Ellie-G289

Ellie-G289, born Ellie Madison, is a SPARTAN-III commando serving in the . Born on the planet of , upon the Covenant's arrival in 2544 she would be orphaned, where her penchant for destruction and craftsmanship would prompt her enlistment into the SPARTAN-III Gamma Company program. Whilst a low-performing candidate in most exercises, her innate innovation and excellence in explosives-handling and demolitions would see her earn Top Honours in Ordnance Operations. Assigned to the adhoc Foxtrot Team after most of her Gamma fireteam were killed in the early stages of the , Ellie would remain with most members of the team upon its disbandment, as the new Fireteam Wizard was formed as part of the ICARUS Initiative. She is currently still serving with Fireteam Wizard as of 2560 and the .
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==Biography==
===Early Childhood, 2538-2545===
Ellie Mason Madison would be born on the 18th of May 2538 in capital city, Tourville. Her parents, Sarah Mason and Mitchell Madison, were both construction workers, with Mitchell serving as part of Miridem's as a member of its EOD team. Mitchell would die in 2543 after a dirty bomb was detonated in the capital's suburbs, killing him and six others. Sarah, distraught and falling into a depression due to Mitchell's death, would lead to her suicide, placing Ellie into an orphanage before she was even three years old. 
In these orphanages, Ellie would attract the attention of the , specifically - the unit responsible for the . Her craftsmanship and knack for taking up new concepts extremely quickly, such as speaking and reading, were very favourable traits, especially for a candidate of the SPARTAN-III's new unit, Gamma Company. ONI operatives would approach her in April of 2545, offering a position in Gamma Company. Ellie, although not directly affected by the , had several friends in the orphanages on Miridem that had been sent there after their planets were glassed and parents killed, and so knew of the war's impact. Furthermore, the arrival of the to Miridem the very next day would encourage Ellie to accept the offer and join Gamma Company. Ferried to the , where several hundred others recruits had already been located, the warship would arrive at on the 9th of July 2545.
===Gamma Company Training, 2545-2552===
Arriving at Camp Currahee, the trainees would be greeted by Lieutenant Commander , who would inform the young children of their new purpose. Ellie was half-heartedly listening to his speech, preferring instead to look around and examine the faces of her fellow Gammas. She would quickly snap back to reality as one of the drill instructors would jab her with an electro-prod, causing immense pain and attracting the attention of those around her. Obtaining little sympathy from those around her, with several cadets even laughing at her, Ellie would listen to the rest of Ambrose's spiel, before being herded off to the waiting Pelican dropships surrounding them.
Being given a parachute harness, much like the rest of the candidates, Ellie would be ordered to jump out of the Pelican as a final test, to make sure all the candidates were ready to begin training. The first child to go refused, and noticing that he had been one of the ones to laugh at her, Ellie would push him out of the way and jump out of the loading bay, activating her parachute moments later. Drifting down to the ground, she would narrowly avoid several large pine trees and land in a small clearing, along with two other trainees. They would sit there in silence for several hours, before being collected by a drill instructor in a Warthog. They would be transported back to Camp Currahee, where the remaining recruits were distributed into the large barracks and allowed to rest.
Training on Onyx with Gamma Company would repeat this formula of harsh physical training, mixed in with theory lessons on warfare, tactics and strategy. Ellie would learn throughout this year to pay attention and attempt to do reasonably well in training, as shocks with electro-prods proved an unwelcome alternative to exercise and classwork. Despite this, Ellie would not perform well in individual tasks involving camouflage, physical sparring and weapons training - whilst not necessarily incapable of doing well, she was unable to compete with the better candidates, often finishing in the lower-half of the company in these exercises.
However, one stand-out for her was exercises involving construction, fieldcraft and explosives. Her father's time as an EOD technician had affected her in several ways, with her father bringing home pieces of disarmed explosives as mementos of successful operations. Ellie often played with these, and was taught the basics of electricity generation and conductivity by her father. This translated well into Gamma Company training, when the instructors expanded upon her basic knowledge. Her incredible thirst for knowledge and want to create pushed her far ahead of many other candidates in these exercises, once going undefeated in an exercise where candidates were forced to disarm a series of explosives in a limited amount of time. 
Ever so-slowly, Ellie began to improve overall in training. Her weapons training became far more competent - especially when utilising explosives - and she began to perform in the top half of candidates in the company. By 2549, Ellie had improved substantially, just in time for the trainees to be assigned fireteams. Ellie would be assigned to Team Halberd, along with four other Gamma Company candidates - James, Klara, Henry and Cate. The team would work well together, with Ellie forging good bonds with the rest of Team Halberd. Together in exercises they proved to be a solid fireteam - not excelling in all exercises, however proving themselves competent and capable all-round. Despite this, the team usually came first in all ordnance and explosives exercises, due to Ellie's excellence and the capabilities of James and Cate. 
By January 2551, all teams of Gamma Company were deemed ready for augmentations, and would board the for the procedure. Ellie would receive her augmentations with no issues - much like the rest of Gamma Company - and so would spend several days acclimatising to her new augmentations. For the rest of the year, Ellie and Team Halberd would learn to utilise their new abilities and regain their fine motor skills they had before the procedures. Ellie herself especially struggled to regain flexibility with her hands after the operations, however would be back to normal after several months of constant training - and several rounds of electro-shock therapy. 
In 2552, with much of their training completed, Gamma Company would begin their final stages of training. The final exercises of the course were brutal and intensely competitive, with each team vying for Top Honours - as were individuals. Ellie was also gunning for one specific award, that being Top Honours in Ordnance Operations, in which she faced fierce competition from several other Gammas. Despite the staunch opposition, at the awards ceremony, Ellie would receive the Top Honours in Ordnance Operations, outscoring her other candidates by twenty-three points. Despite Ellie's success, Team Halberd would not make it to the final competition for top-scoring fireteams, finishing in the third-highest bracket for fireteams - a respectable performance, but not enough to warrant accolades. 
===Earth Sustained Defence Campaign, 2552===
Orders for Gamma Company came through extremely quickly. Due to the having located mere days earlier, much of Gamma Company would be immediately dispatched to Earth to reinforce UNSC forces and help defend humanity's homeworld from the alien empire. Team Halberd would be ferried onto the ONI prowler Sweet Little Lies, with orders to relieve the UNSC garrison defending the from Covenant attacks. Arriving in the on the 30th of October, The Sweet Little Lies would sneak past the Covenant blockade above , depositing Team Halberd offshore, near the .
Almost immediately upon wading ashore at , Team Halberd would come under heavy fire from Covenant fortifications lining the beachfront. James, the team leader, was immediately cut down by plasma fire, and the rest of the team were pinned down by plasma fire from several positioned in Mackenzies Bay. Klara and Henry, the latter of which was severely wounded by Needler crystal fragments, would then order Ellie and Cate to try and advance inland to reach the complex, whilst Klara and Henry would draw the defenders' fire - an act which would result in their deaths. Despite Ellie's protestations, she would nevertheless make the most of their sacrifice, able to safely reach a grassy knoll sheltering her from the Wraiths' mortar fire. However, Cate was not as lucky, as she was shot several times in quick succession by Jackal snipers hiding inside the coastal apartments overlooking the beach.
Within the span of five minutes, Ellie had lost her entire fireteam to enemy action, without taking so much as a scratch.
===Wizard Team, 2553-2558===
===Created Crisis, 2558-2560===
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===Foxtrot Team===
===Wizard Team===
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Category:SPARTAN-IIIs