A/N: Written for the PMMM Flash Bingo, #025 – sci-fi (genre).
Science, Chemicals and the Body
There was no such thing as magic. There was only pain, and drugs, and metals pumped through their bodies to change them, to make them into something that was no longer human, something that was stronger.
There were different mixes, depending on the effect. Sayaka was defence. Iron and carbon to make the ultimate shield. Kyoko was attack. Her body was a poison bomb waiting to go off and her skin stank of arsenic. Mami was long range: her body changed to be lighter than a human's, to almost float. And Madoka was the attractant, the emitting pheromones, hallucinogens that no longer affected her but caught the enemies in their drift.
They were super humans now, humans invulnerable to the level of chemicals that would kill other humans, only because they'd been so artfully coaxed to that point. They called them magical girls and it was a misnomer, a teasing title. There was nothing magical about it – unless they were the ignorant who saw them like they saw heroes in anime.
But they were the ones living it, and magic was just a fairy tale. This, science and chemicals and their bodies, was the reality.
