The Nudest American Hero

Caroline Sanders was an educated woman, living near the big city. She was attending the state college, trying to get her masters in biochemical engineering. She had stayed late at a lab she was interning for Dr. Brianna Lee, and was walking back to her dorm.

As she cut across the football field as a shortcut, she was alarmed as she felt the ground shake under her feet, and she heard a loud wheezing noise coming from above her. She looked up, but saw nothing. The noise grew louder until she saw the ground not a hundred feet away from her crush down in a deep impact, and move the ground in a line away from her as if God had poked the Earth and dragged a finger across it.

Caroline stepped closer as a spherical object blinked into existence where the ground had stopped being pressed down. The college grad student surmised it was an alien ship that had some kind of cloaking mechanism. Her suspicions were confirmed as the sphere suddenly cracked open until an oval shaped light emanated from it, and from the light came two beings, both humanoid in shape, but distinctly not human. They were devoid of clothing, but lacked any external genitalia that would mark them as human. Their skin was the color of moldy bread, and were completely hairless.

"Hello? Do you understand me?" Caroline asked.

One of the beings lifted their arm, Caroline assumed in greeting, until she spied a small device in their hand. She heard a click followed by a flash of light before everything went dark for her.

She awoke later in a bright room. She felt like she was lying on a metal table and sat up. She noticed the room was devoid of any other furniture or decorations. She also noticed she was devoid of clothing. She was naked!

"What...where the fuck?..." she began.

"Fear not, human. We mean you no harm. We have implanted a translation device that should enable you to understand us, and communicate with us fluently." An authoritative voice said.

"Who are you? Where am I?" Caroline asked.

"We are similar to what you would call scientists. We develop innovations that make life easier. However, once we created an ideal society, we turned to the cosmos to find problems to solve. Your primitive species seem to have an abundance of potential." The voice replied.

"What kind of potential? To enslave us? Use us as your food source? Or perhaps you just want to use us for sex, with all that anal probing?! Is that why I'm naked?" Caroline spewed her defensiveness with vigor.

"Ah, I see our colleague has been here. No, we are not interested in probing your orifices. We had to disrobe you to scan your body for weaknesses that we can alleviate, as well as augment. We have developed a serum that will give you enhanced abilities. Sight, hearing, and smell to start, but so much more. Your resilience and resistance to impacts and other stimuli that would otherwise maim or kill other humans. You will be immune to all disease and your body's structure will be more durable and will heal in a fraction of the time if it is ever damaged."

"Why me? Why not John Cena? He's a strong guy. You can make him superman!"

"For the purposes of our serum, it has to be someone nondescript. Someone no one pays attention to, so your abilities would be astounding as well as secret. To put into words you understand, we are in beta at the moment."

"So... I'm merely testing the serum? You have no idea if it will actually work?"

"That is mostly correct. Our scans are very precise, and our simulations have been increasingly accurate. We designed them ourselves, after all."

"So, you want to turn me into some kind of superhero?"

"Compared to everyone else, you will have abilities that would be godlike, yes. You can choose to be a superhero, as you say, but we will have tasks for you to perform to test your abilities regardless. We need to know what possible side effects there are."

"Alright, I suppose this will work. Go ahead and give me the serum." Caroline said.

A metal arm slithered out of a hole in the ceiling, and the tip morphed to resemble a needle and tube of a syringe before sticking into Caroline's arm.

"Serum injection successful. We are also implanting you with a tracker for us to find you as well as a chip that has your personal liaison that will be our proxy. You will receive your training from BARE-E."

"Barry? That doesn't sound very...scientific."

"She is our Benevolent Artificial Record of Experiments-Earth division. B-A-R-E-E."

"Okay, so when will I-" Caroline began, but felt strange.

"Our scans show an odd reaction. It appears you are not the human we scanned earlier and modelled our serum for. Your species seems to have so much material similar to each other that it tricked our scans until now. You are not Ralph Hinkley?" The voice asked.

"What?! No, I'm Caroline Sanders! How can you mix up a man and a woman?" Caroline cried as she felt every nerve in her body tingle as her muscles spammed and contorted.

"We are sorry, but we will help you through any and all effects from our serum. If it results in your demise, we will send you back to where we found you."

Caroline blanched at the mention of the possibility she would die, but she toughed through it. The fact she wasn't their intended subject was on the forefront of her mind as she hoped she wouldn't mutate or something. As her body contorted, the aliens administered a sedative and quickly placed her back where they assumed they found her.

Caroline awoke feeling like a truck ran over her. The sun shone bright in her eyes, making it hard to make out anything. Her head felt heavy, but her brain felt light. As she sat up, she began to remember what happened, as she caught sight of her bare breasts out in the open!

"Eeek!" She shrieked as she covered up with her arms.

"Well, she's not dead. You owe me $5." Came a distinctly male voice.

"Worth it!" Said another.

Caroline didn't want to believe it, but she had to see for herself. She looked up and saw she was surrounded by football players! She could tell since they were all in uniform, and all seemed either excited to see her or angry for some reason. None seemed concerned for her well being.

"Alright, alright guys. Now that she's awake, you can get back to the game. We'll escort the streaker out and process her in the office. Not like there won't be a ton of evidence showing her display. I'll help you down." Said an authoritative woman.

Wait, did she say "down"? Caroline thought as she observed further.

She wasn't sitting upright, but parallel to the ground. Her head was feeling odd because she had been hanging upside down...from the football goal post! She could peer between her legs and see the crowd of fans gawking at her. No doubt being treated to a heck of a view. Caroline went limp and her upper body swung down again. The security woman grabbed her waist and pulled her off the post, letting her legs fall to the field below.

"Alright, missy. Let's get you out of here, and you can explain how you came to be hanging from that goalpost." The woman said.

"Would you believe I was **** by aliens?" Caroline asked.

"I heard that one before, but it's been a while. You seem to have your wits about you, and you don't seem sick. **** and **** don't seem to be the culprit. What happened?"

"Could we wait until we're inside and you can give me something to wear?" Caroline asked groggily.

"Well, it's not like you have anything to hide from everyone here. They said you've been hanging there for hours, and they didn't want to wake you without me being here. I'm usually only paid to be here during games, so I couldn't get here much sooner. By then, the stands were full, and everyone just have gotten a few good pics of you."

"Oh God..."

"Hey, you're a good looking girl. If it weren't for your glasses, you might turn a few more heads."

They entered a small office with a table, a few chairs, and a desk against the wall with a couple monitors and a ton of candy wrappers.

"Um, excuse the mess. I wasnt expecting company. Now, sit down and tell me what happened. Here, you can wear my jacket." She said.

Caroline graciously accepted the jacket and put it on, only to see it just covered her upper body. Shrugging, she sat down and caught her breath before repeating everything about the alien abduction and even the serum. As she talked, she became more coherent and she was able to see her captor. She looked like she was in her 40s, but fit. The wrappers on the desk didn't seem to portray this security woman as she looked. Her long brown hair was in a ponytail she was wearing a simple black shirt with her security badge and credential clipped to it. Her baseball cap labeled her as security, and that was about as much as it took to establish her authority.

"And then I woke up here. I really have no clue where I am or how I got here." Caroline concluded.

"Now, that is some story. Since you don't seem like the usual crazies I lock up in the drunk tank, I'm gonna let you off with a warning. This is probably your first offense too. Why don't I escort you back to your dorm?" The woman asked.

"Thank you... I'm sorry, I didn't get your name."

"Willa. Willa Maxwell."

"I'm Caroline."

Willa gave her a towel to wrap around her lower half so she wouldn't be exposed as they drove in a golf cart back to her dorm. Willa let her keep the jacket and towel, and bid her goodbye. Caroline had to get a new key from the front desk of her building before going to her room and taking off the jacket and towel. Standing alone in her dorm naked, she decided to give herself a look to see if she had been dreaming or hallucinating about the abduction. It was possible someone knocked her out, stripped her, and placed her on the goal post. She wasn't sure which story was worse.

As she looked in the mirror, she thought she saw a glimmer of blue light streak past her. Thinking nothing of it, she decided to turn around and examine the rest of her body for any scars or proof of the abduction when she was startled by a voice.

"Good morning, Caroline."

The girl shrieked and covered her naked body as she looked around the room. However, she saw no one standing there. She was still completely alone.

"Wh-who's there?"

"I am your Benevolent Artificial Record of Experiments, Earth Division. You may call me BARE-E." said the female voice.

As Caroline stared blankly at her empty apartment, she saw more blue streaks of light, but they began to streak faster until they seemed to draw a figure inside her room. Soon, she was face to face with BARE-E herself.

"Wait, so it was real?! I was **** and I was given a serum. Am I any different? I'm alive, so I assume I'm ok..." caroline babbled as she took in the situation.

"Your vitals are stable. Blood sugar is low. I suggest eating something soon. Elevated heartbeat, but that is normal considering your modesty. Perhaps it would make you feel more comfortable if I were in a similar state?"

Before her eyes, Caroline saw the blue hologram of what looked to be a fitness instructor morph from wearing a skirt suit to being completely naked!

"Hmm, your heartrate has slowed, but your body heat has remained the same. I'll take that as improvement. Now, I assume you remember everything before you were sedated. However, I may repeat things if you like. Just interrupt me if I'm getting tedious. You have been injected with an experimental serum meant to give humans more durability and longevity. Therefore, you shall age slower, but remain stronger and heal quicker than anyone else. Due to the fact you are not our primary subject, and this being experimental, we must perform a few tests. Please, get dressed and report to the field behind what you call the football stadium." BARE-E stated before disappearing.

Caroline blinked before finally moving from her embarrassed posture she adopted when she first saw the hologram appear. Breathing in relief, she gets dressed and proceeds to the field.