4 S Rank threat part II

standing in the midst of the rain all the while being assaulted by a cascade of lethal attacks, Bella took a deep breath as she unclasped her cloak, letting the old article of clothing to fall on the ground, fully revealing her lithe figure garbed in nothing more than a heavily customized, skin tight, dark grey body suit, her previous gear that she wore was all but gone, simply ceasing to exist after bella took away what kept them materialized, only fleeting motes of light were the only signs her other garments ever existed.

Comprised of a sleek, black body suit as a base that left very little to imagination. the suit felt alive as it moved unnoticed unless you paid attention under a light.

the suit possessed small, chitinous like pieces of armor plates mainly centered around bella's vitals and her extremities. what's really intriguing about this feature is each individual scale articulated with a frightening amount of cohesion, granting Bella a surprisingly decent level of protection while providing her an outstanding range of freedom of movement that is more often than not sacrificed for defensive power.

"well... this certainly feels really... embarassing..." Bella chuckled nervously as she barely felt the suit on her body. it felt oddly like... well... like she was wearing nothing at all?...

setting that weird sensation of feeling exposed Bella's new guise can be considered an early prototype of a concept she had thought of many years ago to handle the amount of wear and tear metahumans subject their gear on a daily basis, considering how fast and destructive high tiered ones, let alone bella who could recreate their abilities. it was basically a tall order for her creation to succeed but thats what field tests are for right?

'well... let's just pray I won't be walking home in my skivvies after all of this blows over....'

she muttered jokingly as she awakened her psions and began feeding it to the metaphorical core of her power situated just below her naval.

the longer she fed it the more bella felt like her mind was agonizingly being eroded away but that sensation quickly ceased as soon as she hit her metaphorical "Soft cap" and instinctively felt she had enough to call upon her saturated core, to literally bend reality to her will as all metahumans could to a relatively small degree and depending on how much they could bend the laws of reality to serve their own purposes their threat level as either Villain or hero is raised accordingly.

Bella or her mask she wears isn't known as a S rank Villain and Mercernary for nothing.

[Flow acceleration] [Limit break] [bodily Reinforcement] [Super Regeneration] [Release Inhibitors] [Recovery] [Overdrive] [Supercharged] [Herculean Strength] [Steel Mind] [Puppet strings] [Malleable flesh] [Iron body] [Overhaul] [Digital reconstruction] [Pain tolerance] [Godly Constitution] [Mind reinforcement] [Titanic Mind] [Accel] [Regrowth] [Mimic constitution] [Shapeshift] [Reinforce structure] [living metal] [Chimeric adaptation]

on their own abilities such as [super Reinforcement] or [Herculean strength] they barely present a boon to Bella but if they stack and synergize with other "weak" abilities she could literally become a walking disaster if she chose to.

Ending the long string of casting as she felt her core bottom out from its previous saturated state, replaced by the sensation of her body feeling like it was filled with molten lead....

behind the hidden red arises of Bella...

time itself slow down to a gradual crawl until even the fastest thing within her sight was just taking it sweet time just to reach her.

having fought with speedsters on several occasions in the past, Bella had managed to gain enough "study material" from her opponents to replicate everything about what makes them "tick" as she could literally become any type of metahuman as long as she "knew" how and "understood" how to do it, pair it with her already monstrous processing power and her near perfect control of her body, bella had now essentially became a pseudo speedster with all the added benefits of being her monstrous self all the while inheriting their absurd perception of time.

although even with all the things bella could mix and match to make her current state "work", she still would be subjected to a rather dangerous caveat of dealing with the strain of everything she had placed upon her body as even beneficial abilities such as [Regeneration] or [Body Reinforcement] designed to aid her to alleviate that very problem would still cause a certain amount of strain to her, as odd and contradictory that is.

still surrounded by her mostly formless barrier, she willed them to retract into her body, cannibalizing its material its comprised with so she could recover her somewhat depleted reserves as she willed the limitation that kept her from moving beyond what she could handle. immediately feeling her body grow hot as every cell in her body became supercharged.

its funny really... speedsters to the general public are considered nothing more than one trick ponies that only have there speed going for them but the truth on that matter is...

the faster a speedster is the stronger and sturdier their bodies are.

moving at mach speeds for prolonged periods of time would always put a immense strain on a human's body even if they were metahumans. without the corresponding strength and endurance, high end speedsters wouldn't even be able to survive a "casual" run as either the mounting pressure would kill them or the heat generated from all the friction they generate while they are moving at hypersonic speeds would eventually cook them alive.

her new suit was also designed to combat that problem as well.

Small scales that lined the glove portions of her skin suit sluggishly portruded in a rather jagged manner upon bella willing it. it would serve as an extra buffer and padding to protect her hands from the possible harm she will inflict on them if she opted not to.

the same thing happened to her calves, feet and elbows. her elbows guards in particular appearing like sharp talons ready to impale anything if it needed to.

with her gear now more or less weaponized. bella finally gave a proper look at the watery projectiles roughly shaped like arrows that "hung" all around her in the air, slowly inching their way to skewer her.

"so it is you... honestly I was expecting someone a little bit better but oh well. a meat bag is a meatbag and I am sorely in need of tenderizing something."

[Reinforce Structure]

Enhancing her body even more so it will not succumb too fast from the damage she will be inflicting upon herself due to her empowered state. bella assumed a ready stance as bolts of red lighting caused by her supercharging body, snaked around her fully clad visage, all the while the outer membrane of her suit began to crawl up her neck. it eventually swallowed her head whole in a viscous looking a seal before solidifying, giving her an eerie alien look.

looking far more monstrous and inhuman than before.

Bella smirked as she turned off her accelarated state and stomped as hard as she could on the ground, focusing most of her empowered reinforcement onto her leg.

'BOOM!!!'

all hell broke loose at that moment as the ground immensely fractured from her "mere" touch as a shockwave of unprecedented magnitude exploded out upon impact, drowning the watery projectiles in a cloud of dust and debris, destroying them in the process.

'Yes! hahahaha! I didn't cripple my leg this time!'

laughing in her mind all the while her power set in motion the rather torturous task of healing the severe internal damage she inflicted on herself for that show of force.

being healed by her active [Super regeneration] it felt like thousands of bullets ants made from molten lead crawling inside her body, mending her flesh in a systematic and uncaring manner, prioritizing fixing bella over her own comfort.

Bella's head immediately turned at one of the still intact apc she had yet to reach as she felt a psionic tether of sorts connect with her.

from the barely visible thread she felt killing intent, anger, trepidation and fear, revealing the hiding spot of that little shit that kept on sending pot shots at her.

bella immediately acted upon the revelation and appeared above the apc, moving so fast that she seemingly teleported from a bystander's perspective.

"Now open wide and say ah!"

Raising her hand as she channeled more reinforcement mojo onto her slim but sharply tipped fingers. she directly stabbed through the Apc's armor and peeled it open with her clawed hand. revealing the interior.

a blast of water exploded out as she was flung backwards from the sheer force behind it but other than that her Skin suit prevented her from getting hurt from the sudden attack, bella landed gracefully a few meters away and waited for the potshot bastard to reveal himself.

climbing out of the hole she made a metahuman dressed like some sort of cape crusader in blue with nozzles attached to his wrists and two torpedo shaped water tanks on his bag.

The Hero for hire. hydroman made his appearance and honestly in bella's eyes he looked like was about to shit his pants when he got a good look at the lithe but monstrous clawed villain.