Message 14: Deja Vu Something Awful [Closed radio channel; filtered to anyone in Halo/PF armor]

[unrecovered]

[Wash is terse and obviously very unhappy. Not a good situation.]

In case anyone missed Luna's post, we've got four big Nightmares in the city. One of them is the Meta, or at least a Nightmare version of it, which means it's worse.

It still behaves like the Meta, which means it'll go after AI. Anyone in armor is a target, so no one goes out alone. North, South, Epsilon, you're with Carolina. Church, York, Grif, you're with me. Noble-Four, Noble-Six, either pick a team or stick together. Call for backup if you see it. Don't be a hero, don't be an idiot, and don't get killed.

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[spaceracist]

[Oh good, he's arguing back. Emile likes having discussions with people.

--But at least he can say he chose this life. He was eight and he didn't know what the fuck he was getting into, but he did choose it.]

Yeah? So you gonna be what they made you, and that's all? Hell, I'm supposed to be a carbon copy of every other Alpha Spartan out there, but you can still tell me apart from Jun on the goddamn radio.

[fearmylaserface]

I am his memories. I can't change that I am a piece broken off of another AI. A fragment.

And everyone has wanted me to be nothing more than a clone.

[spaceracist]

And you got no life experiences on your own? Nothin' to make you different at all, is that it? You want to be a clone your whole life?

[fearmylaserface]

I've had some. I finally started to get to be my own person here. I have changed. I just can't change everything.

And he showed up.

[spaceracist]

Should make it easier to tell you apart, then. You keep doin' your thing, let him do his thing. And start usin' different speech patterns for once.

[fearmylaserface]

I'm not letting him or anyone make me change myself. I will be myself on my own terms.

[spaceracist]

[That really doesn't make it any easier to tell them apart, but at least it's something.]

Long as it don't cause any problems, knock yourself out.

[fearmylaserface]

I don't need your permission to do that, Spartan.

The only ones I have to answer to are those with my overrides and my friends.

[spaceracist]

Funny how you don't think I got UNSC AI override permissions.

[fearmylaserface]

I'm not a standard UNSC AI, Spartan.

[unrecovered]

[And he'd wanted so badly to stay out of the philosophical bullshit festival.]

He's my AI, Noble-Four. Let me take care of it.

Epsilon, take your self-help quest somewhere else.

[spaceracist]

[Oh, he's glad to leave it to Wash. This guy has a serious attitude problem. Even if baiting him is kind of fun.]

Roger that.

[fearmylaserface]

Fuck off, Wash. He started it.

[But he's leaving it alone now.]