Hey, readers sorry for the long wait. life happens, and the drive to write was on the low end. It might remain that way for a bit but I'll try to get out of this funk and post on a regular. anyway take care readers and enjoy
Chapter 7 Raining Bodies
Carolina, Maine, and York soaring through the air keeping their eyes on their way in as they got closer to the window.
"Alright boys prepare for landing. Can you see anything from your view?" Since he was using his battle rifle to scope to make sure if there was anyone around or they got sniped right before getting inside, his hand came into view and gave a thumbs up to show it was clear, "Alright boys let's get our part done."
Carolina landed first, already drawing her Sidekick out if any guards were there and not seeing a window broken, let alone a cyan armor soldier landing in like she was in some kind of action movie. Carolina walked ahead to give Maine and York room to land gently but kept Wash attached to her back.
"Say boss, could you let me-" Carolina detaches Wash from her back, almost causing him to fall onto his ass, "thanks."
"You're welcome." giving a sarcastic answer to a sarcastic question; the team heads deeper down the hall until they arrive at the entrance of the Vault, but it is locked down obviously, "Team A is in and at the object. York got up here. How long will it take you to crack that lock?"
"Averagely it would take sixty seconds, just give me fifteen." York crouched down in front of the lock that was holographic, "this a high end lock, this Sarcophagus must be very valuable."
"Can you get through it?" Carolina wanted York to focus on the object, not pondering what it is.
"Course I can. I doubt my good looks lead to successful missions. Do they?" Carolina rolled her eyes, keeping close to York if he needed help while Maine and Wash defended the rear. "Whoever designed this must be a genius."
"You were saying?" Carolina joked as the alarm was triggered, knowing they made their mission harder.
"Never mind the designer is a massive douche bag." York picks up the pace for his hacking until the door finally opens, "Everybody in."
"Thanks York but do something about that alarm and make it quick, the less surprises the better." Carolina was about to walk past York, but he had a witty remark as common from the gold and silver agent.
"Does saying sorry count as something?" Carolina glanced at him in a what do you think? "I take that as a no."
"We'll secure the package. After dealing with the alarm, set some trackers and find us a way to get the package to the roof." As York runs to go deal with the alarm and head to the roof, while Maine and Wash follow Carolina inside the Vault to find the package they were sent to steal.
Meanwhile, at the same time, Team B got off their pelican and got into position to cut off the key code holder. Using cars to do this makes it hard for the driver to slip by. South and Floria took the front where the driver would be coming from, with the pink gal wielding a DMR, and Florida his trusty grenade launcher often dubbed Spitter.
North and Wyoming climbed up to one of the highway signs to get into a good sniping position to maybe snipe the driver.
"Remember team keeps your eyes open. Make sure to take out vehicles as a priority, so we don't let the target get pass us." all nodded in agreement, with the exception of C.T.
C.T. was in thought as she was guarding the other end of the highway; however, she reflected on what she did before going off on this mission. She looked for a room where she would not be bothered as she called her boyfriend.
The room Connie picked was the janitor closet which is the perfect spot to call someone without onlookers. She activates the channel along with sending a message to her boyfriend to get his attention. C.T. She waited until,
"Connie why are you-" she knew if she stalled longer, it would have looked suspicious, so cut to the chase Connie did.
"Freelancers are planning to raid the Charon building on that Duke looking planet." She knew Conner would figure it out quickly, "Also the spartan Noble Six is on the team as well but likely only to aid in achieving the mission."
"You mean Six?" Conner knew about the Noble team but not too much of the members, especially their sixth member. "I see. I'll try to get some special units in hopes to counter the Spartan. If they want the Engineer they have to go through hell."
"Okay. talk to you later Conner. Love you." She ends the call and heads to join Team B on their Pelican.
Back to the present, Six and Niner were chilling in the Pelican. Niner was texting on her Rooster account, aka the Twitter of the future. Six was resting his eyes with his mind focusing on Agent Texas, probably because she knew a lot about him or thought she did. Either way, Six needed to figure out which is it or where her knowledge leans towards.
"My shit hitting the fan sense is buzzing?" Six just rolled his eyes at her joke, or so he thought, "I mean it. something bad is going to happen. It's been smooth sailing for too long."
"How about trying talking to them before freaking out." as he went back to thinking about agent Texas." Niner did not care for his response but did not disagree with it.
"Fine. Hey Team A-holes, how is it going to get a coffin?" Six best guesses that Tex was likely someone who works at ONI or mister stuck up his ass Director, "Well Six it seems they got the coffin to the roof. So it's time to pick them up."
"Finally some action." Six got up to his feet to stretch, ready to get back into the swing of combat as Niner got the Pelican into the air and headed off to their destination.
Six examined his Magnum to make sure it was arm and placed on his wrist the grappling shot. A small device that is a more portable version of a grappling hook. Six was about to join Niner in the pilot area when explosions crashed into Niner's Pelican.
"SHIT! Six go top side and see what hit us." Six nodded and climbed up the ladder and climbed onto the top of the Pelican.
Six saw who shot a Hydra at them was someone in ODST armor with the pilot helmet, which was not too far from the EVA helmet. With less visor covering the head.
The most noteworthy feature of this mercenary was giant metal bird wings with fan thrusters to help lift the agent into the air. The guy was reloading his Hydra, so Sis shot his grapple at the gun and ripped it from the guy's arm, tossing it to the streets below.
"Hey, I had to return that." The winged agent flew towards Six tackling him off Niner's Pelican, causing both to free fall.
The winged one would let Six go splat on the street below, but the Spartan was smart to grab one of the flyer's legs. Six starts to climb up the guy, but this Birdman was not having that shit. So Birdman slams his back into the side of the building to scrap Six off him, but Six felt worse, and his grip was harder than enchanted steel. Six attempts to grab the wings of the winged soldier, but the flyer did a barrel roll star fox edition causing six to be flung off and would fall to a painful experience if he did not grab the chest area of ODST with wings.
"Hey fucko let go of me." trying to get Six to let go, but Spartan fingers were not going to yield so easily.
Six decided to use his head, namely the part of his helmet that extends out, giving shade to the visor using it to Peck hard into Birdman's helmet so much it cracked his visor, causing him to Bello in pain. Six got onto his back, gripping the Birdman's wings, directing him towards the Charon building where Team A was at last.
"Thanks for the ride." Six pulled out his Magnum aim at the flyer's head and killed him, and then proceeded to jump off and crash through the window like a boss and look for a way up to the higher end of the building where Team A was at.
Speaking of team A Carolina just got done taking care of Flamethrower dude with a shark face and was heading to the roof with Wash in toe. Carolina got on comms and tried to contact four seven niner.
"Niner, how long do we have to wait for you to show up?" She was hoping Niner would not be fashionable late like her usual self except without the fashion.
"I will be there in a few. But keep talking shit Carol and you are walking home." Carolina said she understood but was not scared she did it. After all, Niner's ass would be grass if she actually did it.
As the duo was running up the stairs a few floors above, they heard many gunshots and screams of pain. Carolina and Washington had a guess on who it was but kept their weapons drawn as they got closer to that floor. When they reach the floor, they saw putting a new full clip into his Magnum was to no one surprise Noble Six,
"took you long enough." heading up the stairs with Carolina and Washington following behind him.
"How did you get here?" Wash asked, which Carolina pondered as well, but she did not really need the answer.
"I flew in." Wash became, even more, confused and Carolina was not fat behind in confusion, "I fought a mercenary with giant bird wings."
"Let me guess it was a Tuesday for you?" Six nods with a simple yes to Wash question, "I was kidding."
Eventually, they arrive at the roof, running past York as he said.
"Come on, come on! Hurry up." York proceeded to elbow the touchscreen to lock the door, making it hard for them to follow them until he saw them trying to blowtorch it open, "Okay maybe not. Say where is Maine?"
"Downstairs keeping our friendly hosts occupied." Wash told York, who joined Wash's side and commented he feels bad for the guys stuck with the white and orange armor agent, "That's what I said!"
"Niner we need you now." Carolina wanted to get out of here since it likely would lead to a gunfight, but what Niner said was cut off by who she saw near the Sarcophagus, "You what are you doing here?"
it was Agent Tex who got her feet looking at Carolina,then to her real threat, Noble six. Carolina guesses it was Texas that blew up the oil rig and asked if the device lying down at the feet of the black-armored agent was a bomb of some kind.
"It's actually a transmitter, Carolina. But likely the outcome will be the same, cleaning the slate of any evidence we were here, just like on the oil rig." Wash was shock by this news and Carolina to a lesser extent, "though admittedly you have done a subpar job."
"The fuck you on about." Six's words stung Agent Texas, and he was not done with his sharp words,
"Well, being not seen, you're zero for two." Tex got into his feet red visor, gazing into each other.
"Shut the fuck up. I'm doing my part, and I don't help to achieve it like the rest of you." Texas' anger was still on Six decided to get one more dig on Noble Six, "besides, I am better than you Spartan."
"RIGHT! Of course, I don't have another me to back me up." Tex rage was reaching a boiling point, and Carolina could see this "It must be nice to have simps."
"KNOCK it off you two we should be-" It was too late as loads of mercenary troops came with a main well-armored ODST wielding a shotgun leading this larger group.
"Everyone gets into position. Surround them completely. No one gets behind me." Six saw Hornets flying to surround them along with jetpack troopers." Drop your weapons. You dickhead disarm the bomb!"
"It's not a bomb." Six corrected, angering the shotgun guy.
"Okay smart ass how about you help me show the rest of them I'm not fucking around." he got a bit too close than he should, but Six did not respond on it yet.
"Good, no one will miss that sick fuck.' Tex said to the shotgun guy trying to get him to kill Six, keep her hands clean in the future.
"Aw I guess having someone else kill me won't be as satisfying for you." the three colored agents were confused about what the fuck is going on between miss black and mister, almost all black.
"Kiss my ass you lab experiment."
"I bet you would love that."
"What the fuck does that suppose to mean!?"
"Well an expert told me you are a Yandere."
"Well that expert is about to have his license revoked."
"SHUT THE FUCK UP. YOU CAN TALK ABOUT YOUR SHITTY RELATIONSHIP IN- wait what's that red line?" notice the transmitter having a red line beaming down on it, "Wait where is the cyan one-"
Six backhands the guy taking his shotgun and shooting him in the chest, killing him before unloading on the enemies. Carolina, who was using camo to blend in with the troops, started to kick their asses, while Tex did the same but invisible. All the agents got far away from the transmitter, knowing something was about to happen. From the Mother of Invention above came a powerful laser that shot through the entire building.
While this happened, Six and Tex quickly snatch jetpacks to aid in what is likely to happen next.
Tex rocketed towards the Sarcophagus and kicked it off the building before following it off. The other four agents start running away from the collapsing roof of the building, which will likely be falling apart any minute now.
"This must be karama for kicking Maine out the window." Carolina half-joked and Six responded with a half-serious response,
"It's just the director being overkill." The four hop off and begin free-falling trying to catch up to the objective before it breaks by hitting the ground hard.
The four were free-falling or, in Six cases descending down with his jetpack to give aerial support. Niner arrived and flew past the objective with the back of the ship open wide. Carolina grabbed onto the Sarcophagus and got on top of it, trying to direct it to fall right into Niner's Pelican.
An enemy hornet appears and tries to shoot at Carolina, causing her to hop off the objective and mess up its trajectory. Six flew towards another enemy Hornet, grabbing on the side of the craft's pilot section and smashing his fist through the glass. The pilot grabs Six's arm keeping it away from doing something to him.
Six though no better time to try out an armor enhancement he stole from those elite bastards. With a smooth flick of the wrist, Six slices off the arm, gripping his arm using an energy dagger. Energy Dagger is a built-in energy sword that is smaller and not as deadly in a straight-up fight. Six thrust the dagger into the pilot's throat, killing him before leaving the Hornet to crash.
Six turned around and saw Wash was on the Sarcophagus shooting at the other Hornet, causing it to crash into the building. Six was getting closer and planned to grab York and Carolina before slamming into the Sarcophagus into the Pelican, with Tex liking the following suit and getting out of there.
Tex seems to have the same plan except skipped step one and went straight to pushing the Sarcophagus into the Pelican. Niner then flew off, leaving Six, York, and Carolina free falling. This got on Six's nerves.
"Well, shit, there goes our ride." York joked as the two activated their wings suits glided down safely, "Good thing we got the wing enhancements."
Carolina nodded as the two were gliding down with Six following them as he said to them,
"Niner going to get my-"
"Don't be mad at her, she would have crashed into the highway below." Carolina said to Six to calm him down, so the pilot does not get his god-like wrath.
"Besides, she would not mind riding your shaft." Six just look at York with a "are you for real?" look before giving him the back of his hand, causing York to spin in the air before getting back into effective gliding position, "OW what the fuck."
"That's what she was going to get since you wondered so much." Carolina tried hard to not let a chuckle escape her lips, but then a lightbulb went off in her head as she asked the other two.
"Say you guys think Maine-" Smashing free from the building they were just at came Maine on a Warthog who landed on the highway.
Carolina and York glide down with the gold and silver agent taking the passenger seat, and the cyan one took the gunner seat.
"Nice ride Maine." York said to the white and orange agent, who did a grunt that translates to thanks, "how about we change seats? Your muscles are more useful in fighting than driving.
Maine agrees, so while the car drifts down the roadway, Maine climbs out of the driver seat by going to the gunner part of the car. This let York just hop over, taking control before it lost control and they crashed. Maine then carefully sat down in the passenger seat, holding his brute shot at his chest in case he needed to fire it. Six flew down, keeping pace with the warthog.
"Carolina contact North." She nodded and tried to contact agent North Dakota, "I will likely go to assist them regardless."
Six opens his holographic map of the city and waits for where North answer's Carolina's message. Before Carolina could get a word out, a sniper round shot was heard and hit one of the thrusters of Six's jetpack.
"SIX!" Carolina cried out, seeing Six flying out of control, "We should go check on him."
"Focus on mission Carolina." York said trying to calm down his friend, but in reality, girlfriend, "beside Six will be fine. if he did not die on Reach I don't think he'll die in this city."
"You're right York ." Carolina returns her focus to the mission. Losing is not an option at this point for agent Carolina.