A/N: Just this chapter until the special announcement will be announcement in the next one. I know you're all wondering what it is, but you will soon find out.

Disclaimer: I do not own Akame Ga Kiru and Halo. They belong to their rightful and respectful owners.


Akame, Leone, Seyru and Bols were ready to play the next mission. Many of them were excited that it was going to be back to normal like the other three games.

(Cutscene)

View of a dimly-lit room in the Superintendent's Data Center is shown, with an elevator car on the bottom of its shaft. The Rookie descends from the elevator shaft, and drops to the top of the elevator car.

Captain Veronica DareCOM: "(Static) They've got me cornered! I'm low on ammo! If you can hear me, I'm on sub-level nine, near station t-"

As Dare is cut off by static interference, the Rookie clicks his comlink with his fingers, and glances at the wall to his right, where the text "SUBLEVEL 07" is written, accompanied by the Superintendent's avatar.

(Gameplay)

Before going to the next room, everyone then searched in the first area, where Leone picked up a Shotgun. After stocking up on supplies, the four stealthily goes down the first service corridor, where they could hear a conversation between two grunts.

Grunt #1: "Why Yanme'e not yet seal this entrance?"

Grunt #2: "Too busy building fancy spit house!"

Grunt #1: "Nah. If traitor escape, it their fault, not ours."

"Who this 'traitor' then?" Seyru asked wondering who it is.

"Probably a Covenant." Leone guessed.

Grunt #3 (After spotting the four): "Alarm! Intruder, in tunnels!"

Taking out all of the enemies with ease, the four traverses through the facility, encountering small amounts of Covenant resistance. He then starts to pick up a conversation between the Superintendent and a lone survivor.

Brute: "This way! We have it trapped!"

Survivor: "Do it Vergil, now!"

Superintendent: "CONSTRUCTION AHEAD. EXPECT DELAYS."

Survivor: "I'm gonna die, you hear me!"

As the four pushes through a few Covenant lances, they rescue the survivor, who turns out to be an NMPD Officer.

Already, they were sceptical about this NMPD officer.

"If he does something stupid…." Leone started.

"We'll know what will happen." Mine bluntly stated as she was eyeing on the Officer.

NMPD Officer: "Thanks, Trooper, they almost had me. I'm trying to get down to the next level checking my team, but...this stack is locked down tight."

The Data-Stack suddenly activates when Akame approaches it.

Superintendent: "WELCOME. ACCESS GRANTED."

NMPD Officer: (whispering) "Guess you have the magic touch."

"Hmph. Magic doesn't exist in your world." Najenda pointed out. Queue Fives nodded at Najenda's statement.

Drones suddenly fly out of the shaft.

NMPD Officer: "Buggers, look out!"

The five quickly dispatch the Drones, taking minimal help.

"Great, do we have to deal with them?" Chelsea asked the Engineer.

"Of course." He nodded as they'll be encountering a lot of them.

NMPD Officer: "What's wrong with you, Vergil? You trying to get me killed?"

Superintendent: "WARNING! HITCHHIKERS MAY BE ESCAPED CONVICTS!"

With what the Superintendent had just said, everyone was beginning to not trust the Officer.

"Don't worry, we'll look out for this officer." Leone said as she was secretly planning to kill him in case he does anything that makes the wary.

The five descend down into the stack. They drop into a circular room. The five heads through a door.

NMPD Officer: "Can't see a damn thing. You go first."

The ODSTs can see Drones eating some bodies.

"What the hell…..?" Mine could say.

"They suddenly remind me of Danger Beast." Lubbock said uncomfortably as he watched the Drones eating the bodies.

NMPD Officer: "Son of a bitch! These are my guys. Buggers got all of them! (whispers) Now I'll have to check on the Doc myself..."

"I caught that." Leone said as she would hear him whisper.

"Same." Akame agreed.

NMPD Officer: (to the Rookie) "What are you doing down here, anyway? Don't want to tell me? That's all right...we all have secrets."

The five continue through many locked data stacks filled with Covenant.

Brute: "Seal all exits from the lower levels!"

The five defeat the Covenant forces. They eventually hit a dead end with a Data Stack.

NMPD Officer: "You going down to Level 9 too? Guess I could use some backup..."

Superintendent: "WELCOME. ACCESS GRANTED."

NMPD Officer: "Go ahead, trooper, raise the stack."

As the ODSTs jumps down, the officer jumps down with them.

After heading through the door, the two emerge into an icy hallway, with Covenant patrols and a War Chieftain ahead. The five kill all of them.

Jiralhanae War Chieftain: "Kill it! Don't let it get past!"

NMPD Officer: "Trooper, hold up a sec. I got to check on a...personnel issue."

"Something personal, eh?" Leone uttered.

"We should tag along with him." Seyru suggested.

"Good idea." Bols agreed.

The officer walks up to a door on the left side of the frozen room.

Superintendent: "CRIME SCENE. RESTRICTED ENTRY."

NMPD Officer: "Shut up, Vergil! You hear me?"

Superintendent: "ICY CONDITION. CHAINS REQUIRED."

NMPD Officer: "Freaking machine! The whole city's gone to hell... Wait here, watch for hostiles! I'll be back."

As the officer went into the frozen room, Akame, Leone, Seyru and Bols simply ignored the Officer's warning and soon enters the room,

NMPD Officer: "What are you, stupid?! I told you wait outside!"

In front of him, a frozen body is crouched against the wall.

"So that, Sadie's father." Tatsumi said.

"Poor guy." Sheele said with complete sympathy.

"Luckily, Kinsler got what he deserved." Bols said with complete satisfactory.

When Bols approaches the body:

NMPD Officer: "Step away from there. This ain't none of your business!"

NMPD Officer: "Kinsler gave me real specific instructions: Make sure the Doc's dead, and make double sure no one knows about it."

Superintendent: "CAUTION, TRAVELER! CAUTION!"

NMPD Officer: "Sorry, friend... You know way too much."

The Officer attempted to shoot at Seyru, but was soon shot but all four of them shot first, killing the officer.

"What a moron, thinking he could take all of us down." Leone said as he grabbed his ammunition and loading her shotgun.

Superintendent: "CRIME DOESN'T PAY. GOOD CITIZENS DO THEIR PART!"

Superintendent: "CRIME SCENE. RESTRICTED ENTRY."

Sadie Endesha (recording): "Can you get dad for me? Vergil can't reach him! Something's wrong..."

"Now that we found Sadie's father, can we have a moment of silence?" Seyru asked.

Everyone nodded in the room and soon they went silent for a good few minutes, before they all exited the room to resume the mission.

Wave, who was looking at Bols noticed a flamethrower in the corner of the room.

"Bols! Flamethrower!" He pointed out.

"Where?" He asked.

"In the corner of the room." Akame answered as she was looking at the weapon.

Bols went to where the Flamethrower was and picked it up. He decided to go behind the group and up ahead is a path. The hall starts to go from frozen to normal temperature.

DareCOM: "Buck? Who knows if he can hear me but... I'm sorry. I should have told you more about this mission, more... about everything."

At the end of the hallway is a Covenant lance, trying to break through a locked door. The four with the assistance of Bols kills them. The door at the end of the hallway opens.

Superintendent: "WELCOME. ACCESS GRANTED."

The door leads to a narrower hallway, with a locked door at the end. Akame knocks on the door.

(Cutscene)

The Rookie approaches the door cautiously, watching the hallway, SMG at the ready. He lowers it and knocks on the door two times. He readies his SMG again. The door opens and Dare pulls the lever on her pistol. Seeing the Rookie there, she looks surprised.

Dare: "It's you! I thought..."

Dare: "Never mind... What was your name again?"

"Rookie." Was everyone's answer in a sarcastic manner.

"Jeez, he needs to speak up one day." Lubbock said as he wasn't used to quiet people, with the exception of Akame and Kurome.

The two hear a Drone's screeching coming from the hallway.

Dare: "Inside! Now!"

The Rookie enters the room. Dare hits a button and the door closes and locks. Cut to one of the Superintendent's cameras. It looks over the room that Dare and the Rookie are in.

Dare: "This way, and stay quiet!"

The view cuts from the Superintendent to a view of the window, in which Dare and the Rookie can be seen walking towards the window. He displays the "Happy" expression upon seeing them.

Dare: "Some idiots blew the building at the top of the shaft."

It took a quick hint for everyone to realise who she was referring to. And that happened a couple of missions back.

"Oh, she's talking about Dutch and Mickey." Tatsumi realised.

"Well, I can totally remember what happened." Najenda remember the reaction that the Superintendent was pissed that the ONI building was blown up.

"Woke the whole hive."

A Drone crawls on the wall above the window, then flies away. The view goes inside the room. The Rookie walks up to the window.

Dare: "Down there? That's the Superintendent. The AI that runs every system in the city. My mission — our mission, is to secure the Superintendent's data."

"Wait, why?" Sheele asked as she was completely confused about it.

"Probably something important." Tatsumi guessed.

The view goes to the Superintendent's camera, showing the Rookie and Dare.

Dare: "Problem is, there's only one way in from here...right through the hive. It would've been suicide to go alone, and I was hoping for more backup. I guess you're it."

View returns to the room. Dare walks up to the exit.

Dare: "You've been solo since we dropped? Fighting on the surface?"

The Rookie nods his head.

Dare: "Unless you spent all night hiding in your pod...you must know your stuff."

"Oh, we shouldn't worry about that, besides he fought in the streets alone at night." Leone stated.

"And considering that he's not a Spartan, he survived where most of us would probably be dead." Run added.

Dare readies her pistol.

Dare: "Show me."

"We will." Leone said as she readies herself.

(Gameplay)

The four alongside dare head to the exit at the end of the room. Back at the hall, they encounter Covenant reinforcements.

Dare: "Company!"

The five defeat the first group with Bols taking in the most kills and encounter more groups Covenant.

"Great. How many are in there?" Leone asked as she picked up a Brute shot.

"We'll make it, don't worry." Akame assured to her friend.

Dare: "Hostile reinforcements!"

Bols and Akame destroy the reinforcements.

Dare: "This is just the start of the hive. It'll be worse down below. Come on, we'll have to find a way down."

Dare: "Here, trooper, through the door."

The five make their way to the hole.

Dare: "We'll have to jump."

Without waiting or stalling, the four jumps through the hole and lands hard, injuring themselves slightly. Dare jumps after them. They emerge into a huge room. The five turn into another room with a Covenant patrol. The four and Dare kill all of them and turn right, into a huge cavern like room with Covenant crates all around. Bols put down the Flamethrower as it was out of fuel.

Dare: "It's getting warmer. We must be right under the hive. Head across the bridge. Let's see if we can find a way up."

The group make their way across the bridge, heading left to an open door.

Dare: "Trooper! Through here."

The door opens to a small room with another door, locked, and an elevator.

Dare: "I found an elevator! Come to me."

The four gets on the elevator and activates it. It starts to go up.

Superintendent: "ELEVATOR UP. NEXT STOP:"

The Superintendent doesn't finish the sentence, but Dare speaks up.

Dare: "...bugger central."

"Oh God." Leone groaned as she didn't like the sound of that.

"We can thanks Dutch and Mickey for waking up a whole hive." Wave commented.

Dare: "We can't go back. We have to keep pushing through."

Picking up Covenant Carbines in a nearby crater, they eliminate more enemies as they move on towards their destination.

Dare: "Good shooting, trooper. Keep it up! We're almost there."

They encounter more Drones.

"Just how many are in there?" Mine wondered.

"Well, since it's a hive, I would say a lot." Chelsea stated.

"Good thing they're not here." Lubbock sighed in relief.

Dare: "Follow me. I see a way across. The data center is close."

The door at the end leads to a narrow hallway. At the end, a short drop leads to an open door. The door opens to a huge room, with the data center in the middle. A Phantom arrives.

Dare: "Won't be long before they smash through that door. Let's take them out, now!"

The two run to the door, where a Brute Chieftain and his bodyguards are trying to break in.

Brute Chieftain: "(roars) Open this door, traitor!"

Superintendent: "SPAY AND NEUTER YOUR PETS. ALL DOGS MUST BE KEPT ON LEASH!"

Brute Chieftain: "By the Prophets... You will pay for your insolence!"

The group engages the enemies and defeat most of them, with only the Chieftain left. He tries to swing his hammer at Seyru, but was soon shot by a plasma bolt which was shot by Akame. Enraged, he activated his invincibility and tried to hit the group, to which they narrowly avoided it.

"I'll try to go for the back." Leone said as she was rushing behind the Chieftain.

"Be careful." Akame warned her friend.

As the Chieftain's invincibility finishes, Leone goes behind his back and punch it, killing the enemy.

Dare: "Something tells me you're not actually a rookie..."

"Why thank you, considering that we fought a whole Night alone." Leone responded to Dare's compliment.

Superintendent: "WELCOME. ACCESS GRANTED."

Dare: "Nice and slow. Check your corners."

The door opens to a slanting hallway with another door at the end. That door opens to a hallway with a scanning device. At the end is another door, which opens to the entrance to the data center.

(Cutscene)

The view shifts to inside the data center. The entrance opens to reveal the Rookie and Dare standing outside. They walk in slowly, weapons at the ready. At the end of the room is what appears to be the data core. As the two look at it, a spark lights off in it and there is a strange noise. The door closes on them. Dare activates the flashlight on her pistol. She points it at the core.

The view goes to the Superintendent. The camera is above the Rookie and Dare.

Superintendent (on-screen): "CRITICAL ERROR [MEMCORE 530.21 OFFLINE]. EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN INITIATED."

The screen goes to static, then shuts off entirely.

Scene cuts back to the Rookie and Dare as they walk to the core. Suddenly, Dare's flashlight shows a small tentacle sticking out of a hole in the core.

"Wait- Mine was about to say.

"A Huragok." Tatsumi finsiehd.

Just then, they heard Queue Fives laughing cheerfully. And one person knows why.

"Do you know this one?" Kurome asked.

"Yes." Queue Fives answered. "That Engineer is called Quick To Adjust and he is the only other one I know."

"Quick To Adjust? Sounds like a strange name." Leone said.

"Queue Fives?" The Huragok countered.

"Oh right."

Dare will raise her pistol but the Rookie stops her and shakes his head. He then whistles as a token of friendship. A long and thin head sticks out from the terminal. The view goes to the pair, where it reveals it's a Huragok.

"Oh." Leone realised what it was.

"So that was the valuable target." Najenda added as she was looking at the Huragok.

Dare: "We've seen them before on other ops, but we've never gotten this close."

Dare places her pistol on the floor.

Dare: "Best we can tell? They're prisoners, or slaves. Either way, they don't like the Covenant any more than we do."

The Huragok comes close to them, as the Rookie step forward in curiosity, and reaches out his hand close to the Huragok.

Dare: "The Slipspace event fried most of the Superintendent's circuits. I thought it might be finishing the job.

The Rookie lowers his hand.

Dare: "But now I see that you weren't trying to hurt the Superintendent."

Dare reaches out her hand and puts it close to the Huragok.

Dare: "You were trying to fix it."

"Aww" Every girl except Akame, Najenda and Esdeath said.

"At least we have one here." Wave looked at Queue Fives and soon pets his head.

The Engineer points his head toward an explosive charge on his back. Dare reaches up and takes it off.

"That was nice for her to do that." Mine admitted as she is beginning to know that some ONI operatives are nice.

Dare reaches out and the Huragok appears to sniff her hand.

Dare: "ONI calls them Engineers, believes they're some sort of biological supercomputers. If I'm right, this one's taken the Superintendent's data and combined it with its own."

"Ahh, now I see why you like Delta." Bulat said while looking at Queue Fives in a friendly manner.

"Thank you and she really treat me very well." Queue Fives informed them. "Sometimes, I comfort her."

"You're really nice you know that?" Tatsumi said and the Engineer nodded.

Dare starts to pat the Huragok's head.

Dare: "Everything we need to know about the Covenant, what they're looking for under the city is right...in...here."

A beeping noise from the core catches their attention. The Huragok floats toward it and uses a tentacle to push a button, revealing a small monitor. The Superintendent zooms in on some Jet Pack Brutes landing on the rooftop. The view goes back to the room. Dare approaches the monitor.

Dare: "Damn! Buggers must have raised the alarm."

The Superintendent zooms out of the Brutes and zooms in on a black figure. It's an ODST.

Dare: "Buck!"

Gunnery Sergeant Edward BuckCOM: "Veronica? Where the hell are you?"

Dare: "Data Center, but we're coming out."

BuckCOM: "We?"

The Superintendent zooms in on him from another camera.

Dare: "No time to explain but do not, I repeat, do not shoot anything pink!"

"I hope he doesn't shoot him." Sheele said as she patted Queue Fives head.

BuckCOM: "Whatever you say, just come on!"

The view goes back into the data center, where Dare picks up her pistol.

Dare: "Those Brutes are here for the Engineer. They'll kill it if they get the chance."

Dare pulls the lever on the pistol.

Dare (to the Engineer): "You. Stay behind me. Okay?"

Dare then nods to the Rookie, who's standing next to the door. The Rookie opens the door. They both raise their weapons.

(Gameplay)

The six head back to the exit. Both troopers have energy shields now, provided by the Engineer.

"Oh man, I forgot about this." Leone said as she looked at Akame.

"I could do this too you know." Queue Fives informed them.

"Are you sure?" Stylish asked.

"I'm sure." Queue Fives answered as he soon gives everyone a temporary shield.

"Woooooow!" Lubbock looked at the over shield.

"Now tis would be proved useful." Tatsumi commented.

"And I wish we had one." Esdeath admitted.

Dare: "The Engineer still has shields, but they won't last long in a firefight. Take point, clear a path to Buck."

Outside, two Jet Pack Brutes jump out while a Phantom drops off more. The four and Dare defeat them. They soon see Buck in the distance battling more Covenant.

Dare: "Go, trooper! I'll cover the Engineer."

The four clears out most of the Covenant.

Buck: "Veronica! Over here! Hurry!"

Once all the Covenant are eliminated:

Buck: "Rookie? I could use a hand over here. Come on!"

Buck and the six regroup. A door opens to the right.

Buck: "This is our exit, Rookie. Head through the door."

Behind the door is a short hallway leading to a hole. The Rookie and the others drop inside a dark room filled with sleeping Drones. They can either fire on them or sneak past. Buck is now protected by the Engineer's shields as well.

Buck: "About this uh, asset. Feel free to fill me in whenever."

Dare: "Not now, Buck!"

"Let's take them out silently." Akame recommended as she sneaked up on one.

Buck: "Whoah. Easy does it, Rookie."

Silently taking out the drones, an opening in the left part of the room leads to the hallways that look like the ones at the beginning. The four head to a right.

Buck: "Door's locked. Damn!"

Dare: "Don't worry. We have a key."

The Engineer heads to the door and starts unlocking it.

"Okay, can you do that?" Stylish asked the Engineer.

"Of course, reclaimer." Queue Fives answered.

Buck: "I've seen hundreds of these things today! Why is this one so important?"

Dare: "This Engineer knows what the Covenant is after. If I could safely capture more of them I would. What they know can win the war!"

Buck: "Oh."

Dare: "You haven't...killed any of them, have you?"

"Yep/yeah." Everyone apart from Bulat, Stylish, Esdeath and Najenda said.

"Yeah, Romeo killed one." Lubbock remembered.

Buck: "No! Well, maybe one or... two."

Mine and Dare (Sarcastically): Nice work."

Buck: "How was I supposed to know?"

After this conversation, the Engineer successfully opens the door. Up ahead, more sleeping Drones are spotted. The seven simply ignore them. The seven head to a door at the end of the hall. It leads to a small room with an elevator. At this point, the Drones awake and start attacking.

Dare: "Buggers! Stay alert!"

The Drones are defeated.

Buck: "Elevator. Come on."

The level ends as the four gather on the elevator.

Level ends.

As the level ends, Leone, Akame, Seyru and Bols put their controllers down in the table.

"Man, I can't wait for the next mission." Tatsumi said.

"That's good because this is the final mission." Queue Fives informed the group.

"Final mission?" Kurome said as she was liking that it was going back to normal.

"But…." Queue Fives spoke. "I recommended Tatsumi, Mine, Kurome and Wave to play the next mission.~

"Why?" Kurome asked.

"You'll wait and see." Queue Fives answered.

With that said and done, Kurome, Mine, Tatsumi and Wave picks up the controller to play the final mission of ODST.


A/N: There you have it. The final chapter of ODST and the special announcement/ surprise for all of you. Just to let you know, I'm going with the pair simply because of two reasons, which will be shown in the next chapter. Hope you'll enjoy it.