The Phantom shoke hard as it broke through the atmosphere, it's inhabitants hanging onto their seats tightly. The large carrier ship finally settled down, a sign that they are now offically on the planet and heading to the drop zone. A small grunt in shiny purple armor gripped his handle bars even tighter. This would be his first fire fight. Deep breaths of methane from his nose tube filled his mind, trying to slow his heart beat.
A stubby finger touched his hand. The grunt turned his head to face his extremely close neighbor. " Everything will be Ok! Supap, just stick by me and we will make it! " Xepop almost had to shout over the engines. Supap nodded and closed his eyes, catching his breaths and mind. Slowly opening them again, Supap looked around in the ship.
The inside of the ship was mostly dark, except for small purple lights on the head's each seat, giving off just enough light for each soldier to check himself before heading out. All around him was other Unngoy and some Kig-Yar. Due to the limited light, Supap couldn't see their facial expressions, but he was sure they must have been nervous also.
A loud voice spoke through the speakers in the ship. " Your objective is protect the drill, even if that means sacrificing your lives. Shoot any forces that try to bring it harm. We will come back for you once the drill, the resources, and it's operators have been secured." The lead sangheili stood up from his seat and started walking down the row of soldiers. "Did you all catch that?!" his voice was like thunder that echoed off the tight walls of the enclosed ship. "Yes sir!" The squad of covenant soldiers screamed in reply.
Supap's hand slid down to the energy pistol on his hip. Given to him from a pile of "already-been-used" weapons right before he was shoved into the ship. He had tried really hard to clean off the small bit of blood from it's previous owner before the ship took off.
The Phantom started to shake again, the signal that ground was close underneath it. The lead shangeili leaned into the cockpit, two other shangeili working at the controls. "How bad is the landing site?" the lead sangheili asked. "Surprisingly quiet, the main wave must have cleaned out the resistance, but we are still going to drop the pups off to cover our escape" The sangheili on the left controls laughed.
The lead sangheili could only sigh. He knew the reason why the Unngoy and Kig-Yar was here. Trash to take the bullets for the sangheili wrapping up the drill and resources for their carriers and escape. The ships wouldn't actually come back for them, they'll just be left behind to take out as many humans as they can, if there is any left, or to be left there to do what they want to till they eventually die off. They were seen as both disposable and easily replaceable.
"We are landing in a minute, get ready" The sangheili on the right side controls alerted the rest of the ship on the microphone. The lead sangheili stepped back into the main space of the ship. He couldn't help but feel sorry for the "throw-away-troopers", they were all on the same side after all. "Listen up, everyone stick together and you will survive. Remember your training and this will all be over with quickly and we will be back home." The lead sangheili shouted throughout the ship, hoping his quick speech would actually mean something to these soldiers.
Supap was still scared of what he would face the moment he stepped outside, but he felt a little better knowing he had his friend with him and this new leader that seemed to like them better than the ones on the carrier ship did. "Hey Xepop, can you tell this story too when we get back? You know, like you do with all your other war stories with our friends?" Supap asked the unggoy next to him excitedly, trying not to sound desperate. " Yes, with the fire and cooked meats like always?" Xepop asked joyfully, knowing how well his stories helped inspired other unggoy back at the base. "Especially the cooked meats" Supap said with the best smile he could managed.
The phantom slowed to a stop. "Alright everyone! Let's go!" the lead sangheili shouted as the large hatch opened, bright sunlight rudely disrupted the dark shady theme of the ship. The lead sangheili ran down the hatch and jumped out. The alarm within the ship sounded and all the soldiers stood up and made their way to the exit. Supap hopped out of his seat and wobbled very closely behind Xepop.
One by one, Unggoy and Kig-Yar hopped out of the phantom, landing fourty feet below on the hot hard orange dirt. Xepop stepped to the hatch, took a deep breath and hopped off, falling through the air silently and gracefully, landing on his feet. Stepping aside for others to land, after all Xepop had done this so many times in his life he could have done it blind.
Supap wobbled up to the exit of the ship, going blind for a few seconds as his eyes adjusted from the purply darkness of inside to the blue brightness of outside. Supap looked down from the hatch, the ground started to seem like it was going in and out like the zoom on a scope. His face started to feel light as his beathing grew heaviler. "Just jump!" Xepop shouted from below. Supap took a deep breath and stepped off the hatch. The fall however, was him screaming all the way down and landing on his chest. The force of the landing knocked the methane out of his lungs as he gasped loudly. Supap felt Xepop grabbing his arm and pulling him away from his landing spot. "Not the best landing strategy in the universe Supap." Xepop joked as Supap gained his breathing back. Luckily his armor took the damage, making just small dents in the chest piece instead of cracks in his ribs.
Supap stood up and drew his energy pistol along with Xepop and looked behind as he saw the drop ship flying off, all of it's inhabitants except for the pilots have landed. The large group of Unggoy and Kig-Yar looked around. There was large rock formations and a massive clean white building that seemed human-built. The lead Sangheili drew out his unqiue teal colored energy sword and spoke loudly "The drill is on the other side of the stone arch, we need to make our wa-". A loud gunshot noise ranged out through the area, and a sharp metal sound as a sniper bullet pierced it's way through the sangheili's helmet. Deep red blood shot all over the ground as the sangheili's body fell slowly, hitting the ground with a thud as his energy sword clattered against the now crimson colored rocks.
For a moment, time stood still and everything was quiet for Supap. Then hell broke loose. Bullets rained through the sky, hitting the Unggoy infront of Supap, their quick screams of pain filling the air as even more blood shot onto the ground. "Formation!" A Kig-Yar shouted, the rest of the Kig-Yar pushing their way infront of the Unggoy and activated their blue energy shields. Shots could be heard deflecting off of the shields as they started to glow purple but a few bullets made their way through the notches in the shields, hitting the jackal behind it and causing them to collaspe to the ground.
"Where are they at?!" Cried a Unggoy. There was no sign of any bodily form, just bullets seeming to magically come from the large rock formations all around them. Within seconds, green energy blasts and bright purple needle shots filled the air, randomly striking the rocky walls by the desperation of the covenant group.
"Cease your fire!" Screamed Xepop. The Unggoy and Kig-Yar lifted their fingers off the triggers of their smoking guns. "listen" Xepop whispered loudly "They're moving". "W-Who's moving?" Supap asked, completely terrified out of his mind. The group stayed quiet. Very faintly, they could hear metal boots stomping among the ridges. "We need to get inside the building, quickly but quietly." Xepop said just loud enough for the group to hear.
The covenant group started moving towards the massive white building as quiet as they could. Holding back their breaths as they stepped over the bodies of their fallen, placing their feet down lightly to avoid a splashing sound from the growing puddles of blood on the ground. Supap placed his hand on Xepop's arm, looking all around him while walking. A flash of red ran in the corner of his eye. And then a flash of green and then blue. "I think i see them..." Sapap whispered to Xepop, his voice barely heard even by himself. "I know, just keep moving" Xepop whispered back.
A quick but loud metallic "Ting" sound came from the ridge as a round metal object was hurled through the air. It landed in the center of the group. For a second, Supap saw what it was. It wasn't anything he had seen before. It was small and round with grey bumps all around it with a small black tip. The last thing Supap heard was Xepop screaming "Grenade!" as the small metal object exploded. Metal fragments shot through the air, burying themselves in the unsuspecting Unggoy and Kig-Yar as everyone within 10 feet, including Xepop and Supap, was sent flying.
Supap quickly opened his eyes, his ears ringing loudly as his vision swayed. His eyelids felt heavy as everything seemed like a slideshow to him.
Eyes open, bloodied grunts and jackals picking themselves up off the ground, eyes closed.
Eyes open, large multi-colored metal suits jumping off the rock ridges and shooting strange black weapons, eyes closed.
Eyes open, phantom airships filled with Sangheili leaving to the sky, eyes closed.
Eyes open, Xepop shaking Supap's chest piece right before a bullet blew through his brain, blood flying out the side of his head and all over supap and the ground as he fell next to supap still on the ground, eyes closed.
Eyes open, Supap's hand over Xepop's bloody wet energy pistol, feet on the ground.
Supap slowly stood up, his head dizzy and his hearing slowly coming back to him, although gun shots didn't sound much better than deafly ringing. Supap stared at Xepop's corpse lying on the ground. he felt his chest tighten to the point of pain, but this hurt way worse than falling out of a ship, or taking a grenade to the chest. Bloody screams of pain echoed through the air as Supap looked around.
What was a group of forty brave, strong Unggoy, Kig-Yar, and a passionate Sangheili leader, is now 16 bloody, crying, terrified and dying or already dead covenant members.
This wasn't an ambush.
This was a massacre.
There were giant metal figures, but not like the prometheans. These seemed a little more...alive, like there was a body inside the metal suits. There were no consistancy among them, each with unqiue colors, designs, weapons, and patterns. Everything seemed different between them except for one thing, their lust for bloodshed. Supap saw the massive white building infront of him across the rocky dirt plain. "Come on! To the building! Now!" Supap screamed, woddling as fast as he could across the plain.
He looked to his left and saw a large blue metal figure shoot a jackal down with a strange looking pistol. 15 left. Supap woddled faster and looked to his right. A large purple metal figure grabbed a Unggoy by his shoulder, spinning him around and slamming a large knife into his throat, dropping the unggoy dead to the ground. 14 left.
Supap looked behind him. A Unggoy and Kig-Yar with his shield up fighting a yellow metal figure by themselves. The metal figure shoots the Kig-Yar, causing him to fall as the Unggoy takes a bullet to the face, dropping him too. The metal figure ran off and right as Supap was about to reach the building, he could hear the Kig-Yar. "Someone! Anyone! Help!". Supap quickly turned around on his foot, the jackal sitting up and clutching his arm.
Supap felt his instinct started to pull him towards the Kig-Yar, his urge to help the wounded soldier was stronger than his feeling of self-preservation. Supap started woddling quickly to the wounded jackal as the yellow metal figure started running back, realizing it had missed a target. The Kig-Yar activated his shield right as the yellow metal figured shot a few rounds at him, deflecting off his shield. Supap raised Xepop's energy pistol up and started pulling the trigger. multiple green energy blasts struck the yellow metal figure till suddenly something happened.
The yellow metal figure made a loud popping noise as it's body glowed yellow for a second, almost like the sangheili's blue body energy shields supap had saw once during training. The yellow metal figure stood in place for a second and started running away, giving the Kig-Yar it's safety for a little longer. Supap reached the Kig-Yar and held out his massive hand. "Can you walk?" The Kig-Yar looked up to Supap, gripping his massive thick hand with his much smaller and slimmer hand and pulled himself up. "I can walk, and my shield is still good, but i think the bullet from the human broke my shooting arm." The jackal told Sapap, his arm completely red and soaked with his blood. "Use that shield of yours and I'll do shooting for you, we just have to make it to that building over there" Supap told the wounded Kig-Yar, amazed that he was able to think that given the shock of everything that happened within the last ten minutes. "What are you called?" Supap asked the wounded Kig-Yar. "Zon. They call me Zon" The jackal answered.
Together they started jogging to the building, Supap right behind Zon and the shield. Metal stomping from their left as the they both turned towards the blue metal figure, which supap now knew were called "humans". Zon turned his torso towards the human, his arm and blue shield lifting up to block the bullet from the human's weapon. Sapap stood behind Zon, his arm stretching above the shield and Zon's head, his finger pulling on the trigger of the bloody red and blue energy pistol. The charged shot blasted from the pistol, zooming through the air quickly and hitting the human hard as if he got rammed by a ghost. The blue human was sent flying back and dropped to the ground hard, green smoke coming from it's chest area. Supap stared at the human that was laying face down on the ground. He was sure the shot killed it until he saw the human very slowly starting to pick itself up, obviously dazed from the impact of the shot. Supap's finger slid back to the trigger without him realizing it, some hidden force wanting supap to finish off the being in the metal shell.
"We need to go! Now!" Zon's alarming voice brought Supap back to reality, his hand gripping supap's arm trying to pull him towards the massive white building. Once again they started running. Shots from random directions were blocked by Zon's shield as Sapap tried to cover them the best he could, firing his energy pistol in all directions, some shots hitting a random Spartan but most missing. They made it inside the massive white human-built structure, running through an open door way and placing their backs against the walls as their lungs tried to catch up with them. After ten seconds of heavy panting, they heard more foot steps running closer towards the doorway from outside. instantly Supap and Zon jumped into position, their shield and pistol drawn.
The foot steps got louder till suddenly they heard the high pitch panicked voice of a Unggoy "Let us in! please! i don't wanna die!". "Come in. Hurry!" Supap shouted. Instantly a Unggoy and a Kig-Yar ran inside. "Who else is left?!" Zon asked the other Kig-Yar. "No one else! we are the last ones!" the other Kig-Yar breathlessly answered. "We need to hide out here until the ship comes back!" cried out the Unggoy. Supap looked around the room, there were random objects he had never seen before but anything was better than nothing. "Grab some stuff and pile it against the door!" Supap commanded the very few surviving covenant members. Together they tore the room apart, stacking desks, chairs, a refrigerator, a tricycle and some wall panels in the open door way. They stepped away from their makeshift barrier, which actually looked very sturdy. "No one makes an sound, we need to listen for the ship" Zon whispered. The group stopped any noise in the room and tried to listen the best they could. Everything but the wind was silent outside. The gunshots were silenced and the screams have literally died down. However there was no loud roaring of an engine anywhere to be heard. Their breathing slowed as their bodies froze in place, their head peering up at the ceiling though their eyes wanted desperately to pierce through the materials and see the sky. Even if the ship never came back, just being about to see the sky and some of space, their true homeland, was a good enough death for them.
A ear splitting crash rang through the room as debris was shot across the room. In the middle of the door way was no longer a barrier but a Spartan, having spartan charged easily through the makeshift wall. Instantly the Spartan raised an energy sword, however this one was different. The blade wasn't a normal shade of blue, but a teal color. Supap knew that blade even though he only saw it once. The blade was that of the lead Sangheili that brought them into this nightmare, but was probably the only one who actually had faith in the squad.
Supap absolutely despised the humans, they brutally murdered his people and dishonored their deaths by making a mockery of the blessed weapons that they had died with. Without thinking or even a second of hestitation, Supap shot a fully charged shot off at the human, the energy pistol in his hand exploding. The massive green orb of energy flew across the room so fast the spartan couldn't even react. The energy shot connected with the spartan's head, instantly killing him. His body flung across the room and smashed into a wall, his blood splattering heavily all over the walls.
Supap felt surprisingly pleasant with the sight of the mangled corpse of the once fearless spartan, whose armor was once a bright yellow, now a dark red that shined off of the light in the room. For a moment, Supap felt joy, knowing he just saved the lives of the last of his friends, knowing that he helped avenged the poor souls of his fallen brothern, and knowing the Spartans weren't as invincible as they had thought.
Zon grabbed Supap's arm and spun him around. "Wake the hell up! we need to go! we found a ramp to the rooftop!" Zon shouted in Supap's face. The bewildered look in Supap's eyes vanished as he returned to reality once more. "Ok" Supap responded. Zon ran out of the room and Supap looked back. On the ground laying was the lead Sangheili's teal energy sword. Quickly, Supap picked up the sword and ran after Zon. Along the wall of the next room led a ramp, daylight appearing on the other side. The group then ran up the ramp as fast as they could, finding their way to a plain roof top. "Look what i found!" A Unggoy excited called out. "We could bring the ship back with this!" The grunt then pulled the cap off of a flare. Fear filled Zon's and Supap's eyes. That not only was a flare to signal the phantom, but a dead give away to the spartans of their location. "Everyone behind us! now!" the Kig-Yar screamed, activating his energy shield. Zon caught on and stood next to the Kig-Yar, activating his energy shield too. The Unggoy piled in behind the Kig-Yar. The flare fuming heavily with a purple smoke raising deep into the sky.
On a phatom hovering the atmosphere, a Sangheili pilot noticed a beeping on his sensor. "Hey, there's an sangheili flare activated at Sanctum. we must have missed one " The sangheili pilot mentioned to his co-pilot. "We should be able to do a quick swing by " The co-pilot responded. After a few button pushing, the phantom headed back to the drop zone.
The group of survivors stood closely compacted in a tight circle, listening for any signs of a ship or humans. almost instantly, a loud boost sound and a spartan jumped ontop of the roof. With no cover to hide behind and distance between them, it was a fair but bloody fight. Shots rang out from the roof, from both human and alien guns. The Spartan was tough no doubt but the coventant group had better weapons and protection. The Spartan's magnum rounds deflected off of the shields but the energy and needle shots struck the Spartan's armor, his shielding vanished quickly as he dashed back off the roof. The group stayed vigilant though, not falling for the tease retreat.
Within seconds another spartan jumped up to challenge them, this one weilding different human looking weapon. The spartan ran at the group. The group of covenant fired off their volley of rounds again, the spartan however was more experienced than the last one, jumping up and dashing ahead at them, practically jumping over their shots. The spartan stared down at the unexpecting aliens and fired his gun. Supap easily noticed this gun was way louder than the other guns and how it didn't fired one shot, but multiple smaller ones with one trigger pull. The jackal took most of the buckshot to the head, his shield only protecting the front and not above, killing him instantly as the spread also got the grunt who set off the flare in the leg. Supap ran forward, his energy sword swinging upward as the spartan came down from his jump and accidently impaling himself on Supap's energy sword.
Supap could hear the human cough up blood within his helmet. The spartan's gun fell from his hands as his body fell limp on Supap's energy sword. Supap used his other hand to push the spartan off of his blade, the spartan just falling to the ground like a massive metal doll. A few more boosts sounded off and even more spartans were on the roof. Supap and Zon stood infront of other wounded grunt, whose leg bleeding badly. The Spartans started to advance towards to group but suddenly stopped. Even though they all had helmets on, they seemed confused. Supap noticed they all seemed to be staring at their fallen friend. For a moment that seemed like an hour, they all stood there in complete silence, not sure of what to do.
One spartan started walking towards the body, their weapon and hands down but Supap and Zon kept their gun and shield up. The spartan kneeled down by the fallen spartan and touched his helmet. Up close, Supap could tell the humans differently from each other, even in complete body armor. The female humans appeared slimmer and smaller than the males and their chests protruded out more.
The female spartan then looked up at Supap and Zon, and in a instant, dashed right at them. She quickly shoulder bashed Zon, his shield didn't stand a chance as he was sent flying across the roof, almost falling off the edge until his claws caught a grip on the surface. Supap ran at the female spartan, swinging his energy sword. The female spartan easily dodged each attack, gripping her own energy sword handle on her hip and activating it's blade. Supap swung his sword again, which the female spartan caught and twisted with her own blade, trapping his in her's. Supap tried to pull his blade loose but she gripped his arm, pulling him closely to her helmet. Being almost face to face with the spartan, Supap could see her berserk but tearful eyes through the thick purple visor. In a low, slow and threatening voice, supap could hear her whisper "I. will. kill. every. last. one. of. you. monsters." Very slowly, Supap could feel her pull their blades towards him, his blade no longer trying to kill her but trying to keep her from killing him with her own blade. The blue energy sword in her hand slowly pushing it's way to his neck, Supap could feel the heat of the blade vibrating off of his throat.
A loud explosion sounded off behind her, shaking the roof and throwing the spartan off balance. Supap took the chance and pushed her off of him. Supap saw a large purple energy blast hit the roof again, sending more spartans off the roof and causing the ones that weren't already flying off the roof, to flee from it. "It's here!" The Unggoy with the leg wound cried happily. Supap turned around and saw a phantom ship slowly lowering itself to the roof for extraction. Zon and Supap rushed to the wounded grunt and helped him up, stumbling to the lowering hatch door. They hop onto the hatch door and the phantom started lifting up. Supap gripped the side handle as Zon quickly hopped into a seat. The Unggoy limped to the other side of the opening, holding onto the side handle of that side. Supap and Zon noticed how widely the wounded grunt was smiling. "What are you so happy right now? How dare you even smile right now" Zon growled at the Unggoy, who seemed like he wasn't even present in the day that had just happened. The grunt turned towards Zon and Supap and smiled more. "I'm smiling because we survived. Yes, alot of us didn't but through us, they'll live, through our stories. We are going-" A large reddish orange beam shot through the grunt's torso. Supap and Zon just stared wide eyed as the grunt looked down at the hole that pierced him all the way through. His grip loosen on the handle bar as he fell back out of the ship. "h-home" the grunt whispered as he stared at the sky, right before hitting the ground down below. Supap peeked his head out of the closing hatch. The last thing he saw of Sanctum was the female spartan, standing alone on the burnt and broken roof holding a smoking, dark, orange glowing rifle with a floating scope.
The phantom zoomed away from the area and back into space.
Spartan Natalie stared at her dead husband, who was the last person that deserved to die on an energy sword. The image of the grunt that murdered her love burnt into her memory that'll haunt her for a very long time.
A scribe walked into the captain's cabin of the massive UNSC carrier. "Sir, The mission was completed. All covenant forces has left the site. Two casualities but the rest of the spartans have re-" "Call them by what they are. Recruits" The captain interrupted the scribe. "Er..yes sir, the...recruits have made it back" The scribe nervously continued. "You aren't sure about something, spit it out" The captain commanded. " Yes sir...when we browsed through all the helmet footage, the recruits operated wonderfully until they watched Spartan James died. They just..froze. Surely they knew death was a possibility upon accepting the mission..." The scribe stated, curious and pitiful of the Spartans. "They did not know. I wanted to weed out the weak ones from the strong. What better way than through a useful test. The coventant carrier ship hovering over the planet needed resources. We buried what they needed underground, so they had to work for it and buy us time to get down there without them knowing, and we made sure the resources were extremely obvious. And they took the bait. We sent down a group of recruits for some in-field target practice, and what better than the real thing? After all, that's what they'll be fighting soon enough. We just told them that this was going to be one big simulation. That the enemies weren't real, just practice drones. We even gave the 'simulation' a name" The captain scuffed. "And what's that?" The scribe asked, pale with horror of what the captain had done. "We called it 'Warzone' ".
DISCLAIMER: Please do not take this fic serious. this story was just for fun. I enjoy playing the Warzone mode in Halo 5 and thought this would be a scary but neat twist to it. I do not know most of the lore so i apologize if i got some things wrong but again, this story is just for fun.