True Wasp

Janet Van Dyne stood in front of the blue screen her face contorted into one of sure terror she knew if she did not stop this all would be lost. "No No this can't be happening!" Her Usual calm demeanor had seemed to vanish in these few seconds nothing could be more terrifying to her blue eye suddenly becoming focused, "Okay Janet you can do this. You are an avenger you have worked with the most brilliant minds on the planet. You have had to have picked up on some of their skills." She reached her hand out touching the screen before sliding it over and pressing the power button of her tablet. She took a deep breath and pressed it she counted for ten seconds then turned it back on. Then on it appeared all her work once again the ten new designs for costumes the projections for her companies technology division and even her shopping cart remained intact as did all the clothes she picked out. "Ha suck It tony I am the queen of machines." She began to do a little celebratory dance behind her desk only to stop a few seconds later as two people coughed from the door way to her office.

Her office was simple designed by her to make sure she could do everything she needed to. Her desk was simple curved oak top and three sides with stainless steel corners and a wasp inlay in stainless steel on the front. The carpet was a simple greyish blue the two solid walls were white not that they could be seen behind the stuff she had plastered over them. They were a few of her old costumes as well as designs for clothes for the new brand she launching. She also had projections for trends that her marketing company followed as well as a few designs for up and coming devices her tech company had in store for release in the next year. The other two walls led out to a balcony that overlooked New York one side faced stark tower the other Baxter. She owned this building though much smaller than the giant ego structure it faced to one side and less structured then empowering Baxter building it was still was an amazing structure. Designed by her and a few of the other female hero one night while they drank and celebrated life. It had started as a spiraled tower that came to a point at that top that was made from steel in a honey comb pattern. Wrapped around it were four petal like structures that clung to the spiral in the center. She herself was on the 40th floor the five above her were used by her and her friends as a place just to have fun only a few people had permanent access to it.

Janet looked towards the two people who had coughed in the door way recognizing them instantly as her two assistant Brian Brant and Brianna Bulton or as everybody called them the twins. This name was not because of how they looked Brain was tall and skinny with curly black hair with green eyes while Brianna was short and curvy with long blond hair and brown eyes. The two got this name because they started work the same day and from that day on they wore at least one identical piece of clothing. No matter how crazy they went it always seemed to work out this way no matter how unique the item was they always matched. Today Brian had on a green tie with pink lightning bolts Brianna had a scarf made from the exact same material. They had tried many times to show up wearing something so off the wall even going as far as to make it themselves they still made the same thing.

Brian spoke up first to release the slight bit of tension in the air adjusting his brown shirt to get out a wrinkle. He was Janet's assistant for the marketing and fashion division of her company and one of the brightest minds in the field. She could bounce ideas off him design entire seasons of clothing in a few hours when they worked together. It was a perfect professional mix which made it easy for him to tell her no. "Okay Janet we have to pick out the type of fabric for the pants and shirts I narrowed it down to seven samples 3 for pants 4 for the tops just need your final decision. The samples will be waiting for us as we head down to the meeting you have with your tech guys."

Brianna then jumped in she was one of the brightest female minds in the world she could talk about future innovations for hours with the other scientist then a second later she was talking about music literature and battle strategies. It was amazing that she chose to work for Janet even after being offered jobs with better pay. She always told Janet how she admired her strength and ability to lead. "Yes we have finished up your new suit that we need you to test for us. We also have a few other things our guys in other areas created for you and we need your final go ahead on the new prototype for the aqua project"

Janet stepped towards them picking up her tablet she looked to Brian, "Okay and how about the new promotion for the line as well as help with campaign we have for the recent mutant and inhuman surge?"

Brian looked at his tablet, "We have the models chosen the clothing line they are all excited by the designs. We have several photographers biding for both jobs as well as hunting for mutants and inhumans to act as representatives for the campaign."

"Good make sure to take the models for the clothing and put them in the campaign for the inhuman and mutant groups. We want the world to see them all getting along and having fun also toss in regular people off the street I want a full line up to show the world we are not to be feared. Also get some video of them training, helping people and using their powers we need to get people's attention right away." Janet turned to Brianna as they walked out of the office passed two massive desk cherry wood desks covered in papers and surrounded in holo screens. They quickly entered an elevator, "I trust your judgement on aqua you brought it to me I put you in charge it is your baby make it succeed." She placed her finger on Brianna's tablet then it beeped, "There I just passed all decisions for it to you make us look good again."

Brianna nodded and grinned she loved her job she could chase all her passions here and now she knew Janet had faith in her even though they had only been working together for 9 months. "Okay we also have a new prototype for non lethal grenade to clear out riots and a few guys want to start work on a plasma propulsion engine."

Janet thought for a second as she looked at her tablet, "Okay tell them to go ahead and make 100 grenades and give them to a police station to test out at their leisure. As for the plasma engine tell them to work on simulations until we get my new clothes line out for a month the funds from that will be what supplies their first 6 months of actual work. Tell them as for access to a space ship I will contact somebody I know to take them there when it is running good in our vacuum chamber."

Brianna typed a few things into the tablet, "I just sent you a contract we got in to help build a new taser gun as well as one for computer development team to make a new supercomputer that can fit the space between the studs in homes and hospitals."

"Do we have time and the funds to do them?"

Brian spoke up, "If we release the new line of jewelry you came up with and can sell the new weaving machine design you came up with we will have more than enough to take them on as well as push forward with your research into extreme climate gear."

The elevator came to a stop, "Let's do it then...and get a few new flamethrowers and a giant freezer for floor 20 they keep pestering me about needing them."

Brianna shook her head, "No need for the flame throwers I had another department give them the dry fuel ones they were making to test out. I started that department sharing program you had drawn up so far it is going good each division is exchanging stuff and are getting along better."

Janet smiled, "So we should have fewer fights over stuff?"

Brian nodded, "Yep I also told them all too save it up for an inter department battle I have been planning to help people blow off steam."

Janet stopped as a young woman dressed in a white shirt and black pants came up holding fabric samples. Janet touched each one then handed the girl a blue one and a silver one, "Wrong colors right types of material also go with strong thread then I said before I want these to last we need be known for quality not just style. Brian take Audrey up to office and grab the color pallets again and match them better this time the blue is off by 3 shades and I said no silver looks tacky if used to much."

Brian nodded and looked to Audrey who nodded both of them making a quick walk to the elevator once in Brian snuck a quick kiss with the girl as the door closed. Brianna chuckled, "So they finally realized they liked each other."

Janet chuckled, "Took them long enough. Now take me to the lab with my upgrades I want to see what they have in store."

Brianna Nodded and began to walk down a hall lined with plexi glass walls to divide up several labs one completely filled with smoke another had no light in it except for a few screens. One labs wall was being washed of what looked like a mix of oil grease and some bio matter. Brianna shook her head, "Looks like the waste disposal department's creation keeps exploding still."

Janet nodded, "At least they vent the fumes now before they leave so the whole hall doesn't stink. Glad we got them a private shower facility now good call by the way."

Brianna stopped at a solid steel wall placing her hand on it the wall seemed to come to life as ripples went through it the now liquid wall swallowed her hand, "I do not think I can get used to this type of security measure."

Janet smiled placing her hand on the wall having it become swallowed as well, "A 3d hand print is a lot more secure than just a palm print."

"It is not this that disturbs it is what happens next." Brianna was suddenly swallowed up by the wall.

Janet shrugged as she was swallowed in as well coming out on the other side into a plexi glass box that began to lower them down a shaft every ten feet passing through a full body laser scan. "Okay getting eaten by a wall is a bit much but the guys in the security division had a lot of fun making this and it is cool especially when you first take somebody through it remember Carol's face and the scream she made."

Brianna laughed making a horrified face, "Or how rouge thought she stole Kitty's power by mistake because she wasn't paying attention and was freaking out."

"Yeah that was good we have so much fun with this wall we need to install it in random places on the top floors just to see what happens."

Brianna typed it into her tablet, "I am on it already I will have the instillation team install it this week after we give it camouflage to match the regular walls."

"Good because next week I am inviting a bunch of the girls over to have some fun, you are coming this time right." Janet looked at Brianna with a serious face.

"Yes I will just promise me Jennifer won't get drunk and hold me upside down until I agree to meet her cousin."

Janet looked down at the floor, "No promises there she is a hulk they kind of do what they want." Before Brianna could speak the box they were in stopped and opened up onto a huge underground facility it must have been at least five stories high and take up four city blocks. Men and women in lab coats were running around all with yellow and black tablets. There was a red flash in a corner as a flame thrower set off to test some fabric in another corner plexi glass walls shook followed by a thud something had exploded which was then followed by cheers. "Okay let's start with the outfit first."

Brianna nodded pressing a button on her tablet the whole lab went quite as all the scientists ran up to look at them, "Okay bring it out and the change room."

Two men, one large with thick glasses and curly brown hair the other short skinny and bald as can be, ran up pulling a large metal box on a floating platform. The small one spoke up in a deep voice, "Inside you will find enough room to change as well as your new uniform."

The larger one spoke next in a squeaky voice, "To zip it up tap your right shoulder twice and then your left three times, "It is a self sealing fabric we created to help eliminate drag in flight destruction in battle and will help keep wounds from getting infected or bleeding out."

The small one spoke again, "It also form fits to you to help it look better and less bulky."

Janet nodded and opened the door on the box it instantly lighting up she stepped in and closed the door behind her. She could hear excited whispering outside and then grinned as she got her first look at it.

Brianna waited outside for what felt like several hours when in fact it was only about 10 minutes before it opened and Janet stepped out to a roar of cheers, "What do you think?"

Janet now stood before several mirrors the first thing she came to from the top down her shoulders was yellow it and it covered the top of her chest coming to a point just above the part in her breasts. A yellow line came off the shoulders down her arms then three quarters of the way down it split in two forming yellow lines that became thinner until they reached the tips of her thumb and pinky finger. Coming down along her spine was a thick yellow line that had two lines coming from both sides that swooped up around her body and came to four unconnected points on her front. These shapes seemed to highlight her natural curves. There was a yellow belt like band around her waist that also connected to the line coming down from her spine. Attached to the belt like band on each of her thighs was a flowing curving yellow line that went behind her leg half way down the thigh following the same flow it went around her leg and two finishing points appeared on the tops of her thigh. The final touch of yellow to the all black costume was a tilted ring of yellow that wrapped around were a pair of mid calf boots would end. The final touch of a different color was a grey band that went across the back of her neck and left the front of it exposed.

Janet spun around checking out every inch the form fitting uniform touching it trying to pull at it to stretch it. She bent and twisted in it before she smiled it fit perfectly extremely flexible yet did not look awkward at all when she made poses. It never bunched up at all there was no seems to be seen and in a certain light she could see gold sparkling in the yellow, "Okay so tell me about it, because I am loving this."

There was an eruption of cheers before Brianna raised her hand to calm them all down, "Well it is made from a new type of fabric our fabric division and new materials division created. It is made by mixing certain chemicals together and hitting them with Pym particles they were trying to make a new plastic or something. Any way it became this weird gel like solid mess that got put on a shelf and mislabelled it was sent to our new tread machine as a test material. Well as it was going through the machine overheated and this stuff came out the other end. They sent this thread to the weaver and it made this amazing cloth but we could not find a way to stitch it."

Janet looked it over, "So that is why I have no seams."

Brianna nodded, "Yes, as I was saying the material was then sent back to the materials department who quickly realized the potential of this material if it could be made to meet end to end. They ran it through test after test and finally found how to make it merge with itself."

"Okay how."

"It turns out it is a living material in the sense that when hit with a certain type of light it reacts and grips onto itself even tighter and seals any gaps within 3 cms of itself. This was sent to our division were we realized we could make it work with a tiny bit of training to react to a simple bioelectric trick hence the tapping of the shoulders to put it on and off. It will not leave your body until you do what you did in the change room."

Janet nodded, "How much did this cloth set us back to make."

Brianna looked down at her tablet, "With all the mistakes that happened about 4 million, however we made it all back plus just last week we made 100 million off it selling it to the medical and military fields."

Janet nodded, "As bandages that seal wounds, would work great for burn victims I can feel it breath just enough. So I want you to make another version with a anti bacterial factor in it we will be able to market it as a far improved version to traditional cotton coverings. Also work with a prosthetics company this would work well as a layer between the prosthetic limb and what is left."

Brianna typed a few things into her tablet, "Now then onto the next upgrades we have for you. Caden and Kendal you are up!"

An older man with thinning grey hair stepped out of the crowd he moved a bit slowly his white lab coat hung loosely on him almost if he was swimming in it. He looked at Janet with a serious face, "I am Kendal, I am the assistant on your wing upgrades." He began to walk away, "Please come with me." He moved slowly until they reached a large tube with a young girl standing next to it.

The girl turned around she must not have been more the 20 her white lab coat was decorated with patches from bands, hero logos and other flashy little things. Here bright blue hair was back in a ponytail that hung down to her but around her neck was pair of bright pink goggles "I am Caden I was put in charge of making your faster and stronger"

Janet looked the girl over, "Okay but they grow naturally when I shrink."

Caden nodded, "We know but that doesn't mean we can't do something to them." She smirked, "Just shrink down and see what happens."

Janet nodded and began to shrink her costume moving perfectly with her as she did her wings began to form and as they did they became surrounded in a gold color. She flapped them a few times and then began to fly around Caden, "They feel the same to me."

Caden sighed, "That is good because we changed a few things but we still wanted you to feel as if they are like you have had them for years. Number one change is they are surrounded in a field of energy now that runs off your bioelectricity. This means they are more durable and will not fall apart when shot at like we noticed happens. Also water will no longer affect them so you can now fly underwater." She smirked, "It also means you can fly faster than before we upped your speed to as high as 80 miles an hour we hope. Kendal was amazing at creating the microscopic devices that emit this field he had more patients for building them then all of us."

Kendal smiled, "We are hoping to test the max speed a bit later Caden just finished building us a wind tunnel but before that we need to show you what comes next for your uniform."

Janet was grinning now, "This costume does more."

Kendal began to walk again, "Give the grey band around your neck a gentle shock with your pointer fingers."

Janet complied touching the grey band with her pointer fingers and giving it a shock the band turned black suddenly and sent two bands up across her cheeks that wrapped around her head above and below her eyes. A thin yellow lens formed between them to cover her eyes. She blinked for a second then shook her head,:"This is so cool!"

Brianna laughed, "I told them they had to give you something to cover your eyes if they wanted to get you up to that speed. We also have another mode if you give the band a shock with both pointer and middle finger."

Janet flew in front of a mirror and touched her middle finger and pointer finger on the band and shocked it. The black material covered her head, neck, and chin the yellow lens reshaped and it covered the entire front of her face. However it was not flat across her face it took the form of a wasps face. "Okay so what does this do?"

Brianna sighed, "Oh it just lets you breathe underwater for up 12 hours it just doesn't work in space. It extracts oxygen from water so you can breathe the five hours is in fresh salt water it will last 10"

Janet ran her fingers over the mask, "How does it work?"

Brianna looked to the ceiling for a bit, "Pym particle infused algae with a few chemicals they are in a thin layer between layers of glass so only the oxygen escapes."

Janet shuddered a bit, "I can deal with that but I had no idea we were doing research into algae and other tiny organisms."

Caden stepped back from her wind tunnel, "We didn't we outsourced this upgrade and the upgrade to your stingers to a company a friend of mine works owns."

Brianna nodded, "They call themselves hero tech they supply gadgets devices and upgrades to superheroes that do not have labs like most of the avengers and x-men have."

Janet looked at her hands, "Okay you said I have an upgrade in my stingers right?"

Caden pointed to a set of 18 targets some paper some wood some flesh and ever a few metal ones. "Yes we did the yellow lines in your suit will produce bioelectricity that can be channeled through you and into your stingers. You should be able to fire it just like before but it will always be a blast at full power until you can learn how to focus the amount of electricity you needed at any given time. Go ahead and test them out."

Janet flew towards the targets aiming carefully she shot the first paper target blasting straight through it and lighting it on fire. She then circled around to a wood one firing again this time she blew a small hole through it with one shot then fired several more just enough to dive through it. She fired her next volley of shots at the flesh burning and singing it giving off the smell of bacon. She kept firing at it until she was able to see grease dripping off it as if she was cooking it. She turned her attention to a metal target and began to rapidly blast at it her shots being absorbed by it so she growled a bit and began to fire more rapidly the steel quickly began to heat up and the force of the shots denting the heated metal. She continued these attack patterns on each of the targets until she was satisfied with her ability to focus and control where the shots went even with the added recoil. She flew towards Caden and Brianna turning back to full size, "Okay, how did they make my stingers more powerful?"

Brianna coughed a bit and Kendal shuffled forward and began to speak, "The yellow strips in your suit are filled with algae that had been genetically spliced with other animal's electric gland dna marker. Then they are radiated with Pym particles placed in a gold lined honeycombed shaped patched and shrunk to a microscopic level and fitted together. They are coated with a compound much like that of the black on your uniform so they do not fall apart and will close together if you get cut."

Brianna nodded she had watched Janet's face and realized she was not as turned off by this as she thought so she took this chance to step in. "The algae will absorb any light convert it into bio electricity and send it through one and other and through the gold to created these more powerful shots. It is very effective and when not being used they will store up energy to be released and hold onto it for weeks at a time. Because the algae are self replicating they do not need to be changed out as if they were a battery it is an almost infinite clean source of electricity."

Janet looked down, "Tell me what you know about them and what the cost was?"

Brianna took a deep breath, "Well the guys made their money from a small mine in Mali that touched on a vain of vibranium. They worked with the government there and built a thriving community in the area that ran off other resources that came from the mine. They found a way to break it down and coat drills in it to make drilling much more easily in even the hardest rocks. The bits last 10 times as long cost 5 times as much and cut 5 times faster with less risk of explosion if coming in contact with gas. They took the money selling this to oil companies and mines in one of the creators' home country of Canada. This was all before he turned 19 in other words he was a geniuses now at 24 he owns hero tech along with a mutant partner code named cannibal not to be confused with the parasite of the same name. Any tech they supply to new heroes or villains who have decided to become heroes is infused with a failsafe that they can activate anywhere in the world. They have only had to use it 4 times so far all in all they are a good company the Canadian is clean while Cannibal is one of the more hated non villain mutants."

Janet nodded as she stood in front of the mirrors again posing and smiling, "And cost?"

Brianna smirked, "One million dollars with a few other trades."

"What kind of trades?"

"Well we had to give them access to Pym particles for the next 30 years which we got permission from Hank to do because he liked the idea of hero tech keeping new heroes safe. We also have to help them with marketing..." Brianna paused ready to unleash a bit of revenge for a certain ladies night out event that they all vowed to never speak of again. Let's just say it involved a drunk Susan Storm, Janet and Betsy Braddock having fun with her secret crushes. "You are to be a model for their campaign to reach female heroines it will all be tasteful I made sure of that."

Janet laughed, "Okay that seems like a good deal."

"Oh that isn't all of it you are also to pose for a pin up calendar they are making to be given to male heroes as inspiration for which they may get to work with one day."

Janet turned her head in shock, "What!"

Brianna smirked, "And you are to pose for an in house calendar of female heroes in swimsuits...oh and don't worry I picked it out." She showed Janet the picture she had on her tablet of the yellow and black bikini. It was barley any fabric the bottom would just be visible and covering only what it had to the top was small covering very little of her chest.

Janet fell backwards moving away, "What were you thinking when you approved this! I can't believe I am going to have to wear that and there are going to pictures!" She curled up a bit covering her body, "Why did you approve this! How did you get me to approve it?!"

Brianna was laughing, "Just remember that night you and the girls had me call Hank at the mansion and spill my guts to him you even made me say how I wanted to tug on his whiskers. This is what you have to deal with for the next 5 years Janet just how I cannot look at Hank anymore when he comes to visit the labs!"

Janet slowly stood up and put her arm around Brianna, "Okay we are even then and I promise to protect you from the girls from now on."

Brianna nodded, "And just so you know if it happens again I will make sure every avenger every x-man every hero alive gets a hold of their in house calendar."

Janet nodded her face red she nodded, "Okay, when do I have to do this?"

Brianna smiled, "You have one month before the photo shoot." She looked at the others in the lab who were all chuckling about what they had just heard, "Now then it is onto test and showing you your limits the rest of the people in the lab will help you."

Kendal walked up to Janet and touched her shoulder a second later he struck her with a needle making Janet squeal before walking away. "It is done Brianna."

Janet rubbed her arm, "What was that!"

Brianna smiled, "We just injected you with a chemical that will help you shrink even smaller when you want to. You can no go to about a 1/16th of an inch a eighth of the size as before and your implanted wings will change to match your new size."

"You could have warned me."

"Well I know you hate needles so we did for your benefit." Brianna began to walk towards the clear elevator they had come down in, "I have work to do in other labs I put you in the hands of my colleagues to teach you all about your new abilities."