Most of you want JSDF to react to Halo. Why not?
Artyom-Dreizehn: it's not solid, it's just a guess by Admiral Hood, though it could be, I'm not spoiling but I can tell you that there might be some Precursors are on the planet.
Lord Link: it's going to be in the JSDF universe due to the Halo universe's lack of Precursor artifacts. It makes sense since the Forerunners, even with their advanced tech, would need to have Precursor-level scanners just to sense Precursor tech so far from their universe.
PhenexGundamKai: You can't really see a detailed armor set from at least a kilometer away. It's just kind it blurry and I'm trying to get a grand reaction from the JSDF when the UNSC face-to-face with them.
Orangexboom: yes it would, but due to the UEG being the inheritors of the mantle, it will be very limited.
Guest: hoorah
minecraft93: it's 30 years after the end of the Human-Covenant War, I would think that most experimental medical equipment would be destroyed after 3 decades of genocide and glassing.
Guest: a joke.
Guest: a joke. I would think the Sedarian Empire will keep all their sacred hills close to them.
Guest (ChronoHyperion): I run off what's in the games and other fan fiction. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
Guest (Zero): yes it will be.
KillerKaug: Woah you want them to invade OUR Earth?! Lol.
Guest: read chapter 2, please. Well, you wouldn't be here, huh?
Also, the UNSC Marines have ACTUAL Marine armor, not those rubbish stormtrooper armor.
I'm American.
Let's go to the chapter :D
Chapter 3
Imperial Capital
GPL-82
GATE System
December 14, 2582
Molt sat on his throne surprising calm for the events that just transpired would make a king or emperor of any kingdom or empire, tremble.
"Tell me, how many days has it been since the first green men entered my empire?" Molt asked one of the guards, seeing as they were the only ones in the room.
"Me sir?" Asked a guard.
"Yes you, now tell me how many days has it been since the first green men arrived on MY empire?" Molt asked impatiently.
"It's been 1 week, sir," replied the guard.
Molt paused questioning before asking the second guard, "You, tell me how long since the second green men arrived."
"Um... 2 days sir," replied the guard.
Molt looked at the third guard and asked, "How long has Princess Pina - my daughter - and her... plaything left to investigate both?"
"4 days ago milord, they should be near Italica," replied a cool headed guard.
"Good." Then an explosion rocked the palace. "What was that?" Molt asked still with his bored face.
A guard entered the throne room and reported, "Your majesty! The green people have infiltrated the palace and are marching towards here!"
Molt was reeled in with a look of shock on his face. "Retreat all guards to guard this room! Seal all the entrances! Ge-" He was cut off as a rift - that seemingly was created out of magic - appeared in the middle of his throne room. A man with a shaved cut, a suit, supposedly without armor, and a smirk on his face.
"Guards!" Molt ordered as the rift closed.
"Well looks like the portable slip space drives are working..." Robert trailed off seeing the Emperor and guard. "Ah, gentlemen... nice to see that the diversion worked," He said as he brushed off some dust on his shoulder.
Molt was speechless as the man approached him and his guard trying to stab the man to death. "Now now... I certainly don't need you guys attacking me when I'm doing a diplomatic meeting with your leader," Robert said as he raised his hand and curled it into a fist, as he did this, all four guards fell dead with holes in their chests. "Now much better..."
"Who are you?" Molt asked confidently - from the outside -, but fear overridden his insides.
"I'm Admiral Robert Black of the UNSC Home Fleet of Earth," Robert introduced. "You must be Emperor Molt of the Sedation Empire, yes I did my research," Robert stated.
"Are you here to kill me? Barbarian!" Molt asked with flames in his eyes.
Robert stayed professional as he felt the urge to pick his ear to clean it. "No I'm not here to kill you, rather we want you to apologize to all the people you directly killed and their families," Robert stated as he cleared his throat. "You have 1 week to come up with an answer, good bye, for now," Robert said as he smirked, then another rift appeared behind him. "Choose wisely Emperor Molt." Robert entered the portal and disappeared, before long the rift closed as well.
"Guards!" Molt yelled as his heart thumped 120 MPH. A lone guard entered the throne room.
"Yes mi-" the guard went to excuse himself to go and release his lunch.
"Sorry for my rudeness milord," the guard said deeply. "The green people have fled the palace and retreated back to the sacred Hill," the guard reported.
"Clean up this mess," Molt said angrily as he went to his personal chambers.
JSDF Base
The Special Region
"So there were 3 armored men that didn't exactly react to our weapons?" Asked the lieutenant general, Kōichirō Hazama, of the Special Region's garrisoned JSDF from Japan. The lieutenant general sighed.
"Yes, sir."
Hazama stroked his mustache. "Never mind that for now.. tell me did the people from the other side of Hulnus' gate appeared yet?" Hazama asked.
"We presume sir," replied the officer.
"Presume?" Hazama asked.
"All our drones were shot down, we presume that the people have technology similar to ours," replied the officer.
"Hm. Keep me posted on their movements outside of their AAA guns, next thing we need is a genocidal alien society trying to kill us because of some lies," Hazama stated while the officer chuckled. The officer then walked out as the author chuckled at the irony.
Elsewhere on the JSDF grounds, Itami walked with Lelei, Tuka, and Rory as they headed out to collect some wyvern scales to sell. "So why am I here again?" Itami asked himself.
"Because you are supposed to escort us," Lelei said in her usual monotone voice.
"Right." Itami looked to the sky and spotted a light before it disappeared. "Did you see that?" He asked.
"See what?" Lelei asked.
Itami shook his head, "It's nothing."
UNSC/SA Combined Foward Base
GPL-82
GATE System
"Aircraft are so annoying!" Exclaimed an Unggoy.
"Yipyap thinks so too," Yipyap stated.
"Dipchip thinks noise scary!" Exclaimed the first Unggoy.
A nearby marine AAA gunner looked at the Unggoy with confusion on his face. "Man I don't know how they killed so many of us..."
"They used numbers," replied a veteran.
The marine made an "oh" with his mouth. "Well that's interesting," he added later.
"Did you know that they are making a game about the Great War?" Asked another marine.
"That's stupid," replied the veteran.
The first marine put his hand on his chin, "wasn't there a game about it already? Like the ones in the early twenty-first century?"
The veteran nodded, "well the game developers turned out to be time travelers and tried to warn us early about the Covenant. That's why we survived so long."
"Really now?" Asked a King-yar, it's reptilian voice was very raspy.
"Yeah, they were from the thirty-first century, though they can only go back 10 centuries," the first marine explained. "Hey, I wonder if the JSDF know about Halo, the game."
"Yeah, I wonder if there any of those... what you call them... Gaming Otaku's!" The second marine exclaimed.
The King-Yar shook his skinny head. "Reclaimers are truly the descendants of the great Forerunners." Then a slip space portal opened beside them.
The Admiral of the Earth Homefleet stepped out. "Huh, this is weird.." He stated as the Marines and SA troops saluted.
"Sir!" They all said in unison.
"At ease," Robert ordered, he then headed back to Earth, via GATE.
"Pretend I wasn't even here," he ordered. Then he was out of hearing range.
On the construction site of the UNSC Firebase, John and the other Spartans helped the construction workers move materials.
The Spartan also spotted some SA species helping as well.
A marine jogged up to the legendary spartan. "Spartan Recon Team 3 has arrived, sir," the Marine reported.
"Tell them to report to command," John replied. The marine courier nodded as he went back to Recon Team 3.
"Lunch!" He yelled through his helmet speakers.
The Marines sighed in relief while the Spartans and ODST took a little more time before going to eat lunch. The civilian contractors, however, were already done with lunch.
John made his way to the temporary command base. Entering the tent, he was welcomed by people typing on their terminals and their AI, George, talking with the fleet master.
Seeing John, Y'irm turned towards him, "Demon, what a surprise, why are you here?"
"I'm here to greet the recon team that confirmed the radio waves, sir," John replied.
"Ah, I heard they returned, but why would they report here? Why not in the debriefing room?" Asked the Sangheili fleet master.
"I need your permission to allow them to the nearest city, sir," replied John.
"Oh? Why would you need the fleet master's permission? You are after all the commander of ALL SPARTAN operations here," George stated.
John shook his head, "That's true, but I would also like to ask if we can interact with the locals." Now that's something he needed permission from his superior because First Contact results are usually reflected on the highest ranking officer who is responsible for them.
"Hm. That does need my permission... why not?" Y'irm replied as Recon Team 3 entered the tent.
"SPARTAN Recon Team 3 reporting for duty, sir!" Yelled Lauchlan, the leader. The team saluted at their superiors.
"At ease," John ordered. At this, the team relaxed. "Go get some lunch, after that get ready for another assignment." Recon Team 3 saluted before exiting the tent.
Cairo Station
Earth's Orbit
Sol System
Hood nodded to himself. "So they have found the exact location of GPL-82.. ok," Hood stated to himself, then he called to his AI, Pyramid,"Get me in line with Captain Thomas Lasky and the Infinity."
GPL-82 was the name given to the planet that the GATE directly led to. G meant GATE, P meant Planet, and L meant Location. 82 was given due to the year it was found.
Pyramid opened communications with Lasky. "You called, sir?" Asked Lasky.
"Yes, I want you to finish refueling and head to the coordinates I sent you," Hood stated as he sent the coordinates to Lasky.
Lasky looked at his TACPAD. "Yes, sir... sir?"
"Yes?"
"Are these the location of GPL-82 or the location where the GATE leads to?" Lasky asked.
"Yes they are," Lord Hood replied.
Lasky nodded in satisfaction. "Will this fleet master Y'irm be in charge of the Infinity?" He asked.
"Yes, he will be but you have the permission to deny if you see fit," Hood replied. "Also an SA fleet will be arriving 2 days after you arrive," Hood stated as he cut the transmission.
Pyramid appeared. "Pharoah, Admiral Robert Black has arrived from the GATE," He stated. Hood nodded with satisfaction in his eyes.
"Pyramid, give me visual of all SA and UNSC territory," Hood ordered. Pyramid complied and a map of their Universe appeared. The UNSC controlled 1,300 planets and has a population of over 100 billion. While the SA had about 1,500 planets and 120 billion in population. "So the SA are still above us... well in terms of influence," Hood said grimly. "I'm happy that's there isn't any more space faring species in the universe."
"Agreed, oh mighty Pharoah, humanity might join the SA and together we can become the strongest society in the whole known universe!" Pyramid exclaimed.
"We are already the strongest in the known universe," Hood deadpanned.
Italica Outskirts
GPL-82
GATE System
Being the princess of the most dominant power, Pina was concerned about the green men factions. "I hope that we can reach a peaceful resolution," She said to Grey.
"I hope to, princess, we are severely outmatched in every way, the only things that we got on our side is numbers, but I fear that too will be overcome by the enemy," Grey replied.
They neared the trade-city known as Italica, ruled by the Formal family, it was considered by many to be the most successful trade-city on in the Empire. It was also the closest Sedation city to the two sacred hills, Alnus and Dulnus. The current head of the Formal family is just an eleven-year-old child.
"Nonsense they only have 10,000 at Alnus and around 3,000 at Hulnus," Pina waved off Grey.
Grey sighed at her arrogance, it runs in her blood, the arrogance of a fool, he had no idea how Emperor Molt became Emperor, the man is a fool, not a leader. "You must understand, they HAVE more troops than us, if we were to attack them, they might send their full military upon us," Grey explained.
"Grey might be right, princess, we have not seen their full might," Hamilton agreed with Grey, "besides princess, one soldier is worth a thousand of our men, take the allied kingdom's attack on Alnus Hill for instance."
"More of a reason to sue for peace," Pina stated. "At any cost," she added.
Hamilton nodded, as well Grey and Norma. "We have arrived at..." Norma trailed off at seeing some smoke rising in the direction of Italica.
"We must hurry!" Exclaimed Pina as the rest of Rose-Order Knights charged towards Italica.
UNSC INFINITY
Slip Space Stream
Admiral Thomas Lasky look at the data packet, seeing that HIGHCOM classified this as a Tier 3 world that didn't need terraforming wasn't the surprise, the fact that they had mystical creatures like Wyverns didn't peak his interest it was bound to happen, but the fact that the dominant species is untouched Humans took all that credit.
"How much time until we arrive?" He asked the ship's AI, Ronald.
"Approximately 2 months," replied the AI. It was expected, they were traveling to a new universe. Their slip space drives were Forerunner based, which means they could travel system to system in seconds.
They suspect that without someone with a slip-space signal from the other side, they couldn't travel universe to universe due to how you can get lost and end up sitting out of nowhere.
"Status on the fleet?" He asked. The Infinity could carry up to 12 Strident class heavy-frigates, dozens of squads of longswords, and 4 squads of SPARTAN-IV. The fleet that was accompanying the Infinity were 13 Autumn-class heavy cruisers, 5 new Dragon-class destroyers, and one new Infinity-class Supercarrier, the UNSC Void.
Ronald reported, "All ships are green and UNSC Void is requesting permission for a war game between our Spartans." Lasky gave a light hearted chuckle.
"Give them a green light on that," Lasky replied. Ronald nodded before disappearing.
Near Italica; JSDF
GPL-82
GATE System
They saw the smoke rising over the hills. "Ok, does this road take us anywhere near where the smoke is coming from?" Itami asked Kurata.
"Yes it does, we are going to go through it if the map is correct," Kurata replied.
"On the bright side, this is the second time we ran into a cloud of smoke," Itami stated.
"That should be Italica..." Tomita stated.
"Heads up people, make sure to keep your eyes open," Itami ordered.
Lelei took her time to speak up in her monotone voice, "Smokes black, must be trouble."
"Do know where it's from?"
"Looks like... maybe. no, it's a flower," Lelei stated, she wasn't a master evident on her mistake.
"A flower?" Asked Kurata, pointing the mistake out.
"She means fire," Itami stated.
"Fire," Lelei repeated.
Itami grabbed a speaker and spoke, "Let's stay awake people, keep moving, and remember to watch the sky as well as the ground." Itami looked at Rory as she smirked. "What's your deal?" He asked.
"There's blood that way," she replied while licking her lips.
Near Italica; UNSC
GPL-82
GATE System
Lauchlan drove at 100 MPH, half of what a Warthog is capable of. "Why are you driving so slow?!" Complained Cyneley.
"Why? It's nice weather today and we aren't in a rush to make well... the Second Contact with the Sedarian Empire," Lauchlan replied as he turned on his personal radio.
Norvyn relaxed at the back, sleeping. Tanvir was sitting down, doing maintenance on his rifle as well count his ammo. As they drove they spotted smoke.
"Tanvir tell me where that smoke is coming from," Lauchlan ordered as he started to slow to a halt.
"It's apparently coming from the city of Italica, or just something burning," Tanvir replied.
Cyneley started a gamble, "I bet 200 credits that its Italica."
"200 that's it's Italica and it's a dragon attack," Lauchlan replied.
"I meant 200 it's Italica and it's a bandit raid," Cyneley replied.
"200 that it's the JSDF," Tanvir replied.
Norvyn stayed silent throughout the gambling. He wasn't going to lose money cause of a stupid gamble.
They then started to move again, heading towards the smoke.
Cairo Station
Earth's Orbit
Sol System
Hood looked at the Arbiter, also known to him personally as Thel Vadum. They were discussing the sudden movements of the "Banished."
"So these so called... Banished are now attacking some of your fueling depots and weapon bases?" Hood asked.
Thel nodded, "Yes we extended them an offer to join us but the Banished answered with our delegates heads chopped off, brutes the lot of them."
"This is serious indeed," Hood stated as he started to think. "Where do you think they will strike next? Putting depots and weapon bases aside of course," he asked.
"I believe they will strike the holy Ark," Thel stated as he showed a map. "The red is the depots and the bases that Atriox struck," red dots appeared on the map. "The gray is UNSC territory," a portion of the map was taken over by gray. "And SA territory in purple," the rest was taken over by purple.
"The Ark is in UNSC territory, but so far they only attacked SA territories," Hood pointed out.
"Yes, but the attacks line up with the holy Ark, on the way there, there are 3 solar systems, 2 of which are inhabited," Thel stated. "I already told the Council to expect more troops on our borders so feel free to send troops to the holy Ark."
Hood nodded. "I'll send battle group Yuri to link up with the Ark defense fleet," Hood stated. Thel nodded in satisfaction.
"Now that's out of the way, we need to discuss the possibility of another Earth and potentially humans who are imprinted," Hood stated.
"Agreed Lord Hood," Thel grimly agreed. "Though the fact that we might need to share technology to a primitive species - even if they are Reclaimers - is quite disturbing especially if you consider that this race of humans might not be worthy. Sorry if I offended you, Fleet Admiral."
Hood didn't look offended the slightest, actually, he agreed with Thel, if the JSDF are active during this Earth's time, then the Earth would be separated in nations. "For now we will not share technology until they are either integrated to UNSC territory or that Earth is fully united," Hood stated.
"Sound logic, Reclaimer," Thel commented. "Very well, we will lay off giving them technology for now."
"But," Thel started, "if their history lines up with yours, then we must find the Covenant of that universe." Hood thought back to the Great War, the Human-Covenant War, he nodded without hesitation.
"I'll send you the planet's coordinates," Hood stated as he sent the coordinates of GPL-82 to Thel.
Thel nodded at the coordinates. "For the Mantle."
"For the Mantle." With that, Thel cut the slip space transmission.
A peaceful silence brewed as Hood sat in his chair, alone. "Another Covenant, huh," he stopped the brewing silence with his statement.
"Almighty Pharoah, Admiral Black as arrived from the GATE and confirmed that he finished stage 1 of "Peaceful Sedarian Empire"," Pyramid reported.
"Prep stage 2 of "Peaceful Sedarian Empire" but ready stage 1 of "destruction of the Sedation Empire"," Hood ordered.
Pyramid nodded before disappearing.
Chapter 3 End
