NA: So here we are in the Requiem Spartan ops campaign! This is gonna be something.
-Story Start-
Aboard the Fury's Ascent was a small room with a baby's crib inside, lay there was a small blonde baby girl sleeping. "She looks like you Shion." Naruto said, his arms around his wife's waist.
"She does doesn't she?" Shion placed her head on his chest. "Our baby girl, our little Hikari, Light of Eternal Song."
"She will go a great many things." Naruto stated, "And we will be there by her side, all the way. I will do my very best, to give her the one thing I could never have when I was child. The love of a parent."
Shion looked at her husband with a sad look, "Don't be like that Naruto."
"I know…" Naruto laid his head on her scalp, "Despite having the Iso-Didact as my father, I never really experienced love before I met you. It was all training and being raised to be the next Didact. It was when I met you I became truly happy, I truly felt love. The warmth, the closeness, the feeling."
"Naruto…"
"I love you, you gave me a daughter, you gave me a family." Tears began to trickle down his cheek, he kissed her scalp. "You two are the best things that has ever happened to me."
"Naruto… I love you, and I will always love you." Shion wrapped her arms around his waist, she looked at him, giving him a loving smile. "Remember all those years ago? The day you saved me, I called you my 'Knight in Literally Shining Armor'."
Naruto laughed as he wiped away his tears, "Yeah, I was shiny wasn't I?"
"You were…" she gave him a loving kiss, "I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you."
"I love you more." He kissed back.
Hikari made a sound, moving her arms in her sleep. Shion gently caressed her cheek, "Our baby girl."
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The Prometheans and warrior-servants were actually impressed at how the Spartans conduct their war games. Their enhanced strengthening from the implants they received were exactly as the Librarian had hoped for humanity. "Impressive, they conduct their training well. They even have simulators in how to combat the flood."
"That we do." Lasky said, "It's imperative we know how to combat them, they already know how to use both covenant and human weapons."
Light in Darkness nodded, "Yes, it was disastrous when we fought them long ago, our ships hijacked and turned against us as they infected more of our people, had we listened to your ancestor's warnings, we might have stood a better chance. Resorting us to use the rings, but somehow they survived."
"So was it true, because of the flood, the ancient humans fought in a war against your people?" Roland asked as he appeared on a pedestal.
"Yes, for over a thousand years we fought, all because of a misunderstanding the Flood made, infecting our worlds so that your ancestors would make haste and cleanse them quickly. In the end we realized too late on why they cleansed our worlds, we were too late." Light in Darkness said.
"Only a few pockets of flood are left thankfully, and we are doing our best to flush them out and eliminate them." Lasky folded his arms and looked at the war games going on.
"The Didact by the way, has sent your people a gift that is arriving in a few hours, it was the Flagship of the Lord of Admirals Forthencho, it is a human built ship, so it should be returned to its owners."
Lasky looked at the Promethean surprised, "An ancient human warship? I thought all technology was lost after the war?"
"We thought so too, but surveys on your once proud capital Charum Hakkor shown us otherwise, there were underground facilities and shipyards with many ships undamaged. The Didact is currently using them to build our naval fleet on his birth world, we have no name for the world yet, one of our rings we have decommissioned and converted into a small colony and shipyard. One of your ships the Spirit of Fire was repaired there."
"That is one of using a halo ring I guess." Lasky whistled, "I am still surprised that the Spirit of Fire was still out there. And earth was not the birth place of humanity?"
"It was not, Charum Hakkor was the capital of your ancient empire, it was Earth that the Librarian reintroduced your race to in order to conserve your people before the rings were fired."
"That is news to me." Lasky sighed.
"Your ancestors had quite the empire, they had the military to rival our people, the ship we are sending you is over twenty kilometres in length, the largest ship your people had built."
"Damn and I thought the Infinity was big already." Lasky sighed once more.
"Worry not, and we hope that you would use the ship to honor the legacy of the Lord of Admirals, I personally respected him as a fellow warrior when we fought, and he was a powerful warrior in his own right." Light in Darkness looked on at the war games, "Your Spartans are truly a force to be reckoned with if they fought the Didact's Knights."
"That they are." Lasky chuckled.
"I hear that you are in a relationship with the commander of the Spartans, I believe Sarah Palmer is her name." Light in Darkness stated bluntly.
"I uh…"
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Three months later
Pelican dropship
"Well, I'm not gonna complain." An African-American Spartan said.
"Uh huh." A Spartan with black buzz cut hair said as he read a news article on a holographic tablet. "So tell me more about Rio. What else did I miss?"
"Oh man the place is a mess. I mean too many covenant asylum seekers, all pinned up." The African-American replied.
"Yeah DeMarco said it was crazy." The Spartan nodded.
He snorted, "Hell it could have been worse, I mean look what happened to nearly happened to New Phoenix if it weren't for that friendly Forerunner ship, did you see the size of that ship? Not to mention the ship they gave us, well more or less returned if the reports are right, I mean an ancient human ship a hundred kilometres long." He then continued his story, "We even caught this one Sangheili trying to detonate a HAVOK nuke."
"Hoya give it a rest!" DeMarco snorted, "We all know you were at the other side of town when we caught that hinge-head."
"Oh yeah?" Hoya smirked, "And where were you, DeMarco?"
"Well Madsen and me? We were just making sure the ladies of Rio de Janeiro felt safe and secure." He gave out a shit eating grin.
"That's right…" Madsen nodded, "Fireteam Majestic doing a little community outreach! Yeah!" he bumped fists with DeMarco and laughed. Hoya waved them off and headed for the cockpit.
Tedra Grant, the only female Spartan in Fireteam Majestic looked at Thorne, "You have people in New Phoenix didn't you?"
Thorne nodded, "I do, my Grandma and some relatives, thanks to that other Didact, they were saved."
"Hey Thorne, you should take a look at this." Hoya called him and pointed out the cockpit, "There she is man, Infinity. And looks like our friendly neighborhood Didact brought a new ship with him." He pointed at the 20km long ancient human ship.
"Isn't that the same class as the one they gave us?"
"Yep, looks like he is taking command of it from now on."
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"Are you sure you want to give me command of the Fury's Ascent?" Shion asked her husband.
"I am sure Shion, I only want the best for you. Besides we have already placed upgrades on the Ascension." Naruto reassured her.
"That's not what I mean koibito." Shion pouted.
He gave her a kiss to the lips and then on the forehead, "You will make a great commander, besides Guarding Light will help you should you need it. Now I must go, I need to assist the Reclaimers in assaulting Requiem."
"Be safe my love." She said, she was holding Hikari.
"I will." He bent down and gently kissed his daughter on the forehead. He then boarded a transport craft and went down to the smaller warship.
"Your husband must really love you for him to give you command of the most powerful warship in the galaxy." A deck crew said.
"He spoils me too much." Shion sighed but smiled.
Thanks to her husband, she is now the most powerful woman in the galaxy, commanding the Fury's Ascent.
NA: If you want to check out the looks of the ship it is in the profile. I just updated it, the ship is 20km in length, but the firepower is able to crack even the largest of Forerunner ships.
The Ascension will be Naruto's new ship as he wants his family well protected, the picture of his new ship is in my profile, it's the one with the big cannon at the front. Yeah, that one.
Yes Shion has been given command of the Fury's Ascent. Isn't her husband the greatest?
See you guys later!