The screen opens showing two Falcons flying near a mountain range with strange pillars made of metal that are twisted.
Suddenly the camera shifts to show Carter from behind looking over to the other Falcon addressing his team, "Listen up, Noble Team. We're looking at a downed relay outpost 50 kilos from Visegrad. We're going to introduce ourselves to whoever took it out, then Kat's going to get it back up and running."
Kat responded with confidence, "Just get me under the hood, Commander."
"Well she sure is confident in herself isn't she?" Jirou commented.
"Well we will see if it's warranted or not soon hopefully." Momo said.
"Sir, why would rebels want to cut Reach off from the rest of the colonies?" Jorge asked a minor amount of confusion in his voice.
"You get a chance, maybe you can ask them, Jorge."
"Wow even they aren't sure what they are going into with this mission." Sato said
"They clearly have a basic plan on how to deal with the unknown so we should just be patient and see for ourselves." Ojiro responds
The camera cuts once to the back of the Falcons. As they both take continue on Kat suddenly comments to Carter, "We just lost our signal with HQ."
Carter responds, "Any of the backup channels working?"
"Searching...Nothing. Can't say what's jamming us without getting a closer look, sir," she answers.
"You heard her, dead zone has been confirmed. Command will not be keeping us company on this operation." Carter informed the rest of his team.
"I'm lonely already." , Emile comments sarcastically. That got a few laughs from most of the group. As the Falcons move on they pan left as the camera stops and the Falcons continue on.
"Ok I love Emile, his sarcastic humor is golden." Sero comments glad that they can joke around.
The screen comes back showing the small valley with an outpost that looks badly damaged, but still standing. A flaming vehicle, similar to the one they saw Noble Six ride in on earlier, in the middle of the area.
"There's the communications outpost." Jorge says to his squad leader.
"Shoot downs attempts are highly likely, so keep your distance." Carter orders the pilots of the Falcons earning a clear, "Yes, sir!"
"Picking a distress beacon down there." Kat says.
"If we're lucky, it'll be those missing troopers. Set us down on the bluff pilot." Carter says as he and the rest of the team prep themselves.
"Oh yeah forgot about those people, the scenery is just so interesting that that detail slipped my mind." Mina responded rubbing the back of her head.
"You should really have better memory than this Ashido!" Iida scolded.
"Yes, sir!"
As the Falcons start to come down to land Carter says, "Jun, I want your eyes in the sky."
"Sir."
As the Falcons land Six, Carter, Emile, and Kat all hope out. "All right everyone, spread out. Watch the approach!"
As Six follows the team down the hill Emile announces from his position on a boulder, "Structure 3-4, looks clear from this angle."
"Distress signal is coming just south of our position, Commander. We're close." Kat informs Noble One.
"Understood. Eyes sharp."
As the team comes upon the outpost they find the burning wreckage of a vehicle and pallets. Emile starts to search through some of them before coming across a small red device.
"Damn that looks like Bakugou had a field day with it." Kirishima responded earning nods from his classmates and a grunt from Bakugou.
"Found the beacon." He says before tossing it over to Noble Two too exanime.
"Can you make out any ID?"
"Negative, but it's military." Kat answers as she drops the beacon to the ground its use no longer needed for this operation.
"So where are the troopers?" Jorge asks the question hanging on everyone's mind.
"Why aren't we seeing any explosives residue?" Kat inquires.
Carter, curious as well, asks Jun, "Noble Three, can you pick up any Ex-residue in the area?"
Jun responded negative.
"Plasma, maybe?" Emile says aloud.
"Why would they use explosives if they have access to plasma? That doesn't make any sense." Todoroki said, which was true. Why use explosives if plasma worked better?
"Can't be. Not on Reach." Jorge said, worry easily heard in his voice.
"Whoever is using this plasma must be very dangerous to make that giant of a man worried." Momo said nervously.
"The plasma must be from whatever the grave threat is, as we are clearly seeing Spartans, and they are fearful of the plasma users." Bakugou responded with a smirk.
"There's a lot of blood on the ground." Emile emphasized the word lot. Upon his statement the camera showed just how much blood was on the ground. Either there was multiple people who were bleeding out or someone had been bled dry. To the students it was bad if it was multiple or one person.
Seeing nothing else to investigate in the area Carter ordered Noble Team to move on.
As the team moves onto the next cluster of buildings Kat announces that there's smoke at the structure they're approaching.
"Alright Noble, circle west and approach quietly. You have permission to engage but be selective. No need to telegraph our presence."
"Oh sure like those Falcons didn't give out they're approach." Mineta says sarcastically getting a chuckle out of Sero and Kaminari. After all he had a point. Those things weren't exactly quiet.
As the team approaches Carter orders Six to go in quiet as he knows how good at stealth his newest addition to the team is.
"Well at least someone appreciates the grace that is a stealth approach." Tooru says, happy to see someone using skills that she specializes in.
"Boss, I'm picking up heat signatures in the structure ahead, over." Jun informs Carter.
As Six moves through the house the second Falcon lands unloading Emile and Jorge as a man exits the house with his hands up. Other people can be seen through the windows of the house.
The man speaks, "Én nem csináltam semmit!"
"Uhhh what did he say?" Surprisingly it was Izuku that answered, "He's speaking Hungarian. He said, "I didn't do anything!"". His classmates looked at him in shock. "What I was a late bloomer so I may have spent time learning other languages."
"Midoriya I am shocked you know more than english and japanese, so please translate everything they say that's not in japanese." Iida responded using his usual karate chopping.
Emile in response aims his shotgun directly at the man yelling in a strong voice, "On your knees, now!"
The man now obviously frightened at having a deadly short range weapon pointed so close to him starts to say, "Ne lőjön! Ne lőjön!" For which Izuku translates to , "Don't shoot! Don't shoot!"
"Geez this Emile guy is intense." Ochako says. No one disagrees with her. At least not aloud.
"They're not rebel's. They're farmers. Look at them." Jorge says trying to bring the tense situation. He only succeeds a little.
"Jorge is so manly!" You get three guesses on who said that.
"Ask then what they're doing here." Carter orders Jorge, to which he complies.
"Mit kerestek itt?" Translated by Izuku, "What are you doing here?"
The man obviously much more calm seeing that one of them understands him but still very clearly panicked answers quickly, "Csak nem akartunk meghalni." To which Izuku with Izuku a confused face says, "We just didn't want to die."
"Uhh that's not a good thing, why does this sound like a horror movie?" Ojiro said worriedly.
As the man keeps talking Jorge keeps translating for him to Noble One, "Hiding, sir. Neighbors were attacked last night. He heard screams, gunfire. Stopped around sunrise."
The man now known as a farmer continues on, "Valami megölte a fiamat."
"Says something in the fields… killed his son." Jorge translates clearly worried now. However Carter noticed how he said, "Something."
"What a mad banquet of darkness." Tokoyami muttered upset. The others equally as upset at the fact that someone was killed.
When the radio suddenly crackles back up with Jun saying, "Commander, be advised I'm reading heat sigs. Directly east of your position, over."
"Roger that. (To Jorge) Get them back inside." He orders.
"Azt mondtam, befelé!" Jorge orders the farmer. His deep voice giving no room for arguments. The man easily complies.
"Team, double time it over there."
As the Spartans enter the building they immediately can smell the scent of blood, feces, and vomit. When they see two uniformed men mounted through the shoulders on pegs meant to hold farming tools. Blood soaked on the ground and multiple cuts, bruises, and other obviously torture wounds all over they're bodies. Fortunately or unfortunately, both are dead.
The sight causing many of Class A to get sick just barely making it to trash cans. Izuku had tears in his eyes from the sight of such dire stare for life.
Ochako felt like she had just used her quirk on herself for hours at the sight.
Todoroki though he didn't look affected physically could be seen shaking slightly. Steam creeping up on half his body.
Bakugo though was just frozen in his seat. His quirk easily could kill. He knew that. He also knew that it could be used to hurt people very easily, Izuku was a testament to that. Yet this was something far beyond anything he has ever seen.
"Damn…" Was all Carter could say.
Jun over the radio asked what he was seeing. Carter informing him that they had found two of the missing troopers. And that they had been interrogated and how messy it was inside.
As he stands back up he signals the team to move forward into the next room, where they find yet another body though this time it's on the floor. Though this body appeared to have been… mauled.
The sight of a human body being so ripped apart and eaten on was enough to shake even Bakugou and Todoroki to the core and make them gag the only reason they hadn't thrown up being they hadn't eaten any snacks.
Others weren't so lucky as the only one to not gag or vomit was Izuku who was just imagining his bones breaking and other not so pleasant thoughts.
Though this was pointing to something not human as when Bakugo said as such he was met with not just skepticism but also some voicing agreement. Surprisingly to some Izuku was one of those that agreed that it most likely wasn't human.
Suddenly there was a loud banging as well as a low growl of something most assuredly not human.
"Movement. Keep an eye on your motion trackers." Noble One orders.
As they get outside though the signal is lost.
"Boss, I see movement just outside the structure!" Jun informs Carter alarmed.
"Finally, now we're getting somewhere!" Kaminari responded happily.
"Noble Two, head up to the west we're about to be flanked!"
As the team moved through the building they see what the contact is. A small bipedal being with the snout of a velociraptor, feathers on its head and the backs of its legs and elbows. The other being a small creature with what appears to be a gas mask and big triangular backpack on. Large forearms and short stubby legs. One of the creatures spots Noble Team and immediately squawked out.
"Damn it!"
"Covenant!" Jorge shouts out in rage, shocking some of the class as he seemed to be a more gentle giant.
"Contact ! Contact! Spartans, move in!" Carter barked out.
"What's a Covenant?" Kaminari asked not knowing the meaning.
"Well if you'd shut up Discount Pikachu, wed know soon!" Bakugo raged annoyed with the interruption of the first fight scene in the movie.
"They're heading into through the basement. Get down to the lower levels!"
Noble Team fights the Covenant around the farm, while the Falcon shoots down the Banshees. A Spirit dropship touches down across a nearby bridge and begins deploying troops.
"Woah! That's quite advanced technology!" Izuku muttered about the uses of such advanced equipment. Only being pulled out of it by the help of his best friend Ochako placing a hand on his right hand. Upon feeling something warm on his hand he looks down to see Ochako's hand on his and blushes red. Realizing what she did Ochako quickly removes her hand blushing just as red as Izuku as though they were having a contest.
After a long skirmish and successfully killing the last of the Covenant in the area Carter says, "Stand down, Noble. Stand down. Contacts neutralized."
Anger in his voice Jorge responds, "Contacts? It's the damn Covenant."
Seeing an opportunity to lessen the mood Emile says, "Cheer up, big man. This whole valley just turned into a free fire zone." Glee in his voice at the chance to slaughter the bastards he hated so much.
"I wonder why these Covenant are so hostile?" Momo wonders aloud to herself.
"Kat, we need to warn Holland. I need you at that relay outpost, now!"
"These Covenant must be quite dangerous if they're making these Spartans so nervous." Hagakure responded shaking in fear.
"I wouldn't say they're nervous. More worried about their home." Deku responded noticing their posture wasn't that of nerves, but of worry.
"They took care of those little bastards back there far too easily though. If these Covenant are so dangerous then why were they able to take them down so quickly?" Bakugo asked annoyed at how inconsistent this movie was about the enemy. They talked about them like they were really powerful but so far all he'd seen was them getting stomped. This wasn't adding up and he hated not knowing. Afterall to become the number one hero meant he needed to have the intelligence to back it up.
Upon reaching the end of yet another small little outpost for farming equipment, the team found yet another being this one much taller and a lot tougher looking. This was an Elite AKA Sangeheili. A powerful combatant, standing at 7 feet tall, thick, strong arms, and a jaw split into four parts.
Though they looked tougher than the others they had fought before they went down just like the others, though this time upon being hit with bullets a light surrounding their bodies glowed before failing after several rounds.
"Personal shields?! That's so cool! I wonder if Hatsume would be able to make some for us? Also what is up with their jaws?" Izuku muttered before catching himself and focusing once more on the movie, though he saved the idea for later.
"Commander, I'm picking up more activity to the northeast." Jun voiced into their radio.
"Understood. Noble Six, Five, and I will run interference on the ground, Kat you and Four get to the relay outpost." Carter ordered.
"Noble Two, requesting an airlift." Kat requested.
Noble Six found a flatbed truck where he hopped into the driver's seat while Carter got in the passengers and Jorge got on the back placing his chain gun on the top.
"Woah that is a genius idea, luckily this isn't in the hands of some villains as imagine the damage they could do if they tried this." Izuku said with a sigh of relief.
"Get to work, Noble Team!"
As the team rides around they find and take out more groups of Covenant with ease, before moving on.
"Commander, I'm picking up a distress signal, over."
A voice clearly tired, most likely from hours of fighting, comes over the radio, "Mayday, mayday. This is 3 Charlie 6, we are under heavy fire! The Covenant is on Reach! I repeat the Covenant is on Reach!"
"Those the troopers we here for?" Jorge asks as he adjusts his chain gun on the truck.
"Let's move, Six. We have to find the source of the distress call."
"No disrespect, but don't we have more important things to do than round up strays?" Jun asks his voice holding a small bit of annoyance.
"How dare he?! They're asking for help and he asks them to ignore them?!" Ochako's rage seems to be building.
"We don't leave people behind. You see those troopers, you let me know." Carter orders. Jun agrees with no argument.
"Thank goodness that Noble One seems so… well noble." Ochako feeling her anger at the thought of abandoning people in need to be against her nature. The majority of the class agrees with her statement surprisingly even Bakugo found himself silently agreeing with her. Yeah he was an asshole but if he had to choose between letting people die or chase down someone already gone, he'd save the people. Doesn't mean he would be happy but he wouldn't let people die even if he had to let his ego suffer just a bit. He was a hero damnit! Not a villain!
"Commander, I'm reading those friendly signatures from before directly north-east of your position, over."
"This is 3 Charlie 6 we have wounded- cannot hold this position!"
"Six, step on it! We need to get to them now before it's too late!"
"I was beginning to question their morals, however these guys seems to value life." Ochako said happy with the order to speed up.
"Oh yeah this reminds me, what Spartans are they?" Mina asked.
"Well these guys don't seem like they have been trained since 6 so I would guess Spartan 3's, plus with the fact on how not much was probably done when the previous Noble six died would help support that." Izuku said remembering that detail.
Compiling with his orders he pushed the pedal as far as it would go without breaking it or flipping the vehicle. Upon finding the troopers the three Spartans jumped out of the truck and engaged with Covenant troops. Finally eliminating the troops nearby they approach the wounded marines all looking at the Spartans with awe and joy.
"Spartans? Corporal Travis, 3 Charlie 6, it's the Covenant." He says with a voice with deep depression and sadness.
"Why is does he sound depressed? They have these spartans who demolish these enemies." Ochako couldn't help but ask.
"Maybe the covenant is way more numerous, plus we have probably only seen what amounts to a plane in terms of strength." Asui bluntly said as usual.
"We know, Corporal. We know. Let's get you out of here."
"Sir, you have inbound Covenant dropships."
"Evac transport, keep your distance. Six, hold this position. We need to clear this LZ."
Having fought off the troops dropped off and radioing the evac to land they got the marines out of the location and headed back to base.
Noble Team gets on the second Falcon before taking off towards the relay outpost, "Noble Two, sitrep."
"We're at the relay outpost. But the doors been locked. Mechanism has been flash-fused shut."
"Can you beat it?"
"Dialed up my torch. Cut a good way through the door. But it's gonna take some time to get the rest of the way through."
"Okay, sit tight. We're heading to your location."
As Six, Jorge, and Carter are coming around the pilot informs them that the drop zone is a little hot, regardless Carter orders him to drop them down in the courtyard, "Six, breaks over."
As the team gets to where Kat and Emile are they kill the forces attacking.
"How we doing, Kat?"
"Taking longer than I would've hoped for. But I'm halfway through."
Spotting another dropship Emile shouts, "Contact!"
Fighting off the seemingly endless wave of Covenant troops until Kat finally cuts through and the Team retreats into the building sealing the door.
"Jeez they definitely have the numbers. This war seems to be a battle between skill and numbers. We have the skill, they have the numbers." Iida mentioned happy with his deduction.
"No that's not true, any good army would never have its high ranking units be their frontlines on an enemy planet, the aliens we have seen so far are very likely low ranking soldiers designed to weaken our hold so the enemy can brute force with their skilled units." Izuku theorized their attacking plan.
"We need to get to the control room. From there, Kat can get the relay back online. Emile, post here. If we flush any hostiles, they're yours. All right, let's do this."
"Can't see a thing. Six, turn on your night vision."
"Wait, Noble Six has night vision in his armor? I thought Spartans had natural night vision?" Ashido exclaimed confused. Oh she was sooooo making a request to support for a mask that had a night vision mode! Unknown to her she wasn't the only one with similar thoughts.
"Wait, that was only the Spartan 2's who did have the vision, which confirms they are spartan 3's." Izuku said glad he was able to piece it together.
"Noble Six, search that body." Kat tells Noble Six to which he does without complaint. Though the rest of the class was disturbed about the idea of searching a dead body they could understand that you had to make sure there wasn't any important info on them.
While Six searches the body, Carter attends to a wounded soldier leaning against a wall.
"Where's the rest of your unit?"
"We got split. I don't think they...It sounded bad on the comms."
"Alright stay still, Corporal, we'll get you a combat surgeon."
While this is going on, Kat is looking over the communications system. It sparks the moment she touches it. "Damn. Plasma damage!"
Suddenly a data module drops out of the body's front pocket, "Found something." As Six says this Kat turns around and snatches the module from his hands saying, "I'll take that, Six. Not your domain."
"Wow, she is grumpy." Kaminari said shocked at her sudden snap.
"I have said this before, all women have secret evil sides to them." Mineta exclaims only to get slapped by Tsuyu's tongue.
"I've got a live one over here! Come on, out you come." Jorge says from off screen. A young woman is shown being pulled up out of a hiding spot by Jorge, his massive form easily overpowering her. All the while she continues to speak frantically in Hungarian. Asking him to let her get out of here.
Jorge, in an effort to help her calm down, says, "It's Alright. We're not gonna hurt you." In his best comforting voice he can do at the moment."
She continues to struggle in vain. Having enough Jorge puts down his chain gun and grabs her with both hands on her shoulders telling her to be still and he'll release her.
The woman just looks up at him, eyes terrified saying, "Még... Itt vannak."
Izuku's eyes widen in alarm and before he can translate a giant red armored Elite drops down swinging out a sword that crackles with electricity. Thinking quickly Jorge ducks down pulling the girl with him. Two more red armored Elites drop down behind the leader of them.
"Ok those are manly weapons!"
"Those are definitely high ranking units as no other troop has had that weapon, plus their armor is way different to the ones earlier."
"Wait Midoriya what did that girl say?" Momo asked as she notice his look of alarm right before the aliens dropped in.
"She said "There's more!"" Izuku said.
Hearing the sounds of combat, Emile calls out, "What's your status, over?"
"We've been engaged!" Carter calls back.
As both Carter and Six fire their assault rifles at the Elite, it charges them both letting his shields absorb the bullets. He slashes at Kat who ducks in time for it to miss her but slice the communication main terminal in half. Finally the Elites shielding falls under the constant fire. Unable to bring up his sword he shoves Noble Six over before he has a chance to reload. He dashes for the exit and away from Noble team.
"Bad guy coming out!"
One of the remaining Zealots grabs Six by the neck bringing up his energy blade up to stab him through the head, but before he can Six grabs the hand being thrust at him throwing a heavy punch at the Zealots face knocking it back. It doesn't get a chance to try for another stab as Kat roundhouse kicks the Zealot in the side knocking him off of Six, who gets up and grabs his assault rifle. Kat keeps firing her magnum at the Zealot breaking its shields as it scrambles for safety finally getting behind the other Zealot that grabbed the wounded soldier from before aiming a plasma gun at his head. As the marnie struggles to get free the woman from before starts to scream in horror. He grabs desperately at the door handle but gets overpowered easily by the Elites raw natural strength
"That tango blew past me. Permission to pursue?" Emile requested.
"Negative Four. Stay on the entrance. Two handle her." He gestures to the still screaming woman. "Five and Six, clear the rats out of there."
"So unmanly. That thing is such a villain. Using a hostage." Kirishima said peeved about the underhanded tactic.
"Yeah but six was almost toast, one of them looked ready to deliver a finishing blow. So those are definitely very high ranked soldiers they faced." Tsuyu said.
As Six and Jorge move toward the door Six reloads his rifle. Getting through the door he turns around suddenly and watches as Jorge grabs the heavy door before slamming it hard. He looks down at the left seeing the soldier dead having been stabbed in the head. His body abandoned there. Six felt his anger spike before he reigned it in.
"Oh they clearly just used him to escape their line of sight." Kaminari said, as the majority felt nervous seeing how common death was.
"They still have the other one with them or hidden somewhere as she was not killed." Shoji spoke up.
"There's more. Flush them out I've got you covered."
At the end of the room is a group of grunts and one of the Zealots. Six charges them taking out the grunts with a quick grenade. Firing upon the Zealot and taking out his shields, he switches quickly to his magnum ending the Zealot with a quick shot to the head. The two Spartans continue onward killing off Jackals. Getting to the end of the dead end room the last Zealot charges Six with his energy sword intent to run him through. Six at the last moment let's the Elite pass by having dodged the swing grabbing on the back of the Elites armor he kicked the Zealots left knee breaking it. Pushing him to the ground he quickly stand it in the back of the head with his combat knife hidden underneath his wrist.
"Damn now that is a finisher!" Kirishima exclaimed pumped at how badass that takedown was.
"Noble Five reporting. Targets neutralized."
"Kat needs you to reset a junction, do it and get back here." Doing as instructed they headed back.
The screen goes to a surveillance camera as Kat removes a panel from directly in front of it.
"How long?"
"The question of my life. If you're asking when will the station be back online, two weeks, earliest. This is plasma damage. ALL the major uplink components are dead."
"Two minutes is too long."
"Which is why I'm splicing into the main overland bundle to get us a direct line to Col. Holland...You're in my light, Commander."
Turning away to give her space to work he asks Jorge to get info from the woman.
Jorge touches her shoulder only for her to shrug off the hand. Emile just chuckles in the background.
"What's your name? Do you live around here? (Removes his helmet) A nevem Jorge."
The woman looks at him in slight shock that he would know Hungarian before answering, "Sára."
"Sára... Szép határozott név." Izuku translates to A nice, strong name, "Your accent sounds familiar. Sopron?"
"Tengeri." (By the sea).
Jorge's gazes over the dead body, "Friend of yours?"
"Father."
"Sajnálom. I'm sorry." Jorge looks down in respect for the departed.
The woman looks up sharply at him steel in her eyes, "Why would you be?"
Jorge stays still unsure of how to answer that.
"Huh clearly there is some bad blood between the military and civilians." Izuku comments not enjoying the fact on how now he could essentially relate to this person at being fatherless.
Emile just looks over at Six saying, "Big man forgets what he is sometimes."
Jorge barely brushes his shoulder next to Emile, "She just lost her father." Turning to Carter, "She needs a full psychiatric workup."
Emile snarks, "She's not the only one."
Jorge turns over to him furious.
Carter however orders both to lock it down. "Get her on her feet...The body stays here."
"Thank you, sir." Jorge turns around and this time hits his shoulder into Emile's. He helps her to her feet as he leads her away slowly.
The sound of the radio crackling brings Carter to look at Kat as she tells him it's there but patchy.
"I'll take it."
"Best not to touch anything. Wouldn't want to ground this place."
"...I'm barely getting you. What's your situation, over?" Col. Holland asks.
Carter the only one left in the room as the other have left already responds, "Colonel, this is Noble One. There are no rebels. The Covenant are on Reach. Acknowledge?"
"Come again, Noble One? Did you say Covenant?"
"Affirmative. It's the Winter Contingency."
"...May God help us all." Is all Holland can say to that. They knew the Covenant would find them one day. But they'd always hoped they'd have a bit more time.
"This Covenant must be way worse than we thought." Ochako said solemnly.
"Well given the fact that we don't know their motives, we can't understand them. Hopefully it'll clear up soon." Izuku tried to lift their spirits.
"The winter contingency must be their plan to counter the covenant appearing on Reach." Momo says thoughtfully. And with that they move on to the next section.