Chapter 3: Infused

The adaption suit wasn’t that fancy. It was mostly spandex, really. It was unneeded, but it did make the infusion process slightly more comfortable. For one, it was comfy. However, it also exposed the areas of the skin the needles went in. With the machine running, the grey matter in that side container began to stir and whip up like foam. The attached piped sucked the nanites up and they became visible in the various tubes that lead to injectors which popped out of the machine’s inner sides.

The infusion process was symmetrical. One needle in each shoulder, arm, and wrist. Two then poked into her at either side of her abdomen. Exactly one needle came up from behind to poke her in the neck. Saki yelped, not expecting that one. Her toes clenched as she felt the nanites flood in like a fluid in her veins. They were small enough to feel like a liquid all lumped together as they were.

Then, Saki felt sensations she’d find hard to describe. The nanites got to work immediately. She felt stronger than ever as millions of them reinforced her muscles with their strong, solid beings. She felt awake and alert, as if she had the best sleep of her life this morning. She could feel the air gently blow against her skin, and every fiber of the soft fabric at her feet with each twitch of her toes. The sensations didn’t overwhelm her though. Even with all this sensory data, her mind was enhanced enough to process it. She felt at twice as smart as she used to, probably smarter than Eirica now.

A bit of movement on the outside, Eirica started crawling again, turning towards the clothes Saki discarded. The woman was probably trying to get that gun she left over. Saki didn’t care; she read how the nanites could render a human neigh-impervious to conventional weapons. She didn’t read about them making her smarter though, or the most interesting thing she noticed...

That is, Saki could feel them, or rather feel *with* them. They weren’t just improving her but *she* knew they were and exactly *were* they were and what they were up to. She felt them adjust the pH of her stomach to be more efficient; she felt millions revitalize her nails, fixing microscopic cracks in the keratin she hadn’t been able to notice minutes ago; no human eye could’ve.

All this felt like *she* was doing it though. It was as the nanites were her, pieces of her, and she could control them.

Eirica had since crawled out of sight, but it didn’t matter. The process was almost done, she could tell from noticing the subtle shifts of noise in the machine once the nanites were fully pumped in. The needles disconnected and the front of the machine opened backed up.

“Integration, complete” said the machine.

Saki smiled. She descended down the steps from the machine, feeling the cool titanium beneath her soles with her new, inhuman resolution of touch. She felt those minute needle wounds close up, repaired by the nanites. She took a deep breath and could *taste* the air.

She knew Eirica was about to crawl past the side of the machine and take a shot; she could tell from the sounds the executive was making. Saki’s senses were on high alert. Not that they needed to be. She felt invincible, and when Eirica poked out from the side to shoot at her, the bullet launched into her taut stomach before flopping down harmlessly leaving naught a scratch.

It fell to the ground and Saki stepped on it in her saunter. Dense, hot polycarbonate shell crunched beneath her sole. When her foot lifted, the shell was flat as a pancake and still fiery hot, yet her feet didn’t have a scratch on them. Her skin was reinforced all over now.

Thwack, thwack: her feet pattered against those tiles as Eirica fired two more shots before giving up, chucking the gun away. She was still on her stomach, only able to crawl. Saki had a smug smile plastered on her face. She may have not known the nanites’ potential going in, but she definitely did no.

“It was supposed to mine!” whimpered Eirica.

Saki just tried to think of the words that’d sting most. “Too bad.”, was what she managed.

She placed the ball of her foot on Eirica’s shoulder. She was gentle; she had to be, given that she could put enough strength behind the ped to crush the executive’s arm right off. A flick of her ankle and Eirica rolled over on her back, grunting in pain.

Chuckling widely at her new found strength. “This is something else~”, Saki said. She lifted her hand up and really focused. Feeling her nanites, she had some of them come out as a small, tennis-ball of grey matter in her hand.

“The nanites have modified my nerves to send and receive remote signals? Clever. I don’t even need them inside me, do I? I bet you didn’t tell the military that was possible. You probably wanted this all to yourself, as part of some way to wrap the world around your finger.”

“Is that what you’re gonna do now, thief.”, Eirica muttered.

Saki moved her foot to Eirica’s left wrist and pressed down till she heard a crack. “Watch your tone~”, she chimed amid fresh screams. “That didn’t really take me much effort at all you know. Amazing tech.”

She placed that nanite-laden hand of hers on Dr. Vass’s forehead. There were so many of them that it almost felt like a fluid on the paralyzed woman’s skin.

“But no... instead, I was thinking I’d take a vacation. I haven’t had one in my 3 years of work after all, so it’s long overdue. What better place to unwind and explore my new power than San Jose?”, She giggled again.

Saki felt what the nanites did: namely Eirica. She controlled them, like a second limb yet paradoxically, at the same time, billions and billions of tiny little limbs or beings in their own right. She willed the grey goo to swarm and meld around her boss’s neck.

“You know, I wonder if they can convert matter outside my body. That seems like a fun first-test on my new vacation, don’t you think so Ms. Vass? I’m sure whatever megalomaniac plan you had for yourself revolved around replicating somehow. You wouldn’t be able to resist the potential of being everywhere, huh?~”

Eirica started to scream again. Consume organic matter to expand the swarm? Even she wouldn’t do that. But, she cared what other people thought of her. Saki seemed like she didn’t; not anymore at least. Before Dr. Vass could muster the strength to protest though, Saki’s nanites flooded out and filled her mouth, gagging her.

The grey goo extended from Saki’s hand, covering it entirely so as to seem like one arm of hers ended in a tendril of grey which diffused at the tip, spreading and fanning over her ‘prey’. Saki’s nanobots were incredibly efficient. Each and every atom of Eirica’s was taken, bit by bit, and constructed into more of the nanites: more of Saki. The former assistant felt herself feeling more, covering more... growing, in a sense. It was overall a pleasurable sensation, like stretching ones limbs after sitting stiff for awhile. Not to mention the sheer sense of power this entailed. She could consume people now, utterly: each and every last piece of them.

Eirica felt the exact opposite. The grey goo over her was like lukewarm, dry slime. They stung at her skin: natural, as they were the most efficient digesters ever made. Not a single piece of hers was wasted--or spared. Down to the atom, she was consumed. She felt them pool into her skin, small enough to pass right through that barrier and start deconstructing her from within. She couldn't even scream with her mouth blocked, couldn’t move with the might of Saki’s super human strength pressing down on her. It was a merciless few seconds before the nanites got around to picking apart her heart and brain, terminating her proper.

The nation’s most famous and successful woman was turned into a mere snack, not a piece left of her. From the outside the transition from paralyzed business mogul to more grey goo looked seamless and clean.

Saki sighed, the disbelief of everything caught up with her, and she took a moment to bask in it. Eirica was gone, and in that bitch's place was a bunch of grey matter that she both controlled and *was*. That begged a question though, what should she do with all the excess nanites? There was a loud bang outside as security staff started the override process for the door. Eirica always hired the toughest, burliest looking men and women for that role. Saki thought of a fun idea all the sudden.

Two men finally got the door open. They couldn’t hear what was going on from the outside, but the system said the gunshot came from here. No one was really allowed in the nanotech lab sans Dr. Vass and her assistant. They figured it was a false alarm from some gasket or something blowing but, then again, they didn’t get a phone call from the boss...

They never expected to open the door and see Saki, Eirica’s omnipresent assistant, standing before than at twice their height.

Saki figured that the best use for the extra nanites was, well, more of her in a literal sense! Whereas Eirica might have gone for omnipresence right away, Saki wanted dominance and power. And maybe, just maybe, a bit of attention. The ‘silver’ medal no more, she spent too long of her life being short. She was always in Eirica’s shadow: both literally and figuratively. She’d become something so big and powerful that no one could ignore or gloss over, and then she’d be able to indulge some of those sadistic tendencies that none would expect from the cheery little assistant around the workplace.

It was easy too, she just knew how to do it, to keep her petite, cute body in proportion even as it doubled in scale. She even took the outfit she had on with her, and the nanites just made more of that neat spandex fiber while they made more of her flesh.

The look on those guard’s faces as she rushed at them was priceless. Two of the toughest guys in the building coming up to just her crotch. She couldn’t help but laugh as her feet left cracks in those tiles as they pounded at the floor.

Thump thump thump

They were too shocked to even reach their weapons in time. What kind of training prepares you for a 12ft tall woman charging your way?

Saki rushed up to one of them and pushed him right over, then stomped her foot right through his chest. His ribs bent like pretzel sticks beneath her sole, and then there was a gross, gooey sensation by her toes. She wasn’t a fan, so she willed the nanites to get a head start on removing that mess both from her and at her feet. More matter would be fun to play with, after all.

The other security guard, in a fit of testosterone induced panic, punched his right fist into Saki’s fabric covered thigh. He actually broke the knuckles of his joints. Saki saw it coming: not in slow motion, but her processing speed and ability to react was just that fast now. She let it happen anyways, though spot-reinforced the area to cause that satisfying hand breakage.

He trembled as she reached down and wrapped her fingers about his bald scalp. Even with the nanites flowing through her, merged with her, she still felt human when she wanted to be. She was still made of much flesh in this moment. Strong, tough flesh. It was an interesting contrast: the smooth warmth of her palm and the obscene strength he felt behind them. With just a flex of her fingers, she could crack his skull like an egg.

If only he were so lucky. Instead, she just held him there for a moment, dangling. By her feet, he watched his friend get ‘dissolved’ by grey goo. Naturally, he screamed, kicked, fussed. His life flashed before his eyes: dreams of being a famous body builder quashed by the reality of the competition. Settling on a security gig. This is how it ends? Crushed by some freakish amazon? ‘What the hell even went on in here’, he thought.

Saki giggled as the nanite clump by her legs finished breaking his partner down, then swarmed back around her. Her leggings and skin were clean of any blood or mess: the nanites repurposed all that, too.

“Your friend down there is put to good use, don’t worry. Why don’t you join them?” she smiled, that same sort of smile she used to have to force back when working as an assistant.

Saki willed the swarm to shoot out from her arm and break this man down. She was getting better at this as she got more nanites to dedicate for it. A curtain of grey ‘fluid’ traveled down from her hand, wrapped him up, then pulled itself back into her body. Nothing was left behind, every piece was hers once again.

Though the grey goo could be disconcerting, its entry back into her was seamless. Her flesh didn’t distort or warble to accommodate it. She did, of course, grow though. With those two poor sods absorbed, she felt another grand infusion of mass and couldn’t resist burgeoning in scale again. Why should she resist anything, being above it all now?

The guards were more massive than Eirica. Her policy of hiring shorter folks was loose, and definitively broken when it came to her own safety. So, the pair had a lot to offer. Saki sat down on the lab floor and savored her growth a bit here. A pleasant stretching sensation wracked her again. She went from 12 to 20 feet in the span of a few seconds. The adaptation suit still growing with her, her feet began to creep against the back wall of the lab.

Her toes curled around the terminal computer. It was there that she changed the DNA bonding process that got her here. The computer was useless now, and she moved her ped forward and tilted it down. Saki felt the terminal crunch beneath the ball of her foot.

20ft became 25, and she stretched her legs out more. Her right foot, almost as tall as a person, pushed against the wall of the lab and cracked it. The other one she set squarely on that infusion machine. Essential to her power grab, it was just more scrap now. Frankly, it could even be a threat if someone reverse engineered it and somehow came up with more nanobots...

Saki curled her toes around it, bending that disc-like contraption like it was soft clay. The tactility of titanium and plastic mashing between her toes was another reminder of how strong she was now. It felt nice too; a wonderful sensation just for her. No one on the planet could feel as she did, taste as she did, see as she did. She was an advanced being and was just getting started.

‘Damn.’ she thought to herself. ‘Who knew breaking things was so much fun~’

No better moment to let loose for the first time in your life than after obtaining post-human status. Expanding up to 30ft, she turned around and crashed her legs through the desks at the side of the room. Kicking and laughing with twisted glee at how fragile stuff was. To prove her strength, she set her toe on one of those chrome accented desks and flexed the digit, not holding back. The piece of furniture snapped both in half and into splinters. Saki marveled at her might.

Then she rose up, hit her head on the ceiling (which promptly crumbled without a twinge of pain), and then realized she was too big to even stand up in here anymore. She chuckled, and figured she should stop wasting her ‘vacation’ time at her former workplace

Saki also realized, she was ignoring a lot of matter here. If she’s gonna break everything in the lab, she might as well use it make more nanites for herself. So, Saki focused and sent some of her nanites out of her body and around the room.

As before, the nanites were small enough to just seamlessly pass through her skin, no distortion of her petite frame needed. They washed over her like a wave than fanned around the room to collect everything. Every apparatus, desk, and so forth, broken or no, was collected in the grey swarm. With a warm grin it all flowed back into her and she grew.

What better way to leave this dumb building then to grow out of it, after all?

For a brief few moments the room was as clean as it had ever been, then it shattered as Saki more or less exploded out of it. She didn’t hold back, and her body burst through the floor.

With her heightened reflexes, she easily landed safely on the level below. Her hindquarters came down on some officer workers. They popped under her cheeks. As she fell absorbed much of who and what she came into contact with: though not all of it. There’d be time to be thorough later. Vacations were usually about slowing down a bit and unwinding, after all~

She was at 50ft before she crashed through the floor below that one, taking the rest of the junk on this one down with her. She arrived at a server room of some kind which she completely trashed when she stretched her legs forward and out the wall into the sunny outdoors. She wondered what anyone outdoors would think, seeing bits of some giant with her legs sticking out a building like some sort of zany old-timey drawing.

There was just one more floor below her. With a wiggle of her butt she dislodged this floor and feel down into the lobby, crushing the security at the front desk.

Then, she stood up.

By now she was 100ft (30m) tall with what she did absorb on the way down. The building itself was only 200ft tall. It was purchased entirely for some of Eirica’s more secretive and prized projects, and wasn’t designed to attract attention.

Now, its entire stability was threatened as one giant woman stretched her arms to the side and spun around. Saki laughed gleefully as her arms clipped the few remaining support beams of the thing, sending the building crashing down around and atop her. Thousands of tons of steel and concrete bounced harmlessly off her body.

As the building collapsed, she noticed three suit-wearing goons try and run out the entrance. Security no doubt. She grinned down and cast them in the shadow of her step. They crushed nice and warm beneath her foot.

When the dust cleared, she took a nice, big breath of that spring air and sighed. At last, she was outside again.