Beacon Academy for Spartans

by martinpat94

Remnant has been discovered by the Covenant and now they seek to "cleanse" it of humanity. They then unleash the Flood virus onto the planet, but because the people of Remnant have the unique ability to control Aura they are immune to it, but at the cost of being able to use Aura. Then the UNSC happens upon the planet and tries to help, but what will happen now read and find out.

2. Chapter 2

Chapter 2: If the Worst Comes to Past

Aboard the Pelican

"You know I changed my mind this is just as boring." Says the Spartan in black and purple armor.

"Well what do you want Felix. You could just consider this the calm before the storm." Says their leader

Felix then wines as he slumps in his seat as a voice sounds out from his helmet "Come on man your so loud that I can't stay in rest mode at all." Then a purple hologram of a man in armor similar to the group is projected from his helmet sitting down "Seriously you being my user is such a drag."

"Aw come on Z it isn't that bad." Felix replies "We will have lots of fun once we actually get to the battlefield."

"How many times must I tell you not to call me that outside of an operation my name is Zeta." The hologram says. He then sighs as he turns to the leader "As much of a drag as it is maybe we need to go over what the battle plan will be and the mission parameters. Edmund could you have Lambda transfer the data to us other AIs."

Edmund nods "Lamb if you would please."

Then a light blue and grey armored hologram is projected from his own helmet "Right away." He replies cheerfully "We are going to assist the forces of the planet Remnant in the defense of an island town called Patch. When we arrive we are to provide them with fresh supplies and Ed is supposed to be put in charge of all forces. Also we will be receiving reinforcements as well of another team of Spartans and we are to both reinforce and help fortify the city. How we do this is not specified in the mission parameters and we are authorized use of all equipment and AI programs."

Felix stands up and lightly kicks the large metal drop box full of supplies "So why are we taking this dumb box and not just use a drop pod to deliver the supplies."

Lambda appears on top of the box with Zeta lying a little distance away on the same box and Zeta speaks "Quite being an idiot. If we were to use a drop pod in a civilian area it could result in ally casualties and other needless collateral damage."

Felix rubs the back of his head and chuckles a little bit "Yeah I guess that is true." He then goes and leans against the wall to look out the window.

"So is there any specific battle plan you have in mind Boss." Asks the one in the brown armor.

Edmund thinks about it for a minute "I think for the most part we are going to have to wing it Claude."

Claude nods and pulls out his sniper to inspect it for the mission, but the last member of the team does not take it calmly and the one in grey and white armor stands up "What do you mean wing it!?"

Edmund sighs at the member that is always the highest strung when it comes to this sort of thing "Calm down Damian or else you gonna pop a blood vessel. Again."

Damian appears to calm a little, but doesn't sit down "Fine I'll calm down, but only if you think about the situation more seriously."

Edmund sighs "Believe it or not I am thinking about the situation seriously and I can't come up with any real plan until we get there." he then leans back in his seat "So chill out and sit before we hit some turbu-." He doesn't get to finish as the whole ship shakes as alarms are also going off and both Felix and Damian fall flat on their faces.

Felix slowly gets up "Ow that hurt."

Then Zeta appears in front of him "You idiot. You should have sat back down when you had the chance."

Felix laughs "Yeah you are probably right."

As Damian is getting up a new hologram of a purple armor appears in front of him "Are you alright Mr. Damian?" She asks.

"Thanks Mu I'll be alright." He replies as he gets up.

Edmund rushes to the front "What's our status!"

When he gets there he sees the Pilot struggling with the controls trying to keep the Pelican flying straight "We are still forty minutes till the LZ, but we have four Covenant Banshees on our tail and we have been-" she doesn't get to finish as a fifth Banshee appears in front of them "SON OF A BITCH!" she shouts as she has forces the ship to dive to the left to avoid a head on collision, but not before the enemy can get a shot off that blazes through the front window and into the arm of the pilot "AAHH!" she screams in pain.

Thinking quickly Edmund pulls the pilot out of her chair and pulls her into the bay where the rest of the team are "Attention the Operation is now starting from here on out first initial code names." He orders as he finishes pulling the pilot over to Damian "D the pilot needs emergency treatment."

Damian nods as he kneels down next to her "M begin treatment operation mode and surgical field."

Mu then appears in a nurse's uniform "Acknowledged." She replies as the arms of his armor begin to mecha shift off of his body forming different tools for him to use. Then she appears next to the head of the pilot "Don't worry D is the best there is at this."

Edmund turns away leaving Damian to do his job and turns to Claude "C use your magnetic grip to go to the top of the ship and shoot down all pursuers!"

Claude nods and moves to the hatch that leads up to the roof. Once on top of the ship he pulls out his sniper and after he gets into position he speaks to his own AI "N activate target tracking and visor zoom function."

All he gets as a reply is "Acknowledged." From her as he steadies his rifle to start shooting.

Back inside Edmund and Felix enter the cockpit and Edmund takes the controls and starts to try to steer the ship "L begin analysis of the ship and the enemies." Lambda appears and nods in acknowledgement before disappearing again "Z start running calculations and the best flight path for the ship to take from the information that L is gathering."

Zeta appears above the console "Man why couldn't they have just given me to an intel officer or something. This is such a drag." He complains before disappearing as well.

Edmund continues "F I need you to be my eyes on the enemies as I try to steer in the direction Z dictates and if L finds any issues that need to be addressed I will need you take over piloting the ship."

"Roger Boss." He begins to look out the window "I'm just glad that things are finally livening up."

Just then Zeta shouts a warning "Incoming enemy 5 o'clock!"

On the roof Claude takes aim at the incoming enemy Banshee on his visor a red triangle appears and he lines it up with the muzzle of his sniper and fires. The bullet flies through the air and hits its mark, then it starts to lose altitude rapidly to fall down and crash down to the planet below "One down boss." Claude reports as he readies his next shot.

"Good job, but stay on alert there are still four more." Edmund says as he starts to notice that they are slowly losing altitude themselves "L what is causing us to lose altitude."

Lambda appears, but now is speaking in a more robotic tone "I am afraid that it is the fuel tank it is leaking fluid, one of the engines was hit, but is operable for 20 more minutes, and the landing gear is inoperable."

Edmund clicked his teeth "F take control and work with Z to avoid the enemy while I go with L to try and fix what we can to get us more air time so we can get over to the LZ. Z also start plotting a new course to help preserve energy and get us above the LZ then we will just air drop in."

He then gets up to get started while Felix throws his arms up in frustration "See! We should have just used drop pods! Would have saved us a boat load of time and we could have jumped right into the battle!" he then grips the controls "But no use complaining now let's just hurry up to the main event!" he thrusts his arm up at the last part before regripping the controls more seriously.

Then Zeta's voice sounds out "You know your enthusiasm when it comes to fighting is incredibly annoying."

"Aw come on you know you have fun too!" Felix says as he forces the ship to dive to the right avoiding another barrage of fire.

Claude then speaks over the radio "Could you try to keep it steady otherwise I'm going to waste bullets." He then fires another shot taking down another Banshee, but this one happens to crash into one bellow it taking them both down. He blinks a few times "N did you plan that?"

"No that was just happenstance." She replies.

"Huh neat." He says as he aims for the next ship.

Edmund opens a side door and clips a rope to his armor so he won't go flying off "L you sure the damage is on the outside."

Lambda appears before him "Yes I am positive and I am afraid it can only be fixed from the outside."

Edmund sighs "This is turning out to be a great day."

As he slowly climbs out to make his way to fix the fuel tank Damian finishes treating the pilots arm and is now putting the arm armor back on "There I've stopped the bleeding and patched you up best I can, but without a proper hospital I don't know if you will be able to keep the arm."

The pilot laughs weakly "That would be cool then I could join the robotics program and get a better arm." Damian then moves her to one of the seats and straps her in.

Then he sits in the one next to her and straps himself in just before the ship jerks to left as he hears Zeta yelling at Felix "Come on fly straight would ya! C won't be able to line up his shots properly if you just suddenly change course!"

"Hey it's not my fault! Blame the guys shooting at us!" Felix shouts back.

Then Edmund makes it back into the Pelican "Okay repairs made to the best of our abilities. L how much air time did that get us?"

"I'm afraid only an extra 15 minutes." He replies as he appears in front of Edmund.

"Inform Zeta of the change and help him with the change of course."

Lambda nods "Acknowledged." Then disappears to join Zeta.

"C what is the enemy count." He says through the radio.

"Well it has been difficult with F's flying," Felix shouts some remark but is ignored "but only one ship remains." He says as he lines up what will be the last shot. However, before he could take it the Banshee pulls back and starts flying in another direction "Correction, the enemy is retreating."

Edmund sighs "This is not good now the enemy knows of our presence and has gotten a minor assessment of our skills. We also can't give chase given the current condition of our aircraft. Hell we might not be able to even make it to the LZ. The bad shit list just keeps getting longer."

Then Lambda appears in front of him "Actually we have devised a way for us to make it to the LZ, but I'm not too sure you will like it."

"Great more shit to add to the list." Edmund complains

On a Bullhead headed for Patch

"Ruby calm down I'm sure that everyone is fine." Yang tries to comfort her sister who is currently pacing in the hull of the ship "Remember Dad is there and the other teacher from Signal too."

"I know but…" Ruby moves to where she put her helmet and picks it up "It's just I want to be able to protect everyone." She then puts on her helmet.

The a green and orange hologram appears in front of her "Do not worry friend Ruby we are sure to be able to protect lots of people."

Weiss gets up and places a hand on Rubies shoulder "Penny is right we will just save as many people as we can when we get there."

Ruby nods as the pilot announces over the speaker "We are now approaching the landing zone."

Ruby dashes over to the window and the rest of the team follows behind, but what they see looked like it was from a nightmare. All around the town some of the buildings where on fire and others were completely destroyed. The only building that looked untouched was the largest building that sat at the center of the town. Also they could see a bunch of people running all around, but they were too far up to see what they were doing clearly. Ruby is on the verge of tear and her sister can sense that so Yang pulls her into a hug "It's okay I'm sure everyone is fine and that they are safe inside town hall."

The Bullhead then positions itself and slowly descends onto the space that was clear and large enough for it to fit to land. Once on the ground it opens the doors and everyone steps to see a man with blonde hair in Spartan armor similar to Yang's except that his was a darker color and he wasn't currently wearing a helmet. Seeing him Ruby ran up to him at top speed with a boost from her jets and hug tackles the man "DAD!"

The man is taken back by the sudden assault and is nearly knocked off his feet. Once he recovers he returns it "Hey there my little speed demon what are you doing here?" he looks up to see the rest of her team "Hey Firecracker, Blake, Ice Queen."

"Hey!" Weiss complains as she seriously doesn't like that nickname and how well it stuck.

Ignoring her he continues "What are you girls doing here?"

This confuses the group as Penny appears "But we were informed that you were aware of our arrival Mr. Xiao Long."

He rubs the back of his head "Well we did receive a notice that we were going to be getting some reinforcements. However, before we could confirm who they would send our communications tower was destroyed." He then points to a big pile of rubble "To be honest I would have thought that they would have sent more than one team."

This confuses them even more "But there was supposed to have been a team that should have already arrived." Weiss states.

He shrugs "Nope. You girls are the first people to arrive after we sent out that SOS."

"Maybe they got lost?" Yang questions.

"Regardless we need to move forward. What happened here Mr. Xiao Long?" Blake asks trying to move on to what needs to be done now.

"We were hit hard by a Covenant raiding party, but we managed to beat them back." He does a victory pose which the girls found ridiculous.

"So everyone is fine then?" Ruby gives a sigh of relief, but her dad's expression saddens.

"I'm sorry Ruby, but we did suffer some casualties." Now mood of the group drops "Some of them were your old classmates and one or two teachers. We haven't identified which body is which yet because we got a report before our communication went down that a horde of Grimm will be here in about 20 minutes and we have to prepare." He walks up to his daughter and pulls her into a hug "But you go ahead and take what time you need before they arrive." He then releases her and goes to help in fortifying the town for the Grimm attack.

"Ruby?" questions Weiss as she reaches out to her partner worried about her wellbeing.

Ruby just shakes her off "I'll be fine. Let's get to work fortifying the town." She moves to get to work.

Weiss is a bit hurt, but Yang comes over and puts a hand on her shoulder "It's okay just give her a little bit of time."

Weiss nods "Yeah I know." Then they move to help their leader.

On board the Pelican

"Man I really don't want to do this." Damian complains as he looks out of the hanger door to the planet below.

Felix walks up next to him "You could always just wait till the Pelican crashes to get off."

Damian scowls at him "I'm sorry unlike you the rest of us would die if we hit the ground at this height."

Felix laughs "Hey it's not my fault I have such awesome armor."

As Edmund finishes putting on his jetpack he looks over to the pilot "Will she be okay operating one of these."

The pilot gives him a thumbs up with her good arm "Don't worry I can still fly with the best of-." She winces before she can finish as she then holds her injured arm.

Damian puts a hand on her shoulder "Don't worry I will be close by if she needs the help and we can switch her jet pack to respond to M's commands."

Edmund nods as he sees that Claude has just about finished putting on the jetpacks onto the supply container "L you sure this will be enough to get the supplies down safely to the ground?"

He then appears on top of the container along with a new AI that is in simple grey armor "Don't worry with N backing me up we will be able to get it down to the ground easily."

Zeta then speaks up "We are almost over the landing zone, but heat scans from the ship show that there are a large number of things down below."

Edmund nods "Looks like we are going to be going in hot. Everyone get your weapons ready and prepare for a fight."

Felix dances in place a bit "OOOOHHHH! This will be so much fun I can't wait."

Zeta appears next to him "Come on take this more seriously." He rubs the back of his head "Geez what a drag."

"Come on don't be like that." He then steps onto the edge of the hanger without a jetpack "In this line of work you have to take any kind of fun you can." He then leans over the edge and falls back down to the planet below shouting out in joy as he falls.

Zeta sighs "I better go before he makes a messy stain on the planet." He says before he blinks out.

Edmund then starts pushing the supplies to the edge with help of Claude while Damian helps the pilot to the edge "Okay everyone clear on their current orders that we discussed earlier?"

Claude nods "After we land and secure the supplies I will find a perch and begin taking enemies out with my rifle and providing cover fire for all allies that I can. Also I will be reporting any change in the enemy ranks and formation."

"I will get the pilot to whatever medics are available on cite and assist with the treatment of all the injured. Also I will make sure that the injured and the civilians remain secure." Damian replies.

"Right and F will be doing… Well that." Edmund gestures over the hanger "And I will be providing support to any place that needs it." once they get the supplies close to the edge they stop pushing. "Okay everyone ready." They all nod "The Pelican is programmed to crash far from any cities and self-destruct right?"

Lambda nods from his position on top of the supplies next to Nu "I double checked."

Edmund gets ready for the final push of the supplies "Okay everyone sink." After they all say sink Edmund and Claude give one final push. Pushing the supplies over the edge and the rest of the group soon follows 'I only hope that we don't get there too late.' He thinks to himself as they all start plummeting down to the battlefield below.