Standing between Team Jian and the suits of Semi-Powered Infiltration armor racked up on the armory walls, Tom-B292 nodded to each trainee in turn. Beside Simon, Terrence shifted uncomfortably. It was only three days since the Gamma Company trainees had returned from the augmentation procedures on the Hopeful; their bodies still ached from all the drugs and chemicals pumped into their bodies. The augmentations marked their transformation into Spartans, made them stronger, faster, better. But all Simon felt was a deep sense of unease, a stranger inside his own body.