot back. "I didn't see you coming up with any solutions to our problem! Not that I expected you to, all your good for is punching things and flaunting your funbags!" "Oh kiss my ass, butterball! The best you can do is bop things with your stick! What are you even good for!?" "Oh, I'm a butterball? Please! You're way more of a ball than I'll ever be, titan tatties!" That much was true, for as bad as Yuffie and Aeris had it, Tifa had it the worst of all of them. She had become so immense that her various ballooning curves were starting to merge, giving her a far more rounded, ball like appearance. Even her arms and her legs seemed to be slowly puffing out to the point where they'd be absorbed in the mass that was the rest of her body. "That's it!" Tifa fumed. "Get over here you lardo I'm going to kick your ass so hard you'll go flying right into the Life Stream!" With that she began to uselessly flail her amrs and legs in an attempt to shift her weight enough to face Aeris. "I'd like to see you try!" Aeris challenged, doing her best to do the same, as futile as it was. "Someone pleeease help me up!" Yuffie shouted again. "My boobs are trying to smother me!" The shouting and yelling continued well into the evening. At no point did the three girls even suspect that they were silently being watched. --- Part 7 "Really? Are you sure you have them?" The news she was hearing was so astonishing, Scarlet had to ask twice to make sure it was true. A wide, almost sinister smile spread across her lips as she heard it again. ShinrRa agents she'd sent out to tail Avalanche had just reported in they discovered the three female members bloated to impossible, immobile sizes. "Good, good! Capture them immediately and bring them to Junon at once! --I don't care, roll them to Junon if you have to, just figure something something out or else I'll make you the next test subject!" With that, the Shin-Ra executive hung up, leaving the agents to figure out just how to transport their captives on their own. Scarlet couldn't help but cackle with delight. Her plan had worked far better than she'd hoped. President Rufus had scoffed at her plan to create special Materia with a bloating effect on those it was used against, and yet here she'd succeeded in capturing three members of Avalanche with it. "Oh I can't wait to see that stupid brat president's face when I show him my success!" Scarlet said to no one in particular. "Maybe now he'll think twice before calling my ideas stupid." "He called it stupid because it is stupid!" Elena, newest recruit for the Turks, blurted out. "No one in their right mind would try to catch people by making them swell up until they can't move!" "Oh, poor, stupid, deluded Elena," Scarlet sighed as she scaled the scaffolding, "you say that, but look, I managed to catch you with it, and those Avalanche girls!" Finally at the top, Scarlet sauntered up to Elena, and leaned against one of the Turk's breasts. Elena had been the unwitting test subject for Scarlet's new Materia, when she recaptured a Jemnezmy that had managed to "escape" from the lab. In truth, the lady-like fiend had been purposefully released so that it could utilize the new Materia power on someone, and Elena just happened to be the first to respond. Next thing she knew, she spent the next day growing bigger, rounder, more bloated and enormous until she reached her current state of a gigantic ball nearly fifteen feet in diameter. "Yeah," Elena grunted, "well, it won't matter, it's still stupid. Look, pretty soon you're going to be just as huge as we are!" Scarlet grimaced. She didn't like being reminded of how her own body was slowly ballooning up as well. It was a side effect of working on the Materia, and while she wasn't expanding nearly as quickly as Elena or the Avalanche girls had, it was becoming apparent she wasn't done growing yet. "Hmph, keep that up and I might not change you back once I figure out how to reverse the effects!" Scarlet shot back. She hoped she could figure out how to reverse the effects. THE END