Chapter 2
In the middle of what looked like a deserted canyon Virginia, Montana & Psi looked around as to where Kanas had currently taken the group.
"Hey Kansas, what it this?" Virginia asked her friend very confused. "Blood Gulch, This is where the Director & Counsellor send the Alpha after the incident" Montana responded, He said referring to the break-in lead by Tex. I want to hear about how you know that, but first, can you explain this smell?" Virginia said while Waving his hand in front of his face. "Good question." Montana add putting his helmet back on.
"The Director & Counsellor had assigned Agent Florida to keep the Alpha safe & by implanting him in a solider then locking him & a few simulation troopers in a box canon, then making think they were at war with one another, by playing a game of capture the flag, they managed to avoid any questions as to what's going on, But after the whole thing with Tex & Wyoming it was seen as a better idea to have the Alpha reassigned to some place alone, as for everyone else they were either transferred or left & now there is only trooper left here, she now uses this place for raves but we don't have to worry about her now." Kansas Answered with a smile on her face, while they all started cleaning up after a rave.
"SO YOU 2 JUST KNOW THIS! YOU BOTH KEEPED THIS FROM ME!" Virginia shouted angrily yelled at her 2 partners
"It wasn't like aimed to hide it, if something happened to Florida it someone would be send to take over, was a short list." Montana informed her trying to calm her down. Sounding like he regretted something.
"So who else was on this list?" Virginia started calming down to how because she wanted to hear how much the 2 really knew about this. "After Florida there was California, Hawii and Oregon, each of us were choosen for a specific reason, in order of the list it was Cal for his strangth, Hawii for his over all skill in long range, Kanasa for her many talents, then me & Oregon was a last resort in case the rest of failed." Mon was explaning why that were on the list were choosen. Helping clean up to make some space to work.
"I'm assuming you were to be sent here because of your strategically mind to build a strategy to prevent anything from happening to the alpha or it's host" The floating A.I questioned Mon "Right Psi, but from what i understand the alpha's host body somebody named Private Jimmy died when a canon missed fired killing him & the Alpha believed he was ghost." Mon said sounding remorseful, like it was his fault.
"How to you know that anyway? What let guess only the people on the list were fully aware of what happened here." Virginia asked Montana, while throwing a lot of empty bottles & other stuff away, being very careful were she stepped, what she pick up. "Nah, The Counsellor interviewed one of soldiers originally stationed here, none of it made much scene manly because it was crazy, but from what I understand, they believed Tex & Alpha were ghosts, had travelled through time, a guy turned into a cyborg, a talking boom named Andy and an alien impregnating a guy on the blue team and it also brought a dead guy back to life." Montana Recalled what he had seen in the interviewed with the one in pink armor. "Okay, That makes perfect scene." Virginia responded sacristy, Shaking her head as if she had understood. "Don't worry V, I wasn't following part of it either." Kansas added
After finally finishing cleaning up (Yeah, the cleaned up all of Blood Gulch) they started to walk up to a where there is a big computer having to reboot the it as someone had removed VIC not to long ago, but with Psi they were able to run the systems for now. Virginia & Kansas started updating the computer as much as they could, while Montana finished the machine to help stabilize the Alpha. "The device is finished & ready to go if you guys are done." Montana pointed out while standing up from what looked like a A.I Storage Unit. "I got to say it's actually in good shape, concidering the way you brought it to me." Kansas said looking over at the storage unit. "Yeah, well it orginal held the Epsilon unit, & Charon Industries didn't try to fix or anything, just looks like they put it on a shelf & left it there." Montana said leaning up against the wall waiting for the computer started updating (very slowly).
"Something has been bothering me, since you found me. If the UNSC shut down Project Freelancer, any agent caught was arrested & any agent not caught had an warrant out for their arrest. Then why is there no warrant on you?" Kansas Asked Montana. Montana looked to the ground, then back up at the 2 people he had brought in to this "The UNSC found me, giving me a choice I could help them track down the worst there is or spend the rest of my live lock up, if I said yes, they wouldn't interfere or ask questions about how i caught them." Waiting for the computer to finish updating. 5%
"Why did have to avoid them? Why did end up in a fight with them at sidewinder?" Kansas said confused. Psi appeared in front of them saying "If I may, Mon's condition of release is to not interfere with official UNSC business unless ordered, like removing any form of evidence from a Project Freelancer location." "How's it going Psi? Everything ready yet" Virginia said walking over Computer at 10% "We have to wait until the computer has fully finished, before we can continue." Psi said "Yeah, this is a old system, not to mention I think something was wrong with the system from the beginning. Anyway, Mon go on." Kansas told the group then asking Montana to get back to he's explanation.
Montana continued "Like I said before I was task with tracking down the worst & they wouldn't question how, but if I was caught then the higher ups will pretty much deny I was working for them, The Director heard about this and he send a file with everything about a the back up A.I's." "So the Director send you the files before he died, keeping them away from certain people." Kansas said while throw bottles of water to her friends. Virginia guessed as to who the files had to stay away from "The director wanted you to keep them away from people like Hargrove, or those mercenaries that were on Chorus awhile back or your bosses at the UNSC."
"Yeah, them & defiantly not the one I'm going after this. I could use any advantage I can get." Montana said with a serious look in his eyes, Virginia & Kansas looked at each other confused. Agent Montana was always somebody who could out think most of the other agents at Project Freelancer & hold himself against agents like York or Carolina. Yet never focus on to be on top of the leader board. So who was this person that Montana going after a member of the Insurrectionist, another agent, a former criminal was it someone the would have even thought of.
Montana looked over at the computer "Psi, much longer will the updates take?" "By my calculations were going to be several hours I suggest get some rest while you have the chance." Psi informed the group. "It's okay Psi." Virginia said as everyone looked at the Computer going from 10 to 11%, The 3 agents looked at each other, all sitting down, each taking turns sleeping. "Hey Mon, V wake up the computers finished." As Kansas Gentle slapping the 2 of them in the face.
"Okay, Let's go" Virginia was saying as she stood up rubbing her eyes. "Let's see here's the back ups of Alpha, Beta, Delta, Theta, Sigma, Omega, Psi, Lota, Eta, Epsilon, Gamma, Zeta & Rho." Montana said.
Virginia was confused & asked the other "Why did they even have a back up of the Alpha?" Kansas looked at the A.I chips saying surprised not at there
being an Alpha A.I but seeing a Beta A.I "I'm guessing they made this file before he was sent to Blood Gulch in case the Alpha was destroyed, What I'm surprised about is there's still a file on beta, I thought the Director used every file of the Beta A.I. trying to recreated Allison." The 2 girls looked at each other trying to figure out what was Montana was not telling them.
"Guys, the plan is the combine all the fragments into a single A.I., right?" Kansas asked about there plan.
"Yeah, but first we need to stabilize them. Remember they've been locked in failing ship & being computer programs, I think the systems might be a little fuzzy & the storage unit can stabilize each one of them." Montana said hooking up the unit to the computer.
"I know that, but the Alpha was pretty much very useful, had very bad aim but still useful never the less." Virginia heard Kansas voice it had sounded the she knew the Alpha personal, she understood what Kansas was thinking, instead of combining the A.I's she was thinking of using them as separate A.I's. "Hey Kansas, have you meet the alpha before?" Virginia asked as she looked right at Kansas expecting a complete & truthful answer, not just a quick yes or no, I've meet the fragments but a real anwser.