Jenna 2 By Avida Dolor (avidadolor@aol.com) Chapter 1, Jenna Takedown: NADS Buster Warning: This work of fiction contains frank language and explicit sex and violence. No one under 18 permitted to read without the express consent of parent or guardian. Copyright 1999 Avida Dolor Chapter 1 The crowd is getting big, filling up the whole gym floor, and I'm nervous. I've never seen so many girl gangbangers in one place before, not even at Tonya, and these chicks are passing pints of Jack Daniels around and openly smoking joints. Shit, these NRA Rimfire Girls sure aren't like your typical fucking Brownie troop. I mean, they have a merit badge in pistol-whipping! And they don't sell cookies door-to- door, they sell hand-loaded shotgun shells. They're not packing tonight, though. Thank the Goddess for the metal detectors. Still, there are so many of them, and some of them are so big, they could trample Stef and me like a herd of elephants. The Rimfire equivalent of den mothers-- brawny, thick-wristed chicks with permanent target squints, who are from the Lock 'n' Load Ladies, the NRA's paramilitary women's division--c ordon off the stage with their bodies and bellow to their girls to "keep it holstered." Then she comes out in this sequined and spangled red, white and blue bikini and hits a double bi, giving the crowd a big toothy grin, the gorgeous gray eyes flashing with defiance, her bleach-streaked mall 'do pulled back tight in a power pony, the veins pulsing in her temples. The mob not only has it out of the holster now, they're waving it around and firing it in the air like this was Chuck Heston's birthday. Some girls are throwing their bras and panties with their phone numbers written on them, while others are Frisbeeing nude Polaroids with their vital stats and email addresses scrawled on the edges. What is it about Tonya that drives women wild? Well, lately it's her fucking incredible *size*. We finally learned why Tonya never visited her namesake institution while we were there. And we now know why she wore a baggy long-sleeve white shirt on the Fox "reconciliation" show with the odious Nancy. She was in seclusion, doing Largesse and training with Chili Rodriguez, the former Miss Baja Blowup Doll and one of the leading butt-featists in Cali, by the way--a woman who can crack enough nuts with her ass to make squirrels stand up on their little hind legs and ejaculate. Anyway, Tonya wisely took a cue from her East Coast counterpart, Amy Fisher, and realized she needed to get huge to have a decent-size career. She got tired of helping old ladies across the street up in rain country while she blathered on and on about how she didn't have a clue about the Kerrigan capping--like anyone would buy that for a *nanosecond*--and when the Reckless Wrestling Federation beckoned, she heeded the call. And her body heeded the call of Largesse. She even put on three inches heightwise, which is totally amazing considering she was 27 when she started. As a rule, Largesse won't lengthen you when you're out of your natural growth window. No 'troph will. But she put on a full three vertically, and way more than that everywhere else on her bod. Unfortunately, she's only 5-4 now, having started out as a veritable endomorphic pixie. Stef and I are a foot taller than she is, which doesn't seem to bug her too much. I mean, she *chose* us as bodyguards. She wears big heels a lot, and we always wear sneakers, but still, she's always looking *up* at us, like she was a kid. But no kid has a body like this. She's carrying 200 pounds now on that 5-4, and she's carrying it real well. I mean, yeah, her thighs rub together worse than a fat girl's when she walks, and her calves actually hit each other if she strides with her feet too close; her lats are in permanent apelike flare and her arms and shoulders are so thick she can't scratch her back with her own hand anymore, but what the hell, she always had the big bones for this kind of body, and it suits her to a tee--a hot pink baby tee, like the one she's wearing in the $19.95 autographed poster that's in every teen musclegirl's room from Seattle to San Diego. Tonya's big in the West these days. She has yet to catch on in the East, but she hasn't toured there yet, and they don't air the RWF out there, it's still on, like, regional cable. Anyway, the crowd. It's pressing closer to the stage like it wants to give Tonya a big life-crushing hug, but Ton is cool, running daintily in her four-inch red, white and blue spangly spike heels from one end of the stage to the other, making sit-down motions with her arms, husking, "OK, everybody, let's get out on the ice and chiiiillll" into her mic-- she's wearing a headset like Madonna and Janet use. As always, someone in the audience yells, "Let's get out on the ice and break Nancy's fuckin' legs!" but that's just part of the show. Then Tonya says, "If everyone sits down and stays real quiet, I'll hit all my best shots. It'll make your knees weak." There's a general agreement with this concept, and the place goes pretty silent, save for the odd "Take your top off!" and "Show us your ass!" So Tonya starts working it out. She came up with a pretty good idea to enhance her posing--she moans ecstatically while she pumps herself up, her groans of pleasure amped by the super sound system so it's like we're inside her skin. She puts her hands behind her head, exhales hard and makes her abs explode, letting loose with this long "Uuugggghhhhh," the bulging rows of gut muscle glinting under the lights like freshly sharpened skate blades. Jesus, Ton's got some kinda midsection. She's won every drunken gut punch contest we've ever had. Stef and I have pounded her belly many times, and it's like hitting a brick wall. We always go to our knees before she does. Now she's got the crowd on *its* knees, just like she said she would. She shakes out one immense thigh, then freeze-flexes it, toes pointing at the audience like a taunt, the nails painted Transfusion Red. Oooohs and Aaaahs are rippling across the assemblage and girls are shifting in their seats trying to contain their pent-up sex energy. She does the same with the other thigh, then pivots on one foot and stands up high on the toes of her leg-show shoes so the calves inflate even bigger, the veins bulging across them, arcing up into the massed mesas of hamstring as she slowly pulls one leg up and back, then switches to the other, alternating now, teasing up the thigh bi's that tie into the giant ball peens of her glutes like machined meat parts. "Uuunnnnnnhhhh." She's working her fists into her hips now and pulling the elbows forward so her back starts to enlarge like someone's pouring concrete into a shell. "Gaaaaaahhhhh," she groans, the deep blue vasc starting to swell across her st riated traps, her huge melons of glute dimpled deep in the sides, all the muscle hunched into handgrips that are so big I can barely get my mitts around them. "Ooooohhhhh," Ton coos, breathing hard into the mic like she's making an obscene phone call to herself. One of the Lock 'n' Load Ladies at the front of the stage, a big-bellied brunette with "Unconcealed Weapon" tattooed on the back of each of her fists, whimpers like a bitch in heat and jams a hand into her Wranglers. She's masturbating like an adult wind-up toy, this faraway look in her bloodshot eyes. What an example for her Rimfire charges. Actually, many of them have started frigging *each other*, and one girl way in the back is actually doggie fucking her friend with a strapon. Jesus, this is the gymnasium of Mother of Mercy High School, you're not even allowed to *spit* on the hardwood. I hope that huncher is wearing the official Tonya "Olymprick" model, at least, with patented "triple lutz nutz action." Yeah, Tonya's got some heavy marketing going on now, thanks to the She Roids, but wait a minute, I better backtrack. Like Ricky would say to Lucy, I got some 'splainin' to do. Well, lemme 'splain. It's the summer, and Stef and I have been out of the Tonya Harding Correctional Facility for Girls for about eight months. We've been on Titanic all that time, training like animals at a private gym run by the Roids, and we've gotten pretty hefty. We're both 6-4, I'm 250 and she's 260. The 10 pounds she's got on me is all muscle, and Stef remains bigger and stronger than me, and her arms are so totally the bomb--they pump to 23-1/2 and may someday actually be bigger than her waist like chicks in comic books--she already got her second Sinfully Sinew layout, and this time she got the cover *and* the centerfold. But my growth has been the more dramatic. I was 5-11, 190 when we started on T; Stef was 6-2, 235. Titanic isn't turning us into giantesses like it did for Brooke and Bonnie, but that's just as wel l. I'm still trying to adjust to being 6-4. I mean, everyone stares at you on the street like you're a total freak. Of course, that's not just the height, it's the tits and the muscles. Like, 20-inch arms and a 55-inch DD chest are kinda noticeable. OK, a lot of the bra size is really back width, but still, Titanic has put a pair on me like I do not believe. When I was little I used to suck on the waschcloth in the tub; now I can't stop sucking on my own nips in the shower--I mean, they're just jiggling there, thick and chewy out in front of my face like mocha Malomars. Stef is racked out like a super bimbette too, a full cup size bigger than I am, though she was always pretty lusty-busty, even back in her pre-Ton hetero days. Anyway, I got out of jail a little ahead of Stef and moved into this little bungalow kind of house with Michelle From Hell, who's living in Santa Chucho, my hometown. By the way, Harry Dexter, the Cali juvie commish, made a deal with me that turned out to be totally bogus. I got fucked more ways than I can count with that early release in return for a night of motel sex. I since learned I would've been sprung no later than a couple weeks after Stef anyway, since the She Roids had big plans to pair us off as training partners so we could get huge together. They had us recruited from the get-go, even though we didn't know it. Anyway, I didn't want to go back to my 'rents. They were still being pretty nice to me, but they don't really get the muscle thing, even though they were always supportive during my high school wrestl ing career, probably 'cause I always won. If all those 200-pound slobs I used to pin had been lying on me like I was a Sealy Posturepedic, I bet my mom and dad wouldn've urged me to join the chess team. Anyway, I didn't want to freak them out. I knew I'd be getting humongous on Titanic and training constantly, real heavy, dropping big weights on the floor, sitting around all the time in a superpumped stupor sipping Designer Protein shakes and touching myself. But I couldn't even take two weeks with Michelle. She had guys over all the time, cuffed in her "dungeon"--really the second bedroom--wailing while she whipped them. It's not easy being a dominatrix. And it's not easy rooming with one. I had to leave the house whenever she had a client, I couldn't stand all the mewling. When Stef got out we agreed we'd take an apartment together, then the She Roids, via Evelyn Roper, the Tonya resident psychologist and Roids recruiter, made us an offer we couldn't refuse. A really cool apartment in Santa Shorta, rent-free, and a salary of $1,000 a week for each of us. It's paid off the books; somehow the money just shows up in the checking accounts they opened for us. And we don't really do anything to earn it. It's like we're on retainer. The Roids are just letting us grow, waiting for the moment when we're ripe. Then, a month ago, Tonya came out of seclusion, looking to do a West Coast inspirational tour of juvie jails, girl's groups and Reckless Wrestling shows, and she needed bodyguards. She wanted 'em big, cute and young. Tonya has good taste, and she tastes good. We're both 18, we're street legal, and we've got "big" and "cute" under control. We got the gig. So we travel a lot, we've been up and down Cali and all over rain country. Done shows at Tonya, of course, and all the other juvie joints: Joanne Chesimard (very tough crowd) Aileen Wuornos (pretty tough crowd) and Heidi Fleiss (bunch of pussycats). We're going to go to Susan McDougal in Arkansas and Karla Faye Tucker in Texas soon, then we'll go east and hit Amy Fisher, if we can work out a deal with Amy Fisher herself. She doesn't want to get into an Amy-Tonya rivalry unle ss the money's right. Tonya's got a Sinew centerfold coming out next month that's going to take a lot of the limelight away from Amy, who's a familiar face on the scene. Maybe too familiar. Overexposure is a problem in the fleshflex business. And so's getting shown up by a "smaller" girl. Tonya packs almost as much bulk as Amy's got into a package five inches shorter. And since Ton doesn't tan, she's got a whole different look; a milk-fed complexion with girl-next-door freckles that really brings the veins out like a cobalt bank vault. Not only that, but Amy just got sprung for real from the big house. She had a deal with the state for years where she was technically a free agent, but now she's free as a bird of prey. Unless she's got a contract with the Roids--or the NADS. Anything's possible with a loose cannon on a short fuse like Amy. Anyway, things are going just peachy till Stef comes in one Saturday from shopping while I'm sitting in sweat-soaked panties and sports bra in a stupor with the TV on after spontaneously slaughtering my arms with bells and an EZ Kurl bar. I wasn't skedded for a bi blast, but when the blood calls, I answer. That's the way it is on Titanic, especially when you get past a certain size. We don't really worry about overtraining-- on this drug you *can't* overtrain, it builds you back up faster than you can tear yourself down. And the strength! I'm handling poundages I wouldn't have dreamed of moving in my Tonya days. So Stef is standing there, blue eyes beaming with excitement, and she says, "Unbelievable fucking great news, Jen. I spotted Dennis in Tower Records today. Followed him to the mall, took him out, got his wallet. I know where he lives. A little house in Santa Retributa. Let's go get his girlfriend, pump her for info." She's grinning like a piranha. Not *too* Tara. I was afraid this would happen. Dennis is one of the five guys who raped Stef when she was in high school. "What do you mean, you took him out?" Stef pours herself a Stoli at the bar and motions for me to fire up a doob while she explains. "He went out a side entrance of the Retributa Mall. This entrance was way in the middle of nowhere, down a long corridor, no one else around, and it opened onto a near empty parking lot. This is not a popular mall, even on a weekend. He didn't have any idea I was following him till it was too late. I mean, he never turned around to see there was this 6-4 blonde behemoth behind him till he was going into the revolving door. It's this heavy brass door with really heavy glass. But it spins fast. Anyway, I had him trapped in the door--I stopped it turning before he could get out--then I spontaneously started to jerk the door back and forth so it was hitting him going both ways. The effect was tremendous." Stef sighs, her chest swelli ng up huge, and her eyes get all dreamy. "His face and the back of his head were getting slammed into the glass hard enough to put cracks in it--I mean in the glass *and* his skull," she says in tones of hushed pleasure. "So I just kept hauling on it, it was like some kind of *rowing* movement, like I was training. He fell down finally, but I kept going 'cause the door was still hitting his head. Then I stopped. There was blood all over the glass and someone was sure to come by eventually. I checked him out. He was unconscious and he looked really bad, like a truck ran over him a few times. But he wasn't dead. So I cleaned out his pockets and broke his neck." Stef smiles and waves his keys at me. "Tell me you didn't leave prints on the door," I go. "Do I look like an idiot?" she asks, offended. "I wore my Dan Lurid lifting gloves, the full-fingered ones. Good thing, too. Could really get a bad callous hauling on those doors." She looks over her hands--a pair of pulverizing meat mitts that can rip a phone book in half like it was a Maxi pad--and frowns like she's contemplating a trip to the nail salon. I pass her the jay and she hands me the Stoli she poured for me without asking if I wanted one. I want one. She's freaking me out here. When we first got out of Tonya, she talked a lot about getting the guys who raped her, but she couldn't find any of them--like, they weren't listed in the phone book, they knew when she was getting out--and she started to forget about it as she got into training on Titanic and sharing her bed with me full time. I better do some more 'splainin'. Stef got two years in Tonya in the first place for arson. She set fire to the frat house where her rapists lived, but they all got out safely thanks to the smoke alarms. She got raped in the first place 'cause she was unconscious. She was a naive high school girl dating Brad, a college jock, and she played some of those stupid drinking games in the frat house, passed out and they took turns fucking her, and they all had more than one turn and none of them used protection and she got pregnant and had an abortion. Whew! I had to get that out fast 'cause it makes me mad to think about it. But not as mad as it makes Stef. It makes her positively livid. But right now she seems giddy with glee. "How'd you break his neck?" I hate to rain on her parade, but I need to know. "I twisted it like it doesn't go." She looks at me funny, like it's a dumbshit question. "I turned his chin around so it was touching his *back*." "You sure his neck broke?" "I heard it snap. It made a big noise. And then his head went way limp, it was just hanging real weird. You're not the only one who knows how to break a neck, Ms. Takedown. You have issues with this?" "I'm just trying to make sure you killed him. He turns up alive, he'll finger you. I definitely have issues with *that*." Stef snorts. "He's not fingering anything except a flaming harp in hell." "So what are you gonna do now? What'd you say about his girlfriend?" "We're gonna get her and see if she knows where Brad is. Or any of the other ones. I assume Dennis was still tight with them. They have this bond with each other--the violation of my body." "He didn't have an address book on him?" "No." "How about a cell phone?" "Yeah. I checked the programmed numbers. No guy's names I'm looking for." "You didn't use the phone, right? The calls can be traced." Stef looks at me again like I'm mondo retardo. "Jen, I'm Def Stef, former Head Hard, now a Sinew covergirl and one of Tonya Harding's bodyguards? Excuse me, do I look like a moron? Is there a fucking drool cup around my neck? I took the battery off the phone and threw it all in a Dumpster." "He was going to his car, right? Did you check his car?" "Fucking A. Shithead drives a little Beemer. Nothing in it I could use. I *did* drive it out of the lot though, and put it on a side street where it might not be noticed for days. Took all the ID out of the glove compartment. Basically, if his car's left alone, the cops won't know who this guy is till he's reported missing and he's ID'd by someone. How's that for smarts, babe? So right now what I guess is his girlfriend, he had no wedding band--Brittany, her picture's in his wallet--is home waiting for him to come back." "How do you know she's home? Did you go over there?" "I drove by the house. There was a car in the driveway, a Neon, little girlie kind of car. I'm assuming it's hers." "So when do you want to go over there?" Stef sort of hugs herself and starts rubbing her arms real slow and sensual. She does this all the time lately, like being so big requires a constant reality check. "Now." We're driving to Retributa, a partly loaded Stef at the wheel of our fully loaded GMC Jimmy. We don't like a truck named after a guy, but we'll take it. It's free, it came with the apartment. I've got a bad case of nerves, and the fact that I'm not Zestfully clean isn't helping. Stef wouldn't let me shower. We had to take immediate action. I just put on clean clothes and she rushed me out of the house, so I've got this skanky locker room aroma on my skin that she insists is hornier than musk. So I'm sitting there in my musk cloud staring at the wallet photo of what we think is Dennis' girlfriend--written on the back is "Brittany, Lake Manioc, 1999." I have no idea where Lake Manioc is, but I can say for sure that Brittany is a first-class piece of ass. She's standing at the water's edge in the photo, in hiking boots, cutoffs and a tube top with an unbuttoned grunged-out flannel shirt over it with the sleeves ripped off at the shoulder. She's deep-tanned and voluptuous, with hefty thighs and arms, a robust rack and a surprisingly hard midsection. "Stef, this Brittany is a hottie." "Yeah. Maybe we'll keep her for a few days. I'm thinking we can take her to Michelle's." "Really? How are we supposed to keep a prisoner at a little house where a dominatrix has guys over every day?" "So Michelle will take a few days off. We'll pay her for her time, if she insists. We can afford it." I don't argue. I sure don't want anyone stashed in *our* place. "How big do you think she is?" I ask while waving the photo. "She looks pretty *large* here to me." Stef glances at the pic in my hand. "Hard to say, without any scale of reference. I'd peg her for a cruiserweight for sure. And cruising her would be worth the wait. Poor Dennis. He won't be dipping his fountain pen in the inkwell anymore. I broke his pencil neck." She chuckles. "You never killed anybody before," I say soberly "No, I didn't. And I really enjoyed it. Too bad they disbanded the Doom Patrol. I'd probably make a better assassin than a bodyguard." "Stef, you're no fucking savage killer. This is just a personal thing." I don't want to think about Stef as a cold-blooded killer. She's so sweet. "I don't believe the gut on this girl," I go, just to change the subject as I study the pic some more and stifle the urge to put a hand in my pants. I like to frig myself a lot lately. I mean, more than usual. I think it's a Titanic side effect. Or front effect. "She looks so zaftig, yet she's sixed-out in the belly." "I bet she's got some heavy muscle bulk in those thighs and arms too," says Stef. "Big broad with a big broad back. Can take a fucking and keep on trucking. I know Dennis' taste. He likes strong girls. That's why he was so fucking amped to party with me back then. I was a high school total jockette, top field athlete, on all the teams. They didn't have girl's football, but if they did I would've ruled. Coulda played both ways, tight end and middle linebacker. I was like 5-10, 175 back then, strong as a half dozen cheerleaders. Used to do a tug of war with the whole squad and win. Could clean and press a full keg of beer no sweat. That impressed the shit out of Dennis. I did my keg show the night all those fuckers raped me. Should never've got off the beer. Those scumbags talked me into switching to scotch. That did me in. You know they left me in a park? Put me on the grass under a tree in some fucking little park near campus. Did I ever tell you that part?" Shit, this is so Tara. "Yeah, you did, Stef." "I woke up, it was just daylight, and I started puking as soon as I sat up. When I finished hurling my guts up, I found out what a fucking mess my cunt was. It was so caked with come it made me dry heave so hard I thought I'd spit up a lung. They put my jeans back on me but they didn't close them. My crotch was so swollen they probably couldn't have if they wanted to. They actually had the temerity to claim I left their room under my own power and I must've been jumped in the park and raped by a gang." "Stef, you don't have to relive this." "Dennis won't be." "What about this girl? We don't have to kill her, do we? She's not part of your revenge." "I'm hoping we can scare her into silence and not even have to hurt her. Well, we scare her into silence after she tells us what we want to know. She's gotta give up Brad. I want him so bad it's making my knuckles ache." I have a bad feeling about this. Things were going so well for us. I finally got over all the death that went down in Tonya. All the video snuffs that are now in the possession of Harry Dexter; the suicide of Missy; the fatal ring beating of Flung; Brooke's poor little slave who got her head caved in with a paper towel dispenser and sent my sweet Sara to Texas, where she won't come back from even though she's free. All this was behind me, part of another life, though I still want Sara back in *this* life. But now Stef's killed somebody and she's looking to kill again. She thinks she can get away with all this 'cause the Roids will clean up after her, and no doubt they will. She's one of their prized possessions. Still, murder is bad karma. Why can't she just, say, shatter their knees? A good Tonya-style double capping. And maybe a couple wicked nut punches, just so they know to keep their dicks clean. "Don't worry about anything, Jen," Stef says out of nowhere like she was reading my mind, as she rubs my bloated left bi with her big hand. "Jesus, you're *pumped*, girl. And we're on a sanctified mission. These are justified killings, it's a holy vendetta. And the full power of the Roids is behind us. They can kill Wendy O. and the whole world thinks it's a suicide." "And now they got Dana Plato, that poor little thing. Fuck, they can be so evil. I don't believe we work for them." "I don't believe we work for Tonya. It's a dream come true. It's a true come dream." Tonya! The sudden realization causes my arm to tighten, which swells the bicep into Stef's palm, and her fingers wrap around the fat, hard muscle bellies and start kneading the gorged flesh like massage magic. "Shit, we've got a show tonight," I groan. "Tonya's at the Hideeho. You haven't forgotten, have you?" "Fuck, no. We don't have to be there till 9, girlfriend. Chill. It's friggin' 4:30. What you need is a good rubdown." She drops her free hand into my lap, the fingers pressing forcefully into my crotch, and I exhale long and slow, pressing my back into the seat, feeling the heat rise from my hips like sex steam. But it's strictly a tease--we're here. We pull into the driveway, blocking the Neon, and walk quickly around back, unlocking the kitchen door with the key. Brittany is sitting at the kitchen table with another girl and they've got what must be a pound of pot in front of them. They're weighing out eighths on a scale. "Roll us a nice fat joint, Brittany," says Stef. "What the fuck is this, Brit?" says the other girl sourly. She's short, cute and busty, with what appears to be the same kind of meaty-strong bod as her friend. Brittany's looking up at us, her mouth hanging open in wonder, her pretty brown eyes getting wide with terror as we're towering there in her kitchen, wearing ominous Killer Loop wraparound shades, tight jeans and Doc Marten stompers, muscles bulging insanely out of our Tonya Forever braless baby tees, stiff nipples thrusting dangerously. "You came for the smoke, right?" she says quietly. "Who's this girl?" Stef says, nodding at the short one, who has red and blue punk streaks in her black hair. "I'm Caitlin," says the short one. "Who are you? Brit, why do these totally awesome fucking girls have keys to the house? Tell me they're moving in with us." Brittany stands up, making a terrible squeaking noise with her chair as she pushes it back over the linoleum. She's standing very close to us, since it's not a roomy kitchen and we're all so big. Including her. She's barefoot, in cutoffs, just like in the picture, and a Raiders football jersey. I peg her at 6 feet, gotta be at least 200. The legs are very sturdy, brutally heavy thighs and big springy calves that I can't wait to see from the rear. "Who are you two and what do you want? Did Dennis give you the keys? Is this one of his party ideas?" Stef chuckles. "This is definitely one of Dennis' party ideas, but unfortunately he won't be able to party with us today. Caitlin, why don't you roll a joint and get some beers for us all. I'm sure there's beer in the fridge, right?" Caitlin looks at Brittany, who nods OK. She gets up and goes to the fridge. She's maybe 5-4 in sandals, about Tonya's height, and built on the same endomorphic scale, with huge calves exploding under her beige Capri pants, they must be close to 20 inches, plummeting precipitously to straight-razor ankles that are tattooed with a red and black intertwined barbed wire and chain motif. It's the shit. Can't see her upper bod, she's in a UCLA sweatshirt, but she's got a definite lifter's vibe. "Paging Kim Zmeskal. Girl, I don't believe the locomotive legs on you," I go. Caitlin looks over her shoulder with the fridge door open, smiling demurely, and stands up on her toes so the calves pop big as melons, as the crunchy cartilage noises in her ankles and knees barely mask the sound of my breath whistling out in love shock. I recently developed a calf fetish from watching the Soleus Sisters perform at the Hideeho. "They're mostly genetics," she says in mock modesty. "I had a pair of diamond-studded bombs when I was, like, 8." "But you train, right?" I ask. "You both do, I can tell." "Yeah, we train," says Caitlin, as she hands us cans of Coors Light. Dennis has shitty taste in beer. Had. The refrigerator door closes behind her and I notice they've got the Sinfully Sinew calendar stuck on it with a bunch of official Amy Fisher Strong Island Lolita fridge magnets, and this month's girl is none other than my former arch enemy Brooke, wearing this white plunging-neckline ball gown or something with palms pressed together in front of her, her pecs flexed so big if she squeezes up any more muscle cleavage she'll knock her own pearly perfect teeth out. "We're just not in your league," Caitlin adds with reverence. "You're, like, *unreal.* Are you on that new drug I've been reading about? Titanic?" "We'll ask the questions," I go. "Ever do 'trophs?" "I was on PHEW for a while," Caitlin says, "but I quit when I couldn't take the smell anymore. I stank like a steel mill--" "--Uh, girlfriend, we're not paying a social call," Stef interrupts, nudging me with her elbow. "Big-calves, why don't you go home now? We've got some business to attend to with Brittany." "I *am* home. I live here." "Oh," says Stef, temporarily nonplussed as she nervously drains half her beer, being careful not to crush the little can in her hand. Then Caitlin looks hard at Stef and says, "I *know* you. You're in the new Sinew! I flipped through it on the newsstand, our issue's late in the mail again." "Shit, they read Sinew," I mutter. "This isn't working out right," Stef sighs, sucking down the rest of the beer. "Why are you here, and why do you have the keys to the house?" Brittany demands. "Did Dennis send you over to, like, inspire us to work out more or something? Like, your arms are as big as my thighs, for Chrissake." "If her arms were that big she woulda walked over here on her hands," I say. "I'm here because I have bad news," goes Stef with sudden conviction. She pulls out her wallet and flips it open to show her very official- looking photo ID. "We're with the She Roids, the federal fem-growth-drug enforcers? Dennis was grabbed this afternoon by the National Association of Dyke Sisterhood. He was in a drug deal that went bad. They took him for insurance." That's my Stef. Fast on her feet. "What?" Brittany seems annoyed. She's not reacting to the news that Dennis is in the clutches of the nasty NADS. Maybe she's in shock. "Dennis has been abducted by the NADS," Stef repeats. "You know the NADS? Radical lesbian terrorist organization?" "Sure I know the NADS," says Brittany crossly. "They aren't *terrorists* And I know the She Roids too. We subscribe to Sinew. And Mega Ms. And the Vaginal Voice." "And Slam Gams," says Caitlin proudly. She pulls a magazine out from under a pile of newspapers. There's a mind-bending rear leg shot on the cover of Kim Zmeskal herself in her crotch-kissing, rump-rubbing one- piece, standing up on her bare toes with calves bigger than footballs popping off her perfect power pedals. "I never heard of Slam Gams," I go, wondering how much Zmeskaline I'd need to put on my face if I got my mug caught between Kim's lower limbs. "It's new," says Caitlin. "This is the premiere issue. It's billed as `The magazine of leg brutality.' They have a Kim miniskirt layout inside that had me pissing myself for pleasure. Check it out." Shit, she's into water sports? This Caitlin of the Colossal Calves is getting better by the second. "Never mind that right now," says Stef sternly, grabbing the magazine from Caitlin and slapping it onto the table. "We're investigating the abduction of Dennis and we need to warn his friends. You have an address for Brad?" "Dennis was taken by the NADS?" Brittany echoes. "That's hard to believe. How? Where?" "At the mall in town," says Stef. "He dropped his keys in the struggle and I have them. I need to get ahold of Brad." "Since when is Dennis dealing 'trophs?" Caitlin asks Brittany. "I don't know," says Brit. "But I wouldn't put anything past that fucker. He'd sell his mother's heart out of her chest if the money was right." "We need to get to Brad," I go, heartened by the fact that Brittany doesn't really seem to be so tight with Dennis and is more likely to be Caitlin's girlfriend. "Brad?" Brit casually inquires. "He's upstairs. Sleeping off a drunk." "He's here!?" Stef almost shrieks. Her neck and face flush beet red with excitement and her chest starts heaving like she's starring in a romance novel called Pecs of Passion. "Yeah. Upstairs. Unconscious, last time I looked. Guy's a fuckin' blackout drinker. You wanna talk to him?" "We need to get him out of here immediately!" Stef announces. She's still holding the empty Coors can, which she has unconsciously pulverized into a ball. "Take us to his room!" Brittany shrugs. "Sure, whatever." So we all go upstairs. I make sure I go up behind Caitlin so I can check out her leg action, which is so fine it's making my breath come in gasps. Then I start to worry about Stef. She could go out of control at any moment. What if she kills Brad as soon as she lays eyes on him? Then she'll have to kill the girls. And I'll have to try to stop her. The legs on these girls are screaming, "Let me live!" Or maybe she'll just swear the girls to silence on pain of death, which would be nice. Then we're in the bedroom where Brad is. He's snoring in nothing but his dingy Tommy Hilfiger briefs. He's got that jock-out-college-bigtime- beer-drinker bod. A pretty strapping guy by normal guy standards, but he's no match for either of us. I bet Caitlin could take him too, if she got in low on him. Brittany would give him a handful herself, but I'd have to see more of her before I'd bet on her in the ring. "I'm just gonna whisk him out of here," explains Stef evenly, "and take him into protective custody. He'll never understand what's going on if I try to get his permission right now. He's too fucked up." She goes right into action. She takes professional plastic restraining gear out of her bag and hogties Brad expertly. When he starts to groggily protest, she gags him with duct tape. Stef came prepared. Brittany and Caitlin watch with unconcerned interest, while they mutter among themselves about the incredible size of Stef's arms and wonder if they should ask her to autograph their Sinew calendar now that I told them that Stef is Miss November. They seem relieved that we're taking Brad off their hands. Stef wraps Brad in a blanket and duct tapes it tight, then she lifts the human bundle and throws it easily onto her should er. "Thanks, girls," she says. "We've gotta run. We'll be in touch with you as soon as we hear something." "But what about us?" Brittany whines. "What if the NADS come here looking for Brad? What do we do?" Shit, she really *bought* that story? Or is she jerking us around? I can't tell. Stef turns and pauses with Brad on her shoulder, accidentally banging his head against the wall. Or maybe it was deliberate. "Meet us at Hank's Hideeho House in Santa Gasma tonight at 10," she commands. "We'll fill you in on everything. And I'll autograph a lot more than a calendar for you, babes." And we rush the hell out of there. I grab four bags of dope and the copy of Slam Gams on our way through the kitchen. Stef rudely stuffs Brad into the back of the Jimmy. He's twitching under the blanket, but he can't really move, he's hogtied like a motherfucker. I'm already behind the wheel, and as Stef jumps in the front I pull away, not having the faintest idea where I'm going. "Where the fuck am I going, Stef?" "Michelle's. I'll kill Brad there, then we'll zip home, change, shower, eat and we'll have plenty of time to get to Tonya's and make the show." "Michelle will be working on a Saturday." "Not at this time, only at night. She trains on weekend afternoons, doesn't she?" "Yeah, usually. I think. We haven't seen her in a while. Call her on the cell." "Nah. Let's surprise her. She'll really get a kick out of this." I don't know if *I* will. I recently had the misfortune to sit through a tape of Nora and Glo--two of our great Nancy nemeses when we were in Tonya--beat an overweight old guy who was hung up by the arms to a bloody deceased pulp. Tonya got ahold of it and made me and Stef watch it with her like it was the fucking matinee movie. It was disgusting. Just as bad as the snuffies that we got in the mail when we were in stir, even though this one just had a strange guy in it. And just like the snuffies at Tonya, Brooke is rumored to have something to do with it. She's still tight with Nora and Glo, though she's supposed to be a pacifist now. The worst part, though, is how fucking psycho vicious Nora and Glo really are. They're in the Daughters of Slaughter now, the NADS combat division. They're as big as we are, more or less , and I have the feeling we're gonna square off one day. They still want revenge from their losses on the last big fight night at Tonya. That's the night Flung died. I want revenge too--on Ice, who's now at Amy Fisher. She got shipped east 'cause Amy took a fancy to her. I'd like to take a baseball bat to her. Not just for Flung, but for what she did to Sara when they were in Karla Faye together. Shit. No more time to stew in my own vengeful juices. We're at Michelle's. She *does* train weekend afternoons. She answers the door all pumped and glistening in her workout clothes--thong bikini bottoms--and doesn't seem the least bit fazed by the human bundle Stef hauls in. "Hey, stranger," she says to me, blue eyes twinkling. Michelle likes me a lot. I guess I should be flattered, 'cause she's a real sociopath. "Hey, Michelle," I go, kissing her tenderly on the mouth. She smells all musky and workout ripe. I guess I do, too. "Sorry to barge in like this, but we've got sort of an emergency." "You're gonna love this, babe," says Stef, grinning, as she rips the blanket away to reveal pitiful Brad pulled taut as a bowstring, hands and feet painfully locked behind him as he jerks his head around uselessly and makes frantic humming noises under the duct tape. "Get your camcorder. I'm gonna hang this bitch up in your dungeon and beat him to death with my bare hands." --30--