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== Betrayal ==
Determined to silence her permanently, corporate agents attempted to murder Beck by injecting her with an unstable version of her own experimental serum, believing it to be lethally toxic. They abandoned her afterward, expecting the altered compound to destroy her body.

Instead, it transformed her.

The serum destabilized Beck’s cellular structure, leaving her horribly disfigured for a time while simultaneously granting her unprecedented control over her own physical form. Her cells became mutable, responsive to conscious thought and neurological impulses.

The process also profoundly altered her psychology.

Whether the changes resulted from trauma, biochemical damage, or the intoxicating experience of becoming physically unbound from ordinary identity remains unclear.

What emerged afterward was no longer simply Dr. Marta Beck.

It was '''Masque'''.