The surface of the UAC facility shows a few structures connecting one another against the mountain, this mountain shows that most of it is covered in snow but it hasn't touched the complex however there has been some snow where they are and it's always cold for a time. This complex of the base shows a rectangular looking one that has to be the main structure, looks similar to a UNSC firebase but it's white and not in green colour. This facility quickly just got into lockdown the moment they discovered covenant ships in space, activating all weapons system and prepares to defend against the covenant while the city that was a thousand miles from where the facility is and wasn't really targeted by the covenant as they only want to go after the UAC, maybe once they are gone they will probably work on attacking the city if they have the time or the power to do so even though they just lost two ships at the start of the campaign.
Inside the UAC facility all UAC marines are to deployed outside to prepare a defence and those will try to defend the inside of the complex, arming themselves with the state of the art weaponry that they created and not UNSC weapons. The UAC is a strong corporation and with helping out with ONI sometimes, they were able to get a few additional weapons for their defence if something attacks them and thanks to the UNSC and ONI they allowed to give the UAC some Spartans, leaving them in stasis pods for the moment until they are ready to be used for action against the covenant.
Inside the complex a lot of marines are running around the place getting into positions and escorting some scientists and civilians out of the war zone, two marines armed with both shotguns will escort this female scientist who has blonde long hair in a ponytail and appears in her late twenties. She was walking towards one of the rooms where the Spartan-IV is lying in the pod asleep, looking around seeing the only pod there in the middle of the room while the other three Spartans who are also fours are stationed elsewhere and are preparing to be opened.
This Spartan in this pod was wearing a head-hunter class armour with orange colour and a bit of blue lines on some parts of his body, the scientist walks up to the side of the pod and does something to this console next to it, trying to open his pod while hearing explosions coming outside, causing her to duck down a bit and so does the marines but she continues going until finally she takes a few steps back seeing the pod slowly opening up.
The pod opens up and the frozen breeze comes pouring out causing the scientist to take a few steps back when she started to shiver for the moment, seeing the pod door rising up and waiting for that Spartan to finally wake up. She will walk up to the pod when he's still asleep, using her voice to try to get him up.
"Spartan… Spartan can you hear me?"
The Spartan slowly opens his eyes under that helmet but could only see a blur and a faint voice echoing through his mind, slowly raising his arms up to look at them and could hear her again but this time he could hear her well. He could finally see clear and once he sees her he started moving out of the pod, standing tall in front of it while looking down at her.
"My name is Samantha Grimm; we are in need of your expertise on fighting covenant." She looks to the marine then back to him while that marine takes out a machinegun to lends it to him. "You ready to get back to work Rookie?"
Rookie looks to that marine and takes that machinegun, examining the gun well seeing it has a scope attach to it then looks back to her while lowering his weapon. "Let's go then." Samantha said then will turn back and walk out of there with the marines behind her with Rookie following them.
"I need you to come with me to the control room." Samantha said while walking down the hallway with the marines and Rookie behind her. "Base is breached and I need a lot of men outside fighting the covenant, but I do need a strong escort to –"
An explosion goes off at the end of the long hallway, a wraith fired a plasma cannon through the complex damaging that door and showing a hole through the wall. Samantha will move backwards while Rookie heads forward, the two marines stays by her side while Rookie checks it out to see what's going on out there from that hole in the wall. When looking through he sees the outside, he could three seraphs flying across the sky and a wraith moving around firing its plasma cannon elsewhere while a few grunts and jackals are moving with the tank, the tank and the infantry will turn their attention elsewhere to the weapon fire coming outside.
"Hurry up and get the door Spartan!" One of the marine's shout to him
Rookie looks back then to the door, placing his gun on his back and uses both hands to grab the bottom of this door and try to lift it up, it got jammed and was hard to lift up but he finally pulls the door up and finally it was fixed. He moves forward while taking out his machinegun then looks back when it's cleared, signalling them to head on through while he moves up ahead hearing a few more explosions coming up ahead.
While they move up forward while he stays where he is securing the area, he will turn back to Samantha when she walks up to him to the side. "I need you to stay here and make sure no covenant gets in this room, we don't want to lose all our work to the covenant. Do your job and you will return to the frontlines." She turns back and walks off heading to a door on her right and so does the marines.
Rookie will stay put while they go with her to the room, moving forward to stay in the center and looks forward seeing another door closed on the left. He faces it but will look to the door they just walked through, hearing another explosion and this time he notices covenant troops are deployed. He runs forward and uses the scope on his gun and started firing without hesitation, shooting down the grunts and killing a jackal then notices an elite zealot coming in that hole in the wall, lowering his gun for the moment seeing it while it looks back at him, it aims two plasma guns then started firing at one another while they both move forward shooting back at that zealot until he got into cover next to the door while taking a few damage. That elite was pretty much out in the open due to nothing in that hallway to find cover, once Rookie's shields got up he got out of hiding and started firing rounds at him while that elite fires back, force to get back into cover due to those plasma damages but when that elite got closer, Rookie fired a few more rounds until the shields broke then he ran forward and did a jump before punching the side of its face sending it to the ground.
Rookie fired a few rounds through the chest to make sure it stays dead then will look back seeing a marine coming through. "A Spartan… What are you doing here? We need your help outside."
Before he could say anything he notices a few more grunts coming through the hole in the wall, turning back he fired a few more rounds taking them out then looks back seeing Samantha coming out with the two marines with them. She will walk up to him while the two marine's heads to that hallway to secure position, getting the third marine to stay with them.
"Follow me to the elevator, I have to return to Doctor Hayden." She looks to the other door then back to him "It's through there."
Rookie will take point while heading down that door, moving to another room where a seraph will end up smashing through the middle of it of the ceiling sending the cold breeze through this room, stuck right in the center of it and on fire. Rookie and Samantha has to go around it in order to reach the other room where Rookie will tell her to stay due to seeing covenant elites firing at the UAC marines, there pin down and need help due to having only three of them left holding off against them. Rookie quickly went into action by tackling one to the ground from behind then snaps its neck, looking to the other one and started firing rounds at it while it shoots back but its storm rifle needed to recharge, giving him time to shoot the last few rounds on it before it dies, once his gun was empty he takes the dead elites storm rifle and fires at the grunts taking them out and securing the area.
Rookie will regroup with the UAC marines with Samantha behind him, they will head on through together through two more rooms that was controlled by marines before coming inside the large room that was the middle of the UAC facility on the surface, there they will have to go down a few steps before reaching to the elevator, seeing two UAC marines standing on it with a handful of scientists ready to depart further underground.
Samantha looks to Rookie before she must depart "Thank you Spartan." She will re-join the other scientists before they send the elevator down.
One of the UAC marines walks up to him "Spartan, head outside now. This is no time to be waiting in here, join the others on the offensive."
With Rookie's job done with Samantha he will make his way out of there with six UAC marines by his side, heading back upstairs and making their way to the exit door where they prepare themselves to get outside, before Rookie can head out there he gets himself a new weapon. He ditches that rifle and gets himself a better one, taking out this plasma rifle out of the case and a burst rifle he got from one of the marines, lock and load he stands ready to head through the battlefield.
"Hey Spartan." One of the marines speaks out silently "The covenant is targeting our primary weapons, if we lose our Mass Driver out there then there's no way to stop those cruisers."
"Alright guys let's do this… Let's send these covenant bastards straight to hell!" One of them said before pressing the button near the door, opening the door up and sending this cold breeze through the room causing some to shiver.
Rookie will run right out there with eight marines behind him, running out there he stops and checks his surroundings seeing some automatic machineguns firing in the sky targeting the air fighters, noticing a grey scorpion tank firing in the sky taking out a phantom before being targeted by a banshee, taking a hit by its fuel rod cannon and sends the tank exploding. There was plasma fire coming in the distance but he can't see it yet, he will run forward with the marines to regroup with the others, once he got contact from the covenant he opens fired giving off his position to the enemy.
He started firing his burst rifle taking out some grunts with headshots and two jackals as well before switching to his plasma rifle, he was out in the open while the others get into cover due to bombardments from above by the banshees. As he moves forward he finally gets into cover, he looks to his left and notice a wraith being deployed nearby by a phantom, turning towards Rookie then fires into the sky and hitting close by, breaking his shields and force to pull back while firing his plasma rifle at it to kill the mounted gunner. That tank was moving closer towards him however this strange energy beam that came on the right side of the tank, penetrating through the side of the wraith and sends it blowing up with one shot, it killed three covenant infantry in the process and once that tank was gone, Rookie looks back and signals the other marines to press on the attack on the rest of the covenant infantry.
Three Spartans that are all Spartan-IVs makes an appearance in this fight, one of them wore this grey EVA armour and was carrying a Gauss Cannon attach with a charged burst, it was capable of removing that wraith with one shot. There was another one behind him that was a female and wears air assault armour and was all pink, holding a plasma rifle and a rocket launcher on her back and third one was also female and wore green security armour, wielding this large looking lightning gun (From Quake 4) and has a shotgun on her back.
"Let's move team." The male Spartan said moving forward with that Gauss Cannon, looking up seeing two banshees coming towards them, he crouches down and charges that Gauss Cannon and fires this beam again blasting them to bits.
"Sarge." The pink Spartan looks over seeing Rookie running with four marines behind him towards the covenant "He's awake."
"About damn time." Sarge looks to the green Spartan "Hunter, go watch his back." He then looks to the pink Spartan "Pinky, you're with me."
Hunter runs towards Rookie not firing her weapon until she gets close to the covenant, Sarge and Pinky will be running elsewhere towards another area that is under attack by covenant. Rookie and his men held position firing against the covenant killing the last of them in this area, once he killed them all he didn't expect an elite that was camouflage behind him, drawing his energy sword to strike down Rookie however Hunter came and fired her lightning gun, showing its position to the others. Rookie looks back seeing the elite weak with the shields down, crouching down giving Rookie time to walk up to that elite and give it two hard punches across the face before it falls dead on the ground.
"Welcome back Rookie." Hunter said walking over to him leaning her lightning gun on her shoulder "Names Hunter, nice to meet you."
One of the marines turns towards her then looks behind her "Hunter!"
Hunter will look towards that marine "What?"
"I mean hunters!" He points behind her seeing two hunters moving towards them
She and the others looks back seeing them coming over firing fuel rod rounds "Oh, that hunter." She switches to her shotgun which as a grenade launcher attach to it. "Let's go!"
While they go scattering around firing at the two hunters, elsewhere Sarge and Pinky was about to join a few marines however they were too late, one of the elites with a plasma grenade fired towards this grey warthog, sending that vehicle to flip and crushing two marines that was standing behind it, killing the driver and the gunner as well in the process and with that down the two last marines were out in the open and got shot down by plasma fire. Pinky uses her rocket launcher to fire two rockets towards the covenant, blasting them to bits except for one elite that rolled out of the way, she would reload her rocket launcher while Sarge runs over switching to his machinegun and charges up its rockets on it then fires at the elite. That elite misses two of the rockets but takes four of them and goes crashing hard to the ground by rocket fire, once this area was secure they will look back and notices one of the complexes got destroyed by a large explosion from the inside.
"Damn we were right there before…." Pinky said taking out her plasma rifle
"I know…." Sarge said while looking over there. He suddenly started getting some static on his communications, for a minute later he finally started hearing someone but can hear bits of static too. "Can anyone read me… we need help; can anyone respond?"
"This is Sarge, UNSC Spartan. What's your situation?"
"Spartan, thank god you responded. There's a covenant ship coming towards here and I need your help to take it out."
Sarge will look up noticing a covenant battle cruiser making an appearance "I see it, what's wrong with our primary weapons?"
"That's what I was trying to tell you, we can't control the Mass Drivers, the first one was destroyed during the bombing while the other one is offline, we can't operate it from where we are. I need someone to operate that gun manually."
"Where's the location of the Mass Driver?"
"It's in the north complex area, you won't miss it. There's marines there dealing with the covenant and they don't know how long they can last out there."
"Copy that were on our way." He looks back to Pinky "We got a cruiser to take down."
"This will be fun."
Sarge then contacts Hunter while she and Rookie are still fighting the hunters "Hunter, Rookie. Regroup on my position right now."
"Were busy right now!" Hunter said firing her grenade hitting the hunter, finally killing the first hunter while the other one fires towards Rookie, almost hitting him. "We will be there soon." She said firing her lightning gun towards the hunter to get its attention.
When the hunter turns towards her, Rookie quickly runs over holding a grenade then punches through the back of it then will jump back before exploding. Both hunters are down and that is when they will notice two phantoms flying past them, moving towards the location of the Mass Driver while that covenant ship is moving closer to the base, already firing plasma cannons down to bombard some of the areas but not the main structure.
Hunter walks up to Rookie while she changes back to her shotgun "We have to regroup with Sarge and Pinky, I got their location on our HUDs."
Rookie looks behind her noticing a warthog upside down and still operational, he looks back to her then started moving towards the warthog and she will join too when she looked back seeing what he was looking at. The other marines will move off elsewhere, retreating back to the main structure while the two Spartans takes a ride, getting Hunter to man the machinegun and started firing at any covenant she sees including the banshees in the sky.
Both Sarge and Pinky approaches another compound that wasn't connected to the other areas, this one was against the mountains and hasn't got targeted yet but covenant forces are advancing while the UAC marines are retreating inside. Sarge and Pinky would have to get through, get inside the place and get upstairs to reach the Mass Driver that was in the corner.
"We lose that gun then it's all over, let's go." He notices a wraith having it's back towards Sarge, he quickly runs towards it and jumps at the back, throwing a plasma grenade inside then runs back before it explodes.
Pinky stays by his side when they run forward, firing her rockets twice towards the other covenant forces, removing a ghost and two elites then switches back to her plasma rifle and started firing. In the compound they will notice some marines on the high ground on perfect areas for sniping, shooting down some covenant infantry and started giving the Spartans some covering fire while the others are staying behind the barricades protecting the front door, right now they just lost their warthog to a wraith that was getting closer and Pinky just ran out of rockets right now and switches to her plasma rifle while Sarge started moving towards that tank to take it out with his last round of Gauss.
The covenant turns attention towards the two Spartans but they will look elsewhere when Rookie comes driving through, jumping up in the air and running over some grunts before drifting to the side for the warthog to have the front facing outwards and the back facing the covenant wraith and troops, getting Hunter to shoot like crazy taking them out one by one until Rookie started driving around to deal with the others while Sarge uses that last Gauss round to penetrate through that wraith, once that wraith is destroyed both Sarge and Pinky makes a run for it inside the building, quickly making their way towards the Mass Driver.
"The cruiser is moving into position; we need it dead." One of the snipers said on the building, checking that ship out and noticing it moving closer
"I got the gun." Sarge ditches his Gauss Cannon while walking up to the Mass Driver to operate it.
The battlecruiser moves closer and started firing plasma cannons down at the facility, targeting weapons systems and other UAC forces in the area to push them back, targeting only the other buildings and not the main one, the covenant forces will retreat for now but once there ready they will attack the main facility. Sarge just needs to take a good shot although if he messes up then that ship might end up crashing on top of them, he needs to try though and hope that ship moves away before it crashes.
Sarge started firing the Mass Driver targeting phantoms that comes flying towards this position, dropping some troops before they get blown out of the sky. Pinky will be nearby using a sniper rifle and started shooting down at the covenant on the ground, Rookie and Hunter was still driving around dealing with the infantry too and avoiding any wreckage from the destroyed phantoms.
"Sarge." Pinky looks towards him "Take the shot now, bring it down!"
