User:Outlaw 2-5/Jack-A260

SPARTAN-C260, also known as Jack, was a SPARTAN-III Supersoldier in command of Shadow Team, an extreme no holds barred team operating as part of Charlie Company.

Early history
"Remember me? The one who you trod on, pissed on and got shit on by you kids? Look at me now."

- Jack-C260 upon returning to his home town

Born in 2532; close to a small town located 2 miles from Sydney, Jack was raised in an area where he was picked on quite often, usually ending up in broken bones and fractures which eventually ended up making him disabled from the torso down. However, he was kidnapped by ONI and transported to Onyx, training alongside Carter-259, who he eventually became life-long friends with. Upon returning to Sydney, he confronted his parents, which was investigated but left alone due to the fact they thought he was dead. He then saw the kids who had beaten him to the brink in his early years, and engaged in a fistfight with them, resulting in them all becoming paraplegics.

The Riots and his return to Reach
"You better watch your back, because as long as I am, no one else will."

- Carter-A259 expressing his 'wolf pack' feelings for Jack-C260.

During the riots he was posted alongside then Lieutenant Jacob Keyes and was engaged by rioters that threw molotov cocktails at his torso, which was still recovering from the augmentation program, he was then removed from the operation as his torso eventually collapsed and was reconstructed from robotics. Upon returning to the field, Reach was invaded by Covenant forces. Teaming up with Noble Team for an op, Carter expressed that he could no longer watch his back if Reach fell to the invading force. Jack eventually formed Shadow Team, and operated in a small, 3 man group that was recognized for defending Anchor Nine alongside Noble Team. Shadow Team was eventually moved to assist casualty evac birds moving to UNSC ships evacuating the planet. During which he lost his second in command, he was not replaced.

After the Pillar of Autumn fled reach, Shadow Team stowed away on the CCS-Aude Memoire, eventually taking it over, and glassed 5% of the Uggoy homeworld, which the team was regarded the Medal of Honor. After that Jack never heard from Carter or Noble team again, which would eventually lead to his depression and eventual anger at the Covenant.

Fight for freedom and Brisbane's glassing
"Welcome to Shadow Team trooper, we expect highly of you."

- Jack-C260 welcoming the new recruit of Shadow Team.

Shadow Teams citations as well as the loss of Noble Team paved the way for Jack to shine. While en route to Australia to defend a vital airfield, he was caught up in the Battle of New Mombasa, fighting alongside Gsgt. Pete Stacker and MCP0 John-117, defending Hotel Zanzibar and was eventually Shadow Team was extracted to Brisbane and defended the airfield to some extent, before Jack realized that it was a inevitable loss to the UNSC, and evacuated the team and Brisbane citizens before it was glassed. This action earned himself and Shadow Team the Victoria Cross for Australia, which he was highly regarded for as well as his operations on Reach.

Sector Six and the UNSC Forward Unto Dawn
"This is an operation that we may not come back from, we may die, but we will live on, in the hearts and minds of millions."

- Jack explaining the gravity of the situation, and their ultimate demise.

Shadow Team's penultimate final operations commenced in 2552 during the search for John-117. Shadow Team objected orders from command telling them to pull back but they declined, saying that their job needed to be done. His 2IC's replacement shield's were depleted and as a result, needle rounds cracked his visor and penetrated his skull, killing him instantly. They then proceeded to fall back to Forward Operations Base Foxtrot and awaited further operations. This moment, when he remembered the words of Carter, carved a spartan smile from his blood onto the 2IC's visor, as a tribute to his operations with the team.

Ultimately posted onto the Forward Unto Dawn, he served alongside John and Pete Stacker once more as they entered the fray of The Ark. During the claimed operation of the Prophet of Truths plans, the Rookie was killed, leaving Jack to ultimately end Shadow team and go lone wolf. This decision, would be the worst he would make as op's on Installation 00 were ending. Discovering Installation 04(2), he stayed on the FUD to provide support from above to Johnson, The Arbiter and John. During the final run, and John and Thel' escaped to land on the bay, shrapnel entered Jack's torso while moving to the MAC Cannon for support, unable to move in time, he stowed away in one of the Cryo-Tubes and entered hypersleep. During that time, Chief and Cortana were stranded on the same side as Jack.

Missing in Action and ultimate sacrifice
Upon awaking in 2556, and still on the other side, he found Cortana entering rampancy, he comforted her, and told her it was going to be alright. Awakening John from hypersleep as well, they searched for HEV Pods to escape from the other side before it crash landed into a forerunner structure.

However, on Earth, a monument was made in his hometown, to commemorate his service to the UNSC, and the bullies that once made fun of him, cried for him. No one expected him to come back, so they did the one thing they could. They mourned.

Trivia

 * Mostly a stealth team, Shadow Team was based on Z Special Force, a World War Two Australian special forces unit that had a no hold's barred attitude similar to Shadow Team.


 * It is interesting to note that Jack-C260 was 29 years old at the time of the Fall of Reach and 34 At the time of the Forward Unto Dawn's crash landing into the forerunner structure.


 * Although not specifically confirmed, he has been seen scratching kill counts into his left arm on the skin, apparently that kill count is over 700 covenant forces.