Chapter 3: Armageddon
Eryn lifted her other leg above the vivarium and stepped in fully. Before setting it down, she yanked the sneaker off and let it tumble to the hardwood floor on the outside. Foot in the air, she spoke to them again.
“Might as well feel you all the way. Not as though there’ll be any of you tiny things alive to tattle on me once I’m done, right?” she chuckled.
The redhead’s fingers reached at the hem of her sock and she yanked it free. She let out a sigh as the cool air hit her newly exposed foot. She set her toes down on a series of roads. The traffic jams down there prevented any of the micros from getting out of the way of her step in time.
Her first naked step onto the ZZ-World nearly overwhelmed her. She shut her eyes to feel it out. What she trod on snuffed right out. Eryn was tempted to just stand there for a few seconds and drink it in the feeling of broken roads and greenery, but she was too eager to get that other sock off. She lifted her other foot, peeled the sucker off, and stepped onto a little forest region that tickled between her toes.
Eryn exhaled. “Wew, alright.”
She swung the socks back and forth in her grip. There was a nice little mountain region at the front left corner of the micro-continent. Eryn chugged the socks that way, unknowing of the little cabin community up there that perished beneath the weight of the hefty garment.
She looked down at her bare toes. A wiggle had the entire continent shaking on the monitor screens. Her emerald eyes switched between them all. She loomed on every horizon one way or another. One of the views was from a micro city not far off. The cam there reflected a ground's eye view like most of the others. They couldn’t even see past her toes. The ‘little’ digits loomed as mountains.
She looked to her phone as she spoke. Her fingers switched through the views till she found the right one. “I gotta say I’m beginning to see how all those sorority rats liked toying with you things. I always thought it a bit lame myself, like playing with really tiny dolls.”
Eryn lifted her foot over that city. Tiny hills and road chunks fell from her toes as she wiggled them.
“I can see the appeal now though, I gotta say.”
She alternated between staring at her foot from above and the ground-view from her smart phone in hand. Her toes--clean, unpainted and with short nails--flew over their ‘sky’. The ball of her foot now covered a city the size of a drink coaster. On the phone app’s display, she saw how absolutely incomprehensibly massive she looked to them all. Every wrinkle of her foot was a small valley they could get stuck in. The canopy of her fair foot flesh covered absolutely everything.
Eryn continued her thought. The audio from her phone’s speakers played her words back far louder than the screams coming through. Hundreds of thousands of micros panicked in the shadow of her foot, yet her very voice overpowered them.
“But, there’s still one thing I just don’t understand yet. I just don’t get how they could stop themselves from just coming in here to flatten you all.”
Eryn grinned. She stepped down. A curt grunt slipped past her lips. All those lives below snuffed out beneath her balmy sole. Titanic toes clenched and dug into the city’s foundation. Micro steel, rock, dirt and humanity pulped beneath the might of those digits.
The redhead swiveled her foot side to side and snuffed out any remaining survivors.
“Fuck. That was good.”
She paused to look around and survey the micro-world she was about to destroy.
The most eye-catching sight was the capital city. Its gray sprawl was the size of a small plate and 3 times the next largest settlement. Eryn stared at her phone screen and observed how they were in an absolute state of pandemonium. No doubt it was from her stated intent to flatten them all. The micro manager app could give the name of a city when it cycled to its little cameras.
“Warborne huh?” she said. “I’ll save you for a bit~”
Her eyes fell towards the other cities. The smallest one splayed twice the size of a coin. Most of them were the size of the metropolis she just stomped on: drink coaster size. In terms of terrain there were plenty of forests and small hills. The edge of the vivarium was rife with micro-mountains, and rivers ran through the land. Most of those streams were connected to a lake at the upper-right side of the ‘display’.
Eryn saw the water-body was filled with boats and the like. She stomped over. She heard the screams from the app soon as her foot made another landfall. Seems she snuffed out a town under toe. She paused to chuckle.
“Oh don’t worry, I’ll be real careful as I move little ones.”
Her eyes saw a small city to her front. She lifted her foot over it and let them bask in its presence before slamming her heel down past the thing. She paused.
“...Careful to snuff all you out, that is.”
Eryn slide her foot back and her naked heel ran over the city. It was as though a mountain drove over them. They had no chance.
With another chuckle, Eryn moved on. The path to the lake took only 5 steps: each one snuffed a city under sole. Her head flickered form the screens to the ground below so she could get the best perspectives on her power here.
The lake was the largest body of water by far and about as big as Warborne. Eryn planted her feet on either side of its ‘shoreline’ and crushed the docks setup there. The boats would certainly have a hard time getting out now. She checked her phone to see the view, and saw them all staring right up at the underside of her jorts. Another booming chuckle of hers rang out.
“You’re real pathetic aren’t you?” She lifted her foot and hovered her toe over the waters. A good 10 vessels were caught beneath. “Lots of fancy boats today. You don’t mind if I share the waters do ya’ pipsqueaks?”
She set her toe down. The vessels cracked against her skin and she saw on the appropriate wall screen how the water of the lake roared out as a wave to flood the shores. All the other boats did their best to avoid overturning. Many floundered, but others pulled through. Eryn noticed something that made her heart flutter.
The lake was *beyond* shallow from her perspective. Even pressing all the way down, the waterline splashed against only a bit of her toe pad. “Jeez you swim in this? It’s not even a puddle. It’s like stepping on a wet floor.”
Eryn lifted her toe out and dried it off on the nearby lakeside village.
The redhead smirked.
“Well, I’m one of those petty gods. If I can’t enjoy a dip in the lake, then no one will.”
She started moving towards the nearby mountains. Not a single one came halfway to her knee. Her fingers curled into the side of the landmarks. Those pillars penetrated the thick rocky mass as easily as if she were shoving her fingers through cake.
The mountain towns and villages crumbled as the tomboy lifted up the ‘natural’ monument with ease. Eryn grunted: not from exertion, but from the thrill of the idea that lifting a ‘mountain’ felt easier than even the wimpiest dumbbell at the gym.
She took one more step and was back at the lake. The mountain’s bottom crumbled over the body of water and hundreds of feet outwards from it. Eryn watched on the opposite wall screen, which showed a view from a city due opposite of her many micro-miles away. She noticed a mountain town peel off the side of the rocky structure and fall to the continent below. It exploded not too far from her toes.
“Lake’s closed forever now~” said Eryn.
She let go.
All the people swimming or boating in the lake were handedly crushed by the mountain’s descent. The earthquaking event had consequences for any surviving settlements nearby. The mountain’s weight caused rifts that fractured the entire upper-right side of ZZ-World. Cities were swallowed by the rifts as the micro-landscape hadn’t evolved to handle that kind of pressure. The vivarium lost a fourth of its population. Eryn clicked her tongue.
“Wow, you couldn’t even handle me dropping a bit of rock could you?”
She lifted her foot and set it triumphantly on the crumbled mountain mass below. With a bit of pressure, she flattened its point with ease and compacted the entire thing down into the lake. The rock and dirt of the mass absorbed all water that used to be there. Eryn had ruined all the running rivers in the region by stopping the lake; some overflowed, others dried up. Not that it mattered, the micros wouldn’t need them for long.
The redhead saw the echoes in every stomp she took mashing the mountain. The shocks were felt all the way on the other side of the vivarium she was presently trodding on. There was a brief break.
“One more for good measure.”
Eryn slammed her heel on the mountain clump. That fully flattened the thing down. There was a giant cracked crater of sorts where the lake once stood.
The redhead cycled through her phone cams to see if any of the cities seemed interesting. Most of them were the usual: panic, fleeing, a bit of rioting and chaos. She spotted one that had its own militia it looked like. Little tiny gun holding micros in matching gray uniforms marshaled themselves at the city’s edge.
“Oooh, looks like we got ourselves some fighters over at...” she noticed the name of the place. “Perlburn.”
She stuffed her phone back in her pocket and marched over. “Let’s see what you got~” she taunted as she marched over.
Eryn did her best to avoid disturbing the capital on the way. She wanted that area pristine for later. However, the other cities were fair game and her feet, over ten miles from a micro’s perspective, crushed any settlement she saw. The tomboy was more than willing to shorten or lengthen her steps, no matter how silly it looked, to wreck as much as possible. Eryn wasn’t concerned with her appearance to these specks like those sorority gals were, and she wasn’t gonna deny herself the tactile delight of a city smashing under sole. Hundreds of thousands of micro lives met their end under step. Nearby suburbs fell into the consequential rifts that formed nearby.
As the redhead was wont to do, she chuckled while watching it all on the screens hanging nearby.
“They took a real micro-continent to make this. I can tell cause it just crumbles so easily.” She lifted her foot and brushed some city dust off her sole over a village below. “An artificial landscape would've been way better for you all: not that I’m complaining.”
Soon, she set her toes outside Perlburn. The city was one of those coaster-sized ones like most. Unknown to the ZZ sorority gals, this city manufactured weapons with some of the metal shavings they tossed down now and again. That was a big no no under their rules, and if found out they’d be crushed with righteous glee. Perlburn knew the risk, but they were the ‘Sparta’ equivalent on this continent of cities. A Perlburnian micro would rather risk death than being unprepared. Staring up at the tomboy’s big toe over a mile tall had them worried they might be in store for both.
The militia had nothing. The city’s defense force made some rifles, that much was true, but all the gunpowder was a scarcity. Mining anything was prohibited under ZZ sorority rule so what they had came from a time long past. The band of hundreds marched up to Eryn’s big toe and fired.
None of the bullets even reached high enough to mar her toenail. Half floundered in the air, while the other burst harmlessly against her skin. Eryn watched it all on her phone screen, laughing.
“That’s it huh? Maybe I should give you a more sensitive target.”
The foot lifted up and the militia though they were done. Their city, their lifestyle, was to be crushed beneath the unfathomably large titaness’s step. Instead, Eryn sat on the continent. The bottom of her jorts landed across Perlburn’s northern neighbor. That entire city got snuffed out by the denim garb and the firm, fit cheeks behind them.
Eryn spread her legs out to either side of Perlburn. Her legs fell across dozens of towns and villages. The toned limbs cracked the land and the normal thickness of Eryn’s legs had them looming like mountains miles tall. Her bare feet rested outwards on her heel. One stopped just short of a small village, who trembled in the shadow of a monolithic foot 5 miles wide and tall enough they had to really crane their neck to take in. The other foot snuffed out a city three-coins in size beneath her heel. She tried not to acknowledge that as she started down at Perlburn, but a curt little grunt might’ve gave that away.
The militaristic metropolis lingered right between her thighs. An impenetrable wall of denim loomed to their left and right. She had boxed the city in, and the slightest twitch would have her jorts-clad inner thighs intruding on the city itself. Already a few homes on the city’s outskirts crumbled beneath the thick clothing material.
Eryn slid a finger between her legs and pointed at her crotch region. She made a decree towards the fighters.
“If you can make me feel even the slightest bit of warmth here, I’ll leave your city alone.”
She grinned wide. They took a bit to start firing, but in time they did. Their bullets arched up towards the looming denim-clad crotch at their front. The area towered past 2 miles in height, so they only ever managed to hit the very bottom of it.
The redhead didn’t feel even a tinge of warmth. She felt nothing.
Eryn let them finish their volleys before she brought a single finger to the area and flicked off a bit of dust. The resulting volley of minute jorts debris did far more damage to their forces than they could ever do to her. The tiniest dust bunny crushed a small squadron. That single flick of her finger against her jean shorts elicited more sensation than they could times a thousand.
“As expected, truly pathetic.”
The tomboy slammed her thighs together. Perlburn was obliterated between the denim covered bits of her tough toned thighs. Everything down south of the area got crunched between the bare skin of her legs and feet.
Eryn shuddered, quaking the land again. She had noticed the one town in the shadow of her looming left foot. A video screen gave the view away. The redhead pushed against the terrain beneath her and stood up forward so said down smashed under her adjusting foot. The redistribution of her weight sent even more seismic shakes throughout ZZ World. Where her palm pressed against the micro-ground was now a hand-shaped crater. Bits of building debris laid within and she smiled.