A/N: Here is another fic I was working on that some friends requested that I put up, so here it is my Halo and Code Geass crossover fic. Although I did produce three chapters and one still in progress, but I had difficulties continuing trying to decide how to proceed so I am going to post this story and with the other completed chapters one at a time and see what kind of feedback and suggestions I get back.
So please enjoy and tell me what you think?
Chapter 1
Project Freelancer
(November 10th 2015 A.T.B/2531 A.D)
Within the dark corridors of a hidden complex located on a world different from the one the men inhabiting it grew up in a pair of men in the company of one woman were seated in an observation room watching a very advance, but yet highly delicate augmentation procedure where a highly trained group of specialized scientist composed primary of bio-engineers and biochemist were conducting the procedure on a young fourteen year old boy who the two men held high hopes for.
One of the men a middle aged man wearing a black and gray uniform who appeared to be possible African descent with short black hair and brown eyes turned to his superior who wore an identical uniform, but he was more of Caucasian descent wearing a pair of glasses and had short brown haired that was gelled back.
"The procedure appears to be going well sir."
"So far so good at least, but we'll have to wait and see…I am confident however it will be a complete success." The glasses-wearing officer spoke with his voice carrying strong southern accent.
"Even through the technology and the methods of this procedure has greatly improved since the SPARTAN-II program I am concerned about the risks especially since we are subjecting him to gene therapy as well."
"Don't worry about it Councilor thanks to the data and research our friends in Intelligence gave us regarding the SPARTAN-II project and their procedures for enhancement we can now easily produce our own SPARTAN soldiers with little cost and with no risks involved thanks to advances and further research conducted, but for this young man and a few others will receive a far more biochemical enhancements. The successful of this project will pave the way for creating new Spartans that will be much easier to produce and from a wider gene pool if need be."
"I understand Director…the implants inserted into his brain?"
"They serve the purpose of enhancing his mental facilities as part of our ongoing research. It should enablement to interact with one or more A.I. as a fail-safe to avoid the same danger our previous test subjects endured."
"But isn't it all a little much? Can his body even handle it…you people are augmenting him more extensively than I was six years ago." A twenty year old woman wearing a black uniformed inquired obviously concerned for the boy. She had short blonde hair in a bob-cut style with green eyes and a fair skin complexion.
"You have nothing to worry about…the mental implants will protect his mind from damage."
"But what about the other augmentations and the gene therapy experiments he was being subjected to before this…I know what happens when augmentations like these fail." The woman replied.
"That is enough Chief Petty Officer Daisy-023…unlike the augmentations you and your fellow Spartans received the technology and the methods have been improved since then to such that we have completely eliminated the failure rate and replaced it with a one hundred percent success rate." The Director snapped at the Spartan soldier who had been reassigned to Project Freelancer two years ago to serve as a training instructor.
Before her so called reassignment the female Spartan super soldier had been fighting during the Harvest Campaign until an incident during a battle while attempting to help Marines to escape the planet were killed while the Spartan was badly wounded…all had died expect her, but she might have had it not been for the intervention of the agents under command from the Director who had been monitoring transmissions on the planet keeping tabs on the Spartans operating on the planet at the time waiting to potentially acquire one.
The Covenant presence was swiftly eliminated and Daisy-023 was recovered and treated for her wounds while she was officially declared Killed in Action, but as far the public would later be concerned with she was listed as Missing in Action instead.
"Anyway Chief Petty Officer you are dismissed…you may wait for the boy in his room. When they are finished they'll bring him to it."
"Yes sir…" Daisy replied before saluting before leaving the room. Once she was gone the men resumed their conversation.
"Does anyone else know about our current plans for Project Freelancer?"
"No Councilor, but those in the right positions are aware of it while others who might simply stand in our way or raise a fuss about it have been safely left in the dark."
"Like Dr. Halsey I presume…we acquired all of her research materials including designs and planned improvements to the next series of MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor as directed sir…but…"
"But what Councilor?"
"While I doubt she has caught wind of it…she has been poking her nose around."
"Do you think she suspects something?"
"No sir, but I am suggesting we need to act more cautiously when we deal with that woman and others since any outcry from her could be problematic."
"Heh…that woman can bark all she wants. Although her precious SPARTAN-II soldiers were a…limited success…we must pick up the pieces and press on and devise a creative means to end the war. Right now she wasting resources on a project that has becoming quickly outdated as their numbers dwindle." The Director snapped while his voice held clear contempt for Doctor Catherine Elizabeth Halsey.
The Councilor didn't pursue the discussion further since he knew the Director and Dr Halsey have a bitter history as rivals within the United Space Command Forces Office of Naval Intelligence with their projects the SPARTAN-II program competing with the Direction's own Project Freelancer. Although the SPARTAN-II program was selected it didn't mean the end of Project Freelancer like some had been led to believe.
But little did the Councilor realize…there was a more personal vendetta between them.
"Besides we hardly need the research data on the new armor…our research department tells me that reserve engineering of the suits we discovered is coming along well. The field testing of the prototype conducted last year by Agent Maine is completed…with the testing data we'll be able to produce a new and vastly superior combat armor and armor enhancements thanks to the ancient technology we discovered."
"But we'll need to be cautious just the same."
"I agree if we are too hastily we could slip up and our plans will be known…I don't want any interference from any damn bureaucrats or semimetal morons in the military."
Director Leonard Church turned his attention back to the operation happening in the sealed room beyond as work was nearing completion. He recalled when scouts first came to the world they discovered by traveling through the massive Forerunner artifact they had discovered ten years ago. He had personally supervised one of the reconnaissance teams to the planet bearing the same name of his own home world.
It was September 2nd 2010 A.T.B/2527 A.D; the skies had an appropriate color of a seemingly golden red to illustrate the day of the country's fall. On August 10th a war began between the planet's strongest nation the Holy Britannian Empire and the small country of Japan. The war lasted a mere month due to two factors that sealed the small country's fate before the war even began…one was that Britannia had far more access to material and had more men they could commit to invade the small nation and second they deployed their new land base weapon the Knightmare Frame which radically shortened the ground battle after Britannian dominated Japan in every sea and aerial engagement save for one major local victory they managed to win.
But it wasn't enough to starve off the inevitable.
He and two squads of UNSC Special Ops accompanying him were exploring the outskirts of a small town deciding to use it as an opportunity to potentially find recruits among recently orphaned children for the Director's project since Japan's current condition as a newly conquered nation made conditions ideal for finding potential recruits. As they were searching an abandoned home outside of Onjuku a gunshot nearby alerted them, so the men investigated.
However a short firefight broke out not too long afterwards, but after it was over the Director and his men made his way over where they found four men in business suits dead and a young boy bleeding from a gunshot wound while nearby was an little girl who wasn't moving. Standing over the boy was one of their agents…Agent Marine.
Not wishing to stay around in the event anyone else came running they took the wounded boy since he was still alive leaving the girl who appeared to be dead.
After bringing him back to the ship the medics managed to save the child's life while at the same time conduct a number of tests on him as he recovered from the bullet wound he endured. The child would recover, but due to blood loss he might suffer some memory loss. Either way it didn't matter to the Director…upon examining the child's DNA he was almost perfect genetically.
It was peculiar, but his genetics was beautiful making him not just an ideal SPARTAN candidate, but a perfect one. The boy didn't appear to have a lot of muscle on him, but it didn't matter since they could easily correct that over time…the child was a golden egg found within a ruined land.
"It's fortunate for us that his memory was…scattered, but we'll attain perfection." The Director said while he left out the part that ever since they had acquired Lelouch he had been subjected to numerous gene therapy experiments that left his mind scrambled further leaving large holes in his memories.
"Yes sir…"
Suddenly a beep at the door behind them alerted them that someone outside was requesting entry.
"What is it?"
"Director…we brought the man you wanted."
"Excellent bring him on in." The Director replied as the door opened as a pair of soldiers in black and gray armor holding assault rifles escorted a man dressed in a simple olive green military uniform with brown hair and hazel eyes. "Welcome to our research facility Kurt-051…I am Director Leonard Church…I want to apologize for the way we…acquired you."
"Kidnapped me is more of the proper word sir."
"It was necessary…Project Freelancer is currently a black project and we conduct special black ops for the ONI and conduct very sensitive research that we must keep quiet…you are about to help us with that research."
"No disrespect sir, but I don't understand how a SPARTAN can be help to you…I am not a scientist."
"Actually your skills as a SPARTAN is exactly what I need especially given your combat experience and your ability to work well with people from what I have heard." The Director replied as he gesture for the super soldier to look inside the operation room where Kurt saw the fourteen year old child being augmented.
"Who is that?"
"His name is Lelouch…it was most of what he could remember when we found him, but like you and your fellow soldiers of the SPARTAN program he is genetically perfect for the new program. However we need someone capable of training him and future operatives. We acquired the services of an old acquaintance of yours… Senior Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez, but we could use the experience of a soldier such as yourself to help better refine the recruits more if you catch my drift."
"A new generation of Spartans…is Dr. Halsey involved then?"
"No she is not…in fact she is completely unaware of all this for a large number of reasons I will reveal to you in due time."
"And the kid inside?"
"He's very special…our golden child if you will...Mendez has been training him for the past few months with help from another you are familiar with, but I'll confess his weak body he had at the time we recruited him made his training rather troublesome for our previous trainers. However between then and today we prepared his body using biochemical enhancements and gene therapy secessions to strengthen his body as to enable him to succeed at the training regime he has been receiving, but it also prepared him for today's augmentation."
"Anything else I should know about?"
"Other than you will help us prepare a new generation of Spartan soldiers…think about it. Think about the help it could mean for your fellow Spartans currently out in the field if they had more that could assist them in battle against the Covenant."
"To convert more children into soldiers like us…"
"Kurt-051 allow me to point out a very important fact...the Covenant is seeking to exterminate our entire race. I feel I must remind you that it is undeniable, and may I say a fundamental quality of man, that when faced with extinction, every alternative is preferable!" The Director snapped as Kurt wasn't sure how to respond to it.
Later that day the young man the so-called golden child awoke lying in a bed in a white room. Having endured unbearable pain and agony from the augmentation process, but unlike some of his predecessor the Spartan-II recruits he survived it.
"I suggest you try not to move around too much right now…your body needs time to recover from the process." Daisy-023 said from his bedside. Turning his head the young fifteen year old boy saw the twenty year old female Spartan sitting there in a chair next to his bed reading a training manual for Freelancer Agents to pass the time until the he had awoken.
"Chief Petty Officer?"
"At ease Lelouch…no need for formalities. You can just relax…you have been through one hell of an ordeal already today."
"It…hurt a lot."
"I am not surprised…I speak from personal experience on that account, but even though they increased the chances of survival to one hundred percent they still can't seem to make the process any less painful. But given the additional gene therapy they applied during the process I can only imagine it must have hurt a lot more didn't it?"
"Yeah…I think so, but I don't know how to really compare it."
"You don't have to."
"Alright, but is there anything else going on I should know about?"
"Well good news is that they have another Spartan onboard the project now to help train you as well as our original combat trainer."
"What's the bad news?"
"…none…that I know of at least."
"That's weird…when you usually have good news there is usually bad news to go along with it."
"That may be true, but I don't have any I can offer you…except for maybe really good news."
"Ok then what's the really good news?"
"You'll be in that bed for at least a week…Director's orders until your body has had a chance to recover from the procedures."
"That sounds boring…heh…" Lelouch replied with a light chuckle.
"Oh I suggest you enjoy your bed rest; Kurt-052 and Senior Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez your new trainers…while better than Agent Maine they aren't going to be very light on you so I really suggest you enjoy your short vacation while you can."
Daisy-023 replied with a matter of fact tone in her voice while she knew Lelouch would benefit from training from those two while not suffering from abuse from Agent Maine, and the fact he nearly hospitalized him a dozen times when he went too far training him. Hence why it was one of the reasons Daisy-023 was acquired to take over.
Now that there were plans to begin training more agents including a new generation of Spartan soldiers it became necessary to acquire additional trainers. Not to mention broaden the training scope of Lelouch's own training since he was in a sense the prototype for the new Spartan soldiers. Now that his augmentation was successful they were going to begin putting the other recruits and candidates through the refined process.
Daisy had been training some of the other recruits for the new generation Spartans Freelancer was planning to produce and she had trained some fine candidates. However Agent Maine known for his tremendously brutal and abusive, but yet oddly highly effective training methods was successful in training a few exceptionally skilled recruits while others were either crippled or killed. In light of this any hard cases or insubordinate recruits who didn't respond well to training were given to him. The female Spartan took advantage of this by using it as a means of both motivating them and potentially saving them from death at Agent Maine's training methods.
Yet of all of the recruits Daisy has been training since she took over Lelouch was her best by far and was somewhat famous among the other recruits for being a survivor of Agent Maine's training.
"You're always looking out for me aren't you?"
"As your instructor and mentor it's my job, but that doesn't mean I don't think any less of you. Regardless if I am your instructor or not I'll look out for you…we're from different programs, but you're a Spartan now…so that means we're true comrades now."
"What's wrong with friends?" Lelouch said at an attempt of humor.
Daisy laughed briefly at that one before she replied.
"Alright friends too, and no there is nothing wrong with that."
Suddenly the door opened and another man walked a man around Daisy's age with short brown hair in a buzz cut style wearing a simple olive green uniform.
"I heard the operation was a success…how are you feeling kid?"
"Hey Wash…how did the new armor testing rounds go?"
David-142 otherwise known by his designation Agent Washington was a special Spartan II operative within Freelancer, but unlike Daisy and Kurt he is a Project Freelancer original Spartan recruited from the other seventy five possible candidates of the original one hundred and fifty child candidates before it was cut down due to budget issues. However the truth was that this was to provide the Director with child candidates so they could conduct their own experiments using same augmentation methods used in the Spartan II program, but their training methods differed…not to mention some were utilized in other experiments within the project as well.
The Spartans of Project Freelancer while trained using more brutal and life threatening methods there were fewer survivors from when Freelancer's Spartans underwent augmentation. Not counting the ones killed in earlier experiments and training exercises, but by time they augmentations only seven were left with ten either killed or severely crippled by the process.
Although a benefit of this extreme and brutal training and development program was that the Spartans of Freelancer had a higher survival rate in battle against the Covenant and so far none have been killed in action. But due to the ongoing war with the Covenant more Spartans would be needed and given how capable the Spartans they had been able to produce despite losing a lot of them in training and during the augmentations while others during experiments conducted by Freelancer.
Lelouch-000 was the first among a new generation of Spartans meant to surpass the previous generation and his story was just beginning.
But as Lelouch was recover the Director of Project Freelancer was making his way down a long corridor followed by the Councilor before stopping at a sealed heavy armored door.
"The boy has awakened sir."
"Very good Councilor…I knew the child would survive, now if you excuse me I need to conduct some private research and include the data collected from our boy's augmentation procedure."
"Yes sir…" Councilor replied standing back as he watched his superior enter the sealed chamber beyond after going through a very strict procedure of using his retina and fingerprint as well as a voice-coded password to gain entry. In the room beyond the Director descended down an elevator to a hidden research chamber and laboratory where the interior had recently been upgraded using advance technologies collected by Project Freelancer, but the Director knew this chapter's primary occupant was responsible for renovating the hidden lab.
Upon entering a large chamber at the bottom of the elevator the Director spoke as he entered the renovated lab which all of the equipment including the walls and lighting itself had been replaced with much more advance components and equipment obviously alien in origin.
"I see someone has been quite the busy bee."
"The equipment you had in this chamber was quite primitive and woefully inadequate for my needs." A friendly sounding digital voice spoke as the Director looked up to see a roughly spherical shape, concave on three sides larger than a human head with an illuminated photoreceptor located on the front of the floating sphere.
"I see…" The Director said regarding the Forerunner Monitor while taking notice of how much Forerunner in design and appearance his private research lab had taken on since his last visit which had been almost two weeks ago. "Your creators were truly an impressive species."
"Well thank you Reclaimer."
"Here is the data from Lelouch-000 Augmentation everything went perfectly thanks to your assistance in refining the process."
"Yes I observed the process as well, but thank you for the data this will help my research and yours quite well." The monitor replied as he took the computer disc containing the medical data on the process.
As the Forerunner AI began extracting the data from the disc the Director made his way over to what was perhaps the one thing untouched by the Monitor when it upgraded the entire chamber and lab likely using the other Forerunner Relics and artifacts that had been stored within this chamber. Against the wall on the far side of the room laid a cryo-tube containing what appeared to be a fourteen year old girl being kept in cold storage.
"How much further until…" Director Church spoke regarding the girl contained inside the tube.
"All of my preparations are nearly complete…I still require a few items required for the procedure, but I must remind you her mind has been severely damaged so even if I am successful her recovery will take time."
"…I know, but you have my authorization to do what you must to ensure she'll recover and be properly restored."
"I shall do my upmost to assist you Reclaimer."
"Good…Project Freelancer is entering its next stage."
A/N: Well the first of three chapters I have produced so far of my Halo and Code Geass crossover with characters from Red vs. Blue making appearances, but their back stories and such have been modified to fit with the Halo canon as best as possible while trying to cope with the other changes Lelouch's appearance in the war as a SPARTAN of Project Freelancer will have, but he will eventually return to his own world after the war. Yet I am concerned about some bits, but I will post the other chapters one at a time and collect feedback on what I should probably consider and if there are any mistakes I might have made to and correct if need be.