I threw together a quick thing for that Church lives au I was talking about the other day, just a possible scenario of the Reds and Blues meeting Alpha on Chorus.
I wrote this in one sitting not long after waking up, so sorry ahead of time for any mistakes.
(Writing under cut)
“Felix what does Alpha say about our chances here?” Kimball asked the mercenary.
“Alpha?” The orange sim trooper asked who has surprisingly come to a meeting for once. Caboose for one, wasn’t at the meeting this time.
“I was trying to keep him secret, but I can trust you guys to not go rat to Doyle and his goons. This, is Alpha.” And with that the hologram of an AI in light blue sim trooper armor flickered to life on Felix’s shoulder with a ‘sup?’
“Church?!” Tucker said in disbelief.
“No I’m not religious.” Said the AI.
“It can’t be- the EMP- we went back and looked for you- how-” Tucker just stammered.
“He was in range of the EMP with the rest of the AI- unless his body protected him, could it do that?” Simmons rambled on and theorized.
“Church? Like your old teammate? Felix why does your AI look like their old teammate?” Kimball asked, turning to Felix.
“Hey I know as much about this as you do!” Felix responded, throwing his hands up in defense.
“Guys are we really sure that that’s Church?” Grif asked in disbelief.
“Who the fuck is Church and why do you think I’m him? Do I look like a mother fucking ghost to you?” Alpha asked, raising his voice.
“Yep that’s Church.” Grif responded.
“We didn’t mention anything about ghosts.” Simmons pointed out.
“You said the guy was dead, if I was him what else would I be?” Alpha defended.
“The last thing Church said before the EMP was calling himself a ‘mother fucking ghost’.” Tucker added.
“I think we need to back track, I know grief is rough, but my AI isn’t your dead friend.” Felix said, chuckling a little but trying to sound sympathetic.
“Let’s just ask him something only Church would know.” Tucker suggested, still convinced.
“Why? He isn’t Church.” Felix responded, finally putting his foot down.
“Humor them Felix, then we can get back to the matter at hand.” Kimball ordered, stern but with some sympathy for the sim troopers in her voice.
“Fine. Ask away.” Felix responded, shaking his head and crossing his arms.
“What happened to Tucker after he got his sword?” Grif asked.
“Seriously dude?! There was better questions than that!” Tucker snapped at Grif, lightly shoving him.
“I don’t know?” Alpha responded.
“Just- take a guess? Like a Kimball said, humor us so we can get closure and we’ll get back to the meeting.” Simmons requested.
“I really don’t know! What do you expect me to do, pull something out of my ass like ‘have an alien baby who got kidnapped repeatedly’?!” Alpha fired back. The sim troopers were speechless. “I’m sorry you’re missing your former leader, but like I said, I don’t know-”
“No you were right.” Tucker finally spoke up.
“What?!” Alpha and Felix shouted at the same time.
“You’re kidding.” Kimball responded in disbelief.
“Yeah Tucker has an alien kid.” Grif responded.
“His name is Junior, he’s the coolest.” Tucker boasted like a proud dad.
“You’re fucking with us.” Felix insisted.
“Nope, he really did have an alien kid, just ask Caboose.” Simmons replied.
“Caboose isn’t the best source.” Felix defended. “I love the guy, but he isn’t.”
“He has the scars from where it bit him.” Grif explained casually.
“So- Tucker had an alien baby- and it bit Caboose hard enough to leave a scar?” Kimball asked, partially hoping this was a joke.
“Yeah, no one warned us that the baby alien-” Tucker started to explain before getting cut off.
“Funny joke guys, can we get on with the meeting?” Felix begged.
“All that blood was a pain in the ass to clean up.” Alpha commented. The sim troopers gave the AI another look. “What? Is my armor on funny?”
“We never mentioned the blood.” Tucker explained.
“Yeah you did, the thing bit Caboose because it fed on blood.” Alpha defended himself.
“They didn’t mention that.” Kimball mentioned before adding. “Alpha, how did you know that?”
“What?! No they mentioned it!” Alpha insisted.
“They didn’t, we’re in the same room I would have heard it too.” Kimball argued.
“No- they did- they must have, I couldn’t have known other wise- I- I-” Alpha started to stammer while his hologram started to glitch.
“Great, you guys broke my AI. I’m gonna go see if I can get him sorted out.” Felix said before directing at Alpha “Alpha, power down.”
“But-” Alpha started to argue.
“Now Alpha.” Felix commanded. The mercenary looked up to see the look the sim troopers and Kimball were giving him through their helmets so he explained “I don’t want him to get damaged or anything, he’s been a big help in this fight.” And with that he turned around the left the meeting room.
“Fine, I guess we’ll meet another time.”
“What do we tell Caboose?”
19 notes
·
View notes