A/N
So I wanna start off by saying thank you all for your help and your patience. To answer a few of the questions you may have I'll begin by saying that if you look at the title and scroll down some you'll see that it says J. Cutter, that being said James Cutter is the captain of the Spirit of Fire, meaning the ship will be in this story. While it won't show up officially for quite some time, our SPARTAN will be getting back up.
*cough cough* and for those of you wondering he will have his aura unlocked. But to give you a brief description of what I have planned, I will say this. Aura is the manifestation of your soul and emotions, if your soul is pure/innocent (aka not seen an alien race literally commit genocide of your race since you were a kid) it is strong, but his is not. So you can expect his to not protect him hardly at all, it might protect him from maybe one shot, MAYBE. I have a reason for this and you will see it in due time. The rest of your questions will be answered in time.
(random portal opens beside me and a blue spartan steps out) Hello, my name is Caboose. Have you seen my lucky penny?
Um..no..wait.. YOU'RE CABOOSE!?
Yes I am Caboose, and I need to go so bye friend (steps back into portal and it closes)
(Blinks and rubs my face)
I think I need to go have my brain checked...anyways..onto the story.
After Conner had made contact with the other person on the other side of the radio, which took a few minutes due to the person not taking their hand of the talk button on the microphone, he was able to talk to the person and was able to arrange for him to be picked up. He gave them a brief description of his location and they said they knew where he was and would be sending someone to his location shortly.
Conner made his way over to his crushed duffle bag to see what he could salvage from it, and to his surprise the railgun he had grabbed had survived being crushed with it having only having been indented a little and having a lot of abrasions on it.
"Alexus, is it still operable in this condition?" Conner asked.
"It should be, though I wouldn't recommend using it until it's fixed. I recommend sticking with your other weapons for now." Alexus said.
"Got it." Conner said as he placed the weapon to the side and proceeded to scrounge through the rest of his supplies.
"Looks like I'm only gonna have a few rounds for it though." he said as he picked up the 4 tungsten-carbide slugs that were salvageable, "That thing crushed almost everything in here. I'm surprised that it could hit so hard. What the hell was that thing anyway?"
"I honestly don't know, perhaps the people that we're going to talk to will know?" Alexus questions. "I have lots of questions for these people."
"Well you'll be able to ask them soon." Conner says.
As he looks through his supplies for anything else salvageable, he places them around him.
"Well, the bag itself is shot. I was able to salvage two canisters of bio-foam, the Magnum is in usable condition, only one frag was salvageable, and the silencer for the battle rifle is fine. Everything else is junk." Conner puts everything else back in the bag and throws it on the street and crushes the remains into dust.
"Was that necessary?" Alexus asks.
"Considering how we don't know anything about the people on this planet, and the fact that there are things about this world that just seem off, I don't want to take any chances just yet. Aset denial is top priority according to the Cole Protocol." Conner says as he starts taking inventory of what he has on him.
"Two energy swords, one sniper rifle with two extra magazines, one battle rifle with a few hundred extra rounds, one possible railgun with four rounds, one Magnum with only the ammo that's in the gun, two canisters of bio-foam, three frags left, and two smoke grenades..hang on. Didn't that elite have some weapons on it?"
"Yes, and I wouldn't leave them lying around if I were you. Since you don't want to take any chances that is." Alexus says.
Conner gets his stuff together and heads back towards the body of the elite and takes whatever he can.
"Ok, four plasma grenades, one plasma rifle, one beam rifle, a spare cloaking device, and a shielding device. I think that's everything this thing had." Conner says as he tries to find places to put stuff. "I need to find something to put all this in, I can't carry everything."
"Perhaps we can ask the people coming if they have anything we can carry it in?" Alexus says.
"Yeah, maybe." Conner says.
His radio then comes to life and the same voice of the person from earlier comes on.
"Excuse me Conner, but your transport will arrive in a few moments to get you." the voice says.
"Understood, uh, I actually have a question. Do you know if they will have anything with them that could carry some of my equipment? My bag got destroyed." Conner asks.
"I'm sorry, but I don't actually know what they have on board, but I'm sure they might have something with them. By the way it just occurred to me that I didn't tell you my name earlier, I am Professor Ozpin." the person now identified as Ozpin says.
"Well Ozpin, where will this transport be taking me?" Conner asks.
"The transport will be taking you to one of our airships where you will talk with a man named James Ironwood. He is the general of the Atlesian military. He will then decide on whether or not to allow you into the city to talk with me." Ozpin says.
"Understood, I will be waiting. Conner out." Conner says as he closes the channel.
"Well what do you think of our situation Alexus?"
"I think it's rather interesting actually, this could be a FIRST ENCOUNTER scenario actually now that I think about it. It would explain why we haven't picked up any UNSC transmissions." Alexus says.
"Well, I'll let you think about that. And I think it may be best to not let a lot of people know about you just yet." Conner says.
"I agree, a highly intelligent artificial intelligence along with a massive armored "alien," yeah I can see that being a problem." Alexus says. "By the way, our ride's here."
A dropship of sorts then flies over and begins circling the village looking for a place to land.
"You think we should let them know we're over here?" Conner asks as he grabbed a smoke grenade.
"Well yes, it is here for us after all." Alexus says, but before he could pull the pin on the grenade the ship starts descending on the other side of the village.
"Nevermind then, we'll just do it the old fashioned way." Conner says as he draws his battle rifle and begins to run towards where he saw the ship land.
Once he gets closer he activates his active camouflage and starts creeping up on the vessel to get a good look at it and the people operating it.
Character swap
As the bullhead sat down, it's doors opened to dispense several Atlesian soldiers, as well as a few Atlesian Knights, and a woman with white hair, and a sword on her hip.
"Get this area secured, and begin watching for this "Conner" we're here for." Winter Schnee orders.
She then begins to turn her gaze to the village. Scanning for any kind of movement. She begins to focus on one area in particular. Swearing to herself that she had just seen something move there.
A yell from one of her men caught her attention. She drew her sword and turned to face the threat. But when she did she saw just what had happened. One of her men had been caught off guard by a Beowolf, several others had also appeared and took a few Atlesian Knights by surprise and swiftly destroyed them and were proceeding to head for her.
But as she took a defensive position, two loud shots rang out behind her; and with each burst, one Beowolf fell to the ground dead. When Winter turned towards the sound of the shots, she found herself looking at a massive armored figure with a skull like helmet that had rustic stripes in an X covering where a face would be. The being who she surmised was Conner began walking towards her with a gun of sorts aimed in her general direction. Before she could react it fired off another burst and when she realized she wasn't the one being shot at, she turned to see the last Beowolf fall to the ground and begin to disintegrate. And to her surprise the figure ran over to the fallen man and began to inspect him.
"He needs medical attention now, his wounds are deep." It said.
A few men had ran back to see what was going on, and a few ran over to grab the man and pull him to the side as the rest raise their weapons and point them at the armored figure.
"Who are you and what is your business here?" One of the men asked.
"I am SPARTAN B-002 Conner, I'm awaiting pick up from the Atlesian military." He replied as he began to steadily raise his weapon a little.
"Stand down! This is our VIP men." Winter began to placate her squad.
" I apologize Conner. We did not know it was you, we weren't told what you looked like." Winter apologized in a curt tone.
This is the "Alien" we're supposed to pick up? He's massive, and look at all those weapons. Winter thought. He took out those Beowolfs with only a few shots, and where did he even come from?
"So then you are my ride then? It's about time you got here." He says.
"Well when you have to meet an alien for the first time, wouldn't you be cautious about it too?" She said as she crossed her arms.
Conner laughs a little. "Believe me, been there done that, never want to do it again. As a matter of fact, do you happen to have a body bag with you?" He asks.
Winter stands there for a second wondering why he would ask something like that. "We do, but why would you need it?" She asks.
"Oh it's not for me, I want to bag the alien back at the edge of the forest to show your commander and this Ozpin person. I figured I'd show them what a real alien looks like." Conner says.
"What alien?" Winter asks.
"You want to see you'll have to get the bag then." Conner says as he begins walking towards the dropship and sits on the edge. "Preferably a larger one, maybe the size of a bear." He added.
Winter looked at her men. "Load up, let's get going." She walked towards the ship and gets in and grabs a body bag from one of the ships compartments and hands it to Conner. "Here's your body bag. But I'm coming with you to see it."
"Fine by me, tell the pilot it's on the other side of the village near the forest edge." Conner says.
The ship then takes off and flies to the area Conner said and lands. Conner and Winter get out of the ship and begin to walk towards the body of the dead elite. Once there Winter covers her mouth as she sees it.
"What is that?! It smells horrible." She says.
"That, is a Zealot class elite, but it's race is a
Sangheili. It is part of a religious Hegemony of races known as the Covenant. They want to eradicate the Human race from the void." He said nonchalantly, "And it is dead, that's why it smells." Conner said as he puts the body in the bag and zips it up. "Oh, I wanted to ask if you had anything that could hold some of my equipment?"
"Yes but the only thing we have would be another body bag. Will that work?" Winter says.
"Yeah that's fine, I just can't carry everything I have. It's gonna fall off my back at some point." Conner says.
Conner then picks it up and carries it to the ship and puts it in and steps to the side and allows Winter to get in before he gets in. The doors close on either side of the ship as it begins to take off and head towards general Ironwood's airship, and Winter hands him another body bag to put his stuff in.
Location: Unknown
Date: Unknown
Time: Unknown
In the inkling black of an unknown quadrant of space, a deceivingly dead ship bursts to life. "Captain… something has happened."
A/N
Well I hope you enjoyed that chapter. I know, not that exciting, or maybe it was. Anyways I'd like to give credit to (TheDidactsHand) for helping with editing this chapter as well as helping with the lore I requested help on. And I want to thank all of you who did help me with the lore. Though I do want to say that I will be tweaking some of it as I go along. Don't worry it won't be something like bringing Sargent Johnson back from the dead AND I WILL NOT THROW MASTER CHIEF INTO THIS STORY. He's had enough of the spotlight for now.
Anyways if you can guess what the ship at the end was you can have bonus points. :D
Well that's all I have to say, until next chapter that is.
"In the end… All the chess pieces go back into the same box."
