Chapter 2.
"Speaking", 'Thoughts', 'Writing', (A/N: Author's Note).
Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY or Halo; they belong to Rooster Teeth and Microsoft/343 respectively.
Edited by Okami
Buck threw his helmet across the armory, "Damn it!" He yelled as the rest of his squad looked on somberly. Dutch walked up and put his hand on Buck's shoulder to comfort him.
"It ain't your fault Gunny; the kid knew what he was doing. And he ain't dead, the pod his IFF* was in got thrown into slipspace." Dutch comforted using Buck's nickname. The squad looked to the door as it slid open to reveal Capitan Veronica Dare of the Office of Naval Intelligence, Buck's current Girlfriend, walking in without her helmet.
Buck raised an eyebrow at her before talking "Why are you here?" He asked.
Veronica gave him a sympathetic smile "The ONI** Brass*** thought it would be good to have a familiar face working with you to find the Rookie. In the meantime, your Lance Corporal will be categorized as Missing in Action."
Buck was even more confused by that statement, "ONI is trying to find him, why?" He inquired trying to get as much information out of Dare as possible.
"I convinced them that he was a valuable asset, and I owe him after New Mombasa." Dare answered. They heard the door open again and in came three people wearing ONI armor. One was wearing an EVA helmet, another was wearing a Commando helmet, and the third was wearing a Hayabusa helmet. The one with the EVA helmet was leading the other two and was fairly short compared to the six foot ODSTs.
The leader spoke first "I am Captain Okami, the Brass thought it would be a good idea to assign a few more agents to assist in the search. This is Commander Dyess," She said gesturing to the agent wearing the Commando helmet, "and this is Lieutenant Cards," she gestured to the agent wearing the Hayabusa helmet, "we look forward to working with you Captain Dare." Okami finished as she turned on her heel and walked out
"As do I." Dare responded through clenched teeth.
Buck raised an eyebrow at this. "You know her?"
"Yeah, she was the one who nearly got my cover blown on an Op." Dare responded "She served on the UNSC Retribution, but it was decommissioned a while back due to quote 'it being too old to be effective in battle' but ONI was investigating them for possible Insurgent ties during the Human-Covenant war. ONI tried getting the command of the Retribution, including Okami, court martialed but by the time FleetCom**** took a look at it the Insurgent was dead and they had captured a rogue Spartan-III. ONI settled with having their ship decommissioned and its crew scattered. I don't trust her or her cronies much, but we have to deal with them."
"Well, let's just hope that they can do their job and help us get the Rookie back." Buck said as he picked up his helmet and looked into the visor. "For both our sakes."
Winter Schnee held up a fist to signal her team to halt. In front of her was the strange object that had fallen out of the sky. It was purple and had two engines in the back and what looked like a door below the engines. She signaled her team to move in; once they were upon the pod she took a close look at the door, looking for some kind of access panel.
"Winter, it looks like there is an electrical panel over here." Lockland yelled to her. Lockland was the team's flanker, he had a SMG that turned into a short sword and his semblance allowed him to teleport forward a couple feet. He was also quite good with electronics.
"Great, can you get it open?" Winter asked as she walked over to him.
"I don't know, this is some pretty advanced stuff. But I should be able to bypass the electrical cycler here." Lockland was fiddling around with the wires "There, got it." He exclaimed once the door slid open. Winter walked up to the door; hand on the hilt of her sabre. As soon as she walked in purple lights lit up the interior of the cabin, revealing a man in strange armor sitting with his head hung and back against the wall. He had two strange glowing purple crystals protruding out of his chest.
Lockland knelt down next to the person and grabbed onto one of the crystals intent to pull it out. Before he could the hand of the person whipped up and grabbed Lockland's wrist and pushed it away. The armored man stood up and staggered a little bit before looking at the two Atlas Hunters in front of him. Winter got into a ready stance and put her hand on the hilt of her saber before speaking "By order of the Atlas Military you are being detained for questioning. You will receive medical attention upon arrival on the Mantle's Embrace. I suggest you come quietly." The man tapped the emblem on his shoulder, it was an Eagle with a banner with the letters UNSC on it, and he stared at her as he stopped tapping it. Winter frowned and looked at Lockland, who was standing next to her, and looked back at the person. "I am giving you 10 seconds to comply." The man continued staring at her. Winter sighed and drew her sword, Lockland doing the same, and pointed it at the man who was now on guard. "Last chance to come with us quietly."
The man shrugged before picking up his silenced SMG that lay on the ground before getting into a ready stance. Winter trust her sword forward expecting to make contact with the man's aura, but he dodged it and shot her point blank with his SMG. He put it on his left thigh before pulling out his pistol, which he emptied into Lockland before pistol whipping the electronics savvy Hunter, knocking him out. Winter used a glyph and tried to throw herself at the man, but she missed and the inertia threw her out of the pod.
Sal, one of the teammates outside, helped Winter up and pulled out his hammer. Spiral rushed around from the opposite side of the pod to see what was going on; as she did, a cylinder object was thrown out of the pod. After a few seconds it flashed brightly and made an extremely loud bang, making the Hunters temporarily blind and deaf. While they were recovering from the flashbang the man threw down a smoke grenade and ran through it while firing his SMG to suppress them.
Dare walked up to the Briefing Room door and pushed the button to make it open. She marched in and saw six people in the room circled around a holo-table: there was Okami, Dyess, Cards, one new ONI agent, The Captain of the Heracles, and a Spartan. The new ONI agent wore a heavily modified version of the Recon armor she wore, the Spartan, who she assumed was a three, had cyan armor and a vaguely Y shaped visor. On the table was an AI projection, it was probably Blake, the ships AI. The Captain looked up at her as she walked in.
"Ah, Captain Dare. You're here, now we can get started." He announced. "Yesterday, Alpha-Nine infiltrated a Covenant Remnant Corvette. Lance Corporal John Doe, AKA "The Rookie" was separated from Alpha-Nine when four Hunters attacked them. He went on to the objective as the rest of Alpha-Nine, led by Gunnery Sergeant Edward Buck, fell back to the Hanger they landed in. They began taking heavy fire there as they waited for "The Rookie" to come back. "The Rookie" managed to get the AI and attempted to destroy the Corvette while his squad evacuated from the ship. He was able to sabotage the Slipspace Drive and run to an escape pod. This escape pod malfunctioned as it ejected out from the Corvette and went into Slipspace. Our objective is to find the Lance Corporal and get him back. Any questions?" the ONI agent with the Recon armor raised his hand. "Yes, PO3 (1) Specter?"
"Why is this person so valuable to ONI that they need to send an entire Destroyer to look for him?" Specter asked after putting his hand down.
"I don't know PO3. What I do know is that he and his squad were deemed a Priority One asset." The Capitan answered. "All right, any other questions?" Everyone shook their head. "Ok, Blake will be trying to trace the pod using the distress beacon it will most likely emit once it lands. You all are dismissed." He said before walking out of the room.
The Rookie's boots hit the ground as he jumped off of the small building; it had become night in the time it took him to get away from his pursuers. He began to walk silently down the alley to the main street; he was wary of the large airships above the city as he climbed the wall, worried that they might spot him. He walked down the street and looked for signs directing to a library so he could get some information on this planet. The pedestrians gave him strange looks as he passed, he couldn't blame them, it wasn't every day that you saw an ODST in full armor walking down the street. He heard a clanging down an alleyway to his right and he went down to investigate. He saw 5 men cornering a small girl with pink and brown hair who was clenching an umbrella in her hands. One of the men laughed and then spoke to the girl "Come on Girly, if you are obedient then you won't get hurt. I'll even forgive you for kicking Carl in the nuts if you bend over now and just take it."
The Rookie felt rage build up in his chest; he pulled out his M6-SOCOM and aimed at the single light illuminating the narrow area. There was a soft plink as the light was destroyed and wrapped the alley in darkness. He heard the cries of confusion as the rapists began looking around; The Rookie unsheathed his knife and activated his VISR (2) and quietly snuck up on one of the degenerates. He pushed the concealed button on the hilt of the Ka-bar which made the edge become covered in plasma, which in turn made the alleyway light up slightly, and slammed it into the jugular of the first man. He made a gurgling sound as the life drained out of him. The other rapists cried in alarm and drew their weapons; two pulled out switchblades, one pulled out a small mace, and the final one pulled out a pistol. The Rookie pulled out his Wingman and shot two of them before the one with a pistol opened fire at the Rookie, but he hit the man the Rookie stabbed and was now holding as a body shield. The Rookie fired two more shots, killing the final rapists. He pulled out his knife from his body shield and turned to the woman, the glow illuminating her. She looked surprised to see her potential rapists dead. She turned to look at the man who had saved her.
*Information Friend or Foe
**Office of Naval Intelligence
***The Higher ups
****Fleet Command
(1) Petty Officer 3rd Class
(2) Visual Information System, Reconnaissance
Let's just leave that off on a cliffhanger. Thanks to everyone who has followed this story. I did not expect it to get this many readers. Feel free to leave criticism, roast me, threaten my life, or anything else along those lines.
P.S. I might be adding some OC's in the future so let me know if you want yours to be featured.
Sayonara readers, Gamenian out.
