Chapter 17

AN: Hey, so you guys might wanna watch some Halo machinimas before reading because characters from other shows are gonna be here. Here's a list:

+Lost: Halostyle/Lost Cause
+Outpost: Isil
+The Heretic (Prequel to The Codex)
+The Codex
+Civility
+Spriggs
+Forecast

System: Sara
Planet: Mar Sara
Location: Unknown Alien Ruins
One Week Ago...

Deep in the catacombs of a strange alien ruins; Agent York, Agent North, a Sangheili name High Cleric Dove 'Antenatee (pronounced Dové, like café), another Sangheili name Foreman Orma Zemalee; explore deep in strange ruins that have halls made of some sort of stone with glowing runes on it. They stop halfway as they looks at some sort of mural on the wall. The mural looks like strange, tentacled beings coming out of something that looks like a diamond-shaped thing in a ring that travel among planets and one forms a star on a surface of one of the planets. On the upper right, they see a temple of some sort with two figures in the center with floating rocks.

North looks at Dove, "Any ideas on what they are?"

"I do not know." Dove responds before looking back at the mural, "Those beings definitely aren't Forerunner, but I do sense something benevolent when looking at this mural." Dove is wearing gold color armor with red accents and have a white runes emblem on a red circle.

Theta pops up, "Yeah! I feel something nice about it!"

"I didn't know AI can do that." North says.

York asks Delta, "Hey, D? Can you translate some of the runes on this place?"

Delta pops up, "I don't have enough information to give a proper translation. But I am sensing abnormal psionic energy emitting all around."

"That may explain a few things." says Orma. He wears light green armor with green accents and has a trinity emblem that is yellow with green lines. "Many of us working down here do feel a strange pleasant sensation as we study these bizarre ruins. Both human and elite. They may not be of Forerunner design, but this place feels holy in some way. We are, however, studying as much of these ancient aliens to the best of our abilities. Some of the abandoned colonies we found made no mention on these structures."

"Yeah, I heard the same." North heard the same from some of the people that investigated the abandoned settlements. "But they checked all the files of every computer and report that they have been deleted or corrupted."

Delta pops up again, "Analysis indicates that the Marker and this ruin are not related due to structural and architectural differences."

The four head down the hallways as they pass many human scientists wearing MJOLNIR white armor with Mark 6 armoring with their left arm being CQB type that has a white wolf emblem on a blue circle working and studying the structure they are in. Some of them have blue accents with a red capsule on a white circle, indicating that they might be medics or medical doctors. Alongside them are Sangheili engineers that wear armor that have similar coloring, but are completely green with no secondary coloring. They travel deeper in because Orma has something to show them. While doing so, North and York have a conversation.

"So how are things going on in the wastelands?" York asks.

"Not much. Nothin' but rock and dirt. How is that eye though?"

"I would like to say all healed-up, but does sting sometimes when I'm in a dry area."

"Still upset about Epsilon sending most of us on this dead yet breathable rock?"

"Well... I can't exactly blame him. He was a failing AI so we have to expect things to go wrong when an AI is about to die." York seems calm about it.

Theta pops up, "I hope I won't screw-up before I die."

Yet York changes the topic, "How are the new guys comin' along? You know, the Shatter Squad?"

"I gotta be honest: those guys are awesome with some of the stuff they can do. They can use special armor abilities that can be used without AI assistance."

Dove says, "Indeed. Glad the war was over where you're from. The war was still going on in my time."

Delta pops up, "That is probably due to dimensional-"

"We're here!" Orma says as they stand in front of some door.

The door is in the image of the same creatures they saw on the murals with the head at the top. It may appear as a wall at first until the many different slits started to rise up like tentacles being retracted. Once did, they see a room with the architecture and decor completely different from the rest of the ruins. Everything looks more like it is man-made with everything made of metal and angelic statues on the walls. Looks like something the UNSC made yet may have been religious. In the room, there are seven pedestals in the form of hexagonal rocks like the rocks from Giant's Causeway from Ireland but more refined. On top of them, black boxes are on them. One for each pedestal.

"The fuck type of room is this?" York asks.

"We don't know." Orma replies, "But it is different from the rest of the ruins and in pristine condition."

Delta pops up, "Analysis indicates that this was a more recent addition to the ruins."

Theta pops up, "Looks like something the UNSC built and tried to convert it into a church or something."

"Or made by someone with religious taste. I highly doubt that a government organization is capable of doing so."

York approaches one of the black boxes, "What exactly are these?"

"We don't know." Orma replies, "I decided to bring you three down here to let you know of our discovery. We should've had some of the human scientists examine the artifacts here, but I would like for you to see before we conduct any further research."

Dove approaches the center pedestal and looks at the black box, "Hmm..."

"Something wrong, High Cleric Dove?"

"These are strange artifacts. These are just black boxes with no intricate features. Just black blanks." He picks it up with his right hand, "Why would artifacts like these be in a room like this?"

But all of a sudden, he felt a great pull coming from the artifact just before it fuses with his implant.

"What the-?!" Dove freaks out.

"What happened!?" North runs up to help. He then notices the black box is on Dove's left arm where his implant should be, "The hell did this thing do!?"

A holographic screen is projected from the black box and shows Dove some new building options and he can even generate resources, items and much more.

Somewhere pretty far away underground, a bunch of ancient computer terminals flicker on along with the lights as they reveal the Red Marker. In the room, a multitude of human bodies are behind glass that are completely frozen and all packed up as the Red Marker started to glow. The computer then started to have text on its screen.

Black Box #200198 Activated

Species #1 Identification: Macto cognatus
Species #2 Identification: Homo sapien

Processing...

Necromorph Activation: ACCEPTABLE

Initializing...

Altman Be Praise, We Shall All Be Whole

The Red Marker then shoots of a beam of red light up into the sky as a storm starts to form.

Three Days Later...

In an outpost constructed from buildings and materials from No Man's Sky, 20 UNSC soldiers wearing black armor and have white Spartan helmets with crossed swords just received a message from Gen. Vollin.

General Vollin is wearing purple Rogue armor as she speaks via radio, "Outpost 009: Omega, this is General Vollin. I need you to send a squad over to Outpost 010: Zeta. We lost all contact with them over an hour ago and haven't reported in."

A female major replies, "Understood, ma'am. Sending in a squad now."

A squad of five soldiers are sent over via a warthog and a mongoose to the east.

"You guys think that they have a communication problem!?" a private asks over the sound of the engines.

"There shouldn't be!" a corporal replies, "The guys with the black boxes ensure us that there should be nothing wrong!"

"Knowing what the fuck is out here, probably boredom! As in, there is nothing out here but rocks, shrubs, dirt and that storm that showed up a few days ago! Fairly easy to get bored and forget to report in!"

After two hours, they made it to Outpost 010: Zeta and it appears to have a more Subnautica type of outpost. They pulled over and take a look at the base. They noticed that some of the windows are smashed and the lights are out.

"The fuck happened?" asks the corporal.

The sergeant replies, "Probably got so bored that they had a helluva party. That might be the reason."

"I don't know." says the lieutenant, "Somethin' feels off." Indeed something isn't right, "Sergeant Anderson. You and private Peters check the place out."

"Roger that." they both say.

The two soldiers head in to see what has happened.

Once they got in and used their flashlights, the sergeant reports in, "Sir, we have a situation."

"What kind of situation?"

Inside the base, the place is covered in blood and Marker runes scribbled in blood with pictures of the Marker. The whole placed is completely trashed with furniture flipped over or on their sides, many electronics completely torn to shreds, some vases broken into fragments, papers scattered about. There are even bullet holes and claw marks on almost everything.

"A very problematic one. Might want to have Agent North switch over to pre-recorded distress call Alpha-03."

Spear of Kaas
Present Day...

The Spear of Kaas, the Protoss arkship, is heading straight towards the Sara System. Matte is the helmsman of the ship as she pilots it towards the system to get solarite. Thanks to Washu, many Protoss script is translated to English which make things easier. Pietro is in-charge of engineering position and can walk on his feet again thanks to the black box. Turns out he doesn't need his mech-chair anymore. Simmons is taking on the tactical role of the ship, in which, he is responsible for weapon systems and fires them. Present Mic is the communications officer and is keeping track of all chatter on all frequencies. As for navigations, or someone checking the celestial array, that role falls to three people: 2012 Donatello, Stewie Griffin, and Tony Stark aka Iron Man. Donatello's experience in space may provide some assistance with navigation, Stewie understands more about holographic displays and 3D maps, and Tony is there to help plot courses and avoid any situation. Although everyone take turns with everyone else in shifts in order to keep the ship afloat.

Present Mic is still listening to the distress signal until he noticed that it changed. "Hmm?!" he tunes it in before saying, "Uh, guys? I think we need to step on it. Listen to this."

"Mayday, mayday!" North sounds like he's in a panic, "This is Agent North Dakota, can anyone hear me!? We're under attack by unknown hostiles! Requesting assistance! ANY ASSISTANCE! NOW!"

Matte goes, "Roger! We'll be there in 3...2...1!"

The ship exits out of warp space (as in something akin to hyper or slipspace, not the Warp) and made it to planet Mar Sara. In view, the lower right corner of the planet looks like it has a massive storm of some sort swirling radically.

Present Mic says over the comms, "All you kids listen up! We received a new distress call from North! Sounds like he and many others are dealing with some hostile aliens or many of those black box hunters! Prepare to rock n' roll for combat!"

On the surface of Mar Sara, Mar Sara City has been transformed into a fortress just like in the first StarCraft game as many entrances are blocked by Fallout 4 cement blocks with turrets on them. Around the outskirts, many types of mines are placed to keep out anything that might scout the area. On the top of many buildings, they found old Terran siege tanks that are now in artillery mode as they await for the attack. Everyone has taken defensive positions as the next wave of Necromorphs start to come in, but two soldiers so far are suffering from the effects of the Marker.

Once they hear the screeching of the incoming wave, the tanks start to open fire when they cross the line. Many deformed body parts get blown up and burnt to a crisp for each attack struck down at them. The lyotes, the local wildlife, have also been turned into Necromorphs with mandible jaws, bony spikes all over, limbs split in half for greater speed and maneuverability, and shoot barb bones from their tails. Some of these avoided the mines and shot five soldiers until three Sangheili snipers shot them down or shot one or two mines to kill them.

North fires a few rounds from his sniper rifle while saying, "Does anyone know WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY!?"

York says as he fires his battle rifle, "Don't know and don't care! Just shoot them!"

George Washington, one of the three guys Sarge time traveled to recruit, now a general, asks for the situation over the radio. "Commander Druco, any report on your subordinate and his soldiers?"

Druco reports in, "Yeah, uh, we're at the targeting area and...um...got good news and bad news. Bad news: Sub-Commander Leslie and all his homosexual troops are dead. They killed themselves in a murder orgy."

North says, "... I really don't need that mental image."

York shudders a little from that image alone. Then he takes out a Sangheili version of a Necromorph that has claws on its fingers, longer mandibles, short extra arms protruding from its ribcage, and its torso is opened up with its entrails being tentacles. He shot it down by shooting its legs first, its arms, then its head. Thanks to the black boxes, everyone can shoot infinite ammo and no need to reload so they got plenty of ammo to use.

"Then what's the good news?"

"Leslie's dead and I don't have to kill him."

George sighs at what Druco considers good news before Vollin takes over.

"Rainbow Squad! Pink Squad! Report in!"

"Capt. Red here! Pink Squad is down and Position Beta is suffering from a few explosives caused by kamikaze assholes!"

"Master Chief at Position Kappa here! We lost Spartan Green Team!"

Then out of nowhere, a loud roar can be heard from across the valleys in the northeast part of the city. Many of the Necromorphs stopped and moved aside as something huge started to come over as it bulldoze through the rocky mountains and mesas. The entire ground rumbles as it makes its approach.

One of the soldiers say, "We're fucked."

Delta pops up, "I entirely agree with that assessment."

But it suddenly stopped. The dust settles from ten miles away. Everyone prepares for the worse as they aim their weapons where the rumblings came from and equip with nano rifles, rocket launchers, fuel rod cannons, plasma grenade launchers and whatever heavy weaponry they can get. After fifteen seconds of dead silence, something sprouted up from the earth. It is gigantic in size with a worm-like body with tendrils along its frame and a large mouth that makes a large roaring noise just three miles away.

"Yep, we are so fucked."

Someone shouts, "OPEN FIRE!"

And everyone started shooting the Necromorph Hive Mind. Yet it seems unphased by most of the barrage of bullets, rockets, and whatever else they have yet wiggles around when someone with black boxes fire at it.

Delta says, "Unidentified crafts incoming!"

York looks at Delta, "What?! Where?!"

From above, a rocket barrage hits the creature right before star-fighters zoom pass by. These fighters are Radiant Pillar BC1s that passed by with the lead being sienna color with black being second. On the right of this squadron, there is one that is red with black and one that is white with blue. On the left side of the sienna one, there is one that is black with purple and another one that is yellow with orange. It is Team RWBY being lead by Sienna.

"WAAA-HOOO!" Ruby cheers at the top of her lungs, "I can't believe I'm flying a star-fighter! This is awesome! Glad we can make these in our black boxes!"

Sienna orders Ruby, "Calm down now! We have lives to save!"

Yang apologizes for Ruby, "Sorry, Sienna! But you got to admit, this is awesome!"

Weiss shouts at Yang, "Focus!"

Blake says, "Initiating another run."

The five then come down to do another bombardment run as everyone look up at the fighters before they hit the worm with more rockets. They are amazed by this miracle that saved them. Yet another squadron of fighter join in as they destroy the other Necromorphs. The lead is black with red yet has Raven Branwen's symbol on the front. From her left, there is one ship that is yellow with white while the other ship is red with orange. From her right, one ship is green with yellow while the other is pink with white. In other words, Team JNPR is there as Raven leads the bombardment run on the Necromorphs on the ground with rockets. Many of the undead monsters explode to pieces and ash.

"THIS! IS! AWESOME!" Nora screams, "Having a spaceship is awesome!"

"Calm down, Nora!" Ren says to Nora, "We still need to save some lives!"

"I don't feel so good!" Jaune is getting sick from motion sickness as he tries to hold it in.

"Take it easy, Jaune." Pyrrha tries to make sure Jaune doesn't vomit, "Try to remember that it is all in your head. The black box removes such things."

"Cut the chatter!" Raven orders, "Let's finish these bastards and save lives!"

"MA'AM!"

Then they do another bombardment run and kill more Necromrphs.

Delta says, "Incoming spacecraft!"

Everyone look up and see eight Protoss shuttles coming in to land at the center. When they see that, they have no idea what to make of it.

That is until Coco says through the speakers and radios, "Strap yourselves in, boys."

North says to the soldiers, "You heard the lady! Load up!"

Team RWBY and Sienna continue to bombard the Necromorph Hive Mind. The creature does feel pain, but they're not doing much damage.

"What will it take to kill this thing!?" Yang asks in annoyance.

"How about we go after the glowy things in its mouth?" Ruby makes a suggestion, "Usually in video games, the glowy parts are the weakness to bosses."

"This is not a game!" Weiss yells at Ruby, "And if we ever-"

Sienna and Blake opened fire inside the Hive Mind's mouth and destroy all the glowing, dangly things; the monstrosity started to wriggle around and writhe while roaring in pain. Even more so when Team RWBY and Sienna attacked the body.

"Hey it worked." Blake notices.

"Oh you've got to be kidding me."

Sienna orders, "OPEN FIRE!"

Everyone started to shoot the inside of the Hive Mind's mouth along with any other parts that appear to be glowing that ultimately killed it in the process. The Necromorphs started to go feral and just attack anything on sight with the lost of their Hive Mind. Some attack each other, others just attack random rocks, and others do random shit.

Sienna opens her comms and gets an image of Arthur Watts on screen, "How goes the solarite harvesting?"

"The probes I got managed to open a vault that contains over 3,000 units of solarite and are transporting them to the solar core now. Pietro also reports about another vault not too far from my location and there are eight more vaults. I'm in my shuttle overseeing the operation and the creatures don't seem to bother with them. Probably because these probes are mechanical and not organic. But some managed to destroy some after the destruction of the hive mind, I take?"

"Just get the solarites to Washu, Dr. Watts. Once we get enough for the solar core, we need to wipe-out the source before we leave or it will come and bite us in the ass later."

"For that we agree. Oh yes. Best to purge this plague before it spreads."

Present Mic then appears on the hologram, "Hey! I picked-up a distress beacon from a ship that is about to crash on the other planet! I just send over some of the other kids over to help out."

Two squadrons of the same fighters headed over to the sister planet, Chau Sara, with their colors being dark blue-green with the secondary color being red. In the first squadron, we have Izuku Midoriya, Katsuki Bakugo, Tenya Ida, Kyoka Jiro, and Momo Yaoyorozu. In the second squadron, we have Reiko Yanagi, Itsuka Kendo, Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu, Yui Koda, and Shihai Kuroiro. They make their way to the ship that have crash landed on the surface of Chau Sara.

Yet Bakugo groans, "Why are we in these fighters when we could just fly?!"

Itsuka responds, "Because we need these as extra firepower against any hostile forces like the ones on Mar Sara."

"But why the hell we need rockets when I could just blast them away with my quark!? We're invincible!"

Shihai says, "Fuck you, man! I love having a spaceship!"

"It's actually a fighter." Momo corrects Shihai, "But it is close."

Bakugo complains again, "But these things are slow! I can fly faster than this hunk of junk!"

Itsuka says, "Then look around! There has to be something we can use to move faster."

Midoriya looks around in his cockpit and founds some sort of button, "I think I got something." he presses it and activated the pulse jump as he moves incredibly fast while screaming.

"Midoriya!" Tenya shouts in a worry.

"How did he do that?!" Tetsutetsu asks.

"I think I found it!" Momo founds the button and pulse jump to Chau Sara as she screams.

"Now I got it!" Tetsutetsu presses the button and pulse jump to Chau Sara as he goes, "WOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAHHHHH!"

"Where's the damn button!?" Bakugo tries to find the button, "Got it!" his fighter then pulse jumps as he goes, "YEEEEEEAAAAAHHH!"

Itsuka says, "I think I'm gonna stick with the fastest speed I can do without pressing anything."

Back at Mar Sara, the eight Protoss shuttles came back with only a third of the people that were evacuated as the double the amount left to pick-up the remaining forces on the surface. Carolina and Washington are there to aid many of their missing fellow soldiers they lived alongside with from the canyon they were forced to live in. That is until they found York and North.

"York! North!" Wash runs up to them, "So good to have you guys back!"

"Holy shit!" York says in disbelief, "Wash?! Damn!"

North says, "Hey, Wash! Man, it's good to see you again!"

"We're here too!" says a woman's voice.

Agents Iowa, Idaho and Ohio are there too alongside Agent Utah, Agent Illinois and Agent Georgia.

"And we got some of the other Freelancer Agents back! Great!"

Carolina shows up, "About time we get some professional space fighters among us. Some of the others are fantasy characters and some from 21st century."

"Hey, Carolina." North greets Carolina.

"Hey!" York sounds happy to see her.

Theta pops up, "Hey, girl! Who wants to get down?!"

"What?" Carolina is confuse on Theta's greeting.

Delta pops up, "Apologize. Theta has been in old files on 1990's American culture that-"

"I get it, Delta."

Agent Utah walks up, "So who're these other people?"

They all look around and see the different characters walking around and helping out.

In the solar core, Washu monitors the influx of solarite as she uses it to power some of the weapons of the ark.

She tell Simmons, "Capt. Simmons! Prepare to fire the purification beam at the center of the storm."

In the bridge, Simmons target the energy signature of the Marker at the center of the storm as he says, "Got it."

The target retical locked-on to the Marker before firing a massive yellow beam that burns brightly as the sun rain down at the Marker. The energy of the beam causes the Marker to be destroyed down to its atomic level. Destroying it and the signal it emitted to all Necromorphs as it first becomes burnt rubble, then white hot pebbles, then molecules, then nothing. All the Necromorphs started to turn into steaming organic sludge and all Necromorph cells have been eradicated all across the planet. This new sludge will become fertilizer for new plant life that will become food for any surviving animals that managed to be avoided to become Necromorphs. After the destruction of the Red Marker, the storm disappeared.

"Target destroyed!" Simmons cheers.

Everyone started cheering Simmons announced the destruction of an enemy that would've come and bite them in the ass if they didn't take care of it. Yet on Chau Sara, the U.A. students found the ship and signal them to have a shuttle come over and rescue some people from a ship called, the Astra, and its twelve passengers. But that will be reserved for another chapter.

(9V9)/: So any ideas on where that ship come from?

FAtE&BRaINs (Hermaeus Mora): Don't know.

FAtE&BRaINs (Hermaeus Mora): But they don't have those implants.

LightningKINGofOLYMPUS (Zeus): What did I miss?

Phoenix-Rising (Fenyx): A lot, dad.

Spikes_8-Blood: Fenyx! How long have you been watching?

Phoenix-Rising: The whole time.

Spikes_8-Blood: Is everyone watching?

LightningKINGofOLYMPUS: Not me!

LightningKINGofOLYMPUS: I've been on my 59th honeymoon with Hera!

MotherQUEENofOLYMPUS (Hera): So we got new mortals in this universe now.

MotherQUEENofOLYMPUS: How come we didn't know that?

Cripple-SMITH (Hephaestus): You were on your honeymoon, mother.

Maj. Spear (Ares): Last time we interrupted your honeymoon, mother, Hermes got turned into a dove for a week!

W1NG3D-SANDAL (Hermes): Please don't do that again.

Bringer Of The Night - Ooo-ooh: Will you be my friend?

Citizen-Khaine: Let's watch things unfold, alright?

#1 Hippie (Jesus Christ): Hey everyone!

Enlightened Meditator (Buddha): We got back from visiting another universe!

Phoenix-Rising: 'Bout time.

Phoenix-Rising: You guys missed out a lot.

#1 Hippie: Care to fill us in?

W1NG3D-SANDAL: I'll tell you guys.