The Birth of Queen Elastora

The key to success is trial and error. That is the code that CJ has used over the years and has shaped her into the woman she is today. That said, she sometimes wished that something would just go right on the first try every now and then. While testing a new invention she just finished, she placed a small lizard in a cage on a target and readied her ray gun. This ray gun could alter the DNA of anything the ray hit and re-shape it however she wanted. She'd done rocks and soda cans and even went to fruit and candy. Now she was ready for a live test subject.

Unfortunately, when she looked away for just a moment, Elastic-8 (CJ's partner) stood in the line of fire. CJ always believed that Elastic-8 had the worst timing, and this proved it. As the ray hit both Elastic-8 and the Lizard, they started to fuse together. However, depending on one's point of view, it might have looked more like the lizard just disappeared. In fear, CJ quickly turned the machine off and ran over to see if Elastic-8 was all right, but it was very obvious to CJ that Elastic-8 was not all right. Her suit had fused with her flesh... and now felt like scales. Her hair was being penetrated by two black horns growing out of her head. Four of her hands and arms were growing and turning into web-fingered wings, while her other two arms turned into extra necks, her hands turning into extra heads.

On top of all this was the fact that she was gaining a lot of weight. She outgrew the warehouse before long, and was shortly able to reach the tops of the city's tallest buildings. With one swing of her winged arm, several buildings were destroyed by a massive gust of wind. As Elastic-8 (or, as the media would come to call her, Queen Elastora) continued her rampage, CJ took notes of her partner's behavior. Elastic-8's personality was normally more lighthearted and easy going, and she could see some of that personality was still in the center head. The other two heads, however, seemed vastly different. The left head was more calculating, violent, and just looked angry, while the right head was simpleminded, hungry, and kinda dumb-looking.

In any case, it didn't seem like CJ was gonna be able to do anything for Elastic-8 until the effects wore off. A fail-safe in most of CJ's inventions was that the effects wouldn't last forever. Despite not having a lab anymore, CJ was enjoying herself as much as Elastic-8 was. She watched her partner destroy one building after another while she continued to take notes. Yes, the greatest successes came from trial and error...


Story by Captain Rocko
Artwork by StudioArieta-Tang

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