[Co-Written with panda8785 ]
Credit for Michele Walker/Agent New Hampshire goes to panda8785
Credit for Red vs Blue goes to Rooster Teeth
Credit for Halo series goes to Bungie
Back at the New Republic:
"How the heck do five people just up and disappear?" Grif complained as he sat with his fellow captains.
"It is peculiar." Simmons spoke as he was obviously deep in thought, "Although, Walker was precarious to just get up and disappear from time to time… but I thought she stopped that."
"Bad habits must die hard." The man in orange sighed, "That could explain her, but what about the other four."
"I'm honestly a little scared that Walker… probably didn't just walk away." Tucker sighed, staring at the table with slight fear in his eyes.
"Then what could've happened?" Simmons questioned, wondering how he could be wrong.
"Well." He looked up at the maroon soldier, "I don't know. I've just noticed a few… emotional differences in her lately. It's been slowly developing since we fought Wash and the Meta at Sidewinder… It's just…" He looked back down at the table, "Her eyes… This is probably gonna sound f*beep*in' weird, but she'll smile… and she'll laugh… but her eyes are still cold. Emotionless. They look as if they're filled with pain and misery."
"Since when did you start caring." Grif huffed, "I say: Once a Freelancer; always a Freelancer."
"What about Wash?"
"You've seen how he orders us around, like he's top dog."
"They're not all the same, though."
"Sure they are, and I say let the b*beep*ch be gone. Ever since you found out she was okay, she's been a distraction. We're trying to save people from imprisonment."
"Whatever, man.I'm sure if Finigan were here, she woulda killed you for saying that." The man in teal mumbled as he rest his head on his hands.
"Who the f*beep* is Finigan?" The man in orange tilted his head somewhat to the side.
Tucker shot his head up, "She's the girl you chased around yesterday. That's what Walker called her."
"Dude. Her last name's just Fin. If Ms. Electric Blue comes back, tell her not to make people's names fancy."
"Alright then, Griffin." He spoke in a mocking tone.
"Wait." Simmons spoke up in realization of what Tucker had said earlier, "Were you just proposing that Walker would commit suicide?"
"No… I wasn't. I was saying that she probably just locked herself in her room again." His direction of focus drifted off, "Although… I think she's attempted that before." He felt a lump form in his throat, "... B-but that doesn't explain how the other three went missing."
"I miss my Caboodles 'n poodles." Caboose whimpered, as if the very thought of her pained him.
"We know you do Caboose." Tucker stood up, "I'm going to go to bed."
"Good night." Caboose spoke in his unusual, not-so-cheery voice as he failed a wave goodbye.
Tucker couldn't stop thinking about why Walker would run away. Sure, she's done it before, but she stopped long after Sister was out of the picture… Could she have… No. He has to stop thinking of such a terrible thought. Yes, she has attempted suicide. Many times, in fact… but that stopped, right? "Come on Tucker, think." He started talking to himself, "She couldn't have run away, right? She's probably just locked herself in her room, right?" He found himself now walking up the paved walkway that went up the wall of the cave, "But… every time she did that, it resulted in Wash breaking down the door and blood all along the walls." He tried to erase the memory of that horrific sight and rotting smell as he approach a door, but it wasn't any door. It was her door. He gave a knock, but no response came. The same empty response happened a few weeks after they crashed on this planet. He turned the handle, noticing that it was in fact unlocked. Immediately, he felt somewhat relieved until he swung the door open to see… no one. All that was there was a bed with some not so neat bed sheets and a small splatter of blood on the ground.
He walked into the room, as if he would be able to find all of the answers. He ran his hand across the bed sheets as he examined every crease, "This is all so unlike her." He sighed, "She's always made it a point to make a bed… as if I couldn't do it properly." He laughed as his fingers ran over a piece of metal. He picked it up and looked at what it had been. It was an old, but barely rusty, key on a simple metal chain, "There's no way she would've left without this."
Back to New Hampshire and Omega
"Where is it. Where is it." She moved her fingers around her neck as if she were searching for something.
"What's wrong now?" Omega questioned the woman as he was still mapping out the shortest route for her.
"I can't find my house key." She spoke, frantically.
"It's just a key." He sighed, knowing he was going to get a lecture.
"It's not just a key!" And there it was, "It's MY house key! It's the only home I have left!"
"Yes, I can see how that would be stressful… you know, having something that's yours and having it taken away."
"I betcha it was those brat children."
"You don't mean that."
She sighed, "Yeah. They have all the supplies they need. They're not just gonna steal from someone."
"It's possible that Maine took it as well."
"All the more incentive to get back as soon as possible." She laughed.
"Yes, but of the routes I have mapped, it's a full two months, non stop, on foot."
"Then… take us by somewhere that'll have a motor vehicle."
"Sure." He spoke in a sarcastic voice, "Just let me access our non-existent space satellite and add what ever it's found to the maps we have from before the war on Chorus started."
"You don't have to be an a** about it." She sighed, pulling some weapons out of the glowing, blue cube and put the storage unit back in her sock before putting her armor on.
"All I'm saying is that we can only get lucky."
"Alright." She double checked to make sure her guns were fully loaded then attached the two pistols to her hips, rifle and shotgun to her back, and made sure her knife was secure to the part of her chest plate that was around her collarbone, "I'm good to go when you are." She said, voice modificator turning on halfway through her sentence.
"I'm uploading the map to your HUD right now." He said as he quickly disappeared.
outside Simmons and Grif were screaming like little girls while a person who look to be a Freelancer was beating them senseless
well save for Caboose who the person just let him be much to the annoyance of the other two.
the Freelancer was female as one could tell by the figure and right now she was standing on her hands and starts to kick slapping the two with her right foot.
and she was about to throw another kick to them when someone stops her by yelling out "hey Nevada! why don't you cool it before I make you cool it...if anyone should be beating up on them it should be me, but right now I can't cause we got more things to worry about than me having fun beating them up."Tex said and the said and the woman stops what she was doing and jumps to her feet and faces Tex's way and glares at her.
"never call me Nevada again Tex...you know I hate that and I only go by Neva now."Neva said as she glares at Tex
"well excuse me for using your full Agent Name then...you still having those nightmares?"Tex asks this time in a more worried voice.
"so what if I do...it isn't a big deal...I shouldn't of been alive after what the Chairman did to me but some how he sends me back in time and to the day Project Freelancer started and to find out that I became like some subject for a experiment that
I didn't even ask for...and not only that but one of the experiments stop me from aging, so now I look the same age as when me and my friends met the Chairman and he used me to make a A.I."Neva said
"yeah that was one of the experiments that was done on you...what was your abilities again?"Tex said and Neva looks at the
ground sadly.
"I really don't like to use those abilities and I only use them if I really need to."Neva said
"so do you still have them?"Tex asked as she was talking about the A.I. she has
just then Chi, Phi, Psi and Tau appeared around Neva
and last was a A.I. that look like New Hampshire but with out the armor and the female A.I. was wearing a shirt and pants.
"what do you think? of course I do, I couldn't let them take them away so that's why after the ship crashed I book it right out of there and headed to another planet to live on for a few years until things cool down."Neva said
"what planet was it?"Tex asked her and Neva started to walk over to Simmons and Grif and helps them up before she looks at Tex
"I will tell you what planet later, right now I guess I have to tell you the reason I was beating on these two...to which is because they need to stop standing around and hurry up and figure out the big picture...well that and I need them to help me go to a place where a lot of people need help...and the people I'm talking about can only be safe for so long and I need all the help I can get to move them from where they are right now and move them over here...I could use your help too Tex, after all you do have a maternal side inside of you some where so your help would be much welcomed."Neva said
"you have a maternal side?"Grif asks as he looks at Tex who glares at him
"she does, if she didn't she wouldn't of cared for Carolina so much."Neva said with a smirk even though they couldn't see it because of her helmet.
"what's Carolina have to do with this?"Simmons said as he was confused as to why Tex's so called maternal side had to do with Carolina.
"oh you will find out soon but not right now, right now we need to move...get one of those trucks, it should be big enough to carry all 100, 98 kids and one baby...oh yeah and I didn't come alone."Neva said
"wait what do you mean you didn't come alone? who came with you?"Tex asked and then she was answered by a yellow wearing young woman who walks over to them and was behind Neva.
"hey whats up?"Sister said as she waves at them
"lucky for Kaikaina here I was going to Blood Gulch to pick up something there...I had to give her CPR for about a hour until her heart was beating normal again, that and I had to fix up the place where Lopez shot her at."Neva said
"wait so you fix her up after Lopez shot her? and you gave her CPR?"Tex said in surprise
"yes I did, and lucky for me that my first kiss was one of the guys in Project Freelancer, though I was still mad at him after he did that...so help me if I ever see his face again I will hit him so hard in the face, I thought he liked New Hampshire."Neva said
"yeah well that was a surprise for everyone else who saw him kiss you out of the blue like that."Tex said with a amused tone in her voice.
"and it wasn't funny how York gave him the advice on telling me his feelings by kissing me on the lips!"Neva said
"it was still funny though."Tex said and sounding still amused
"shut up Tex."Neva said to her as she really didn't like the memory of how she got her first kiss.