This fanfic is based on a map in Forge I am making under the name Firebase Dante’s Doom, which is to be released for testing soon.
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OCTOBER 29TH, 2558: In a once desolate Firebase in an outer colony moon , a small insurrectionist faction calling themselves Revealing Light has been working on creating super-soldiers of their own to one day be free from a UEG. This is with the help of Dr. Nero, a sympathizer who has worked with MJOLNIR armor before, wishes to utilize his experience and share trade secrets to create a finally appreciated concept of an absolutely relentless soldier. His willing subject, Subject N616, donned a stolen Wrath armor variant, and is intent in becoming absolute perfection for Nero’s experimental augmentation testing to claim vengeance on those whom were involved with the death of her brothers. They are under the careful guard of Vicdam Yikim, another sympathizer who used to work for the United Earth Government until fired. He donned the Soldier-Class armor with the Abyss VISR. Only some files could be cleaned up enough to interpret, the rest were twisted beyond recognition, these are their entries.
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SUBJECT N616 - Personal Journal EntryS - DAMN IT! [Slams metal table] Once again, I’m “not brutal enough, not effective enough”. I hate every single time the doc tells me that. I also hate that he isn’t wrong though… So many simulations, but he changes something every time, and I unfortunately miss a beat every time. Jacobi, Briant, if there is an afterlife, if you can hear this, I hope someday to make you proud and avenge your deaths. Damn the governments, pushing my brothers to the breaking point, to where their only hope at progress and safety was to fight back against UEG rule. …We used to be taught to trust in the government, but now I know better. Now I can’t wait to become stronger so that one day I can make use of this power armor in combat to tear into the UEG with my bare hands.
My only company in the past few days has been Doctor Damian Nero, and this goofball, Vicdam Yuckim, assigned to guard us. Yakim looks at me a bit funny, I’m not really sure what he is thinking in that little head of his. He used to work for the UEG before some stuff he said and did got out of hand with some Sangheili. Sometimes I still wonder if he is just a spy with the way he looks at me all the time. And then Nero, jeez. Some company, his jaw looks as strong as a brick, surprising for a doctor. Unfortunately he is about as feeling as a brick too. Man doesn’t even use my name, just refers to me as “N616”. I get him though at least, an outcast, a bit crazy, healthy for his age and yet isn’t allowed to do what he is capable of, all because some big-shots don’t agree with him. He has this thing he is working on though, a last ditch-effort project that is going to be applied to me now since I can’t seem to perform the simulations well enough. It’s a program for my power armor that will sync well with some experimental steroid juice he’s going to put in me. He says it will give me “the strength of over nine-thousand men to crush the feeble government”. I sure hope so.
He also gave me a helmet, so sweet of him. Colorful skull looks expensive, though it fits me perfectly, and has “achieve your dreams, tear them asunder”… Wow, [taps helmet] that man has heart alright. I’m going to wear it during my augment in stasis. Speaking of which, it’s time for me to go. When I awaken I am certain that I will become one with conviction. -
DR. NERO - Personal Journal EntryN - BAH! Not vicious enough, NOT EFFECTIVE ENOUGH. These simulations are getting us nowhere, I think she hesitates because she isn’t bloodthirsty enough. She has the will, but no way. It’s only fortunate that I was able to get my hands on a Warmaster-class Helmet with what I believe to be known as the Strife VISR. Absolutely a rare find considering my position. Certainly a trophy piece from the fool who lost her head to me, but I feel that along with the new drugs going in her now and the firmware upgrade I applied to her armor, it will tip the scales to allow N616 to realize her potential. …Ahh, I should not think weak of her though. She is tenacious after all, and seems to look upon me with hope to fulfill her dream of vengeance, and mine for that matter. To hell with the UNSC and its ungrateful government. My work could have made us greater than all the races in the galaxy combined in terms of lethality. But no, now I’m here in this pit on a moon, which is somehow the only place I am able to continue my work.
[hums and fizzes of loss of power]
Oh come on, WHAT NOW?? -Yoink!- guard, doesn’t know how to work machinery. Almost certain he did something. [slides recorder into pocket, footsteps] Had to be mere hours after she starts the process… [distant footsteps, Nero’s footsteps stop]
[other footsteps quietly shifting]
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[GUNSHOT]
AHH! GOD -Yoink!- YIKIM, WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING? Put that thing away!
V - Sorry doc, I thought there might have been an intruder. Why are most of the lights off?
N - I was wondering the same thing. HOPE? WHAT’S GOING ON?..
…did our AI break? Ugh, whatever, let’s go to the Control Room and fix this crap.
[Footsteps, door slides]
[Keyboard taps, latch switch, power-up humming]
Aw heck, well our auxiliary power is on, but our AI is gone…
V - What? Whe- [distant explosion, loud alarm]
N - It’s been one of those days… Dear God, there is an anomaly in the fabric of space near us, it’s growing in size and this moon it traveling right to it! Where the hell did it come from?!
[Rumbling and cracking]
V - We gotta get the hell out of here before it’s too late!
N - It already is, and we would have had the time if the power didn’t go out. IT’S TEARING THE BASE OFF THE GROUND! TAKE COVER IT’S-
[LOUD CRASHING AND WARPED FLUCTUATING SOUNDS]
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