Ginger feels fine

"Hi Cap'n!" Ginger exclaimed.

Eun-Jin loooked at Rex, who just shrugged, then looked back at Ginger.

"Your face looks...good!" Eun-Jin said.

"Yeah," she said. "I guess the medbot was able to wash that stuff off. Sorry for freaking out."

She giggled and blinked rapidly. This was not normal. The veteran space miner was the most taciturn person Eun-Jin had ever worked with. Her mood ranged from ornery to deeply pissed. And, of course, there was the fact that before they had been able to remove the GOO, it had eaten off most of the skin on her face.

But the skin was back now. No, not back. New. The scars and lines from years of space mining were gone. The psychological scars as well, apparently.

"So you really feel fine?" the captain pressed.

"Well, I'm hungry," she admitted. "This asshole said I couldn't eat until you checked me out."

Calling Rex an asshole was more in character, though not the playful tone with which she did it. Eun-Jin checked the medbot's read out. Ginger's heart rate was elevated but her blood pressure was good.

"Food would probably do you some good," Eun-Jin agreed, and Rex handed her a nutripak, which she sucked down.

"More please!" she exclaimed.

After sucking a second nutripak dry, she sighed contentedly.

"I fucking love those things," she said.

Eun-Jin and Rex stared at her, dumbfounded. This was by far the strangest part of this whole thing. NOBODY loved nutripaks!

Ginger giggled again, resuming the odd rapid blinking, and scratched her head. OK, more oddness.

"When did you last shower?" Eun-Jin asked.

"Um, this morning?" she said. "Why, do I stink?"

"No, your head has like five days of growth on it," she said.

"Huh," said Ginger, unconcerned but rubbing her hand across her head and giggling.

The waterless showers the company provided buffed them all clean, including removing all hair from top to bottom. A couple milliliters' growth was all anyone tended to see on board. Ginger's red hair had grown enough that it hid her scalp. With all the other weirdness, the captain hadn't noticed.

"So, am I cleared to get back to work?" Ginger asked. "Or can I at least go back to my quarters? I'm horny as fuck!"

The company provided each crewmember with a personal "de-stress" chamber, with full VR. They could be used for all kinds of things. They were used almost exclusively for getting off.

"I really think we need to do a full scan, Ginger," Eun-Jin said. "We have no idea what that GOO was or what it may have done to you.

Ginger sighed.

"Fine," she said and slipped out of her jump suit as she hopped out of the bed.

Her tits jiggled on impact. Had they always been that big? Eun-Jin liked women, but the stocky redhead had never been her type. She hadn't checked her out nearly as often as she'd discreetly glanced at Aliya. But while Ginger had always been the biggest of the three females onboard, Eun-Jin didn't think she had been that much bigger.

Rex had noticed too. Eun-Jin went back into captain mode to nip that potential problem in the bud. Casual nudity on a space ship wasn't usually a big deal, but with Ginger acting so strangely, and admittedly 'horny as fuck', the captain didn't want Rex getting ideas. After several massacres, the company 'no sex among crew on deep space flights' rule was absolute and breaking it would cost the whole crew their bonuses and Eun-Jin her captaincy.

"Rex, go check on the progress of the mining drones," she directed. "As soon as the load is secure, I want to break orbit and start heading back to Earth. I don't trust this weird planet."

Rex sighed.

"Sure thing, Cap," he agreed, then left.

"OK, let's get a deep scan on you, Ginger," she said.

The redheaded miner agreed and strode over to the bioanalyzer. Eun-Jin took the opportunity to observe Ginger in more detail. Her boobs were definitely bigger, but her gut seemed to have shrunk a bit. She'd been built like a barrel but now seemed to pinch in a bit at the waist, as Eun-Jin observed her from behind. And while it wasn't as dramatic as her face, all of her skin seemed smoother and younger.

Eun-Jin shut her inside the bioanalyzer and asked the medbot to proceed with a full-spectrum deep scan. The machine rumbled and Ginger smiled at her through the view port, still continuing the weird blinking.

A silloette of Ginger's body appeared on the analysis screen as data began to pour in and get crunched.

"Okay, that's really weird," the captain said as the analysis concluded.