Editing Halo 3: ODST Pre-mission Evaluation/Mickey

=== Mickey Interview ===

''{[[Michael Crespo|Mickey]] enters the room}''

'''[[Edward Buck|Buck]]''': Private, grab a seat.

''{Mickey sits}''

'''Buck''': Under the table is a marker. Apply it to your right temple please.

'''Buck''': Now, we're gonna think of a base line image, a river.

''{Mickey's thoughts: A large river in the middle of a forest.}''

'''Buck''': That'll work.

''{Mickey's thoughts: A blue ball bouncing on a floor and a toy robot.}''

''Mickey tries to adjust the marker.''

'''Buck''': State your name and rank. Private don't, don't touch the marker.

'''Buck''': Son? Name and rank?

'''Mickey''': My name's Mick- Michael Crespo; Private First Class.

'''Buck''': Why are you here?

'''Mickey''': Well sir, you've got something that needs flying or you need somebody to do some topside zero-g operations. I've done 3 HEV drops - nothing in the "big black". I aced EVA training - top nineteenth percentile of my class and before that I was a Crew Chief on a Pelican. So I have-

''Buck interrupts''

'''Buck''': That's fine. But that's not exactly what I meant.

'''Buck''': Your file says that you were a mandatory enlistment at 18 years old. Why mandatory?

''{Mickey's thoughts: A locker room, all the lockers are marked with Roman Numerals, than focuses on locker #120.}''

'''Mickey''': When I turned 18, mandatory military service was a condition of release from foster care.

''{Mickey's thoughts: A person putting down a lunch tray.}''

'''Buck''': What happened to your parents?

'''Mickey''': They died when I was pretty young.

'''Buck''': What happened to them?

'''Mickey''': They died in an explosion, sir. They were trying to wire a bomb to a government building.

''{Mickey's thoughts: A woman in a kitchen, she disappears, than the inside of a bomb.}''

'''Buck''': Your parents were Insurrectionists? Traitors?

'''Mickey''': Yes sir, they were traitors. That's what I was told. No, I don't remember them. I was very young.

''{Mickey's thoughts: Mickey running towards his parents.}''

'''Buck''': Now, after your two years of mandatory service, you could have gotten a job flyin' [[civilian|civi]] shuttles, earn good money, but you reenlisted? And then you put in for ODST? Why?

''{Mickey's thoughts: A group of ODSTs putting on their gear.}''

'''Mickey''': I don't need much, sir. The corps takes pretty good care of me. If I'm gonna be fighting anyway, I want to be fighting with guys I know can cover my six. ODST is home.

''{Classified Clip}''

'''Buck''': You ever been to Earth?

'''Mickey''': I saw it through a window, on a training mission, sir.

'''Buck''': Well you're about to see a little more of it.

'''Mickey''': Covenant ship.

'''Buck''': That's right. Now, how would you handle a covert extraction?

'''Mickey''': Well, from a demo POV, I could probably be supplying the entrance or exit. Using a shaped charge perhaps, away from venting ducts, you know it echoes. Unless it's a ship then you'd use a plasma torch, but you’d have to watch out for decompression. I can work for you, but I guess it really depends on whether this is just a grab and run, sure.

'''Buck''': Now what about precision demolition. You know, the kind they use in archaeological digs.

'''Mickey''': Sir, why would we be using arc' demo on the Covenant?

''{Classified Clip ends}''

'''Buck''': You've been the new guy with most of the squads you've operated with.

'''Mickey''': Yes sir.

''{Mickey's thoughts: Two men, one hits Mickey.}''

'''Buck''': Last pod in the drop's going to be a Rookie. Someone who's seen action, but I need somebody to keep an eye on him.

'''Mickey''': Sir.

'''Buck''': That's not a promotion. But you're not the new kid in school anymore.

'''Mickey''': Sir.

'''Buck''': In your file, you've got the standard personality indicators for a pilot your age: high creativity, risk-taker, daredevil pathology.

''{Mickey's thoughts: A bomb which is quickly disarmed.}''

'''Mickey''': Yes, sir. I mean, I haven't seen my file, but I'd agree with all that.

'''Buck''': That you all the way through?

'''Mickey''': I run the missions, sir. As ordered.

'''Buck''': That's good, private. That's very good. But, we need a little of that creativity before we're done.

'''Mickey''': Yes sir, of course. Whatever you need.

'''Buck''': Thank you, private. Are you educated, private?

''{Mickey's thoughts: An empty classroom.}''

'''Mickey''': Yes, sir. There were courses at the facility.

'''Buck''': What kind?

'''Mickey''': Everything, sir. Work productivity tech. UNSC History.

'''Buck''': What philosophers did you study? 

'''Mickey''': Sir?

'''Buck''': Philosophers. Thinkers.

'''Mickey''': There were speeches. Recordings from famous leaders.

'''Buck''': Have these leaders ever talk about what comes after?

'''Mickey''': Sir? After?

''{Mickey's thoughts: An open door with a man behind it, as the door is approached the man shuts it.}''

'''Buck''': Private, can I assume that, were you put in the position to save the lives of every human being drawing breath today, you would do so?

''{Mickey's thoughts: His mother in the kitchen again, speaking to him.}''

'''Mickey''': Yes, sir. Of course. Who wouldn't do that?

'''Buck''': Dismissed. Take off the marker.

''{Mickey takes the marker off his temple, gets up, and leaves the room}''