User:ShotgunStudios/Epsilon

His birth name was discarded and forgotten when he was selected for the Epsilon branch of Elzar Zadum's Project:Guardian. Epsilon is a formidable fighter, near undefeatable by none other than the best fighters. He only uses his energy sword, he will not even pick up another weapon, not even another's sword.

=Biography=

Early Life
Little is known of Epsilon's early life, only one person knows his name, not even he knows his real name. Some believe he was grown in a factory deep within New Charity, along with the others from Project:Guardian.

Memories
His earliest memories were erased during the augmentation process, the only memories he has are from the few records he has managed to find, and the even fewer that he somehow managed to keep during augmentation. One of these is the image of him being taken for the Project, along with the one who took him. Epsilon's goal in life is to find the one who took him away, kill him, and hopefully find the rest of his lost memories.

Selection and Augmentation
Epsilon was chosen with multiple other young Sangheili for the Epsilon branch of Project:Guardian, but only one of the chosen could become the Epsilon. Most were killed by the augmentation, the survivors forced to fight each other. Epsilon refused to kill his opponents, and merely knocked them unconscious thinking they would be sent away. They were instead executed. Epsilon won all his fights and became the fifth soldier to come from Guardian.

When he left the arena after winning the final fight he was greeted by Alpha, Gamma and Delta. Beta had been killed months before in a rebellion on another one of Zadum's colonies. Alpha handed him an energy sword that glowed white instead of the usual blue. It looked almost like it wasn't there. Then Alpha handed Epsilon a helmet;
 * "You're soon going to wish you were killed back there, Epsilon."

Alpha then cloaked himself and left. Now Gamma spoke;
 * "Try not to die, I don’t want to have to clean you up too snowflake."

Gamma bumped into him as he exited, and Epsilon turned to Delta, who shook his head;
 * "Ignore them, they're just upset that Beta was killed. Check out your armor, its got the latest crap. "

Delta tapped Epsilon's shoulder as he too left the room.

Rebellion
Not long after Epsilon became part of Guardian the citizens of New Charity grew rebellious. With their original leader, Trax Zadum, gone the government became considerably weaker. A revolt occurred, and Elzar Zadum put Alpha in charge of stopping them. The four got ready for combat, and one by one they left their barracks, but as Epsilon was leaving Gamma kicked him back into the room;
 * "Not you snowflake, let the real soldiers had this. You might get hurt, and we don't want that, now do we?"

Then Gamma locked the door from the outside and Epsilon was trapped. Epsilon sat there for an hour, then he decided to look more into his suit, and found that he could destabilize his atoms for a few seconds and pass through solid objects. He used this to escape from the room and he arrived just in time to see Delta's shields collapse as he was slammed by at least four different plasma rifles. Epsilon activated his own overshields and stepped in front to Delta, giving Delta the time to recover and kill the four with his carbine. The citizens in revolt had enough trouble dealing with Alpha, Gamma and Delta so when they saw Epsilon arrive many started to scatter and surrender. Epsilon located Gamma, who was rounding up survivors and slaughtering some of them, while letting some live. He could not see Alpha, until he saw shots coming out of mid-air and finally stopping the revolt. Alpha dropped his camo and ordered Gamma to stop killing the prisoners. Then turned to Epsilon;
 * "Where have you been?"

Epsilon explained how Gamma locked him in the barracks and how his armor gave him a few seconds of intangibility. Alpha accepted it, much to Epsilon’s surprise, and Alpha walked over and slammed Gamma to the ground.

Zeta, Eta and Theta
Epsilon proved his abilities through more minor conflicts and rebellions, and instead of torturing him, Gamma avoided Epsilon altogether. Alpha still remained distant from the three others, speaking to them only when he had something important to tell them or when a question was asked. Then he told them of the new branch of Guardian, Zeta. Zeta was already underway, and only four candidates were left, Zeta-4, Zeta-9, Zeta-15 and Zeta-19. In the end Zeta-9 became the Zeta, the sixth suvivor and soldier of Guardian. Gamma saw Zeta as an opportunity to get on even grounds with Epsilon, because Epsilon had Delta and Gamma had no one. Zeta was somewhat self-centered, and Gamma quickly turned him against Epsilon and Delta. Gamma regained his old behavior, and began torturing Epsilon at any chance he could get, and Zeta aided him. Eta and Theta soon joined their ranks, and Gamma again turned them against Epsilon, who remained indifferent to Gamma.

Assassination
Alpha appeared beside Epsilon and Epsilon got out of his bunk. Alpha nodded;
 * "Good, you're up. Someone took a shot at Zadum's life, and thankfully failed.  I need you to find out who did it, and then do what we do best; take their head.  I've sent two to help you."

Epsilon left the barracks to find Zeta and Theta waiting. They groaned at the sight of Epsilon, Epsilon said nothing and just kept walking.

They managed to track the assassin to the southern districts of the city and Theta and Zeta cornered him while Epsilon went to get him from behind. Theta and Zeta laughed because behind the assassin was a solid wall, and they did not know of Epsilon's abilities. They moved on the assassin, and they grabbed him. The assassin's shields collapsed and let off an EMP that disabled Theta and Zeta's suits, and while they stood there stunned the assassin moved to kill them when Epsilon came through the wall with his sword raised and then disarmed the assassin before he could kill either of the two. Epsilon held the assassin at sword point and the assassin just stood there;
 * "Kill me Guardian, that’s what you do. Kill without thought or mercy."

Epsilon lowered his sword and told the assassin to leave if he wanted to live. Theta and Zeta looked at him like he was insane. Then Epsilon reminded them he just saved their lives, even though they've been trying to make his life miserable since they were selected to be part of Guardian.

Upon their return Alpha asked Epsilon if they managed to kill the assassin, Epsilon replied no, and that the assassin got away but wont be returning anytime soon. Zeta spoke against Epsilon and told Alpha that Epsilon just let him go, when Theta interrupted;
 * "Zeta was out for most of the fight, the assassin hit him on the head, pretty hard. He must have woke up at the end and misinterpreted what happened."

Alpha was confused as to why Theta stood up for Epsilon, but he accepted the reasoning none the less. Alpha sent Zeta and Theta along with Gamma, Delta and Eta to watch the outcomes of the Iota, Kappa and Lambda branches, while he stayed behind with Epsilon.
 * "What was the assassin like?" Alpha asked.

Epsilon explained everything that happened to Alpha, ending with what the assassin said and how Epsilon let him go. Alpha only nodded then the two left to see the survivors.

Iota, Kappa and Lambda
The selection was speeding up now, three new Guardians were being trained at once, the first time more than one branch had been trained at a time. Gamma once again tried to turn the new ones against Epsilon, and unfortunately they were becoming more self-centered and power hungry with each new branch, and that’s the exact kind of personality that was attracted to Gamma. Gamma was angry though, the new ones weren't as good as the old, and Theta had finally saw that alls Gamma wanted was to get rid of Epsilon, he wasn’t trying to help them at all. Epsilon decided to train Theta more, and Theta learned fast and easily became one of the best fighters among them.

Civil Unrest
Epsilon began to notice that the civilians were becoming even more restless, more and more strikes and disruptions of peace were happening every day and the police could do nothing about it. Elzar was not as strong as his father and he could not keep them in line, so most security issues went straight to Alpha. Alpha came up to Epsilon after they had finished putting down revolts in some of the lower-middle districts of the city.
 * "Our old friend the assassin is back. And this time, Epsilon, we're going to end it.  All of us."

Epsilon was stunned, this is the first time since that first mission that all of them would be working together on the same mission. Alpha found a shipmaster that was willing to let them use it's drop pods to infiltrate the Citizen’s capitol in the Upper District 4. When the pods hit the ground all of them went invisible, and it was then Epsilon noticed that he could see a slight shimmer where his teammates were, but nothing for Alpha. Alpha had perfect camo, he didn’t show up on radar, or any scans. His, Gamma's and Delta's camos were all slightly better than any of their allies that came after them.

Epsilon knew that the people wouldn't be happy to see them considering that every time they made a move against Zadum the Guardian would stop them. Eta and Kappa were killed early on due to damaged shield generators from crashes because of faulty drop pods. The survivors made it inside the building, but Lambda was not fast enough and the closing security doors crushed him. Alpha made Zeta, Theta and Iota keep guard and keep the doors shut while Alpha, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon went to secure the councilors and the assassin.
 * "I knew you wouldn't let me live" the assassin said looking at Epsilon, "You've come back to kill me, as I knew you would. Because you are a Guardian, and that’s all you're good for."

Gamma shot at him, but the assassin's shields took the shots. Alpha stepped forward;
 * "Right or not we still have to take you, Sata."

Gamma knocked Alpha over;
 * "Sata? This guy some old buddy of yours Alpha? Huh?"

The assassin pushed Gamma aside and helped Alpha up.
 * "Yes, as I am yours Mora" he said to Gamma.

Epsilon was confused, Alpha knew him? And moreover, how did they know each others names? He didn't even remember his own, it was erased in augmentation.
 * "How do you remember your names?"

Everyone turned to Epsilon, and the assassin spoke first;
 * "You don't know your name?"
 * "No, my memory was wiped in the augmentation, I thought that was normal."

Everyone else looked at each other, except Gamma who laughed and called him a mental case. Alpha asked him if he remembered anything, and Epsilon replied;
 * "The face of the one that took me, and hatred."

Alpha nodded, then refocused on their mission; he grabbed the assassin and raised his energy sword to his neck. The assassin activated his EMP, but it had no affect on Alpha, but Gamma, Delta and Epsilon's shields all collapsed. Gamma, angered by this, threw Alpha aside and put his own sword to the assassin's head. Epsilon could only watch as the assassin, in one swift move, overpowered Gamma and decapitated him.

The Beta
While Delta went to aid Alpha, Epsilon engaged the assassin. Epsilon hoped that he had the strength not only to win, but to kill the assassin. The assassin began to slowly push Epsilon back, until he had an open shot, and he cut open Epsilon's chest plate. The assassin kicked him down, then stepped on Epsilon's wound;
 * "The newer models arent as good."

Newer models? Epsilon thought, what was he talking about. Epsilon saw the symbol on the assassin's shoulder, one he didn't recognize the first him, for they fought in the dark. 'β', Beta. Epsilon felt his suit come back online, and as Beta brought down the sword he turned intangible, and the blade passed right through him. Beta was stunned, and Epsilon took that moment to thrust his own sword into Beta's chest. Beta staggered backwards, in disbelief. Alpha walked over to the dying Beta, and pulled the sword from his chest and handed it back to Epsilon. Alpha then drove his fist into Beta's open wound, crushing his chest in. Beta died instantly.

Betrayal
Alpha took Beta's helmet, then motioned them to leave. Delta took Gamma's helmet and then rigged his and Beta's armor to explode. Epsilon followed him out, where they found Iota dead, with Zeta and Theta pinned down by military fire, and Iota dead on the ground. Theta pulled Zeta behind a cover then spoke to Epsilon;
 * "It was all a trap. Zadum fears we're too powerful, the assassin was a set-up to get us killed."

Alpha went invisible, and threw Beta's helmet to Delta;
 * "Give Epsilon some upgrades. Theta, Zeta, with me.   We have to give Delta some time if any of us wishes to get out of here alive."

Zeta was about to argue that Epsilon wasn't worth saving, when he realized that Gamma and all of Gamma's group was dead save him. Instead he kept his mouth shut and followed Theta into the fight. Epsilon turned to Delta, who was taking apart Beta and Gamma's helmets, extracting the essiential curcits that allowed Beta to shoot EMPs and Gamma to supercharge his overshields. Epsilon took them and inserted them into his helmet, just in time to join the fight and save Zeta yet again. He ran to the center of the room, and Alpha ordered all the remaining Guardian to take cover. Theta flew to the ceiling using his slight gravity boosters, Alpha grabbed Zeta and hid behind a wall, and Delta just ducked back into the room they had just been. Epsilon shot of the EMP, and all the enemies shields collapsed, and then Epsilon went intangible and shots just passed right through him as his allies emerged from their hiding places and unleashed a cross fire that annihilated all the enemy soldiers. Alpha came up to him;
 * "Looks like we're out of the job. Nice work Epsilon."

Epsilon nodded and realized now what Beta ment. They had just taken so many lives. Epsilon began to blame himself, but the memory of begin selected came back to him, and the anger rose inside of him. He took out Beta and Gamma's chips and handed them back to Alpha, who shook his head then pointed to Delta.
 * "I can't be trusted with those Epsilon, give them to Delta, he'll do the right thing."

Epsilon turned to Delta, and Delta returned the chips to the helmets. Theta and Zeta came up with the helmets of all their fallen allies, as their bodies burned in the background. Zeta took off his helmet and shoved it into Theta's arms as he walked away;
 * "I'm leaving, I'm not going to die for you all."

Alpha shook his head and watched Zeta leave. He then turned to Epsilon;
 * "Guardians done, for now. But we've got a memory to find, am I right?"

Alpha held out his hand, Epsilon was suprised. It was Alpha's first attempt at reaching out to someone. Epsilon took Alpha's hand and shook.
 * "Delta? Theta? What are you planning to do?"

They stepped forward and put their hands atop Alpha and Epsilon's at the same time.