A few surprises

As doc got to work, Lucille takes me back to my room where I start to circulate my Spiritual power, in doing so not only will I'll heal faster as I gathered my energy but I'll also use the excess energy to strengthen my body, as I went through a few rotations I noticed something odd. Usually, it would take an hour for normal people or thirty minutes, (if they're talented), to complete one rotation. Now I, having been raised by my training crazed father, could get through a rotation in ten minutes, but now it felt like I was doing ten rotations per second and for some reason my body couldn't get enough of it and even though I'd long since passed my previous limit it still wasn't enough. Eventually I noticed a strange light emanating from within my body so I entered my consciousness to check my energy pools and was immediately greeted with a shock, somehow my area of perception had increased dramatically, it went from being the size of a city block to the size of a whole city as I look around dumbfounded a thought occurred to me; at my age having an area of perception the size of a city block is an impressive feat on its own. It shows that I have a solid foundation and one of the highest potentials, a genius basically, but one the size of a city? It has both pros and cons if I let it be known. But I think I'll keep this a secret, for now, only a dumbass would go around bragging and end up having a target placed on them. As I thought about this I felt my self being drawn deeper into my conscience. After reaching the end I stop in front of a large door made of gold and some kind of black rock, and while I'm trying to figure how the fuck this big ass door got inside my body without me noticing, it starts to glow and as it does runes start to appear on it. The runes started to float off the giant door and fall on me as weird patterns started forming on my body which gave off a soft golden glow soon after my eyes started to glow as well then just as soon as it started it suddenly stopped.

"What in the literal fuck?" I breathed heavily "was that?".

Unfortunately I didn't have time to catch my breath cause as soon as the golden light vanished a cold darkness set infilled with a murderous intent unlike anything I've ever felt before the power was incredibly harsh and negative filled with a deep animosity, and yet for some reason I felt completely comfortable inside such a dark and heinous energy, I understood it was safe because I didn't sense any malice directed towards me, and just like the first one it was over before I knew it. As I stared in confusion the door suddenly started to open and I felt unbelievably pure Spiritual energy emanating from within it. As the door opened wider the energy that came out increased and even though my Spiritual energy capacity had expanded by nearly ten times its original size it was rapidly starting to fill up and I started to panic trying to figure out how to make it stop suddenly a line of runes appeared in front of me, it flew to the door, formed a seal, and shut it.

" Oh fuck me I thought I was going to explode."

I chuckle nervously.

Before I leave I scan my surroundings and noticed yet another abnormality within my body.

"Ok deadass this needs to stop. I'm starting to feel a little violated here." I sigh.

In the depths of my energy pool, two orbs were floating within my Spiritual power, one dark blue and the other a dark red, I'd never seen either one of them before but for some reason, I wasn't worried if anything it felt like they belonged there. Even so, I still want to know what they do so I poke the orbs, then I try to absorb them, I try to move them, speak to them, summon the legendary dragon, etc, etc, BUT THEY DO NOTHING. As I'm messing with the orbs I feel pain radiating throughout my body and suddenly I remember what I was doing so I start to circulate my energy again as soon as I do I feel the blue orb start to shake and slowly glow, as it does it feels like I'm submerged in a deep lake, I suddenly feel refreshed and energized, and my wounds don't hurt as much, whatever this blue orb is its power is crazy. I decide to heal myself and train my body as fast as I could so I chose to do some closed-door training. I politely ask Lucille not to disturb me and trained for three months straight, by the time I'm finished my wounds are completely healed, I was actually fully healed two weeks into my training, and my body is abnormally tough. Lucille is the first to greet me, she brought the wheelchair and she when sees me she just stares at me with a look of shock on her face.

"How is this possible? With the number of severe injuries you took, you shouldn't be fully healed for at least another year or two." she looks at me in disbelief.

"I guess I'm built differently." I joke.

She leads me to doc who has just finished creating my arms for me.

"Ah Malcolm, I see you've healed up remarkably fast since the last time we met." Doc says as he gives me a check-up.

"I honestly have no idea what happened" I lie. Even though I know I should tell them the truth for some reason I still don't fully trust them.

"Strange indeed." he says as he starts applying metal braces to my arms.

" I'm going to start attaching your arms on, it's going to take a few hours will you be fine?" he asks cautiously.

" Yea I'll be good doc." I say

"Are you sure? It will be excruciatingly painful. I could give you a sedative."

"I'm fine. Really" I reassure him.

As he attaches the parts I start to circulate my Spiritual energy once more as I glance into the depths of my conscience I stare at the red orb that shows no reaction whatsoever. No matter how long I circulate my energy the red orb does nothing.

" What do you do?" I ask it. Knowing it wouldn't answer.

A few hours later doc and Lucille finish installing the arms.

" Now you may not be able to lift your arms for a few months and even after that you may be a bit clumsy using these at first but with some physical therapy and practice, you'll get the hang of it... In.....no-" she trails off as I lift my arms to check them out.

They're a shiny metallic black with a super sleek look. I make fists and wiggle my fingers, I hope off the table and start to do push-ups.

" These arms are amazing they feel so natural." I exclaimed.

" I gotta give these babies a test run." I start to head to the warehouse that doc uses to test weapons.

As he leaves Lucille looks at doc with disbelief.

" Normally it would take a person months, if not years, to get used to using their artificial limbs but he did it in mere seconds, not only that but he's fully healed in only three months after having multiple fractures, breaks, torn muscles, and lacerations, etc, etc. Oh and don't even get me started on the operation, most patients describe it as the worst pain they've ever felt in their life but he didn't even make a sound or even grimace once!" she ranted to doc who had an amused smile on his face.

" I give up.." she sighs as she follows Malcolm down the hall.

"This man defies all existing medical knowledge."

" Indeed he does." doc chuckles.

"Indeed he does."

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I stand in the center of the warehouse and focus.

"Are you ready Malcolm?" doc asks.

"Ready!" I call out.

Doc starts the training program and a pool of silver started to form on the floor in front of me it was about ten feet wide by the time it stopped, suddenly a golden ball flew in and hovered over the puddle after a short while the silver puddle started to reach up towards the ball eventually the puddle formed into a silver statue in the shape of a person, even though it didn't have a face.

"I call it The Doppelganger." doc explains

" As you progress through the levels of the simulation, the A.I. will start to learn your attack pattern and fighting style and will use it against you."

"Holy shit." I exclaim.

" And as it learns more about you it will gradually start to look like you."

"Meaning the more it looks like me the more it knows how I fight." I finish.

"correct." doc smiles.

"Initiating level one"

I get into my fighting stance as two golden lights appear where the doppelganger's eyes should be. It cocks it's head to one side before charging me, as I raise my spiritual power to hit it the red orb starts glowing brightly and as my energy surges through the roof my fist blasts through the doppelganger.

"Of course he destroys it with one punch." Lucille mutters under her breath.

"What the fuck" I yell out.

"Looks like I know what the red one does now." I say as I get ready for the next level.

"Initiating level two."

This time after the doppelgänger formed it assumed my fighting stance and I raise my power higher a soft red patter appears on my arms as I attack, and as my fist and the doppelgänger's collide a huge amount of energy bursts splattering the doppelgänger everywhere.

"HOLY SHIT WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!?" Lucille screams.

"How did he do that? What was with the red pattern? Did you program them to do that doc?"

"No, I did not." He states fascinated.

" Lucille do me a favor and start a scan I want to try something."

" Ok Malcom we're gonna try something different here, I'm gonna upload another person's fighting style into the doppelgänger and set it to level ten."

"Bring it on doc." I say. Mostly because I want to see just exactly how strong I've become now.

"Initiating level ten."

This time when the doppelgänger formed it clearly resembled a woman, even though it still didn't have a face, and when it assumed its stance it arms morphed into blades I raised my power I high as I could as it charged me. As I jump to dodge I shoot directly towards the ceiling, which is 180 ft from the floor, without even trying.

"Let's see what else I can do" I laugh for the first time in a while.

As I'm coming back down I see the doppelgänger moving to intercept me so while raising my power to its limits I drive my fist into the floor creating a shockwave that sends it flying backward, but I don't stop there I move behind it, so fast I actually leave an afterimage, then hit it in the area where its face is supposed to be creating another shockwave that not only blasts it to pieces but also blows a hole in the wall a hundred yards away.

At this point, Lucille stopped talking. she just walks to a corner and starts banging her head into the wall over and over again.