Sue Storm's Strength Is Increasing

"Analysis proceeding," H.E.R.B.I.E. said. "Registering increase in muscle mass and density."

"I'm getting stronger?" Sue Storm said. She curled her bicep. The muscle didn't look particularly bigger to her.

"More data required," H.E.R.B.I.E. said.

"Well, let's get some," Sue Storm said.

The gymnasium at the Baxter Building was more elaborate than the neighborhood gym. The weight lifting equipment had variable settings that went from mere ounces to hundreds of tons; suitable to give a workout to everyone from normal human octogenarians to the mighty Thor. Sue Storm herself normally benched about two hundred pounds—which, given that she normally weighed about one-twenty, made her fit enough for adventuring.

"Okay, start us off at a hundred and fifty pounds," she said as she gripped the bar above her. "We'll do sets of five reps. Increase the weight by ten pounds after each set. Have the antigrav ready to catch it in case it slips."

"Affirmative," H.E.R.B.I.E. confirmed.

Sue breathed out. Shot through the leg. Kissed a strange sex toy. Exposed to a weird mutagen containing the sperm of a mutant pig-man. Bigger breasts. Weird as it was, she felt oddly calm once she put it all together like that. Her life was one big rollercoaster of an adventure, one weird thing after another.

But this? This was science.

She lifted the bar up and brought it down, almost to her swollen chest. Up and down. Thought vanished as she felt the pressue across her chest, the tension in her arms. Sue focused on her breathing as the weight increased. Felt the burn in her muscles—and, weirdly, a pressure in her breasts. A pleasant tingle went through her breasts, and Sue almost laughed as she recalled the old exercises she used to do as a young woman.

"I must...I must...I must increase my bust...!" Sue huffed in between reps.

Until she felt the first quiver of her muscles that told her she was at her limit. With a final effort, the Invisible Woman raised the bar up and set it in its niche. She lay there for a moment or three and panted.

"How much?" She asked.

"115 kilograms," H.E.R.B.I.E. replied. "Approximately 253 lbs."

"Jesus," Sue huffed. "That's better than my best lift."

"The exercise appears to have stimulated the mutagenic effect further," H.E.R.B.I.E. said. "Both muscle mass and breast volume have increased."

"Bigger boobs, bigger muscles?" Sue said with a grin. "Maybe this mutagen isn't so bad after all."

H.E.R.B.I.E. did not reply. He continued to process the data. To study what other changes continued in Susan Storm's body.