blueteamnovel 194. Growing pains
194. Growing pains
194. Growing pains
Nozomi felt like screaming, she couldn’t. Her entire body was out of her control as she shivered from both the pain and intense cold she felt. Worse was the burning, she felt like waves of freezing cold and scorching hot played a game of tag inside her. Not only that but the sensation of a thousand acid covered needles poking both her skin, muscles, organs and even bones was maddening.
Hinata Took a glance towards Nozomi who injected herself. She had been biting her lips with indecision. Now? Now there was no way she wasn’t doing it. Call it peer pressure or whatever but she wouldn’t be left behind. She knew that should she choose to she wouldn’t need to use it, nor would she need to worry about her future. She had full confidence Tomoka would protect her, but did she want to be protected? She would become a burden. If Nozomi had decided against it Hinata would probably do so too, now, she didn’t want to be left behind. With a deep breath to calm her nerves Hinata injected herself too.
Tomoka wanted to help, she had planned to inject herself first so she wouldn’t have to bear witness to the torturous sight of her girls writhing in pain. She had been too stunned once Nozomi injected herself to inject herself. Then she was brought out of her stupor by the sight of Hinata doing the same. Now there was no way she could just abandon them in this state.
What she didn’t expect was the violent reaction her body had to the serum. She hadn’t been able to test it on a clone of hers, after all there were none. Tomoka’s phantoms had tried to make coles of her on four different occasions all ending in catastrophic failure. Each time her cells would proliferate uncontrollably forming masses of flesh and bone that resembled some sort of eldritch abomination more than a human. Those masses would then escape causing untold damage to the facilities and phantoms present.
It is because of that that Tomoka had no way of knowing how her body would react. The first thing that happened was Tomoka’s eyes activating on their own followed by the headache she had come to expect from it. Then she felt how her brain literally mutated in real time to deal with the added pressure. That is when she realized what was going on.
The gelel stones enhance regeneration. Tomoka’s adaptability went bonkers thanks to this and is now adapting to anything and everything it can. It is because of this that her headache decreased in real time as her brain became more and more powerful. That wasn’t the only change though. Bone, muscles, organs and whatever else was changing as well. Unlike her brain though the changes were negligible. She could feel how her brain was now Hyoton cooled. She can feel how it is drawing power from the speed force to accelerate her processing power.
Tomoka was lost in amazement and pain to notice how time went by. How hours had passed, how dawn had come, when her girls woke up. She couldn’t tell they were by her side, taking care of her in the same caring and loving manner she had for them. Twelve hours went by and finally it ended. Tomoka now felt completely and utterly exhausted both physically and mentally. She fell asleep in the loving embrace of her girls.