Halo: Cataclysm's Contender
(Chapter 1) Discovery
0600 Hours, May 2, 2552 (Military Calendar)/
UNSC Stealth Prowler Titans Shadow, In Slip Space,
En route from Aurora, to uncharted space on the extreme edge of the Luna System.
Atrolus paced anxiously up and down a row of gun racks in the ships largest armory, while waiting for the rest of his team to arrive. Atrolus, Spartan-V84 age 19, always found that after a stay in cryo his left knee would always be seized up and the only thing that could fix that would be to walk it off. Unfortunately there wasn't a whole lot of space to walk around on a prowler. So the little bit of space here in the armory would have to do.
He eventually came to stop in front of a large mirror and started staring at his Tan and Steel colored armor. Some parts where newer than others, but all were vital for his survival. On his left and right shoulders sat identical ODST shoulder plates. As he kept staring, his eye's slowly drifted down to the three large pockets on his chest, then to the tactical GPS on his left wrist, and then on to the case on his left thigh. All of these parts make up who he is. Especially his Mk. V MJOLNIR helmet which kept him and the team's new Artificial Intelligence safe from the elements and from the battlefield. The feature that stood out the most on his armor was his emblem. Three sage green colored points, connected together by a gold sea fairing ship's anchor with a gray rope twisting around the anchor's center shaft.
If these colors were part of a Spartan three's emblem they would be identified as a member of his team. Whiskey team. However, only Mk. Three's from the Commando program could join Whiskey's ranks. For that reason he was grateful. Because in order to be a Spartan Commando you had to go through the hardest training program in the UNSC and pass.
So far there were only five commando teams actively deployed in the field. A team of Commandos ranged between four and six Spartan's. Whiskey team consisted of six Spartan three's and as of today one "smart" AI and together they could get in, accomplish their objective and get out without anyone knowing. Or they could turn the battlefield into a living hell for the Covenant or anyone else who tried to get in their way.
In the mirror's reflection Atrolus saw the armory's door quietly slide open, revealing the rest of Whiskey team and they started filing in. The first one to enter was Holland, Spartan-V303,Whiskey Two, Atrolus' second in command. Holland looked like a knight, because of his armor's shiny silver color. Close behind Holland was Lee, Spartan-V33, Whiskey Three, the team's cryptanalyst, which was ONI's way of calling him a hacker. Lee favored a more traditional navy blue color for his armor. Next in line was Charlotte or Char as the team called her, Spartan-V83, Whiskey Four, the team's sharp shooter. With her rusty orange and steel colored armor she truly looked like a demon on the battlefield. Following Char was Laura, Spartan-V005, Whiskey Five, the squad's heavy. Laura looked like something out of a nightmare, with her black and red armor and the 50. Cal. Mini-gun she liked to take with her on missions; named Richard. The last one to enter was Drake, Spartan-V27, Whiskey Six, Whiskey team's explosive's technician. At a glance, Drake didn't look all that special in his green and gray colored armor. However, there wasn't a substance in the universe that Drake couldn't blow into a billion pieces and that was what made him so valuable.
"Whiskey team, reporting as requested, Whiskey One." Holland announced as the door to the armory slid closed.
"At ease," Atrolus replied, the rest of the team relaxed a little. "Please tell me, do the rest of you know why I asked you to come here?"
The other Spartans looked at one another and Holland spoke up and said. "Sir, we are not all entirely sure, but we know that it must be important for you to have brought us out of cryo while the ship is still in slip-space."
"Good, they didn't know about her yet." Atrolus thought to himself. "I asked you here today, so you could meet the newest member of our team!" He said.
Again the other Spartans looked at one another, and this time it was Lee who spoke. "With all due respect sir, aren't we already at the maximum number of people allowed in a commando team?"
Atrolus smiled and nodded his head, and said. "You are correct, we are at the maximum number of Spartans allowed in a commando team," He paused. "However, our newest member is not a Spartan, but she is an AI"
Now that was something that Whiskey team had never expected. Because for years they had requested to have an AI as part of the team. Other squads had done the same and had been granted their request, but it had never been that way for Whiskey team. So why where they getting one now?
"Team, I'd like you to meet our AI," Atrolus gestured to the holo pad by the mirror as he turned around to face them. "Kallen, you can come out now." To the right of Atrolus; the holo pad came alive and bathed the entire room with a red glow. On the holo pad stood a girl who looked like she may have been 18 years old. She was tall and slender and had spiky shoulder length red hair and a red head band to keep her hair up. Kallen also wore a red and silver colored form fitting jump suit. She had cool blue eyes and an expression that made her look like she meant business.
"Hello everyone, my name is Kallen. I'm a fourth generation advanced "smart" AI, and I've been assigned by Dr. Halsey, herself to work with your team from now on," Kallen said with a smile, "I look forward to working with all of you."
The members of Whiskey team were silent for a moment and then Laura joined in the conversation. "Excuse me," She said with German accent as she crossed her arms. "But I have a question!"
Atrolus looked at her and then looked back at Kallen and then back at Laura and said. "That's fair, I'm sure that you all have questions to ask Kallen, so go ahead."
"I think I speak for the rest of the team when I say this," Laura looked at the Spartans standing next to her. "But what I'd like to know, is why The Office of Naval Intelligence has decided to give us an AI completely out of the blue, when they denied our requests for one in the past? I mean it's been more than three years since our last request was denied, so why now?"
"As you already know, Humanity has been at war with the Covenant for more than a quarter century," Kallen said in an informative tone. "In that short amount of time we have lost more than half our colonies to the Covenant. We don't know how much longer this war will keep going on, so The Office of Naval Intelligence decided to assign an AI to each Spartan team currently deployed with the intent of better equipping them to handle any situation they may encounter."
"Yeah, but why now, and not before when we requested to be assigned one?" Drake asked.
"The reason why your team has gone without the assistance of an AI until now is because Whiskey team is one of the most diverse Spartan teams in the UNSC arsenal," Kallen explained. "This team is one of, if not the most well rounded team in terms of skill and field experience. I'm here to give you an even greater advantage over the Covenant. In other words, I'm your trump card."
The door to the armory slid open to reveal Madam Captain Andria Morton standing in the doorway. "And that is exactly why all of you are here." She said as she stepped inside. "You're here to make sure the Covenant don't get their grubby little hands on whatever it is they've found all the way out here in Luna!"
"Attention, Captain on the deck!" Atrolus bellowed out as he and the other members of Whiskey team saluted.
"At ease," The Captain said as she returned their salute. "It's good to see all of you."
"Likewise ma'am!" The Spartans replied in unison.
"Now if you will follow me, we will go to the bridge so I can brief you on your mission. And Kallen please join us there." Morton said as she spun on her heels and walked out of the armory, with Whiskey team close behind.
"Very well," Kallen said as she watched the others leave. "I'll see you there."
As the Captain lead the way to the bridge not much was said by the Spartans. However, it did give them plenty of time to observe the Captain. Madam Captain Andria Morton was in her early twenty's, she was five feet, five inches tall, with long raven black hair that reached down to the middle of her back. She had bluish, gray eyes and she wore a standard issue Captain's uniform. She was small when compared to a Spartan, however, Atrolus didn't doubt that she had what it took to captain a ship.
After passing through three bulkheads the group finally came to a stop at the bridge door. "Just a second everyone." Said the Captain to the Spartans as she moved to a numerical key pad on the right side of the door, and entered her code. The red L.E.D. on the pad turned green and the door to the bridge hissed open. "Please, go in." Said the Captain as she stepped to the side and gestured for them to enter.
The Spartans entered the bridge and found the bridge crew hard at work, along with Kallen and a blue colored AI that wore armor like that of an ancient Roman solider and held a shield and spear. Both were standing on individual holo pads, next to a blank holo map table. The AI were staring at a count down on the wall, that was for the estimated time until they'd shift back into normal space. The actual time read: 0:30:48. Thirty minutes until the transition and then the mission clock would start.
"I see that you made it here in one piece, Captain," The blue AI said in an arrogant manner as he looked over at the new arrivals. "Ah, and I see that you brought some friends with you."
"It's good to see you too, Cornelius." Andria said as she rolled her eye's. It was to early for his dry sense of humor. She needed to get him back on track. "Cornelius, give me a status update please."
Cornelius nodded and said, "We have a little under half an hour until we transition back to normal space. Ninety five percent of the crew are out of cryo and are at their stations. The other five percent are either in the mess hall or in the ready rooms."
"Good," She muttered while staring at the featureless holo map. "Now, what's the ship status?"
This time Cornelius brought up a three dimensional image of the Titan's Shadow on the holo map, and flagged different areas of the ship as he reported on them. "The Titan's Shadow is running at one hundred percent power coming from the fusion drive core. Our cloaking system is fully charged and ready to be activated upon command." Cornelius paused and looked up at the Madam Captain and asked. "Shall I continue?"
The Madam Captain shook her head and answered. "No, that's fine. Now I'd like you to bring up the mission file for Whiskey team and display it on the holo map." She said as her eye's drifted from the table to both of the AI. "And please give Kallen a copy of this file."
"As you wish!" Cornelius said and bowed. A moment later the Prowler that was on the display disappeared and was replaced with a three dimensional map of the Luna system. "Mission File is ready Captain."
"Thank you Cornelius." Replied the Captain as she motioned for the Spartans to gather around the map. "Here's what we know. About a ten days ago our outpost stations in Sectors M-29 and Sectors J-26 picked up readings that match the drive signatures of Covenant scout ships on the extreme edge of the Luna system." On the map, flag markers appeared in locations where the outpost's would be and the map zoomed in on the area being discussed. "Over the next five days, our outpost's picked up additional Covenant scout ships. In numbers of upwards of sixty ships. All of which were looking for something."
"Interesting!" Atrolus said as he reached up and removed his helmet and set in down on the table. Atrolus had short brown hair and jade green eye's and a long linear scar that ran down from the corner of his right cheek to the middle of his chin. It was caused by a Covenant energy sword that had cut thought his helmet and grazed his cheek. "I've never seen the Covenant deploy that many ships in an attempt to find something." He said as he reached down into the tactical hard case on his left thigh and retrieved a pair of antique eye glasses and put them on while he continued to study the star map. "Especially out in the middle of nowhere here in Luna."
"Very interesting indeed, Whiskey One." Andria said as she looked at Atrolus. She had never before seen Spartans in person, and had never expected one of the UNSC's super soldiers to wear glasses. It just proved that sometimes there were things that technology couldn't fix. "As of two days ago, our stations picked up fragments of unencrypted Covenant battlenet communications stating they'd found 'a most holy relic of the god's...' And that it would, 'undoubtedly further our path on the Great Journey, and that no one was to touch the holy relic until the Hierarch arrived and blessed their righteous efforts...' The stations also intercepted some images the Covenant had taken of their find."
She then pressed a button on the table and the map disappeared. And was replaced with an image of what at first glance looked like a crescent moon.
"A moon?" Char said with a French accent. "What could the Covenant possibly want with a moon?"
"Is it really a moon, V83?" Cornelius asked while looking intently at the image. "Here, I'll clean it up a little for you." The image on the holo map transformed from being a fuzzy outline of a moon into a crisper, more defined object. As the resolution improved it became evident that the object was clearly not a moon at all. "You see," said the AI, "It's a ship. And according to our calculations it measures up to eighty kilometers in length and about five kilometers width."
"That's impossible!" Lee said in protest. "No ship is that big! Not even a space station is that big! It is physically impossible for something of that size to exist."
"I agree with what you are saying, Whiskey Three. The materials and resources needed to construct such a vessel are far beyond what the UNSC can muster, however, look at this..." Cornelius said as the image on the holo map changed again, this time a scaled down version of the artifact appeared and slowly rotated, clockwise, so the front and the back of the ship could be seen. "When I take this image and turn it into a 3D representation of the object, it clearly shows features that are far too detailed and defined to be a moon."
"No kidding!" Lee said. "Who in their right mind would want a ship that big?"
"That information is unknown, but what we do know is that the Covenant can't have it." Captain Morton said as she brought her left hand up to cover her mouth as she cleared her throat.
"I say we blow it up!" Said Drake with a large grin on his face. "A nuke or two should do the trick."
"ONI want's Whiskey team to get on board and retrieve as much information as you can, about the ship, who built it and any other data that you find that might be useful, without being detected by the Covenant or whoever made that ship, if they're still there." Said the Captain. "However, your team will be taking two FENRIS nuclear weapons to help ensure the fact that the Covenant won't be able to gain anything useful from that ship! In other words once you've finished your mission and get back on board and we get out of here the fire works will begin."
"Now that's more like it! Well show the Covenant what happens when they come into our backyard without our permission!" Drake said with and even bigger smile on his face than before and laughed. "This is going to be fun!"
"Has anything happened in the last two days that we need to worry about?" Holland asked as he smiled in approval of Drake's enthusiasm. "Is there anything else we should know?"
"No, not much has changed over the last two days that you need to worry about. However, those Covenant scout ships have formed a loose blockade around the artifact." Again the holo map changed and showed Covenant ships circling the object. "We have about eighteen minutes before we arrive. When we do show up we'll activate our stealth systems and get your team in close enough to E.V.A. from the Shadow to the artifact using Co2 powered thruster packs. From there we will stay around long enough for you get aboard with whatever gear you think you may need," On the display a miniature version of the Titans Shadow appeared and moved past the Covenant blockade and then in close to the artifact. "Once you're aboard you will need to set up a single beam laser COM transmitter so we can stay in contact with you. After that we will pull away and wait for your signal to come in and pick you up."
"Now please remember that this is only a prowler! We don't have any real heavy armor like a Scorpion tank. The best we have is a warthog equipped with a gauss cannon, however, it is highly unlikely that you will need such a thing once inside." Said Cornelius.
"That now brings this briefing to an end. You have fifteen minutes to get whatever equipment you need loaded and down to the hangar. All of you are dismissed except you V84." Andria said as the rest of the team headed for the bridge door.
After the other Spartans left; Atrolus asked. "What is this about Ma'am?"
"Have you ever been the carrier of an AI before?" Asked the Captain as she walked up beside Atrolus. "You do know what they're capable of, don't you?"
"No ma'am I've never been an AI carrier before. Kallen is my first AI and I am grateful to have someone like her on my team." Atrolus said as he looked at Kallen and she looked at him while holding her left arm with her right hand, looking embarrassed.
"I'm glad that you feel that way about me V84, but I don't think that's what the Captain is getting at." Kallen said with a flattered smile.
"Kallen is right, Whiskey One, I was referring to the unique abilities that she has! Kallen has the ability to bring you back to life if you get injured that badly. Kallen can administer up to three rounds of Nanites that can patch up you and your armor if need be. It is truly amazing. However, after the third round has been used you'll have to return to the Titan's Shadow to have that supply replenished." The Captain said as she looked at Kallen.
"Let's hope that we won't have to resort to using them." Atrolus said as he removed his glasses and put them back in their case. "But if they are needed I'll be sure to let Kallen know." He said while putting his helmet back on and his armor hissed as it re-sealed.
"Good, I'm glad you understand how important Kallen is," The Captain said as she moved over to Kallen's holo pad. "Have you sorted yourself for a hard transfer, Kallen?"
"Yes ma'am I am ready when you are, but please, give me a moment." Kallen said as she looked over at Cornelius. "Will you be able to handle things here while I'm not around?" She asked jokingly.
"I'll be fine while your away." Cornelius said to his fellow AI as he looked back at her. "And one more thing, be careful and come back in one piece!"
"Don't you worry Cornelius, I promise to come back in one piece," Kallen said as she returned her attention back to the Captain. "Ma'am I'm ready to go!"
"Very well!" She said as Kallen's avatar vanish and she knelt down and ejected Kallen and her chip from the holo pad. Kallen's data crystal glowed with a warm red color when she wasn't interfaced. "This is when Kallen is at her most vulnerable." Captain Morton said as she stood up and turned to face Atrolus. "The only reason why she should have to be removed is when she is needed to access or interface with something else like that holo pad. Other wise you should always be interfaced with her."
"What's it like?" Atrolus asked.
"That is a question that I cannot answer." Andria replied as she held Kallen's chip with both hand's. "I guess you will just have to find out!"
"I guess so!" Atrolus said as he reached out and picked up Kallen's chip and brought it to the port on the back of his helmet and put it in. He felt his mind wash over with an icy cold feeling that slowly warmed up as Kallen interfaced with him.
"I'm greatly looking forward to working with you V84..." Kallen seemed to say from the back of his mind.
"Please, just call me Atrolus." He replied while still getting used to this new feeling. And then it was complete, he was fully interfaced with Kallen.
"You should get going Whiskey One." The Captain said as she glanced at the count down. "You have ten minutes now before we transition back to normal space. So you better get-a-move-on."
"Yes Ma'am!" Atrolus said as he brought his right hand up. The Captain did the same and they shook. "We'll get the job done!" He said as he let go and turned around to leave.
"Good luck you two!" Andria said as he was almost out the door.
"Likewise Ma'am." He replied and then was out the door and heading to the armory where hopefully the rest of his team would be as well.
When Atrolus arrived at that armory he found his team hard at work. Holland had found a motorized equipment cart and was in the process loading it with a wide variety of Assault rifles, Shot guns, DMRS, and M6 Magnum pistols. There was a box of frag grenades on the bottom rack of the cart along with an assortment of different types of ammunition for those weapons.
Close by Holland sat Drake. Drake was rummaging though a foot locker grabbing as much C-7 explosive as he could find. He already had three large equipment bags attached to his armor and was working on filling a fourth.
At the other side of the armory Laura was re-assembling "Richard" her mini gun. The rotating barrel had just been re-attached. Laura tested to see if her work was done correctly by pulling the weapon's trigger, she was rewarded with the whine of the gear mechanism spinning up. She had a high capacity metal ammunition back pack attached to her back and she had two more leaning on the bench she was standing by.
At the work bench beside Laura was Char, Char had two SRS99 Sniper Rifles. One had its barrel replaced with a larger barrel to accommodate the use of a .50 cal round. The other rifle was her spare. Char like Drake had three large equipment bags attached to her armor, in those bags sat sixteen clips of fifty Cal ammo and another eight for her back up.
Out of the corner of his eye Atrolus saw Lee standing by a computer terminal. Lee looked up at him and waved him over. "What do you have Lee?" Atrolus asked as he walked over.
"Something that only you can have." Lee said. "Just received the emergency activation codes for the FENRIS nuclear-warhead's from the Captain." He explained as he pointed at the monitor. "Orders are to give them to you and Kallen for safe keeping."
Atrolus pulled a larger hand held version of a tacpad out of one of the pockets on his chest and powered it up. The devise automatically linked with the ship and he entered a command to download the codes from the ships systems and uploaded them to Kallen. "Hang on to these for me would you?" He asked as he powered down the pad.
"Sure thing." Kallen said, "You should gear up too. The Captain wants you in the hanger soon, so there isn't much time to waist."
"I was just thinking the same thing." Atrolus said a he patted Lee on the shoulder "Get your gear, we move out soon and don't forget the com unit."
"Roger that, Commander." Lee said as he walked over to a rack of communications systems and grabbed the one they needed. Next he moved to a row of gun racks and picked up an MA5B Assault rifle and attached it to the magnetic strip on his back while he grabbed ten extra clips and loaded them in to his armors belt pockets. He also picked up an M6 Magnum along with ten spare magazines of the fifty cal high-explosive rounds.
Atrolus walked over to a rack of shot guns and grabbed a M90 Mk. One shotgun and two boxes of ammo. One box contained the standard issue Eight gauge Magnum buck shot. The other box had shells that fired three ounce lead slugs. Those rounds were perfect for getting kills at mid-range. After he had all the shot gun ammo loaded up he walked over and picked up a MA5B and with it a complement of eight clips of Armor Piercing rounds and eight clips of Shredder rounds and pocketed them away. He made sure to grab a few med kit's and kept one on himself and put the others on Holland's cart. Now he was ready to go. And so was everyone else. They were all standing by Holland and the door.
Holland had just finished up loading the cart and was now in the process of securing the cargo. He lifted a metal lid and placed it on the top of the cart and locked it down. He did the same with the lower compartment. Which now held Laura's extra ammo for Richard, Char's spare sniper rifle and an M-41 Rocket launcher with additional ammo.
"All right you guy's let's head for the hanger." Atrolus said as he walked up to the door and let it slide open. Holland and his cart were the first thing out the door followed by Lee and the others, Atrolus was the last one out. "Head to the main elevator, that's the fastest way to the hangar." He told them. In the lower right corner of his heads up display or HUD on his helmet's visor was the Ship's count down timer and it read 0:03:27. "That should be plenty of time to get to the hangar." He thought to himself.
As Whiskey team made their way to the elevator they passed a few crew members. Most of which stepped to the side and saluted while others stopped and stared as not one, but six Spartans walked passed them. The Spartans were used to this kind of treatment, however they didn't pay attention to their new fans and just moved on.
"Charlie Platoon, report to the hangar immediately!" Came the Captain'ss voice over the Prowler's intercom.
"Charlie platoon?" Char asked as she looked back over her left shoulder at Atrolus.
Atrolus just shrugged and kept walking. He then asked Kallen, "Who's Charlie Platoon?"
"Charlie Platoon is a team from the ODST special forces division." She answered over the team COM. "The Captain must think we're going to need their help with something."
"Great, ODST, that's the last thing we need here," Laura said sarcastically. "is a competition to see who's the better soldier."
"Oh, common! Their not all that bad," Drake added. "They're just not as good as us."
"We're here!" Holland said as he brought his cart to a stop in front of the elevator door.
"Okay, that's enough you guy's," Atrolus said as he walked past the others and pushed the button to summon the elevator. "Let's just go down there and see what this is all about."
A few seconds later the elevator arrived and the door slid open with a hiss. The Spartans then boarded the lift and Lee hit the button for the hangar. The door then closed and they were on their way down. Once they reached the hanger and the door opened they started moving out of the elevator. Atrolus was the last one off, when he stepped into the hangar he felt his balance shift slightly. He looked at the lower right hand corner of his HUD and saw the count down timer flashing red and blue while the numbers stayed at 0:00:00. They were making the transition back to normal space.
At the other side of the hangar was a group of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers that Atrolus assumed could only be Charlie Platoon. So he and his team started walking toward them. The ODST were standing around a matte black Pelican drop ship that had shark-teeth and eyes painted on it. The decals gave the vehicle an added scare factor, because if you saw that ship flying toward you, you'd know that it meant trouble.
As the Spartans got closer they could see the ODST's starting to notice them. "Hey Colonel!" One of them said as he walked across the hangar with a motorized equipment cart following him. "I have the gear you wanted me to grab, and look who decided to show up." He pointed over his shoulder with his thumb at the Spartans.
The Colonel looked up. He was holding a tacpad in his left hand while his helmet was tucked under his right arm. He had a salt and pepper colored mustache, and brown-gray hair. He stood at about Six foot, three inches tall. He had a picture of an ODST with an Elite locked under his left arm while his right hand was punching it in the face. He was a man who looked like he could accomplish anything he set his mind to. This was a very admirable trait even to the Spartans.
"I am Colonel Alexander Wagner." The man said as he put his tacpad in a large pocket on his belt. "I'm the leader of Charlie Platoon, we've been ordered by Captain Morton to assist your team on this mission."
Atrolus stepped past his team and said. "I'm Atrolus, Whiskey team's leader. That's Holland, Whiskey two, Lee, Whiskey three, Char, Laura and Drake, Whiskey's four, five, and six." He said as he gestured toward his team mate's. "We appreciate the help."
"Glad we can help!" said the Colonel. "We have somethings that should be of help to you Spartans. Sullivan where are you?" He called out.
"Right here, sir!" Came a reply from the trooper that had lead the cart across the hangar when the Spartans had arrived.
"Bring that cart over here." Colonel Wagner said as he looked at the trooper and waved him over. "Hurry up! We have a lot of things to do before we move out."
The trooper didn't respond he just nodded his head and walked over with the cart close behind him. He and his cart came to a stop in front of Whiskey team. From behind him came three more shock troopers and they removed the panels off the cart and set them a side.
"What we have here is some new armor upgrades." Sullivan said as he picked up one of the devices from the cart. "This guy here will allow you to deploy a defensive bubble shield around you and your team. Your shields will recharge a lot faster if you stand in the bubble, small arms and plasma weapons cannot penetrate this shield. However, if the shield takes too many hits it will collapse and then you will be exposed. Be warned, vehicles can pass through the shield, so if you see one coming toward you when your in the bubble you are going to want to move." He then set the device back in the cart.
"Each gadget has a holo projector built into it and will project an image to help you identify that specific piece of equipment's ability." He flipped a switch on the side of one of the devices and a blue circle appeared, with a figure of a blue man standing with his arms by his sides. "Each device is designed to attach to your armor, in the small of your back with the exception of the jet pack. An icon of that 'ability' will then come up in the lower left hand corner of your HUD along with an energy indicator bar. To activate the ability you just have to think about it and then you can move on. With others like this one..."
He hit the switch on a different device and a red circle appeared with a man that was crouched like he was going to tie his shoe. "Your armor will lock up and you will be protected by an impenetrable energy shield. Unfortunately you cannot move when you use this ability, so make sure that you use it wisely. The other ability's include: active camouflage, a hologram decoy, and sprint."
"Now each device has a limited power supply. Which means; after you have used it you will have to wait for it to recharge before you can use it again."
After Sullivan had finish telling the Spartans about the new gear he stepped back to let the Colonel speak. However, the Captain broke over the hangar's COM and said. "Spartan and ODST teams we have had a slight change of plans."