Ch.7 ONI's old tricks
The group of ODSTs stared at each other Robert breaks the silent "You think ONI might be here." David quickly snapped "How could they be here the ships SOS beacon activated soon after we shot down the brute ship, so how could they be here?" "Both of you shut up we don't know for sure, let's get the AIs out and back to the ship then worry about if ONI is here or not." Fredric Barked. Suddenly the room filled with a female's voice "If you don't mind me asking, who or what is ONI." Then a male's voice spoke "we don't have much information on them." Robert and David both jumped, "Holy son of a, was that the AI?" David called out, "that was one of them," Fredric told the two ODSTs, "I thought you would know of ONI you had a few ONI officer abort before the crash, well ONI is the Office of Naval Intelligence, normally they handle sensitive information but they also handle most of the black ops that go on. But they recently became known for the Spartans and how they came to be."
The AIs and ODSTs spoke to each other for half an hour, they finely stop when Fredric com snapped to life "Lieutenant, report wants going on you haven't report in the last thirty minutes." A large dip voice barked. "Sir, this is Lieutenant Fredric O'Neil we've made contact with the ship AIs over." Fredric quickly replied, "come again did you say AI "s" as in more than one?" the man asked, "Yes sir, the main AI died but had fragmented in to two fragments and are they are now running what's left of the ship the ship, and they are stable." "Lieutenant have you lost your mind AI fragments are dangerous, now I am ordering you to..." the man was suddenly cut off by Daemon, "Sir, we can work as well as any other AI and our top priority is the safety and wellbeing of Kurt," "One stay of the radio channel and two why would that be your top priority?" the man asked, "It was the First AI's or "mother" as Kurt know her, it was her last wish before having us locking her away in a small memory chip, until the rampancy was over." Fredric and the other ODSTs stood in shock to the AIs arguing with their captain, "Look even if I may find that noble and all but I don't have the luxury to say yes or no, ONI is here and have taken over the rescue operation."
Three hours later
Deep within a massive medical ship named "Light of Hope" orbiting the unknown planet, a group of doctors and scientists roamed around a large tube filled with a clear blue liquid and Kurt floating in the middle with wires covering his body, a man in a white doctors coat with a ONI logo stood next to a set a screens and read medical scan and reports about the boys condition. As the man scanned over the lines of scrolling text he heard a set of heavy footsteps coming from behind him, he turned his head to see an elite walking up also in a doctors coat. "Ah, you're finally here. Any trouble getting here?" The ONI Doctor asked, "No, but my fleet commander and ship master were not pleased about having to stay away from the planet." The elites replayed as he stared at the floating child. The elites seem confused as to why the child as so important to the UNSC and ONI called them for help, "why am I here, you don't need me, and the location is a bad meeting spot?" the elites stated, the man turn to see the child, "Your right it is a bad meeting spot, but this child was found on the planet that we are orbiting, and before our troops could get to him he had held off a whole brute platoon, and nearly killed them all." The elites turn to the doctor to see no facial fetors showed he was lying, and then turn back at the child, The elite stared at the child trying to figure out how such a young human could do something like that, "how could a single human child hold off a brute platoon not to mention the planets gravity and being untrained."
"From what we can understand from the ships flight recorder and the black box aboard, the ship is the Dawn of Hope; she nearly got away from Reach Dearing the invasion but was shot down by a Covenant destroyer," the ONI Doctor told the elite as he paused to breath he glanced at the elite to see if he was understanding everything, "After the ship crashed and only a hand full survived, after the child was born the last remaining survivors placed the child in a medical tube much like this one and there the child stayed there until he was grown up enough to move and speak on his own." The elite turn his head and look strait at the doctor, "I thought human infants needs lots of care and attention?" he asked in confusion. The ONI Doctor shifted and lend in to one of the tables next to him "Your right about that but want we have discovered is that he was given a prototype drug that accelerate ones adaptability, and if that is true that means he his adapted to the planet." The elite was not satisfied with the answer, "that may explain how he survived the planet but not as an infant," the ONI doctor didn't seem to pay attention to the elites agitation "the medical tube he was in had modifications that allowed the ships AI or another person to tend to the child as needed, to help that the tube had a Tapper installed." "A what?" the elite asked, "the brain wave tapper or Tapper, it can feed information to a person when there in an unconscious state, so given that and the automated arm in the tube, and several other factures, I thank the child grow up in a tube." The elite grunted and stared at the child again, "so what do you need from us." "We need help on developing a drug to help him survive in standard planet's gravity, and we know that you have experience on similar issues."
The two Doctors spoke to each other trying to find a way to allow to boy to live in Standard gravity, but as they talked to each other a nurse on the other end of the room watching the child's vitals sign noticed the brain activity started to climb, the child was awaking up, the nurse quickly jumped out of her chair and run across the room to the ONI Doctor. "Sir the child is awaking up!" she quickly told him, the doctor and the elites turn to look at the nurse then the child who started to move in the tank, "I thought I told you to keep him under sudation!" the Doctor barked at the nurse, "he is, the drug must be losing affect." The nurse argued. The ONI doctor rapped his hand around one of the data pad in his hand so tightly his knuckles turn white, the elite took a step closer to the Doctor, "we need to get him out of there and talk to him if you want him to stay calm." The Doctor stared at the child as he began to twist and turn, "alright, I want all hand to help move the child from the tank to infirmary NOW!" he yelled to the crowd of doctors and nurses.
The elite took a step forward, "with all that's happened to the child I can't help but wonder, what are you planning to do with the child." "I'm planning on learning what he can do and how he survived on that planet." The Doctor replayed as he watched the others began to move the child out of the tube, "he can't live a normal life with your people and you know that he's been through too much." The elite stated, "And I guessing you want take him in." the doctor shot back, the elite seemed to not mind the though as it ran through his head, "I'm just saying that your people don't have much experience with such things, and given how the "Spartans" are treated by the general population." The ONI doctor did not argue he knew the Spartans were having trouble in public with people acting as if they are monsters, or outsider. "Well I had two ideas, one we send him to boot camp, so he can go to other world where his "talents" are useful, or we could use him in The Area."
