John Johnson and Janet Johnson are test characters I've used to try

out various ideas and to play with effects I've thought of caused by

the military grade enhancements.

Below is one of the early snippet expanded into a chapter hopefully

I'll have more exciting chapters.

I'm going to try and post short chapters that roughly follow the

TIMELINE and show the JJ's as they react and adjust to the changes in

their family both from the enhancement and in the world around them.

The JJs and others receiving enhancements were slowly making changes

to their lifestyles that were minor warning of the sweeping changes

to come, but it went largely unnoticed by the politicians,

businessmen and the news media, who were more focused on the military

changes and the higher SA enhancements of the Presidential class.

All forms of C&C are welcome

In July of 2001 John Johnson is one of the 600 military personnel

enhanced to 8 SA by the accidental miss-calibration at one of the new

3 SA enhancement centers.

He was assigned as one of several security guards for a military base

housing a enhancement facility.

The JJs

04-08-2002

"Stupid Stupid stupid!" John Johnson silently berated himself as he

watched the Admiral, in a borrowed pair of coveralls carefully

inspecting the modifications he had made to his 1984 Dodge Ram. He

had know the enhancement center was going to start enhancing navel

personnel the next day, he just wished he had known the base

commander was escorting a long time friend around the base, a friend

who just happened to be Admiral Neidlinger.

He never should have let them tease him into that race, the old beat-

up 1984 Dodge was a large drop from his 2000 corvette and he hadn't

liked the good natured ribbing Matt and Dillon were gleefully dishing

out. One snide remark had led to snide replies and finally they had

all ended up out at the old runway after their shift, JJ had quickly

beat Matt's new SUV and then he had pumped the old Dodge into a tie

with Dillon's 2001 corvette.

JJ fought to keep from smiling as he replayed the memory of the looks

on both Matt and Dillon's faces once they had got the Dodge's hood up

and discovered his truck had no engine. Dillon's Corvette and his old

truck had hit one hundred and ten miles an hour, not bad for a truck

with no engine, no transmission, no drive shafts and currently no

paint job.

JJ frowned as his last thought brought him back to the present and

the sight of an Admiral leaning over a fender with at least 3 colours

of paint showing in the rust, what his neighbor Toby's son had put

the Dodge Ram through in the three years he had driven it to college

was unbelievable, among it's many problems had been a blown head

Gasket, shot transmission and a collection of scratches and graphity

that made it a horror to behold, the kid had even managed to warp the

drive shafts.

JJ had bought the abused Dodge from Toby for just one hundred and

seventy-five dollars and he had done the unheard of by talking Toby

into taking $75 less than he had originally asked. The Look on

Toby's face had been priceless he had forgotten about JJ's Ultraman

enhancement and had planned on making an additional $95 by towing the

truck for him. Instead the day after paying him JJ had showed up

Jogging his wife huffing up behind him on a bicycle and less than

fifteen minutes later he had tossed the warped drive shafts and

bicycle in the back, his wife had climbed into the cab and JJ had

pushed while his wife had steered.

"Where did you get the large hydraulic pump and the four hydraulic

motors sergeant?" Looking up at the Admiral's questions JJ took a

deep breath and said "They were bought at Dwight's Farm Equipment.

the pump was originally designed to run off the Power Take Off of a

tractor and the four motors were salvage from a couple of old

bushhogs."

Anticipating the Admiral's next question JJ continued with only a

small pause "Sir I built an adapter that converts the up and down

motion of two pedals into rotary motion and I replaced the clutch

and accelerator. You can see the pulleys and fan belts I used to

take power from the pumps PTO shaft for the battery and electrical

system and..."

"Why did you use four hydraulic motors and why mount them on each

wheel?" Admiral Neidlinger smiled at the way the sergeants mouth

snapped shut , he had had to inserted the question edge wise into the

sergeants nervous chatter and it had derailed the nervous man's

thoughts.

"Uhhhhhhhhh Ummmmmmmm sir the drive shafts were warped and twisted

when I bought the truck and the 15 hp motors were a lot cheaper than

a single large motor." JJ paused and tried to gather his thoughts

even as part of his mind silently continued repeating"Stupid Stupid"

over and over, this is what he got for drawing the attention of the

base commander and a admiral.

Grabbing at a thought JJ said "Here let me show you, Matt would you

and Dillon each take a bumper, they are heavy duty and with the motor

gone I've been moving the truck by both, Uuuhhh sir if you would step

back, I'll show you how I attached and the hydraulic motors and run

the hose."

The Admiral stepped back and fought to keep a look of surprise off

his face as the two men easily hefted the truck. He had seen

countless videos of enhance military personnel and read extensively

on the abilities and limitations a 3 percent or 3 SA enhancement gave

personnel, but standing less than ten feet from an unthinking

demonstration was a totally different experience. Admiral Neidlinger

silently acknowledged that little things made a big difference the

lack of strain, the way Matt's feet sank into the dry ground an inch

or so or the way the metal bumper crumple slightly under the other

mans grip as he squeezed it to tightly.

JJ parked the old Dodge and looked toward the house he could see the

curtains move in the kitchen window and winced as his enhanced vision

made clear a characteristic heat pattern, Janet was not a happy

camper, he knew she had called the base so leaving out a few details

about why he was required to stay late and explain his modified Dodge

was not a viable option, taking a deep breath JJ slowly crawled out

of his vehicle and headed for the house.

The curtain dropped into place and Janet stepped back from the window

turning to the cook stove, she thought about the changes JJ's

Ultraman enhancement had caused good and bad. It had scared her

badly when JJ had announced he was going to be part of the first mass

enhancement program. She had heard all the rumours about insanity,

several deaths and some sort of cover up, she just knew something was

going to go wrong and it had.

Just as she had feared something had went wrong a calibration error

in the beam intensity and six hundred men and women were exposed to a

near maximum intensity beam, but instead of monsters it had just

given the first 600 which included JJ a slightly higher percentage of

kryptonian powers than planned. The fears had mostly been put to

rest by the last few months. JJ still hadn't reached his full

potential, but he was already at a higher percentage than the 3

percent the military had planned.

It was odd really what she had been having nightmares about and

feared was turning out to not be a problem sure his skin was now

tough enough to stop explosive bullets, and as long as she didn't try

to hit him hard it still felt as soft as before, the same with his

superhuman strength he wasn't accidentally hurting her and she wasn't

bruising herself on him. It was the seemingly minor parts of the

enhancement that were causing the most trouble, before she would have

never thought of worrying about the ultramen gaining photographic

memories or only needing half as much sleep.

Janet sighed a year ago she would have laughed herself silly if

someone had told her that JJ going from demanding 8 or 9 hours of

sleep to needing less than four would be one of her biggest hang ups,

but She hated waking up to a cold bed and the only thing worse was

waking up and finding JJ laying there just staring at her.

It had freaked her out one morning when she caught him doing that and

he explained he had been using his infrared vision to check up on the

twins growing in her womb, when she had jokingly said he wouldn't

have recognized a problem if he had seen it, he had pulled five books

from under his side of the bed and explained he had memorized the

medical dictionary and used that to understand the other four books.

That revelation and the short discussion that followed had hit her

hard she had found that not only had JJ been teaching himself

medicine while she slept he had also learned spanish and was thinking

of trying Russian. Janet was glad her husband had left for the base

soon after because she had lost it and it had taken most of the day

to regain control, she had always been the smart one of the marriage

the one with a nursing degree and fluent in spanish. She had always

joked she had brought the brains to the marriage and her husbands

revelation had revealed to herself how much she had actually believed

it.

Jumping at the sound of the phone Janet shook her head in an attempt

to clear the memories taking a moment before answering the phone.

Janet answered the phone and said"Yes? Oh hello Joanna Huh? yes he is

in trouble he was supposed to take me shopping for maternity outfits

instead he got caught racing on the condemned runway at the base and

had to stay a few extra hours, but how? OH!..... I'll stop him. Oh

and Joanna thanks for letting me keep them and Johanna I want you to

be thinking of anything that needs doing around your house John will

be happy to do it for you."

Hanging the phone up Janet quickly made her way to the front door

taking an instant to get into the right frame of mind and then

opening the door she shouted "JOHN JOHNSON get your lazy body in here

NOW!".

Janet paused to admire the way her husband shot fifteen feet into the

air and landed flat of his back a moment later a shower of yellow

blossoms falling on and around him.

Janet slammed the door for effect and waited a three count before

quickly opening it and yelling "Bring those daffodils, Joanna said

you could have them and your going to need them."

Janet slammed the door again and fought to get back into the proper

state of mind it was getting harder to fool her husband, and even if

he was now an Ultraman her angry voice still made him jump. She was

going to have to remember not to do that in the house it would be

hard on the ceilings.

-------------------------------------------

------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->

Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark

Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada.

http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511

http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/JXwxlB/TM

---------------------------------------------------------------------~->

Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LoisandClark_SUW/

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:

LoisandClark_SUW-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/