Final chapter in season 2! Brace for impact! Shit will hit the fan... again!
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"Alex!" I heard from outside, I barrelled through the front doors of the inn that UNSC personnel were staying in and ran down the streets of South Gotha... I heard swords clanging and clashing in the distance, the sounds of battle and smell of smoke... I turned down an ally as a short cut towards the central square when I nearly ran into one of the Tristain soldiers in their burgundy plated armor... I then noticed the girl at his feet who he was about to run through... I wasted no time in breaking the soldier's neck and caving his skull in after forcing it into the cobblestone road... just to make sure he was extra dead.
"Louise, what's going on?" I asked as I helped her up.
"Alex!" she exclaimed and hugged me "I don't know..." she admitted.
I pushed past her, holding her behind me as I peered out from the ally into the central square of South Gotha... there was a sea of fire and burgundy as Tristain soldiers fought amongst each other... however the numbers of psycho soldiers quickly outnumbered the loyalist soldiers who either were slain or forced to retreat... I figured it be best if Louise and I did the same... especially after what I heard next...
I looked up to see hundreds of Dragon Riders flying across the sky towards the town hall...
"Listen!" said Louise as the screeching of dragons died down... in the distance we could hear the beating of drums, the clanking of armored boots marching... it must have been easily a few hundered thousand... "Albion's Army..."
I looked back at Louise, right in the eye. "We are leaving... now!"
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Henrietta's POV
"Your majesty!" said head priest Madollaen (A/N: Or whatever the fuck his name is I couldn't find it for the life of me, and I'm too lazy to re-watch the Anime right now...) "We must get you to safety! Please, take the next ship out for Tristain!"
We had retreated back to the Port town of Losailies, Albion's army of an estimated seven million was approaching... seven... million... I was under the impression that they were low on recourses, men and morale... where the hell did they get all that support!? (A/N: Seriously, did they even bother to mention where all those men came from in the anime? The manga eve? Seriously... plot hole...)
"I can't leave until the safety of my people is assured, I will take the final ship to Tristain. As the Queen, it is my responsibility to ensure the safety of my people..." I protested.
I looked out the window of our makeshift command center, which was really the shipping and receiving building for the merchant ships. We'd chosen it due to it's location near the docks... anyways, I looked out the window and I could see mobs of people trying to board any docked ships bound out of Albion... so many people were willing to abandon their homes... not only did it sicken me, it also confused the hell out of me... Albion's army was here for us, Tristain... not the locals... if we left then the army would have no reason to attack the Port... and if they realised this, that would mean we could get going sooner... I'm not even kidding when I ask; how did we get as far as we did in this war with this kind of logic and reasoning? I heard a burst of gunshots and bullets flew into the air... I could make out a blonde UNSC officer who was yelling loud enough for even us in the command center to hear.
"A'right yanks back it up! Back it up! I want three orderly lines, one for each ship... you'll all get out of here, so don't make our job harder than it's gotta be and we can get outta here faster!" he ordered
I sighed "Well look at it this way, we'll have packed up and be home before Albion's forces even get here..."
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Scorch's POV
"Whoa whoa whoa!" I held my hands out to stop Louise... we stood in front of a large shipping warehouse near the docks "Being the bait? Being the bait!? What the hell Louise!?"
"Being the bait means to distract the enemy while the others make their escape" said Derf
"No shit Sherlock Holmes!" I shot, then turned back to Louise "Why Louise? Why? Was this an order from the Princess?! I swear if it was then I will go POSTAL on her ass!" I clenched my fists and frowned behind my helmet...
"This wasn't an order... she doesn't even know about it..."
"huh?"
"Head Priest Mado... Madei... Ma- ah hell with it... The head Priest came to me and asked me, since Henrietta is over watching the evacuation, and won't leave until the people are safe..."
"This wasn't an order and you still accepted it!? Are you mad!? The enemy is seven million strong, who might I add, are on their way here right now! Do you have a death wish or something!" I paused "Actually don't answer that"
"I have Void magic..."
"Void magic!? Big fucking deal, the last few times you've tried to use it you've failed miserably!"
"But I might not this time..."
"And if you do!? You won't be stopping the enemy! You'll be feeding them!"
"No, I'm confident it will work..." she stared at me in the eye "And before you call me stupid for risking this all for honor, I will have you know, this is not for honor... this is for the princess... this is for all the people, even the maids, like the ones from the Fairy Tavern... if I don't they'll all be killed... trust me when I say... I don't want to die... but... I'm a noble... dying for your friends, comrades and family is something to be proud of... and it's something any respectable person would do! You may think me stupid... but is it really stupidity to die in place of thousands of others!?"
A cold breeze picked up from off the coast of Albion... I could feel the chill press against the black inner layering of my suit... the part that provides flexibility at the joints...
"Your right... But... although I want to protect everyone too... I don't feel right letting you sacrifice yourself... it just... why... why you of all people!? It's not fair!" I whined "Your creators gave you void magic as a gift... but now it seems to be more of a loan and now it's time to pay it back! Your creators are sick!" I heaved a large sigh, I was being so immature... complaining like a little kid wasn't going to change anything... words wouldn't change anything... no... this was a case of action... and I knew just what I was going to do now...
But before I could act Louise wrapped (or tried to) her arms around me. "You should run Alex... you don't have to die with me..."
I was taken aback... "Louise!" I pushed her away gently "Don't talk like that! Louise!" I shook her out of her stupor...
"Just go... this isn't your world in the first place right? You're not involved with the events here... go home Alex, don't make the worries, concerns and troubles of this world your own, because they aren't... go now..."
Her head was hung... I bent down and picked her head up a little by her chin... "Hey, is that what you really want?"
She started to sob softly "No... I wish to stand by your side till I draw my last breath... but... it would be selfish and disrespectful to ask of such a thing... and I don't want you to die as well... only one of us needs to die..."
I was silent for a while... then I nodded "Your right" I half-heartedly smirked "I won't hold you back any longer..." I put on my best fake smile. "Come, let us at least have a toast, in honor of you... back in my world, if such a thing was going to happen, where one person is about to go on a mission of no return, it's only fair to make their last days memorable, so that's what we will do, since it's the end." I ran over an shuffled through a few crates in the shipping area, pulling out a bottle of what looked like Pinot Noir. I ran back and held up the bottle for Louise to see before pulling the cork out... or... trying to...
"Heeeeeerk!" I groaned as I tried to pull the cork free. "BAH!" I gasped "What the fuck!? Did they super glue this thing in here!?" I examined the bottle hole for any glue or perhaps welding marks...
"Alex..." Said muttered Louise "I have a request then, since it's the end..."
"Yeah? What is it? since it's the end you can ask whatever you wish." I replied
I heard her mutter something under her breath...
"Huh? Speak up I can't hear you..."
"That's why I said..." She jumped up and grabbed my helmeted head, pulling me down to her level. "I wish to get married!"
I sprang back up nearly dropping the bottle of... whatever this was... and almost choked on my own saliva. "W-w-what!?" I exclaimed
"W-well... It's not actually marriage per say...rather it's more like a type of spirit binding... I honestly didn't know how else to put it... I guess you could say it's a spirit marriage or something..."
"W-what..." I muttered still recoiling from the shock...
"In order to prove I've lived! I have to get married, or something similar, at least once as proof that I've lived!"
"Isn't that what personal records are for?" I asked
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We headed into the center of the port town. People were packing up left and right, evicting themselves from their homes and shops like a Brute had just farted (And trust me, they fuckin' stink). Louise led me to a small stall where the shopkeep was just about to finish packing his stuff up...
"Excuse me" she said and pointed to a small flower in a bottle "How much is this?"
"Take it, it's free, I just want to get out of here!" said the Shopkeep
She picked up two flowers, one was blue, the other pink. "Thank you!" called Louise as the shopkeep pulled his cart of wares away towards the docks.
I took one of the flowers from Louise and held it up to my face to examine it "Interesting plant... what is it?" I asked, not recognizing it as any flora I knew.
"It's an Ekulerudamuru flower" replied Louise, lightly shaking her pink flower bottle.
"an Eklu... Ekyou... Ekleru... Ekuda... Ek... you know what; fuck this name!" I steamed
It was getting late and the sun was starting to go down, I followed Louise to a church on the outskirts of the town... once we'd entered, we found the place was practically abandoned... sure it had seen recent use, but due to the looming threat of Albion's forces, most people had evacuated the town and no one was here, not even a priest. Louise stepped up to the altar at the head of the room and knelt down to pray... me on the other hand... I got to work on hatching my plan... I slid to the side of the church, to where a simple piano was pressed against the wall... since there were not tables to use, this would have to do... I drew Louise's drink, then mine... of... whatever this was... (I still think it's Pinot Noir...) which by the way, I finally managed to open! I then retrieved the tiny sleeping potion out from my inventory and popped the cap off, pouring it into Louise's drink.
I turned around to look back at her... "Louise! Grog's ready..." I joked, to which she raised an eyebrow and I just brushed it off...
She stood up and approached me, picking up her drink (I double checked to make sure she got the right one) and standing next to me. We both stood in front of a pained stained glass pane, typical of most churches, even back in my world...
*clink*
"Cheers" said Louise, to whom I nodded with a reply of: "Down the hatch"
We both drank our drinks... (Drank our drinks, drank our drinks, drank our drinks... come on say it with me! It's fun to say!) And held the empty glasses once we were done with them.
"So..." I started "how does this spirit binding go anyways?" I asked
"Well... sorta like any marriage ceremony I guess..."
"I thought you said this wasn't marriage..." I said, to which Louise absently looked away from me... not meeting my eyes... I sighed and then shrugged "Whatever..." then a thought occurred to me "Oh don't tell me we have to kiss..." I regretted saying that.
*bing*
"Oooohhhhwww!" I grunted an octave higher than usual before falling on my rear...
"You don't even know shame at the end it seems! A dog till the end!" accused Louise
"I didn't even say anything perverted! It was a question! A simple question!" I retorted.
She held out her hand "Holding hands will do, and making a vow..."
I rolled my eyes, but then stood up by myself and removed my helmet, putting it on the piano... I still found it unnerving that I stood nearly two feet taller than Louise, I knew the age difference of three years was there, but still... (Remember, I told you at the beginning that the cloning process stuck me at age 18...) I took her hand once I was up and helmet was off. We both faced the window pane... I felt a cheesy heartfelt moment coming up...
"Louise... I love you." I said "but not like that!" I quickly added before continuing my part. "In a sense I am glad that I found met you... you gave me purpose..." she looked like she didn't understand what I meant so I explained "I've thought about how things would be if I had survived the war and re-entered civilian life... or... more like entered it... I was... I am a soldier... I know nothing else... Humanity no longer needs protecting back home... so my purpose was done, I've been used... but now... I have a reason to keep fighting... and that reason is You, Siesta, Henrietta, Guiche, Jessica, Kirche, Colbert..." I paused at saying his name "Tabitha, and all the others... but..." I looked back at her, she seemed partially heartbroken "But none of this could have happened without you, and as far as I'm concerned, your my number one care, I'll always protect you and look out for you. I might not always be around, I might get on your case, or vise-versa, but know that when you call, I'll come running... anyone who dares mess with you will end up dealing with me, and I'll be sure to become their worst nightmare..." I looked back at her as she was smiling again.
This time it was Louise's turn to speak...
"Alex, I am glad that I met you as well... at first I thought I was unlucky to have summoned a familiar such as you, I thought it was a disaster... but you have proven time and again your loyalty, courage, power and friendship... something I at first thought you as incapable of... but you've shown me much since then... I love you too Alex... but... whether I love you as a friend, cousin, brother or... something more... has yet to be determined... I..." she was cut off by a bright light from beside us... we both looked at the center of the piano to see the Eku... Eklu... ok fuck it... to see the fancy spirit flowers beginning to glow! Louise looked back at me. "Thank you for taking care of me through the thick and thin, up and down... no matter the situation you were there... thank you Alex... Your an amazing fam...-" she started to drift off as the sleeping potion began to take effect... she then passed out in my armored arms... I sighed deeply...
"I'm sorry Louise... but like you said... only one of us should die... and I'm not willing to let it be you... one so young shouldn't have to die this early... me... we'll... I've died once... why not do it again?" I muttered to no one in particular... maybe it was to Louise's subconscious... maybe it was to my own self doubt that I was doing the wrong thing... maybe it was to appease some unknown spirits that dwelt within this church... I still don't know who it was too till this day!
With another sigh I heaved Louise's unconscious body over my shoulder, fireman style and walked out the front of the church... there I met a familiar face. (No pun intended).
"Hey, Alexander!" called Julio, who was leaning against the church. He thrust away from the wall onto his feet properly...
"Julio!? What are you doing here?" I asked
"Just acting as a messenger..." he explained "I heard you were going to be the bait, so I came to find you guys."
"To stop us." I accused
"no, on the contrary, I've come to tell you to run..." he walked away from us for a few paces before turning around to face me again. "Her majesty may be important, but I care far more about my beautiful Louise..."
I sighed, I'd started to get used to his hitting on her... honestly I hardly cared anymore... "I see..." I replied "Speaking of which, if that's the case, then consider this excellent timing... here" I walked up to him and let Louise down into his arms "I leave Louise in your care..."
"Sure..." he replied as I put Louise into his arms "Got her."
I turned and started walking back towards the church, or at least the path that lead back to the town.
"What about you?" Julio asked with legitimate concern.
I stoped... "I'll be facing the army of seven million..." I heard Julio huh, to which I just chuckled "It'll be just me and them... Mano-eh-Mano times seven million..."
"Let me asked then..." said Julio "Didn't you say it was foolish to die for the sake of reputation and honor?"
"This isn't for honor..." I replied "This is to defend... to defend those I hold dear... Louise, Henrietta, Siesta, the students at the academy, the fairy maids... it is for them that I die... not for honor... I love Louise, and the others... so there..."
"Well... I see... then while we are confessing all this, I must add that I love you too!" replied Julio, I couldn't tell if he was joking or not however...
"It really doesn't please me to hear you say that ya' know?" I sighed and stepped back towards Julio to brush back Louise's pink hair... I then looked back up at Julio... (well... not entirely up since I was still about a foot taller than him) "Who knows... maybe if I'm lucky we will meet again... keep your hopes up for me will ya?" I started to leave, but then remembered something... "oh and when she wakes up... give this to her..." I gave Julio a small flat square... a camera uplink... "She said she wanted to be with me in the end... and this... well... this is the best way I can do it without endangering her..."
Julio nodded and with that I was off...
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Henrietta's POV
"Wait what did you say!? Why would she do this!?" I exclaimed to the Chief Priest, who's name I could care less about right now...
I was on the last ship out of Albion... I started to leave my quarters, which was in place of the captains, just under the deck with the steering wheel on it... the cabin I think it was called...
"Stop the ship! We must get Louise back!" I cried and started to make for the outer deck.
"Your highness!" exclaimed the Priest who grabbed my arms "If you leave now your life will be in danger!"
"I don't care!" I screamed "Even if that's how things go, I can't just abandon Louise like this! Let go of me!" I ripped away from the priest's grip and burst through the door of the cabin... to late... the ship had already started to leave... I wanted to scream, to yell at them to stop the ship... I knew it would be selfish... I knew it would damage my reputation... but... luckily I didn't have to... just ahead of me lay Louise, asleep, with Julio, the Romalian Shinto-Priest kneeling over her...
"Hey, are you up yet sleeping beauty?" he asked as Louise stirred in her sleep, rubbed her eyes and sat up.
"Julio what are you doing here?" then something seemed to click in her head "Oh Damnit! I have to go and stall the enemy!" she bolted up and looked around "A ship?"
"Miss Valliére!" I heard and saw a black haired girl I recognized as one of the academy maids speak to Louise "Where is Alexander?"
"Alex?" she asked and looked around a bit worried... it was then she noticed me.
"Louise!" I cried and hugged her "I thought you had gone off to die..."
"No... no I haven't... but..." Louise then paled as she seemed to dear the worst...
"He's not here... Alexander has gone to Albion's army base to fight by himself..." said Julio, confirmed her fears... the Spartan Team, Noble was also on board... they seemed to already be aware of the situation... I heard the leader named Carter, cursing himself for not being able to help his teammate... the rest of the team was groaning and cursing themselves as well...
"Tell... Tell me your joking!" exclaimed Louise
"No, no I'm afraid not... in the time you were sleeping due to a sleeping potion I would presume, Alexander went off by himself..." said Julio
"No, no... that potion!" said the maid "I'd given that to Alex so that he may live on!" she shook for a moment before fainting, her relative sister or cousin catching her as she fell...
"Alex... sacrificing himself... to save me..." Louise seemed to be in shock... she then shook out of her shock and ran to the edge of the ship. "No Alex! I have to help him fight!"
"Louise!" exclaimed a burly man who... really scared me shitless... I'm not even kidding... what with his leotard type shirt and short shorts and pink lips... he grabbed Louise to stop her from doing anything stupid...
"NO! Stop! Let go of me! It's not to late, I want to fight next to Alex! He can't die alone! ALEX!" Louise cried off the edge of the ship... I then noticed she had dropped something... a small silver square on the ground shone brightly polished as I picked it up.
"What's this?" I asked and pressed a button on the top of it... something from inside it blinked to life and I nearly dropped it... a small blue projection of a man appeared... it was a illusion of Alexander... no... a message...
"Louise... Henrietta... Siesta... whoever gets this, it matters not anymore... by now the chances of me being dead are greatly increasing... if I am not already dead that is... should Siesta be getting this... I'm sorry I used your potion for... something other than it's intended use... it was to protect you in the end... and that's what matters... Louise... I care greatly for you, and that is why I'm not going to let you just throw your life away, you don't have to die, live on, do something with your life! Your young! Me? I've had my run one life before... I've died once, I don't mind doing it again! Live on and don't forget me, if... if you want to see my last moments... open this uplink... it will let you look though my helmet's camera... and lastly... Henrietta... I... I don't really know what to say to you... but... now that I'm most likely gone... I won't be around to guide you anymore... the choices of your nation are now up to you and you alone, no one will be providing the advice of the people anymore... you'll be back to corrupt and greedy officials most likely... just... just promise me you won't do anything stupid... ok? *chuckles* I know you have a knack for making stupid and reckless decisions... as lastly... I... don't know how any of you might react to this... but after all that stuff with the magic blood, the friendship, and the forerunners... Henrietta... I think I-" the message cut off... and something blinked in place of the illusion of Alex, two red words that read: Memory exceeded.
We'd all just seen this message, well, except for the Maid; Siesta. I looked at Louise... "Should we open it?" I asked.
Louise took the uplink from me... "Let me" she replied... and hesitantly opened the small case...
Then the black screen that once was in the center of the square flickered to life and the first thing we heard was.
"Oh c'mon! I haven't even broken a sweat yet!" yelled the voice of Alexander... the screen then gained color and picture and we could see hundreds of thousands of enemy soldiers all surrounding Alex, with his Assault rifle in one hand and his magic sword Derflinger in the other... he unloaded his rifle into a mob of enemies before cursing and dropping the fire as he bashed It across a mage's face... he hacked and slashed his way through the enemy ranks with amazing speed, a hail of arrows came down on him, all of them bouncing harmlessly off his armor... a group of battlemages lined up to cast their spells at Alex but he noticed them in time and turned, thrusting a hand at them, lightning shooting out from his armored fingertips and electrifying them all to a crisp...
"Oh It's never felt so good to be a sith!"
"You've never been a sith." Replied his AI "hell you weren't even around when those movies first came out!"
"Oh shut up your ruining my fantasy!" replied Alex
"Partner to your right!" shouted Derf.
Alex jumped back as a giant slammed his foot down next to him. He sparked his energy sword to life and chopped the foot off the giant, sending it tumbling into a column of enemy troops...
"If I'm going out! I'm going out swinging!" Alex yelled and blasted back an entire platoon with a huge wave of magic energy.
I heard a ping on the floor of the ship... I looked down to see Louise drop one of the sacred Ekulerudamuru flowers.
"Ekulerudamuru" said Julio, as he looked away from the screen "Able to sense the life presence of the other bearer, even if they are a thousand leagues apart... a magic flower..."
"PARTNER! LEFT!" I heard the screen roar and I looked back at the screen to see Alex turn to the left just in time to see a cannon ball hurtle right at his face... there was a loud bang which was followed by static and a snowy screen... I looked back at Louise who started to cry... her flower slowly wilted... and faded...
"No! No no no! Alex!" she cried...
I wanted to cry as well... I had a hunch of what he had wanted to say to me, but I kept it to myself...
"Your highness!" I heard the captain shout from his deck... "We have a problem! Looks like Albion doesn't want us returning! One way or another!"
I looked off the front of the ship...
"It's Albion's entire fleet!" shouted a crewman...
Sure enough, at least several thousand battleships blockaded us from our escape, while we ourselves only had maybe twenty ships... not all of them were even battleships!
"Oh shit oh shit oh shit!" cursed Louise, "Now we're all gonna die!"
*ka-boom ka-boom* sounded the enemy cannons, which plowed through several of our ships...most of which had only civilians onboard... six went down in the first few minutes...
"Oh we're screwed!"
*KA-PEEEWWW* a bolt of pure light and energy slashed through fifteen Albion ships, in one clean shot. I then heard buzzing and humming from above and behind... I turned around...
One of the UNSC marines walked up behind me, a Sergeant from the looks of it, the same one I had seen giving orders at the docks... "No way... they made it... Noble Team! Get over here!" the Spartan team jumped up and ran over, looking up in the sky... "They made it!"
*Ka-PLEW!* another blast from the biggest green... thing... I'd ever seen, cut thorough another twenty ships in one shot! The new contact group of three humongous green metal flyers advanced on the Ablon ships, they seemed to be made up of three rectangular attachments, forming the ships into a blocky Y shape. I could see smaller ships flying away from the Albion ships... boarding parties from the looks of it...
I saw one of the Spartans press a button on his wrist... from which the largest amount of inaudible noises erupted. Some I was able to hear but very few... most of the words that were spoken I couldn't even understand...
I looked back at the sky... it was filled with smaller flying green things, they fired fully automatic guns mounted onto their wings and shot explosives with deadly accuracy and were actually able to follow their target... I saw one of the small flyers take on several Albion Dragon Knights...
"I've got one on me!" sounded the communications that one of the Spartans had open.
"I've got him!"
"Target the mast!"
"Target the weapons!"
"Take out those boarding parties!"
"MAC round firing... shot!"
*KA-PLEW!* Twenty more ships down.
"This is UNSC Reclaimer, calling UNSC Dawstrider, UNSC Dawnbringer and UNSC Dawnguard! We're sending Spartan teams down to battle upon the surface! Spartan Ops is commencing!"
"Separatist ship Judgment is standing by... ready to deploy Banshee squadron on your command Reclaimer."
"Deploy!"
A loud screeching nearly shattered my ear drums as squadron upon squadron of Alien fighters screeched across the sky, firing blue bolts of energy which melted through the Albion ships and set them ablaze.
To our luck one of Albion's ships had pulled up next to us... troops looked ready to board us...
"Hold your fire Dawnguard!" said the captain of the Dawnstrider "Those ones with the fleur-de-lies on them, those are allies! Send in a team instead!"
I heard over the blazing battle, the sounds of a Pelican, the only ship I knew the name of which belonged to the UNSC, it backed towards our ship and opened its troop bay doors and several fully armored warriors armed to the teeth jumped out, they looked very similar to Noble Team. Noble team joined ranks with them and rushed to the starboard side of the ship and aimed their weapons off the edge, blasting away the enemy buccaneers who were preparing to board us. The new Spartan didn't stay long, as they wasted no time in jumping across to the Albion ship and clearing it out room by room, while another Spartan tore down the flag of the Albion ship and raised a UNSC flag, one of an Eagle holding a strange globe in its talons and the letters UNSC printed on a shield which covered part of the eagle. I guessed it was to identify to the other ships that it was friendly now.
And so... here it was... that one of my best friends was dead... and I was surrounded by new ones... in the midst of the biggest, bloodiest and most advanced battle the world of Halkenginia had ever seen... I had a feeling things would not be so easy from here on out...
"This is UNSC Reclaimer, beginning our decent." Said Noble One's radio... then the sky grew dark and we all fixated our stares back to the sky as it was blocked out by the largest ship I'd ever seen... it stretched across from horizon to horizon, sporting a massive amount of weaponry and armor... a few lucky shots from Albion ships hit it but all that happened was the local area around the impact of the attack would flare a metallic gold before settling back down like nothing had happened...
A brown haired female marine stared in awe at the ship... "No way... isn't that an Infinity-Class ship?" she asked in mixed Halkenginian and English "I thought there was only one of them being made!"
"Apparently there was a second!" noted Noble Two
As the battle raged on, a lone Pelican dropped from the Reclaimer and hovered over top of my ship... low enough for anyone onboard to simply step down like a stair step. Two men and one... thing... stepped out of the Pelican... two of them were obviously human but the other one, well the other one stood at least two feet taller than the humans in their white naval suits. He had four mandibles that served as his jaws and mouth, each mandible was lined with a set of pointed teeth. The creature had dark skin and wore elaborately patterned but simple suit of grey armor. The armor looked like it served some sort of religious purpose...
Louise gasped... "He's... he's..." she stammered as she looked back at the alien. "He's an Elite!"
"I am Fleet Admiral Lord Terrance Hood, of the United Nations Space Command... " said the aged human in the center, the man's unwavering stare was cold and uncaring, like he'd seen the worst war could throw at a man and came out alive for better or worse. "I figured it would be best to come along on this expedition to advise the diplomatic procedures of my accomplice here, Diplomat Marcus Campbell."
A brown skinned and bald man stepped forth, holding a briefcase in one hand and a small white roll of smoking paper in his other hand with a small yellow bud on the end of it... he held it up to his mouth and inhaled before blowing out a puff of smoke. "Pleased to make your acquaintance ma'am" the expression of the diplomat said that he wished to express himself better, such as a hand shake or something, but since he didn't know our world well he played it safe and preformed a sharp and short bow of his head towards me. "I will be handling any form of negotiations between Tristain and Earth, if you have anything you wish to ask, please don't hesitate to do so." After a while I realized they spoke with perfect Halkenginian... (A/N: French)
Finally the grey armored Elite stepped forward. "I am Thel'Vadam..." said the Elite "I am the primary leader of the separatist Covenant forces" the alien's voice was warped a bit due to a translator device by his mouth but I could easily make out his deep voice filled with experience and expressing a calm, optimistic and level headed attitude. "Despite meeting your kind before, I never knew a duplicate of the same race was possible... or at least a race with a near identical genetic structure... I however am more commonly known simply as the Arbiter..."
"Now then, since all introductions have been accounted for..." said the old white man; Lord Hood, as he glanced around the deck of the ship... the battle against Albion's forces coming to an end as UNSC and Separatist forces finished off the Albion Ships. "Where is Noble Six?" he asked "Where is Commander Alexander Chyton, Spartan Scorch-S362?"
I didn't meet the old man's gaze, as my silence, along with the rest of Noble Teams answered his question for him...
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And now the brunt of the UNSC is here to kick some ass, but how long will they stay here? For all you know they could just be passing by onto a more important objective? But hey, it's just a theory!
And with that, comes the unofficial end of season two... unofficial because I will be making a bridging episode that features some parts that aren't really included in either season, but it will basically branch over from season two to three, (Don't worry you'll see the theme song for the next season when It changes officially)
Also don't expect any updates for the rest of the week and possibly part of the next one... long story, but basically school takes priority since this is the last week and a half of it...
But anyways...
Since I took the time to write this out, why not drop me a review on what you did, or didn't like, providing me with tips, constructive criticism and the works if that's the case. Also if you really liked the story, why not add it to your faves and follow it so you can stay in the know of future updates?
Anyways... I shall sign out now, as per usual with my normal saying.
WTYL guys :D
-Rogue