User:K4/SPARTAN-126

"Request permission to leave the battle, Sir."

- SPARTAN-126

"For what purpose, 126?"

- General Ganeun

"To avenge SPARTAN-141, and kill Arna 'Himtuee."

- SPARTAN-126

SPARTAN-126 is one of the seven surviving Spartans in the UNSC Marine Corps' secret project to have SPARTAN-IIs of their own. He is an out-spoken person, with supreme leadership skills and proficency in all parts of soldireing. Most of his and the other Marine Corps SPARTAN-IIs training was covered up and not much is known of his early life, save for he once knew SPARTAN-141 before they were drafted into the MC's "project".

History
SPARTAN-126's real name is unknown at this time. He was born on Earth, in the Chicago Industrial Zone in 2513. He was rather quiet in his early years, almost to the point of muteness. Indeed, his first word was spoken when he was 3 years old. Doctors didn't know if it was a defect, or simply he didn't want to talk yet. Soon after, however, he began acting like a 'normal' child. He initially was rejected ny Dr. Halsey in her search for canidates for the SPARTAN-II program, and he was one of the canidates she had the hardest time deciding whether to include. However, he decision was made for her by the Navy Admirality, saying she either needed to say 'yes' or 'no', or else her program would be terminated. She did not choose him. However, the UNSC Marine Corps had no problem including 126 in their program. His parents were only told a cover-up story about his absense, with the 'facts' being he was killed by a hit-and-run. 126 never said anything about missing them.

Project: MIST
126 and the 49 other SPARTAN-II canidates passed up by Dr. Cathrine Halsey were found and kidknappped by the Marine Corps for Project: MIST. After a rather snoopy Marine Intelligence officer uncovered the UNSC Navy's SPARTAN-II and MJOLNIR projects and seeing early test results preform impressivly, they wanted some Spartans of their own. Rounding up the canidates Halsey didn't use, due to budget limitations, the UNSC MC began work on their spartans. Their training regimen was brutal, uncaring and broke down all of the canidates physically and emotionally. One of the reasosns 126 and the other Spartans aren't called by their names at all is because the drill instructors told them that they no longer had names, that they must earn their Spartan number. Because Halsey had 150 canidates, she couldn't take them all. The Marines didn't have that problem with only 50. However, they needed access to all the things Halsey's Spartans had, so several discreet "payments" and "mutual agreements" were made to get samples of the tech and supplies needed. Like Halsey's Spartans, many were killed or disfigured after the augmentation drugs were injected. Only 7 survived the process. Graduating in 2530, their first assignment as Spartans was to eliminate Tim Kennedy, a known Rebel who had evaded the UNSC for 11 years. Even with the Covenant begining to glass several of the Outer Colonies, Kennedy was a problem for the UNSC. 126 was the one that actually used the S2AM Sniper Rifle that killed Kennedy. After eliminating Kennedy, the Spartans were regulated to Black Ops and special missions against rebel installations. Successful in every mission they were sent into, they were eventually deployed to fight Covenant soldiers. Most of their orgininal contact with the Covenant was during the Jericho VII Theater, when they were deployed alongside Master Chief and his Spartans.

Human-Covenant War
126, along with the rest of the 7 Spartans he grew up with in Project: MIST were sent into missions in dire need of intervention. Somethimes they were deployed alongside the Navy's SPARTAN-IIs, but maintained a safe distance away, lest their existance be revealed. However, during a battle on Spectre Prime, they were forced to cooperate with the other SPARTAN-IIs to eliminate what would have been an invading force in the Alpha Centauri system. After eliminating the entire force, their, along with the other SPARTAN-IIs, existance and several missions were released in 2547.

Reach and Operation: JUSTICE
In 2549, 126 was given command of "Black Team", the special attache' to the Navy's SPARTAN-II team. He and the "Black Team" Spartans were assigned to Reach, as test subjects for Project: MJOLNIR. When Reach was attacked by the Covenant, most of them were able to get away, but 126 and SPARTAN-141 were left behind. After meeting up with some marines, they escaped on a Longsword bomber. They soon learnt of an important diplomat coming to the Reach disater site, named the Minor Prophet of Justice. They decided to eliminate the Prophet and hopefuly weaken the Covenant caste system to the point of fracture. Most of the marines died when they boarded the Prophet's carrier, but the Spartan's successfuly killed the Prophet. However, this only delayed what Justice had been relaying to the fleet: The Covenant had discovered Earth's location. The Spartans then used a Prowler from a damaged UNSC vessel to return to Earth.

First Battle of Earth
After returning to Earth, SPARTANs 126 and 141 were extensivly debriefed. John-117, Sgt. Johnson and several other SPARTAN-IIs arrived soon after in the Gettysburg. John and the rest of the Navy's SPARTAN-IIs were always concidered more like cousins to Black Team than brothers ans sisters. They also didn't like the amount of publicity that John-117 got, just for doing what the rest of them did, day in, and day out. however, they keept these feelings to themselves. They had just finished a friendly wrestling match with each other when John was called up to Cairo Station to recive his new MJOLNIR Mk. VI armor. Half an hour later, the Covenant found them. With their Mk. V armor in shops for matanince, the combined SPARTANs were forced to improvise with ODST Body Suits. They did, however, eventually get MJOLNIR Mk. VI armor to use. After loading up on In Amber Clad, they were sent down to the surface to hold back the invasion force. Unfortunatly, when John-117 followed Regret to Installation 05, a SPARTAN-II of Black Team was in New Mombassa when the Slipspace rupture destroyed the city. The rest of the Spartans had evacuated all civilians and were safely occupying Voi. However, several hours later they were recalled to Crow's Nest, an underground UNSC resistance base, when the Covenant began orbital bombardment of North America and occupying the planet.

Second Battle of Earth
SPARTANs 141, 126 and 013 were redeployed in what remained of North America, to quell the Covenant Loyalist forces looking for a "holy relic", which, after hearing conciderable chatter from the Covenant battlenet, they belivied was the Ark, some Forerunner device on Earth. The plan called for 126 and 013 to distract the majority of the Loyalists while 141 snuck on board their battleship and detonate a micro-nuke. However, 141 was captured before he could detonate the nuke and was brought before a Brute Chieftan, to be executed. Meanwhile, SPARTANs 013 and 126 had successfuly eliminated the forces on the ground, when they were told, by the Chieftan himself, that he would kill 141 if they attempted to resue him. 013, disobeying a direct order from the higher ranking officer, 126, rammed a Phantom dropship into the battleship and created enough commotion to allow 141 to slip away, but 013 herself was caught and, as both UNSC and Covenant combatants watched on an unprecidented all-COM channel feed, was decapatated by the Chieftan. SPARTAN-126, taking advantage of everyone's silent intent of their COM channels, immedatly detonated the micro-nuke and vaporised the warship. He and 141 got away safely. However, they were shot down over the Florida Keys and were stranded until a Pelican from Crow's Nest could retrive them. During that time, they fought off waves of Covenant soldiers in gureilla warfare, untill they were overwhelmed. Once again, 141 was captured by a Chieftan, but this time was intentional, to allow 126 to kill him whith his attention drawn elsewhere. However, 141 was brutally beaten by the Jiralhanae and stabbed with a Sangheili Energy Sword, and his left arm was nearly severed. 126 rescued his comrade and the finaly achived pickup by Kilo 23, just before she was called to retrive John-117 after his orbital insertion. 141 was sent into surgery and would not be able to fight for several weeks. 126 was the last SPARTAN of Black Team able to fight the Covenant until the end of the Human-Covenant War.

After the War
Shortly after the end of the Humam-Covenant War, 141 was deemed fit for duty once again, much to the surprise of 126. However, he had to wear a life support system built into his armor and a healing device for his still-severly wounded arm, but he hardly acknowleged their presence as more than a small inconvinence. He requested several weeks R&R and was granted permission to return to Thermopylae for his leave. However, other than a transmission that crypticly told UNSCDF headquarters that "They're gone...All of them...", nothing was heard for over 2 months. ONI acknowleged 126's relationship with 141 and ordered him on a new mission, in colabaration with the UNSC Navy, to find 141, at any cost. 126 was puzzled by ONI's intrest with 141, but obliged. After landing on the planet with Lt. Commander Harris McLaie, they found several bodies, with indications they were part of the planet's population and that they had been killed by non-Covenant weapons. They were attacked by a Sentinel and retreated back to their Pelican, but not before the Sentinel caused severe damage to 126's new MJOLNIR Mk. VI/C-variant armor. They wandered around, looking for 141 and any indication of why the planet's entire population was gone, untill they found what looked like a makeshift hospital and burial grounds in a mall. They were atacked by several waves of Covenant forces, but they lacked the cohesion they once had during the War and were easily put down. However, 126 knew that the Covenant had arrived and that they might glass the planet yet, as a way to show the UNSC they still had some fight left. However, after renzevouing with their mothership, the U.N.S.C. Troy, a small battle group of only 300 ships arrived, while over 1,200 Covenant ships showed up in orbit. The irony of the situation was not lost on 126 or Mclaie.

Swords and Shields
The commanding officer of the Troy ordered 126, McLaie and a squad of ODSTs to get back to Thermopylae Colony and find 141, before there was no UNSC fleet to bring him back to. 126 and his team decended to the planet under heavy fire, but managed to find a structure who's composition was similar to recorded Forerunner arctiecture. They decended into a massive Sentinel construction facility and found SPARTAN-141 battling hundreds of Sentinels. After destroying the Sentinels, they rushed back to the surface, only to find a massive Covenant ground invasion force waiting for them. 17 minutes in, they had barely made a dent in their attack. They eventually had to resort to simply running to the Pelican they came down in and getting away as fast as possible. Back aboard the Troy, they requested that Thermopylae Colony be NOVA bombed, but before they could launch it, the planet changed. It became apparent that Thermopylae was, in fact, a Forerunner Shield World similar to Onyx. The millions of Sentinels paid no attanetion to the UNSC fleet and instead vaporised the Covenant fleet. They recived a warning from some type of intelligence on the planet, however, telling them that there was less than 14325.76 years left until "Omega 7". Misinterpreting it as a warning toleave, they UNSC fleet hightailed it out of there and placed warning buoys around the TRD-002 system, telling anyone entering the system to be wary of "ancient forces" in the sector.

Retrival
126 continued to fight alongside the UNSC MC, eliminating all known Covenant forces until 2558 when he and 141 reported to ONI AR&DB-E for Armor upgrades.

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Personality
126's personality, while not as complex as 141's, or as openly displayed as 013's, is similar to someone who has a lot on their mind. True, he is the leader of Black Team, and has a lot of decisions riding on him, but he also sometimes seems detached, almost as if he's not interested in anything he dosen't want to hear. However, he does have a compassionate side, and sometimes it is displayed when he tries to bring troops morale up, or when one of them are hurt. Some marines that have worked with him have stated, "If it weren't for the MJOLNIR armor and the usually smoking gun in his hand, i'd swear he's a big teddy bear." However, when in combat, he has been described as utterly ruthless, and has been known to take joy in massacuring Covenant troops. Sometimes he can't control his anger and it spreads to the troops, but also he can take out frustration on fellow soldiers. He is not of the "try" group; he either does or does not. He sometimes picks on lower ranking soldiers, challenging them to do things that not even their CO's would try.