Reincarnated As Tony Stark With A Skill - Volume 3 Chapter 125 Super Soldier Serum
AN: Apocalypse log. Week 2.
One roll of tissue paper has finally been used. My dog thought it was some kind of chew toy and ripped the whole thing to shreds.
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Tony went to his lab and started working on the Black Widow version of the Super Soldier Serum.
Back then, his father gave him the formula as well as the manufacturing procedure for the serum.
It was the variant of the original version, given to the Winter Soldier’s HYDRA friends.
The serum’s effects were as good as the original but it caused effects felt from the transformation that was a lot worse than what Captain America felt. The HYDRA test subjects felt immense pain during the process and also had increase aggression after the process was completed.
Tony refrained from settling on it.
Not only is the increased aggression a huge drawback for someone like him who’s job description is nowhere close to being a berserker, he also wasn’t masochistic enough to enjoy the pain.
He still had some time before the crazy begins. He also thought it was a good starting point for his mutant biology research.
He wasn’t aware of it then, but the serum turned out to be an experiment based on mutants according to the information in Stryker’s memories.
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As he started working on the serum, his first aim was to get to know what each thing did. He created a lot of clones and let them remove a part of the serum each.
He didn’t know how to verify the results at first since his clones couldn’t even be injected but then he noticed some new generation of poachers coming to the Antarctic to grab some penguins. They were newbies who didn’t know why no one hunts there anymore and was tempted by the price of penguins in the black market to care.
He caught these poachers and started used them as test subjects. He took over their bodies using his symbiote and used their bodies to experience the differences between the effects of each modification first hand.
He was able to learn a lot but the supply couldn’t keep up with the demand. His clones produced way more serums to test things on than the number total test subjects even with some of them getting repeated. The poachers were getting scared of going to Antarctica again.
Soon, none of them came.
Tony was still in need of test subjects but since none of them arrived he decided to hunt them down instead. He went to the wildlife sanctuaries and then hunted down every single one them.
He was able to save most of the animals but there were still others who got injured to the point where they couldn’t survive in the wild anymore. Tony converted his land into a wildlife park and then placed those poor animals there. He treated the place as his own private zoo, visiting the place any time he felt bored.
He thought the animals would enjoy their new homes but soon he found out that they were still not as good as he hoped they would be. He sent clones to observe the animals.
The injuries they sustained led them to become like this. The injuries they sustained, such as birds losing their wings, affected them.
He was reminded of the scenes in Iron Man 3 and thought about creating the Extremis early. He arrived back to his lab and was reminded that he already has plenty of other research ongoing. He may have the capacity to start working on another research topic but it would just be a waste of time since the formula for Extremis would come to him in the future.
Instead of wasting resources, he decided to integrate this to something already ongoing.
Animals + Mutant biology = Pokemon
He also thought about Digimons but he needed to create a digital world first. Then, he also needed to move the monsters from the digital world to the real world. This interface wasn’t something he didn’t even have an idea how to do yet.
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Thanks to him cutting down the market of exotic animals, the prices of the exotic animals in the black market started to rise. This lead to people from other industries changing jobs.
Tony was able to procure more test subjects. The test subjects who were from other industries reminded Tony that there were other sources of test subjects.
In order to keep the population of poachers from going extinct, he also started hunting others such as those from child trafficking. There were a lot of people to choose from that he didn’t need to worry about procuring test subjects for a long while.
(AN: I don’t know about any major villains from these industries. If there is…Oooops?)
The new supply of test subjects helped Tony learn more about the serum.
The first thing he figured out is that the serum isn’t targeted. It doesn’t choose a specific tissue to work on and works on all parts of the body.
By following the concept of adding the drugs used by targeted therapy in treating cancer cells, he was able to select which parts of the body the serum would work on.
With this, Natasha wouldn’t become buff like Steve Rogers.
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This solution isn’t perfect, however. The modified serum wasn’t able to differentiate which areas the serum would work on. It could differentiate between types of tissue such as heart and skeletal muscles but it couldn’t differentiate between arm and leg muscles.
Tony didn’t see a need to solve this so he just worked around it. By covering certain cells in the body with his symbiote, he was able to regulate the interaction of the cells with the serum.
After getting control over a serum, the next thing he worked on is how long the transformation took. He wasn’t able to modify the serum to act longer but he was able to split the effects of the serum into phases.
Just like time-release drugs, the chemicals in charge of making a person super is enclosed inside a matrix of insoluble substance/s. These drugs would slowly get out of the matrix and then work on the body.
Tony modified the matrices by first enlarging the insoluble substance and then having JARVIS carve the matrix out of it. There were multiple designs, with some more complicated than others, in order to split the matrix into different batches.
That combined with the targeted application, reduced the effects a person experienced when undergoing super-soldier transformation.
Instead of the excruciating pain from the transformation, the serum’s effects were reduced to just body aches. It wouldn’t be any different from the body aches felt when one catches the flu.
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Thanks to his experience with the super-soldier serum, Tony was able to know what the effect of the Red Room’s serum would be. He create a better one for Natasha and then added something else.
He also targeted her reproductive organs. By including that part, her reproductive cycle is forced to keep up with the transformation into a super-soldier. Instead of the usual monthly visits, her body now has to ration all the egg cells left in her body so that it could last proportional to her additional extended life.
This resulted in a different reproductive cycle for her.
Super-soldiers live for a much longer time. That paired with limited egg cells means her body couldn’t prepare for pregnancy all the time. The improved performance also meant that her body could develop its uterine lining any time it wants.
The transformation would lead to her not experiencing menstruation anymore. Instead, her body would experience being in ‘heat’.
She’d feel the need to have s*x every time her body gets ready and that’s what Tony’s most concerned about. She was still underage and doing it with her would be illegal.
It’s a good thing that both her and his Russian persona are both Russian and in Russian territory. The age of consent there is lower than it is in the US which meant his ‘persona’ wouldn’t be in breaking any laws. This is made things so that it technically became a requirement as the act itself become one of her biological needs.
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Tony has just finished designing the serum and has just ordered JARVIS to manufacture it.
He went for the phone and started making the call for General Ross. He was thinking about how to excuse himself to put the guy on hold when he heard the phone pick up.
“Good, you’re finally finished.”
Tony immediately recognize this voice.
Tony: “Huh? god? ”
god: “Yep. No time to waste. Get ready. You’re going to go to war.”
Tony: “What? War? What do you need me for? Am I going to do some MCU crossover?”
god: “No. This is different. Something has gone wrong”
Tony: “Wrong? Then why am I needed? I’m still not OP enough in my universe.”
god: “Because you have the power to clone. A lot of manpower is needed for this”
Tony: “That serious? Fine. But tell me this first, is it because of zombies?”
god: “No, it’s something much worse. The last Star Wars sucks.”
Tony: “What? Star Wars 9 has just released?”
god: “Sort of. You know how time works. Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey. So are you in?”
Tony: “Can I watch it first?”
god: “Are you sure?”
Tony: “Yeah. We’re attacking Star Wars anyway. Might as well know what happens first.”
god: “Fine. You’re call. Get ready.”
Tony prepared for a mass transfer. Inside his mind, details of the Star Wars 9 started to appear.
He was excited at first but as time went by, he became more and more disappointed. The movie itself wasn’t the worst he saw but that is just on its own. Since the movies are part of a trilogy, he couldn’t help but connect it to them. The three stories combined made things feel like some sort of fan-fiction. He wouldn’t mind the story but didn’t like that it was cannon that people had to pay for.
Tony: “F*ck it. Let’s go to war.”
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AN: Change of plans. I was going to do some Black Widow stuff but then I watched Star Wars as a joke to myself for April fools.
It backfired.
Time to wipe that universe from this reality.
