Chapter 2
Let's turn back time to when the sunrises in another location. In the wide open fields filled with overgrown grass with a few acacia trees growing, there is a tent and a yurt where Team CFVY are at. Coco steps out of the yurt as she stretches and yawns while wearing cloth pants and shirt as pajamas.
"Good morning." Fox says as he cooks breakfast in a campfire.
"Good morning, Fox." she says in a weak tone, still waking up. Coco then approaches Fox. "What are you cooking?"
"Meat." Fox replies. "Yatsu is getting some more berries and some veggies."
Coco then sits down across from Fox. "I see."
"So how was that yurt we got from that glowing beacon thing?"
"Spacious." she now sounds more awake. "I kinda like it. Oh and by the way, did you notice the strange things that happened with our implants? The whole popping up and speedy math crap?"
"Yeah." Fox then leans back. "It was weird, but we got some new stuff we can use."
Then their implants started glowing again and does the whole thing Coco was talking about.
"Aaaannd looks like we got more." Fox says as he looked at his implant.
Then Velvet exits out of the yurt. "Morning!" she sounded all chipper and fully awake. "Hey, did you guys get that glowing thing again?"
"Sure did!" Coco says to Velvet with one hand close to her mouth.
Velvet then walks over to the three horses, correction, Equus that they used for travel with one of them being a unicorn. That is Velvet's unicorn named Peter. Velvet gives it a carrot while snuggling him.
"How are you my lovely Peter?" she says with such delight in her voice along with hearts coming out from behind her. "Who's a good unicorn? Who's a good unicorn? Who's a good unicorn? You are! Yes you are!"
Coco and Fox looked at her with large sweat drops on the back of their heads.
Then Coco looks back at Fox, "By the way, is the meat done?"
"Let me check." Fox then looks back at the campfire along with his implant. "Yup, the first three are ready!"
"Good." Coco nodded. Then she looks back at Velvet and yells, "Hey Velvet! Breakfast is ready!"
Then Velvet looks back at her teammates. "Good, I'm starving!"
The three members started to eat the cooked meat, some berries, and some cashews they found before setting up camp.
"By the way..." Velvet then looks around, "Where is Yatsu?"
Fox then replies, "He should be back by now."
Then everyone hears galloping coming from the north as they look behind the yurt. It is Yatsuhashi in hide armor on his Equus yet he looks like he has something to tell them.
"What's up?" Coco stands up.
"There is something over the hills! Something big!" Yatsuhashi says with all seriousness.
"Like what." Fox then gets on his feet.
"Best if I show you."
Everyone then pack everything up with Coco wearing what appears to be Desert Armor but without the hat and goggles. Everyone else is wearing hide armor while also equipped with spears and stone hatchets for worse case scenario. They pack everything up in their implants and ready to set out. They galloped north over the hills for an hour until they come across something far ahead just a few miles. What they see is something they weren't expecting.
"What the hell is that?" Fox went.
What they see is two towers with lights going high in the air yet around them are strange metallic wrecks that are in pretty bad shape and are having plants growing on them.
"I don't know." Yatsuhashi responded. "But I found this when I was looking for food."
"Let's have a closer look." Coco declared. "Maybe we can find something useful."
"Maybe people." Velvet says. "I hope we can find out what is going on." She is unsure and a bit nervous on what type of people they would find. Assuming there are people here at all.
Coco then rides her Equus into the strange place with her teammates behind her until they get a closer look at the ruined place. When they get closer, they realize that the metal structures were spaceships. The place is eerily quiet like a graveyard until Velvet broke the silence.
"What is this place?" she asked as she looks around at such an eerie place.
"It looks similar to a boneyard of old airships from some of the old pictures I saw for Mr. Oobleck's class. But much bigger." Coco responded.
"I sense the presence of death in this place." Yatsuhashi says as he feels an unpleasant feeling all around him.
"Well judging by all the foliage and rust of this place," Fox says out loud, "I say this place has been around for a hundred years."
Coco then pulls the reigns of her Equus as she sees something to her left in a hole in one of the ships. "Let's check that out."
She gets off and sees what is inside the ship. The rest of her team followed after in the clearing they are in. Coco seems to have entered in what is best described as a cargo hull. Boxes and crates scattered all over the floor with a few weapons scattered about.
"Hello there." Fox says as he picks up a MA5C Assault Rifle. Then looks at his implant again to see if anything different happened. "Strange." then turns to face his team. "Nothings happening."
"Maybe these things..." Velvet tries to come up with a good answer. "I don't have a clue. This place is messed up."
Yatsuhashi then points over at something. "Over there." He is pointing at something that looks like a terminal.
They went over to see what is on the terminal that has a picture of a hawk on top of what appears to be a planet with lettering that says: UNSC United Nations Space Corps.
"What is United Nations Space Corps.?" Yatsu asked.
"Don't know." Coco shrugs. "But lets find out." Coco then types in to see what happened. She types until she found something. It looks like a play button icon. She clicks to see what is on it.
It is a recording: *sirens blaring, people screaming*
Male voice: "This is the captain! All hands, brace for impact! We are crash landing on an unknown planet! All non-essential personnel, please head towards the nearest-"
*static comes after, then the sound of gunfire comes later*
Militant man's voice: "Jenkins! Take cover!"
*sound of an explosion*
Jenkins (in a panic): "What do we do sarge!?"
Sarge: "Keep on firing! The Covies and us are in the same position!"
Third soldier: "Just who the fuck are they?!"
Sarge: "Don't know! Don't care! Just shoot these fucking bastards!"
*loud sound of footprints approaching*
Sarge: "What's your status?!"
Strange grunting voice: "Most of our forces have been wiped out! They took control of our ship!"
Whinny, child-like voice: "I DON'T WANNA DIE!"
*sound of someone being smack*
Grunting voice: "Get back in the fight, you grunts!"
*sound of someone's head getting shot and exploded*
Whinny voice: (scared out of his mind) "WE'RE FUCKED! WE'RE FU-" (got shot in the head)
Third soldier: (scared yet keeps firing) "OH FUCK!"
Jenkins: "JUST STAY CALM AND-" (got shot in the head)
Sarge: "JENKINS!" (static comes after)
End of recording.
"Yikes." Fox says after hearing the recording. "Just what the hell did we stumble upon."
"Don't know." Coco replies. "But lets see the manifest of this ship." Coco typed to see what type of cargo they can find on the derelict. "Let's see here. According to this, half the ship is missing. So we only gonna get more or less than half of the cargo. The manifest says something about having eight M313 Heavy Recovery Vehicle Behemoth-class Troop Transport aka Elephants. But only four are here."
"What exactly are those?" Velvet lean closer to the screen.
Yatsu then points behind them. "Maybe those."
The other three turn around and see four large vehicles that were behind some of the crates.
"How the fuck did we miss those?" Fox says as he takes in by the size of the vehicles.
"Don't know." Coco then starts to smile. "But I think we found a way to get this shit back home."
Team CFVY then starts to get the vehicles out and start scavenging anything they can find. While doing so, some of the stuff they did pick-up did cause their implants to act weird again. While it did again when they weren't doing anything.
While loading a few crates into the first elephant, Yatsu asked while he looked at his implant: "What was that?"
"Guess Team SSSN must have found something." Velvet responded as she finds a bunch of MREs.
"What makes you say that?" Fox asked.
Velvet then stands proudly. "Woman's intuition."
Fox started laughing. Velvet started to pout at Fox. Yatsu just shake his head and smiles as he continues to load the first elephant.
"Hey guys!" Coco shouted from a distance. "I found something!"
Everyone stops what they were doing and ran off to where Coco is. As they approach, they see her with strange green glowing objects.
"What are those?" Yatsuhashi asked.
"Don't know." Coco responds. "But I think we can use them for decorations."
Fox scoffs. "Let me see those." Fox then approaches one of them. "There must be a reason for all these thiIII-" He slips on something and falls through one of the green things and ended up out through the other while covered in some black substance. "OOOOWWW!" he screams out in pain. "THAT! FUCKING! HURTS! FUCK!" Then he looks at himself, "What the fuck is this black stuff?!"
When they realize they found teleporters, they took the ones that only goes two ways and try to figure out how to turn them on and off.
It is now the afternoon and they loaded up three of the four elephants.
Yatsu places one last crate. "Alright, all set." he says as he claps his hands.
"Whew." Fox went as he wiped his forehead with his left arm. "Almost finished."
Velvet is carrying another crate as she approach, "We found a lot of stuff. Even found that fabricator thing that still works at the satellite wreckage."
"INCOOOOOMMMMMIIIIIINNNNNNG!" Coco screamed out as she comes in driving on a Covenant ghost by jumping over a ramp above the
"WHOA!" Fox says in surprise, "Where did you get that!? I want one!"
"You like it?" she stopped some feet away from her team and the elephants. "I found it in one of the alien ship." Then she looks down at the controls. "What does this do?" She pressed something and the thing went zooming by fast by hitting the turbo. Coco jumped off as the ghost just zooms by.
It went up a ramp while in turbo, as it jumps up and hits some fusion cores. The explosion causes a piece of another ship to fall right down on the Equus below it. Which caused their deaths. Including Velvet's unicorn.
Velvet dropped the crate in horror before dropping to her knees and start crying. Coco runs up to Velvet and does her best to apologize and comforts her.
Yatsu and Fox are standing next to each other with Fox going, "Wow. Guess we can load up the other elephant with more supplies, right?"
Yatsu the replies, " 'fraid so."
"But there is one thing that is always on my mind." Fox says as he looks at the ship. "Where is the other half?"
Black. That is all this person sees as he groans. What comes next is blurry visions of light. Then this person's vision goes in and out until he can see clearly.
"Oh god." he says. "Where am I?"
He looks around the room and sees what appears to be a bunch of collapsed metal walls to reveal brown rocks and dirt.
"What is this place?" Then he starts to remember. "Lets see. Last thing I remember was Wash and I were up against the Meta. I went inside the Meta's head to stop him. Then the emp went off. Then nothing." Then he tries to move his body. "Wait, where are my arms?" Then he turns around and sees a cracked mirror and is revealed that he isn't a person. But a floating metallic eyeball thingy.
"The fuck?" he says with a more raised voice. "Is that me?" he moves a little closer to the mirror. "Is this what I look like in the afterlife? Wait a minute." Then starts to look around. "Which afterlife am I in?"
Then a person in full armor, Mark 5 MJOLNIR armor to be exact, walks down the hall and notices the floating object. "Church?" he says with a voice that makes him sound like a dumbass. "Is that you?"
"Wait, Caboose?" After seeing his 'friend', he starts screaming, "OH FUCK! I'M IN HEEEELLLL!"
/: Project PHOENIX Progression = 0.3%
Continue Monitoring
Status
/: Entity known as Church/Alpha has appeared at Sector 56-21 aka Crash Site Bravo
Other entities will appear within: 00:21:45
Name of other entities?
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Cannot comply. Identity of these entities are under classified by order of ADMIN.
Very well. Initiate Sunbeam scenario at Sector 14-87.
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Affirmative. Commencing Sunbeam Scenario within 6:01:00.