Hearing that dry remark the two men in the room turned around.
"I would have thought you would have at least a modicum of faith in both of our combined abilities, my friend. This right here, is state of the art cutting edge technology."
"Indeed, my serum has been tested out on humans before, at least the imperfect version has and it has a hundred percent survival rate so you won't die, but it will cause a considerable deal of pain."
The two men were none other the Kane's friends Howard Stark and Abraham Erskine.
The former had a piqued look on his face while the latter had a half chagrined, half apologetic look plastered on his.
"Oh I have complete faith in your abilities, after all I am putting my life in your hands aren't I? I don't care how cutting edge it is, it still looks like a giant metal sarcophagus. How many people has your serum been tested on? I appreciate the heads up about the fact I will have to go under a lot of pain but for the next guy you might just want to tell him it will hurt a little bit."
"Well that's because essentially it is a giant metal sarcophagus. Nature of the beast I am afraid, because of how the process happens we need it to be this way."
"The serum has been tested one only one person and he unfortunately survived. Now however, it has been further refined and perfected and is now complete, I am positive that it is not fatal. What is that old saying, no pain no gain? Well the pain will be proportional to your gain in this case."
"Oh and how does the process work? It looks like it seals up to be airtight, so I am assuming it involves the serum being released in a gaseous form and inhaled? I am glad that the two of you are personally overseeing everything but where are your aids and lab assistants? There is an awful lot to be done with just the two of you."
"About that… You see the government doesn't overly care for you as you are not a native born American, therefore the propaganda around you would be limited so nobody is here to see the process. When the next candidate comes there will be senators and some of the top brass coming to see everything and quite possibly a select few members of the press. America wants a true blue American hero and you don't fit that bill I am afraid. That is also why we are doing this so early as the power draw on the city's power grid will be immense. The thinking is if we do it now when a lot of the populace is asleep then they will not be using the power so there is no risk of over taxing the power grid."
"The process isn't actually using a gas form serum but utilizing several micro injections into various major muscle groups then being bombarded by Vita rays. One of the major reasons we are using this it to keep everything contained inside the sarcophagus and the other major reason is to hold the patient still as they undergo the treatment because of the intense pain."
"Oh, so it is like that. Still it is a bit big isn't it?"
"Yes well, that is to accommodate your present size and potential growth during and after the process."
"So it is going to make me taller? I hope you have a change of clothes then as I don't think anything I have will fit me any more."
"Ah we may have overlooked that aspect, but then again until you have undergo the procedure we will not know what size you will grow to so we can't get clothes for your size."
"Did you not prepare several sets of clothes just in case? Suddenly I am not filled with confidence as such a small detail was overlooked."
"We would like to have done so but funding is very limited so we don't have enough money."
"Seriously we are going with that excuse? Compared to how much everything in here is worth I doubt a few sets of clothes will set you back a bit. Hell, Stark and I are both millionaires that would not even be considered as pocket chance to us. No matter we can discuss this afterwards let's proceed shall we gentlemen? Make sure you have a tailor on standby to take my measurements afterwards."
"We are just doing the final calibrations and checks on the equipment then we will proceed. Take off your over garments please so that you are only in your underwear as that is how you will be going in."
Kane looked around and there was only the four of them in the room. It wouldn't be a problem but Agent Carter was a women so it might not be proper to disrobe in front of her, but she had been in the service so she should have already seen other men naked before when showering and the like, so with a mental shrug Kane took his clothes off so he was only in his boxer shorts.
As he stood there with minimal coverage, he heard a gasp and a whistle. The whistle came from Howard who had a mischievous grin on his face, as he had looked at Kane and was showing his appreciation at how he would be attractive to the ladies while the gasp came from Agent Carter. Looking over at her he could see she was flushed red in the cheeks while she still had an impassive look on her face as she tried to hide what she was thinking but with her eyes roving all over Kane's body, stopping on his muscular torso and nether regions gave away her impure thoughts.
The genetic alterations Kane had gone through meant that his body was sculpted like an ancient war god ripped with muscles and he had no useless fat on his body, while the lower part was in proportion and the trunks he was wearing could do nothing to hide the rather large bulge.
Feeling Kane's gaze on her Agent Carter swiftly averted her eyes and flushed an even deeper shade of red. Whether this was because she was caught ogling him or another reason there was no way to know.
Eventually Kane was given the green light to step into the metal sarcophagus and was strapped down so that he couldn't move. Of course if Kane wanted to he could break through the shackle with his current strength, so he wasn't confident they could hold him if he started thrashing around.
Another problem came up as Kane realized that because of how dense his skin was there was no way that the needles would be able to pierce him, unless he consciously willed his body to relax so they could enter him. This was something that he had discovered after he had undergone his experiments years ago. Even if he was unconscious when his body should be relaxed, needles still wouldn't pierce him, he had to be conscious to will his body to relax enough so that they could. Kane didn't quite get why that was so as if you consciously will something, then it should make everything tense up but it was how his body now worked.
The sarcophagus closed around him to thoroughly encase him and he felt the multiple pin pricks as the needles entered into his body, then the stream of fluid entering shortly afterwards. After the needles had retracted he heard Abraham say how they were now about to bombard him with Vita rays. Kane knew they were going to do that as it had already been explained to him before hand and he wished they would hurry the procedure up as the anticipating and waiting was always the worst in his experience.
At first he could feel the Vita rays hitting him and thought that it wasn't so bad then the pain started. It was nearly comparable to when he had encountered Jekkan Arosst and the experiments that he had done on himself, but it was just a shade lower on his pain threshold so he was able to bare with it.
The pain was nearly all encompassing, but he could feel the changes as his skeleton grew and the skin and muscles with it. He wasn't sure but he thought that his senses had improved as well as he could smell himself more, though that could have been because of the sweat he had all over him because of what he was undergoing as well as the pain. Eventually the pain stopped and the sarcophagus opened to release him and he was nearly blinded by the bright light.
"How do you feel?"
"Better and in need of a shower."
"Better? What sort of scientific description is that?"
"Even if you say that, that is exactly how I feel. Better in every way. I think I got smarter as well, but it is pretty hard to tell as I was already plenty smart to begin with."
"Eh, well so much for modesty. Let me run some tests and we will see what we come up with."
"Fine but you aren't sticking any more needles in me and speaking of needles I will be taking these ones. Not that I don't trust you as you guys know that I do, but I don't want my blood or DNA on file to be experimented with so I will be cleaning the sarcophagus as well."
After a full battery of tests they discovered that Kane's metabolism had increased, as well as growing taller to seven foot and having the muscles to go with it so he was even stronger and faster then before and his senses had been increased. Of course the tests they could run were limited as Kane wouldn't allow them to take his blood but those were the preliminary results.
If they had been allowed to run further tests they would have found out that his cellular structure had been further increased so that his cells were now three times as dense as a normal human and he could easily lift thirty five tonnes without breaking a sweat.