Chapter Five(Season 10)
Vulcan and Rogers had just released Church when Carolina came in. Vulcan was uneasy with Carolina around, she ushered Rogers away."God, something's off about that women." Vulcan said with shivers.
"It's alright, hey at least she isn't hitting or belittling us unlike most freelancers we met." Rogers said.
"You can find the silver lining can't ya." Rogers just shrugged.
"Hey guys we're leaving!" Sarge yelled.
"Coming!" Rogers and Vulcan followed Sarge outside of the group fought off more UNSC security guards. Vulcan was pushed on the ground and a guard security was aimed a shotgun at her. Rogers tackled him and punched him a few times before getting back on his feet.
"Thanks babe." Vulcan said cracking her back.
"Hey I think I see our ride." Rogers said point at on coming warthogs. "Incoming." Rogers fired at an oncoming mongoose. He knocked out the driver and pushed off the passenger. Once the coast was clear we rushed towards Grif and gave him a fist bump. "Good to see my man, and I think I see Simmons." Rogers pointed to a slow moving jeep with classical music.
"Hey Tucker how was it with general buzzkill." Rogers and Grif mocked.
"He stopped at the train track."
"That's the law!" Simmons said in a offend voice.
"Aren't we breaking the law right now?"
"Idiots, we need to go." Carolina yelled. She began to talk in real military jargon and everyone didn't understand a word. She sighed and spoke again. "Were reatrating."
"Got it." Rogers and Vulcan hoped on the Mongoose. The convoy then began to drive away from the base. After a good half hour of driving Church came over to Rogers and projected himself.
"So what's happened while I've been gone?"
"Nothing much, me and V are dating but you might of caught on that already."
"Tell him when Carolina showed up."
"I was getting to that, alright we were doing our normal thing, Vulcan making dinner and the Red's fighting the Blue's then she showed up." Rogers said pointing at Carlina. "Wash said she was cool and she talked about a plan to save you and kill the Director."
"I was all for it. Tell you one thing she doesn't like any of us, she's also angry so becareful what you say."
"Noted." Church quickly then left.
"So Rogers do you think you could ask the guys to stop I need to stretch." Rogers nodded and activated his radio.
"Hey Sarge con we pull over, I need to drink "
"Got it, Grif pull over I think we all need a brake." The lead warthog stopped and everyone else did so too. Rogers and Vulcan got off the Mongoose, Vulcan stretch her legs, while Rogers grab a snack. "Hey Tucker you got the cooler throw me a drink."
"What do you want?"
"A soda and V wants a orange juice."
"Alright." Tucker threw them the drinks.
"Thanks." As Rogers was about to hand the drink to Vulcan, she pulled him to the side for some makeout time. After five minutes the two came back.
"Woo!" Grif yelled.
"Shut up asshole." Rogers said throwing some dirt in his visser. "Alright V, i'm going to check with the guys."
"I'll go see Church." Rogers went towards the lead warthog.
"Hey."
"Sup."
"So, what's your guys take on the mission?" Rogers said jumping onto the hood.
"I don't know." Grif said. "What I rather be askin is why we always get wrapped up in the blues adventure."
"You know what they say, keep your friends close and your enemies in range of your primary weapon."
"Wait? Who's the enemy here. The blues or the freelancers."
"Exactly." Rogers shook his head. This is going to be a long trip.
"I just want to say something." Simmons said raising his hand. "I realize we agreed to help Wash and Carolina, but how do we know they'll help us. You really think they'll stick their neck out for us?"
"Wash might and we got Vulcan." Rogers said confidently.
"You might have a point about Wash but Vulcan will only save you if she can."
"Nah, even if I wasn't endanger she still help you. Well most of you." he said looking at Sarge. "I'd worry about Carolina. She doesn't give a rats ass about us." Rogers said shrugging his shoulder.
"I don't know, what happens if she's done with her mission and she decides to get rid of us."
"Why would she do that?" Grif asked.
"I don't know to cover her tracks. You've seem spy movies."
"Oh those are in the movies, and if she does do that at least Vulcan and Caboose would survive." Rogers said.
"Why those two?" Grif asked.
"Well first off Caboose is too dumb to understand all of these, at best he might give a detail or two, while Vulcan might use the pregnancy card."
"Wait she's pregnant?!" Red team in unison said.
"Hell no. She'd just say that to save her skin. She told me once she got out of jury duty by saying that or the time she broke a guy's arm and said it was the 'pregnancy' hormones." The guys stared at Rogers for a minute.
"Dude your girls a psycho." Grif said.
"Still what abou-"
"Get a hold of yourself Simmons, I don't want here about double cross or freelancer conspiracy." Sarge then wander off.
"Come on Rogers."
"Sorry orders are orders." Rogers then wander off.
Meanwhile with Vulcan she finished talking to Caboose and Tucker. She looked at the ration and drinks, she slapped Grif who was trying to steal a bag of chips. "Hands off tubby. We won't have enough food if you keep taking it." Vulcan said angrily
"Alright sorry." Vulcan looked over her shoulder and spoke again.
"I'll keep quiet if you split with me." Grif looked over his shoulder and nodded his head. The two thieves found a secluded spot on the beach and began eating
"So what cooking supplies do you have?" Grif said with a mouth full of chips.
"A pot and pan, plus some pancake mix." As if a dog hearing the sound of a door bell he seem more interested. "I had to smuggle it. Carolina said only the bare necessities." she said imitating Carolina's voice. Vulcan finished the chips and then left back to the vehicles. In the distance she could see Caboose talking to Carolina. She didn't think anything of until she shot a barrel which caused a huge explosion. When she saw Carolina walking towards her, she and Grif jumped behind the warthog and waited for her to pass by. She notice all of Red team had the same plan, once she was gone everyone jumped up from behind the jeep.
"Hey, I'm starting to think Simmons was right on this one."Rogers said with his voice trembling with fear.
"I hate being right sometimes." The group quickly dispersed and reformed at a spot far away with anything that can blow up. Vulcan kept a lookout for the she beast and spoke.
"The coast is clear."
"Alright I called you all here about Carolina. She is dangerous and quick to anger and might kill us to 'tie up loose ends'. So I submit we take the warthog and leave when she resting. If she sleeps that is."
"You can count me in." Vulcan said whimpering with fear. "I don't think she cares about anything, and is willin to kill us if it just means to be a foot closer to the Director guy." Everyone talked amongst themselves and it seemed like they were all in a agreement.
"So it's settled we leave first thing we she closed her eyes." Out of nowhere the group heard approaching footsteps, they held their breath but had a sigh of relief once they saw it was just Wash.
"Hey did Carolina come this way? We got to get going soon." The group exchange looks and spoke.
"We've been meaning to talk to you about that." Grif said in an uneasy voice.
"What is it?" Vulcan step forward and spoke.
"This whole finding the Director thing."
"The mission."
"Right right. We as a group thought that we've held up our end of the bargain."
"Find Church and all." Simmons added.
"We thought you and Carolina should just handle the rest or just Carolina she seems to prefer to work alone."
"So you guys are abandoning the mission."
"No, we're just accepting a different mission with different risk ." Sarge said. Vulcan and Roger nodded their heads in agreement.
"Less risk."
"Less is a different percentage." Rogers added
"We'd just secure Red base, for your glorious return." Sarge said.
"How is going home risky!?"
"Who knows what new or old villain had taken residence at red base or blue." Roger said.
"I guess you are right. You are wanted criminals of the UNSC." Fuck he's right, thought Vulcan. All different thought's raced through Vulcan's head of the different things that can happen. From prison to a public hanging.
"On second thought you can use the extra help!" Sarge yelled.
"So what do we do know Sarge?" Rogers asked.
"Help them along and hope Wash was bluffing." After a minute Carolina came back.
"Alright let's load up." Carolina yelled. Rogers and Vulcan got on to their mongoose. They followed Carolina for a few hours, they soon found themselves in the desert.
"I think I know where we're heading." Rogers with annoyance in his voice. After another hour they found themselves at the compound Rogers had found Vulcan hiding in. They went down and parked the Mongoose. He turned off the ATV and regrouped around the Elephant. He walked around the rig trying to find anything. Like a radio or a book but it was no anvil, meanwhile Vulcan was taking a nap in the jeep. She was suddenly woken up by Sarge's yelling.
"Attention, Blue team. We would like to propose a temporary truce, so we may discuss our current you accept?"
"*Yawn* Does he think we're still fighting?" Vulcan asked.
"I'm not sure." Tucker said.
"Alright! We accept." Church yelled back. All of red team came over.
"What's up?"
"It's our friend/enemy/ companion."
"We're starting to get concerned about Carolina." said Simmons.
"Make that two of us." Vulcan said sarcastically.
"I can't believe she left us in the desert to die." Rogers complained.
"I know right. I'm over heating." Grif said.
"Don't your helmet have cooling fans?" Simmons asked.
"Well I sweated so much I short circuit em."
"God dude we have been in the desert that long."
"I broke these back at basic." The next thing Rogers saw was a flash of light.
"Alright shut up! We have to concentrate, for some of you that is extremely hard." The whole group turned their heads at Caboose.
"Hi."
"Like the reds brought up we have a little Carolina problem."
"Little? Ha. A little problem is when your car won't start, little is when you forget your phone. There's no way to measure how big a gun wielding, trigger happy psycho is."Vulcan said in a snarky tone of voice.
"She's like some sort of half women, half shark and the shark half has been given cybernetic powers and the one is 1/4 jaguar."
"My point exactly."
"Okay I get it we're all terrified of the scary freelancer lady."
"Terrified doesn't ev-" Vulcan yelled.
"Vulcan! we get it. But this is why we need to stick together. It's us against them."
"Are you talking about Wash?" Vulcan asked. "He hasn't steered us astray so far."
"What I'm saying is we can't trust him as long Carolina's around." Church said.
"Alright, what's the plan?" Vulcan asked.
"We need to figure out what Carolina is up to." Vulcan thought for a sec. If Church is an AI why can't he just infect her like Omega did to them so long ago. "Alright we need something suttle, without her knowing."
"You could just active her objective hub. You can generally use it to store notes or use it as a reminder for something." Vulcan suggested.
"I would try that but it wouldn't be that simple. By the time I finish downloading or reviewing the files. She might already know what I'm up too." Damn, Vulcan thought, so much for that.
"I got it!" Simmons yelled."Caboose you moved Church from the Epsilon unit to that alien thing, right."
"Left."
"How would you like to but him in something a little different." Simmons said looking at Carolina's mongoose.
"I fucking hate you guys." While Caboose and Simmons tried to put Church in a mongoose, Rogers took the power cell out of his just in case. After he was done he went to Carolina's mongoose, and saw the guys talking to Church.
"It can't be that bad." Vulcan said."It's gotta be a lot better then Tuckers helmet."
"I don't know *honk*." Church gave Vulcan a glare.
"Sorry." she said with a smirk.
"Incoming." Rogers yelled as he saw Carolina approaching. Rogers and Vulcan scattered.
"Do you think this will work?"
"Probably." Rogers shrugged. Like clockwork Carolina hopped on Roger's mongoose but it didn't start. She angrily yelled and kicked it, then went to onto her's and drove off.
"Alright let's head inside. It's almost going to be dark out." Rogers returned the power cell and helped Vulcan gather up her cooking supplies.
"So what's for dinner." Grif asked.
"I got some MRE steak, but I can turn it into a stew."
"I'll help." Caboose said.
"NO!" everyone yelled. "Ok." Caboose then ran off. Vulcan hummed happily as she set up her equipment. She always enjoyed to cook, even when she was young. She began to boil the water and put in what little ingredients she had.
Meanwhile Rogers was talking to Wash. "I gotta to ask you Wash, why do you even trust Carolina. She seems to barely trust you." Wash step back as if he was trying to find a reason any reason.
"She's an old friend."
"Hey so was the Meta and-Sorry I shouldn't have brought him up."
"It's alright, you're right Maine was a old friend. I guess to put it better she save my ass a couple of time and I feel like I owe her that."
"Dinner ready!" Washington left, Rogers felt sorry for what he said, he went over to his girlfriend and got a bowl of slop. Grif was eating it happy and so was everyone else. They seem to forget their troubles. Rogers ushered Vulcan near Simmons who was eating.
"So how is it?" Vulcan asked.
"I like it. I wished you were on our side rather than your boyfriend. At least we would get a good soldier and a good cook."
"Thanks."
"Asshole." Rogers took a couple of bites of his meal before talking again."So why did you guys sign up."
"I wanted to be in charge." Simmons said.
"Family tradition." Vulcan looked down in shame. "My family was a long line of soldiers but now, now I'm a joke. I was a guinea pig." Rogers could tell that she was holding back tears in her eye.
"Hey you are a real soldier, I mean you took on Tex, the Meta and not just a few days ago you took a military base full of trained UNSC troopers." Vulcan gave a Rogers a kiss.
"That's why I love you." For the next few hours Rogers and Vulcan got some rest. Vulcan got up from her rest and went to Tucker.
"What's up V?"
"Nothing much, hey can I ask you question?"
"Sure."
"Can I see your sword." Tucker took it out and looked at it, he handed it to her. She made a schoolgirl like squeal before she played with it.
"Hey that's not a toy."
"Shut up I'm a jedi. Swoosh, swoosh." She dropped it when she saw Rogers laughing his ass off.
"You are such a nerd." Tucker shook his head and picked up his sword. "But not as big a nerd as me. Luke I am your father." The two laughed until Washed came in.
"Let's go Carolina will be back in a few minutes." Roger nodded, he then quickly help pack up all the cooking equipment. When they got outside, Carolina was barking order.
"We're head home." Rogers got on to the mongoose, they led the convoy with Carolina. After a while the group was finally home.
"So this is Valhalla. Nice nice, I think I talk to Tucker." she said seeing Tucker's 'get over here' wave. She quickly went to the guys. When she got there Church just popped up.
"Hey, I can't talk too long, my connection to Carolina's memory unit isn't too good, so what's up?"
"Well not much, first time for me and Vulcan. Just taking all the seneriay ?"
"Yay well, the trees are nice, especially compared to the desolate desert and- wait are we here to talk about trees?"
"No!" Tucker boomed. "What are you doing with Carolina?"
"Calm down."
"You do not get to talk to him like that." Vulcan said butting in the conversation. "You were supposed to spy on her."
"Hey she's more complicated than we thought."
"Church because you want to get close to someone doesn't mean you have to end up inside them." Vulcan waited to her Tucker's famous 'bow chica bow wow' but was glad that he didn't,
Oh come on aren't you going to say it?"
"No I am pissed!"
"Alright, i'm still on your side."
Oh sure."
"Hey watch your fucking mouth. You're dating a Red."
"Oh now you bring Rogers into this." Vulcan let out a growl, Tucker stepped in before anything got bloody.
"You two calm down."
"Ok, I didn't find anything out. But if I do I need to stay close to her. See proxcimity is the to go." Church popped away.
"Is it possible to beat up a hologram." Vulcan said sighing.
Back with the Red's, Simmons was trying to get the next set of order from Carolina. She like Sarge just told the group to sit still and be quiet. "Now that's an order I can get behind, what's next you think she'll tell us to stop taking showers for a week." Rogers got up.
"Dude that's nasty." Rogers said disgusted.
"We've been sitting around for days." Sarge complained. "If I sit around any longer I'll kill something."
"We can retrieve Lopez." Rogers said.
"I guess we can go get get Lopez. He was shot here. Let's go get him back."
"I just said that." Sarge didn't hear Rogers as he left. Rogers shrugged it off and followed him.
Back with Vulcan she followed Caboose to the new base. "Wait where are you going?"
"Didn't you hear Caboose it's base-ier than the old one." she yelled. It took a sec but they're were in it. It was empty, it had two bedrooms. She didn't see anything special about it. She went top side there was this strange blue thing. She threw a rock, and the blue light sent it flying. She hoped on and it sent her he flying halfway across the canyon. "Wow that was awesome." She was about to go again but Wash stopped her.
"Hey um, were about to leave."
"What!? That's bullshit."
"Calm down." Vulcan had a menacing glare and Wash backed away. "I'm going to Blue base to inform the guys."
Meanwhile on the other side of the cannoy, Rogers followed Simmons to where Donut was shot. When he got there he saw a small farm and Lopez as a scarecrow.
"What in the hell." Rogers said to himself. When he looked closer he had a feeling who was behind this and on que Donut came out of the hut. "Well I'll be damned."
"Oh hey guys. I thought I heard voices." Donut walked up to the group. Rogers extend his arm to give him a pat on the back.
"I thought you were dead."
"I almost was, that jerk Wash shot me in the gut and my armor went into some kind of lock. It kept me alive for awhile till it unlocked. It was painful I'll tell you that."
"How did you survive? When your armor unlocked you should've bled out."
"Well shit." Rogers smiled. There was only one person that would have the medical training.
"Looked what the cat dragged in." Doc said in his usually cheery tone.
"Rogers is that Doc behind us?"
"Yes sir."
"Get my gun." Sarge looked down. "Never mind, Simmons begin operation point my gun at Doc."
"That was code for operation point my gun at Grif."
"Then operation point my gun at Grif."
"That's one how it sound sir."
"Drat." Sarge shook his head and walked off. Rogers went to Doc and shook his hand.
"Thanks for keeping Donut alive."
"Welcome, so how's everything been." Donut said looking for the latest gossip.
"Well we've been jumping from place to place, um I'm dating Vulcan." Donut jumped up in excitement.
"I knew you two would end up together." Donut said squealing like a schoolgirl.
"What about you?"
"Well we've been farming and baking. I really to switch recipes with Vulcan and my birthday was last week." Rogers nodded.
"Alright I got to check in the guys and then I'll bring over Vulcan." The two waved bye and Rogers then went to Red base.
Meanwhile Vulcan and Tucker were confronting Carolina about leaving. "Hey what's the deal, we're leaving already?"
"That right you got a problem with that?" Carolina said with poison in her voice. Vulcan clenched a fist but Church popped up before Vulcan could throw the first punch.
"Uh, Carolina let me handle this." Vulcan stuck out her tongue under her helmet, she then left with Tucker to secluded spot. Church popped up again and spoke.
"What do you guys want?"
"We just want to know what info you got on the enemy." Vulcan said in a calm reassuring voice.
"Yeah is she evil, crazy, crazy evil?"
"Don't forget about pretty." Caboose added.
"Yeah is she hot?"
"Guys I got more important things to worry about."
"What does that mean? You're supposed to spy on he 'us us against them' ring any bells." Vulcan exclaimed.
"You don't know anything about her. You have no idea what she's been through." Vulcan clenched her fist harder than ever before, they all be though a lot. What makes her special. "Just get in the fucking car alright." He popped away. Vulcan punch the rock and she saw that the rocked cracked. She went to the cars, and growled at Carolina.
Back with Rogers he stood with Simmons and Grif looking at the ocean. "Hey you ever wonder why we're here?" Grif asked.
"Are you going to spout that god stuff again and cosmic fuck ups again." Rogers sighed.
"No I mean why are we hunting this one guy."
"He's evil or some shit." Simmons said.
"A lot of people are evil, doesn't mean I go and hunt them down." Rogers shrugged.
"He did create the freelancer, the AI and the 's the reason why we're even in 'Red army' and don't for get the Meta."
"Don't get me started on that guy." Rogers shuttered. In sense it wasn't all bad, he met his girlfriend and had a couple of alright friends.
"He's a real dirt bag and if he had died a year ago. It doesn't mean anything, we'll still be in the same spot." Sarge added. "I'm just saying we've gone through hell and back, do you really want to run off, again.I don't see how any of it will make things better."
"You make a fine point, sir."
"Shut up Grif." Rogers left to the motor pool, where he found Vulcan smoking. He sat down, taking off his helmet and bummed a light.
"You alright?"
"No!" She said shouting. "I'm tired of running, I...I... I just want to stay." She said with tears.
"Hey, I want to show you something." Rogers got to his feet and helped Vulcan up. "You won't believe it. Lopez built a holo-room in the basement." Vulcan gave Rogers a confused look.
"A holo-room? So can I don't know build my own kitchen or kill Church?"
"Ya, espical the kill thing, c'mon." Vulcan gave a slight smirk before following her boyfreind. The two went down to the basement. Vulcan looked impressed, at what the reds had built. "Computer activated, field routine." suddenly a field of flower and trees appeared.
"Let me try, let me try. Alright um computer activate kitchen." The flower faded and a large kitchen appeared. Vulcan ran around and had a happy expression on her face. "Can I have control to you know mess around there something I need to see one more time." Rogers nodded, he pulled up a terminal and sent towards Vulcan. She played with it for a minute before the kitchen change. He looked and saw a portside window of Earth. "This is kitchen I grew up with when I was a kid." As Vulcan looked at the kitchen Church appeared.
"Hey put this shit away."
"No." Church sighed as the kitchen faded away.
"Now meet me in the center of the room asap."
"So V, what was the kitchen about."
"When I was five or six I lived on a ship with my mom and dad. That was the kitchen my mom taught me how to cook in. I'm just happy I got to see it one more time." Vulcan and Rogers themselves in the middle of the Holo-room with the rest of the Freelancers and Reds and Blues.
"We got big news." Vulcan knew that they found who they're looking for. It was just a matter of time.
"We found the Director." Church said returning back to his normal height.
"Wait you found out where the Director has been hiding?"
"He's holding up in one of his off site storage facilities." Church then brought up a couple of pictures of the place. It wasn't much, the exterior looked like an abandoned warehouse while inside was well kept and clean.
"We need to be ready for anything. So for right now we'll be going over the plan."
"What plan?" Tucker asked.
"The plan to take down the Director."
"Whoa, we agreed to help you find the Director and mission accomplished." Rogers said.
"The plans change." Carolina said angrily. "The plan is to go inside and neutralize all hostiles."
"And what's our plan?" Grif asked.
"That is your plan."
"You said we're the worst soldiers you met."
"Look I just need time to make it to the Director."
"So we're just cannon fodder for you." Vulcan said."Fuck that."
"Maybe I should stay and-"
"Leave personnel decisions to me Wash, I need you for lock picking and not with these-"
"Finish it. I dare you." Vulcan said reading her pistol and so did Carolina.
"Look will you guys stop complaining." Church said.
"We saved you from the military." Sarge said.
"We could have died, just by finding you."
"Boo hoo. Talk to me on your second or third life." Rogers was beyond angry, he risked his life for his friends and now he regretted even helping Church.
"Wow fuck off blue." Grif said walking away.
"Where do you think your going?" Grif stopped and answered Carolina's question.
"I'm going home."
"Wow we can always count on you to bail out." Vulcan and Rogers have had enough of it. They two began to walk away and in the distance they could hear Sarge, Simmons and Tucker resigning too.
"GET BACK HERE NOW! THAT'S AN ORDER." Carolina screamed.
"Guess what you bitch since you like to remind me and the rest of us we're not a real soldiers and technically I don't have to take order from you!"
"Well what about now" Carolina said raising her gun. Vulcan and Rogers drew their assault rifles at her. But they saw a fourth person enter, Wash. He pointed his pistol at Carolina, she lowered her rifle. "Wash what are you doing?"
"Protecting my friends."
"Your siding with them?"
"Wash I don't understand, we found the Director, we can finally make him is what we've always wanted." Vulcan stood in awe, she knew that Wash was Carolina's oldest friend. She understood that the Director had broken him before, but she was also grateful that he sided with them and not her.
"So that's it? You're just going to turn your back on us."
"Epsilon-"
"No, no you're right. I should of seen this one coming."
"Hey you don't have to be mean." Vulcan said.
"But you guys." Church said looking at them. "After all the shit you've put me through? I really thought you'd have my back."
"Us? What did we do?" Grif asked. As Church began to speak, he grew and had a slight red light coming from him.
"You shot me through the head, put a bomb in my gut, you sell my shit on Ebay goddamn Ebay oh and let's not forget my favorite, when you killed me with my own tank." By then he had grew to the side of a three story house and was red.
"Calm down, what's your problem?"
"Your my problem, you've always been my problem. Each and every one of you is just a problem that I have to deal with!" Church began to calm down but the damage was already and Rogers went topside and watch Carolina drive off.
"Good riddance.I nevered like them." Vulcan lied.
"Come on the guys are playing war games." Rogers pointed to Wash kicking Sarge from red base and taking all there stuff. For the next hour was fun, the group voted for Rogers to humilated himself while Vulcan cooked dinner with Donut.
"I don't know Donut, I think we should've helped Church he was our friend but it's like I'm tired of running away. I just want to settle down. What do you guys think?"
"It's hard to say. We've been through a lot of the years, but we all asked a lot from each other but maybe Church gave too much or maybe he asked too much. It's there for you to decide. Sound to me we been through a lot." Vulcan soon left and watched the guys play their game of steal from the reds and make them embarrass themselves. It was funny for a while but soon became repetitive. Till they pulled out the "Grif shot'. Vulcan went up to look at it, she didn't know that Grif took it with him. She touched it, but Grif slapped it from her hands.
"Come on, I'll make you a triple chocolate cake for say an hour with it."
"No! There is no way I'll give up the Grif shot even for an hour."
"Come on. What are you going to do with it."
"I was going to mount it up in the base." Grif said in a snotty voice.
"You've been hiding one of the most advanced pieces of tech know to man so you can hang it in your living room?" Wash said.
"Please it's just a glorified grenade launcher with a sword attached, but it would be badass in a man cave or some shit." Rogers shrugged.
"Ya that pretty much sums it up."
"That's dumb!"
"I thinks it's kind of cool." Doc said. "I mean when I met you guys, all you did was stand around and talk. And look at ch'ya, you can't walk five feet without getting wrapped up in a crazy adventure."
"What's your point?" Sarge asked.
"I don't know I just thought it was cool. I mean you guys have been through alot together. Don't you want something to remember the good times?"
"Good times? I was stranded in the desert?" Tucker said.
"Me too." Vulcan said.
"I learned my entire military career was a lie."
"I almost tore off my leg!" Rogers yelled.
"I got shot!" Vulcan couldn't help but look at Wash.
"Ok it wasn't perfect but look what you got out of it. Vulcan Rogers you two are happy together, Sarge you got to lead a real military operation, Tucker you got a sword, you got a new team and Simmons got his old team, and I finally keep a patient from dying."
"And I didn't die!"
"See, in the end it all worked out. Everyone got what they wanted."
"Not everyone." Vulcan turned her head to Caboose and realised that they should of help Church. They began to pull out their guns.
"You realize that if you go after them, there's no promise you'll come back." Vulcan gave a smirk.
"We owe him this much."
"After what Church and Carolina said, the way they treated you."
"We gave you a second chance." Simmons said.
"Hey if we stopped, every time Church yelled at us we'd still be in Blood Gulch." Rogers said
"You'll be out gunned, out well is stupid just think before you do something reckless."
"Wash stupid and reckless is how we've always done things." said Sarge. "There's one thing you freelancers always forget. The fact we manage to kick your ass time after time. You may have your plans and fancy tech and better training. But what do you have if you don't have team you can count on, without you friends at your side, so stop bellyaching and tell us. Are you going to play it safe or do you want to get a little reckless."
"Took the word right out of my mouth." Rogers said. Wash stood there for a sec.
"You can count me in."
"Me too." Donut said.
"That's the spirit." Vulcan said.
"They got a huge head start, how will that make up?"
"Teleporter anyone." Vulcan joked. Just outta nowhere UNSC hornets dropped down.
"Freeze this is an ambush, by the order of the UNSC." Three other hornets dropped down.
"Shit." The hornets landed and the guys came out reading the group their rights. Rogers and Vulcan shrugged and suckered punch one of the UNSC cops, they rushed over to the landed hornet and began to take off. Sarge came by.
"Rogers I command you to let me fly."
"Damit." Rogers said as Sarge took driver. "Ha I still would've let you fly."
"This is awesome!" Vulcan yelled. "You better pray we don't die because I got a surprise for you when we get back Dan."
"Bow chicka bo-."
"Shut up Tucker." Rogers and Vulcan said in unison. The flight took about half an hour before they went to the base. When they got there they saw Carolina mongoose.
"So run and gun? Or we shooting jackasses in a barrel?" Vulcan asked.
"Run and gun." Wash said. They went over to the controls, Rogers punched it and the base doors open. They went inside and found a cache of weapons, Rogers took some spike grenades, while Vulcan took some a bunch of extra ammo. While Grif took a bunch of ammo for his Grif shot, when everyone was done getting prepped, they found a long hallway and in the distance Vulcan could hear fighting. Vulcan pulled out her assault rifle and walked down the halls with her squad, when they got there they saw Carolina an army of Texs about to kill her, but Donut threw three plasma grenades giving Carolina a window to regroup with the Reds and Blues.
"Oh I thought this wasn't your fight." Church said.
"And let you have all the fun." Vulcan laughed.
"Guys I'm an asshole and I admit and will glady take all smartass comments but right now we got an army of crazy freelancer robots that are ready to rip us to shreds."
"Cheesy forgiveness speech later." Tucker said.
"Sounds good." Sarge said. The group pulled out their guns and ready for the onslaught. Vulcan could see Church pop over to Caboose. Caboose then ran into the army of Texs as if a bull.
"My name is Michael J. Caboose and I hate taxes!" Caboose boomed in his angry voice.
"It's Texas you idiot." Grif yelled.
"That too." Rogers smirk as he looked over to his Girlfriend.
"You ready, love?"
"Yeah." She said running and gunning. Vulcan tackled a Tex bot and shot it in the face. "Take that you bitch". She went up to another one that was about to break Carolina's neck. Vulcan hacked it in the visser with her tomahawk. "Thats for almost taking my eye." Carolina gave a silent nodded before she went back to killing more Tex.
Meanwhile Rogers stabbed a spike grenade on a Tex bot and kicked hit back towards a large group. "Duck!" Vulcan yelled as she threw her tomahawk into the head a Tex that was to strangle Rogers. The group began to be enclosed by the Texs. Rogers kept firing his gun but found it running dangerously low. The next thing he knew was that they began to shut down.
"Hell yeah!" Rogers yelled.
"So what's left?" Vulcan asked.
"There's still the Director."
"No! What comes next Carolina and I have to do alone." Rogers silently nodded. They watched as the two entered the next room, after a minute they came out.
"Let's go." Carolina said with sorrow in her voice. The group went topside and left the next few days were hectic. They met up with the UNSC but a man gave them a pardon after Wash and Carolina explained how they stopped the Director. They were going back to Earth, but ended up somewhere new. Vulan opened her eyes and walked outside in a home they made from the crashed ship. She had a huge smile as she looked at the valley.
"We're home." she said with a smile.