As much as she liked to flaunt her body, Hancock was not a shameless exhibitionist. But then she thought about a simple solution. What if she uses it as underwear? The condition was that she would have to wear the costume. Not that it was the only thing she had to wear.
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1880, Hancock found a stray wolverine
Hancock was extremely busy managing her operations in India while leading the research on mutagen based life-forms simultaneously.
During this time Amazon Lily has stepped forward to assist India during its stabilization after freedom. It was not a hidden move. In any other normal circumstances, Britain would have never liked it. And the international pressure of other countries would be on Amazon Lily. The development of Pharma factories in India had profit not just from the United States but also the Soviet Kingdom, China and many more Western countries. And none of them liked to leave that control in the hands of Britain.
Compared to England, Amazon Lily was a more neutral country. While Amazon Lily did not have a good reputation for having a bizarre culture and stealing brilliant minds from all over the world, no one could deny its contribution in developing modern science. While it was famous for its chemical medicine and research on bio-technology, in recent years, they have also developed ground breaking inventions like alternating current motors, generators and transformers, gas power engines, cars, Hydraulic machines and many more.
The United States had not liked that Amazon Lily was taking away its brilliant scientist like Nikola Tesla. But they couldn't do much about it except for trying to buy the rights to produce the gadgets on an industrial level.
But in all of the use cases, one thing was clear. No one wanted to fight Amazon Lily. Simply because there was no profit. And Britain did not want to get on the bedside of the only country that is providing them medicines while making an enemy out of many other European countries.
But the lack of outside interference doesn't mean everything was going smoothly. Hancock had to invest her money and her troops in India trying to unite the fragmented country. While many of her researchers have started their study on the ancient Indian temples and technology, it was clear that it would take a lot of time before they could produce any viable results.
Then there was Mutagen. The alien chemical substance was extremely violent and unpredictable. It had already transformed three junior researchers during experimentation. One of them turned into a bovine hybrid while one of them turned into a Komodo dragon hybrid and the final one turned into a porcupine hybrid. Unfortunately, Bos Garry, the one who turned into a bovine hybrid retained his sanity while the other two lost their minds. Hancock had to put them down in order to avoid casualty.
It was a headache. Considering they lacked proper tools to guide a systematic genetic mutation, Hancock had to halt the experiments on the mutagen.
That's why she had put her hopes on ancient Indian knowledge.
That brought her to her current circumstances. To the United States of America, to buy firearms. Amazon Lily does not produce firearms in its territories. The public security officers (police) use knockout gas and tranquilizers. Even in the army, the soldiers were motivated to use airsoft corrosion and poison bullets instead of firearms. Of course Hancock was not dumb enough to completely ignore the effectiveness of normal fire arms. It was just that with the current technology, using air soft poison bullets was a more cost effective way to kill someone, even if they are heavily armoured. But with the popularisation of the first generation heavy weight machine guns, Hancock wanted to buy them. Not only for the security of her own country, but also in order to use it in India.
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"It is my honour to meet princess Hancock." General Walker greeted Hancock.
Obviously after all this time, Hancock had to change your identity. So she was not known as the famous scientist Boa Hancock. Instead she was known as the new princess, Hancock II.
After meeting the newly appointed president, James A. Garfield, Hancock had came to visit the Machine gun manufacturing factory and the military base in North Dakota. Before signing the contract, Hancock wanted to see the capabilities of the current generation machine guns herself. In her previous life she was not a big fan of firearms. So her knowledge in that area was lacking.
"Pleasure to meet you, General." Hancock shook his hands.
"Please come in this way. We have already prepared for your accommodation and a proper demonstration of our guns as soon as we get the fax.
"Accommodation would not be necessary. The ride was surprisingly comfortable. I would have been happy to see the demonstration."
"As you wish, princess."
Hancock, followed by her guards, walked beside the general until they reached the entrance of the military testing site. A lot of soldiers were already standing on both the sides of the path, in a perfect formation.
Just as Hancock was passing by the soldiers while greeting them, her eyes fell on someone she had never expected to see.
It was none other than Wolverine. The Wolverine in front of her did not look like the Wolverine from the X-Men movies. He did not look like Hugh Jackman. Instead he looked like Henry Cavill. It was a huge shock for Hancock. Her observation of haki made it clear that the man was not a normal human. It was a mutant with a kind of animalistic sense.
During this moment the soldier, standing perfectly in a row, also started looking at Hancock with an intense gaze. Hancock stared at him for a moment before moving on.
Following the general, Hancock reached an open ground where the soldiers had brought a couple of pigs to use as subjects for the machine gun.
"For starters we present you, Winchester Model 1876, popularly known as the Centennial Model. A larger, more powerful lever-action rifle designed to chamber full-power military cartridges. You can consider this the upgrade of Winchester Model 1873, the 'Gun' that won the west.
And then here we have the Winchester Gatling gun model 1877. It is the fifth generation model of the most advanced gatling gun you will find in the entire world."
"Well then, let me try it."
"Princess, I don't think you can lift…" Hancock took the Winchester Model 1876 into her own hands as the general was left with his mouth wide open in shock.
*Clack* *Boom*
The first pig which was strapped into the right side of the main pole in the distance, got its head blown up even from 300 meters away.
*Clack* *Boom* *Clack* *Boom* *Clack* *Boom*
Hancock fired three more shots followed by the first shot towards the different parts of the pigs body. Every single one of them landed perfectly, in front of the wide and astonished eyes of the soldiers, she placed the gun back on the show table before turning to the general.
"The recoil is solid. It is not for weak men. I am not an expert of guns so I will have my expert stress test these before I can be sure if I want to buy them, but they are really good." Hancock complimented.
It took the general a moment to break out of his shocked state before he nodded frantically. Even for his toughest boys like James, operating the model 1876 was not an easy task. Especially when it comes to achieving such accuracy despite the recoil. The princess of Amazon Lily was not just extremely beautiful and sexy, but deadly too.
"Of course, I am glad that you liked it, princess. Your professionals can test them anytime they want.
For the demonstration of the gatling gun, Hancock did not participate herself. It was done by the soldiers of the states. But the result was good. Not anything impressive as modern firearms. But it could be very useful as a long ranged weapon. Unfortunately its accuracy needed a lot of work. But it was definitely a good crowd control weapon.
After the test ended, Hancock and her guards were provided proper lodging inside the Army base. Sure enough, exactly like she had suspected, she found another mutant among the soldiers as well. If wolverine had some restraint, then sabertooth did not. The man was giving off a more feral, animal like vibe.
These two discoveries made Hancock stay in the military camp longer than she had planned. Of course the excuse of stress testing the weapons was perfect. She had no idea if she wanted to take Sabertooth in. But she definitely wanted to take Wolverine with her. The man is going to have a much more tragic future than many other characters. Considering that it was supposed to be a version of MCU, these two people should not have appeared. But observation haki doesn't lie. Those two were definitely mutants. So Hancock decided to make an arrangement to test the two "brothers".
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Next chapter: A show of power