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Subject: Memoirs of a SPARTAN: Thomas-1055

This is not my story. I am simply putting it up for a friend, and in my opinion its great. The first 5 chapters were horribly written, as he says, that they are too short and lack detail in everyway. Ive read them, and all they do is set you up for these chapters, 6-10. Thank you, and I hope you enjoy.

  • 11.03.2011 11:51 PM PDT

[Chapter 6]

***Months have passed since the XB and Brianna incident. But I recieved a mission that didnt seem as dangerous as it really was. Hardly did I know, it was going to be my last mission, in the flesh.***

*I jump off the pelican gripping my BR, I look back to the pilot, to whom I just met. I give him a thumbs up, he does the same and he takes off. There I am, alone, in the middle of a jungle of a barren planet*

*I activated my camo and started running through the forest dodging wild vines and trees*

***I was told this was a Insurgence mission, it was, but it was underestimated. This was a mission for a 10 SPARTAN team, not 1.*

*My thermals picked up a large heated area, it could be their base. I got behind a tree and enhanced my active camo. I cocked my BR and turned around the tree*

*I aimed down my BR at a giant smoldering crater. Something happened here... I lowered my weapon, and dehanced my Camo to save energy. I started to move again*

  • 11.03.2011 11:52 PM PDT

[Chapter 7]

***Its been a 13 hours, of me running through the forest. No enemies yet. But I have been thinking.... this should be my last mission. I should retire afterwards. I know SPARTANS dont retire, but still. Something to look forward to.***


*My radar picks up a base, finally. I activate my Camo and moved towards it. It was a small fortress, but alot of guards. It might have a underground. I took out the visible guards with simple well aimed silenced shots. Using my speed, I caught all of them before they hit the ground. I jumped over the wall and enhanced my camo, Im now in the spot lights and the rebels didnt even know it. I moved quickly and quietly.*

***The goal was to deactivate their scavenged Nova Bomb, kill their general, and call for reinforcements via beacon. Simple enough***

*A EMP went off, disabling my suit and camo. All rebels started yelling and pointing their guns at me. I couldnt move. A man in a suit came up to me with a private army behind. He looked me over.*

Man: Ah... Thomas... what a surprise.

Who are you?And how do you know my name?

Man: My apologies... I am General Zaroff. I know you because I assisted
Halsey in the SPARTAN project. What are you doing in my base?

....

Zaroff: Very well. Bring him to the war room.

[Edited on 11.03.2011 11:54 PM PDT]

  • 11.03.2011 11:53 PM PDT

[Chapter 8]

*I woke up*

***It has been 4 days. Zaroff has been torturing me the entire time, my suit has been taken away, most likely destroyed. Usually my augmentations would help me heal faster, even withstand the pain, but no. He's tortured SPARTANS before. I could barely stay awake... the bastards drugged me.... how dare they...***

|*I stand on the shores of Reach, the icy waters of the ocean lapping at my feet. I look to my side to see Leanne. She seemed to be saying something, but I didn't understand her until now*

Leanne: .... so thats the date. Will you be ready?

Im not sure.

Leanne: How?

Um, er, could you repeat the question?

*Leanne giggles, and her long blonde hair moves, revealing a long incision scar along her neck. She looks at me with her big blue eyes*

Leanne: Your so cute when your clueless.

Hmmm.... thanks.

*I look out to sea, and see the ocean creatures jumping in and out of the water. I look back to Leanne, who's now kneeling down, holding sand in her hand*

Leanne: I know you might leave soon... Ill miss you.

We've only been speaking as friends for 3 weeks Lee. You shouldn't miss me that much.

Leanne: Its not that- |

*I feel a sharp pain and I wake up. I look up and see Zaroff standing over me*

Zaroff: There he is... you ready to talk now?

*I stay silent, and Zaroff frowns*

Zaroff: You've been here for four days and you haven't said a word! Ill make you talk! I know you can! Ive heard you talk in your sleep!

*I suddenly realize he's been holding a handsaw this entire time. He throws it down like a hatchet to my leg, and I scream in agony.*

AAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Zaroff: Speak now SPARTAN!!!!

*I shake my head no, tears rolling down my cheeks*

Zaroff: Stubborn bastard!

*He grabs a screw driver and stabs it into my gut*

*It knocks the wind out of me and I look at the wound, the driver still there. And the saw as well. It seems the saw didn't go that far in my shin. thankfully the augmentations kept my bones strong. But they won't hold later on.*

Zaroff: SPEAK!

-blam!- you!

*He grabs the whole tray holding all the needles, and he smacks it against my head, knocking me out*

|*I stand on the beach again, my ass in the sand. Leanne has her head on my shoulder, sitting down next to me*

Leanne: Its not that Ill miss you as a friend, Ill miss you because I love you.

You may never see me again.

Leanne: But It doesn't matter. Ill always love you, always.

Don't let it interfere with your real purpose.

Leanne: Is it always about work when It comes to you?

Work? Being a SPARTAN is my life. It should be yours too.

Leanne: Why are you being so mean?

Im not. Im being honest.

Leanne: Well,- |

***I wake up again. Its been 3 weeks of nonstop torture everyday. No help, no reinforcements, nothing. Im as skinny as a ethiopian, and my body is mutilated. My eyes are sunken in. It seems I woke up on my own this time, not by excruciating pain. I can't even lift my own head up. Whats wrong with me? Is this what dying feels like? I had all the time to think, for I was paralyzed from the neck down. Only thing now I can do is stay alive. I have no there choice. I know for a fact my team won't leave me here. Or will they? I have no way to be sure...***

[Edited on 11.03.2011 11:57 PM PDT]

  • 11.03.2011 11:55 PM PDT

[Chapter 9]

***I woke up, once more. It was one of those rare times where I woke up on my own. Zaroff has made me so weak that I don't require meds to keep me paralyzed. I am paralyzed. I have tried to take advantage of it, but Zaroff is smarter than he looks. I keep having bad dreams... about other missions. Only dreams that aren't evil are the ones with Leanne. I smiled at the thought of her.***

***But that immediately brought me back to reality, for I felt my face move. everything went in sight, for I truly woke. I felt the blood, my blood, dried all over my face. The tip of my nose was cut off, and i couldn't feel anything below my neck. I tried to close my eyes, to fall asleep again. I couldn't close my eyes. I couldn't close my eyes. Why couldn't I close my eyes? WHY COULDNT I -blam!- CLOSE MY EYES!?!? No.... my eye lids.... the sick -blam!-s cut them off.... then It all came back to me, the memory. Why they were cut off....***

| Zaroff: I know you know the defense system for Reach by heart! Give it up! NOW!

*I looked at Zaroff, too weak to speak*

Zaroff: Thats it, off they go!

*He took tweezers and grabbed my right eyelid, he pulled hard. They ripped off, and I felt part of my right eye dislodge. I tried to scream, but I was too weak.*

Zaroff: The other one is coming off if you don't tell me!

*I give up, I thought. I tried to speak to him but.... I couldn't. I was too weak. The bastard has been slowly killing me to the point when there is no point anymore. Oh, how I regretted not letting up earlier*

Zaroff: *sigh* I don't know how you live with this pain. You should've given up by now. But no matter.

*He placed one half of the tweezer next to my eye, under the lid. He squeezed the tweezers and pulled. It ripped off, and I felt part of my brow go with it* |

***God.... why? How could this happen.... this is not what a SPARTAN DOES! I will NOT go down without a fight..... And I will use every last bit of my strength if I had to.***

*I raised my head, using most of my strength, and I lifted my body along with it. Oh how it drained me to just move. I saw that it was dark, everybody must be sleeping. Then I saw my largest challenge. I was strapped down, the wrists and ankles. *

*I had to do it. I had no choice. I pulled as hard as I could with my right arm. The pain.... so great ... it woke me up. The first strap broke, good. I used my hand, the first time in weeks, and unstrapped myself. I got off the bed and I immediately hit the ground, for I haven't stood in weeks either.*

***I stood, feeling wobbly. I started walked, using ever bit of concentration I could. I saw a saw on the table, and I instinctually reached for it. I tried to hold it with my left, but couldn't. I looked down and noticed that my fingers have been burnt off. How? And why? I held in in my right, and I used my remaining left palm to support my self along the wall. I walked to the door, and opened it.***

***I walked out into the bright hall, no body there. It seemed endless, and my feet were getting tired. I saw a corner from a door, and a woman walked out of the door. I could tell if she was a nurse or a officer, but either way, once she looked up from her clipboard and saw a sick, deformed, mutilated, thin, tall me towering over her with a saw in my hand. She screamed, and out of instinct, I raised the saw and struck it down upon her. After realizing what I have done, I looked down to see her right shoulder completely spit in half, blood was everywhere. Then when I looked at her face, she had blonde hair and blue eyes. I saw Leanne . I was horrified at what I had done. I looked again and saw it was not Leanne, for sure. I just killed at possibly innocent woman. I reached down and took the saw from her shoulder, and kept on walking. Don't let this take you down Thomas. You got work to do. ***

*I arrived in a big but empty room, and I crept behind a guard, and I placed the saw at his throat and covered his mouth.*

Where is Zaroff? *The words came out like a buzz saw to a chalkboard. I was raspy*

*I slightly took my hand from his mouth*

Guard: He's left... back to the fleet. Who is this?

Nobody you know.

*I slit his throat with the saw, and as he spewed blood everywhere, I kept sluggishly walking. I went down some stairs, and I saw the word Armory, and a arrow pointing down a hall. I started walking towards there.*


*I arrived at the armory, and I saw what I came for at first, why I was on this rock. A Nova Bomb. The Alarms started blaring, and I heard yells in the distance. I grabbed a nearby magnum and dropped the saw, and I kept on walking towards the bomb. I sat next to it, next to its console, waiting for the guards to come*

|*I stared at Leanne, while she looked out to sea. She looked back at me, obviously a tad upset.*

Leanne: Well, you can have fun not seeing me ever again.

*She pouted, got up, and she started walking away. I grabbed her dress and she looked back at me*

Im so sorry... I always loved you. I always will. I just don't know how to express myself.

*she smiled and sat next to me again. I noticed the tide was getting higher, because we were sitting in water normal people would've freezer in, but we shrugged it off.*

Leanne: Me either Tommy... I was raised the same way you were.

Hmm.

Leanne: I love you. So, so much.

I love you too. Im so sorry if I neglected you all these years... I just had to focus on my job.

Leanne: Its alright!

No its not. I should've spent more time with you. But now Im here, in this base, within a inch of dying from starvation/bloodloss/trauma.

*Leanne smiles*

Leanne: Thomas. Every single moment Ive ever spent with you was the best of my life. ever. I regret nothing.


*I smile, and wipe the sand from my hair*

Thank you....

*I get up and start walking towards the sea in my clothes. Its too cold, even for me, but I keep going.*

I love you! And Ill miss you! Forever!

*Leanne looks after me and smiles*

Leanne: Forever! |

*I wake up, next to the Nova Bomb. I look ahead and see 7 Innie soldiers pointing their DMRS a me*

Innie: Put down the gun SPARTAN!!! SURRENDER!!!

*I give them a half smile, and I look to my right. I see the console. I straighten myself and start typing into the bomb*

Innie: Stop what your doing or we'll shoot!

*I press the final command button. a AIs voice starts to speak through the console*

Bomb: 10 seconds until activation. 9...

*The Innies get wide eyed and start running, all but 3. I hear Leannes voice in my head*

Bomb: 8.... 7...

Leanne: Ill love you forever... I want you to know that.

*I smile*

Forever...

Bomb: 6... 5...

Leanne: It was an enjoyable ride Thomas. Ill miss you.... goodbye my lover...

Bomb: 4... 3...

Innie: DEACTIVATE THE BOMB NOW!

Forever....

Innie: Huh?

Bomb: 2...

*I look up and raise my gun. I smile as if Ive never been happier*

FOREVER!!!

*I shoot 2 times into the innie, and the recoil breaks my arm, and shatters my shoulder. The other two innies shoot at me and I feel the bullets hit my chest, and my limbs*

Bomb: 1.

*And then, everything went black*

[Edited on 11.03.2011 11:59 PM PDT]

  • 11.03.2011 11:55 PM PDT

[Chapter 10]

***A UNSC pelican lands in a crater of a barren planet. Its completely destroyed, but there are metal remnants of a base in the very center. broken trees are everywhere. This crater has been here for 2 days. 4 SPARTANS get out of the pelican, the pelican takes off. They raises their rifles, but not by much, because they know everything there is dead. They arrive at the site. They see half destroyed weapons, bars, stairs, everything. They start seeing burnt bodies, everywhere. Makes sense, considering the Nova bomb burned everything.***

***One Spartan jumps down a hole, the center of the crater. Its a large hole, the SPARTAN thought. She went to the middle of the hole, and started digging. She found a peice of the bomb, it showed the letters Nov on it, it was obvious it was Nova, considering the a was on the missing piece of the metal piece. This is rare she thought. The bomb would've destroyed its exterior completely. Perhaps the bomb was bust. The bomb was salvaged after all, taken from the dumps of the UNSC. The Innies tried to fix it she guessed, but didn't fix it the way it was supposed to be. For some reason she kept on digging, thinking she might find a piece of the bomb, the console it held.***

*** But she hit something soft instead. She kept digging and found it was a mutilated body, it skin badly burnt. All of his limbs but his left arm, and his head. He was a complete mess. But she saw a part of the skin that wasn't burnt as bad.... she stared at it, through all the smog and radiated smoke the bomb left behind. She eventually saw it, for it was tattooed to his arm. It read, or, what remained, 055. She knew this number.... this was the number of a SPARTAN. And that SPARTAN was Thomas-1055.***

***She carried Thomas's remaining body up and out of there hole, away from the radiation. Once they all gathered, and waited for the pelican from outside the crater, she took her helmet off and stared at his body***

Leanne: I found you...
________

*I wake up*

*I find my self in a holographic room. I feel weird though... Like I have no needs, like hunger, sleep, energy... I felt invincible, but restricted. I got up and walked over to a console, and my entire world disappeared. It was happening to fast... I felt weightless. Inhuman. My view was weird, it was like i am looking through as security camera. Wait... I see numbers on the sides, a red dot... Am i a goddamn security camera? This is too confusing I thought. I decided to focus on what the camera is looking at. Its a woman, in a SPARTAN suit, holding her helmet. Looking a the camera. It was Leanne. It had to be another dream.*

Leanne?

*I heard my voice through speakers... It was like I was speaking through a mic and it was going to the other room.. but I couldn't hear myself.*

Leanne: Its about time you woke up Thomas...

Where am I Lee? Is this another dream? This is weird... I can hear myself talk, only through the speakers... I can only see through the camera.

Leanne: Uh.... Thomas.... I hate to say this.... but you died.

What?

*I try to look around the room, and the camera bended to my will.*

Leanne: Your a AI now.... We turned you into one.

*An AI? How... what? I tried to wrap my head around it. Then my mind opened up. I saw files, little bits of information everywhere*

Ho- How? This makes no sense..... You said I died.

Leanne: You did... according to your memory, which I saw, every official working on you did, you set of the nova bomb you were supposed to deactivate. It killed everybody within a 5 mile radius of the base. But for some odd reason... your heart kept on beating... and your brain was active. Excavators did their research. Turns out the side you were leaning on on the bomb, that part of the bomb was disabled, and heavily reinforced. When It blew, the reinforced piece covered you from the full blast. but it took off your legs, and your right arm, and many other..... significant and insignificant body parts. you were destroyed, all but your heart. We took you in, and After a few months, we turned you into a AI through one of our secret programs.

I... I don't know what to say... Im a robot now?

Leanne: Yes.

I.... what do I do now?

Leanne: Follow orders from our superiors.... Human turned AI never go rampant unless their programming is altered or they are desynchronized. You are immortal now, Thomas.

No.... No... I wanted to retire after that mission.... I wanted to be normal.... Now I'm stuck..... doing chores for the rest of time? Until I desynchronize?

*A tear rolls down Leannes cheek*

Leanne: Yes..... Im so sorry Thomas.... they wanted to turn you.... because you had such a great mind.

*As she speaks, my super fast thoughts teach me how to be a AI. Ive already got the feel for it.*

.... I don't know what to say Leanne... we haven't even seen each other for years.

Leanne: But you never forgot about me.

I- wait.... How would you know?

Leanne: Because.... on your memory, of your final moments.... your flashbacks and dreams came with it too.

....

*Leanne smiles, and turns around for the door*

Wait! Wha... What do I do now? For reals?

*She looks back to me*

Stay strong Thomas. And remember Thomas...

*She puts her hands together, and she makes a heart out of it*

Leanne: Forever.

*She turns around and walks out the door. I watch her via video cameras as she walks down the hall, to the hanger. She gets in a pelican and it takes off, off into space, to return to her post. I haven't seen her since.*

***I return to my AI core, which is in the room she just was in. When Im in my core, Im in the holographic room, and I have some sort of figure. I wear a tuxedo, and I have only one scar, and its on my right cheek. I lay down on the seemingly coded bed, and I stare at the coding of the ceiling. I shut down all the systems and intel bridges to my core, to shut out all the voices and information. I just wanted quiet. As I layer there, I took out a ring from my pocket. Its the same ring, I bought long ago, before I was in the Generals squad, from when I was in Leanne's team. I was going to propose, and we were going to run away, away from the camp. But I never got to propose.***

*I toyed with it, flipping it with my fingers, turning it. I smiled to myself*

Forever...

[The End]

  • 11.03.2011 11:56 PM PDT

It might be a good idea to have the traditional speech marks and all, since what you're doing might be a bit confusing.

And a tip, since you didn't post the first few chapters, maybe give a brief summary of the beginning?

  • 11.04.2011 12:04 AM PDT

The beginning wont make sense unless you are part of one of our groups. Its a short story involving one of our characters, on how he became a AI. the first 5 chapters will only make sense if you know what has happened in the group.

  • 11.04.2011 12:09 AM PDT

i think is brilliant!!! good job to your freind
can't belive what happend to Thomas

[Edited on 11.04.2011 12:57 AM PDT]

  • 11.04.2011 12:56 AM PDT

Thank you

  • 11.04.2011 1:32 AM PDT
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like the story

  • 11.08.2011 10:50 PM PDT