Chapter 54 Sly elf.

Aelita returned a few minutes later, this time without her armor, but still with a Taser.

She sat down at the command chair and started directing drones to bring in Lanarine's station, which had already changed color at the sensor display, signaling that it now belonged to Andrew again.

-What are you doing?

Lanarine asked, seeing her actions.

-I'm bringing the station here, we have no use for it out there.

The girl replied.

-Besides, I think that most of it will be turned into resources, or sold to the merchant considering that most of the modules are almost useless to us.

Aelita added while reading the module list of Lanarine's station.

-Leave my station alone, I know it's not as advanced as yours but it's not useless.

Lanarine said angrily.

-Oh I won't do anything to it other than relocate it here, It's not my decision to make.

-You changed a lot.

Lan finally noticed that Cheroni was no longer the timid girl she was before she met Andrew.

-I did, and I will probably change even more in the future.

For the first time in my life, I understood what was going on on my planet, and also that I was never ugly, the others were just afraid of me.

Not to mention that I also discovered that I can defend myself, and those I love.

The best part is, that I owe all of this to Andrew.

Aelita explained, leaving Lanarine speechless.

Only now did Lanarine understand, that if she never pissed Andrew off, he would most likely treat her the same as Aelita by now.

But that was in the past, for now, she was more concerned about her future.

Andrew's recording gave her instructions and she would need to follow them to the letter, which would be hard.

Not only was she ordered to lead everyone into a trap, but also to scan 30 asteroids a day, with her work speed that was 15 hours of work, each day, before she could rest.

Thinking about it she wanted to cry, but no tears came.

One thing that she was sure of, was that Andrew would never let her go now, and if he was pissed at her, then she knew from experience that he was very creative with punishments.

The hour passed quickly, and against her will, Lanarine went to the communication console, and contacted others, informing them of her success and telling them to change course and come straight here.

No matter how much she tried to fight with the slavery chip, it was no use, and her body followed Andrew's instructions to the letter.

The worst part was that everyone believed her, and she saw that they immediately, changed course, which meant that in less than a week the first one of them would fall into the trap.

After that, she was forced to take her place at the sensor console and she started to do the scans.

The only good thing about it was that he never specified which asteroids she should scan, so she picked the smaller ones, which didn't require as much time as the big ones.

However, even with the small asteroids, it was already late when she finished scanning the thirtieth asteroid and she was barely able to keep her eyes open.

But the good news was that the moment she finished, she got some control of her body back.

Aelita at this time was long asleep, not worrying about Andrew's safety anymore.

Deciding to get some rest as well, she went to Andrew's beginning module.

Found some food for herself, took a quick shower, and went to sleep.

With the orders like the ones Andrew had given her, she was sure that she would need all the rest she could get.

The next day, she entered the command center only to find it empty.

This was something she remembered from her previous visit so without wasting time she got to work, intending to finish as soon as possible, and leave.

The work took her another ten hours to finish, and that was only because she had chosen the smallest asteroids she could find.

Knowing full well that once Andrew got out of the tank he would most likely order her to scan the big ones, she decided to work as little as she could before that happened.

Aelita only came to the command center when it was time to decide on the next research and then she was gone again.

Once she finished her work, she could go to the beginning module to get some rest.

To her surprise, there were more items for her in the module, including clothes and the first aid kit.

But at the moment she was preoccupied, thinking what Andrew would do with her and the others.

Knowing him, he would most likely not kill them, at least not without a reason.

The problem was that they had given him a reason to kill them, by trying to take over his station and planning on turning him into a slave.

No matter how she thought about it, their fate would not be too good, and they could be considered lucky if all he did was turn each one of them into slaves.

These kinds of thoughts tortured her when she was not sleeping or working, until the third day.

That was the day, Andrew was supposed to leave the regeneration tank.

Aelita went to see the progress of treatment, and it was almost complete, with the progress bar showing 99%, completion and only a few minutes left until it was finished.

The display of his body also showed that all of his health problems were dealt with and his body became much slimmer after the removal of all the excess fat and skin from his body.

Soon the timer showed 00:00:00, and the progress bar reached 100% at the same time, and the solution was drained from the tank, leaving only the sleeping human inside, who looked similar but different.

His body was lean with muscles showing under his skin, all the blemishes that he ever had were removed along with all the scars left by his stepsiblings.

In short, every centimeter of his body was regenerated to the state it should have been in, and now he was not only healthy but also devilishly handsome.

Aelita could hardly believe that he was the same person who entered the tank three days earlier.

Only after a few seconds of looking at him, did she realize that he was also completely naked, as his boxers were now way too big for him and fell down once the solution was drained from the tank, exposing an impressive sleeping dragon between his legs.

The girl blushed as till now she had only seen it in images while studying biological engineering, but that one was way smaller and not as impressive.

A moment later she went to get a towel to cover him up, praying that he would not wake up before then.

Her prayers have been heard and Andrew only opened his eyes after she covered him up.

-How long have I been in the tank?

He asked, trying his best to fully wake up, as he was still feeling the effects of the anastethic.

-A little more than 70 hours.

Aelita answered.

-How do you feel?

-Like, i swapped bodies with someone else.

Andrew said, trying to get used to his regenerated body.

Without the fat slowing him down, his movements became effortless, looking down he saw a sixpack on his stomach and a well-defined muscles all around his body.

By the way he saw his boxers on the bottom of the tank, and figured out that thay were to big for him right now, and so was most of his wardrobe, so he would have to buy a few sets of new clothing.

Fortunately, his armor would adjust itself automatically to his new body.

-Did something happen while I was asleep?

Andrew asked, he suspected that the others might want to use this opportunity to take over his station.

-Yes, Lanarine came, but your recording prevented us from having to fight, she is now in the command center working on the scans.

Aelita said and then surprised Andrew by bowing her head.

-I want to apologize, for revealing your secrets and causing trouble for you.

She said, not having an idea better than apologizing right now.

Andrew started laughing.

-You dont have to apologize, actually it's me who should apologize to you, for invading your privacy, and using you to feed the others the information I wanted them to have or missinforming them in some cases.

Andrew said.

The girl straightened up immediately.

-You knew?

-I suspected, so I checked the chat and all your video calls, which confirmed my suspicions.

Hearing this Aelita wanted to find a hole to hide in it.

-I skipped the private conversations, I just needed to know their plans and what information you shared with them.

Andrew explained, seeing her embarrassment.

-Then why didn't you stop me from sharing your secrets?

She asked, not understanding his motives.

-Because thank's to that we can most likely subdue all of the other station masters now without killing them.

The best proof is that Lanarine came and is now back to being a slave, which means that the others are most likely on their way here.

He explained, but for some reason this plan looked a bit childish right now.

It even surprised him that it worked at all.

-Can we discuss this a bit later?

I need to scan myself, to make sure that everything is alright with me.

Andrew said suddenly.

Aelita nodded, but didn't leave.

-Get into the scanner, I'll do the scanning.

She said walking to the console.

He didn't argue, and soon the machine scanned his body from top to bottom.

The results were that his body was as healthy as it could ever be, but additionally, his mental health was also added to the results and highlighted as fully healed.

Not to mention that his brain scans revealed an increase in his cognitive abilities as well as the information processing speed.

Andrew pulled out the previous scan he had before entering the regeneration tank, and sure enough there was a diagnosis for his mental health, and his cognitive abilities and information processing speed were diagnosed as diminished.

The information was all there, but he just never noticed it before.

-What is going on here?

He asked, not understanding, how the tank could get rid of his trauma, without the mental correction upgrade.

-What do you mean?, you are fully healed, isn't this what you wanted?

Aelita asked surprised at his question.

-I knew that my body would be healed, but how did the tank get rid of my trauma?

He asked more precisely.

-Oh that, I think it's thanks to the solution that Terelen had given us.

She explained, pulling out one of the solutions.

-You see this writing?

Andrew nodded.

-It says that this is a special solution for restoring not only the body but also the mind.

She explained.

-Don't tell me that you didn't read it before using the tank.

The human was stupefied, he indeed never read it as at this point he trusted Terelen and never considered that the elf would give him something else than they agreed upon, but then he remembered that they agreed on tier 3 solution for the tank, never specifying what it was supposed to do other than healing.

-That sly, elf.

Andrew said and started laughing, he would need to remember to thank him for all the help.

Then he looked at Aelita.

-Now it's your turn to get into the scanner.

He said, having a pretty good idea about the results.

-I feel great, and don't need to be scanned.

She protested.

-You have a choice, either you get into the scanner by yourself, or I will throw you inside, and restrain you if need be, either way you are getting scanned.

Only now did he remember that her last scan was made by a tier 2 level 1 scanner and he wanted to see if it missed something like it did with him.

Whatever the case was, she was getting scanned, and regenerated in the tank, whether she liked it or not.