The 7 foot Spartan towered over Lupa and Lacy and the orange visor shined bright. Lacy and Lupa looked up in horror at him and ran behind a tree from the 'Robot'. Suddenly Lincoln felt a sharp pain in his chest and legs. He fell to the ground as he felt himself going in and out of consciousness. He crawled over to the end of the crater and rolled onto his back. He looked at his barely working visor and it showed a flickering human skeletal system. It started to glow red on the right side of the ribs and knees. 2 ribs snapped while the Knees were out of place and his arm snapped in half from his descent. The jell layer in his suit was keeping them in place but he still felt a throbbing pain in his chest as he gasped for air. His vision went fuzzy as the monitor was showing that his suit was losing power… and fast. He attempted to stand from pushing himself up but failed and collapsed on the ground as if 500 pounds were placed on his shoulders. His suit ran out of power and he lay there motionless and alone. The lights on his helmet flickered and finally shut off. He was on full lockdown mode again. His vision went fuzzy as he backed out again.
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"Is it clear?" Lacy asked
Lupa peeked over the log and saw the unconscious spartan lay lifeless on the floor.
"Yeah," Lupa replied "we're good."
The two girls took a step out and peered at the unconscious spartan.
"You sure?" Lacy said
"It looked like it was losing its shit so yeah," Lupa said
Lacy looked to her right and saw a stick that was more than 3 feet long. She picked it up and walked over to it. She pointed the stick at it but held a running stance. She pushed the Robots' head and there was no resistance but the dirt. She tried again with its' hand and poked its fingers
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Nothing.
"I guess its batteries died," Lupa said as she walked over to him.
"Lupa! Get back! You don't know what that thing touched!" Lacy scolded
"Calm your tits sis." It's fine she said as she kicked its' leg
'Ughhh' He groaned from the strike
Both of them shut their mouths and peered at its head as it moved to the right. They both looked at each other and looked back at it.
"Did that thing just groan?!" Lacy said
"Sounded like it." She said as she kicked it harder in the part where the metal pieces didn't cover
'Nghhhhh,' It groaned louder
"Lupa…"
"Yeah?..."
"Do it again…"
Lupa stuck him with a lot of force at the knee causing the leg to move.
"AGHHHhhh..." He cried
"...Lupa…"
"...Yeah…"
"I don't think this is a robot at all…"
Lacy walked over to the knocked out spartan and attempted to flip him over.
"C-c-come on," Lacy tried "Move!"
Lupa joined in and managed to flip him over in a struggle. He rolled over on his back with a loud clunk. Lacy looked at that bulky armor in awe and grazed her hand on his breastplate. She placed her ear on the armor and tuned everything out. There was silence for everything but a faint thumping of a heart. She looked up at the helmet and moved her hands over to it. She explored every inch of the helmet and felt nubs on the bottom of the helmet. She looked at the shiny visor and heard a click when she pushed down on the nubs. There was a faint hissing sound as she pulled it off slowly. It was still black suiting until she saw a white chin. She gasped and pulled it further. Soon the face was fully unveiled. It was a man that looked no older than 30 with white hair and blood from cuts on his face.
"My God," she whispered to herself "You are one beautiful motherfucker."
She placed the helmet down and took a cake napkin she had in her pocket and began to wipe the blood off. It had begun to crust on his skin so she forcefully rubbed him. She had used all of her napkins and looked at the face like artwork.
"So what are we going to do with him?" Lupa asked
"I don't… I don't know," She said
"...Should I get dad?" She asked
"No!" She snapped "Dad would freak out if we found someone like this!"
"True…" she said "But who is he?"
Lacy looked at his face and squinted her eyes. It was a face she recognized and one she knew well. It was nudging at the back of her head but couldn't find the words to say it. Suddenly it flashed before her.
"He looks like dad." She said
Lupa looked at him and squinted as well.
"I can see it," She said as she put a cigarette in her mouth
"Yeah, I know," Lacy stated
"So what are we going to do with him," Lacy said
"I say we put the helmet back on and take it to aunt Lisa," Lupa said "She deals with stuff like this."
"That's… a good idea," Lacy said
Lacy cautiously put the helmet back on and grabbed his right arm while Lupa took his left. They began to drag the lifeless body on the dirt ground. A thick line of separated dirt was being made from his legs dragging on the ground. They grunted while they dragged him with a lot of sweat forming on their foreheads. They kept on dragging the 1210 pound man and dragged him all the way to a tree. Suddenly Lupa let go and felt a sharp pain in her bottom back.
"Ah son of a bitch," she swore "I hurt my back!"
"That's why you pull with your legs," Lacy said as she continued to struggle to drag the spartan. "Now come back and help me!"
Lupa huffed and grabbed the arm of the spartan. They continued to drag him to the entrance of the party dungeon.
"Ok, leave him here." Lacy said as she let go of his arms "I'll go get her."
"Ok," Lupa replied as she blew smoke into the air
Lacy ran to the double doors as the sun finally set on the dungeon and opened and peeked in. The family had finished cleaning the cake and Lizy was happily playing with her mom and Lyra. She looked to her right and saw no sign of her dad. She jumped into the building and ran to the girl's restroom. She peered into each stall in the cracks. There was no sign of aunt Lisa. She ran to the arcade corner and zoomed through the isles.
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She was about to run to the kitchen when she bumped into a mass. She was knocked down and she fell on her ass. She looked up to see her grandmother talking to her mom.
"Lacy?" Lynn said, "What's wrong?"
"N-nothing mom!" Lacy stuttered "you haven't seen aunt Lisa have you?"
"No honey- wait somethings happening, what is it?" Lynn crossed her arms
"It's nothing…" Lacy said
Lacy began to walk in between them until Lynn grab her daughter.
"Honey I know when your lying," Lynn scolded "what did you do."
"Mom it's no-" Lacy was about to say before Lupa cut her off
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH" She screamed from the outside
Every head snapped to the entrance.
"Oh no…" Lacy muttered
She dashed with everyone in a quick rush. The doors were slammed open and what they saw was shocking. The white armored Spartan had gotten up and was now pinning Lupa by the neck onto a tree with a spiker pointed straight at her forehead. Lupa was scared beyond belief with the cigar that fell onto the ground.
"What is the exact planet, you insurrectionist bastard!" He demanded as he pressed the girl harder onto the bark
"I-I-I t-told-d you, this i-is Earth!" Lupa sputtered out
"Bullshit!" He said
"LUPA!" Lucy cried out to her daughter and rushed to get her
Suddenly he looked over at her as he held a spiker. He let Lupa go which made her fall to the ground with a thump and aimed a plasma rifle at her head. The electricity from it glowed bright blue and Lucy stopped in her tracks. There was complete silence and he looked at the Loan. She immediately ran behind her mom and held Bobby jr. close as she looked at him. Suddenly lights on each side of his helmet began to flicker and soon it flashed on. But then he saw a yellow glow surround him and a 'wooming' was heard.
"I am going to ask you this one more time," He said "Where is the nearest UNSC outpost…"
"UNS… WHAT!" Lynn yelled "I don't know what you are… ROBOT but that is my niece and she is being held, hostage, which is a CRIME YOU KNOW!"
"Mommy, I'm scared," Lizy said as she hugged Lana
"It's ok sweety, just get inside," She said as she rushed Lizy inside while Loan and Bobby jr. followed.
"Look," Lucy said as she teared up "I don't want my daughter to get hurt… please… let her go… I'll do anything."
"Lucy I'll take care of this," Luna said
"No, Luna!" She snapped "She's my daughter!"
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"Wait? L-Luna? Lucy?" he said "That's impossible, They left the Ark and made it to earth!"
"What?" Lemy said
"Nothing, now shut up before I melt all of you insurrectionist!" he said
Suddenly he saw his shield fash and felt a blow being stuck behind him. He turned around to see another white-haired man 1 foot and a half smaller than him. He was wielding a stick that was wider than his actual hand. He looked at him and dropped both of his guns and pulled out a metal stick with rounded ends and a little erection in the middle. He flicked his wrist and suddenly it illuminated 2 blue blades with blue mist surrounding it. He slashed the stick causing it to split in half. Lincoln dropped the stick and stepped back while the Spartan took 2 steps forward. Suddenly the Spartan Lunged at him, abruptly he felt a sharp pain in his knees. He missed Lincoln and fell to the ground and dropped his energy sword into a pile of dirt. He turned over onto his back and tried to get up but his knees didn't respond. He looked up and saw Lincoln, Lucy, Lynn, Lana, Lola, Lori, Leni, Lisa, Luan, and Luna surround him. He grabbed the energy sword and begun to swing wildly, keeping them back. Lisa pulled the plasma rifle off the ground and aimed it at the concrete, upside down. She gripped the long metal piece linking them and squeezed the movable trigger. It spewed a ball of blue plasma and it struck the ground making the family flinch and move. Lisa looked at it in complete shock, she had been working for years to make functional plasma weaponry for a deal she made with the military. She was to make several portable plasma handheld guns but they all seemed to fail due to the plasma melting the casing. She swung the upside-down plasma rifle at the helmet of the Spartan and was about to squeeze the trigger. The Spartan pointed his sword at him as all the parents surrounded him.
"STOP!" Lacy shouted
Suddenly Lacy came through Leni and Lynn and turned to them.
"Lacy! Move! This is the machine going to be left into nuts and bolts." Lynn said
"Stop! Don't hurt him!" She yelled at them
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"Him?" Lisa said as she lowed the upside-down plasma rifle
Lacy turned around and faced him.
"Hey…" Lacy said, "Are you ok…"
The Spartan kept quiet as he held the sword at her.
"It seems you were hurt really bad…" she said "You look like you could need some help."
She got on her knees and rubbed his leg. He still had the sword pointed at her but the tone of her voice seemed to say she was no threat. She rubbed higher up his leg until she felt his knee. He hissed from the pain that went through his body.
She let go of his leg and put her hands on her lap.
"Look…" She said, "I don't know where you're from… and I know you're confused… but we're not here to hurt you."
"What are you talking about!" Lupa shouted, "He tried to kill me!"
"Shut up Lupa!" Lacy shouted back
She looked at him and said "Hey… I don't want to kill you… I want to help you heal."
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He let the energy sword disappear and dropped the handle onto the ground. Lacy looked as the handle fell to the ground and he held his chest. She leaned forward while looking at him. He didn't resist and felt her hands grasp the bottom of his helmet. They heard two buttons click and a hissing noise was heard. Loan and the rest of the children surrounded him. Lacy slowly took off the helmet and they all gasped as a man with white hair and bloodshot eyes with cuts that were bleeding on his face was shown. She looked at him until she heard a thump coming from behind them. Lisa and Lola had dropped the weapons and were now crying.
"O-oh my… god… I-I-I almost killed a human being!" Lola cried
"Lacy?! What is happening!?" Lincoln shouted, "Who is this guy?!"
"I-I-I'm so sorry," Leni cried as she put her hands to her mouth "I didn't k-know."
Luna ran to his side and took off her shirt which left her with an undershirt that is partially see-through.
"A-are you hurt" Luna questioned as she whipped the blood from his face
"M-my diagnostics say that I broke my knees, shattered my right arm, and broke 4 ribs," He said "I need help…"
"Oh shit this is bad," She said as she rushed inside "I'll grab the first aid!"
"H-hello! 911! Y-Yes, we have a man here and he's hurt really bad!" Lana said as she was on the phone "H-he says he has broken ribs and bones! Yes, an ambulance!"
"Lacy! What is happening!" Lemy yelled over all of the commotions
"I-I don't know." She said, "All I know is that he fell out of the sky."
"Wait? Fell out of the sky?" Leina asked
"Maybe?! I don't know!" Lacy replied
Lyra looked at the Spartan and asked "How did you get here?"
"I don't know," He replied as he sat himself up "All I know is that the covenant was finally defeated after Truth's death but we had to escape from the flood. But the Arbiter and Spartan 117 lit the halo and I was launched into the slip space stream by myself. I passed out but I remember waking up in the crater. But we should really get going. There are definitely going to be Covenant Scouts looking for me."
They all just sat in silence and no one said anything. They were processing what he had just said but none of it made sense. Finally, Liby put her hands together and pointed them at him.
"What?" Liby said
"T-the Covenant… Flood... The countless humans massacred during the war on humanity declared on by the Covenant... the Halo rings?" He said
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"What?" Lyra asked
"Have you been living under a rock!" He snapped "Millions of humans and thousands of human colony worlds have been glassed beyond recognition! New Mombasa was destroyed and the UNSC's Navy fleet lies in ruins!"
"Hey don't get snappy at me big buy!" Leya said "And there's no place on Earth called New Mombasa. And what the hell is the UNSC!"
"What's the UNSC?! You've been protected by them for the past 400 years!" He said "We fought the covenant in the glassing of Reach! What year do you think it is!"
"It's 2023 dumb ass!" Lupa shouted at him
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"You're joking… right," he said "It's 2552, the year the great Covenant/Human war ended."
"What the hell is the covenant?" Lyra asked
He looked up into the sky and saw no moving dots. There were just stationary stars that populated the sky. There was no orbiting wreckage of covenant or human ships in the lower atmosphere from the battle of Earth. He looked back down at the cars and saw that they were so old and inefficient.
"Give me your mobile," he said
Lacy reached into her pocket and pulled out her I-phone and put in the password. The screen lit up into multiple apps and pictures. She entered the calendar app and looked at the date.
"Here," She held up the device to meet him "see, August 23rd, 2023."
"That's... impossible," he said as he gazed in shock at the phone
"So do you believe us now?" Lemy asked as he tapped his fingers on a tree
"I...I… I don't know." He said, "S-so I am on Earth?"
"Yeah, so what do you mean by all of that. Like the Covenant, Flood, or Halo things." Lupa asked as she put another cigarette in her mouth
"That's… it's… it's nothing." He said as he pushed his hands on his head
"Well we need to get you well," Lizy said as she leaned on his shoulder
"Yeah," he said as he looked at his legs and sighed "This is going to hurt."
He grasped his knee and pushed it down, he yelled in pain as his knees began to move. Lacy and the rest of her half-siblings closed their eyes and covered her ears. Suddenly there was a large POP and he stopped yelling. He lay down and stopped screaming in agony. Lincoln and the rest of the parents rushed to his side and began to panic.
"What happened!" Lincoln yelled
"I fixed them…" He said
He moved his leg and it responded as he hissed in pain. He looked up and extended his arm to Lincoln. He understood what the Spartan wanted and grasped it. He pulled himself up and grabbed the bark of a tree as he stood. He let go and stood at his height of over 7 feet. The Spartan attempted to walk but he felt a soft pain in his legs. He brushed it off and began to walk over to the dropped weapons on the ground. He bent down and grabbed the Plasma rife and the spiker. He looked at the family as sirens were heard in the distance.
"Ambulances should be here anytime now," Lyra said
"I-I just need one explanation…" Lisa said, "Who are you?!"
Lacy and Lupa zipped their mouths and they looked at the Spartan.
"Sierra 747," he said, "I-I can't explain further without confusing you all."
"Ok, 747," Lori said " Don't get smart with me. What is your real name."
"That's classified." 747 said
"Cool! Are you like a spy or secret agent or something!?" Lemy said star struck
747 was about to answer before Lizy cut him off.
"No he's not," she said "He's too big to be sneaky."
"Ok then let's ask him," Leia said "Hey big boy, what do you do for a living?"
"That's classified," 747 said
"Oh come on, everything about you is classified," Lola huffed
The sirens got closer and suddenly an ambulance pulled up beside them. 2 paramedics jumped out and rushed over to the family.
"Where is the person with broken legs?!" one of them shouted
"He's right here," Lacy said as she pointed at 747
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"Ms, it's not ok or funny to make fake phone calls to 911." one of them relaxing their arms "He's perfectly fine, granted he's wearing a weird costume but nothing is out of the ordinary."
"W-what?!" Lacy said
"He's perfectly fine," the other one said "He's standing with no problem."
Lacy was about to speak but then 747 walked over to the pair of paramedics and towered over them by 2 feet. They both cowered in fear as they realized how massive he was. He raised his hand and waved them off.
"I'm ok," 747 said "We are sorry for wasting your time."
They both breathed a sigh of relief and said nothing because of 747's intimidation tequinc of just standing there. They turned away and walked to the ambulance and a rumble was heard as the engine started. They both looked back at 747 as he grabbed his helmet and slipped it back on. The ambulance backed away and sped off. He turned to see them all left in shock.
"You massive fucking idiot!" Lola swore, "Now the paramedics think that we fake injuries now!"
747 turned away and began to walk into the woods.
"Hey, where do you think you're going!" Lori said as she ran in front of him
"I'm going to Earth… my Earth," he said as he pushed her aside