The World Admires Sue Storm's Perfect Body

"You look so pretty, mommy!" Valeria said as she looked over the copy of SUPERHEROINES ILLUSTRATED.

It was true, Sue Storm thought pleasantly. Everyone says so.

The reviews and responses had come in, and despite a few misogynists and bigots, was practically universally positive. They told Sue what she already knew. She was beautiful. Powerful. Perfect.

"Mommy, when I grow up will I be as pretty as you?" Valeria asked.

Sue paused. It was a thought that hadn't occurred to her. Valeria was blisteringly intelligent, but lacked her powers. She was as normal as a child with Sue and Reed's genes could be. The thought worried at Sue for a moment.

What kind of mother would I be if I couldn't give my daughter perfection?

"Maybe, honey. You've still got a long way to go before you grow up. Anything can happen," Sue hedged.

She needed to speak to her husband.

"It's possible, isn't it?" Sue said.

"I suppose," Reed said, his face set in a frown. "I don't have full data on the Super Soldier Program, but I've studied Captain America and some of the other subjects. But I'd want much more before I even considered submitting Valeria to any procedure—"

"Tell me," Sue said. "Exactly what you need."

In the next weeks, the world saw little of Sue Storm. Even her own family wasn't sure where she was; Reed explained in a somewhat guilty voice that she was off on a mission, top-secret. He did not say that an invisible woman was carefully breaking into the most secure government facilities on the planet. Silently gliding into Avenger's Tower to take a blood sample from a sleeping Captain America. Assembling the scraps of failed super-soldier programs from around the world.

All of which data was fed into Reed Richard's brain.

"Interesting," Mr. Fantastic said. "The initial super-soldier serum is a specific mutagen, stabilized by vita-rays. The inventor, Dr. Erskine, also suggested that the same effects could be achieved through a combination of diet and exercise—the path pursued by the hero MVP. However, Valeria's genetics are...different from normal. She may not have any powers, but we're both mutates—the same process that works for him won't work for her."

"So what can we do?" Sue asked.

"Transfusion," Reed said, confidently. "Your blood contains trace compounds very similar to those in Captain America's blood, but tailored for your cosmic-ray-altered genome. The children's bodies will respond to it, activating similar structures in their genomes. I've already run the simulations."

"Children?" Sue said, and blinked.

"Of course," Reed said. "It would hardly be fair to augment Valeria and not Franklin as well."