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As Keitaro flew off into the starry, starry, night, Su looked out her window and felt a small measure of pity for the guy. But really, she couldn't give a damn about the whole affair, since she felt that the man brought it upon himself anyway. Being a natural klutz was no excuse for constantly groping the girls; after all, he could always learn it, even for something as basic as balancing. Getting back to the project at hand, Su gave a really creepy grin that would cause even the most lionhearted to back off. Oh yes, this project was important. It would give her superpowers, powers that would allow her to conquer the world before the age of 21. Oh yeah, the powers would allow her to fight crime, even though that was a pretty minor thing.
She had calculated that the explosion resulting from the fusion of a mixture of substances such as the four tentacles of a quadropus, a corn from the toe of a unicorn, the three feet of a snozzwanger (if you can't get three feet a yard will do) and many others would result in energy that would give her heat vision, super strength, super speed, super hearing, super touch, super smell, invincibility, and even a really cool costume that was not specified in the manual! Anyway, Su had already procured most of the necessary components, except for the ever difficult blood of an invincible man, for the simple reason that the blood had to be mixed together before the blood dies, which means she had around 3 seconds to obtain it from an injury.
Su had done her research, and the only invincible man around was Keitaro, but she wondered how would she obtain his blood other than having him as a willing partner in this project, since it was impossible for her to lug some of the components around. Even if it was possible to lug the stuff around, she couldn't possibly mix all the components together in the 3 seconds that the blood would be alive. No, she needed machines to do that. Maybe some pornography containing the girls of Hinata inn would do…
In the end, Su gave up and decided to just use the incomplete components to create the super serum. Assuming that the sperm would give her invincibility, she reckoned that she could do without it, since she would be wearing adamantium armor anyway. Pressing a big red button in front of her, Su watched as the mixing machine sprang to life and smashed all the components together with its many robotic arms, and as the pot started to boil Su never looked more like a medieval witch that was conjuring some dastardly potion.
As she waited, she decided to add in an extra ingredient. Tama-chan!
She had captured the evil turtle earlier in the morning, when Motoko had started to scream really loudly… due to fear, and not some other… more passionate reason. Running straight into the room to catch the turtle flying around evading Motoko's deadly strikes, Su quickly threw a Tama-ball which successfully captured the monster, albeit barely, since the ball nearly exploded in her face. Pressing another red button, Su waited as a machine slowly brought a chromium cage over to the opening of the pot where some vapor was rising up, and lowered it, cage and all, so that there was no hope of escape for Tama-chan… ever. She had noticed that the creature had started clawing at its prison in agony as the vapor touched it, but she merely looked on. As the creature touched the boiling liquid, a tortured shrilling rang out across the room, and yet Su was unfazed.
As the serum boiled, Su threw her head back and laughed, crazed and insane, at the near completion of her serum.
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"Boiling…"
"Boiling…"
"Boili… ARRGH!" screamed Su after several minutes. Apparently, the potion was supposed to change into each of the seven colors of the rainbow at every minute, but the color of the potion seemed to have become stuck at red and refused to change, even after Su had patiently waited for several extra minutes. As such, Su had gotten rather angry. Grabbing whatever was in the pot, Su gulped down much of the pot's contents. She knew she should not have done it, but unfortunately, the entirely too stressful process of following a super formula printed Mr. Wonka's secret notebook caused her to go slightly off her rocker, and the anxiety of not being able to acquire the final component had pushed her off the cliff totally.
Su was pretty much really insane right now.
As she finished up the rest of the potion, Su could already feel the potion start to work in enhancing her physiology. Her muscles started growing in size, but they didn't grow much. Even so, Su could feel the awesome power of the serum surging through her tissue, and the potion wasn't even done yet. It started to modify her skin so that it became a highly sophisticated sensing device; she could now sense even the tiniest vibrations in the air, she could also sense the movements of people that would indicate their purpose. Her hearing prowess also skyrocketed, until the point that she would be able to hear conversations carrying on miles away. Her sense of smell also heightened, but there wasn't much difference, as she was still taking in the sent of the lab. Perhaps later she would test it outside. Her eyes did not get any enhancements though, which was weird.
Su slowly moved about, feeling how to operate in her new, powerful body.
Now, all of these features would have been good, and the serum would have been called a success, had the final 'enhancement' not come up.
As Su wriggled her fingers, Su felt another change coming up. She relaxed and surrendered herself to the change, and she could feel something forming around her entire body. She assumed it was an invincibility barrier, but she was dead wrong. When she opened her eyes to see what it looked like, she gave a horrified gasp and let out a wail of anguish at what her body had become. She was covered in a turtle skin! The skin totally negated the powers of her newly improved skin, and she could feel little through the turtle skin. Her hearing was also muffled, for the turtle suit's ears were not at all compatible with her own and blocked out nearly all sound. The same applied to the turtle nose. Similar to the last change, her eyes were not affected by this new turtle metamorphosis.
The suit was also very, very heavy, and it effectively negated Su's newly gained super strength.
Therefore, Su effectively gained no new powers… at all. What she had gained was instead disfigurement of her entire body. Perhaps the only upside was that she got a really cool black cape behind the shell, but it was hardly more comforting knowing that your body was in the form of a turtle's!
However, as she contemplated later on on her fate, Su decided that she would fight crime as the caped crusader…
…Turtle Man.
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Meanwhile, Keitaro was still sitting on the log, and his sluggish brain still hadn't come to a suitable solution yet. His surroundings were still frozen in time, but really, he couldn't come up with a reasonable solution.
And so he continued to sit.
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Several hours later, Keitaro's brain finally regained some semblance of normality, and he came to the conclusion that he couldn't be causing a time stop. After all, what was the possibility that he could suddenly freeze time after beings truck by a lightning bolt? He reasoned that it was probably himself moving at super fast speeds, so fast that the surroundings would seem frozen to his super fast senses. He also knew that it was probably caused by the new mysterious energy flowing through his entire body, and he thought that if he himself was moving super fast, then maybe if he concentrated hard enough, he might be able to slow down his body's operations until he was moving in the same time frame as the world.
Whoa, where did that insight come from?
Anyway, Keitaro decided that in order to concentrate, he had to close his eyes. So he closed his eyes and assumed the 'thinker' position and just thought about being normal again. He imagined himself slowing down, with the world speeding up, and sure enough, when he opened his eyes he found that the world was back to normal speed again. The bird he had held in his hand earlier was gone. The wildlife was back to life and the whole forest suddenly grew noisy again.
Keitaro smiled. After all, he was glad that he would be stuck in a moment in time forever.
And now that his dilemma was solved, Keitaro was busy thinking of ways he could use his… powers.
"Maybe now being a pervert wouldn't be too bad at all."
And with that last thought, Keitaro harnessed his newfound powers and dashed off to where he could sense Hinata inn was.