April-G182

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April-G182 (born April Ortega; April 1, 2537), also known as Death, her codename, is a and a  of the. Originally a member of Team Dao, April-G182 joined the Headhunters after proving herself to possess the necessary skills for exceedingly dangerous covert operations. Always completing her missions with ruthless efficiency, April-G182 has gained a reputation as a cold assassin among the personnel who are aware of her existence.

April-G182, through Operation: SNAKE HEAD, is most notable for preventing the complete devastation of, , which is the capital of the and contains the very headquarters of the ,.

Early childhood
April Ortega was born on April 1st, 2537 in, and lived with her parents and two older siblings. On May, 2545, when the attacked the colony, its forces killed April’s entire family. arrived in time to rescue April herself, and she was later given the choice to become a. Presented with an opportunity to avenge her family, April accepted the proposal without a second thought. She was therefore conscripted into the  as "April-G182."

April was taken to, where she was assigned to Team Dao and trained by , , and and. With vengeance as her ultimate goal, April worked tirelessly to improve her military skills, and her persistence eventually showed in practice. Despite having been traumatized by the death of her loved ones, April enjoyed the presence of her teammates, even if she did not speak to them much.

Representatives of the of the  were impressed with April-G182's abilities and considered her for induction into the. To ensure that April was indeed possessed the necessary qualities, ONI assigned her to several missions, largely tasking her with eliminating outposts. April accomplished all of these missions without fail, enabling her to become a Headhunter.

Following the, April-G182 was taken out of Team Dao to be trained on the other side of Onyx. Although she was receiving Headhunter training, her peers were told that her body did not take the enhancements well and she could therefore no longer join them as a fellow Spartan.

Operation: SNAKE HEAD
April-G182's superiors partnered her with Omar-G056, a fellow Headhunter, and sent the partnership to. On November 17, 2552, the Headhunters arrived at, in order to prevent the Covenant from destroying the city, lest the UNSC lose , their most important structure. ONI had discovered that the local Covenant forces were led by a  named Drusus, but have only been able to devastate the city as a result of the chieftain’s leadership. Killing Drusus would enable the UNSC to drive off the Covenant infantry, thus preventing complete destruction of the capital. ONI was able to locate the building where Drusus was giving his commands from, and sent the two Headhunters to assassinate the chieftain.

April and Omar each brought an and took up separate positions to snipe the Covenant forces that guarded the building. Once both Spartans ran out of, they discarded their anti-materiel rifles and proceeded into the structure. The Headhunters made effective use of their, maintaining their stealth as they advanced through the building, silently eliminating any unsuspecting Covenant in their path until they found the chieftain himself. Both April and Omar agreed that should one of them be revealed, the other should continue to stick to the shadows and not aid his/her partner in order to complete the mission.

With many of his forces having mysteriously disappeared, Drusus began to suspect that something was wrong and was on full alert. Out of paranoia, he threw a, which happened to be in Omar’s direction, forcing the Headhunter to evade and reveal his presence. Drusus’s immediately went after Omar, who succeeded in killing most his attackers in self-defense. April, having made the agreement with Omar, used the distracted brutes to get closer to the chieftain. When his bodyguards proved to be unable to take out their enemy, Drusus personally lunged at the Headhunter. Overwhelmed, Omar found himself in the clutches of the chieftain. Before Drusus could land the finishing blow, however, the Headhunter activated a he had collected from a previous fallen foe. The ensuing explosion drained Drusus’ and knocked off his helmet while completely vaporizing all other nearby brutes as well as Omar. Using this opportunity of Drusus' vulnerability, April jumped onto the chieftain’s back, climbed up to his shoulders, and then impaled the top of his skull with her. With Drusus dead and the at, the local Covenant forces had lost their cohesion. All remaining UNSC forces in Sydney were then able to finish off the disorganized Covenant, thus saving the capital from destruction.

Raid on Talitsa
Following the, April-G182 was among the Spartans selected by ONI’s to field test the new  of. Delta-6 sent April and several to the  of  in order to assassinate some of the leaders of the. April was partnered specifically with Leonard Butcher, and while the two were able to cooperate, Butcher had killed far more than he had to, leaving April to lose respect for the SPARTAN-IV for his excessive mass-murdering tendencies. Regardless, the mission was deemed a success, and the Wetwork armor was approved for continued use.

Battle of Brasil
In the year 2558, April-G182 was attached to Battle Group Frigg and was stationed aboard the UNSC Ziz.

Personality and traits
Of those who know of April-G182's existence, almost all would regard her as a cold assassin. April always completes her objectives exactly how they are presented to her and never deviates beyond what she is ordered to do. Because of April's reliability, professionalism, and efficiency, often tasks her with covertly eliminating important targets, assured that virtually nothing can go wrong. Despite her reputation as a ruthless killer, April, in truth, keeps emotions to herself that she never confesses to her superiors or coworkers. April most notably holds a deep hatred for the for murdering her entire family. As a trainee, she used this hatred to fuel her determination in becoming the best warrior she could possibly be, which was what resulted in her induction into the.

During April’s time on before the, the rest of Team Dao was very friendly towards her. Seung-ah-G218 often approached April for casual conversations, and the constant energy given off by the combination of the three brothers would lighten April’s mood. To this day, April considers Seung-ah and Jim to be the closest friends she has ever had, with both of them having deeply cared for her during their time together. Even though becoming a Headhunter is a testament to April’s skills as a result of perseverance, she takes little enjoyment in her present line of work, especially with the Covenant defeated much sooner than she had expected. April often reflects to herself on whether trying so hard was worth her current position, and misses her time spent with the rest of Team Dao, regretting not opening up to them as much as she believes she should have.

April's relationship with her first Headhunter partner, Omar-G056, was not as close as her friendships with the Team Dao members, but the two deeply respected each other and had very good synergy in the field. April possesses a degree of survivor guilt over Omar's death, even though there was little she could have done to prevent it. April also appears to work well with her current partner, Leonard Butcher, but in reality, both dislike each other. While April does not ever show her distaste for her partner, Butcher often makes it clear that he is annoyed by April's "unnecessarily" strict adhesion to orders.

April-G182 is an incredibly skilled marksman, with fe who exceed her in that field. However, applying herself intensely in any form of training has made her a very proficient fighter in every way. Although Henry-G066 is potentially more skilled than April in some areas of combat and Jim-G067 is outright better than her at hand-to-hand, what April has over them, besides her marksmanship, is her ability to heavily resists the side-effects of the injected into all  of the, allowing her to remain calm even during the most stressful of situations. The combination of her aforementioned capabilities as well as her unwavering determination is what earned her integration into the Headhunters.

Equipment
As a in the, April-G182 wore the experimental variant of  given to all Headhunters of the time; this variant of SPI armor was equipped with a , , a , and  that could be sustained for up to four minutes and required power from other systems of the suit to recharge. Following the war,  assigned April as one of the several s to field test the  against   on. April was eventually given the option to select components for a personal suit of armor, and she chose to wear a and with a, and. April's new armor is also fitted with active camouflage technology reverse-engineered from the of  that allows her to sustain invisibility near-indefinitely.

April-G182's preferred weapon is a sniper or anti-materiel rifle. As of 2558, April primarily wields an  and/or an.