"If you need to you can always contact your parents, or your Grandfather, on your comm-link."

He taps his right ear.

"I'll see you again when your done. Good luck."

As soon as he is finished speaking he looks at his wristwatch and simply disappears leaving behind only a quiet "pop" and a slight chill in the air.

"Ms Dobson, if your ready I'll give you your visitor tag and you can head on back to the testing area."

The receptionist's smile is incredibly comforting and can be seen clearly through her holographic computer screen.

"My grandfather? What do you mean? Grandfather Dobson has been dead for five years." Val said she sorted through what he had just said. Did they know who her mother's father was? Nana said he and she had 'met at woodstock' and that was it. Of course by then Wilson had vanished.

"What? Oh sure." Val said to the 'receptionist' and filled in the visitor's log as she was asked. Normally she'd have been awed by the presence of so many fantastical folks around but her mind was reeling that someone might know what Nana could't find out in decades of research.

"There you go.." She says as she finishes signing in and waits for whatever will happen next.

"Thank you."

The receptionist flicks a glowing wisp of golden light from her holographic keybord and it zips directly to Val's right lapel where it seems to adhere to her clothing. forming a hologram of an ID badge.

"Please do not remove this badge until you depart the facility. It is part of the sensing equipment that will help with your assessment. You will not need to remove it to change clothes. Follow the Gold Line to the changing rooms. Testing begins as soon as you are changed."

She gestures to a door nearby and a glowing golden line can be clearly seen on the floor leading directly to it. The line was definitely not there a few seconds ago.

Val was impressed but then she had continued to be impressed by the Myth foundation and its mysterious founder. This was likely some sort of holographic 'tag' that could be projected onto her badge anywhere in the complex. Odds were Phil could explain it, to the effect of delivering a summary usable in a Master's Thesis about it. She grinned at the idea of netting one of her friend's idols but doubted the big man himself would show up for testing her abilities. Her abilities were a dime a dozen to the folks at the Myth Foundation, and truth to be told she and her parents had only a few questions.

Was she going to stay healthy and had her awful genetic damage been fixed by a miracle? She recalled someone in her hospital room the night it had happened but not clearly, she had gotten by a closing elevator door and in addition to popping her brittle hip, had gotten another concussion.

She followed the line while thinking about what was going to go down. So change into your 'utility outfit' and play lab rat Val, she told herself as she let her iPhone play 'Crossroad Blue' as she came up on the changing area. Time to get to it then, she thought as looked around for her suit.

The small locker room is ironically low tech. A bench along one wall and lockers along the other with enough room for 2-3 people to change in between.

One of the lockers has the name "V. Dobson" on it in block letters. Inside are a set of yoga pants and an underarmor style shirt in the black and gold colors of the Myth Foundation but with no visible logos or markings. Once on the clothes fit better and are more comfortable than anything Val has owned since her transformation and in fact only her favorite snuggly pajamas from before even come close.

The shoes are in the style of vibrams with no socks and separated toes.

As soon as she is dressed the gold line appears on the floor leading back out into the hallway and deeper into the Foundation's interior.

A young female with the "lab tech" look with which Val is far too familiar is waiting in the hallway tapping away on an array of holographic equipment.

Her voice and bouncing pony tail are about 700% above the legal limit of bubbly happiness at 6:04 in the morning.

"Absolutely fantastic readings we're getting Miss Dobson. Your parahuman energy signature is stable and your rockin' those yoga pants like Gillian Michaels!"

"We just have a few tests to complete before you get to take a break for breakfast. Are you ready?"
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Val had encountered this beast before, the 'morning person' was a commonly encountered fixture at the University Hospital. She smiled, while not cranky, it was hard to be grumpy in the face of such rampant enthusiasm. Even at 6 am.  And she definitely rocked any outfit she tried on and was vain enough to know it.

"Just call me Val please, and what do you want me to do? I figure the more I help, the quicker we are done." Part of her had hoped to meet the famous Dr. Myth but the big guy had more important thing to do she reminded herself. She had seen more than one documentary about the man, and he was very busy in all of them.

"Ok Val." [Megawatt Grin(tm)]

"I'm going to walk you to the scanning room where we'll get some wide spectrum readings with equipment more focused that what I have here. This was more to make sure your parahuman energy signature isn't going to react to the particles used in the scans. That happens sometimes."

"Then we'll move on to the Gym to get some physical data. That section will be handled by someone else. I'm more of a Zumba girl."

She headed down the hall occasionally looking over her shoulder and making entries on her holographic keyboard.

As she enters the Scanning Room Val can see a reinforced window and behind it a man in what appears to be a well constructed radiation suit messing with the various controls.

"Don't worry about Donovan. The suit isn't for the scanner."

"Nice meeting you Val. I can't wait to see your readings!" [Megawatt Grin(tm) Redux]

She shuts a door roughly the thickness of a bank vault door and Val is left alone in the room.

It had to be a superpower, Val decided, no one was that cheerful and perky without either medication or it being a power. She nodded as she looked around the 'vault' she was being locked in. Her imagination had the tech running into a rooom where there was a big spinning wheel of dire threats to unleash on her, screaming 'horde of rats' or such as her choice. She smiled at the moment of whimsy, picturing another scene of a bunch of men and women in lab coats muching on pop corn as she is microwaved into a small pile of ash.

A life time of going into and out of esoteric scanning devices kept her from feeling entombed, though she did wonder if there was sufficent ventilation for her to keep breathing.

"Okay.. back in the vault of mad science. Should have known that wouldn't change." Val said as she looked around, taking off a foot or two to check out the ceiling. "Still less needles and spinal taps this time, so I'm okay with it."

"The Doc's been past needles for a while now." Donovan's voice has a strong northern Michigan accent.

It has only been seconds but he goes on to say, "Only one more scan to do. This one is based on Oberon tech so you will feel some pressure. It won't last long."

Pressure is exactly what Val feels. Literally tons of it as she is slowly forced back to the floor under the weight of she has no idea what. But Donovan's word is good and it ends a mere 2-3 seconds after it begins. Still it leaves her teeth vibrating and for a few seconds there is an image of a man, taller even than Val, with long flaming red hair and a macelike weapon of some kind glowing painfully bright burned on the back of her eyelids.

"Wow. Good read. Sorry for the discomfort but at least we dont have to do it again."

"You can head on to the Gym now."

The door opens silently and the gold line leads back into the hall.

"Wow.. that was.. weird." Val says as she shakes her head. Luckily her pain tolerance was pretty high after a lifetime of tests, grafts, gene-therapy, upwards of sixty broken bones of one type or another. "Does this usually cause visual hallucinations?" She asked curiously as she walked out and looked around the gym
curiously.

"Not complaining mind.. just asking. I am used to weird things during testing and treatment." She grinned as she looked around. "So, you're the 'coach' who will be running me ragged?"

"Nah that's not me. I only do face to face with the Doc. Ain't safe otherwise."

He fiddles with some controls.

"I've only run that scan a couple of times but visual hallucinations are definitely a non-standard reaction. Remember what you saw. You'll get a chance to talk about it later."

"Best get moving, Molly can be impatient."


OOC GM's Note: I have mistaken referred several times to Myth Foundation colors as being Black and Gold. That is not correct. Myth Foundation colors, and uniforms including the workout gear Val is wearing, are Blue and Grey(Silver). All references to Black and Gold should(and will be) be edited to read Blue and Grey.
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"Gotcha  so Molly is the 'physical terrorist' today" Val said with a grin as she followed the imaginary line to her next test victim station.  She like the colors of the outfit, looking them over  the outfit was clearly sturdy but not a costume  she'd have to get something sim alar for gym and her 'job' at the wreckers  of corse the work gear would require gloves and face shield as well to keep her boss out of trouble with osha

The gold line leads Val to an honest to God Gymnasium with everything from old fashioned free weights to machines that she isn't at all certain what they do.

Standing near the center of the room are a young girl, maybe 12-13 years old, and a man of proportions so massive it almost causes a double take. He is at least a foot taller than Val and an estimate of his weight would put him in the 800-900 pound range but something tells her that he is actually much heavier than he looks.

The girl is dressed in clothing similar to Val except for a worn baseball cap which does not match the outfit.

"Good morning Miss Dobson." The voice is cheerful but her phrase has the timber of a rehearsed line.

The huge man touches the girl gently on the shoulder and looks hopeful.

"We can play weights now Molly?"

"Hey,,  I think that we will be doing some lifting." Val said with a smile as she walked up. She figured they were here for testing as well. The big guy was clearly a brick and looked like he could lift ALL the weight in the room. The girl, Val figured, was like her. Deceptively strong.

"Names Val by the way, you're Molly and what's your name big guy?" She asked the gentle giant with a smile.

The big man blushes a little and lowers his eyes and it is Molly who answers.

"Nice to meet you Val."

"His name is Thomas but he very much prefers to be called Thump"

The girl gestures and summons one of the holographic consoles that Val has seen over and over since arriving at the Foundation.

"I'm going to run your tests and record the data. Thump is here to spot you on the heavy lifts."

"We'll start with measuring your strength. Do you need to warm up and do you have any idea what your upper limit is?"

Thump straightens his own giant ball cap and sets his face in a very serious and focused expression. When he raises his hand to to eye level Val notices a leather wrist band, fastened with a padlock, that has the words "Stark Independent" embroidered on it.

"Let's see, I can lift a hemi engine block one handed. I've torn one free of a truck with some effort. I've flipped a quarter ton truck with effort. Truthfully though, I don't know my physical limits, the university didn't have enough weights to push my limits. I moved a 2 ton weight rack fairly easily but that was mostly shifting it. It was.. spindly and a bit fragile." Val said with a shrug.

"I was being tested more for resilience, health and such. That and not breaking things." Val added with a wry grin. "I didn't have good control at first.. doubling your mass was bad enough."

Molly smiles at the graphic examples.

"Don't I know it. When I first met Thump he didn't turn doorknobs he turned doors."

She led the way to a machine which was sitting on an obviously reinforced section of floor.

"You will find that the equipment here goes significantly higher than 2 tons. I expect we are going to find out that you do too."

Molly proceeds to put Val through a workout that is beyond anything she has ever experienced. Without warning Molly's "sweet little girl" demeanor turns into "evil personal trainer" mode and then back so fast that it's hard to follow. She pushes Val without quite pissing her off and Thump is always right there if the weights get too heavy. When it's all over both of them are pleasantly surprised with the results.

Val is able to press nearly 8 tons over her head and her deadlift is closer to 15 tons. Some of the workout is intended to test her endurance and durability and she scores very high in those areas as well.

All of the results are beyond anything Val would have expected. It is clear to her that her physical abilities have increased dramatically since the fight in the mall.

"You play weights good Val."
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"Yes you do. I put you in the top ten people we have tested with this equipment."

"More significantly your rated almost 2% higher at the end of the workout than when we started."

"Your powers are responding to exertion and increasing."

She closes here holo-notebook.

"Ready for some breakfast?"

"That isn't normal is it? Responding that fast I mean, I know that weight training increases strength but not that fast right?" Val asked as she took it in  15 tons was a lot, not like a freight train heavy but pretty much anything she'd run into on the highway.  A lot of weight for sure

"Breakfast sounds great." She said as her stomach growled  she wasn't used to a healthy appetite still

"Meh..I'm a twelve year old personal trainer with an eight foot sidekick and we both  work for a guy who became the worlds foremost neurosurgeon one Wednesday afternoon because our staff neurosurgeon had a stroke and he had to operate on the surgeon and his patient simultaneously so...What's normal? I got no idea from normal."

"What I do know is your chart says your energy signature is stable, your mentally stable, physically and mentally tough, and the worst side effect of your powers is you can shop from the top shelf without calling a salesperson. So I wouldn't worry too much.

"You like bacon?"

Molly leads the way to the cafeteria but it is clear that Thump knows the way.

"Oh yeah.. I love bacon now that I can have it." Val said with a hearty laugh. "It's a split between no dietary restrictions, no more drug therapy or being able to show outside the 3 year old section of the clothing store for what is best about life now. I admit I'm curious how I got .. all big and healthy but I don't want to push my luck you know. I figure that making sixteen with my conditions, plural, was a miracle to begin with. I just want to live life and all the rest."