Chapter 19
by 
Jim_jones
What's next?
A dangerous injection
The R&D lab is like nothing Damiana has seen even on a day where she has seen many things for the first time. Floor to ceiling shiny instrument panels on all four walls, various equipment racks and vials of glowing liquid bubbling throughout the room. The science team immediately deduce why she is here and bombard her with questions. Not caring for the whims of these pathetic losers (most of the team being shorter than 5 foot and quite unattractive, with the exception of one stunning 6-foot redhead), she interrupts them and demands to see how they made the device.
A scrawny male scientist leads her to a tiny reinforce vial with a glowing yellow liquid, he explains it is what they call the God Essence, they had put half into an advanced container to create the device while they had retained the other half here while they produced another container. He informed her it takes many months to make a container and years to make more of the liquid so this was all they had for now.
“But that’s not even the most unusual thing, we sent that device to a nobody loser of a man, how did such a beautiful goddess as yourself come to be here” the mans praises of her meant little to Damiana, but being called a goddess never got old.
“Woman’s secret” she told him. “I’ll tell you how if you tell me how to have my powers work in this universe”
“Well, we don’t actually know for certain if it’s possible, the device works by weaving itself into the fabric of the universe it takes the user to. When you return it leaves that universe intact but returns to your person.”
“Not good enough runt” Damiana is not happy with this news, “I don’t need explanations, I need my powers”.
“Well, we have theorised that injecting the Essence into a person could give them the power here and in any universe they desire”
“Excellent, inject your sample into me then”
“I hadn’t finished, our modelling shows it would kill even the strongest of men”
“Good thing I’m not a man then” Damiana smirks and moves over to a chair near the vial of God Essence. It had a set of restraints built into it as while the team had never injected the God Essence, they had injected many things into many people over the years.
Nobody wants to displease her so two men try in vain to strap her huge form into the chair while a short woman wheels the vial over. The redhead remains stubbornly in the corner, seemingly in deep thought so Damiana pays her no more mind.
As the needle pushes through her skin (with great effort) she feels her powers begin to slowly return. Her first act is to reach out to her universe and confirm that while the device had left it, her avatar was still ruling over her old world.
Unfortunately, Damiana doesn’t manage to get much more information as her body is suddenly wracked with pain and begins convulsing as she loses consciousness.