Hudson: A Spartan's Journey

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Chapter Eight: A Familiar Threat Rises from the Ashes

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Journal Entry 678 July 21st, 2535

I remember the blood, and the pain. The screaming of my fellow comrades around me, as grenades detonated. I remember sleeping on the hard ground only to wake up with dirt in my mouth. My alarm clock was the sound of explosions and magnums firing. Those bastard grunts were what I saw in the mornings they reminded me of weeds, meaningless and annoying. Instead of protecting the soldiers around me, I now have to protect my daughter Catherine from the SPARTAN program. If that wasn't enough, the Covenants are coming back stronger than ever. I couldn't imagine her going through the painful augmentations, would she even survive? Thinking of the program, reminds me of John-117 my friend. Of course we were the kind of friends that saved each other's asses more than once. Is that what my daughter will become?

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Meanwhile John, The once highly annoying and cocky Private, now the more calm and quiet Master Chief, was milling around UNSC's SPARTAN lab's, just thinking about the last few months, and looking through some of the SPARTAN files.

John's Perspective:

I am a different man, a very different man, I'm like a different person now.

I was promoted to Master Chief Petty Officer Of The Navy a few months ago, and now no one in UNSC calls me John anymore, they now call me, Master Chief or just simply Chief. I was walking to the SPARTAN labs and was looking through some files, of upcoming subjects. (Music cue Halo: CE, Ambient Wonder 0:00-0:35)

Until I found one that at first puzzled me, then shocked me, then frightened me, the name of the upcoming subject was, Catherine, oh my god that's Huddy and Kate's daughter, those UNSC bastards, they promised they would do it, when Catherine was the right age, but five really, I am going to confront Keyes right now, and the rest of command, what were they thinking.

A few minutes later. (Music cue Halo: CE, A Perilous Journey 0:00-0:20

I run in the room on their meeting, they were talking about normal war and science stuff, but right now I've got to get to the bottom of something, I go up to Keyes, and I grabbed the collar of his shirt, and I pin him up against the wall, "Keyes what were you thinking." I intimately ask, "What in the hell are you talking about, Chief!" He grunts annoyed, "You know what I'm-" I was cut off mid sentence by a prick in my neck, and all of the sudden, everything went black.

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Hudson's Perspective:

I stood by the window and felt the heavy tension of exhaustion pull at my eye lids. I sleeplessly turned my head towards the bed to the right of me. My 5 year old daughter was sound asleep, the blankets up to her chin. I looked down the hallway that led to my bedroom where my wife slept. I was beyond tempted to join her and sleep for days, but I had to stay awake. I fought over hundreds of grunts, knights and ghosts and yet every soldier is defeated by sleep. It was pitch black outside, the only light was the moon in the distance. He had been doing this for 2 weeks, running on 2 hours of sleep each day. His wife Kate offered to take his place but he denied her and sent her to bed. She had a full time job and it was too much to ask of her to do this, especially since it might not even be true. But if he learned anything from being a UNSC soldier was to trust your gut. If your gut said step right because you had a hunch that a grenade was to your left, you stepped right.

He glanced at the clock 3:00 in the morning. He groaned, maybe this was like every night. It was very hot in New Mombasa, Africa on the late days of July and his cool bedroom awaited him. She would be fine; they aren't coming to take her… He left to his bedroom before he could change his mind. Not realizing he made the biggest mistake of his life.

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Flashback to Unknown Date:

I was 18 it had been two years, since my SPARTAN program treatment and augmentations.

You just cannot forget the pain of those surgeries, but there something worse than that, hearing someone go through it, I heard there was a ten year old boy named John going through the procedure right now.

Right now I was hearing his cries of pain, somber and most of all fear, I also heard Halsey randomly selected him, I mean why would UNSC do such a thing, I mean I was 16 when I took it but really ten? Ten!

Hopefully if I have a kid one day, they won't do this to them.

Back to Real Time:

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His eyes flashed open he heard a high pitch scream, immediately he rolled on his feet and grabbed his trademark Magnum off the his dresser. He ran towards Catherine's bedroom in complete fear his mind running a mile a second.

Don't hurt her. Don't take her. Please don't take her.

The hallway felt like miles long until he finally reached her room. Everything was dark and he was bumping into walls and objects around him. He looked down and saw Kate on the ground unconscious. He fell to his knees by her and held back tears. He looked for a wound, anything. He found a small syringe which he immediately recognized as a sleep injection, something he learned from military 't hurt her. Don't take her. Please don't take her.

The hallway felt like miles long until he finally reached her room. Everything was dark and he was bumping into walls and objects around him. He looked down and saw Kate on the ground unconscious. He fell to his knees by her and held back tears. He looked for a wound, anything. He found a small syringe which he immediately recognized as a sleep injection, something he learned from military training.

"Daddy please help me please!" She was screaming and crying pulling against their grasp.

He got up nearly stumbling toward her and reached for the first agent. He quickly hit the butt of his gun into the man's face and did a quick step around him to catch his rebound and flip him over his shoulder onto the hard floor. He grabbed his daughters hand and tried to pull her away from the other agents. The other bastard must have called for backup 10 more agents poured into the room and surrounding his daughter. His hand slipped from hers and she continued to scream, beg and kick. He reached for his gun but the agent already retrieved it.

The agents surrounded him and clamped him to the floor; there was nothing he could do. The shot him with a sleep syringe and dragged his daughter away. One of the agents had blue eyes that looked straight into his brown ones.

Eye's he would never forget.

"Please don't take my daughter." He felt drowsy and tried to crawl towards them.

"Please…Don't…Take…" He looked up one more time and few the agents with his daughter fled the room, leaving him there in the deep sleep he wished for hours ago.

TO BE CONTINUED

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