"Will it hurt?" Felicia asked as she leaned back in the chair her father and boyfriend brought her to. The outside of the facility was shady, so was the inside. But they had set up a specific clean room and seemed to know what they were doing.
Ethan chuckled as he walked in behind her. "First off." He motioned at her, "get off the chair and strip down to your skivvies. While you do that I will explain the effects and the side effects this serum will have on your body."
Walter shook his head as he prepared a few lights. "We won't be making a video recording but we will make extensive notes. You have to be in your underwear so you don't destroy your clothes."
"Yeah I figured that out when my boyfriend asked me to strip while we were in my father's presence and you did not attack him." Felicia rolled her eyes, getting a glare from Walter.
"The 'Soldier Serum C' as tested by the equipment against your blood resulted in positive effects. To start off your strength, agility, and endurance should all increase by a small margin. But over time with training they will all increase. Then your eyes will gain a natural ability to see in the dark, it will not affect your regular vision nor your eye color. Then there will be a side effect of hair color changing. I already contacted Loki about getting something magical to assist with changing it back." Ethan explained as he adjusted a few things and double checked the systems.
"What color?" Felicia asked as she set her clothes off to the side.
"It is one of ten. Do not worry about it too much." Walter explained as he started adjusting the seat and motioned for her to sit. "There will be discomfort, but you should be fine. The restraints are more for our safety if you start flailing."
As Felicia sat in the chair, Walter began tightening the leather straps to keep her tied to the chair. "The procedure is fairly mundane. These are powerful sunlamps and that bag of goodies will provide your body with extra vitamins for any rapid body changes. There will be eight simultaneous injections."
After a few minutes of preparation they were fitting the injections and making final preparations. "Bite this mouthguard. We will inject you in a moment." Ethan put a bite guard in her mouth so she would not bite off her tongue.
The lights turned on and Felicia flinched.
"Starting process." Walter called out as Felicia felt an injection in each arm. A few minutes passed as her body began heating up. After five minutes she felt more injections in her arms.
"Wow, urent kiidng boot difort." She mumbled through the mouth guard. She felt dizzy and she could feel a soreness in her arms that was quickly spreading throughout her body.
After another five minutes there was another set of injections. Now she felt her eyes start tearing up, everything began seeming brighter. She groaned in pain, quickly blinking. She didn't even realize another injection had occurred. She was just in intense pain.
Ethan and Walter on the other hand observed as her body visibly hardened with muscles. The change was disturbing as muscles appeared where softer and flexible muscles were there before. But even more off putting was when her pitch black hair began slowly turning to a platinum blonde color that was almost white.
Then she stabilized and Ethan began checking the observation systems, "everything is all good. She is just asleep. She only changed as we expected, nothing out of the ordinary. She will have an increase in eating for a bit, and she will be pissed about her muscles. The only thing we did not see coming was a single vitamin deficiency."
"Terrific, can you get your notes down? I will watch her to make sure she is healthy." Walter asked as he began adjusting the monitors.
Ethan nodded in understanding and began completing his portion of the work. Thirty minutes later, Felicia was groggily waking up. She flinched for a moment as the restraints held her in the seat. She then blinked as she fully woke up.
"You can untie me." Felicia spoke up as she looked down at her body and frowned. "Is there a way to get rid of muscles?" As she asked, Walter began untying her.
Ethan just finished his report of the procedure when he turned to her. "Yeah you just need to control your diet. I can help with that. Is that the only issue?"
Felicia hopped off the chair and frowned after staggering for a moment. "I am surprised I did not grow. I thought that was a large facet of Steve Rogers transformation."
"The Serum was augmented in such a way that it would not change your physical structure. We just have to be careful of vitamin imbalance, you are going to have an increased appetite." Walter explained.
Felicia walked over to a full body mirror and whistled, "I am loving the hair color. But how are we getting back home?"
"We are driving, just avoid being near windows." Ethan shrugged as he placed her clothes in front of her. "Get dressed."
Felicia clicked her tongue in annoyance. Then pulled on her clothes.
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A few hours later as Ethan was making dinner there was a knock at their door. He only glanced at Felicia who was mouping at the counter. She looked up, mumbled then sauntered over to the door.
When she opened the door she was greeted by the sight of Loki in a green business suit. She stood back and motioned for him to enter.
"Felicia?" Loki walked in and stopped at the counter to the kitchen. "What is with her? I thought she would be more ecstatic if I came with something magical for her."
"She realized she did not specify what type of item she wanted the magic to be attached to." Ethan explained as he set out a trio of plates with food for them to eat.
"Oh is that all?" Loki asked in surprise. "Not to worry, my mother went all out for this gift." He clapped his hands together and then expanded them, a large ornate box appeared. "She decided to supply almost any type of accessory a woman might need. Here you go Lady Hardy!" He pushed the box over to Felicia.
Felicia smiled brightly as she opened the box. Ethan could not see the contents but Felicia whistled in appreciation before pulling out a mundane necklace and putting it on. "I assume I have you to thank for it being low key?"
"Yes, I personally came to Earth and found several 'cheap' designs but there are a few nicer designs under that layer from Asgard." He pointed inside the box and she lifted something and a smile blossomed on her face. "Those will be for special occasions."
Felicia closed the box and nodded and looked in her reflection from the water she had out. Her hair had turned back to the black color she was born with. "These will work. Now I just need my other gift." Felicia turned and glared at Ethan.
"Check that workshop. The droid is recharging there as well. He should be done." Ethan nodded at a wall where the workshop was hidden.
Felicia skipped over to the door in excitement.
Loki raised an eyebrow, "droid?" Ethan just shrugged.
Felicia put her hand on the wall. The entrance slid open and she walked into the workshop. Inside the workshop a mannequin was wearing her new outfit. It was shiny and black it covered almost her entire body except for her neck. There was a mask that would cover her face as well. She smirked as she could almost see herself in the outfit.
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"Hah!" Felicia landed next to Black Fox as they stood on a roof. "What are we doing here?"
"We are robbing that museum of something. Or rather you are. It is your last assignment for graduation. Inside this museum is a diamond with a unique design called the Shark's Tooth, it is on loan from Hammerhead, an infamous mob boss. You will steal it. You have everything you might need?" Black Fox asked while in his black outfit with a black bandana.
"Lockpicks, a high tensile rope, a knife, and a device to disable security systems." She answered. As she looked at the easiest path to get inside the museum. A ventilation shaft would be an appropriate entrance. "I assume I do not get any time to prepare."
"Not this time. I wanted your final test to be under the most difficult pressure available. So you are going in without any preparation. I will be here when you get out. Good luck!" Felicia looked over to Black Fox but he disappeared.
Felicia shook her head before jumping off the roof. While she was falling she kicked off the wall and landed on the edge of the museum. There was a twinge of pain that quickly disappeared when she landed. Before the Serum she would have been seriously hurt.
But now she was just rubbing her knee as the pain disappeared. She moved over to the ventilation shaft while avoiding the two cameras she spotted. Once by the shaft she pulled out the metal vent and slipped in putting the vent cover back on.
Once inside the shaft she slipped down into the building. She quietly moved through the vents until she arrived at a gem showcase. In the center of the room sitting on a red pillow was a shiny blue diamond that was shaped like a shark's tooth. Remembering where it was she moved on, finding the security room a moment later.
Inside the security room were a pair of guards. She quietly pulled the vent cover off. But before she could drop down the door opened and another pair of guards came in.
"Time for a shift change, you two get to patrol and we get to sit and do jack shit." One of the newly arrived guards announced as he moved to a locker and opened it up.
They were armed with a simple baton and tasers. They had radios on their waists as well as handcuffs. Two of them were overweight and one was thin and tall. Only one was fit enough to be an issue. It was time to strike.
She dropped down from the vent. She silently landed behind the fit person. As she stood up she pinched his collarbone and less then a few seconds he was dropping to the ground.
The other three stared at her in surprise. She jumped forward and kneed one in the face. As he went to the ground the other two started moving. She swept the feet out from under the tall one causing him to fall to the ground.
The last one reached for his radio but before he could, Felicia jumped up and punched him in the jaw. After he went down she dashed over and kicked the tall one, who she had knocked down earlier, in the head.
She looked around and made sure all four were unconscious before she took out the device that Ethan gave her. She plugged it into a port and removed all footage and disabled all security systems. It only took a few seconds. She had to hand it to Ethan, he really knew how to program something to work quickly like this.
It even had a timer that indicated the amount of time before the disabled systems would be noticed. She had half an hour. First she cuffed all the guards and locked their radios in a locker.
Then she leaped up into the vent and climbed back through it. When she arrived at the diamond room she dropped from the ceiling. In front of her was the glass case that held her target.
She looked over the case and noticed that the glass was held together by glue. She pulled out her knife and wedged it in the glue. After a few moments a side of the case fell and shattered.
She then grabbed the diamond and put it in a pocket before looking around. She might as well grab a few more things. She found a few gems that looked remarkable. After a few minutes she was crawling back through the vents.
When she reached the roof there was a guard standing near the vent she entered from. She sighed as she watched him take a puff of smoke from his cigarette. She repositioned and kicked the vent cover, sending it flying into the man.
She was out a moment later and kicked him in the jaw knocking him out as the guard was still disoriented. She quickly handcuffed him with his own cuffs before she ran over and the edge of the roof she had jumped down onto.
It was a brick wall above her so there were edges she could use to climb up. But it would still take her longer than she would like. She grumbled as she scaled up the wall.
Once she was at the top she walked away from the edge and watched with her night vision as Black Fox stepped out of the shadows. He thought he was invisible, but she could see him the whole time.
She pulled out the Shark's Tooth. But Black Fox grunted before looking in the rest of the bag. "You grabbed more than your target? Good idea. If a thief only grabs what they are there for, people will look closer at the reason rather than the theft itself. Come on, it is time to meet your handler."