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of door you would find on a ship, a hatch he thought, that’s what they were called.  Then of course the missing wall, not much, but better than trapped on the gurney as long as the force field or whatever held up.  Now to take inventory of himself.  He looked down at himself.  Crap I’m ripped he thought, as he slowly admired his new muscles.  Jesus I think I’m taller to.  All he had on was a skin tight suit that kind of felt like spandex but thinner, if you could believe it.  He tried taking it off but it felt like it was bonded to his skin.  Oh well he thought, better than being naked.
    “It’s called second skin or just skin for short.”  Came a voice from the direction of the door.  A small section on the door itself had slid open to reveal a speaker.  He looked up at the window in the door and saw the face of the person, thing, which the Captain had referred to as the doctor.  “It is quite comfortable and will protect its wearer from all kinds of hostile situations.  Even for a short time in a vacuum, if you have the helmet that goes with it that is.  My name is Doctor Sky, by the way, but you can just call me Sky.  The Captain has given me permission to talk to you for a brief period and allowed me to explain some things to you.  But he has deactivated your ability to respond so I’m afraid you can ask no questions.”  She took a deep breath then began.
    “This is the place you have been disappearing to all those times throughout the years, we have been doing medical experiments on you since you were in your mother’s womb, preparing you for a special job.   We are currently over one hundred and fifty light years off the galactic disk your people call the Milky Way.  I cannot tell what they are going to use you for, because I am as much a prisoner on this ship as you are.  Just know that there is no going back, and to live you must cooperate.  Your body has been altered greatly in order for you to perform your job.  You are now as perfect as my skills can make you, and for all of that I am truly sorry.  If I could change anything that has happened here, to save you from this fate, know that I would have.   I will always regret how I treated you.”  She released the comm button on her side, and on his the speaker hatch slid closed.  They looked at each other for a few moments then she turned and walked away. 
    Cole spent the next few hours pacing around, what he now thought of as his prison cell, thinking about what the good doctor had told him.  It sounded like she had no choice about what they made her do to him, so he felt no ill will towards her at all.  The rest of them though, somehow they were going to pay for what they did to him.  He stopped and banged his fist into the bulkhead.  Ouch that hurt, he forgot he actually had some power behind his punches now.  Come to think of it, he never would have made that crack about the Love Boat before either.  He had changed and not just on the outside.  He, for the first time in his life, felt confident in himself.  He liked the feeling.  Now if he could just find a way out of this cell other than taking a walk in vacuum.  He hadn’t been given any more food yet so he didn’t know what the process of getting food to him entailed.  Maybe he could overpower a guard or something if they gave him the chance.  He was starting to get bored, fast, so he decided to put his new muscles through their paces.
    Captain Feng was on the bridge looking at all the data the tech team had drudged up, so far.  Not very promising to say the least.  He needed to find something that pointed the way to the coordinates of the, assuming he was right, last fleet the humans ever built.  His comm chimed.  “Sir this is tech team reporting, they have finally cracked the security containing the AI.  We have limited access but, well it wants to talk to you Sir, and we can’t let it into the comm system without letting it get into the general