Hello, children. This is Death Snake, and I said I would bring you another chapter. I hope you enjoy this one and please tell what you think so far.
Four Months Later
Location: Stolen-UNSC Frigate Vengeance
In the middle of deep space, the stolen UNSC frigate Vengeance was trying its best to get away from both Covenant and UNSC space, before both of them could catch up with her.
Baron knew the risks that both he and the cadets could suffer if they were caught by ONI. He would most likely be terminated of all things. As for the Spartans, they would be executed or thrown in prison for leaving.
ONI already had the Sigma Company under lock and key, saying it never existed, threatening to kill anyone who would speak a word about it, or court-marshalling them then killing them. But for some reason, he wasn't that worried about it.
He already knew that the Spartans can handle themselves and they were battle-hardened against the Covenant, but he couldn't shake off a feeling. The feeling of something worse was coming. This all started when he heard the call of "It's" voice. Something out there, in space, is calling for both him and the Spartans, but what.
The first time, he thought it was just him, because he was starting to hit his seventh year, since being activated, but the voice called out again. Saying the same thing over and over again.
'Are they children or soldiers? Sheep or lions? Prey or predators?' He heard the soothing, but mysterious feminine voice again. 'They must choose, Construct. Not now, but soon. Go to the world with the shattered moon and help them start a new.' The voice, like always stop talking. Making everything return to normal, except for Baron.
'A world with a shattered moon, but there is nothing here.' Baron thought, as started to examine the nearby systems for a clue. 'What was I thinking? I should've taken them to-' his thought was soon interrupted by the ship's warning systems turning on.
"What is happening now?" He asked himself, annoyed before checking the radar. "I can't believe it. It's real." Out of the bridge's window, Baron saw a shattered moon and a planet nearby. He moved his holographic body over to the window and he was astonished by this. 'I guess it's time to wake them up,' he thought, as he started to descend the ship towards the planet, right before he started to deactivate the cryo-tubes.
On the other end of the ship was a room filled with large metal tubes set all across the wall. All of a sudden a red light went off with a loud but low sounding alarm going off, as the tubes started to slide open, revealing what was inside. Four figures stepped out of the tubes, looking a bit dazed and confused from what was going on.
"Uh, how long have we been out?" Ash asked, as she rubbed her eyes.
"Since last time you asked me? About a week like usual, Spartan-297." Baron's voice came over the intercom. "Now, quickly get your stuff ready. We are finally leaving this ship and starting your new lives." Once A.I. said this, everyone was a bit confused.
"What does he mean by this?" Mike asked, as he over to the crate that was in the middle of the room and put on a red and black body suit. He then handed couple of other colored ones to everyone else to put on. When everyone was finally dressed, they headed out of the room and towards the armory. The armory was a boxed room full of five different rows of rifles and shotguns. On the far end of the room were four MJOLNIR Armor Assembly Systems, along with some older Mark IV MJOLNIR armors. There was also a large metal crate, with no label and had a keypad, sitting on the other end of the room.
Each one of the Spartans got into different one of the assemblers and waited for the the machines to put their individual armor pieces on. For the last four months, Baron has been teaching the Spartans how to operate their MJOLNIR power armor. He also told them that the armor may be older, but they were still useful and had some minor advantages over the newer variations.
The older Mark IVs also had a few major upgrades to them. The first being a built-in jetpack, that gives the wearer a chance to over and fly over short distances. The second was stronger shields, being on the same level of an Elite Zealot's shield. The third was more of the four Spartans' personal favorite, the Mark IV's Armor Equipment. Each one had an Active Camouflage, a Hologram, and a Drop Shield. The catch was, the Spartans had cooldown limit on their equipment and would have to wait to use one of the three again.
Once the Spartans had their armor equipped, they went over to the multiple weapon rack, to grab their own personal weapons.
Lilly went over to one the racks and picked up an SRS99-S5 AM Sniper Rifle. She hefted it up, before putting in a fresh magazine. Once the magazine was in, she put the rifle on her back before noticing everyone else's chosen weapons.
Both Reign and Mike took BR55 Service Rifles, which they both checked if the rifles worked by firing a burst-shot into the floor. Mike also grabbed an M41 Rocket Launcher and placed it on his back. He then went over to a crate and grabbed a handful of frag grenades and place them on his armor.
"Reign, need some grenades?" Mike ask, offering one of the grenades. Reign shook his head 'no' before grabbing his sword and giving it a few practices swings.
"Come on, Mikey," Ash said, teasing the explosive expert. "You know he doesn't really like the whole 'going-loud' thing. He will always prefer being the 'strong-silent type'." Ash then picked up a M45D Tactical Shotgun and a MA5K Assault Rifle. Once she had her weapons picked, she grabbed two M7S's with one hand. She then threw the two SMGs towards Reign, who in one fluid motion, retracted his sword's blade and grabbed the SMGs.
"Is it just me or do you two have some weird-ass bond?" Mike asked, as he saw Reign attach the SMGs to his magnetic strips on the outside of his thighs. He continued watching, as Reign picked up some ammo and then walked towards the rest of the squad.
"You will never know, Mike." Ash flashed toothy grin behind her helmet's visor. "Are we all set?" Everyone gave a nod in response. "Good. What's the plan orders, Baron?"
"I am currently descending towards the unknown planet now," Baron's voice came threw the ship's intercom. "But I would like to have all of you to enter the Pelican that is currently in the hangar. From there, I need you to scout out surrounding location."
"Copy, Baron." Ash replied, before turning to her squadmates. "Come on, guys, we have a job to do." The other three Spartans agreed with her and soon all four of them walked out of the armory. The walked from the armory towards the hangar, where Pelican dropship was. The hangar wasn't too far away and they all got there in less than ten minutes. Once they found the D77-TC, or Pelican in the hangar, they hopped aboard it and Baron quickly took control of it. Although all four of them knew how to fly it, to an extent, Baron felt it was safe to take them down towards the unknown planet.
As they were flown down towards the planet, the four Spartans didn't talk to each other. They only looked at each other, as they loaded each of their weapons, preparing for anything. Once, all the weapons were loaded, the Pelican started to shake furiously.
"Hey, Baron, what is going on?" Mike asked, as he held on to both his and a nearby seat's safety harness.
"Don't worry, everything is under control, Spartan." The AI said, as the shaking went on.
"It doesn't feel like it." Mike retorted.
"Trust me, Spartan-348. I have everything under-" Baron stopped speaking for a few seconds. "Well, you start screaming now, 348."
"WHAT!" Mike started to panic.
"Mike, shut up for a few seconds." Ash yelled at her fellow Spartan. "Baron, what is going on?"
"For some odd reason, your Pelican is going to crash." Baron said in a monotone voice. "You should brace for impact in about…. now." All of sudden the entire ship hit the ground with enough force, throwing everything everywhere.
After a few seconds, the emergency light turned on, coating everything in dark red light. A few crates, were scattered around the Pelican's troop bay. Ash looked up from her seat, still being held by her seat's harness. She looked around and saw everyone else still in their seats with their heads looking at the ground. She started to worry that the others died from impact, because they didn't lock down their armors. Well, until she heard a groan from one of them.
"I hate flying," Mike groaned, as he tried to lift his harness up. "Is everyone alright?" There was a few more groans, as he got out of his seat. Ash saw him moving towards her and quickly pried the harness up, before he could help her. As soon she stood up, she felt a bit dizzy. She stood still for a bit, before grabbing her equipment. As everyone stood, she notice that Reign, was the first out of his seat and held his battle rifle, which was crushed. He tossed it to the ground, before looking at the Pelican's bay doors.
"Mike, get the door opened." Ash called out to other Spartan, who looked at the door.
"Yeah, I'm on it." Mike replied, as he walked over to it. He grabbed a nearby crate and dug threw it for a bit, until he found what he was looking for. He pulled out a very small white colored, ball of clay and stuck it to the door. "Stand back and cover your ears, this is going to be loud. " Everyone stepped towards the other side of the Pelican and watch as Mike pressed something on his armor's gauntlet. The door suddenly exploded with bright yellow-orangish colored. Out of the newly formed hole, the team saw a snowy forest.
Reign was the first to walk out, seeing that the entire landscape was surrounded by trees and snow. When the rest of the team walked out, they were surprised to see a snowy forest.
"It's kind of… pretty." Lily said, as she walked off a bit.
"Yeah, kinda reminds me the first day of boot camp," Mike said, as he followed Lilly. "Damn, it was cold."
"Quit the chatter, you two." Ash said to both Mike and Lily. "Reign, I want you to scout the area a bit and come ba-" Ash was then cut off by a sound of a wolf howling.
"It sounds like the planet is inhabited," Lilly stated, after hearing the howl. "Wolves. I'm kinda surprised." Ash wanted to say that wasn't any regular wolf. The howl for some reason sounded different from any normal wolf.
"Something is coming," everyone were startled a bit, not from the words but by who said them. Everyone turned towards Reign, who was looking towards west.
"We have company." Reign said, as he pulled out his sword and extended out the blade from its hilt.
ONI's Interrogation Room
"What can you tell us about Spartan-396?" The Spook asked Halsey.
"Reign," she started to say, but stopped. She started to remember meeting him for the first time, seeing him kill for the first time, and seeing him lose for a team remember for the first time. "He was a mistake."
"A 'mistake'?" The Spook asked, confused by her answer.
"From the beginning, Sigma Company was post to be invincible. Unstoppable. Indestructible. But Reign, he was the Achilles' heel to Sigma. He may have been the deadliest, but he was not a soldier in my regards. Sure, he could kill, but he always question orders." She started to explain. "A Spartan that questions everything it's told and sometimes not follow orders, is a threat to ONI. That is why the Office of Naval Intelligence wanted him to be erased, permanently. I begged them not to, but they wouldn't listen to me. That is when I came up with a deal. If I could make Reign not question orders, they would let him live." Halsey started remember what she did to the Spartan. A way to make him not speak for many, many years.
"And how did you make sure he didn't speak?"
"I made him promise." This threw off the Spook.
"You made him make a promise? That seems highly unlikely."
"I know, but it worked in the end. So far that I know he never spoke. Only to a few people. Baron being one of them and the other being Spartan-478, before her death. After that, he shut down."
"And what was this promise?"
"If he and his brothers and sisters want to live, he should never question orders again. He accepted this and never spoke, unless to save the lives of his brothers and sister in arms."
Unknown Planet
"LOOK OUT!" Ash yelled, as another large werewolf-like creature charged at Mike. Mike turned around in time to see it, be cut in half by Reign.
"What are these things?!" Lilly shouted, over the fire of her sniper rifle. After a few minutes after crash landing in the forest, four or five black werewolf looking creatures charged out of nowhere. The Spartans took them down with ease, but then more started to come.
First it was only a dozen or so, but then a few more waves of twenty-to-thirty more pitch black creatures with white bone armor charged at them.
"Forty-one, forty-two." Ash counted for everyone of the wolves she killed with her shotgun. "We need to get out of here, before we are over run!"
"I'm with you, Ash." Mike yelled, over a few more explosions. "And that fifty for me, how about you, Lil."
"Thirty-three," she answered as she lined up her sniper at another group of wolves. She pulled trigger, letting out a high-caliber round from the barrel of the sniper. The round went through the first wolf and then another, it kept on going down a large line of them. She fired off the rest of the clip having a the rounds leaving black wolf limbs everywhere. "Make that sixty, Mike."
As the three fought off their current group of beasts, Reign was nowhere to be seen. Well, for a bit.
As another large group came towards the three, Reign was already upon them. He turned off his camouflage, as he was right in front of the large group and went to work. He pulled out his sword and started to decapitate and slice all the creatures in half. One of the wolves manage to miss the swinging blade, but was soon impladed in the stomach by it. As Reign's sword was stuck in the wolf's stomach, Reign pulled out his M7S's.
As the next group of wolves charged at him, he jumped over them and fired a burst from one of the SMGs into the creature's skull. Another one of the creatures charged towards him, but missed as Reign activated his thruster-pack and dodged the attack. He fired another burst, killing the creature. The last creature of the group, a bigger one with white spike coming out its armor, was slowly circled Reign. As it was getting ready to attack, Reign was a step ahead. He used his pack one more time, this time to get his sword, before the big wolf-creature charged at him.
Once his sword was reclaimed, the big wolf-creature was already in the air to strike, but wa quickly brought down by Reign's blade. The blade went through the creature's neck with ease and brought tumbling down into the snow. Reign retracted his blade back into the hilt, as he turned to see the giant wolf-creature body starting to turn into ash.
"So, when they die, they turn to ash." Mike exclaimed, as the rest of the creatures turned into ash. "Creepy."
"I wonder what they are?" Lily asked, as she holstered her sniper.
"They are called the creatures of Grimm." A voice stated. The Spartans turned towards the voice quickly with their weapons aimed at their next target. Standing off in the distance was two men. One of these men was wearing green, had white hair and glasses, and was sipping out from a mug. The other was a man in white with black hair, wielding a giant scythe. The scythe through off the Spartans more than anything, but they kept their weapons trained on the two.
"Who are you?" Ash asked the two men.
"My name is-" the man in green started to step forward, but stopped by three Spartans not lowering their weapons. "Is Professor Ozpin, a huntsman of Vale. And this is Qrow Branwen, another huntsmen. Who might you three be?"
"Three? You do mean four, right?" Mike asked. Before either of the men could answer, Reign appeared behind the two men with his SMGs at the ready.
"Impressive, but I assure you that we mean you no harm." Ozpin said. "We just want to talk is all."
"You just want talk, eh." Ash said, as she lowered her shotgun. "Mike and Lil, weapons down. Reign, keep an eye on them." Reign nodded and kept both of his weapons aimed at the men.
"Well, I guess that is a start." Ozpin said, as he kept his eyes on forward, not daring to look at the man named Reign. "Who are you four exactly?"
"We are Spartan Company Sigma of the UNSC." Mike stated, which earned him punch from Lilly. "Ow. What's that for?"
"For opening your big mouth, idiot." Lily hissed. Ash glared at both of them, earning them to quit fighting.
"So, you're soldiers?" Ozpin asked, which Ash nodded in response. "I must say I never heard of the UNSC. And how do we know you're telling the truth?"
"Because of the armor and our weapons say UNSC." Ash answered. "Where are we?"
"In Vale, on the planet Remnant." Qrow this timed answered. The three looked at each other in surprise.
The five of them continued to talk and after multiple question about each other, Ozpin manage to get them to show their faces. They agreed, after knowing that they were neither Insurrectionists or ONI spies.
"You are children?!" Ozpin said, shocked after the Spartans revealed their young faces. "I'm surprised someone would allow children at your age be in a military-like organization."
"Yeah, like we have a choice." Mike said, but was again hit by Lilly in the back of the head. "Ow! What was that for?!"
"Shut up." Lily hissed again.
"We were taken away from our families long ago," Ash explained to the two. "We would like it if you never tell anyone this."
"And what happens if we do?" Qrow asks. Reign then pulled out his sword and pointed it at the two men.
"Or Reign here will make sure you will never speak again. Understood?"
"Of course, Miss." Ozpin said. "But I do have an idea, if your interested."
"And what is that?" Ash asked.
"You are well trained children, who could be taught to use their talents to protect people. You also never had a real family, expect for each other, I presume. And you are hiding from something. I won't ask who, but I will help you never the less." Ozpin stated.
"And how will you help us?"
"Giving you new homes, families, and identities. But I will allow you all to stay together, as you always were. Deal?" Ozpin ask, with his hand extended out. Ash looked at the other three Spartans. Only Reign gave her a nod, giving her the signal to reply.
"We have a deal, Mr. Ozpin." Ash held out her hand and the two shook.
I really hoped you enjoyed this chapter and please tell me, who are the brothers and sisters of the Spartans (expect for Reign, have him done already). Also, give me weapon ideas for the Spartans and names for them please. Also, if you would please me, if you want to see some pairings and with who.
How about this one? Winter x Reign. Yes? No? Reign x Shotgun to the face?