Wallace Jenkins

 

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Private First Class Wallace A. Jenkins was a Marine in Halo 1, Halo: The Fall of Reach, and Halo: The Flood.

He first appears in the Halo Universe when his FOF tag is detected by the Master Chief and Spartan-058 aboard Reach Station Gamma during The Battle of Reach. He is a member of Sergeant Johnson's squad. The group is fighting a pack of Jackals and with the help of the Chief, they manage to destroy the database of the Circumference and escape the station aboard a Pelican. Then they proceed to board the Pillar of Autumn and travel to Installation 04. Once there, the ship is attacked by the Covenant once again, and it is assumed that Jenkins escapes the ship in the same lifeboat as Sergeant Johnson and his squad. After meeting up with the Chief, they take Pelican Echo 419 to where the ODST detatchment of the vessel is encamped. He then goes to Alpha Base with the sergeant and his squad is not mentioned for some time.

Later he takes Pelican Victor 933 to what his squad thinks is a Covenant weapons cache, but turns out to be one of the Flood Containment Facilities. There, he, Captain Keyes, Sergeant Johnson, Private Bisenti, and Private Manuel Mendoza, and others are attacked by the Flood for the first time. In the fight a Infection Form latches on to him and takes over his body.

He drops his helmet, which is later picked up by the Chief, who watches the horrifying attack via the Recorder Chip of Jenkins' Helmet Recorder. The vid ends suddenly, right as the flood form hits Jenkins.

He and his entire squad, except Johnson, are turned into Combat Forms. However, in Jenkins' case, his Infection Form is weakened from the centuries of containment, and it cannot control him fully. He watches in terror as he loses control of his mutated body and the form moves his body around and attacks his mind.

Jenkins' combat form follows a group of Flood to the surface where they attack a group of marines under command of First Lieutenant Melissa McKay. Without complete control over his body, Jenkins, who is desperate to end his own life, attempts to get killed while assaulting the Lieutenant, but instead he is captured by the ODSTs, who take him prisoner. Major Antonio Silva tries to interrogate him and Jenkins reveals an imminent threat to the base from the Flood. He is later taken to the Truth and Reconciliation while the Marines assault the ship. Jenkins, knowing that Silva plans to take the ship home to Earth, overwhelms the Infection form inside him and tries to destroy the ship, because he knows that there are more Flood present aboard it, and they would inevitably escape and destroy Earth. He fails to do so, but Lieutenant McKay, seeing the truth as well, destroys the vessel for him. The destruction then takes his life, mercifully ending his suffering.