The Strength Contest
by M.C.
Two powerful women test each other’s strength - in a rather unusual way.


Jane and Sally are the best of friends. Just one week apart in age, these 30
year-old women have shared virtually their entire lives together. Growing up
on the same block, attending the same schools (from grade school right through
college where they were roommates), they are now living in a nice home that
they bought together. Jane is a brunette with short curly hair, while Sally is
a blond who usually ties her long, beautiful locks into a ponytail. They have
many things in common. But the perhaps the most amazing thing these two women
share is that they are both very large and strong...incredibly strong! In fact
these two large and powerful females - Jane is six feet-two inches tall and
weighs 235 pounds, while Sally stands six foot-three and weighs in at 240 -
are the stars of their own strong- women act in a circus.

But even that doesn't explain the amazing physical strength of these two
women. For Jane and Sally aren't just the strongest women in the world, they
are the strongest people - male or female - period. In their circus act they
routinely challenge ten of the strongest men in the audience to a tug of war,
and they always beat them - giggling with each other as they pull these big,
strong men across the line. Once they even beat the entire offensive line of a
professional football team and then the defensive line - with no rest
in-between! (After this humiliation, the N.F.L. issued a ruling prohibiting
any of their players from competing against these super strong women).

How these two females became so strong is a mystery that nobody seems to
understand. They have been examined and tested by many experts - blood tests,
cellular structure, and DNA just to name a few. But all the experts are still
completely baffled. They simply can't come up with any scientific explanation
for Sally and Jane's incredible physical strength. All that is known is that
sometime after the girls turned ten, something very strange must have happened
to them as they began to get unusually large and strong. But whenever they are
asked about how they acquired their amazing abilities, the girls would simply
look at each other and giggle - as if they're sharing a secret that only they
know. So, for now at least, the mystery of how these women acquired their
tremendous strength remains unsolved.

Since they are far stronger than the strongest men, Sally and Jane can only be
challenged by each other - and they're always searching for different ways to
do so. Arm wrestling, girl-against-girl tug of wars (with chains instead of
ropes as the ropes would sometimes break, such was their strength), friendly
wrestling matches and weightlifting. They also sometimes look for other, more
creative ways to challenge each other too.

Interestingly, Jane and Sally appear to be virtually equal in strength. The
winner of their challenges often depends on the nature of the discipline.
Jane, being the better wrestler, usually (but not always) prevails in their
wrestling matches. Sally, on the other hand, seems to have more endurance; so
in a tug-of-war she usually outlasts Jane. In arm wresting Sally, being
right-handed, always wins on her side while the lefty Jane always wins on
hers. The problem with lifting weights is that there are no bars that can
handle the immense weight that these women can lift without bending. After
all, have you ever seen a bar with several tons of weights on it? In short,
Sally and Jane appear to be pretty much equal in strength.

One day the girls decided to take a walk down to the zoo which was located not
too far from where they lived. They heard that an amazing new exhibit had just
opened and they wanted to see it (both Sally and Jane love animals). They
entered the zoo and walked over to the new exhibition and - lo and behold - it
was a dinosaur exhibition...with real live dinosaurs! How could this be?
Didn't they all die out when a meteor slammed into the earth some 63 million
years ago? And yet here they were. How was this possible?

The answer was written at the entrance to the exhibition. It seems that not
all the dinosaurs were wiped out by the meteor and it's catastrophic
aftermath. There was an isolated island located in the Southern Pacific where
a small colony of dinosaurs did survive. Incredibly, that island remained
completely unknown to the outside world until only a few years ago when it was
discovered by a team of American geologists searching for oil. Imagine their
shock when they discovered dinosaurs instead! Teams of paleontologists were
sent to study them and it was decided to bring several specimens of dinosaur
species back to the United States to show off this amazing discovery -
including two ferocious Tyrannosaurs Rexes.

Sally and Jane stood at the edge of the railing before a large compound.
Twenty feet below them were two huge, mean looking Tyrannosaurs (for
abbreviation purposes they will also sometimes be referred to as T-Rexes). As
they read the description of the T-Rex that was written on the large placard
near-by, Sally said to her friend,"it says here that the T- Rex was the
fieriest creature ever to walk the earth. They really don't look so tough to
me Jane." When she heard her friend say this, Jane began to giggle. "What's so
funny?'' Sally asked.

"I just had a great idea for our next strength challenge Sally. Let's each
choose one of these so-called ferocious beasts and then jump down and fight
them; and whoever knocks out their T-Rex first is the winner."

When she heard this Sally too began to giggle. "Why what a lovely idea Jane.
Yes, let's do it; tee, hee, hee." The two powerful women tied their hair back
into ponytails (so that their hair wouldn't get in their eyes while they were
fighting the dinosaurs), climbed up onto the railing and jumped down the
twenty feet to the compound. As they began to walk towards the huge, ferocious
beasts, Sally calmly said to her friend,"I'll take the one on the right, the
other one is yours. O.K.?"

"As you wish Sally. So let's go over the rules again. The first girl to knock
out her T-Rex is the winner. Right?"

"Yes. Seems simple enough to me Jane. We start on three. Ready?
One...two...three..."

POW! WHAM! Almost simultaneously the two powerful women smashed their
rock-hard fists into their huge opponents' abdomens (Jane with her left fist
and Sally with her right), eliciting a blood-curdling roar out of both of
them. But such was the power of their punches that the ferocious beasts keeled
over, thus enabling the girls to punch them in the jaw (a Tyrannosaurs Rex
stands about twenty feet tall, so punching them in the jaw would be difficult
for the girls if he was standing upright). CRACK! CRUNCH! With a few more
mighty blows, these remarkable women snapped the heads of the creatures back
and knocking out several of their teeth in the process. After that, Sally and
Jane resorted to different - but equally effective - tactics against their
respective opponents.

With her T-Rex momentarily stunned by the power or her punches, Jane moved
forward. She wrapped her powerful arms around one of his legs and lifted him
up; then tossed the now off-balanced beast to the ground. Sally, on-the-other
hand, ran around behind her equally stunned dinosaur and grabbed him by the
tail. And in an awesome display of her amazing strength, she flipped him up
over her head and slammed him down to the ground.

Jane, with her T-Rex on his back now, leaped up on top of him and sat herself
down on the underside of his neck and began pummeling him with her fists. As
her T-Rex tried to get up, Sally, still holding him firmly by the tail,
slammed him down again on the other side. "How's it going kiddo?" Sally
casually asked her friend as she continued to slam the huge dinosaur back and
forth on the ground.

"Great!" Jane replied as she continued to bash her equally helpless T-Rex in
the jaw with her mighty fists. "This is fun. Aren't you glad I suggested it?"

"Yes Jane, I certainly am. This was a fantastic idea; tee, hee, hee." THUD!
Sally slammed her dinosaur to the ground once again. By now the dinosaur's
once ferocious roars were reduced to nothing more than pathetic shrieks; but
the girls hardly seemed to notice.

Jane stopped punching her T-Rex for a few moments and glanced over at her
friend to see how she was doing. "Sally, I just love the way your ponytail
swishes around while you're slamming your T-Rex back and forth. Your hair is
always so soft and fluffy."

"Thanks kiddo." SLAM! "You should let your hair grow long too. I'll bet it
would be as pretty as mine if you did." SLAM!

Aware the she might lose the contest if she didn't continue, Jane resumed
punching out her dinosaur. PUNCH! PUNCH! PUNCH! But that didn't stop the
conversation she was having with Sally. "My hair just doesn't seem to have the
texture and softness that yours has." PUNCH! PUNCH! PUNCH!

SLAM! "Maybe that's because you're just too lazy to take proper care of your
hair Jane." Sally then slammed her battered T-Rex to the ground one more time
- this time knocking him unconscious. "I win!" she cried out as she flexed her
awesome muscles as a sign of her victory. "I knocked out my dinosaur out
first!"

POW! Jane knocked her dinosaur out just a few seconds later. "No fair Sally. I
call foul."

"No way kiddo. I won this one fair and square. What are the grounds for your
objection?"

Jane untied her hair and calmly fluffed it up, then said, "First of all you
distracted me with your ponytail swishing around and that caused me at least
two punches. And second, how do we know which of these T-Rexes was the tougher
one? Maybe it was mine. Therefore it would have taken me more time to knock
him out; wouldn't it?"

Sally walked over to her friend who was still sitting on her battered T-Rex
(understand, that the Tyrannosaurs Rex is considered to be the fiercest
creature ever to have walked the earth - and Sally and Jane battered them both
unconscious while casually carrying on a conversation with each other...about
their hair!). "Excuses, excuses Jane. You're just being a sore loser, that's
all."

Jane giggled as she slid down off the unconscious dinosaur's neck and walked
over to her friend. "I know," she said as the two mighty women engaged in a
long, passionate hug. "But you have to admit it was close. I was just one
punch away from winning."

"Hmmm...tell you what Jane - let's let these two beasts recover from the
beating we just gave them for a couple of weeks. Then we'll come back and
fight them again - only next time I'll fight your T-Rex and you'll fight mine.
I'll even braid my hair so you won't be so distracted. Deal?"

"It's a deal Sally. Now let's go home and cuddle. After all, there's nothing
like beating up mean ole dinosaurs to put a girl in a sexy mood." Leaving the
two battered, unconscious dinosaurs lying on the ground behind them, Sally and
Jane climbed out of the compound and, hand-in-hand, began walking home;
giggling like little girls as they went.

Later that afternoon:

Jane was lying on her back, running her fingers through Sally's long,
beautiful blond hair as her lifelong friend lay on top of her. And while she
was doing so, Sally was gently sucking on Jane's large, firm breasts. "I just
loved the way your beautiful hair was swishing around while you were beating
up your dinosaur today Sally," Jane said softly.

"You already told me that cupcake."

"I know, but I'm telling you again; for emphasis. When we fight those
dinosaurs again please don't braid your hair...I so love it in a ponytail."

"You know Jane, those Tyrannosaurs Rexes were supposed to be fierce, horrible
beasts. But personally I found them to be a disappointment. They were way to
easy to beat up."

"I know Sally, I felt the same way. But still, it was fun, wasn't it?"

"Yes, cupcake; it sure was. Tell you what, the next time we fight them let's
not compete against each other. We'll just have some more fun with with them.
O.K?"

"Deal."

While the two incredibly strong women continued to embrace each other and
engage in 'pillow talk', a small rock located on the table next to their bed
was emitting a strange, reddish glow. Sally glanced over at it. "Do you think
we made the right decision about our rock Jane?"

"You mean about keeping it a secret?"

"Yes."

"Definitely Sally. If we had told anybody about it, they would have taken it
away from us and god only knows what they would have done with it. Yes, we
definitely made the right decision." Jane reached over and picked up the
glowing rock. "And besides Sally, it's very pretty isn't it?"

Prequel: Twenty years earlier

The small meteor that had been traveling through the vast reaches of space for
uncounted millennium began to heat up as it entered the atmosphere of the
planet which, quite by chance, it encountered. As it descended, it began to
glow brighter and brighter. It would have probably burned up in the atmosphere
completely had it not struck the planet's surface first. BOOM! But because it
crashed in an open field in a rural area, nobody heard it when it landed -
nobody that is except the two ten year-old girls who just happened to be
playing near-by. "What was that noise Jane?" Sally asked her playmate and best
friend.

"'I don't know Sally. Let's go and see."

They walked over to where the sound came from and were confronted by a very
strange sight. In the small crater that the meteor had made upon impact (now
technically called a meteorite because it reached the ground), the two girls
saw a very unusual object that appeared to be some sort of rock. But what was
even more unusual about it was that it was glowing in a bright red hue. And as
they approached the strange object, Jane and Sally suddenly began to feel a
weird sensation - some sort of heat (radiation actually) appeared to be
emanating from the object and entering their bodies.

"What is this Jane?" Sally asked her friend. "And what is this weird thing I'm
feeling?"

"I don't know Sally, but I'm feeling it too." Jane picked up the small,
glowing rock and carefully looked at it. "Whatever it is, it sure is pretty.
Let's take it home with us and we'll examine it some more." Jane put the
strange rock in her pocket and the two girls walked home. As they were
neighbors, they went to Sally's house as it was the closest, went into her
bedroom and closed the door. Jane took the rock out and placed it on Sally's
bed.

"I'm still feeling this weird sensation Jane," Sally said. "Are you?"

"Yes. Whatever this thing is, it's doing something to us."

"Do you think it's dangerous?"

"I don't know. But I don't feel bad. In fact, I feel good; very good actually.
How about you?"

"I also feel good...and somewhat stronger."

"Yes, me too. So what should we do about this rock?" The two girls thought
about it in silence for awhile before Jane finally said,"you know Sally, if we
tell people about this, they'll probably take it away from us; and then we'll
never see it again."

"I was thinking the same thing Jane. Maybe we shouldn't tell anyone. Keep it
our little secret; just between you and me."

"It's a deal. Let's take an oath Sally, that neither of us will ever reveal to
anybody else what we found today." The two girls then shook each other's hand
and swore that they would never to reveal to anyone what they would eventually
come to understand was the source of their incredible physical strength.

Author's Note: This was a work of pure fiction. No actual Tyrannosaurs Rexes
were harmed in any way, shape or form in it's construction. I'm totally
against any kind of cruelty to animals; especially extinct ones.