"They now have three original Spartan 2's to spawn as many copies as they need and Cortana to clone brains to reproduce her as an ancilla or worse." I state grimly, looking at Lasky but with my mother's slight defiant smirk telling I've a plan.
"He wants me. He's going to get what he asked for." I state seriously as I set my throwing knives on the top of the table, then slides them down to him, revealing they both contain compact data storage systems in their hilts.
"Video from my suit's helmet cam from our original mission. If of course you wana keep arguing that I can't handle my father's suit or have any doubts that video should clean up those doubts." I state as he looks at the blood marks they leave sliding across the holotable to him and I turn my forearms over with a smirk to reveal where I'd kept them hidden in my forearms by their long now clotted wounds on the undersides.
"Can't remove what you don't know is there. I suspected a leak in my allies somewhere. So I installed the camera and had it upload remotely to those data crystals through fibre optic cables linked to my implants." I state as he picks the knives up and hands them to a soldier, ordering them to play the data on them.
"You're going to get those treated right?" he questions more a suggestion then actual question as I grin at him, but still stubbornly focused on my goal to attain my father's suit.
"Right after you give me the okay to use Dad's suit." I state as an encryption code shows up over the holotable and I type in the passcodes before the red text turns blue and fades away to reveal the beginning of the mission, when I put the suit's helmet on and the link is made with my former implants.
"Does this make my butt look big?" Sam jokes as the camera turns to him, showing him focusing on his rear as the teams laugh in the background, obviously getting ready in the dorms for the adult's to arrive and assist us on our previous mission that got my family captured.
"No. Your butt makes your butt look big." My voice answers jovially while each of us continues getting armed, looking less like university students and more like hardened marines getting ready for a mission, despite our jovial banter as we begin going over the point rules.
"Oh boy. We're boned... I don't have enough CR's for how much Red 1 can put away..." A now dead man's voice whines through the TEAMCOM - Green 2, making many others laugh, including me on the video. I go over the team's makeup after my short chuckle having them as a team recite their missions one last time before my team also does the same and we gather together for a final pep talk before splitting up and the missions begin, leaving the adults to try and catch up with the teams they had agreed to assist.
It rolls through every instant of Red Team's mission. It shows in far more detail then I remember and even saw with my own eyes how my boot levels a solid steel door, earning me some sideways glances as it goes on, even playing the moments of my team and family's capture that I wasn't conscious for. Right up to the last moments when I was being electrocuted and beginning to rise up, despite the electricity coursing through my body.
But the camera dies just as my body suddenly loses tension in the video and I look up at Lasky with a "Weeeell? Gonna keep arguing?" kind of questioning look.
"Impressive..." I hear The Arbiter muse to himself quietly in thought, as the younger of the two Sangheili with him stare's at me utterly stunned.
"How is that possible!? No human... Nothing could do that.." he trails off in disbelief and I grin impishly.
"Now you glad we're still not trying to kill one another?" I challenge as the younger sangheili tenses and I think I almost catch an amused smirk on The Arbiter's face before Lasky speaks up.
"Prep the Mark 6. Palmer, take Ciel to the infirmary and get her patched up. You've got a new student to teach how to use a powered suit in the next hour. Seems we've got a new contender for the Master Chief's title." he smirks and I smile, relaxing somewhat.
"Bring yourself and them back in one piece, Ciel." He advises encouraginly and I nod confidently.
"I guarantee nothing. Except when it comes to pieces. I'll be in them, before my family." I state with honest protectiveness before I turn on my heel and follows Palmer out of the room, yelping when Sam gloms onto me the moment I step out into the hall.
"PERVERT!" I scold, ungluing him from me with a curt shove, but he's still got a self satisfied grin on his face when he stops sliding backwards, having grabbed my ass when he hugged me.
"Jeez! Okay whats the news?" I exhale at him wearily.
"I've got a team picked out. And Sol has a plan, from your video footage." he states as we stand outside the still open door and I aim a thumb to Lasky.
"Go for it. You'll have to explain anyways how you saw it being played on secure systems..." I pat him on the back as I see Lasky cross his arms trying to be serious despite the twinkle of amusement in his eyes.
"Next gen of reckless and crazy soldiers for ya. If my family didn't threaten to kick my ass if I enlisted." I laugh as I look in at him, shoving Samuel into the room before he can protest, but I see him gulp slightly, steadying himself before the door closes and I jog after Palmer, starting the longest two hours of my life as we go to the infirmary and I get fitted with new neural implants compatible with Dad's old suit as well as get suited into it.
Then she trains me how to move in it while many other Spartan 4's watch from the sidelines, muttering to themselves. Especially on how quickly I pick up moving in it. After getting some equipment and weapons I report back to Lasky on the bridge where Sam and the rest of the five student team he's chosen wait, adjusting their standard issue ODST battle gear, but even they stop dead when I walk into the room in my father's suit and stops at the end of the table, removing the helmet.
"Sounds like a solid plan your team has come up with." Lasky states thoughtfully, looking over some information on a tablet he'd been handed by one of the bridge crew and I nod knowingly.
"Yes. Roland briefed me on it on the way up here, Sir." I state dryly, ignoring the stares I'm getting from not only my team but the Sangheili on the bridge and the crew.
"Ciel... That suit..." Solomon begins surprised as Sam smiles proudly. "Suits you." he finishes, the others musing surprised agreement and I nod to acknowledge their words or musings.
"I've also been briefed on my team's equipment list and the other details of the mission, Sir. We're going to need to know what your orders are about the clones and the rest of whatever is down there. Intact or blow it to hell?" I question just as the door opens and another person wearing a higher mark of MJOLNIR strides into the room, snapping a crisp salute.
"Sir. Lieutenant Commander Kurt Ambrose, reporting." an aged man's voice snaps with such sharpness it reminds me of a whip as Lasky returns the salute.
"Your team is complete and briefed, Ciel. Try not to be like your father and destroy too much. I have a feeling ONI may want to investigate this facility further." Lasky advises humorously and I smile gently.
"Thank you sir. I'll see what I can do. But I'm not the one to worry about. You gave him the explosives." I aim a thumb at Sam who straightens up suddenly, pretending to be innocent that makes me smirk amused.
"Alright. Lets move Red team. We've got some points to put on the board." I state as they all suddenly snap to, turning on their heels after politely nodding to Lasky and the Sangheili before walking out into the hall as I slip my father's helmet back on and nods politely as well before I turn on my heel and follows my fellow students, patting the Lt Commander on the shoulder as I pass. "Good to have you on the team, Uncle Kurt." I state over our TEAMCOM, feeling him slip into the quick paced walk just behind me as I follow my team down to the hanger where we load up into a pelican to begin the mission to save my family and finally bring down that school once and for all.