Shattered Angel
A/N Alright i have had this one on the back burner for awhile, while i finished my other fic. If you liked my Star Wars bounty hunter fic i hope you like this one. i I don't own Halo, or Star Wars or any other series I may reference in here.
Chapter 1 Fallen Angels
Kylar Azoth, call sign Night Angel, walked down the halls of the UNSC Manitoba toward his helljumper pod bay where his squad was waiting for him. As he entered the pod bay everyone stood up but only four approached him.
"Sup Angel." Said a short red head with thick Irish accent
"Leprechaun these the new guys?" he replied
"Yeah got four new ones, they may be pretty green, got into the ODST's just after the war finished, but at least we have a full squad now." Leprechaun said
"Comrade your thoughts on them." Azoth asked looking at a monster of a man.
"They good as long as they follow orders." Comrade said in a thick Russian accent.
"Kage?" Azoth asked
"Like Leprechaun said they maybe a bit green but everyone needs to be broken in eventually, and we have the rest of the squad to help with that." A man of Asian descent replied in a cold emotionless tone
"Doc?" Azoth asked his final man
"Hey I'm just the doc, I'll just patch them up when they fuck up." A man of native American decent replied
"You know you are more than just the doc." Azoth replied "You have been with us since we were just a fire team."
"Yeah where would we be without our witch doctor?" Leprechaun said jokingly, as he threw his arm around their doc.
"It's medicine man." Doc said looking hard at Leprechaun who just smiled. "But yeah as long as they follow orders we should be good."
"Good" Azoth replied looking at his three team leaders and doc, thinking about how long they had been together, and how they were more of a family than just a squad. Before he could think any further on the matter the PA system in the pod bay kicked on.
"Attention Night Angel squad we have a priority VIP pick up planet side and you've been tasked with the retrieval mission." Came the Captains voice over the inter com system
Azoth walked over to the council and replied, "Roger that sir we'll be ready in a moment."
"Make it quick." The Captain replied
"Alright to your pods." Azoth yelled as half the squad was already in the pods and the others were just grabbing last bits of ammo and getting in.
Everyone stood in their pods on either side of Azoth as he walked down the line.
"For those of you who are new we have a small prayer we like to say before we jump, so listen up." Azoth said "Abandon all hope."
"Ye who enter here." The squad responded
"For here must all distrust be left." Azoth replied
"All cowardice be dead." The squad answered
"For we shall fall from the heavens" Azoth said
"Delivering hell upon the land." The squad responded
"Now let us make our way to the doleful city." Azoth finished as he got into his pod and all the jump pod doors closed "For we are already dead." He said through the com as all the pods launched.
Azoth looked out the windows of his pod wondering why this was still going on. The war had ended a year ago but these covenant rebels still believed in their great journey or something, he couldn't understand the split chins line of thinking. They helped them during the end of the war, hell he fought alongside them on the Ark and the second halo ring, but once it was over and they had just begun to heal, the elites attacked again. Hitting small targets such as small colonies that had either survived the war or were trying to start up again on the abandon planets that hadn't been glassed, those days he had thought were over but here they are again.
Azoth felt his pod break atmo and he saw the ground coming up fast. "Everyone stay tight I don't want us scattered to the winds when we come down." Angel said over his radio just to get a green light from everyone in his HUD.
The moment his pod hit the ground and his doors opened he jumped out with his weapon up ready to engage any enemies, but was not meet by any resistance. He looked around and saw the rest of his squad moving to form a perimeter around their drop zone.
"Alright grab all the ammo from your pods if it doesn't go boom we ain't taking it." Azoth shouted, "This is a quick in and out job."
Everyone nodded and grabbed their extra ammo from the pods and rallied back on him.
After a small hike over burned out terrain the squad came to the fire base that had been surrounded by the enemy.
"Alright Leprechaun you take your team to the west side, Comrade you work the east and Kage take the south and we will converge with those still fighting inside and finish off the ones to the north." Azoth said
"Roger that." He heard from his team leaders
"Alright I'll head out with Leprechaun's team." Azoth said as everyone moved out
Angel along with Leprechaun's team snuck around to the far west side of the fire base behind the enemy troops.
"Alright find a target and engage on my signal." Azoth said as he sighted in with his suppressed SMG "Fire!" he called into his radio and he heard the responding fire from his squad. Once the area had been cleared the squad moved up to the fire base where they were met with the haggard faces of the Marines defending it.
"Move to the north wall and assist them I'll find our VIP." Azoth called out to his squad as they ran off to do as he said. Angel looked over at one of the defenders and asked "where is the C.O.C.?"
"This way follow me." The marine said as he turned and started to limp toward the command center.
"Are you hit Marine?" Azoth asked
"We all are, the least wounded are on the walls but we will defend till the end, but it's a relief to see you guys, we thought we were goners for sure." The Marine said as they reached the command center
Azoth walked into the command center to find it was packed with wounded and an older man in his mid thirties walked up to him.
"Ah good our support is here didn't know if our call got through or not our radios went down just after we sent it out." The man said as he walked up to Azoth "Colonel Dunsparce" he said as he held out his hand
"Sergeant Azoth, call sign Night Angel I'm here to get you out of here sir." Azoth said
"I'm not leaving without my men." Dunsparce replied
"I'll call it in and request medivac for your men." Azoth responded
"Thank you." Dunsparce said as he followed Azoth outside
"Manitoba this is Night Angel come in." Azoth called into his radio
"Send it Night Angel." The ship responded
"I have Colonel Dunsparce requesting medivac for his wounded." Azoth reported
"Roger stand by." The ship responded "negative your request for medivac is denied. Continue with your mission and bring the Colonel to the ship."
"I say again we have mass causalities and they need to be evacted." Azoth responded as the Colonel looked at him in shock and brought his hand up asking for the radio. Azoth pointed to his pack and the Colonel reached in and found a back up hand radio and tuned it to the ship.
"This is colonel Dunsparce I have seventy five wounded that are in need of medical attention." Dunsparce replied
"Negative it's too hot to send more than one bird for extraction." The radio replied
"Put the skipper on the line." Azoth replied
"Negative I can't do that." The radio replied
"That is an order from a Colonel you stupid fucking fly boy." Dunsparce added.
"Roger that stand by." The radio replied after a moment of silence then it kicked back up.
"This is Del Rio." Came a gruffer voice.
"Good this is Colonel Dunsparce requesting medivac for my men." Dunsparce replied
"Negative too hot for a medivac I can only get one bird down there and you have to be on it, I can't risk anymore than that." Came Del Rio's voice.
"Damn't I…" Dunsparce began but was cut off by Azoth holding up his hand
"Skipper I'm sending you the feed to my helmet cam." Azoth said
"Roger I have it why are you sending this to me Sergeant?" Del Rio replied. Azoth then looked over at Dunsparce and pulled up his pistol and aimed it at his head.
"Now you will send a medivac for these men or else I will shot him in the head." Azoth said getting a shocked look from Dunsparce. "If you only send one bird I will fill it with wounded and his dead body."
"You wouldn't dare." Del Rio replied "You'll fry for this."
"I don't care cause I ain't leaving till all these wounded are off this rock, and if you don't send those birds I won't have to worry about any court martial." Azoth responded getting a silence from the other end. "And what would higher ups think about you if you can't keep a simple helljump Sergeant from killing a Colonel on your watch you will be black listed and never be in charge of a ship again."
"Very well I'll send all the extra birds I have to medivac you and the wounded." Del Rio said "But the Colonel had better be on that first one." He said in a pissed off tone.
"See that wasn't so hard." Azoth replied
"You're going to fry for this Azoth." Del Rio said
"At least I won't be losing any sleep over it." Azoth replied "oh and maintain call sign integrity."
"Just don't fuck this up Night Angel." Del Rio said in a pissed off tone as the line cut off.
"Thanks Sergeant." Dunsparce said
"Del Rio is a Coward that only thinks of his career and not about his men, how he got a command of combat units I'll never know." Azoth sighed
"Agreed there is no place for that line of thinking when we are at war. Even if higher doesn't want to call it that in the end all that matters is saving as many as we can." Dunsparce replied
"Damn for an officer you ain't half bad." Azoth chuckled as he heard the sound of pelicans coming in. they both looked up to see the five pelicans coming down.
"There's our ride." Angel said as he looked at the Colonel "get your men ready for evac."
"Thank you." Dunsparce said as he turned but stopped looking back at Angel "You weren't really going to shoot me right? That was just a bluff" Azoth just gave him a blank stare then turned and jogged over to the landing zone.
Once the pelicans landed they immediately began loading the wounded into the pelicans. Azoth's squad moved to the landing zone as they watched the wounded being loaded
"Your squad saved us today there is no way we can repay you for this." Dunsparce said
"Alright just make sure you are on that first bird." Azoth replied.
"Hehe yeah I got it." Dunsparce replied with a chuckle as a marine ran up to them.
"Sir we have loaded all the wounded and everything is full up we have people sitting on other peoples laps." The marine said
"Well you know the old saying 'can all ways fit one more.'" Dunsparce said with a smirk as Azoth got a sense of realization.
"Sir get on the bird and get out of here." Azoth said as Dunsparce realized what Azoth already knew. There wasn't room for them.
"What? No you have to come with." Dunsparce said
"You heard him no room if we over load the birds they won't be able to take off. We'll take the second wave." Azoth said
"No he almost didn't send these ones. He won't send a second." Dunsparce said
"Our mission was to get you out of here now get out." Azoth said
"No I won't leave till you do, so I won't go." Dunsparce said
"Very well" Azoth said as he pulled out his pistol and shot the Colonel in the leg. "Corpsmen!" He yelled as one of his helljumpers ran up and began to patch up the wound. "Guess that answers your earlier question."
"How does it look Doc?" Azoth asked
"Clean through and through, nothing major hit." Doc said "But he needs to get out of here if he wants to keep it."
"Well you heard the doc sir you're getting out of here." Azoth said
"Damnt Angel." he cringed through his teeth, and was carried to the pelican. As he was set down he grabbed Azoth's armor and pulled him close and said "I swear I will get you out of here."
"As you like to say sir you know the old saying 'Spartans never die ODST's know they ain't coming back but go anyway.'" He said as he pulled away and the bay door of the pelican as it closed.
The squad kneeled and watched as the pelicans took off. "Get to work we need to fortify this place if by some miracle Del Rio sends an evac bird." Azoth said as everyone but his team leaders and Doc ran off to fortify the defenses.
"You know as well as we do that coward won't send anything." Leprechaun said accusingly
"I know he will bug out the moment those birds get on board." Azoth said "sorry but it looks like this our last fight."
"Why are you sorry?" Leprechaun asked "If it wasn't for you we would probably never had made it through the war."
"Yes, you took a group of guys who would never follow anyone and made us into a fire team that is feared and respected throughout the UNSC." Kage said
"It has been an honor to fight alongside my comrades and I have no regrets about dying alongside you as comrades." Comrade said
"We will follow you into the abyss Azoth without question." Doc says
"As you say in every one of our drops we are already dead." Leprechaun says, "The reaper has just decided to collect his dues."
"Thanks guys." Azoth says "Now let's take as many of these split chins bastards with us as possible."
"That's the Angel we know." Leprechaun called out "Let's do this" he yelled out as everyone ran toward their teams to set up defenses.
"May the Night Angels give us strength." Azoth said to himself as he went to help the squad as he looked up and saw the ship jump into slip space. He then looked at the horizon and saw two covenant cruisers heading toward them.
A week had passed and the only ones left from the squad where Night Angel, Leprechaun, Comrade, Kage, and Doc. They held off wave after wave of enemy, everything that was thrown at them was cut down. Now it was only his original team that remained. Azoth looked from each of the members as he remembered everything they had been through.
"Well guess this is it boys. Looks like only the originals are left standing." Leprechaun said with a chuckle looking at the gate of the fire base burn red from the heat of the plasma being fired on it.
"Well then it's been an honor fighting alongside you all." Kage said as he shouldered an assault rifle.
"Yes comrades make them remember why they didn't kill us in the war." Comrade said
"Alright may the Night Angels guide us through to the next life as they did this one, and let the reaper collect his dues." Azoth said
"Ah flundi eni, ohr vidi, gal ah un vere yulsi" Leprechaun began to sing
"hehe." Azoth chuckled as he started along as well "Ni vik ni, an hine veni, vie fadi ni ee, troni" he sang along with a smile under his helmet
"Ah flundi eni, ohr vidi, gal ah un vere yulsi. Ni vik ni, an hine veni, vie fadi ni ee, troni. Blide oh vline ranun, yunagwei, bore dile vey gore du ni" everyone started along in sync and grew louder as the doors burst open with a flood of grunts that were quickly mowed down while the team sang.
The fight lasted an hour, them never giving an inch till a fuel rod got a lucky hit and killed Comrade, then a needler hit Doc. Just as they began to fall back an elite charged and stabbed Kage in the chest only to be blasted away by Leprechauns shotgun. Then a plasma grenade landed on his chest and he exploded into a ball of blue flame throwing Night Angel across the court yard knocking him on conscious.
Everything was black all he knew was he was being dragged. As he opened his eyes Night Angel saw an Elite on either side of him dragging him by his arms. Once they stopped he was brought up to his knees in front of an elite wearing golden armor.
"When they said a single fire base was holding off an entire army I didn't believe them. Then I was told it was only a squad in that base, I called them mad." The Elite said "But when we claimed this base and they confirmed it was only a squad and there was a single survivor I had to come and see for myself." He said as he turned to face him "From those markings on your helmet you're their leader correct." He asked pointing to the Sergeant chevrons on the chin of his helmet.
"Kiss my ass split chin bastard." Azoth spat barely holding onto his consciousness
"I came to congratulate you on a battle well fought I didn't think you humans had it in you to fight with such pride and honor." The Elite said as he pulled off the helmet "I thought only the demons could hold up against us. But never you…" the Elite began
"Night Angels." Azoth cut him off "We are the Night Angels and I may be the last but the Night Angels are immortal." He said as explosions rocked the outside of the base getting the Elite to look around in confusion, He then saw a single UNSC ship in orbit and short sword bombers flying in formation around the base then an entire fleet coming out of slip space.
"Get to your positions tell the ships to engage." The golden Elite yelled but as he said it his ships were struck by multiple MAC rounds and they exploded into a ball of blue flames.
Azoth just looked up and smiled at the destruction around him. Just then he heard the familiar sound of sparrow hawks and hornets. He looked up and saw the hovering gunships come in low and fast and begin hitting everything in sight. Just then he saw a pelican land and drop off a load of marines and a Spartan.
"Demon!" yelled the Elite as he drew his sword and began to charge at him but Night Angel saw this. With all his strength he pulled out the knife they disregarded in his capture and jumped on the Elites back stabbing him in the throat letting his blood spray everywhere and he fell to the ground.
The other elites saw their leader fall and the Night Angel rise he then turned toward them and said "The Night Angels are immortal."
Once they heard that the Elites began to fall back as the Marines and the Spartan moved up to him and he could no longer hold on to his consciousness and everything went black as he fell to the ground the last thing he remembered was the face of Dunsparce shaking him saying "Stay with us I told you I'd come back for you." as everything faded to black
END CHAPTER 1
A/N
Alright if you've read the Night Angel series you'll catch I've used some names and terms from them. this will not be a Night Angel cross over I am merely using these names and terms cause I think they sound good in this concept. So I may use some other names because I like them. also just had to squeeze the song from the trailer in there. So I don't own anything from the Night Angel series either. And if you're confused by the language change during the attack it is the song from the live action trailer we are ODST.