This is going to be really exciting.

I have been writing these letters for several weeks now and don't think they are getting much better. Really hope they have the desired effect and that the recipients will do as I ask them to.

Postage on and then there is nothing else to do but get them sent.

"Hey mom, would you mind dropping these letters in the mailbox on the way to work today?"

It was incredible how much she has changed since I got her fixed last year. She has now lost over 40kg and it has done wonders for my parents' relationship.

Of course it has also had the side effect that I now have a little sister in a few weeks. But I also take that with me.

"Yes, I can, who are they for?" Mother said cheerfully.

"To some friends I met online." I lied quickly. As I bounced back and forth inside the living room to entertain my little brother. He has so much fun trying to catch me.

"Hello! I told you not to do it in the morning, just because you always get your things done on time doesn't mean the rest of us don't have a schedule to follow." it sounded from the kitchen, where my mother was eating her fried egg.

"I have offered to get you to work with a jump" I laughed while my brother fell on his face when he thought he had finally caught me.

"Yes and how will you explain how I get to and from work" The same argument came again. We have this debate almost every morning after I have revealed what I could.

my parents had actually taken it very well after I had just fixed the 2 cardiac arrests they had. "You know you could just say you're taking the public service" The counter-answer came completely by itself. "yes, and you know that won't last, with the times I meet, and it doesn't matter either, it's the last week before I go on maternity leave". It sounded dismissive from mother.

It was funny how she wanted to go on maternity leave, despite me fixing all the damage that would normally have happened to her body by now, due to the pregnancy, so she didn't have to. I think it was something to keep up the facade that we were normal at home.

"Well you better get to school" She commented as she got up from the table and took her bag.

“Do I really need to?” I could hear myself how desperate it sounded.

"I know everything they try to teach me." I tried to argue, but I guess it wouldn't work.

"Yes, it may well be, but you know that it is required by law, and then you benefit from being with other people and ....."

*beep*... *beep*... *beep*...

I am saved by an alarm from that discussion. I fish out my mobile and read.

Target appeared on your letter, current location known.

The team will assemble in 5 minutes, be ready to fight.

He has a bounty so we get paid.

Bite.

Finally, we've been training for the last few weeks, with attacking techniques, and it finally seems like my skills are coming into play.

"Hey mom, I'm going to have to skip school today, I'm going to work."

"WHAT!" I don't think it can be healthy to spin around so quickly when you are heavily pregnant. "I didn't think you got a tarket yet?"

Here I just showed her the message I had received. "but...but...but...you're so young" she stammered in shock.

"Hey, I can't help that the gods have decreed that I'm ready to take on my first enemy." I said quickly as I found my mask and searched for my tag sitting on our base. "I'll probably get home in a bit, so just take it easy" I shouted laughing with a voice that dropped 2 octaves in the middle of the sentence due to my mask.

"See you when I'm home again, and if we're lucky, food tonight is at my expense," I said quickly before jumping to my tag, with a small bang.

To be honest, I don't know where our base is, just got a message one day, approx. 3 weeks after my conversation with the queen that my tag had been moved to my new base and that the shadow's presence was wanted there.

It has been a fun experience.

*********

I had put on my mask and lit a smoke grenade so that it would go off just as I landed after my jump. I only managed to duck for the 15 shots that came in my direction through the smoke screen, and I have to admit I was dying of laughter. When the smoke finally cleared, my new base came into view and what I assumed was my new team.

There were no windows in the room, only a large door on the back wall, which was ajar, that was probably where the smoke had escaped. I could faintly sense some light from the top of the stairs visible through the door. so the base was probably located underground.

The next thing that became visible were some very large PCs along two of the walls. When I turned my head, I discovered that the last wall was made of glass, giving a view of what I can best describe as a large gym, filled with training dummies and a boxing ring.

The next thing I noticed were the people in the room. In addition to the 5 men in military uniforms who had just shot at me, there were 3 women and 2 men. The first woman had that whole classic business woman look, complete with the long dark hair pulled back in a ponytail. Her clothing consisted of a tight fitting white shirt and a short gray skirt that hugged her hips. without further ado she took the floor immediately.

"I'll see through your little prank today shadow, since it's our first day, but I won't accept such behavior a second time." Only when she identified me as the shadow did the soldiers lower their weapons. "I am the leader of this team, and you can call me Light." I couldn't help but laugh at the irony of that code name.

"What do you find funny?" she snapped angrily.

"I can just like the irony in that light casts the shadow to remove people" Here the others couldn't help but laugh a little, until Light looked at them very evilly.

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“yes very funny” strange she didn't sound like it was funny

“let me introduce you to the team. The blonde in the lab coat is your personal doctor and biotechnologist, she will be responsible for both keeping you healthy and well and in addition to this, she will also try to understand what makes you able to jump like I am been told you call it, and at the same time she must also try to find out how your healing ability works.”

When she was mentioned, she gave a sweet little wave and followed up with "you can call me Bio" she chirped cheerfully.

Damn, it's a good thing I wasn't really a teenager yet, otherwise those watermelons she was carrying around could have easily hurt me. How she made a lab coat look so sexy I don't know.

"The redhead over in the corner, who is smeared in oil, is your technician, she will ensure that your equipment is constantly ready for battle, and will equip you with all the tricks you need." Continued Light dry

"Hey, it's not tricks. There are brilliant little things that can make his life so much easier" came a little annoyed from the red-haired girl. "Hey, I'm looking forward to seeing what fun things we can come up with to give you in the field" She said as she turned back to her work table and bent over it to take a closer look at whatever she was working on.

Dam, it may well be that Bio's bosom was big, but that ass was nothing to sneeze at either, especially in those jeans. "By the way, now that you're done staring at my ass, I'm a lesbian and you can call me Tek".

"The nerd over at the PCs is Bite, he's great at managing communication and collecting data. Both data from you when you are in the field, but also on possible targets.” Bite just waved at me when he was introduced and we knew right away that we would probably become good friends.

She was absolutely right that he was a nerd in appearance, it was the model with big glasses and messy hair, but with an ironed shirt and 3 ballpoint pens in his breast pocket. The last to be presented was a large bundle of muscles standing with his arms crossed and no shirt.

"That is nova, and he will be responsible for training you in martial arts and normal physical training. It will also be his job to teach you how to use the weapons we have at our disposal.” Could hear the disgust in her voice clearly there, so she probably wasn't a fan of the type of men who thought everything could be solved with a bigger hammer.

"The rest are just guards who are only here today" she said as she waved at the soldiers.

"Can the soldiers leave us now?" I asked cautiously.

"Why?" Bite asked.

"I have some things you should know if we're going to be a team, but I don't want to share it with anyone and everyone." I replied, looking pleadingly at the Light, not that it was easy through the mask.

The light just nodded and waved at the soldiers, signaling them to go. When the guards left I took off my mask and returned to my proper form.

"Hi" I said cheerfully as they all stopped. "I go by the name the shadow, and I look forward to working with you. I'm not fully grown yet, but this mask creates the illusion that I am. I would prefer if we train both with and without the mask on. This is mostly because I don't know what effect it has on my actual body if I train in my "adult" form, so hopefully we can find something out there."

"Of course, we can find out how to train both forms," said Nova quickly.

"We'll have to take into account the fact that you're not as old as you look when we train," he continued as he changed slightly from grumpy bodybuilder to worried trainer.

"Nuuuurrrr how cute you are" it sounded very suddenly and loudly from Bio.

And before I knew what happened, I was pulled into a hug, and although it was absolutely fantastic to be squeezed between the two lovely breasts, it very quickly became difficult to get air.

"I think you're choking him Bio" grinned Bite.

Bio stood there for a moment and seemed as if she didn't understand what he meant, but quickly jumped away from me and apologized as well as she had learned.

"Don't worry, it doesn't matter, I'll be fine" I said as I gave her a small gentle hug.

"Look, it's all very good and nice, but we have to get on with the day's text." it sounded again sourly from Light.

" The first thing we need to know before we start the training is that I have been told that you will be sent some goals in addition to the ones I have, how do you do that?” damn she doesn't like not feeling like she knows everything if I interpret the anger in her voice correctly. in response I took out my letter from chaos and gave it to her.

"This letter will be updated with my goals when a new one has been assigned to me." After that it quickly passed and became a bit of small talk before me and Nova jumped down into the training hall and started checking what my limits were.

*******

Back to the present. Let's see everyone is present and appears to be ready. "Good thing you came so quickly, shadow," said the Light.

"Tek get him ready while I brief him on our objectives." Tek came running towards me whit what looked most like an outfit I would have expected to see on a ninja.

"Here, put this on, it has all the sensors in it that we used when we tested your abilities," said Tek quickly, as she threw a suit at me. I quickly looked around and saw that there was no one but my team here, so I just changed there in the middle of the floor.

Some might have been embarrassed, but honestly. The 2 men in the room were busier looking at the pc planning how best to do the mission and of the 3 women on the team there was only one who might react to anything and I loved every chance I got to get a reaction out of Light.

Tek was only for girls and didn't care about me at all, and Bio just saw me as the world's most exciting project after we discovered that my mask isn't creating an illusion, but actually forcing my body to age until I'm approx. 20 in a few seconds, and back again when I take the mask off.

She was very excited about all the funny numbers she got when she tried to put some sensors on me before I switched and measured what happened while I switched from Jack to the Shadow.

When I got into the suit and looked in the mirror I had to admit that I looked cool in black. The suit was a tight suit that really made my muscles stand out, and it was made of some black material that I didn't understand when Tek tried to explain to me what it was.

"There is a microphone and earphones built into the hood so we can talk to you" It came from my own ear in Bite's voice.

"grab!" Tek shouted, throwing a knife at me. My training has really benefited me, although in my old life I dabbled in both pickpocketing when I was little and almost all kinds of weapon use when I got older.

Then it had still taken some time to get used to the new body and there were so many holes in my technique that Nova literally knocked out of me. He has the saying "you'd better have a broken leg now, than dead in the field" and I can't contradict that logic.

"ready" it sounded sharply from Light. "Yes, who is my target?" I asked as I walked around a bit to get used to the new outfit.

"A dictator in northern Africa, whom no one has been able to get to after he has hidden in his fort, after he has broken several of the human rights.

"How do I get into the picture?"

Here the Light smiled sinisterly. “we have a helicopter hanging over his base with one of your tags and then it's up to you how you get in. By the way, before you jump, don't forget your two babies.” That last sentence was filled with so much contempt it could be cut out of thin air.

"Hey Tek, have they been polished since I last used them?" I asked as I walked towards a cupboard in the corner.

"yes and I got another 0.3 nanoseconds shaved off the delay." she said with a big smile

"Then we are almost down to no delay." I commented as I unlocked the locker.

We had discovered that something strange happens when I jump with mechanical parts. A short moment after I land again, mechanical and electronic parts do not work for a little while.

The finer the function, the longer the delay was. I have approx. 1 second from when I jump until I can hear something in my headphones. This delay doesn't matter, but if my babies don't respond as soon as I land I risk being the one with holes in my new suit, and gunshot wounds really turn a good day bad fast.

"10 seconds to expected arrival above target" light's voice sounded sternly through the room. I just managed to open the cupboard and take a quick look at them before they were put down in their holders. My babies were a pair of magnum research desert eagle, in polished black metal.

They had become heavier than the normal model as they had been modified to be able to withstand being ripped through time and space while still being able to fire.

The first few pistols where I tried to jump while shooting. had not been able to handle it and had blown up in my hands. We discovered that when I jumped I destabilized the material they were made of, and they couldn't manage to stabilize again before the explosion tore them apart. It wasn't really necessary for me to shoot and jump at the same time anymore after Tek got the lag down so far, but I could do some cool tricks when I did.

"I'm ready" with a changed expression of everyone. Light got an evil twinkle in her eye, I've discovered she has a problem with a whole lot of people and she got a kick out of cleaning up the world, so she was really looking forward to this. Bite seemed to almost disappear into the screen in front of him.

Bio was tripping nervously now, she was always worried about her lab animal, what if something happened to it. At no point was it really nervousness for me as the person, just all the exciting data she could get out of me. Tek just stood there smiling and looking forward to seeing my babies in action, whereas Nova looked forward to seeing where I stepped wrong so he would have a new thing to knock into my head.

"see you when I'm back!" I shouted when I found my tag and took the jump.