Mighty Girl: Part 2 By M.C. A college boy describes what it's like to live with a girlfriend who has superhuman strength. Hello, this is Mike again. Last year I described what is was like for me to discover that my girlfriend Alice has superhuman strength in the story "Mighty Girl" (which can be found in the M.C. bookshelf). Well I'd like to update you as to what has been happening with us since then. We both graduated from high school, Alice with honors for her perfect 4.0 grade point average, and me with a somewhat more modest 3.2 GPA. My girlfriend didn't hold that against me though. "The only thing that I really care about Mike is that you tried to do your best," she told me when I apologized. "That's all that really matters to me." We're both freshmen at the University of California at San Diego now (or UCSD for short). As the campus is located in the beautiful beach town of La Jolla, Alice and I moved into a modest student apartment near-by. "I know I have all of this amazing strength and am virtually invulnerable to any weapons Mike, but that doesn't mean that I can't have a normal life like any other 19 year-old girl; does it? I'll be Mighty Girl when I absolutely have to be, but otherwise I'll simply be Alice, your girlfriend." And so we try to live normal lives - but sometimes things happen that are unplanned, like last month for example. Alice and I were walking hand-in-hand through a park which was located near the famous San Diego zoo when we saw a police officer approaching us. "What's up officer? "I asked him. "I've been told to warn any visitors to the park to be on their highest alert. A huge python - believed to be the largest snake in the world - has escaped from the zoo and is believed to be somewhere in this area. He supposedly has the strength in his coils to crush even the strongest land animals. So be very careful. And if you happen to see anything at all suspicious, please call the zoo at this number immediately. But do not, under any circumstances, attempt to deal with this snake yourselves. Leave that to the professionals." (Alice giggled when she heard this). After I entered the number into my cellphone we thanked the policeman for his concern, bid him farewell and continued on our way. About a half-hour later Alice and I sat down on a bench in a secluded area of the park and began to cuddle (we tend to do that a lot now). Then, all of a sudden, we heard a loud rustling sound coming from the bushes behind us. "Gee Alice, I wonder what that could be." "Hmmm, it might be that nasty snake that the police officer was warning us about. Let's go and check it out Mike." We didn't even have to check it out, for just as we got up from the rock, an enormous snake emerged from the brush. The sight of this monster - which looked to be at least 25 feet long and probably weighed over 700 pounds - slithering towards us instinctively put me into panic mode. When Alice noticed this she gently took my hand and calmly said, "Don't worry sweetie pie, you have absolutely nothing to fear. Your little girlfriend will protect you. Just stay behind me and you'll be perfectly safe. I'm going to have some fun with him. And in the meantime, you can call the number that the nice policeman gave you and tell the zoo- keepers where they'll be able to find their wayward snake." I took out my cell phone and nervously began to dial the number of the zoo. As I did so the gigantic python continued to slither towards us. But Alice, who was standing a few feet in front of me now, didn't seem to be too concerned by this. "O.K. Mr. Snake," she calmly said, "show me what you've got." I watched as the huge python wrapped his coils around the girl I love - and I was helpless to do anything about it. Soon he had her completely wrapped up in his coils in a massive grip of death; and all I could see of Alice now was her beautiful face and hair poking out from the top. But the most amazing thing about this was that Alice was smiling! And as the deadly python tried to squeeze harder, Alice actually began to giggle! "My, my Mr. Snake, what a nice little huggee you're giving me. It tickles; tee, hee, hee." Then she looked over at me and said, "Take some pictures honey, so we can add them to our collection." (Alice and I have a private collection of photos that I take of her doing incredible feats of strength). Alice easily withstood all of the immense pressure that the powerful snake's constriction could apply. And after a couple of minutes she calmly said, "O.K. Mr. Snake, I can feel that you're beginning to tire out now. So let's put an end to our little test of strength of ours; shall we?" So as not to break the huge snake apart, Alice slowly began to extend her arms upwards (they had been at her side since the snake first wrapped himself around her). In fact so strong was my beautiful girlfriend, that she easily forced the monstrous constrictor to uncoil. Then, realizing that he had met his match, the huge beast tried to slither away; but he didn't get far. "Hold on there big boy," Alice teased as she grabbed him by the end of his tail. "Just where do you think you're going? The only place you're going is back to the zoo. You've had your fun, now it's time for me to have mine." Holding him firmly by the tail with just her right hand, my super strong girlfriend then began to twirl the massive 700 pound snake around above her head - with only one hand! "OOOH, this is so much fun," Alice laughed. "Are you enjoying this as much as I am, Mr. Snake?" Around and around my super strong girlfriend whirled the helpless python above her head. Finally - mercifully for the snake - she tossed him against a near-by tree. As she was still holding him by the end of his tail, he hit the trunk of the tree in the middle of his long body and came back at her. Alice then caught him by the neck and, as she was now holding his head in one hand and his tail in the other, proceeded to tie the enormous constrictor into a knot. "Your handlers will untie you after you've been sedated and return you to your home in the zoo." The final picture that I took that day was of my mighty girlfriend smiling as she stood in front of the helpless python after tying him into a knot around the tree (it's one of my favorite photos of her so far). "Did you call the zoo and tell them that we found this naughty snake of theirs Mikie?" she asked. "Yes I did Alice. They told me they'd be here in a about thirty minutes or so. Should we wait until they arrive?" Alice glanced at the monstrous snake, smiled and said, "I don't think that'll be necessary honey. I rather doubt that he'll be going anywhere." Then she added, "he appears to be a bit 'tied up' at the moment; tee, hee, hee, (Alice giggled at her pun). And besides Mikie, how would we explain to them how this huge snake wound up being tied into a knot around a tree?" "Hmmm, I see your point Alice. What say we just continue our walk through the park in that case; and let them try to figure it all out?" (wink). "Yes, I think that that's an excellent idea honey." Alice gently took me by the hand and we casually resumed our walk. But if you think that what my super strong girlfriend did to the huge python was impressive, let me tell you what she did a week later. During our winter break in-between semesters Alice and I rented a motor boat and headed for what we hoped would be a romantic few days of sailing around the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego and Baja California. For the first two days nothing out of the ordinary happened - except when Alice spotted a pod of orcas (killer whales) swimming near-by and decided to ride one. She hopped on his back and rode around for a while. But don't worry, Alice loves animals and was very gentle with the five-ton whale. And then on the third day of our sea adventure something really unusual happened. It began when Alice and I jumped into the ocean for a swim. For a little while everything was pretty normal - if you consider having your girlfriend toss you twenty feet up in the air so you can dive back into the water that is. Suddenly I began to feel a strange sensation rubbing against one of my legs, and then wrap around it. "Alice," I screamed out, "something just grabbed me by the leg!" My girlfriend looked underneath the water and then rapidly swam over to me. She pried open whatever it was that had grasped me, scooped me up in her arms and, kicking with her incredibly powerful legs, propelled us as fast as a speedboat away from danger and towards our boat. "What was that Alice? What the hell is down there?" "It's a giant squid honey, and I do mean gigantic!" She swam me to the boat and lifted me up so that I could climb inside. "You stay in the boat Mikie; you'll be safe here. I have a bit of unfinished business to take care of with that squid." When she saw the worried look I had on my face Alice reached up and playfully pinched my cheek. "Don't worry about me you silly boy; I'll be fine. After all, they don't me 'Mighty Girl' for nothing." Then, after a wink, Alice took a deep breath of air and dove underneath the water to confront the gigantic monster of the deep. As I nervously watched from the safety of the boat, the ocean - which had been relatively calm up until then - suddenly became very turbulent; as if there was a terrific struggle taking place below the surface. The turbulence continued for several minutes before the sea became calm again. I had to suffer through a few more nervous moments before I saw Alice's' beautiful, smiling face pop up out of the water. "You see honey," she said as swam towards the boat, "I told you that there was nothing to worry about. You're little girlfriend had everything completely under control." When my amazing girlfriend reached the boat, I noticed that she had something slung over her shoulder and was holding the end of it in her right hand. "What's that Alice?" I asked. "You'll see Mikie," she replied with a grin as she began to climb up the ladder on the side of the boat. And when she climbed onto the deck and I saw what it was, my jaw literally dropped. For my amazing super girlfriend had just hauled out of the ocean an unbelievably large giant squid. I mean it must have weighed several tons at least. It was indeed gigantic! Furthermore, Alice managed to tie all of his tentacles together into knots - except for the one she used to haul him out of the water. "I brought him up here so that you can take a picture of me and my new friend for our collection Mikie; like you did last week with that snake." I took several pictures of Alice smiling as she posed in front of the enormous - but now completely helpless - giant squid. "What do you plan to do with him now Alice?" "He'll eventually manage to untie himself from the knots that I tied him into so it's not like I'm killing him or anything. I'll just toss him back into the ocean. So give me a bit of room honey and take some more pictures for our collection." My super girlfriend then grabbed the tentacle that she had left untied (the one she used to drag him onto the boat with) and, just like she did with the huge python a week ago, began to whirl him around and around above her head. Faster and faster she whirled him until he became nothing more than a blur. Finally Alice let him go and I watched in stunned amazement as the giant squid - all several tons of him - literally flew what must have been at least a mile before he splashed into the sea "There," Alice said matter-of-factly as if nothing out of the ordinary had just happened, "I don't think he'll be bothering us anymore. He'll be able to work himself free eventually, but not for quite a while. Nobody messes with my honeybunny." My mighty girlfriend then gently took me by the hand, "let's go below deck and cuddle in the bed Mikie. After all, there's nothing like beating up a huge sea monster to put a girl in a sexy mood; tee, hee, hee." Alice led me down the steps for an afternoon, evening and night of passionate lovemaking. On our final day at sea yet another incident occurred which required Alice to transform herself into Mighty Girl. While we above deck having our breakfast, a Coast Guard vessel approached and warned us that if their intelligence tip-off was correct, there was a large supply of illegal narcotics making its way up the Pacific coast from Columbia hidden in a fishing trawler. The officer told us that we should be on the alert and, if we do see anything that looks at all suspicious, radio it in to the Coast Guard immediately. "But under no circumstances are you to approach the boat," he added sternly. "The men on board are extremely well armed and very dangerous. They're members of a vicious drug cartel and will stop at nothing that gets in their way. So please be very careful." "Thank you very much for your concern officer; and your warning. It's greatly appreciated," Alice said in reply. "But I think my boyfriend and I will be safe (if the officer thought that there was anything unusual about the smirk Alice had on her face when she said this, he didn't mention it). And we'll certainly be sure to alert you if we should we come across anything suspicious. So have a nice day." (What can I say? We're Californians) With that, the Coast Guard ship departed. For the next few hours nothing out of the ordinary happened. Alice and I went snorkeling (fortunately, no sharks or giant squids disturbed us - fortunately for them that is) and we were having a wonderful time. And then Alice spotted a fishing trawler off in the distance which appeared to be steaming towards us. "Hmmm, I wonder who they could be," she said. "Could it be the gang of drug smugglers the Coast Guard warned us about Mike?" "Maybe we should inform the Coast Guard Alice?" "Not just yet honey; I want to investigate this a little bit further." "But why? Isn't this the Coast Guard's job?" "Theoretically it is Mike. But those brave men and women, like the ones we saw on the boat this morning, put their lives on the line to protect us on a daily basis. If these drug dealers are as dangerous as they said, then confronting them could lead to a firefight; and perhaps some of the Coast Guard people might get hurt - or even worse. As you well know Mike, I'm impervious to bullets; all they manage to do is tickle me. So, rather than risk the lives of the brave Coast Guard people, I think this is might be a job for Mighty Girl. Why don't you go back to the boat and inform the Coast Guard honey; in the meantime I'm going to check out this trawler." And as I began to swim back to our boat, my amazing girlfriend swam - like a human torpedo - towards the fast approaching ship. By the time I radioed the Coast Guard Alice had reached the trawler and climbed onboard. Almost immediately she was met by the distinct sounds of gunfire. As the boat was only a couple hundred yards away now, I grabbed a pair of binoculars and tried to see what was going on. From my vantage point I could clearly make out many large men with automatic rifles (they appeared to be AK-47s) firing at Alice, but amazingly she appeared to be smiling! (She did say that bullets only tickle her). After they seemed to have run out of bullets, my incredible girlfriend then moved towards them. I watched in awe as she literally knocked these large, tough men all over the boat. After dispatching all of the bad guys on the top deck, Alice smiled over at me and then went below. I then heard more shooting sounds coming from within the trawler which was followed and what sounded like punching and men screaming - and then everything became silent. Shortly afterward Alice emerged from the lower deck, smiled at me again and gave me the 'thumbs up' sign; then she dove into the water. It couldn't have taken her more than twenty seconds to swim the 200 yards which separated the trawler from our boat, and when she climbed onboard I gave this fantastic girl a very long and loving hug. "Oh honey, you were magnificent, totally awesome! You singlehandedly wiped out an entire drug cartel, and you don't have so much as a single scratch on you." "Thank you Mikie, what a sweet thing to say. But look at what those nasty men did to my brand new swimsuit. They ripped it completely to shreds with their bullets. Maybe I need a pair of bulletproof bracelets like Wonder Woman has so I can deflect their bullets. It'll be a lot cheaper in the long run than having to buy new clothes every time bad guys shoot at me (wink). Did you manage to contact the Coast Guard honey?" "Yes, they said they'd be here as soon as possible and warned us again not to get too close to the trawler. But I guess some people just don't listen to instructions, do they Alice (grin)? I take it you don't want to wait around for them to show up." "Hmmm, like with that python that I tied into a knot around the tree last week, I'm not sure that it's such good idea to hang around. The bad guys will all be out of commission for quite some time; I made sure of that. And how would we explain to the Coast Guard about the twenty unconscious men lying all over the boat, not to mention the several hundred bent bullets everywhere? I think it's better that we move on. And besides, we have to return the boat before six p.m. or else we'll be charged extra. So what say we set a course back to the marina in San Diego, go below deck and cuddle." Alice then added with a giggle, "after all Mikie, the only thing that puts me in a sexier mood than tying up huge snakes around trees or beating up giant sea monsters is wiping out a drug cartel. Tee, hee, hee."