Chapter 11: only the brave may keep their minds.

Same day, same location.

Inside the crater now lay the body of one of the recon squad members. One of the Dortde had found him, and fired their weapon at him. There was now a gaping hole in the man's abdomen, killing him.

"We need to do something to help the other two members. They are cornered at the moment, and we can't afford to have them there much longer. 006, I would like for you to tunnel down there and go beneath them. 007 could you act as a decoy, or something to distract the Dortde while we pull them out? 0021, do you feel good enough to try to give them sniper support?" Major Klitznova knew that things were going down the hole fast, and she was wanting to avoid a snafu on the first encounter. Everyone agreed, but Jedi had reservations. He still couldn't get out of his mind the words of Black Ghost, telling him that he wasn't even a cyborg, which is still human to some extent, but instead was an android. A thing, no human parts at all.

Jedi went over and stood with Francoise. As he did he looked down at his arm. "Funny how things go when you are forced against your will, huh?"

"What? Oh, yeah. Things aren't going to be easy, but at least Black Ghost is gone, so we don't have to fight them. And at least we aren't having to hide from the countries of the world our existence either."

"Black Ghost!!!! Wait a minute. When I fell unconscious, I spoke to Black Ghost. He told me that I wasn't a cyborg, but I was in fact an android. That in my pod while I was on the moon, I was worked on by nanobots. I don't want to believe it, I wanted to think of it as a daydream, but when he told me that I could rule my own continent, and then he told me that I wasn't the only one that had been worked on by nanobots for the last fifty years, I just couldn't believe that I had daydreamed."

"Jedi, you need to report that as soon as we get back to safety, Ok? If true, then you will prove that we could have prevented a lot of things. But do you think that you could go ahead and still snipe off a couple of the Dortde? They are really laying it down on those poor soldiers."

"Oh, yeah. Now. Let's see what I can see." Jedi began to aim. He closed one eye, and there appeareared a set of crosshairs. And in his head a voice said, "Targeting. Target Locked on. Ready to fire."

"Huh? Who's there?" Jedi didn't have time to mess with anything else; he had to help with some cover fire. He began firing. One down, two, three. They fell like flies as he continued firing with his index finger.

" I am your Battle Energized Total Harmonizer. But you can call me Beth. Since you did not have time for proper training, I was installed into your digital mind to help you keep all of your systems in check. Think of me as your Heads Up Display like on the old F-22's in your day."

More and more things that I can't handle right now. Jedi thought as he continued fire.

"Warning, incoming fire. Disrupter type. Potential damage risk is mild. Enemy has target lock."

"Oh shit, that can never be good. Francoise, we have to abandon this post!" Jedi looked over to Francoise to find her trying to fight hand-to- hand with a Dortde.

Without a thought, Jedi turned around and commenced firing with the machine lasers in the pinky and ring fingers. "Warning, laser overheat." flashed just to the right side of his sight. Jedi was now seriously frustrated; he wanted to bore a whole in the alien's back that was turned to him.

And he did.

All of a sudden, the last of the attackers was on the floor, shuddering in the last death throws. "Did I do that? How? Wait, I have heat vision/eye laser. That had to be it"

"Thanks Jedi. let's get going, before any more decide to pop up here." Francoise dashed to the stairway. There was an explosion behind them. Jedi accelerated and picked up Francoise and dashed down the stairs. He decelerated just in time to see the building they had come out of collapse.