Washington and Alaska were separated from the other candidates at all times during the tests they ate at different times trained at different times and slept it different times. The first tests went well for both siblings; Although Washington wasn’t the best with a rifle he made it up in Close quarters combat. Alaska was an all-around player and good at what she did, she had amazing reaction times when in combat, she had special awareness when on the battle field and she could shoot a rat in the head from 50 metres away, They hadn’t spoken to each other since they arrived Wash tried to attempt the start of a conversation many times but Alaska had rejected every opportunity. Finally on their way to canteen Alaska opened up: **“10 years Wash, 10 years, and I heard nothing from you.”**
**“Listen it’s-”**
**”No, let me speak, I thought you were dead I would use to play your audio files just to hear your
voice.”**
** “I’m sorry sis, they restricted my access to radio frequencies, I had no way of contacting you, My CO would’ve had my head had he even heard me talking to anyone.”**
**”I understand, but I won’t forgive you.”**
**”Love you too sis.”**
Once they had eaten they moved into their dorm, they didn’t sleep that night, they just caught up with each other explaining missions, experiences and grieving. They understood that people must be remembered in war no matter what side.
Alaska’s simulation:
**“Agent Alaska your mission is to infiltrate of Orbital platform and then disarm their main cannon to make way for the cruisers Understood?”**
**“Yes sir. One question sir if the Objective is unable to be completed what should I do”** Replied Alaska.
**“We’ll inform you if those circumstances come to happen, command out.”**
Alaska hopped into to her pelican and ran all the pre-flight checks, it was her first op since coming to the freelancer project she wanted to make it perfect. **“Okay, this Delta Niner 6043 requesting permission to take off”** **“Understood Delta Niner you are clear to go have fun out there.”** The main engines fired and they were of. She had 30 minutes until her ETA so she turned on the mic to the back of the pelican. **”Okay our operation objective is to disarm an orbital cannon from the inside we will be using open ventilation and a surprise to our advantage, if you don’t like that idea you can wait with the pelican.”**
The Orbital facility was in sight. Alaska lowered the harnesses and warned for a hard landing, her plan was simple divide the squad into two squads of three. Whilst one team moved to the data banks the other one created a diversion. She spotted the landing bay closest to her objective and ploughed the pelican directly towards it.
As soon as the pelican hit the floor, the door flung open and the first pod of the squad moved out guns blazing, the plan was underway the second pod sneaked around the back of the pelican and into the vents, the mission was going to plan. There was a loud explosion and pod 2 came back on the radio **“Alaska we’ve got a problem, we’re out manned and out gunned requesting back up”**
**“Denied hold you ground and conserve your ammo Al-“** Another explosion sounded and the radio cut out, she didn’t want to say anything, she had nothing to say as far as she knew she’d just lost her way out of there she moved on with her pod and reached the main objective. The orbital cannon.
**“Command we have reached the orbital cannon, what are our orders?”**
**“Orders are to take the priming chip that will stop it firing and they’re a pain in the ass to get hold of.”
**
**“Understood command, Alaska out.”** She ordered the other two members of her pod to the door. She didn’t want any interruptions she went to the terminal and took the chip and turned around **“Alright let’s- Oh fuck”** Behind her it seemed they had gathered every soldier in the station and held all of her squad mates to gun point.
**“The games up freelancer Now let’s be adults her-**” She activated her EMP causing all the shields of the nearby soldiers to fail. She threw her gun at one her squad mates and ran at the commander, unfortunately she forgot to notice the shotgun in his hand “Fu-” he pulled the trigger and released rounds all over her
**“Critical mission failure, Agent terminated-”**
** “Oh god F.I.L.S.S in heaven, what on earth am I going to do?”
** “Simulation End” ** the world fell back around Alaska as she shook her head. “That was Bull Shit I can’t believe that test.” She went back to the training room and waited for Wash
Washington’s simulation:
The operation wasn’t the easiest operation Washington had encountered but neither was it the hardest. His mission was to extract a squad under air bombardment and proceed to eliminate the incoming ground forces. All members of his squad must stay alive.
He started off His squad of six under heavy fire. He needed a plan and fast, as far as he could see there were two options, headshots in the aircraft in which would disable the vehicles or using heavy ordinance. He chose option one, moving towards the squad he managed to take out the first pilot allowing the opportune moment to take the Hornet, but instead she gave the option to Alaska, he knew she would be the best in the air, taking a sniper from his back he threw it to the guy in black and blue. He knew he’d be the best shot, and detached a brute shot from a corpse and threw it to the guy in green.
He’d kept a special weapon for the tech specialist he handed the woman a data pad with ignition codes for an orbital one cannon, there was no way the team could fail. The sky rumbled as a cruiser descended dropping personnel all over the place. Wash could tell it was going to be an all-out fire fight and most of his squad wasn’t going to make it all he could do was make the squad last as long as they could.
**“Okay guys Huddle up, The odds are against us but that’s never stopped anyone,”** He pointed to the guy in red, **“You, create a field and keep it up for as long as your suit can withstand when it fails give me the signal Everyone except the tech create a circular perimeter around the field if anything gets through you better make sure it’s dead, we all know what’s at stake here, Let’s do this”**
The troops moved ever closer and rounds started firing using the cover given by Alaska the squad were able to hold before the incident, Alaska lost her first engine and started plummeting to the ground Wash sprinted and jumped up to catch her hornet just as it before it hit the ground applying his aided strength he managed to carry the ship over to the shield and called the combat mechanic over to take a look, it didn’t take long to get her back in the air again
It was nearly night fall on the planet surface and by now every member of the team was running low on rounds it was time for the last stage of Washington’s plan everyone hopped into the field and he ordered the firing of the cannon. Using Alaska’s EMP blast he had managed to divert some of the power from the suits of the soldiers into the medic’s shield As soon as the blast hit the dome it refracted all over the battle field disintegrating most of the enemy force, But there was one last dilemma, there was still a cruiser in low orbit and there was no chance of an EVAC with a cruiser, he examined his surroundings and spotted just what he needed, he had one last trick up his sleeve, or armour in this case, he hadn’t hoped to use it but he’d packed some heavy explosives in case the enemy had brought tanks, he’d brought a Spartan laser. He tried firing it but nothing worked, he handed it to his heavy weapons expert, **“do you know how to make a bomb?”**
Once the explosive was operational he hopped onto Alaska’s Hornet it was too small to be fired at via mac cannon, it was the perfect vehicle, once inside the cruiser he unloaded the explosives at the drive core, he had no idea what it was but the tech expert had told him to. He mumbled to himself as he ignited the explosives, “Death before glory” he felt a sharp pain as the ship exploded into hyperspace.
F.I.L.S.S’s voice came in my head **“Mission failure- Squad member terminated”** The world faded back into reality; it was a simulation, thank god. He went into the waiting room and met up with his sister, **“c’mon let’s get something to eat,”** he said holding his hand for her to get up on **“Thanks,”** They made their way to the canteen each of the sibling noticing squad members from their simulation, it was strange in a way. Washington’s wrist beeped **“Hey guess what sis,”**
**“What is it?”** Alaska replied
**“F.I.L.S.S has seen it fit that we move rooms”**
**"Thank god, I was getting tired of that place it stank of, well you"**
**"Yeah I thought so, apparently it's minor upgrade, It means that you're further away from F.I.L.S.S's AI core."**
**“Nice, let’s go check it out”** They moved over to their new dorm when someone Knocked into Washington.