Autumn Washington

"Step out of the way boys*! This requires a lady's touch!*"
— Autumn to the HRS before fragging Rock in "Outlaws"
**Autumn Washington** is a deuteragonist in Arby 'n' the Chief Next Gen Season 1, and is one of the members of the Hacker Removal Squad. Out of all of the new characters in the HRS, she is the only female and the most prominent. She is also the cousin of Michelle Harris.

## Character History

### Rough Patch

Before Autumn joined the Hacker Removal Squad, she was the best friend of Madeline Black, sister of Eugene Black. It is inferred this is how she met Eugene and started having a crush on him despite not actually ever seeing his sinister nature. However, when her best friend was contracted with cancer, it negatively impacted her overall behavior, especially after her death. This only worsened when Eugene committed suicide shortly after her cousin, Michelle, broke up with him. This estranged her from her cousin.

When Eugene was blamed for the fragban attacks, Autumn refused to believe it, and took the hacks for herself before using them to find the real creators of the fragban hacks to take the blame off of him. This brought her to Duncan Douglas, who brought her into the Hacker Removal Squad.

### Hacker Removal Squad and the Return of Chaos Theosis

When Speedzone and Deathlok attacked a clan battle, Autumn was brought in for the Hacker Removal Squad along with Nicholas Martin, Brandon Edwards, Jason Burns, the Arbiter, and Master Chief. It is made clear she has known Nicholas for a while, as he makes jabs at her negative behavior and personality. When she first meets Chief and his misogynistic mannerisms, she attempts to frag him before Duncan steps in and stops her.

Soon after, the Outlaws hold several players hostage, forcing the HRS to intervene. However, Autumn doesn't join until the end of the fight, due to misogynistic jabs from Duncan and Chief earlier up until they had problems with Rock. After an apology from Duncan and some convincing from Arbiter, Autumn would use her abilities to frag Rock. Shortly after, Arbiter would attempt to make conversation with her, which Autumn would shoot down before asking Arbiter to leave her alone.

Autumn was present when Brandon would get rid of the virus Deathlok planted in the OMN mainframe.

When Deathlok and Speedzone attacked Claire Ferguson, Arbiter, and Michelle, Autumn would join in the fight and take on Deathlok and Speedzone at the same time, punching Speedzone in the face and making him run off before dodging Deathlok's railgun. When Speedzone took Michelle hostage and fragged her at the end of the fight, Autumn was very nonchalant about it. When Arbiter confronted her about it later, he would accidentally mention Eugene, which set her off. She would angrily confront Arbiter about Eugene, before storming out of the room.

Weeks later, she would be interviewed by Jay Harrington, and explain why she bothered helping the HRS in the first place and accused Harrington of using Eugene as a scapegoat, which he would attempt to reason with her on the evidence and eyewitness testimonies.

When Lockdown, Speedzone, Deathlok, and the Outlaws attacked the Brotherhood of Gaming clan, Autumn joined the HRS to fight them. When Lockdown attacked the HRS and forced them to retreat, she found herself confused as to why Duncan made them retreat. She also takes Chief's line in this scene, much to his dismay.

Weeks later, she would join Arbiter, Chief, and Duncan to go meet with Lydia Johnson in the Halo Harem. She was disgusted by the demeaning nature of the strip club, and got in a heated confrontation with the club's bouncer, Shay, before Lydia allowed them in. However, she had a rare moment of enjoyment when Lydia talked about her past with Duncan.

Autumn would be present when Clyde Marston attacked an OMN base and took Jay Harrington hostage, helping them corner Clyde before being attacked by Kylie Fitzgerald. She would quickly move to intercept Kylie, getting in a firefight with her before getting aided by Nick. Later in the fight, Clyde would frag Jason, sending Autumn into a fit of rage before Kylie forced her to get into cover. When Jay later revealed that Jason was killed from his Xbox combusting, Autumn felt furious and depressed, wanting nothing more than to stop Brainiac.

### Avenging Jason

After Jason's funeral, Autumn felt angry over the fact that Duncan wasn't there to pay his respects to Jason, and her mood only worsened when it was revealed he was with Lockdown. She would go as far as threatening him, forcing him to give her a reason not to shoot him. Lockdown would give Autumn and the HRS the locations of several of Brainiac's own surveillance hubs. Autumn and Duncan would attack one of the surveillance hubs, coincidentally the same hackers who helped Arbiter and Chief crash the Donnovich Wedding.

After attacking the base, Autumn would join the HRS in helping Arbiter and Chief chase Speedzone. However, she would not be brought in to help during the final fight with Speedzone.

When Deathlok and his Death Squad went to attack the new OMN replacement surveillance hub, Autumn would work with the HRS and Lockdown to ambush them, and assassinate one of the Death Squad members before finding the body of Jackson later after he was fragged by Deathlok.