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Chapter 2

Retrieval


~Church~

Church burst in through the back of the club and hid on the stage scaffolding out of sight before calling Mandy.

"Mandy send the people in armour backstage and tell them that pope will see them once he takes a break" Church askes

"Ok will do" Mandy replied before cutting off the line.


~Tex~

Tex and the others were sitting in a booth waiting for something to happen, Tucker was even nodding his head to the music.

"You know Church isn't bad" Tucker said putting his hand behind his head.

"Yeah I don't know why but I feel like something is off" Wash replied

"Hi, if you wait backstage the pope will see you once he is on his break" Mandy stated and the group got up and went backstage

"Hmmm why did she send us back stage when we asked to see Cassy?" Carolina asked

"Maybe she knows who we are?" Gav suggested

"I don't know, I knew something was off" Tex stated

Then the music slowly faded away and the crowd cheered as the pope took a break and went backstage, the pope turned and saw the group of people standing there and tiled his head to the side slightly.

"Remove your helmet Church" Wash stated

"You must have me mistaken, I'm the pope" Cassy replied using the voice filter

"Why are you distorting your voice?" Tex asked "look I was in your room Church, I know you didn't stop thinking about us, thinking about me, I found the pictures, I found my name tag right next to your bed, please just talk to me"

Cassy turned off her voice filter and removed her helmet leaving the group stunned.

"Wait you were in my house?" she asked

"Ummm yes" Gav replied as the group removed their own helmets and it was only then that the group realised just how similar Tex and this Cassy girl looked she even looked like Carolina.

"Why?" Cassy asked

"We were looking for your Dad, Leonard Church" Tex stated

"Well you found him" Church's voice boomed throughout the backstage room.

Then slowly he emerged climbing down and walking over and in front of Cassy, he then turned to Cassy for a second. "Honey I'm going to need you to take off that armour ok"

"Wait Dad?! Look this isn't what it looks like" she tried

"Cassy don't worry about it, I've known from the beginning, you're a DJ in my own Club" Church chuckled and then put a hand on his daughters shoulder. "And I couldn't be more proud" he then pulled his daughter into a hug and felt her begin to cry with happiness. "But right now I need you to take off my armour ok so go to the room behind the bar and get changed ok"

"Ok" she replied before walking away

Then Church turned back to the group, turned back to Tex, he was wearing blue jeans and a cobalt long sleeve top with the arms rolled up to his elbows he also wore red high top converse and a small grin.

"So did you miss me?" he asked

Tex walked up and punched him right in the face. "That's for leaving!" she shouted

"Ok fair enough I deserved that" Church muttered holding his jaw until Tex put her hands behind his head and pulled him into a long kiss as she ran her hands through his hair.

"That's for not forgetting me" she said so quiet only Church could hear her

"Never" Church replied just as quiet before he walked up to Gav and gave him a massive smile before giving him the biggest hug he could muster as the two laughed and smiled. "It's good to see you Gav, I see you've been keeping well"

"Yeah you could say that" Gav replied smiling "they put me in charge of Warhammer"

Church's face dropped "Wait what, they Changed the name from Wolfpack to Warhammer? WHAT THE FUCK!" Church shouted angrily

"Hey where is my hey buddy how ya been greeting" Tucker protested giving a big smile

Church looked at him for a moment before smiling and jumping at Tucker sending them both to the floor in a fit of laughter.

"I said hug not pounce dude!" Tucker laughed

"Whoops" Church replied before getting up and standing in front of Carolina

"Carolina" Church stated running his hands through his hair

"Church" she paused. "It's nice to see you"

"And you" Church smiled but finally he stood in front of Wash his greying hair slightly matched Church's but Church had significantly less greyness

"You look old dude" Church chuckled

"Look who's talking" Wash replied before they both smiled and shook hands. "It's good to see you again Church"

"You too Wash you too" Church replied before stepping back and next to Tex "so what exactly is it you guys want? I mean you've all decided to come and visit at the same time, I'm guessing the Excalibur isn't throwing some kind of reunion is it?" Church asked

"Not exactly" Gav responded

"It's never simple is it" Church responded as Cassy returned wearing a black tank top with light blue jeans.

"Your armours in the car dad" she stated

"Ok good thanks sweetie, lets continue this conversation back home ok" Church stated and left through the back door and went to his car followed by everyone else, he got into his car with Cassy while everyone else got in there car and followed.

"Dad what's going on? Who are those people?" Cassy asked

Church put his hand on Cassy's shoulder as he drove "they are people from my past, remember I told you that we were special? That we were more advanced than normal people?"

"Yeah?" she asked

"Well once we get home I'm going to explain exactly what I meant ok, it will be a lot to take in but I'm going to need you to bear with me ok" Church replied smiling

"Ok" she replied


~Church~

Once they got home Church closed the door behind them and got his house guests a beer before sitting in the living room and lighting the fire place with his dogs at his feet.

"You tranquilized my dogs?" Church asked looking at the group

"Yeah about that" Tucker stated scratching the back of his head "It was in self-defence"

"Hmmm I'd imagine so" Church chuckled before getting a serious look. "Look I'm sure you all have a lot of questions and rightly so especially you Cassy so I'm just going to warn you that this is going to bring a lot of things to light and it will also bring up your mother who I know you haven't been told much about but I guess now is the time"

"Oh ok" Cassy replied slightly nervous.

"Well let me just clear a few things up first" Church said looking at Cassy. "I'm not human and by extension of that neither are you, I am an Artificial Intelligence copied from the mind of back then, the director of a project called Freelancer which was created to try and save humanity during the great was, but this director wanted more AI to give to his agents which were called freelancers, Carolina, Tex and Wash were all freelancers under the command of the director, their names are reference to the states of America in case you were wondering, but because the government didn't agreed to give the director more AI he had to make more and he did this by torturing the AI that was copied from his mind, that was me, my call sign was the Alpha and the director took parts of me, my logic and trust, my ability to lie and all my rage, he turned these fragments into their own little AI to give to his agents in fact Wash was given my memory's, Carolina both my Love and Truth and Tex well she got my anger, now the events after I was tortured are not really known to me because afterwards I was moved to a box canyon and I believed I was a soldier in blue armour who was in a war with people in red armour, that was when I met Tucker, he was one of my Blue team members, now I won't bore you with the details of what happened those five years I spent their but I will say that I was placed there by project freelancer and all of the canyons occupants had no idea, then we were transferred away from the canyon and I was placed on my own for over a year before Wash turned up and asked for my help in capturing a monster called the Meta who was a former freelancer agent but after our adventure we confronted the Meta and I found out I was the Alpha, the father of all the AI fragments so I willingly sacrificed myself to stop the Meta and was caught in an EMP but the Meta had taken the Logic AI designation Delta and this Ain had the insight to get EMP shielding for his AI unit so I survived and was then found by Gavin here who took me to the U.N.S.C and they gave me a human body which turned AI into humans, I then joined the real army and grew through the ranks and became the leader of a taskforce call sign Wolfpack, this was where I met your mother" Church took a second to catch his breath and to look at his daughter once he mentioned her mother "you ok Cass?"

Cassy was staring at her father her eyes wide full of fascination ear up to make sure she heard every word. "Yeah I'm fine please continue, I've always wanted to know your past and who my mother is and about us being AI? Does that mean I'm a full AI or a fragment?" she asked

"You're a full AI don't worry" Church replied surprised how well she was taking it.

"Your mother" Church stared "Well I don't know where to begin, she was just amazing she was beautiful and so skilled she was kind and caring and knew how to party, in the following years we started dating and became a couple, then one day our team was tasked with escorting the director to a new prison, but he escaped our custody and we were then told to find him, now to give us help we found the reds and blues and the old freelancers, Tex and Carolina, then we went after the director, we thought we had him but he then captured us on his super carrier and locked us up, he then beat me and told my team that I was an AI, once it sinked in they began to resent and hate me for lying to them all this time, he also scanned your mother, her name was" Church sighed and looked down. "Ashely, and he reviled to everyone that she was pregnant with you, the first human AI pregnancy" Church smiled at Cassy but then frowned "so he shot her, in the head…and the stomach"

Cassy gasp as she put her hands around her mouth "but then how am I here?"

"Yeah we were kind of wondering the same thing" Tucker stated

"I'll get to that" Church replied. "after seeing her die and holding her in my arms knowing that I'd not only lost her but also my child, well I began to fragment again my emotions segmenting from me, Wolfpack then escaped the room leaving us to get out on our own which we did, I then started to lose my mind, I had to many fragments in my head all trying to talk at once so Tex had the idea to focus me on one emotions, which was anger so I then rushed through the ship killing anyone in my path before bursting into the bridge where the director was but I stopped once I saw Ash's body next to a computer and the director explained that you were still fighting still clinging to life, you're AI side, the side of you that I gave you, but you were incomplete, the human part of you died with your mother but the director said that you could still live and that he would show me how with some files he had put on a storage device in his pocket but he would only help me if I helped him escape, so I agreed but then took the files and shit him for everything he had done, for torturing me for what he did to his own agents in project freelancer and for killing Ash, I then ran for an escape pod and left the ship, that was sixteen years ago, I just raised you as best I could which getting money from several businesses, that's why your so clever Cass, you're an AI you take in all the info your shown and memorise it" Church finished taking a large gulp of his drink.

"Well if I only had your half then how did I grow up?" Cassy asked

"After everything happened I felt like I was fragmenting again but it was different like a manifestation and I just knew that it was Ash in my mind or something like that so I segmented that part of me into your programing and you started to grow, and you have become an amazing women who I'm so so proud of" Church smiled placing a hand on his daughters shoulder. "I hope you're not annoyed at me for not telling you sooner, I just wanted you to have a normal life"

"I'm not angry, I'm just intrigued I mean hell now I know my past and who my mum was plus I know why I'm so clever" she replied smiling but the smile was slightly forced

"Ok great now that's over with I guess we should tell you why after sixteen years we decided to find you" Was stated.

"I guess you should go ahead" Church replied

"We need your help, the chairmen is trying to re-ignite a war between the humans and the elites we don't know why but we know that he is going to achieve his goal if we don't act soon" Carolina stated

"And you need me why exactly? Can this new Warhammer and the Excalibur not stop one man?" Church replied

"He is using freelancer tech and none of us have as much info on it as you" Tucker replied

"oh please you all know as much as me, you don't need me for this mission, besides I'm not a soldier anymore, I mean for fuck sake look around, I have a house I have a couple jobs going I have pets I have a daughter which means I'm staying right here I'm not a soldier I'm a normal guy now, I'm…I'm" Church stopped as stuff he didn't want to think entered his mind.

"bored? Lonely? Sure you have Cassy but you don't have anyone else, you must get bored sometimes, I bet you miss the action the fun, the power of being in charge, doesn't the chance to come back seem like a good way to get excitement back into your life?" Tex stated the first time she spoke

Church looked her in the eye before turning around to look out at the sea "even if I wanted to go I have Cassy here, I can't just leave her" Church replied

"I could always come too, I'd love to see it all" Cassy stated her face lighting up

"Yeah, see it would be a good learning experience and you know how safe the Excalibur is" Gav stated

Church turned around and had a defeated look on his face "well-" he then jumped to the ground as the mirror in front of him smashed and dropped to the floor, he had seen the red dot in the mirror.

The group then jumped to the ground as more shots began to rip the room apart.

"These your guys?!" Church shouted as a painting on the wall was ripped apart by gunfire

"Nope not us!" Tex shouted back.

"Good because I'm going to kill them! THAT WAS MY FAVOURITE PAINTING!" Church shouted as he moved over to a book case and pulled on a book revealing a gun rack.

The group all picked a gun Church picking up his sniper letting a grin grace his lips.

"What's the plan Boss" Gav asked

Church smiled "get to the garage and take the supped up truck out of here, it's bullet proof, I'll get my car from the drive" he then looked to Tex. "keep Cassy safe!" he shouted as he saw Cassy holding an ODST pistol and Church smiled.

"Good choice" he thought

The group moved out to the garage while Church moved to the front door calling Cobalt and Black to his side and simply said, "Walkies" as soon as he said this the dogs ran out the door to the car where a few guards where standing, as the dogs distracted the guards Church shot them and got in his charger his dogs on the back seats, he then saw the truck drive away so Church put his foot to the floor and smiled as the wheels squealed as he moved away like a bullet out the barrel.

"Excalibur I'm going to need two pelicans ready for heady cargo pick up at speed and I need them now, we have hostiles" Wash stated over his radio

"Roger that agent Washington Pelicans are on route to your position" Excalibur replied as black trucks followed them firing at them only for the bullets to ricochet off its body, then Church came up and shot the driver of the truck sending it off into a ditch as he pulled up alongside the bullet proof truck smiling.

Just then the two pelicans pulled down on the road ready for them to board, Tex drove the truck into the back of one pelican and Church did the same in the other and soon the two ships where in the air heading for the Excalibur.

"You see his smile?" Gav asked in there pelican

"He really has missed the action" Carolina replied

"Let's hope so, Wash inform Excalibur that we are on our way back with Church" Tex stated

"Will do" Wash replied

Church sat in his car smiling to himself as he took out his phone and called Mandy to explain that he and Cassy where going on an unexpected holiday and that she was in charge of the club until they returned.

But neither of them could have predicted how long that would be.