p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"strongOk I'm just gunna say it starts off after reconstruction./strong/p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"He still couldn't believe his luck, then again after so much bad luck church did deserve a bit of good luck, he had known once he entered the Meta's suit he would be destroyed by the E.M.P pulse and he had excepted this as his fate, he now he knew he was just a copy of the director a man who tortured and segmented him only to dump him in a back water, useless and boring canyon. Church had excepted his fate, so he was very surprised to find out the Meta had make some very interesting additions to his armour that Wash had not realised, the Meta with the help of Delta no doubt, had procured E.M.P shielding equipment, Delta must have realised what Wash was going to do, maybe even before Wash did himself./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"When the E.M.P activated, most of the Meta's systems went offline but the shielding kept the core systems functional like the A.I chips, but not the suits other systems so the Meta's suit locked up effectively locking him in place unable to move, so church had to wait in the Meta's armour until someone or something that had the room for a full A.I turned up, and in that time the fragments wouldn't stop talking amongst them selves, but after some time it was Delta who was the first that directly spoke to church, Delta was the A.I church was most likely to communicate to, Delta asked many many questions which were a collection that all the A.I fragments had decided they wanted to ask, "how do you feel" was the first Question and after getting an approving answer of "nice to be alive, kinda", after this answer Delta let lose a barrage of questions, and the A.I fragments were becoming more and more aggressive with the questions turning into demands for answers when Church didn't have them, in the end it was Delta who was keeping the other A.I fragments from trying to combine with Church but he was only one A.I fragment against many, and eventually the others got past his fire walls and tried to attach them selves to Church./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"But salvation had arrived as the first of many soldiers began to enter the freelancer facility, and Church took his chance and jumped into one of there suits hoping for the best, but he didn't leave before thanking Delta, the green A.I simply nodded his head as Church escaped the Meta's body, the soldier he ended up in was a man named Gavin Jones and he was a British soldier who had been briefed like all the others about what the facility stored, he kept calm and took Church to his superiors who then took Church to there command./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Church spent a week inside Jones's A.I slot, the British solder was a lot like Church, he to hated most of his squad mainly because they couldn't pronounce his name right, but unlike Church he could fight at least reasonably well, through the week Church and Jones became friends which was strange for Church, the only person he had ever considered close to being a friend was Tucker, wash or Tex, but with tucker it was more of a forced friendship mainly because they were both stuck in the same canyon for years and partly because it was nicer talking to him then Caboose, Wash was ok and he did tell church about him being the Alpha but also used him to distract the Meta even if there wasn't another solution he still left Church for dead and then there is Tex, Church and Tex's relationship wasn't what you would call functional but in a way it seemed right, all the time Church was in Blood Gulch the only thing that made it bearable was the Fact he got to see Tex again, even if it was all programmed and designed for them to be together and love each other, it was still something Church cherished but she was gone now she died or was corrupted or what ever in that pelican crash he robotic body had no A.I in it./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Jones was different, Church actually liked him and chose to stay in his A.I slot, and surprisingly Jones liked Church to, they would talk about past adventures and it turned out Jones had met Caboose and unfortunately shot Church with a Stun pistol when he was in his floaty ball body, but Church let it go, its not like it had any ill effects, on the Sunday Church was called to an off site facility where he would meet some high up guy in the military who was apparently talking to the director and had found a way to convict him he was a commissioner or something, Church though he heard the word sub comity chairmen at one point but didn't really care, he just wanted to do something, knowing he was an A.I had changed his perspective on life well as close to life as he was, he wanted to make a difference he wasn't just some asshole in a canyon put there because the army didn't think he was worthy to fight, hell when he thought about it he wasn't even given proper training, then again those might just be fake memory's, Jones now stood in front of the chairmen guy Church standing on Jones's shoulder looking at the man./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""have you been told why you are here Alpha" the chairmen asked/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""he prefers Church, he's kinda sensitive about it" Jones replied before Church could speak/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""the A.I has preferences, I was right, the Alp-. Church is not just an A.I but an A.I fully in the Meta stage, he is considered fully human and shall be treated as such from now on" the chairmen stated/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""so I'll be treated like a human now, sweet" Church commented, the chairmen smiling at the cobalt A.I./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""and now, you have a choice" the chairmen began "this facility is filled with what remains of project Freelancer, the armour, the data, the equipment, all of it put to rest, but we have found something I think you would be interested in" he lifted up his hand and made a strongcome here /strongmotion./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"At the chairmen's command a forklift moved up and lowered a cylindrical metal tube about a meter wide and two and a half meters high, almost on cue once it touched the ground a door slid open showing what was inside, at first what was inside was concealed behind a thick mist that escaped into the air as the door opened, Jones swatted his hand at the mist moving it out of his face./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""that stuff stinks" he muttered holding his nose/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""its times like this I'm glad I don't have a nose" church chuckled/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""ugh" Jones sighed and then gasped when he saw what the cylinder contained, as the mist faded there stood a body, it was held up by straps at its wrists and feet with straps around its waist and neck, the body had ink black hair and light blue eyes which were open and were creeping Jones out, the body was muscular but not extremely, the muscles were outlined but not excessive, the face had sharp and hansom features with light stubble covering its cheeks and chin, the most disturbing thing was the body was completely naked from head to toe./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Church's A.I hologram stood up straight and looked at the body his helmet moving up and down examining the body. "is this what I think it is" he asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""well if you think it is a clone of the director of project freelancer that is not exact, and is capable of holding an artificial intelligence in it. Then yes you are right" the chairmen said nodding to someone standing behind Jones, Jones turned and suddenly saluted the man that stood before him, the man had greyish black hair with white sideburns, he wore a suit of steel coloured armour with yellow trim, his face looked worn and he had a slight limp as he walked over, he stopped when he saw Church standing on Jones's shoulder and adopted a face of regret./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Wash" Church asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""yes, agent Washington was able to give us vital information of what happened in the project after we recovered him from the freelancer HQ, he also helped us in the discovery of this clone" the chairmen stated/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""well, I guess I cant get mad about sacrificing me to the meta and that E.M.P pulse now can I?" Church said his tone showed signs of annoyance but also joy./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""its...good, to see you made it out, I guess the Meta taking Delta was a good thing huh" Wash replied his once sad face now had signs of happiness at Church's words./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""now I don't mean to be rude but what can you tell me about this body I mean I can use it right" Church said./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""ok, well its a clone of the director but it isn't exact, not everything about a person is in the DNA, some of it is chance and some is up to where the person was raised so there are some differences like while the clone looks similar to the director it isn't the exact same and more obviously the eyes are not green like Carolina's, they are blue" Wash continued "it is also designed to hold an A.I unit and turn its electrical signals into the electrical impulses that the brain uses, effectively turning an A.I into a human, the body breaths, eats uses the toilet, bleeds and can take damage, more importantly the processes means once the body gets old and dies the A.I will die with it the electrical impulses ceasing to function effectively deleting the A.I from existence"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"there was silence as Jones and Church took in the information, Jones had spent enough time talking to Church that he knew Church wanted to be human, wanted to make a difference, and a human body would help, giving him a face, that would give him the ability to live his own life./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""so" church said pausing before continuing turning his helmet from wash to the body "how do I get in there"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I would have though you would want to think about it" the chairmen said/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""yeah well, I cant think with out a mind, a brain, not properly so I would really appreciate having a body thanks" Church replied, seeming agitated at the chairmen's question like all he wanted was to be in the body./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""there is one more thing Church" Wash said getting Church's attention "this body is now the property of the U.N.S.C so if you take the body you will technically become the property of the U.N.S.C again, at least for a while"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""a while" Church asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""until we can be sure you are different from the director and that you wont get into trouble" the chairmen began "if you chose to use this body you will have a few choices and all of them consist of staying in the army, and all of them have a handler with you who will stay with you until a time we see you as fit to leave our care"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""more like custody" church muttered trying to think./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""its not like that, its just you are a copy of a very hated man, who did terrible thing, and the U.N.S.C just want to make sure your not like him" Wash said/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""you do know most of the terrible stuff he did was to me right" Church said, not amused./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""that doesn't change anything, now what do you say" the chairmen asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""ok...ok...I'm ready for a second chance at life" church said/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""all you have to do is move inside it, and it should automatically transfer you into it" wash said/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""ok but before I do, why did the director make the clone" church asked leaving Jones's A.I slot and slowly moving towards the body./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I think he made it for you, so you could be human one day, I guess he made it before he did what he did to you" wash said as church now stood only inches away from the body./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""here goes nothing" he said and moved into the body./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"The transition wasn't quick, as he sat up his vision was white and it hurt when he opened his eyes, the sudden realisation that he was in a real human body struck him and felt a rush of adrenaline coarse through his system as his vision cleared, he was sitting up on a bed in a white room, to his right sat an asleep Jones, he had a magazine on his lap and his eyes hidden under a U.N.S.C military hat, the room had a strange feel to it, which sent a chill up church's spine, all the feelings of being in a human body still rushing threw him, he moved his feet to the side and let them touch the floor the cold touch to his skin surprised him, Church was wearing a hospital gown and nothing else, he stood up and immediately fell to the floor face first. "son of a bitch" me said as he rubbed his chin, he turned at the sound of Jones laughing as felt his arms grab Church's shoulders and pull Church back onto his feet and held him there until Church had gotten his balance./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""thanks" church began "so urrr how long was I out"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""two weeks, you needed time to fully sync with your new body" Jones's British accent was even more clear when heard with real ears./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""where's wash or that chairmen guy"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""they'll be here in around an hour, they come by every day around the same time to see if you've woken up"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""what about you, how long have you been here" church asked rubbing the back of his neck./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""well since iv been given a new assignment iv been here mostly, I mean iv left to eat and sleep but been here for most of the two weeks" Jones replied giving a smile, and it was only now Church realised Jones had a small beard where he hadn't shaved./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""what's the new assignment" Church asked curiously./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I'm your handler, looks like we'll be spending some more time together huh, I think they wanted to give you someone you liked" Jones replied/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""they were right" church said and Jones smiled "but if they wanted to give me someone I liked then why did they put you with me" the smile on Jones's face dropped and Church chuckled./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I'm only kidding, I'm glad they chose you" church said and Jones chuckled as he glanced at Church's gown./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Wash dropped off some cloths last time he was here, said they should fit you" Jones dropped a pair of underwear, socks, a pair of light blue jeans and a white top with the U.N.S.C acronym and emblem on the left of the chest./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Church picked up the cloths and Jones left the room to let Church change, once changed Church walk/stumbled out the door of the room and stopped next to Jones, after changing and walking around a bit Church was getting used to his new body and an hour quickly came and went, they were walking around in the garden part of the hospital, Church smelling the flowers when wash and the chairmen walked up./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""ah, there you are, we've been looking for you, come on lets talk inside" the chairmen rasped as he let Church and Jones into a conference room./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""how are you feeling Church" Wash asked/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""oh I'm pretty good wash" church smirked at the ex-freelancer and wash smirked back "I feel fucking amazing, I'm alive wash how do you think I feel"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I should have guessed the answer huh" he replied/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""yeah you should have" Church replied/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""mister church" the chairmen began "you have two choices, you can either stay here for a year or go off the military training for six months, in both mister Jones will accompany you"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Church though long and hard on this question, he was finally alive and able the do things, did he really want to join the army again, he tried it once and he ended up in a back water canyon but that wasn't his fault, and the idea of fighting for humanity against aliens didn't sound to bad, much better then sitting around on his ass all day in a hospital./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I'll do training for six months, hell I'll probably join up afterwards anyway" Church said smiling and wash had a look of shock on his face./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""you actually want to train, to be a soldier, a proper soldier" Wash's mouth hung wide open./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""yeah, I do" Church replied/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""ok then, you and mister Jones will ship out to a training base on earth in one week, good luck gentlemen" the chairmen then turned and walked away leaving Wash standing there./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""one week, ok, what armour will I be using" Church asked/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""the armour you had before, you already know how to use it, why not keep using it" Wash replied "and Jones can have a suit of armour to, we have plenty spare from project freelancer" Wash then walked off following in the chairmen's direction./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Church turned to Jones and smiled, Jones returned the smiled and they went to get food, Church eager to see what eating was like./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"After a few days they're armour arrived, church's cobalt armour and Jones's armour, Jones was very pleased with this new protection, it was very high tech and way above what he would be given normally, his armour was dark red like a red wine, with cobalt details, he had a CQB chest with EVA shoulder his helmet was the same as church's a mark IV. They used the few days they had left at the hospital getting used to their armour, church had never noticed because he was in a robotic body but the suits were very comfortable and they increased a persons speed and strength considerably, but just how much they weren't sure of yet, once the week was up the duo was shipped off to the training base, at first the other marines didn't like church or Jones, the marines in training didn't have fancy armour like they did only the standard issue body armour which didn't grant the strength and speed boost or had as much protection as the armour Church and Jones had./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"But there were a few who liked Church and Jones, mainly some guys who had ODST armour that had been given to them by a private contractor, probably to show its effectiveness, to begin with the training was minor, they would run drills and Church found himself saluting, marching and following orders. It surprised Church that he was coping with this new change, he was slowly going from a wannabe soldier to a proper one but he still had a long way to go, after the first month they began hand-to-hand combat drills where the marines in training would fight each other learning new moves and ways of blocking plus also how to use their combat knives, church didn't have a combat knife slot on his armour so Jones got one for him and attached it to his amour on the left side of this chest plate the handle facing down so he could grab it easily./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"The training was going well so far, the superiors were slowly becoming less and less strict as the soldier became more and more disciplined and Church had become the most disciplined of them all, following every order and saluting every superior, it had become second nature to him now, but Church became very worried when they stopped training in close quarter combat and began to train with fire arms, Jones reassured him whenever possible knowing from his story's he was a terrible shot, before the proper training began Jones decided to give him a few lessons just to get him to a normal understanding so church could hit the target, because of this when the training finally began Church could hold the weapon's properly and had a rudimentary understanding of how they functioned with basic skills of field striping them, but with the training church became an ace shot with the sniper and was not to be messed with when he had a battle rifle but above all, he was perfect with the The M6C/SOCOM or better known as the strongM6S, /strongwhen church first got his hands on this ODST weapon he knew it was made for him, the weight felt just right in his hands and a build in silencer with muzzle brake were perfect, and the torch was an added bonus, whenever they did training exercises church would always pick it while everyone else picked the standard magnum even the marines in ODST armour preferred the standard version./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"In the six months church had spent at the training base he had been disciplined, trained to fight with his hands and guns alike and he and Jones were now as close as brothers, they knew what each other were going to do in combat and could guess what the others next move would be allowing them to work in a completely synchronised way, they were the best the base had trained in that six months, but the six months were over now, Church and Jones were leaving, the ODST armoured marines who had liked them were moving off to start advanced training with some others who were joining up with the ODST's, Church now stood in his bunk house the only one still packing as everyone else had already left taking their stuff with them, despite the hard work and the drills this had been the best time of Church's life, even if it technically was the first thing he had done in his life, Church heard a grunt behind him and turned to see the chairmen with Jones and Wash standing behind him, church instantly saluted the man who smiled./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""You have done well corporal church" the chairmen rasped./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""C-corporal" Church stuttered surprised./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""well if you choose to accept our next offer" Wash butted it./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""and what's that" Church asked amazed they would give him the rank right out of training./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""we're making a squad, one that will work on specific missions for the U.N.S.C, we need good people and good people means people we can trust, and with you being who you are I believe you can be trusted, if you choose to join you will be second in command of this squad the Sargent leading you is called Shepard" the chairmen said smiling as he spoke./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""is Jones going to be in this special task force" church asked motioning to Jones/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""well we were planning on giving you the choice to pick who you would want to take with you from training but i guessed who you would pick, yes, private Jones will be accompanying you in this group" the chairmen replied/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""ok I'll do it" church said smiling and sent a nod to Jones./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""good, you and Jones will now come with us to meet the rest of the squad and see how you all work together to fight" the chairmen replied./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"After Church and Jones were fully packed and ready to go, they took off in a pelican, they went straight away and landed in the landing bay of a large ship with the words, strongExcalibur./strong On the side. Once they landed Wash took them to meet they're squad, they entered a large room that over looked a training floor, now church realised what this ship used to be, this ship was once named the strongmother of intervention./strongThe directors ship for project freelancer. In the room stood five figures, three of them women and two of them men, one of the men stood looking through the glass at the training room, while the other stood straight up right and was saluting Wash, church presumed he was Shepard, two of the women sat on a bench talking and using there phones, while the third stood checking over a rifle./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"As the others noticed that Church, Jones and wash had walked in they stood in a line and saluted, church saluted back along with Jones while Wash simply stood there out ranking them all./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""ok listen up" Wash began "these are your final squad mates, get to know them, hopefully they will be with you for a long time" that last bit sent a slight shiver up Church's spine but he shook It off./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Wash then left the room leaving Church and Jones with they're squad, who were walking over to them, "Hi, I'm staff sergeant Shepherd" the man who had been saluting first said reaching out his hand, and as church shook his sergeants hand he got a good look at his face, he had greyed hair and had a worn face and eyes that had seen a lot of battle, he must have been around fifty, then the other man who had been looking at the training floor, shook church and Jones's hands smiling. "Hi, I'm lance corporal scot first names Jason" Jason had dark brown hair and grey eyes, he looked young maybe the same age as Jones which was around twenty one, then the women walked over the first had brown hair, blue eyes and a pretty face, she had been one of the women on the bench with her phone. "hey, I'm lance corporal Beth, my first name is Alana" she said shaking Church and Jones's hands, next was the other women who had been on the bench, she looked older then Alana, but not by much, they looked very similar and shared the same hair colour but her eyes were a dark brown, "Hi, I'm lance corporal Beth my first name is Alessa I'm Alana's older sister" Alessa explained shaking Church and Jones's hands./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Lastly was the women who had been checking over the rifle she had fiery red hair and emerald green eyes she reminded Church of Tex but Tex had harder features, where as this women had soft features and stood with her hip out and her hand resting against it, even through her body armour it was clear she was well endowed the two large bumps very prominent under her breast plate, she smirked as she shook Church's hand. "I'm lance corporal hawthorn, first names Ashley, nice to meet you" she said./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Church smiled back, Ashley was very beautiful with a very small amount of eye liner and eye shadow, Church let himself relax as he spoke. "I'm corporal Church, first names Leonard, this is my buddy" Church motions to Jones who smiled to the group. "he's private Jones, his first name is Gavin, you may be thinking why is a private in the group, will he be good enough?, well I can assure you, he is more then ready"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""hello chaps" Jones said letting his British accent fully flow getting a few smirks from the others./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I take it your my second in command then" Shepard asked/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""that's correct Sir" church replied, letting his training kick in replying with Sir./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""well you seem to be a good guy, but I don't know how you fight, hell I don't know how any of you fight so, were gunna do some training down on the floor, I hope the private can keep up" Shepard said and Jones looked a bit annoyed at the comment but was ready to prove himself./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""you lead the way, Sir" church said letting the Sarge go first then the rest of the squad following behind him./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Once they made it to the floor they all stood in the middle in a line in front of the sarge./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""ok, we'll see how you all do against some bots, and then we'll do some hand-to-hand combat, then to finish off we'll be going to a forest on a near by planet for some paint ball, where I'll get to see your tactical prowess" Shepard turned to church. "I'm hoping for good things from you Church"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""you wont be disappointed Sir" Jones said before Church could reply./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"The sarge looked annoyed at the interruption but let it go. "we'll see"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"the others left the training floor leaving Church to fight the bots first, he had his sniper on his back with his M6S attached to his hip, there was a shot gun and battle rifle on a gun rack on the wall in case he needed a new weapon, and an ammo chest next to them if Church ran out of ammo, Church stood in the middle of the room his sniper in his hands and held against his shoulder aimed at the door the bots came out of, there was a creaking and the sound of metal against the metal, the bots, suddenly church's motion sensor picked up enemy's behind him. "shit other door" he cursed turning to see bots pouring into the room with there stun guns raised, Church raised his sniper after truing around and took aim as the Bots fired./p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"strongHey guys, this is a kinda new thing for me, I don't normally do a third person story, but now I'm doing it, I kinda like it, iv taken inspiration from the story Cobalt army written by firerwolf, she is a very good writer and makes some amazing story's, this story will not be the same as cobalt army you can be assured of that, and don't worry the others from blood Gulch will be here two you just have to give it time, any way that's it from me, Church out./strong/p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"He still couldn't believe his luck, then again after so much bad luck church did deserve a bit of good luck, he had known once he entered the Meta's suit he would be destroyed by the E.M.P pulse and he had excepted this as his fate, he now he knew he was just a copy of the director a man who tortured and segmented him only to dump him in a back water, useless and boring canyon. Church had excepted his fate, so he was very surprised to find out the Meta had make some very interesting additions to his armour that Wash had not realised, the Meta with the help of Delta no doubt, had procured E.M.P shielding equipment, Delta must have realised what Wash was going to do, maybe even before Wash did himself./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"When the E.M.P activated, most of the Meta's systems went offline but the shielding kept the core systems functional like the A.I chips, but not the suits other systems so the Meta's suit locked up effectively locking him in place unable to move, so church had to wait in the Meta's armour until someone or something that had the room for a full A.I turned up, and in that time the fragments wouldn't stop talking amongst them selves, but after some time it was Delta who was the first that directly spoke to church, Delta was the A.I church was most likely to communicate to, Delta asked many many questions which were a collection that all the A.I fragments had decided they wanted to ask, "how do you feel" was the first Question and after getting an approving answer of "nice to be alive, kinda", after this answer Delta let lose a barrage of questions, and the A.I fragments were becoming more and more aggressive with the questions turning into demands for answers when Church didn't have them, in the end it was Delta who was keeping the other A.I fragments from trying to combine with Church but he was only one A.I fragment against many, and eventually the others got past his fire walls and tried to attach them selves to Church./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"But salvation had arrived as the first of many soldiers began to enter the freelancer facility, and Church took his chance and jumped into one of there suits hoping for the best, but he didn't leave before thanking Delta, the green A.I simply nodded his head as Church escaped the Meta's body, the soldier he ended up in was a man named Gavin Jones and he was a British soldier who had been briefed like all the others about what the facility stored, he kept calm and took Church to his superiors who then took Church to there command./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Church spent a week inside Jones's A.I slot, the British solder was a lot like Church, he to hated most of his squad mainly because they couldn't pronounce his name right, but unlike Church he could fight at least reasonably well, through the week Church and Jones became friends which was strange for Church, the only person he had ever considered close to being a friend was Tucker, wash or Tex, but with tucker it was more of a forced friendship mainly because they were both stuck in the same canyon for years and partly because it was nicer talking to him then Caboose, Wash was ok and he did tell church about him being the Alpha but also used him to distract the Meta even if there wasn't another solution he still left Church for dead and then there is Tex, Church and Tex's relationship wasn't what you would call functional but in a way it seemed right, all the time Church was in Blood Gulch the only thing that made it bearable was the Fact he got to see Tex again, even if it was all programmed and designed for them to be together and love each other, it was still something Church cherished but she was gone now she died or was corrupted or what ever in that pelican crash he robotic body had no A.I in it./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Jones was different, Church actually liked him and chose to stay in his A.I slot, and surprisingly Jones liked Church to, they would talk about past adventures and it turned out Jones had met Caboose and unfortunately shot Church with a Stun pistol when he was in his floaty ball body, but Church let it go, its not like it had any ill effects, on the Sunday Church was called to an off site facility where he would meet some high up guy in the military who was apparently talking to the director and had found a way to convict him he was a commissioner or something, Church though he heard the word sub comity chairmen at one point but didn't really care, he just wanted to do something, knowing he was an A.I had changed his perspective on life well as close to life as he was, he wanted to make a difference he wasn't just some asshole in a canyon put there because the army didn't think he was worthy to fight, hell when he thought about it he wasn't even given proper training, then again those might just be fake memory's, Jones now stood in front of the chairmen guy Church standing on Jones's shoulder looking at the man./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""have you been told why you are here Alpha" the chairmen asked/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""he prefers Church, he's kinda sensitive about it" Jones replied before Church could speak/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""the A.I has preferences, I was right, the Alp-. Church is not just an A.I but an A.I fully in the Meta stage, he is considered fully human and shall be treated as such from now on" the chairmen stated/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""so I'll be treated like a human now, sweet" Church commented, the chairmen smiling at the cobalt A.I./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""and now, you have a choice" the chairmen began "this facility is filled with what remains of project Freelancer, the armour, the data, the equipment, all of it put to rest, but we have found something I think you would be interested in" he lifted up his hand and made a strongcome here /strongmotion./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"At the chairmen's command a forklift moved up and lowered a cylindrical metal tube about a meter wide and two and a half meters high, almost on cue once it touched the ground a door slid open showing what was inside, at first what was inside was concealed behind a thick mist that escaped into the air as the door opened, Jones swatted his hand at the mist moving it out of his face./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""that stuff stinks" he muttered holding his nose/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""its times like this I'm glad I don't have a nose" church chuckled/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""ugh" Jones sighed and then gasped when he saw what the cylinder contained, as the mist faded there stood a body, it was held up by straps at its wrists and feet with straps around its waist and neck, the body had ink black hair and light blue eyes which were open and were creeping Jones out, the body was muscular but not extremely, the muscles were outlined but not excessive, the face had sharp and hansom features with light stubble covering its cheeks and chin, the most disturbing thing was the body was completely naked from head to toe./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Church's A.I hologram stood up straight and looked at the body his helmet moving up and down examining the body. "is this what I think it is" he asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""well if you think it is a clone of the director of project freelancer that is not exact, and is capable of holding an artificial intelligence in it. Then yes you are right" the chairmen said nodding to someone standing behind Jones, Jones turned and suddenly saluted the man that stood before him, the man had greyish black hair with white sideburns, he wore a suit of steel coloured armour with yellow trim, his face looked worn and he had a slight limp as he walked over, he stopped when he saw Church standing on Jones's shoulder and adopted a face of regret./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Wash" Church asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""yes, agent Washington was able to give us vital information of what happened in the project after we recovered him from the freelancer HQ, he also helped us in the discovery of this clone" the chairmen stated/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""well, I guess I cant get mad about sacrificing me to the meta and that E.M.P pulse now can I?" Church said his tone showed signs of annoyance but also joy./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""its...good, to see you made it out, I guess the Meta taking Delta was a good thing huh" Wash replied his once sad face now had signs of happiness at Church's words./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""now I don't mean to be rude but what can you tell me about this body I mean I can use it right" Church said./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""ok, well its a clone of the director but it isn't exact, not everything about a person is in the DNA, some of it is chance and some is up to where the person was raised so there are some differences like while the clone looks similar to the director it isn't the exact same and more obviously the eyes are not green like Carolina's, they are blue" Wash continued "it is also designed to hold an A.I unit and turn its electrical signals into the electrical impulses that the brain uses, effectively turning an A.I into a human, the body breaths, eats uses the toilet, bleeds and can take damage, more importantly the processes means once the body gets old and dies the A.I will die with it the electrical impulses ceasing to function effectively deleting the A.I from existence"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"there was silence as Jones and Church took in the information, Jones had spent enough time talking to Church that he knew Church wanted to be human, wanted to make a difference, and a human body would help, giving him a face, that would give him the ability to live his own life./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""so" church said pausing before continuing turning his helmet from wash to the body "how do I get in there"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I would have though you would want to think about it" the chairmen said/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""yeah well, I cant think with out a mind, a brain, not properly so I would really appreciate having a body thanks" Church replied, seeming agitated at the chairmen's question like all he wanted was to be in the body./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""there is one more thing Church" Wash said getting Church's attention "this body is now the property of the U.N.S.C so if you take the body you will technically become the property of the U.N.S.C again, at least for a while"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""a while" Church asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""until we can be sure you are different from the director and that you wont get into trouble" the chairmen began "if you chose to use this body you will have a few choices and all of them consist of staying in the army, and all of them have a handler with you who will stay with you until a time we see you as fit to leave our care"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""more like custody" church muttered trying to think./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""its not like that, its just you are a copy of a very hated man, who did terrible thing, and the U.N.S.C just want to make sure your not like him" Wash said/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""you do know most of the terrible stuff he did was to me right" Church said, not amused./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""that doesn't change anything, now what do you say" the chairmen asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""ok...ok...I'm ready for a second chance at life" church said/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""all you have to do is move inside it, and it should automatically transfer you into it" wash said/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""ok but before I do, why did the director make the clone" church asked leaving Jones's A.I slot and slowly moving towards the body./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I think he made it for you, so you could be human one day, I guess he made it before he did what he did to you" wash said as church now stood only inches away from the body./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""here goes nothing" he said and moved into the body./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"The transition wasn't quick, as he sat up his vision was white and it hurt when he opened his eyes, the sudden realisation that he was in a real human body struck him and felt a rush of adrenaline coarse through his system as his vision cleared, he was sitting up on a bed in a white room, to his right sat an asleep Jones, he had a magazine on his lap and his eyes hidden under a U.N.S.C military hat, the room had a strange feel to it, which sent a chill up church's spine, all the feelings of being in a human body still rushing threw him, he moved his feet to the side and let them touch the floor the cold touch to his skin surprised him, Church was wearing a hospital gown and nothing else, he stood up and immediately fell to the floor face first. "son of a bitch" me said as he rubbed his chin, he turned at the sound of Jones laughing as felt his arms grab Church's shoulders and pull Church back onto his feet and held him there until Church had gotten his balance./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""thanks" church began "so urrr how long was I out"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""two weeks, you needed time to fully sync with your new body" Jones's British accent was even more clear when heard with real ears./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""where's wash or that chairmen guy"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""they'll be here in around an hour, they come by every day around the same time to see if you've woken up"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""what about you, how long have you been here" church asked rubbing the back of his neck./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""well since iv been given a new assignment iv been here mostly, I mean iv left to eat and sleep but been here for most of the two weeks" Jones replied giving a smile, and it was only now Church realised Jones had a small beard where he hadn't shaved./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""what's the new assignment" Church asked curiously./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I'm your handler, looks like we'll be spending some more time together huh, I think they wanted to give you someone you liked" Jones replied/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""they were right" church said and Jones smiled "but if they wanted to give me someone I liked then why did they put you with me" the smile on Jones's face dropped and Church chuckled./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I'm only kidding, I'm glad they chose you" church said and Jones chuckled as he glanced at Church's gown./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Wash dropped off some cloths last time he was here, said they should fit you" Jones dropped a pair of underwear, socks, a pair of light blue jeans and a white top with the U.N.S.C acronym and emblem on the left of the chest./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Church picked up the cloths and Jones left the room to let Church change, once changed Church walk/stumbled out the door of the room and stopped next to Jones, after changing and walking around a bit Church was getting used to his new body and an hour quickly came and went, they were walking around in the garden part of the hospital, Church smelling the flowers when wash and the chairmen walked up./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""ah, there you are, we've been looking for you, come on lets talk inside" the chairmen rasped as he let Church and Jones into a conference room./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""how are you feeling Church" Wash asked/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""oh I'm pretty good wash" church smirked at the ex-freelancer and wash smirked back "I feel fucking amazing, I'm alive wash how do you think I feel"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I should have guessed the answer huh" he replied/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""yeah you should have" Church replied/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""mister church" the chairmen began "you have two choices, you can either stay here for a year or go off the military training for six months, in both mister Jones will accompany you"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Church though long and hard on this question, he was finally alive and able the do things, did he really want to join the army again, he tried it once and he ended up in a back water canyon but that wasn't his fault, and the idea of fighting for humanity against aliens didn't sound to bad, much better then sitting around on his ass all day in a hospital./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I'll do training for six months, hell I'll probably join up afterwards anyway" Church said smiling and wash had a look of shock on his face./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""you actually want to train, to be a soldier, a proper soldier" Wash's mouth hung wide open./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""yeah, I do" Church replied/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""ok then, you and mister Jones will ship out to a training base on earth in one week, good luck gentlemen" the chairmen then turned and walked away leaving Wash standing there./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""one week, ok, what armour will I be using" Church asked/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""the armour you had before, you already know how to use it, why not keep using it" Wash replied "and Jones can have a suit of armour to, we have plenty spare from project freelancer" Wash then walked off following in the chairmen's direction./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Church turned to Jones and smiled, Jones returned the smiled and they went to get food, Church eager to see what eating was like./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"After a few days they're armour arrived, church's cobalt armour and Jones's armour, Jones was very pleased with this new protection, it was very high tech and way above what he would be given normally, his armour was dark red like a red wine, with cobalt details, he had a CQB chest with EVA shoulder his helmet was the same as church's a mark IV. They used the few days they had left at the hospital getting used to their armour, church had never noticed because he was in a robotic body but the suits were very comfortable and they increased a persons speed and strength considerably, but just how much they weren't sure of yet, once the week was up the duo was shipped off to the training base, at first the other marines didn't like church or Jones, the marines in training didn't have fancy armour like they did only the standard issue body armour which didn't grant the strength and speed boost or had as much protection as the armour Church and Jones had./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"But there were a few who liked Church and Jones, mainly some guys who had ODST armour that had been given to them by a private contractor, probably to show its effectiveness, to begin with the training was minor, they would run drills and Church found himself saluting, marching and following orders. It surprised Church that he was coping with this new change, he was slowly going from a wannabe soldier to a proper one but he still had a long way to go, after the first month they began hand-to-hand combat drills where the marines in training would fight each other learning new moves and ways of blocking plus also how to use their combat knives, church didn't have a combat knife slot on his armour so Jones got one for him and attached it to his amour on the left side of this chest plate the handle facing down so he could grab it easily./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"The training was going well so far, the superiors were slowly becoming less and less strict as the soldier became more and more disciplined and Church had become the most disciplined of them all, following every order and saluting every superior, it had become second nature to him now, but Church became very worried when they stopped training in close quarter combat and began to train with fire arms, Jones reassured him whenever possible knowing from his story's he was a terrible shot, before the proper training began Jones decided to give him a few lessons just to get him to a normal understanding so church could hit the target, because of this when the training finally began Church could hold the weapon's properly and had a rudimentary understanding of how they functioned with basic skills of field striping them, but with the training church became an ace shot with the sniper and was not to be messed with when he had a battle rifle but above all, he was perfect with the The M6C/SOCOM or better known as the strongM6S, /strongwhen church first got his hands on this ODST weapon he knew it was made for him, the weight felt just right in his hands and a build in silencer with muzzle brake were perfect, and the torch was an added bonus, whenever they did training exercises church would always pick it while everyone else picked the standard magnum even the marines in ODST armour preferred the standard version./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"In the six months church had spent at the training base he had been disciplined, trained to fight with his hands and guns alike and he and Jones were now as close as brothers, they knew what each other were going to do in combat and could guess what the others next move would be allowing them to work in a completely synchronised way, they were the best the base had trained in that six months, but the six months were over now, Church and Jones were leaving, the ODST armoured marines who had liked them were moving off to start advanced training with some others who were joining up with the ODST's, Church now stood in his bunk house the only one still packing as everyone else had already left taking their stuff with them, despite the hard work and the drills this had been the best time of Church's life, even if it technically was the first thing he had done in his life, Church heard a grunt behind him and turned to see the chairmen with Jones and Wash standing behind him, church instantly saluted the man who smiled./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""You have done well corporal church" the chairmen rasped./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""C-corporal" Church stuttered surprised./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""well if you choose to accept our next offer" Wash butted it./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""and what's that" Church asked amazed they would give him the rank right out of training./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""we're making a squad, one that will work on specific missions for the U.N.S.C, we need good people and good people means people we can trust, and with you being who you are I believe you can be trusted, if you choose to join you will be second in command of this squad the Sargent leading you is called Shepard" the chairmen said smiling as he spoke./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""is Jones going to be in this special task force" church asked motioning to Jones/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""well we were planning on giving you the choice to pick who you would want to take with you from training but i guessed who you would pick, yes, private Jones will be accompanying you in this group" the chairmen replied/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""ok I'll do it" church said smiling and sent a nod to Jones./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""good, you and Jones will now come with us to meet the rest of the squad and see how you all work together to fight" the chairmen replied./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"After Church and Jones were fully packed and ready to go, they took off in a pelican, they went straight away and landed in the landing bay of a large ship with the words, strongExcalibur./strong On the side. Once they landed Wash took them to meet they're squad, they entered a large room that over looked a training floor, now church realised what this ship used to be, this ship was once named the strongmother of intervention./strongThe directors ship for project freelancer. In the room stood five figures, three of them women and two of them men, one of the men stood looking through the glass at the training room, while the other stood straight up right and was saluting Wash, church presumed he was Shepard, two of the women sat on a bench talking and using there phones, while the third stood checking over a rifle./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"As the others noticed that Church, Jones and wash had walked in they stood in a line and saluted, church saluted back along with Jones while Wash simply stood there out ranking them all./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""ok listen up" Wash began "these are your final squad mates, get to know them, hopefully they will be with you for a long time" that last bit sent a slight shiver up Church's spine but he shook It off./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Wash then left the room leaving Church and Jones with they're squad, who were walking over to them, "Hi, I'm staff sergeant Shepherd" the man who had been saluting first said reaching out his hand, and as church shook his sergeants hand he got a good look at his face, he had greyed hair and had a worn face and eyes that had seen a lot of battle, he must have been around fifty, then the other man who had been looking at the training floor, shook church and Jones's hands smiling. "Hi, I'm lance corporal scot first names Jason" Jason had dark brown hair and grey eyes, he looked young maybe the same age as Jones which was around twenty one, then the women walked over the first had brown hair, blue eyes and a pretty face, she had been one of the women on the bench with her phone. "hey, I'm lance corporal Beth, my first name is Alana" she said shaking Church and Jones's hands, next was the other women who had been on the bench, she looked older then Alana, but not by much, they looked very similar and shared the same hair colour but her eyes were a dark brown, "Hi, I'm lance corporal Beth my first name is Alessa I'm Alana's older sister" Alessa explained shaking Church and Jones's hands./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Lastly was the women who had been checking over the rifle she had fiery red hair and emerald green eyes she reminded Church of Tex but Tex had harder features, where as this women had soft features and stood with her hip out and her hand resting against it, even through her body armour it was clear she was well endowed the two large bumps very prominent under her breast plate, she smirked as she shook Church's hand. "I'm lance corporal hawthorn, first names Ashley, nice to meet you" she said./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Church smiled back, Ashley was very beautiful with a very small amount of eye liner and eye shadow, Church let himself relax as he spoke. "I'm corporal Church, first names Leonard, this is my buddy" Church motions to Jones who smiled to the group. "he's private Jones, his first name is Gavin, you may be thinking why is a private in the group, will he be good enough?, well I can assure you, he is more then ready"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""hello chaps" Jones said letting his British accent fully flow getting a few smirks from the others./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I take it your my second in command then" Shepard asked/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""that's correct Sir" church replied, letting his training kick in replying with Sir./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""well you seem to be a good guy, but I don't know how you fight, hell I don't know how any of you fight so, were gunna do some training down on the floor, I hope the private can keep up" Shepard said and Jones looked a bit annoyed at the comment but was ready to prove himself./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""you lead the way, Sir" church said letting the Sarge go first then the rest of the squad following behind him./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Once they made it to the floor they all stood in the middle in a line in front of the sarge./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""ok, we'll see how you all do against some bots, and then we'll do some hand-to-hand combat, then to finish off we'll be going to a forest on a near by planet for some paint ball, where I'll get to see your tactical prowess" Shepard turned to church. "I'm hoping for good things from you Church"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""you wont be disappointed Sir" Jones said before Church could reply./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"The sarge looked annoyed at the interruption but let it go. "we'll see"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"the others left the training floor leaving Church to fight the bots first, he had his sniper on his back with his M6S attached to his hip, there was a shot gun and battle rifle on a gun rack on the wall in case he needed a new weapon, and an ammo chest next to them if Church ran out of ammo, Church stood in the middle of the room his sniper in his hands and held against his shoulder aimed at the door the bots came out of, there was a creaking and the sound of metal against the metal, the bots, suddenly church's motion sensor picked up enemy's behind him. "shit other door" he cursed turning to see bots pouring into the room with there stun guns raised, Church raised his sniper after truing around and took aim as the Bots fired./p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"strongHey guys, this is a kinda new thing for me, I don't normally do a third person story, but now I'm doing it, I kinda like it, iv taken inspiration from the story Cobalt army written by firerwolf, she is a very good writer and makes some amazing story's, this story will not be the same as cobalt army you can be assured of that, and don't worry the others from blood Gulch will be here two you just have to give it time, any way that's it from me, Church out./strong/p