Eli sighed as he finished his meal. It wasn't really all that bad, but he just wished he could get his hands on something a bit more varied than what they served here. Change of scenery would be good too... he thought, but knew that wasn't going to happen for a while, as the scientists were still running little experiments and checks on the artificial part of his brain, it being one of their newer inventions.

'Oh, this isn't like any of those... those are just interfacing technologies... this will actually be translating what you hear, see, and feel so that it can all be stored as memories... In fact, when its working fully you'll have far better memory than you could ever have hoped to have without it...'

That's what he'd been told, word for word, when he'd asked what made this so special... mentioned that damn near all the soldiers had upgrades of some kind these days.

"Eli Wolfe to test lab 2 please. Test lab 2, Eli Wolfe," a woman's voice buzzed over the intercom.

Arriving at the lab, he gave a quick nod to the scientist that generally worked on his implant.

"Been having any trouble?" she asked, motioning to the exam chair, above which hung a rather large, ominous looking device with a pointed crystal on the end, which lowered into place just above his head after he sat.

"Nope... seems to be working perfectly..." he replied, watching her cross the room. The one thing, he'd decided, that kept him from despising these visits was that Doctor Samantha Cortez was far from being hard on the eyes. Then he heard a scream, muffled almost entirely by the building's thick walls, but it unmistakably had come from the same lab he'd heard noises from before. Wonder what the hell's going on in there...

"Oh, and that little fix you gave me is working too... HUD reads things as neutral by default instead of hostile now," he added rather absently.

"Glad to hear it..." came the reply, and the machine above Eli's head started to slowly whirr. "You know the drill... just relax, try not to move too much..."