Holy crap, you people seem to like this story. I expected two maybe three reviews, instead I got eleven, very well written and appreciated reviews. For that, I continue this tale. I would also like to apologize for a glaring error on my part. The Spartans are in their forty's at the beginning of the halo game, not their twenties, this means that the current date is in the year 2525. I will go back and change this immediately, the Spartans have been fighting the Covenant for nearly a year. They are almost fifteen.
As another note, the basic plot of this universe is 'roughly' the same as cannon, all of the plot points occurred in some way, Harry discovered the prophecy at the age of twelve, he was a bit curious as to why the dark tosser was after him, so he ended up forging a friendship with a young auror in training, guess who? He has been training ever since. And in Harry's time, Sirius is still alive, kinda. A magical backlash occurred when he was dueling Bella in the ministry, put them both into a coma. He still wasn't awake when Harry 'left.'
Disclaimer: Sadly, I do not own Harry Potter, nor do I own Halo.
Harry scowled as the Medic poked and prodded him similarly to how Kelly had. The man had given him some sort of injection that was supposed to fuse cracked bones back together. The tendon was stitch back into place and then cauterized, before incased in biofoam for good measure.
"This is as good as I can do, the burn on your chest shouldn't effect combat much, let me get you something for the pain." Harry waved him off.
"I won't need it, but I do thank you for your services." The medic nodded before backing away to give the technicians room to do their job.
Three men in grey uniforms walked forward, wheeling several crates with them on dollies. One of the technicians cracked open one of the cases to reveal what appeared to be the thigh, knee, and shin armor. "Strip." Harry blinked for a moment before removing his dragon hide boots, those were quickly followed by his pants. The boy who lived stood in nothing more than his boxers as the technician fiddled with the armor, hitting a unnoticeable switch that expanded the suit slightly that allowed for easier access.
Harry shifted, he didn't like being exposed like this in the middle of a battle. He quickly stepped forward and slid into the armor. He pressed the same button the technician had earlier. The suit made a hissing noise before sealing itself against his skin, making for a snug fit. The tech man handed him a pair of blue boots that matched and supervised him as he fitted them and sealed them to the rest of the suit.
Next came the black body suit, it covered his chest, back and stomach. Once it was snuggly in place, the outer blue armor was slid on and locked into place. Next came the biceps, quickly followed with the forearms and the gloves. Finally with great reverence, the Technician handed Harry his helmet. The Phoenix knight held it in his gloved hands for a moment before sliding it over his head and letting it pressurize the rest of the suit. After a few moments a bar representing his vitals appeared on screen, as did small squares representing confirmation lights.
"How do you activate the COM link?" John responded instantly.
"This may be painful. Most soldiers are given a neural implant at the base of the skull that helps with things like this, since you don't have one yet, the suit needs to… make an alternative route." Harry frowned form beneath the visor.
"How so-" His question was abruptly cut off as a searing pain tore through the back of his head, it lasted for an agonizing ten seconds before abating.
"By using a needle and an optic fiber to link into your brain directly, I've heard that it hurts, is that true?" Harry frowned and contemplated giving the armor plated death machine in front of him a rude hand gesture before deciding against it.
"The experience was not pleasant, and that is all I am going to tell you." Harry moved to take the gun that Linda was hoisting towards him and nearly fell at the increased speed he seemed to developed. He almost stumbled but caught himself and began to use a more careful and fluid with his movements, it seemed to help.
"This may take you a while to adjust, we don't know how your augmentation stands up to ours." James voice held a matter of fact tone to it. Harry figured that it was never to late to find out.
Before, with the augmentations granted to him by Albus Dumbledore fourteen months ago when he was inducted into the order, Harry had the ability to lift nearly eight-hundred pounds and could jump to a height of fifteen feet, this was when he was straining himself or course, his comfort levels was reasonably lower than that. He bent at the knees and pushed off, raising high into the air, nearly twice as high as he could before.
He landed his a large thud, "Whoa." Harry then proceeded to attempt to lift the warthog that the technicians and the medic had road in on. With a bit of surprise, Harry could lift the front end of the vehicle with little effort, he could probably carry the thing if he had to.
"I like this suit." John chuckled and came up beside him.
"Amazing aren't they? Dr. Halsey, she is the one that heads the Spartan program, says that there is a set of armor even more advanced than these. Unfortunately, they are several months away from being tested." Harry nodded before turning to the group.
"Alright, when do we need to leave for the next segment of this mission?" John took over from here.
"There are several, estimated at three, covenant battle cruisers hovering on the outer edges of this city, they appear to be looking for something, we are to destroy or push back their forces, and we need to find out what they are looking for." Harry nodded and motioned him to continue.
"We are going to split up into two groups, Red team will be led by Fred, it will consist of Linda, James and you, Potter." Harry nodded in understanding. "I will lead Blue team, Kelly, Will, and Joshua will come with me." The Spartans, plus one Phoenix Knight nodded.
" Red team will cut up through the middle of the main street for a thousand meters before diverging right for twenty blocks. I will take Blue team directly left from our current position and then move forward towards the edge of the city. Red team, when you hit the outer rim of the city, I need you to follow it up, quietly dispatching hostiles when you can, until you are within seeing distance of the Cruisers, the Covenant through this area is thick, it is where they sat up base camp. Contact me with your COM link when you arrive, understood?" A round of Yes Sir was issued from the group.
"Good. Joshua, give Fed one of the Fury-tac nukes that you are carrying, the same plan should work this time around. Once we neutralize the two outer ships, we can take out the central one." The group nodded, Kelly suddenly posed a question.
"What about the ground camp?" John sighed before continuing.
"With any luck, we can capture the central ship momentarily and crash it into their encampment before detonating the bomb." She nodded.
Harry almost laughed at the seemingly nonchalant acceptance of this order, he was seriously beginning to like these people.
"Does everyone understand?" The group relayed their conformations before splitting up and departing.
A single bead of sweat rolled down Harry's temple, Sirius Prime was a very hot planet. The Duel suns eliminated the winter and autumn months, leaving a short Spring followed by a very long Summer. He glanced down at some of the outer readings coming in threw his HUD. One hundred and fifteen degrees. That, coupled with the nearly eight hundred pounds of armor, made the current situation for the Phoenix Knight uncomfortable. In spite of this, Harry found himself enjoying his time with the Spartans, from what he understood, the Covenant forces were far more dangerous than Voldemort and his Deatheaters.
He inhaled deeply and stopped short, a new but familiar smell entered his lungs. Grunts. He looked at the motion radar built into his helmet and couldn't detect anything, they were just out of it's range, but they were still close.
Harry's mind briefly flashed back to the summer in between his fourth and fifth year.
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"Come on Harry! Push yourself, let go and tear into yourself search for your inner beast." Sirius' words were energetic but loud. For the last month, he had been trying to teach his Godson to be an animagus. Harry roared, and with one final push of magical energy, made the change. He stood on all fours, panting from the transformation.
Standing before Sirius was a massive dire wolf, the largest breed of wolf known to man. Sirius laughed in happiness. "I knew you could do it! Hanging out with Moony and me has had more of an effect than I had thought." The large wolf gave the closest thing it could to a laugh before shifting back into the boy who lived and collapsing on the floor in exhaustion.
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Harry shook himself from his musing and refocused. He activated his COM link and contacted Fred.
"We have Hostiles coming in from six o' clock-" his sentence was cut off as a blast of super hot plasma missed his left elbow by mere inches. "Take cover!" Harry dived sideways to crouch behind a destroyed car and spared a moment to look at his left arm. The plates of his armor were burning red hot, but were slowly fading back to the original blue.
He looked up to see an inbound Covenant drop ship spraying the area with suppressive fire as it released its troops onto the battle field. Harry shook the numbness out of his arm and leveled his assault rifle at the enemy.
Within moments the street was in utter chaos. Energy bolts, plasma grenades and the flash of bullets were whizzing back and forth.
The Grunt in front of Harry dropped in a spray of its own blood, several more waddled forward to replace it. He stowed his rifle and took careful aim at the methane pack that sat on the dead Grunt's back. With one careful pistol round the pack exploded in a ball of fire, the other Grunts released a series of harsh screams and barks before they were consumed with flames.
Fred activated the plasma grenade he had snatched off of the dead body of one of the Grunts Potter had just taken out and lobbed it into a group of Jackels before taking cover behind the corner of a building. He activated his COM link and radioed Blue team leader.
"John, our position has been compromised, the Covenant discovered us on one of their patrol's, we are going to have to find an alternative route." The COM link was silent for a moment before John answered.
"Acknowledged, Red leader, try to use the sewer system to make your way to the Cruiser's once you have cleared the area." Fred quickly agreed and cut off his COM link.
Harry sprinted forward at a dead run and leapt into the air, the Jackel in front of him gave a surprised squawk, the beam of energy it had been charging went wide as Harry armored boots collided with it's face. He quickly grabbed it's energy shield and snapped it on as the other Jackels opened fire. A blue ball of energy arched out of the dust and landed at their feet. The grenade detonated, ending their life. Harry stood up among the clearing dust and dropped the flickering shield before crouching and making his way towards Fred.
" The area is clear," Fred nodded before filling in the gathering group of Spartans.
" Our position is compromised, we need to enter the sewer system and follow our route underground." The group nodded without hesitation. Harry took point and led them to a square man hole in the center of the street, he lifted it and motioned the others inside before entering himself.
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John swore under his breath, there were five Covenant battle cruisers, not three. He lowered the binoculars from his visor and turned to Kelly.
"Any suggestions?" Kelly just shrugged her shoulders. John sighed and raised his binoculars again and spotted Fred's group coming out of a man-hole on the other side of the ships. He activated his COM link and raised Red team leader.
"Do you have any suggestions to this… unforeseen predicament?" Fred was silent for a moment before answering.
"Potter thinks that the new SMAC should be repositioned to face the Covenant cruisers." John paused for a moment in shock, if the Super MAC gun hit the planet instead… the results would be catastrophic. The Super Magnetic Accelerator Cannon, SMAC gun for short, would have the ability to tear a hole in this planet three times as deep as the Grand Canyon.
"It is an option, but it is to dangerous, we could unstablize the planet's axis." John heard the crackle over his COM link as someone else entered the line.
"Permission to speak sir." Potter's voice echoed through his COM system.
"Permission granted." John only had to wait for a moment.
"John, the Fury-tac nukes that we are using send out a blast of super heated slag, correct?" John gave an affirmative. "If we plant the nukes under the street directly beneath the Cruisers and activate them just as the SMAC gun passes through them, then we can essentially cause the two weapons to collide in midair, the majority of the damage should be absorbed by the covenant cruisers." John stood their stunned for a moment before answering.
"Did anyone ever tell you that you are a brilliant tactician? All right Spartans, listen up, I need everyone but Will and Joshua in the sewer system, we will be acting as Red team, Will, Joshua, you will be Blue team, contact the AI currently in control of the closest orbiting SMAC gun and have it target the Covenant ships, tell them to fire when I give you a signal." The Spartans' acknowledgement lights blinked twice before they headed off to find the correct signal. He motioned the rest of his team to move into the sewer. Fred's side did so as well.
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John frowned, he didn't like this, to many things could go wrong. James and Kelly were currently running the lengths of the tunnels, setting up the nukes and recalibrating them so the majority of their blast was aimed strait up instead of in a scatter pattern. Potter and him were currently watching the only two entrances to the particular tunnel they were currently using.
"I hope this works." Harry's voice was quiet but filled with steel, if it was possible, he acted like he had been in worse situations before.
"You aren't the only one, Sirius Prime was evacuated but this planet it going to have one serious crater regardless as if this works or not."
"Believe me or not, but I have seen something like this before, just on a much smaller scale." He briefly pictured what two spells did when they collided in mid air. His head perked up as he heard the sounds a running Spartans.
"Hostiles!" Kelly's voice was strained as she came barreling down the corridor. A seven foot tall beast wielding a glowing sword was hot on her heels.
"What the Hell?!" Harry agreed with John as he opened fire on the beast. His bullets pinged harmlessly against it's energy shield.
"Shit! Kelly please tell me you set the nukes?"
"Yes, the detonator is only set to sixty seconds!" Harry and John fell in line with her as she ran past them, they both continued to fire on the pursuer. Harry stopped and primed one of his plasma grenades, he stuck it to the wall next to him and continued running, the monstrosity that was following them was caught in the blast. The beast stumbled, it's shield was depleted. Harry and John stopped and opened Fire. The Monster continued to charge and swung at John's head, he ducked and punched the creature in the stomach.
The creature roared and lifted it's foot to stomp on him but Harry pulled the Spartan out of the way Just in time. The thing screamed in rage and swung again. He had no time to dodge, so he simply slapped his hands together and caught the blade on the flat sides. The Phoenix knight grit his teeth as his armored hands glowed red hot and started to fizzle. He held on just long enough for John to plant a plasma grenade on it's chest armor. Harry released the blade and rolled backwards as the creature gave a startled gasp and exploded in a gory heap.
He lurched to his feet and examined his smoking gloves. The boy who lived had a sneaking suspicion that his hands were seriously burnt.
"Will, Joshua, activate the SMAC gun, NOW!" John didn't pause to see if they answered, but turned and hurried off towards the others, Harry hot on his tail.
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The Spartans clambered out of the man hole, some thousand meters away, and took off at a dead sprint in the opposite direction of the nukes. All at once there was a deathly quiet, before all hell broke loose. A sonic boom echoed outward that could be heard on the far side of the planet. Windows shattered and the concrete beneath their feet began to bubble.
The Spartans put on an extra burst of speed and managed to crest a hill on the outskirts of the city as the two massive forces collided, right where a Covenant fleet had stood just moments before. The two titanic powers crashed into one another, forming a massive explosion great enough to send the super soldiers staggering.
Harry's motion sensor and health bar fuzzed up and failed as the EMP wave knocked out all of the electronics within the nearest hundred miles.
John walked forward and depressurized his helmet.
"Good job Spartans, now lets head home."
FIN
Well, it is done, I hope you all enjoyed that chapter, next one involves a trip to earth and a hint as to what became of Hogwarts. There is also rough sketch of the Vulcan Armor at the link is in my profile if you are interested.
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