NA: Sorry if I wasn't able to update this chapter yesterday, went out with the family. Enjoy this chapter folks!


-Story Start-

A Pelican dropship landed in one of the large hangars of the Infinity, touching down while opening its rear hatch for Fireteam Majestic. They stepped and immediately walked down to the deck, "Hey check it out, Forerunner soldiers." Hoya pointed to three warrior-servants casually chatting while having their weapons with them.

"Ah Fireteam Majestic!" Roland said, appearing through a pedestal in the hangar.

"Yeah that's us…" DeMarco nodded in confirmation.

"I'm Roland, ship's AI at your service, on the line Spartans! Someone will be along to show you around shortly." He did a casual salute and disappeared.

"Alright Majestic, form up." DeMarco ordered, they lined up and waited. He immediately spotted a female Spartan and a blonde woman with a floating carriage behind her. "Whoa, take a look at those two." He whispered to Madsen.

"Oh my…" Madsen tried moving forward only to be blocked by his Fireteam leader.

"Hey, I saw them first." He approached the two women and greeted them casually, "Hi there."

"Well hello…" the brunette greeted back. The blonde woman with her just smiled and bowed back. "Spartan…"

"Paul DeMarco, I lead Fireteam Majestic." He replied in slight boasting tone.

"Wow… a whole Fireteam huh?" she smirked and walked up to him.

"Uh… I didn't catch your name?"

"Sarah Palmer, 'Commander' Sarah Palmer, I lead all the Fireteams aboard the Infinity." She said with a serious yet annoyed tone.

DeMarco gulped and went back in line, "Fireteam Majestic commander on deck!" they all straightened themselves and gave her a salute.

"If you are wondering who I am, I am Shion, wife of the Didact." She bowed once more, she then heard crying in the floating carriage, she picked up the little bundle and showed them, "And this is my daughter, Hikari. Also known by our warrior-servants as Light of Eternal Song. Commander, I must take leave and return to my ship."

"Of course Lady Shion…" Palmer nodded and watched the woman and her daughter teleport back to her ship, surprising the Fireteam a bit.

'Ah shit.' DeMarco began to sweat, still saluting.

"At ease Spartans…" she walked a bit inspecting the new Fireteam, she looked at Thorne who seems to be only real disciplined Spartan in the Fireteam, "Follow me, S-deck is this way." She walked away signaling Majestic to follow her.

Hoya began to laugh, "You flirted with the Didact's wife."

"Shut it!" DeMarco hissed.

Thorne on the other hand, just looked at the hangar with wonder, this was the first time he was in a ship such as this, he can't wait to be inside a Forerunner ship or the Ancient Human ship the Didact gave them, which will be joining them for the operation.

Roland then made his voice known through the com system, "Attention all hands, prep for slipspace jump." The Infinity along with the Didact's ship the Ascension and the ship of the same class the UNSC Lord of Admirals went through slipspace holes.

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"This is the latest stuff we got on Covenant fleet locations captain, pretty standard positioning really." Roland snorted.

The bridge's door opened revealing a tall but beautiful woman.

"Commander Palmer, things get boring in Spartan town?" Thomas greeted and smiled at her.

"Captain Lasky." She greeted back, "You know I come here for my peace and quiet. I'm not interrupting nap time, am I?"

"On the contrary, show starts at 0500." Thomas said, looking at the tactical display of covenant ships.

Sarah looked at him skeptically, "We've waited six months, we could spend another 48 hours running the teams through the wargames."

He turned and looked at her with a serious face, "Navy disagrees with Spartans this one, not when you all got Forerunner warrior-servant training. They want you ready… now."

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Sarah walked in donning her white armor, "Ladies… and other Spartans, listen up. Your new workplace is a planet first discovered by humanity six months ago called Requiem."

Multiple Spartans including Majestic lined up for armor equipping. "Some of the old hands here know what you're in for. The rest of you, you're due an education."

Thorne stepped on to the equipper, his feet locking in to form shoe like armor. The armor locked in and he stretched out his arms into the gauntlets, locking as well. The equipper then carried him for the chest and back plating armor to attach. After that the shoulder plates locked into palce.

"The eggheads up stairs want to set up research bases, but they can do that, we need to fend off some Covenant squatters. The Covies, they believe this is the home of one of their gods."

"I am not a God!" Light in Darkness barged in, gritting his teeth, "Apologies, you may carry on." He walked out of the armory.

Sarah rolled her eyes, "As I was saying, the way I see it, if those freaks want to meet their god, then it is our duty to help them along!"

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The Infinity along with the Ascension and her sister ship the Lord of Admirals jumped into Requiem's space. The Infinity in turn rammed an RCS-class armored cruiser, completely destroying it while the latter came out of unscathed. The two ancient human ships began to open fire along with the Infinity.

"Infinity, Ascension and the Lord of Admirals clear of slipspace captain Lasky." Roland notified him.

Thomas nodded, "Lieutenant Austin, the word is given."

The Infinity then opened lower bays, revealing to be frigates, they released their clamps and dropped into space to engage the enemy covenant ships. The Ascension fired its main cannon, destroying a CCS-class in a single hit.

"All Spartan Fireteams are prepped and ready for launch." Chatter through the battle-net was heard as Pelican dropships began to lift off from the Infinity.

"Didact, how are you doing in your end?" Thomas asked through the battle-net.

Naruto smirked, "Quite fine captain, my Prometheans and warrior-servants will be launching to Requiem shortly, the frequency is different so we won't be able to teleport down there until we secure a foothold, you are the operation commander, so we will follow you."

"Roger that Didact and thank you."

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"Requiem corridor is clear, repeat Requiem corridor is clear!" a Pelican pilot said, with Forerunner drop craft following them transporting their Prometheans and warrior-servants, escorted by UNSC Broadsword fighter craft.

"Majestic on approach, hang on! We're going inside!" the Pelican pilot informed them.

"Here we go Majestic!" Thorne said excitedly.

Multiple Pelicans and Forerunner transports flew in through the debris unscathed, "Almost there people!" another pilot said.

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On the ground inside Requiem, multiple battles were being waged at different locations, the Prometheans and warrior-servants were battling the covenant supported by the Knights and Crawlers. "It seems the Ur-Didact left some of his guards, or he used the composer on some Reclaimer installations." A warrior-servant commented, firing his Binary Rifle.

"None of that matters right now, we need to help the Reclaimers take this world, it is the will of the Librarian." A Promethean said, firing his LightRifle.

The Covenant did not even know they were fighting Forerunners, they just assumed they were the enemy as they were with the humans.

"That's right, they don't know that we are their so-called gods." The warrior-servant chuckled.

"Can you please stop saying that Sharp Eye of Truth? It disturbs me to no end that they worship us." Light in Darkness growled.

"Where is your sense of humor?" Sharp Eye muttered.

"Sir!" A UNSC marine approached Light in Darkness, "Covenant is jamming our communications."

"Troublesome, they at least know what they are doing." Sharp Eye grumbled, "Any knowledge of where the jammers are? I am assuming it is one of our jammers they are using."

"Possibly…" the marine nodded, "Our Spartan Fireteams are nearing the Covenant outposts just up ahead, I think the jammers are in there as well."

"Very well, continue the assault, we must regroup with the Spartans." Light in Darkness ordered.

"Yes sir!" the marine saluted and went back to his squad.

Sharp Eye smiled before returning fire, "The Reclaimers have fire in them, just like the war before."

"I do not wish to talk about the war." Light in Darkness said, "That war should have never happened in the first place." he then aimed his LightRifle and fired at an Unggoy.

"The Covenant are using these smaller aliens as fodder, disgraceful." Sharp Eye scoffed.

Light in Darkness kept firing, but reminded him, "We can worry about that later Sharp Eye, we need to move up." Another Unggoy dropped dead as the hardlight round struck him on the cest.

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"Status on our teams on the ground?" Naruto asked a female warrior-servant operating the communication console, the ancient human ship was just as advanced as any Forerunner ship before, and the controls were simple to understand as their languages were similar.

"The Covenant are using our old jammers on the ground, I cannot get a precise location of our squads and the Spartan Fireteams."

Naruto narrowed his eyes, "Then it is all up to them to accomplish them, keep firing the enemy ships. We need to at least gain control of the space. Are there any signs of Covenant reinforcements?"

The warrior-servant shook her head, "None Didact, this seems to be the only one we are engaging."

"Very well, forward batteries keep firing!"

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"Sir, Fireteam Crimson and Majestic seems to have disabled the jammers, Crimson found a Forerunner device, they will be bringing it back to the Infinity soon, Majestic on the other hand is pinned down by a couple of Knights and Crawlers." the same marine from before informed the two Forerunners.

Light in Darkness, "We will assist Majestic, Crimson seems to be doing well."

The marine nodded and turned to his squad, "On it sir, you heard him folks we are assisting Majestic!"

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Fireteam Majestic were currently dug in behind rocks, fending off relentless attacks from Crawlers. "Wasn't this planet supposed to have been cleared already?"

Grant reloaded her DMR and replied, "That was the idea, yeah."

"These things just 'pop up' whenever they want to." Madsen destroyed the last Crawler. "I mean how is that even fair huh?"

A Knight decloaked and fired, "Madsen look out!" Throne shouted, said Spartan got hit on the shoulder. Multiple Knights appeared in the area and open fired.

Hoya being the macho man he was moved up with his shotgun and shot the Knight that hit Madse, "Come on!" he fired again hitting another Knight.n

"Hoya get back to cover!" DeMarco tried to order him.

A Knight got up close and roared at Hoya.

"HOYA!"


NA: Cliffhanger! Well to those who have played Spartan Ops, you already know. Well here we are in Requiem, great vacation spot with wonderful real estate!

Oh and DeMarco, nice going trying to flirt with Shion!

See you guys later!