I do not own anything except New Mexico the rest belongs to RoosterTeeth and Colorado belongs to Reaper10119 enjoy!
New Mexico grabbed the data pad and started tapping into it deeply interested, she really didn't want to do this, but what choice did she have? They promised her free admittance to their data and files as if they had nothing to hide. Plus a clean slate.
Maybe I should explain more New Mexico was a known hacker. She loved tech that she could pull apart and put back together easily. But she was also a ODST commander in the UNSC. She only in freelancer to solve the dispute between ONI and the Director with orders.
New Mexico sighed and went over the data again. God! She would be grateful when someone started giving her a nickname that wasn't so long! She wondered how would have Mississippi felt with his. She grew frustrated and threw the data pad away. As the pelican docked with the MOI she wondered again why they chose her. With her record in the Spartan program...
She shook her head. Running off with Daisy and Ralph was the best thing she could have done. When ONI found where she was and saw she wouldn't come willingly they decided to kidnap her again but train her away from the other Spartans. No Augmentations or MJOLINER armour. Mexico really missed all her brothers and sister and remembered their faces. John's eyes, Kelly's hair, Sam's smile and Kurt's overprotective voice they were the things she missed most about them all but mostly Kale when they were sparring against each other he knew her style all too well.
The pelican landed. Mexico got out with a few other new agents and was introduced to copper-red headed woman. "I am Carolina this is the Mother Of Invention. I'm sure you're all wondering what we are all about here at Project Freelancer. They probably told you how we are some of the best and what an honor it is to be accepted into the project. But we're just one of many programs trying to develop a way to win the war. The most heard of is, of course, the Spartan Program." Carolina said to the new recruits as they stood in one of the large central hallway.
Mexico almost smirked for her big family. All though she couldn't, she hadn't spoken to any of them in years. They were too spread out and mostly missing or KIA. She remembered Spartans don't go KIA they're just missing in action.
The recruits were all holding their helmets under their arms and listening to her speech. New Mexico, was the one who was focusing most on her words. She didn't want to zone out again. Especially on her first day! She came here to do a job and she was going to get done. Her pale face scrunched up in concentration, only softening when she was distracted and brushing her dirty blonde bangs away from her eyes. She really needed a haircut. It was really long!
"We keep this statue of a Spartan to show what we can become if our program pushes itself. We mostly deal with the Insurrection, but there's always the chance we will end up against Covenant. I want each of you to take a close look of the statue, and think about what's so special about them, and what you can do to be more like them. When you've all done that we can head to the training room." She finished.
Mexico looked at it. It was actually very lifelike too when she had seen John in his armour and Kelly. They said it was bulky at first but they got used to wearing it like a second skin. Nebraska looked at the statue and Mexico's blood boiled when she saw that it was about to be insulted.
"I don't see what the big deal is. Just a little on the big side. I bet I could-"She started to say, but ended her sentence with a loud scream. The statue had picked that time to move. It had lunged forward and grabbed her, lifting her into the air and pinning her arms down.
"You bet you could what?" He asked. Wait...who's voice was that's? Why was it familiar? No it couldn't be! Kale?
The other recruits turned and entered fighting stances. They all seemed conflicted, not sure if they wanted to attack the large figure or let him crush Nebraska. Mexico didn't care about Nebraska much. She bitched all the way here and claimed she was better than any of them.
"At ease recruits. You can put her down Colorado." Carolina said between gasped breaths. The whole group started laughing.
"Recruits, this is Agent Colorado. Colorado, these are agents Hawaii, New Mexico, California, Michigan, Vermont, and Nebraska." Carolina indicated everyone as Colorado set Nebraska down.
"If you EVER touch me again, I'll fucking kill you!" Nebraska growled up at Colorado. He just crossed his arms and smirked behind his visor.
"If you think you can, then let's see it. Colorado, you up for a match?" The black armoured freelancer sneered. Her and a small group had watched the entire thing.
"I could use a warm up. The med bay got pretty boring. I'll meet you there. Decide who you want to help you and if you want lockup paint or hand to hand." He said before walking to the training room.
"I can take him solo." Nebraska growled hotly as she followed.
"Your funeral." The black armoured woman and Carolina said in unison. They both smirked at each other before realizing who one another were. Then they scowled and stormed off. Mexico raised an eyebrow, confused?
Mexico tried to get a closer look at Colorado. If he was Kale would he recognise her? It had been years and well she was one of the only Spartans not to get augmented and passed off as dead or retired.
She pulled off her old dog tags and approached one of the group members that had laughed at her reaction. They wore tanned armour and had a scar across one off their eyes.
"Can you give these to Colorado for me. I was told by a friend of his when I went through basic that he might want to see them and to meet me when he has spare time" She asked.
"Uh okay sure?" he said accepting them.
New Mexico entered the training room and saw Colorado messing around with Nebraska. He used to do that with her when they were younger she got him back by climbing on things and accessing and changing his food to something disgusting when she had access to a computer to send orders down to the kitchen.
"Why doesn't he just shoot her and get it over with?" She finally asked.
"He's toying with her, showing her she has more than a lot to learn." C.T. Explained. Okay that she got. If it was Kale she understood that part. He liked people to know what they had to improve on before judging others.
Mexico nodded but said aloud before thinking. Call it the Spartan in her but she did that a lot of the time. "But, that's against every written regulation. Unless the mission specifically states otherwise." She stated earning laughs from two of the freelancers at a grey and gold one.
The match finished and they hurried down to see the two freelancers. Colorado joked about the food in the medbay being terrible and Mexico took her shot. If she was wrong she could make an excuse, if not she'd deal with it.
"Kale?" she shouted at him.
Colorado froze and looked at her.
"Cemmi" he said. "Cemmi-050" he repeated her name.