Richard and Alice had made passionate love well into the night on their one month anniversary so many years ago. Alice fell asleep in her husband’s arms as comfortable as she would ever be. It would be the last good night of sleep she would have for many years.
She woke up early the next morning, still naked. Her head rested on her husband’s arm. He snored quietly. She sighed happily. They would have to have sex like that more often. She had never felt so refreshed. She turned over and looked at the clock: 5:34. Neither she nor her husband would have to get up for over an hour. She smiled to herself; they had plenty of time for a little more sex.
She reached under the covers, found her husband’s hard penis, and wondered what he was dreaming about. Slowly, she began stroking it.
“Mmmm,” Richard moaned as he woke up.
“Good morning, lover,” Alice whispered sexily into his ear as she let go of his penis and slid her hand up his chest.
“What time is it?” He asked before her lips sealed them shut. She was on top of him, covering him with hard kisses. The sun wasn’t up yet, but even in the early pre-dawn light, he could see how sexy she was. His hands slipped up her hips along her waist and onto her breasts.
God, she was sexy. Amazingly, she seemed even sexier this morning than she had the night before. He had to be imagining it, but her breasts somehow felt firmer, even bigger. His fingers left the soft curves of her breasts and slipped down her belly. Richard was actually surprised to find her stomach hard with muscle. She had always been slim and tone, but he felt solid bumps of abdominal muscles.
“Stop,” she ordered, giggling. “That tickles.” She brushed his hands away from her belly and began grinding him, driving him dangerously close to eclipse.
His hands fell to her thighs and again he found himself distracted by how solid they were. They seemed to be solid muscle. He moved his hands to her ass. Again: solid muscle. He couldn’t find an inch of fat on her body. He squeezed her butt and found it hard as stone.
“Oh yeah,” she moaned between kisses. “Touch me like that. I like it.”
He allowed his fingers to grope their way up her back and they found muscle in places he was certain there had not been before. He got to her shoulders and finally had to ask.
He pulled his lips away from her.
“Mmm, don’t stop, honey. Not yet.”
“Alice, did you work out this morning?”
“Hmm?” she responded weakly. She tried leaning back to kiss him.
“You seem, um…stronger than normal.”
She grinned at him, then expertly placed herself overtop him. He groaned as he entered her.
“Oh, God,” he moaned as she rode him to climax.
She sat on top of him a few moments longer, reveling in the moment before responding to his comment.
Finally, she looked down at him and he looked up at her. The light was better now, and Richard could really see the difference in her. The morning light really brought out the shadows of muscles on her body that never existed before.
She looked down at him and frowned at his expression.
“What?”
“Jesus Alice,” he whispered. “Your…your body…”
Her head cocked to the side, questioningly.
“Go look in the mirror,” Richard said.
Alice got up and Richard watched her naked body step into the bathroom.
“What the fuck?” he heard her say as she switched on the light.
He hurried to the bathroom, but didn’t see her at first. A moment later she stepped out of the closet.
“Thirty pounds,” she said. Her face was blank.
“Huh?” Richard responded dumbly.
“Thirty pounds. I put on thirty pounds. I weighed myself last night. One-oh-five. Now I’m one-thirty-five.” She looked at Richard with utter confusion.
Suddenly Richard remembered the experiment.
“Look at me,” she said. “I put on thirty pounds of muscle!”
Richard honestly couldn’t tell if she was happy, surprised or angry. Probably all three.
She turned to the mirror and looked at herself. She had worked so hard at maintaining her figure. Especially now that she was getting close to thirty and she was starting to notice she didn’t look as young as she used to. Her career was now taking up almost all of her time so becoming almost impossible to find time to workout.
But still, she had found a way to keep it up. She was proud of her body, but now it was gone. She didn’t even recognize the woman in the mirror. All she could see was muscle.
She felt like crying. Suddenly Richard’s arm was around her.
“Hey, it’s going to be okay. We just have to figure this out.”
“What the hell happened to me?”
“I think I’ve got an idea, but it doesn’t make sense.”
She turned to him. “What?”
“Yesterday, I was in the clinic getting my annual vaccines for the military. Well, a doctor I didn’t recognize came in with Ms. Pagliano. They convinced me to take an additional vaccine that they wouldn’t elaborate on. Only that it would improve my health. I didn’t have any reason not to trust them. I mean I’ve worked for Ms. Pagliano for years.
“But the thing is, they didn’t seem to think it worked on me. I think they were expecting some kind of instantaneous result, but when nothing happened, they left, but asked me to come back again today for a follow-up exam.”
“That’s weird. Have they ever asked you to do anything like that before?”
He shook his head.
“And you think they were expecting immediate results?”
“It seemed like it. They didn’t say much. But they were definitely disappointed when they left. They had me lift a few weights and then asked if I felt stronger.”
“Did you?”
“Nope.”
“Do you now?”
“I don’t think so, but I could try out the bench in the bedroom if you want.”
“Yeah, lets do that.”
“You’ve got an idea, don’t you?”
“Yeah, but like you said, it doesn’t make sense.”
The bench was set at one-ninety and Richard had little trouble lifting it ten times. But that was what he always lifted, and he had to admit it didn’t feel any easier.
“What about you?” he said, nodding at the set of weights.
“What?”
“You’ve got some muscle. Lets see what you can do.”
“Are you kidding? The last time I laid on a bench press I was in high school and couldn’t lift a hundred pounds.”
“Look, you’ve got the muscle. You might as well see what they can do.”
She looked at him curiously. He was acting suspiciously turned on. “All right,” she agreed, “but if this turns you on, I don’t want to know about it.”
“What? I can’t like a strong woman? Are we back in the fifties or something?”
She just rolled her eyes, and giggled. He was making her feel a little better. Still naked, she lay beneath the bar.
“You want to take some of that weight off?” she asked.
He shrugged and folded his arms. “Lets see what you can do.”
She frowned at him, not wanting to look like a fool. Still, she reached up, wrapped her fingers around the bar, closed her eyes and pushed up.
The bar floated up with such ease she thought he had to be lifting it for her. She opened her eyes and was about to accuse him of teasing her when she saw him across from her. His arms were still folded and his eyes were wide with amazement.
She grinned and began pushing out reps with ease. She stopped when she reached twenty-five.
“That’s what you work out with? It’s so easy!” she laughed as she sat up.
Richard was dumbstruck. “I don’t understand. You’re not that big. You shouldn’t be able to lift that much.”
Alice didn’t say anything at first, thinking he was just jealous, then realized he was right. “This is insane. They must have done something else to me. We’ve got to stop this. Come on. They must have a cure for this.”
“Hold on. Lets think about this for a second. What if they don’t give you a cure?”
“Why wouldn’t they? I didn’t agree to this. This was your experiment.”
“I didn’t agree to it either, Alice. They were expecting something like this from me, but never told me about it. How do you think I would have reacted if it had worked?”
“The same way I am.”
“Yeah. I would have demanded a serum. But I have a feeling they wouldn’t have given it to me. There’s something bigger going on here. You’ve been working in their genetics lab, right? What exactly are you working on?”
“A virus. Of course! It was a virus. That explains it perfectly. The easiest way to change someone’s genetic structure is by introducing a virus with altered genetic make-up.”
Richard nodded. “A virus would also be highly contagious, right.”
“It could easily be transmitted sexually.”
“And why wouldn’t it work on me?”
She looked at him understanding. “The bastards used my virus! But they were too stupid to realize that in males it would bond to the XY chromosome. My virus would never work on males because the Y chromosome produces an inhibitor that prevents the virus genome from bonding with the host genome. That’s why it didn’t work on you, and that’s why it did on me.
“We’ve got to get in there and find out what they injected me with! Who knows what else the virus may be doing to me.”
“Okay, but we’ve got to be careful. They can’t suspect anything has happened to you. If you suspect you may be developing any other symptoms call me immediately, okay?”
Alice nodded as they rushed into the bathroom and got dressed. At first she had forgotten how big her arms had gotten and she ripped right through the sleeve of the first shirt she tried on.
“Shit!” she muttered and found another much more loose fitting button-down blouse. But this one felt too tight around her upper back. She ended up wearing a large t-shirt. Pants were also difficult to find. All her loose fitting pants were now tight around her thighs, but that was all she had, so she’d just have to hope no one noticed.
Frustrated, she looked at Richard who was staring at her.
“What?”
“I’m sorry. I know you don’t want to hear it, but you look sexy as hell with those muscles.”
“I look like a freak,” she said angrily.
“Oh please, you’re not that big! Sure, you’re fit and your muscles are defined, but they’re not massive. You’re not nearly as big as a female bodybuilder.”
She looked at him curiously for a few seconds trying to see if he was teasing her again. He didn’t look like it. Finally, she just smiled.
“All right, whatever,” she said as she led him out the door. “I’ll try to find out what I can from my end, but you’ll have the best chance getting info from Ms. Pagliano.
He nodded in agreement, but frowned. They both knew Ms. Pagliano had some kind of crush on him.

The head of the Canopy Group’s secret human genetic project was Dr. Debra Pagliano, a skanky little woman with ulterior motives of her own. She could not care less about improving the efficiency of the military soldier. But she did want the C-Virus to work: she had other plans for it.
She had always been the most successful woman she had ever known even if she wasn’t the most intelligent. Her grades had been perfect throughout high school and college, and she excelled in all matters of business. She had been hired on directly into the CEO’s position at the Canopy Group and in four years had grown it from a small pharmaceutical company to a global entity with ties to every major government in the world.
If this serum worked as planned, she intended to sell it to the highest bidder. She had no loyalty to her native country. It was all about money and power. Those two things obsessed her more than anything. She believed that with enough of those two things, she could have anything she wanted, including Richard Parks.
She already had the money. But power was something she couldn’t get enough of. With as much influence as she had over every major corporation in the world, she had almost complete control over the global economy, but that still wasn’t enough. She wanted physical power. She wanted to look as powerful as she was, and the serum was the key to getting that power.

An hour after Alice had finally chosen an outfit she felt would conceal her body but still be appropriate for work, she stepped through the security gate of the Canopy group, followed by her husband. Her shirt was already feeling uncomfortable, but she attributed it to the fact that she simply wasn’t used to wearing over-sized clothing. She had a fantastic body and normally enjoyed showing it off a little bit. Concealing her body was completely out of character.
It never even crossed her mind that she might actually still be getting bigger.
“All right,” she said as she led Richard into the deserted break room. “So you know what you’re going to do right?”
“Yeah. I’ll just mention to Denise that I woke up feeling unusual this morning.”
“And you’ll just leave it at that?”
He nodded. “She’ll want to run tests on me and I’ll try to get as much info about whatever they gave me out of her.”
“Whatever it takes?”
He sighed. “If you really think it’s necessary.”
“I do.”
“All right.”
“I’ll find out what I can from my computer terminal, but I’ll probably need some kind of access code to go very far. That’s really what you need to find.”
“All right, lets get this over with.”
She reached up and brought his head down to kiss him. Despite how she felt about the situation, she did feel good: energetic, enthusiastic, even sexy. In fact, she realized, she felt better than she could ever remember feeling.
“I love you, Richard.”
“I love you, too.”
They left the break room and went there separate ways. Alice hadn’t noticed that her pants had now become so tight around her quads, the threads were beginning to unravel along the seam.
She went to her lab, sat down at her computer, and sighed. This was crazy, she thought to herself for about the fiftieth time that morning. She got online and began typing; hoping to find a link to where her research had gone once it left this lab.

“Ms Pagliano?” Richard said as he knocked on her door. “Are you busy?”
She looked up from over one of her henchmen’s shoulders who was currently scanning through security footage from the night before.
“Richard? Come in, please.” She tried to maintain her cool, but Richard always seemed to fluster her.
“I need to speak to you, alone,” he said, nodding to the security guard.
She looked at him curiously and smiled. “Follow me,” she said and led him into her private office.
Once inside and the door closed, Debra said, “I take it this has something to do with our little experiment yesterday?”
Richard swallowed. “Possibly. Honestly I don’t know. I just woke up feeling different this morning.”
“Different? How so?” She was obviously getting excited.
“I don’t know. It’s had to explain…”
“Try.”
She wasn’t going to make this easy for him. Oh well, Alice had said whatever it takes. He stepped up to her and looked her in her eyes.
“You really want to know?”
Suddenly Denise realized he was coming on to her. She grinned.
“Absolutely.”
“I felt alive like I’ve never felt before. I feel strong, powerful and horny. Horny like I haven’t been since I was a teenager.”
“Really?”
“Yes, really,” he said moving ever closer to her. “I owe it to you, don’t I?”
“Why would you think that?” she asked as his fingers slipped up her dress. This was too much for her. It was like some kind of dream come true.
“You put something in me, didn’t you?” he asked into her ear. “Something that made me more of a man? The kind of man who can please a woman as powerful as you?” His voice was a whisper, breathing hard into her ear. “What was it? Can you get me more of it?”
“Oh yes,” she moaned and brought her lips to his. It was the first time she had ever kissed a man.
“How?”
“You want to know now?”
“Right now. Make me more than who I am. Turn me into someone who can please you like you’ve never been pleased before.”

Alice watched disgustedly from her terminal as she watched her boss make out with her husband from a miniature camera on his shirt. She led him to a computer terminal where she punched in a set of numbers that she knew were the code she needed.
She spun around to another terminal and began typing away. Almost instantly, the information she needed popped up onto the computer screen.
“That’s it,” she whispered into her microphone and pulled the earpiece out of her ear and set it on the desk.

“Thank God,” Richard answered and leaned back from Debra.
Debra grinned at him, completely misinterpreting his statement. “The serum will be ready in a few seconds,” she said.
Richard nodded as he wondered how the hell he was going to get himself out of this.
Turned out, the security guard took care of that. He burst in through the door just as Richard had nodded, pointing his gun directly into Richard’s face.
“What the hell are you doing, Vincent?” Debra demanded.
“Take your hands off Ms. Pagliano,” he ordered. He then turned to Debra and said, “He’s lying, ma’am.”
Debra had worked with Vincent Delano for over ten years and had never known him to make a mistake. She trusted him completely. She turned to Richard, “What the hell is going on here?”
“There is something you need to see, Ms. Pagliano.” Vincent Delano was familiar enough with Richard Parks military accomplishments to know not to give him the slightest opportunity. Without taking his gun or eye off Parks, he switched on her computer monitor which he had already relayed what was on his own monitor in the adjacent room.
A view of Alice appeared on the screen from behind. She was typing away at her computer.
“A few seconds ago we got an alert that someone had hacked into Project C-Virus. It came from Alice Parks computer terminal.” Still keeping all his attention on Richard, he continued, “Ms. Pagliano, take a close look at Alice. Have you ever seen her dress so conservatively? Notice her pants: they’re split half way down her leg.”
Debra remained silent, but both the men could feel the rage building up inside her.
“Orders, ma’am?” he asked and cocked his gun, ready to blow this traitor’s head off.
“Get her down to the lab. Send as many men as you’ve got. We don’t know what she’s capable of.”
“And Richard?”
“Keep him alive for now. We may have to use him to contain her. Plus, I want him to watch me kill his beautiful wife.”
Richard flinched for the first time at those words and it was enough to set Vincent off. He plunged his fist into Richard’s gut and then knocked him unconscious with a blow to the head.
“I’ve already got men on their way.”
“You’d better go too, Vincent. We must contain her before she can get out.”
He nodded, handed her his gun and darted out of the room, confident Debra could handle Richard if he woke up while he was gone.