The Sensational She-Hulk

"Oh, you're back," she heard him say. "Good, good. Welcome to my glorious service, dear Astra."

"Wonderful," she grunted. "So are my arms back?" I need water or something - my voice sounds awfully rough.

"They are indeed!" Vincent laughed. "Just turn around and look."

Astra turned, and was puzzled to see someone behind her. "Sorry," she croaked, "I didn't know you - you - me?!?"

Indeed, Astra had been looking in a mirror. And she hardly liked what she saw.

Previously, Astra had been an athletic, yet graceful and well-proportioned woman. Now, athletic though she still was, her grace and proportion was gone. In its place stood a woman whose body bulged with muscles upon muscles. She figured she probably weighed fifty pounds more than before, and all of it muscle. Even her face looked different - coarser, less feminine, with a set of flame-red muttonchops down her cheeks. To her mind, she looked like a miniature ogre - or an overgrown troll!

"See?" Vincent smirked. "Better than new! I imagine your strength is, oh, twice what it was before. Maybe even thrice."

"I thought you said you liked my looks better than this," Astra rasped in what she was beginning to suspect was her new, lower voice.

"Oh, I still do, believe me. Compared to Bobo, you're still quite fetching."

Astra was furious at this development, but realized that she could nothing. She'd given her word and sworn an oath - one which he'd kept, just not in the manner she'd have preferred. And even if he'd broken it, he could paralyze her before she could do anything, and then he could truly turn her into a grotesque monster.

"And what of Lord Fred," she asked. "You promised to restore him as well."

"And I have, my dear, I have. Fred?" he called out. "Come show yourself to your friend." After a moment, Fred appeared in the doorway.

1. Fred was his old self once again.
2. Fred resembled his old self, but was as muscle-bound as Astra was.
3. Fred was now the spitting image of Astra's old self!
4. Fred looked exactly as he had before, scissorhands and all.

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