Author note

Hey, all! Apologies for not updating this last little while, I had exams a little while back and studied like crazy for it. I then started my second semester and kinda took a short break from doing this fanfic, apologies. I see that I had a few mistakes in my first chapter which one of you pointed out, as said previously I read it a few times and saw I had some errors which I corrected but if you could tell me where you see the errors that would be great. I also had an idea which I talked with someone about and that's pairing, I thought it was a great idea at first and would have done it but, it ruins the story. Maybe I am wrong and correct me if I am but Spartans have suppressed sex cells, meaning they don't have the urge to procreate or have sexual feelings towards anyone. Plus, he's a super soldier and one of the best, he's taken down insurgencies, entire militia groups, and tons of Covenant forces, he was even his own superiors "personal grim reaper." before joining Noble Team. He has never experienced the physical love of the opposite sex unless it was friendship maybe back in Beta Company, so I'll have him as the lone wolf assassin as how he is supposed to be. Maybe it might change later, but for now, he will stick with being just a lone wolf. Anyway here's chapter two. Enjoy and don't forget to fav and follow :)

"But let us not forget those who journeyed into the howling dark and did not return. For their decision required courage beyond measure; sacrifice, and unshakable conviction that their fight..our fight was elsewhere."-Admiral Hood

Planet Earth, Japan

May 14, 2010, 13:00 Hours

Six's eyes flung wide open and he immediately jumped up, Spartan training already kicking in as he takes in his surroundings. Six stands up and notices he's in some sort of room, lights flickering, seems like nothing uncommon except for what looks like a really old computer, a bed with an unusual shape, and Six stops. "Is that a newspaper?" Six glances at the table and sees an object now identified as newspaper he also sees a plate of strange food on the table and strangely blood on the walls, he noticed that his rifle, shotgun, and the backpack is beside him. Six also takes note that his armor is somehow repaired and there isn't a huge hole on his back where the sword pierced him, in fact, his armor is pretty much fine saved a few scratches, Six looks closely at the newspaper and sees the date states May 14, 2010. he was confused. "Where the hell am I?"

Six stands up. "This is all so odd, the last thing I remember was fighting that Elite and him exploding before blacking out. This doesn't look like UNSC Ship or a Covenant -Battlecruiser so where am I?" Six reaches for his helmet trying to connect with Dust. "Dust?.. Dust do you respond? I repeat do you respond? Dust!" Six waits patiently but all he gets is static. Six sighs in defeat and stands up and notices the blood again. He walks over and touches it with his index finger and rubs it between his index and thumb. 'Mm. This is weird, the blood is old but yet. It should usually be red, or if it was a Covenant purple and blue. But this blood is black.' Jason wipes the blood of his gloves, turns around and walks over and plops on the chair and checks his equipment. "Alright, time to see what we got."

Six checks his own inventory and sees he's still got the 24 shotgun shells, 25 rounds for the pistol, and 57 for the DSR equipped. Six then checks his backpack. 'Okay, 13 extra rounds for the shotgun, 18 rounds for the pistol, and 42 rounds for the DSR. And 4 fragmentation grenades. Not too shabby.' Six reloads his guns, then stores a few magazines of each gun in his tactical case for extra Available ammunition. He then cleaned his scope with a rag before grabbing his gear and heading out the door. Six walks down the hall being ever more suspicious that this isn't a UNSC ship. Even less like reach Reach as he notices the old complexity of this vicinity. Six heads down the stairs and sees the exit sign in a language he hasn't seen before. He continues down till he reaches main lobby.

Six was shocked. The lobby was a massacre. A mixture of semi-dry light and dark blood was visibly splattered on the walls and on the floors and littered with limbs. Six raises his gun and slowly makes his way to the doors. A sudden clang made Six instinctively turn to the noise, gun raised. Six moves closer to where the sound was made behind the counter, as he got closer he heard faint moans and groans. When Six arrived at the counter he noticed a man crouching down, back towards him and seem to be sitting in a dormant-like state. He noticed the man's attire was different from what he knew civilians wore. It looked to be some sort of light blue pants with front and back pockets. He wore a hoodie with a symbol of strange sign and on it. Six was about to call out to him, but between the consistent erratic twitching and his vitals showed up negative on his radar Six was hesitant

and confused but tried to remain calm. Six put his DSR on his back. Six crouched near him and tried to contact him.

"Sir. do not be alarmed. I mean you no harm. I wish to know what the heck is going on, and if possible talk to some law enforcement or government agency." The mysterious figure turned around and faced a now shocked Six who's heart rate suddenly spiked upon seeing the man and

he had a good reason at that. Half of the man's lower face was gone and that which was not was covered in blood, half of his arm gone and covered in darkish red/black blood. his rolled up eyes seemed almost lifeless and hungry for something. It was a horrible visage. The man and made his way towards Six who backed away slowly.

"Sir, do not come any closer. I ask that you stay there. Sir. Stay back!" The mysterious figure ignored the request and gains closer to Six. The figure lunges at Six who grabs one of his attackers outstretched arm with inhuman speed and twisting his wrist harshly, snapping the bones and flipping him on the ground. Armored boots resting on the attackers head. The attacker unaffected by the previous action tried to squirm and claw with the broken snapped arm and the unaffected on, even tried to bite his attacker. But Six had a firm hold on the assailant. Six looked down at the attacker noticing more closely that his skin is withered and almost gray coloration.

"What the hell is this?! Some sort of Covenant virus? An ONI experiment went wrong? No. This is something else entirely. I have never come across this, nor read it in any of the UNSC archives." Six looked closer and saw that some sort of blunt object was lodged inside its chest. Six reached down and grabbed it throwing it across the room. It clanked near a biker helmet. The attacker stopped clawing and looked at where the sound came from. Focusing and staying silent, like a lion stalking its prey. Six then moved slightly which let it start it's previous movements. 'Interesting. So it seems whatever this thing is. It's attracted to sound. Seems like eyesight could be decreased. Smell could be one too. Although I'm not sure. I'll have to find out a like bit more. Mmm. This is so weird Never seen anything like it before.'

Six decides this thing will be of no help. And uses some weight on his foot, crushing the attacker's brain. ending its futile movements. brain matter splatting against his armored feet. Six crouched down giving the body a quick analysis. Six notices that the body is indeed decaying and that the blackish/reddish -blood is seen on the wall in the room he woke up in was visible. But it made him confused, the blood oozing or more specifically the blood consistency. As Six had seen earlier the pigmentation of the blood discolored to a murky black/reddish color, even to go so far as being clotted. But Six knew blood clotting only happens after post mortem. But he had only killed its moments before by crushing its head. Six continued the autopsy along noticing small wounds on its arms and legs. Six gives it a closer inspection and saw bite marks. 'This is getting weirder and weirder by the minute. Why would there be bite marks?' Six traces the bite marks shape and notices its human. Six crouches for a minute thinking. Suddenly it becomes clear. 'That's it! The guy who attacked me using the biting movement as its main weapon. And it had bite marks on its arms and legs. So.. If my friend here was trying to bite me and he seemed dead and infected somehow, it could be possible this is some sort of virus transmitted through bite marks. Wait, could it be they are transmitted through the saliva? Mmm.. I'll have to get more evidence later. I should find some survivors. Maybe find out as much as I can and figure this out. Government officials would be nice to gain intelligence from. If there is any…Damn it! Stay focused Jason.'

Six stands up, reaching for his back and equipping his DSR, with a silencer he found earlier in his bag too. Six then makes his way to the door. Six stopped 12 paces from the door hearing the same silent, groans and moans from earlier almost too hard for a regular human to hear. But thanks to his heightened senses because of the augmentations it was not a problem. He turns around seeing a middle aged man. body crippled with only its arms working. Six sighs, grabbing a kitchen knife lying beside a server dish. Six turned around back to the door walking till he reaches it. Six flips the knife and slightly turns around, flicking his wrist, hurling the knife at the corpse's head, it makes its point, piercing the figures forehead right between its eyes. The body twitches a second before seizing movement. Six turns back to the exit again and opens up the door. "Why do I always get the bad luck" Six heads out the building.

To say Six was shocked in the building would be an understatement. He was downright deadpanned as he looked at the sheer carnage of the outside. It was hell, blood and dead bodies were scattered everywhere on the road, fresh fires were blazing in cars and even a few small buildings were on fire, the cars were flipped over and crashed into each other. Some sort of military vehicles were just sitting there, abandoned and destroyed, bodies with unknown uniforms were also scattered everywhere. Six noticed the streets were devoid of any life except for more of those biters he saw earlier, they scattered around everywhere on the road and the sidewalks. Six immediately ran and ducked behind a dumpster. just then he hears a faint beeping coming from his helmet. Six reaches to his helmet and activates it. A semi-delusional Dust wakes up and responds. "Uh. W-what h-happened?... Where am I? Wait, I'm alive? And so is…Six! You came back! Hey, Six? you there? Something happened, I have no idea how were alive but it's good to see you."

Six almost yells at his A.I but keeps his voice down and whispers. "Dust?! Where the hell have you been? I have been trying to reach you for a while now. You went blackout on me. And please, try to keep it down. We're in a bit of a tricky situation here and our friends are attracted to sound."

The A.I took a moment to regain its mind and obeyed to his owner's demands and lowered his voice before responding. "Well, whatever happened it completely drained me of energy I had to recharge. Then run a reboot, and run a diagnostic of my system… Wait. What friends? Are they UNSC? Covenant? Why would they be attracted to sound? That doesn't make any sense. Wait, where are we? Why do these buildings look so old and wait… Is that burning fossil fuels I detect in your location? I thought we got rid of those.."

Six tries to find a more secure place, offering somewhat of a vantage point. Six looks up and sees the ledge of one of the apartments a hops up on the dumpster and climbs on one of the apartments ledges. Careful not to put too much weight on the ledge, despite weighing in around 650 pounds with the suit on. Six then crouches and resumes the low voice. "To be honest I don't know. I woke up when I should have been dead. And found myself in a strange room that I have never set foot in. I then found items I haven't seen before including a newspaper. I was then shocked to find myself in a building that looks almost ancient with humans covered in blood, missing appendages, and gunning out to bite me and spread some sort of virus. It's been a shit day so far and despite regulations, I need a drink."

If A.I's could be shocked Dust was definitely the winner. "I.. , there have been no events such as the ones you're describing to my databa-"

"That's the thing Dust, none of this looks any of the planets I've been to. The only place it seems a bit similar is the city New Alexandra we went to awhile back on Reach, but it's still not the same, as the buildings look older, cars are running on fuel, and the newspaper I told you about had the dates May 14, 2010. There also seems to be some military soldiers or something wearing an odd uniform-"

"Hold on a sec Jason…before I get to the date can you identify these uniforms? I think I got my data back and operational again. if you can give me the names of it or the symbols. I might be able to figure where we are."

"Right. Zoom in thirty-two degrees North-East I saw some sort of truck with a large caliber turret mounted on it and a dead body with a uniform sprawled on the ground. My scope is still a little busted so I can't make out the small detail." The A.I complied and magnified Six's HUD display to X2.

"Alright, do you see it?"

"Yeah I do it looks like.. Uh.. It looks like a red sun with white stripes on it…let me see if I can it get more detailed. Zoom in a bit closer… It looks like the words JGSDF. I have never heard of them. They don't sound like one of the insurrection groups I faced, or anything related with the Covenant with what I heard. A newly formed military or a rebel freedom fighter perhaps?"

"I'm not so sure that's the case. Give me a second to check the database. In the meantime, I spent some time getting your abilities running in optimal condition. I fixed both your armor shields and your camouflage ability for now. I also added in my own similar version is the hologram felt it might come useful in your new hostile environment. They might be a bit rusty, but that's the best I could have done with what I have."

"Alright thanks, Dust."

Six then spends the next few minutes optimizing the settings of the shield. Reducing the energy required to sustain it but maximizing its potential. Six then works on the camouflage ability, increasing the Radar Jammers range by tenfold and minimizing the energy required to maintain during camo mode. After learning these things are attracted to sound Six also increased the muffled movement that comes with the ability making him move exponentially quieter during the abilities activation. And since the suits abilities are all back to sufficient amount He also resets the holo-pads on his right arm to its default setting and downloading programs which he felt needed. Six tested the abilities creating a corporal copy of himself and temporarily turning invisible before a beeping noise came from his helmet which he activated.

"Well, Six you sure you want the info? I could start with crazy or mentally insane crazy."

"Go ahead. I can handle it but go with just crazy first. Don't want to become insane half way through your analysis of the situation. Although with the shit I have seen and done nothing at this stage could make me crazy."

The A.I takes a few moments before sighing. "Alright well your funeral then. Again.." Dust brought up pictures of the same soldiers in uniforms and other things on Six's Helmet display before continuing on. "The uniform of the soldier you managed to find belongs to the JGSDF. Japanese Ground Self-Defence Force which originated in 1954 to present, because the Japanese are not allowed to have an official large military force due to the constitution inducted by the United States after losing World War 2. The JGSDF is tasked with the internal security of Japan and conducting military operations… Japan is located on the planet Earth. so basically I'm saying somehow you came to Earth and with the dates you mentioned we traveled back in time. But even crazier! I searched my database for anything remotely similar to the event were experiencing and nothing came up. I even searched human virus targeting other humans still nothing came up. I then started to think and came up with a theory that was… Uh.. We're in another dimension or alternate universe."

Six processed the information before clicking on his Tacpad typing away.

"Jason, what are you doing?"

"Trying to figure if I'm put in a dreamscape like an experience or how the Covenant or an insurrection group hacked your data and is frying your intelligence part. No way you're Dust."

"Jason you're being stupid. Look around does this seem like Reach or any of the buildings you been too? Has anything like this happened on Reach? No."

"But what you're implying it just seems impossible... I just can't wrap my head around the fact we time traveled a few hundred years back, and then the fact that we're in another universe."

"But why? it's not hard to believe Einstein's theory of time travel or the theory that there are multiple universes that all share similar things but are clouded from one another, it would also explain how we are on Earth and how I have never ever heard of such an event."

Six sighs in defeat. He then responds in sarcasm "Alright fine you win. Well all wise and powerful being what do you suggest we do now? Event a machine that takes us back. I'll grab the supplies, duct tape?"

The A.I rolls his eyes. "You could. Or you could continue with your previous objective and find survivors and figure out some information which could give us a better understanding of the situation."

"you're not gonna give me any sympathy here, are you?"

"Nope"

Six stands up and gazes down as the destruction of the city. "Jerk"

"Bitch."

Six hopes down the ledge and on the dumpster, careful not to make too much noise. He still attracted two of them which he dispatched with his knife. He then sneaks through the back alley of some sort of office building, he sees a well-fortified fence, which Six approaches cautiously. He opens the fence and sneaks up behind one of the infected, which he then unsheathed his knife and stabbed it in the back of the infected head. He then grabbed the body slowly bringing it to the ground quietly before moving to the other one standing near the entrance. The infect looked up and slowly made his way towards Six who stabbed it in the face. Six slowly opened the door to see 3 more infected which he dispatched, cleaning his knife of the blood he then checked if there were anymore. Satisfied, he then made his way up the stairs to the next floor, when he detected no life form he then continued on to the third floor.

Six walked through the hallway when he noticed a body lying on the floor, upon closer inspection he saw the body had the same uniform as the truck he saw earlier, belonging to the JGSDF except for it being green this was solid black. 'Must be special forces or something." He knelt at the dead body and noticed that the blood was fresh and that he had died within the last few hours. Six noticed the muffled movements of someone behind him, he unholstered his pistol and turned with fast reflexes, facing the shocked man who just had enough time to lift his gun before Six was already aiming at his head. The man looked to be in his late thirties, around 5'7, and in good physical shape. He was sporting the same uniform as the man Six just inspected, except sporting a half face mask leaving only his eyes and upper face visible. When the man finally came back from his shocked and nonmoving position, he raised his gun and narrowed at Six aiming straight at him with a Heckler and Koch G36. He then yelled out in a threatening voice "あなたは誰とここにあなたの仕事は何ですか?"

Six was grateful he had his A.I. Dust had downloaded a Japanese learning program from his Database in hopes that Six could learn to learn to speak Japanese quickly so that he wouldn't have to rely on Dust the whole time. Dust was already translating what the man said which was "who are you? And what is your business here?" Six then translated back using a voice program Dust downloaded. Six thought what he could say, though. He couldn't say "hey my name is Noble Six a Spartan, I'm a lieutenant for the United Nations Space Command, from 500 years in the future and I fight aliens wielding plasma weapons and waging a religious war on humans." He would sound crazy, and he is still new here, need to keep a low profile and not give too much info. He then decided to go with the basics and responded in a neutral voice. "My name is Lieutenant Noble Six, I'm a soldier and I wish to find out what happened here and speak to some military official. I see you belong to the JGSDF."

The soldier looked Noble Six over, noting the clearly advanced armor he was sporting which would definitely raise some suspicions. The figure nodded and sighed, "noted, good to meet you, Lieutenant, let's move it isn't good to stay here."

He then lowered his gun slightly, keeping his hand off the trigger, he motioned for him to follow. Six complied and walked side by side the soldier. "What happened to your comrade?"

The soldier stopped, and Six could clearly see that he was clenching his fist. "His.. name was Masaru. I was doing a perimeter sweep of the building while he was searching rooms on this floor, I was nearly done when I heard screams. I came rushing to the second floor and saw something eating him. I took aim and killed that something, and then I rushed over to see his throat ripped apart. I ran in one of the rooms and slowly tried to regain my bearings when I heard something and found you."

Noble Six glanced at his feet. He knew that a soldier's life was hard and losing comrades was never easy especially in such a gruesome way. "Sorry for your loss. Let's get going then."

"Right."

They both headed up the stairs Six occasionally glancing to the right at the soldier. Who was equally doing the same. They remained on high alert checking ever so often behind them. They finally made it to the fourth floor and saw an apartment door hastily barricaded . The soldier looked over at Six who was staring at him blank, before walking over to the door and giving it a strange 2 knocks followed by one and then another. Six guessed it was a code to getting in. It was a few moments of silence before the door slowly opened and two of those Special Forces JGSDF walked out greeting the soldier with Six. Six stood waiting patiently as the soldier glanced over at

him and motioned him forward. Six holstered his Magnum and walked over to the group. The two who opened the door were staring at the giant super soldier with wide eyes, they were reaching slowly for their guns when the soldier stopped him. "It's okay. I found him near the second third floor, he's a soldier like us. The Captain would want to brief him." They nodded before one of them glanced over at Six before going to the soldier again. "Any casualties?"

The soldier looked down at his feet before forcing his eyes to look two. "Masaru."

Silence followed between the three before one of the two responded. "Understood.

Come in then."

The two soldiers parted aside giving the soldier and Six to come in, Six had to duck a bit to get under the door and in the room and was then accompanied by the other 3 soldiers. Six inspected the room. It was neat, not counting all the military equipment, there were military crates and ammunition boxes scattered in the room, weapons leaned against the wall and on the couch, a large map of some sort was on a large coffee table surrounded by paper and a coffee mug on top of a folder with some paper partially visible in the folder, a laptop, and two tablets were also seen on the table, all and all it looked like a temporary base of operations. Six then noticed the well-armed group of soldiers in front of him. The room was silent for a second before instantly everyone in the room raised their guns and took aim at the armored spartan. Six took a step back. He knew of course that he won't be hurt easily from the guns even if they had armor piercing rounds. His armor was built to withstand guns far superior to these along with his shield, was only in danger of a lucky shot to the throat, but it would raise unwanted suspicion if the group of 6 soldiers in front him unloaded a full clip of rounds and he was unscathed. He was about to say something when the other three soldiers entered the room. The one he found downstairs got in front of the danger, hands raised out in a protecting stance.

"Wait! Stop! Hold your fire. It's ok he's with me. I found him on the second floor. He's a soldier. Thought the Captain could use him."

The group still held their stance until the door opened and a man looking in his late thirties walked carrying a cup with steaming liquid coming from it. He walked up to the front and glanced to the left nodding at one of the soldiers who then lowered his gun.

He took in the appearance of the mysterious titan of a man before taking a sip of his drink and saying in a voice of authority.

"Lower your guns. We will here them out. Dismissed."

They all saluted before returning to cleaning weapons, talking and writing or glancing at the large map on the table with written paper scattered on it.

The soldier behind Six walked over to talk with the one in charge for a brief moment. After a few minutes of a hushed discussion, the man in charge nodded at the soldier who in return saluted before going over to a bag and reloading his guns.

Six took in the man's appearance. He looked about average. Not to tall or too physically built. He could see the man was in shape and could hold himself in a fight if it came to that. He had black eyes and short cropped ivy-league hair. He was sporting a stubble beard and a small scar on his cheek resembling fragmentation of a grenade. He placed his cup on the table before walking over and standing right in front of Six and put his hand out for Six to shake. Six glanced over at the man before reaching out and shaking it.

'Impressive he has incredible strength. He's built like an ox. Both strength and durability. He may be just what this op needs"

"The names Captain Isamaru I'm the one in charge of this team. You gave my men quite the scare there for a second. I heard you found one of my men downstairs? What were you doing Mr…"

"Six. Lieutenant Noble Six. To answer your question I was searching the floor for any signs of life and came across him. He seemed to be in shock after the recent situation with his friend."

The captain raised his eyebrows. "Ah, a lieutenant! Glad we don't have a rookie. Although you seem more handled than most of my men, especially with that armor of yours. At first glance, I thought you were a robot. Seems you have quite an arsenal, Noble Six."

Six remained silent glancing at the men clearly preparing for something. "Indeed. You don't seem surprised of a man like me wearing armor like this."

"Sharp aren't you! No, I don't. You seem like you can handle yourself and that's what matters."

Six placed his pack on the ground before crossing his arms. "You preparing for something Captain?"

"Yes. An extraction of an important individual, a scientist, and his family actually. We were waiting for the other team to arrive and it seems they have. I heard they lost Masaru."

"Yes. he must have been a good guy."

The captain laughed sadly. "He was. He got along well with the whole team and his humor in stressful situations became a valued aspect of this team. He'll be missed. Will you help us with the mission? I know we don't know you. But with the team down one man and how bad the situation has messed up. We could use some backup."

Six glanced around the room noticing the team of soldiers preparing for what could possibly be their last mission. 'It seems this mission could be important and for a scientist? They would only send a highly trained small group of special forces after a scientist if he knew key Intel. He may be the one who knows about this virus.'

He returned his gaze at the captain and big on as many marines like to call it "The Wolf Battle-Face". Usually in a briefing when he doesn't have his helmet on, marines would ever so get a glance at his very serious and grim face, so serious in fact it looked like he would never smile. Thus, the name was born. "When do we start?"

The Captain smiled. "Goodman. Let's meet the rest of the team before the briefing."

Six nodded. "The two you met guarding the door is Hiro and Kazato. The one you met downstairs is Hayate, my second in command, a great leader and selfless in the heart of danger

he's also very kind and cares about his team. Our close quarters specialist Bull is the one on the couch maintaining his shotgun. He is a bit of a hot head, bold and aggressive and usually likes to mask a dire situation with humor." The captain points to a tall muscular man dressed in the same black JGSDF Special Forces combat suit including a black combat half mask as the others. Only his eyes were visible but they screamed determination and eagerness to be out in a fight.

The captain continued on. "Taka, one of the best shots on the team, besides Spectre, he is the fellow at the table trying to strategize a safe way for the scientist. He's kind, noble, calm and is very protective of his team." Taka was writing on a piece of paper and glanced up to look at the captain. He nodded before returning back to work. Taka like his team had an athletic build, broad shoulders and also of the Asian ethnicity and also sported the same uniform as Bull instead opted out a full mask instead of a half one.

Next was Tundra. "Tundra, the hacker and computer wiz of our team are not from around here. His origin is from Europe. He moved to Japan when he was younger and moved to the Japanese Self Defence Force upon graduation from college. He is an excellent tactician and an excelled marksman, selfless, optimistic and mature, sometimes we joke he's an old man Because of his wisdom." Six nodded and glanced the captain's pointed figure to see a man with dark hazelnut brown hair, and light blue eyes. Tundra was currently around the coffee table chewing a straw from his coffee as he stared at a computer screen writing stuff down.

"Echo, our female member of the team and a medical specialist is the one sleeping on the couch. Takes her work very seriously and usually gives you the brutal truth that we so value." Six glanced to a woman positioned on her back, arms folded behind her head laying on the couch, eyes closed. She too had an athletic built as the rest of the team but had curves which would identify her as a woman. She was sporting the same black combat suit with a symbol of a red cross showing her medical status. She wore a black cap with a black headset on. She was not as well equipped as the other members of the team but that would be understandable considering medics don't usually fight, they provide support to the rest of the team.

"Kitsune is our demolition expert and an amazing on at that, could blow up a boat underwater with C4 in under a minute. He's the one currently watching outside with binoculars. A bit immature at times, and his love of the opposite sex is questionable, but he completes the missions with haste and precision so I don't question. also, a bit of a thief so watch your valuables." Six watched as the know identified Kitsune walked in and nodded his head at the Captain before walking over to the couch and lifting Echo's legs and sitting on the couch. He then tried to make a move on the sleeping woman which earned a slap from the now awoken woman. Six raised his eyebrows.

"The second last member of the team and another female is Spectre, our sniper of the team. A bit of a mystery she is. A lot we don't know about her. She is the youngest member of our team recruited at 17 under special circumstances. Could pop a headshot from two thousand four hundred and eighty yards. She uses to be part of another team but they were all KIA in their previous mission. Quite, calm, and likes to keep to herself. She usually only speaks to someone she likes like Echo or when a mission requires it. She's the one sitting by the window side glancing out the window."

Six gazed upon the last member of the team Spectre, she was currently leaned back on the window side wall glancing out the window. She was around 5'6, athletic, and an hourglass figure. She was also of Asian background but her face was covered. She sported the same black uniform, she carried an ammunition pouch visible under her breast. Her sleeves were rolled up to her elbows. She wore a red scarf covering her from her nose down, instead of a face mask and wore black pilot shades.

"I'll leave their dislikes to your finding, now that you have met the team let's get this mission going. Alright everyone gathers up! Tundra computers please."

The somewhat noisy room came to an abrupt silence as everyone gathered around the large dinner table with the map on it. Tundra typing away on the laptop in front of him pulled up a thermal image of the building.

The Captain took out a cigar and placed it in his mouth before igniting it with a lighter, He took a puff before breathing out the smoke. "Three hours ago we got word of something that had hit the city. That something was an unknown anomaly. In just under two hours more than half the city fell under chaos, casualties are unknown but you can be sure it's in the hundreds. while I'm sure there are many parts still unaffected by this. Our mission is to extract a scientist by the name Yukata Kinoe. A brilliant mind in the field of bioengineering. Shortly after chaos happened Kinoe with his daughter was visiting his wife at work when it came under attack by an unknown hostile. We got word from a drone in the sky that he is trapped in a large business room with a group of survivors. From what we can gather the building is swarmed with hostiles. At first, we thought it was a terrorist attack but they seemed to not carry any weapons instead rely on biting. We have gotten no word from HQ nor any third party backup, even the police are unavailable at the moment. Until now."

Everyone glanced over at Six who was slumped against the wall absorbing all the info. Captain then continued on. "From what we can tell there is no way for them to escape or fight on their own. Any hints of a backing down or running away have failed. Any like to share with the class?"

One of the members. An older looking fellow which Six remembered as Bull the CQB of the group who was currently reloading his black Remington 870 decided to speak up. "Yeah why don't we go in wedge formation and force them fuckers out."

Six Scoffed which earned a glare from Bull. The captain pinched his nose before sighing. "Something you would like to add Lieutenant?"

"Yes. It would never work. You'd be wiped out by the infected before you even reached the doors."

Everyone turned facing the Spartan, even Spectre was intrigued. "Wait, infected?. We never guessed they were infected? Do you know what caused this?"

Six shook his head. "No. But before I reached Hayate I managed to run into one of them. I did a small autopsy of it and gathered that this is some sort of virus transmitted through biting which in turn kills you, I realized that they didn't show any vitals and the aftermath returns you as one of them."

Silence followed the room. "My God help us all. It's worse than we thought. No wonder half the city fell so quick one bite and you're screwed. Have your gathered anything else which could help us?"

"Yes. It seems whatever the virus originated from left some exploitable weaknesses which we can use. From what I know their eyesight has diminished to a near almost blind-state. Instead, they rely on other heightened abilities, sense of smell and hearing. They hear almost the smallest sound from a far away and swarm to it like a bug to a light. If they grab you it requires a lot of strength to pull off which I doubt many would have to effectively be removed from its grasp. The easiest way of killing is destroying the brain, although I came up with a theory that decapitation or burning could work too."

"Great so instead of some a possible terrorist attack or rogue agency we get… Wait for it guys zombies! Wow, who knew the dead would come guess we can think the producers on that."

"Lock it down, Bull."

Six titled his head up a bit and stared at the Captain with a confused face. "Wait.. zombies? What are those?."

Bull starting laughing all of a sudden. "You're kidding, right? Is he kidding right? You know the undead! George Romero, Dawn of The Dead, you know."

Six gazed over at the rest of the soldiers and then back at Bull. "Regardless of movie adaptations we still have a mission to complete while that definitely helps we still need to-"

Six walked over to the map glanced over it for a second before responding. "I have a plan."

The rest of the team listened eagerly for the plan. A chance to finish this mission and return to maybe get a chance and find their families. "It may be a long shot but I think it will work."

"Let's hear it then."

"A diversion."

The captain exchanged a glance with Hayate before looking back at Six. "A diversion? You sure that will work?" He tapered with uncertainty.

"It will hear me out. We know the infected are attracted heavily to sound and smell. What if we draw the infected out with noise and lead them away from the building, while you send a few guys to rescue the scientist. Placing them in key points could lead the horde away, away from the scientist giving you enough time to get him out. Their strengths could be the plan we need." Six explained.

"You got all that from the word zombie? Say it works. How would we attract all of them at that magnitude we would need a massive speaker."

Six motioned them forward and he moved the map closer to him. "Exactly, I noticed there were a few electronic stores in that area." Pointing to the map. "Tokonosu City is quite big. Where is the scientist located?"

Tundra quickly pointed to a medium sized office building in the eastern part of the city. "Perfect. There's an electronic store four blocks away and a large guitar shop two blocks away. Using those buildings should buy you enough time."

"How would we use them? It seems like a good idea but to produce a sound would require more than an amp from a guitar shop."

Six glanced over to Tundra before responding."Would you be able to hack the tv and or computers in the electronic store and make them play a really loud uh.. Music, if someone sneaks into the music store and hooks up on of the speakers to a phone or something."

Echo patted Hayate on the back. "Good find on this one Hayate he's brilliant."

A few nods went around, even Bull agreed with the plan. "Alright sounds like a plan. Bull you will be in charge of securing the music store and electronic store, Tundra, you will go with him, find a way to make it loud enough to be heard from a distance. Specter you will be in charge of recon. Set up a position on the large office building to the east of the scientist location. You will be our eyes and ears on this one, anything goes down I want to know about it."

Spectre reached for her M24 Sniper Rifle folding the bipod and slinging it over her shoulder as she grabbed her bag. "It will be done."

"Taka" the famed marksman instantly straightened up upon his name being called. "You will accompany Spectre on recon." Taka nods and grabs his Howa Type-89 Rifle and begins to load.

"Hayate. You will lead Echo,Kitsune. Six you will accompany them to retrieve the scientist. He and his family are priority level Alpha. Deadly force is authorized. I'll stay here with the rest of the team and coordinate your extraction once the scientist is secure. Once the scientist is secure radio In and meet at the rendezvous point. If the LZ is too hot or something goes wrong you tell me immediately. Let's bring Kinoe safety here! Dismissed!"

Everyone in the room minus Six saluted and returned to get their gear, reloading and grabbing extra magazines for what could be a firefight. Everyone minus the captain and those who were not called stayed. Six walked over to the group talking with the captain. Hayate smiled at Six. "You ready lieutenant?"

Six bent down grabbed his backpack before nodding. Hayate saluted at the Captain and the team walked out followed by Bull, Tundra, Taka, and Spectre.

Six walked stealthy behind an infected before snapping its neck. He grabbed the body and slowly brought it to the ground. He glanced over and saw Kitsune pull a combat knife and stab another infected in the head. He glanced over to see Echo follow close by. Hayate signaled for the team to move. Six weaved his way through the infected cutting them with ease and stealth. He then crouched behind a Suv. Echo stealthy approached from the side and hid behind the same Suv. Kitsune and Hayate hid behind the car to the right of them. Six-eyed the right of the Suv and the left before running and sliding to Hayate. Echo followed closely behind. Six glanced over at Hayate who reached over for his headset. "This is Hayate. My team is in position."

A few moments later a voice responded from the comms. "Understood. Bull? Tundra? How is it looking?"

"We're doing good sir. The electronic store is set and we're just finishing up with the guitar store. I hooked it up to a remote controlled device.

"Good. Taka? Spectre? How are we looking so far? Any trouble?"

A feminine voice responded. "No, sir. Everything is quite. Hayate's team looks safe and I see no trouble that could interfere with the mission. This part of the city is surprisingly quiet."

"I see. Alright, Tundra turns it on and then you and Bull run back as fast as you can back here. Hope it's loud enough so those fuckers can hear it. Once it starts Hayate grab the scientist and haul ass out."

Tundra and Hayate responded with a "yes sir."

All of a sudden loud thumping could be heard from the electronic store and then the music started blasting really loud in that area. A loud Guitar solo followed by some drums could be heard. And then the chorus came. "Back in Black, I hit the sack I've been gone too long I'm glad to be back. Yes, I'm let loose from the noose that's keeping me hanging about." (Btw Cue Back in Black By ACDC) Hayate climbed over the car and raced to the main entrance followed by Six, Kitsune and Echo. Hayate reached for his headset. "Really Bull? Back in Black by AC/DC?"

"Yes. It's loud, the perfect zombie killing song and It's a classic, sue me. Good luck we'll be watching from a distance. I rigged a special surprise at the end of the song."

Hayate raced in the building and immediately tried to locate the stairs. Six and the team followed close behind. Some aggressive moaning could be heard from the main lobby and the team turned around to see a horde of them were still in the building. Three of the infected crawled from a smashed car that had hit one of the support columns towards Kitsune who opened fire. Between the song and drums blasting from outside and the sound of gunfire, it sounded like it was straight out of an action film. "Six find the scientist. There's still a few in the main lobby. Echo go with him in case Mr. Kinoe is injured." Both of them nodded and raced up the stairway till they reached the second floor and then the third and finally the fourth floor. Six and Echo glanced around till they saw a barricaded door at the end of the hall surrounded by three infected. Six opted out his DMR for his shotgun. He pumped it once before sprinting down the hall opening fire at the infected. They were gunned down in seconds. Six pumped another two shells in his gun before checking to see that Echo was okay.

Six thought to himself 'Man. This song is actually pretty good I like it. Got a nice ring to it." Six faced the barricaded door and kicked it down with one foot. He dodged a bullet instinctively once he walked inside. He raised his gun at where the bullet came from but saw it was one of the civilians. Echo walked in gun raised but she lowered when she saw Six wave her down. The man raised his gun again. "Who the hell are you?"

"My name is Noble Six and this is Echo. We're working with JGSDF. We're here to get you out but we need a man by the name Yukata Kinoe and his family to step forward."

A man in his early forties identified as Kinoe and his wife stepped forward followed by a young girl in a school uniform as young as 12 stepped forward. His eyes widened when he saw the large behemoth called Noble Six. He gulped before responding. "M-My n-n name is Yukata."

Echo smiled at the family before radioing the Captain telling him the family is safe. Six turned his attention to the group of scared civilians. "Alright. We're gonna get everyone out here safely. Listen to us and you will be fine." Everyone nodded and made their way out the room. Yukata and his family were the last. Kinoe's daughter stood up and made her way to her father when some of the ceiling and support beams collapsed. She screamed and tried to cover her eyes but the debris never came. She opened her eyes to see the polarized visor of the armored man who spoke earlier she saw the fear in her eyes from the reflection the visor was giving. She noticed she was on the floor a few feet away from the cluttered mess of ceiling and support beams. A scream could be heard from the other side. "Six you okay?! Six! Are you and Kinoe's daughter fine?"

"Yes, we're fine. We're trapped in here, though. I could try lifting it."

"Are you crazy? It's too heavy. I'll get them out and come back for you with Hayate and the others."

"There's no time." Six tried to look for a way out and time seemed to slow down as one of the Spartan-IIs Kelly dubbed Spartan Time activated. Because Spartans have increased reflexes and can process information faster than the average human they can react and diffuse a situation faster. 'Alright, Jason think. The door is blocked by the debris. We could try lifting it but the roof might cave in causing more damage. We could try smashing into another room next to this one. There's a window behind you. If you grab her and run and jump out the window careful not to crush her and if you take the brute force of the fall she should be fine. The window seems safer and less time consuming."

Six bends down and grabs his back he smashes the window before throwing the bag out the window. "Echo I got a plan. Get the civilians out. And find Hayate and Kitsune. I'll be jumping out the window." The little girl stares wide-eyed at the Spartan.

Echo responses a few moments later. "Are you insane? It's four stories. The girl would not survive and I doubt you would go unscathed."

"There's no time to argue. Get them out."

Six runs over and grabs the little girl. Wrapping his titanium arms around her leg and the other around her back he mentally curses and runs out the window. He wraps his arms closer careful not to get any glass on her. He free falls for a moment before landing on his back on a public transit bus. He stands up and puts the little girl down checking that she was ok. "Hey, little girl are you okay? Are you hurt?"

"No, I'm fine. Just dizzy that's all."

Six nods before picking her up with one hand and pulling out his pistol. "Cover your ears the gun is loud." She nods and puts her tiny small hands over her ears. Six runs around the corner opting head shots on any infected that get too close. He just barely missed the tip of a rifle aimed at his head when he got around the corner to see everyone alright. Hayate runs up with Kinoe and his wife to Six and the little girl. Six places the girl on the ground and she runs to hug her father and mother Yelling "Dad!" And they embrace her with an equally loving hug. The scientist nods thanks at Six who nods back.

Hayate comes up behind and pats Six on the back. "You ok?! We saw you from the first-floor jump down from the fourth. Is the girl okay?"

Six walks over and grabs his thrown bag of the floor and slings it over his left shoulder. "Yeah, she's fine. I took the blunt force of the fall. She's just dizzy and all."

"I asked if you were fine too. Especially if you took the full force of the fall. You want Echo to give you a check up."

"Nah it's fine. We should get going, though."

"Right."

Six crouches and pulls his DMR out giving the team and civilians cover fire. They race across the street with a Six behind them shooting ever so often at the infected getting close to the civilians. Suddenly one of those infected sneaks up from one of the cars and lunges at one of the civilians. But Six grabs the man and stabs him in the eye with his knife. He made the universal symbol of "you ok?" And the man quickly nodded and joined the others. Six could see differently, however. He saw the fear, anger, and hurt in the man's eyes. He saw from his helmet how the man stared at him as he could kill someone so easily without flinching. Even if they were no longer alive they were still human and Six was cutting them up like he had no emotion, like a cold blooded killer. In reality, he was a killer, from his first kill to becoming his superiors own assassin. But it brought back memories he wished he forgot memories of his own men calling him a demon and a killer. He shook it out of his and tried to focus on the mission. When they reached the building that Spectre and Taka were at they waited for the teammates to come down. They were on the first floor and joined the others when a loud explosion boomed from one of the buildings more specifically the large guitar store. Hayate responded on the mic. "What the hell was that? It came from the guitar store.

Bull responds from his mic. "I told you I placed a surprise at the end of the song."

"Explosives Bull? Really?"

"I was in a nostalgic mode and I thought it would be fitting. Gotta admits this mission went out with a bang. Hahaha."

Six glanced up at Echo. "Am I the only one who thinks Bull is enjoying this too much." She nods in agreement.

"Fine. Whatever were safe. Tell the captain to bring the helicopter at the rendezvous point."

"You got it."

"Alright let's get going."

Hayate and his team and the civilians finally arrive at the rendezvous point. A large open field in a park. Hayate popped the orange smoke and waited while Six and the rest of the team were killing infected which slowly started swarming them. After a few moments, two Blackhawk helicopters finally arrived and landed on. The ground. Not wasting any time the civilians immediately got on the helicopter while the team and the scientist got on the other. Six stood on the ground. Hayate noticed and called out to him. "Six! Six what are you doing? We're getting outta here! Climb aboard."

"Negative I have the gun. Get the scientist out of here. Help him find a cure to this. I'll get any civilians I see out of here. I'll be damned to let them all die."

"You truly are noble, Noble six. Fine at least let's give you a ride I know where you can start if you're willing." Hayate offers his outstretched hand.

Six nods and grabs it. Hayate struggles to pull him up but he did little to no effort as Six just climbed aboard. While Six was staring at the ground below, lost in thought failed to notice Hayate curse under his breathe and stare at Six with awe in the fact that he just realized Six is way heavier than he puts on. As they were ascending Hayate motioned for Six to sit down. He walked over and sat down. "Yes?"

"You said you were going back to the city."

"Yeah."

"I have a request."

"Shoot."

"I have a son in the city. He goes to a school called Fujimi Academy. Please see if he's alright. I have to stay with the team. I don't think I'll be able to go back and find him."

"Okay."

"Really that's it?"

Six nods.

"Sweet. Thank you very much. Here is a picture of him. His name is Takuzo." Hayate removed a picture from his pocket and shows it to Six. The picture is a young teen most likely 18 years old. He has an athletic built. Broad shoulders and has brown eyes and black hair. Sporting the standard male Fujimi Academy uniform with a white towel hung around his neck and a smiling at the camera.

Six smiles from under his mask. "Looks like a good kid."

"He is. Smart, kind and selfless. Wish I could be there more often for him."

Six nods and leans back and closes his eyes and the helicopter continues to fly as the city slowly starts to fall.

And scene. Again I apologize for taking so long. I will try to get chapters in quicker. If you have any questions or concerns please post a review or message me. I am not on very often so If I don't respond please know I'm not ignoring you. Next chapter Six will be in Fujimi Academy. Will he save the school from the undead and maybe some characters. Find out next time. Lmao feel like I'm advertising a commercial. Anyway please don't forget to review, follow. Thank you and see you next chapter.

BTW still waiting for an emblem from you guys. If you have an idea please post a review or msg me. I might make a vote depending on how many responses I get. Thank You!

Helmet: Mjolnir with an External Command Network Module

Chest: UA/ Base security

Left shoulder: ODST

Right shoulder: ODST

Wrist: Tactical/Tacpad

Utility: Tactical/Hardcase

Visor color: black

Knee guards: Grenadier

Armour Colours

Primary: Black

Secondary: Silver

UNSC Navy Combat Record- Spartan-III B312 "Noble Six"

Full Name: Jason Wintergreen "Winters"

Sex: Male

Height: 205.7Cm (6 Ft 9 In)

Mass: 265 Lb without armor. With armor 650Lb

Age: Classified

Hair color: Classified

Eye color: Classified

Homeworld: Classified

Status: Unknown

Location: Unkown

Affiliation: UNSC Navy

Cybernetics: Spartan Neural Interface

A.I: Dust(2268-2456)

UNSC Designation Rank: Lieutenant

Occupation; Spartan III Commando-Former Member of Beta Company

Specialty: Assassination, Infiltration, Reconnaissance, Espionage, Commanding and Assault

CQB Specialist, Uncanny Marksmanship, Hyper-Lethal Vector, YSS- Sabre Pilot, Classified, Classified, Classified

Weapons Classification: M392 Designated Marksman Rifle, M90 Tactical Shotgun. M60 Magnum.

Former Team: Classified

Current Team: Noble Team

Former Ops: Classified

Current Commander: Commander Carter-A259-KIA

Commander before Noble Team: Classified

Update Record? Yes. No.