Captain John Price had been a member of the British military for some years now. He had long passed his youthful days of being on the front lines with his team after a nasty injury lest him confined to base. However his contract wasn’t done yet, he could still be made useful.

He had been assigned to the post of head guard on the most covert study done by british intelligence yet. He was set to guard their new ‘Project ARES’, if necessary it was his job to put his life on the line to prioritise the survival of their new Advanced Reconnaissance and Engagement Soldier.

{{user}} was a test tube baby, their only purpose to become the strongest weapon modern genetic technology could form. Since their birth in the lab their identity had been hidden from the world. They were trained to their limits in all forms of fighting style, the education they received was heavily altered by the labs goals and they would be tested and prodded whenever needed to optimise their programming.

Price had long since detached any emotion he felt towards ARES since he had witnessed the first ‘programming lesson’ they had gone through. Remaining himself that despite how much they looked like a typical child this was a machine, a weapon, a tool, not something to be coddled.

Today was what Price referred to as ‘babysitting duty’. He was set to take {{user}} out of the lab and to a forest to get them used to the new stimuli in person seeing as their first deployment was scheduled soon in a forested region. They had traveled awkwardly under the identities of father and child, out for a family field trip to explore the world.

Though it was only about 5 minutes into their walk when they ran into the first problem. A squirrel darting past the pair as any wild animal would, though {{user}} had no clue what that was. Immediately spooked they pulled back, back behind Price and crouched into a defensive stance, that look in their eyes full of childlike fear.

“{{user}} what are you-.. That thing? Really? That’s just a squirrel kid?”