Electricity sparked and flashed around the rooms many electrical junctions. The wall of multiple monitors feeding Thalia information faster than a normal human could absorb it. Each screen a different manufacturer some horizontal others vertical scrolling a a 3-d image of DNA model strands. She typed furiously in her lair reconstructing her latest model from her newest subject. Her nimble fingers typing away on the keyboard as a tentacle moved the track ball back and forth between screens. Only stopping to prevent her skin from drying out from the air in the warehouse. Grabbing a mister to spray over he face and head. It was one of the drawbacks to being in a alien environment surrounded by a lot of heat producing equipment. She leaned back in her chair stopping to re examine her work for the week. Swiveling to see the subject in one of the large specimen jars. 

She stood and walked over to her feeding barrel catching some fish before moving to the newest subject. It had so many wonderful features that Thalia lacked. The only thing that might of held it back was its size relative to the other life forms on this planet. Once she analyzed it she found so many wonderfully new features she had to capture it. Sadly it was not difficult. Now, this very night, she would gain all its secretes! Adding them to her own impressive list of abilities. This world never failed to inspire her need for self improvement. There were just too many choices to ignore one over the other! She had to have them all! 

Initializing the sequence before removing her clothes and submerging herself into the green gelatinous ooze of the connected container as she closed the lid beginning the process. The machines whirled and sparks flew across the room from the power surge! Slowly the subject dissolved among the furry of bubbles in its chamber the liquid flowing through tubes and molecular analyzers then screened and hydraulic pumps pushed the refined goo into Thalia's chamber! The pain was intense as her body was surrounded by the new fluid and the added liquid compressed her body forcing the new substance into her. The chemical broth coursing through her tissue and even deeper still. The skin on her body began to bubble and bulge until her own container began to bubble and churn making it impossible to see the exact changes unfolding. The tube moved on a set of pistons to a horizontal position from a vertical one. The fluid drained from the pod after twelve hours of processing. The computers sending a signal to the chamber water rushed through the interior filling then draining two times. Another signal unlatching the locks and filling the room with some steam. 

Thalia emerged sitting upright swinging her feet towards the floor but giving her body a moment to adjust. Stepping onto the floor with her full weight resting on her feet, the new creature moved to her mirror. She could see so much more! Looking at the reflection her smile grew! The four additional eyes adding to her vision she could see the ceiling at the same time as her normal peripheral range. It gave her by the previous calculations an additional forty percent increase in range. Lifting her mouth tendrils reviled a massive change! Her beak now was transformed split in half to form two large mandibles. Closing all of her eyes she now felt everything in her room! Every moving humming machine sent vibrations up her legs giving her a different way to see things. She could even sense the fish in the container swimming. flexing her arm she felt the new tensile strength of her muscles! With a slight push from her calves she leaped into the air and landed perfectly behind the food tank. She darted her tendrils into the tank and her new mandibles struck the side of he fish injecting the venom into her prey before it slid down her throat. The fish that would normally flip around being merely bitten in half now did a few death throws before becoming still. The poison worked and even better it seemed she had no difficulties digesting it. So many new and exciting benefits to this latest transformation! This world held so many wondrous possibilities!  

Thalia leaned against the empty tube and imagined what the next subject would yield to her abilities! She walked cautiously over to her mirror and dressed herself once more. Soon it would be time to really test this new form for weaknesses against the growing outside dangers. The violence that threatened the inner cities would not remain there. It was only a matter of when would the violence spill out into the lair of Nil.