Disclaimer: Halo is the product of Bungie, and Red vs. Blue is the product of the fine geniuses of Rooster Teeth.

Author's note: Hello, everyone. So, in response to a question I've received and some of you might be wondering about, I've basically assigned the Red vs. Blue guys into the roles of the troopers from ODST. However, as you'll see in this and upcoming chapters, I do take liberties with the ODST storyline. This was more to make the story more streamlined than anything else; I didn't think I could keep you guys interested by just describing firefight after firefight the same way over and over. I do plan on introducing a twist later in the story, but for now here's a breakdown of the cast. Please keep reading and reviewing!

Sarge - Buck

Simmons - Mickey

Grif - Dutch

Donut - The Rookie

Church - Romeo

Tucker - Starts out in Dutch's role, but only for one chapter. Then he's just... Tucker.


RvB: ODST

Chapter 2:

Sarge

Tayari Plaza

Immediately after drop

Two of the drop pods came down in the middle of the colony's capital city of New Mombiquo: those of the team leaders, Sarge and Church. Their pods rammed into each other's as they came down, bouncing off and smashing into buildings on different sides of the Tayari Plaza.

Sarge regained consciousness after about a minute. His helmet's comms had been activated in the crash, and Church was on the other end. "Hey! If anybody that I hate is out there, respond!"

"Yeah, yeah, I'm here, Blue..." Sarge replied, starting to punch the emergency release switches on the front panel of his drop pod.

"Oh, great, it's Sarge," Church muttered. "All right, where are you?"

"Hang on a second..." Sarge said, hitting the last switch and blasting the front panel of the pod off. He jumped out and aimed his standard-issue M6G Magnum pistol. He'd had the opportunity to exchange it with the more stealthy M6C/SOCOM pistols that they'd been offered for the mission, but being who he was, Sarge stuck with his traditional non-suppressed, harder-hitting weapons.

"Well, whenever you get done screwing around, I could use some help," Church snapped.

Sarge activated his suit's motion tracker, which showed another suit's transponder signal to be on the other side of the plaza: Church.

"Yeah, all right, I'm on my way," Sarge said. He pulled his shotgun out of its hold in the drop pod, as well as some extra ammunition, and jogged towards an overlook position. Just then, a Covenant 'Phantom' dropship flew overhead, and Sarge ducked down.

As if on cue, Church said over the comms, "Just be careful, okay? This place is packed with aliens."

Sarge looked down and pulled back the pump on his shotgun, loading a round. "I appreciate the concern."

"Yeah, well, won't be much of a rescue mission if you end up dead," Church responded.

Sarge watched as multiple aliens dropped out of the bottom of the dropship through some kind of gravity lift. Before they landed, Sarge had already raced to the other side of the street; usually not one to run away from a fight, he figured that he could certainly find plenty of it in the city later. He continued down the alley, where suddenly two figures in gray armor and Command-issue helmets jumped out from behind a ruined jeep.

"Hey, friendlies, comin' out!" one called.

"Aaaah!" Sarge said, firing his shotgun.

The extremely large 8-gauge round that Sarge, startled, had fired from his shotgun ripped through the first trooper's armor, killing him, but not before he screamed, "Blaaagh!"

"Oh my God, you killed Jo-enes!" the other trooper cried.

The first troop, coughing, whispered, "I told you, it's Jones... Heergghh-blaaah..." With that, he died.

"Nooooooo! Jo-enes!" the other trooper cried.

Just then, the group of aliens, who had by now heard the commotion, appeared at the edge of the alley where Sarge had come from. "Oh, snap!" Sarge said in a manner rather unlike him.

"Shit! Forget Jo-enes, let's move!" the other trooper said, lifting his MA5C assault rifle and running.

The two of them continued down the alley, where the trooper said, "Okay, I'll pretend the whole Jo-enes thing didn't happen, trooper; we need to find an open building so we can flank those Covenant and kill 'em."

"Yeah, sounds like a plan," Sarge said, pumping a new round into his shotgun.

"Just don't kill me, too, okay?" the trooper said, aiming his assault rifle forward as he approached a door. He pressed a button on the door, and it opened. "Come on, let's go."

They headed inside the darkened building, where Sarge activated the flashlight that was attached to his shotgun. As the light came on, it flashed on a wall covered in blood.

"Okay, eeww," the trooper said.

"Ahhh, I love blood and violence," Sarge said.

Just then, over their comms, they heard, "Hey, Sarge, where the fuck are you? I've got aliens comin' at me from all over the place, and - shit! Where the fuck did THAT ONE come from?"

Suddenly, there was silence over the comms. "What was that all about?" the trooper asked.

"Hang on, Church, I'm comin'!" Sarge said over his comms. "Hey, gray guy, good luck with those aliens," he added as he ran down the corridor.

"Wait, what?" the trooper said, just as an alien opened the door and tossed a plasma grenade in his direction.

Sarge raced out of the building and down another street. He soon arrived at the other end of Tayari Plaza, where he found a drop pod on the lower level.

"There ya are, Blue..." Sarge said to himself. He headed down the stairs to the drop pod, and he pried off the front panel... only to find there was no one inside.

"What in Sam Hill? Where are you, ya dirty Blue?" Sarge asked aloud.

Just then, a large, floating squid-like creature in armor appeared from the other side of the drop pod.

"EEEEEIIIIIIIYAAAAAAHHHHH!" Sarge said, falling back and dropping his shotgun.

The alien moved closer, when suddenly its head was blown off by a sniper rifle round. Sarge looked up and saw Church on the upper level.

"Oh-my-God! I got it! Yeah, suck it, aliens! I can finally work this sniper rifle!" Church roared proudly.

Just then, a trill of beeping noises came from the fallen alien's armor, and Sarge jumped back again to avoid the explosion that came soon after. The blast sent the front panel of Church's pod flying through the large open window of a nearby building...

"What the hell was that?" Sarge asked, standing up as Church now approached.

"Don't know, but it would've greased your ass good... whatever the hell that means... Anyway, way to jump back cowering in fear from that thing. I'm sure if I hadn't been around to save YOU, that strategy would've worked pretty well."

"Ah, shut it, Blue, I was just startled..." Sarge grumbled. "You hear from Grif or Simmons?"

"Nah, negative; knowing your guys, they probably bought it coming down," Church replied.

"Tucker?"

"Eh, him too, probably."

"We need to get the hell outta here, find one of them drones Command was telling me about; they'll probably have seen where our men hit," Sarge said.

"Yeah, all right, let's get moving," Church said, and the two team leaders took off.

Donut

Donut looked out through the building's window at Tayari Plaza, a light rain now starting to fall. He then looked back at the front panel of the drop pod, not knowing whose pod it had belonged to. Shaking his head, he took his suppressed submachine gun back out and headed downstairs.

"I wonder where I should go now? I hope the others are okay..." he said to himself.

Just then, another monitor activated, flashing an arrow that pointed him out of the building and back onto the streets. There, he found a Mongoose all-terrain vehicle.

"Aw, sweet!" Donut said happily. "A motorcycle!"

He climbed aboard and started down the street, following still more arrows until he arrived at a large roundabout. In the center was a statue that looked like it had been recently destroyed, small fires surrounding its remains.

"Hmm..." Donut said, climbing off the Mongoose and looking around. Just then, a glint caught his eye. He slowly approached the large, cylindrical object, which had a glowing red eye.

"I wonder what this is..." he said, and he grunted as he hefted the object up. The eye swiveled around to look at him, but couldn't focus; having been blown off of the drone it had been attached to, the optics camera was not functioning properly. Meanwhile, Donut started to have another flashback...

"You hear from Grif or Simmons?"

"Nah, negative."

"We need to get the hell outta here, find one of them drones Command was telling me about..."