Gunnery
Sergeant Flint Marshall
Of
the 405th division
Operation
Rainbow: Military Status
Project
Rise Test Subject
Transcribed
as follows:
Kelsey Graham: Have a seat, we’ll make this quick and short, I’m sure you have other more pressing matters to get to, Sergeant Marshall.
Flint Marshall: Not gonna lie this isn’t something I ever wanted to
do an interview for.
Kelsey: Well if it makes you feel better, this isn’t a normal
interview. I’m not a reporter or
anything. This is just for our records
so that we can create a complete picture of what happened two years ago. So to start tell us about Operation Rainbow.
Flint: I’m not really a good person to give you details on that
quite honestly. I was hired for my
military experience like most of us were.
There were two factions of the Operation: Scientists and military types. As you can imagine I fit into the
former. I was there for the safety of
the operation, to protect from any “unforeseen threats” to what we were doing.
Kelsey: Unforeseen threats such as Obsidian?
Flint: Yes, but of course demonic wasn’t exactly the lines we were
thinking along.
Kelsey: Before we dive into Obsidian, tell me a bit about your life
before Isabelline’s resurrection.
Flint: Well for starters she wasn’t resurrected. The real Isabelline is dead, James just used
her DNA to create a new body. But to
answer your question, we lived a normal life.
We had a home on this island. My
wife Natalie and our son Cobalt. We had
plans to have a family, but Obsidian changed all that.
Kelsey: I have in my notes that before the “treatment” was
developed the women and children were brought into hiding underground. Before that the underground area wasn’t used,
is that correct.
Flint: That’s correct.
Natalie and Cobalt went into hiding and I faced Obsidian with my
company. Her body was weak that was the
only reason we were able to subdue her.
Unfortunately I nearly sacrificed my life in the process.
Kelsey: Yes, tell me about
that. Obsidian left you for dead and
later your body was discovered and you became the first recipient of Project
Rise.
Flint: That’s right. The Rise
serum was something that Operation Rainbow had developed through our DNA
research. I was clinically dead when
they found me. Clearly, I’m not a
scientist but the Rise Serum is made from my own DNA and is injected straight
into the heart. The idea is that your
DNA mixed with whatever else is in the serum, encourages your body to rebuild
itself.
Kelsey: Something must have gone wrong. Your body clearly didn’t rebuild itself.
Flint: Not to its fullest capacity no. They still needed to use cybernetic parts to
complete me. I’m more robot now it seems
then human, but I guess I should just be thankful I’m alive.
Kelsey: Now as you said, you were clinically dead for a time. Can you tell me what happened when the Operation
believed you and your wife to be deceased?
Flint: My son was in every sense of the word an orphan for about
four hours. That doesn’t seem like much time,
but it was just long enough for him to be the easiest choice as the first child
to receive the “treatment”. It was a
sick decision, made by desperate people.
No one knew the results of what the “treatment” would do. Sorry this is difficult…If something had
happened…But I can’t dwell on that.
Cobalt received the “treatment” and proved not only that it worked in
subduing Obsidian, but that it was, in essence, “safe” to try on other
children.
Kelsey: What happened to your son after that?
Flint: Well I know you know the story of what happened with
Operation Kaleidoscope. He developed
powers and all that. But between the
operations he was adopted by my brother.
My brother and sister-in-law were missionaries to Japan, so he grew up
on the mainland until his powers started to manifest. It’s my understanding that they never knew
about the treatment but after Rachel died they moved back to the states. Cobalt was a teenager by that time but moved
back to Japan as soon as he could.
Kelsey: That’s where he learned about the island. That must have been difficult for you to be
so close and yet not be able to see him.
Flint: It was. He started
making trips to the island and it took everything I had not to go to him. But I knew he wouldn’t understand. As you can see, my appearance is terrifying,
and he believed my brother and his wife to be his biological parents. It was a fantasy I didn’t want to destroy for
him.
Kelsey: I think that just about wraps it up. I just have just a few more questions for our
records. Are there any other concerns
about the closing down of this Operation?
Things we should be concerned about going forward?
Flint: I’ll never say
never. Obsidian is an immortal
being. Just because he can no longer use
Belle as a vessel, doesn’t mean you can’t find another way. But there is something stronger. It took Operation Rainbow to reveal that to
me but there is a power that goes far beyond Obsidian.
Kelsey: Oh yes, I nearly forgot about the resurrection
experience. We heard Azurite’s story but
how did that look for you?
Flint: Quite honestly there’s nothing to tell. I just didn’t give myself room to doubt. In the end I had to remember that it was God’s
reputation on the line, not my own. I
was just the vessel he would use and I allowed him to use me as he would.
Kelsey: Vessel? You used that
same word in reference to Obsidian and Isabelline. How is what you experienced different from
what Isabelline experienced?
Flint: God is different for
one thing. God doesn’t control us, he
partners with us. Obsidian took
Isabelline by force, took control and made her do things without her
consent. God never does that. He whispers to our hearts and makes requests
but it is always our choice whether we will listen. He didn’t force me to put my hands on Azurite’s
rotting corpse but the urge to do so was so strong, I knew it was what he
wanted me to do. I could have walked out
of that room and the feeling probably would have gone away. But Azurite would still be dead. When the stakes are that high, the better
question is why WOULDN’T you take the risk?
Kelsey: I guess I never thought of it that way. Well I believe that is all the questions I
have. I still have a lot of interviews
to conduct before we can close down this project for good. Thanks Sergeant Marshall, for everything you’ve
done in keeping this world safe from Obsidian.
There are many who owe you their lives.
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