Alice had a secret fantasy. In it, she had super powers, and fought villains. She had a secret stash of comics and manga featuring female heroes and even 'magical girls'. Could CHRONIVAC...?
"Ok, first, I need super strength!" She found the option to increase her strength, but as she slid the bar upwards, her muscles began to grow, quickly making her look ridiculous.
"Gah, this will never do..." she dug around in other menus, finding the controls for her muscles. She shrank her muscles, which reduced her strength. She frowned, but then noticed she could make her muscles denser. With some juggling, she managed to greatly increase her strength, without making her look like anything other than an athletic young girl.
And that's when she noticed she could lock bars. She smacked her forehead. "Doh!" Locking the muscle bar, she ramped her strength all the way to the max "Press 2000 lbs." was apparently the limit.
She gave herself greatly increased stamina, which felt like she was high on sugar and caffeine. There was an option to make her skin denser, (including her hair and nails) which she figured would make her harder to hurt...at first it made her complexion a bit coarse, but she was able to remedy that with the Smooth option.
While she was at it, she gave herself long, fiery red hair and blue eyes. Because...she could! Perfectly clear complexion...ooh, bone density, that's a good one!
Her chair creaked as she gained weight, even though outwardly, she didn't look as if she weighed more than thirty pounds.
She was able to increase her physical agility and reaction time to what CHRONIVAC called "predatory cat" levels. She was getting the idea that this version of the program had unlockable content that would enable her to increase her attributes even more...was this a trial version?
She gave herself an IQ of 160 to go with her new form; she quickly deduced there was an ulterior motive for the designer to not want the testees to make themselves any smarter...in fact, most of the built-in limits were put there to cap the power of any test subject.
It sounded pretty sinister...like the plot of a super-villain!
A few more tweaks upgraded her appearance to "super model". "Hah, a nine year old super model, that's rich. But I do look pretty hot for a kid with no boobs, if I do say so myself!"
On a whim, she looked up her sexual preferences. "Repressed homosexuality!!!!?!" She blinked, and thought about it.
"Repress this!" as she slid the bar all the way to what she figured was "full-bore child lesbian" with an insane giggle. She lowered her inhibitions all around, betting her new super-brain would keep her out of trouble. "After all, magical girls always have some lesbian villain chasing after them!"
She increased her sense of vision, hearing, and touch. Touch proved to be very pleasant, and what the heck, why not increase her pleasure threshold too? Oh and pain had to go way up, she was a super girl now!
Hitting reality, nothing seemed to change at first...
Until she noticed the house was a lot bigger and nicer! Her computer was now state-of-the-art, and there were no windows in her room.
"I'm underground! In my secret Alice-lair...under my mansion home! Holy Bat-arangs, I'm a kid billionaire supergenius superhero!"
She resisted the urge to dance around like Dr. Frank N. Furter and went looking for her super-suit.
Instead she found an elaborate Spectra (think Kevlar but stronger) and Nomex (fire proof material) lined silk kimono (pink, with a white dragon emblem) which would have been pretty heavy on a normal girl, as well as what looked like a bamboo umbrella...
"Oh no! A half-ton indestructible umbrella!" She laughed. "I must be a Hibiki!"
Sure enough, she found a pink and white-striped headband, which she used to tie her long hair back into a ponytail. "Or a Saotome, I got the hair and eyes. Do I know martial arts?"
A few minutes later, she noted that she did, indeed, know martial arts. As well as Olympic level gymnastics and physical skills that would put a Chinese acrobat to shame.
No sandals now, but heavy combat boots made from Spectra and reinforced with metal plates. Trying them on, the lining was so comfy she felt fine wearing them without socks.
"Now, to find out if Mom knows about my hero side!"
Donning a pair of mirrorshades she found laying around, she took her private elevator upstairs.
She was almost disappointed to find her mom was now a pretty clueless mother of a supergenius billionaire prodigy....who was definitely NOT the parent of the Pink Dragon, champion of youth and beauty!
"Pink Dragon? Yeesh. Oh well, time to head out into the city!"
It took a bit to get used to her alter-ego's preferred mode of transporation; leaping from rooftop to rooftop. Her supernatural sense of balance easily let her perch on lightposts and other high spots; just like a true manga hero!
Just then, her super hearing picked up the sounds of battle. A super villain at work!
Racing to the scene, she found...