User:SheWhoKnows/Derrick Valerin

Life
On Friday the 13th, 2500, in a suburban slum on Fesama IV, an agricultural world in the backwaters of the UNSC. After birth his mother died of labor pains and infection and succumbed to gangrene. His father, an average farmer, despised the UNSC and imprinted on his son, blaming UNSC officials squandering money for medical supplies that was supposed to arrive on the planet the day his mother died. When he was 7(2507) his father was killed in a Insurrectionist bombing against a government run bank. Living on the streets, Derrick became a master thief, easily slipping into backdoors unseen and knowing what and what not to take to be succesful. His fathers boss welcomed him into their Insurrectionist group, the Unseen Hands, and Derrick earned enough money robbing and killing UNSC officials to eventually buy himself an apartment and consumer goods. When he was 18 (2518) he took part in a raid on a UNSC garrison, stealing a military grade kevlar vest and an M7S Sub Machine Gun. The raid was a major success for the rebels, who used the guns and armor stolen to boost their effectiveness tenfold. Acting as a master spy, Derrick easily slipped unseen onto a civilian passenger ship to Eridanus Secundus, and planted a small incendiary bomb near the ships reactor with out being caught. Waiting until after it dropped off its passengers and more boarded, Derrick learned how to pilot spaecraft from the captain, who put him under his wing. Derrick coldly shot him as the craft entered the system, and set off the bomb. The reactor overloaded from the extra heat, and Derrick narrowly escaped onboard the captains private shuttle, which Derrick named the UH Venture. When he arrived back on Fesama IV the rebels hailed him as a hero and he came to know them all as family and comrads, using the UH Venture to help during raids, until the year 2525. When the Covenant struck the ill-defended agricultural world of Fesama IV, the rebels openly helped the UNSC fight off the ground troops, but they were overwhelmed by the sheer amount of determination the Covenat forces had. The UH Venture was unfortunately left behind and glassed, and Derrick was drafted into the military, along with the rest of his friends in the Unseen Hand. Being forced together into a unit, the Unseen Hands (they named their unit that) fought in almost every major battle up until the 2nd Battle of Earth. Going through the portal with Master Chief onboard the Forward Unto Dawn, most of his friends and those he loved as family were slaughtered after their air support was wiped out by AA Wraiths. Hiding the rocks nearby, Derrick and his surviving comrads held off the Brutes until the Master Chief arrived. His hatred growing against the UNSC, he channeled this into adrenaline to keep him going during a later fight against 2 Prowlers and then a Scarab. Arriving at the Cartographer, Master Chief and Derrick (along with the Arbiter and 343 GS) entered and Soark was having problems. Derrick tried to help, but was rudely zapped by the construct. Slaughtering the Brutes inside the building, they reached the Map room but were flanked by the Covenant forces. Fighting their way back down, they were picked up by Pelican's and flew away to another battle. Arriving, they were to shut down 3 towers to allow the Prophet of Truth to be attacked by a Sangheili Assault Carrier, Shadow of Intent. Going with the Master Chief on the back of a Mongoose, they shut down the tower and waited for the Elites to shut down theirs. After that it was all up to Sgt Johnsons team to shut the last one down. When they didnt and Johnson was captured, the Master Chief and the Marines were to deactivate his tower also. Waiting down stairs as MC did so, the Covenant Holy City and massive Flood Hive High Charity arrived from SlipSpace and spread Flood across the Ark. Having fough the Flood before in New Mombasa, Derrick easily took them down with burst of his M7 Sub Machine Gun to the chest. Derrick did not take part during the assault on the Citadel, however, because he was shot in his leg with a Beam Rifle. He was taken to the UNSC Aegis Fate to recuperate. After the war ended with the death of Truth, Derrick fell into a deep depression because he was the last member of the Unseen Hands to survive the war.