User:Kit-103/SPARTAN-203

 "The last time I checked, I was fine and mentally stable. In fact...I still am. So, do yourself a favor and back off."' Jacen Smith aka Spartan-203 is a Spartan II Class II and the team leader for Ivory Squad. He served during the Human-Covenant War and then later helped the UNSC hunt down the remaining Covenant loyalists in the year 2558.
 * -SPARTAN-203 to a small group of marines during the Second Battle of Earth

He was then re-assigned to the 105th ODST Division in 2560 and served with the squad for five years. He participated in OPERATION: Thunder Road and other minor campaigns.

Personality
Spartan-203 is known for his calm, silent and intimidating nature. He tends to be sarcastic at the wrong time but still maintains a serious attitude when in combat situations. He is also quick to anger, stubborn and can be very standoffish. This usually ends up leading to fiery conflicts with his peers, superiors and even his own team-mates.

He became mentally unstable after witnessing the death of Kaitlyn-214, who was also his closet friend. After this, he had a tendency to throw himself into situations that no one could escape in hopes of meeting with her. But due to natural instinct, he always managed to survive. It wasn't until the second battle of Earth that he realized she would want him to live on and continue to serve the planet they were all sworn to protect.

The reason he was chosen for the Spartan II program was because of his leadership abilities, combat abilities, his speed and his quick thinking plus a few other "hidden" reasons. These reasons alone have saved him plenty of times in the line of duty.

Early Life
Born to a small family in the suburbs of California, Jacen lived a calm and peaceful life. Tall and slender, he usually kept to himself. During school-lunch, he was approached by a group of agents, who were looking for a new class of Spartan II's. Jacen fit the bill and was abducted the same night.

Training
After learning of his abduction and "willingness" of joining, Jacen became stubborn and intolerant, refusing to do his work and train. At the end of his first year, he was quickly pushed into shape by two of his superiors. They told him that he was free to leave but he would have nothing to.

After hearing this, Jacen put his nose to the grind-stone and started training harder every day, usually pushing himself to his limits and he would often be caught up past lights down studying. With this, he became one of the very best in his class, along with a few others.

Relationships
During his training, he became good friends with SPARTAN-209, SPARTAN-214 and SPARTAN-220. He became really close friends with SPARTAN-214 and the two even dated for a brief time, only to call it off because of regulations. Though they kept pretty close to each other afterwards.

Graduation
Jacen graduated in the top ten of his class. At the end, he was given the chance to lead his own squad, which consisted of three of his best friends.

OPERATION: INDEPENDENCE
OPERATION: Independence was a small operation headed by Ivory Squad to free //:CLASSIFIED::// from the Covenant threat. It took place between July 1st and July 4th.

Hitting the ground hard: July 1st, 2547 - 0400 Hours
UNSC frigate Flying Freedom, exits slip-space on the dark side //::CLASSIFIED:://, avoiding Covenant detection. Ivory Squad is quickly hot-dropped to the planet's surface. Upon entering the planet's atmosphere, the squad splits up, landing in different regions.

Jacen-203 lands behind a small Covenant camp in a heavily wooded area, near the city limits. Jacen-203 exits the HEV and quickly dispatches the small Covenant camp and makes his way towards the shipping ports to meet with the Jennifer-220.

Linking up and a new threat: July 1st, 2547 - 0530 Hours
"You know what? I'm sick of this. Just put them down like animals!"


 * -Jennifer-220 to Jacen-203 as an RPG explodes behind them

As Jacen-203 draws closer to the shipping port, the sound of assault weapons and plasma weapons fills his ears. As he draws closer, he spots Jennifer-220 pinned down from Covenant fire, her HEV in the middle of the Covenant. Jacen-203 draws his pistol and begins to open fire, picking off a few grunts and jackals, the elites diving for cover.

This gives Jennifer-220 enough time to catch up with Jacen-203 and both quickly eliminate the Covenant threat, only to be forced into cover from Insurrectionist fire. After catching their thoughts and almost being killed by rocket fire, Jacen-203 and Jennifer-220 open fire on the Insurrectionist threat, killing each one without mercy.

Meeting at the lake: July 1st, 2547 - 0700 Hours
Ivory Squad meets at Lake //::CLASSIFIED::// to plan their attacks on the Covenant forces. After they agree on which sites to hit, they are ambushed by a small Covenant force. After a minor skirmish between both groups, the team splits up and begins their attack.

Team Alpha

 * Jacen-203
 * Jennifer-220

Team Bravo

 * Tony-209
 * Kaitlyn-214

Siege of Paris IV
//::CLASSIFIED:://

Second Battle of Arcadia
After receiving word of a possible leak of human colony worlds to the Covenant, Jacen-203 and his team are sent to Arcadia to find the source of the leak and put a stop to it.

The first twenty-four hours
A UNSC frigate exits slip-space near Arcadia. Ivory Squad is sent down to the surface to investigate a possible leak of human colony worlds to the Covenant. Ivory Squad finds a small Covenant camp, which is quickly destroyed. All grunts, jackals and munitions are destroyed while one Elite major is taken hostage. The Elite tells Ivory Squad that the Covenant are on the way and that they will burn, along with the rest of their race. Tony-209 is slightly injured.

Three hours later, a small detachment of UNSC ships exit slip-space near Arcadia, sending down marines to help the Spartans evacuate the small continent of Mu.

The lawless region of Mu: September 7th, 2549 - 0600 Hours
Ivory Squad lands on the continent of Mu and quickly disables two rebel innies. Thirty minutes later, a group of pelicans appear in the horizon. As the birds draw closer to the ground, a hidden innie destroys a pelican, killing all aboard. A small skirmish breaks out between the UNSC, the Spartans and Insurrectionists. At the end of the skirmish, Ivory Squad and a small platoon of marines begin evacuation procedures.

Covenant Assault: September 7th, 2549 - 0800 Hours
During the evacuation process, a small armada of Covenant ships exits slip-space behind the UNSC fleet, destroying ten ships and gutting five more. During the confusion, Spirit drop ships are sent to the surface and the ground battle begins, delaying the evacuation process. Ivory Squad stays on Mu to fend off the Covenant assault.

A fleet of UNSC ships exits slip-space and begins to send troops to the planet to assist on the ground while also dealing with the Covenant threat in space.

War in the Pirth jungle: September 8th, 2549 - 2200 Hours
After intense fighting and pushing the Covenant back in space and ground, the remaining Covenant forces retreat back to Pirth, which has now been taken back by nature. Ivory squad and a detachment of marines head to jungles, prepared for guerrilla tactics from the hidden Covenant forces.

Intense fighting broke out in the jungle and casualties numbered in the hundreds for both sides. After a few hours of fighting and major losses, the UNSC called in an air strike to burn the forest to the ground. UNSC forces evaced the area as UNSC longswords flew overhead, dropping napalm over the forest, burning any and all Covenant forces in the forest.

However, more Covenant vessels exited slip-space, quickly tearing through and disabling any UNSC ships in the area while sending down more ground forces.

Arcadia is lost: September 9th, 2549 - 0900 Hours
"Arcadia is lost! We need to go!" Intense fighting had broken out over the planet, the human losses numbering in the thousands, the Covenant quickly gaining ground. The Covenant had started to glass the polar regions, slowly making their inwards. After learning this, the UNSC began to pull what forces they could off the ground.
 * -Jacen-203 to Kaitlyn-214 as she struggles to stay on Mu

During this time, the Covenant were pushing UNSC forces into a corner, slowly picking them off one by one but were saved as a group of shortswords flew over head, bombing the forces on the ground and clearing a path for the pelicans. UNSC forces started to board the pelicans as Ivory Squad held off anymore advancing troops. Jennifer-220, Tony-209 and Jacne-203 quickly boarded the pelican, only to realize that Kaitlyn-214 was still down below.

Jacen-203 leaped from the pelican, sustaining some minor injuries. He rushed to her postion and saved her from the Covenant forces that pinned her down. After a brief struggle, Jacen-203 was able to get Kaitlyn-214 aboard the pelican and back into orbit. Above the planet, the UNSC frigate Flying Freedom watched as the Covenant glassed the planet from a safe distance, at the request of Kaitlyn-214. After a few moments, Flying Freedom randomly jumped away from the planet, leaving Arcadia to its fate.

Fall of Reach
"No, I don't count myself lucky. We should have been there to help them, no matter the cost." Ivory Squad did not participate in the battle of Reach, as they had left for Coral almost a week prior. After receiving news of the attack, each Spartan fell into slight grief, silently mourning the death of their fallen brethren. This event would later give them each the push to fight the Covenant back when defending Coral and Earth. The battle only lasts fifteen minutes.
 * -SPARTAN-203 to SPARTAN-209 en-route to Coral.

First Battle of Earth
"Thinking of you Kate..."


 * -SPARTAN-203 while looking over Earth







Returning to Earth a week prior to the first battle of Earth, Ivory Squad was debriefed, given a new set of upgraded armor and some time for R&R. Though SPARTAN-209 and SPARTAN-220 enjoyed the time off, Jacen did not. He spent his week dwelling on SPARTAN-214's death while cursing himself for not paying better attention to his surroundings and cursing the UNSC for kidnapping them at such a young age. He became distant and aloof but denied being mentally unstable and claiming that he was just fine though his team knew the real truth.

When the Covenant did attack Earth, Ivory Squad and a small detachment of marines were sent to the port town of Mombasa to help defend and evacuate civilians while aiding forces on the ground.

The Battle of Mombasa
"Word has it that the UNSC is preparing for a massive assault on that one remaining carrier in the city center."

"Huh...maybe I should go help them."

"Are you insane?"

"No. I just wanna be the first human to wrap my hands around that Prophet's neck."
 * -Conversation between SPARTAN-203, SPARTAN-209 and SPARTAN-220