Wallace Jenkins
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Partially infected by the Flood, killed in the crash landing of the Truth and Reconciliation[1] |
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- "There are too many!"
- — Jenkins while fighting the Flood outbreak on Installation 04.[3]
Private Wallace A. Jenkins was an infantryman in the UNSC Marine Corps. He was one of the first humans to engage Covenant forces during the First Battle of Harvest.[4] In September 2552, he served as a member on Fireteam Charlie aboard the UNSC Pillar of Autumn during the Battle of Installation 04, eventually becoming partially infected by the Flood.[3]
Biography[edit]
Early life and career[edit]
- "When I get out of school, I'd like to join the Marines—get a chance to shoot for real..."
- — Jenkins to Captain Ponder.[5]
Wallace Jenkins was born on the Outer Colony world of Harvest.[2] He was the eldest of three children of a farming family. In 2524, he joined the Harvest militia in an effort to make use of himself. His ambition was to join the UNSC Marine Corps as an officer.[5] Though Staff Sergeant Avery Johnson frequently criticized him, he proved to be an extremely quick thinker and a competent militiaman. One notable event occurred when he and a fellow recruit, Forsell, were participating in a training exercise with all the other recruits in the Colonial Militia. The two were able to quickly assess the situation and go around the mock attack staged by Sergeants Johnson and Byrne. By doing so, they were almost able to win the exercise; however, a recruit named Osmo beat them to the goal. This earned Jenkins the trust of Staff Sergeant Johnson, and the two developed a close bond during the First Battle of Harvest.[6]
Battle of Harvest[edit]
- "Staff Sergeant. He's all I've got left."
- — Jenkins to Johnson, lamenting the loss of his family after the glassing of Harvest.[7]
Jenkins was a superb sharpshooter and was assigned one of the few XBR55 Battle Rifles during the battle.[4] Jenkins' entire family was killed when Gladsheim was attacked by the Covenant.[8] He was deeply depressed after losing his family, and used his anger to fuel his hatred of the Covenant. The only person close to him to survive was his fellow sharpshooter and friend, Forsell. Forsell had saved Jenkins' life when the latter was blinded by rage, stopping him from trying to kill Tartarus.[9] After escaping from Harvest, Staff Sergeant Johnson offered Jenkins, Forsell, and the remaining militiamen the chance to become Marines in his unit.[7]
Fall of Reach[edit]
During the Fall of Reach, Jenkins was one of the Marines aboard Station Gamma above Reach. Bisenti, along with Sergeant Major Avery Johnson, Private Bisenti, and Private O'Brien, were fighting a group of Kig-Yar in the hangar bay when MCPO John-117 and Petty Officer Linda-058 boarded the station to destroy the logs of the prowler UNSC Circumference. Jenkins and his team were evacuated from the station, and flown back to the UNSC Pillar of Autumn.[10]
Battle of Installation 04[edit]
- Main article: Battle of Installation 04
Jenkins was one of the Marines on the Autumn when the ship escaped from Reach on August 30, 2552.[11] On September 19, he was listed as a member of Marine Security Detail A on Alpha Shift on Pillar of Autumn's duty roster alongside Bisenti and Kappus.[12] When the ship arrived at Installation 04 on September 19, it was attacked by the Covenant, marking the beginning of the Battle of Installation 04.[11] Later on, Jenkins was part of the UNSC team led by Captain Jacob Keyes and Sergeant Johnson, to secure a supposed Covenant weapons cache that a captured Sangheili, 'Qualomee, had disclosed to them during an interrogation.[3] Unbeknownst to the UNSC forces, the "cache" was actually a Flood containment facility. Inside the structure, the marines and Captain Keyes were ambushed by Flood pod infectors.[13]
During the resulting fight, Jenkins panicked, and a pod infector latched onto him. Johnson fired at the infector that was latched onto him but couldn't stop it from taking over Jenkins' body.[14][Note 1] Jenkins and the entire squad, save for Johnson, were transformed into Flood attacker forms. However, Jenkins' Pod infector was weakened from centuries of containment, and could not fully control him. The infection process occurred normally, but unlike most victims of the Flood, who die instantly upon successful infection, Jenkins remained alive and terrified while the Flood took control of and mutated his body.[3] He was able to control himself to a small degree whenever the Pod infector was in pain, but when it had total command, he could only watch "his" actions.[15] His Flood infected body attacked Johnson, throwing the sergeant out of the containment room, across a large observation chamber, and into a wall. Determined to escape, Johnson ran into a hallway and locked the infected Marines inside by using a spoofer.[14][Note 1]
