Red vs. Blue
The Freelancer Wars.
Episode One, Intro.
In the dark hallways of a jail in Houston Texas four years after the Director was arrested the Chairmen made his way through the hallways guided by two male security guards in MarkVI armor. They three reached a slightly wet jail cell where the Director(A.K.A. Leonard Church) was sitting on his bed reading, "Hello." The Chairmen stated and Leonard looked up at him from his book, "What do you want Harry?"
"To bring you some news you'll be pleased to find out." Leonard raised an eye brow to signal a continue, "We found Texas. She was hiding out as a hologram in Valhalla." He stood up and walked to the bars and grabbed them, "Good. I have to request a visit from her." The Chairmen shook his head, "That won't be happening Leonard." He frowned at him, "Now why's that Harry?" He snicker, "She's very displeased and refused to follow us here LEONARD, plus she's severely damaged."
"Repair her. Its important she stays safe and well kept." Leonard said with meaning and the Chairmen(Harry) signaled the guards to leave and they walked out, "you need to forget her Leonard. She passed long ago and you need to get over it." Leonard frowned heavily at the Chairmen, "You don't understand this, do you Harry?" Harry scoffed and snickered, "You're the one that doesn't understand. Your love died and we get that you still miss Allison, Leonard, but its been more then eight years and its time to let go or get some help." Leonard back away from the bars, "Allison is an important part of the Project." Harry raised an eyebrow, "Important? How?"
"She was the only A.I. fragment to be able to take a human form like the Alpha and I still want to no why." the Chairmen nodded, "I see. I'll do my best Leonard, but I hate doing favors for you." The Director looked at him with his eyes narrowed, "Be careful. She's dangerous. Not that I care if you die or live." Harry narrowed his and focused on Leonard, "I'm only taking her because she's great evidence to finally convict you." Leonard walked back over to his bed and laid back down grabbing his book and looking into it hiding his face and peeked over it, "I see your intentions Harry. Good luck on convincing her to be your evidence." The Chairmen laughed loudly at his comment, "She won't have a choice dear Director. If we have to take her kicking and screaming we will."
"Like I said before, good luck." Leonard added bitterly and Harry walked out to the guards and motioned them to go back to his cell and they did.
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Tex peeked around the corner of a rock formation in Valhalla and saw Caboose sitting on the Blue base doing a puzzle with his tongue hanging out as he tried to put it together. Then she looked over at Red base where the Orange one(Grif) and the Redish one(Simmons) were talking as usual while Sarge talked with Lopez by the warthog and Donut was nowhere in site. Seems clear. Tex thought and whispered quietly to herself as she started to move into a possible view when she heard someone from behind her, "Welcome back." Tex turned around to see someone in Black armor with a secondary of Cyan with the regular MarkVI armor, "Its been quite awhile." She looked at the clad armored soldier in confusion, "You don't recognize me Tex?" The soldier asked and she shrugged, "Nothing? Its me Tucker." Tex's mouth just about dropped to the floor at the site of Tucker wearing special ops armor, "But your wearing special ops armor." Tucker snickered bitterly, "I'm a Freelancer now, what do you think?" He spun in a circle to show it off and Tex frowned, "Why would Command train YOU to be a Freelancer?"
"I expected nothing less then this reaction. Why the hell are you here Tex?" he asked bitterly and frowning under his helmet, "Not happy to see me Tucker?" He laughed quietly and shook his armored head, "Should I be? You mean after all this time you have came back to apologize for murdering my kid, Stealing the Blue team's ship, stealing my sword, hurting Church's feelings, betraying the team, and taking our smart tank?" She lowered her head slightly in shame and as he finished, "I'm not here to take more from you Tucker." He laughed again slightly, "Then what are you here for? Church is gone, Caboose is an idiot, I would much rather die a cruel gruesome death then help you, Sister isn't here, and we have no idea where Omega is. You have no reason to be here." Tex frowned, "What happen to Church?" He shook his head, "Church got destroyed by an EMP launch sent off by Agent Washington. He was the Alpha A.I., but I'm sure you already knew that." Tex shook her holographic head, "No, I didn't actually."
"You didn't? I'm strangely surprised. Ghosts aren't real." She narrowed her eyes, "But I'm a ghost." Tucker laughed, "You're an A.I. like Church. Which one or what exactly you are I'm not sure, but what I do know is that your not welcome back at Blue base. So if that's why you're here, go fuck yourself." Tucker said walking back to Blue base and Tex watched him, "I'll do this myself then." He didn't turn around or stop, "Good luck. By the way, the Chairmen of The Over Sites Subcommittee has sent out a message telling all Freelancers to catch you and take you in as evidence to convict the Director guilty of the acts committed doing the duration of Project Freelancer. Orders are you catch you at all costs, even deactivating you." She looked at him slightly puzzled then ran over, "And what if they do find him guilty and they caught me?"
"You'll be destroyed like you should have been years ago." Tex stopped and he walked back to base.
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Mean while on a very wet, rainy, heavily abandoned planet only known as Lunar 834. The planet was mostly a rain forest and was pretty much empty minus a few camps of rebel cov. That refused to join the separatists, but somewhere something went horribly wrong for a soldier clad in Cobalt armor lingering under a willow tree that drooped sadly, What the hell do I do now? The soldier thought as he looked and listened carefully hoping to avoid being ambushed by another tribe of cov. After a couple minutes of sitting motionless he stood up and started looking around nervously as he raised his sniper rifle and started wondering around, Careful. He walked slowly and stealth fully when he turned around quickly and fired when he heard something or someone moving in a bush behind him, a small Blue and Cyan armored elite walked out uninjured, "Blarg honk!!" The clad soldier fixed their gun on the aliens head, "Before I kill you I'd like to know if you have any idea how to get off this planet and if you've seen any HUMANS."
"Blargy blarg!!" He lowered his weapon and ripped off his helmet, "Jr.?" Jr. jumped up at the sound of his name, "Blarg!" The man smiled slightly as his Black messy, wet hair hung in his face, "Have you seen Tex?" Jr. slanted his head and shrugged as the soldier sighed in disappointment, "I figured. If you see her let her know Church is looking for her." Church started to walk away carrying his helmet at his side and Jr. started following him, but Church stopped, "Sorry, but you can't come with me." Jr. didn't seem to understand him and only jumped excitedly, "Honky blarg!" Jr. started running in a direction behind Church and pointed as if to ask him to follow, "Blarg!" Church sighed pointlessly, "I need to get off this planet Jr.." Jr. only continued to run and Church blew his hair off his forehead and started following, "I'm only following you because I have no idea where I am and it couldn't hurt to follow you." Jr. continued walking as Church latched on his helmet while following.
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The Director sat patently on the edge of his bed in the jail cell when a guard walked up to the bars, "You have a phone call." Leonard raised his eyebrow and grabbed the phone placed on the wall of his cell, "Hello?" He asked confused.
"Hello Leonard." The Chairmen's voice chimed in on the line and the Director sighed, "Your calling to brag about catching your only piece of evidence, correct?" Harry only laughed, "Not yet dear Director. I've called to inform you we know that you lied once more." Leonard raised an eyebrow again, "Oh really?"
"Yes. You told us that the Alpha A.I. was destroyed when Agent Washington launched the EMP. And we found a file of a ship leaving three years ago to drop the A.I. off on the planet Lunar 834." Leonard sighed, "That. Let me have you know you must study the file more carefully dear Chairmen. It says on page four that it was only a pile of scrap metal we dropped as we did for must of our scrap metal." The Chairmen scoffed, "I will. And you know what else I'll do Leonard?"
"What's that Chairmen?" He laughed, "Scourer the planet just to be sure your telling the truth. Goodbye Director." Harry hung up and Leonard clinched his teeth and tightened his grip on the phone and forcefully hung it on the wall once more.
End Episode One.