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Previously

"Hey Allison," Church replied "Long time no see. Let's have a talk"

"Bow Chika Bow Wow"

Now

"Shut Up Tucker or I swear…"

"You swear what; you'll actually die next time Caboose shoots you with the tank?"

"Sheila didn't mean to hurt anyone, she was just wanting affection."

"That wasn't funny. I was in the infirmary for more than a week after that. I still have shrapnel in my face from my visor"

"Ha! Suck"

Tex just watched on as the two continued fighting amongst each other. She noticed that the other Blue, the one that must be Caboose was standing in the corner mumbling to himself. He was still visibly shaken from the time a few hours, she guessed it was a few hours ago, when she had put the gun against him while he was sleeping.

It was then that she realised that she couldn't move her pinkie finger on her left hand. She looked down. It was still attached. Oh God she thought to herself, he's retaking control. Please not again, "Don't let it start again." She yelled the last part.

Tucker and Church stopped fighting and Church looked her way,

"What do you mean 'Don't let it start again'" he asked "What is it?"

"You already know, you son of a bitch" she cried "it's the AI, it's taken over me. It controls everything I do, say, think. I'm trapped inside my own brain. You knocked it offline for a bit, but it's regaining control."

"You mean the AI from your training program? I thought it just enhanced your combat abilities."

"That's what I thought. Don't ask me how but it's gained complete control over me"

She thought back to three weeks after the AI had been implanted. She had broken up with Church, with whom she'd had a relationship at Blue Command during training, in favour for a position at the elite Spartan Academy. She had been the top of her class in almost everything; stamina, marksmanship, melee combat. It wasn't until she reached advanced training that it went so horribly, horribly wrong. Each of the trainees was implanted with an AI to enhance their combat skills. Tex was codenamed Nevada. At first the AI had done everything it was supposed to. It had given her advanced tactical and combat data. But slowly, over a matter of months it began making more suggestions. It suggested whole tactics during combat practise, entire plans instead of just the readouts.

Later the AI began making suggestions on her actions; where she should go, what she should do. It began to suggest that she leave the Academy, escape from these people who would control her life, and then send her to die on a distant planet for a war they couldn't win. She had found the idea repulsive at first, but then states A-M were put into service, they were sent to Reach. When Tex found out what had happened on Reach, she realised that she faced the same fate, so she finally agreed to the AI's plan. It was now that the AI began to call itself "O'Malley".

The night she broke out of the compound she discovered that the AI had already planned everything. But as they made their way down the hallways of the Academy, she was stopped by one of her teachers. She couldn't remember what happened afterwards, only that her hands were covered in blood. She had hijacked one of the Longsword fighters from the facility, and escaped under heavy fire. Her ship took damage and she was forced to land on a small, out of the way outpost. It was here she remembered fondly that she had last had control of herself, until now that is.

It had been so inconspicuous. The AI had just told her to sleep while it looked after landing the ship. When she had woken up she couldn't move, but she was walking, she couldn't talk, but she was talking. They were not her words, not her actions, but when she had finished killing the inhabitants of the outpost, she heard O'Malley laugh. He had killed these people for no reason, and as she looked at a child no older than four, she was afraid. So very afraid.

She became a bounty hunter. She later heard that Wyoming had escaped, but it didn't bother her, she knew that he was no threat to O'Malley so he wouldn't pay him any attention. A few times the Spartan Academy had sent some of its kill-teams after her and the AI. O'Malley had made a fortune off their deaths, as the head of a Spartan kill-team member was worth a lot on some of the outer planets.

She had killed so many people, seen so much blood, that she wept inside as O'Malley continued moving on. Job after job, until they arrived at Sidewinder. She had dispatched the rest of the Blue Army at the base with ease; O'Malley had taken great pleasure when he beat one of them to death with his own skull. He had laughed as the man cried that it was physically impossible, she had just wept. But for some reason Church was spared. She couldn't understand it. Why would Church be spared? She had thought that maybe she still had some control over the AI, but later, when O'Malley took his anger out on a small town near Sidewinder, she had sworn never again to try and control him. The one time she had been strong enough to stop one death had cost the lives of over a hundred.

Since then she had continued moving around until she had received a message from Earth. Clemency for her past crimes in return for her services. Eve O'Malley was tiring at the Spartan's continued attempts to kill him, so they accepted and now she was here. Free for the first time in years.

"Tex, what are you doing here?"

Tex snapped back into reality. She was still tied up at the Blue Base, and O'Malley was regaining control. She could hear his laughter inside her head.

"Masterchief... and others... they're coming to wipe you out."

"What?"

"Earth's killing off Red and Blue, and they hired me to do it."

"You came to kill us?"

"I didn't want to but the AI… I can't control it. I can't get rid of it"

"IM ALMOST HERE ALLISON"

"Oh God, please, he's almost back. I don't want this Church. Please you've got to end it"

The AI was almost back in control. She was using all her willpower, back O'Malley was almost back in control.

"How can we stop it Tex? We need to know more about this mission of yours"

"Church, I want to be free Church, FREE"

"YOU WILL NOT SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY!"

"Calm down, tell me how to get rid of it"

"Kill me Church. Kill me now and end it. I want to be free."

Now for the first time, O'Malley was afraid.