Chapter 2 – The Tests

Betty was feeling amazing and decided to test her strength on some of the things she had prepared in the lab. First she had set up a barbell with a thousand pounds of plates thinking that would be a good start. She walked over to the bar and thinking that if she truly had the kind of power she was hoping for she could easily lift the bar with one hand.  She bent down to grab the bar in the center with her left hand and she began to grip it lightly she thought but the high strength steel bar seemed to feel like soft putty to her and she realized that she was squeezing the hardened solid bar like play dough. “Wow…” she thought, “I barely squeezed the bar and it squished like a piece of clay. I need to be a bit more careful”.

She then with no effort at all lifted the weight over her head with one smooth motion pumping it up and down as if it was a feather.  It was so light she decided to balance the entire weight on her index finger and hold it above her head with no strain whatsoever. Lowering the bar down to show her massive bicep she had an idea.  Releasing the bar with a slight flick of her finger. She caught the bar on top of her enormous bicep and with a quick flex of her massive muscle the bar flew straight up as if it was as light as a leaf.  This got her pretty excited and she flexed her bicep which grew to an unbelievable size.

“That was fun” she smiled to herself while looking around the lab to see what else she could do to test her magnificent body. The next test which entailed wrapping heavy steel chains around her massive biceps to see if she could break them with just the flexing of her huge muscles to show the incredible power of her arms. She wrapped both arms tightly with the chains and locked them with a heavy duty padlock. Slowly she began to flex her biceps and the chains began to stretch and strain at the force with minimal effort on her part until suddenly they both shattered like ice while her arms exploded to an incredible height and size. “This was just amazing...” she thought, “Even my muscles themselves are invincible!”

Next came a test of the power of her punch and since she has the power of not one but a thousand suns a typical punching bag just wouldn’t do. So she set up a four inch solid steel slab mounted to a six inch steel girder that might do the trick. She had used the punching bag at the gym a lot so she was comfortable hitting it. She took her stance and let loose with a straight left hand punch bracing for the impact.

As her fist came in contact with the steel plate the metal peeled back like thin paper and her fist and arm blasted right through it like a hot knife through butter. “Oh, my…” she chuckled, “I would hate to be the one who gets in the way of this iron fist…hee hee”.

One last test that she had set up was to determine how durable and invincible the cosmic power would make her body. She had seen how Superman could withstand bullets from a gun so she thought that would be a good test. She had rigged up a stand with an automatic assault rifle that she could fire remotely. She got it all set up and took her place within arm’s length of the muzzle at almost point blank range. She closed her eyes and on three pulled the trigger. The bullets hit her massive chest and sprayed everywhere without leaving even a mark.  They harmlessly bounced off her incredibly muscular chest while she hardly felt a thing. It was like taking a shower but instead of water droplets hitting her body it was hot lead. After she unloaded the eight round clip she reached up with her right hand and with her index finger and thumb, squished the end of the muzzle like a marshmallow and with a flick of her wrist bent the barrel 90 degrees with ease. She stood there majestically thinking, “Superman has nothing on me...hmmm Superman.”