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Since most of you know of Agent Illinois but most of you don't know about his background, and because I decided to do this as a late New Years Day present, I'm sending out Illinois's 'declassified' profile. Also, according to the lore that I'm implicating right now, this profile is still not very well known to most people in the Halo universe. Only Illinois knows all of this information and, by making this, he is creating his own personnel profile and sharing it among his friends. Note: A lot of the information and events that are being revealed are not yet depicted on DeviantART yet but this will help show how he ties in to Halo as well as reveal ideas as to what I will most likely do in the future.

Everything that I have made here had been made in the hopes of everyone being able to see what I am, since Illinois's personality is largely based off of me. I will also be making a huge use of the number 7, which is my lucky number, and will appear all over this bio. There will also be multiples of the same number such as 14, 21, 28, etc., so keep an eye out for those. However, do not be fooled by all of this information, for a good amount of it is completely made up. You must remember that, although I am truthful most of the time, I am also creative and will not hesitate to make my character as 'interesting', if that's the right word, as possible.~Oh, this is also modeled after Noble's character bio, with a few minor changes that I deem important. Here's to her

Name: Alexander 'Alex' James Sicarius
Designated AI Unit: None, Unknown

Spartan Number: 217

Freelancer Tag: Alpha-Seven-Seven

Aliases/Nicknames: Agent Illinois, Illinois, Dark Angel, The First Headhunter, Angel of Destruction

Affiliations: Current - None

Previously - Project Freelancer

Initially - UNSC

Allies: Noble, Blue/Missouri, Green, Ghost, California, Storm, Captain Thomas Lasky, Commander Sarah Palmer, North Dakota, Texas, Jun, Omega, Rokan, Chatterbox, and several other Spartans, Freelancers, and Sangheili

Known Relatives: ONI Agent David Sicarius (father - deceased), Insurrectionist Spy Angela Raynor (mother - deceased)

Known Armor Enhancements: All-around combination of Sprint, Evade, Armor Lock, Active Camouflage, Advanced Hologram, Jetpack, Internal Healing Unit, External Healing Unit, and Drop Shield, Advanced-Forerunner Hacking Software, Advanced Motion Detector, Promethean Vision, Dual Forerunner Omni-Tools/Omni-Blades

Freelancer Generation: Second

Preferred Weapons: Sniper Rifle, Shotgun, DMR, Energy Sword, Combat Knife, although specialized to a certain degree with every weapon

Biological Age: 57

Real Age: 47

Birthdate: August 21, 2510

Birthplace: Inner Colonies, Reach

Height: 6’7” without armor, 7’1” with armor

Weight: 275 lbs without armor, 355 lbs with armor

Hair color: Dark brown, easily mistaken as black

Eye color: Before Augmentations – Steel-Gray

After Initial Augmentations – Tan

After Freelancer Augmentations - Wooden-Brown

While in Overcharge Mode – Glowing Amber

Facial Features: No scars present due to combinations of luck, skill, and Forerunner technology; short hair; no facial hair

Skin color: A shade slightly darker than Caucasian

On December 17, 2509, ONI Agent David Sicarius was married to Insurrectionist Spy Angela Raynor, both of which were fully aware of each other's secrets. In recent months they had met, bonded, and eventually formed a relationship. Just before marriage both decided to split their ties with their former employers in the hope of keeping out of all conflict between the warring factions and live normal lives. The resulting break in intelligence-gathering protocol led to both sides seeking out the pair, fearful of the secrets they might reveal.

On August 21, 2510 Insurrectionist Spy Angela Raynor gave birth to a baby boy and aptly named him Alexander after Alexander the Great, a legendary Macedonian leader of ancient Terran history. The newly acquired family had just recently moved to Reach and were settling down in a remote area in outer New Alexandria.

Throughout the course of the next several years, the family lived out seemingly normal lives, hoping to avoid any involvement in UNSC, ONI, or Insurrectionist activities. Though not much is given on the specifics of his early life, it was believed that Alex had been raised by loving, protective parents. However, his childhood was cut short when his parents were murdered by ONI agents whose sole purpose was to eliminate them. His house was eventually burned to the ground with Alex barely escaping with his life. From that point on, until roughly 2515, he lived a rather rough life in the slums of lower New Alexandria, finding only comfort in perhaps the one friend he had ever known as a child, a girl by the name of Marie. Only a year younger than him, she had opted to stay and help him, eventually making the offer to allow Alex to live in her home. He accepted and the two lived together until Marie's supposed kidnapping for the SPARTAN-II Program and replacement with a clone. Although her parents were still under the impression that the clone was indeed their daughter, Alex was not so easily convinced. Upset and outraged at the loss of Marie and his parents, he left the premises and continued to live a gruff and brutal life.

At some point during the year 2517, Alex was stumbled upon by a young Colonel James Ackerson. Though only a brief encounter at first, Ackerson soon peaked an interest in Alex and began to observe him, watching his survival techniques, his infiltration methods, and slum-based brawling styles. Incredibly surprised at the boy's premature abilities, Ackerson eventually contacted ONI to propose a secondary Spartan-II Program. Showing Alex's statistics and his sharing his opinions, ONI gave him the green light. It was here that Ackerson offered, instead of forced, Alex to join a very early version of the SPARTAN-III Program, code-named Project Hidden Deathblow, nearly identical in almost every aspect to Doctor Halsey's SPARTAN-II Program. Feeling that he had nothing left to lose, and being curious as he was, he accepted the offer. For the next several years he and a select number of individuals worked together in a series of harsh military training exercises and regimes.

By 2518 he had completed most forms of training, excelling at close quarters combat, speed-based attack procedures, and mastered the use of almost all firearms used in the current age, becoming especially fond of the Sniper Rifle. By age 13 he had enhanced his ranged marksmanship to the point of being number one sniper in the program, surpassing the precision of Spartan-IIs and IIIs, as well as mastering solo-based combat, evident because of his ability to take on an entire squad of armed UNSC ODSTs with bare fists alone. At age 12 he had been one of the first recruits to receive Spartan augmentations as well as survive such life-threatening changes, only sharpening his senses and increasing his speed, reflexes, and strength further. His ability to withstand such punishment and endure had shown promise with ONI and he was eventually paired up with another Spartan-III by the name of Allison. From there they had formed the first Spartan kill-team. Because of his remarkable success with his newly-created partnership, Alex was allowed to name the type of team they were. He chose the name 'Headhunters' due to their particular usefulness in hunting down specific targets.

By 2525 the Human-Covenant War had begun. In the open phases of the war he, along with his partner Allison, were sent on a series of strategic strikes in an attempt to halt the Covenant advance. Their missions proved highly successful and, due to their success, they had gained a reputation from friend and foe alike. They took on tasks that most people, Spartans included, found impossible to achieve. Yet he and Allison aspired, continually halting the alien threat when then could, where their blows could deal the greatest damage. As the fighting continued, Alex eventually formed a strong bond with Allison, unofficial yet near-identical to that of a married couple. They even wanted to eventually stop fighting, to leave the program and live normal lives, but the war was costing humanity too much and ONI would not permit it. So they pressed on, seeking a distant, out of reach light at the end of the dark tunnel that was humanity's struggle for survival. They continued to endure, finding new pieces of armor and equipment in which to survive in the constantly changing fields of war, including a MJOLNIR Mark VI prototype in which Alex gleefully took.

Around 2532, in one of their later missions they had come across yet another Headhunter pair, this time seeking to protect a group of younger, more modern Spartan-IIIs. It was here that he came across yet another of his friends, a man by the name of Cain Erabius. His partner had been killed off only several minutes before the Headhunters had arrived and, because of it, the pair immediately accepted him into the group. For several hours the Headhunters assisted the other Spartan-IIIs, ensuring their survival and taking down as many Covenant pursuers as possible. Despite their furious strikes and strategic prowess, the three Headhunters were unable to prevent the loss of most of the younger, less-experienced Spartans. Little by little, the group was whittled down from a strenuous 113 members, being taken two or three at a time, until only one remained accounted for: Jun-A266. Upon extracting Jun from the planet, he made a request to join the Headhunters and learn from them, their training, their teamwork, their survival capabilities, to become as good as them. The initial Spartan-III Program didn't come with the sort of training and expertise that the Headhunters had pulled off and, because of that, it just made him want to be like them more. After a debate with his teammates, Alex eventually submitted to their wishes and let Jun join. From then on, for the next several years, the group worked together as a team, training together, living together, and fighting together.

Soon enough that would all begin to change. One day they stumbled across an old abandoned series of Forerunner structures on some distant, uncharted world seemingly untouched by the UNSC and Covenant. Curious at the unfamiliarity of the area, the team proceeded into the structures. For the first several hours the team searched, recording everything that they had found, including a small detachment of inactive defense A.I., destroyed from the slow decay of time and the elements. But then everything changed when Cain eventually fell into a trap, a trap that would lead him to discover an old, vengeful Precursor whose one goal for as long as he could remember was to bring humanity, the Forerunners, and everyone else that stood in their way to their knees and help the Precursors ascend back to their former glory, even though he knew little of the fact that practically all had vanished in the last several millenia. Using old transformation techniques later adopted by the Forerunners, the Precursor transferred most, if not all, of his memory into Cain. Once the transfer was complete, he showed the Headhunter the way out of the facility and eventually reunited with his teammates. However, from that day on, Cain began to change as well, the presence of the Precursor's memories slowly corrupting him from within...

At around 2537, when the Covenant's advance had scourged it's way across a great deal of human-controlled space, Jun, seemingly fit for combat elsewhere, split apart from the rest of the team, eventually meaning to be reassigned to Alpha Company once more for a small number of engagements, link up and serve aboard the early UNSC Infinity which, at the time, was nothing more than the UNSC's largest transport, and eventually become part of Noble Team on Reach. Before his departure, Alex handed him a sniper rifle and a combat knife, both etched with the a target reticle with a skull in the middle, a symbol of the Headhunters and their team, as well as the words 'Never Forget'. Jun took them both with great care, ensuring that he would remember the bonds of brotherhood that they had formed over the years. Unbeknownst to either of them at the time, the knife and sniper rifle would eventually be passed down to a young Catherine Stryker, who would eventually be known as Spartan-323 and would, after that, eventually bear the title Agent Noble...

Despite the loss of their teammate, the Spartans pressed on and continued their role in the war, bringing down Covenant wherever they could and ensuring that they paid full price for every inch of human territory lost. But even they could not stop the enemy's advance entirely and humanity was still being pushed back. Worlds burned, lives were lost, and blood was shed. And it would continue on...

...that was until the war ended. On February 2553, Lord Hood had signed a truce with the remaining Covenant factions and ordered a cease-fire with all remaining UNSC forces, including the Headhunter team. With no more fighting to do, the team was to return home and be debriefed after years of conflict. But their work was not done yet, not quite. Before their departure back to the nearest UNSC outpost the Headhunter team came under attack from a faction of Sangheili still under the misguided belief that the Prophets would led them on the Great Journey. The team fought against them for a straggling 7 days, holding out with every last ounce of strength they could muster. But it was too much for even the valiant Headhunters. Soon they were pushed back into a corner, preparing for the inevitable slaughter that awaited them. Before the final blow could be dealt to any of the team, however, a mysterious steel-clad group of Covenant surprise-attacked the Elites holding the Spartans hostage. They worked their way through the zealous unit and eventually freed the humans. Their leader, Rokan Zahamee, personally freed the humans, ensuring them that he and those under his command would not kill them. Wary at first, the team assisted the Covenant assault force and successfully cleared the area. With the battle finally over, Rokan approached them yet again, coming to explain himself and his group, know only as the Shadow Lance. Alex himself had a personal conversation with the commander, distrustful of the Elite at first. After a lasting goodbye, the two groups split, the Shadow Lance disappearing into the shadows and the Headhunters returning to their intended course. The encounter they had would not have been the last, for over the coming years the teams would meet time and again, assist each other, and their leaders, Alex and Rokan, would eventually become friends.

By 2556 the team had been called back into service with the UNSC, this time as a detachment aboard the UNSC Infinity, now humanity's finest accomplishment in technological and military achievement to date, with one goal in mind: return to the Forerunner Shield-World known as Requiem, continue to disrupt Storm Covenant operations on the planet, and learn as much as they can about the Forerunners. In almost no time at all, the team got their first taste of combat with the Prometheans. Although the Headhunters had been surprised by the initial grit and technological advantages of the Forerunner A.I.s, the team quickly countered back and forced the disruption of the brutally efficient machines. The Prometheans proved to be almost no matched for the highly experienced and adaptive Spartans. Alex himself accounted for a striking 207 Crawlers, 75 Watchers, and 87 Knights, 21 of which were Battlewagons.

It was in this moment that he was approached by a man simply known as 'the Director', effective overall leader of the still young but highly potential Project Freelancer. He had noticed Alex's adaptability in the fight against the Prometheans, despite never having encountered them before, and offered him a place in his special project. He told the Headhunter that he had seen his actions in previous years, knowing that he "could turn him into so much more, make him better than he already was." Wary at first because of the awareness of the type of deal this 'Director' was proposing, he asked if there was a catch of sorts. The man simply said: "Nothing beyond what you haven't already experienced. You will get a new name, new equipment, new team." Disdained by the 'new team' at first, the Director ensured him that he would get to see his old team again but that this new new experience would "give him a chance to meet others just like him". Because he had heard of the project before and, because of his extremely peaked curiosity, Alex accepted the offer.

Just barely a week after the proposition, Alex gave his goodbyes to Cain and Allison, promising them that he would get a chance to see them again, especially Allison. Their love for each other had never shined brighter. With a hard, lasting sigh, Alex left the Infinity, taking a Pelican over to the smaller, more maneuverable Mother of Invention, ready to tackle whatever challenge awaited him. Soon after that Alex received his Freelancer augmentations. Despite what the Director said about the harshness of the augmentations, that they had a much higher probability of killing him, he took them in with little ill effect. He seemed to shrug off any and all physical pain, unshaken from near-death procedure. In almost no time at all, he was ready for the program. Along with his new and even more improved augmentations, in which it had changed his eye color was darkened to a brown that resembled bark on wood, he took with him a new name, one that rang hollow at first but would soon grow in reputation. He was now Agent Illinois. In that same moment he had been given the option to choose an A.I. companion to help assist him with his armor. Because of his expertise function without an A.I. in the many years before Project Freelancer as well as out of disdain for such computer-based entities, Illinois refused the offer. With new time on his hands, whenever not working with the Director or spending a frequent amount of time alone on the training floor, he was often seen getting to know a few of the Freelancers and giving them advice based on his own experiences, mainly involving the prominent leader, California; the assassin, Ghost; the weapon, Tex; the muscle, Maine; the sniper, North Dakota; and most of all, the secret, Noble.

Out of all the Freelancers he had possibly been with, Noble had shown the most promise, and so for some time he shared with her a variety of skills and tricks behind surviving on the field of battle as well as any long term engagements some people might get themselves into. Soon enough he had revealed to her his greatest secret: the fact that he was, in fact, Spartan-217, the First Headhunter. During that time, although not widely known to the public, Spartan-217 had become a legend among the Spartan-IIIs, a living embodiment of the possible achievement a III could accomplish. It may have been in that moment, or maybe it was before that, that Noble had started developing a crush for the Spartan turned Freelancer. Although Illinois did not know it at first, he began to suspect Noble's hidden likeness for him. Still, he paid little to no mind to that suspicion. Instead, for a while, he welcomed it because the young Freelancer actually reminded him of his other lover, Allison. And even when her relationship with California became much more apparent, when they began to hang out with each other much more often than before, both Noble and Illinois were entirely aware of each other's feelings, secret but not yet died away.

In 2558 with the development of Noble's new side, Wrath, Illinois began to eye the Project with grave suspicion, particularly with the Director. Fearing for Noble's sake, as well as the sake of every other Freelancer she had ever known, Illinois began to manually hack into the Project's database, first looking through the basic archives but eventually inching his way into the Project's deeper, darker secrets. It was here that he found that the Director instigated Wrath. Furious at the Director's tampering with Noble's psych, Illinois stormed off to find him. When he found him he confronted the Director, displaying his displeasure with the leader's actions. The Director, calmly and smoothly, simply replied by say that "there's nothing that can be done now. The only one who can stop Wrath now is Noble." Aghast and horrified at the statement, he asked the Director if there could possibly be another way to remove Noble's darker side. The Director told him there wasn't. In an angry, yet subtle, gesture, Illinois left the Project for some time, seeking out a form of solace, a way to clear his mind from sins and dark deeds of mankind, particularly the Director's. Soon enough he found it.

Later that same year, while exploring Forerunner ruins on yet another distant world, he came across a barely-functioning teleporter, run down and soon to die. With his sense of curiosity taking control yet again, Illinois passed through the teleporter. In the span of half a second, the Freelancer had traveled light years away from his point of origin, from humanity, from society in general. He arrived in the middle of a massive Forerunner complex, secretly hidden within an asteroid belt orbiting a blue sun that was part of some unexplored part of the galaxy. It was here that he found the facility's caretaker, an A.I. by the name of 847 Benevolent Guardian. Alarmed at the presence of the A.I. at first, Illinois attempted to retreat back through the teleporter from whence he came. However, to his surprise, the teleporter had deactivated, now completely out of power. With nothing to do but be with the Forerunner machine, Illinois followed him around. He learned much about the A.I., the facility, the Forerunners that had built it in the first place. The facility's origins dated back the era of the Forerunner-Flood War. Built as a top-priority research station, it held some of the most advanced Forerunner technology to date. With an unique talent for technological upgrades, particularly with his armor, the Freelancer soon began to toy with the technology. It was then that he developed the Omni-Ability, a combination of practically every known armor ability compatible with Spartan armor. Along with this technology he developed a pair of Promethean Omni-Blades/Omni-Tools, augmented himself with more of the Forerunner tech, and eventually developed a personal teleporter. With it he traveled all across the galaxy, mainly sticking with human-controlled colonies and friendly alien planets.

By 2559, after his grand discovery of the Forerunner facility, Illinois eventually returned to the Mother of Invention and back into Project Freelancer. The Director, interested in wanting to know where Illinois went, allowed him to rejoin the Project, adding him back into the leaderboard. From that point on Illinois ran time and time again into his Freelancer comrades, sharing with them the memories they had, but not revealing what truly happened to him while he was away. He ran into California again, met Ghost and his brother Orion once more, and, finally, had a reunion with Noble. Much, and little at the same time, had changed between the two of them. Noble's feeling for California were now quite visible, yet the memories Noble and Illinois shared still ran deep. It was hard to forget. Yet, when he returned to the Mother of Invention, Noble had progressed farther than he expected, to his pleasant surprise. Now that she had progressed, it had become time to challenge her abilities. For the next several years, up until 2563, they would fight, train, remember, and improve upon each other's skills, observations, and mistakes. Throughout that time the two Freelancers would progress far up the Project's leaderboard, always neck-to-neck, always competing to the best of their abilities. Every once in a while their ranks would change, Illinois taking the lead one time, Noble taking it another. But it was always close. Of course, Noble did get help from other Freelancers, mostly Ghost and Maine in the art of assassination and hand-to-hand combat, she always did. Illinois was already proficient in both fields, though not a true perfectionist in Ghost's area. Illinois preference to evade enemy contact, to whittle them down with quick, lightning-fast strikes, was his key to success. Only if the need or challenge arose would Illinois attempt to work in that field.

There were times when their training would get held back, when other interfering events arose. For Noble, it was because of her assassin mentor as well as one of his better friends, Agent Ghost, his corruption and eventual release of a Precursor A.I. chip, the encounter with Toram Soramee, and distant relationship between her and California. For Illinois, it was the Director's constant harassment over his newly-found armor enhancements. Yet still they met from time to time, working at each other in simulation chambers, practicing their marksmanship, and competing with each other in a furious yet friendly manner.

At around 2563, Illinois was asked to depart from Project Freelancer by ONI officials and make his way back to his old Headhunter team. In an attempt to escape the Director and his greedy, selfish ideals, Illinois accepted, heading for the nearest UNSC outpost. His friends, California, Ghost, Iceland, Maine, North Dakota, and Noble all came to say goodbye to him that day, wishing him luck and betting on his return to the Project in due time. Out of all the Freelancers, Illinois had the hardest time saying goodbye to Noble, for they had grown fond of each other over the last several years. Just before he left he told her he revealed to her why he was going: to see his friend Cain and his long-lost old girlfriend Allison. At first Noble was shocked that Illinois was with someone else, that he had a girlfriend. But Illinois soon cleared up the confusion, stating that she had "been his friend for as long as he could remember" and that the only two reasons he returned to Project Freelancer were because he didn't have the slightest clue where his old team was and because Noble reminded him of Allison. With a look of regret, Illinois turned to enter the Pelican, saying that he would come back when it was all over.

His destination was the remote, yet highly populated human world of Vindictus IV, a fair distance away from the Mother's last location. When he arrived there he was greeted with the hail of combat, the sounds of war ravaging all across the planet. In a desperate attempt to escape brutal annihilation from the world's anti-air guns, Illinois jumped from the Pelican he was on and landed in the outskirts of Vindictus's capital, Earthbound. With coordinates of his team's last location, he made haste towards it. While meeting UNSC rally points, driving in and out of the planet's highways, and occasionally finding the remains of firefights, he began to gather information of the forces assailing the planet. There was little to work with. From what he could tell, the attacking army consisted of between several hundred thousand and a few million combatants, their main goal was unclear at first, although it looked like all they were doing was destroying everything around them, and their leader was not yet clearly identified. After several hours of swift, evasive travel he finally found his team. They were stuck, pinned down by hostile forces. With surprising efficiency, Illinois assaulted and killed the mysterious enemies. When the battle was over, he approached his teammates, happy as can be. Allison welcomed him back with open arms, claiming to have missed him all those years, while Cain regarded him with cool acknowledgement. They sat down at talked, catching up on what happened in the last several years. Cain told him of the missions and adventures they went on while he was away, Allison talked about how much they've all changed, how much she missed him, noting Illinois for his accomplishments, and Illinois talked about what he'd done in the Project, telling them of the friends he made, the jobs he did, the training he acquired, and how much he missed them, especially Allison. They stopped and talked for a full day, wanting to catch up on events. Illinois even slept with Allison for the first time in seven years, showing his compassion for her. The very next day was met with more conflict, UNSC forces being pushed back, and the Headhunters being called in for assistance. They came and found a large group enemies, going by the name the Dark Apostles.

And then it happened. While in the middle of a massive assault against the Apostles, Allison was, to Illinois's horror, stabbed in the back by Cain. Cain, perhaps his second best friend to date, attacked his girlfriend. In the heat of combat, Illinois turned to his friends, only to find Cain stab Allison in the chest and shoot her several times for good measure. At the very same time the Dark Apostles attacked then, separating him from his girlfriend. However, a darker side of Illinois emerged in that moment. As he saw Cain leave Allison in the dust to be taken by the Apostles, Illinois activated his greatest weapon, Overcharge, the culmination of pure hatred and fury, mixed with a combination of overshield, speed boost, and damage boost. It showed in him, through his eyes, which changed to a glowing amber, through his actions, in which he pushed everything to it's limit, and in his armor, in which it began to crackle as if shrouded by a thundercloud. The only potential downside to using such a weapon was the varying aftereffects, from a slight headache all the way up to a slow and painful death. With Overcharge he attacked the Apostles, not just killing them, but completely destroying them. As the battle drew to a close his Overcharge faded, leaving no ill effects on him. He rushed over to Allison, dying but still alive. Alex held her in his arms, breaking down and attempting to heal her wounds. However, these wounds were far to great for even Forerunner technology to heal, and Allison continued to fade away. With her last breath, Allison said "Alex, I love you..." and died in his arms. Still holding onto her, Illinois lifted his head up and howled in painful agony and sorrow, the loss of his girlfriend too great for him to bear. Setting Allison's body down and burning it, ensuring that no one would desecrate her, Illinois left to find Cain, thinking dark, vengeful thoughts all the while. He found Cain again, this time alone and in the middle of the city. When the two met Illinois just stared at him, his rage barely contained. Cain, on the other hand, looked at him, an evil grin etched across his face. "The man you once knew is dead," stated the thing that was once Cain. "Now there is only me, the darkness. I am the Ascendant." Illinois asked when it happened and the Ascendant explained the events of the first Forerunner ruins they ever came across. He revealed to Illinois that he was, in fact, the leader of the Dark Apostles and would use them to bring humanity and the Covenant to their knees, ensuring the return of the long-gone Precursors. And that was when Illinois struck. With fire and fury, he attacked the once-Headhunter, eventually pulling out an energy sword. Cain did the same and the two fought. After some time Illinois eventually struck Cain down, cutting his right arm almost completely off and slicing him across his EVA helmet. However, in that moment, right when Illinois was about to end his life, he stopped and swore that he would not kill him, that he was better than him. Calmly and quietly, Alex turned and left with Cain crippled and still bleeding.

From that point on, Illinois disappeared from humanity's sights. He secluded himself to the Forerunner complex at first, attempting to clear his mind of grief. Failing to do that, beginning at around 2565, Illinois emerged faintly into society, bringing down those he deemed shameful to the world as a whole, and finding new ways to clear himself. He met and reunited with his distant childhood friend Marie, now know as Green, as well as her husband, a Spartan-II/Freelancer known as Blue. He eventually made contact with Agent Storm, another friend of the Project, got caught up with California and Ghost, and, finally, found Noble, now harassing and destroying the UNSC for their sins and corrupt motives and ideals. Out of all the people he found, it was Noble that took things the hardest, furious and upset at his long-term disappearance. Illinois explained the situation to her, exchanging information with one of his most well-know Freelancer allies. Noble had been having trouble with her life, everything around her being thrown into disarray. With the presence of Illinois once more she could move forward along her intended path. They parted ways, both making silent promises to see each other in the future.

Illinois continued to explore the ever changing world around him, encountering other Spartans, including Wolf-305, Elites such as Uhze Nostrom, and even Titans, including one of Noble's newer boyfriends, Omega. Illinois still seeks some form of peace, traveling from place to place, helping the needed and defeating the evil and corrupt. He is always on the lookout for the Ascendant, wary by the fact that he was still not dead and could come back anytime.

As of the current time, he is rushing to find Noble once more, now aware of her condition with the A.I. fragments and fearing for her life. His feelings for her grow brighter with every passing day, with her being one of the last good things he still has. With qualities and skills of equal measure to him as well as a compatibility not really describable, he moves to find her, hoping to save her life and keep her as his own...

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And it is finally done. I had to make up a lot of this at the top of my head and keep it aligned with Noble's timeline, but in the end it was all worth it.

Now it can finally be uploaded, once and for all. If anyone has any questions or think there is some sort of error, just talk to me. I'm always looking for ways to improve.

Alex/Agent Illinois, Allison, Cain Erabius, David Sicarius, Angela Raynor, Rokan Zahamee, Project Hidden Deathblow, and the Dark Apostles all belong to me, UltraPredator01

Catherine Stryker/Agent Noble belongs to xAgentNoblex

Agent Missouri/Blue and Marie/Green belong to Turbofurby

Agent California belongs to Spartan0214

Agent Ghost belongs to AgentGhost-S111 and Agent Orion belongs to his brother

Agent Iceland belongs to Sangheili1

Agent Storm belongs to CyberJStorm

Omega belongs to 2KEternal7

Wolf belongs to Wolf-S305

Uhze Nostrom belongs to UhzeNostrom117

Agent Tex, Maine, North Dakota, the Director, Project Freelancer, Mother of Invention and all other Red vs Blue references I missed belong to Roosterteeth

All other characters belong to Bungie/343 Industries

Description
Since most of you know of Agent Illinois but most of you don't know about his background, and because I decided to do this as a late New Years Day present, I'm sending out Illinois's 'declassified' profile. Also, according to the lore that I'm implicating right now, this profile is still not very well known to most people in the Halo universe. Only Illinois knows all of this information and, by making this, he is creating his own personnel profile and sharing it among his friends. Note: A lot of the information and events that are being revealed are not yet depicted on DeviantART yet but this will help show how he ties in to Halo as well as reveal ideas as to what I will most likely do in the future.

Everything that I have made here had been made in the hopes of everyone being able to see what I am, since Illinois's personality is largely based off of me. I will also be making a huge use of the number 7, which is my lucky number, and will appear all over this bio. There will also be multiples of the same number such as 14, 21, 28, etc., so keep an eye out for those. However, do not be fooled by all of this information, for a good amount of it is completely made up. You must remember that, although I am truthful most of the time, I am also creative and will not hesitate to make my character as 'interesting', if that's the right word, as possible.~Oh, this is also modeled after Noble's character bio, with a few minor changes that I deem important. Here's to her

Name: Alexander 'Alex' James Sicarius
Designated AI Unit: None, Unknown

Spartan Number: 217

Freelancer Tag: Alpha-Seven-Seven

Aliases/Nicknames: Agent Illinois, Illinois, Dark Angel, The First Headhunter, Angel of Destruction

Affiliations: Current - None

Previously - Project Freelancer

Initially - UNSC

Allies: Noble, Blue/Missouri, Green, Ghost, California, Storm, Captain Thomas Lasky, Commander Sarah Palmer, North Dakota, Texas, Jun, Omega, Rokan, Chatterbox, and several other Spartans, Freelancers, and Sangheili

Known Relatives: ONI Agent David Sicarius (father - deceased), Insurrectionist Spy Angela Raynor (mother - deceased)

Known Armor Enhancements: All-around combination of Sprint, Evade, Armor Lock, Active Camouflage, Advanced Hologram, Jetpack, Internal Healing Unit, External Healing Unit, and Drop Shield, Advanced-Forerunner Hacking Software, Advanced Motion Detector, Promethean Vision, Dual Forerunner Omni-Tools/Omni-Blades

Freelancer Generation: Second

Preferred Weapons: Sniper Rifle, Shotgun, DMR, Energy Sword, Combat Knife, although specialized to a certain degree with every weapon

Biological Age: 57

Real Age: 47

Birthdate: August 21, 2510

Birthplace: Inner Colonies, Reach

Height: 6’7” without armor, 7’1” with armor

Weight: 275 lbs without armor, 355 lbs with armor

Hair color: Dark brown, easily mistaken as black

Eye color: Before Augmentations – Steel-Gray

After Initial Augmentations – Tan

After Freelancer Augmentations - Wooden-Brown

While in Overcharge Mode – Glowing Amber

Facial Features: No scars present due to combinations of luck, skill, and Forerunner technology; short hair; no facial hair

Skin color: A shade slightly darker than Caucasian

On December 17, 2509, ONI Agent David Sicarius was married to Insurrectionist Spy Angela Raynor, both of which were fully aware of each other's secrets. In recent months they had met, bonded, and eventually formed a relationship. Just before marriage both decided to split their ties with their former employers in the hope of keeping out of all conflict between the warring factions and live normal lives. The resulting break in intelligence-gathering protocol led to both sides seeking out the pair, fearful of the secrets they might reveal.

On August 21, 2510 Insurrectionist Spy Angela Raynor gave birth to a baby boy and aptly named him Alexander after Alexander the Great, a legendary Macedonian leader of ancient Terran history. The newly acquired family had just recently moved to Reach and were settling down in a remote area in outer New Alexandria.

Throughout the course of the next several years, the family lived out seemingly normal lives, hoping to avoid any involvement in UNSC, ONI, or Insurrectionist activities. Though not much is given on the specifics of his early life, it was believed that Alex had been raised by loving, protective parents. However, his childhood was cut short when his parents were murdered by ONI agents whose sole purpose was to eliminate them. His house was eventually burned to the ground with Alex barely escaping with his life. From that point on, until roughly 2515, he lived a rather rough life in the slums of lower New Alexandria, finding only comfort in perhaps the one friend he had ever known as a child, a girl by the name of Marie. Only a year younger than him, she had opted to stay and help him, eventually making the offer to allow Alex to live in her home. He accepted and the two lived together until Marie's supposed kidnapping for the SPARTAN-II Program and replacement with a clone. Although her parents were still under the impression that the clone was indeed their daughter, Alex was not so easily convinced. Upset and outraged at the loss of Marie and his parents, he left the premises and continued to live a gruff and brutal life.

At some point during the year 2517, Alex was stumbled upon by a young Colonel James Ackerson. Though only a brief encounter at first, Ackerson soon peaked an interest in Alex and began to observe him, watching his survival techniques, his infiltration methods, and slum-based brawling styles. Incredibly surprised at the boy's premature abilities, Ackerson eventually contacted ONI to propose a secondary Spartan-II Program. Showing Alex's statistics and his sharing his opinions, ONI gave him the green light. It was here that Ackerson offered, instead of forced, Alex to join a very early version of the SPARTAN-III Program, code-named Project Hidden Deathblow, nearly identical in almost every aspect to Doctor Halsey's SPARTAN-II Program. Feeling that he had nothing left to lose, and being curious as he was, he accepted the offer. For the next several years he and a select number of individuals worked together in a series of harsh military training exercises and regimes.

By 2518 he had completed most forms of training, excelling at close quarters combat, speed-based attack procedures, and mastered the use of almost all firearms used in the current age, becoming especially fond of the Sniper Rifle. By age 13 he had enhanced his ranged marksmanship to the point of being number one sniper in the program, surpassing the precision of Spartan-IIs and IIIs, as well as mastering solo-based combat, evident because of his ability to take on an entire squad of armed UNSC ODSTs with bare fists alone. At age 12 he had been one of the first recruits to receive Spartan augmentations as well as survive such life-threatening changes, only sharpening his senses and increasing his speed, reflexes, and strength further. His ability to withstand such punishment and endure had shown promise with ONI and he was eventually paired up with another Spartan-III by the name of Allison. From there they had formed the first Spartan kill-team. Because of his remarkable success with his newly-created partnership, Alex was allowed to name the type of team they were. He chose the name 'Headhunters' due to their particular usefulness in hunting down specific targets.

By 2525 the Human-Covenant War had begun. In the open phases of the war he, along with his partner Allison, were sent on a series of strategic strikes in an attempt to halt the Covenant advance. Their missions proved highly successful and, due to their success, they had gained a reputation from friend and foe alike. They took on tasks that most people, Spartans included, found impossible to achieve. Yet he and Allison aspired, continually halting the alien threat when then could, where their blows could deal the greatest damage. As the fighting continued, Alex eventually formed a strong bond with Allison, unofficial yet near-identical to that of a married couple. They even wanted to eventually stop fighting, to leave the program and live normal lives, but the war was costing humanity too much and ONI would not permit it. So they pressed on, seeking a distant, out of reach light at the end of the dark tunnel that was humanity's struggle for survival. They continued to endure, finding new pieces of armor and equipment in which to survive in the constantly changing fields of war, including a MJOLNIR Mark VI prototype in which Alex gleefully took.

Around 2532, in one of their later missions they had come across yet another Headhunter pair, this time seeking to protect a group of younger, more modern Spartan-IIIs. It was here that he came across yet another of his friends, a man by the name of Cain Erabius. His partner had been killed off only several minutes before the Headhunters had arrived and, because of it, the pair immediately accepted him into the group. For several hours the Headhunters assisted the other Spartan-IIIs, ensuring their survival and taking down as many Covenant pursuers as possible. Despite their furious strikes and strategic prowess, the three Headhunters were unable to prevent the loss of most of the younger, less-experienced Spartans. Little by little, the group was whittled down from a strenuous 113 members, being taken two or three at a time, until only one remained accounted for: Jun-A266. Upon extracting Jun from the planet, he made a request to join the Headhunters and learn from them, their training, their teamwork, their survival capabilities, to become as good as them. The initial Spartan-III Program didn't come with the sort of training and expertise that the Headhunters had pulled off and, because of that, it just made him want to be like them more. After a debate with his teammates, Alex eventually submitted to their wishes and let Jun join. From then on, for the next several years, the group worked together as a team, training together, living together, and fighting together.

Soon enough that would all begin to change. One day they stumbled across an old abandoned series of Forerunner structures on some distant, uncharted world seemingly untouched by the UNSC and Covenant. Curious at the unfamiliarity of the area, the team proceeded into the structures. For the first several hours the team searched, recording everything that they had found, including a small detachment of inactive defense A.I., destroyed from the slow decay of time and the elements. But then everything changed when Cain eventually fell into a trap, a trap that would lead him to discover an old, vengeful Precursor whose one goal for as long as he could remember was to bring humanity, the Forerunners, and everyone else that stood in their way to their knees and help the Precursors ascend back to their former glory, even though he knew little of the fact that practically all had vanished in the last several millenia. Using old transformation techniques later adopted by the Forerunners, the Precursor transferred most, if not all, of his memory into Cain. Once the transfer was complete, he showed the Headhunter the way out of the facility and eventually reunited with his teammates. However, from that day on, Cain began to change as well, the presence of the Precursor's memories slowly corrupting him from within...

At around 2537, when the Covenant's advance had scourged it's way across a great deal of human-controlled space, Jun, seemingly fit for combat elsewhere, split apart from the rest of the team, eventually meaning to be reassigned to Alpha Company once more for a small number of engagements, link up and serve aboard the early UNSC Infinity which, at the time, was nothing more than the UNSC's largest transport, and eventually become part of Noble Team on Reach. Before his departure, Alex handed him a sniper rifle and a combat knife, both etched with the a target reticle with a skull in the middle, a symbol of the Headhunters and their team, as well as the words 'Never Forget'. Jun took them both with great care, ensuring that he would remember the bonds of brotherhood that they had formed over the years. Unbeknownst to either of them at the time, the knife and sniper rifle would eventually be passed down to a young Catherine Stryker, who would eventually be known as Spartan-323 and would, after that, eventually bear the title Agent Noble...

Despite the loss of their teammate, the Spartans pressed on and continued their role in the war, bringing down Covenant wherever they could and ensuring that they paid full price for every inch of human territory lost. But even they could not stop the enemy's advance entirely and humanity was still being pushed back. Worlds burned, lives were lost, and blood was shed. And it would continue on...

...that was until the war ended. On February 2553, Lord Hood had signed a truce with the remaining Covenant factions and ordered a cease-fire with all remaining UNSC forces, including the Headhunter team. With no more fighting to do, the team was to return home and be debriefed after years of conflict. But their work was not done yet, not quite. Before their departure back to the nearest UNSC outpost the Headhunter team came under attack from a faction of Sangheili still under the misguided belief that the Prophets would led them on the Great Journey. The team fought against them for a straggling 7 days, holding out with every last ounce of strength they could muster. But it was too much for even the valiant Headhunters. Soon they were pushed back into a corner, preparing for the inevitable slaughter that awaited them. Before the final blow could be dealt to any of the team, however, a mysterious steel-clad group of Covenant surprise-attacked the Elites holding the Spartans hostage. They worked their way through the zealous unit and eventually freed the humans. Their leader, Rokan Zahamee, personally freed the humans, ensuring them that he and those under his command would not kill them. Wary at first, the team assisted the Covenant assault force and successfully cleared the area. With the battle finally over, Rokan approached them yet again, coming to explain himself and his group, know only as the Shadow Lance. Alex himself had a personal conversation with the commander, distrustful of the Elite at first. After a lasting goodbye, the two groups split, the Shadow Lance disappearing into the shadows and the Headhunters returning to their intended course. The encounter they had would not have been the last, for over the coming years the teams would meet time and again, assist each other, and their leaders, Alex and Rokan, would eventually become friends.

By 2556 the team had been called back into service with the UNSC, this time as a detachment aboard the UNSC Infinity, now humanity's finest accomplishment in technological and military achievement to date, with one goal in mind: return to the Forerunner Shield-World known as Requiem, continue to disrupt Storm Covenant operations on the planet, and learn as much as they can about the Forerunners. In almost no time at all, the team got their first taste of combat with the Prometheans. Although the Headhunters had been surprised by the initial grit and technological advantages of the Forerunner A.I.s, the team quickly countered back and forced the disruption of the brutally efficient machines. The Prometheans proved to be almost no matched for the highly experienced and adaptive Spartans. Alex himself accounted for a striking 207 Crawlers, 75 Watchers, and 87 Knights, 21 of which were Battlewagons.

It was in this moment that he was approached by a man simply known as 'the Director', effective overall leader of the still young but highly potential Project Freelancer. He had noticed Alex's adaptability in the fight against the Prometheans, despite never having encountered them before, and offered him a place in his special project. He told the Headhunter that he had seen his actions in previous years, knowing that he "could turn him into so much more, make him better than he already was." Wary at first because of the awareness of the type of deal this 'Director' was proposing, he asked if there was a catch of sorts. The man simply said: "Nothing beyond what you haven't already experienced. You will get a new name, new equipment, new team." Disdained by the 'new team' at first, the Director ensured him that he would get to see his old team again but that this new new experience would "give him a chance to meet others just like him". Because he had heard of the project before and, because of his extremely peaked curiosity, Alex accepted the offer.

Just barely a week after the proposition, Alex gave his goodbyes to Cain and Allison, promising them that he would get a chance to see them again, especially Allison. Their love for each other had never shined brighter. With a hard, lasting sigh, Alex left the Infinity, taking a Pelican over to the smaller, more maneuverable Mother of Invention, ready to tackle whatever challenge awaited him. Soon after that Alex received his Freelancer augmentations. Despite what the Director said about the harshness of the augmentations, that they had a much higher probability of killing him, he took them in with little ill effect. He seemed to shrug off any and all physical pain, unshaken from near-death procedure. In almost no time at all, he was ready for the program. Along with his new and even more improved augmentations, in which it had changed his eye color was darkened to a brown that resembled bark on wood, he took with him a new name, one that rang hollow at first but would soon grow in reputation. He was now Agent Illinois. In that same moment he had been given the option to choose an A.I. companion to help assist him with his armor. Because of his expertise function without an A.I. in the many years before Project Freelancer as well as out of disdain for such computer-based entities, Illinois refused the offer. With new time on his hands, whenever not working with the Director or spending a frequent amount of time alone on the training floor, he was often seen getting to know a few of the Freelancers and giving them advice based on his own experiences, mainly involving the prominent leader, California; the assassin, Ghost; the weapon, Tex; the muscle, Maine; the sniper, North Dakota; and most of all, the secret, Noble.

Out of all the Freelancers he had possibly been with, Noble had shown the most promise, and so for some time he shared with her a variety of skills and tricks behind surviving on the field of battle as well as any long term engagements some people might get themselves into. Soon enough he had revealed to her his greatest secret: the fact that he was, in fact, Spartan-217, the First Headhunter. During that time, although not widely known to the public, Spartan-217 had become a legend among the Spartan-IIIs, a living embodiment of the possible achievement a III could accomplish. It may have been in that moment, or maybe it was before that, that Noble had started developing a crush for the Spartan turned Freelancer. Although Illinois did not know it at first, he began to suspect Noble's hidden likeness for him. Still, he paid little to no mind to that suspicion. Instead, for a while, he welcomed it because the young Freelancer actually reminded him of his other lover, Allison. And even when her relationship with California became much more apparent, when they began to hang out with each other much more often than before, both Noble and Illinois were entirely aware of each other's feelings, secret but not yet died away.

In 2558 with the development of Noble's new side, Wrath, Illinois began to eye the Project with grave suspicion, particularly with the Director. Fearing for Noble's sake, as well as the sake of every other Freelancer she had ever known, Illinois began to manually hack into the Project's database, first looking through the basic archives but eventually inching his way into the Project's deeper, darker secrets. It was here that he found that the Director instigated Wrath. Furious at the Director's tampering with Noble's psych, Illinois stormed off to find him. When he found him he confronted the Director, displaying his displeasure with the leader's actions. The Director, calmly and smoothly, simply replied by say that "there's nothing that can be done now. The only one who can stop Wrath now is Noble." Aghast and horrified at the statement, he asked the Director if there could possibly be another way to remove Noble's darker side. The Director told him there wasn't. In an angry, yet subtle, gesture, Illinois left the Project for some time, seeking out a form of solace, a way to clear his mind from sins and dark deeds of mankind, particularly the Director's. Soon enough he found it.

Later that same year, while exploring Forerunner ruins on yet another distant world, he came across a barely-functioning teleporter, run down and soon to die. With his sense of curiosity taking control yet again, Illinois passed through the teleporter. In the span of half a second, the Freelancer had traveled light years away from his point of origin, from humanity, from society in general. He arrived in the middle of a massive Forerunner complex, secretly hidden within an asteroid belt orbiting a blue sun that was part of some unexplored part of the galaxy. It was here that he found the facility's caretaker, an A.I. by the name of 847 Benevolent Guardian. Alarmed at the presence of the A.I. at first, Illinois attempted to retreat back through the teleporter from whence he came. However, to his surprise, the teleporter had deactivated, now completely out of power. With nothing to do but be with the Forerunner machine, Illinois followed him around. He learned much about the A.I., the facility, the Forerunners that had built it in the first place. The facility's origins dated back the era of the Forerunner-Flood War. Built as a top-priority research station, it held some of the most advanced Forerunner technology to date. With an unique talent for technological upgrades, particularly with his armor, the Freelancer soon began to toy with the technology. It was then that he developed the Omni-Ability, a combination of practically every known armor ability compatible with Spartan armor. Along with this technology he developed a pair of Promethean Omni-Blades/Omni-Tools, augmented himself with more of the Forerunner tech, and eventually developed a personal teleporter. With it he traveled all across the galaxy, mainly sticking with human-controlled colonies and friendly alien planets.

By 2559, after his grand discovery of the Forerunner facility, Illinois eventually returned to the Mother of Invention and back into Project Freelancer. The Director, interested in wanting to know where Illinois went, allowed him to rejoin the Project, adding him back into the leaderboard. From that point on Illinois ran time and time again into his Freelancer comrades, sharing with them the memories they had, but not revealing what truly happened to him while he was away. He ran into California again, met Ghost and his brother Orion once more, and, finally, had a reunion with Noble. Much, and little at the same time, had changed between the two of them. Noble's feeling for California were now quite visible, yet the memories Noble and Illinois shared still ran deep. It was hard to forget. Yet, when he returned to the Mother of Invention, Noble had progressed farther than he expected, to his pleasant surprise. Now that she had progressed, it had become time to challenge her abilities. For the next several years, up until 2563, they would fight, train, remember, and improve upon each other's skills, observations, and mistakes. Throughout that time the two Freelancers would progress far up the Project's leaderboard, always neck-to-neck, always competing to the best of their abilities. Every once in a while their ranks would change, Illinois taking the lead one time, Noble taking it another. But it was always close. Of course, Noble did get help from other Freelancers, mostly Ghost and Maine in the art of assassination and hand-to-hand combat, she always did. Illinois was already proficient in both fields, though not a true perfectionist in Ghost's area. Illinois preference to evade enemy contact, to whittle them down with quick, lightning-fast strikes, was his key to success. Only if the need or challenge arose would Illinois attempt to work in that field.

There were times when their training would get held back, when other interfering events arose. For Noble, it was because of her assassin mentor as well as one of his better friends, Agent Ghost, his corruption and eventual release of a Precursor A.I. chip, the encounter with Toram Soramee, and distant relationship between her and California. For Illinois, it was the Director's constant harassment over his newly-found armor enhancements. Yet still they met from time to time, working at each other in simulation chambers, practicing their marksmanship, and competing with each other in a furious yet friendly manner.

At around 2563, Illinois was asked to depart from Project Freelancer by ONI officials and make his way back to his old Headhunter team. In an attempt to escape the Director and his greedy, selfish ideals, Illinois accepted, heading for the nearest UNSC outpost. His friends, California, Ghost, Iceland, Maine, North Dakota, and Noble all came to say goodbye to him that day, wishing him luck and betting on his return to the Project in due time. Out of all the Freelancers, Illinois had the hardest time saying goodbye to Noble, for they had grown fond of each other over the last several years. Just before he left he told her he revealed to her why he was going: to see his friend Cain and his long-lost old girlfriend Allison. At first Noble was shocked that Illinois was with someone else, that he had a girlfriend. But Illinois soon cleared up the confusion, stating that she had "been his friend for as long as he could remember" and that the only two reasons he returned to Project Freelancer were because he didn't have the slightest clue where his old team was and because Noble reminded him of Allison. With a look of regret, Illinois turned to enter the Pelican, saying that he would come back when it was all over.

His destination was the remote, yet highly populated human world of Vindictus IV, a fair distance away from the Mother's last location. When he arrived there he was greeted with the hail of combat, the sounds of war ravaging all across the planet. In a desperate attempt to escape brutal annihilation from the world's anti-air guns, Illinois jumped from the Pelican he was on and landed in the outskirts of Vindictus's capital, Earthbound. With coordinates of his team's last location, he made haste towards it. While meeting UNSC rally points, driving in and out of the planet's highways, and occasionally finding the remains of firefights, he began to gather information of the forces assailing the planet. There was little to work with. From what he could tell, the attacking army consisted of between several hundred thousand and a few million combatants, their main goal was unclear at first, although it looked like all they were doing was destroying everything around them, and their leader was not yet clearly identified. After several hours of swift, evasive travel he finally found his team. They were stuck, pinned down by hostile forces. With surprising efficiency, Illinois assaulted and killed the mysterious enemies. When the battle was over, he approached his teammates, happy as can be. Allison welcomed him back with open arms, claiming to have missed him all those years, while Cain regarded him with cool acknowledgement. They sat down at talked, catching up on what happened in the last several years. Cain told him of the missions and adventures they went on while he was away, Allison talked about how much they've all changed, how much she missed him, noting Illinois for his accomplishments, and Illinois talked about what he'd done in the Project, telling them of the friends he made, the jobs he did, the training he acquired, and how much he missed them, especially Allison. They stopped and talked for a full day, wanting to catch up on events. Illinois even slept with Allison for the first time in seven years, showing his compassion for her. The very next day was met with more conflict, UNSC forces being pushed back, and the Headhunters being called in for assistance. They came and found a large group enemies, going by the name the Dark Apostles.

And then it happened. While in the middle of a massive assault against the Apostles, Allison was, to Illinois's horror, stabbed in the back by Cain. Cain, perhaps his second best friend to date, attacked his girlfriend. In the heat of combat, Illinois turned to his friends, only to find Cain stab Allison in the chest and shoot her several times for good measure. At the very same time the Dark Apostles attacked then, separating him from his girlfriend. However, a darker side of Illinois emerged in that moment. As he saw Cain leave Allison in the dust to be taken by the Apostles, Illinois activated his greatest weapon, Overcharge, the culmination of pure hatred and fury, mixed with a combination of overshield, speed boost, and damage boost. It showed in him, through his eyes, which changed to a glowing amber, through his actions, in which he pushed everything to it's limit, and in his armor, in which it began to crackle as if shrouded by a thundercloud. The only potential downside to using such a weapon was the varying aftereffects, from a slight headache all the way up to a slow and painful death. With Overcharge he attacked the Apostles, not just killing them, but completely destroying them. As the battle drew to a close his Overcharge faded, leaving no ill effects on him. He rushed over to Allison, dying but still alive. Alex held her in his arms, breaking down and attempting to heal her wounds. However, these wounds were far to great for even Forerunner technology to heal, and Allison continued to fade away. With her last breath, Allison said "Alex, I love you..." and died in his arms. Still holding onto her, Illinois lifted his head up and howled in painful agony and sorrow, the loss of his girlfriend too great for him to bear. Setting Allison's body down and burning it, ensuring that no one would desecrate her, Illinois left to find Cain, thinking dark, vengeful thoughts all the while. He found Cain again, this time alone and in the middle of the city. When the two met Illinois just stared at him, his rage barely contained. Cain, on the other hand, looked at him, an evil grin etched across his face. "The man you once knew is dead," stated the thing that was once Cain. "Now there is only me, the darkness. I am the Ascendant." Illinois asked when it happened and the Ascendant explained the events of the first Forerunner ruins they ever came across. He revealed to Illinois that he was, in fact, the leader of the Dark Apostles and would use them to bring humanity and the Covenant to their knees, ensuring the return of the long-gone Precursors. And that was when Illinois struck. With fire and fury, he attacked the once-Headhunter, eventually pulling out an energy sword. Cain did the same and the two fought. After some time Illinois eventually struck Cain down, cutting his right arm almost completely off and slicing him across his EVA helmet. However, in that moment, right when Illinois was about to end his life, he stopped and swore that he would not kill him, that he was better than him. Calmly and quietly, Alex turned and left with Cain crippled and still bleeding.

From that point on, Illinois disappeared from humanity's sights. He secluded himself to the Forerunner complex at first, attempting to clear his mind of grief. Failing to do that, beginning at around 2565, Illinois emerged faintly into society, bringing down those he deemed shameful to the world as a whole, and finding new ways to clear himself. He met and reunited with his distant childhood friend Marie, now know as Green, as well as her husband, a Spartan-II/Freelancer known as Blue. He eventually made contact with Agent Storm, another friend of the Project, got caught up with California and Ghost, and, finally, found Noble, now harassing and destroying the UNSC for their sins and corrupt motives and ideals. Out of all the people he found, it was Noble that took things the hardest, furious and upset at his long-term disappearance. Illinois explained the situation to her, exchanging information with one of his most well-know Freelancer allies. Noble had been having trouble with her life, everything around her being thrown into disarray. With the presence of Illinois once more she could move forward along her intended path. They parted ways, both making silent promises to see each other in the future.

Illinois continued to explore the ever changing world around him, encountering other Spartans, including Wolf-305, Elites such as Uhze Nostrom, and even Titans, including one of Noble's newer boyfriends, Omega. Illinois still seeks some form of peace, traveling from place to place, helping the needed and defeating the evil and corrupt. He is always on the lookout for the Ascendant, wary by the fact that he was still not dead and could come back anytime.

As of the current time, he is rushing to find Noble once more, now aware of her condition with the A.I. fragments and fearing for her life. His feelings for her grow brighter with every passing day, with her being one of the last good things he still has. With qualities and skills of equal measure to him as well as a compatibility not really describable, he moves to find her, hoping to save her life and keep her as his own...

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And it is finally done. I had to make up a lot of this at the top of my head and keep it aligned with Noble's timeline, but in the end it was all worth it.

Now it can finally be uploaded, once and for all. If anyone has any questions or think there is some sort of error, just talk to me. I'm always looking for ways to improve.

Alex/Agent Illinois, Allison, Cain Erabius, David Sicarius, Angela Raynor, Rokan Zahamee, Project Hidden Deathblow, and the Dark Apostles all belong to me, UltraPredator01

Catherine Stryker/Agent Noble belongs to xAgentNoblex

Agent Missouri/Blue and Marie/Green belong to Turbofurby

Agent California belongs to Spartan0214

Agent Ghost belongs to AgentGhost-S111 and Agent Orion belongs to his brother

Agent Iceland belongs to Sangheili1

Agent Storm belongs to CyberJStorm

Omega belongs to 2KEternal7

Wolf belongs to Wolf-S305

Uhze Nostrom belongs to UhzeNostrom117

Agent Tex, Maine, North Dakota, the Director, Project Freelancer, Mother of Invention and all other Red vs Blue references I missed belong to Roosterteeth

All other characters belong to Bungie/343 Industries