A/N: Rebooted and remade!
Chapter 1: Eden
Spartan Locke sat in a pelican, holding his helmet, oddly feeling a sense of déjà vu as well. The Spartan IV looked up and saw his team loading up. Tanaka noticed Locke's stare.
"You alright Locke?" Tanaka asked
Locke nodded and placed his helmet on "Yeah…just had a feeling of déjà vu."
Buck turned to the two "I was about to say that too!"
Vale checked her SMG "Make that three."
Locke turned to Tanaka, the woman looked back "Yeah… me too." Locke stood up and grabbed a Battle Rifle, attaching a Sentinel sight and grabbing a Magnum as well. "Let's go Osiris."
Vale opened the Pelican doors and saw the bioluminescent forest in front of them, she jumped down, followed by the rest of Osiris.
"Wow, this place looks beautiful…" Vale complimented
Buck touched a plant and it reacted with a slow show of colors. "Heh, Locke look at this!" Buck continued tapping it, suddenly rotting and dying, causing a shock between the team. Then a couple of laughs.
"Buck you killed it." Tanaka chuckled
"No, no. It died, but I didn't kill it!" Buck defended himself
Locke continued walking and saw a giant tree trunk acting as a bridge over a ravine, he looked back to Osiris and saw them standing there. "Tanaka, take point." Locke ordered
Tanaka rolled her eyes and walked down the trunk, she turned around and walked backwards, somewhat mocking the rest. "It can hold, people" The rest of the team walked down, Locke being quite slow on the walk.
"Hey, guys look!" Vale pointed up, seeing a small little creature looking at them.
Locke smiled and continued walking, only to hear rocks falling, he turned to the noise and saw the small creature falling. "I got it!" Locke threw himself towards the small creature and grabbed it mid-air, he fell towards the ledge and held on to it. The small floofer squeaked as it was in Locke's arm "You mind helping Osiris?" Locke spoke, Buck ran to Locke and held on to his arm, Tanaka and Vale assisted and hoisted their leader up.
The floofer wiggled out of Locke's arm and practically stuck onto him.
"Aw, he likes you Locke!" Vale spoke
Locke stared at the floofer and chuckled "Alright, on me…"
(UNSC Infinity)
Lasky stood over his holographic table, slightly stressed and seeing his troops in positions around a forerunner structure. "Commander Palmer, What's Osiris's status?"
"They have a visual on the structure." Palmer spoke "And they found a floof."
Lasky turned around "What?"
"They found a small creature, but they're advancing on the forerunner structure." Palmer spoke
Lasky sighed "Ok…oh god."
Palmer walked next to Lasky "Hey, Lasky…take a break. I'll take over."
Lasky nodded "Alright, I'll take a break."
(Osiris)
Locke aimed his sentinel sight, getting a closer look at the forerunner structure, seeing a white promethean soldier walking around the area. "Soldiers patrolling around, be careful."
Vale looked around and saw a small girl followed by the soldier "Is that a girl?"
Buck stared in the same direction "Yeah…why is she bein' followed by that soldier?"
"I think the soldier is her bodyguard…" Tanaka spoke "And she has some animal ears."
Vale started walking towards the girl, Locke immediately noticed "Vale, what are you doing!?"
"Don't worry about it…i got this" Vale spoke
Vale walked through the field, she saw the little notice her, the promethean soldier noticed and stood in front of the little girl, aiming at Vale with a suppressor.
"No, White wait!" the little girl spoke, she looked at Vale "Who are you?"
Vale kneeled down "I'm Olympia Vale, who are you?"
Locke saw the scene unfold "Commander Palmer, Vale just found a girl here."
"A girl?" Palmer was slightly confused
Locke saw Vale patting the girl in the head "Yeah, body guarded by a promethean soldier."
"What?"
"I don't know either…" Locke spoke
"Mary? That's a cute name." Vale spoke "Is this your friend?"
Mary nodded rapidly "Yep, his name is white…because he glows white!"
"Oh…ok. How did you become friends with him?" Vale asked, the promethean looked around the field.
"Solidarity told him to be with me." Mary explained "Do you want to meet him?"
Vale nodded "Sure, can I bring friends?"
Mary lit up "Yes!"
Vale turned around and started waving at the rest of Osiris, the team emerged from the bushes and slowly walked towards the forerunner structure.
"I really thought we would have to shoot our way in…" Buck spoke
Locke nodded "Yeah…Tanaka, inform Palmer we're entering." Tanaka nodded and did as told. Locke's little floofer waddled next to the promethean, looking back at Locke.
163 Breathing Solidarity flew around his installation, seeing an anomaly in orbit. "Could they be here already?"
"Solidarity!" Mary shouted
Breathing Solidarity noticed "Mary? What has happened?"
Mary smiled "I found new friends!" Breathing Solidarity noticed a Spartan IV fireteam with her.
"You're here!" Breathing Solidarity cheered "But where are the rest of the UNSC?" Solidarity wondered "Are they in orbit?"
"Yeah, we didn't know if we should've trusted you…" Locke answered
Breathing Solidarity floated to the hallway "Well, considering the current events…that would be a good assumption" Osiris followed the Monitor
"So, why'd you contact us?" Tanaka asked
"For help" Breathing Solidarity spoke "That A.I, took my Guardian! And if she isn't stopped she will cause total chaos."
"Tell us something we don't know." Buck said "Besides any existential questions."
"Uh…well then, I have a plan to combat the various stolen Guardians." Breathing solidarity announced
"What's it involve?" Vale asked
Breathing Solidarity showed a hologram of a hawk-like construct "I have hastily created a counter to the Guardians" the Hologram lit up "The Keepers."
Tanaka stared at it "What do they do?"
"They negate the Guardians EMP effects and sends a signal that infiltrates the Forerunner system and completely destroys it from the inside." Breathing Solidarity answered
Buck whistled "Wow, that's pretty cool."
Breathing Solidarity floated towards a giant ominous door at the hallway "But there is a problem."
Locke was noticeably concerned "What's the problem?"
"The Keeper Protocol activation is in a far planet, very different from any you've seen." Breathing Solidarity spoke "But I cannot remotely activate it from here. That is where you come in."
"What do you need?" Vale asked
"I will transport you to the world, there you will have to search for the activation Protocol codes, when you find them, use this." Breathing Solidarity generated a small device on Locke's hand "Press it and it will direct you to the planet's portal back here"
Locke inspected it and placed it on his hip. "Alright, is there anything else we should know?"
Breathing Solidarity turned back to them "Not much, just don't touch their ears. I'll set up everything, tell the infinity that they can enter the atmosphere, it is very dangerous out there." The monitor floated away
Locke watched as it floated away "Buck, call in the infinity, tell em to come down."
(6 hours later)
Locke held a data pad, looking at a list of names "Are we sure about taking some people? We can handle this."
Vale stood there with her arms crossed "We could use the help, four people to search for a activation code around a world."
Locke sighed "Alright, round up the people, meet up at the portal room."
Vale nodded and walked out the room, Locke in turn walked towards the portal room. He saw the UNSC settling in the forerunner structure. He saw the portal room and entered, seeing the rest of Osiris and Palmer. Locke walked to a nearby crate and grabbed a battle rifle, along with a shotgun.
"We ready Locke?" Tanaka asked
"When Vale comes back with the rest of the group." Locke answered
The door to the room opened and saw Vale with two ODST's and a Marine. "Here they are Locke." Vale greeted
Locke scanned the three soldiers, the first ODST, Apollo 'Hex' Suraya, a real fanatic of SMG's and small arms, pitch black somewhat shaved hair, brown skin and brown eyes.
Welsh Miranda, Long red hair, pure blue eyes and sand skin. The other ODST, happy to use any weapon type, but taking a preference to the DMR, but consistently removed the long optic for the recon.
The Marine, Lex Yin. short brown hair, sand skin and green eyes. He was quite young but ready to fight against anything to save the galaxy from the created.
"Alright, troopers." Locke spoke "We're about to go to an unknown territory, we don't know what lies behind that portal." Locke pointed to the portal "This is your last chance to back out, it is acceptable to leave, so who ain't coming?"
Lex spoke out "I'm coming with, I'm not going anywhere."
Welsh nodded "I'm with the Marine, me too."
Apollo stood there, somewhat silently but spoke "Let's roll!"
Locke nodded and turned to Breathing Solidarity "We ready Monitor?"
Breathing Solidarity activated the portal "Quite."
Locke stared at the portal and his blue VISR lit up, he noticed the floofer next to him, then back at the portal.
"Let's move team."
A/N: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
