[AN] What up everyone sorry this is a day late, I apologize but hey this is the longest chapter yet soo. The real question that should be asked is why is it I have not a single review. However I did get two more Favorites and two follows. Thanks to Chicken007 and Darksword490.
Also I messed up on what types of aircraft the UNSC U.P.H. had on it. I have gone back and updated it so chapter one is now fixed. Nonetheless enjoy and read and review.
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Previously in Two Unknown Spartans: Phoenix Squad. "C'mon lets figure what it's all about; after all it has to be important for them to link up." Loki said. The cave they entered turned out to be longer then they thought it would be and after fifteen minutes of walking the came upon the end. "What the fuck is that thing." Loki asked.
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Chapter Three: Reinforced
Phoenix Squad
Location: Planet Höhlenwelt (Named by the Germans who found this planet when they discovered it made entirely of caves except for a small area)
Time: 1700 hrs. 5:00pm
Mission Status: Deployed
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"What the fuck is that thing?" Loki asked.
"I don't know but it's a whole new kinda ugly." Lex replied.
"Commander we have an unknown hostile sending you the video feed now." Loki called in over his comm.
"One we believed that buggers had a Queen since they are a hive minded alien," Commander Low informed him. "It looks like our assumptions have been confirmed. You are order to do what you do best and take the Queen down."
"Roger that, One out."
"You gotta be fucking kidding me!" Lex exclaimed as she dodged the seven foot scythe like claw. "They sent us out here knowing we would come across this thing!"
"It's too late to be pissed now we need to kill this thing." He ordered as he fired his DMR into the behemoth only to notice the bullet bounce off the armored body of the queen.
"Lex, this thing is bullet proof against normal weapons."
"Yes I noticed," she retorted as she ran up its arm firing her pistols into its head. One of the bullets hit one of its eyes causing it to let out an ungodly screech in pain.
"Well its eyes are vulnerable at least, use your sniper."
"Already on it," Loki replied as he emptied four anti-material rounds into the Queen's eyes.
"It's blinded, now what do we do." Lex asked.
"We kill it, do you have any more grenades?" he replied questioningly.
"No I used them all earli….SHIT, RUN."
The Queen had now zeroed in on them and was standing at a giant thirty feet tall while using her seven foot claws to stab where they were previously standing.
"Ya cus she is so fricken blinded. What the hell." Loki hollered.
"It's the antennas she's using them to find us." Lex screamed back. "I have an idea, throw me the last locator."
"Alright catch," he said as he grabbed the locator from his utility pack on his thigh before throwing it to her.
Lex ran towards the locator only for the queen the stab her claw into the ground ahead of her. Jumping she caught the locator and ran up the Queens arm while dodging the other seven foot razor. Once she got up the arm Lex jumped up onto the back of the queen's head before stabbing the locator into the remnants of one of the Queen's eyes. Back flipping off the Queen's head Lex landed with a thud before standing and motioning for Loki to run for the entrance.
"Commander…. Commander….. do you read me?" Lex called over her comms only getting static. "Commander!..."
"It's the Queen she using her antennas to block our radio signals. We need to get to the surface now." Loki told her.
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After running through the tunnels of the planet they finally made it to the end of the cave. Knowing it was the end by the light shinning from the sun, they double timed it sprinting as fast as they could through the tunnels. Once they reach the surface they didn't stop running knowing the Queen was hot on their heels.
"Commander… Commander," Loki said through the comms. "COMMANDER!" He screamed.
"I read you Phoenix One. What is the problem we lost contact with,"
"Commander we need back up A.S.A.P.," Loki interrupted. "Not ODST's, the queen's armor is bullet proof they will just be killed."
"We can have the shortswords down there to assist you in five minutes, we cannot use MAC rounds, I repeat cannot use MAC rounds. We need the MAC to punch through the rocks and for defense only we do not have enough to spare."
"Roger Commander, could we get something down here a bit sooner in the mean time to keep it off us?" Loki requested.
"Already on the way Phoenix, UNSC U.P.H. Out."
"Commander says he can have,"
"Save it One I heard him," Lex interrupted.
Loki looked up at the sky just to see ordinance pods screaming through the atmosphere. Taking a couple steps back he watched at the pods landed in front of him with a shower of dirt. Seeing the pods open he grabbed the Spartan Laser and some plasma grenades and tossed Lex the Rocket Launcher and plasmas as well. As soon as she caught the weapons the Queen came screeching out of the large cave and into the sunlight.
"Waste no ammo only shoot when you know it will help we have another four minutes before the shortswords arrive." Loki ordered as the Queen came nearer.
Shouldering the Spartan Laser and taking aim he fired at the Queen's chest only for her to bring her arm up and block the shot. Enraged she charged him while swinging her claws, jumping over them he noticed that the armor around where the laser hit was cracked and black. Throwing a plasma grenade at the spot before hitting the ground in a roll he span around to see the armor on the Queen's arm start to fall off.
"Lex use your hologram to distract her and when her attention is away fire your rocket at the black spot on her arm."
"Roger," Lex replied as she sent her hologram to distract the Queen who had recovered and was looking for her target, antennae's twitching as they picked up movement. The Queen stomped on the hologram and let out a screech of triumph that turned into a screech of pain as a pair of rockets collided with her arm almost blowing it off. The arm was hanging on by a few ligaments. Sprinting towards the Queen Lex primed a plasma grenade and threw it just as the Queen's other arm impacted against her. Lex's grenade hit the Queens weakened arm and exploded as her body flew through the air landing sixty feet away.
"NO!" Loki shouted in anger as he saw the Queen hit Lex and then watched in despair as her body flew through the air only to land and not stand back up.
Aiming the Spartan Laser the fired shot after shot into the Queens armored back before she could recover from her missing arm. Having depleted the laser he threw it to the side and stood his ground looking between Lex's crumpled form and the enraged Queen.
"Bring it bitch," he said as he charged the Queen as she charged him.
Dodging the swing of the Queens claw he ran up it as she lost her balance from not being used to one arm. Jumping off her head he primed his last two grenades and threw them onto the Queens back. Turning around as he landed, he faced the Queen just as the grenades exploded sending her into further rage. As she stomped towards him he stared back at her defiantly before smirking.
"You lose bitch," Loki said as he looked at the timer in his HUD before looking past her and seeing two Shortsword bombers beginning their approach.
"Danger close. I repeat danger close Phoenix One."
Sprinting out of the way towards Lex and reaching her just as the explosions from the first carpet bomb hitting the Queen Yanme'e began. The Queen screeched as her armor was cracked and falling off only for the second carpet bomb to hit her cutting her screech short. Loki turned the other direction as the Queens body exploded and sent pieces of her everywhere.
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As soon as the Queen was dealt with Loki checked on Lex and found her to be barely breathing, her armor was practically shredding from the Queen's sharp claws. Lex was bleeding profusely as Loki injected biofoam into her wounds to help stop the bleeding.
"Commander we need an immediate evac."
"Already here," the Commander said as he grabbed Phoenix One's shoulder. "Get her on board the pelican son."
Picking her up as gently as he could, Loki carried her onto the pelican and strapped her onto the medical table that was onboard.
"Take off," the Commander ordered the pilot once he was seated.
As they flew off Loki stood up and walked away from Lex and stood by the Pelican's hatch and watched as MAC round after MAC round tore holes through the ground to the locations of all the locators. Hitting the button that closed the hatch he walked towards the pilot's cabin.
"Pull it up," he asked as they exited the atmosphere and headed towards the UNSC U.P.H.
The pilot pulled up a screen that showed the planets surfaces and the ten individual nukes that dropped through the atmosphere and into the holes made by the MAC rounds. There was a bright flash of light as all nukes detonated simultaneously, destroying all the eggs and any surviving Yanme'es still in the caves and on the surface.
"It's done," He said.
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"Move out of the way, I said move soldiers," Commander Low order when the ODST had crowded around the pelican as soon as they arrived in the hanger.
"Take care of her," Loki asked the medical team when they arrived to take Phoenix Two. "Please."
"We'll do our best sir," the Doctor's replied.
Loki nodded to them and turned towards the Commander, "Shall we start the debriefing sir?"
"Of course Phoenix One once we are in the debriefing room."
Loki followed the Commander through the ship towards the debrief room. Upon arriving the Commander sat down and told him to start.
"Well sir, we landed on the planet's surface undetected without any problems, I had told Two to hold position as I scouted ahead…" Loki started as one of the Commander's aides closed the door.
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After the debriefing Loki headed immediately to the med bay to check on the status of Phoenix Two. When he arrived inside doctors swarmed him trying to take a look while engineers tried to get the armor off so they could look at the damage.
Loki pushed pass them, "I'm fine you can look at me later, what is L… I mean Phoenix Two's status."
One of the doctors approached him holding a holopad, "We have her stabilized so she'll survive," he started and Loki let out a sigh of relief. "However she is unconscious and we are unsure of when she will wake up. Even if she wakes up we are unsure of her condition, while you Spartans can handle a lot more than even and ODST she still was hit hard enough to knock her into a coma."
"Is it temporary?" he asked.
"We are unsure," she said with a sigh. "We are doing our best, you know that. Let us check you up she'll be right here in your sight ok."
Loki nodded hesitantly his eyes never leaving Lex's unmoving form; watching her, hoping and wishing that she'd wake up now.
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After he was checked over and the wounds were healed he walked back over to Lex as sat in the chair next to her bed. He sat there as an unmoving vigilant guardian never sleeping as he watched over her. Eventually he stood up and opened the clock on his HUD and saw that he had been sitting there for eleven hours.
"Wake up soon Lex," he whispered squeezing her hand before stepping out of the med bay.
His walk to his room was filled with troubled thoughts that wouldn't seem to let go of his mind; thoughts filling his head and drowning his hopes.
'What if she doesn't wake up?'
'I can't get another partner; no I won't get another partner.'
'If she doesn't wake up I will spend every single moment I can killing every covenant bastard I see and even those I can't.' His thoughts continued along the same lines. 'How dare they take her from me.'
'My best friend, my only friend now; that's why I will miss her so much,' he tried to convince himself but failed to. 'Oh who am I kidding, I love her, I don't know how because Spartans can't love; whatever reason I can somehow love it doesn't matter. The point is he did and that's all that mattered.'
Before he even realized it he had stripped himself of his armor and had lain down on his bed while his thoughts consumed him. His last thoughts before he fell asleep were of Lex and if she was dreaming about him and whether or not he'd ever get to see her awake and moving again.
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[AN] There is chapter three as promised. It is my longest chapter yet at over 2,300 words I am so proud. :) Still taking names for ODST's so post them when you review; Speaking of which I would be most enthusiastic if you clicked the little button at the bottom and reviewed. Thank you and see ya next chapter. Travis Castiel Olivera