"I'm sorry Joshua." Bitty said saddly. "There's no need to say you're sorry." Joshua told the young girl, putting his arm around her shoulder. "You didn't know." After a moment he started searching through files. "I've got a picture here of Sasha and some others. I want you to see what my people look like." You're human, right?" Magenta said, puzzled as to what he meant. "You tell me." He replied with a half smile as an image appeared on the screen. "By the Force!" Kinna exclaimed. "They're almost as big as Wookiees! They're huge!" "Forget them! Look at Joshua." Ano said grinning at the Cerinian. "Hooo baby! Just look at those muscles. Why don't you look like that now?" Joshua snorted. "Because I don't have to, I'm not a commando anymore. I'm just a former ambassador who does odd jobs on the Long Distance Runner." "Well your captain is ordering you to start working out again." Peenk ordered him, her eyes locked on the monitor. "Boy, you were built like a Stardestroyer!" Magenta said over Bitty's head. Bitty giggled and poked Kirk in the side with her finger. "You messed up. My mother and sisters all love men who have muscles." "I've noticed." Joshua replied. "But the picture is to show what the Generals look like. So Melee can see what's in her future." "My kids are going to be that tall?" "Yes." Joshua said leaning over. "But so are you." "Joshua!" Melee said with a laugh. "I'm twenty years old. I'm not going to do any more growing." The girl grew suddenly quiet when she saw the look on her new brother's face. "Or am I?" "It's called Rapid Onset Growth. Every girl who was turned into a General class cyborg experienced it. Your body will begin growing at an incredible rate. In anywhere from a week and a half, to three weeks, you'll find yourself becoming one of them." He said, pointing at the monitor. Melee stared at the people standing with Joshua in the image. "How tall will I become?" "That's depends on how tall your parents were." Zell laughed from where he sat on the floor with Baby's arms around him. "Our mother was 6'1", and our father was 6'8"!" "You'll be at least seven feet then. What did your mother look like?" "What does that have to do with me?" "It has everything to do with what you will look like. Because, as the cells in your body die, they will be replaced by cells that are different. These cells will only have the DNA of your mother." "Meaning she'll be a clone of our mother?" Ano whispered. "Yes. But you'll still be you, up here." He whispered, tapping the bald girl on the top of her head. "Well, then she lucked out. Because our mother was incredibly beautiful." Zell piped in. "She has not lucked out. This will be even more painful than what the Empire did to her. So from now until the change takes place, Melee can never be alone." Turning back to a now shaken Melee, Joshua continued. "I am going to have hyposprays made for everyone to carry with them. And I want you to take one of the MU-SOs with you whenever possible." "Do the hyposprays contain painkillers?" Magenta asked as she put her arm around Melee's shoulder. "No. They contain supplements the body will need, and a drug that will put her into a comatose state." Joshua put his hand on the girls shoulder. "Because of the rapid changes, painkillers would only last minutes. An induced coma is the way to go." "So there's nothing that will work for her? It has to be a coma?" Peenk asked. Joshua sighed, then gave Melee a pained look. "Nezix. It's the only thing that would do it. But the Excalibur is the closest source of the drug. But Merrik told me that Captain Mackie took it into hiding somewhere. But I would never allow you to use it anyway." "Addictive?" Mulk cut in. "It was a nightmare coming off it."