Security Training Center Number 2:
Jake and Jessica look at the young fifteen-year-old teenage girl standing before them. She was wearing the black skintight outfit they had given her to wear. The suit had sensors built into it to monitor her vitals.
“Alright, Brandi. First, you’re going to stretch, so we can get a baseline on what your body is doing.” Jessica was standing near the monitors and already getting basic readings from the suit.
“Okay, Mrs. Fox.” Brandi prepared herself for the stretching exercises she knew Mr. Fox would put her through.
Jake steps over and stands in front of Brandi. His smile disappears, as the old drill sergeant inside of him emerges “Alright recruit. Drop and give me hundred pushups, and I don’t mean the sissy ones.”
Brandi drops to the ground and assumes the position to do pushups. As she does them, Jake counts them off. Jessica watches the monitors as Brandi does the pushups. So, far nothing out of the ordinary shows up as Brandi does the pushups.
Brandi shivers each time her breasts touch the ground. She wasn’t used to having breasts. She couldn’t get over the fact that the experimental treatments she had been getting had changed her body. She had been diagnosed with Lyme disease after being infected by a tick. Since there wasn’t a cure for Lyme disease, she was willing to try anything.
She had once been a young fifteen-year-old boy without a care in the world. All that changed when he went hunting with his uncles and found a few ticks on his body later. There was one that he missed and several days later, he started feeling sick, like he had the flu. His parents took him to the doctor’s and that’s when they discovered the tick. They tested his blood and confirmed that he had Lyme disease.
The doctor he saw, said there was an experimental drug that might help him and his parents signed him up for it. The treatments hurt like hell, but after a few months, he started noticing changes in his body. He notices his body started to change how the fat in his body was redistributed.
His hair became fuller and thicker. He noticed his penis was growing smaller and smaller. His testicles were shrinking and his groin area was slowly changing. There was more going on with his body as well.
“Alright, Brandi. Let’s see what you got.” Jake escorts Brandi over to the thread mill and starts her running.
Jessica was watching the speed on the monitors. It was slowly increasing as Brandi continued to run.
“Damn! She is getting faster.” Jessica was watching as Brandi became faster and faster.
“You’re not kidding. She’s becoming a blur and the treadmill is starting to smoke.” Jake spotted smoke coming from the treadmill.
“Brandi, slow down. The treadmill is overheating.” Jessica looks towards Brandi and notices she is a blur.
“Okay!” Brandi starts to slow her speed.
A large cloud of smoke pours out of the treadmill. Brandi starts coughing as the smoke surrounds her. She stumbles out of the smoke and over to Jake.
Jessica grabs a fire extinguisher points it at the treadmill and spray it. After a few seconds, the smoke from the treadmill dissipates.
“How fast was I going?” Brandi was wondering how fast she was running.
“Just before we had to stop, you were going seven hundred miles per minute and was still climbing. Whatever he did to you, he activated the metahuman gene in your DNA.” Jessica figures whatever treatment the doctor Brandi saw before coming to the vineyard had activated a long-dormant gene in her DNA.
“Then if he did that. Why did I change into being a girl?” Brandi was confused about her transformation.
“I don’t know. Your blood work is still being analyzed.” Jessica was waiting for the Mountain to get back to her about Brandi’s bloodwork.
“Do you think I can go faster?” Brandi was starting to feel dizzy.
Brandi reaches out to Jake to keep from passing out. She tries to stay upright.
“Are you feeling alright, Brandi?” Jake had felt Brandi grab his arm. He had turned and noticed she was looking a little pale.
“I’m feeling dizzy and ready to pass out.” Brandi looked towards Jessica to see what the monitors said.
Jessica looked at Brandi’s vitals on the monitor and noticed her energy levels were low. She grabs an energy drink out of the cooler she brought with them.
“Here, try this.” Jessica hands the energy drink to Brandi.
“Thanks.” Brandi accepts the energy drink and gulps it down in no time. She looks towards Jessica afterward. “Do you have another one?”
“Yes.” Jessica grabs another can and a high-protein energy bar as well. She hands it to Brandi.
“Thanks.” Brandi accepts it pops the can open and gulps it down, like before.
After drinking the energy drink, she starts on the energy bar. She watches as Jessica and Jake look at the readings on the monitors.
“Can I look?” Brandi wanted to know what her readings were.
“Sure, come on over and see for yourself.” Jessica didn’t mind Brandi looking at the readings on the monitor.
Brandi looked at the readings Jessica was getting of her body. She could see where the suit she was wearing had all the sensors and what they recording. The suit was even calculating how many calories she was burning.
Brandi looks back towards Jessica and Jake “So, now I’m like the Flash from DC comics?”
“Not quite, you’re more like Tim Allen from the movie Zoom. You still have more to learn and we need to know what your top speed is.” Jessica knew Brandi still had a lot to learn. Also, she needs to know if what the doctor did to Brandi, did more to her body.
“How are you feeling, right now?” Jake wanted to know if the two energy drinks and the high-energy bar were helping her.
“I don’t feel as dizzy or weak as I did. I think I can eat another energy bar.” Brandi was still feeling a little hungry.
“Here you go.” Jessica hands Brandi another energy bar.
“Thanks.” Brandi accepts the bar and bites into it, after unwrapping it.
“How about after you eat that energy bar, we do things the old-fashioned way and see how good you are at running on a track and dodging?” Jake had a paintball gun he could use.
“Am I going to have bruises?” Brandi looks at Jake when she asks that question.
“No, that suit will protect you. It’s made of a new kinetic absorbing material.” Jake punches Brandi in her chest.
Brandi didn’t feel the punch through the suit but did get pushed back by the force of the punch. She looks at Jake “I didn’t feel the punch, but was knocked back some.”
“That’s good. So, are you going to let Jake shoot at you?” Jessica looks at Brandi.
“Sure, as long as it’s not a real gun.” Brandi didn’t want to be shot.
“Let’s do it, then.” Jake walks over to a table and grabs his specialized paintball gun.
“Start running.”
“Okay.”