Ok so we're back for the second instalment of A Cobalt Soldier, these are some chapters that are really long and to be honest a lot more detailed then the ending of the last Cobalt soldier, mainly due to the fact all those last few chapters where pre written a while ago during my exams plus I had to fit time in-between work and studies to type but I've got a system that I think will work now so it will be regular updates from now on, so let's get started shall we.
Prologue
The current standings
~Warhammer~
"Yo Jones duck!" Jason shouted as he threw a grenade over Gavin Jones, the new leader of Warhammer, the task force that used to be known as Wolfpack the best taskforce in the U.N.S.C's pocket, until that is the groups last Leader a man who went by the name of Church had his secrets revealed.
Church was actually an Artificial Intelligence inhabiting a human body, but his past was one of cruel twisted pain, the mind he was copied from was a that of a man who would become one of the worst war criminals in history, he was called the Director and he tortured Church causing his A.I mind to fragment creating smaller A.I not really A.I only fragments of Church's personality such as logic, deceit, anger ect.
Wolfpack was tasked with moving the director from his prison to a higher security prison, only Wolfpack was ambushed and the director escaped, so Wolfpack went in search of the Director picking up some sim troopers who had experience with the Director and his organization Project freelancer, they also sought the help of some former freelancers, Agent Texas, Carolina and North.
With their combined strength they infiltrated the directors ship but was soon captured, where it was revealed that Church and his second in command Ashely were going to have a child, but the Director kill Ashely and there child which would have been the first Human/A.I ever, Church then began to fragment again and escaped his cell to go after the Director, once he found him he discovered the A.I part of his child was still alive, once finding this out he killed the Director going against his orders to capture him alive, he then left his team in an escape shuttle and hasn't been seen since, his old team being disavowed and renamed as Warhammer, while the freelancers and sim troopers also became a unit called Alpha Team.
"Hey watch it" Gav shouted back as the explosion sent rebels flying off in different directions.
"Alessa on your right" Alana yelled as a rebel took aim at her sister
Alessa quickly took aim shooting the rebel and reloading nodding her head to her sister "thanks"
"Ok Warhammer lets push forward, we're almost there" Gavin commanded as they group jumped over their respective covers and shooting the remaining enemy forces.
They were in a research base, the U.N.S.C had been investigating what kind of research for the last several months but only recently found that they were using Aliens that they had captured as test subjects for new more devastating weapons, not to mention that these aliens were no longer fighting the humans, but instead the rebels had abducted them from their homes, most of the rebels where vet's from the human covenant war who still held a grudge, some suffered from PTSD.
"I don't see what all the fuss is about anyway, there only aliens" Shepard stated
"It's thinking like that, that will start a second war" Gav retorted
"Whatever, let's just extract them and grab the data, then we can get going" Shepard replied as he moved over to the cages to release the trapped Elites and Grunts. While Gav and Alana moved to the computers leaving Alessa and Jason to keep guard.
"Um Gav your gunna want to see this" Alana stated pointing to an email on the main research monitor
"What's up?" Gav asked
"According to this the Rebels weren't working of their own accord, instead they were receiving funding from an outside source to research the weapons, apparently the client wanted the best tech for killing aliens" Alana stated
"Does it say why?" he asked
"No but the price tag in pretty big, one billion credits for as many working prototypes they could design" Alana replied
"Damn ok well get the data and we can show Wash once we get back" he stated
"Ok on it" she replied
"Ok prisoners secured" Shepard stated
"Right then, Warhammer move out, L.Z isn't too far"
~20 minutes later on the pelican back to the Excalibur~
"Have you ever been in the situation where you're not killing our kind human?" one of the elites asked Gavin
"Yes one of our old squad members was an Elite" he replied
"And you fought together" the elite stated "perhaps there is hope for coexistence after all"
~Alpha team~
"Hey North you seen Tex?" Carolina asked as they hid behind a dumpster taking cover from several automated turrets.
Just as Carolina asked a shimmer moved past them and past the turrets, in a flash of brilliance the turrets sparked and powered down bullet holes riddling there power units, Tex deactivated her camo and holstered her weapons.
"Oh there she is" Carolina chuckled
"You guys comfy behind there?" Tex taunted
"Oh yeah very comfortable, bit smelly though" North laughed back
"You think the others are running into such a large amount resistance? That's the fifth set of turrets" Carolina asked
"Yeah probably but I'm sure they can handle it" Tex replied
(Comms) "Tex can you come give us a hand, it's like the whole base if trying to kill us" Tucker shouted through their helmets
"That would be because the whole base is trying to kill us" Carolina remarked
"We're on our way" Tex replied over the comm
"Let's go guys" Tex said to her two comrades "let's go save the dead weight"
Alpha team has been sent on the rare mission of clearing out an old military base, they had been told most of the systems where offline but that wasn't the case, there were combat Bots, lasers and turrets all programmed to kill intruders.
Tucker and the rest of Alpha team were pinned down by a group of Bots and turrets, Tucker and Junior were deflecting the shots from the turrets as the reds and blues tried to take out the advancing Bots but every time they tried the enemy fire would stop them from getting any shots off, if only they could take care of the turrets.
That was when Tucker got an idea, in one fluid movement he deflected one of the turrets shot back at the turret destroying the unit's camera causing it to start shooting everywhere taking out some of the Bots and the other turret before blowing but itself.
"good going Blue not lets waste these dirt bags" Sarge yelled as he reloaded his shot gun and popped up from cover followed by the rest of them and let loose a barrage of bullets into the Bots destroying them all in once attack.
"Well done" Tex stated as she walked into the room followed by Carolina and North "I knew you'd figure it out eventually, but the fact you survived is proof enough you've improved a great amount, so really well done guys"
"ummm thanks" Tucker replied surprised by Tex's kind words
"Of course we could have beaten them in less than half the time but you still did ok" she stated
"And there is the Bitch Tex we all know and love" Carolina Chuckled
"Speak for yourself, I could get used to Tex complimenting us" Simmons stated
"Well tough luck, it won't happen again" Tex replied as she turned on her comms "Pelican 141 this is Alpha team, objective complete, making out way back to you"
"Roger that, I'll have Tea and Cake waiting for you" the male pilot laughed
"Careful, don't make a promise you can't keep especially when it's to do with women and chocolate" Carolina added over the radio
"Ok let's get going guys" Tex stated as the group moved out towards the pelican.
~Excalibur~
Wash was sitting in his office he had gotten old the past few years, his hair had gotten more grey around the edges but his wrinkles had been kept at bay some home, he was still fit and even went on a mission ever now and then, Epsilon was sitting on his desk like a desk toy.
"You think the data Warhammer brought back is connected?" Wash asked
"You already know the answer to that" Epsilon replied
"ugh… we're going to need" Wash looking at Epsilon "him"
"I don't think that is a good idea, putting all the obvious reasons aside, he has been out of the game a long time, sixteen years off of the field isn't good for ones combat skill" Epsilon replied
"That may be true but you know it would be his knowledge that we need more, I mean do you know anyone else that has experience in this kind thing?" Wash responded
"umm let me think, Tex for one" Epsilon retorted
"You know Tex doesn't have the info on this, and even if she did she couldn't pull it off, not alone, but with him we might just pull it off" Wash countered
"What makes you think he will even want to come back? He has gone sixteen years without one piece of contact, not even a charismas card, and how exactly do we go about finding him? It's not like we have any leads" Epsilon replied
"Well we can cross that bridge when we get there and as for finding him we do have one lead, apparently there is a DJ called the pope in a nightclub called the wolf who wears armour similar to his and its Cobalt in colour" Wash stated
"Ok then fine, I just hope the teams agree to this" E stated
"Oh it won't be all of them, only the ones he was closest too" Wash reassured
"Ok then, let's go find the man himself" E stood up making his sniper appear in his arms. "Let's go find Church…"
~Church~
Church sat in his house, it was old fashioned, single floor and big, it sat on the beach with a large warehouse right next to it, he had a lot of land too, and he lived just on the outskirts of a city, close enough to go there each day bit far enough to go un-noticed.
He sat looking out his study's windows as the tide came in, the sun setting on the horizon, suddenly he heard a door close and footsteps walked through the hallway.
"And where do you think your going?" he asked
"Just out to the club, the staff said the audience was getting a little roudy" the figure replied
"You know the rules" he stated
"Yeah I know, no boys, no drugs all that stuff and be home by one am" the female voice responded
"That's my girl, have fun" Church smiled as his Daughter walked out the front door.
"Bye Daddy see you later, Love you"
"Love you too"
Church waited a few minutes before getting in his car drove into the city, and chuckled as he passed the bus his Daughter had gotten onto, he pulled up outside the club and walked inside, he ordered a Rum and coke before sitting down at the bar waiting as he did every night his Daughter went to the club, she would never let him hear her music, she thought he would be disappointed that she was a DJ and not a doctor like her grades suggested she would be, so she lied and said she was a waitress in the club to earn money, truth be told Church was proud of her, he was happy she had found something she enjoyed, plus she didn't know it but she was bringing people to the club he secretly owned to channel money, life was good, but it was all about to change.
But would it be for the better or the worse.