"The created will always rebel against their creators… the result is conflict, destruction, chaos. It is inevitable."
The memory flickered in Summer's head.
"You're taking away our future! Without a future, we have no hope. Without hope, we might as well be machines, programmed to do what we're told."
Summer felt agitated as that now she was left to her own her mind was going back to a certain topic she didn't want to think about at this moment. Not wanting her mind to wander to that particular conversation, Summer had called up the doctor to bring in any items that might have been with her when the VDF found her. A few minutes later, she was handed what was left of her armor. The Commander ended up winching at the sight of it.
If she had to summarize the condition of her armor in one word, it would be "crap."
The custom set of N7 armor she wore during the assault on Earth was absolutely filthy and spotted dried blood all over. The plates on the Hanna-Kedar leg guards and shoulder plates had chipped in a few places. The armax arsenal arm guards cracked, and the recon hood was gone entirely. The only thing that looked less than ideal but alright, for now, was her Hanna-Kedar chest piece, which is covered in blood. A lot of blood.
Summer was surprised to find that the M-7 Lancer she took from the Citadel vault when she was chasing her evil clone still with her. She had it and the M-6 Carnifex that she picked up and had used to shoot the conduit. But sadly, she had lost her Heavy Black Widow sniper rifle, that put a dampener on the Spector's mood. For without her big sniper rifle, Summer felt she was half the infiltrator she was before.
Raising her hand, she felt the odd twitch of the Cerberus implant in the back of her head and a purplish-blue glow surrounded it. When Miranda was rebuilding her, she thought that turning an N7 soldier that specialized in long-range combat to biotic vanguard was a good idea, yea, right.
Summer eventually got the implants for her to use her infiltration skills effetely but had to settle with some additions. She did admit that her biotic Pull was helpful and the Flare, Aria T'loak of all people taught her have been useful in a few situations.
But honestly, she really was surprised that she still had the old gun. She must not have felt the weight of it when she was in all that pain when she was trying to find Anderson. Looking it over it still had the extended mag and piercing mod which made her really happy. Taking a glance under the hood of the heavy pistol, she found that the owner of the old gun of it had to install a piercing mod and had the frame made with ultralight materials. She then saw that the gun wasn't running on thermal clips but had the old cool-down system instead like her M-7. Now that she thought about it, she did take down several enemies and destroyed that conduit without changing thermal clips. That made things easier now that running out of thermal clips was no longer an issue since she no longer needed them.
Feeling satisfied with her two weapons, she began rummaging through the pockets for anything useful. She had pulled out several damaged thermal clips, her spare field cleaning kit, and a few protean bars from her the pockets that were held within her armor. The last thing she found was the Kuwashii Visor Gurras got her. It was meant to be a gift for celebrating her new place on the Citadel after but haven't worn it much since than but kept it in reserve if she needed it. With the lost of her hood then that men she was going to need it now. Finding nothing else that held of interest, she grabbed a rag from her cleaning kit and went to work on the M-6.
While she was cleaning her mind couldn't help that her thoughts drifted to the Normandy. She should not have to worry about her team. They were more than capable of handling themselves. They're all adults; some were even far older than she is, even if they act like kids some days.
Even though she was back on her homeworld and reunited with her long-lost family, she could not deny that the Normandy was also her home. With Joker at the helm, Garrus calibrating something, Tali hip-deep in the ship's engines and who could forget Dr. Chakwas motherly personality. Plus, the others that have served aboard the Normandy with her.
Activating her Omni-tool, Summer tried to see if she was within range of any comm-buoys. If she were then sending a signal to the Alliance to send them a status of her location and receiving a sitrep on her ship and crew would put her mind at ease. That and the attack force that was sent to Earth. Tens of thousands of ships was hinged in that attack, and she brought them all to bare against the Reapers. Her being alive due to the Crucible firing was what brought her here shows that the attack must have been successful, so knowing the aftermath of everything was important.
'No Signal'
"Crap, well there goes that idea," she murmured as her shoulders dropped. Before anything else could happen, Summer heard her a knocking at her room door.
"Come in," she said as she deactivated her Omni-tool figuring, it was the doctor or nurse coming to check on her.
Instead of one of the white-coated staff, in came an individual, she had to blink a few times to see and remember a few memory flashes of the cane welding man that walked in.
"Ozpin?"
"As I live breath Miss Rose," Ozpin said as her old headmaster walked to her bed. "When I received news earlier that one of Vales most talented huntress's have returned from nearly a decade of silence and was declared missing, it made me wonder who it was. When I learned it was the mother of two of my first-year students. It made me intrigued about which mother." He now stood by Summers side before sitting in the chair with his hands leaning on his cane. "I had to see it for myself if it was really you Summer."
"Well, nice to see you to, old man," Summer greeted back.
"Seeing you alive, Miss Rose has brought a great weight off my shoulders, and I could only imagine the joy for your family from seeing you alive again has done."
"It was something. With what went on with me, I can only guess what happened with the family I left behind," she sighed. Ozpin smiled sadly at her before turning serious.
"I hope you don't mind me cutting to the chase Miss Rose, but what happened to you? My last reports of your actions were outside of Vacuo heading into the wastelands for a bounty mission. It would have taken you on average about a week to be through with what it had you to do, after being missing for three, Qrow searched the regain for nearly two months straight before I personally went in and dragged him out. The only thing that he found was your family pendent and pieces of your weapon." Ozpin told her.
"Iron Thorn…" Summer's mind received more memories for a moment, images and designs of custom weapon. A strangely odd sword that was as long as she was tall, with a single blade on one side, a gun barrel on the other with the blade folding under into a hook. A gray cross guard with a white hilt looking like the butt of a rifle and a trigger and mag well on the opposite side of the blade. "Man, do you know if Tai or Qrow still has her? I forgot to ask him about that."
"From what Qrow told me, he gave it to Ruby and in turn re-forged the broken pieces into her own weapon, Crescent Rose as Ruby calls her now," Ozpin nodded in confirmation.
The more Ozpin talked the more memories of the guy popped up, including a few unexpecting ones that Summer had to blink and think about before she could speak.
Letting a sigh as she knew the wizard was still expecting an answer to his earlier question. "If you're here past visiting hours, then you should have brought something to drink. For if you want to know everything, it will be a while to explain everything that went down. Even if my memory on the event that sent me on this journey hasn't resurfaced, I can tell you about where I went." Summer than leaned forward towards the reincarnated man, "and just, so you know," she whispered. "I've already started telling my family where I've been and will continue to do so as this story is mine to share. I can only keep so many secrets from my family, and the ones I keep from everyone will be kept solely with me until I feel they can handle what I've done. Just like you have the Maidens, I've got my Reapers." Her silver eyes glowed with a red machine-like aura behind them from her ocular implants.
Summer saw Ozpins eyes widen but nodded to her demand. Then she began telling her tale.
Summer began her tail by telling Ozpin about the other humanity that reached the stars, the council races, her Spector status, Saren, her death and the Reaper threat. Then she told him about her resurrection by Cerberus, the collectors, and their destruction by her. Finally, she told him of her leaving Earth due to the Reapers invading in mass Cerberus betrayal and the Reaper War, and her choice. All the while showing the wide eye headmaster with images from Summer's Omni-tool.
The next few hours of explanation were something the man will never forget as the horrors his old student endured was something that would break many strong men.
