Baroness Smash!

Posted on Fri May 17th, 2019 @ 4:27pm by Baroness 2nd Class Schwein von Alcott & Lieutenant Asa Dael

Mission: Fractured Fairy Tales
Location: USS Hera Sickbay
Timeline: 2396

The Baroness von Alcott had never felt better, but even though she'd never felt better, things were happening to her that had her worried. She had smashed a lot more PaDDs than usual, she broke her replicator, and she put her hand through the flight controls of her own ship just in the past week alone. Hence why she was now in sickbay, looking for Doctor Dael, trying not to touch anything.

"Herr Doctor? I was hoping you could give me a checkup? Are you in?" she called, looking for Asa first in the main area, then peeking into their office.

Crawling out from under a disobedient biobed, Asa wiped wiped their hands on a nearby towel before smiling brightly as the baroness.

"Just doing some maintenance on my problem biobed here....I swear this one is developing a personality, and not a good one. What can I do for you?" they inquired.

"I have been having some issues..." Schwein was normally rather forthcoming with things, but now she was unusually shy for some reason. "I have been..." Sighing, she decided to just blurt it out, blushing as she did so. "Since my last physical, my muscle tissue density has increased seventeen percent and I have destroyed far too many things."

"OK, these things happen, no need to fret," Asa said soothingly. "Let's get some baselines on you and compare the differences between then and now, eh?"

That said, Doc Dael set about taking scans and reading, comparing measurements and readings. After a brief moment of arching an eyebrow at the PaDD in front of them, Asa continued.

"It's not just your muscle tissue, your nerve conduction has improved, your bone density is up, and your cognitive processing is also increased. You aren't by any chance feeling harder, faster and stronger to quote the old song?"

With a wink and without waiting for a response, they continued, "In all seriousness, have you noticed any changes to your reflexes or thinking?"

"Ja, actually. And mein ship now has no flight controls because of it." replied the platinum haired pirate. "I think this started shortly after my betrothal to Thor... Or perhaps after my bond with Cara..."

Thinking for a moment, Asa considered the different implications.

"Have you felt any changes in personality like you did during your bond with Cara? I don't show any signs of that bond still being in place, but our first sign was always the change in personality. Well, that and the fact she was unable to leave your side."

Schwein shook her head. "Nein, nothing that I have noticed. Other than... Ah... Daydreaming a bit more than usual... I am betrothed to an Asgardian god, after all."

"OK, onto Asgardian betrothal.....um, is there any chance you are holding on to any, um, essence of Thor? Any late night visits that we don't know about?" Asa asked, cheeks coloring at the implication of what they were asking.

This is when the platinum haired pirate blushed bright red and she wanted to completely clam up, but this was her doctor she was talking to, so she knew she couldn't. She cleared her throat and pressed on, glancing away like an embarrassed schoolgirl. "Ja... He has visited mein bedchambers several times since Freya's approval of me..."

"Um, well,....." Asa began, trailing off while the blush that had begun in their ears spread to their part-line down to their toes, "It's possible that a bit of his, um, endurance, is passing on to you. Um, what birth control methods are you using, if I may ask?"

"Infertility?" Schwein was an augmented human and being engineered, she'd been made sterile from birth and supposedly loyal and docile so she could be kept under control and not go on a rampage like Khan before her. Otherwise, she shared quite a bit of her eugenics modifications with the augmented humans of Khan's group. "Ah, sorry, I have not been using anything. I did not consider it a risk."

"Completely natural," Asa said kindly, " but um....well maybe try prophylactics and see if that helps. Come see me in a few days and let's test and see how you are doing. Might be a good idea to get engineering to run diagnostics on your cybernetics too...check for any virus that's technological in nature. Would you like a strength inhibitor in the meantime?"

"Strength inhibitor? What would that entail?" The Baroness looked a bit unsure of things at this point. She'd never heard of such things outside of prisons and torture rooms.

"The technical term is actually a Angiotensin-converting enzyme bonded with a benzodiazepine...The enzyme simulates old age quite effectively...in fact, it was originally designed as an empathy exercise to help medical practitioners understand what it feels like to have muscle strength and flexibility decrease with age, and the benzo slows down thinking a bit. If you don't want that part, I can always replicate the drug without it. Either way about it, simulating old age might be our best bet to reduce your strength with minimal other side effects for the next few days." Asa said.

"Ah, no, I may be needed at any moment as Prinzessin Telvan's adjutant and this strength will come in handy. Plus, it has been... Appreciated... In mein bedchambers..." The battle worn pirate again blushed at the mention of matters close to her 'Heart'.

"Ah, well," Asa said, blushing a crimson red to match the overall embarrassment of the conversation, "Then perhaps we alert engineering to beef up some consoles for you?"

"Ja, that may be a more prudent path," replied the Baroness. "And maybe a few panels for mein ship as well? My quarters replicator and my ship's flight controls are... In need of repair..."

“Well, sounds like a good way to get some engineering crew acclimated to the Hera,” Asa said with a twinkle in their eye.

“I’m also programming a holodeck program for you to simulate different levels of resistance. This way you can test yourself on different days and see if you can train your body to acclimate to the different levels of force needed to operate simple machinery. If this added strength is going to be part of you, and by all accounts it seems like it is going to be, then rewiring the ol’ noggin to process the bodies changes is the best we can do to prepare you for the future. That way you can throw a punch without sending the target flying across the room. What do you say?”

"I have always trained at full power... This will be... Different." Schwein thought it over for a moment before nodding in approval. "I will add it to my daily training regiment."

“Excellent!” Asa enthused, “Think of it as fine tuning. Try to see how gently you can touch something before it moves. Try to go hard and retract your muscles at the last minute. And no need to worry if you smash something, heck, smash away. Might even be good for the soul to cause a little mayhem, eh? I may even join you…”

The doctor had a bit of a mischievous grin on their face at the last as they contemplated an all-out smash party for the Baroness to get her bearings on how hard she truly could hit things now.

"I do enjoy smashing mein enemies..." Schwein thought this over, wondering just how strong she had become. She could bend par-steel before, but now... She might be able to single handedly tear apart a shuttle if she had to.

“Let’s have a smash party then! You can decimate whatever you want the holodeck to throw at you and laugh at my puny attempts to swing a sledegehammer into an ugly piece of glassware or something. That would probably be the extent of my abilities. But hey, makes a pretty sound!”

The platinum haired woman chuckled softly at that thought. "I look forward to that then. Send me an invite when you have it scheduled, ja?"