A shake of her head she looked at Mary, “I need you to do a level 1, micro-cellular scan of my husband.”“Commencing scan now, are we looking for...anything specific?” Mary asked, slightly perplexed.“I’m not sure,” Mita said. “I’ll know as soon as I see the scan. So far I am not seeing anything unusal.”Over on a third bio-bed, a half-conscious Derrick groaned as his eyes slowly opened. As soon as he tried to sit up, he groaned even louder.“Mary, I and the empire do not have time for me to be a. Dey laughed and leaned against the wall. Dr. Reyes turned to face her, pursing her lips.“You know, we can shut your implants down remotely, right?”“Ah, uh, no,” Dey said, sobering. “Sorry Dr. Reyes.”“This here is tha’ standard rifle of the USMC – the Armalite FluG-55. It is also called the AFG or, as some soldiers call it, the Another Fuckin’ Grenade.” The instructor for the classroom of Devil Troopers was a grizzled, hard bitten looking Marine DI named Jacobson. A rarity for this day and age,. “Usually I only get to do this right when we get up! I can’t wait!” She then grabbed her daddy’s hand and started to lead him towards the stairs. Her parent’s then stop her and say, “We don’t need to go back to bed to do this, you can get your daddy’s cream right in the living room.” And Marie gestures towards her father’s favorite seat, an old recliner that has nice soft cushions. Becky loved to sit on her daddy’s lap in that chair when they watched movies, because she could always feel her. You never know. I’ll try not to be gone more than a couple of days. Will you and Jack be OK with that idea?’ ‘As long as you come back, we will.’ ‘I will. This is just something I have to do,’ he told her, and sighed loudly. ‘I’m just afraid,’ she admitted. ‘What if you find out something that makes you want to leave me again? I’m still not even sure why you changed your mind the first time.’ ‘Nothing I find out will change the person I am now,’ he promised. ‘And the man I am now wants to be.