A/N Hello, welcome back to a new story. I think this would be a pretty cool theme to do and wanted to try it out let me know what you guys think and any suggestions would be appreciated. Anyways hope you enjoy it!
This is a work of creative fiction utilizing creative assets from 'Halo' and 'Star wars', All intellectual and creative assets are the respective property of their franchise owners.
Halo: A new frontier
-Prologue-
September 9th 2557
09:00 hours UNSC Standard
Bridge of the Infinity, INF-101
Battle against Covenant loyalists
Shield World Requiem
Epoloch System
The bridge shook violently as a barrage of Plasma rounds lit up the surrounding space as the unrelenting beating from the CSO- supercarrier the Long night of Solace cast a shadow on the defence fleet as the shields took a massive brunt of the damage.
"Captain shields are at only 5% I suggest we recall what's left of our escort and retreat" Roland the ship's AI told captain Lasky as he stabilised himself.
"Roland Recall our fighters and Frigates get them Docked ASAP!" he shouted over the blaring general quarter's alarm, as a flight of Longswords buzzed past the bridges windows pursued closely by two Banshees, "Tell Palmer to get her men aboard now we are leaving!" he added.
"Captain, I advise we execute an emergency slipspace jump as soon as our forces have come on board!" Roland advised Lasky.
Just as Roland finished Palmer ran in through the badly damaged door, her white armour marked with Plasma burns and mud as she ripped her helmet off barging in as again the ship shook violently.
"Palmer status report!" Lasky shouted.
"Captain! We have suffered heavy losses, Only fireteam Crimson has returned so far with the majority of our forces either destroyed or trapped on the surface" she shouted as she ran to the holo table, heavily out of breath.
"Sir only 5 of the ten remaining frigates are left and have docked in the sub-vessel deployment bays with 84% of our fighters and Pelicans returned" Lt Jasperson shouted as a flurry of personnel began to run around the bridge as the Navigations Officer added on "Sir Slip space jumped is planned and ready to execute!".
Roland confirmed this as a plasma torpedo slammed into the hull breaching the armour, "Sir we have lost shields and Armour integrity is falling" he reported.
"Initiate Jump tell-all UNSC forces they will have to hold out we have to get out order all personnel into brace positions" Lasky replied as he paced to a command console to assess the damage but he did a huge explosion ripped through the ship just as they spooled up the Slip space drive they listed to the left as a Slip Space portal opened up in front of them.
"Captain, that torpedo damaged the Slip Space navigation computer! We have hull breaches on decks 3, 9 and 17" Roland reported.
"Shit! Shut it down now Roland, don't let us Jump!" Lasky bellowed as both Roland and the crew frantically worked to shut down the Jump but with little success.
"Captain the drive is non-responsive, we are getting no readings," Roland told him.
"Prepare all crew in brace positions!" Lasky Shouted as he sat down in a chair nearby strapping himself down as did the other bridge crew.
"All crew brace positions, Brace! Brace! Brace!" Roland came over the PA system around the ship. A massive portal opened up in front of them as they began to enter a blinding white light shot through the bridge glass as the Infinity violently shook side to side. Sparks flew as wires broke their holdings scattering high voltage hazards around the ship as mass fires broke out. The Increasing G-forces peaked at 14 G's as the crew began to individually blackout as finally Lasky succumbed and passed out.
-End of Prologue-
The slipspace portal opened in the darkness of space, the middle of nowhere, suddenly the Infinity shot out at an unbelievable speed with a huge roar as flames, smoke and debris trailed behind the crippled ship. A trail of blood, into the unknown space.
"All crew Actions stations, Damage control report to decks 3 through 15" Roland announced his voice slightly louder to wake up the crew, the majority had passed out through the intense G forces.
The bridge crew started to rise as Captain Lasky stood up holding his head as did Palmer on the opposite side to the console. Looking around he could see wires and bits of metal ceiling on the floor as what remained of his crew rushed around, some putting out small fires with extinguishers others getting back to their consoles.
"Shit Roland status report!" Lasky shouted.
"Captain the Infinity has suffered minor hull damage, we are running on emergency backup power, Shields need recharging and we have spent 85% of currently loaded ammunition, we still have over 75% of our current missiles. But Compliment wise we only have half our frigates docked with 3 jammed in the launch bays and a significant number of our fighters were damaged and we are venting atmosphere on decks 29 and 12" He listed off to the Captain who stood there silently taking in the information, Palmer looked over to him.
"How many people did we lose?" he asked solemnly.
"We haven't finished an official count… but estimates say around 500," Roland told the Captain as he took this in, he sighed.
"Also when we jumped the majority of our Spartan forces were still deployed on requiem we only had a single Fireteam," Palmer told the Captain as if his mood couldn't get any worse, this did.
"Shit! Shit! Shit!Goddammit! Where the hell are we anyway? Reach?" Lasky shouted before turning to Roland who stood in his flight costume on the console. Roland began to look like he was calculating as he pondered on the question.
"Uh..hmmm well captain I'm not sure how to put this but… I have no idea Sir, from my current database there are no known coordinates that match this area" He told the captain as he scanned the surrounding space to triangulate where they could be.
"What...What do you mean ?" Palmer asked in disbelief.
"You got any ideas then Roland?" Lasky asked.
"Well if I think that star is using some of their onboard mapping systems then I believe that we could… we'll be in the Andromeda Galaxy…" Roland slowly finished as the Captain looked at him dumbfounded as did Palmer matching his expression.
"The Andromeda Galaxy?" Palmer asked again, raising one eyebrow as if Roland was playing a trick, "Are you sure Roland?" Lasky asked.
"96.7% sure, Somehow the damage we took during the battle over requiem damaged our Slipspace drive, we had a power surge as we were about to jump causing it to shoot us past our original destination. Which would explain the immense G-forces compared to a regular jump, This is just a theory, however, Captain." Roland explained to the two pauses letting the captain take the information in.
Lasky sighed as Palmer spoke up, "Captain permission to speak freely?"
"Go ahead, Commander".
"Roland pull up the initial maps of this system," she asked as a blue hologram popped up from the table as Roland stood in the corner. It showed a single planetoid with two moons as they orbited a single star.
"So with some initial scans, it indicates that both a single moon designated Zulu-013 and the Planetoid Zulu-012 both have an oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere, I suggest we land and start to conduct repairs setting up a FOB, we don't know what's in this Galaxy we have to be prepared for another potential covenant style engagement" Commander Palmer explained gesturing to the largest moon.
"What do you think Roland?" Lasky asked, considering the Commander's plan.
"Captain I agree with the commander, from our basic scans the moon indicates high mineral density and a suitable place to conduct some repairs, I would also suggest using our experimental cloaking systems to mask the ship until complete." Roland concurred with Palmer.
A small alert began to sound as the Captain was drawn to the sound. A crewmember turned around a confused look on his face.
"Captain...um...uh I'm getting a strange reading I have never seen before, some sort of energy surge" The crewman reported as in a flash Roland appeared next to both the captain and crew member to look at the data.
Suddenly a small task force of ships appeared from the darkness with a flash as the captain stroked his face and thought as the bare skeletal-like ships cruised into orbit.
"Have they detected us yet Roland?" Lasky asked.
"Unsure sir, but it doesn't look like they seem to be launching landing craft towards the planet" Roland replied as he carried out more scans.
"Good Keep it that way until we know more we stay hidden to keep us on Battle stations, get pilots ready and get weapons ready to fire, Adapt our experimental ground cloaking devices to hide this vessel. I want eyes and ears all over that planet now. Get to it, Roland."
Lasky moved away from the table as the infinity moved with a slight jolt as a faint whir from the engines picked up, as he walked around the bridge checking in at all the stations as Roland disappeared to get the Infinity cloaked. As the distant thunder of boots echoed down the corridors. He turned back and called Palmer.
"What's the status of Fireteam Crimson?" he asked.
"Ready to go Captain 5 Spartan IV's at your command" Palmer reported.
"Good, Get them prepped on Quick reaction, Be ready for anything" Lasky warned before turning back and staring out the windows his arms behind his back as Palmer stood to attention, Saluting then leaving as she returned to S-deck. He watched as the Infinity spun round to bring the luscious green planet into view, with the smaller continental moon in front as they began speeding towards the unknown enemies as a shimmer spread across the glass showing that they were cloaked.
Fireteam Crimson
Canteen
S-Deck
UNSC Infinity
13:00 Hours UNSC Standard
September 9th 2557
"Oi! Eve grab us water while you're up!" Crimson 4, Edward Davis shouted to his twin sister, Evie Davis from the table in the canteen where 2 of the spartan IV's sat, she grunted and walked back over with her food and another bottle of water on her tray as she sat back with her brother, looking fairly identical both with blonde hair and blue eyes the only way you could tell them apart was that Evie had shoulder-length hair whilst Ed had his shaven. The other member that sat with them was a dark-haired spartan in a black bodysuit. Crimson 3, Joel Rosseau a Frenchman he was the team's rifleman and the 2nd youngest and the three were the closest that most spartans get in a lifetime.
The ship shuddered as they began to move, "Oh looks like we are moving again, Good thing nothing was damaged eh I don't do well in the vacuum of space" Jokes Joel.
"Yeh nice one trigger no one seems too" Ed snorted.
"Here is your water" Evie threw it at Ed as she sat down and smacked Ed in the face causing him to turn.
"Ouch, watch it dipshit" Ed shouted at his sister, as she and Joel started laughing as a look of thunder came over Ed.
"Should teach you not to be a smartass," she laughed.
Tactical droid TCD-19273B
Bridge of Munificent cruiser M-14821-38D
Head of the task group 33B
13:00 Hours UNSC Standard
September 9th 2557
"Sir we have secured the orbit of Kiros ready to launch ground Invasion" the tactical droid reported to the Biological commander Darts D'nar, a Zygerrian slaver come for the 50,000 free Togruta colonists and bring them back for an offering to his queen so she can rebuild their once glorious empire.
"Good, inform Dooku and get my shuttle ready for departure. I want to set up my base camp and make sure the republic doesn't get word of our doings here. " He sneered at the droid as he left the bridge.
Captain Lasky
Bridge
UNSC Infinity
14:12 Hours UNSC Standard
September 9th 2557
"Roland, give me a report of what's going on now" The Captain shouted as he watched a crewmember do an EVA for repairs, walking across his windshield.
Roland appeared in a flash of orange, "Sir we have deployed a drone to the surface to watch and report, we have some disturbing images from what we have uncovered" he pulled up a video up on the main screen as Lasky strolled over, shaky because it was a drone he watched as some sort of humanoid tan robots started marching some aliens out of the village.
"From what we believe these fairly advanced robots have been tasked with extermination or subjugation of the Extraterrestrial we have dubbed Species A. From current Architecture and surveillance, we believe this is a peaceful colony. " Roland switched pictures to a close up of a feline looking Alien standing over a large crowd of Species A with Guards flanking him.
"This is what we have dubbed Species B. They are what we think, maybe mercenaries or the dominant species in this galaxy, but whoever they are, they have control over these Robots, but look at this, " Roland said before flipping to another video.
"We believe that they are slavers," Roland quickly said to the Captain.
"Shit, A species this advance still practising Slavery, unbelievable it's barbaric let me teach them a few lessons captain" Palmer grunted as she punched her monitor clad hand.
"Cool yourself palmer we have no idea what we could be getting into" Lasky urged on the side of caution.
"But sir this could be a replay of the covenant invasion and we can't let that happen to any species!" She argued back.
Lasky thought on this and thought about how his ...species was faced with extinction as it tugged at his morals he finally responded "Okay, time to reveal ourselves get our people in and go to battle stations prepare to decloak and prep main MAC guns and Missile pods, get fighters and bombers ready and get me Fireteam Crimson, they are getting deployed. Jam all communications we wipe them out now, but I want this quick and clean " Lasky shouted before marching out the bridge.
S-Deck
Canteen
UNSC Infinity
14:15 Hours UNSC Standard
September 9th 2557
"Commander my team is ready for anything, just need your go-ahead" Captain Jake parks reported to Palmer as he, his second in command Lt Saskia Nazari and Palmer all walked down from her office overlooking S-deck. Walking past the rows of bored engineers and Mjolnir Armour stations, the severe lack of Spartans left a ghostly presence. A ship designed for hundreds of Spartans now carried only 6.
"I have heard good things about your team Captain, We are heading into unknown waters, get your team suited and booted and ready for deployment," Palmer ordered him as they began to walk into the Canteen. Jake put his hand on his face and sighed as the three spartans were fighting each other.
"I mean they need some work," Saskia told her, sighing as well, "They are a...well a very young team," James said trying to cover for them as Saskia moved in.
"FIRETEAM Commander on deck" as the 3 suddenly stopped and untangled themselves from fighting standing to attention in a line and saluting as Palmer and James walked over towards them.
"At ease Spartans," Palmer told them as Saskia fell into line as well.
"Orders from up top, We are in a very precarious situation," She said, pacing back and forwards.
"You lovely bunch are being deployed, your mission is to take out the occupying forces of a peaceful village and save as many villagers as possible from potential slavers. "Palmer paused,
"Use armour piercing rounds they are robotic warriors and from what recon has found there could be heavy armour, search for any intel and report you will be inserted via Pelican, Now get suited and booted you leave in 15 mins," She said in her usual authoritative tone as all the Spartans saluted and shouted "Yes Mam's" in unison as she turned and began to leave.
"You heard her Fireteam Crimson report to Armoury at once let's kick some fucking ass boys and girls!" Crimson Lead shouted as the 5 black-body suited Spartans ran out the Canteen towards the armour bay where technicians had been rudely awakened to action stations.
Getting to the Armour bays they all lined up in front of the armour stands and walked in as they stepped into their boots locking them in place as mechanical arms descended around them. Each member in unison placed their hands into their gloves as they were picked off and began in front of the ground by the robotic machine.
Technicians surrounded them as they picked their armour and began attaching them as each chest plate was fastened and secured along with their forearms, lastly came their helmets as each descended from above placing it upon their heads.
Coming back down they were released as the 5 Spartans all stepped out, James HUD appeared in front of him as the vitals of him and his team loaded in with his motion sensors picking up the surrounding people as his shields generated. His armour was the Mark IV Commando Armour in a dark red almost maroon, his number 2 Saskia had her distinctive Mark VI Rouge Mjolnir, suited to her lone wolf type attitude but she cared for her team more than anything.
Then came Crimson - 3 Joel their rifleman wore his QCB to match his favourite weapon the shotgun with the black and streaks of Crimson Red, Then the Twins if they couldn't match any more they decided to make it more confusing by wearing the same armour so as they would put it, "Wouldn't know which one to shoot at". With the Scout Armour, the only difference is Ed Crimson - 4 had an EOD helmet to suit his more...destructive personality.
"Comm check, Sound off Fireteam," James said over an open channel to the other Spartans as he looked around and saw his team as they began their walk to the armoury.
"Spartan - 2 check".
"Spartan - 3 check".
"Spartan - 4 check".
"Annnddd Everyone's favourite Spartan - 5 checking in Cap," Evie said with some cheek as she yelled down the mic she got a groan off her team.
"Who invited her geese," Joel remarked,
"Lock it down Crimson we are professionals let's act like it," James told them as they paced towards the armoury where they were greeted by racks and racks of both UNSC, Covenant and forerunner tech.
"Christmas has come, fellas, enjoy!" Saskia smiled over the comm.
UNSC Infinity
14:20 Hours UNSC Standard
September 9th 2557
The Infinity began to move into position in orbit around the Planet, still, the 3 ships haven't picked up their signature as they got within firing range.
All of a sudden they deactivate the Active camouflage revealing the 5km longship as they began to target the closest ship, the Infinity shuddered with a jolt as the MAC guns fired their Tungsten rounds at just a fraction of the speed of light, the first orange streak smashed into the lead ship as it overloaded its shields with the second Obliterating the ship. The infinity then fired a swarm of Archer missiles decimating the second. As the second ship's fuel had caused a chain reaction as it began a series of explosions down the ship until it was blown apart breaking its back splitting in two as the two hulks vented the atmosphere..
The third and final ship had turned to face the enemy which had appeared from thin air, returning fire they only got a few red Plasma bolts off completely missing their targets before another wave of Archer missiles were fired, this time as they streaked through the debris field, some impacting the already crowded space but as they got through they impacted the reactor core, sending the ship into a small supernova as it went critical lighting the surrounding space with a second sun.
"Well we all love some fireworks now, this was too easy," one of the weapons officers said on the bridge.
"Don't go counting your victories yet" Lasky warned.
"Fireteam Crimson you are ready for a drop," Roland told the Pilot as the Pelican lifted off and shot out the hanger before diving into the Atmosphere towards the village.
Republic Gunship
Kiros
Kiros system
07:39 hours UNSC standard time
September 10th 2557
"We're landing in 30 seconds! " Shouted Rex over his commlink.
As they began their descent Jedis, Obi-wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano all prepared to go as they watched the ground approach as the blast doors slid open. The gunship touched down and out rushed the three Jedi along with their clone comrades.
Greeted with a deserted village they all relaxed when they realised it was quiet, too quiet.
"Well, this is unlike the tinnies to run away from a good fight," Anakin remarked as Ahsoka smirked.
"Cody, Rex get your men to sweep the area" Obi-wan ordered as they saluted and started to bark orders as clones ran to fulfil them.
"Something doesn't feel right, it feels like something is watching us," Ahsoka said uneasily crossing her arms and looking around the deserted village but nothing.
"I agree with Ahsoka, something is not right" Just as Obi-wan said this, a call came over the radio from Rex.
"General's, Commander you better get down to the main street and see this" came to the call over their wrist coms as the Jedi looked at each other as Obi-wan smiled at Anakin in a tell you so style as they began to walk down to Rex's position.
As they walked down they started to see more and more signs of struggles with more and more plasma burns marking the houses of the settlers, but no signs of bodies, droids or weapons of any kind.
But as they turned the corner they were met with an astonishing sight. A thousand or more battle droids and tanks littered the streets all in various states of disrepair, smoking and steaming.
"What...What happened here?" Ahsoka asked as she watched the clones walking around the battlefield kicking droid heads making sure they were dead.
"Did the Togruta colonists do this?" Anakin asked.
"No, they were sworn against any violence this...Well, this was something else" Obi-wan replied as he looked at Anakin and Ahsoka as Cody and Rex came over.
"Did you find anything else Rex" Anakin asked them?
"Maybe. We found that none of the droids were destroyed by Blasters and we did find a couple of dead Zygerrians, rather brutally I may add. Orbital scans also show a massive debris field around the largest moon, it appears to be separatist ships but there have been no known engagements in the area" he finished as he was soon interrupted by Anakin.
"Zygerrian Scum, I'm glad they are all dead" before he was calmed by his master.
"Easy Anakin, we must get down to the bottom of this first before jumping to conclusions' ' as they began to follow Rex and Cody to the Governor's building as they entered through the doors that had been blasted off.
"How can someone destroy this many droids without a Blaster? I have never seen this kind of damage" as she bent down to examine a B1, its body riddled with holes, the metal breastplate peeling away as it leaked hydraulic fluid. The holes are boring through ripping out wires and processors in its wake.
"This looks like the work of some sort of Slug thrower, However, I have never seen a model that advances to pierce armour and is effective… it's terrifying" Obi-wan mentioned.
But as they entered the main office they were greeted to a horrific sight, a Zygerrian lay on the floor motionless, a blaster in its hand, but his blood pooled around him, riddled with the same holes as the droids but left more of a mess as the glass behind him was stained with red droplets.
"Ugh, the smell" Ahsoka quipped, almost gagging at the sight.
"Jesus what has happened to this guy can't even make his face out," Anakin said grimacing at the body.
"It seems we are dealing with a much more dangerous problem than what I expected initially, we must rep…" before Obi-wan could finish a clone called them as he was searching through the data banks.
"What is it, soldier?" Asked Anakin
"Um, you better look for yourselves generals' ', before bringing up a video file from a droid's Point of view.
They gathered around and played the video. It showed some B1s and commando broids advancing through what looked like a ship's corridor but of a much more primitive design, They continued down the corridor of the deserted ship, but as the droids held to place a flash appeared in front of them.
One of the droids fell, as the rest of them opened up, illuminating the corridor with red flashes as they tried to hit the creature. More and more droids fell with no apparent reason as they began to panic, falling back.
What shocked them the most was when a pale blue 2 pronged blade was in the picture as it began to slice through droids but it appeared nothing to be holding it as if it was simply floating in place the video ended in static as the last thing seen was a slight ripple in the air in front of the droid.
"Was that a Jedi?" Ahsoka asked them.
"If it was, it bore a lightsaber unlike anything that has been created," Obi-wan said, scratching his beard.
"If it even was a Jedi, There was no one holding it, it was floating in the air" Anakin countered.
"What were the droids doing here anyway, what were they looking for?" Ahsoka suggested as Anakin picked up the data chip and placed it in his pocket.
"Whatever it is it's all connected and I bet this will help us…".
"Generals! We have just lost contact with our fleet and we have Droids advancing on our position" Cody shouted to the Jedi as he and Rex ran back down, Th Jedi turned to look out the window overlooking the colony to see tanks and columns of droids advancing on their position, they were outgunned and outmanned as the clones dived for cover and started to return fire as the Jedi decided to run towards the fight as the unaware clones began falling like flies.
Pinned into the corner of the colony they were trapped as more and more clones died. A missile streaked out of nowhere and destroyed an AT-TE, the metal groaned as it crunched and collapsed in a ball of fire as the gunner jumped off running for cover as the unrelenting advancement of the droids kept pushing.
"Master we have to get out of here we are taking too many casualties" Ahsoka yelled over the noise of the firefight as she deflected more bolts cartwheeling backwards.
"Agreed we have to go out through the back of the village!" Anakin shouted back to her as he covered a clone retreating but was caught as he took a bolt in the back.
But at that moment Ahsoka watched through the destruction and watched as she saw what looked like a shimmer in the air, she then watched it as it moved towards the droid tank and climbed up the side before it jumped towards the second, it moved off before she lost sight of it.
"Umm Masters did you see that?" she yelled as she took cover sheathing her blades as both Anakin and obi-wan dived into cover with her.
"No snips, been a bit busy, you know, fighting droid snips," Anakin told her as she squinted before poking her head up again over the cover before yelling and dragging both the Jedi masters up.
"Look in the centre droid column and see the shimmer? Like the one in the video", she pointed out as Obi-wan's face lit up as he too saw it.
"What the…" As Anakin then saw it but, all of a sudden it was engulfed in a fireball, huge explosions rocked the town as the tanks were obliterated making the Jedi and clones duck for cover.
As the smoke cleared deafening sounds rung out through the town, like blasters but thunderous, droids began to drop like flies as 4 figures appeared from thin air, they moved with cohesion and purpose dismantling droids methodically as they weaved through the stragglers of the explosion ripping someone apart with bare hands as these droids fought the others.
The figures resembled magma guards but painted a dark thick red colour as they carried weirder looking blasters. Jumping over and grabbing a B2 picking it up using it as a shield as if it was nothing rammed the final B1s as their blasters slowly stopped until all fell silent on the field of battle
Both the Jedi and the clones stood open-mouthed as these creatures emerged from the smoke, Standing 6ft at least they walked in unison past the bodies of their enemies as they joined together another creature appeared from the roof Jumping down to join the pack.
Getting closer and closer, the Jedi and the few remaining clones were on edge as they ignited their lightsabers.
"Whomever you are I suggest you stay there" Obi-wan warned as the 5 stopped short, One stepped out in front of them.
The creature removed his helmet revealing a human, he stood there silently with his helmet under his arm, his hair cut short in a buzz cut and his brown eyes looking at the other two humans before he spoke.
"I am Captain James Parks of the UNSC, I suggest that you don't kill the help, now who are you?".
A/N Hi guys, I hope you like the first chapter. I wanted to do one for a while. Any feedback would be appreciated but I do hope you like it.