Noble Remains
(A RWBY/HALO CROSSOVER)
[Because Why Not.]
Stuff at top of page is important
Will include O.C's, currently just Rho
(This is a blend between 1st person and 3rd person writing styles, primarily only for action scenes though, the first person style is because I find it easier to visualise if seen through the characters eyes)
(Slight A.U. Halo Reach where Noble Six has an A.I.)
Before we get started here is a quick character design/overview for the characters that don't have a fixed design. Also I am Australian, so for any readers that find that I might include extra letters for some words (honour, valour) or different spellings for words (metre, meter [distance] tyre, tire) please note that it is only because that's the way I learnt the words.
Appearances-
Six's Armour (Male) :
Helmet: - HAZOP w/ cBRN/HUL attachment.
Left shoulder: - Jump Jet
Right Shoulder: - EVA
Chest: - Tactical/Recon
Wrist: - UA/Bracer
Utility: - Tactical/Hardcase
Knee guards: - FJ/Para
Visor Colour: - Default
Primary Armour Colour: - Rust
Secondary Armour Colour: - Brick
Emblem:
Foreground: - Wolf
Background: - Buzzsaw
Primary Emblem Colour: - Blue
Secondary Emblem Colour: - Cobalt or Maroon
Background Emblem Colour: - White
RHO Appearance:
Male, late teens/ early twenties. Gun-metal Grey windbreaker jacket with white UNSC symbol on left breast zipped halfway up with a dark onyx undershirt, Crimson long pants, Dark Red flight boots. All articles of clothing have wiry lines running along them, that move towards head. All wires are heading towards and into a pair of eyes without irises. These wires and eyes reflect Rho's mood/feelings/thoughts by changing colour to suite what he is thinking/feeling e.g. turning red when he is angry, the neutral colour for these wires is a warm orange. Shoulder length, Wine Red hair with the same wires interjected every few strands. Lilac skin complexion. Has a playful, curious and inquisitive nature but can turn deathly serious when the time calls for such things or when he needs to be.
Ruby was looking forward to this mission, sure it was a simple Grimm extermination mission in the Emerald Forest, but nothing was ever simple when team RWBY was involved. Inside the Bullhead, the other members of team RWBY were preparing for the coming fight, Yang was checking on Ember Celica, Blake was stuck into a book, 'The man with Souls' or something, Ruby really didn't care, and Weiss was droning on about Dust application or something. She could not wait to sink her baby into some Grimm.
CHAPTER 1:
Arrival
"No other outcome would be worthy, warrior. You have fought well."
The last memories, the fall of Reach.
"Spartan."
Seven Elites, six Elites, five Elites, four Elites, three Elites.
"Spartan, wake up."
He remembered, one Ultra held him down, a Zealot readying its energy dagger. To kill him.
"Spartan. Wake up."
Were it so easy…
"Spartan. Wake up!"
Noble Six opened his eyes, but what he saw was not what he expected. Around him, he expected to see the glassed surface of Reach but instead he saw a lush forest.
"Thank god, Spartan B312, are you capable, acknowledge."
Turning to his left, Six saw the UNSC A.I construct assigned to him, RHO 0313-8.
"Spartan! Are you capable, acknowledge." Rho repeated his question.
"Acknowledged Rho, where are we?"
"Unknown Six, we may be on a colonised world although I detect no U.N.S.C satellite or transceiver signals so for now we can only go by what we find till we reach a U.N.S.C outpost. The surrounding forest gives evidence of the planet having a breathable atmosphere. So, you don't have to rely on the limited air supply available by your suit." Rho answered.
"Affirmative, any other info that could be useful?"
"Not enough data has been compiled to give accurate readings so far. Wait, Six, check your motion tracker. Four unknowns are closing in from the north, and fast at that, 50 metres out. Prepare for possible hostile engagement."
"Affirmative Rho."
I stood from my position on the ground. Standing, I waited for what was to come.
"30 metres."
All I could hope for was that these were not the Covenant.
"10 metres."
Suddenly, out of the thick brush came four…things, they resembled black wolves that stood on their hind legs with bone faceplates and red eyes, spiked bone protrusions lined their forearms as well as at the elbows and knees, and along the spine, and stood at 6ft tall.
"These do not look like anything recorded in the UNSC, UEG or ONI databases, they are an unknown. They may be hostile, do not drop your guard." Rho said.
The wolves fanned out around me. One of the wolves feigned an attack, trying to intimidate me.
"Rho, what armour abilities do I have?" I asked to Rho.
"Let me see, ooh, you're gonna like this, you have quite a few on hand to use, with improved effectiveness too. Even able to use multiple at once, and change armour colours at just a thought." Rho answered.
"Are you able to redistribute system power into other functions like over-shields?"
"Affirmative."
"This'll be fun. Put it in sprint."
Using the sprint ability, I ran at a medium pace of 25km/h at the closest wolf and planted my right fist firmly through its skull, killing it instantly. The three other wolves just stood, staring at what I did to the other wolf before moving towards me, one at a time. Even Unggoy are smarter in their tactics. As the second one got to me I pulled my fist out of the first one's skull and wrapped my hand around the things throat and crushed it. The third and fourth one seemed to grow some smarts as they attacked in tandem, I threw the second one's body at the third wolf, knocking it back, allowing the fourth one to bite my upper arm, taking out about 2/3rds of my over-shields away, I pried the thing off my arm and grabbed its jaws and snapped them back, up and down, breaking its jaw before delivering a quick left jab to its chest, knocking it back. The Third one recovered at this point.
"I have a request Spartan. Please leave this one identifiable, we need a sample to study for the UNSC database."
"No promises."
The third and fourth wolves regrouped and surrounded me on both sides, third wolf in front and fourth wolf behind. I focused on the third wolf, I kept my eye on the inbuilt motion tracker in my helmet. The third wolf lunged at me.
"Rho, Evade."
"Affirmative Six."
I rolled under the wolf and struck it in the leg, breaking the bone, the fourth wolf lashed out with its paw, rolling under the attack, I jumped onto the things back and snapped its neck, killing it. I turned to the last one, I only now realised I was a good head or two taller than it. The Wolf started to howl in an act of attempted intimidation. The wolf then ignored its broken leg and attempted to pounce on me. I caught it mid leap and slammed it into the ground, then, I unloaded onto its chest, breaking its ribs and sternum. Killing it.
"Good job Noble Six." Rho complimented. Rho flickered into view by the wolf that was just killed.
"Interesting, they appear to be aggressive terrestrial mammalian fauna that resembles the representations and descriptions of Lycanthropes in old stories except with these bone protrusions coming from the skin of the animal, they seem to prefer to act alone while they can act together if they must. They also seem to try to employ intimidation tactics as evidenced by that howl this one elicited before. Six could you please direct your helmet camera to a more advantageous position for documentation, please could you inspect the face plate? This is exemplar, a new species for documentation." Rho tapered off at the end, seeing the black wolf start to dispel in a cloud of smoke. All Rho could get at that was a confused "What?"
Both Six and Rho turned around to find the other wolves dissolving as well.
"This, is highly irregular, in the meantime Six, I recommend you find a weapon. I have detected two UNSC issue weapons signatures in the vicinity that I have marked and recommend you pick them up. I also detect traces of a Covenant T1 EW/S but it appears that it has very low charge and subsequently needs to be charged. Alongside two M9 HE/DP Fragmentation Grenades and two T1 APG Plasma Grenades."
Six gazed around the relatively small clearing for the weapons Rho had marked, and after four seconds found them. A M392 AM-DMR, and a M6G AM-Magnum, two Frag Grenades, two Sticky's, and what one can only describe as alien-looking brass knuckles if they didn't know any better and clipped the pistol and 'brass knuckles' to the magnetic holsters on his armour alongside the four grenades. After doing so Rho started up again.
"Alright, Six I recommend you search fo-."
Before Rho could finish 20 more of the spiked lycanthropes (as Rho temporarily named them) alongside a slightly larger one with more spikes protruding and stood around the height of a small Elite came out of the surrounding foliage followed by four black bears with the same spikes as the wolves and stood at the height of a Brute, adjoined by another black bear, this time the height of the Mgalekgolo with even more spines and plates of bone on its back came into the clearing.
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"You know? I'm beginning to believe that howl earlier simply wasn't meant for intimidation…Fascinating! They must hold a pack mentality of sorts, this is truly"
"RHO."
"Apologies Spartan."
With that, Six engaged the pack.
"So, Ruby. What are we doing out here again?" Yang asked, Causing Weiss to sigh in annoyance.
"Well my dearest sister, what we are doing out here… is uh… what we are doing out here is, something Weiss will explain, Weiss?" This caused Weiss to sigh even harder.
"How could you two forget?" Weiss exclaimed with annoyance, "We are here to clear out a large number of Grimm that has been spotted in this area to make sure that the threat of Grimm is lowered and manageable, Professor Ozpin chose us to diligently complete this mission for the school." Weiss answered. A Beowolf howl could be heard in the distance although Team RWBY was too caught up in their conversation to hear it.
"Uuuhh." Ruby didn't quite get the meaning.
"She means it's extra credit." Blake decided to translate Weiss for Ruby.
"You can't prove that."
"Well anyways Weiss, how many Grimm are there supposed to be?" Ruby decided to ask.
"The briefing we got said there would be around 30 to 40 Grimm. How could you forget this?" Weiss asked.
"Because we're bored!" came the two sisters replies. Gunshots could be heard in the distance. Too quiet to be heard over RWBY's conversations, except for the lone Faunus of the group who was getting increasingly suspicious.
"Well Weiss, answer me this then, where are they? We haven't met a single Grimm this whole time." Yang questioned Weiss.
"Guys." Blake started trying to get her teams attention.
"I…uh, don't know." Was Weiss's answer.
"Guys."
"Well, since there aren't any Grimm I'd say that's score one for Team RWBY, right Ruby?"
"Yes Yang, I agree score one for Team RWBY!" Ruby happily shouted.
"Guys!"
"Geez what is it Blake, no need to yell." Yang answered.
"Listen, do you guys hear that?" Blake replied.
The rest of Team RWBY started straining their ears to listen for what Blake could hear, then they too heard it, a steady stream of gunshots followed by the sound of, breaking electricity?
"Is anyone else supposed to be in this forest?" Weiss asked.
"Who cares?" came Ruby's reply as she turned to face her team, "They might be being attacked by the Grimm and need help, and it's our duty as Huntresses,"
"In-Training." Blake interjected.
"In Training," Ruby continued, "to help them no matter what. Now let's go help them."
"Yeah, that's my sister." Yang cheered.
"Alright, go Team RWBY." Ruby said as she turned around to see an Ursa Major coming towards them.
All of Team RWBY cocked their respective weapons at the sight, except for the leader, who was staring at it intently.
"Wait." Came Ruby's voice as the rest of Team RWBY looked at their leader with puzzled expressions. Yang broke the silence.
"Why?"
"Look at it."
Upon closer inspection of the Ursa, one could see small slash wounds that were still fresh all over its front that looked like they came from a fairly small blade, like a dagger or a knife, and it wasn't looking at them, it more seemed focused on getting something off of its back. What, Team RWBY couldn't tell as the Ursa got closer to them.
"What's up with it?" Yang asked her team. The Ursa was still a fair distance away from them, 30 metres at most.
"I don't know," came Blake's reply, "It looks like it's…panicked."
"Well of course, we're here." Came Yang's reply, accompanied by a grin.
"Focus." Weiss said from beside Yang. Spinning Myrtenaster's chamber, readying to attack.
"Don't attack."
"What? Why Ruby, there's one of it and four of us, why are we not attacking?" Weiss asked.
"Yeah sis', I agree with Ice Queen "HEY" on this one, it'll be easy." Yang said.
"Because I said." Came Ruby's reply. 'I'm sure I saw something on that Ursa's back'
The Ursa was now ten metres from Team RWBY's position.
"Ruby we need to kill it now." Came Blake's voice.
"Wait."
"Ruby, it is getting closer, we need to kill it now!" came Weiss's shrill voice
"Not yet."
"Ru-"
"Graaagh."
The sound of the Ursa dying brought Team RWBY's attention back to the Grimm just in time to see it fall over dead leaving to reveal a large man in heavy armour on the Ursa's neck with a small knife plunged up to the hilt straight through the back of the Ursa's skull plate.
Team RWBY looked on, gazing at the peculiar site in front of them. They were able to clearly see the back of the Grimm, which had countless stab wounds in its back, all around the neck area, but they were all aimed towards where one would expect to find important veins and arteries. The overall ruthlessness of the kill slightly unnerved them. The man had Orange armour with red highlights, with one large shoulder pad and one small shoulder pad. The man until this point was unmoving until he pulled the knife out of the Ursa's skull and returned it to a sheath on his left breastplate, he then shifted off the Ursa with a roll to the right and pulled out a pistol like none of the girls had ever seen.
The spikey black bear finally fell over after six managed to stab it through the back of the skull, killing it, would have been easier if he hadn't had to use the last of the T1 EW/S on one of the bears that managed to get on top of him. The voice of Rho came online after this.
"Six, four more unknowns, eight metres ahead."
"Are they more of these things?"
"It does not appear to be so, unknown if hostile or not. Take precautionary measures."
"Got it."
Six put his blade back and rolled to his left off the bear, drawing his Magnum while doing so. In front of him were four children, each dressed primarily in a single colour, and it appeared that each had a weapon. They were looking at him and whispering between themselves, which he could easily hear.
"What is it?" the one dressed in yellow asked the others.
"I don't know, maybe it's a new Atlesian Knight and it's being tested?" the one in red guessed.
"No you dolt, at least, I don't think it is." The one in white chipped in.
At least there are no language barriers. The one in black was standing unusually still. Six started taking glances at his motion tracker.
"Look at its chest on the left side, it has an emblem on it, maybe it's a huntsman?" the red one guessed.
The word choice was confusing to say the least. Had they not heard of the SPARTANS?
"What about the otherside, there's writing on it, un, uns, unsc. What's an UNSK?" the yellow one asked
This got Six's attention. Before he could question them, he saw movement on his motion tracker directly to his left. Getting closer, within 10 metres.
"What do you think Blake?" the red one asked to the one clad in black.
When the movement was within seven metres to Six, he turned and fired two warning shots right next to its head. It was the girl clad in black.
Blake decided to use her semblance to try and look at the giant man from another angle while it was still looking away, she managed to slip away and to the right of him, her teammates noticed this except Ruby it seemed. Blake was about 50 feet from it when it moved and drew its pistol, she crept in closer, trying to stay silent while her teammates kept its attention away from her. They seemed to be doing a good job of distracting it, she was now within 30 feet, trying to get a better view. Blake moved in closer, going slowly and silently, making no sound as she approached. She moved in another ten feet, truly taking in the things height as she crept in. Blake was incredibly close now as the thing suddenly turned directly towards her and fired two shots at her that went within centimetres of her ears that startled her and caused her to fall backwards and dissipate her shadow clone. The thing seemed to know she was there the whole time.
"Blake!" she heard Yang yell. The thing seemed to flicker before starting off towards her, she heard the discharge of Ember Celica as Yang came barrelling towards the armoured thing, she made to hit it when she passed straight through it like it wasn't there to begin with. The girls got slightly more afraid by this. A loud, young sounding male voice started booming through the trees.
"Those shots were a warning, attempt anything else like that again and the next shots WILL hit their mark."
The forest was silent for a few seconds as Team RWBY let the words sink in. Ruby was the first to reply.
"We're sorry, could you please come out, we won't hurt you."
They heard a depressed laugh followed by the words "Like you ever could."
The girls were starting to question truly who this man was.
"Again, we are sorry so could you"
"Where is the nearest U.N.S.C outpost." The thi… man, interrupted Ruby with a question, although it sounded more like a demand than a question.
"The nearest what?"
"Dammit." Six cursed.
"Well this is certainly an interesting development." Rho chimed in. "How could they be this developed, even speak the same language… as us at least, yet not have any idea who the U.N.S.C are?"
"Who's that?" they heard the one in white ask.
"Ask them who their affiliations are."
"Got it Rho."
Team RWBY heard the man call out again.
"Who are you and who are you affiliated with?"
This one sounded more like a question.
"Affiliated?" Ruby asked her team confused at the word
"It means who do you represent." came Weiss' reply.
"Uuuhh… I'm… I am Ruby Rose. Leader of Team RWBY and we are affiliated with Beacon Academy." Ruby then whispered to her team though due to his implants, Six could still hear her. "Guys, introduce yourselves, show him he can trust us." Ruby said to her teammates.
"Why?" Yang responded with an angered tone of voice. "He shot at Blake."
"I shot at 'Blake' as you call her, because she was flanking me, I don't care for the reason. I've been fighting for too many hours to even allow her the thought of getting closer to my position when…" The man trailed off, Team RWBY didn't know why. But what he said got them curious. What did he mean by 'fighting for too many hours'?
The unknown man started again. "Tell me, Ruby, what is the name of this planet?"
"Remnant, why? Everyone knows that." Came the young girls reply.
After a few seconds the man started again. "Lower your weapons to show you mean no threat, and I will do the same. Once I know you have complied with this, I will come out. Do you agree to these terms?"
"Yes."
The unknown man started again. "Tell me, Ruby, what is the name of this planet?"
"Remnant, why? Everyone knows that." Came the young girls reply.
"Rho."
"On it SPARTAN. There are no recordings of a planet named Remnant in any of the databases, this is an unregistered planet that the UNSC has never visited before. This is an extraordinary find. Let's see if we can meet a head of state or a representative of this planet. Ask if they are space-faring to."
"Ok Rho." Six turned the speakers on in his helmet again to address the girls. "Lower your weapons to show you mean no threat, and I will do the same. Once I know you have complied with this, I will come out. Do you agree to these terms?"
"Yes." Was the reply.
"Yes." Ruby called out to the man, wherever he was. She then turned to her teammates, "Ok guys, lower your weapons." The rest of Team RWBY complied to their leader's order.
"What are we going to do Ruby?" Weiss asked.
"Take him to Professor Ozpin. If he agrees of course, it just seems like the best course of action."
They were drawn back to the voice as the man appeared between some of the trees, his armour forest and sage green before diluting back into orange and a bright red as he started walking towards them with a rifle lowered in front of him.
"Alright. Ruby, could you take me to your supervisor then."
"Su-sure yes right away, Yang call a Bullhead. Oh, and Ozpin." Ruby replied, caught off guard by the man's height, standing a full foot taller than even Yang, who was the tallest of the group of four girls, so he was quite intimidating to one of the shortest of the group. Ruby was going to continue but she saw three Beowolves charging up behind him, two normal Beowolves and one Alpha. The rest of RWBY saw them too but before they could do anything the man turned around and shot both junior Beowolves through the eyes, one bullet each, killing them. The Alpha Beowolf was extremely close now so the man put his rifle on his back. 'Must use something similar to Crescent Rose.' Ruby thought. To the girl's amazement the man proceeded to tackle the Beowolf to the ground and quickly drew his Magnum, firing three rounds point blank directly into its skull. The girls watched as he just stood up like taking down an Alpha Beowolf by tackling it and shooting it in the skull three times was nothing big. The Bullhead arrived at this moment.
"That it?" the man asked.
"Yeah," came Ruby's reply, "Uum, what's your name?" Ruby asked.
"My name is classified until I retire or am listed M.I.A. My callsign is Sierra-B312, call me Six." Came Six's reply. This confused Ruby but, she just wanted to get back to her bed in her teams room.
With that, Team RWBY boarded the Bullhead with a very large man in tough looking full body armour, to a very confused pilot and started off towards Beacon.
That is Chapter one done, please tell me what you thought, what i did right in your eyes, what I did wrong etc. for a fledgling writer, no criticism is to harsh or invaluable... unless you completely shoot the idea down, like a falcon. But in anycase, please tell me what you thought.
Also if someone could tell me what genres this should be categorised in please let me know because currently it is only Sci-Fi
