A New Goo (Flux)

Hotwire looked up and saw flux, who had grown slightly larger. This was probably in an effort to equalize her nutrient levels, which was a smart more. "Very well. Let's see what we have." He said taking the two tubes. He went back to the green device, and took out the spinner. He sprayed it with some strange chemical and gave it a serious wipedown, before using his gloved hands to put it back in.


"Now the samples." He muttered attaching the tubes to a couple small holes in the top. He adjusted a couple of dials and the turned around and looked up at flux.

"Let's just hope this won't come back to haunt us." He said.

Apparently the delivery system was efficient. Far more efficient than Hotwire suspected. That was good.. assuming Flux would come out of this alright. "Well that's good to know." He said trying to mask his concern. Genetic modification, especially mutant genetic modification, was a finicky business. Any compound could effect any mutant in any number of ways for any reason. And Hotwire tried to catalog as many as possible.

The machine dinged and spat out a small piece of paper. He looked it over again, and gave a huge sigh of relief. "Good news. You're stable. Or at least will be in a few minutes. Some of the supplements I added are having adverse effects and your body is working to flush them out. I can adjust your next injection so that won't happen." He explained.

"But what I can't tell you is if this will have any permanent effects on your powers. That's just something we'll have to watch and see."

"On the extremely off .000164% chance they do go bad? Yes, the next few minutes." he said trying to ease her fears.

Hotwire hoped this wouldn't end badly. Now it was just a short wait for her to, probably, return to normal size and sensation. Although, the jellyfish compounds had irreparably changed her coloration.

Hotwire felt the goo hand bonk against his head. He too a little bit of the slime from his hair and flung it back into flux with a slight laugh. She was at least being positive. Hotwire consulted his communicator "Alright... one minute-ish" he said.

"Feel any different?"

Hotwire looked down at the block on the floor and gave it a small poke. That was interesting. He then looked back up at flux, looking rather human for someone who had shed their human genomes a good year prior.

"Yeah. That should do it. You're stable, and any further injections should be perfectly safe." He said. "So we should probably go and see if there are any repercussions on your powers. I've been setting up a simulator room with some naval issue projectors I found lying around."

"Yeah." hotwire said with a smile. "That's true." He agreed. There were worse colors than blue. In fact, not that hotwire would admit it, he like her new color a bit better. It... fit somehow. He couldn't place it, but it just did. Weird.

"I see. You can use your body to make custom molds. I think I can make something to help those molds be as accurate as possible, though from what you've told me, you can work a lot of metals. Alluminum, Brass, Copper, Zinc, Magnesium, Silver, even Gold." He listed off on his fingers. "And that's just a few. And with Metamorphi here, we won't be short on raw materials."

"He turns into the materials. Unfortunately, we can't harvest materials off him." he said putting his hand to his chin in thought. "But some of his crystalline and metallic forms are still useful in construction."

"Which brings me to my next point. I'm going to be going out with him later to perform a geological survey. We might get lucky and hit a vein of iron or steel. Then I just have to build an on-sight smelter and some mining equipment." He explained.