Dr. Jekyll's face scrunched up. The serum was incredibly bitter very different from the sour taste she was expecting.
"Well that was unpleasant" she said to the lone laboratory
Henrietta's work with the Archaea S.Jekilokinsonioh-1 was laughed at by her colleagues and cost her the tenure appointment, hell the only reason they haven't ousted her is because it would take too long to hire a new professor and they just made her teach the basic general education natural science courses. She had to fight for lab time and her graduate students. However, it turns the person who got the tenure appointment was a creep who got arrested and there is another chance to obtain her prize.
A warmth spread over her body.
"Yes it's working"
The liquid in her stomach was suddenly making her feel very good. It was halfway between taking a shot of brandy and kissing someone. She shifted her hips and felt her butt rub on the chair beneath it. She feared her clothes would rip so she removed them. She was naked as a new born baby.
This Archaea would be the basis for a growth-serum that will change the world, she was sure of it. From super soldiers to firefighters to factory workers. Who wouldn't benefit from being 25% taller? And right here, right now, Henrietta was going to be the first to experience it! Starting out at a modest 5 feet, 6 inches, she was expecting to end up around 6 foot 9. She would be the size of one of the many mediocre basketball players that the university still promotes heavily despite their 50 year losing streak. She felt her self gaining mass but she didn't feel herself getting taller. Instead it was like she was becoming a massive blob. She saw her arms getting thicker. Despite the good feeling the serum was giving her, the fear and anxiety she feels tells a different story on her face. Soon she started to see things threw four eyes.
"Four eyes what the fuck?"
Her legs were getting thicker and it looked like the muscle was about to rip.
"No No No!"
Soon she felt her body splitting in half. She was expecting to be dead in seconds. But something felt odd. She didn't feel the excess mass anymore. She felt her hair on her shoulders as the spilt snapped the hair tie. She was still panting. She was still the same height of 5'6''.
"Wait, am I going crazy, that extra biomass should have gone some where?"
She heard something. It was as if there was an echo in the lab. She looked around and was shocked to see.... herself.