Major Bob Cummings, JD, USAF, had his plate full as the Judge Advocate General officer for the Air Force command at NASA. Aside from the usual military matters, Cummings also had to deal with astronauts with incredible egos who think they could follow or ignore whatever Air Force regulation or civilian codes they desire. He thought the fighter jocks at Nellis were full of themselves, but they had nothing on the boys with astronaut wings. On top of all that, Cummings gets a call from very high up that he has to fully cooperate with some Colonel Austin, no questions asked.

The intercom buzzed, "Major, Colonel Austin is here," Cummings receptionist informed him.

Cummings ordered, "Thank you Airman, please show the Colonel in." When Austin entered his office, Cummings wasn't too surprised to see he was sporting astronaut wings.

"How may I help you Colonel?" Cummings asked.

Steve replied, "I need to see what you have on Tony Nelson, nobody else can know about this."

Cummings got out a very thick file, "Of course, Colonel, most of these reports were filed by Colonel Alfred Bellows. It was before my time, but it was mainly wild accusations with nothing to substantiate them. Generals Peterson and Schaffer did cover their bases, though, by ordering a JAG investigation, but keeping it quiet. No improprieties were found on the part of Colonel Nelson, but some of this reads like science fiction."

Steve looked through the file, and found reports even wilder than Bellows had shared with him. Harem girls appearing out of nowhere, Tony's house turning into some sort of mansion, really wild stuff. Bellows had an excellent reputation at one time, but it appears he may have cracked and took it out on Tony.

The next morning, to get ready for the physical training test required to be promoted, Tony decided to go out for a run. Steve, Roger, and Jeannie joined him. It was a good morning for a run, the humidity hadn't started to rise yet, and the sky was bright blue. Steve's main objective was to keep up with Tony, and try to get some information out of him. The three men wore standard military sweats, while Jeannie had a cute pink running outfit. Steve and Tony took the lead, while Roger and Jeannie did a pretty good job of keeping up.

"So, Tony, seems married life agrees with you," Steve observed.

"Yeah, I was lucky to find Jeannie," Tony replied.

"Where does she come from?" Steve asked.

Tony was quiet for a moment, then carefully replied, "Steve, please don't be offended, but Jeannie is a very private person. Her parents are no longer around, and her past is something she would like to keep in the past." Tony had practice dodging that particular question.

Brilliant dodge, Steve thought, then immediately chastised himself. Maybe Tony was being on the up and up. Steve just said, "Sorry, hope I didn't bring up a sore subject."

"Don't worry about it Steve," Tony replied, then to lighten things up added, "last one to the traffic light buys the beer."

Steve laughed and said, "You're on."

Tony picked up the pace, and Steve kept up with him. Oscar might frown upon using Bionic strength for a half-pack of Bud.

Jeannie asked Roger, "What are they doing?"

Roger explained, "Oh its just a race."

Jeannie didn't want her husband to lose, so she blinked to grant Tony's secret wish to be just a little quicker than Steve.

Just then, a Dodge Charger rear-ended a Ford Pinto at the intersection. Through his bionic eye, Steve could see that there was fuel leaking out of the pinto. Then he saw the drive of the Charger getting out… smoking a Cuban stogie. There wasn't time to worry about who sees it now, action had to be taken. Besides, the military could debrief Tony, Roger and Jeannie about what they saw. Not to mention the fact it would be Roger and Tony's career if they exposed Steve's bionic strength. Steve started to run at full bionic force.

Steve was running at about a mile a minute, focused on the car accident. He saw something come up beside him, he just figured it was a motorcycle. The next thing he knew, he was looking at Tony Nelson's back. Tony was running over 60 miles an hour! Tony was also screaming something that sounded like "Jeannie!"

"Jeannie, what did you do?" Roger asked.

"I only wished that Anthony would run a little faster than Colonel Austin. I didn't do anything to Colonel Austin," Jeannie explained.

Roger said, "Somehow, I don't think Steve can normally go 0-60 in 8.5 seconds."

Steve ran up to the Charger and pulled the cigar out of the hand of the dumbfounded driver, and got everybody away from the leaky Ford. Steve then walked over to Tony.

"How on Earth did you run that fast?" Steve asked.

"It must have been adrenalin." Tony replied.

Then, Tony thought about Steve's question. Nelson realized Austin didn't seem fazed about running 60 miles per hour. Austin somehow saw the fuel leak, that Tony didn't even see until he got to the Pinto. Austin was on a mission, and the only thing Steve thought odd was that Tony was running fast.

Tony cunningly added, "Besides we were running neck and neck."

Touche' thought Steve. Austin realized that there was no way he could grill Nelson more about the bionic like speed without exposing himself.

After the run, the foursome had a very tense breakfast at a nearby coffee shop. From their table Steve, Tony, Roger, and Jeannie could see the Pinto being towed off. The Charger drove away under its own power. The driver of the Charger got a ticket, but he got off easy. If Steve hadn't pulled the cigar out of the pilot of the Dodge's hand, the smoking man would have the lives of the young mother and toddler in the Pinto on his head, as well as a hefty lawsuit. Possibly even jail.