The Enhancements!

I got back to the base and got ready for my enhancements, It was a cold day on base and it had a bit of snow on the ground. Swan and Bradley were waiting for me to get to the clinic where the treatments would be happening at.

I got to the door and I saw them both looking right at me with a smile, The warm clinic was somewhat charming. I saw who the doctor was when I looked into her eyes, she was the car woman from when Bradley got into trouble. "Hello Jacob, it's been a very long time since the earth, how are you doing?" She said to me making small conversation, I said my hellos, and then when went right into the lab room.

We came up to a table and she pointed at it, "We need everyone to leave for now, and for Jacob here to take his clothes off." The doc said to everyone after Bradley left the room, I took my clothes off as requested. I laid on the table and it was very cold, I shivered a bit and the Doctor laughed a bit. Swan was still in the room and saw all the scars I had on my back, it was quite severe with how many I had from training.

I flipped over while the Doctor was doing her final examination of my body, she saw them too and she made a big deal about it. "Oh dear, what are these all from? These aren't from training with that lion brute? " She asked me, I thought about it quickly and I lied to the doc, "No, these are from when I was younger, I use to get into a lot of fights when I was a kid. " I told her and she seemed to take it since It wasn't a total lie, you could see Swan glaring at me for lying. She knew if I had revealed those were all from the training they might not let him continue to be an officer.

"Do you want me to heal these up for you? We have the capability to do that to give you a new slate. " The Doc said when I told her, "No, these are to stay on my body, they are reminders to get stronger than I am. " The doc shook her head and then they started the enhancements, the table lifted up and I was brought into a container like when I was on Birdia.

The bath was green and felt warmer than my body, I stayed still for a moment and watched the girls watching me. The doc pressed a button and then spoke to me, "Jacob you can speak and breath in this liquid, it's specially made to not suffocate normal oxygen breathers like us in here." I took a huge breath and felt it was like the air I just felt heavy from the liquid. I looked over at Swan and asked her how long it was going to take for me to get done with the procedure. "A couple of hours like the procedure on my home planet." She placed her hand on the glass and I floated by it and put my hand over hers. "I love you, Swan, there is no one better for me."

After an hour of standing in the tube, I decided to meditate like I was taught to on the Pandora. I sat cross-legged and closed my eyes, thinking of the battles I had. I sat there for a while and I said nothing, just thinking about what could have been different. "Jacob, are you ok? You're not moving at all. " Swan asked me when Bradley came into the room to check on him, he didn't look in my direction because I was kind of naked to a point, I still had shorts on. Swan looked at Bradley and asked him what was wrong with me.

"Oh, that, he's fine, he's just meditating, it's like sleeping but being completely awake. You won't be able to get him to respond until you touch him. " Bradley said as he walked over to the computer and saw I had been in the tube for about six hours. Normally the procedure would last only three hours. Just then the water began to drain and I opened my eyes to the lab air hitting my bare skin. I landed on the floor and saw what I looked like in the floor reflection.

I was extremely buffed up and you could see I gained the muscle back and my body felt tight. I tried to walk and I ended up running into the wall near the door. "Jacob takes it easy, you have been given too much of the enhancements. We didn't have the current data with you so we ran with what we had when you started the academy. " Said the doctor when she came into the lab, she saw me on the floor and she could stop laughing at me.

I was able to go home and was given strict orders to train my body and to get used to this newfound power. I found out I would live till I was in my eight hundreds, this shook me, but with the Birdian and U-F procedures this made sense since it would just stack up. I left for my apartment and I started myself training to get used to the enhancements.

Swan moved into my apartment and she slept in my bed, during the night of my being bored I went for a long walk. I walked for what felt like hours and it was nice. I had been able to control myself, I was right in front of a bar and so I went in. It was an officers' bar and they all looked like they had seen some crap. I sat next to a group and saw they were watching me, they studied my face and notice my familiar smile. "Ah, Jacob thought that might of been you? "Said a voice from behind me, it was the commander herself. "Zogy!? It's been a while how have you been? " I asked her and she smiled, "Very good my friend, what brings you here? " She asked me to look at my new body with the same old scars.

I ordered a drink and she saw what I was after, "So how's that Swan doing, heard you two are soon to be married." She said smiling as I took a big drink, "She's the light in my life and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't feeling guilty for being out here." I said as we laughed for a bit and then we all talked about my battles from the times I was with Captain Hallz. Everyone who was watching me now was talking to me and telling me their stories.

Later, around very early morning I went back home, I was a bit drunk and tired from the night out. Swam was still asleep in bed so I went in and kissed her on the forehead before I took a long cold shower. I fell asleep and I had a nice dream about Swan and the future family I was going to have with her. It was about noon and the water was still hitting my face, I was in my meditation posing for some reason. Swan thought I was meditating so she came into the shower to wake me up.

"Dear, we have a mission update walk up to my peaceful mountain." She said when I finally woke up, I wiped myself off and put my new set of clothes on. We headed to the hangar together and the Head Captain was there to greet us. She was in charge of everyone and this was going to be the first time I've met her since I came to the U-F. She had a smile on her face and there was a new ship behind her. "This right here is your new vessel, also Jacob, you will be given the rank of Commander First class. You will also be responsible for selecting your own Squad while you're on this ship. " The captain said, shaking my hand as she gave us our new letters personally.

We were given our mission reports and we headed up the ramp into the ship, It was now a battle-cruiser and our mission was to crush Pirates on a moon base, not from the base planet. We went to the front of the ship and we started our mission right away. We didn't even have time to make arrangements for when we got married. It just went time now, the job came first when It was necessary.

When we got to the moon we saw the destruction that was happening, it was just like it always was, blood and lasers everywhere. When I dropped to the ground after Swan I saw as the door open, Swan had gotten hit by a stray shot to the shoulder. You could feel my face get hot and I rushed over to her, " I want to know who hit Swan? You there who did this? " I yelled to one of my cremates. The guy looked over at me and then pointed out into the field of battle. It was a crab alien like the one all those months ago when I was brought to the U-f.

I clenched my fist and ordered the crew around me to take Swan back and protect her. I head to the battlefield with both of my weapons out killing those who got in my way. I knew my emotions of a loved one were to be hidden during the battle to discourage any enemy from doing something stupid. I started to embrace my Demon nickname as I killed a ton of pirates and yelling after every moment I took a breath.

Some say they thought a monster was formed that day with how I was fighting. For even the crew it was scary to get even in the way. They stayed back and used their guns to shoot down whatever I missed. I stood over the body of a pirate and roared like a beast, this scared off the remaining one and I started to settle down.

Swan, who was yelling at me, saw that I had tears in my eyes, she didn't know why I was crying so hard. I had just won the fight, what could I be sad about, but this had happened once before, with me losing my temper and taking it out on someone. She hugged me close and told me everything was going to be alright.

I didn't say anything till I got to my living quarters with Swan, " I have to do something about this intents rage I get when I'm upset." I said to Swan and she had no expression on her face, Then she put her right hand on my shoulder across from her and she then smiled at me. "It's not a bad thing to lose yourself when someone you love gets hurt, but you need to be able to take control of that anger and steer it to a more productive means." Her words were sharp, but she was right, my next point of improving myself was to control the rage inside and point it to something productive.

Swan had a good thought about how to get me to relax, She was put in a request for me to take a vacation back to earth for a week. I smiled from ear to ear when I saw that, she looked at me with a confused look on her face. "What is it, Jacob? Why are you smiling at me like that? " She asked me and laughed, "You're coming with me when I go with Bradley, you will be proof of where I've been. " I said to her and she was worried about going with me, "Won't the people on your planet freak out on me since I'm not human? " She said and I smiled, "Some might be, but you will have me and Bradley with you and I won't let anyone hurt you.