Yeah my next Chapter of Blue vs. Red story. Enjoy
4 Years Later-
"Go, go, go!" Shouted former agent Washington as he returned fire onto their assailants. Beside him was Tex and in front riding a slow moving forklift carrying three crates was Grif. They were currently being chase by local authorities.
Four years ago the UNSC had finally disbanded Project Freelancer and all simulation troopers were to return home. In order to show no hard feelings, the UNSC had used the money from the disbanded program to pay the troops as well as the families of the deceased. Anyone directly related to Project Freelancers, including its soldiers, personnel and especially Freelancers were arrested and put onto trial, with the usual verdict of guilty.
Even people from the Over-Sub Committee were being questioned due to their unexplained reason of continuing the use of simulation troopers even though the project itself was disbanded.
For the soldiers of Blood Gulch, this was something to be happy for. Finally after a number of years fighting a fake war alongside people they mostly hate and nearly getting killed in multiple situations, would finally be going home.
If not for the fact that they were harboring former Freelancer agents, gained classified knowledge concerning Project Freelancers and had a person who was part Elite along with his alien son (A/N: Not going to get in the explanation of them finding Junior, who is also all grown up) as well as battle multiple military, insurrectionist and other top facilities along with a revealed to be alive Carolina in order to assist in locating and killing the Director of Project Freelancer. That part was mildly successful but put the group on the run.
So now all of them were force on the run and had to steal to survive. Sometimes they took on jobs for…shady people and such, the usual underground business, mercenary jobs and low level deliveries.
Tucker was waiting for them near Junior's Phantom. "Hurry it up you assholes!" he yelled while ducking from enemy fire. "Oh shut the fuck up Tucker and tell your kid to start up the engine!" Grif yelled.
As the said person was relaying the order, Tex took a shot at a nearby fuel line. The hit caused an explosion, creating a massive wall of fire. It cut the police off of them, which gave the group some distance as they boarded the Phantom. "Alright we're all aboard! Get us the fuck out of here!" Washington shouted. Junior pressed some buttons and soon the ship was out of sight with the bullets of the police bouncing off of the ship's hull.
The Badlands of Planet Sable
The hideout of the Blood Gulch gang was actually an old water power plant out in the badlands of the plant Sable. The vast desert kept them hidden from any unfriendly people and they had enough food with the animals in the area and the water from the power plant. There was even enough room for bedrooms and stuff (Though the girls got the better deals).
"There back!" Simmons shouted from his post. Lopez and Sheila looked up from the power cables Lopez was trying to fix. Sarge paused from bossing Donut to carry the water containers to and from. Caboose was doing nothing when Simmons announced the other's arrival except for listening to Doc's story of his life and finally Carolina was at the shooting range.
"Simmons go and find out what they brought!" Sarge shouted. "Then call Grif a lazy ass in case he forgot the beef jerky."
"Got it sir!" Simmons said as he picked up his DMR and headed down to the landing site. Carolina strapped on her M6G sidearms and headed towards the landing area too. She pushed back Simmons, ignoring his protest.
The Phantom hovered in mid air as it unloaded the crates. The first off were Tex and Washington. "So what did you bring us this time Wash?" Carolina asked.
"We managed to score a few veggies and some meat, better then the usual crap we get." Washington replied as he opened one of the carts, pulling out two canisters that read cow beef on them.
"Did you get any beef jerky?" Simmons asked Grif as the latter got out of the Phantom. The man just looked at the guy. "Well yeah if we got meat that means we got beef jerky-wait a second you're asking because Sarge told you to."
"Yeah so?" Simmons asked.
"Dude you're still a kiss ass." Was what all Grif said. The others just stared at them before moving the crates onto the forklift and take it inside. Tucker and Junior were the last to get out since Junior had to park the Phantom.
"So I'm guessing Caboose is cooking?" Tucker asked. Everyone just nodded in response. "God I still can't figure it how someone stupid can be such a good cook."
"Well don't forget he has the fragment of the most logical A.I in his brain." Wash said. They all knew how that message from Delta for Church, was actually a way Delta had use to store a part of himself into Caboose's head.
Once he took off his gear Washington headed towards the power room on the 2nd floor where Simmons was. The maroon armored soldier had already left to get back to working on the power supply. "How are we looking at for power?" Wash asked.
Simmons stopped pushing some buttons to turn and look at him. "Well I think Lopez got the electricity working, so we should be fine with heat and light. I'm just trying to get the power in the kitchen working."
"Wait did it break down again in that place too?" Washington asked.
"Duh, this place isn't a five star hotel. I need new battery packs for most of these things." Simmons replied before going back to his work.
"Right, we'll make sure we get some on our next go round." Washington said as he left to check on Sarge and Donut. When he looked over the edge of the rail he saw to his disappointment Sarge saying random stuff to Donut, who was having difficulty lifting up the heavy canisters filled with water.
"C'mon Donut put some more muscle in your legs, give ya boost." Sarge said.
"Got…oomph, got…it sir!" Donut said.
Washington sighed. "What the fuck are you guys doing?"
Sarge looked up as Donut put the canister down to take a breather. "What does it look like? We're carrying the water to the freezer to be stored."
Washington shook his head. "1. I see only Donut carrying the water. 2. Why don't you just use the cart to move the water?"
Sarge paused for a moment to look at the cart and then the water, then the cart again, and finally at Washington. "Well that's for sissies."
Getting an idea Washington said. "But isn't Donut a sissy?"
Sarge thought for a moment before a light bulb appeared over his head and then turned to Donut. "Okay Donut, place the canisters on the cart and push it to the freezer."
Washington nodded to himself as he did a job well done and walked off to check on the others. After all someone had to make sure that they didn't get killed.
Back in the lounge Carolina and Tex were the only two in the lounge, with the former fiddling with an SRS 99 Anti-Matériel sniper rifle while the latter looked at her combat knife with a bored expression. They said nothing to each other, as if their past rivalry kept them from talking as well as other things. Even though she was technically Epsilon-Tex, Tex had the memories of the original Agent Tex, also known as Beta created by the Director in an attempt to revive his dead love, Allison. As such she remembered how Beta went against Project Freelancer to rescue the Alpha, Church, her boyfriend and the man she loved, and how Carolina got in the way of that. But despite that, Epsilon-Tex also had remembered Beta's memories of how the original Agent Tex respected Carolina and showed concern for her and was also distraught when Carolina supposedly died at the hands of the Meta, Agent Maine. Unknown to Tex however, but known to both Carolina and the Director, Carolina was the biological daughter of the Director and the original Allison.
Finally Carolina spoke, breaking Tex out of her thoughts. "So did you hear the news?"
Tex, who had her knife out, sheathed it before replying. "What news?" She asked
"Agent Delaware was killed last week, selling valuable information to insurrectionists." Carolina said.
Tex nearly dropped her knife. "He's dead? Who killed him?" Despite not really interacting with the other agents that weren't involved with her defection, she knew killing any of them was difficult. That and she was surprise there were some still even alive.
Carolina put her rifle down. "The UNSC new super soldiers, Knights there called, from Project Knighthood."
"Never heard of them." Tex responded.
"They were one of the many projects trying to create super soldiers during the war. They came in second to Project Freelancers. But since their results were still good, the UNSC made them part of ONI. When Project Freelancers was busted, Project Knighthood was reopened and became the Spartan Programs true successors." Carolina explained.
"Hmm" Tex mumbled as she pulled her knees to her chest. "So we're outdated huh?"
"Suits our current situation don't you think?" Carolina added.
Tex let out a laugh. "Yeah it does"
Carolina smirked as she walked off with her sniper rifle. When she was gone Caboose came out walking lazily, more then he usually did. "Hey Caboose what's wrong with you?" Tex asked.
Caboose said nothing just sighed. Suddenly an image of Delta appeared and spoke for him. "I believe Caboose is suffering from depression due to the fact Church is not here." Delta explained. "In other words he misses him."
Tex nodded sadly, "So do I, so do I." She murmured.
Few Hours later, after dinner has been made…
Washington carried some extra food to his cabin, something he always done whenever he eats. It was as if though he was more comfortable of eating by himself. That and it was better then listening to the annoying chatter that some of the others said. No one asked why, so it was of little concern.
As Washington closed the door he set the food on the bed and reached underneath it. He revealed that he was getting a laptop. As he took a bite of a sandwich he opened his computer, typing on it. A screen popped up with words on it saying. "Do we have a deal?"
Wash paused for a moment before typing. "Deal when will u be here?"
The computer said nothing but then showed the sentence, "Tomorrow afternoon, at the latest. Welcome to Project Knighthood."
Next Day
In the morning everyone was doing what they always do in the morning: Everyone slept in, even the ones whose alarm clocks went off and either ignored them or turned them off. Suddenly loud noises like feet marching and wheels grinding against rocks could be heard. One by one every occupant woke up and got out of bed due to the noise.
"What the fuck was that?" Grif asked as he peeked out of his room. Washington grabbed his DMR rifle and took a look outside. "Oh Fuck…"
Outside were seven warthogs with mounted machine guns, ten civilian warthogs and at least fifty men, mostly armed with submachine guns, assault and battle rifles and shotguns, outside the power plant "We got company, the bad shitty kind." Wash said.
Sarge already had his shotgun in hand as he joined Washington. "Huh? Who the hell are they?" All of a sudden they were taking fire. Wash managed to pull the Sarge down behind the wall.
"I recognize the symbol, their part of a local insurrectionist group on this planet. Guess they think we're on their terf."
"Well we better shoot back!" Tex said as she fired some rounds from her DMR, killing a man. "Carolina get on that sniper rifle and try to snipe those gunners!"
"On it!" The red head said as she jumped on top of a structure to get a better aim. Washington turned to Simmons and Lopez. "Simmons get the rocket launcher and take out those warthogs. Lopez get Sheila prepped up!"
"Yes sir!" Simmons said as he raced off to get the launcher. [Yes I will let my love know its time to bring the pain.] Lopez said as he hurried off towards Sheila's hangar.
"Everyone else, fire!" Washington shouted as he fired his DMR, managing to snipe a soldier's head off. Everyone else began to fire back, mostly with DMR or BR rifles, except for Caboose and Junior, the former with a MA37 assault rifle and the latter with a Needle Rifle. Their aims weren't as good as Tex and Wash's but they did manage to send the enemy to cover. A machine gunner had begun firing on them, but was dealt from a sniper shot by Carolina, killing the man instantly.
The others had already begun shooting, with other men using the Warthogs for cover. By then Simmons had arrived with the rocket launcher, "Fire in the hole!" He shouted as he fired a rocket, hitting a warthog, blowing it up. Then he fired another round that took out three men.
As he was reloading Wash turned to Doc. "Doc, go and get all the weapons you can get and ammunition too."
"Good thing, since I'm a pacifist." Doc mentioned as he was getting up and ran inside.
Tucker took a moment to stand up to shoot his BR. "Yeah eat that bitches! Whose your daddy?" Tucker yelled. Junior stood up with his Needle Rifle firing wildly. "Yeah suck my needles whores!" He shouted.
"Their definitely father and son." Grif muttered to Simmons as he was ducking behind the wall. Simmons just glared at him while reloading. "Just shut up and shoot bitch!" He yelled as he fired another rocket, killing two more men.
"Delta, who should I shoot?" Caboose asked the A.I.
"Shoot whoever shoots at you Caboose. Remember what we talked about?" Delta asked.
"Oh Yeah" Caboose replied, then he stood up and opened fire, mowing down three men. "Now duck" Delta said, and Caboose did. "Now reload" Caboose emptied out his gun and put in a new mag in. "Now return fire." Which was what Caboose did.
Lopez had returned with a machine gun and opened fire from the first floor entrance, with Sheila rolling up behind him. With aim she took out another warthog, blasting away four men who were near it. Several more insurgents appeared and began to open fire with rockets and grenade launchers at Sheila, since she was the biggest threat. Several blasts damaged her front wheel, stranding her where she was. "Help I cannot move!" She cried as she blasted the men who had damaged her.
[No one does that to my love and gets away with it!] Lopez declare as he went to cover Sheila.
Washington was now on his third weapon, a MA37 Assault rifle. In fact most of the others were already on their second, third or even fourth weapon now. There weren't that many left and they now had at least thirty-one men now shooting at them. Carolina had run out of bullets for her sniper rifle and was now shooting with a submachine gun.
"I can't believe I'm saying this but we're going to be overrun!" Sarge shouted as he fired his shotgun, hitting a man who was to far close to the wall.
"Shit we need to fall back to the Phantom and get the hell out of here. Someone tell Lopez to download Sheila into something portable!" Washington said as he fired two more shots. With those last shots he was now out of ammo, the same with almost everyone else. The attackers realized this and surged forward, ready to bring the kill.
The noise of three Pelicans caught everyone's attention. Soon the insurgents scattered as the three transports ships opened fire on them, their machine guns ripping them apart. The one in the middle turned around and revealed a large man in blue and white Defender Spartan Armor with a missile pod in his hand. The man opened fire, obliterating the remaining machine gun warthogs. The insurgents had begun to flee, shooting a few shots at the Pelicans.
"Wait, I know those symbols." Carolina said. "Those are Knight Pelicans, what are they doing here?"
As if on cue everyone stared at Washington. The said man just shrugged. "Ok so I made a deal with them." He said. "We work for Project Knighthood, give them any intel about Project Freelancers, and they in return keep us safe and drop the charges on us. You have to admit it's a better deal to what we have now."
Tucker did a disgusted look. "I'm not fighting for a bunch of government people."
"You'll get to see women." Wash said.
Tucker's face lightened up. "I'm in"
One by one the others agreed to the deal, still a little upset Wash kept it a secret, but still went along with it. After they had done that they walked down to greet the Knights. Including the first one, there was a second one, a female judging by her figure. She wore white and brown Gungnir-class armor.
"Bow Chika Bow Wow" Tucker said as he scanned her form, earning a punch in the shoulder by Tex. Washington walked up to the female Knight and shook her hand.
"I'm Commander Heather Courtney, leader of Team Iron, you must be Washington?" The female asked.
"That would be me." Wash said
Courtney nodded, "You have five hours to get ready to go. I'm also going to have to question the fact you have an Elite with you and about dropping the charges."
"Right" Then Washington turned towards the others. "Well, start get packing." And with that they scampered off to get their stuff. Then the ex-Freelancer turned to Knight. "So is there anything else I should know about joining?"
Courtney took of her helmet, revealing her long brown hair and green eyes. "Well first off, the Founder and the board think it may be better to separate you guys into different Knights teams. Any comments?"
Washington nodded. "Yes, gods help whoever is stuck with those idiots."
Sorry it took so long been busy with my other stories and school work too.
