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Subject: [Fan Fic] The Son of Genius *Ch 10 up*

About me: I am a vicious wolf of a man.

But really am sweet at heart. =)

2539
UNSC Frigate Daedalus
Unknown Location
Carrying sensitive ONI information and personal.

David stood slowly from the deck as his head spun through a sheer sense of vertigo. A small tube connected to a mask that covered his entire face, a small canister of O2 was attached to his chest. Small pieces of debris floated freely around his quarters on board the small UNSC Frigate.

The realization finally came to the young Lieutenant that the ship had been attacked. The emergency alarm went off on his wristwatch, good ONI had been alerted and with luck a task force would soon arrive. The cargo needed to get to Reach.

He reached over and grabbed his passing M6B PDW and slid a magazine into it from one of the large pockets on his grey and black digital ONI BDUs. Then he forced open the sliding door and emerged into a large mess hall.

Immediately he was face to face with a grunt, investigating his life signature probably. David fired three shots into it's face at point blank range, the body floated slowly away in the low gravity environment.

The muted thumps of the .450 magnum loads however peaked the senses of two Jackals who emerged from a passage at the other end of the room. David barely had time to dive behind a turned over table before plasma slapped the bulkhead above him. Looking through the thin plastic and seeing their heat signatures he fired his weapon over the table and killed one of his assailants.

He wondered where the other went as he turned around and saw it feet in front of him. He braced for the deadly plasma that never came. The jackal now had a silver blade sticking from it's chest. As it fell it revealed a huge green giant standing over it.

It slowly lowered it's gloved hand and offered it to him.

David took it, "Thanks John, guess I owe you one again huh?"

"Good to see you alive Lieutenant Halsey." The Chief said quickly as he unslung his MA5B."

"Chief, rank don't mean -blam!- now, we've been friends for how long?" John didn't answer his question, but instead said.

"Your emergency beacon is online, we were ambushed by a small corvette, probably looking for us, but a prowler is on the way. We should get down to the hanger bay where the rest of the squad is."

"Good," Halsey said picking up a dead Marine's MA5," We can remote detonate a Shiva in this mess to make sure no data survives, I've got the chip still."

"Then let's move LT."
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2518
UNSC Training Facility Wilderness Military Reserve

John saw him first: a small little child with dark hair and blue eyes standing behind Doctor Halsey on her office overlooking the parade ground. He looked about John's age. This was all he thought of it before doing the morning's PT and lessons. John all but forgot about him as they learned about the Crusades in the 1100s and King Richard. Later on the "playground" Sam used a stick as a "sword" and used it to defend the top of the hill with John in a King of the Hill match.

Later at lunch however, John saw him again, he was eating all alone at a table on the other side of the chow hall. He didn't think nothing of it until Kelly walked directly past their usual table and sat across from the boy.

"Hi, you're new aren't you?" Kelly asked cheerfully.

"Yeah...well, actually I've been here longer than all of you." the boy said looking up from his food tray.

"Really? Did you come on a different transport?" she asked, her head tilted to one side.

"No actually, Doctor Halsey is my mother." he said looking slightly down again.

"Oh, that's pretty cool," Kelly said smiling.

"Wait," he said putting his elbow on the table, "You don't care? I've been treated special by everyone if anyone even hears about it...your the first person who hasn't treated me as a specimen."

"What's a specimen?"

"Oh...like, something to mess with in medicine or something...that is why I am here I guess, to try out stuff so you guys don't get messed up."

During this time John, Sam, and Fred had all overheard the conversation and had moved over to the distant table. The other trainees looked over occasionally but were too fearful of Chief Mendez's gaze to walk over.

Sam piped up "So wait...your a guinea pig?"

"I guess, you see these?"the boy said pulling up his T shirt and exposing a dozen or so small scabs, "Mom is trying out some kind of 'immunization booster' or something...all I know is that it's kind of hard to focus and things go all slow some times."

"Wait," the boy said again continuing, "You are John right?" he said pointing across the table at the taller cadet.

"Yeah, how do you know that? Everyone calls us by number."

"Oh, I must have saw your name somewhere, Mom and Chief Mendez say I'm in your team."

"Well," Fred said speaking up for the first time, "It might help if we knew your name."

"I'm David." he simply stated as he reached his arm across the table.

They all put their hands in the center, "We're a team then, we're gonna win everything now." Sam said as they all stood in unison for the first time.

Through a video monitor, Dr. Halsey sat in a leather office chair watching her son. Her and Jacob's son. He would be so proud, she thought watching David interact with John.

Was it any coincidence they appeared to get along so well? She didn't know, didn't try to think about it. Her own motherly instincts were killing her. Should she really use her own flesh and blood like this? It all came down to ethics she knew. Sacrifice one to save the lives of many. Sometimes she hated this whole damn thing. Wished she could just settle down with Jacob and have a life.

She leaned back in her chair and closed her eyes, on the edge of sleep.

Suddenly, the holoprojector came on and the bright avatar of Deja appeared, "Doctor, those test results are ready."

With a groan, Catherine sat up and put her glasses back on.
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Herro! So, What They Carried never really panned out. I really should have ended it after Chapter 4. I never heard back from anyone about it being in Revolutions. Anyway, this is a fanfic about another child that Jacob and Catherine could have had. I never liked Miranda Keyes in H2 or 3, so I decided to make another, better one. But yeah, David is their son. I am hoping for this to be at least a 2 part series.

Rate, review, whatever. I hope you enjoy.

[Edited on 04.09.2011 6:29 PM PDT]

  • 03.18.2011 8:44 PM PDT
Subject: [Fan Fic] The Son of Genius

The tide is turning, brothers! Let us take our kingdom back!

Ayyeeee, another story! An interesting plot device. I'll be interested to see where this goes.

  • 03.18.2011 10:15 PM PDT

About me: I am a vicious wolf of a man.

But really am sweet at heart. =)

Chapter 2

2519
UNSC MEDCOM Hospital, New Alexandria, Reach.

John sat in a faux wooden chair in the clinically clean waiting room in MEDCOM Hospital. John had been here before with all the Spartans, they had just been given a regular physical they had however, been given a significant amount of strange injections. The really strange part was that he never saw David at all. He had been whisked away down a long hallway.

The others had long gone back to base, but John waited behind for his teammate. Chief Mendez leaned against the railing in front of the long window that showed the huge skyline of the city. He sighed and fingered a Sweet William in his BDU jacket pocket. In the distance the sun slowly set over the horizon.

It was dead quiet until a quiet shudder came from the opening of a sliding door coming from the operating room. David stood alone in his BDU bottoms and a grey t shirt. His jacket was in his arm. There was a large bloody bandage over his right eye.

"Jesus, trainee are you alright?" Mendez asked with unnatural caring in his voice.

"Yes...yes sir, they shot me with a lot of drugs...they said I shouldn't do PT tomorrow." David said slowly and shakily walking over to the Chief.

"Do you need any help?" John asked offering his hand.

David answered his question by grabbing John's shoulder and supporting himself.

They went outside to the other Pelican that the Chief had taken, the other Spartans had long ago squeezed onto the second one and the hollow compartment seemed cavernous with just the Chief, John and David inside.

The flight was boring and uneventful except that David complained that his eye socket throbbed. John found it odd he said socket instead of just his eye. He wondered what was wrong with his vision, and hoped that he could still train. He wondered why he was training with the Spartans in the first place. He knew his own mother would have never let him do this kind of stuff.

They quickly landed in the parade ground and Mendez simply picked David up in his arms and carried him to his cot in the barracks. David was already asleep and limp when he was placed on top of his sheets.
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David's head hurt. He could barely hear shouting and shuffling on the edge of his dead mind. It was time to get up for PT. He tried to move, but opened his eyes and found he was secured by a few dozen different wires and IV drips.

He reached upwards with his left hand and found a bandage, along with a wire that went into his eye. He rolled off the hospital bed and yanked the IV drips out of his arm. A voice on the intercom blared something about someone waking up.

Half blind he stumbled across the room and finally tore the thick cloth bandage off. Unfortunately he was standing in front of a full length mirror. What was a healthy blue eye was replaced by a slightly glowing red and black thing.

He crawled closer and saw it was an eye...but diffferent. It was a computer. He tried to cry, but tears would only come out of one, which made him cry more.

Suddenly, a quiet whisper of a door opening took him out of his sorrow. He turned around to see his mother standing there. She picked him up and shushed him while rubbing his back.

David took comfort in his mother's presence, but he wasn't fully secure. He knew that somehow. She was the whole reason for this.
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Phew! This was a fast 10 minutes of writing. I never really write out my stories fully before posting. In fact I thought of this in 5 minutes in a car ride home. I am actually very interested int his story, so expect frequent updates.

[Edited on 03.27.2011 3:51 PM PDT]

  • 03.19.2011 2:55 PM PDT

We go head first into hell sir!

This is a good story, I love reading about spartans early life!

  • 03.19.2011 6:58 PM PDT

The tide is turning, brothers! Let us take our kingdom back!

Obviously, you're continuing your streak of sad chapters. I like that, for some strange reason. And I also see now that this'll be a very interesting story to read.

  • 03.20.2011 1:36 AM PDT

If you can read this, that means I'm not a Shaolin monk...

yet.


Posted by: OfTheBloodguard
Obviously, you're continuing your streak of sad chapters. I like that, for some strange reason. And I also see now that this'll be a very interesting story to read.

  • 03.20.2011 7:05 AM PDT

About me: I am a vicious wolf of a man.

But really am sweet at heart. =)

Chapter 3
2523
UNSC Military Reservation 7102-B ODST Training Course

John sat with Blue Team behind a concrete knee high structure. Each Spartan was hunched down over a crude dirt drawing of the practice compound.

The goal was simple, they, with no support were supposed to take on a platoon of ODSTs in full gear. The ODSTs had two Warthogs, several chaingun emplacements, and back up support. Blue Team had woodland fatigues and M6C Pistols with TTR rounds and two extra magazines each.

"Okay, everyone understand the plan?" John asked one final time.

Nobody said a word until David piped up.

"You heard the Squad Leader, let's get to work boys." That comment got David two punches to the shoulder from Kelly and Linda.

"Sheesh," he said over his shoulder as David and Fred crawled away on their bellies to avoid the searchlights in the distance.

The two cadets crawled for 200 meters straight until they got to a 3 story tall concrete tower with climbing nets strung around the sides. The top had a zipline that went to a series of upper catwalks 2 stories above ground level. From there it would be a clear shot to the flag.

As they stood they heard a slight shuffle to their left. An ODST corporal shuffled past with his helmet off smoking a Lucky Strikes cigarette. In the shadowed portion of the tower Fred nodded once to David.

Fred saw a single red bead in the pitch black shake up and down again.

"Don't you know it's against regs to not wear a helmet here corporal." he said quietly before sucker punching the ODST out of his mind. They duck taped his mouth shut and zip tied him to a metal bar at the base of the tower and climbed the net.

From here they could easily see the 92nd ODST's colors across 500 meters of a concrete and metal jungle gym. Suddenly, the calm was torn by the staccato firing of an MA5B assault rifle. David couldn't hear any thuds of bullets hitting a target. That meant the diversion had begun.

"We're good! Go Fred!" With that, Fred hooked his belt on to the repelling wire. David went behind him doing the same. They rode the wire down to the catwalks and immediately shot two ODSTs to their left. They continued standing and fired a trio of bursts 3 feet from where they had stood before diving around the corner.

They hadn't dropped from the TTR, and from the metallic pings of the rounds...they weren't using TTR either.

David dove around the corner, rolled up to the first Marine, tore his rifle from his arm and heard a sickening crack. He fired a 3 round burst into the other man's legs and he fell to the metal deck bleeding profusely.

Fred looked around the corner in shock.

"Common!" David said throwing him the other man's MA5B, "These guys are cheating, they would have killed us. We gotta go!"

Fred was a ghostly white color, but followed David down the open walkway.

Another ODST dove around the corner, but Michael had seen him through the thin plywood with thermal imaging sensors in his eye and had gotten two shots in his ribs before he raised his rifle. The Spartans stepped over him and kept going.

They were 50 meters from the flag platform. David had Blue's IFF's on his HUD and they were on the other series of catwalks. As he turned the other way though he was face to face with a very angry captain with a pistol in David's stomach.

He very quickly fell down. Dave looked behind him again and there was Linda. Somehow with her hands on an SR99. The man had a 2 inch hole through his stomach. Their feet were almost slipping with blood as they took the green colors. Loudspeakers cracked on and simply said

"Test complete, medics attend the wounded."

Sam came up and slapped David on the back "Good work man, with that 'super eye' of your's this is almost too easy!"

Dave rolled his eye and sighed. Kelly picked up on that and hit him again. John simply looked on with slight interest. He wished he could talk so freely with his team, but he was a leader. It required a bit of distance.

Still, he didn't mind David being on his team. With that device in his head they essentially had a thermal, night vision, and HUD all rolled into one. He was still an outstanding operator though. John would be scared of him and his CQC skills even with out those upgrades.

Finally, a Pelican showed up at the edge of the training area and carried them back to base.
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Dr. Halsey sat in her office watching the security feed as the Pelican left the final frame.

She threw her glasses on her desk and put her palms over her eyes. She sat in that stunning darkness for quite some time. Wondering about many things. She picked up an empty coffee cup. Remembered she couldn't drink it...again. Then finally decided to pick up her phone.

She dialed an all too familiar number.

"Hello, this is Lieutenant Keyes."

"It's Catherine." Halsey stated quickly.

"Doctor...what are you calling me about? Another 'project-"

"Jacob,"she said interupting, "I'm pregnant...again."

"What?"He said nearly out of breath, "Pregnant...and what do you mean again?"

"You...have a son Jacob."she said with moisture forming in her eyes.

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I KNOW RIGHT! It's like a disease! I can't go a chapter with out ONE slightly emotional scene. I do want some feed back though. Do you guys like my action scenes? I always feel like they are too drawn out and detailed. Let me know if you feel they need to be faster or slower or what ever.

[Edited on 03.27.2011 3:52 PM PDT]

  • 03.20.2011 4:53 PM PDT

The tide is turning, brothers! Let us take our kingdom back!

Haha.. just give it enough variety to keep the tears flowing, nd you'll be right.

And your action scenes are prety good, there's detail enough. Things tend to get a tad fast paced in action scenes, so if you know you've set the scene well enough, then you shouldn't have and trouble.

  • 03.20.2011 11:28 PM PDT

About me: I am a vicious wolf of a man.

But really am sweet at heart. =)

Chapter 4
2524
Civilian Vehicle Highway 242-B Loading Bay, New Alexandria
2200 Hours

David took one final look behind him with thermal vision on. He saw no tell tale cold spots in any belts that would mean a loaded weapon. Satisfied they had not been followed he turned his attention to the rest of the team.

"You guys ready for this?" he asked to Fred, Kelly, Linda, and Kurt.

Fred nodded, Kurt just made one quick nod, Linda shrugged, Kelly just rolled her eyes.

"Alright, lets try not to get caught." David stated as he put on a pair of antique wrap around shades.

They all stepped from behind the shadow of a toll booth and walked over to a parked automated taxi. David got in to the driver's side and put in an unmarked credit chip with 2000cR in it. The information on it was false. Over the past years, while he had continued Spartan training, he had also been learning other things on the side. Including hacking, technical work, and receiving constant upgrades to his neural interface.

The car hummed to life as he pulled the card out of the slot on the dash. He opened up the command console on the dash and introduced a flash freeze program that shut down all internal sensors. The car had no idea they had ever been there. With that he rocketed down the road at 120 kilometers per hour.

Kelly turned on the radio in the passenger seat, the others crammed in the back began talking in quiet tones.

David turned around on them, "What's the matter? You getting cold feet back there?"

"No,"Kurt said leaning forward, "I'm not, but I'm just nervous, we're gonna be talking with well...people for the first time...I can remember."

"Don't sweat it," Kelly said popping a piece of chewing gum in her mouth, her blue tinged hair blowing in the wind through an open window,"We'll stick together, have some fun, then get back before roll call tomorrow morning."

That was the whole idea of the plan. David had access off base being Dr. Halsey's mother and she often had him go off base either for routine checkups at MEDCOM or to return and deliver packages. He had clearance off base. So he asked who wanted to have a night on the town. John, as well as many of the others said no. But the others in the car right now had jumped on it.

"We have to get some experience dealing with civilians anyway." Linda had said in the dark bunk room.

The lights of New Alexandria popped up suddenly in the distance. They were all stunned as the taxi traveled through the streets. Finally, David stopped the car just outside a structure with a neon sign that said "The Mag"

"This the place you were telling us about?" Kurt said getting out of the backseat."

"Yeah, I've been here before, the bartender is a former Marine Sergeant." David said removing his sunglasses,"Just don't go around screaming your a minor and he's fine with it."

They all walked in to a dark, smoky bar. Two vid screens were on the ceiling broadcasting an American Football game from Earth and a soccer match going on downtown.

Frank saw five people walking up to the bar wearing standard Navy fatigues and stepped up.

"Hey Dave," he gravled, holding out his hand."

"Good to see you again Frank, I brought some business for ya." he said firmly shaking the larger, older man's hand."

"What'll it be?"

"Just some beers to start for them I think...I'll take a whisky." David said taking a seat on one of the spinning bar stools.

The other Spartans followed suit as Frank turned around and filled up 4 glasses of the amber liquid and placed a darker bottle and a small glass next to David.

Dave quickly poured himself two fingers and gulped it down. Kurt quietly took a small sip of beer, found it good, and took another gulp. The other trainees had similar experiences and soon one beer turned into another.

"We have GOT to do this more often!" Fred exclaimed sitting in a booth in the far corner of the bar. They were all on their fourth or fifth "adult beverage" and David had been into 3 and a half more glasses of whisky.

In the background "Fortunate Son" by CCR played quietly. It was a good night.

"Damn, I'm tired." Kelly said as she just flopped down, headfirst into David's lap.

"Another round for you guys?" Frank asked, walking up to their table cleaning a glass with a rag

"No, thank you." David said as he tried to get up, carefully pushing Kelly back into a sitting position. "We need to get back in a couple hours...and I think I'll need to drive slower." he said slowly getting up and stumbling, before catching himself on a table.

The Spartans all sluggishly stood up and began moving towards the taxi, which was still waiting in front of the small bar.

David opened up the passenger side door and slid Kelly inside. The others piled in the back and David started the engine and they slowly drove back to base.

They reached a dirt road and David reset the vehicle, which made it drive off back to it's usual waiting point for a few hours ago. The company would think it was a software slip that took the car offline for a few hours. They walked down the old dirt road and came to a concrete and metal hatch which would lead through drainage and exit a dozen feet from their barracks inside the military compound.

Kurt went first, then Linda, then Fred. Soon it was just David and Kelly standing in the dark.

"I..I'm sorry I fell on you like that at the bar David." Kelly said slightly leaning on him.

"I...would be lying if I said I didn't like it." he smirked. With that, Kelly placed a kiss right on his lips. They held it for a moment in the moonlight then Kelly suddenly broke it.

"We should get back...follow them."

"Right". he held the hatch open as she climbed down the ladder, then he followed her through the darkness. They emerged from the hole and sprinted across the small field and went inside the dark barracks.

David went into his bunk, changed into PT shorts and passed out promptly, with the feeling of Kelly's lips still with him.

The morning hangover still sucked though.
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Yes I KNOW it is a stretch that Spartans would go out drinking, but you know what? They have been training for years of their lives with no break, and are all 15-17, if they were born around 2507. As for the kiss. I have plans, don't worry.

[Edited on 03.27.2011 3:52 PM PDT]

  • 03.24.2011 6:10 PM PDT

The tide is turning, brothers! Let us take our kingdom back!


Posted by: Gottalovec4
As for the kiss. I have plans, don't worry.
Lol, I don't doubt this.

Also, interesting chapter. You chuck these ideas out like there's no tomorrow, it's cool to see.

  • 03.25.2011 2:53 AM PDT

About me: I am a vicious wolf of a man.

But really am sweet at heart. =)

Chapter 5
1135 HOURS 9 MARCH 2525
REACH ONI MEDICAL CENTER.
IN ORBIT AROUND REACH

Dr. Halsey returned from making the rounds around all of the Spartan's medical pods and sat back in Observation Room 1. It was almost harder for her than the subjects that were just starting the long painful process of becoming super soldiers.

She looked back up and opened the second part of the analysis that Admiral Jeromi had sent her.

UNSC Priority Comm
Encryption Code: RED
From: Admiral Ysionris Jeromi, CMO
UNSC Hopeful
to: Dr Catherine Halsey
Subject: Experiment Thesis 2145-B

/Start
Catherine,
Your first project idea was risky enough, but this "Project Odin" is far too stupid to even suggest. I am only doing this because of the close relationship we had. I hope you know I thought of you as a daughter at the academy.
PS How is David by the way? I delivered him, so I think I have a right to know. =)
Best, YJ

At that, Catherine almost turned off the file, ordered a complete stop to all augmentations and wanted to go cry in a corner. She stopped herself at the intercom however and re thought the statistics. The numbers were right, she needed to to this...they needed to do this. She sat down and read the analysis.

WARNING: The following is classified level 3 experimental

1. TITANIUM A CERAMIC OSSIFICATION:
Advanced grafting of Titanium structure on to existing skeleton, including exposed area. This makes bones unbreakable and covers all other exposed areas that the normal human structure can not protect. ex: stomach, spleen, intestines, kidneys.
Risk: Living human could never survive complete covering. Medical death would be required.

2.MUSCULAR ENHANCEMENT AND REPLACEMENT
Protein complex(shown in SII files) injected into certain muscle groups to increase density and decrease recovery time. Other muscle groups interspliced or completely replaced with Titanium weave, making certain groups up to 3 times stronger than organic tissue.
Risk: Muscular dystrophy, death by age 30

3. THYROID AND MECHANICAL IMPLANTS.
Implant in that increases muscle growth and bone density. Areas of body replaced or augmented with electronic and mechanical devices. 1.Mechanical pacemaker.2 A third lung 3. 2nd spleen. 4. Replace one eye with computerized version/
Risk: Death of all original organs. Vegetative state

4. SPINAL CORD RECONSTRUCTION AND ADVANCED INTERWEAVE
Complete replacement of spine and spinal cord with advanced hardware and software. Increase of reflexes by 400%, strength 2x of normal human.
Risk: Impossible procedure to survive. 95% chance of death. 5% chance of living with impossible defects.

Dr Halsey closed the file and took the hardrive out of her laptop. She simply lit it on fire with one of Chief Mendez's lighters and threw it in the trash dump. She walked out of her office solemnly and walked to a very special wing of the medical center. She looked down over the railing and saw David, her son. He had dozens of tubes going into him and a mask over his face.

The mask pumped pure CO2 into his lungs. Soon he would pass out, then he would die. She shuddered at the thought. Then steeled her self. He would die, and everything that had been described in that infernal document would happen to him...

From behind the mask, David looked up to his mother, the monster from his nightmares. If he had the strength he would have screamed.
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So yeah, David isn't gonna be a Spartan, he is going to be something very different indeed.

[Edited on 03.27.2011 3:53 PM PDT]

  • 03.26.2011 5:41 PM PDT

If you can read this, that means I'm not a Shaolin monk...

yet.

Moar?

  • 03.27.2011 11:28 AM PDT

About me: I am a vicious wolf of a man.

But really am sweet at heart. =)

Chapter 6
2600 HOURS MARCH 29 2525
UNSC ONI MEDICAL CENTER
In orbit around Reach

David barely heard a voice on the edge of his psyche. It was telling him to get up. He tried, but his body would not respond. He was vaguely aware of a whiteness around him. He opened his eyes and got a skewed view of everything. His augmented eye was offline.

He was in a plain white room. There were no tubes or IVs going in to him. He wasn't restrained. The observation deck above him was devoid of crewmen, but he could make out a black office chair and a cup of coffee.

Suddenly his internal HUD kicked online. It booted up and began processing data. On the OBJECTIVES tab, it began typing.

>You are awake. Good. You must find a way out and escape. You will have no assistance.

He blinked and it ushered the message away. As David attempted to stand up however he moved so quickly that he tripped as he got up from the bed. Instead of falling he whipped his arms in front of him and caught himself. He held himself in that position as a ripping pain moved up his back and shoulders. His veins felt like they were on fire.

He ignored the pain and pushed himself up. The force sent him 4 feet in the air. He landed on bare feet. As he stepped forward another wave of vertigo washed over him. This was controllable though. A mere side effect. His muscles still burned though.

He reached behind him to massage a shoulder joint and felt a strange, cold substance. If he were anything other than a Spartan he would have screamed, but having his eye removed before, he wasn't phased.

"Just another one of mom's damn experiments."
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Through the camera feed to Observation Room 1 Dr. Halsey heard the mumbling and cringed. She pushed her maternal feelings aside however and continued to watch Odin Test Subject 1 as he walked over to the half meter thick steel door.
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David sized up the door, then looked around the room for something to give him leverage. The bed was a simple frame. He threw it against the door. It simply bounced off and cut his bare foot slightly. He was surprised however, to see a half inch dent in the steel.

Intrigued, he walked forward and pushed on it. He was astounded to hear a series of stress creaks as the door came off it's tracks. He tackled it with all his might and fell through to the other side.

Right into the face of a UNSC Marine with an MA5B. The corporal made a startled cry and fired a burst of TTR rounds at David, who sidestepped them. He turned as he jumped past and swore they were moving half as slow as normal.

He turned back to the Marine and punched the weapon out of his hand. The man cried out in pain and held a shattered limb in his other arm. David was horrified. He simply put the man in a sleeper hold to take him out. He then gave the man a dose of morphine. He took the man's MA5 and looked down at his tattered, blood stained paper gown and decided to lose it.

Two more Marines were shocked to see an apparent cyborg running down the hallway in his skivvies with blood on his hands. They shot with full magazines of stun rounds at David, but he just ignored them like insect stings and punched them both once. They fell down into a heap and he relieved them of their nearly spent magazines.

He rounded another corner and ducked into a security room. Here he found a flak vest, a standard UNSC helmet, steel toed boots, and pants, thankfully. He dropped his MA5B, it felt too light. Instead he grabbed an M6H carbine and two M7s.

He kicked down the door and was greeted by a squad of ODSTs, obviously responding to the noise. He simply sprayed them down with TTR from his M7s as he himself just shrugged off theirs.

He pushed down hallway after hallway, losing track of how many bodies were in his wake. Soon he started seeing Marines with red spots already on them. They were using men he had already "killed" to stop him.

Finally, he reached what he believed to be the final challenge. The bridge. He only dimly realized he had fought his way across an entire UNSC carrier. He opened the door and held his M6B out with one hand. Standing there was a UNSC Navy Captain, and...Dr. Halsey.

"Wonderful test Spartan! The captain said getting from his chairm "Those damn Innies won't know what hit them!"

"The test is concluded for today David." Halsy said adjusting her glasses. "You may return to quarters and rest."

He simply stalked off and dropped his weapons where they were.

Catherine was shocked at that. No emotion, no response, just killing. She hoped they hadn't created a psychopath...
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Back in his room, David walked past the new bed and sat in the corner. Just as he took his weight off his fee he realized what he had done. The man he had broken.

What horrified him was that he was just realizing it.

  • 03.27.2011 4:17 PM PDT

)Noble(

David is, is...IRONMAN!! jk

P.s. love the story keep it up

  • 03.28.2011 12:51 AM PDT

The tide is turning, brothers! Let us take our kingdom back!

You put up two chapters? Both of the days I wasn't on here? You sly dog.

Both were very awesome, what you've done with David sounds crazy. Keep it up, bro!

  • 03.28.2011 1:42 AM PDT

If you can read this, that means I'm not a Shaolin monk...

yet.


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[The chapters] were very awesome, what you've done with David sounds crazy. Keep it up, bro!

  • 03.28.2011 8:04 AM PDT

About me: I am a vicious wolf of a man.

But really am sweet at heart. =)

Just a quick update guys.

From now on consider my updates to be on Wednesdays and Fridays.

Except for this week, however, I am in school from 7 in the morning until 10PM until Saturday. So this Sunday I will write it and the chapter will be up on Monday, when I will get home at 6PM =P

Having track practice and play practice back to back SUCKS!

  • 03.30.2011 9:07 AM PDT
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I can't wait for the rest of the story o-o

  • 04.02.2011 3:19 PM PDT

About me: I am a vicious wolf of a man.

But really am sweet at heart. =)

Chapter 7
September 14 2525
UEG Laden

John surveyed the rest of Blue Team from their upper hiding hole in the water tank on board the Laden. He had to admit, it was a very good hiding place.

The stainless steel tank would block most incoming transmissions and Sam had rigged the fill sensor to only fill the tank partially. John could see the water rippling below him. Yes, it was a good plan...unless the gravity was turned off in the tank, then things could get messy, fast.

John sensed someone looking at him and turned to find himself face to face with David.

He had taken him on this mission because he knew if the situation went SNAFU he would be in full combat mode. He had seen the security footage of his training exercise and knew he had huge amounts of endurance. He just hoped he would be cool in a real combat senario.

They docked with the station, Kelly and Linda marked the container with Watts's supplies and they followed it to the apartment complex.

Kelly went ahead and walked past the two guards at the door. She grabbed a wrist and threw the first man in. Sam was on the other man and dragged him in and gave him a swift kick to the temple.

The team took the stairs and emerged into an office where two uniformed guards and a man waiting to be helped were standing. David had his MA2 up immediately and got two of the three men before John even had his rifle up. So far so good.

They needed a way to get to the next floor that wasn't so obvious though. They walked over to the elevators and John pried them open. They started to climb the cables. As they were they heard a shaking, then the cable started to vibrate. They were two floors from the penthouse. They would be crushed it it kept going.

John looked over and saw David clasp on to the metal braces and push down. The elevator kept going up, then stopped as he pushed down with all his might on the car. A muffled curse could be heard from it as the man could not reach his destination on the top floor.

David gave a silent nod and they kept climbing. They took out half a dozen guards in the top floor and then reached a thick wooden door. No thermals were coming form inside, it was shielded.

John just stepped back and kicked the door in. His "spartan time" kicked in and he saw two guards along with a uniformed man with greying hair. The Colonel. He took one shot at the man to the right, then John felt a searing pain go through his chest, he dove to the right, behind the wet bar and laid there, he willed the pain to go away and raised to a crouch, ready to fire over Watts's head.

But suddenly David was in his line of fire. He vaulted the safe, sacked the head of the other guard, breaking his neck with a loud crack. Then pounced on Watts and began delivering a brutal barrage of fists to the man's chest had head. John let out a yell and Sam and Fred entered and managed to pull the large man off their target.

His face was a mess, with just a dozen or so punches David had nearly crushed the man's ribs and his face was swolen and bloody, his left eye was nearly out of it's socket.

Kelly ran forward and saw the damage, she looked sick behind her visor and gave David a wide berth and she administered first aid to John. David merely looked down at his crimson stained gloves. Sam and Fred put Watts in the crate after they had given him some morphine for the pain, and to knock him out.

By now a racket had started outside the building and a dozen vehicles were lined up outside. They repelled down and made it to the Pelican with no incident.Sam blew the doors and John had to close his eyes as he watched civilians get sucked into space. David still sat completely silent , but John could see his muscles heaving under his body suit.



UNSC OSC Training Facilities Reach
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They made it to the ONI Prowler and docked. Medics carried him on a medical cart to the infirmary and operated on him to remove the bullet. The gas hit him almost instantly and he fell into a deep sleep while it was underway. He guessed he was out for almost a day when suddenly David appeared beside his bunk in their quarters.

"Sir...I-"

"Save it, you disobeyed a direct order." John said pushing himself up.

"You were in danger, it was for the mission!" David said seething.

"No! You BEAT a man like an animal! You are NO Spartan!" John said standing up.

"You're right! I'm not! I'm BETTER than you! You got shot trying to take three guys! I've earned my keep you worthless pie-"

He was interrupted by John's fist hitting his chin in an uppercut strike. David nearly lost his footing and fell on the floor in a heap.

"Don't you get it! You are an experiment! NOT part of my team! You are NOTHING!" John's words even stung himself, but somethingneeded to be done.

With that John started to walk away only to be hit by a freight train.

David was on him in microseconds, pummeling him with more force than Watts had received. John kicked him off and wiped the blood out of his eyes. John tried to tackle him into a bunk but David sidestepped and smashed his head into the concrete wall, and continued to do so. John pushed against David's back and managed to reverse the move on David, but he recovered and kicked John back into the center hallway.

John needed a plan, and fast, he couldn't beat him with brute strength alone. He grabbed a piece of his bunk and pulled with his biceps, the steel pipe came free with a groan and the bunk colapsed. John made a vicious swing at David's head and it connected as he tried to get out of the way. David went sprawling down and John went on top of him and began choking him.

David made brutal strikes at John's ribs and managed to make a cracking noise that reverberated across the room. John fell backwards in pain, and David started slowly up.

He turned to leave, but was stopped by a squad of UNSC Marines and Chief Mendez standing in the doorway. Suddenly David was racked with a searing pain and 8 tazer wires dug their way into his chest. He fell to the ground and passed out.
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Meow, cat fight...or dog fight...what ever.

[Edited on 04.05.2011 5:23 AM PDT]

  • 04.03.2011 9:47 AM PDT
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I'm still interested to see the romance of things between David and Kelly v-v

But overall, its pretty good :D

  • 04.03.2011 2:42 PM PDT

The tide is turning, brothers! Let us take our kingdom back!

Oh dude, you got a top topic! Rightly earned. Awesome chapter, man.

  • 04.03.2011 8:54 PM PDT

About me: I am a vicious wolf of a man.

But really am sweet at heart. =)

Chapter 8
September 21 2525
ONI Medical Facility Gamma
Reach Orbit

David woke up to find himself chained to a standard medical bed. There were four 3 inch thick Titanium A bands around each arm, a brace across his chest, and 5 braces across each leg. His neck was also held down by a thick leather collar.

Nevertheless, he struggles against the restraints until he heard a voice over the speaker in the corner.

"Sir, don't try to struggle, someone will be inside shortly."

David said nothing in return and simply laid still. There was no use in wasting energy.

He laid there for an hour until he heard the door open across the room. He could not look to see who it was. Eventually a greying UNSC Army Colonel loomed over him.

"Good morning, it's nice to see our cyborg is up and running." he said chuckling softly.

"Where am I." David said struggling to sit up, "How did I get here?"

The Colonel pressed a button on the nightstand next to the bed and it raised to a sitting position.

"You mean you don't remember nearly killing Trainee 117?"

The realization hit David like a MAC round...He DID remember...but was shocked that he couldn't even remember what the argument was about.

"Damnit...is he?" The question hung in the air.

"If you mean the freak is dead, then, no. He is fine, a major concussion and a broken 'unbreakable' bone, which I must commend you on. But other than that he is fine."

David was ashamed, but didn't let the Colonel see it. He simply didn't trust this Army officer, and he had heard moth- Dr Halsey talk about a Colonel Ackerson in a bad way as well.

"Well, sir what is to become of me?"

"Well, it is a good thing you asked." the older man said sitting on the edge of the bed. "ONI wanted to call clean slate on Project Odin, but I figured we could use you.

He then pushed a button on the wall, and all of David's restraints retreated in to the edges of the bed.

"You are a tank on the battlefield, mostly due to the neurogenic drugs that were given to you while in post operation state. It effectively shuts down your higher brain functions while in combat. Very useful, yet dangerous. We can counter that with frequent doses of counter doses."

"But this," he continued. "Is what we want you for." He dropped a large vanilla folder in front of David, who began scanning it quickly.

David read the six page document in fifteen seconds and threw it on the nightstand.

"Studies and Observation Group? For a black operations team it sounds kinda kiddie." David remarked about the contents of the folder.

"Laugh all you want, these men are the best operators in the Marine Corps, Navy, and Army. There is nobody better. They even rival Dr. Halsey's toy soldiers."

"That is another thing. My "mother" won't be too happy that I simply vanished into Beta 5."

"We have already thought of that, Section 3 has faked your death this morning."

Dead. The word had no meaning to David. He had already died twice, this was just a new life.

"We've got a deal then, when do I ship out.?" David said standing up at his full height of 6 feet 6 inches.

"Tomorrow, you will fly out on to the prowler Phantom's Whisper and will link up with another ship who's nature I can't disclose here."

Ackerson held out his hand and David gave it a gentle shake.

"Hard to believe a giant could be so gentle" Ackerson thought.
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Catherine sat simply staring at her computer terminal in her lab. David was dead. A suicide. So much work wasted, and not even a body to salvage. All at Ackerson's doing.

She cursed and violently swiped a coffee cup off her desk.

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  • 04.04.2011 7:49 PM PDT

)Noble(

I feel sorry for david being used as a guiny pig.

  • 04.05.2011 11:31 PM PDT

About me: I am a vicious wolf of a man.

But really am sweet at heart. =)

Chapter 9
January 1 2526
UNSC Military Embarking Dock, New Alexandria
Reach

John sat on a small cargo container and awaited with the rest of the Spartans to embark on the next troop transport to Harvest. They were going straight into the heat. John shivered under his black standard ONI fatigues. They did little to keep out the winter chill and John wished they were in their MJOLNIR armor, but ONI had said under no circumstances were unauthorized personell allowed to see the armor. The UNSC didn't want the Innies to see their behemoths just yet.

The Spartans were spread out across the 10 football field wide space. Dozens of Pelican and Albatross landing craft were securing men, weapons, ammunition, and vehicles to the large armada waiting to take it all to the distant outer colony.

Just a few yards away from him an M808B Scorpion was airlifted by a Pelican, it struggled to get airborne and barely made it over the 4 story high wall before beginning a steep climb to break atmosphere.
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Kelly was astounded by the sheer amount of material being moved. The space was electrified with activity. The night sky overhead was drowned out by dozens of huge stadium lights casting huge shadows over everything.
Suddenly, from a shadow behind a row of crates, an arm grabbed her and dragged her into the shadow of a three meter high crate.

"Olly Olly Oxen Free." David said as he pulled her into a tight embrace.

"David..."she said shakily, "Your alive!"

"Yes, I am" he pulled away but still firmly held her shoulders. "It was an ONI cover up."

"But why? Why come back?" "We...I... thought you were gone. John blames himself for what happened."

David let go of her and leaned against the crate. "I know, but I'm going to do more good where I'll be than with the Spartans. with ONI I know I can make a bigger difference."

"Well fine then!" Kelly said shoving him. "Just abandon your friends, the ones you love! Have a nice life!" She turned to walk away.

"Wait!" he said grabbing her arm. "You said love."

"I did..." she turned to face him.

"Who loves me?" he said getting closer.

"We...I do. Damn it!."

They came together in a deep kiss, memories of the time they snuck off base came back and the kiss deepened. Damn Kelly was confused right now. Emotions rippled through her. She shouldn't be feeling this. She knew the thyroid implant didn't hadn't worked. Her hormones were still intact.

After a few moments they finally broke apart.

David put his hand on her cheek, "I've been thinking of you, non stop, for months. I love you Kelly."

Those words hurt her to the core. "Can we do this? They think your dead. I'm going to Harvest."

"We'll make it work. I promise, tell John for me will you? In private. Watch out where you do, make sure a spook isn't near. They don't even know I'm gone."

"Alright, I will." she didn't notice a tear dripping down her face. David wiped it away with his thumb.

"You'll be back before you know it, and being an operator has it's perks. I'll try getting a secure vidpad so we can talk."

He looked down at his watch and saw the time.

"Sorry, I have an hour to get back to base and catch the next military flight out."

"Goodbye...I love you David." Kelly said, sadness apparent in her voice.

"Kelly, you have made me the happiest man in the universe tonight." With that he walked down the metal stairs to the lower levels and tram stations.

Kelly was happy, she had someone to care about. So why did she feel so alone?
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Hiyooo! You are welcome.

Told you I was gonna do something with the romance. =) Well, David and Kelly are both shipping out. Soon we will get to see David in real combat.

  • 04.06.2011 7:33 PM PDT

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