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Unit 246: Chapter Five


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Chapter One is found here:

https://muscle-growth.org/topic/13112-unit-246/

Chapter Four is found here:

https://muscle-growth.org/topic/13146-unit-246-chapter-four/

Unit 246

Chapter Five

Unit 389 had still been enraptured in the feeling of becoming as empowered as a neutron star, as unyielding as a being of chrome and tungsten, as disciplined as a fighting machine and as built as forgotten hero-god of the past, when someone or something cut the power supply off, and put an end to the relentless behaviour of Medical Artificial Intelligence 5.

"All parameters and levels increasing and intensifying. Hypertrophic Power. Thirty thousand seven hundred millibanner. And... And... Aaaaaannnd... Warning. Lacking power supplyyyy..."

He and the two other units regained their awareness of their physical surroundings. Socket A and socket B were damaged by the size of the forearms and calves of Unit 388 and himself. The lead glass walls of the chamber had cracked, and the electric cables supplying the hypertrophic generators smelled like they had burned. Individuals in hazmat suits stood in Lab 5, some of them of non-enhanced size, others obviously fellow individual units. Still dazed by The Procedure, he and Unit 246 and Unit 388 had been helped out of the chamber. Someone in a hazmat suit carrying the insignias of a lieutenant spoke to him:

"Attention all units! Number?"

"Sir! Unit 246, Sir!"

"Sir! Unit 388, Sir!"

"Sir! Unit, 389, Sir!"

"You will be escorted to MedBay."

They were escorted to MedBay. Three other men already rested there: A non-enhanced private with a partially-transformed and disfigured arm and shoulder, and two individual units of uncertain upgrade with something similar to burns in their faces and their right arms. A human surgeon, a Bleronian nurse and Medical Artificial Intelligence 1 took some samples, and gave them some pills.

The Emotion Access of the other units were disabled, and they remained silent, but the wounded non-enhanced man was angry when he regained consciousness:

"I'm not sure exactly bloody what you three were doing in there, but you succeeded in making me a bloody freak, without even looking inside! Fuck what it hurts! The painkillers doesn't work! Nurse Zzmnczythia? May I have another painkiller?"

The blue-skinned Bleronian expressed a vapour of pity through their blowhole, and answered:

"A higher dosage could be dangerous, but I could give you a telepathic analgesic, until Doctor Lǐ has evaluated your unusual state. You have assimilated hypertrophic power without any preliminary injections, and so has two of the other wounded patients. I am not at liberty to administer any telepathic analgesic to a patient without express permission, according to the Human-Bleronian Communication Agreement of Common Galactic Ansible Date 200.374.615. Do I have your permission, Private?"

"Of course you have my permission, Nurse. While you are at it, why don't you blast the brains out of those fucking hulk morons over there? I give you my permission to do that. Fuck, this hurts so damned much!"

"I am not at liberty at blasting other patients without their own express permission, Private."

"Sorry, Nurse. Forgot the absence of irony in the Bleronian language. Please zap me with the mind-ano, already."

* * *

They had been kept in MedBay for two shifts. The best treatment of the injured non-enhanced Private was found to be The Procedure, using Prototype Enhancement formula upgrade 7.2, which had been sufficiently evaluated to be used in a non-standard enhancement like this. The Private did't seem to enjoy the thought, as two Enhanced Special Marine Servicemen upgrade 7.1 strapped the patient to the wheeled sickbed and moved him to the undamaged Lab 4:

"No! You can't do this! I want to remain myself! Don't make me one of them! My girlfriend will hate me!"

* * *

Lieutenant Fforbes had given him a scolding, and he deserved it, because Lieutenant Fforbes told him he deserved it, but the – part interrogation – conversation turned into something more analytic after a while.

"Do you remember anything of the past, Unit 389?"

"Negative, Sir! This individual unit came into existence two shifts ago, and exist for the purpose of enhancing his capacity and use his capacity to the utmost, for the sake of the Galactic Empire. I hope, that I have enhanced my capacity to the utmost, Sir!"

"I see. Though the events at the Becoming of you and Unit 388 damaged Lab 5, your Becoming has given us new, updated and complementary data, of use for the Galactic Marine Corps."

"Sir! Thank you, Sir!"

"But the damage inflicted to Lab 5 and three passersby deserve punishment."

Lieutenant Fforbes was silent a few seconds, but the new Unit, which had forgotten, that he once had been Sergeant Mulligan, continued to stare straightforward without flinching.

"And you have caused another problem. His Majesty's Battleship Demogorgon will not be able to use hyperwarp, until a new series of hyperwarp-safe hibernation-pods are acquired. This might delay missions of great importance. I will find out a suitable punishment. Let me see...

Unit 389 blacked out. When he returned to consciousness his phonewatch showed, that it was one shift later, and he stood outside Lieutenant Fforbes private quarters. He knew that he had been given an order to give a hand at the installation of the new series of pods at hibernation deck. When he arrived at hibernation deck, he found Unit 246 and Unit 388 there, assisting the short and tiny dockworkers with the anti-grav trolleys and the new, bigger, pods. Pods suitable to contain Enhanced Special Marine Servicemen of upgrade 8.1.

* * *

Unit 246 : Interlude is found here: https://muscle-growth.org/topic/15947-unit-246-interlude/

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2 hours ago, Ro20316 said:

So they ttaking them appart from other? will they still fight. I gues sthere will be testing first... so many questions

As Professor River Song would say, warningly: "Spoilers!"

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Hmm, 389 waking up outside the quarters of his officer.  Did Fforbes make the former sergeant service him, if you catch my drift.

also, how big did the new 8.1 versions get? I understand if you want to keep the size of the hulk marines vague, but you should at least drop hints here and there for the writers. In the first chapter i was under the impression all the hulk marines, were, well hulk size; turns out 246, 388, and 389 are the first of the enhanced servicemen to be over seven feet. Just saying, a little confusing is all.

 

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4 hours ago, Salamander said:

Hmm, 389 waking up outside the quarters of his officer.  Did Fforbes make the former sergeant service him, if you catch my drift.

also, how big did the new 8.1 versions get? I understand if you want to keep the size of the hulk marines vague, but you should at least drop hints here and there for the writers. In the first chapter i was under the impression all the hulk marines, were, well hulk size; turns out 246, 388, and 389 are the first of the enhanced servicemen to be over seven feet. Just saying, a little confusing is all.

 

I will probably adjust some details in time, to avoid any continuity errors. And I believe you mean eight feet, not seven. Nor did I state how tall they had become when they were found, several minutes after reaching eight feet. To be honest, I originally intended the breaking of the eight feet info only to apply on 388 and 389, who weren't Units yet, which leave the reader in ignorance about the size of the earlier updates, like Unit 246, but I shall give any adjustments of the story a thought. Thanks for reading. Sci-fi is fun. An thank you for your input, which hopefully will iron any inconsistencies out.

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1 hour ago, hardmuscl4life said:

Please continue the series. I have enjoyed the story thusfar.  You have a marvelous imagination. 

Thank you for the encouragement. I will continue when I feel creative.

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