The commanding officer and Henry were on the tarmac waiting for the android's plane to land at the base. Neither knew what to expect. When the plane landed only one person got out. He was blonde with very long hair and just looked like a 15-year old boy. He walked over to them and saluted. They both saluted him back on reflex. He then began to talk. "Hello. I am the Synchronization Expertise Technician Liason Model 00. I look forward to working with you. You can call me S.E.A.L for short." the boy reported. Henry and the commanding officer exchanged a look. They did not know what to be expecting, but this was not it. It was their problem now. The officer cleared his throat. "Well, nice to meet you Seal. This here is your partner, Henry Miller. We need to go through the courses to make sure that you are a viable recruit even outside of the cockpit. Your time in the simulators begin tomorrow." he informed the android casually. It was off putting that he android was still saluting them. The officer sighed and said "At ease, Seal. Let us show you where you will be staying." Seal followed along.
Seal was put through the paces. He was taken to the gun range. He had a 99% accuracy rate with their handguns, 96% with rifles and 91% with shotguns. It completed the obstacle course in 12 minutes. The average time to clear it was 14:28. That was good. It also had a hand to hand combat routine ingrained into its programming. It was able to beat the simulation enemy easily on the lowest level. He had some trouble on the medium difficulty but Seal still cleared it. Ace and Bradley were using their elective time to train there. Seeing the android practicing, they both decided to challenge it to a "friendly" spar. Seal happily agreed to that. Henry was going to interject, but the officer stopped him. "We need to see what he can do." the officer whispered harshly in his ear. Henry just hoped that things went well. Seal went up against Ace first. He kicked the human's ass. Ace ending up tapping out to a mean armbar. Ace was holding his arm in pain on the ground. "That guys isn't fucking human!" Ace hissed. Seal, Henry and the officer all froze. No one here was supposed to know about that yet.
Luckily, Ace's childhood friend was a bit of a dick. "Stop being a pussy and get up Ace!" Bradley snapped. Ace sucked his teeth at being called a pussy and got up. "Fuck you! You go and fight him then, asshole." he said. The commanding officer took this opportunity to pull rank. "Unfortunately, this is just a tour of the facilities. He's coming with us. Now." he said. There was nothing Ace or Bradley could do if their orders came from up top. They just saluted them as they made a quick exit. Now it was time to see how fast Seal could run laps. He was going at the average speed for a 15 year old male. Nothing impressive about that. They great thing was that he was not a real human, so fatigue was not a factor. He ran 15 laps around the Olympic sized track without losing even a second off his pace. That was 6000 meters. It was the actually impressive part. The officer had seen enough and stopped him. Seal walked over. "Good job today. We look forward for tomorrow. We are going to take you where you can charge." he told the android. They went to a garage. There was a big port in his lower back.
