Chapter 44: Spitfire

At the underground office of Umbrella, London Branch.

Jacqueline Falsworth stood nervously while looking at Andy also stared at her with interest. He asked her, "I guess you already know why you are here?"

"Y-yes, Sir Andy. I'm supposed to undergo a power awakening, right?" Jacqueline answered uncertainly. She was still in shock after joining the Masque Group and learning about the whole ordeal going on in the true mystery side of the world and the possibility of her having a superpower.

Jacqueline Falsworth is a character in Marvel comics known as Spitfire. She is considered a "Human Mutate," a human who gained powers due to experimentation or an outside element, the best example is Fantastic Four.

As a result after being bitten by Baron Blood and receiving a blood transfusion from Human Torch. She gained superhuman speed, although not as fast as Quicksilver.

In modern times, she received another blood transfusion from Human Torch after being injured, which activated her full potential, including her vampiric side, making her younger again.

She has the power of "Hyper Speed" and can run upto three to five times the speed of sound, and everytime she run, she would produce a harmless fire on her path since her power come from Human Torch.

She also has "Adapted Physiology," which allows her body to adapt to running at high speeds, and "Vampire Physiology," which makes her stronger. However, she does not have the common weaknesses of vampires and can control her blood lust.

"Okay then, I will start," said Andy. He opened a metallic box on the office desk and let the symbiote swallow the items inside.

After everything was done, he nodded at Jacqueline and said, "Are you ready?"

Jacqueline nodded firmly. "I think I am, sir."

After taking a deep breath, she activated the symbiote inside her, and it quickly covered her whole body into a cocoon.

"Good!" Seeing that she's inside the cocoon, he activated one of his ability on her. he sat in the office chair and summoned a mobile phone to pass the time and wait for her transformation.

He planned to recreate the process of how she became Spitfire through mutation. To do that, he needed something to replace the elements in the comics. That's why he prepared something and also used the symbiote's chrysalis of evolution for assistance.

In fact, he planned to experiment on her to see if he could cause the 'mutation' using the "Power Bestowal" of Apocalypse, the HYDRA SS Serum imbued with Tesseract energy, and the Vampire Physiology stored in the symbiote arsenal of abilities. Perhaps he would also need a bit of vampiric blood from John Falsworth, a.k.a Baron Blood.

It had been months since he obtained the "power bestowal," and he had already tried using this ability on the members of Masque Group and Umbrella.

For some reason, only Agnes Cully and the black scientist in [Agent Carter] named Jason Wilkes gained some not worth mentioning power, enhanced physiology.

In the TV series, they were the only people who gained power after being exposed to "Zero Matter," causing them to mutate. Agnes obtained "Darkforce Manipulation," and Jason Wilkes obtained "Invisibility" and "Intangibility."

He thought that this "Power Bestowal" might only work with some humans with the 'x gene' or other humans with special genes hidden deep inside their bodies.

To be honest, the power bestowal of Apocalypse is too good to be true in granting anyone with superpowers when, in fact, it is not as strong as the power bestowal of Galactus.

Otherwise, Apocalypse would use this ability to grant his other followers the power to form an army of superpowered individuals instead of only the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

This limitation incident also made him believe the theory of the previous life that all humans with superpowers on Earth is due to Ancient Beings lived in the past and Celestials' genetic tampering on human or when they left a "latent gene."

There were a lot of theories on previous life that made Earth so special, and all the superheroes and supervillains obtained their power by accident or survived on experiments because they have an extraordinary gene hidden in their bodies that caused mutation, thus gaining superpowers.

This may also be the case with Agnes Cully and Jason Wilkes exposed to "Zero Matter." Instead of dying like the female researcher of the Isodyne Energy, they gained abilities instead.

Well, since he accidently activated the hidden special gene on their bodies and already gain an enhanced physiology. Which also means that they will not gain a power from "zero matter" anymore.

As for Jacqueline Falsworth, he already used the power bestowal to awaken the extraordinary gene on her body. Since he doesn't have the blood of comic Human Torch, he thought of replacing it with the HYDRA SS serum imbued with Tesseract energy. It's a known fact that infinity stone energy is capable of granting superpowers in MCU. Maybe it could produce a miracle along with the vampire blood of John Falsworth.

While waiting, Andy opened an app on his mobile phone connected to Cerebro and observed all the known characters listed on the "Watch List," such as the ten Eternals, Little Brat Charles Xavier, and even Little Magneto.

Although he really wanted to subdue the ten Eternals, he refrained himself from doing so, even though he was greedy for their exclusive abilities. It's better to be cautious.

He rubbed his chin, thinking whether he should recruit Magneto on his side since he already knew his location. After thinking about it, he dismissed the idea. It's better to let the plot flow on its own. He still expected to see Quicksilver and Polaris.

He swiped the screen and focused on Jiaying's status. He also thought of recruiting her at first and awakening her gift early because she can sense other Inhumans, but he dismissed the idea. He doesn't have an interest in her and will not make a change in whatever happens to her in the future. He is more interested in her daughter, Skye.

After waiting for four hours, the huge cocoon shown signs of Jacqueline of coming out.

Soon, the cocoom cracked open and she stumble out of the cocoon naked full of slime on her body.

He cast a cleanse magic on her and step forward to help her up and asked, "How is it?"

Jacqueline face blush and quickly used the symbiote to covered her body, she was embarassed to be seen by him in naked glory and quickly answered, "I-I'm feeling good, sir."

"Is that so? Okay, let's go the underground training ground to test your power." Andy said then opened a portal. Although her power is already succesfully copied, he still wanted to see it with his own eyes to see the power since her ability is amplified by the symbiote.

"You have a great body, by the way." He smirked at her then walked inside the portal while sneakily saved the image from his mind to his phone.

"Pervert," She screamed shyly an followed him. They arrive at the football-sized training ground covered with white walls from floor to ceiling.

"This training ground is made of the strongest alloy on the earth. So don't hold back and feel free to show your power." Andy said then continued, "You can even attack me if you want, I promise I wont use my other powerful abilities, only the superhuman physique."

He sealed some of his strength at her level because the fight will become boring and and will not used the supersonic ability. He wanted to try fighting a speedster and would only fight her with superhuman strength, durability, agility, reflexes etc.

"Really? Then I will show you." She already thought of how teach him a lesson since she already mastered her power with the help of the symbiote. Since her mutation process is not the same as her comic counterpart, its bound that something will change on her abilities.

She grinned showing her vampiric fangs, her clothing changed into her iconic Spitfire.

Her body glowed with golden light and generating heat enegy like Captain Marvel, Carol Denvers.

Jacqueline quickly moved at super sonic speed causing a sonic boom and darted around Andy, her movement is too fast for normal human eye to follow only leaving trail of glittering golden energy on her path.

In the blink of am eye, she instantly arrived at the side of of Andy, landing a blow on his shoulder causing him to be sent flying across the training ground.

While flying, he muttered embarassedly "Well, I was slapped in the fac--?"

Before he even finished speaking, Jacqueline opened her mouth and spit golden energy hitting him on the chest, smashing him to the wall of the training ground.

She attacked him on all sides and he experienced the feeling of Ikaris being smashed to the wall by Makkari with no power to fight back. She landed a few quick punches, but the Andy:s durability proved to be a challenge.

"Okay, that's enough. Time to fight back!" His adaptive reflexes kicked in and he raised his right hand and retaliated with a powerful strike, but her agility allowed her to dodge it easily.

After being thrashed around by her, he completely adapt and keep up with her speed. The two continued to exchange blows, each one testing the other's limits. her vampire strength gave her an advantage, but the his adaptive reflexes allowed him to quickly adjust to her attacks.

As the fight progressed, the two combatants began to treat it as a play, each one trying to outdo the other with flashy moves and acrobatics.

Despite their playful attitudes, the fight was intense.

Jacqueline speed allowed her to perform impressive flips and spins, she really proved that speedster is a difficult opponent.

Her punches were like lightning strikes, and his strikes were like thunderclaps. The sound of their blows echoed across the training ground.

"Haah... Good fight." Andy said with huge smile,

"Yeah, good fight. I still couldn't believed that I have this powerful ability." Jacqueline also smiled sweetly.

After fighting for two hours intense fighting, they both stop to catch their breath. They declared the fight as a draw, well, to save the face of Andy.