Post by superkamiguy1 on Jul 28, 2024 4:03:28 GMT
Diamond Grove Hospital.
The fluorescent lights hummed overhead, creating a sterile glow on the pale green walls of the hospital hallway. Jessica Bradley, her jet black curls bouncing with every anxious movement, sat hunched over a stack of papers. Her brow furrowed, her lips pressed into a tight line, the weight of the world seemed to rest on her young shoulders. Her mother, a vibrant woman whose laugh once echoed through their house, lay just down the hallway, her body ravaged by a mysterious illness that baffled even the most renowned doctors. Every passing day brought her a new fresh wave of despair, a constant reminder of the ticking clock.
Despite her youth however Jessica refused to succumb to the darkness. She'd spent countless hours pouring over medical journals, scientific papers, anything that might hold a clue to her mother's condition. She was a prodigy, a "Super Brain" as her teachers had called her, her mind a labyrinth of knowledge and potential, and she'd been pushing her superhuman intelligence hard to discover the cure for her mother.
The papers in her hands, crumpled and dog-eared, held the latest research on rare genetic diseases, their normally complex jargon translating into plain English before her eyes. Each page felt like a dead end to her, the hope that they would normally hold flickering away. She was so invested in her work that the hallway, usually bustling with the hurried footsteps of doctors and the soft cries of infants, was eerily silent to her. The only sounds to Jessica were the rhythmic tick-tocks of the clocks on the wall and the shuffling of papers in her hands, each second a painful reminder of the time slipping away.
Jessica's eyes, usually bright and sparkling with intelligence, now held a weary intensity. She knew she was running out of time, she knew she had to find the answer, the cure, before it was too late. The problem of course was that there was still so little information about the disease. If it had been anything, if it would've been something normal, Jessica was dead certain that she could've done something about it. She knew that she could've created a cure for her. All she would've needed to do is take a blood sample from her mother and then she would've needed some time at her house with her chemistry set and she could've created a cure. But she didn't have enough information about this to create a cure for it. At this rate she would just need to say 'Screw It!' and try to create the cure anyway! She set the papers down and began mumbling to herself about her mother's condition. By her estimation she had at least a week and a half if her mother's condition didn't get any worse. Could she create a cure in that time? She would need test subjects...but how many of them were even in there suffering from it? She would need to test the cure on somebody to perfect it in the first place but the logistics of doing so in the time limit she had available to her....it wasn't feasible. It wouldn't work. Not with the time limit currently imposed upon her! What could she do? What could she do? What could she do? What could she do?
"Mom...mom...I-I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I-I don't know if I can do this. I don't know if I can help you. I want to help you. I want to! I want to save you mommy! I want to save you but I don't know what to do!" She sobbed into her hands as she papers fell out of her lap and scattered onto the floor. "I'm so sorry mommy! I'm sorry! I-I-I..."
"My my. Whatever could be the problem young lady?" A friendly feminine voice asked her.
Jessica slowly lifted up her head to see the tissues being offered to her while the woman in front of her was casually gathering up her papers. Jessica sniffled and accepted it. "I-I...th-thank you....thank you." She blew her nose and wiped her eyes. "M-mommy...my mommy has...Peritus Sacer. They don't know how to save her..."
"Ahhh, the Sacred Deceased, right? Yeah, that is a new one that they're still working on developing real cures for her. Still, you can dry your tears now. I can save her."
Jessica's head perked up and she took in the sight of the beautiful woman crouching down in front of her. She looked absolutely gorgeous. She was a rich woman, clearly, a woman of class and fame and fortune and her tall slender build fit her perfectly. She looked like she was outright divine. "Did you seriously just say what I thought you said?"
"Oh yes. Curing Peritus is a simple task for me. And even better? Once she's cured? They'll be able to use her blood to make antibodies to better combat in the future." The woman handed her the papers back. "Would you please show me where she is? I'll take care of the rest."
"You really mean it?" Jessica asked as she held the papers to her chest. "You'll really, really save her?"
"It would be my pleasure. Please. Lead the way." Jessica hopped down from the chair and held the woman's hand as she lead her down the hallway until they reached the room and the woman pushed the door open to discover the pale sickly woman wasting away in her hospital bed with numerous machines attached to her. It was clear that the hospital staff were doing whatever they could to keep her alive but it was a losing battle. The disease ravaging her body was only being slowed down but it would take her life any day now. She'd arrived just in time.
The nurse watching over Miss Bradley looked up in surprise as the mysterious woman entered the room with Jessica. "Who are you and why are you with that child?"
"Don't worry about it." She responded casually and the nurse shrugged her shoulders.
"Yeah, you're right, it's not my business." She set her paperwork down and walked out of the room.
"So this is her, eh? Yes, I understand your struggle. But don't worry kiddo. I'm going to save her. Grab a seat and watch the magic show."
Jessica would normally debate the existence of magic but right now she just wanted her mother back so she sat down and set her papers down on her lap. The woman walked over to Miss Bradley's body and raised her hands up, rubbed them together, and she held them out over her body. There was a momentary pause and then Miss Bradley's body began levitating into the air up off of the bed and a light shined in Miss Bradley's chest like a star under her skin so bright she could see it from within! The light shined in her chest and then it began spreading throughout the rest of her body. It spread upward through her throat and then into her skull, upwards into her shoulders and then down her arms and into her hands, and then down into her torso until it reached her legs and it traveled through her legs and into her feet. The light continued to shine throughout her body and it levitated there in the air as the woman walked over to her and began removing the machines, then the IV feed, and even the Oxygen Tube from her throat! Jessica started to protest only for her mother's body to regenerate right in front of her.
Her body began to fill out again. It slowly went from disease ridden and broken down, skeletal and pale and trapped in a rotting shell of a body to becoming healthy again. Her body began to fill out with muscle. Her corpse like body was replaced with a healthy living full figure again. As a final touch her hair grew back a little! Miss Zalinia Bradley's body slowly levitated down to the bed again where she resumed her sleep.
Jessica couldn't believe her eyes! A minute ago she'd felt dejected and absolutely helpless and now this woman had come into her life and waved her hands and saved her!
"M-mom? Mommy! MOMMY!" She cried out and ran over to her mother and she grabbed onto her. "MOMMY! MOMMY WAKE UP! WAKE UP! YOU'RE BETTER NOW! IT'S ALL OKAY NOW! WAKE UP!"
Zalinia stirred in her sleep and mumbled at the sound of her daughter's voice. She moaned and her eyes fluttered open. She suddenly gasped and sat up. "Wha-wha? What? Where am I? Am I in the...JESSICA!" She exclaimed and pulled her daughter close to her. "My baby! My baby girl! Oh sweet baby! Oh my baby girl!" She kissed her daughter's head repeatedly. "Oh I'm sorry. I was out for a while but I'm back now baby."
"Mommy! Oh mom I missed you! I missed you so much! I love you so much!"
"I love you!"
"I love you!"
"I love you!"
"I LOVE YOU!"
-
Jessica and The Woman sat outside in the chairs while the doctors frantically checked her over in abject confusion over her miraculous recovery.
"That...that was amazing ma'am! What did you even do? That was so cool! You're amazing! You're incredible!"
"Oh my dear child. Please, do go on. Feel free to praise me more." She laughed. "As for what I just did? That dear child was Biokinesis. Psionic Biological Manipulation. The ability to manipulate the bodies of others and myself. I essentially did some repair work on her body and supercharged her natural immune system and regenerative abilities."
"You're a Super?" Jessica gasped in amazement.
"One of the best. How about you?"
Jessica tapped her head. "I have a Super-Brain. I'm smart. I'm really smart. Super smart. My grades are at the top of my school and I'm blowing away the teachers all the time."
"Are you now? Now isn't that interesting. I can see it you know? Your brain is incredibly well developed for your age and you're only going to improve as you get older, Jessica. You are destined for greatness with a talent like yours. In fact, I would like to formally introduce myself to you. My name is Ambrosia Diavolo and it is very nice to meet you Jessica Bradley."
"Ambrosia. The food and drink of the Greek Gods." She nodded. "Yeah that checks out. It's nice to meet you Ambrosia. Ummm....h-how much am I going to owe you? Because I know I can pay it but it will take some time."
"Oh, no charge. I didn't come here and help you for monetary gain. Rather I would like to offer you a job at Diavolo Enterprises in the future. Come look us up when you're old enough and we'll have a job waiting for you. Take your time, have fun, live your life with your Mother and focus on your education, become the glorious super genius we both know you can be and when you're ready? We'll be waiting for you. Scout's honor Jessica."
"I WILL! I'll do it! I'll become the greatest super genius in the world, Ambrosia! I promise you! Scout's honor!"
"There you go Jessie." A doctor opened the door and called her back in and she quickly ran back into the hospital room to embrace her mother all over again while Ambrosia sat back and relaxed with a smile on her face.
-
And that was how Jessica Bradley ended up working here at Diavolo Enterprises. She'd kept her promise. She got a few degrees, broke new ground in the scientific community and graduated from Godolkin University with top marks and then she arrived at Diavolo Enterprises and just like Ambrosia had promised she had jobs waiting for her. They'd been making mountains of cash with her inventions and cures. She was a super genius who could make working formulas and super serums in a day. Checking her papers, making one batch in a lab, injecting it into some tissues and testing it could all be done in about a day and cost nothing for the corporation. They didn't even have to get any permits or test it on animals! Ambrosia was even able to upgrade them as necessary. Her creations weren't just chemicals either. She'd made advances in technology as well that let them complete even titans of the industry!
Now, Jessica was standing at the top of the world with the rest of them and Jessica and her mother were living happy and healthy in luxury.
Jessica might've made a deal with the devil that day but it was oh so worth it! Her mother was safe and alive and living her best life, Jessica was doing the same, and she was putting her Super-Brain to work on a daily basis.
What would be better?
The fluorescent lights hummed overhead, creating a sterile glow on the pale green walls of the hospital hallway. Jessica Bradley, her jet black curls bouncing with every anxious movement, sat hunched over a stack of papers. Her brow furrowed, her lips pressed into a tight line, the weight of the world seemed to rest on her young shoulders. Her mother, a vibrant woman whose laugh once echoed through their house, lay just down the hallway, her body ravaged by a mysterious illness that baffled even the most renowned doctors. Every passing day brought her a new fresh wave of despair, a constant reminder of the ticking clock.
Despite her youth however Jessica refused to succumb to the darkness. She'd spent countless hours pouring over medical journals, scientific papers, anything that might hold a clue to her mother's condition. She was a prodigy, a "Super Brain" as her teachers had called her, her mind a labyrinth of knowledge and potential, and she'd been pushing her superhuman intelligence hard to discover the cure for her mother.
The papers in her hands, crumpled and dog-eared, held the latest research on rare genetic diseases, their normally complex jargon translating into plain English before her eyes. Each page felt like a dead end to her, the hope that they would normally hold flickering away. She was so invested in her work that the hallway, usually bustling with the hurried footsteps of doctors and the soft cries of infants, was eerily silent to her. The only sounds to Jessica were the rhythmic tick-tocks of the clocks on the wall and the shuffling of papers in her hands, each second a painful reminder of the time slipping away.
Jessica's eyes, usually bright and sparkling with intelligence, now held a weary intensity. She knew she was running out of time, she knew she had to find the answer, the cure, before it was too late. The problem of course was that there was still so little information about the disease. If it had been anything, if it would've been something normal, Jessica was dead certain that she could've done something about it. She knew that she could've created a cure for her. All she would've needed to do is take a blood sample from her mother and then she would've needed some time at her house with her chemistry set and she could've created a cure. But she didn't have enough information about this to create a cure for it. At this rate she would just need to say 'Screw It!' and try to create the cure anyway! She set the papers down and began mumbling to herself about her mother's condition. By her estimation she had at least a week and a half if her mother's condition didn't get any worse. Could she create a cure in that time? She would need test subjects...but how many of them were even in there suffering from it? She would need to test the cure on somebody to perfect it in the first place but the logistics of doing so in the time limit she had available to her....it wasn't feasible. It wouldn't work. Not with the time limit currently imposed upon her! What could she do? What could she do? What could she do? What could she do?
"Mom...mom...I-I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I-I don't know if I can do this. I don't know if I can help you. I want to help you. I want to! I want to save you mommy! I want to save you but I don't know what to do!" She sobbed into her hands as she papers fell out of her lap and scattered onto the floor. "I'm so sorry mommy! I'm sorry! I-I-I..."
"My my. Whatever could be the problem young lady?" A friendly feminine voice asked her.
Jessica slowly lifted up her head to see the tissues being offered to her while the woman in front of her was casually gathering up her papers. Jessica sniffled and accepted it. "I-I...th-thank you....thank you." She blew her nose and wiped her eyes. "M-mommy...my mommy has...Peritus Sacer. They don't know how to save her..."
"Ahhh, the Sacred Deceased, right? Yeah, that is a new one that they're still working on developing real cures for her. Still, you can dry your tears now. I can save her."
Jessica's head perked up and she took in the sight of the beautiful woman crouching down in front of her. She looked absolutely gorgeous. She was a rich woman, clearly, a woman of class and fame and fortune and her tall slender build fit her perfectly. She looked like she was outright divine. "Did you seriously just say what I thought you said?"
"Oh yes. Curing Peritus is a simple task for me. And even better? Once she's cured? They'll be able to use her blood to make antibodies to better combat in the future." The woman handed her the papers back. "Would you please show me where she is? I'll take care of the rest."
"You really mean it?" Jessica asked as she held the papers to her chest. "You'll really, really save her?"
"It would be my pleasure. Please. Lead the way." Jessica hopped down from the chair and held the woman's hand as she lead her down the hallway until they reached the room and the woman pushed the door open to discover the pale sickly woman wasting away in her hospital bed with numerous machines attached to her. It was clear that the hospital staff were doing whatever they could to keep her alive but it was a losing battle. The disease ravaging her body was only being slowed down but it would take her life any day now. She'd arrived just in time.
The nurse watching over Miss Bradley looked up in surprise as the mysterious woman entered the room with Jessica. "Who are you and why are you with that child?"
"Don't worry about it." She responded casually and the nurse shrugged her shoulders.
"Yeah, you're right, it's not my business." She set her paperwork down and walked out of the room.
"So this is her, eh? Yes, I understand your struggle. But don't worry kiddo. I'm going to save her. Grab a seat and watch the magic show."
Jessica would normally debate the existence of magic but right now she just wanted her mother back so she sat down and set her papers down on her lap. The woman walked over to Miss Bradley's body and raised her hands up, rubbed them together, and she held them out over her body. There was a momentary pause and then Miss Bradley's body began levitating into the air up off of the bed and a light shined in Miss Bradley's chest like a star under her skin so bright she could see it from within! The light shined in her chest and then it began spreading throughout the rest of her body. It spread upward through her throat and then into her skull, upwards into her shoulders and then down her arms and into her hands, and then down into her torso until it reached her legs and it traveled through her legs and into her feet. The light continued to shine throughout her body and it levitated there in the air as the woman walked over to her and began removing the machines, then the IV feed, and even the Oxygen Tube from her throat! Jessica started to protest only for her mother's body to regenerate right in front of her.
Her body began to fill out again. It slowly went from disease ridden and broken down, skeletal and pale and trapped in a rotting shell of a body to becoming healthy again. Her body began to fill out with muscle. Her corpse like body was replaced with a healthy living full figure again. As a final touch her hair grew back a little! Miss Zalinia Bradley's body slowly levitated down to the bed again where she resumed her sleep.
Jessica couldn't believe her eyes! A minute ago she'd felt dejected and absolutely helpless and now this woman had come into her life and waved her hands and saved her!
"M-mom? Mommy! MOMMY!" She cried out and ran over to her mother and she grabbed onto her. "MOMMY! MOMMY WAKE UP! WAKE UP! YOU'RE BETTER NOW! IT'S ALL OKAY NOW! WAKE UP!"
Zalinia stirred in her sleep and mumbled at the sound of her daughter's voice. She moaned and her eyes fluttered open. She suddenly gasped and sat up. "Wha-wha? What? Where am I? Am I in the...JESSICA!" She exclaimed and pulled her daughter close to her. "My baby! My baby girl! Oh sweet baby! Oh my baby girl!" She kissed her daughter's head repeatedly. "Oh I'm sorry. I was out for a while but I'm back now baby."
"Mommy! Oh mom I missed you! I missed you so much! I love you so much!"
"I love you!"
"I love you!"
"I love you!"
"I LOVE YOU!"
-
Jessica and The Woman sat outside in the chairs while the doctors frantically checked her over in abject confusion over her miraculous recovery.
"That...that was amazing ma'am! What did you even do? That was so cool! You're amazing! You're incredible!"
"Oh my dear child. Please, do go on. Feel free to praise me more." She laughed. "As for what I just did? That dear child was Biokinesis. Psionic Biological Manipulation. The ability to manipulate the bodies of others and myself. I essentially did some repair work on her body and supercharged her natural immune system and regenerative abilities."
"You're a Super?" Jessica gasped in amazement.
"One of the best. How about you?"
Jessica tapped her head. "I have a Super-Brain. I'm smart. I'm really smart. Super smart. My grades are at the top of my school and I'm blowing away the teachers all the time."
"Are you now? Now isn't that interesting. I can see it you know? Your brain is incredibly well developed for your age and you're only going to improve as you get older, Jessica. You are destined for greatness with a talent like yours. In fact, I would like to formally introduce myself to you. My name is Ambrosia Diavolo and it is very nice to meet you Jessica Bradley."
"Ambrosia. The food and drink of the Greek Gods." She nodded. "Yeah that checks out. It's nice to meet you Ambrosia. Ummm....h-how much am I going to owe you? Because I know I can pay it but it will take some time."
"Oh, no charge. I didn't come here and help you for monetary gain. Rather I would like to offer you a job at Diavolo Enterprises in the future. Come look us up when you're old enough and we'll have a job waiting for you. Take your time, have fun, live your life with your Mother and focus on your education, become the glorious super genius we both know you can be and when you're ready? We'll be waiting for you. Scout's honor Jessica."
"I WILL! I'll do it! I'll become the greatest super genius in the world, Ambrosia! I promise you! Scout's honor!"
"There you go Jessie." A doctor opened the door and called her back in and she quickly ran back into the hospital room to embrace her mother all over again while Ambrosia sat back and relaxed with a smile on her face.
-
And that was how Jessica Bradley ended up working here at Diavolo Enterprises. She'd kept her promise. She got a few degrees, broke new ground in the scientific community and graduated from Godolkin University with top marks and then she arrived at Diavolo Enterprises and just like Ambrosia had promised she had jobs waiting for her. They'd been making mountains of cash with her inventions and cures. She was a super genius who could make working formulas and super serums in a day. Checking her papers, making one batch in a lab, injecting it into some tissues and testing it could all be done in about a day and cost nothing for the corporation. They didn't even have to get any permits or test it on animals! Ambrosia was even able to upgrade them as necessary. Her creations weren't just chemicals either. She'd made advances in technology as well that let them complete even titans of the industry!
Now, Jessica was standing at the top of the world with the rest of them and Jessica and her mother were living happy and healthy in luxury.
Jessica might've made a deal with the devil that day but it was oh so worth it! Her mother was safe and alive and living her best life, Jessica was doing the same, and she was putting her Super-Brain to work on a daily basis.
What would be better?