Finally done with the North chapter! Kinda hard to write, but I'm satisfied with the way it turned out. And thanks to my big brother for helping me out when I was stuck at the end. Read and review please.
I don't own RvB, Rooster Teeth does.
North waited patiently in the recovery room with South for Wash to wake up.
It had been days since the grey Spartan had been knocked out, and North was starting to worry.
How could an AI implantation have gone so wrong?
The worst anyone else had had were a few headaches. Maine seemed to be suffering from constant migraines, but that was supposed to be about as bad as it could get.
Well, maybe not for Carolina.
North could still remember her screaming and clutching her head in agony. Hers had been pretty bad, but it was nothing compared to Wash's.
Carolina had started out fine. She even wanted a match with Tex. Wash, on the other hand, fell apart at the start.
They shouldn't have implanted anymore AIs in agents after what happened with Carolina, but they had gone ahead and put one in Wash's head.
It hadn't gone well if how Wash had been acting when North went to see him later was any indication.
Wash had been freaking out when North had first come to see him.
He had been screaming, flailing, and begging them to not put another AI in his head. Epsilon was freaking out as well. North had though Theta was a skittish AI, but Epsilon was something new altogether.
He and York had been kicked out of the infirmary for "upsetting the patient", and that was the last time he had seen Wash even vaguely lucid.
Wash had still been unconscious a week later. They only gave him a small dosage of morphine to put him under for the rest of the night, but Wash didn't wake up.
They said that the implantation process had been especially straining for both him and Epsilon. Both just needed a nice rest, and he should be fine when he woke up.
As with everything lately, they were wrong.
North was sitting in a chair besides Wash's bed talking to Theta inside his head. He knew better than to let Theta out around Wash again.
They were just discussing the incident that had with Tex a week ago.
She had supposedly run off because there was talk of removing the AIs from people's head.
As if her running off wasn't bad enough, she had also supposedly attacked Wyoming and attempted to steal his AI and equipment.
Gamma had managed to escape by ejecting himself out of Wyoming's head and into the mainframe. He hadn't returned back to his host and his ejection had caused slight damage to Wyoming's psyche, but the AI had been kind enough to call for help and prevent the theft of the British freelancer's equipment.
Wyoming was still knocked out and couldn't confirm that it was indeed Tex who had attacked him, but the black Spartan had been seen in the locker room where the attack had been.
Her running off didn't help matters either.
South was positive it was her, but North wasn't so sure. He and Theta were just discussing the reasons why Tex wouldn't do it when Wash moaned slightly.
The grey and yellow Spartan was thrashing around a bit, moaning in his sleep words that vaguely sounded like Allison.
"Wash?" he asked tentatively. Theta flashed waves of concern in the back of his mind but didn't project his hologram.
Wash moaned a little louder and turned slightly towards North at the sound of his name.
"Hey Wash? You feeling any better?" he asked. "You were out for about a week. Is Epsilon doing any better?"
Wash wailed a high pitched whiny wail, and it took North a minute to realize that it was Epsilon wailing not Wash.
"I'm not fine!" Epsilon screeched his voice grating. "I'll never be fine again! She's gone! I'm gone! I'll never be whole again! I trusted them and they tore me to pieces!" The AI seemed to be sobbing uncontrollably.
"It's going to be fine Epsilon," North said uncertainly. "Wash won't hurt you. He'll protect you, and then you two can go off and do great things."
The AI showed himself finally, projecting himself from Wash's armor. He shook and fizzled in and out muttering, "They lie. They lie. They always lie."
"I'm not lying," he protested. He was always so good at calming Theta down. Why couldn't he calm down Epsilon?
"You're lying!" Epsilon accused. "They lie. I hurt. That's how it goes. That's how it always goes."
Wash was thrashing around violently at this point and clutching his head, but the freelancer made no sounds. Epsilon had taken complete control.
"There's only one way. I have to end the cycle," Epsilon said bleakly, talking more to himself than North.
The AI retreated back into the armor, and Wash finally seemed to come to.
Shakily, he sat up.
"Where am I?" he said looking at North. "What's going…."
Wash never managed to finish his sentence.
Suddenly there was a strange sound that North had never heard before.
Epsilon had self-destructed in Wash's head.
The pain must have been unbearable if the screams coming from Agent Washington were any indication.
The medics came rushing in at the sound and North couldn't help but wonder where the hell they had been when Epsilon was freaking out.
North was once again kicked out of the infirmary as the medics assessed the extent of Wash's injuries.
North shook his head in amazement.
Epsilon had just committed suicide.
North didn't even know that was possible let alone what would happen if an AI committed suicide inside of an agent's head.
He really hoped that Wash would be alright.
The next time it only took two days for Wash to wake up.
For someone who just had his AI self-destruct in your head, after already robbing you of a few sanity points, North figured that was pretty good.
This time though, South went with him. She claimed she was only going so North could have somebody sane to talk with, but North knew she wanted to see Wash.
Whether it was to see if he was alright or yell at him for ruining the AI implantation program, North didn't know. He was just happy for the company.
Usually he would have taken York with him, but the tan freelancer was nowhere to be found.
This worried North a bit. All of his friends seemed to be disappearing on him, whether they were off on mysterious business, hospitalized, or a fugitive from the law.
Wash finally came to and North was relieved that he wasn't screaming anymore. He actually seemed vaguely normal.
He managed to have a semi-normal conversation before things went to hell again.
One minute he was arguing with South over whether Tex was really a bad guy or not when suddenly, an alarm went off.
'Tex is back,' Theta whispered in his head sounding a bit too gleeful given the situation.
Without a word, South bolted out of the infirmary determined to stop Tex.
"South wait!," North called after his sister.
Cursing, the purple Spartan began to follow his twin out of the infirmary but stopped short when he noticed Wash was trying to get out of bed and follow him out.
"Whoa! Where do you think you're going?" he asked pushing the grey freelancer back onto the bed. "You need to stay here," he said sternly in a tone Wash had only ever heard him use on South.
"What!" Wash exclaimed trying to push himself off the bed, but was overcome by a headache and leaned back into the bed. "I have to go. The alarm sounded. All personnel have to report," he mumbled.
North shifted uncomfortably and looked down at the floor.
"I don't know if they were gonna have a medic tell you or something when you were up to it, but your certified Article Twelve Wash. You're not gonna be going on any missions for awhile."
Wash looked at the purple Spartan in shock.
"What!" he yelled in a tone North had never heard him use before. "How could they do that? I'm perfectly fine!"
As if to prove that he was capable, Wash tried get out of the bed and stand up, but was overcome with a major headache and fell to the floor.
North reached out to help him back onto the bed, Wash flinched and smacked his hand away
"Stay away from me! Just go on your mission and leave me the hell alone!" he snarled shrinking back into the floor. "Don't trust them. They hurt. They lie." Wash muttered putting his hands over his head and squeezing as if he could squeeze all the pain out. "They hurt. They lie."
North stared at his friend unsure what to do. Finally, North decided to go find South before she made a mess.
The gray freelancer was too far gone. He would never be the same agent he once was. Not after an experience like that.
"Hey Theta you listening buddy?"
"Of course North i'll always be there for you" the purple AI replied
"Be sure to warn me if you ever start to feel as if you're starting to go screwy like Epsilon, okay? Because I already have enough on my plate with South to worry about the second most important purple soldier in my life."
I want your opinion guys. You guys want a Wash chapter, and I wasn't sure if I shouldn't just make an entire fic dedicated to Wash alone since he has so many moments. What do you guys think?