Ok first off I want to set the scene for everyone,
1: this takes place just after revelation.
2: church and Tex/Allison are alive, so essentially when church went in to the memory unit Tex was just waiting for him, also wash still lives.
Ok now that done lets start.
Tex POV
The snow and icy ground almost matched his armour colour, its almost like he always intended it end up here, like everything was always leading to this moment, this last moment this was one of the many thing rushing through my mind as I sat in the snow my black armor protecting me from the cold, I watched as Church spoke with wash, like they were old buddy's, and I guess in a way they were, he was his AI...epsilon...memory's, now the only thing I could think about was memory's, I new they weren't mine they were the women I was based off of memory's, but I still cherished them, then Church and Wash walked off into the base, a slight smile crossed Washes normally static features, then Tucker walked over to me and I sunk into my black armour not wanting to talk.
"soooo. Your not gunna try and kill us right"
"no, the military will be here soon, I wouldn't be able to explain your deaths or have time to cover them up before they arrived" I replied dryly.
"ummmm" tucker replied not any more relaxed then before.
"no tucker I'm not going to kill you, or anyone"
"good, you had me scared for a moment there" tucker breathed out a sigh of relief.
"a moment, please you've been scared of me since I first stepped into that mud puddle called Blood Gulch" I replied obviously tired of the conversation.
"urrrr, yeah" tucker replied before jogging borderline sprinting away over to join the reds in there conversation.
I simply laid back letting my armored helmet rest on the snow covered ground.
Tucker POV
"what's up with you guys" I asked the congregation of reds all looking over the cliff at the crashed pelican.
"Sarge is trying to convince Grif to jump off to make sure the meta is really dead" Simmons replied.
"for the last time no!" Grif shouted as Sarge chuckled.
"he he he, I had to try".
"jeez you guys are worse then Church and Tex" I commented.
"yeah but Grif, cant fight" Simmons laughed.
"wait why am I the girl in this" Grif asked annoyed.
Church POV
"are these what I think they are" I asked surprise filling my voice.
"from what I can piece together, yes they are, but once you go inside you cant leave, they turn the electrical signs you currently have into electrical impulses, you will technically loose everything that makes you an AI" Wash said tapping me on the back.
"you think Tex will agree to this" I asked.
"I don't know, that...is for you to find out".
"ok then, lets go" I stated walking out the base and over to Tex.
Tex POV
I had my eyes closed under my helmet enjoying the quite, all the anger I felt, my plans for finding and killing the director had suddenly vanished, I hadn't asked to come back but I was glad Church wanted me back, thou I would never admit it, I just wanted to live, I had been given a second chance well more like a hundredth chance but this one I wasn't going to waist, not this time, but being an AI inside a robot body was gunna make that a hard thing to do, then, suddenly I felt at ease, I opened my eyes and looked up at the familiar armored man standing over me, he stretched out his hand, smiling if he had a face under the helmet, I waited for a moment before taking his hand and standing up.
"I...ugh, iv got a surprise for you" he muttered tilting his head in the direction of the base.
"what now church" I asked more bitchy then I originally planned, but, thankfully it didn't effect church, he was used to it by now.
"just come on" he replied.
He began to walk off towards the base his sniper attached to his back, after a few seconds I followed, wandering what he wanted.
"ok you know this place was a safe house right, like you said this is ware they held me, or the alpha or whatever" Church asked.
"yeah what about it"
"well" Church said as they turned a corner into a large room with two metal cabinets with glass in the fronts, after a few seconds I realized what I was looking at, I stared at the fiery red hair and emerald green eyes looking back at me, the emotionless face completely static, it was me, well a human copy of my body. And next to it, a human copy of Church, his black hair up at the front even some slight stubble covered his face just like it used to.
"can...can we use these" I asked amazed at what I seeing.
"yes...but we will be human again, we cant just leave the body when ever we want and we will age, well the body will"
"ok, I want it" I said as left my robotic body letting it fall to the floor with a clang, I moved forward and looked at the body. "ok, how do I use it" I asked
"ok, just go inside this computer and I'll upload you" Church said.
So I did, I moved over to the computer and moved inside, I heard Church mutter something and suddenly there was a flash of white and I was looking at a glass window, I lifted my hands against the metal door then looked at my hands feeling the smile cross my face, "yes it worked, Church it worked" I shouted as the door opened and I stepped out.
Church simply stared at me and his jaw dropped before he composed himself, he quickly slid my robot body over to me and turned away, "use the armor on your old body" he said and I took me a moment to realize I was naked, I quickly dragged the Armour covered robot away and out of church's site, you idiot, of course your naked, and what did you do, you stood right in front of church letting him take it all in, well I guess it wasn't to bad, no...stop it Tex pull yourself together, you have a human body now, you don't need him...ugh...but I want h-.
"hurry up I want to get into my body" Church said his voice carrying through the corridors.
"ok give me a second" I replied and quickly placed the black body suit and then the Armour on my new body, then walked out my helmet off. A grin plastered across my face.
"you seem happy"
"well I wander why church, its not like I have a human body again" I said slightly jumping as my excitement but slowly suppressing it.
"ok well its my turn so upload me" Church said as his robot body fell to the ground and he entered the terminal.
Church POV
there was a flash of light and I was looking at the glass window and the door opened, I quickly picked up my robot body and walked around the corner, I spotted Tex glancing at me and my manhood and smirked to myself, same old Tex, I quickly picked up the black body suit and placed my armor over my new body, new body, a real body, I can feel I can breath, I...I...I'm gunna have to start working out again and sleeping and eating, ugh.
I walked back around the corner my helmet off as I smiled at Tex, her red hair coming down to her lower back, her green eyes looking in to my grey. "you look..." I tried but my mind blanked, wow, I guess I can do that now.
Tex smirked as she moved some hair behind her ear. "you don't look to bad yourself"
"thanks" I replied as a loud noise emanated through the base its source outside. "I guess the military are here, come on lets go, and put your helmet on"
we walked out our helmets securely attached to our newly acquired body's, it was strange, walking around in a human body again, well I say again, the memory's of having a human body were the memory's of the director, but to me they still held sentimental value, hell most of them were focused on Tex anyway.
We walked over and saw red team and blue team standing in a line in front of a man in a high ranking military uniform, Wash was standing next to them in the line, his once black armor was now cobalt like mine but he still had his yellow details.
"what's up with Wash's armor" I asked Tex as we walked over.
"don't know, maybe he is trying to pass as a blue" she responded as we arrived at the group.
The man in the military uniform smiled and pointed at us and then to the line motioning for us to join our team mates, we did, I looked to my left and saw Wash and everyone else staring at the man that now held a data pad and started to look through the info, I looked to my right and saw Tex she was standing with her hip sightly out and her hand against it, I haven't seen her do that in years, maybe the robotic body didn't let her do it, maybe it had movement constriction, I wouldn't know since I never did that. Then the man looked up and began to talk.
"as I say your name I would like you to take off you helmet and reply with yes sir, that way I know who is who, I know your just simulation troopers but try to show some military prowess" the man finished and looked at the data pad one last time before starting.
"Dexter Grif", Grif stood forward and removed his helmet letting his dark brown hair fall in front of his face his brown eyes looked tired and blood shot, I guess he is tired.
"Richard Simmons", Simmons stood forward and removed his helmet to relieve his light brown hair and one blue eye, the other was red...and robotic.
"why do you have a robotic eye mister Simmons" the man asked.
"well sir, I was injured in battle but sarge being the master of robotics that he is, patched me up" Simmons replied.
"kiss ass" Grif commented receiving a look from the military man.
"I see" the man said before continuing with his list.
"John...urrr...Sarge" the man look at the data pad then up as Sarge removed his helmet to reveal white hair with random streaks of the black hair that the hair used to be.
"wait your last name is actually Sarge. What the fuck" Grif said and received another look from the man.
"Michael Caboose" Caboose removed his helmet letting his short blond hair shine in the white light.
"Lavernius Tucker" Tucker removed his helmet and let his grey borderline black hair blow in the wind, it was hard to tell what colour his hair actually was since it was so similar to his black skin.
The man smiled as he looked at Wash not needing to look at the data pad this time "agent David Washington" them man smiled at him. "we will need to talk after this is done".
Wash took of his helmet revealing sharp and aged features for his actual age, he had very dark brown hair with grey sideburns. "yes sir" he replied, the only one actually doing that part of the instruction.
The man smiled then turned to Tex and myself, "Leonard church and Allison church"
wait what, Allison church, what.
"excuse me" Tex blurted at the man.
"Leonard church and Allison church?" the man repeated showing the data pad to Tex, she looked at it for a second both our helmets still on she then looked back to me.
"umm, church?" she asked.
"don't look at me, I have no idea what's going on" I replied then saw Tucker look at me a devious grin on his face.
"dude. Your married...con grat u lations" he said spacing out the word as he said it angering Tex more then it did me.
"shut up you ass, we're no-" she stopped and had a look on her face like she was considering her options before turning to Tucker again. "I mean yes, that's us Leonard church and Allison" she paused for a second "church".
The man looked at the both of us confused after what had occurred before looking to our helmets and everyone looked at us realizing that the man would see they were robots.
I smiled under my helmet as I lifted my hands to it seeing Tex do the same, slowly we both removed our helmets and I saw Tex's hair fall down her back again like a river of flame, I then looked to everyone else there mouths open as they stared at us, even Wash was a bit surprised even thou he had told me about the body's.
The man tapped the data pad and motioned for us to follow him on to the pelican that had landed earlier, we followed keeping quiet as the doors closed behind us.
1 day later. Tex POV.
It had been a horrible time, after leaving the icy storage facility we were taken to a military screening facility ware we were debriefed, after everything was said, keeping in mind I was still, lying saying Church was my husband and not mentioning I was actually an AI in a human body. After they debriefed every one we were now sitting in a waiting room I was sitting next to church on a couch on the corner of the room with Wash sitting in a chair near by while the red and blue teams were on the other side of the room chatting, I looked at church, it was strange seeing him with a face but now more so because we were no longer in our armor, Church had muscle, enough that when he was changing his top I saw a six pack and now with his military top on the arms were tight around his arms.
A man walked in and smiled at us before speaking. "mister and misses church, can you please return to the debriefing room for a few more questions" it took me a second to realize what I needed to do, mainly because I forgot I was supposed to have the last name of Church, ugh, well at least they hadn't though I was married to Tucker or Caboose, why Church, maybe it was because the director of project freelancer was married to the Allison he knew, but why would that effect our situation. I watched as Church stood up and held out his hand a goofy smirk plastered across his face. He was enjoying this to much, I didn't know if it was because I was angry about the situation or because he like the idea of it but he looked like he was slightly happy, no happy isn't the right word, more like accepting of the idea.
I reluctantly took his hand and stood up before walking next to him towards the room, we sat down and was greeted with the face of the man I had wanted to kill the day before.
"hello Alpha, Allison" the director said taking off his glasses revealing his green eyes.
"I'm not the Alpha, I'm not him any more, I'm me, I'm what the meta wanted to achieve ok I'm human" Church shouted at the man, even he looked surprised at his sudden outburst but the director simply looked back at him and smiled.
"evidently so, now I'm not here to kill you or take you prisoner but I am here to settle some things out" the director began looking to the military man to his left before beginning. "firstly mister Church and misses Church and not married secondly they are artificial intelligence inside human body's that they can not escape from, and finally thy are both in the meta stage, there for they are both consider fully human" the director finished.
"how did you even find us" Church asked.
"I was alerted the moment you uploaded yourselves to the body's" the director replied smiling.
"what happens now" I said not wanting to stay here any longer then I had to.
"well you have a choice, you can either leave the military with your fellow soldier or comeback to project freelancer" the director said.
"we get to choose" I asked.
"yes, you are considered fully human now, you have the right to choose" the military man replied.
"well I'm leaving the military with the others, I'll find a nice job some ware else, I'm done with all this crazy shit" Church said crossing his arms.
I looked at the director then back to Church, he looked worried as I looked from him to the director and then back again like he was worried I wouldn't leave and join the project again.
"I'm leaving to, I don't want anything to do with project freelancer ever again" I said and a loud sigh of relief erupted from Church's mouth at my words.
The director frowned and stood before leaving. "very well...miss Church" he said as he walked out the door.
I turned back to see the military man staring at the both of us not knowing what was going to come next. "so what happens now" I asked.
"well, you and the rest of your teams will be shipped back to earth and have anything of value that you had before joining the military returned to you, then well its up to you, you get to choose which direction you point you life in, you will be given accommodation until you can find a place of your own" the man finished and looked to the door. "you should go and inform your friends, you are leaving for earth in an hour"
we stood and walked back to the waiting room and smiled at everyone. "were going to earth guy, were going home" Church said as everyone's faces lit up.
An hour later. Church POV.
It was cold and raining, to most people it would annoy them, make them grumpy but to me it was a blessing, the sound of the rain hitting the roof of the building, I couldn't wait to go outside, but right now I was sitting in another waiting room as our stuff was being retrieved, as if the office people had heard my thoughts they brought a big trolley over with some boxes on it with our names on, I decided to wait after everyone else had gotten there box before getting mine, suddenly I heard a gasp from tucker and then a huge grin, I looked up and saw he was looking through my box.
"hey asshole, that's my box" I yelled getting up and walking over taking the box from his hands looking inside.
"dude, my respect for you just went up like 15%" Tucker said tapping church on the shoulder.
"why" Tex asked looking up from her box, by the look of it she hadn't opened it yet.
I looked in to the box and saw a collection of smaller boxes, pictures and books, but it wasn't any of them that had given me Tuckers seal of approval, I put my hand into the box and pulled out a large bottle of vodka and smiled at the bottle, I had originally put it in there to drink when I got back as a celebratory drink after we won the war, no, wait, I didn't do that the director did, I guess this is his box, well I guess its mine now, he hasn't been to earth in about 30 years, he likes space more.
"I have to admit, its a welcome site" I said putting it back in the box and putting the lid back on.
"come on dude open it lets get drunk" Tucker pleaded.
"what...no I'm gunna have it later" I said holding the box under my arm away from Tucker.
"what's in yours"
"well" Tucker turned away.
"ok never mind I don't want to know"
"probably better that way" tucker closed his box and went to sit down.
I looked over at the reds who were all sitting around Simmons box and Grif tapped Simmons on the back laughing, I'll see see what has them happy in a minuet. Wash was sitting in the corner with his box holding something in his hand that looked like a small picture the same size as a passport photo. I walked over to Tex and smiled before sitting down putting my box down on the seat next to me.
"what's in yours" I asked.
"don't know, I haven't looked" she replied.
"why" I asked
"same reason you didn't get up right away to get yours, same reason you were surprised to see that Vodka in your box"
"because these arnt our boxes"
"yep, I'm just worried about what I'll find" Tex looked at the box on her lap staring at the name.
"what's the worst that can happen" I asked.
"could be filled with pictures of the director naked, this was his Allison's box" she said. Her words sending a shudder down my spine.
"ok I can see why you are worried now"
"yeah"
"want me to look first" I asked
"go ahead" she said handing me the box.
I placed the box on my lap and took of the lid, Tex looking away, I stared at what I saw, it was a collection of books a few pictures and a bottle of old wine, I guess the directors Allison had the same idea. But the thing that surprised me the most that made me re-think everything I though I knew was the pictures in the box were of Blood Gulch, me and Tex standing next to each other in our armour, then it hit me, these boxes weren't just full of the old versions stuff, it was also full of our stuff from Blood Gulch and Valhalla, I quickly smiled at Tex and handed her the box back with the lid on.
"don't worry, nothing in there but memory's, but I do suggest looking through it" I said as I stood and picked up my box before walking to the office people.
"so can we leave" I asked
"yes, here is the address for the hotel that you will be living in until you can find a place of your own" the women handed me a piece of paper the address of the hotel on it and a 5 pound note being we were in England. "for the taxi" she said before I turned and walked to the door.
"hey" I head her voice and smiled inwardly before turning to see what she wanted.
"yeah Tex" I asked
"what hotel room are you in"
"umm" I looked at the piece of paper. "room s-117"
"ok I'll see you later" she said, I looked at her for a second and saw she was looking through the box.
I suddenly realized I didn't have a spare pair of cloths, I looked into the box for a second and opened the book tabled "common sense", very fitting, in side was 5 hundred pounds, wow, I guess the director didn't mess around with this stuff huh. I walked out the building and down the street, there was a cloths shop up ahead with a sign on the front. .lan. I thought the name over in my head as I entered the shop, I quickly went over to the men's section and got a pair of dark blue jeans, a cobalt top, a pair of red hight top converses and a long brown trench coat. I went to the cashier and bought the cloths still having 430 pounds left, I went to a changing room and changed in to the cloths putting the military cloths into a near by bin, I then walked out and haled a taxi.
I looked at the piece of paper and read the name of the hotel. "umm, premier inn, Hampshire" I said and the taxi pulled away.
Finally I arrived and after giving my name to the hotel women she gave me my key and I walked up to my room, I didn't even bother looking around, I simply put down my stuff, locked the door, and fell asleep on the big bed, I'll look around tomorrow.
Ok guys that was the first chapter, yes I know, not much happened but don't worry the next chapters will be better, but let's be honest, normally the beginning of a story starts slow, anyway please review to tell me if there is anything I need to do to make it better, anyway church out.