Space Odyssey: Spectre-Chapter 385: Somethings Wrong...

As Jace woke up he pulled his head off the work table he was sleeping at. Something felt off. He remembered what had happened in his mind during the dream. Before he went to sleep he felt different and felt something was off with the room.

He fell asleep at his worktable. Before he fell to sleep the girls were up on the second floor. Cain was up there with them, guarding them. Jace did not trust everything to stay fine, especially since the fight was still continuing throughout the station. Peter Reese was sleeping on his couch in the living room. It was too late for him to head back to his own place so they decided he would just stay the night. The Dwarf, Gorund, was snoring loudly while collapsed next to Jace’s partially completed hover bike. Jace and Gorund had worked on it until the dwarf had collapsed.

Jace went and slept at his worktable. Intending to tinker a bit more before sleep eventually took him. Then he entered that dream state where he took a ’walk’ in his own mind.

But now as he woke up, he could tell something was off.

He slowly and quietly stood up and looked around the room. The dwarf was still asleep near the hover bike. But now he was sleeping much more quietly. Peter Reese was sleeping on the couch. Then on the second floor he could see Cain looking down at him.

He looked back at his worktable. His tools and the orius core were still there. As far as he could tell he could not see anything out of place. He sighed after a moment of double checking and then walked to the bathroom. He opened the door and stepped in, rolling his neck as he went to turn on the water when he froze mid motion.

He just realized something.

He could see.

Normally that would not be a problem. But the garage was supposed to be pitch black at the moment. Yet for some reason he could see. But it was not in its usual colorful array, but he did not immediately notice that the room was coated in dark gray, black, light gray, blue, light blue, and dark blue.

He slowly looked up and looked at himself in the new mirror that was sitting in the bathroom. It had been one of the things he had been forced to replace when he was cleaning this place up. The old one had been almost completely shattered.

Looking at his reflection he frowned. His face was still the same. His hair was still there. But he no longer had the more manly look he had before, it was like his face got younger. It looked like it was to the point that he was no longer growing facial hair.

Although there were two more obvious changes that occurred. The first were his eyes, at the moment they were glowing a faint light blue. Although that might just be because of whatever form of Nightvision that he had gained. Then there were his ears. They were a bit pointer than before, he reached up and touched them as he realized they were more sensitive as well.

Then it hit him, he could hear better than before. Not just hear either. All of his already enhanced senses had grown on another level. But he could already tell these senses were working thanks in no small part to the minute electrical signals that everything gave off.

He sighed and then froze as he noticed something else and opened his mouth up a bit wider. Did his teeth get a bit sharper? Not all of them. But some of them were a bit more like a carnivorous animals. He reached in and felt around his mouth, flinching in pain as he touched the first tooth and realized that everything hurt.

He was not just more sensitive. Everything felt raw. His changed ears, the new teeth. Even his body felt a bit sore and out of place. He turned and closed the bathroom door before he turned to switch on the light but stopped.

This would probably hurt so he would have to be prepared for the change of light. He slightly turned away from the mirror and then flicked on the light. Expecting to be temporarily blinded for a moment. But instead the light transition was painless. Jace frowned and looked at the mirror again. His eyes had not changed color.

But now that he was looking in proper lighting he noticed that his body looked a bit skinnier. He raised up an arm and saw the muscles he had trained were gone. He pressed his hand up against it and felt the fat of an untrained body.

"Goddamnit." Jace cursed as he realized he would have to train his body again to perfection. He pulled off his shirt and saw a skinny form. He was not too fat or too skinny, he was just more in the fair zone of body form.

He turned his body slightly and saw his ears looked a little pink. Almost like it was regrown skin. They must have been rapidly generated and formed as he was going through that strange dream. Which means this would have happened regardless of how that dream turned out.

He was going to need a professional opinion. He would have to check-in with the High Priestess. But first he would check his nanosystem status. Once he was done with that he would see if the communication network was up.

He looked to the side and pulled forth the system interface. He frowned at what appeared.

[Nanosystem Updating...]

[User Jace has reached Stage 3 of Evolution. The Nanosystem is updating and changing to keep up with User Jace. Information the Nanosystem can provide is limited at the moment. If the user wishes to call upon information, the user just has to think of the specific information they want to access.]

Jace blinked in surprise at the very reactive information. He did not get a response like this before. Not even when his status information changed before with the addition of general and hidden information tabs. But now the Nanosystem was actively making changes to its interface.

But there was one new thing that was bothering him. Why was it taking so long?