Chapter One: Alive
"Curious. Hyper-lethal. There's only one Spartan with that rating."
-Catherine Halsey
Location: Unknown
Year: 2559
"Spartan, its time to wake up." Noble Six heard a female voice say, making the Spartan to open his eyes.
When the Six opened his eyes he was greeted by a dark metallic wall that was similar to those of a Covenant's ship. The Spartan tried to move his arms and legs but quickly found that they were bound in energy shackles.
"I should've mentioned that before, Spartan." The familiar female voice spoke again.
"And who are you?" Six croaked, realizing that his mouth was dry from the lack water or saliva in his mouth.
Once he asked this, he was greeted by a blue female AI avatar in MJOLNIR Mark IV armor. However, the avatar wasn't wearing a helmet and had a short mohawk hairstyle.
"Emilia?" Six asked, his eyes wide open.
"Emilia? Who's Emilia?" The AI asked confused but quickly disregard the Spartan. "No, my name is Sage. I was created by the Office of Naval Intelligence to aid with highly classified missions. That was before I was stolen by the Banished."
"So, you are a spook AI? Mind getting me out of this situation then?" The AI gave Six a smirk before snapping her holographic fingers. The shackles soon disappeared, allowing him to fall to the ground with a loud thud.
Six slowly stood up from the ground, slowly taking a look around the area. The Spartan finding a few Covenant weapon crates along with a few UNSC ones. However, there was one thing caught the Spartan's eyes more than the row of weapons. Lying on a table was the Spartan's Mark V [B] helmet.
Six walked over to the table and picked up the helmet. He quickly gave it a scan, noticing that it was repaired from all of the damage it took during Reach.
"The Covies fixed up my helmet?" Six asked as he put it on.
"Actually, the Banished engineers did. Those things love to fix and take apart technology." Sage answered, making Six shrug.
Six then walked over the weapons, picking out a few for himself. The Spartan grabbed a few plasma grenades, two Type-25 Plasma Rifles, and the Spartan's personal favorite an M45 Tactical Shotgun.
"Sage, where are you?" Six asked as he cocked the shotgun.
"Walk over to the nearest console and I can hook up with you from there," Sage said, making Six look around the room for any type of terminal.
When Six finally found it, he pulled out a data crystal chip, which he carried on him to extract information for certain missions. He placed the chip into the terminal for Sage to transfer into.
"Okay, I'm in." Sage finally spoke again, before being yanked out of the terminal and placed into the Six's helmet. "Roomy."
'I wasn't expecting that.' Six thought, after, what felt like cold liquid fill the insides of his head.
"Most Spartan don't."
"So, you can hear my thoughts now?" Six asked as he opens the room's only door. The Spartan quickly checked the next room for hostiles and luckily enough, he found none.
"You have to love ONI AIs." Sage's avatar appeared on Six's head, flashing him a grin. "Heads up, you have three brutes in the next room."
Six only replied back with ready his shotgun, before opening the door. True to her word, three brute warriors were relaxing and talking to each other in their native tongue. Quickly and without being noticed the Spartan sprinted towards the closest one next to him, before jumping into the air. While in midair, Six aimed the shotgun towards the Brute that was staring at him. The Spartan quickly pulled the trigger, allowing the eight 10x15 pellets enter the alien's skull.
As part of the brute's head was shredded a red paste, Six pulled out a plasma grenade, placing the grenade on the lower part of brute's right shoulder blade. Landing his jump and doing a roll pass the two aliens, Six made sure that he was a good enough distance away from the grenade.
Once back up this feat, Six spun around to face the brute and aimed at the last untouched brute. Before the brute could even blink an eye, the plasma grenade went off, kill both brute warriors.
"Okay, that was pretty awesome." Sage spoke, after witnessing the carnage caused by the Spartan and him using his "Spartan Time."
"Focus, Sage." The Spartan said as he scanned the room a bit, before finding BR-55 Service Rifle leaning next to a wall.
The Spartan picked it up, finding a full magazine loaded into the weapon. However, Six couldn't seem to find any extra ammunition for the battle rifle. Sighing in disappointment, the Spartan place the rifle onto his back, having the magnetic holster secure it into place on his back. The Spartan look around the room once again finding a large bomb used by the Covenant during the war, an antimatter charge.
"Hey, Spartan, I was digging through the Banish files and found something interesting," Sage spoke once more. "Apparently, the Banish has been orbiting a planet that is just like Earth. However, with a few difference. One of them being strange energy surges of an unknown kind and multiple small, isolated explosions."
"All that tells me it's a good place to hold out until we can contact help." Six commented as he walked over to the bomb. "However, in the meantime, this should slow those bastards down. You might want to hold on." Six then activated the bomb.
The antimatter charge began to blink, as Six once activated it. Hopefully, if everything went as planned, Six would have at least three minutes to get off the ship before the explosion.
Sorry about the very late first chapter redux, but I've been busy with work and other things. However, I do hope you guys like this new edition and please leave a comment, favorite, and follow this new story. Also give me your opinion about this new redux, until then, I'm out.
Death Snake signing off.