Riley-B019

Lieutenant Riley-B019 is a Spartan-III formerly attached to Special Warfare Group Three. He and many Spartans were part of a crew of a ship called the Valhalla and were thought to be deceased but turned out to be literally MIA during the time and was integrated into the Spartan-IV Program where he served as the team's point-man and demolitions expert but was transferred by ONI to become a headhunter for his skills with a rail-gun.
== Biography ==
=== Childhood and early career ===
Riley Abernathy was born on May 27,2522 in Eridanus-II to hunters Callum Abernathy and Susan Lawrence. He lived in the woods with both of them as the two were paid moderately for their skills when it came to hunting animals for a living and were part of a long line of hunters as well. They were also paid by a Native American reserve to shoot incoming predators with Susan being a sharp shot. The two would go on hunting trips together to help with Riley's skill with Riley using his father's DMR to kill his first target while also learning how to live off the land. The Covenant soon invaded the planet and the town they lived in was on full panic mode with looters and barely any UNSC forces keeping order as it all led to societal collapse. 
The family barricaded their home during the entire event only for a looter who was a close friend of the family broke in with the help of his Insurrectionist friends broke inside with his mother trying to fend them using a shotgun but was shortly killed during the skirmish. Calum attempted to avenge his wife's death only for an Insurrectionist to stab him in the throat as Riley watched them loot their home ignoring him. An ODST who was deployed to the area alongside marine forces found Riley in time as she wasted no time in killing the Insurrectionists although the looter and his friends escaped with the soldier bringing him to a pelican. Riley would spend his childhood in the refugee program yet became close friends with the ODST that saved him who introduced herself as Enid Holcomb. He soon met Kurt Ambrose to introduce the children to the Spartan-III program offering them vengeance against the Covenant but Riley raised his hand defiantly asking the Spartan a question on what if it wasn't the Covenant that killed his family but an Insurrectionist with Kurt responding that it applies as Riley joined the Spartan-III program and said his goodbyes to Enid lying to her that a couple adopted him.
Riley was known to be the most skilled in his class in terms of survival and marksmanship while being the most patient of them all as noted by Kurt although was unsettled by his intent to kill a looter who could be dead but Riley felt he was still alive out there as the Spartan-II advised him not to take revenge because it's not what a Spartan does and if he ever thinks of it-he'll have him removed from the program. He was later given his augmentations and became full fledged Spartan-III. His first assignment was being deployed to Fumirole and met Thom-A293 becoming friends with the Spartan as Riley was part of a Spartan company tasked in evacuating civilians. Riley noticed the same looter in a crowd of civilians and watched him carefully knowing what he did as he grew impatient for a pelican transport to arrive and pulled out a magnum when the last one came albeit full with the man threatening to shoot. The Spartan sprung into action and opened fire on him but missed resulting in a chase in the city where he bore witness to Thom's sacrifice disheartening him in the process as the looter took an injured marine hostage. Riley was close to leveling his DMR only for Jorge to sneak up behind the man and lift him by his collar but he aimed the gun under Jorge's helmet resulting in Riley shooting him in the head before he shoot the Spartan-II. He was later held under questioning by UNSC officials and was released with enough evidence from witness testimony including one from Jorge and the marine.
During in an unspecified mission, Riley worked with Spartan-B312 whom he shared some mixed opinions on because of his lone wolf personality.
=== Fall of Reach ===
Riley was deployed on New Alexandria, Reach and was tasked in extracting an HVI from an ONI building with the help of some fellow marines and ODST's. They were met with opposition from the Covenant forces occupying the place alongside a pair of hunters as Riley engaged them by attaching a plasma grenade on one of the hunter's backs then proceeded to rip off one's head upon using a jet pack and latched onto it. When they reached the HVI, they called for a pelican extraction only to reveal there is no possible way due to the banshee's patrolling the skies so they had to make it down. Once all of them reached to the ground level, the UNSC forces there evacuated but a couple of warthogs remained with Riley devising a plan to give them covering fire as a distraction. The plan was a success as the Spartan tried to go to the warthogs but a Sangheili commander engaged him combat resulting him telling them to go while using a fusion cannon to destroy the wraiths going after them effectively leaving him behind fighting the commander who he killed by twisting his arm dropping his sword then picked it up and stabbed him with it as it ran out of energy. Riley left the area upon finding a mongoose and an M99 Stanchion to which he took.
He soon left the city before it was glassed and into the wilds scavenging supplies alongside some kind of way to find any UNSC forces left after losing contact. Riley then stumbled upon Rosenda-A344 who was finished in killing an high-ranking Jiralhanae Chieftain in a derelict campground as she revealed that there was a ship called the Valhalla that was taking in any remaining survivors resulting in the two teaming up then drove there and arrived to their destination a couple of days later meeting Harry-A299, Diego-A112, Imogene-B078, and Keiko-B201. Riley and the five were tasked in destroying an incoming Covenant cruiser after a Covenant scouting party found them using a captured phantom. The group successfully infiltrated the ship through Rosenda's knowledge of the Sangheili language as they boarded it killing any Covenant in the way and took over it using Imogene's knowledge in Covenant tech glassing the part before blowing it up and escaping. 
Riley was among the Spartans, UNSC personnel, EMT, civilian survivors and police that were put into stasis after the slipspace drive malfunctioned.
=== Recovery and integration to the Spartan-IV program ===
Riley was among the Spartans and survivors that were awoken by a crew of a cruise ship as they were taken back to Earth. Like all other Spartans on the Valhalla, Riley was integrated into the Spartan-IV program where he worked in mainly recon missions hunting down Covenant remnants even working with Edward Buck at some point and got his new armor then was chosen as the sixth member of the new Noble team. 
=== Operation: HIGH NOON ===
Noble team was deployed on their first mission in a rural town in Montana after Insurrectionists took over the place and threatened to detonate a HAVOK nuke if anyone got close while cutting off communications in the process with evidence posted online. Riley's pod dropped on top of an unsuspecting Insurrectionist as he regrouped with Rosenda, Keiko, Imogene, Harry and Diego then were allowed to stay in local resident Sarah Upton's house who told them of the situation. Rosenda formulated a plan to divide the team into teams of threes to liberate the first two regions then go for the last one with Riley suggesting them to look out for armed resistance that are fighting the Insurrection due to the loose gun laws of the place. Riley, Keiko, and Diego were tasked to use a boat to head to the second region then met with a group of local militia in the area who planned to kill the Insurrectionist leader controlling the place explaining he's heading to the local bar escorted by his men to which the three alongside a couple of militia members went.
The group stayed at the bar waiting for them to arrive and when they did-Riley noticed the same Insurrectionists that looted his house as the leader's security escort prompting him to wait patiently for them to get inside. When they did, the team opened fire killing the leader except for the Insurrectionists who got away using the warthog resulting in Riley to pursue them via a warthog that was parked. The men shot at the Spartan who dodged each bullet before Riley drove near them then leaped out of his vehicle to stab the first one in the neck with his knife and the other in the knee cap that was on the turret as the vehicle crashed against a tree sending Riley flying but he survived. As all of the men laid dying, Riley took off his helmet in front of them making them realize it was the child who's home they looted as they all died of shocked. Riley then went back to the militia bunker where Rosenda was planning the next phase of the plan while Imogene was tasked to work with someone.
He later bore witness to Rosenda's killing Insurrectionist leader Henry Wells and was extracted by a pelican.
=== Transfer to ONI ===
Due to Riley's skills as both an unrelenting killing machine and marksmanship, he was transferred to make way for Kyle Halsey for ONI to make him into their version of the Chief by putting him in a special forces group to condition him.
== Personality and traits ==
Riley is described to be like a Scottish Cowboy due to his loose cannon personality and sarcastic demeanor when it comes to handling situations making him sort of the funniest and sociable Spartan. His taunts are known to be extremely distracting to his comrades at times even with normal marines who can't help but laugh alongside him. He's also known to be very vicious as well when it comes to combat situations noted by his superiors which were proven to be demoralizing for the enemy including his taunts at them. Riley harbors deep seated hatred for the Insurrectionists and the looter who killed his parents but waited for the right time and reason to kill them due to his conditioning and when he did kill them, he felt at peace knowing they can never hurt anyone again. He is known to be a team player preferring teamwork most of the time leading to his mixed opinions of Spartan-B312.
He is also great friends with Harry and Diego who shares his kind of humor while showing suspicion of Imogene who keeps using him to test Forerunner weaponry and is loyal to Rosenda. Riley is know to be great with explosives as well.
== Trivia ==
* His preferred weapon is the ARC-920 railgun due to how efficient it is and is known to hoard ammunition for it.