Editing Jack Slash (section)

===Body Augmentation===
To help protect her teammates from lethal harm, [[Bonesaw]] augmented Jack and some other members of the [[Nine]] with wire reinforcement for their bones and tinkered sheathing (i.e., subdermal mesh) around their vital organs, major arteries, and spine.<ref name="13.7 e1">“You’re not really in a position to be making demands,” Trickster said. “You’re bleeding to death, and we ''do'' have the ability to hurry the process along.”<br><br>Cherish shrugged. “Bonesaw gave me the works. Mesh sheaths for every major artery and organ, wire reinforcement for my skeleton. It’s not going to kill me anytime soon.”<br><br>I made a mental note of that. Chances were good that Jack, Bonesaw and the other more vulnerable members of the Nine had some similar protection. How differently would things have played out if Ballistic had used his power and blown them up?<br><br>“''I'' could,” Trickster threatened. “Or we could wait and see which happens first: Either you agree to share the information we want or you slowly bleed out.”<br><br>“A game of chicken? I’m down.” Cherish prodded her injury with a fingertip. It was clear it hurt, but she still stuck a finger into the hole and investigated some. “The auto-injection pump is dosing me with painkillers and antibiotics now. First time feeling this stuff work.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/08/18/snare-13-7/ Excerpt] from [[Snare 13.7]]</ref><ref name="14.10 e1">“A benefit of little Bonesaw’s smoke,” Jack answered. “If I recall correctly, it’s something of a safeguard in case she accidentally deploys a concoction she hasn’t immunized herself or the rest of our team against. The fact that it works against bugs and small rodents is a side benefit, rather than the intent. Bonesaw’s work has made us members of the Nine more or less immune to disease anyways.”<br><br>“And the gunshot?”<br><br>“Subdermal mesh.  There’s more protection around the spine and organs, and you landed that shot pretty close to my spine.  It hurts quite a bit.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/prey-14-10/ Excerpt] from [[Prey 14.10]]</ref> Against standard guns, this sheathing helps distribute the impact of bullets to make lethal damage far less likely.<ref>Of course, that 'it's all a game' thing falls apart when you get to the more serious stuff, like Endbringers, Fallen-active areas, and the Slaughterhouse Nine... but guns barely ding Endbringers, you won't win a gunfight against McVeigh Fallen, and the Slaughterhouse Nine have tinkered sheathing around their organs and reinforcement of bones. This protects against lethal harm and distributes the impact of bullets so lethal damage is far less likely. Which amounts to you ''thinking'' you can use a gun against the S9 and failing, much as Imp found out when trying to slash Bonesaw's throat. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/79538449 --> For example, when [[Taylor]] fired [[Trickster]]'s small handgun<ref>“Take this,” Trickster said.  He drew a small handgun and handed it to me.  He pointed as he explained.  “Ten rounds.  Thumb safety.  Grip safety.  It’s my spare.”<br><br>It was heavier than it looked.  There was also a weight to it that had more to do with what the gun ''meant''.  I stuck it through one of the loops in my utility compartment that I hadn’t used since I started out, then double checked it was firmly in place.  “Thanks.” - [[Prey 14.5]]</ref> at Jack, the bullet's impact knocked him to the ground and gave him some pain, but failed to incapacitate him<ref name="14.10 eShootJack">It was so startling to see that I nearly forgot what I was doing.  I drew in a short breath, then let slow breath out as I aimed the gun at Jack and squeezed the trigger.<br><br>I’d mentally planned to unload the gun on Jack and Bonesaw, but I’d forgotten about the recoil.   At the same time Jack was struck down, my arm jerked up, and my mental instruction to fire nonetheless carried through.  The second bullet hit the ceiling.<br>[...]<br>Jack hadn’t been incapacitated.  Aside from the impact of the gunshot, he didn’t even seem wounded.  He was on his feet in a flash, spinning a hundred and eighty degrees to face me, his knife in motion. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/prey-14-10/ Excerpt] from [[Prey 14.10]]</ref> because she hit him close to the spine.<ref name="14.10 e1" /> When Trickster fired a sniper rifle at [[Cherish]] (who also received this sheathing), she was only left incapacitated by the bullet to the stomach, albeit bleeding severely.<ref>I chanced a quick look through the binoculars.  Crawler was stampeding towards the site of the explosion, Cherish was still prone on the ground, bleeding out from Trickster’s sniper fire, and I couldn’t make out the others.<br>[...]<br>We approached Cherish and Genesis. Cherish knelt in the small pile of glass shards that sat at the very bottom of the bubble.  Her hands were pressed against the inside of the stomach, causing it to bulge like a small child in a womb.  She was awake, but bleeding severely. - [[Snare 13.6]]</ref><ref name="13.7 e1" /> Note that bullets<ref name="14.10 e1" /> and knives<ref>Foil’s screams continued, and were soon joined by Jack’s, as Gray Boy started using his knife, reaching within the field. - [[Interlude 26b]]</ref><ref>“…''I'' always hated the blank… ''slates'',” Jack groaned the last word.  His utterances were finding an odd cadence or rhythm between the gasps of pain, the fresh wounds that were actively criss-crossing his body, opening his stomach, his intestine being gripped and pulled through the wound as if by an invisible force.<br><br>The foam weighed him down, and in the midst of the complete and total darkness, he stared skyward.<br><br>“…Never that ''interesting''…”  He grunted.  “Never created ''art'', ''never''… created ''variation''...  you’re worse ''than''… most…”<br><br>High above, the entity listened. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/interlude-26/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 26]]</ref> can still perforate his body. Despite the wire reinforcement, Jack can still crack his head open by banging it hard enough against an object.<ref name="II20.e3 eAgony" />

[[Bonesaw]] also augmented Jack and some other members of the [[Nine]] with built-in antivenom and antibiotic injectors.<ref>Bonesaw gave Jack some of the same treatments she gave herself. Sheaths for the vitals, built in antivenom, antibiotic injectors, etc. Note how Cherish, even as a newer member of the group, has many of these things. - Comment by Wildbow on [[Prey 14.7]]</ref><!-- https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/prey-14-7/#comment-4450 --> She rendered her teammates resistant to her pathogens.<ref name="14.10 e1" />

Another augmentation that Jack has is a switch that allows him to turn pain off. However, this switch takes a second and deliberate action to activate.<ref name="26.x ePainSwitch">He continued grunting.  His switch to turn off the pain took a second to activate, took deliberate action, but getting in the rhythm meant he could buy himself one or two seconds of relief with each loop.  It was a question of concentration, and his concentration slipped. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/interlude-26/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 26]]</ref> After [[Gray Boy]] looped him, despite initially being able to give himself a second or two of relief each loop,<ref name="26.x ePainSwitch" /> Jack inevitably lost his mind and the concentration needed to turn off the pain.<ref name="II20.e3 eBroken" />

At some point after [[Cherish]] encountered the [[Nine]], [[Bonesaw]] augmented him with artificial neurons that were hidden from Cherish's power.<ref name="12.4 e1">Jack paced back and forth, two or three steps at a time, gesticulating with his knife.  “I was looking forward to Cherish’s attempt.  Bonesaw and I even had a plan in mind.  I wanted to see what she did, how she worked around Siberian’s immunity to her power… then the safeguards Bonesaw implanted in us would have kicked in and released us from her thrall, and oh, the look on her face.  To have seen that would have been so very worth all the trouble.  And that girl just spoiled it all.”<br>[...]<br>Jack was getting heated, talking mostly to himself.  “That was the whole point!  To see how long we could go without tipping her off.  Bonesaw helped with some surgery, even some artificial neural connections that Cherish wouldn’t be able to see.  So much work and preparation ruined.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/plague-12-4/ Excerpt] from [[Plague 12.4]]</ref>