Chapter 3 – A New Enhancement - Jon
Alar woke up next to his wife, who is now about 3 months pregnant and showing. He leans over and kisses her as he gets out of bed and heads to the fresher again. As he gets out he reaches up and peals a piece of dead skin of his scar.
"OK, that's it! I'm going to get that surgery today!"
He walks back to the bedroom and gets dressed as Kyndra wakes and smiles up at him sleepily.
"Good morning," She yawns and stretches before finishing, "dear."
He smiles over at her and says,
"Yeah…I've decided to get the surgery done. I'm going to get it done in a few hours."
"What, you said you weren't going to do it, but if this is what you want, then I will support you, even though you don't need it."
She reaches up and brushes his scar, then down his cheek. He flinches, as she brushes past his battle scar. He closes his remaining eye, and sighs.
"Yeah I know, but the scabbing…It's getting worse."
"You look handsome to me, dear, but if you think you'll be happier with it, then we'll head down there after lunch."
He smiles and shakes his head. He finishes dressing and heads out the door toward the kitchen.
A few hours later, he walks out of a small room and presses a button on his cheek. Diodes light up as he slowly regains his original vision. He looks over at Kyndra, who is smiling, and smiles back at her. She reaches up and runs her fingers over the cold steel, and shivers.
He reaches up too and moves her hand aside as he brushes his new cybernetic eye. He grins and looks over into the mirror, and gasps. He was beautiful compared to before, but he is still hideous, due to the large piece of metal over his face.
He looks back at Kyndra and makes a half-smile. He takes her hand as they head home. The doctor walks out of the room and wipes his hands on his pants, then goes about counting his money. All of a sudden the building explodes as a huge fireball erupts from one of the credit chips. Kyndra looks back horrified, but Alar, stands there chuckling.
"Wasn't that so cool? He is a criminal after all…"
"No, Alar! That wasn't cool, it was mean. I can't believe you just did that…"
She looks over at him with a mean look on her face and backs away when he reaches out for her. He drops his head in sorrow, and she approaches him, feeling bad for yelling at him. He looks over his shoulder and smiles as they board The Adnulir.
