Todd-098

Todd-098 ONI File Photo

## ***Becoming a Spartan-II***

Todd Strata was born on January 10, 2511 (0 ABST) on the MCC Moon which orbited the planet Quinque. He lived in a small farm house in the Alkali Countryside with his mother and father, two brothers, and grandmother who had become bedridden from cancer. He never attended school, but was rather educated by his dying grandmother while helping his family tend to the livestock. As a young boy, he was tall with silk blonde hair, had freckles around his nose, brown eyes, and tan skin. He was taken by the lead Spartan-II director from Trench Command when he was only 6 years old while he was out late playing with his dog in the barn. During his days in training under Director Eli McMills and Lieutenant James MacMurray, he was given his SPARTAN tag of 098 and assigned to a fireteam by the name of Fenrir. Here he met three other children who had also been taken along with him. Catherine-033 was short brown haired girl from Tribus, Chandler-114was a muscular boy from Duo, and Jason-109 who was a hot-headed red head that was both full of himself and selfish; he came from the Reach moon. The four went through many physically and mentally trying tasks that ensured they not only knew one another but how to work with each other so that maximum efficiency could be achieved in the field. There were other children who had been taken and were trained along side them as well. One of these other kids was a small boy named Joe Dalleray who beard the tag 110. While in a sparing match with Todd, the two exchanged many words of dislike for one another with Joe appearing to be winning. Todd caught his opponent off guard and knocked him out cold with a double fisted upper cut to the jaw. The rest of the cadets watched in laughter as the unbeatable Joe S-110 fell with a thud. Todd felt bad for his actions and went to apologize the next morning but found that Joe wasn't there. MacMurray and the other officers searched for him for three days but to no avail. Joe S-110 was official determined M.I.A. on the afternoon of the fourth day.

## ***Mercenary Incursion - October 19, 2525***

Fireteam Fenrir was sent on their first official spec ops mission. Todd along with the rest of the team were briefed on who their target was and what he was blacklisted for: Captain Anton von Hayek of the Multi-Threat Private Military Corp. for multiple attacks on local civilians along with public executions of Trench Comm marines. The team dropped on the southeast side of the mercenary's main facility Fort Omega where the team encountered heavy resistance from the mercenaries who defended to facility. During this operation, Jason was severely injured by a grenade and was almost assassinated by one of the mercenaries before Todd saved him by stabbing the assailant with an energy sword. Jason was evacuated by Chandler while Todd and Catherine pursued the target. Finally, they managed to trap von Hayek in the command bunker where the three engaged in a close quarter fight. For the two SPARTANS von Hayek's fighting style was very familiar. He was tall for a field operative along with sporting a Mk. V Recon helmet that appeared to have once belonged to a Trench Comm SPARTAN II. After Catherine was knocked unconscious, Todd be became enraged and overwhelmed his opponent who he knocked to the ground. Todd then pulled out his knife and pierced von Hayek's stomach, following this action by removing the Recon helmet to reveal that is was truly Joe S-110. Todd staggered back to see he had just killed a fellow SPARTAN. Trench Comm forces swarmed the area and secured the location. The remaining mercenaries where placed under arrest while Joe S-110 was shipped off in a body bag and confirmed K.I.A. Todd felt horrible for killing Joe, but Catherine told him that it was the necessary thing to do.

## ***Discovery of the Corpus Files - June 23, 2536***

Roughly 11 years later, Director McMills would die abruptly and with no reasonable cause. Lieutenant James MacMurray would then be promoted to Director of the Spartan Program and given authority over the active fireteams. MacMurray would come across a mysterious folder on his new computer titled "Corpus Files" which held information in relation to a small insurgent group within Trench Comm that was planning a coup on the high command of the clan. Soon MacMurray would send Todd and the rest of Fenrir on a secret mission to extract data from an unlisted Trench Comm camp positioned 3872 km outside of the known territory where they found more information and a flash drive that contained plans to sabotage a ship transporting marines to a forward base in the north of the region. MacMurray tasked Fenrir to halt this operation and kill the insurgent forces, however, Jason would protest telling MacMurray that "we are taking up a dangerous stance on the matter, especially without the council's knowledge of it all." The Spartan team went anyway and took out fifty-one armed guards planning to level the aircraft with 20 lbs of C-4. This caught the attention of both the insurgent leadership and the Military Police Chief Chairman Henri Flatline.

Todd and the other Spartans were brought in for questioning by various Military Police agents in regards to the events of the attempted ship-jacking. Todd told the officer that the only thing he was aware of was that the order to carry out the task came directly from MacMurray and that it was important we were successful. The agent seemed to be satisfied with this response and left the room telling the young Spartan he was free to leave. Todd approached Jason after and questioned him as to why they were tasked with this operation and wanted to figure out what MacMurray was hiding from the rest of them. To this Jason scolded Todd for even questioning MacMurray and suggested he do as he is told, adding "it would be better for every party involved". Todd was even more suspicious about the whole thing but remained silent on the matter and followed directives to stay silent on the from then on.

## ***Operation Coldstone - June 30, 2536***

One week following the controversial events, fireteam Fenrir was tasked once more with another dangerous operation that involved them tracking down and assassinating a high value Sangheili target named Re'tar Kulkamee, a zealot that headed the local branch of a major bloodline that was known for causing trouble in the area. The team of Spartan II's arrived in the cover of night after a long trip getting to his location, and touched down on a ridge that faced the large camp of split-jaws. Once the Spartans were able to reach a comfortable point on the ridge, they spotted the target making rounds near a tent within the camp and used a radio to into the Sangheili comms to listen in on what the split-jaws were talking about. Soon they found out a large anti-airforce gun was recently constructed 20 km west of the camp and would soon be used to prevent aerial movement for Trench Comm near the local trade routes. "If this is the case Jason, we have to take that fuckin' thing out or a good number of our best pilots will be lost!", Todd said to his commander after they all found out the news. ​Jason took a while to ponder the idea of rerouting the objective to this anti-aircraft gun, but soon realized its destruction could reflect nobly on his role as a commander and green-lit the operation for Todd and Chandler to move on foot and take out the battery, while Jason and Catherine stayed back to watch the target's movements and be ready to assassinate him when the other two were finished their half of the op. Both Chandler and Todd realized they would have to reveal themselves to the enemy as no presumable cover was near the battery and to bout it was an hour trip by foot. Unfortunately time was not on their side and they needed to reach the weapon fast, forcing them to commandeer a revenant. Through plasma fire and small waves of infantry, the two were able to reach the gun and destroy it before the main camp that was being watch by Jason was able to send reinforcements to the area. Catherine was then allowed to take the shot on the VIP but unfortunately the news of the destroyed gun reached the camp causing Re'tar to flee before giving her the chance to kill him. Fenrir rallied back together and headed for their pelican the "Lone Wolf" to return to base and report on their mission's outcome.