Surprise everyone! I'm back early. Or more importantly my story(s) is/are back early! :)
WARNING! If you haven't read my first story Fires of War you will not understand anything. Please if you haven't already read it.
Now I'm just going to say I worked on this unrestricted by anything since August 2 so I've had time to make this chapter the best it can be. Please note that this will not be the case for the rest of the chapters as I have school from September to June so I don't have as much time as I would prefer.
Halo belongs to 343 industries (Bungie forever) and Star Wars belongs to Disney
Timeline: (Based on UNSC times and dates. Imperial records are in separate bullets.)
2511: SPARTAN II candidates are born.
2516: Anakin Skywalker is born.
2517: Doctor Catherine Halsey and then Lieutenant Jacob Keyes inspect SPARTAN II candidate 117. SPARTAN II's are kidnapped by ONI agents and replaced with flash clones.
2517-2525: Operation TREBUCHET takes place with the intent of quelling the growing insurrection. SPARTAN II training.
2525: Contact with outer colony of Harvest is lost. First contact and first engagements with Covenant Empire takes place.
2526: SPARTAN Blue Team is sent to the Corbulo Academy of Military Science to Evac cadets training there.
2531: Kurt SPARTAN 051 is secretly taken by ONI Section III to begin new SPARTAN program. SPARTAN III Alpha company begins training.
2531-2537: Alpha company training. Operation PROMETHUS takes place. Alpha company killed to the last man but completes its objective. SPARTAN III Beta company training begins.
2537-2545: SPARTAN III Beta company training. Oparation TORPEDO takes place. Beta company suffers near annihilation but completes its objective. SPARTAN III Gamma company begins training.
2545: Silva Aventios is born.
2545-2552: Inner colonies are targeted. Gamma company training and deployment.
August-December 2552: Fall of reach occurs. SPARTAN II's almost completely annihilated. Events of Alpha Halo take place. Battle of Earth. Events of Delta Halo take place. Prophet of Truth is killed by Thel Vadam on the Ark. Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 MIA. Human-Covenant war ends.
2554: Clone Wars begin. UNSC Outer-most colonies are re-terraformed.
2554-2556: Clone Wars take place.
2556: Order 66 takes place. Beginning of Jedi Purge.
June 19-28 2557: Events of Fires Of War take place. Task force Shadow is authorized and given green light.
June 29 2557: current time.
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life...
...It goes on"
ROBERT FROST
"They died hard, those wonderful men. Fighting till their last. They were foolish, they were arrogant and they were brash, and I loved them."
Imperial Captain Hal Trume, on the subject of the sailors under his command.
UNSC colony of Gryphon, capital city of Vance 24:00 hrs, April 14 2545/UNSC Military Calendar/Local Time
It was a peaceful night as always. Some Snow still littered the ground and the city was for the most part asleep. That all changed when the sirens started. These weren't police sirens or fire trucks or ambulances, no these were sirens no one wanted to hear.
Air Raid sirens.
The four year old girl sleeping in the rose coloured room in the two story house on the outskirts of the capital heard the sirens and woke up, wanting to tell her mommy and daddy and older brother about them. So she got out of her bed and cautiously made her way toward her parents room. She looked at the pictures on the wall and at the light she wished she could turn on but she wasn't tall enough to reach it. There were pictures of her and her brother as babies, of them at the beach, in the pool and at the park, playing with friends and with their parents. Happy.
When she got to her parents room and opened the door she ran to their bed, tapping her mother on the shoulder.
"Sophie? What are you doing up, it's late." Her mother said, not even turning around to face her daughter.
"Mommy, mommy do you hear the sound mommy? What is it?" Sophie asked, tapping her moms shoulder again.
"Sirens, dear. Most likely a drill by the Army again. Come on let's go get you back to bed." She wordlessly got out of bed and guided her daughter out of her room and into the hall.
They were at the window adjacent to the bathroom when they heard the explosions.
The mother and girl stopped in their tracks and turned to stare at the window. The city was burning. More explosions were heard and were then joined with the sound of Anti-Aircraft fire, the yellow rounds shot off into the night sky, trying to kill the unseen assailants.
"Jonathan! Jonathan get up! They're here!" The mother screamed as a man in his late forties ran out of the parents room, a teenage boy ran out of the room adjacent.
"Are you two okay? Sophie come here sweetie. It's alright, it's okay..." The father, Jonathan said as he tried in vain to console his now crying daughter.
"The Covenant are here? Cool!" Exclaimed the boy.
"Bradley!" Yelled the mother, turning to face her son.
"Sorry mom." The boy, Bradley said.
"We have to get to the spaceport, the Army and Marines will be there and we can escape." Jonathan said, picking up Sophie.
"We have to change or atleast get something's packed-" the mother started to say.
"No, there's no time, look outside Margaret!" Jonathan yelled.
The four of them quickly made their way downstairs and were about to exit the house when the Phantoms appeared.
The two transports hovered ten meters off the ground to deploy their ground troops. These were mostly elites with two Jackal snipers as support. The aliens killed those that were on the street. Fortunately no people in the houses were killed, yet. This included the family of four, who upon seeing the gunships ran back inside.
The family Huddled in their living room. Three elites came through the door, their light blue armour signifying them as just minors. One of them when't upstairs while two stayed on the ground floor, searching for humans to kill. The family tried to hide as best they could but with Sophie crying it was inevitable that the elites found them.
Bradley, filled with a stupid and misplaced sense of heroism attempted to rush the first elite and got close enough to wrap his arms around its stomach. The elite picked Bradley up with one arm, holding him by the neck as the rest of the family watched the elite place it's plasma rifle to his head and fire.
The plasma burned his head clean off his body, decapitating him. The elite threw him to the side and moved in to kill the rest of the family. It shot Jonathan in the ribcage and the neck, killing him. Margaret (the mother) attempted to shield Sophie from the alien but was swatted aside and stabbed by the second elite with an energy dagger.
The third elite came back downstairs and was about to shoot Sophie when the wall behind them blew up. The elites turned to face the destroyed wall, thinking that the humans armed forces had appeared. In reality their Phantom gunship had mistook the sound of plasma fire as an indication the Covenant soldiers were in trouble. Upon seeing that no harm had befallen them the ship moved off to kill some helpless humans.
The first elite was about to go in for the kill when it paused mid-step and felt it's back before dropping dead, a knife had cut into the elites spine, killing it. The other two elites forgot about the crying four year old and began to search for their assailant. The second elite suddenly jerked its head back. A figure de-cloaked on the elites back wearing green-grey armour with a gold polarized visor. The visor was rather large covering the whole front of the helmet while the armour itself was slim and had almost no outside armour plates.
The figure slit the elites throat before jumping off the elite and narrowly missing an energy dagger meant for its head. It turned toward the last elite and ducked, avoiding another swipe from the elites dagger. It then kicked the elite in the knee before bringing its knife toward the elites head getting it straight in the mouth. Blue blood gushed out of the wound and covered the figure as it twisted the knife before yanking it out and quickly cleaning it before sheathing it.
The figure turned toward the headless corpse of Bradley then the burned corpses of Sophie's parents before turning toward Sophie and slowly swiping two fingers over its visor where its mouth would be before cloaking and disappearing again.
Five minutes later when a squad of Marines found a shell shocked Sophie and asked what killed the elite all she said was an angel.
UNSC Frigate For The Fallen 21:00 hrs, June 29 2557/UNSC Military Calendar/Ship Standard Time
I woke up sweating and breathing heavy which was normal for me. Even so Julianne asked if I was alright which I replied in the affirmative.
The briefing I had attended three hours earlier had been more or less a 'meet and greet' where the officers for ground teams would meet each other so they had a closer bond and were more trusting of each other when they were deployed. As SPARTAN teams were small everyone in Rapier had been in attendance.
There was the hulking form of Major doese. The Helljumpers CO Aswell as captain Philips, his aide.
There was the quiet and cautious Captain Jennings, the woman's unit of Rangers we would work the most with. Also in attendance was her Radio-man Specialist Frost.
There was Chief Petty Officer Macallen. He was in charge of a team of Navy Special Operators attached to the ship.
And finally there was SPARTAN IV Fireteam Cerberus. They were something of a loose cannon. Officially assigned to the Fallen's sister ship What Once Was they had come to meet the units they would work closely with.
In my opinion they should have been assigned to a Prowler.
"Where's Emily?" I asked, noticing my squadmate was absent from the room.
"She's at the range. Said there's a new gadget to test or something." Julianne said, not even looking up from her datapad.
"Isn't that your forte?" I asked.
"Normally, yea...But this one's a weapon."
"O-Kay then thanks Julie." I said, calling her by her nickname, which she hated. I left before she started to shout.
As I walked through the ship I saw the occasional sailor but mostly Army Rangers and ODST's, which was odd because we were on a ship, not a land based installation.
"Pierre, where are the ships crew?" I asked the ships A.I. Who appeared moments later on a pedestal beside me.
Most of them are tending the ship, why do you ask G-317?" He replied in his French accent.
"just curious. I've never seen so little of the crew on a ship before."
"Well this class of ship is new, yes, so the crew want to check everything themselves." He replied.
"Oh."
UNSC Prowler From The Brink 21:15 hrs June 29 2557/UNSC Military Calendar/Ship Standard Time
The cell was small. Very small. Even the ISB had bigger cells for their prisoners I thought.
I had been a Captain once, Captain Hal Trume. My ship was the finest in the fleet. The Imperial Star destroyer Jedi's Folly. I was a proud individual serving not the Empire but the soldiers and sailors under my command.
Now what was I? A man who had lost his ship, who had watched it explode along with everyone aboard. When I had seen that I had made a promise.
I would find the families of those men and women, and I would tell them how their sons and daughters had served their government and their planets and hope that me just being their would ease their pain.
I knew that the man who had caused all of this would have to pay aswell. The man who's orders I had fallowed to the letter and who had caused so much pain and death.
His name was Admiral Yoseph Dreadler and force willing he would die.
STAR LINE YACHT ETHEREAL BEAUTY 09:30 hrs June 29 2557/UNSC Military Calendar/Galactic Standard Time
I wasn't content to just sitting around which I had been doing so I when't to see Captain Eduardo.
I found him in the mess hall with two more of my guards. I had a guard behind me, his DC-15 carbine ready to be used at a seconds notice.
"Commander Aventios." The Captain said, nodding.
"What happened to 'm'lady' Captain?" I asked, puzzled.
"We all know who you really are. You are Jedi Padawan Silva Aventios. Your master was Jof'es Gid and you fought on Munnilist during the last weeks of the Clone Wars. Your master was killed by clones of the 356th legion, your own men in compliance with order 66. You escaped by hiding in a separatist medical station and then sneaking aboard a republic cruiser." He said. "You don't need to hide that weapon from us." He said, pointing to my lightsaber. I quickly checked that it was hidden before asking him how he knew I had it on me.
"I've worked with Jedi in the past Commander. I know they never leave it behind."
I nodded before realizing we were near Naboo.
UNSC Frigate For The Fallen 21:30 hrs June 29 2557/ UNSC Military Calendar/Ship Standard Time
I had made my way to the Firing Range and upon seeing Emily made my way to her, but not before grabbing a weapon of my own, an MA5K2 suppressed carbine. I walked to the booth beside her.
Unlike me she wore her full SPI armour, helmet and all.
"Sophie." She said, in greeting.
"Emily. What weapon is that?" I said, gesturing toward the pistol sized weapon in her hands.
"This thing? It's an 'M1-57Plasma-Projector'. It's based off Covenant plasma weapons. But I dont really like it. Brings up to many memories."
The weapon was all black and looked like a cross between a Covenant plasma pistol and an M6H. The front was split like a plasma pistol but everything else looked human.
"Where do you think we're going to be deployed?" I asked, changing the subject.
"I don't know really. Atleast we didn't need Cryo. I hate it."
"Yeah, hey remember during training when we did a Cryo exercise you puked on Fireteam Saber's leader when we were unfrozen." I said, chuckling a bit at the memory.
"I remember you puking on CPO Mendez." She said. "And he made you run naked through the camp."
"That wasn't my fault okay, I can't control my puke." I said defensively.
Emily was about to continue but a message on the intercom stopped her.
"GENERAL QUARTERS, ALL HANDS TO GENERAL QUARTERS, ALL NON-ESSENTIAL PERSONNEL REPORT TO PREDETERMINED AREAS!"
"Let's go Sophie, move!" Emily yelled. We quickly returned our weapons and ran to our room, passing fully armed and armoured Marines and Damage Control teams.
when we made it to our room we found Julianne quickly putting her armour on. While this was happening the intercom still blared away.
"ALL PILOTS TO YOUR SHIPS, ALL PILOTS TO YOUR SHIPS, FIRETEAMS CHARLIE TO INDIA HEAD TO THE HANGER..."
"What's going on?" Julianne asked, donning her helmet.
"I don't know," I said putting my own armour on.
"I hope I didn't put my armour on for nothing." Julianne said.
In an hour General Quarters was lifted. It turns out this was the first time the fleet had ever had to use their stealth systems, something about passing a civilian ship. However we were called to a briefing. We had found our first target.
The briefing room was crowded. Kevin and Michael were already there, as were all the other unit commanders, the Captain was there aswell as a woman I didn't recognize guarded by two ONI soldiers. Odd I thought.
"Welcome everyone, sit down. We have a very long briefing a head of us." The Captain said Before gesturing towards the unknown woman. "This is 'Dono' and she would be what some of you oldies like myself call an Innie." He paused. "However we have no record of her on our systems and the simple reasoning is that she isn't from UNSC space. That's right ladies and gentlemen she hates this Empire as much as we do. She is helping us." Dono stepped forward.
"Hello. The planet we are currently going to is called Naboo." She pointed toward a Navy technician who was manning a projector. When the screen came online I saw a lush green planet with seas and mountains dotted around it's surface. "The Empire has a garrison of around 500 000 troops around its surface with help from the local security forces. Naboo's ruler, however seems to have anti imperial sentiments." Dono continued.
"The plan is to drop Captain Jennings Rangers with two attached mortar teams along with Fireteam Rapier four Kilometres from the capital city in the forests. You will make camp there and preform guerrilla style warfare on the enemy combatants. Fireteam Rapier is to make contact with a government official and attempt to make an alliance in secret. You will have further intel when you get dirtside. Questions, comments, concerns? No, good. The ODST's will drop along with Fireteam Cerberus on the other side of the planet. Dismissed." The Captain said.
It was another hour before we boarded the drop ships heading for the surface. The five of us would land an hour ahead and one klick away from the rangers main dropsite.
When we landed in a lush forest we quickly fanned out to check for hostiles before waiting for orders. Kevin turned to the rest of us and very quietly said the best words I've ever heard.
"Let's get to work Rapier."
That's it folks! I just wrote a Whopping 3000ish words. Okay 3000 isn't much but still, it's a start, right?
Im asking you guys to give me OC's in the form of Silva's guards. They HAVE to be human or human clones. Aside from that go wild. But be prepared for them to die very horrifically.
Please review and give me your OC's, and until next time...
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