Bright light filled the lab when Mary started to appeared in the bright light of the second teleporter chamber. Small lightning bolts hit Mary's body as she solidified. For sure she had grown back to her old size. The teleporter did not stop emitting light as more and more mass were materialized. And with an eye-blinding flash, the teleporter went dead and the door of the receiver opened.
* Recomposition finalized
* Opening door
**** TELEPORTAION PORCESS COMPLETED WITH SUCCESS ****
The first thing Mary realized was a strange weightless feeling. She had a feeling of vertigo from the teleportation but gained consciousness faster than her first experience with the teleporter. Her first step felt very strange as if her leg was very heavy on the one hand and weightless on the other hand. Mary slowly placed her foot with a loud thud on the floor. Confused form the thudding noises of her steps, Mary walked into the room and checked her body out. She was so excited about what may had changed in her body and appearance. The first change Mary recognized was her new (or old) height, which she had regained. Mary assumed that she was with 5'2" as tall as had been before her teleportation "accident".
At least, I'm back to my old size and fortunately, I put more blocks into the teleporter. Lets see, what else has changed about my body.
Concentrating, Mary tried to to sense the wasps, which she had commanded to guard the door. Within a second, she felt the wasps in front of the door but to her surprise she felt also a lot more wasps outside her house, in her neighborhood, in her village. Overwhelmed by information of thousand of wasps she tried to concentrate on only a few wasps and was able to feel the surroundings of the wasps. It was as if the wasps were telling her was they saw, hear and smell and fell. Mary focused on even less wasps now and was able to perfectly locate them about one and a half mile away.
Wow. My influence on the wasps must have been enhanced a lot. I'm able communicate with the wasps for over a mile and can even feel, what they feel.
Again Mary started to focus on only a few wasps. Slowly Mary tried to focus on more and more wasps. Information of the surrounding area of hundreds wasps flowed into her brain at once as she increased the number of wasps. Mary felt a sudden vertigo as her brain could not handle the volume of information and quickly broke the link to the wasps. Mary was very pleased with her new enhanced bonding to her insects.
So I'm finally back to my old size and have better control over the wasps, what else has changed?
It was when she remembered the strange noises of her footsteps. Mary lifted one of her legs and touched it. Her leg felt... steel hard. Mary felt very dumb that she was not able to put one and one thorougher. "The steel blocks had to go somewhere", said Mary as she started to explore her body with her hands. All of her body was indeed steel hard, even the little hairs on her skin felt as if they were made of steel. Much to her surprise she felt nigher inflexible nor rigid, but firm and... strong. Mary tensed one of her arm and it felt even harder, if this was possible. Her metal body felt warm and hard, as if it was made of liquid steel, unless she tensed it. "I'm like living steel", she joked.
Not knowing how to test her strength, Mary bend forward, put her hands on the floor and easily made a perfect handstand. Mary was very excited of the new degree of strength her body now possessed. Mary thought, she could hold this pose forever, so she shifted her weight slightly to the left side and lifted her right hand, making it a perfect one-handed handstand. Still no challenge for her, she lowered her arm and pushed it up again, doing one-handed vertical push-ups effortlessly.
1, 2, 3... This is easy. I'm so strong... 18, 19, 20.
Pleased with the outcome, Mary lowered her left arm a last time, pushed her whole body high in the air, flipped 180 deg midair and easily landed with a loud thud on both feet. The steel wasps girl grinned with excitement of the newfound strength and power of her body.
Mary wondered, where this strength came from and made a quick check on the console. Mary realized that she had put 720 lbs of steel in the teleporter. "So I had been stronger before", said Mary, realizing that she had underestimated the weight of one block by a lot, "and now I have to weight over 850 lbs all packed on a 5'2" frame. I'm must be very strong now.". She wanted to get a feeling about how strong she really was so she headed to the pallet again and grabbed on of the 60 lbs steel cubes. Still surprised by her own strength, the cube felt almost weightless. Mary placed the cube on one hand and tossed it several foot in the air and caught it without bending her hand even an inch down. Next, Mary tried to squeeze the cube with both hands together and with a yielding sound it compacted and deformed. Her arms were like pistons pressing with the force of tons. As she released her steel crushing grip, deep dents were in the cube. Satisfied with her strength tests, Mary put the cube down.
Feeling both confident and powerful, Mary decided what to do next.
Maybe she should use the teleporter again. Maybe she should leave it for now.
And with that Mary...