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Subject: [Story] Halo 3: Insurrection (Part 38 is now available!) ~ 24/1

I have to say, I'm kind of proud of the character I created with Admiral Eden. Evil, twisted, intelligent and utterly, totally patriotic.

Part 39 - Are you with humanity, Captain?

"Drop your weapon Admiral," Graham ordered Eden coldly. If murder could be personified, then it would be described as the stare the Captain burned through Eden with.

Eden dropped his weapon, and to Graham's shock, began laughing, applauding.

"Very good captain, you caught me in the act, red handed."

"You're going to pay for this Eden. We won't bother with prisons. Do you know what the UNSC does to traitors? I'm sure you do. Lethal injection," Graham growled at the Admiral, whose smile turned to a frown of annoyance.

"I'm not the traitor my friend. No, you are all traitors! Every human who bowed down to these alien freaks of nature are traitors!" Eden indicated the ranger Elites, who glanced at each other. "I'm many things Daniels, but traitor is not one of them. I'm a saviour."

Graham laughed with scorn, as did the Elites beside him. At hearing the Elites mock him, Eden's fists clenched, and his jaw tightened. An utter xenophobe.

"Saviour? Saviour of who? Yourself? You've killed many good people on this ship Admiral. Innocents, with families back home."
"Small sacrifices for the greater good. You know this Captain."

As Eden finished this, the door behind him opened, and a squad of seven ODSTs charged in the room, rifles aimed at the Admiral.

"Sir!" the leader of the ODSTs saluted to Graham.

"Have you restored oxygen levels in the ship?" Daniels asked, looking down with disgusted pity at the defeated Eden.

"Affirmative sir, gravity too," the ODST Captain replied, jamming into his barrel into the back of Eden's neck. "On your knees scum."

Eden sank to the ground, putting his hands behind his head, giving a melodramatic sigh. Graham stared at the Admiral suspiciously, and thought for a second he could see the ghostly trace of a smile playing around Eden's lips. But after an instant it was gone, replaced by a blank stare of obvious depression. Daniels dismissed the incident as a trick of the light.

Slowly, he walked towards Eden, bending down to his level.

"You're defeated, Eden. It's over. Make peace with God, maybe he'll find somewhere in his heart to forgive you."

Eden's head rose, and Graham was slightly unnerved by the grim, confident smile he was treated to. The Admiral shook his head.

"You know Captain Daniels, for someone so intelligent, you are remarkably dim at times. So gullible," Eden laughed mockingly. Daniels frowned, and in anger smacked Eden in the face. Eden still laughed, even through a bloodied nose.

"I don't think you've grasped the situation Eden. Today, justice wins. I hold all the right cards," Graham told Eden in a disgusted voice.

"Ah, but dear Captain, perhaps I have an ace up my sleave. Perhaps I have seven."

What did he mean? With a sudden realisation, Daniels looked up at the trooper aiming a gun at Eden. Dread filled him.

"My my Captain; surely you didn't believe that these ODSTs were your men?"

Suddenly, the ODST Captain withdrew the battle rifle barrel from Eden's neck and aimed it at an Elite. The rest of the ODST squad did the same. Before the Elite Rangers could draw out their plasma rifles, the ODSTs fired; the first wave of shots took down the shields, and the second wave soared clean through their necks, sharply cutting off the screams of pain and shock. The five Rangers tumbled to the ground, dead.

Graham drew out his magnum and fired a shot. It hit an ODST, who cried out in pain as his bullet torn leg collapsed beneath his weight. Before he could do anything else though, Eden sprung into action, knocking the gun out of his hand with one fist and striking him heavily in the gut with another. The Captain staggered back, gasping for breath. Before he could reorientate himself, an ODST violently grabbed his wrists and bound them together with manacles.

Eden was stood up, brushing the dust off his blood stained Admiral's coat, regarding with distaste a fleck of Elite blood which had splashed onto his insignia.

"I'm going to have to get a new coat after all this," he muttered casually, as if he had just taken a walk through the woods and accidently got some mud on himself.

"Well Eden? What now?" Daniels demanded, glaring at the Admiral.

Eden chuckled, sitting down in the Captain's chair, running a fond hand across the mahogany shell.

"Well I think a drink is in order for starters," Eden began. "Don't you think so, Captain Reece?"

The ODST removed his helmet, revealing him to be a war torn man of around forty, with more scars on his face than Daniels had had hot meals.

"That sounds like a plan sir," Reece agreed. He and his fellow ODSTs sat in the visitors lounge in the corner of the room. Eden beckoned Graham to move towards him. Feeling the laser sights aimed at his back, he trudged forward, sitting opposite to Eden.

"This is what we people in power call escalation, Graham. You held the gun at my head a minute ago, and now," Eden drew out a pistol and jammed it into the Captain's sweating forehead, "I hold one at yours."

"What's your plan?" Graham demanded, and to his surprise, a look of elation crossed over Eden's face. The Admiral removed the gun from his captive's head, drawing out a pack of Lambert and Butler cigarettes.

"Want one?" Eden queried, sticking one of the ends of the cigarette into his mouth, lighting it with the lighter hanging around a chain on his neck. Graham remained stoic, not wanting to accept anything from the corrupt Admiral.

"Suit yourself," Eden muttered disappointedly, breathing smoke into Graham's face. Smoking wasn't as dangerous as it used to be. Nicotine levels were pretty much none-existent, and many of the dangerous chemicals inside the cylinder had been substituted with safer elements. The risk of cancer was still present, but in these modern days, cancer was no longer a problem as it had once been up until the 22nd Century -- a Doctor could cure it within an hour.

Even so, Graham thought it a disgusting habit.

"Sir, I have full control of the ship's airlocks and life support systems," the ODST Captain, Reece, called over. Graham felt himself go cold, his eyes widening.

"Choke 'em Reece," Eden replied with a trace of regret and remorse in his voice.

"Roger that sir. Rest in peace, crew."

Before Graham could utter a word from his shocked mouth, a siren warning that airlocks were open sounded, each ring it made signalling that an area of the ship had been exposed to the cold, unforgiving reaches of space.

In less than a minute, the entire crew of the Galapagos was dead.

"And all falls quiet," Eden murmured, a lone tear falling from the corner of his eye.

"Murderer!" Graham shouted, standing up aggressively. Eden, without glancing up from the desk that had his attention held, aimed the gun at him once again.

"Small sacrifices for the greater good," the Admiral repeated, shaking his head as if to clear the melancholia which had grasped him for a moment.

"Good? What are you doing that could possibly be considered good?" Daniels demanded. Eden sighed.

"Please, sit down Captain. I'd hate to have to shoot you in the leg, but in earnest, you're beginning to annoy me. However, I understand your anger -- how could you not be angry, not knowing why I have done things I have done?"

Reluctantly, Graham sat himself down.

"Explain then."

Eden smiled, a quick, small tug at the corners of his mouth. Graham realised that Eden didn't like having people hate him -- so why was he doing all this?

"I'll start at the beginning. When I was very young, I lived on one of the Outer Colonies. My father was governor, my mother a prestigious lawyer."

"I had a good childhood, albeit a lonely one. My parents had little time for me, and my father forbid me from going to a state school -- nothing but the very best private tutor on the planet for me. I had few friends."

Graham was unable to stop himself from getting a wry comment in. "That's surprising, did the other children not share your passion for murder and genocide?"

"Call me what you will Daniels, just not until I've finished my tale. As I said, I lived a good life -- until the Covenant attacked when I was 18 years old."

"My parents, of course, had their own private escape vessel. They told me to come with them. But I couldn't. There was a girl out there, Amelia, the love of my life. My parents didn't approve of her, she came from a farming family. I didn't care. Whilst my parents left on their ship, I went out into the city where the Covenant roamed, searching for her. Ironically, my parents were shot down as they left the planet."

"I found her, eventually. Trapped inside a burning barn at her farm house. An Elite was stood by it, laughing as he heard her screams from inside. Her parents were already dead, killed by falling pieces of rubble. The Elite had grown confident, and wasn't paying attention. It didn't hear me as I crept up behind it. By the time it had noticed me, it was too late for it to do anything; I pushed it into the fire. Its screams melded with Amelia's, before both of them suddenly stopped."

"I broke down the barn, moving through the fire to save Amelia. I found her, or what was left of her anyway. I knew as soon as I saw her body aflame that she was dead. Feeling all the weight leave my legs, I fell to my knees. Soon after, the smoke seeped into my lungs, and before I knew it I was unconscious, about to suffocate to death next to my lifeless girlfriend."

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The ODST Captain, Reece, suddenly cut in. "-- and that's when I found him!"

Eden frowned in annoyance. "Yes, Reece, thank you for interrupting. Reece found me lying in the fire; he was just a private back then, in the Colonial Military. He'd seen the dead Elite outside, and figured something was up. He pulled me out from the fire, and took me back to his Pelican. Saved my life."

"When we reached the nearest colony, I found Lord Hood waiting for me as I left the ship I'd come on. He was only a Captain back then. Told me he was my uncle, and that he was going to look after me."

"Hood was a better father than my biological one could have ever hoped to be. He encouraged me to join the Navy, and I quickly flew through the ranks. Vowed to utterly destroy the Covenant. I always volunteered for the most dangerous missions, and soon I commanded a ship of my own. The UNSC Amelia, I called it. Every time I destroyed a Covenant ship, I did so in Amelia's name."

"In the mean time, Reece had been selected to become an ODST. We became best friends, and I requested that he be assigned to my ship. Saved us from countless boarding parties."

"Soon enough I reached the rank of Admiral. People didn't like it, they said it was due to Hood's influence. I proved them wrong when I saved one of the largest inner colonies with a fleet smaller than the Covenant one invading."

"And then, suddenly, all this crap with Halo happened. I learn that the Elites are coming to work with us. I was robbed of my revenge."

"So that's what this is all about?" Daniels questioned in disbelief, "revenge?"

"At first, yes. When Hood was killed, I had yet another reason to hate the Elites. With his death, I saw a chance to get my revenge on Elites, to command the UNSC, and to ensure humanity's place as ruler of the galaxy."

"But it has become more than that. I'm sick of the fighting. And I'm sick of the aliens. This isn't about revenge any more, this is about duty to humanity. We have a chance to put the Elites, the Covenant -- everyone in a position to be killed by the Flood, Captain. Humanity can rule over the survivors.

"I hold in my neural interface override codes I built into every single shipboard AI in the UNSC fleet. The codes will override their control, and I'll be able to disable all the UNSC ships. I'll keep their shields up of course, but they will be quite unable to move."

"All we need to do is just hang back when the aliens move forward. Then, once they've been wiped out, the UNSC can surge forward and wipe out the Flood and the remaining Elite and Covenant ships in one glorious strike. A new galactic era shall rise, a human empire!"

"With you as the emperor?" Daniels asked suspiciously. Eden shook his head passionately.

"No! It would be a human council, where everyone is equal. Everyone makes the decisions. I'd be on it, you'd be on it -- united, we could make the galaxy a better place. We steal the Elite technology, research the Halos to upgrade our technology with the intelligence of the Forerunners. The Engineers hate the Covenant as much as we do, they'll be spared, they'll rule alongside us. The Elites, Jackals, Grunts, Prophets, Brutes, Hunters, all the rest will be forced to accept our rule -- we'll make them rebuild our planets! We won't wipe them out, we'll just make sure they have to accept our regime. What do you say, Captain? Are you with me? Are you with humanity?"

Graham stared at the egomaniacal, idealistic man sitting opposite to him, and realised that Eden really did want him on his side. He believed he was doing the right thing.

The real question is, do I believe he's doing the right thing?

The answer to that self imposed question was obvious.

"Yes, I'm with humanity," Graham replied, nodding his head. Eden's face shone like an excited schoolboy's, and a wide, toothy grin broke out across his face.

"Fantastic! Truly excellent, it'll be good to have you by my side," Eden replied, pressing a button on his wrist computer. Graham suddenly felt the electronic manacles binding his arms behind his back release with a depressurising hiss.

Eden poured two glasses of brandy, passing one over to Daniels. He then lifted his glass.

"A toast!" he began, motioning for Graham to lift his own glass. "A toast, to humanity, and new beginnings!"

"A toast," Graham echoed softly.

Graham's glass touched Eden's with a ring

Bracing himself for what would happen next, Graham then brought his glass heavily down on the table. Eden jumped, surprised. Before the Admiral could react, Graham bounded across to the other side of the table with the shard of broken, sharp glass he held, grabbing Eden roughly and holding the razor sharp edge of the glass against Eden's soft, stubbled neck.

The ODSTs had caught wind of what was happening, but by then it was too late. Daniels had Eden in an unbreakable position, all he had to do was shift his hands slightly and the Admiral's throat would be slit.

"Touché, Captain," Eden breathed softly, trying to keep his neck from moving too much as he inhaled breath.

"All of you! Throw down your weapons!" Graham shouted at the ODSTs, who deferred to their Captain.

"Don't do it Reece! Kill us both, then take my codes! Promise to carry on my work! Promise to save humanity, and have me remembered!" Eden shouted at the ODST team leader, who seemed hesitant to shoot his friend.

"Stand down!" Reece ordered his men, who looked at each other uncertainly.

"Ignore him! Shoot us! That's an order!" Eden shrieked, shocking Graham. If there had ever been doubt in his mind that Eden wasn't doing all this for humanity's sake, there wasn't now.

"I said stand down! I'm sorry Phillip, I won't shoot you, nor will any of my men, if they value their health," Reece commanded, and eventually the ODSTs obeyed the man they'd served with for years, rather than the Admiral who was prepared to sacrifice himself. As one, they all threw down their weapons. Eden swore.

"Leave!" Graham commanded the ODSTs. "Get out of this room!"

There was a moment of silence, where the troopers seemed reluctant to do so. Graham applied the tiniest bit of pressure to the glass shard he held, and a trickle of blood flowed from a small wound in Eden's neck. This was the trigger which made the ODSTs leave the room through the main and only door, which locked automatically behind them.

Now, Graham could hear nothing but then short, quick breaths Eden was taking in.

"Now what Captain? You gonna kill me?" the Admiral asked.

Graham thought for a moment, before reaching a decision.

"I am. Too many people have died today Eden. You don't get to live."

"You're a traitor Daniels. And that's how history will remember you in a hundred years when the aliens have conquered humanity as a result of your weak decisions." Those were Eden's final words.

Graham grasped the glass shard tightly, ignoring the pain as it cut into his hand. He took a deep breath, and prepared to slash the glass across Eden's neck.

That was when the plasma bolt fired from a Flood ship smashed into the side of theGalapagos, throwing both naval officers to the floor.

The battle over Sangheilios had resumed.

  • 02.07.2010 11:23 AM PDT
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Yet another cliffhanger lol wolver is your gamertag Wolverfrog too?

  • 02.07.2010 12:03 PM PDT

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awsome and no his gamer tag is HLG somthing but very very good i wasn't expecting the ODST's but can you add in some good ODST's named John??

  • 02.07.2010 12:36 PM PDT

you would end it there god damn that was good

  • 02.08.2010 10:54 AM PDT
Subject: [Story] Halo 3: Insurrection (Part 39 is now available!) ~ 07/02
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Do not waste your tears, I was not born to watch the world grow dim. Life is not measured in years, but by the deeds of men.

Posted by: goldhawk
We should know better, because we are better.

Posted by: Wolverfrog
I have to say, I'm kind of proud of the character I created with Admiral Eden. Evil, twisted, intelligent and utterly, totally patriotic.

Sorta like Rorschach (best vigilante ever!). Re-read chapter,Edens ambitions are similar to that of a renegade Shepard at the end of the first Mass Effect.


[Edited on 02.08.2010 5:03 PM PST]

  • 02.08.2010 12:11 PM PDT
Subject: [Story] Halo 3: Insurrection (Part 38 is now available!) ~ 24/1

i just noticeed you kept saying for the greater good...have you watched hot fuzz lately?

  • 02.08.2010 4:52 PM PDT

Why hello there.

Microwave ovens are quite large.

WORT, WORT,WORT!

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You need to kill that Eden guy. He makes me mad.

  • 02.08.2010 7:42 PM PDT

Posted by: The Stig 521
i just noticeed you kept saying for the greater good...have you watched hot fuzz lately?


No. It's a lot like Cerberus from Mass Effect. They aim to put humanity on top, making small sacrifices for the greater good.

  • 02.08.2010 11:28 PM PDT
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One day... I am gonna grow wings... A chemical reaction... Hysterical and useless... hystecial and let down and hanging around... crushed like a bug in the ground.

Posted by: Wolverfrog
Posted by: The Stig 521
i just noticeed you kept saying for the greater good...have you watched hot fuzz lately?


No. It's a lot like Cerberus from Mass Effect. They aim to put humanity on top, making small sacrifices for the greater good.


Exept *Mass Effecr 2 and Possibly 3 Spoiler*











The Illusive Man is planning to use the collector tech if you gave it to him.

  • 02.08.2010 11:30 PM PDT

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No, acnboy. Spartain Ken 15 is a lesser being. Much like the bacteria that lives in your shi­t.
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My shi­t bacteria takes offense to that comparison.

Don't make me lel. You won't like me when I lel.

That was amazing. These cliffhangers are killing me!

  • 02.09.2010 11:09 PM PDT

Acta Non Verba

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same!!!! !!!! !!!!

  • 02.12.2010 1:50 PM PDT

Make sure Eden's death is utterly ironic and fitting. It's what the -blam!- deserves. Graaagh.

  • 02.12.2010 4:13 PM PDT

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whens part 40?

  • 02.12.2010 4:44 PM PDT

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whens part 40?


It's about 3/4 done, but I'm not at home right now; I'll finish it off when I get back.

The situation is growing dire; a Surgeon and a dead legend may be needed the heal the wounds of the battle.

  • 02.14.2010 11:45 AM PDT

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inb4 mendez

  • 02.14.2010 5:37 PM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

Posted by: AngasBoy
Posted by: Wolverfrog
Posted by: The Stig 521
i just noticeed you kept saying for the greater good...have you watched hot fuzz lately?


No. It's a lot like Cerberus from Mass Effect. They aim to put humanity on top, making small sacrifices for the greater good.


Exept *Mass Effecr 2 and Possibly 3 Spoiler*











The Illusive Man is planning to use the collector tech if you gave it to him.


Reaper tech I think you'll find, my friend.

  • 02.15.2010 2:54 AM PDT
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Do not waste your tears, I was not born to watch the world grow dim. Life is not measured in years, but by the deeds of men.

Posted by: goldhawk
We should know better, because we are better.

Posted by: ajw34307
Posted by: AngasBoy
Posted by: Wolverfrog
Posted by: The Stig 521
i just noticeed you kept saying for the greater good...have you watched hot fuzz lately?


No. It's a lot like Cerberus from Mass Effect. They aim to put humanity on top, making small sacrifices for the greater good.


Exept *Mass Effecr 2 and Possibly 3 Spoiler*











The Illusive Man is planning to use the collector tech if you gave it to him.


Reaper tech I think you'll find, my friend.
*Spoilers*















Or would it be Reaper-Prothean tech?

  • 02.15.2010 2:13 PM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

Posted by: Xd00999
Posted by: ajw34307
Posted by: AngasBoy
Posted by: Wolverfrog
Posted by: The Stig 521
i just noticeed you kept saying for the greater good...have you watched hot fuzz lately?


No. It's a lot like Cerberus from Mass Effect. They aim to put humanity on top, making small sacrifices for the greater good.


Exept *Mass Effecr 2 and Possibly 3 Spoiler*











The Illusive Man is planning to use the collector tech if you gave it to him.


Reaper tech I think you'll find, my friend.
*Spoilers*















Or would it be Reaper-Prothean tech?


Just Reaper, the Protheans got their tech from the Reapers - as did every other organic being.

  • 02.16.2010 4:24 PM PDT
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Do not waste your tears, I was not born to watch the world grow dim. Life is not measured in years, but by the deeds of men.

Posted by: goldhawk
We should know better, because we are better.

Posted by: ajw34307
Posted by: Xd00999
Posted by: ajw34307
Posted by: AngasBoy
Posted by: Wolverfrog


No. It's a lot like Cerberus from Mass Effect. They aim to put humanity on top, making small sacrifices for the greater good.


Exept *Mass Effecr 2 and Possibly 3 Spoiler*











The Illusive Man is planning to use the collector tech if you gave it to him.


Reaper tech I think you'll find, my friend.
*Spoilers*















Or would it be Reaper-Prothean tech?


Just Reaper, the Protheans got their tech from the Reapers - as did every other organic being.
But the Collecter vessels are obviously not Reaper design so that must mean that the Protheans modified Reaper tech a little while integrating it into their ships.

  • 02.17.2010 4:57 AM PDT

Stop having a Mass Effect 2 conversation in this thread please.

  • 02.17.2010 5:08 AM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

Posted by: AssaultCommand
Give us True Sangheili p.40 in this thread please.


That kinda defeats the point of this being "Halo: Insurrection"...

  • 02.17.2010 12:02 PM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

Posted by: AssaultCommand
Doesn't matter where, as long as we get it!
XD


Now seriously. plz giv us moar?


This one doesn't have time for your solid waste excretions.

  • 02.18.2010 1:44 PM PDT