Part 1:
I was given a mission from the Director to investigate what had happened at Valhalla.
I figure the Director knows what or has something to do with what happened at Valhalla, but I think this is a test mission that other rookie Freelancer's probably had to go through at one point.
When I arrived, I expected Reds and Blues to be battling for their Useless reasons, for they are only simulations for us.
The Covenant was there.
I could see it all, Jackals in the trees, just waiting for a kill. Elites roaming the river area, Grunts inside the bases, looking for something to snack on, and the Brutes. The Brutes were scouting around the whole area. They were the hardest to sneak by. I was wondering why the Director would give out such a mission.
Then I realized. He probably thought that there would only be Reds and Blues like I did.
I was at the red base. I could see the pelican from the platform. Of course, I killed a few grunts to get up there, but it was no biggy.
Then the brutes came.
Two Brutes, both Majors, one with a turret and the other with a gravity hammer.
I only had an Assault Rifle and a Magnum. Luckily, there was a missile pod on the platform, but it was behind the brutes.
I had to get behind them.
The brutes charged towards me and tried to kill me with their Covenant weapons. I was able to swiftly dodge them. I got in between them and picked up the missile pod. I shot them with the missile pod and it ended up hurting me a little as well.
I carried the missile pod and got on the gravity lift.
Part 2:
I landed near the river. Elites. I could still see the Pelican and was ready to investigate, but these Elites weren't ready to let me.
The elites turned around quickly. Each was holding a different weapon.
Plasma Rifle, Plasma Pistol, Beam Rifle, Carbine, and of course, Energy Sword.
They all shot at me at the same time. I shot my rocket pod back at them and killed three of them. I was out of ammo.
I pulled out my Assault Rifle and the Energy Sword elite charged at me. I grabbed the sword with my hand, which hurt badly, but I pulled the sword away from him, grabbed it in the correct place, and stabbed him with it. I jumped over the carbine elite and stabbed him in the back with the Energy sword. I picked up the Carbine and shot at the Jackal Snipers. I watched them fall to the ground. I was headed for the Pelican.
An ODST.
The ODST asked me to leave the area. I had asked him why he was there, and he said his job was to protect the Pelican from "people like me." I asked him how he was still surviving, and sure enough, he had joined up with the Covenant. He saw everything I did there, with the stabbing and the Missiles, and the sniping. Everything. I pulled out my Energy sword again to try and prove to him that I am also joined up with the Covenant, but he knew that I was a Freelancer. Unfortunately for me, his weapon was a shotgun. He lifted up his shotgun and shot but I jumped over the bullet. I then stabbed him with the Energy sword, which did almost nothing. I pulled out my Assault rifle and shot at him from behind. He ran up to me and hit me with his shotgun, pushing me over. I pulled out my Sword again and stabbed the ground for support. I shot him with my assault rifle some more and he wasn't getting hurt at all.
The ODST hadn't taken any damage from any of my weapons. I did the only thing I could. Stand there and do nothing, hoping some reinforcements would come or some Elite would jump off the cliff and stab the ODST. Something did happen. Reinforcements.
For the ODST.
Pelican's dropped off Warthogs and marines were coming out all pointing their Assault Rifles at me. They were quietly speaking to each other. I knew where they were from.
Outpost- 4598, "High Noon."
They kept my armor at High Noon. I had secretly escaped with my armor around a month or two ago.
They were back for me. They didn't want me back for the Freelancers. I heard them mention "Director." For some reason, I believe the Director turned me in. Probably had something to do with Tex.
Agent Texas...
All I could do was surrender to the Marines. I had a plan though. I wasn't just gonna let them take me.
Not without a bang.
Part 3:
They forced me to leave. They carried me into a Pelican and flew off. That ODST was still down there. I needed to figure out how that armor was so strong that even my rockets weren't doing anything. I had a plan to escape the Marines, but the plan didn't include Marines having rocket launchers. I just decided to follow orders and see where things went from there. I still had the slightest feeling that this had something to do with the Director.
We arrived at a POW camp. I was a Prisoner of War. They walked me in, tied my foot to a poll, and gave me a pickaxe. They told me to go mine in the indoor mining area. I had no idea why their mining area would be indoors, but I didn't say anything. I kept on mining for three hours straight. It wasn't much, but it was over a hundred degrees in there, and my armor made me feel even hotter. During that time, I met a guy named Slash. He had been a prisoner for over three years and he had a big scar running down the side of his head. After the three hours, some guards told me to throw my pickaxe on the ground and follow them, and I did. We arrived at an empty glass tube. The guards told me to take my armor off. I asked them why, and they replied, "Just do it," so I refused. They kept ordering me for around five minutes until one guard left the room. The other guard continued to order me for about two minutes until the guard came back with a shotgun. He told me to take off my armor or he would shoot.
I forgot about a little something I had in my suit. They told me to drop my guns, but they never said anything about Grenades.
Part 4:
I pulled out a grenade. The Marines ran off, dropping there weapons. I picked up there weapons and started to walk away. A red light started flashing, followed by an alarm. I ran down the long grey hallway until I reached the cells. I grabbed the keys and opened up all of the cages. The prisoners ran out quickly. I stopped Slash and gave him a magnum. Slash stopped the prisoners and told them to let us go first. We got ahead of them and ran toward the main Armor room. My armor room was kept in a special room since I was a Freelancer. There were four marines guarding the main armor room. What I was surprised by was, "Why aren't they sending any more guards on us." The Marines pulled out their Assault Rifles and screeched some high pitch sound. I don't know what the sound was, but it must have been a code that let other marines know to come out. We were surrounded. There weren't that many of us either, only around twenty, counting Slash and I.
The Marines told us to drop our weapons, but we didn't. I walked closer to a Marine with the shotgun and the Marine threatened to shoot me. I grabbed the Marines Assault Rifle and pulled it out of his hand. The Marines started to shoot at me and I threw the Assault Rifle in the medium sized crowd of prisoners. A prisoner named Hatch caught it and started to fire at the Marines. Slash was firing his pistol at the Marines and I ran up to Marines and shot them with the shotgun. The other prisoners started to beat up the Marines and steal their weapons. They all started shooting. We lost about two guys and killed all of the Marines. Slash and I ran down to the armor room and the prisoners picked up different Marine armor pieces such as the helmet and the chest piece. When we arrived at the Armor room, I was amazed by how many different armors there were in there. There were ones from the Default Armor to the Mark VI Armor. There were over a thousand different customizations in here! We walked down the room for around three minutes until we finally arrived at Slash's armor tube. His armor was Scout helmet, Sniper Shoulders, Multi-Threat Armor, Tactical Hard Case, Gold Visor, and the rest was default. The suit was green with a red secondary color. I tried to open up the tube, but it needed a code. I tried many different codes and none of them seemed to work. Hatch was an excellent hacker, so I let him do his job and sent five guys to guard the main entrance. We didn't seem to have any Marines come over. We finally hacked the device and opened up the tube. We gave Slash time to put on his armor and we ran back to the indoor mining area. Nobody was there either. I figured something was up, but I didn't know what. We picked up all the pickaxes and ran back to the cells. We had two guys on guard duty while everyone else tried to dig us a way out. It took us about an hour, but we finally got a path out. We climbed out of the hole and looked up. The sky. The clear blue sky. Slash started to cry. He had been there for three years and was now finally out. We looked back down.
"Freeze!"
I finally figured out where all those Marines went. They knew our plan. It was a trap.
Part 5:
They knew our plan. It was a trap.
"Everyone. Get ready to aim. Fire!" I shouted this to all of the prisoners. They all fired as told. The Marines fired back with their battle rifles. Slash had stolen an equipment from the armor room that used to belong to a Marine Super-Soldier. It wasn't allowed in battle anymore, but Slash was about to use it. Slash started to power up. He told me to cover him. A sniper was on the rooftop, about to shoot at Slash. I threw a plasma and just barley missed. I tried to block Slash. Slash told me that he was ready and I jumped on top of him. He stopped charging and ran at an extreme speed up the wall, while I was still holding on. I threw a few grenades down at the Marines. When Slash finally got up, I hopped off of Slash and rolled into the sniper. Slash grabbed the sniper's back when he fell and cracked his neck. Slash picked up the sniper rifle and started to snipe the pilots of the Hornets and Falcons. I saw something the Marine had brought up with him. A transmitter. I looked up and saw the Frigate getting ready to fire at the transmitter. I picked up the transmitter and threw it at the Marines. The Frigate fired down on the Marines and only a few were remaining. Slash sniped the rest of them and I jumped back down to the prisoners. Five more snipers came out of the rooftops around us and started to snipe the prisoners. I told the prisoners to pick up some Battle Rifles from the Marines. They did and started shooting at the snipers. Slash sniped one and did a backflip to keep one from coming up to his rooftop. He then sniped the sniper and stayed on watch. We killed the rest of the snipers and two Warthogs came up, one Machine Gun and the other one a Guass. They both started to fire at us and Slash threw me the equipment. Slash kept sniping incoming Falcons and Hornets and I put on the equipment. The prisoners shot at the Warthogs and I charged up the equipment. The prisoners made a big circle around me and I told one to get on my back.
"Ready."
I stopped charging and I ran at an extreme speed toward the Guass hog. Once I hit the Guass hog, the prisoner jumped off and landed on the Machine Gun turret of the other Warthog. I had sent the Guass hog flying into a building and then Slash sniped it a few times until it exploded. I saw a pelican coming in. I told everyone to hold their fire. When the back of the Pelican opened, a familiar looking ODST came out.
And he spoke. He said to me, "Remember me?"
It was him from Valhalla. I made a fist and pointed at the ODST and everyone started to fire at him. He had brought a flamethrower. He tried to burn me with the flamethrower but I jumped over the flames. I slid toward him and punched his stomach which had no effect on him. I finally knew what to do. I backflipped into the crowd of alive prisoners and told them to cover me. Slash was gone. The pelican was lifting off. Slash came back out with a Missile Pod and shot at the Pelican. The Pelican started to crash. It crashed into a few buildings and exploded. I told the prisoners to watch out and stopped charging. They got out of the way. I ran at an extreme speed toward the ODST. He was stronger than I thought. He was able to hold off my speed. So I backflipped again, but I had saved a little energy. I ran at an extreme speed again but this time instead of bumping into him, I punched his glass. Glass shards went everywhere. Slash threw the Missile Pod at the ODST, pushing him back a little. I grabbed the Missile Pod, aimed for the ODST's face, and shot. I had finally killed him. Only five prisoners were left, not counting me or Slash. We ran toward the prison garage and I shot the door with the Missile Pod. We jumped through the hole and there were two warthogs there. That would leave one person. I told all the prisoners to get in the Warthogs. Slash got in the side. I told them to wait an hour and protect me, because I was going to charge up my equipment so I could run with them.
One Hour.
Part 6:
One Hour Later
I was charged up as much as I needed to be. I would run as fast as the Warthogs, and I could smash into incoming enemies. I was glad I was running instead of sitting in a Warthog.
"Go!"
The Warthogs drove at full speed and I ran with them. Three Hornets were behind us. The turrets fired at the Hornets. Three Super ODST's jumped off of the Hornet and landed on a truck behind us. One had a sniper rifle, the other a shotgun, and another brought down a machine gun turret. The Shotgun one jumped on a Warthog. I started to slow down and got behind the truck. I ran fast into the truck which pushed it off the bridge we were on. The turret fell with it, but everyone was fine. One ODST now had no weapon. He jumped on Slash's Warthog and started to punch the driver. Slash got on top of the Warthog and kicked the ODST off. The Sniper ODST sniped the driver and killed him which made the Warthog lose control. Slash grabbed the prisoners body and threw it at the ODST, pushing him a little. Slash hopped into the driver seat and started to shoot his magnum behind him. One Hornet was down. I jumped onto another Hornet and broke open the cockpit. I threw a sticky at the pilot which killed him and exploded the Hornet. I started running again. The Sniper was running across the edge of the bridge, which was pretty high up. He was sniping the prisoner Warthog, but he kept missing. The Shotgun ODST jumped on Slash's Warthog and kicked the turret guy out. The turret guy was dead. Slash shot the shotgun ODST and punched him in the crotch. The ODST fell off and landed on me. He started to shoot me with his shotgun. I told the turret guy to shoot at him and he did. The Marine threw a grenade in the Warthog. The prisoner in the side threw it backwards, which made a civilian car lose control. I jumped up and turned upside down. I continued to fall. The ODST was still on me. I turned onto my back and hit the ground, killing the ODST. I was hurt though. I crawled into the side of Slash's Warthog and shot at the sniper ODST with a Battle Rifle. I pushed him off the bridge and all three super ODST's were down. Slash kept driving at full speed.
"Bail!"Slash and I jumped out of the Warthog and landed on the back of a truck. The Warthog crashed into the truck which pushed it a little. Slash and I started to fire at the last Hornet. The Hornet started to fire back. It shot missiles at the back of the truck. It pushed the truck and now the truck was on fire. I climbed to the top of the truck and Slash threw me the Sniper Rifle. I saw an ODST Warthog come up. I only had one bullet for the Sniper. I waited for a while and shot the pilot of the Hornet. The Hornet fell down and hit the Warthog, blowing up both. The prisoner Warthog drove up next to us. I threw the Sniper Rifle back to Slash. He pulled out his Magnum and aimed behind us. I pulled out a Shotgun and opened up the passenger seat of the truck. The man inside screamed and I kicked him out of the truck. He landed on the bridge safely and I got in the driver seat. Slash hung over the passenger seat and took my Battle Rifle. A Scorpion was waiting on the end of the bridge. Slash took my equipment and ran over to the Scorpion. He shot the driver and got into it. He shot at some incoming Hornets. A Pelican was coming in. It landed near the Scorpion and Agent California hopped out. He saw my truck coming up. I got to the Pelican and hopped out of the truck. I asked California if I could bring the prisoners and Slash along for now and he said alright. We all hopped into the Pelican and flew off. Back to the Mother of Invention.