Two months...two months and no updates...I AM SO SORRY!

This wasnt all my fault to be honest because I finished this chapter a month ago and sent it to my beta reader but he never got back to me and in all honesty enough is enough in my opinion. This wasnt all his fault either because I think he's having some technical difficulties as of the moment.

But I really can't express how sorry I am that I let you guys wait this long.

It shouldnt have happened in the first place and I will try not to let it happen again in the future.

So here it is the next chapter in the story.

Resistance H.Q

Jeris tapped the computer keys almost in a jittery manner. Connie was supposed to check in an hour ago with her report. He realized that doing this was hard considering the vast amount of security on the place. He was aware that she was constantly being hounded by the Director but Connie... "Come on!" He says a bit out of frustration.

He had also been under stress as of late. With the management of the new ship staff of Charon under his view he had a lot to do now and barely got rest these days, he barely got 5 hours in at the last time he checked.

His team had noticed the changes and had tried to help where they could. Whether it was training recruits in various arts of battle or yelling at them so he didn't have to. It was a very good thing they were around otherwise he would have cracked a long time ago.

A flicker on the computer jolted his mind out of the gutter. It was staticy but had the face of a passable C.T. "Connie thank God your alright." He says relief clear in his voice. "Are you alright?" She smiled at the question as it had been asked many times before. Her face quickly went back to serious.

"Im fine but its been hard getting a signal on the ship with power outages going around. Its mostly stopped but it looks like some static is here and there." She blows some hair out of her face. "I'm trying to get more intel like you said but we have a problem." Jeris narrowed his eyes at this.

"Things are starting to calm down here on the ship after the last couple of viewings. You did get the audio right?" He nods his head smiling. "Every word." She smirks back a glint in her eyes. "Good but back to the problem-" He face switches to concerned. "Its about Kale, I don't think its safe for him to be up here."

He stands up out of the chair. "Why? Whats going on?" He asked quickly. Kale to him was a very valuable asset...if something happened to him...

He was snapped out of his thoughts as she continued. "Carolina has threatened to send him out of the airlock yesterday and I can't guarantee his safety from her." He tightened his fists in frustration. "Connie do you need me to come over-" Her eyes widen. "NO!...I mean...Jeris I can't risk that happening. I'll try to stick with him for as long as I can and make sure he's safe." She says a pleading look on her face

He looked down away from her indecision on his face. "I know the risks Connie but you have to consider the risks yourself! You could get seriously hurt fighting Carolina if it comes to it." He bites his lip trying not imagine it. C.T leans into the computer monitor. "If Jeris." She says crossing her arms. "I will try to not let it come to that."

He taps his fingers along the table in front of him. Finally he sighs and looks back up. "Alright Connie do what you want." She has a relieved look on her face as she hears this. "But we need this kid on our side Connie. Without him we have only the audio we've gathered to pin the Director. With him we have the proof we need!" He says almost angrily.

Her breath seems to come out a faster rate now. "Jeris calm down...hes not on the Directors side. Hell I think he made the deal just to stay alive." Jeris thinks for a moment considering the thought. "Do you think he would willingly take the Director down?" C.T ponders the thought analyzing the question and Kale's past actions on the ship. "No...not yet anyways...what are you thinking?" C.T asked a questioning look on her face.

He was silently thinking up a plan. He knew that the boy was the key to his success only problem was how to get Kale to him. He could try his luck sneaking onto the ship and taking him by force but that runs the risk of capture. After the ship is up and running he could just destroy the ship entirely but that would put them on the run as criminals.

But if Kale came to them... "C.T how much does Kale trust you?" She raises her eyebrows and recalls the event a few hours ago. Kale was emotional wreck and she couldn't really blame him with all the shit going on. She actually had a kind of respect for how much he held his composure up until now.

"Hard to tell but I think he trusts me enough on a friendly level. Why do you ask?" She says in a curious tone. "Im thinking of turning him onto our side." As C.T is about to respond he holds a hand up. "Let me explain first alright?"

She folds her arms and waits. "From what I can tell the kid doesn't seem to trust anyone on the ship except you correct?" Hesitantly she gives a nod. "I haven't seen him interact with anyone else...hes usually is cooped up in his room."

Jeris sat down a plan formulating in his head. "Connie I want you to bring him to our side as soon as possible maybe set up a call between him and me. If he starts to turn to the Directors side I want you on him every second." He rubbed his forehead. "You think you can handle that?"

C.T bites her lip. She didn't want to make Kale to feel that way. She had a bonding moment with the boy a few hours ago and didn't want to hurt him psychologically... "I'll see what I can do. How's the staff of Charon doing?" He groaned and rubbed his temples. "It's getting there but construction is taking more than expected." C.T nodded as she almost expected this. "Anything I can do to help?" He looks back up and smiles. "No thanks Connie just keep doing what you're doing and keep me informed. Where's your ships next stop anyways?"

She brought up a data pad and skimmed through casually as if going through a magazine. "It looks like we're making a quick stop on the planet Jax for some supplies...uh oh." She says stopping at the list of supplies. "He's bringing in two more agents on board." Jeris shrugged and nodded at her. "So what? It's just some extra security Connie, nothing you can't handle."

She slowly shakes her head. "No you don't understand he's bringing in Florida and California. He just booked them travel plans and they should be on Jax by the time we arrive." He raises an eyebrow at this. "So?"

She groans as he still doesn't get it. "Florida has the endurance of agent Maine and has a pretty decent skill set." Jeris's eyes widen as he hears this. "Why isn't he on the leader board?" She sighs and puts a hand on her chin. "He isn't...the brightest freelancer. I think the guy almost waits to get shot."

She scrolls down to California. "California on the other hand is more like an actual soldier. Talents in hand to hand combat and cyber warfare, yeah he's the one im worried about." C.T looks around in an almost nervous manner. "If he can get ahold of my transmissions..." She shivers rubbing the thought out of her head.

"I know you wont let that happen Connie." He says trying to calm her but to be frank he was a little worried himself. "Why isn't this guy on the leaderboard? He actually sounds like one of the high-ranking agents." She scrolls up to his physiological profile. "From what I can tell awhile ago he started having emotional problems and he kinda slowed down on missions." She narrows his eyes at this. Agents shouldnt be judged on something like that.

"Is that everything?" Jeris says interrupting her chain of thoughts. C.T nods back at him. "Yeah...I may not be able to contact you for a while Jeris but when I can-" He stops her with a hand. "I know."

She smiles weakly and blows him a kiss through the computer. "Love you." He smiles and nods at her. "Love you too."

Kale's room

"Wake up...wake up...wake- oh forget this shit." The voice suddenly magnifies through the room. "HELLO JACKASS WAKE THE HELL UP!" Kale's head shoots up out of his slumber and falls out of bed. "What the hell!?" He says rolling around on the floor.

He quickly scrambles off the floor onto his bed. He hears the laughter of a certain A.I computer program. "Alpha you son of a bitch im going to kill you!" Kale mutters darkly as he recovers from the loud wakeup call. "Not my problem asshole I think you deserved that anyways." Alpha says chuckling to himself.

"So where the hell have you been? Not to say that your charming personality wasnt great or anything." Kale says the words laced with sarcasm. "The Director took me in to have some glitches worked out. You know matinence stuff the usual." He floats over to Kale now dusting off his clothes.

"Besides you needed to wake up anyways the Director wants to see you at 2:00pm in the briefing room." He looks at him tiredly and yawns. "Why?..." Alpha shrugs and goes over to Kale's armor in the corner. "Cant say its one of his personal A.I projects." Kale's eyes widen and he instantly is more awake. "Wait...what A.I experiments?"

Alpha groans as he knows he might have to ramble. "Well you see originally project freelancer was this badass military unit that was experimenting with A.I with the military. But since the war was mostly over before the project was put into use the Director decided to pick up the pieces of it and use it to his own disposal. We do military missions every now and then but we mostly just deal with the resistance and A.I experimentation."

Kale bites his lip and his mind goes into overdrive. "Okay...alright...so whats the time now?" Alpha snickers and pulls up a virtual clock. "11:46am" He growls and puts on his armor. "I so need to eat right now..." Alpha again snickers and disappears his voice still going through Kale's armor. "Whats the matter Houdini? Are you cranky from waking up so early?" Kale punches his chestplate in an attempt to hurt Alpha. "Screw you."

He walked over to the door and put his hand on the scanner. A moment later the door opened and he quickly put on his Green Day hoodie over his armor.

He walks down the hallways of the ship feeling at least a little safer now that Alpha was there with him. He walked down the ships entrance ways taking in the full complexity of the ship. Every soldier or matinence guy did something to make this ship run. He couldn't help but just put his hands in his pockets not really thinking about anything.

He whistled a little tune from the beach boys waving at the passing soldiers. He had Alpha direct him around a bit towards the cafe of this place as he called it. "Its a mess hall Kale not a god damn coffee place." Alpha pointlessly mentioned after he said it the third time. "Alpha its a place where you go and eat I could call it a snack bar and it wouldn't matter."

As he entered he looked around and froze as he saw South and North already eating. He quickly tries to just get his food and stay unnoticed. As he gets in line he can't shake the feeling he was forgetting something... "Hey Carolina." North says noticing the freelancer walking in.

Kale froze in his tracks and tried to keep his head down. "Alpha." He whispered. "Yeah I'm here all week what's up?" Alpha says his voice lowered so nobody else could hear them. "Can you keep a close eye on Carolina? Just let me know when she's getting close?" Alpha inside the armor played out the possibilities of why Kale would want that...almost none were good. "Alright Houdini just do the disappearing act if-" Alpha stopped as Kale was tapped on the shoulder.

He looked at the taper and saw it was C.T in armor. "Oh hey there C.T whats up?" She looked over to the other three freelancers Carolina more specifically. "Just getting an early lunch, same thing with you im guessing?" He shrugged and grabbed a plate with some fruit. "Yeah but I think im just gonna head back to my room-" He is interrupted as a little nudge from C.T tells him otherwise.

"Kale you can't just be locked up in your room all the time. Plus you need to go over there and talk with South." Kale shivers a bit at their last encounter with the freelancer. "C.T...I mean...what if I send her back into-" Hes shut off from his pleading with a cold glare from C.T. "Now. If nothing else it might help your airlock troubles."

"She has a good point." he thought to himself as he cautiously looked over to Carolina. "Alright...just make sure I don't get blown up or shot when I sit down." She smiles and bumps him in the arm. "I got your back Kale."

He sighs and walks over with a bit of unease as attracts the attention of the 3 freelancers at the table. He approaches the end of the table besides North. "Hey." He says a bit sadly. "You mind if I...sit down here?" North stares a bit stern-faced at Kale before looking over to South. She looked over and to his surprise didn't look pissed or angry...but sad. She nods and North makes some room for him.

"Thank you and im sorry for what happened." Kale says sitting down putting his food down. C.T sits next to Carolina for the interest of his safety. "I really...I didn't mean for...I guess I didn't explain it very well but-" South puts a hand up and looks at him. "Your sorry we get it asshole."

He casts a nervous smile at her. "So..are we cool or are you gonna punch me again? I promise I can try not to die this time around." She flinched almost unnoticeably but her brother saw it. He put a hand on both of their shoulders. "Look we both made mistakes alright? I think we can just try and makeup and try not to make anymore mistakes." He tightens his grip on Kale with the word "mistakes."

"Right." Kale says a bit of pain in his voice. "So Carolina has anything happened during South's leave of absence?" North says obviously referring to the videos. Carolina takes a quick look at Kale. "Information...as usual only he knows what." Kale frowns and takes a bite of his apple. "Carolina everything that has happened so far is just a possibility. We can change our ways so that it doesn't."

Carolina doesn't say anything to Kale and leaves the table a glare under her helmet. C.T noticing the awkward silence around the table decides to try and break the ice. "So Kale where are you from?"

He gulps his food down and coughs a bit. "Nowhere in particular just a guy from Minnesota." C.T smiles a bit finally learning about him. "Oh good for a second there I thought that was classified. How about family you got any siblings?" He stops and slowly chews on his food a sad look going on his face.

The other freelancers don't fail to notice. "Hey you alright Kale? foods not that good but-" North says a little concerned but was interrupted as Kale gulps down his food and looks down. As he's about to answer he sees the armor color of Washington outside. "No the foods great...hey I gotta meet with the Director later so I better get ready." Kale says quickly picking up his tray and throwing it in the trash.

They watch him leave watching him quietly mumble to himself.

Training room floor

Washington was in severe mental concentration. Markers raced around him as he punched, kicked and spun. He had been in here for the last half hour in deep thought. As the last mark turned red he sighed. "Training complete. That showed a 5% increase in your normal progress agent Washington." The ships A.I said in her usual voice.

"Run it again." He said in almost a bored tone. "Resetting training room floor." As green rings started rotating around him he didn't realize he was being watched by Wyoming in the upper deck.

Wyoming held a sniper rifle in his right hand polishing it as he watched him. He was in a word...concerned. Wash wasnt really the one for training especially not for a half hour. Wash a more of a funnyman more than anything a little kid with a rifle.

He felt little comfort in watching these videos. In fact he felt even more paranoid than anything else. Apparently their military had sent Wash after a bloody beastly soldier. Wyoming hadn't had much time to talk with his brother in arms after he had locked himself in his room.

He looked down at his rifle and let out a tired sigh. "You alright?" He turned slightly to his right. Kale stood next to him a look of deep thought on his face. "I'm fine young chap...yourself?" Kale rubbed his head and smirked. "Well...im not dead so in that respect at least im doing great." Wyoming did have to give the boys words a chuckle.

"Indeed. Tell me Kale how are your travels among the ship?" Kale gave a shrug to him. "Can't complain all that much. Well I could complain but I doubt anyone would listen." Kale walked over to an open chair sitting down. He could see he was still in deep thought. "Something on your mind chap?"

Kale leaned back and ruffled his hair. "Wyoming...I dont know if I made the right decisions. I mean...look at what I did to them." His voice shook a bit but he swallowed. "I never wanted this to happen..."

Wyoming put a hand on his shoulder. "I belive that you came here for a reason Kale. For...whatever reason im not very sure but I might have something that could raise those glum shoulders!" He said with some gusto. Kale looked up at him. "What?" Wyoming smiled and coughed a little before saying. "Knock knock-" Before Wyoming could murder Kale with his abomination of a knock knock joke a very tired Washington walked in.

Wyoming looked up and under his helmet smiled. "Wash old chap good to see you!" He says walking over to him. "Nice to see you to Wyoming." He says tiredly as he goes to him. He looks over at Kale but quickly looks away.

Kale looks down not looking directly at him. "Hey Wash." He says his voice quiet and shy. Wash walks over to Wyoming and nudges him a bit. "Hey you can use the training floor now." Wyoming looks at the sniper in his hand and sighs. "Don't really feel like it old chap. I'd much rather have lunch with-" Suddenly an earth shattering KABOOM took their ears.

Kale covering his ears dropped to the floor as the ship shook. The lights quickly flickered on and off in the upper deck before the ships A.I kicked in. "Main power source overcharged, going to emergency power." The lights came back on but dimmer than before. The people in the room all got up each groaning a bit. "What happened?" Kale said steadying himself on a chair. "Main power source went offline chap. Should be back in a few hours." Kale groaned again and put his hands to his head. "Did you have to make the floor so hard?"

Washington scoffed at Kale. "Sorry maybe we should make them out of feathers next time." Kale ruffled his hair. "Sorry." Washington looked over at him. "For what?" Kale bit his cheek and clenched his fists. "I'm sorry for what happened okay?!" Washington quickly sped over to Kale. "No that's not okay Kale! Do you even know half the things you've done to us?!"

Wyoming grabbed Washington's arm and held him back. "Calm down Wash...it's not like he did anything on purpose." Just then the entrance to the upper deck opened and Carolina walked in along with South and North. "Is there a problem here?" She said in a tone laced with venom.

Washington calming down quickly stopped at the tone of Carolina. "No boss nothing's wrong here. What happened to the ship?" Carolina looked over at Kale. "C.T told me that she found this on the engines." She holds up a round circular device with a bunch of flashing lights on it.

"Do you know what this is Kale?" Carolina asked in an obvious tone. Before he could reply North in a more gentle tone. "It's a power drainer it's only been switched on for a few hours. It caused a reaction to cause an explosion in the lower levels." Carolina looked over at North which sufficiently shut him up. "It could only have been placed from someone already onboard." Carolina says still looking at Kale.

Kale quickly realizing what was happening held his hands up. "It wasn't me Carolina and you should know-" She bangs a fist on the console. "NO! Why the hell should I trust you? For all I know you could have done all this on purpose." Kale starts to back up. "I can prove it Carolina I can I just need more time..." He says pleadingly to her.

"No I want answers and we want them now." She says with the darkest of glints in her eyes.

Meanwhile on planet Jax

Two lone freelancers stood in the docking bay. One in his usual blue ODST armor of dark blue another stood in appearance of spiky black hair piercing blue eyes with a large burn scar running from right temple to jawbone wearing white Mark VI MJOLNIR armour with red trim.

The two stood waiting for the Mother of Intervention for the last 30 minutes or so. "Golly jee I sure hope nothing happened along the way huh California?" Said agent Florida also known to some as Butch Flowers. California sighed and looked up into space. "You ever get the feeling something is about to go terribly wrong?" California said with a frown.

"Aw now come on California im sure everything is gonna be fine."

How wrong he was...

That ends yet again another chapter I hope you liked it.

Now its time *drumroll* Roosterteeth quote of the week!

This one comes from our buddy Micheal in which he shows his true creativity in Worms.

Michael: YES all my names made it! I didn't get fart eaters but I got Faffy Waffle, Peef Rimgar, Farfigschiter and Dung Bingo!

Gavin: Whats a Peef Rimgar?...

Thats it my dear readers another great quote (which made me laugh my ass off by the way) going into the books.

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