Bionic-1
Part3
At the hospital, Helen cannot recognize her husband; his face is swollen beyond recognition. The military hospital has him in what it appears to be a form of body glove to help heal his burns. "Is he going to make it?" She asks the doctor. "We are doing everything we can, but if he doesn't wake up . . ." "…I will have to prepare for a funeral." Helen replies.
The doctor leaves Helen alone with Jack; she sits along side him but does not dare to touch him for fear she might harm him. Out of nowhere Prof. Sharp appears. "How is he doing?" He asks. Helen is startled at first, she has not told anyone of Jack's condition except for her mother. "Professor what are you doing here?" She questions him. "The jet Jack crashed in was my creation." He replies.
"He's not doing well." Helen says answering Sharp's earlier question. The old man nods and takes a seat next to her. "I have something that can save him." He says. "You do?" She says excitedly. He nods. "It can save him, but at a cost." "What cost?" She asks. "I cannot tell you what it is in here, it will better if we meet at the museum where we can talk in private." He says and leaves the room. Helen doesn't know what to think, but if Sharp if offering a way to help her husband she is willing to give it a try.
Later that night she arrives home to find her mother still awake waiting for her. "How is he?" She asks. "Not well," She answers. "The doctors at the base have him wrapped up in some kind of body glove, but he looks so bad I couldn't recognized him." Tears began fall from Helen's eyes as she collapsed onto her mother's arms. "How are the kids?" Helen finally asks her mother. "JD knows something is wrong, his siblings picked up on it and . . . I didn't now what to tell them" Sophia says. The two women continued to speak further onto the night until they headed to bed.
As Helen lays in bed she makes the decision to go see Sharp first thing tomorrow morning. The next day shortly after breakfast she leaves for the museum, though she does not tell her mother where she's going only that she's going to help Jack.
Once at the museum Sharp takes her to the basement and a place she has never seen before. "Welcome to the Special Projects Lab or SPL." The professor says. "The SPL? What do you do here?" Helen asks. "I'm working on a new bionic technology." Sharp says looking at the computer screens. "How is that going to help Jack?" He turns to Helen, "Turning him bionic will save his life in addition it will give him superhuman abilities."
Helen is speechless and it takes her a long time to regain the ability to speak. "What are the risks?" "For starters, the process might not work properly which could further add to his ailing or it could kill him." She gasps. "Second, if it does work both of you would have to keep this a secret from your families including your children."
Again Helen is speechless she cannot fathom such a life. "Can you make this decision without Jack?" Sharp asks her. "I cannot." She says. "If . . . If Jack wakes up we will make the decision together as we always do."
With those words Helen leaves the museum. She realizes that Sharp has given her a way to help her husband, but she cannot take the risk and allow him to make Jack a cyborg without his permission.
Over the next weeks Jack slowly recovers but he is far from full recovery. While he is awake his speech has not fully return and is still unable to move without aid; his children in particular find it hard not being able to physically interact with him and more often than not they leave the hospital upset and in tears.
"Mommy, will daddy ever get better?" Meg asks her mother one night over dinner. "He will, honey." Her mother replies. "How long until we can play with him?" Bunji asks next. "I don't know yet, sweetie." "He's never getting better." A very upset Eric tells his brother. "He will get better." Helen tells him. "But we cannot even touch him." An equally upset JD says.
"Your father will get better, he only needs a little bit more of time to fully heal." Helen tells the kids. After that they continue their meal in silence thinking about all that was said.
The next day Helen goes to see Jack alone leaving the kids in her mother's care. Once at the hospital she discuses with him what Prof. Sharp told her, what it can do for him and what it would mean for their family. "I told him I could not make that decision, only you can." Helen finishes. Jack thinks about the implications before he gives his wife an answer. "Do you think it would be possible for me to talk to Sharp about this?" He asks her. "I will let him know." She replies.
A few days later Sharp is in the hospital discussing with Jack the option he had mention earlier to his wife. "Once you are allow to leave the hospital we will meet in my museum to further discuss the procedure." Sharp says. Jack nods. "I will be free to leave in a few more days." After a few more minutes the two say their good-byes.
Finally Jack released from the hospital but needs help to get around. The children are happy to see him but play time with their father would have to wait a little bit longer. Within weeks, Jack is doing much better and began to play with the kids, but what's on his mind is what Sharp had told him earlier.
Once Jack is in better shape, he and Helen go to see Sharp about his new bionic technology. The three sit in his study where the professor explains what the process is about and the changes it brings to the human body. "As you can see the process is unpredictable, but it can make you a much different man." "If I agree to this procedure what would I have to do in order to repay you?"
"My brother is a deranged man who dreams of ruling the world; he has used his own bionic procedures to enhance himself and now is on a quest to rule the world at any cost. If you become bionic I want you to help me stop him and any one else who might try such a thing." Helen and Jack are silent thinking for a long time before they give an answer. "What is to say I would not be helping you achieve the same thing your brother is after?" Jacks asks.
"I work for the government." Sharp says. "I'm sure you have heard of the agency Q10." "I have." Jack says. "Good. I work with them. They are my liaison to the government; the bionic technology I have created is in partnership with Q10 and the government." Helen and Jack are shocked to hear all this new information.
"You would have to give up your military career and work for me," Sharp added. Helen smiles. "Leaving the military would make the kids very happy." "I'm sure it would." Jack says and smiles. "I tell you what think about what I just says and once you have reach a decision let me know."