Kodiak-G114

"Because of him, I chose a course of life in which I’ve had to watch people I loved die and then let a chance to bring them back slip away. I hate him for that. But if not for him, I would have never had the chance to become a Spartan. And for that I will forever owe him one."

- Dyne G217

SPARTAN-III Gamma One-One-Four, better known as Kodiak G114, was a member of Spartan III Gamma Company and one of three Spartans in Ion Team, designated ION-1. Born in Cote d’Azure, Sigma Octanus IV, under the name Kodiak Meriadoc Jacques, he was recruited at age five to Gamma Company by SSgt. Pete Stacker. Within the Gammas, he would be deployed just in time to see the close of the Human-Covenant War, after which he would be assigned to military exploration and serve in dozens of minor covert operations throughout the Rebuild Era.

Born in Cote d'Azure, Kodiak was saved during the battle between UNSC and Covenant forces by a member of Spartan-III Alpha Company, though it cost the Spartan his life. It was because of this that when Pete Stacker found him and offered him the chance to be one of these heroes, he accepted without a second thought. Taken to Onyx with the rest of the Gamma candidates, he became part of training team Machete. When the team leader was listed KIA, Kodiak became leader of the reformed Ion Team.

Conscription as a Spartan
SSgt. Pete Stacker found Kodiak in a hospital bed on Sigma Octanus IV. Stacker offered him the chance to be a Spartan, which Kodiak eagerly accepted after hearing his stories of Spartan warriors. He would be reported succumbing to sickness, while really taken out of system aboard the Themistocles .

Before starting his training, though, he vowed to have one last day to himself. While the ship orbited Reach, Kodiak snuck down aboard a Pelican, planning to adventure all night and sneak back aboard before it went back up. During his wanderings, he and his future teammate Dyne met each other in the back alleys while spying on a gang of older kids, and were caught by the bullies. In their first fight together, the pair held off three kids much larger than them, proving their potential as Spartans. Splitting up, they met again laying low in a diner and quickly became friends. As Dyne believed he needed to flee the planet, Kodiak agreed to smuggle him aboard the Themistocles .

Stacker downheartedly prepared to leave Reach that morning. The ODST was quite surprised to find both Dyne and Kodiak trying to hide in one of the crates onboard his dropship. From that moment, the Drill Instructor for the Betas knew that the pair was going to give him trouble.

Spartan Training and Augmentations
"I’m actually not all that concerned about the mongooses, not even my Warthog. I’m a little curious about the rest of the Warthogs, and I’d love to know why the generator building is a black crater, but what I really want to know is WHERE ARE MY GODDAMN TANKS!?!"

- Sergeant Pete Stacker, yelling at Dyne and Kodiak after a particularly large shenanigan

His suspicions would prove all too true, with Dyne and Kodiak wreaking general havoc on a regular basis around the training facilities. While their escapades never actually resulted in human casualties, material damage estimates have never been fully tallied up. Within the first three months, Dyne and Kodiak had accounted for the destruction of eight Warthogs, a dozen Mongooses, two Scorpion MBTs, three storage sheds, and an unknown quantity of explosives, food supplies, and miscellaneous equipment. Kodiak was all too eager to follow Dyne’s lead, and while sometimes equally responsible, was never seen as guilty in Stacker’s eyes. Nonetheless, he would join Dyne in plenty of missed meals and manual labor to make up for the damages.

Visit to Earth (October 2552)
Upon the end and full recovery from augmentations, three of the Betas were transported to earth aboard a freighter to test the Beta Class’s effectiveness with Mjolnir Mark VI armor system. After the majority of Spartan-IIs were MIA after the Battle of Reach, Dr. Klein had procured the already manufactured suits for his Beta Class. Ion Team, made up of Dyne G217, Sepia G330, and Kodiak, were chosen to be the test group. Arriving in Seongnam, Korea, they were able to meet several other Spartans of various classes, and witnessed Maria-062’s test of the Mark VI’s sub-orbital jump capabilities. A few days later, the morning of October 20th, Ion Team left Earth to head back to their training site. As their ship left the system, Dyne, Sepia, and Kodiak were able to catch a broadcast of John-117’s award ceremony, and jumped into slipspace minutes before the Prophet of Regret’s fleet arrived in-system.

Second Battle of Earth (October 2552)
Less than an hour after returning, the news reached them of Earth being attacked, and the Gammas were to be deployed. Now armed with the old Mjolnir Mark V suits, the UNSC Themistocles left for Earth with Gamma Company aboard. Ion was (THIS PARTICULAR AREA YET TO BE DECIDED IN THE DETAILS).

Ion Team was equipped with a Warthog LRV for the battle, and moved around in the fight providing support to dug-in teams where needed. While defending a span of four blocks against scattered Covenant infantry lances, the team encountered SPARTAN-030 on her own and fleeing from enemies. Vinh-030 was Dyne's mother, and had been looking for him, but while she knew he was part of the UNSC military and assigned to NAVSPECWAR, she didn't know he had become a Spartan. Ion’s jeep swooped in from the Covenant’s flank, Kodiak forcing a number of Covenant cannon fodder beneath the tires. Dyne and Kodiak talked with her, not knowing that she was Dyne’s mother.

Ion Team was equipped with a Warthog LRV for the battle, and moved around in the fight providing support to dug-in Beta teams where needed. While defending a span of four blocks against scattered Covenant lances, the team encountered SPARTAN-030 on her own and fleeing from enemies. Vinh-030 was Dyne's mother, and had been looking for him, but while she knew he was part of the UNSC military and assigned to NAVSPECWAR, she didn't know he had become a Spartan. Ion’s jeep swooped in from the Covenant’s flank, Kodiak forcing many under the tires, before dismounting and setting up the vehicle behind some cover as a defensive position for Sepia to use the gun. Dyne and Kodiak talked with Vinh, unaware that she was Dyne’s mother.

The enemy received reinforcements, and in the firefight Vinh fought alongside Kodiak and his team. She was wounded, and evacuated on a Pelican once the Ion had cleared up the area.

TGL-49 Expedition (2574)
More than twenty years after the Human-Covenant War came to a close, Ion Team, now composed of only Kodiak and Dyne, were launched to map and record a life-sustaining planet numbered TGL-49, as part of a compliment from the UNSC Themistocles. Using Mongooses to get around, the team was called upon to go after Golem Team Three, who had broken off communications. They discovered a bloodied Spartan helmet, and immediately unlocked weapons. Inside a dormant lava tube, they found Aspen G, and two other ‘930’d’ Spartans. Returning outside to find their mongooses mysteriously destroyed, Kodiak did his best to stay atop as Dyne commandeered the Golem crawler and return to base. En route, Erin Coney reached them over radios and warned that Flood had been encountered, and the exploration teams were to evac immediately. In a battle over Checkpoint One, Mirage Team and most of the marine force made it aboard an Albatross Dropship, but Coney, Kodiak, and Dyne were left behind.

After regaining consciousness the next morning, having been knocked out after being thrown from a tower, he grabbed some supplies and found the other two survivors. The three of them then made for Checkpoint Two onboard a derelict Cougar AFV to find a means of faster transport. Kodiak took the wheel and Erin advised him to use a Forerunner cave as a shortcut and means to escape the Flood.

Inside the checkpoint, Coney sent the other two to complete separate tasks, with Dyne responsible for fueling the Pelican. He never got the chance, as Flood entered the base and engaged him. Linking up with Dyne, the pair made to grab onto the rising dropship, but the Pelican rose up and left them behind. Coney contacted them on a video feed, and said that she regretted leaving them behind, but it was necessary. She wouldn’t make it far without fuel, and the two of Ion Team quickly caught up to her after escaping the base in a Warthog. Dyne opted to watch the Flood kill her, but Kodiak forced him to help save her, as she was the only one who could get the prowler, the UNSC Nightshade, off the ground. Making it to the Nightshade’s hangar, they barely escaped the clutches of a Proto-Gravemind, leaving behind an active Shiva nuclear warhead.

Demon Hunting
Rather than killing Coney after her betrayal, Ion Team decided that following her on her mission would end up being more interesting. Their first target location was a deserted Covenant fortress on the edges of what had been UNSC space before the war. Though empty, a colony of Yanme’e had survived and maintained the building, having no other directed purpose for their simple minds. Once inside, Coney explained to them that early on in the war, humans had traded with Elite Heretics for technology, and had traded five young members of Project Orion’s second candidate group. The Heretics had evidently run tests on them, doing their best to apply Forerunner technology and create their own ‘demons’. Coney learned from the systems inside that two had been killed during the tests, while three may still be alive.

Dyne absent, Kodiak and Erin got under the structure and into the hive, and fought against a mutated Spartan-I calling himself Krast. With the use of an M7 and a well placed grenade, they crushed him under a pillar. Meeting up with Dyne, they proceeded to the last target, when a distress call from the UNSC Themistocles brought them in. In its rubble, they discovered Mirage Team in a lifepod; Branwyn G160, Morgan G018, Andor G020, with Aspen G145. Mirage’s members had thought Dyne and Kodiak dead, and the reunion was spirited, though Morgan still kept up her love-hate façade with Dyne. Their meeting was saddened by the news that Fury Team, six of their brothers and sisters, had been killed on the Themistocles.

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