Trade: An Olympic-Sized Situation

Summary: The young elastic superhero in training Satoshi shows off his abilities at the rec center, before the other kids challenge him to perform a crazy stunt. My half of an art trade with Animewaveneo

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Satoshi was the youngest in a family that was pretty famous around town. He was also the only son of a famous superhero, and perhaps the most gifted of all of her offspring, but he was still learning to control his powers alongside his big sister, Patty.

To help with his training, their house presented many opportunities to exercise their elastic powers. Most families didn't have a fireman's pole along with the main stairwell; Satoshi was in a rush and, extending his torso, wrapped around it, looping over and over like a snake until he reached the foyer. He kicked his legs up, elegantly arching into a pair of sandals.

"Bye mom! Heading out!" He called back into the house.

"Oh? Where're you headed?" There was an elastic creaking as Keitie, the malleable matriarch of the house, stretched her neck through the kitchen and the living room to see him off. Her head bobbled up and down as she looked him over. She noted his swim trunks and knapsack...

"Oh! Are you going swimming?" Keitie's eyes lit up.

"Yeah, the rec center opened up their Olympic-sized swimming pool, so me and my friends are gonna check it out!" Satoshi beamed. "I'll be back later!"

"Oho, how lovely!" Keitie smiled. "Just remember the golden rule-"

"No elastic horseplay outside of emergencies..." Satoshi repeated on call with a sigh. "I don't see what the big deal is. Everyone knows who we are, we don't wear masks..."

"Yes, but remember what Spider-Man says in the movies?" Keitie tilted her head with an encouraging smile.

"I know, Mom, jeez..." Satoshi grumbled. "I'll behave."

"And pack your costume too, honey." There was more elastic creaking as Keitie's arm reached out from around the corner, with Satoshi's trademark red outfit, made from flexible material that was as flexible as he was. "If you spot a robber, you can't stop crime in a swimsuit, it would be terrible if it ripped in front of all your-"

"Mom! I get it, jeez..." Satoshi groaned, stuffing the costume into his knapsack. "You don't have to coddle me so much, heh..."

"Oh, you're just my special lil man~" Keitie's elongated arm patted Satoshi's head. "I'll have a hot meal ready for you when you get back, okay?"

"Okay! Gotta go, people are expecting me!" Satoshi pivoted on his heels and headed out the door. "Byyye!"

"Have fun, sweetie~" Keitie beamed, watching the door close behind him. Her smile faltered as she rubbed her chin.

"Olympic-sized pool huh... they really did jump the gun on that bid to host the games huh." She sighed, and her stretched out head and arm retracted, back to the kitchen.

Satoshi paced away a few blocks, whistling to himself. He seemed to have an extra skip to his step today, and his legs were feeling extra springy. His mom told him not to, but he felt like getting some exercises in. All the better training to be a great superhero, right?

With every skip, he bounced a little higher. On an especially powerful jump, his legs pressed together, fusing into a single limb, and then coiled into an elastic spring. He bounced up ten feet, fifteen feet, twenty five feet, over and over as he bounced off the roofs and sides of building, lashing his arms out to steer himself!

Sproing! Sproing! The sounds of his bouncing echoed through the suburban streets, catching the attention of Keitie; she elongated her neck, squeezing through the window frame just in time to see Satoshi bounding over his school in a single bounce.

"Tsk tsk... what a rapscallion he is." She clicked her tongue, smiling weakly. She retracted her head through the centimetre-wide gap between the window and the frame, her facial features popping as she did.

"Patty!" She called out. "Can I speak to you for one moment?"

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The pool was the place to be during the hot summer months. It seemed Satoshi's entire home room from last year all showed up to play in and around the pool. It was so big and so long, there was plenty of space to cut loose.

And Satoshi was in the mood to show off a bit to his friends.

"Hey guys! Watch this!" Satoshi dove through the water, stretching his torso and legs, clasping his hands together and coiling his arms together; stretching to twenty feet long, he bonelessly broke through the water, dipping and weaving in elegant arcs, as if he were an eel. A crowd of his schoolmates gathered in awe as they watched him rise and fall.

Satoshi kicked his feet as he dove downwards, his body snapping back into its regular shape. He felt for his swim trunks, just to make sure they were in one piece... they were. He was careful to expand lengthwise and not rip them. When his feet touched the bottom of the pool, he raised his arms upwards; they inflated with air on their own, and he bounded towards the surface in a big leap!

The kids gasped as he leapt out fifteen feet above the water, then laughed and applauded as he spun his arms around, splashing them with a spritz of water. He splashed back down, and paddled over to his friends.

"Satoshi, that was so cool!"

"Yeah, you're a real superhero, right?"

"I wish I could do that..."

"Thank you, thank you... all a part of training, heh~" He rubbed the back of his black hair. One of the kids broke out from the crowd to congratulate him.

"You're nuts, huh?" The kid gawked. "Hey man, can I touch your arm? I wanna see what it feels like..."

"Sure!" Satoshi wasn't shy about his abilities; he stretched his arm out so the kid could take a look. He pinched the skin lightly, rubbing it between his fingers.

"It's like rubber... like an elastic band, or a balloon..." The kid muttered.

"Yeah, his whole family's like that! They're the coolest!" Another boy in the crowd blurted.

"Hey hey, balloon! Water balloon!" A voice shouted. "How much water can you drink? I wanna see!"

"Uh... I dunno! Never tried it." Satoshi shrugged.

"C'mon, we wanna see!"

"Yeah, we wanna see!"

"Do it until you're fat!"

"Water balloon! Water balloon!"

There was a discordant chorus of cheers among the crowd of kids, and Satoshi gawked at their reaction. He glanced to the pool.

"Well... okay!" Satoshi shrugged. "I'll spit it back up... I know they put stuff in it to keep it clean."

He stepped over to the side of the pool. He eyed his reflection in the water, and hesitated, glancing at his swimming trunks. What if something went wrong...?

"Hey guys! Be right back!" He darted to a changing room. There was a murmur among the crowd, wondering if he had chickened out, but he would soon return in his red spandex superhero outfit.

Instead of kneeling down, he simply stretched his neck to the pool's surface, and began to drink. His stomach wrenched as he took gulp after gulp; bulges travelled up the long stretch of his hose-like neck as he gulped thirstily, something that the other kids pointed out with excitement.

Satoshi thought he might start feeling full at any time as he could feel his gut start to protrude, but as the water flowed freely to his gently swelling limbs, he felt nothing but capacity. He stretched his mouth and neck wider, huffing like a vaccuum as his slim body grew in size, becoming water logged.

His torso swelled into an odd spherical shape, and his arms and thighs swelled, spreading out in all directions. He was so filled up he couldn't stand up, and he simply plopped onto his behind, the chlorinated pool water splashing around in his insides. From his neck down, his skin stretched to contain all this water, and he was jiggling almost nonstop.

"Whoa..." Satoshi admired his figure, stretching his neck to view himself. The other kids approached to feel him, poking at his skin; it felt like a think membrane, holding back a torrent of water.

"So cool...!"

"Hey, did the water level drop a bit?"

"Big water balloon!!"

Satoshi swelled not only in weight, but in height too, almost doubling in height to eight feet. He seemed to loom over the other kids.

"Does it hurt?" One kid asked. Satoshi shook his head.

"Didn't hurt at all!" Satoshi beamed. "Just kinda sloshy..."

"My uncle said that if you drink too much water it waters down all your insides! Are you gonna be a water boy?" Another kid asked, tilting their head.

"Uh... I-I dunno." Satoshi had never thought about it.

"How are you gonna get it out?"

"Do you need to pee?"

"How're you gonna get into the bathroom?"

"Are you gonna roll there Satoshi?"

Satoshi blinked. That was another thing he didn't think all the way through either. He didn't feel the need to pee yet... but it was only a matter of time. He trembled, his water sloshing around.

...His protruding behind seemed to slip away behind him as his body stretched, and he flopped backwards into the pool. He waved his stubby limbs, spinning around, before turning onto his belly.

He tried to shout for help, but water from the pool was surging into his mouth; his mouth widened as his sides trembled, his elastic skin stretching to fit more water.

"He's gonna drink the whole pool!"

"He's going back for more?"

"Go Satoshi! You can do it!!"

"DRINK! DRINK! DRINK! DRINK!"

The kids were cheering him on, goading him into drinking the whole pool. His eyes widened, wondering if he could even pull it off... but as gallons upon gallons surged into his inflating stomach, and as he swelled, becoming more rotund, he realized he was still okay!

He thought, maybe his elastic body would tell him went to stop, like when Patty told him about not pushing his limits too hard. She said he'd know if he was pushing it, when his body wouldn't give anymore, that he would feel tight, that it would hurt and be taut, and all sorts of other things... but all he felt was his body growth.

His peripheral view was filled with red swelling spandex as he sunk deeper, the water level plunging. Other people were scrambling out of the pool, the water level dipping fast as Satoshi swelled and swelled. His soft figure was so massive, he was the size of a building, cradled by a concrete hole in the ground.

He could feel his overstuff belly sloshing, pressing against the walls, forming to its shape as he grew more and more. As the pool was evacuated, Satoshi could barely hear the ruckus kicked up by a nearby lifeguard, blowing his whistle! All he could hear was rushing water inside of him, around him the bubbling and burbling of growth that kept going with no end in sight!

As water rushed into his extraneous limbs, his hands, feet were enveloped entirely by his inflated limbs, and he looked all the part of a big red parade float protruding from the ground; one of his arms bumped the lifeguard, who quickly retreated, realizing he was just a high school not being paid enough to stop an oversized middle schooler from wreaking havoc.

Satoshi's sides squeaked against the pool as he filled it out entirely, resting on his collossal belly. He realized he had stopped expanding. But it wasn't because he had hit his limit... it was because he had an Olympic-sized swimming pool inside of him.

The kids gawked at his massive scale. Silence fell upon the crowd in awe.

Until one kid broke the silence.

"SATOSHI TURNED INTO A BOUNCY CASTLE!"

There was a rousing cheer as the kids hurried forward, jumping on Satoshi's rubbery skin; he was an Olympic-sized water bed, and though his skin was stretched out for thousands of feet, it didn't hurt at all. Even the added weight of several classrooms of kids happily bouncing and playing and rolling around on his massive back didn't phase him.

"Hah... I did it..." Satoshi smiled, his expression buried by his waterlogged form.

"You're the best, Satoshi!"

"You have to be the most super superhero ever!"

"Why does no one else in your family do cool stuff like this??"

Satoshi couldn't move very well at all, he was so waterlogged and he was crammed into the pool, weighed down by kids. All he could do was elongate his neck and waddle his limbs. He kinda wanted to get out soon, before he needed to pee...

Though he almost peed at what happened next.

"SATOSHI! WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING!?"

Satoshi froze up as a familiar shrill voice accompanied a screaming, angry head, hovering upside down and shouting directly into his face. Satoshi grimaced, his head pressing deeper into his waterlogged form like a turtle trying to hide, but the head followed him in along a stretching out neck.

"Patty!?" Satoshi gulped. "What're you doing here??"

"Mom told me to keep an eye on you in case you got in trouble!" Patty scowled. "And look what you did! You're in big trouble now..."

Patty retracted her neck, lashing her arms out to wrap around kids, plucking them off his backside and plopping them onto the side of the pool. A chorus of disappointed groans echoed among them.

"Alright, everyone off of him! You guys put him up to this didn't you? Lousy kids..." Patty shook her head. "You better get lost before I catch you causing more trouble!"

The kids grumbled and dispersed. Patty bounced along Satoshi's backside, grabbing him by the neck and stretching it along. She flexed another hand, letting it grow, and grow and grow, until it was the size of a pickup truck.

"C'mon, spit it up. All of it up. I'll give you a hand." Patty squeezed his upper back, forcing gallons and gallons of water through his neck.

"Gurblrgurblrgbrglub...!" Satoshi sputtered, water wrenching from him! It dribbled down his spandex suit and towards the bottom of the pool.

Patty would wring him out over and over; she would eventually wrap both her arms around him, pumping his torso over and over as water sprayed from his mouth with the pressure of a fire hose! Satoshi babbled as water sloshed around inside and around him as he was wringed out over and over.

It took an hour to get Satoshi emptied out. Patty groaned, her overstretched limbs splaying along the side of the pool in heaps as Satoshi lay nearby, flat as a towel and as wide as a tent tarp.

"Sheesh... you know that technique should only be used for fires, right?" Patty shook her head. "I love you, but that was a dumb move you pulled... what'd I tell you about overstretching yourself?"

"But... I didn't." Satoshi leaned forward, wobbling like a sheet of paper. "I feel fine. Didn't hurt at all."

"I'm serious!" Patty blurted. "You drank a whole pool! It's gonna take weeks for your body to... huh?"

Satoshi's body reformed itself, popping back to its regular portions. He examined his hand.

"No worse for wear... I think." Satoshi admired, astonished. Patty gawked. After an episode like that, he should've been laid out for weeks, barely able to move, stretched so thin that he wouldn't be able to do or go anywhere!

...That's how it was for Patty when she was training, at least... and for her older brother and sister... and for mom... what made Satoshi so special.

"...Idiot..." Patty massaged her brow. "I... guess I'm glad you're okay, but..."

"...But...?" Satoshi turned to Patty. Patty sneered, reaching over to him, her hands growing large. Satoshi yelped, tried to get away, but she clasped her hands all around him, squeezing and kneeling him.

She removed her palm, smirking slyly. Satoshi looked back up at her, now squeezed into a ball. He grimaced.

"Now I can carry you home, straight to mom." Patty grinned, patting Satoshi's head. "And you can tell her about your day at the pool..."

"Aw, Patty..." Satoshi whined, trying to roll around slightly. But Patty's grip was firm. "Okay..."

Patty beamed, holding him close to her chest as she paced away.