Unexpected

Tasers, Guns, and Interrogations

For some reason, I had never imagined myself ever getting tasered. Honestly, it wasn't as bad as I had always imagined. I clenched my hands up and grit my teeth. My body convulsed with the flow of energy coming from the handheld Taser. The scientists, Tony and Bruce, were bustling about trying to cut off the flow of electricity but I waved for them to calm down. Sure I had yelped when the wires had spring out and attached to me and the sharpness of the electricity, but I was fine, my body automatically regulating and absorbing the staticky energy. A few seconds more and the flow stopped.

"Whoo!" I exclaimed, shaking my head as I pulled the wires off, "That's a rush!"

"How're you feeling?" Bruce asked, tablet in hand.

"Fine," I answered, "Just fine, like I could take on the world." Seriously though, this was a lot of energy, not as much as my shock from the Tesseract had been, but I truly felt like I could just go and run a 5K, or maybe go rock climbing!

"I'm loving this." Tony came around from behind a bunch of screens, grinning, "She's Taser proof! Who else in the world is Taser proof?"

"You're having way too much fun with this." I smiled.

"No, I'm having just enough fun." Tony corrected, "Let's try the car."

I nodded and went into the lab's side room where a Ford Focus stood. The glass of the viewing window was bullet proof and the room itself basically indestructible, just in case anything went wrong, either with me or Bruce I supposed. I shook out my arms, rolled my shoulders, and looked over through the window to see an enthused Tony and a slightly worried Bruce looking back.

"Ready?" Bruce asked.

"Yep."

Stark was talking to J.A.R.V.I.S. making sure that my Taser test had been properly documented before he started speaking again like he was on camera, which he was. One of his mechanical arm robots was holding a camera to watch the screens and there was a camera recording me in the room. "Okay. Date stamp. Test subject Agent Penelope Copper is ready for car flip test number three. Watching vitals. Please proceed."

I took a deep breath then bent down, getting a good grip on the car's underside. The last thing I needed was for my foot to be crushed because this car slipped from my grip. Getting a good footing I started to pull up.

"Remember, lift with your knees, not with your back." Tony's teasing voice came over the overcom.

"Shut up, Stark." I grunted as the car was raised a foot. My muscles clenched and complained as I slowly but surely lifted the side of the car until I was standing straight. Shifting my hands I pushed the sideways car away, flipping it over. I grinned as the car squealed as it landed on its roof and punched the air! "I did it!"

"Way to go, Blondie!" Tony's voice called. I turned to the window to see the pair of scientists high five. "You'll give Cap a run for his money!"

Sweat had prickled on my forehead and I huffed a pant as I made my way to the door. That had been the most energy I had absorbed in these tests so far and that had been the most I had been able to lift. I felt exhilarated at my success. At this state of heightened strength and energy I seemed to be about as strong and quick as the super soldier, but still, we weren't sure how much energy I could take or how far I could push my strength under its influence. I went back into the main lab and grabbed a bottle of water, drinking it down as the two men collaborated as J.A.R.V.I.S. documented the information.

"It's unprecedented. She can throw tires like it's no problem, Tasers only make her stronger, and so far she's reached speeds of thirty kilometers per hour." Banner said looking over the readouts from the last handful of times I'd been energized with increasing amounts of different kinds of kinetic energy. We'd tried heat energy and that worked fine, but it took a lot of heat to give me much of a boost and I still burned like any other person as the new burn mark on my arm from yesterday had confirmed. I had told them about this, thinking back to my burned hand from the stove top when Ed had tried to- yeah. Energy from moving water didn't work too well, no matter how hard I struggled to absorb the energy from the water's movement I could only take in the slightest amount of energy. It felt like the energy was going through a sieve, very little being caught and absorbed. So far, electricity had worked best. It was sharper than the other energies, harsher, but I energized fast and could get a huge boost from it the easiest. Banner had figured it was because humans already have electricity running through them from their brains to their muscles and whatever. I had pointed out that we also have internal combustion to turn food into energy and questioned why heat didn't work as well. We didn't know.