Mathilda-B079 (TPF)

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"She has known him since she was six years of age. If you split the two up, it will only be a matter of time before she kills you. Keep Mathilda with Samuel and they will do great things together, they both need one another."

- Lieutenant Commander Stephan Ferguson talking to Rear Admiral.

Petty Officer First Class Mathilda-B079 (: S-B079) is a that works for the Office of Naval Intelligence and Navy. Joining SPARTAN-III, Mathilda trained exceptionally, honing her technical and tracking skills. Instead of joining the rest of Beta Company, Mathilda joined fellow SPARTAN, Samuel-B256 in the where the two served as. As she trained for becoming a SPARTAN-III, her goals were the same as the other SPARTANS, revenge. Over time, she would use the revenge to motivate her to do better than the rest around her.

Throughout the and, Mathilda will deploy in a two personnel sniper team. Originally a Headhunter team, they now deploy as a across the Galaxy. Undertaking missions, the two are the best at what they do and continue to hunt down enemies who continue to fight back against the UNSC. As the second-in-command of Team Specter, Mathilda assist with any mission planning that Samuel-B256 may need when thinking of how to approach a situation.

Early Life
Mathilda Noel Dufort was born on June 8th 2531 on the planet of New Constantinople. Her father worked as a successful computer scientist while her mother lectured about psychology. Growing up in a suburb, Mathilda began to excel in her academics and become a student that would gain the attention of her teachers. Creating friends with her classmates, she was able to have a good social network as well as develop herself to become a much more active student.

At age six, Mathilda was traveling with her parents when the invaded. During the early sieges of the battle, Mathilda and her parents were able to make it to a shelter where they could spend their time and wait out the battle. When moving to a more secure shelter, the convoy was attacked by the Covenant and forced Mathilda's parents to give her to the last vehicle to escape.

Her parents were killed in the ambush, but Mathilda didn't know that. She reached a facility for orphans and waited for her parents to come. There, she met a SPARTAN-III recruiter who asked if she wanted to come with her. Spending a month in the adoption system, Mathilda was ready to get out and work with the man. Still unaware if her parents were alive, she continued to tell the recruiter about how her father would protect her from specters.

Little did Mathilda known, she was going to join an elite group of children that would call themselves SPARTANs in. She was put into Beta Company and assigned to Team Tango, working with three other boys. It never clicked to Mathilda that her parents were dead until she began talking to the other candidates in the program. Learning that she was lied to, Mathilda convinced herself to get revenge for the death of her mom and dad. As SPARTAN-III training began, Mathilda had a goal in mind.

Conscription and Training
Placed into Team Tango, she did not get along with the other three. and paired up, leaving her to work with the quiet farm kid. At first, Mathilda was punished for her partner often rebelling against the instructors and grew to dislike him. Regardless of his arrogance, the two would be forced to work together. Going through drills, she would work by herself and begin encouraging herself to become the best in Team Tango. Pushing herself in other sections, he began to become a talented soldier.

Showing promise in technology and fast planning, she began working with herself on creating better plans that she can use against the enemy. Working on Field Intelligence Gathering, she can construct plans and prepare for an assault better than her peers. However, she would never get her chance to showcase her ability to her partner due. She would keep it to herself and watch him fail when she has the right answer. As time went on, Mathilda perfected this craft of field intelligence.

As time between her partner became toxic, they often used one another as bait to win in competitions. As much as they disliked one another, the instructors were beginning to see the two come up with new ideas on how to trick one another into doing something so they could get what they wanted. Often times, Mathilda would fight her partner and use her mind compared to his strength. Team exercises became much more of a burden for them as they continued to get punished and grow more angry at one another.

During weapons training, Mathilda displayed proficiency in close quarters as well as longer ranges. With her ability to be such a deadly asset like the, she proved herself to the Instructors and ONI that she is a proper candidate for the Naval Special Weapons program. Wanting to work alone, Mathilda would figure it would be the easiest way to get back at the enemies that killed her parents. The sooner she could get through trainer, the faster she can be out there hunting the Covenant.

In her final tests with Team Tango, she was able to excel in her tasks and perform at the top of her game. She came out to be the best candidate from Team Tango due to her knowledge of a battlefield and how to exploit it. Prior to getting pulled for graduation, Mathilda was prepared to deploy across the Galaxy as a solo element and do as much damage as she could before death. The eagerness that she held, proved that there is nothing that will hold her back from anything.

Augmentations
Once graduating from her class, Mathilda is able to undergo Project CHRYSANTHEMUM. The augmentations that will allow her to become a SPARTAN-III and gift her the strength to kill the enemies she needs to kill. Ready to undertake such a change, Mathilda remembers her parents and prepares for the augmentation. Going before anyone else in her team, Mathilda was nervous from what will happen to her. But still, she walked into the room to get her procedure done.

The following drugs were given to her:


 * 8942-LQ99 - "carbide ceramic ossification catalyst" drug.
 * 88005-MX77 - "fibroid muscular protein complex" drug.
 * 88947-OP24 - "retina-inversion stabilizer" drug.
 * 87556-UD61 - "improved colloidal neural disunification solution" drug.

A quicker mind and body, Mathilda sees herself far different than before. No longer the weak girl, she is a powerful and strong woman that can crush the bones of a human with a hard grasp. Feeling faster, Mathilda is able to analyze situations faster and bend them into her favor. Doing a few drills, Mathilda learns how to gather intelligence far faster than she could before. Due to this, Mathilda is pulled out of Beta Company and placed in specialty training where she will become a Headhunter and join the Beta-5 Division.

Specialty Training
With expertise in field intelligence gathering and marksmanship, Mathilda moves onto training with Samuel-B256 and learning that they are partners. Not happy to work with him, Mathilda tries to work as a solo due to the revenge she wants to get for her parent's death. Rejected, Mathilda continues her training. She begins hostage rescue mission training which will allow her to fill in the spots that Samuel-B256 is not a master in. She slowly grows to her role as the second-in-command to Samuel.

Moving to Sensitive Site Exploitation, Mathilda begins to build herself up in gathering sensitive intelligence and translating what she needs to search for and what to send to the Office of Naval Intelligence. Taking many classes on how to handle Covenant and Insurrectionists intelligence allows Mathilda to do much more damage to the enemy she is attacking rather than simply using a gun. She begins to make her mind the most dangerous weapon she can utilize on the field rather than other objects.

Mastering the art of sniping and spotting, Mathilda becomes a deadly asset from a great distance. Her ability to spot specific armors on and  allowed her to make the right call on who to engage in a mission. With a knack in both fields, Mathilda is allowed to be a successful spotter then an excellent sniper. Paired with her other skills she has been learning, Mathilda is starting to shape into the SPARTAN that the UNSC needs to inflict damage to the enemies that stand before them.

Team Specter
When it came down to finally going into combat with Samuel-B256, they needed to create a sort of team. Both didn't talk much during their initial training and specialty training. As the two slowly talked, Mathilda learned that Samuel never saw such advanced technology before coming to and that both of his parents were killed during an invasion on his home planet. Mathilda revealed that she came from something a little better but still lsot her parents during a Covenant invasion.

Joining Beta-5 Divison and becoming headhunters, Mathilda and Samuel would be one of the select few that would make it out of the Human-Covenant War. Working for the UNSC Navy and ONI, they deploy across and UNSC controlled space to crush rebellions and prepare for assaults against the Covenant that will happen deep behind enemy lines. As Mathilda continued to come back with Samuel, they were given much more dangerous missions each time.

The team name comes from a childhood fear of a monster under Mathilda's bed. She named it Specter after her father used a spell from Harry Potter to protect her room. With the true meaning of Specter is Ghost, the two Headhunters agreed to the team name. After all, they are not supposed to be where they are and to put fear into the enemies they attack. As the friendship develops between Mathilda and Samuel, she begins to tolerate him more once naming the team after her recommendation.

The two SPARTANs are assigned to Lieutenant, Junior Grade Stephan Ferguson. An ONI Section Three officer who will oversee the operations that Team Specter is deployed to. With Samuel specialized in surveillance, observation, marksmanship, reconnaissance and clandestine operations; he is to focus on the mission objectives while Mathilda works as the intelligence asset and the two will plan assaults together to inflict the most damage against the Covenant.

Operation: SILENT SERVANT
Deployed in 2546, Mathilda and Samuel worked with one another to achieve the destruction of the. Operation: SILENT SERVANT is launched after the success of, Team Specter is to ensure the FLP does not come back and continues to remain a mundane threat throughout the rest of the Human-Covenant War. With missions to assassinate leaders, Mathilda prepares herself for the first of many operations she will be sent on across her career as a SPARTAN-III.

Arriving on, Mathilda began gathering intelligence on supply lines and the major players in the FLP. Learning how to adapt and use her skills to the best of her ability, the two begin to develop a chemistry where they are able to exchange simple information bits between one another. With Mathilda collecting the intelligence and interpreting it, Samuel is able to make the right call instead of spending hours, if not days, trying to understand all of the intelligence.

Once securing her first kill, Mathilda became confident in the ability for Samuel. Trusting him with her life and the idea that he can always make the right decision. Hunting continued for the two as the FLP tried to run away from the two Headhunters. Once successfully hunting the FLP leadership, Mathilda focused on setting trackers to the FLP's supply. Allowing ONI to launch much more powerful raids than Team Specter can. Once setting the trackers, Team Specter concluded Operation: SILENT SERVANT.

Team Specter found success in their first combat operation, hunting across Mamore to take down the FLP came to be a much more easier task than they anticipated. Mathilda used all of her training to achieve the success of the operation. Building chemistry with Samuel allows them to adapt to more situations and put more trust in one another. Following the operation, Mathilda worked with Samuel on transcribing messages and intelligence to allow him to have a larger range of skills when deployed onto the ground.

Operation: RIGHTFUL DAWN
With success from Operation: SILENT SERVANT in 2546, Operation: RIGHTFUL DAWN was launched on and used Team Specter to respond to Insurrectionists movement on the colony. The need for Cassidy III to stay classified would allow ONI to launch strikes against the Covenant if they were to reach Earth and the Soell System. Mathilda will continue to operate as the technical expertise of the group and give guidance to Samuel on how to conduct raids as Lieutenant Ferguson steps back.

Beginning Operation: RIGHTFUL DAWN, Mathilda began gathering as much data as she could on the Insurrectionists that were stationed there. Once gathering all the intelligence, she began breaking it down and making it easy for Samuel to understand and plan out raids together. The two began constructing a small network of enemy combatants to take down and ensure the safety of Cassidy III. Once the network was created, the two began hunting across the colony and making the enemy disappear.

As Mathilda adapted to the new missions Samuel would take her on, she proved herself to be able to assassinate her targets without an issue. With the two able to successfully knock out the Insurrectionists using a variety of tactics, made Mathilda a crucial asset to Team Specter and its success. Launching night raids, using hand to hand and sneaking around allowed her to develop new skills to make her a much more dynamic SPARTAN-III Headhunter in the program.

While the two continue to develop their chemistry, Mathilda finds herself comfortable with the leadership decisions that Samuel is making out in the field. With the dependability of Team Specter rising, Mathilda continues to look forward to her first Covenant mission. The idea of revenge against the Covenant continues to stay embedded in her as she hears more news of the Human-Covenant War. Lieutenant Ferguson continues to tell them that the mission is coming up soon and they will be able to inflict damage on the Covenant.

Operation: URGENT TEMPEST
With the success of Operation: RIGHTFUL DAWN, Mathilda turned her attention to her new mission which would involve the infiltration onto and attempts to deplete the Covenant's  production in 2548. It will be her first time going against the Covenant since she last saw them on New Constantinople. Eager to go against the Covenant, Mathilda worked with Samuel on preparing the best they can for anything that is to be thrown at them. Both have trust in one another that they will do their job to the best of their ability.

Landing on Ealen IV, Mathilda focused on gathering as much intelligence as she could to give to Lieutenant Ferguson. With objectives to investigate and learn more about the Covenant, Mathilda used multiple false flag techniques to trick the Covenant and gather the data she would need to accomplish her tasks at hand. However, Mathilda wanted to go after the Covenant leadership due to the death of her parents. She was restrained by Samuel multiple times in order to ensure that she would never make a bad decision.

However, Mathilda got to kill the first Covenant soldier. He gave her the kill knowing that if he would have taken it, he would be hated by her for the rest of her life. Once satisfying her revenge on the Covenant for now, she continued to push on with Samuel as they worked on assassinating another important member of the Covenant. Taking out their second target late in the deployment, they were able to meet the requirements of the mission and come back alive, which is very rare for a Headhunter team on a Covenant deployment.

It was a rare success for Operation: URGENT TEMPEST to succeed since the problem came out that almost all Headhunter teams that went after Covenant targets are missing in action. The fact that Mathilda came back with her partner is something that is almost impossible to comprehend. The success came from the two being able to work together, something both of them didn't expect. Mathilda was glad that Samuel gave her the first chance to kill a Sangheili, she also helped Samuel with his first kill and the two were able to etch their first Covenant kills.

Operation: HYPER ANGEL
From 2549 to 2551, Mathilda and Team Specter were deployed onto where they continued to hunt down Insurrectionists. With loose rules from Lieutenant Ferguson and the Office of Naval Intelligence, Mathilda began to work on doing more experimental work with gathering much more intelligence. Using illegal means to spy on suspected enemies allowed her to hone of the craft of gathering the most intelligence she can get. Success came as she began to predict when the best time to hit targets and send it to Samuel.

Success came as Mathilda watched Samuel develop into the leader he needed to become. With no more hand holding from Lieutenant Ferguson, the two began to work on developing their chemistry and transferring command around. With Mathilda getting a taste of mission planning, it allows her to see things through his eyes and how she can prepare intelligence better. She also took the time to learn more about how to plan faster and what to do when things go south.

However, Mathilda helped with taking out an entire encampment of enemies. Everybody within the walls were wiped out and then reported back to ONI, Lieutenant Ferugson was worried due to the damage that the team did. However, Mathilda displayed her ability to lurk around an area and take out as many enemies as she did without being noticed. Her ability to lure enemies into traps made her such a deadly asset and soon an enemy that the Insurrectionists would fear.

A much longer deployment than before, Mathilda became comfortable in her work against the Insurrectionists. Taking on much longer deployments allows her to operate with much more freedom. Working closely with Samuel, she is able to give him the best intelligence she can now that she knows how he thinks. The two were able to showcase their ability of making militia camps disappear across Harmony and putting fear into the enemy. The success of the operation came to be when the Insurrectionists no longer continued their operations.

Fall of Reach
As Reach was attacked by the Covenant Empire, Mathilda joined Samuel on the ground where the two worked for Lieutenant Ferguson out of. With assistance from Lieutenant Ferguson, Mathilda assisted in carrying out tactical strikes against the Covenant. Working on extending the fight, she began to focus on using all of her skill sets to push the Covenant back like never before. Never being involved in a land war with the Covenant, it put Mathilda in the feet of everyone else.

During the Battle of and, Mathilda displayed her expertise in sniping deep behind enemy lines. Taking out key structures and other major points marked by Samuel. In New Alexandria, Mathilda was able to take out Banshee pilots as well as Phantom gunners. Doing so, allowed the Falcons to have an easier time clearing the skies around both Szurdok Ridge and New Alexandria. Despite her best efforts against the Covenant Empire, Mathilda was forced to retreat to SWORD base where she has another mission.

Called back to SWORD base, Mathilda assisted in the defense of the base as well as destroying sensitive intelligence. Once securing the intelligence and making sure the Covenant Empire would gain nothing, she evacuated with Samuel and Lieutenant Ferguson. On the way to the evacuation zone, the two were able to fight their way through Sangheili elements. As they reached an ONI, they left with no intentions of coming back to Reach and a new plan in mind.

While escaping Reach, Mathilda watched as the Covenant the planet. It would be the first time she would ever see a planet glassed, it only angered her more and she began to prepare for the next fight at hand. Another issue was that it was the first loss for Team Specter, all of their previous missions were success and this was the first time that Mathilda lost in battle. Hating the feeling of losing, Mathilda worked with Samuel on becoming better Headhunters for their next mission.

Operation: CALM CRUSADE
In late October of 2552, Mathilda voyaged with an ONI Prowler called UNSC Battuta to the Jiralhanae colony,. With orders from the UNSC and ONI to disrupt and cause a war between the Jiralhanae tribes, Mathilda prepared for her third operation against the Covenant Empire. Being the technician of the team, Mathilda would need to be on top of herself to ensure she performs at her peak. Prior to the operation beginning, Mathilda felt that she was not coming back.

Conducting assassinations and other tactics against, allowed violence to slowly ramp up on the colony. Mathilda was able to sprinkle the DNA of other races around to push the blame away from humans and make the race fight their own allies. However, things went bad when Lieutenant Ferguson was captured by a Jiralhanae patrol and taken a prisoner. More violence broke out because other tribes wanted to rip apart the human that was trespassing on their world.

Launching a rescue operation, Mathilda and Samuel were able to recover Lieutenant Ferguson, but he was in awful shape. After being tortured by the Jiralhanae, Mathilda followed Samuel back to the Jiralhane tribe where their Lieutenant was kept and made it disappear. Mathilda provided the intelligence of the land the tribe owned then the two moved in to wipe it out. In the dead of the night, a powerful Jiralhanae tribe was slaughtered on Teash. It would be the only time that Mathilda would do something out of anger.

As the occurred, the Covenant Empire began to fall. The UNSC were able to hold out on Earth and broker a deal with the. Mathilda came back with an injured Lieutenant and a battle hardened comrade, little did they know, the Human-Covenant War was over. However, their time of rest was extremely short. New plans were put into play for Mathilda and her partner, new assets for the team will be added and Mathilda will begin working with her partner to secure UNSC and UEG controlled space.

Background of Ferret Teams
Following the end of the Human-Covenant War, a place for Team Specter was unknown for the time. Mathilda was originally attracted to due to the amount of resources they have, but saw flaws. Waiting for a decision, Mathilda continued to hone her skills till Captain Serin Osman approached her. She informed Mathilda of the Ferret Teams and how she can persuade Samuel to join as well. However, Samuel would not move unless the Lieutenant told them to move.

Upon joining the Ferret Teams, Mathilda would continue to serve under the command of Stephan Ferguson. Though, Mathilda would operate much different than the rest of the Ferret teams due to age and experience. All of was still teenagers, needing ONI field officers to deploy with them to keep them on the mission. Due to the scercery of the Ferret Teams because of the used in Gamma Company augmentation, allowed Mathilda looser regulations and restrictions in the field.

Relation to Spartan Operations
Reading up on Spartan Operations and its new, Mathilda came across the. Already in its first class, enemies have infiltrated into the program and worried Mathilda. Informing Samuel of the raid, the two agreed to reject all offers from Spartan Operations and work with the Office of Naval Intelligence. Due to their beliefs of Spartan Operations and SPARTAN-IVs, it made Mathilda think twice when around the SPARTAN-IVs.

Mathilda would only forward deploy from the and that would be the most interaction she would have with Spartan Operations. They did not take orders from them or even seek recommendations. Mathilda did not trust those in the program one bit, even if she knew they were good people. The distaste would only grow against Spartan Operations as more enemies would infiltrate into the SPARTAN-IV program and Spartan Command. She often limits her interactions between all other SPARTANs as well.

Ferret Team Specter
An addition was added to the newly named Ferret Team Specter, a named Emerysen. Mathilda silently protested this decision, she felt that she was being replaced by something better and she would no longer be needed. She confronted Samuel with the issues and he told her that she would never be replaced, it eased her mind, for now. Slowly, Mathilda would warm up to the AI and see the benefits after letting go of her judgements and opinions. She learned Samuel still prefers his intelligence from her.

Given a, the UNSC Battuta would be their ship of operations from 2553 to 2557. Along with Captain Nayla Raymond, they would voyage across UNSC and UEG controlled space to reach their destinations. With the help from Emerysen, Mathilda would become the skilled lead pilot of the craft. While being a pilot in training, she would assist Samuel in his piloting since they would soon upgrade to a ship with no Captain and it would only be the two of them, along with the AI.

In 2557, the two were upgraded to a. Named UNSC Into Darkness, it would only carry two humans and one AI. The four years that Mathilda has learned, she is an expert pilot and someone who can navigate through any situation. Her co-pilot Samuel is able to give her important information, giving her the chance to make an educated guess on the way they need to approach situations from the craft. By late of 2558, Mathilda has logged an abundance of flight hours and considered a top pilot in the Ferret Teams.

Operation: HYBRID VANGUARD
Following the end of the Human-Covenant War, Sangheili and Humans gathered on a colony world named in 2553. In the new, tensions were tight early on between the two species. Both of their kind killed one another ruthlessly during the War and there was a lot of bad blood between the two. Mathilda was given a mission she almost declined due to the nature of it, she is to protect the colony's interest; both Sangheili and Humans. Her parents were slaughtered by Sangheili, why would even help them?

After protesting, Mathilda was able to convince Samuel to only focus on the humans while another team focused on the Sangheili. This led to an eased mind for the two since they planned to never help the Sangheili. Launching onto Carrow, Mathilda began working closely with Samuel and Emerysen to gather mission ready intelligence and prevent attacks against the Sangheili faction of the colony. Mathilda manipulated herself to believe she was not helping the Sangheili and only helping the UEG have dominance over their sector.

Launching multiple missions against the human sector, Mathilda allowed herself to fill her new role of the team. She became a much better marksman and hostage rescue operative, something that her teammate lacked. With her specialties now coming to the front, she is able to provide a much wider range of assistance to Samuel so they accomplish the mission. Her desire to fill into her new role allowed her to not feel left out or abandoned since the AI took the spot of field intelligence gathering and sensitive site exploitation.

Finishing off in early 2554, Mathilda was not fond of Carrow and the situation at hand there. Even as she came back from solely attacking humans, she felt uneasy working with the and Sangheili. Regardless of what she thought, there was a note put down to never put Mathilda on a mission with the Sangheili in her mission briefing folder. It would be the first and last time that Mathilda would ever operate on Carrow and work to better the Sangheili species.

Operation: HOPE OUTREACH
has become a place that the UNSC and UEG want to rehabilitate due to the significance and importance of the planet. The Office of Naval Intelligence granted a select group of people to return to Reach and begin to rehabilitate it. However, scavengers have been trespassing the  and posing a threat towards the people working. Due to the tight security that is needed to keep the work around Reach secret, Mathilda deploys with Samuel andd they begin Operation: HOPE OUTREACH.

When reaching the system in late 2554, Mathilda began to display her piloting skills. Able to evade numerous Kig-Yar pirate ships and another a squadron of to shoot them down. With the no longer in control of the space and picking off fighters, Mathilda moves down to Reach where she begins her hunt against the Kig-Yar. She found herself eager due to the challenge the Kig-Yar can posses when you hunt them. Moving out, Mathilda prepares to make the Kig-Yar disappear from the planet and system for good.

Deploying deep into the barren wasteland of Reach, Mathilda worked with Samuel on hunting down pockets of Kig-Yar scavengers that other teams and patrols have missed. She found herself able to track the Kig-Yar better, but decided to withhold it since she still felt jealous that Samuel had an AI and that she was going to be replaced. But later on, she shared the information and they were able to hit more hideouts that would soon make Mathilda happy because of the upbeat missions.

Ending in the middle of 2555, Mathilda proved herself as an expert pilot and a terrific tracker. She was met with a disappointed Samuel since she still held back information because of the fear she was going to be replaced. He was able to calm her down, tell her that she would never be replaced and that helped. With the help from Emerysen, she was able to assist with giving herself more missions and satisfying her hunger for killing as many enemies of the fractured Covenant Empire there was.

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