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DecidingNebula — Spartan-613 April Solis 2nd Revision
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Franchise: HaloFull Name: April Solis
Faction: Ancient Human Empire (Formerly), Forerunner Ecumene (Formerly), The Disciples, UNSC, Spartan III Corps, Project: Spectra (Formerly), Team Salvation, Trident of Revelation, Shadows of Sangheilios
Age: 24
Rank: Lieutenant
Height: 6.4ft
Species/Nationality: Human, American/British/English
Birthplace: Garos
Job: Disciple Space Warden and Creator, Spartan-III, Project: Spectra participant, Team Salvation member, Marksman, Pilot, Shadows of Sangheilios member
Nicknames/Titles: The Astral Phoenix, The Space Warden, Crystal Bearer, Warrior Goddess, Psycho Killer Bitch, The Reborn, Stellar Hottie, Hottest Girl in School, Valiance-and-Soul's understudy, Crazy Car Chick, Apprentice, Juvie Girl, Wonder Woman
Gender: Female
Vehicles: Gunrabbit Bike, Custom-Built Racing Car, Custom Bikes
Voice: A calm, peaceful English voice
Eye Colour: Blue
Hair Colour: Auburn Brown Hair
Skin Colour/Race: Caucasian
Scars/Damage/Markings/Unusual Features: None known
Enemies: Dark Ascendant Empire, The Flood, Didact's Prometheans, The Inheritor, The Covenant, Turok Nar 'Mdragath, Desticrons, Barric 'Kaidom, Agranam 'Vuzi- Nightfall, Vuzi Alliance, Covenant Remnants, Office of Naval Intelligence, The Dreadlords, The Jiralhanae Covenant, Domineer Ovanin/Rukil
Status: Alive and Healthy
Weapons:
'Swan Song'- A customised, modified, suppressed SRS99C-S2 AM Sniper Rifle that can fire experimental 'Swan' rounds that are able to cause kinetic pulses, sound harmonious when fired, and can be set to track their targets, although the tracking on the bullets is not very reliable and works only in a small radius of the desired target.
'Volley'- A Forerunner Z-P21 Sentinel Path Blaster ripped straight from a Sentinel on Halo Installation 05. The blaster shoots both regular hardlight blasts and 'volleys' of hardlight blasts that explode upon contact.
The Forge of Valiance-of-Soul (Formerly)- Tool/weapon April would inherit. A symbol of office of the master-artificer of the Disciples. Oddly, it is not actually a forge in the classic sense, but rather a giant Forerunner hammer. Utilising the power of a miniature neutron star at its very heart, the forge operates through the convergence of magic and science. It is not known just how powerful the forge is, but it is believed that it can be used to make anything out of anything, with the possibilities only being limited by the skill and knowledge of the being wielding it. The forge was used to craft many of the other artefacts of the Overseers and the Disciples. On its own, the Forge is a capable tool, but only Valiance-of-Soul's integrated Creation Lathe allowed the Forge to reach its full potential and create weapons and artefacts of supernatural power. On the bright side, its sheer mass can certainly be used to pack a huge whallop that's second only to the Celestial Saber. The thing is so heavy that only a select few have the strength to carry it without any difficulty, but for Disciples or Paragons or cosmic beings, the Forge is only as heavy as it needs to be to be used effectively.
The Omni-Crystal (Formerly)- A Crystal which controls and allows the warping of space and to some extent, reality itself. The ability to create vortexes, portals and ruptures, the Omni-Crystal is very much an instrument of great power, but how one actually uses it is still quite vague.
Standard Issue DMR
Standard Issue BR-55 Battle Rifle
Standard Issue M45 Shotgun
Standard Issue M6 Magnum
Frag Grenades
Standard Issue Combat Knife
Equipment/Paraphernalia/Personal Belongings: Jetpack, Night Vision Goggles, Recording Equipment, Mechanic Equipment, Wrench, Blowtorch, Detailing Paintbrush, Handheld Powersaw, Car Memorabilia, Astronomy Book, Car Magazines
Specialisation/Skills: CQC, Marksmanship, Sniping, Compassion, Spy, Building, Making, Creating, Fixing Cars, Fixing Stuff, Assault, Defense, Navigation, Small Arms, Driver, Pursuer, Pilot
Powers: Telekinesis (With the Omni-Crystal), Flight (With the Omni-Crystal), Force Field (With the Omni-Crystal), Interstellar Travel (With the Omni-Crystal), Teleportation (With the Omni-Crystal), Spacial Pressure Generation (With the Omni-Crystal), Space/Cosmic Manipulation (With the Omni-Crystal), Portal Creation (With the Omni-Crystal), Vortex Creation (With the Omni-Crystal), Black Matter Construct Generation (With the Omni-Crystal), Reality Warping (With the Omni-Crystal), Astral Projection (With the Omni-Crystal), Gravity Manipulation (With the Omni-Crystal), Gravity Blasts (With the Omni-Crystal), Particle Blasts (With the Omni-Crystal), Forge Items (With the Forge of Valiance-and-Soul), Creation (With the Forge of Valiance-and-Soul), Repair (With the Forge of Valiance-and-Soul), Raw Element Manipulation (With the Forge of Valiance-and-Soul), Raw Element Forging (With the Forge of Valiance-and-Soul), Creation Lathe Manipulation (With the Forge of Valiance-and-Soul)
Personality: April, a happy, charming, friendly, talented girl brimming with idealism and care for her fellow man. But April's idealism is a naive kind: she was always inspired, if she had to, to join the UNSC out of a desire to "fight evil", she quickly found that the reality of war was a lot more than she was prepared for when she was conscripted into service. Already very uncomfortable with violence and now thrown into the heart of a war in which children, of all beings, are so casually made a part of the conflict, she is left struggling to rationalise her role as a warrior, even one on the side of good. However, one would be foolish to believe she is not ready to fight in a battle, very foolish indeed.
She learned how to fix cars from her father, a long-time car thief who has been single for some time. When he couldn't find a babysitter, he'd bring young April along, and she learned his trade. She hid her automotive knowledge from her boyfriends, for fear that they will be insecure around a girl who knows more about cars than they do.
Solis has also been toughened up by the upbringing she's had. The death of April's mother has greatly influenced her life, and it is a combination of her mother's calmness and her father's relative lack of such a thing that has given her the balance between softness and hardiness, for this reason, April Solis is certainly got what it takes to go above and beyond.
She is Jason Blyth's childhood and high school crush and only sweetheart. Though for many, a similar situation is at hand, April Solis has caught the fancy of a great many classmates, colleagues, you name it. As the typical high school story goes, she has often been with a jock, but there is truly more than meets the eye to her than just a desire for the toughest, most powerful guy in school, and although that may sound like an empty strike of hope to some, it's the truth. April for a time believed that she was quite shallow and self-absorbed, though she was kind and courteous, it wasn't necessarily hard for people to view her that way. After all, jealousy of the guy with the hottest girl in school tends to foster great fear of talking to said girl for fear of rejection. Really, April isn't shallow, she just wants someone who can treat her equally, and if she can't have that, then she wants someone who can...well....treat her. At the time, she was dating the high school bully, Colt Ryker. Colt and April broke up however during a party.
You just wish she would notice you.
Before the activation of Halo, the Forerunners handpicked seven individuals from around the Galaxy to halt any uprising problems as well as continue their legacy. The Disciples originally were great allies, always united and an unstoppable force of justice against the Dark Alchemists. Each were given a Precursor relic which corresponded to the reality/long term task of the assigned Disciple.
Before her selection, April was a mechanic and pilot working on Charum Hakkor, responsible for designing the Ancient Human Type-7X1 Magna-Fighter, a highly advanced, intuitive stealth fighter that was able to slip between dimensions and call forth particles from said dimensions to provide its own fuel system and ammunition system. She basically designed a fighter that didn't need to be refuelled or replenished with ammunition, save for the antimatter missile batteries it had.
April was the student of General Rukil, a young Ancient Human Templar and war hero who was known for being the most powerful and sensational soldier in the Empire. Rukil was, like April, an expert mechanic and pilot who had been so ever since a young age, having grown up a slave boy to Kig-Yar traders.
Rukil's ballad-worthy acts had made him a hero, but he was denied the chance at becoming a master in the empire. Rukil had a great resentiment towards the establishment because he believed he had all the makings for a truly great leader who could change the empire for the better and win the war. April had grown close to her mentor and Rukil was her personal hero, but tragedy struck when Rukil lost the love of his life to the Forerunner Ecumene. To him, the 2nd Dark Wars were never personal, but after that, the Ecumene deserved nothing but destruction. His growing impertinence was recognised by the council of communion between the Ancient Human and San'Shyuum masters and he was closed in on. Rukil's best friend Nobal tried to calm him and protect him, but he informed April that she should try to keep away from Rukil for now.
Sadly, Chancellor Zhax Viton of the San'Shyuum Empire slowly manipulated him into embracing Dark Alchemy, appearing to share the belief that the council was unfair and the Forerunners had to be destroyed. April spied on the two in Zhax's office, and watched as councillor Wanoc, with a team of Templars all stormed Zhax's office to arrest him on suspicion of being a Dark Alchemist, to which she witnessed him kill the whole team and christen Rukil as "Domineer Ovananin". The two then set out to take over the Ancient Human empire and San'Shyuum empire using Dark Alchemy and use the empires aggressively to destroy the Forerunners. Rukil had turned on his former self, and April ran when she heard him say that he wanted to bring her to his side too. April returned to the council with the news, and she and Nobal set out to defeat the duo. Zhax had been manipulating the Ancient Humans and San'Shyuum, and had rounded up a large army ready to fight for him. He and Ovanin both stormed the council chamber of Charum Hakkor, but were fought by Nobal and April. Nobal had to fight Ovanin in order to stop him, and cried as he did so. Zhax escaped however, but April was never the same again. She wanted to hunt down and find Viton, but she realised how futile it was to even try. Ovanin took the fight with Nobal to space, where April followed not far behind in her personal Magna-Fighter. The fight ended brutally as Nobal and Ovanin, former brothers in arms battled atop their respective fighters in space, and Nobal had to cut off Ovanin's legs to defeat him. Ovanin tried to reach out to April as he drifted out to space, but Nobal made her realise that Rukil was gone. He took a crying April back to her ship, when he was attacked by a Forerunner fighter that only disabled his armour temporarily and then abducted April.
April was brought to Maethrillian, where she met Valiance-and-Soul, who had observed the skills and strength of will she had. She offered her the chance to become a real hero and do what she was destined to do. April was confused, but upon hearing the explanation that the galaxy was ending soon due to the Flood parasite and the Forerunner Paragons were putting together a group of 'Disciples' to inherit the Mantle of Responsibility if their efforts to stop the galaxy's slow death failed, April agreed to become a member of one of these 'Disciples'.
April, along with Fell Madragatan was the group's creator, responsible for the actual making of items with her mighty Forge of Valiance-and-Soul, inherited from her Paragon overseer- Valiance-and-Soul. She was also able to manipulate the fabric of space with her Omni-Crystal. April used this power to create and protect reality. A kind, cheerful soul, she was responsible for much of the group's high morale.
The group was composed of:
Thora 'Marum, the Fist of Justice
Spectra, the Time Keeper
April, the Astral Phoenix
Nightfall, the Master of War
The Inheritor, the Keeper of the Secrets
Fell Madragatan, the Artist of the Ancients
Korc Allvat, the Ageless Watcher
The group was subservient to a group of Thirteen Forerunners, who all oversaw the group, some of its members having equal roles to Disciples, however, as there were 13 Forerunner Paragons and 7 Disciples, the remaining 6 Paragons held entirely different roles altogether. The Paragons were the ancient progeny of Prominus and the very first Forerunners who ever came to exist.
Spectra was the Time Keeper, custodian of the Enigma of Time, able to use Chronokinesis and see multiple futures. Spectra made use of inter-dimensional mystical energy, channelling it as a mage. A good and honest soul, Spectra was also something of a healer among the Disciples. Spectra's Paragon Overseer was Sands-of-Time, the Guardian of (believe it or not) Time.
The Inheritor was the 'Agent' of the group, the Keeper of Secrets, he alone was able to discover secret motives of each member using his special mask, which allowed him sight into the very thoughts of his peers. Due to his great survival instincts, he was selected to be the member that would, if need be, inherit the remains of the Forerunner Ecumene and the Mantle of Responsibility as its main proprietor, should the other Disciples be defeated. Ironically, despite his position worthy of trust, what seemed to be promises inflated his ego and desire for superiority, and he was not loyal enough to report the more dangerous members, as he was also the most cunning and treacherous of the Disciples.
Fell's original purpose as one of the Disciples was to be the searcher of things, the artist, visionary, and to oversee entropy, the orderly dissolution of all things in preparation for the next creation. But the concept of destruction fascinated him too much, and he lost sight of the goal of rebirth and the necessity of restraint. His investigations into the dark sciences led him to Unikrus, to whom he gave himself.
Nightfall was a scientist and something of an Ares among the Disciples, as their 'Master of War', he was the strategist and tactician of the Disciples, his role to take charge of logistics and combat operations. His relic was the Vertex Armour, a suit of impervious armour that was able to resist nearly any and all kinds of damage, the armour formed around the body of its user from a central point shaped like a diamond/shield, regardless of the size of its user.
Korc Allvat however, was a different case. The team's 'Ageless Watcher'- loyal servant of the Overseers, by far the wisest of them all. He was the one who recorded the Disciple's adventures.
Thora 'Marum was the last to be brought in to the original Seven. He was the leader of the group, the mediator and visionary, passing among them all as a calm, inspiring, thoughtful, unifying and well-liked friend. It was his unique personality and his inspiring reassurance that "All are One" that allowed the Disciples to rally and succeed in their battle against the forces of evil and the Chaos Bringer Unikrus. 'Marum, unlike the other Disciples had no Disciple relic, but instead he was deemed 'worthy' of power over the Paragon leader Prime-Warrior-of-Light's Corpus of Leadership and Celestial Saber. Additionally, he is judged with being the 'purest' of heart and the strongest of the Disciples.
The Disciples fought many battles together, defending the Ecumene and several planets from threats, occasionally even the enemies of the Ecumene as the First Councillor had plans to unify the Galaxy against the Dark Ascendants, Flood and the Didact's Prometheans in the light of them becoming too great and dark a threat.
April often spent her free time alongside Spectra, on peaceful walks through Maethrillian's synthetic wilderness, in time Spectra developed feelings for April on one of their walks at night. April had picked up on Spectra's behaviour, leading her to believe that he had a crush on her. April had to search her own feelings for a few weeks, spending time with Spectra more. One day, she decided that he was indeed the one for her. Spectra, being the awkward nerd he was, had to consult someone on whether he should be forward. Upon consulting with Thora, he decided to tell her. April was told on a starry night on Maethrillian after the two had been stargazing, with Spectra trying awkwardly to explain his feelings using space terms. April accepted the offer to be his partner.
When Fell Madragatan's Paragon Overseer had been killed in combat, and he and Valiance-and-Soul fell in love, the Inheritor became suspicious of Fell and began monitoring his thoughts more often. But the Inheritor, unbeknownst to him had his judgement clouded, as he was unable to truly read Fell's mind, he read his most innocent thoughts only, Fell had learned to protect his thoughts from even the Inheritor's mask.
April's relationship with Fell had always been rather strained, despite the amount of time working on artefacts the two spent together, but his current actions made her, along with Spectra and Thora especially weary of what he could become, as such, Spectra felt the need to have some sort of plan to keep his dangerous self from becoming hostile. April tried to convince the other Disciples not to actively try and alienate Fell this way, knowing the pain that the Abyssian had experienced in his earlier life from conversations with him.
Following several suspicious practices, Fell was accused of being a Dark Alchemist. Fell was the scientist, searcher and hunter, responsible for finding most of the odd entities they discovered, and along with April, was responsible for most of the creations of the group. Despite this, no one knew how he made his creations. Fell started to resent his Disciple 'brothers' as enemies in time.
Unfortunately, Nightfall never carried this positive feeling with his fellow Disciples, aside from Fell and the Inheritor. The Disciples were placed in command of Ecumene-Affiliated Pilgrims and workers of different species in similar fashion to the Paragons choosing the Disciples, to find stars and replenish the Progenitor with their energy. Fell began to court some followers to his side. He selected a small number of Builders, Pilgrims and Soldiers to do his bidding in private, ultimately in service of subverting the Disciples in favour of his own agenda. Jaltavak Fiokar 'Wukjarl, Fell's most trusted and capable Pilgrim, devoted allegiance to him, and so Fell began to sow seeds of mistrust in Jaltavak. He claimed the Disciples' refusal to sacrifice to save their own agendas would be their downfall, and that an army had to be readied in case the Disciples betrayed them all. Fell began seeing himself as the Progenitor's chosen one and began destroying solar systems with sentient life to replenish the Cube. His "brothers" in the Disciples warned him not to do it again, so Fell, being the great listener he was, was keen to try it again on Earth to lure them.
However, when Valiance-of-Soul discovered his plans, after the treacherous Paragon Legion-of-Refined-Stars had been manipulating the two to drive a schism between the two lovers, their disagreement eventually grew into a full-fledged fight after Fell revealed how deeply he hated his brothers. In the resulting chaos, Madragatan fired his Entropic Blaster without thinking, fatally wounding Valiance-of-Soul. Before Soul passed away however, she professed her love for him, which made the Abyssian's seated heart knock at his ribs, and cast a look of horror over his face as he realised what he had just done. And Fell's name forevermore was...the Ruinous.
April found Valiance's body and tried to being her back, to no success. She asked herself who and what did this, and The Ruinous arrived on the scene ready to attack her. She managed to escape from the Ruinous, and reported back to the Paragons and Disciples. She then accused the Inheritor of lying and co-conspiring with the Ruinous, but he revealed, with ample proof that he had no knowledge of Fell's true intentions and his views, this new twist of fates was just as much a shock to him as it was to anyone. This bred an unhealthy rivalry between him and Spectra, the latter feeling unable to trust him. Nightfall felt obliged to defend his friend, breeding strife between the Disciples. The Ruinous founded his new faction: The Desticrons. He used an ancient machine known as the Devourer, a Precursor machine that could consume every form of energy on an entire world, primarily by harvesting their sun. The range of the machine however could be increased to consume more. The energy would be contained inside of the Devourer, and seemed to have an infinite storage. It needed the Corpus of Leadership to activate however.
Jaltavak joined the Desticrons. The Ruinous' plan was to build Devourers all across the Galaxy to harvest the energy of stars galaxywide, to kill off all enemy life, recharge the Progenitor's depleting power supply and bring a victory to the Desticrons. The Paragons and the Disciples would never let this happen. They brought an army of their own to Earth. One thousand Forerunner Warrior-Servants, backed by hundreds of thousands of Pilgrims and other soldiers to assist them in Ancient Earth Egypt (not Ancient Egypt). The battle was costly, and seemed to never end, They did not expect The Ruinous to have so much power, and one by one they fell by his wretched hand. He had "expanded [his] consciousness—absorbed the mental mass of a hive intelligence seventy trillion strong, probed the neural functions of creatures that swim in unrefined thought..." Since last they met, he was "so much more" than they were. He was able to grab weapons from his stockpile through personal dimensional portals, and used them to slay the troops standing against him, not one was able to lay a finger upon him. And when the Disciples stood against him, the Ruinous fought them all off and stopped them from coming anywhere close to harming him. No charge with a sword from Thora 'Marum could slice him, no Time Manipulation from Spectra could be weaponised against him, no spacial pressure from April could crush him, no mental attack from the Inheritor could drive him mad, no fossilising smite from Nightfall could keep him down, no burning gaze from Korc could disorient him, the Ruinous was all-powerful. The Paragons saw their Disciples being absolutely dominated by one of their own, and decided to take them out of combat with the tragic alien-Judas. The Paragons all drew their weapons on who they previously deemed good and honourable, the Ruinous only laughed, and one by one he murdered his brothers until there was only one Paragon left to oppose him- Prime-Warrior-of-Light. With one last desperate gamble, Prime-Warrior fled, and he and The Ruinous warped from location to location; The Ruinous thought this Paragon was merely stalling, but he was gravely mistaken. Prime was funnelling dimensional energy into his fallen brothers to revive them and give them the lifeforce they need to help him defeat the Ruinous. The Ruinous survived the resulting blast of energy, but he was severely weakened and his powers were diminished. The Corpus was stolen from him by the Paragons.
The Ruinous was banished to an eternity inside an interdimensional prison which could only be accessed by way of his Sarcophagus. To hide the Corpus from getting into the wrong hands, the Paragons, save for Sands-of-Time and Last-Words-of-Eternal-Song gave their lives to seal away the Corpus inside a tomb made of their very own, weakened bodies, a tomb, nobody could find, and their souls would transcend and live on as cosmic beings in the process.
The Disciples thought this was their biggest challenge, yet their challenges were just beginning.
Without most of the Paragons to guide them any longer, the Disciples bickered longer and harder than ever before, forcing Sands-of-Time and Last-Words-of-Eternal-Song to calm their arguments often. The leader of the Ecumene Optimal-Light-of-Infinite-Stars pledged his full loyalty to helping the Paragons keep the Disciples from splintering, and he did all he could to help their mission of restoring peace.
Tragically, a mission to defend Maethrillian from a Flood invasion ended in disaster for one member- Agranam 'Vuzi/Nightfall. Sands-of-Time, April and Spectra had all failed to defend his wife- Jadia from being killed by Flood spores, breaking his heart into millions of pieces. April tried to comfort the Master of War but he lashed out at Sands, April and Spectra for being foolish and weak, and because of them the love of his life was gone forever. This caused any respect he had for them to turn to dust.
The end of this battle damaged Nightfall. He burned with anger and seethed everyday. He would eventually calm his anger but his hatred only doubled. To him, Spectra and April had failed the one task they must not fail. And in his eyes the First Councillor should have had the Admiralty relieved of duty and killed for their foolishness. This was truly the turning point for Nightfall. The outcome of this battle proved to him that only his way was the right way, and he saw it in everything else he did. By the time that the newly formed Allied Coalition had began the assault on Xavok, Nightfall began to question Spectra and April's relationship, stating that their romance would hinder them from making rational decisions in combat when faced with certain situations. He told them that the relationship could tear apart the Disciples just as well as the Ruinous nearly did. He had also questioned Thora's leadership, as failure rates started to rise. Finally, he disagreed with the Paragons' approach to peace. Nightfall realised that he could not truly fulfil the Disciple's mission unless he was at its helm. One night, after brooding and crying over the death of his wife and the child she was going to release into the world, Agranam 'Vuzi began to write his pain and his newfound visions, a manifesto of sorts in a book. In it, he drew a symbol, a symbol which he said would represent his views, that his vision for a greater future must be accepted or else all will fall to death and destruction. The Inheritor discovered he had plans on betrayal, and Nightfall offered him a place in his new vision, convinced that Nightfall was right, he seized the opportunity, and joined him. This incited the Disciple infighting conflict.
Nightfall and the Inheritor began cooperating with one another to gain support from across the galaxy.
The Inheritor captured and took whatever Nightfall needed for his work, and so killed many in the process. Thora, Spectra, April and Korc all still allies, found what Nightfall was planning: The total oblivion of the living creatures that defied him, seeing Martial Law as the only way to save the galaxy. With the Inheritor at his right hand, the remaining Disciples had to fight their own allies. Nightfall researched cures to many diseases and, with his Pilgrims and his private army, did honourable services or the people of Maethrillian and other worlds. News of this spread across the galaxy and Nightfall swiftly became known as a hero, not just on a military level. Nightfall eventually broadcast his new vision to save the galaxy and truly unite it under one, strong banner, stating that unlike the Forerunner Ecumene, he would not lie about the Mantle of Responsibility and take it for his own personal gain. Nightfall acquired the Tallogon, a lost Forerunner Warship that the Didact had tracked to Acann, which contained an access point to the Domain and the Abaddon/Organon, the Precursor construct and custodian of the Domain. Nightfall used the Organon to create a massive army. By this time, the AK-Series Assassination Drones had begun their rebellion against the Forerunner Ecumene and the Coalition, the purge of the Ecumene Council began and the government started to collapse.
With the perfect weapon to instil fear and force servitude among the stars in his possession, and his most formidable foe in the Ecumene falling to shambles, Nightfall, with the Inheritor, boarded the majority of their allies on board the Tallogon, and took to the stars to complete their mission.
The final stand was at the Battle of Dafalmar, which would see the end of the Disciples and the encouragement of a vengeful evil. Korc and April battled the Inheritor, pinning him down and forcing him to surrender. Spectra and Thora took Nightfall head on, Nightfall kicking and tossing the Time Keeper aside, 'Marum was forced to jump in before he could rain down terror with the Tallogon. Sands-of-Time fought alongside Thora, and, knowing that this was the only way to one day restore absolute peace and utopia to the galaxy, the universe even one day, created a wormhole that would take the Disciples into the future. Last-Words-of-Eternal-Song questioned his action, but soon realised that it really was the only way.
Thora and Nightfall battled relentlessly against each other. Nightfall downing the Fist of Justice more times than he could down the Master of War. But, as Sands-of-Time tackled Nightfall, forcing him to recover, 'Marum pulled Nightfall's own weapon away from him, aiming at the Master of War's right eye and firing at him, destroying his face and causing him to scream in pain. Thora then engaged in a fistfight that saw him kicking Nightfall into the wormhole, defeating him at last. The Inheritor saw how everything had crumbled before him, and swiftly escaped Korc, injuring the San'Shyuum with his hand to hand combat skills. Spectra tried to stop him escaping, but the Inheritor was able to defeat him with ease. He saw his chances of winning now as very low, but realised that if he were to escape now, he could pull the strings just a little longer and then take the Mantle of Responsibility for himself. But before he could make his retreat, he was hit by a blow from April's Forge of Valiance-and-Soul, knocking him into the wormhole. Sands-of-Time closed the wormhole, and the remaining Disciples reported to their remaining Paragons. Sands and Last-Song lamented that things had turned out this way, and told them that all hope, for the time being, was lost, and that they would need to be reincarnated one day to ever have hope again. When tragedy at last ended the era of the Forerunners, Halo was activated.
The Paragons bode one final farewell to their Disciples as they were swiftly destroyed. Thora, April and Spectra would be reborn however, as Last-Song used the coveted Scroll of Fate, writing down that Thora, April and Spectra must all be reincarnated and reborn in the 26th Century, all at different times, using Sands' determinate of when the best times would be. This became a Cosmological Certainty. However, Allvat was given eternal longevity to ensure he could keep watch of the course of events in time so that Spectra, April and Thora would be reborn at the intended times. Sands implanted a genesong in all the ancestors of the three that would mean the three are given a genetic command to seek out certain futures in their lives.
When tragedy at last ended the era of the Forerunners, Halo was activated.
With all memory of her past life gone, April was reborn as April Solis in the 2530s on Garos.
April Solis was the daughter of Bart and Anne Solis. Bart was a brash and arrogant local racing star and car mechanic who romanced the quiet and calm college History professor Anne Fielding. They all lived a happy, calm life until one day when April and Anne were playing in a park, and April, at the age of 6, ran out to the street, and Anne chased after her, but was hit by a speeding-drunk driver and killed. April rushed to her mother when she noticed she wasn't being chased anymore, and cried at the scene. Bart demanded that the driver be thrown in prison for the rest of his life for taking his sweet Anne away, but the driver was charged with manslaughter and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Bart had been caught on a very bad day, having been dropped from a big break as a racer after failing to achieve the score needed to be recognised and getting a message that he was being taken off a job to build the 'Über Monster Truck Tank' which he had been wanting to build his whole life. The combination of losing his wife and chances at pursuing both of his dreams led him into a drunken rage, and in that drunken rage he decided that he was going to teach his daughter to be just as much the same person he is in order to one day live his dream through her.
But in order to do that, he actually needed to do so on the job. Mr. Solis started getting into bad business and as he ran out of custom jobs and the sorts, he started to steal cars and bikes in order to modify them for sale to racing gangs. Mr. Solis taught his daughter how to strip down all sorts of cars, from vans to smart cars to big muscle cars to trucks and motorcycles, all that he stole, with the few on occasion that he had for a job. Bart evaded police with his protection by the gangs he was clients with. April inherited her father's mentality, and April was in a similar mental state to what Bart was back in high school.
April was always kind and calm, but she was also in a way shallow, self-absorbed and arrogant. Solis had a balance between her parent's personalities, but it was leaning more towards her father's. She knew very well about Bart's illicit dealings, but she had no problems with it. She was always eager to get to work on new projects of her father's. She was especially good with bikes, muscle cars and big 4x4's, which coincidentally are metaphorical for the sorts of guys she would date.
In high school, April became known as the hottest girl in school, where pretty much every guy had their eyes on her. Some a more confident gaze than others sure, but pretty much every guy had their eyes on her. April dated jocks for the most part, and stereotypically this often ended in break-ups and all sorts of high school drama. Solis was however, anything but just looking for short, purely...physical relations. What she really wanted was just a good guy to be with, unfortunately for her the ones she dated she would lament were at the very least predictable and dating them spared her alot of pain in the inevitable end of a relationship.
The one who adored April above all others was Jason Blyth, and we're gonna say it, he was an absolute nerd. Into history, astronomy, science, you name it. In truth Jason had had a crush on her ever since 1st Grade but never admitted it to anyone but his friend Scott. Not only was Jason interested in April being hot, although we're pretty sure that's one damn good reason why he liked her, but he really liked her as a person, despite her apparent shallowness, he admitted that he saw, or felt something alot more to her that he couldn't quite explain.
Yup, the kid was in love. (Awwww)
At the age of 16, April was Colt Ryker, the school's biggest jock's girlfriend at high school. Colt was at the envy of all nerds like Jason for sure, but for Jason especially the jealousy was something quite esoteric. After making a presentation about one of his ancestors for his history project and scoring an A, his father agreed to buy him a car, his father, being a cheapo, refused to buy him a modern vehicle, and Jason settled for a 70s Chevrolet Camaro with racing stripes.
Jason took his friend Scott to a party at a lake, where he witnessed April break up with Colt for his lack of respect toward her superior knowledge of cars. Jason for the first time approached April and asked if he could drive her home. She accepted. Jason told her that he also knew quite a bit about cars. The two talked about themselves, never having actually spoken for more than five seconds to one another before. April asked Jason what he wanted to do after school, and Blyth told her that he wanted to maybe be one of those astronomer college professors, going on to explain some theories about the universe which prompted some awkward looks on April's face. The car unfortunately broke down on the drive and they were forced to park by a tree. Jason tried to handle it and told her he could fix it up, but he really had no knowledge of cars and only told her he did to sound like he was her type. April examined his engine and explained what engine it was when Jason stumbled on his own words trying to describe it. She identified what was wrong and fixed the car engine, and Jason didn't really pay attention to her explanations as he admired her. They tried to drive away, but Jason realised that there was no fuel in the car and in his excitement to impress April with the car, he forgot to fill it up. He called a breakdown rescue firm which brought them and the car to a gas station nearby. Whilst there, Jason offered to buy April dinner at a fast food restaurant, where they discussed. Jason, to his pleasure, made April laugh quite a few times when he wasn't nerding out over some astronomy nonsense. April also told Jason that she was perhaps seeking a job in being a car mechanic like her dad, and admitted that she kind of liked staring at the stars sometimes.
After giving her a ride home in a car filled with gas, April admitted that she had had fun, but asked Jason if he thought she was shallow. He awkwardly replied that he thought there was "more than meets the eye... with you". After berating himself for his lame pickup line, Jason watched April wave goodbye from her porch and felt that he had made progress, prompting him to say he loved his car.
April and Jason started spending more and more time with one another, after Jason sparked her interest in one of his many newfound attempts to get her to notice him in public. Although she told him that his car was shitty, she did enjoy every drive with him in it. Alex got quite jealous of both Jason and April- Jason for taking the attention of the hottest girl in school and April for taking the attention of his best friend. Alex confronted Jason before graduation and have him the choice between him and April, to which Jason told him that he wanted to balance it all, but Alex denied 'balance' and ended his friendship with Jason.
Jason felt guilty, but didn't do anything about it, instead he continued in his attempts to woo April. On graduation day, Jason met April's father Bart, who seemed to put the fear of god into him. April didn't have a boyfriend for a long time during this period, only some short relationships. In truth, the more she spent time with Blyth, the closer she felt to him. Solis thought to herself that Jason, despite being awkward and nerdy, would be a great partner, and she didn't feel paranoid about him leaving her like other guys would. It was then that April realised she had true feelings for Jason Blyth. Jason's support of her endeavour into becoming a car mechanic was unlike anything ever felt by anyone besides her father. Bart Solis had quite some respect for Jason as he noticed that the kid made an effort to be interested in cars. April was driven by both dad and Jason to build something quite amazing- her first racing car, which Bart tested and told her it was the fastest of its kind he has ever driven. He told her that it was time to debut this car to the public in an attempt to get his little girl noticed by the big wide world.
Unfortunately, the Human-Covenant War drew ever closer to the home shores of the UNSC, and the night before April was supposed to present her car to a recruiting committee, she, Jason and Jason's sister Anita were conscripted into the Spartan Corps. The conscription destroyed their families as ONI failed to provide Flash Clones and were forced to cover up the incident and assure the families that they would see their children again. Bart was devastated, and having lost his little girl, he hid away her car and didn't turn up to the reschedule for the presentation, never unveiling it for years and years.
Project: Spectra was an ONI Project designed to make specially engineered Spartan IIIs and make them into the ultimate assassination machines. They were put through far more intense conditions than regular Spartan IIIs. Participants were first put through basic stealth and combat training, Jason, April, Anita and a man named Paladius Donnios, excelled the first week.
Next, the Participants were put through more intense training for around four weeks. Later, the augmentation procedures begun. They first engineered them as regular Spartan IIIs, then altered them into Stealth Spartans, utilising Covenant Active Camouflage technology, making their skeletons lighter, blood flow faster, and nervous system loosened so pain was less expressive. New Training began with these augmentations. Later, the New Stealth Spartans were sent into active duty, mostly as ONI's Agents or Killers. Others as soldiers.
April was an exceptional agent, and was known for her ability to improvise with technology. She used her skills in mechanics often to produce tools or upgrades to her tech in situations. April didn't like this work at all though, in fact, she hated it. She kept this a secret of course but tried to make sure that she was doing as little bad as possible- a hard task under ONI's command.
2 Years later the Project was abolished. Participants were discharged from duty and allowed to go out to do whatever they wanted, a group, led by Jason, went to regular Spartan III military service. Jason decided to give himself a nickname which would honour those who had died in service to the project, deciding to make his nickname and codename- 'Spectra'.
The four 'amigos'- Jason, April, Anita and Paladius all were part of a team until they were disbanded in 2552 due to poor co-operative skills, divided into Jason and April on one side with Anita and Paladius on the other. Jason and Paladius however would share one final mission alongside each other during the Invasion of Virgo, but this would doom Paladius to a terrible fate, and during their last stand against Covenant invaders, Paladius would have his right arm severed by an energy sword wielding Sangheili Ultra, Spectra would be forced to leave Paladius as he could no longer save him, which only built up Donnios's resentment towards Blyth. After receiving medical support on board a orbital medical station after he was rescued, Paladius ended up falling to the Covenant and being brainwashed as a spy for them.
Jason and April were transferred to the newly founded Spartan III Team Salvation, under Spartan 605-Peter Venture, 'The Gambler', a boisterous, eccentric, reckless professional gambler turned UNSC Spartan. The other team members consisted of:
Spartan-619 Mark Slate/Ares- An ex-wrestler in Las Vegas who was The Gambler's old friend who joined the UNSC after a mutual friend's death. Mark used his stage name- "Ares, the God of War" as his codename in military service.
Spartan-618 Cole Nathaniel-Ontanov/Cobra- A man who had his family killed in front of him as a boy by the Covenant, save for his brother, who later became an ONI agent. He was orphaned and later enlisted into service within the military, giving himself the codename of Cobra, and then became a Black Ops soldier.
Lieutenant Tarrin Drakkil- Who is very different. He was an archaeologist who had nearly been killed due to a planetary sinkhole. Also he nearly was killed by the Covenant. Thus, his team was trained in military tactics to keep them safe, he was formerly a carpenter with Jason. Later, he was encouraged to become a Spartan. He wasn't listed as it can be told because he has no Spartan number tag. He only became a Spartan to be well protected because of his skills as a medic and archaeologist.
At first, The Gambler appeared to be a careless, egotistical and selfish man who didn't actually care for the team he had been placed in command of and Spectra made sure Venture knew how he felt about him, citing his preference to blast AC/DC at max volume during combat rather than listening to his team's communication as one of his many character flaws. The Gambler often caught him off guard with snappy comebacks to his respectable criticism of Venture. However, as time in the team dragged on, Spectra learned to cope with the Gambler's eccentric nature, and found that he always pulled through when he needed to and did at his heart truly care for his teammates.
April was also the target of alot of Peter Venture's flirting and seduction attempts. Although none of them worked the way he wanted them to, Venture thought it was quite fun to make Jason jealous. Venture never took his flirting too far though, probably out of respect for the team. April's opinion on The Gambler was less negative than Jason's, thinking of Venture as a jerk with a heart of gold.
Team Salvation had been a thorn in the reincarnated form of Thora 'Marum- Covenant Supreme Commander Thora 'Marumee's side all year as they and Team Matrix helped the UNSC Hallelujah escape Garos, destroy the Forerunner Shield World and destroy many of his soldiers.
During the Fall of Garos, Spectra befell the very same fate that Paladius did, he too had his arm severed, this time by the Fleet of Unstoppable Carnage's Special Operations Commander Kas 'Kreel 'Hartamee. Only the thing is, Spectra was rescued by The Gambler, April and Tarrin before he could become brainwashed. During the Campaign for Installation 05, Spectra and Team Salvation fought against 'Marumee once again, but the Supreme Commander's confidence in the Covenant's true nature had been shaken ever since they last met. The control room's location was a mystery, and so, the race to find it began, as the UNSC favoured finding and destroying the room, the Covenant wanted to use it for the Great Journey into the Divine Beyond.
Thora went on a mission with Barcus to retrieve the Icon, ended up in a conversation with the Flood Gravemind, which informed him that he was wrong about the Great Journey, and that his beliefs were founded on lies. 'Marumee refused to believe this, but the Gravemind released him, believing that Thora would find the strength within himself to see the truth. That night, Thora met with Team Matrix and three members of Spartan Team Salvation- April, Peter and Spectra. 'Marumee was held at gunpoint, and subsequently, he was captured, however, he had no cell bars or chains. The teams were lost and without communication, and Thora could not establish connection. The teams tried to convince him that the Prophets were liars whilst 'Marumee fired back at them, they had to set up camp for the night, 'Marumee was kept under the watchful eye of Spectra. Thora was, in the morning, brought to a Forerunner Terminal by the team, which was a recording of a Forerunner whom was part of ring construction. The Forerunner lamented that Halo was not finished, and would destroy the galaxy, upon finishing the recording, 'Marumee disagreed, though he was in fact becoming convinced himself, whilst a Forerunner Monitor the team had met- 367 Semper Tyrannis, who told him all, Thora finally believed. Thora saw something in his newfound human allies, Spectra in particular, but truly felt that his life had been revolutionised for the better by them all. The team learned that returning to any UNSC Outposts would be near-impossible, and Thora agreed to take them to his. Silas-670 had been watching them, and reported Thora's betrayal to Turok.
'Marumee rallied his fleet with the news of this revelation and proof, and vowed to fight the Covenant and it's tyranny. This lead to a fleet battle between 'Marumee's and 'Mdragathee's to begin, in the process, a quick ceasefire was called between Thora's and the UNSC to stop loss of potential allies.
Burden was killed by 'Marumee and Turok let him kill Burden, escaping so he could return to High Charity to enact his Desticron Revolution. Thora, Spartan-603 Luke, and Spectra, April and Spartan-605 Peter Venture 'The Gambler' were left on the ring to escape from the Flood before either they were infected by it or destroyed by the ring's countdown to destruction. The group fled in a troop transport Warthog armed with several guns. As they boarded the final UNSC ship to leave the ring and join the UNSC/Covenant Separatist fleet above, Thora found that humanity truly was good.
Spectra participated in the Great Schism, fighting alongside his new Covenant-based allies in High Charity. He befriended Kas 'Kreel 'Hartamee, the very Sangheili Kaidon who had severed his own right arm off, but he found that he was actually a good and honest man who he liked. April learned to trust Kas 'Kreel too, but only after he proved himself when he risked his life for her and Spectra by shielding them from a rocket strike.
Following the Great Schism was the T.O.R-Desticron War, which saw the galaxy change forever. During this war Spectra and April stayed with Team Salvation. Burmo 'Burubee, a Sangheili scout who lost his vocal chords to Turok and was forced to speak through the radio, became closely acquainted with Spectra and April, who he served with in many battles, Burmo felt that Spectra and April were his best friends. They met in the Battle of Corearthia, when Desticron Police Officer Barric 'Kaidom, disguised as local police, who was searching for clues as to where the Progenitor was, revealed himself to Spectra and April after they had mistaken him for local police. While fleeing this new threat, the two ran into 'Burubee and drove them away, Barric in hot pursuit. Taking refuge at a deserted chemical plant, Burmo engaged 'Kaidom in combat, eventually knocked the Desticron out after a brawl. Afterward, 'Burubee—able only to communicate in sound bites broadcast over his radio—properly introduced himself to the duo.
Before the Battle of Oruxon, Spectra told 'Burubee and the Gambler during a victory celebration that he had feelings for April, and Spartan-605 Peter Venture/The Gambler asked if Spectra had ever had a woman before, to which he responded with a shameful 'no'. Whilst Venture told him to try and flirt with her by flaunting his attractive traits, although he cited that there weren't many to flaunt, Burmo told Spectra that he should just tell her. Spectra was encouraged by 'Burubee's playing of songs like 'Who's Gonna Drive You Home?' and some others, the Gambler, knowing Jason was going to go ahead with that, said "Sure, that works too I guess."
April waited for him atop a hill where he finally plucked up the courage, although with the use of astronomy metaphors, to tell April how he felt. April was beyond happy to learn of this and immediately kissed and hugged him, telling Jason that she had all her life tried to go for those who were predictable and would leave her to avoid the pain, but in him, she could certainly trust.
Fighting alongside Spectra was much better now on Oruxon, as Jason didn't feel the need to justify himself in combat for wanting to go with her, and she didn't feel the need to behave a certain way around him, she just behaved as herself. April fought against Anita Blyth- Spectra's sister who had become one of the Dreadlords, and Spectra tried to make sure that neither of them killed one another. Anita verbally abused April in combat, shattering alot of her confidence and breaking her spirit. It was only through Jason that she was able to rise above and defeat Anita. Jason insisted that they keep Anita merely incapacitated, as even though she was an insane Dreadlord, she was still his sister. April agreed, not wanting to take her life, but as a result of the experience Solis would build up a great stigma around Anita for the verbal abuse she suffered from her.
Unfortunately, Turok Nar 'Mdragath beat the T.O.R leader Thora 'Marumee in combat when he defeated the Dreadlord Bardas 'Vorkam and acquired the Dread Stone of Nightmares. Thora was almost destroyed. Turok defeating the Supreme Commander ripped hope across the galaxy apart, especially that the Desticrons were currently also initiating the Sacking of Earth and Invasion of Sangheilios, this combined with Turok's new power, brought the Orion Arm to their knees, and so the Reign of Turok began.
Buried underneath rubble, Thora's spirit had been broken, he was no longer a leader in his own eyes.
April, Spectra and Burmo returned to Earth, but it was in vain when they realised the Sacking of Earth was taking place, and they had to escape, the trio took the high road out of New York, fleeing to California. However, under the orders of the Desticron Empire, the UEG's Directive 7, which had been the Human's agency dealing with aliens ever since the 1900s, and had after the Covenant's reveal fallen out of significance, was ordered to be on the hunt for Trident of Revelation members.
Returning to an abandoned base, the three managed to hide from the Desticrons, but after Barric 'Kaidom found them out, Directive 7 agents were soon descending on the base. 'Burubee, to protect his friends, had to reveal himself to save Spectra and April and allow them time to get out. Harpooned and frozen by Directive 7 agent under the command of Agent Sergio Solomons, he was captured by the organisation. April wanted to go and save 'Burubee, but Jason convinced her not to, knowing that it would result in their capture too.
Taken to D7's base at Hoover Dam, 'Burubee was continually doused with cryoblasts to keep him obedient in prison for weeks. Spectra and April took a Pelican off of Earth and tried to devise a plan. April told Spectra that the first step to defeating the Desticrons was to find the rest of the Tridents, who they presumed were around Oruxon. Spectra disagreed, and felt that it was best to find Thora 'Marumee first, but April reasoned that the Tridents must have already found him. On their way back to Oruxon, they met with the Unbroken Mercanaries, a group of ex-T.O.R soldiers who still had the galaxy's best interests at heart. The two climbed aboard their ship and their leader, Bobby Samson revealed that Thora 'Marumee was on their medical bed, and had lost all hope in himself. April asked Thora why he felt this way, and the Supreme Commander stated that he had failed to protect the people of the galaxy from Turok's reign, and that he was not worthy of being called the hero. April remembered how her father never gave up on her despite her mother's death, and she explained to 'Marumee that all hope was not lost. She made him feel slightly better, but he proclaimed that if there was any hope left, it was lost on him.
Burmo's torment by Directive Seven continued, until Spectra, April and the Unbroken Mercenaries, (using alot of armed persuasion from AK-54) convinced D7 to let him go. Upon his release, Burmo almost immediately lashed out at his oppressors until April and Spectra calmed him down, informing him of the presence of the Progenitor, which D7 had been trying to keep away from Turok.
Taking the Progenitor after the Desticrons arrived and subsequently began their attack, the group headed back to their ship to see Thora 'Marumee, though he was safe, he was still an unwell leader, they tried to encourage him to fight again. Thora felt that all hope was lost, but Spectra and April showed him the Progenitor, and gave him a little spark of it's divine power. This spark rejuvenated 'Marumee, and the Trident leader was ready to fight again.
April pointed out that the ship needed some intense modifications to take on the Desticron Fleet, especially at the Ark where they would be, so she went to work with Unbroken's resident mechanic Sabine Capri, who shared her explosive personality with April. Soon after they arrived on the Ark to reveal the now rejuvenated leader and the Progenitor, the Trident forces there were more than happy to see their leader return, the Desticrons descended in force, with a missile attack from Starnam breaking 'Burubee's legs. April and Spectra drove Burmo inside of a Troop Warthog to a nearby T.O.R area in an attempt to get the young Sangheili to safety. April demonstrated her skills in driving nearly every damn gear as Desticron reinforcements attacked the Warthog relentlessly. April arrived at the area, and told Jason to go and get Burmo to safety.
Burmo was picked up by medics and taken to receive treatment, while Spectra, with the cube, told April that he couldn't stay around her anymore, because the Desticrons were after him and he couldn't let her be killed by Turok for the cube. Before he left to go and bring it to the Citadel however, April caught him and told Blyth that whatever happens now, she wanted him to know that she was very glad she got in the car with him after that party.
Spectra went off to scale a mountain in an attempt to get to the Citadel. Turok followed. Meanwhile, April regrouped with T.O.R forces and fought hard against the Desticrons. During the battle, she cited to herself that if she made it through this, she'd be able to see her father again and it gave her the courage to continue on. Turok attacked Spectra and nearly killed him on the mountain, but Thora saved his life. Thora made his charge to the Ark Citadel as Turok retreated there, where he was to defeat his foe once and for all. 'Marumee told Spectra that he wasn't going to risk letting the cube fall into Turok's hands just so he could try and use it to kill the Emperor, but Spectra insisted and reminded 'Marumee of how he had failed to defeat 'Mdragath on Oruxon. April met back up with the two as they made the choice, and she encouraged 'Marumee by stating that Jason had to be right, and that it was a risk worth taking. Thora reluctantly agreed, and he and Jason charged together towards the Citadel.
April continued her fight on the ground, where she held the line alongside the rest of Team Salvation and her fellow Tridents, trying to both stop Desticrons from forcing them out of their position and trying to move closer up to help out Thora and Jason.
After the fight between Turok and Thora had ended up in Turok dominating him, Spectra saw no alternative to defeating Turok other than with the Progenitor, and against 'Marumee's better judgement of plunging the cube into his chest to destroy it with him and stop Turok from getting it, Spectra plunged it into 'Mdragath's, forcing Thora to help as the Progenitor's raw power flowed through Turok. April heard the maniacal laughing Turok made as he felt the infinite multitudes of divine, cosmic power the boy had just given him. She worried that the plan had failed and forced her way into the Citadel to find out. Turok was attacking the two in there, and April had to intervene in order to help them survive. Despite the fact Turok was dealing with the power well initially, it backfired on him as the power was too much, and all it took was Thora 'Marumee plunging his energy sword into Turok's chest to make the Progenitor destroy itself whilst inside of Turok, and thus rip apart 'Mdragath. Turok overloaded with the power and died right there, falling to the ground.
Following the battle, Jason asked April if she really was happy about getting in the car with him all those years ago. April reassured Jason that even after all of that chaos and war and strife, that she was indeed still glad she got in the car with him. Burmo 'Burubee thanked his friends for getting him to safety, and vowed to be their guardians on Earth as the Desticrons were overthrown.
April and Jason of course, lived on Garos, and Garos was a planet destroyed by the Covenant. Thankfully, they learned from the government that their families had survived and were both living close to one another on Earth. Jason and April returned to see them again for the first time since they were 16 year olds. April felt Bart Solis's warm hug after over seven years, and her father vowed that he was never going to let her little girl go ever again.
The next day, Bart unveiled the car April built a long time ago, and told her that he had kept it the way it was, only moving it from Garos before it's fall and never touching it after that. Bart told her that he was still doing the same job, but he wasn't stealing cars anymore. Bart lamented that April's car wasn't the fastest of its kind anymore, but she reassured her father, telling him that they were going to build one far better than that one. April and her dad hugged again as they made their plans to build a new car.
Days later, Jason and April met up at a diner, and Jason drove her from there with the exact same 70s Beater that his father managed to save from Garos. He gave April flowers, and underneath the flowers was a book on astronomy, telling her that he remembered her saying that she liked looking up at the stars. He drove her to the top of a mountain where they laid on top of the car together. Jason tried pointing out constellations to April, but she just ignored them and kissed him.
The two started dating after that night, officially, now that they were off duty from military service, and had finally been reuinited with the families, with Burmo 'Burubee as their respective guardian, the two now live very happy lives. April is building her new car, Jason is seeking out college, and the galaxy, for now at least, is safe.
So after all of that, what could possibly go wrong?
Quotes:
"We come into this world alone and we leave the same way. The time we spent in between - time spent alive, sharing, learning together... is all that makes life worth living. I got a second chance as a Disciple, but I don't think I'll get a third, so it's best that we all do our best to follow our dreams, even if it sounds cringey."
"No matter what happens, I'm really glad I got in that car with you."- To Jason Blyth
"Come'on Jason, it's a brave new world, and it's waiting out there, just for us!"
April: "I bet you that you can't make 5,000 credits faster than I can. The Gambler: "Well you're on little missy." April: "Get ready to lose that title of yours...Peter." Spectra: "April, you just made a bet with The Gambler, the most brilliant con man in the whole galaxy?" The Gambler, cutting in: "Why yes she did!"
"Wipe away your tears, will you let your scars define you?"
"Close your eyes, forget what you see. What do you feel?"
Ares: *Cleaning his knives* "As much as I like the kid, I don't think we have the time to save him. General Marshbank's orders were clear, deliver the payload to the Scarab walkers before they reach the city. I'm not just gonna abandon that objec-" April: *Challenges Ares by standing up to him and raising her tone* "Then go Ares! You do it! Nobody's stopping you. We want to go and get our friend.....my friend."
(Thank goodness, I've really been wanting to revision April here for a while now and I've finally gotten around to it. Anyway, as always April here belongs to myself, demonslayer1209 and Reborn Eir, two of my greatest friends that I've ever had.)
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How did she get from her childhood and life in the UNSC to a job in the AHE and before the Halo event?
Oh, wait, you said she was reincarnated at a later date. Sorry, it's just a little hard for me to follow with all of the interconnecting plotlines and character interactions that you have with all your other OCs.
A few questions if that's alright:
1.) How long did the AHE and San Shyuum Empire last in the 2nd Dark Wars?
2.) How much of their defeat was caused by factions other than the Forerunners (ie: Promethean splinter group, Dark Alchemists, Flood)?
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I really wish comment edits were notified of but I'll be happy to answer
(And yeah, I really have to get to work on fixing up this interconnecting plot gibberish)
1. Well the 2nd Dark Wars is my way of fusing together the Forerunner-Ancient Human/San'Shyuum war and the Forerunner-Flood War together whilst grounding it all into my expanded universe as the longest conflict in galactic history, but of course for that I have to figure out how old some species like Ancient Humans and basically anything that isn't a Forerunner would be able to live for in order to help with my plots and things, because I can either make it a few hundred years long or I have to keep it at it's original lore length. The AHE and SSE all lasted throughout the war however, so I guess that's what I can say about it.
2. Well the thing with the 2nd Dark Wars is that for the 'big four'- Ecumene, AHE, San Shyuum and Sangheili Commonwealth the war started to become less about the Mantle of Responsibility and more about survival and total destruction, the war started as the response of the other factions in the formerly utopian galaxy to the Ecumene basically assuming the Mantle as their own and putting themselves in a superpower like status, the Mantle would be treat democratically for all concerned factions for any decisions but for the most part the Forerunners had the deciding vote until one day it was discovered how the Ecumene betrayed the Precursors for the Mantle, their corruption exposed, the galaxy regressed into war.
However, as the Dark Alchemists were so powerful and indiscriminatory of species and personality, only the will to become infused with dark power and topple over the powers that be drove them, in addition to the Flood's return, the Promethean Splinter group popping up, fighting on so many fronts over one bad decision the Forerunners made started to seem tired, so the big four as I call them all joined together in a coalition to finally end this, unfortunately, they'd be too late because these new factions were just too powerful and the Forerunner Ecumene population, which would be the most powerful of the lot normally, was really just waning.
So to answer the question, the other factions defeated everyone to the point where the only thing that stopped the war just being between the Flood and the Alchemists was Halo, and when the Forerunners activated it, there would have been absolutely no winners in that.
I'm going to try this summer to rewrite this very contradictory and seemingly everchanging event in my lore into one, centralised version, but for now I guess I'm just throwing blips of it into characters it concerns.
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Ok, so correct me if I'm wrong, but the war started because of a "Precursorgate" scandal and everyone knowing that the Forerunners killed them, and all of the notable powers in the galaxy going “What the fuck bro, why you needed to do that?” and calling for violent justice, especially after the Forerunners sort of took over all the positions of power and elevated themselves up over the others?
So the AHE and SSE got mad at the Forerunners, who retaliated to keep their own power and supremacy, and the Commonwealth were also caught up for their own reasons, and both sides started to get desperate and arms races happened and then the Flood arrived and fucked up the scales while the Dark Alchemists were doing what they do relatively freely since the Big Four were too busy fighting each other?
So the Alchemists only became a problem once the Big Four realized just how much they managed to get done and build up power while they were busy depleting each other, right?
And given the result of the war, Dark Alchemy provides no resistance against the pulse wave of a Halo event, right?
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I love the 'Precursorgate' scandal lol
Yeah you've basically hit the nail there, I wanted to give the galaxy an era where it was totally utopian and a near-perfect golden age, characterised by Maethrillian as the sort of 'galactic capital'. This utopian society is what alot of my bigger villains- Turok, Taniox, and several others are constantly on a mission to restore, all by their own methods. Which I find is quite interesting when the utopian society was still corrupted by the Ecumene, and yet said villains and pretty much everyone in the modern galaxy are told that this era was perfect, and yet if those villains were to restore it, they'd probably be just as corrupt or problematic in their pursuit of it.
I'd say the Dark Alchemists were a very large problem for the majority of the war, but it grew vastly out of proportions before the big four realised how much the war had changed- sadly, too late.
Dark Alchemy works very similarly to the dark side of the force in terms of what powers you can get and how powerful you can be with it, so I would say certain alchemists could protect themselves from the Halo event, but for the most part, they would all die. However, this little thing is resolved through the Alchemist capital- Dorkmund Ravaas being a shield world (not Ecumene design, but alchemist design) and so the population of the alchemist empire is preserved from the Halo Array, which is how they eventually end up becoming the Dromund Empire which is a major player in the modern galaxy, which I must admit I have kind of neglected as of recent and would like to get back into soon so I can clear up anything that would be contradictory to what it is in my canon now.
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Oh I see why you may have made that mistake, well I tend to describe the current incarnation of the character in the personality part before just moving on to their backstory. I should probably make the backstory a separate entity instead of just dumping it alongside personality lol
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The AHE stuff happens before that, then she's reincarnated in the 26th century
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