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Chapter 3: Enhancements

Eric awoke to a bright light being shone in his face. He looked to his right, and saw Teran there, unconscious, and on his left, Leo and Justin as well. Apparently, he was the only one awake. He tried to sit up, but another space marine came by, and gently pushed him back down. He knew what this space marine was of course, he was an apothecary. Eric lay back down, and tried to remember what had happened, oh yes. He had gone under some rigorous training, learning camouflage, infiltration, and everything that had to do with that, they had been taken in here before, but now he couldn't remember past that. The apothecary came by with a pad like thing, and started scanning Eric's body with it. Then, apparently pleased with the results, let Eric sit up.

"What happened?" Eric asked, rubbing his eyes, and protecting them from the glare. The apothecary put down the pad, and stood there for a second before answering.

"We just finished putting in all the enhancement stuff; I won't even bother you with what was taken in or out. I will tell you, though, that you are one of the most compatible initiate here. There were absolutely no problems with your enhancements."

"Does that mean that the others had some difficulties?"

"Well, actually, all brothers are supposed to have some difficulties when they first get their implants. The one you call Leo, had some problems with the black Carapace would not grasp hold, but we got through, and the one you call Teran, his muscles almost grew too rapidly, but we got it under control."

Eric just nodded in agreement, and hopped off the table. He then looked around, but then realized he didn't know his way around the place.

"Hey, apothecary, where can I find the sergeant?"

"You mean Brother McKenzie?"

"Yeah."

"Follow the hallway up, take the third door on the right, then the first door on the left, it should be marked firing range."

"Thank you."

Eric set off, he almost missed the first door he was supposed to go through, and then he finally got to the door marked 'firing range'. He walked inside, and saw some space marines, that he would soon be calling brothers firing an assortment of weapons that Eric had only seen in his dreams. He then saw the sergeant firing from his own slot, with a pistol of some sort. Eric then walked up behind the sergeant, and waited for him to finish. The sergeant finally finished, holstered his pistol, and turned around, and gave a twitch, apparently not expecting Eric to be there. He got over it quickly, and walked over to him.

"Apparently the augmentation went well."

"Yes sergeant, I feel like I could take the world."

"Well don't. Thinking like that will get you killed in the real world."

"Yes sergeant."

"How are the others?" the sergeant asked his voice and looks a little more sympathetic.

"They're doing fine, they had a few problems, but they managed to get them under control."

The sergeant looked relieved.

"Well, that's good. They should be waking up soon, so let's go meet them."

They both walked back to the med bay, and saw Leo and Teran already up, Justin was still sleeping. The apothecary was standing over top of him with a pad in his hand. Finally, after a little prodding, Justin woke up, and got off the table.

"Look whose back!" Teran yelled, walking over, and playfully slugging Eric on the arm. It hurt, a lot. He backed away, rubbing his arm.

"Oh, sorry, don't know my own strength anymore." Teran said, with a little menacing smile in his face. I walked over to Leo, who was helping Justin walk around, and get used to augmentations.

"How are you Justin?" Eric asked, as he reached him.

"I'm fine, just a little shaky." He replied, wobbling around, and almost losing his balance, and having to lean on Leo. Then the sergeant came in, and asked the apothecary a question.

"Are they ready?"

"They should be ready for whatever you throw at them brother-sergeant."

The sergeant nodded in reply, and Eric and the others walk out of the med bay, and follow him. Eric and the others were soon staring at a line of suits, not the kind of armor that the regular space marines wear, this was lighter. It had no helmet for one, and we didn't have the rifle that the other space marines had. The sergeant then spoke up.

"As of now, you are part of the dark watch chapter. You will be put into the tenth regiment, and will be forever known as brothers. Welcome aboard brothers!"

The sergeant then got the equipment down, and equipped them with it, telling all of us how to get each item on or off, and soon, we were fitted up, and ready for reconnaissance. He then led them to the firing range, and gave them their weapons. Teran got the plasma gun, able to fire super heated balls of energy from short range. Leo got the normal bolter, along with Justin. Eric got the sniper rifle. Eric and his brothers fired for about an hour, before the sergeant stepped away to answer a comm. channel. After about a couple of minutes, he came back, and told Eric and his brothers to hold fire.

"Well, you guys are going to get your very first taste of combat, we have an ork settlement to take care of, and we need some tactical data before we send 2nd company down there, but we will only need to of you. Eric, since you got the sniper, you go down, along with Leo, the rest of you, keep training."

Eric could see the disappointment in the faces of Teran and Justin, but the obediently turned, and kept firing. The sergeant led Eric and Leo towards a small room. He then motioned them inside, and stood outside the door.

"Alright brothers, this here is a drop pod, it will take you where you need to go, when you touch down on Heroniden IV, report to brother-captain Harculd, he'll tell you what to do."

Then, just as the doors started folding up, he whispered something that Eric almost didn't hear, "Don't let me down brothers."