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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]