Alright this chapter will be entirely dedicated to Illinois. So there will not be many of the Reds and Blues if at all.
Staff of Charon Bridge
"Sir we have multiple inbound enemy cruisers and fighters." A deck officer said as soon as they had exited slipspace.
"I want classifications and numbers now." II said as he walked closer to the view port.
"There are 10 Paris-class heavy frigates. 4 Autumn-class heavy cruisers and 1 Infinity-class warship" Another deck officer said.
"Inform Illinois immediately. He is going to enjoy this." X said as he entered the bridge.
Staff of Charon Hangar
"This is going to be fun." Illinois said as he got into his personal Sabre
"Sir with all due respect they don't know the reason we are here so we could easily pass as transporting cargo to the planet." The mechanic said as he was finishing the fueling.
"That wouldn't work due to the actions of the late chairman Hargrove. Now all ships must be searched before entering a UNSC controlled planet's atmosphere." Illinois said as the cockpit closed.
"Ah. Now I see sir." The mechanic said as he disconnected the fuel line.
Space above Sidewinder
Illinois started speeding towards the group of 50,000 Longswords while preparing for the fight ahead.
"This is going to be so much fun." Illinois said before doing a loop and firing at the group of Longswords. In a matter of a few minutes he had soon eliminated all of them. He then started heading straight for the Paris-class frigates. He dodged all the fire the enemy ships were shooting at him making them only hit each other. Soon Illinois then began strafing the frigates blowing up their sides before reaching their bridges and blowing up the ships one by one until all that was left was the Infinity-class. Illinois then flew towards its shield generators blew them up disabling the warships's shields. Then he flew straight for the bridge and fired every missile he had at it destroying the bridge and the entire warship. Illinois soon after flew his fighter back into the same hangar of the Staff of Charon that he exited out of.
Staff of Charon Hangar
"I don't think the UNSC is going to have any idea what has happened here until it is to late sir." The mechanic said as he set to moving the Sabre back to its storage space.
"They will soon fall. And we will rise." Illinois said as he walked to the bridge.
Staff of Charon hallways
As Illinois walked through the halls he couldn't help but think of how things used to be so much happier.
Flashback
Mother of Invention hallways 5 hours before the Freelancer Break In, 5 minutes after Agent Washington's implantation
It was when most of the other freelancers would be asleep. Illinois was walking through the halls due to him having to walk around before he could get some sleep. The doctors said something about his brain being a bit to overactive. While Illinois was walking he started thinking about the A.I.s that were going around recently. The Director had said that only the best agents would get an A.I. so why wouldn't the best pilot who was also an agent get an A.I.. He had talked to the Director an hour earlier about it but the Director had just flat out refused that it would be guaranteed that Illinois would get an A.I.. Snapping out of his thoughts Illinois saw Tex leaving the Freelancer classroom and he then went into the classroom after he was certain that Tex was fully gone. He saw the terminal that Tex had used was still active however it was quite clear a data card had been used to get some information. So Illinois used an old trick he had learned back in high school to bring up the information from the data card without needing the actual data card itself. When the data was brought up it shocked him that it was about the A.I.s. He then spent the next 2 hours reading everything about each of the A.I.s and it appalled him how the fragments were made. He knew that the Director had to be brought in for his crimes. Illinois then went and woke up his friends and told them to get their armor on and grab some weapons. He then went and got his own armor and grabbed an assault rifle.
Mother of Invention Freelancer classroom 1 minute before Freelancer break in
"Alright Illinois why did you want us in here?" Michigan asked a little annoyed at being woke up.
"I need to show you guys something." Illinois said but before he could bring up the data the ship went into lockdown.
"Quick to our fighters." Indiana said as she and the rest of the group started running to the hangars.
"Attention all Freelancers report to you assigned safety rooms. This is not a drill. Repeat this is not a drill." The counselor said over the pa system causing Ohio and the group to stop running.
"There are definitely some Freelancers who are still asleep. We need to wake them up and inform them of what is going on." Michigan said as he started leading the group to the rooms where the heavier sleeping freelancers were.
Mother of Invention Safe Rooms 1 minute before it starts falling
"Alright. I'm glad we got all of them awake and got ourselves to our safety room." Ohio said as he, Michigan and Indiana entered their safety room and right as they noticed that Illinois wasn't in they heard the door lock behind them.
"Sorry guys but I have to do this alone." Illinois said as he turned around and started running towards the bridge however half way to the bridge the Mother of Invention started falling.
"Going to have to change plans." Illinois said as he then ran towards the hangar.
Mother of Invention
"Illinois what are you doi-" A mechanic started saying before being pushed out of the way by Illinois.
"Shut up egghead." Illinois said as he jumped into a Sabre, took off and jumped into slipspace.
Flashback end
"From there I ended up meeting Locus and Felix. I could tell Locus only used that soldier title to cope with what he had done. And then I met X, V, II, and L." Illinois said to himself right before he entered the bridge.
Staff of Charon Bridge
"Look X I am telling you we need to take out their vehicles first to prevent them from trying to control the riot." L shouted at X.
"And I am telling you that we need to take out their anti-aircraft towers first to prevent them from shooting down the pelicans we send to pick up the freelancers." X shouted back at L.
"Do you too ever stop arguing?" Illinois said as he entered the bridge.
"I have just been enjoying the show." II said as he was leaning against a wall.
"He started this by saying that we need to take out their less important anti-aircraft turrets rather than their vehicles which they can use to keep the freelancers under control." L said pointing out a flaw in X's plan.
"Well if we don't take out their anti-aircraft turrets then we can't get out Pelicans down there to pick up the freelancers." X said pointing out a flaw in L's plan.
"You two stop it. We will shoot all of their tanks and aircraft and then destroy their anti-aircraft turrets. Got it?" Illinois shouted at X and L.
"Yes sir." X and L said in unison with fear evident in their voices before leaving.
Sidewinder Maximum Security Prison
"This is just too cold." One guard said to another one.
"Uh hu." The other guard said.
"I had video surveillance duty for 6 weeks straight Jenkins. 6 weeks." The first guard said.
"Ok." Jenkins said with a bored and uninterested tone.
"But you know who doesn't have late night patrol. Murphy. I made one comment about the warden to him and next thing I know I'm out on late night patrol." The first guard said.
"Hey Tyler? Have you ever thought that maybe you should pay attention more to what is going on around you than complaining?" Jenkins asked Tyler.
"So Murphy clearly went to the warden and told him about my comment because now Murphy has my surveillance duty now." Tyler continued saying not paying any attention to Jenkins which resulted in both of them being taken out by a cloaked figure.
"Guard patrols are down." The cloaked figure commed to the Staff of Charon.
"Good work Spectre. The money will be sent to your account shortly." Illinois commed back.
"Alright." Spectre said as he vanished.
Staff of Charon Bridge
"Begin orbital bombardment." Illinois said to the firing crews.
"Yes sir." The chief gunnery officer said.
Planetside
All of the guard towers went up in brilliant balls of fire followed not too long after by the hangars and garages near the prison being blown up. Shortly after all of the anti-aircraft towers were blasted apart quickly followed by all of the cell doors opening and ODSTs from the Staff of Charon landing planetside to deal with the guards and arm the freelancers.
"What is going on?" Agent Alaska asked one of the ODSTs.
"Agent Illinois is staging a breakout. And we're here to arm you and get you to the extraction zone." The ODST said as he gave Agent Alaska a pistol.
"Hey Jersey, Colorado, Nevada time to storm the warden's officer." Alaska said to her jailmates. Soon afterwards they reached the wardens office and kicked the door down.
"Did you not hear me say that we needed to get you to the extraction zone?" The ODST asked as he arrived at the warden's office.
"Believe us something that Illinois is going to want is in here." Nevada said as he and the others started searching.
"Found it." Colorado said as he held up a silver capsule.
"That's great now let's get you out of here." The ODST said as he motioned for them to follow him. They were then picked up by a Pelican soon after and taken to the Staff of Charon.
Staff of Charon hangar
"James what took you so long." Illinois shouted as he started walking up the ODST that Alaska and her group were with.
"Sorry sir but these freelancers had to get something from the warden's office that they said you would like." James said as he motioned for Colorado to hand Illinois the silver capsule.
"I believe this should suffice for the lost time." Colorado said as he showed the capsule to Illinois.
"Yes this will more than suffice. Mad King take this silver capsule to the A.I. restoration lab at once." Illinois said.
"Yes sir." The Mad King said as he grabbed the capsule and ran towards the lab.
"Now we need to raise the Mother of Invention back from its icy grave." Illinois said as he walked towards the bridge.
Planetside Mother of Invention Crash Site
"Still just as magnificent as the last time I saw her." Illinois said as he looked out at the Mother of Invention having several pelicans and the Staff of Charon attaching tow cables to it.
Mother of Invention generator room.
"Generators up." The Mad King said as he fixed the generators allowing power to be restored to the Mother of Invention and reactivate its thrusters.
Staff of Charon Bridge
"Begin raising the ship." Illinois said to X and L over the comm.
"Alright the best way would be brute force straight up." X said as he was reaching for the controls.
"No way. The best way would be to slowly but surely life it out." L said as he smacked X's hands away and started reaching for the controls himself.
"No brute force is the best." X said as he pushed L away.
"No slow and steady." L said as he tackled X to the ground and the two started fighting.
"As always I have to do it." II said as he grabbed the controls and did a combination and X and L's strategies.
Mother of Invention bridge
"Yes the Mother of Invention will fly once again." Illinois said as he watched the ice slowly vanish from the bridge view.
"Sir I would recommend repair teams getting to work on the ship asap before we take it out of the atmosphere." The Mad King said as he walked in to the bridge holding an analysis of the ship.
"All right. But as soon as we know this ship is airtight I want it to be taken to our personal drydock." Illinois said as he walked out of the bridge.
Alright that chapter is done. Now I am going to restate the poll once again. Who would you rather see die Caboose or Washington?
Also do you think that Indiana, Ohio and Michigan will appear in anything other than a flashback?
Please review and answer the poll.