Betty starts seeing Red.

Meanwhile at the SHIELD Helicarrier…

Sashaying down the halls of the floating airship, Betty Ross made her way down to the research and development wing of the massive vessel, granted the R&D department wasn’t exactly large, but it stored something she was after, something that would give her an edge against her competition.

“Hi everyone!” She called out, smiling when the half dozen lab crew turned their attention to the red skinned bombshell stepping in and making her way over to a shelf. The rest of the lab techs fumbling or fidgeting at the sight of her. “H-Hello Dr. Ross, w-what brings you here?” Asked one of the techs, his name tag reading Dave when she flicked it up for her to see in the light. She didn’t care for the attention in the past, and even after she became a red-skinned She-Hulk, Betty liked it a little, but it wasn’t a priority of hers. Now? She had something to prove, a wager against the other two She-Hulks for the prize of being the most attractive, and she knew exactly what could make her MORE attractive.

“Oh, I’m just looking for something I left here a while back… Ah, there it is.”

Playfully pushing past the man towards an item collecting dust on a shelf, Betty set the device on a worktable and plugged it in. “What is it?” One of the techs asked, eyeing the small battery shaped device.

“Oh, back in the day when Bruce was wandering the States and I was chasing after him to help find a cure to this.” She answered, pointing to her arm as she flexed. “I scrapped this thing together, say hello to the anti-gamma bomb kiddos.”

“It’s a bomb?”

“Hmm… Kinda, technically it’s an energy sponge, the plan was it would be tossed near the Hulk and it would absorb all the ambient energy around it.”

“Did it work?”

“NOPE! Pulled in everything on a patch of Arizona desert where we found him and all it did was make it cold enough to snow… Didn’t even drain enough gamma radiation to stop him in his tracks.”

“You’ve kept a radiative storage battery here for what… Years? And never told anyone?”

“Pff… You were ALL safe. The worst thing you all had to worry about was premature balding and sterility and that would ONLY happen if you kicked it.”

The techs looked at each other with uneasy looks before one muttered. “That explains Carl’s mullet falling out…”

“So, what are you going to do with it?”

“This.” Crushing the device in her hand, there was a sharp green glow before all the energy bled out, but instead of irradiating the tech lab and sending everyone into a mad panic, the techs watched on at the red skinned amazon woman absorbing everything coming out. And as it she did, she began to grow. Her leather pants and top creaked as she quickly began to grow taller, her muscles throbbing larger as if she had been working out for weeks worth, then months worth. The front of her top burst the zipper, pulling it down as her chest heaved, her breasts swelling past E cup while her abs grew in definition. Her leather pants became so tight they appeared painted on her skin before stitching could no longer contain her burgeoning muscles and exposed powerful thighs and wider hips.

“Oh my GAWD!” Moaned Betty Ross, the seams to her jacket bursting at the shoulders and arms to exposed powerful muscles, arching her back as the tingling sensation filled her growing body while she rapidly grew 7 feet tall, and kept growing. Eventually her shoes burst to free her growing feet and her ankles ripped open the remainder of her pants, leaving her in tattered strips of black leather that hung from her waspish waist and shoulders. Hugging herself and giggling at how her larger breasts mashed together and touched her chin, Betty looked herself over and her smile widened. “Well, well, Gamma does a body GOOD it seems.” Flexing her more powerful arm and turning to pose and look herself over, the massive red amazon woman loved her new strength and curves, the remains of her cloths looking like a leather loin cloth and bikini top. “What do you think boys? Like the new me?”

Looking back at the men and giving them a wink, the woman smiled again when she discovered they had been hiding erection behind their hands the entire time she had grown taller and stronger, her curves now flaring and proud from her chest and hips. Even her hair had grown; longer and wilder it reached her belt line easily and cascaded down her back and shoulders.

“Well, ta ta boys, I’m off to see a couple ladies about a contest.”

Walking out of the lab and having to bend down to fit through the door, the rest of the men looked to each other and immediately checked to see if they hadn’t gotten radiation poisoning. Primarily checking to see if their hair was falling out or if they were covered in blisters, gratefully finding none.

“Should we tell Fury about this?”

“About what? That we had a radioactive battery on the shelf unprotected for five years?”

“Ah… Okay… Right, keep our mouths shut and all this will blow over.”

Nodding in agreement, the six took a broom and dustpan and gently gathered the battery up and tossed it into the biohazard chute, brushing their hands clean of the whole affair.