His stomach was toned and flat. "I will be waiting in the clan building. You can tell me the results when you have finished all of them." I said. Doctor nodded as he looked over at Alpha and began to give him his final preparations for the installation surgery. It was going to be awhile. I wanted to be close by, so I chose the rock garden on the same level. I asked Colton and Nolan to help me with this. Aaron and Charlotte were interested too. It was fine with me. We had 12 units with the upgrade. With the 4 of them, we could get this done relatively quickly. 3 PEA units for each AEP unit. Both of them had been really enjoying their PEA unit lovers. We were all waiting together in the garden. At the end of the day, Doctor found me. He had changed his hoodie. He did not look well. He made to stand 6 feet from us. As he stood there, not speaking or moving, tension began to build. I felt a sense of dread just creeping over me until I could no longer stand it. "What the hell is it, Doctor!?" I snapped at him. He held up the folder with instructions. "I am here to report the results of the surgeries." he said nervously.
It certainly did not inspire any confidence in me. "Spit it out already! You're making me feel sick with that look on your face!" I yelled at him. He nodded and said "As their medical officer, it fell to me to perform all of the hardware installations. There were 4 critical successes, 2 success, 5 failures and 1 critical failure." That did not sound too good. I just looked at him blankly and asked what that actually meant. "With a critical success, the organs will be working 50% better than expected. The unit took to the hardware very well. A success is the standard expected result. A failure means that the procedure needs to be done again. It did not take. A critical failure means... that it cannot be undone." I demanded to know who was who. Doctor only sighed. "Vibe, critical failure. Arms, failure. Brandon, failure. Crusher, success. Lamuel, failure. Alpha, critical success. Beta, critical success. Gamma, success. Delta, critical success. Epsilon, failure. Zeta, failure. Lime, critical success." I was very upset. "How the hell were there failures, Doctor!? You assured me your hands didn't have tremors holding a knife."
That was not all. I walked to him and jabbed my finger in his chest. "And a fucking critical failure!? What the fuck is that shit!? You're supposed to be a cyborg. How did a great PEA unit like you mess this shit up?" Doctor just winced at the berating. "Cutting was not a problem. I... mixed a male and female part." We had to go to where the critical failure was. I made sure I looked at them. Doctor had the dignity to look embarrassed. Vibe had a female upgrade. I could see nothing that was obviously wrong with him. However, the issue was deep beneath the skin. I then had our medical officer take me to the failures. We did it over again for them. This time, we read all of the instructions out loud before we did anything. There were five, so I took 2 and he had the rest. I was miffed and looking over his shoulder every step of the way. Doctor did not look like he was enjoying it. I did not care a single bit. This time, we got a success, critical failure and a second failure for Doctor's efforts. That took care of Arms, Brandon and Lamuel. I got a success for Epsilon and a critical failure with Zeta. It took skill.
