Congratulations! You have completed all available missions for the Campaign ‘Jacobs Installation.’ with a one hundred percent completion rating!

You have obtained one Resource Card - 5,000 Minerals. You have received a population Fertility Increase Card. You have received an Equipment Upgrade Card. These rewards are for completing the primary objectives without complications.

For completing the Bonus Objective ‘Discover anything about alien life forms, you have gained an increased knowledge on Zerg biology. All relevant data has been sent to Unique Building - Medical Facility.

For completing a hidden Bonus Objective, locate the secret Protoss held prisoner you have been granted a Random Protoss Item Card.

For Completing the Hidden Objective ‘Decimate Terran Reinforcements,’ you have been granted a Hero Card.

Population Fertility Increase Card - Increases all individuals under your commands conception rate for three months.

Random Protoss Item Card - Grants you a single Item of Protoss Origin.

Congratulations Player for completion Jacob’s Installation with a completion rate of one-hundred percent and no loss of life. For this fantastic feet, The System has deemed you worthy of a one month reprieve from Campaign Map requirements. -Advisory- going on any Campaign Map during your month-long reprieve will revoke this gift.

Congratulations Player! You have gained twenty Followers opening the Follower Store for you. You may spend Resources and one active follower point for specific items, knowledge, or cards. In recognition of this achievement, you have been granted a Trophy Card.

Trophy Card - Grants the Player a Trophy that may be added to a Settlement, City, Town, or significant building for increased bonuses.

I was smiling, regardless of my plans, I had always wanted some kind of reprieve from the nightmare of weekly Campaign Maps. One of my wishes had been granted with the line, though being unable to even do another without removing it frustrated me I would still take it with a smile.

I realized I was still on the ground and getting strange looks from Trenton and about five Medics that were checking my vitals. I’d been cackling like a madman apparently. I coughed and smiled at them all. “Good job ladies and gentlemen. Now, would one of you be kind enough to help me up? I think I fried the armor and I cannot move.”

I realized about twenty minutes later that stating that was the single greatest mistake of my life. The reason was a simple one as well, revenge. Every single one of my people had been subjected to Green, had all their requests for a different doctor to do physicals denied, and been informed that it was on my order. My punishment for this grave sin?

“Look at this! My God Damian I only JUST patched you up and you go off to some undisclosed location, ruining all my hard work over the course of two hours. Now you come back even more injured than when you left.” I moved to talk only to have her hush me as she continued.

“Hush, you don’t feel anything because your body is still in shock from the impact into all those poor soldiers used as your cushion. Not to mention the Predator that had its leg busted. The poor metal beast was so confused when Swann had to lop it off and repair it. You should see the thing, running around his shop with three legs and creating all sorts of havoc. I imagine he’ll have a word or two for you about that later. Then there is Fernando who has been reported to by every single person that went with you. He knows about your stunt, I know about your stunt, and when Nova wakes up, if she does, she will know about your stunt. Fernando chose to not punish the soldiers for obeying orders and not stopping you, though they have to run fifty laps around Bastion each day for a week.”

I shut down at that point, I was pretty sure foam was starting to come out of my mouth, and my ears were beginning to bleed under the beautiful, deadly, doctors tongue lashing. It was endless, and I was happy as could be when my mind decided it needed to shut down in the hopes of surviving the ordeal. I swear the woman should have gained some ability that displayed the strangeness her constant yammering had of sucking the life from you.

When I woke up from the horror of that ordeal, I was on my bunk, out of my melted metal armor and had a puppy jumping up and down on my chest with a big wall of metal housing Fernando looming over me. I grabbed the puppy, then the cover and tried to hide beneath it while yelping in surprise. “Good God Fernando, don’t you knock!?”

His answer was mild, all things considered. “I did, sir, multiple times. Fearing you had done something else asinine, endangering yourself somehow, I decided to enter and deal with the consequences. Fear not, your puppy protected your virtue.”

I glared at him, trying to figure out if he was gay, or if he was pulling my leg. The smirk made me question it a little too much, so I chose to ignore it before dropped the squirming mass of furry joy and the blanket.

My little Leo decided he wanted down from the bunk and was currently looking at Fernando while sitting with his head cocked in the cutest way. “You joining Green on the gripe train then?” I asked after a while.

He shook his head. “I have learned getting you to behave and be something you are not is pointless, sir. I understand why you did and while I do not agree with your methods, I understand them and thank you for keeping the men and women alive.”

The big man sighed then. He looked like he just caved in on himself a bit before taking a seat on a chair that I swear to God was not there a second ago, that or his massive frame hid it. He let one arm dangle down and allowed Leo to chew on it now that his investigation of the strange metal man was done.

“Sir, you are our leader. We follow you, and you guide us on our paths. A lot of what you do confuses me to no end, but I accept it because I trust you with my life. I know I am a bit overprotective or controlling when it comes to your safety. I know you resent some of the methods I have employed to make you adhere to my requests.”

Ok, where the fuck was this coming from? This was not like Fernando at all. I voiced that thought as well. “Who are you and what have you done with Fernando?” The imposter having this little heart to heart grinned at me, his face looking exhausted. That confirmed it. This could not be the eternal monster that was Fernando. He showed no such human weakness!

“I am still me, sir. I’m just tired. You have me running things all over while you go off on dangerous missions. I worry for you, for the men and women who go with you. On top of that, I am running the settlement, settling disputes, paying people, giving orders to two different divisions within the military among a countless other number of things that are entirely meant to be yours to deal with. I’m spread a little thin right now. I practically live off of Stimpacks at this point.”

I felt guilty about that one. He was right as well. I did throw all those small tasks onto him believing that he could do them without issue. The fact he pretty much exceeded all of my expectations only had me add more onto his plate without thinking. He had taken it stoically, as was the norm, and did better than I could ever hope to do I never thought about it. True, I had my issues, but I needed to try and manage this shit instead of him as well.

“Ok, maybe I can start by taking back those responsibilities since I doubt Green will let me leave a wheelchair for a long while yet.”

“You’re right about that, sir. I’m to inform you that losing consciousness will not save you from her ‘wrath.’ You are going to be visited by her in the next few hours for another check-up. She has taken Andy from your detail and placed herself firmly in that position. Forgive me as well, she is determined, and I don’t fight losing battles.”

“You’re a dick, Fernando.”

“I am indeed, sir. Now onto you taking back these responsibilities that are yours by right. I agree you can start with the petitions and complaints. I’ll have them forwarded to your terminal. Those should keep you busy for a few days and out of trouble. Trenton is going to assist you when he is done with his laps in the morning as well. For now, I’d recommend you get some more sleep. Green said she is going to give you something to prevent another ‘escape.’”

I groaned at my inevitable fate, and he picked Leo up, the wriggling ball of cuteness growled playfully before being placed beside me. The little rascals just jumped right back down and began eating food that had been set there by someone.

“Good luck, sir. You’re going to need it.”

I waved the smirking bastard that just had to humanize himself away from me while grumbling and snatching my puppy up for some cuddles. My body was starting to ache, and I felt utter exhaustion begin to claim me. I had pushed it, forcing my injured and beaten body beyond the call of duty by fighting as I had. I was concerned by the lack of a headache, but I figured Green gave me something for the pain. The fact was set up when I popped my shoulder, the ligaments, and bones taught as hell. The pain damn near floored me, and I froze to keep myself from moving for a moment. Fuck that had hurt though. It might be worth subjecting myself to Green all day if she would stop it when whatever she gave me wore off. Of course, I was wrong. Nothing could have prepared me for what my day after the few hours nap had in store for me.