The Very First Tetsuko Story! - Page 5

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Tetsuko is bulletproof! ...but her clothing isn't, as the smoking remains of her leotard top attest. She leaps at the robot intending to take the fight to the machine; but it launches a clawed hand at her! She intercepts the claw in mid-air and executes a gymnastics-style flip off the hand, landing on (what passes for) the robot's head. Thinking she's now got the upper hand, she begins an attempt to tear the robot's head off to get to the operator (if there is one). But the robot's builder is likely a Jules Verne fan: like the Nautilus of Verne's fiction, the robot shoots a charge through its hull that bombards Tetsuko's body with thousands of volts of painful electricity!

And that's all I have on this story, except the vague memory that the story would have continued a back-and-forth battle with Tet-chan finally emerging victorious. Afterward, a young police officer arriving on the scene to try to normalize the situation becomes smitten with the beautiful and powerful young woman, and asks her out. (She accepts, and it looks as though a romance might be blooming.) At this point I haven't even given any thought to her "origins"; there's no Dr. Sonya Gannon, no experimental anti-aging formula, no abusive boyfriend... just a manga-inspired muscle girl.

© 2004 David C. Matthews