Okay here's the first chapter. Enjoy
"Are you sure you know where you're going?" An annoyed Tex, or Epsilon-Tex asked Church, or Epsilon-Church.
The two were currently still trapped inside the memory unit created by Washington, which was now attached to the back of a practice robot that Church had managed to take over. Church had deduced that the unit had been taken away from the UNSC by some organization or something so they could figure out the A.I. His theory was proven correct when they heard someone mentioning fighting off the UNSC ships. So far they haven't seen anyone else but with their luck, they were bound to run into someone.
"Look…I-I know what I'm doing ok. Just let me….me focus." Church painted. Tex's expression turned from one from annoyance to concern at the sound of Church's voice. It sounded like he was doing more than controlling the robot.
"Church or Epsilon, is everything ok?" She asked. Taking a breather, Church turned to look at her before replying.
"Not really, you know how all those A.I originated from one single A.I?" Tex nodded allowing him to continue. "And you know Epsilon is Alpha's memory?" Another nod, "Well I think the A.I's are coming back to their full form inside of me."
Tex raised an eyebrow in confusion. "What the hell does that mean?"
Gathering enough energy he said, "Basically the memories of them are beginning to form into actual as well as their personalities and are trying to merge with the Alpha memory. But it's putting a huge fucking amount of pain in my head."
Tex couldn't help but feel a little bit guilty. Here she was asking questions and her boyfriend, er ex-boyfriend (She was still deciding) had not only gone out to bring her back, go in a busted memory unit to find her, only to wait for her, and is now fighting an inner battle while trying to get them out of wherever they are.
Not wanting him to stress himself out, Tex put her hand on his shoulder and said, "Stand down and let me do it before you delete yourself or something." Her voice sounding unnatural caring.
Church just stared for a second before stepping to the side. Tex soon had the robot moving faster. When they passed a door, Church cried, "Stop!"
Stopping the robot and moving it out of sight Tex turned to Church, demanding what was that all about. Church pointed to a sign on the door. It read, "Bio-Engineering Cloning Facility."
The two looked at each other, both getting the same idea. Moving quickly their robot carrier opened the door. Inside was a room that looked like it hadn't been used in years. On one side there was a wide door that was sealed shut. On the other side was a large computer, along with test tubes and other devices stacked on a table.
"Okay now I'm lost. Why the fuck would someone have this shit lying around and not use any of it?" Asked Church.
"Maybe whoever took us here is really using the base, only as a hideout." Suggested Tex.
"Yeah maybe, c'mon I want to see if my hunch is right." Church said as they moved the robot towards the control. Once they were close enough, Church managed to hack into the computer. There he found something interesting. "Well it looks like that whosever running this shit already has two clones all set up."
After a couple of pressing keyboards the door began to open. Moving the robot back, the two saw four rows of large tubes coming out, each one attached to wires and machines. The two at the front on the far left and had people floating in water and had plugs sticking to them.
"Wow." Said Church, "One female and one male, how fortunate is that right Tex. Tex?"
Church turned to look at Tex, whose face must have been stunned since Church couldn't see through her helmet. She just stared at the bodies. "Hey Tex, you okay?"
"Look at them." She said. Confused Church turned and got a better look of the clones floating before them. He soon gasped in shocked as he saw them better.
The clones were exact replicas of them. From the hairstyle and color, straight down to the gender, skin color and size.
"Whoa talk about weird. And not the good kind of weird." Church commented still looking at the two clones.
Tex sighed before replying. "Something doesn't feel right here Church, why are there two clones here, who look exactly like us, and that we haven't seen a single guard since you've taken over the robot."
Church couldn't help feel like she was right. "I know how you feel Tex, I also got a bad feeling too. But we can't pass the opportunity to final settle in new bodies and get the hell out of this place."
As much as she felt suspicious to everything that was going on, she couldn't deny the feeling of wanting a body again, to feel skin that was hers and have it touch things such as flowers, guns, food or someone she cared about, she thought as she looked at Church. "Fine lets do it."
Church nodded. "Good so just follow my lead and we'll be able to make it into those bodies."
Tex rolled her eyes. "Follow your lead? I feel so much better now."
Church narrowed his eyes and mumbled, "Bitch" to which he heard "Asshole". The robot placed the Epsilon unit onto the computer. Soon there was a light shining from the unit and soon the computer. Then the last thing the two saw while in the Epsilon unit was a bright flash.
Tex opened her eyes and took in a huge breath of air. She slowly stood up, her hands pushing against the cold floor.
Wait, the cold floor? She looked at her hands and realized that they were flesh, real human flesh. She put them to her face and felt the flesh from that too, even her hair was there as she ran her hand down it.
A groan brought her back to reality. She turned around and gaped at what she saw. "C-church?" She stuttered.
And lying beside her was Church now in his new body. Tex couldn't help but stare at the body that was only a few moments ago empty. She had to admit that Church looked good in it and felt her face getting hot.
"U-uuhhh, Tex?" he said as he tried to get up, only to fall halfway, his right hand clutching his head in pain. Realizing it must be due to whatever was going inside him with the A.I units, Tex moved to his side and helped him get up.
"Easy there Len, don't let you brain kill you just after you got a new body." She joked as she grabbed his arm; only to stop when Church looked at where their skin touched and she too felt was he was feeling. They both looked at each other for a second and all of sudden they were kissing, hands gripping the others hair. Once the need for breath came they pulled apart and just stared at each other, only their foreheads touching.
Church soon commented, "That's the one thing I hate about human bodies, the need to breathe."
Tex smiled before giving him a quick peck and pulling him up. They decided to found a way out. Fortunately lying on a nearby table were some clothing for the both of them. Once that was done they figured the best plan was to find some sort of transportation for them to use.
They had only gone only a couple of feet when they heard noises. The duo quickly hid behind a corner as Tex took a peek around the corner. Standing their with their back facing them were two soldiers wearing UNSC marine uniforms except grey and worn out a little. They were armed with the MA37 assault rifle and one had a M6G side gun.
Tex turned to Church "Stay in the shadows and let me deal with them." She whispered, knowing she could deal with them alone. As she turned to get close them, she used every bit of knowledge from combat to do so. Without her armor they could easily kill her if they saw her.
Just as she was about to attack, she felt something touch the back of her head and someone yell, "Don't move bitch."
Tex cursed to herself; another guard spotted her and got her by surprise. But as the other two were turning around, she felt the one behind her stiffen. She did a quick glance and was shocked to see Church holding the guard, positioning him as a human shield, thus stopping the other two from firing at him.
"Get the Fuck down!" He cried to Tex, who immediately did so. With that he got a grip of his hostages arm and fired the gun, surprisingly hitting the other two. They were seriously wounded, but not dead.
Before Tex could ask how he managed to do that there was another voice yelling. Church turned his head and saw another guard coming, this time with a rifle. Just as the guard fired, Church managed to spin around with his hostage facing his adversary. The guard couldn't let out a yell of warning once the bullets hit his body. With him dead, Church took the pistol from the body and fired at the fourth guard, hitting him square in the head.
Tex mouth was hanging open as she watched Church dispose of all four guards instantly. Before she could ask, Church ran up to her and said, "Don't just fuckin stand there, grab their weapons and lets go!"
Tex figured it would be better to ask later as she grabbed the assault rifle from one of the dying guards. They soon were far away from the scene where they could take a breather.
"Ok, how the fuck did you do all that? The Church I know could never do that." Tex exclaimed. Church just shrugged, "Hell I should know. Maybe because the are beginning to merge, my skills are just getting better."
The ex freelancer just rolled her eyes before they headed off again. A couple of minutes later they managed to locate what they believe was the hangars.
"Look." Church said as he pointed to the left. Standing there was a Pelican that appeared to be working in order. Nodding, Tex led them towards it, looking around for any guards.
Once they reached the ship, Tex told Church to stand guard while she checked the controls. After a few seconds before giving Church the ok signal.
As he was getting onto the Pelican an alarm started going off and soon guards started pouring in, guns raised. Church moved into the ship faster. "Take of now damn it!"
Not have to be told twice, Tex activated the ship and soon it began to float in the air and head towards the exit. "Hang on, this is going to be rough." She cried as Church was inside the cockpit alongside her. But as they neared the exit they saw to their horror that the door was sealed shut.
"Can't you get it to open from here, or blast it?" Asked Church, as they were getting closer. Tex shook her head angrily. "It won't respond and there are no weapons on this fuckin thing!"
Church thought for a moment before saying, "Keep the ship moving, I'll be back in a sec." Before Tex could ask, he gave her a quick peck on the lips and jumped off the pelican with his rifle in his hand.
Tex saw that Church was running towards the controls next to the door. Already figuring his idea, Tex did as she was told and kept the ship moving. By now she could feel the bullets from guards bounce off the Pelican. She started to speed it up as the door slowly opened. Once it was fully opened, Tex began to maneuver the ship closer to Church who was firing at the guards.
Once Church was on, she began to move the Pelican into the air as they got out of the Hangar, and was now over what appeared to be an ocean. But suddenly something hit the backside of the ship, causing Tex to nearly lose control. A yell got her attention and she turned around. "Church!" she screamed in horror.
The impact had caused Church to lose his grip and he was now sliding towards the still open door of the Pelican, while they were still in the air. Moving quickly, Tex switched to Autopilot and ran towards him. Griping onto one of the seat bars, she grabbed Church's hand.
She began to pull him up when suddenly Church began to experience another brain attack, causing him to lose his grip. Suddenly his hand slipped from hers and Tex could only yell his name as she watched him fall into the ocean far below.
She quickly took control of the Pelican and turned it around, hoping to spot Church. But after looking at the water for at least and hour and with no luck of finding him, Tex headed towards Blood Gulch, the only safest place she could think of, tears in her eyes.
Well I hoped you all liked that please Review
Wack012
P.S I plan on doing sort of a list of the new OCC characters and their ranks and sort of a description of their armor too.