"You have been called upon to serve, you will be trained... and you will become the best we can make of you. You will be the protectors of Earth and all her colonies..." -Doctor Catherine Halsey
Be Hybrid
Chapter 3: Blue Team
LOCATION [CLASSIFIED] DATE: XX/XX/2520 Military Time: 10:24
John was a Spartan-II candidate, appointed leader of his new squad, the blue team. Which consisted of fellow Spartans and friends, Spartan-034 Sam, and Spartan-087 Kelly. He was currently 10 years old, and unknowingly in four years he would go under augmentation procedures. For now he was still looking like his age, through toned out to near peak human perfection.
The Spartan teams had been divided, each team had been debriefed that they are now going to meet their Hybrid counterparts. And most likely have one introduced into they're team. Blue team sat in their compartment room waiting for they're newest member.
The Door opened and closed behind the one who entered. His black hair and eyes and wiggling tail instantly told them this was a Hybrid, he looked well toned out though not much due to his age. John got up and spoke to their newest member, who was showing slight signs of caution and awareness.
"Hey, calm done, we'll all friends here." John reassured him. It had already become a habit for Spartans to only speak commonly with other Spartans, with a few exceptions among them.
The young saiyan hybrid calmed down and spoke his military number, like all Hybrids and Spartans do. "I'm Gohan-711, Hybrid assigned to Blue team, sir."
Blue team smiled and remembered how they did that to each other before. John, the soon to be Master Chief, spoke to his future comrade.
"Well Gohan, I'm John-117, Leader of Blue team. That over there is Sam-034, and Kelly-087, it's a pleasure to have you with us."
The young Hybrid sighed with relief as he continued to get to know his new team members. Before long, the coms switched on and the voice of the Spartan teacher, Mendez, spoke out.
"All teams are to report to the court yard immediately! I want it done five minutes ago Spartans!"
All the teams quickly got into military order and ran to the courtyard. There the Spartan teacher Mendez and the Hybrid Teacher Broly were waiting for them. The collected teams of Spartans and Hybrids stood in line and in attention, waiting for orders from their commanding officers who they thought of them as father-figures.
Mendez spoke with military tone and authority, his voice loud and clear demanding proper respect. "Listen up! I'm going to send each team toward an designated area, your mission? Capture the Flag and return it to another area. The mission details are on the board, read them and begin your mission when the gun fires!"
'They will realize later on, or not, that this mission cannot be completed without the use of Ki, which means their Hybrid team members must participate and cooperate in order to succeed.' The commander thought to himself.
John read the mission details thoroughly and then turned to his team members and explained it all to them, he made sure Gohan was up to speed on each of the team member's capability and was adding Gohan's own, with the ability of Ki, to his own mental list. He always makes sure his team members are ready, and he his dedicated in leaving non of them behind, which includes Gohan.
"Everyone prepped?" John gave a prep call.
"Yes sir." Kelly replied.
"Ready to go." Sam said.
"Hai! All set!" Gohan exclaimed.
Then they heard the sound of a gun firing, and the mission began.
Doctor Catherine Halsey watched her Spartans and Hybrids through the cameras, particular blue team with her two favorites, John and Gohan. She watched them succeed in their previous trainings, watched them excel beyond all the others. Becoming the soldiers that both humanity and saiyanity needed them to be.
She watched John, as he became the leader of all Spartans, how his luck and skill pushed him beyond the very capabilities of his humanity. She smiled as he became acquainted with his new team member easily, how he made sure no one was left behind during the test.
Catherine also saw how he made full use of Gohan's saiyan abilities, how they cooperated so easily to get through the mission that they had given them. She was pleased, how her two favorites conquered the challenge.
One of the scientist came to her, with a billboard covered with data. She grasped the board from him and looked over it. It was the SPARTAN Augmentation list, along with side affects, she looked at the survival percentage and grimaced. Not liking the odds of how many potential deaths and deformities there could be, she rattled her genius brain for something to increase it.
She looked at the screen and saw how one of the Hybrids used their Ki energy to aid his team into getting a flag, then the thought hit her. Perhaps the Chi healing energies can increase the odds, she'll have to run some test and theories to see. She grabbed a pen and wrote the suppose theory on the bottom of the page. Then turned back to the scientist lackey.
"Bring this back to your ONI, see if it can be done." She said clearly, authority running through her tone of voice.
The guy nodded and took it back before heading out.
Halsey looked back at the cameras, seeing the groups done with their mission. The record time has been broken, as expected from Her Spartans and Hybrids. The hour record broken by forty minutes, making the new record twenty.
With a grin, she took the recordings and data and put it secretly in a USB drive. Those fools at ONI don't know what they had done, but as she looked back she couldn't help the feeling that something was coming.
And her feelings have never failed her.
The groups would have to train harder, the project must be accelerated. Something is coming and it was big, it could either be good or bad but Catherine does not take chances. At least not with this.
LOCATION [CLASSIFIED] DATE: XX/XX/2524 Military Time: 12:53
The now Master Chief, John-117, stood alongside all of his fellow Spartans and Hybrids before their trainers and teachers. In the midst of the trainers was all their subjunctive mother Doctor Catherine Halsey. Now fourteen years old along with his other two compatriots and his other companion the two year old Gohan-711. Which he found strangely ironic that Gohan's numbers were basically his except backward.
John liked Gohan, the Hybrid had just as much luck as himself, maybe a bit less, but still considerable. He was skilled, extremely intelligent, and had good reflexes which kept on him his toes during spars. He was very versatile with his saiyan Ki energy and he didn't have the tail weakness thankfully. Gohan had mastered his lunar transformation which gives me a extreme physical boost, but it has it's limits. Gohan was also sociable unlike most other Hybrids and Spartans, with a few exceptions spread far thin.
But today was going to be different, today there was no training in the morning like always, and the food was something that was used for people that are in hospitals. Basically, it sucked.
Mendez came into view, looking over him and all his fellows. He spoke up, in crisp military tone, loud and clear. "Today, marks the day where you will ascend! You have trained hard and long for the protection of Earth and her Allies! You will be given your augmentations to make you what you are, Spartans and Hybrids, be strong in this mission, I expect nothing but victory!"
John spoke up. "Sir! How do we win!"
Mendez looked to him. "You have to survive."
Within the next few hours, every Spartan went through major augmentation, increased bone density, night vision, strength to lift three times their weight, improved eye sight, faster reflexes, more creativity and more.
It was a extremely painful endeavor. Screams throughout the building were heard as their bodies' white blood cells tried to fight off the foreign liquids entering their host. Needles punctured their toned skin through many places, including the brain. But Spartans were not the only ones that were being augmented, as nearby the Hybrids were also going through a similar process, but the drugs used were more minor and less costly. But even through they were less effective than the Spartans, they had a lower death chance which means less Hybrids would face death.
Catherine Halsey watched the augmentation procedures from the overlook. The computer systems showing the life signs and status of every Spartan and Hybrid. Some were dying, which was expected, but still gave her some guilt in heart. Some were being crippled, which they could have some pain for the rest of their lives. But there was a improvement, as many of the crippled ones were being healed of their conditions by the Chi systems, thus having more Spartans and Hybrids able for duty.
Then something happened, something totally unpredicted.
All the bodies of the Hybrids started go into a state of violent movement, doctors scrambled all about at the attempts to hold down the half-breed saiyans during the final augmentation process. Dr. Halsey eyes widened and her mind started to panic at the thought of losing them, when as sudden as it began, it stopped.
"What was that!?" She screamed at the doctors and scientist, who scrambled to the machines and systems to see what happened.
One called back. "Dr. Halsey! Come and see this! It's... By all means impossible to explain!"
She walked toward the scientist on the computer system, Halsey glanced at the machine, which was showing the saiyan-human DNA genome.
"Well, what is it?" She questioned.
"It's this, look." He pulled out on the computer, two genomes, one was the saiyan-human and another was... The saiyan-human? Wait, something was different, a piece of the DNA had changed dramatically.
"Care to explain?" She questioned him, wanting to know if it would affect her Hybrids in any way.
"When we were finalizing the augmentation procedure, the bodies of the Hybrids seemed to have adapted and completed a previously strand of DNA that was by all means unknown and thought useless by all of both Humanity and Saiyanity!"
"Will it affect the Hybrids in any way?" Halsey said.
"I don't know, we will have to run a few test. It could be just as useless and not do anything, or it could prove lethal, there is a chance however that the strand will increase the abilities of the Hybrids."
"How much of a increase are we talking about?"
The scientist worked a bit on the computer, working through programs and calculations. A good five minutes past before it was done, by that time many were staring at the screen.
The sound of a cup breaking on the floor came forth as the answer appeared on the screen.
"My God... "
Catherine's eyes widened, this was totally unexpected! If the increase was the case, the Hybrid's abilities would surpass the Spartans by far! Hell, they could take on whole UNSC ships! The amount of increase was staggering! A estimation of power increase of their Ki by fifty times! But, the increase didn't seem the case for now, as the genome still appeared inactive.
"This information must not leave anyone here, forward it all into a USB and give it to me. I'll give it to ONI." Doctor Catherine said, through she never intended to give it away at all. She wanted to keep this secret, if news of this got out her Hybrids will be experimented on more than necessary.
In the meantime, she had other matters to attend to.
Elsewhere, the planet Harvest continues it's peaceful agricultural daily life. Unaware of what would happen in a year's time as all Hell breaks lose.