I'm not sure where I want to take this story after the current 'arc'.You may have noticed that last chapter, Kat, Jun and Emile found the Placidium. Again, I'm just going off of what I know of league lore so if I mess up locations or characters then sorry.I am trying to learn more about the lore, specifically Ionia and it's champions, so I want to keep noble in Ionia for now, if you have any requests on where I should take this fic after Ionia, feel free to let me know.
Hope you enjoy - Apache
Chapter 3 - Missed the party
Jorge pov
Continuing on their long trek through the mass grave of both human and Covenant soldiers, the one half of noble team, after walking for what felt like hours, come across a warthog.
"You think this thing still works?" Six asks, eager to get off of his feet.
"Don't think so Lieutanant, every other vehicle we've found hasn't worked, doubt we're getting lucky anytime soon"
As if, on que, noble started picking up a faint signal on their comms.
"Noble one, are you recieving? Noble one please respond."
Through the static they recognised the voice as Kat, noble two, Carter responded immediately.
"Kat?"
"Commander, good to hear from you, i'm with Jun and Emile, i'm assuming you have Jorge and Six with you?"
"Affirmative, Where are you Kat?"
"I don't know, but we are near a large cliff, it has a structure on top of it, we are going to see if we can get any information from the civillians"
"Copy, keep me posted, Carter out"
Hearing the conversation between Carter and Kat, Jorge asked
"Do you think they are close commander?"
"I doubt it Jorge, the signal wasn't strong, but I don't see any cliffs around here for miles, let's stick to our objective"
Walking a few minutes more, they were finally free of debris and corpses, but shortly after, came across a battle-scarred landscape, filled with horrifically burned and partially melted corpses.
Jorge was first to speak "What the bloody hell happened here?"
"I don't know Jorge, but it doesn't look like the Covenant's doing."
Six, breaking the silence he had maintained for most of the trip, said "Looks like chemicals, or acid, or something like that"
Agreeing with the Spartan, the three decided to continue through the scarred landscape until they saw a dot on their motion trackers.
"Contact" Carter said, the three raised their weapons and cautiously proceeded to the dot, moving closer, they more chemically burned corpses, barely recognisable was their armour, or lack there of was similar, indicating that they were at least on the same faction. Laying amongst them was not a corpse, but a living human, he looked in extreme pain from the injuries he had sustained.
Jorge was the first to speak "What happened here?" he asked the man.
He had tried to speak, but he was too weak, he couldn't summon the strength to, after a moment, Jorge put the poor man out of his misery.
"Let's hope that whatever did this doesn't come back" Six spoke.
"Agreed" Carter responded
They left the dead man in peace and continued on their journey, before Jorge noticed something "Commander, footprints"
"Let's follow them, maybe we could get some information on what happened here."
