Date: June 14, 2568
Military time: 1547 PM
Location: PMC: Fire Spirit Base in Halo Installation 02
In the training fields, the many recruiters are on the fronts of the superior officer who will take a position to train them and the operative is walking towards them to meet the recruiters. The bounty hunter PMC operative is Raine-B312. The SPARTAN-III soldier who becomes anonymous from the Secret War of Dark Kro. - Mercenary since one mad scientist who tried to reclaim that Shield World and then the mercenary organization and PMC has finally reclaimed it from him and his army. Now the Shield World has belonged to PMC, UNSC, and Mercenary Organization but the hero who sacrifices itself was the AI Virgil. He saved their lives from the 5 years ago until a few years later he came back to life when somebody might've recovered him from rampancy in the other affiliation. Aside from the past, Raine is glad that her AI partner and friend who is back to her side and resume her job.
"Greetings and welcome to your first day in the boot camp, recruits! I am Raine-B312, yes, I am one of that SPARTAN-3 soldier who works for the Private Military Corporation since the year 2557! You all bitches may be assigned into the military to be heroes in the movies, comic books, awards, and all of that crap! Well, time to get to real, maggots! Because you are gonna be serving the military for the galaxy in the peacekeeping! What matters is that you are gonna become protectors of humanity and all alien races who are like us!" Raine walks in back and forth. "There are some renegade war criminals, slavers, terrorists, and all you name it! Especially the Floods! Ugh! Don't get me started that crap! I can imagine that those things who got their face shoved into brute's ass!"
The recruit soldier started to chuckles quietly and suddenly Raine stopped at the laughter recruit.
"What's so funny, solider?!" Raine demanded.
"N-Nothing, sir-er-ma'am!" The recruit soldier responded.
"Bullshit! You lying because I had my earring enhanced, chuckles! Do the 50 laps, soldier!" She takes out the baton and smacks the recruit soldier's back. "Go! Go! Go!" She shouted at him who is started to running to do the laps and notices one of the trusted sergeant who came in. "Sergeant! Watch him over when he finishes 50 laps!"
"Aye, ma'am!" The sergeant saluted as he follows the recruit soldier who is running the lap.
"Now back to the topic, you know what my mother usually says since the last time she hears the few things from my family generation who used to serve the military! "Honor the fallen, protect what matters to you, and keep moving forward" that motto is the only thing that we honor the fallen heroes who served the UNSC who died in Human-Covenant War! Learn the history and do not make the same mistakes! You get me, Marines?!" Raine shouted at the recruits.
"We get you, ma'am!" The Recruits responded to the operative.
The SPARTAN turns her head at the officer rank, "Officer, you may take your recruits," Raine affirmed.
"Aye aye, ma'am," Officer nods to her and begin to start training the recruited soldiers as Raine walks to the building.
In the office, Raine arrived in the room and she saw her friend who is sitting on the couch. Another SPARTAN soldier Wolf-S305 came over to visit the friend in their early childhood in the SPARTAN-3 program.
"I'm kind of impressed how you can discipleship to the new recruit, Raine. But talking in speech is not your thing," Wolf responded, he leans back into the couch.
"Well... true. Except I can do is the fistfight for the CQC combat as better as everyone in the damn place, but don't get me started with that asshole in our time at the training," Raine flopped in the office chair. "Anyways how's Mia and your kid?" She leaned over as she knows her companion, Claw, the varren creature from the other system since her sister found the cubs of three varrens. She pets her pet varren at the head when the creature groaned softly.
"Mia and my son are doing pretty well as usual. And your kids?" Wolf inquired.
"Yuki and Eugene are doing well as usual. The twins are fighting over to get Dalton and me some attention... I tried to explain how we feel about them as equals," Raine checks the report papers in the files and start sorting them out. "But I'm sure I'll give them the best time to go take a stress away from home to my sister and family at the Shield World: Entity."
"Same goes to me as well, Raine. I got invited to her place to celebrate the anniversary. After this workspace?" Wolf asked.
"After this, yes, I'm gonna contact Dalton to tell him about it," Raine types the keyboard in the computer to call her lover Dalton. And soon she finally got a response in video communication with Dalton.
"This is Dalton Stalgram, who am I speaking to?" The PMC SPARTAN leader answered and turn to the screen as he sees the familiar face he recognizes Raine quickly, "Oh! My dearest, what can I do for you?"
Raine smiled softly underneath her helmet, "Just to let you know that we had the new recruits joining this month. I might have to return home to get our kids ready to travel to Shield World: Entity."
"I'm almost home before you, dear. I got off from work today so we can leave at before night time. Miss Blades might gonna leave before her work," Dalton replied.
She chuckles, "Guess I have to hurry home."
At outpost-7B, the PMC and Merc Alliance soldiers have guarded the temple that is contained the information of the past researchers of Forerunner from the many centuries ago. Nobody can access the data, but three-entries user can access. Who and where are the 3 users. It remains the secret only, only trusted user's friends nor relative knows. Anyway the two soldiers, in front gate entrance, notice the vehicle in the front is coming over as this type of vehicle is the old centuries car of 2015 Ford Mustang GT. The Cadet soldier walked into the old century vehicle and as the color revealed to be blue and black trimmed stripes, the window is tinted black... and mostly there is no driver inside.
"Might be someone who has to control the vehicle, sir!" Cadet answered.
"I already contact the base of this old school vehicle. See if you can look around to find that control device on each side."
"I am not controlled by any fleshy humans..."
The two soldiers hear the voice out of nowhere as they become shocked and wonder where and who made that sound.
"Um, sir... did you say something...?" Cadet stuttered.
"There's no way in hell, Cadet. I thought you said that...!" Major replied. "But who..?!"
"Me!" The soldiers turned to the vehicle and watching it transformed into something bigger than any regular-sized human. Causing them to get shocked more mixed with a frightening face by the things in front of them.
Earlier, in boot camp, Raine still talking with Dalton in the video communication and Wolf is waiting for Raine to finished up... until the contact call from the Outpost-7B is interrupted their chatting.
"Hold on, Dalton. One of ours is contacting us." Raine split the call on the second screen and picks up. "This is Lieutenant Commander Raine-B312, report?"
"Ma'am, one of our security from the front gate have discovered... the old century sports car came over. I overheard through their radio channel that they discovered that car... has no driver?" He confused about what those comrades are talking about.
"No drivers? Would it be possible for the remote control device is controlling the vehicle?" Dalton inquired, but when Dalton sees Raine didn't reply that answers. Notices something she discovered so quickly. Even Wolf knows how she is changed.
"Soldier! Have you identified the vehicle's logo brand?!" Raine questioned.
"Um... let me see... I saw is... that strange brand that looks like... a face... a face of two pointy sticks up on top of the head and it has the mean-looking face-," the security soldier responded the details he sees when he's at the watchtower.
"Get them out of there! Now!" Raine demanded.
"Wait, what's wrong with-what the hell?! What the fuck is that! Alert the outpost-," the communication is cut off from their outpost.
"Raine? What happened to the outpost!? Honey!?" Dalton tried to call her as he sees her head turn away from his screen... the noise happened in the background.
"Raine, what the hell's going on?" Wolf asked.
But they hear the plasma and impact firefight been going on outside the base in the front entrance. It's gotten close when Raine turns to the screen to see the last of her lover's face. "Dalton, don't let my sister and brother include you come to the Halo Installation 02... I'll be okay with my friend and my squad..."
Dalton widens his eyes in shock as he is afraid of what's gonna happen, "Raine... what are you talking about?"
Raine takes out the magnum from her holster and aimed at the window and Wolf has his dmr rifle ready to defend themselves. Suddenly something pulls out of the walls from the building by the larger hands.
In Dalton's office, the PMC leader has overheard the noise of the background from Raine's call after the monitor and desk have been demolished. Hearing gunfire and seeing Wolf got smacked through the other wall in her office.
"The war was over in the century ago!" Hearing Raine shouted at someone she is trying to convince them. "The Prime will know-!!" She screamed until the communication was cut off. Causing Dalton getting anxious about her when the Base and the outpost... are under attacked by the unknown faction he did not know anything. But Raine was the only person who knows about the threats. The "Prime" she mentions... what did she mean to this attacker.
"Who is 'Prime'? What is she talking about?" Dalton asked himself.
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Date: June 14, 2568
Military Time: 1608
Location: Shield World: Entity
In the warehouse garage, a 10-year old boy started the song 'Sunflower' in his stereo and starts humming loudly as he couldn't lay his ear off from the song he truly likes. Someone in the other room tried to call his name while the boy still enjoys the melody of the song. He is about to start dancing in the office when no one's gonna interrupted his time.
"Dion!!" The voice of the man shouted when the boy jumped and almost dropped his headphone as he moves them away from his ears.
"Y-Yeah, Mr. Martian?!" The child, Dion, answered.
"Are you ready!? Your mother just finished her work and she called us to meet her at the tech lab center!" Mr. Martin asked as Dion checks his paperwork was a mess since he's making the design of the creation.
"Y-Yeah! Uh... let me get my jacket and shoes on!"
At the outside of a garage, the man in red-dye short hair just rolled his eyes and shook his head a bit, knowing that the child is not really ready since he checks on him many times in each day. He sighs softly but smiled that he got time before leaving to go meet up with Shaine and Legion who is finished up their work post. Until he sees Dion got his bag and rolled up papers he's carrying around his arm. Watches the child entered the sports car 2011 Aston Martin in the back seat.
"You sure are fancy and keeping everything tidy up, Mister Martian," Dion gets comfortable on the back seat. "Even you let me work to help you with the engines for someone's vehicle," he smiled.
"What are you working on, kid? Surely, you have something in mind," Austin inquired as he smiles.
Dion doesn't want to tell the man who hired him to be assistant grease-monkey, but unless he's a good friend of Shaine, "The secret project... for the girl I usually met at the space station."
"The girl, huh? Was she your future wife?"
"Ew! No way! She's just a friend and," Dion replied as he tried to hide his face when he's blushing.
Austin shrugs with his smug smile, "If you say so, Dion." Until he notices his radio chatters quietly and his face changed to surprise.
"What's the matter, Mr. Martian?" The kid asked.
"Kid, I might gonna get the point of going in full speed," Austin said as the vehicle is starting to go full speed, causing Dion to remain still in the back seat. He drives passed the vehicles on the two-way road.
"This is getting really awesome!" Dion shouted.
A few minutes later, a woman who revealed the name Shaine finally came out of the building as she got the lab coat since her SPARTAN armors are stored in the armory compound. She stands there by the warthog and keeps an eye out for the vehicle. Suddenly she hears the engine noise coming near to the roadway and she saw the Old century Aston Martin car has arrived. The car steered by her warthog after skid marking the road. Shaine becomes surprised by that way her friend parked, but becomes more concerned about her son, watching her son came out of the vehicle when he opened the door.
As Dion is gotten shaken up by the experience of the sports car's speed... until he collapsed his knees into the ground. "That was wicked awesome..." he muttered.
"You do know that we can't cover up the speed ticket, red," Shaine said.
"No one knows what happen in the roads, Shaine, not a single scratch on my finish," Austin smiled.
Shaine chuckles, "Okay, red. But be warned of that process server who is coming to find you somewhere and someday when there's karma coming back to you."
"You don't mean that advertisement commercial in the tv-?" Austin responded.
But the radio chatter interrupted him as he got an emergency call, which caused Shaine and Austin to notice the emergency response from the base. He walks to get into the vehicle after shutting the door.
"Have to go, Shaine, and we'll discuss later after the emergency," he begins to drove back to the road, leaving Shaine with Dion who is watching him leave. But Shaine... seems to wonder what is the situation and knowing where he heads off to. She may not like if she is right about one thing... or two things will happen.
Back to red Aston Martin, the man is driving at full speed and the switch has moved on its own. The man in red-dye hair is frizzy as the images of him disappeared in thin air. But the vehicle is still running and moving in full-speed on the road.
"Knock Out, responding. What's a situation, Nightblade?" The red sports car inquired as revealed that Austin Martian is actually the sports car the whole time during his disguised by using the holographic image of the human.
"We got a situation, Knock Out. The UEG advisor contacts the Autobot leader about the terrorist attack in Halo Installation 02. The PMC leader Dalton Stalgram reported it an hour ago," the female voice explains.
"Was he... Raine's partner you mention?" The Aston Martin asked.
"Yeah, that human I don't trust at first who took her before the thing's changed," she responded.
"You really have an issue of being overprotective, Nightly."
Hearing Nightblade's vent out of the sighs in the comms, "Ratchet will open the space bridge for you in few seconds." The colored green vortex rip opened in front of them when the red vehicle entered through to a different location.
Arrived at the command center of the base and the brand on the floor is the logo of the Autobot. In the command, there are ten members who are giant robots and then the red sports car transformed into the robot mode.
"Is everyone here?" Nightblade asked as three members came over to gather.
"We're here for now. What caused the trouble, Captain?" Green mech, Crosshairs, replied.
Nightblade turn to femme presses the button to put up on the screen of Raine who was defending herself and friend, the video feeds rewinds at few minutes before the video ended and plays the part where Raine question the security soldier and the detail the soldier explained. The team frowned as they know the description said. "Decepticon... there's no way that other fugitives are putting every member back together," Nightblade said.
"There is the list of Decepticons who hasn't show up in Cybertron and Earth from the centuries ago," The femme, Locklane, said as she put up the list of many Decepticons into the monitor. "Lugnut, Onslaught, Overlord, Blitzwing, Nitro Zeus, Dead End, Shockwave, and... Blue Vile..."
"We haven't heard of Shockwave since we tried to search the shelters around the Cybertron since the many centuries ago," Ratchet responded.
"Well, he didn't go the Earth to settle the shelter..." Knock Out replied. "Since Earth has changed."
When Nightblade thinks over the fact as it could be possible that Shockwave might've found the place elsewhere. But if it's not the planet, he might've found the hidden somewhere in the other Halo Installation.
"He might be hidden somewhere and set the shelter in Halo Installation," Nightblade said as everyone who stares at Nightblade. "I don't know if it's possible that Shockwave would be there, but there are many Halo Installation around the clusters."
"You think he had something to do with this involvement in Installation 02?" Locklane asked.
"I don't want to jump into conclusion... but it's possible," Nightblade said in uncertainty.
Back to Shield World: Entity, Shaine is dropping off her son to summer boarding school since she had other things to do since she had a call from UEG. Another day and another job that involves the secret situation on the holiday. But her son cannot believe that his parents are going back to work again at this time.
"I'm sorry for this, Dion, I'll be sure to make it up to you," Shaine said.
"It's fine, mom... But don't you think it's time to tell me what's been going on?" Her son begged.
"It's classified, son. I can't tell you everything when it comes to the military and the government."
Dion turns on the radio and listening to the music of the Electronic genre so that didn't make a boring silence... suddenly the radio changes in the transition to the news report. 'In the news report, the base in Halo Installation 02 is been silent since an hour ago from the UNSC and PMC. The admiral and PMC leader Dalton notified the possible it would be rebel terrorists, but they can't reveal the identity. The video has been leaked from one of the hackers who manage to identify the terrorist threats as the description revealed a-.'
Shaine immediately shut off the radio, "Damn people can't be sniffing out the stuff that isn't their business..."
"You think it would be Dark Krosheet?" Dion inquired.
"I don't know, son... but it's possible," Shaine answered as she stops her vehicle when they arrived in boarding school. "Okay, I'll be sure to contact you when I have time to chat." Watches her son getting off the Warthog. "I love you, son."
"Love you too, mom," Dion grab his suitcase and then he went over to the front door while his mother watches him.
Now Shaine drives her warthog to travel to the HQ and hopefully, she will see what worse things happen in the Halo Installation 02. Even she is worrying about her twin sister Raine-B313.
~End of Chapter 1~