Revenge
"If you hunt a monster, be sure you don't become one in the process." Proverb. If you don't understand you will by the end of this chapter.
'Alright,' Though Butch 'now that we have a plan we can get going'
They'd spent 3 hours making and memorizing the plan of attack. It'd been decided that since Butch now had new melee weapons, he'd be best for the confined spaces of the cruiser's brig. Mean while Samus would go and neutralize resistance on the bridge. They'd all meet on the bridge and send the cruiser back to federation space.
They were preparing to leave. Butch was gathering supplies from a cache that Samus and Nicole had put there, when heard Samus start swearing up a storm in the ship. He went to check it out.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!!?!?!?!?" she screamed kicking the box she had tripped over which had fallen from a medium sized pile up against the wall of the ship
"Do not kick that!" Butch yelled
"Why the hell not?!? Better yet, what's it doing on my ship?!?" she continued to yell.
"One, because you're kicking roughly 50 Kg of high explosives. Two, there here because I can't have all my weapons on me at all times. Ok? Jeez, it's obviously someone time of the month." He then wisely dodged away as she kicked at him. She hit a 6 in. thick bulk head and dented it.
"WHOA!! Holy SHIT!"
"Do yourself a favor, KEEP YOUR DAMN MOUTH SHUT!"
"OK, seriously, you're, like, having a spontaneous spaz attack, what the hell?"
"Let's just get going." She said exasperatedly
"Ok, Ok." Said Butch, eyeing her confusedly
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The cruiser was trying to make it to a pirate strong hold and the science team so they could replicate the worm hole generator.
They weren't going to let that happen.
Once they had the ion trail coordinates locked into the nav computer they were off.
Butch had decided to go and prepare his weapons. He went to the back of the ship and began opening the boxes. The weapons contained inside these boxes would make a heavy infantry squad weep with envy. The first box contained ordinance, one Type 47 Mk. V six chamber 40mm grenade launcher. The next box held 60 rounds for said grenade launcher, of which he took 30 and loaded 6 into the launcher, the rest were loaded into his pack. The pack for Butch's armor was a weapons holder and it was also contained interchangeable compartments for ammo storage that could be personalized to fit the mission. The pack had 3 slots and 2 magnetic clamps for weapons and dispensers for the ammo to those weapons. He put the Mk. V in the center slot. The next box contained one of Butch's favorite guns, the Mk.3 V-642 Mobile Vulcan Machine Gun. This 6-barreled .40 death dealer carried a sense of invincibility with its 70 rps. firing rate. He put that on the far right magnetic attachment. The box after contained about 50,000 Teflon coated armor-piercing .40 rounds for the MVMG which Butch in turn loaded into the pack. Then took down a very long box and open it to reveal his .50 sniper rifle he'd used on LV-426. He then loaded it and put it into the left slot. He then lifted out a considerably smaller case and opened it. It contained two .45 magnum handguns and a .50 Dessert Eagle. He took the two magnums and put them in two holsters strapped to his thighs, he put the Eagle in a special slot on his pack, away from the main ones, after all, Nicole would need a weapon when he got to her. Finally he retrieved his assault rifle and it's ammo and stowed it in the right weapon slot. Then he noticed two extra boxes there. Both were marked UNSC Marine Corps. "What the hell?" He opened them to reveal Nicole's BR55. The other contained ammo for it. 'Hm, should I take this with me? I do have an extra clamp. Yeah, this way Nicole can stand a fighting chance against the pirates'
So he put the extra clips on an ammo belt and stowed it in his pack and attached the rifle to the last clamp. He then made his way up to the front of the ship.
As he sat down Samus couldn't help but notice he was thumbing a scar along the back of his right hand and seemed to be gazing into space, no pun intended.
"Where'd you get that?" she asked him, gesturing to the scar.
He was startled out of his daydream and replied
"I got this the day you guys came. My little brother thought it would be funny to steal m... something very precious to me. I caught up to him and in my anger I… I started choking him, he was scratching at my hands to get me off him and managed to cut me with his nails. He would have died if my dad hadn't pulled me off him. Right afterwards I left the house to tend some unfinished business" he spat the last part out venomously, "Then I came back just in time to see my house and every one inside destroyed before my eyes. The last time I saw my brother alive… I tried to kill him. This scar reminds me of the payback I owe these damn Pirates."
She just sat there through all of it.
'It makes sense now,' she thought, 'that's why he was going berserk and the LZ, he just watched his parents die." Her heart ached as she thought of how her parents were similarly taken by the Pirates, and she really felt for him.
"Well," she said, "you'll get your chance soon enough."
--- 1 hour later, they found it. They'd found the cruiser via its energy signature since it was for all intents and purposes, fresh of the line it's engines gave off a distinct ion trail and so was quite easy to track.
They then came up inside the cruiser's ion exhaust stream, where the cruiser's scanners wouldn't be able to detect their movements. They then moved in and stayed back 500 yards while they prepared for battle. Samus suited up in her fully upgraded Varia Suit and then got back to the controls. Butch began attaching his armor, starting with the chest plate and grieves, he then attached the shin guards and boots. Then he strapped on the holsters containing his .45s and attached his pack. He then slipped on the gauntleted gloves and locked on the helmet he then walked to the front of the ship and signaled he was ready.
Samus accelerated and brought them next to the hangar and flew them in.
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The pirates working the hangar at the time were simply off loading supplies sent from the rest of the fleet when suddenly a ship entered the hangar. The pirates could recognize the orange and yellow paint job anywhere.
The Hunter was here.
The Pirates immediately dropped what they were doing and loaded their energy scythes. Then the ramp to the ship dropped and a silver armored humanoid wielding an intimidating 6 barreled weapons stepped out. The Pirates barely had time to process this before the humanoid opened fire. An entire squad was cut down in a split second. The rest of the hangar soon followed, only one pirate survived. He looked up and saw that the humanoid had stowed his weapons and was gesturing to someone inside the ship. Then The Hunter stepped out and the Pirate froze, the hunter's skills were infamous within the pirate's ranks, but this other humanoid had destroyed the hangar crew in seconds. The Pirate didn't know which to which to fear more. The humanoids then turned their backs and the pirate ran for it, only to feel a fatal pain in-between his shoulders and fall to the ground dead a few seconds later.
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"Come on Samus" said Butch, having just slaughtered the hangar crew.
Samus looked around and gave a low whistle
"I got to me one of those." She said looking at the smoking Vulcan on his back
"Maybe if you're a good girl I'll give you one." He said
"Shut up Butch and let's get going, by the way, you missed one." she said
Without missing a beat Butch whipped out one .45 and shot the pirate between the shoulders
"Did I?" he said monotonously
"Just get going!" she said
"Yes Ma'am" he said, saluting before running off.
She just shook her head and started toward the bridge.
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'Two hall ways down, take a left, go strait till you hit the elevator and go to sub-level 4…'
Butch was remembering the directions to the brig of the ship. He headed down there, noting that there were no pirates anywhere. 'Don't look a gift horse in the mouth I guess.' He thought. Then he saw the halls to the cell block
'Damn lousy, cheap-ass gift horse' he thought, and then he pulled out his assault rifle, flipped it so that the new blades faced the pirates, activated the swords on the rifle and on his left arm, and went to work.
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The Pirates had dragged Nicole into the medical room again but there was different equipment there this time. They stripped her of her skin tight suit, strapped her to the table, and started to prep the equipment. They then started a machine that sported a large blade. The blade was getting closer to her skin she thought to herself,
'Well Nicole this is it, it's been a pleasure'
The blade was an inch from her skin when, suddenly, there was a large commotion heard outside the door the two guards raised their weapons to the door when it was bashed down and a pirate flew through, followed swiftly by a silver blur sporting two Elite plasma blades. It cut one of the guards in half before charging the other, it ducked a swipe by the pirate and drove its left sword into the pirate, disemboweling it. It then flipped its right blade around revealing an assault rifle barrel and quickly dispatched the doctors around the table with well aimed fire. Only one was still alive. It grabbed the doctor and growled at it
"Where's her armor?"
"The armory, down the hall that way, please, don't kill me!" The doctor responded, begging
It threw the doctor to the ground and simply said,
"Sorry." Before it decapitated the doctor
It then came over and cut her loose from the table and then turned around. Nicole then remembered that she was naked and grabbed her suit and put it on quickly blushing madly. She took time to notice that her savior was a humanoid clad in silver armor and carrying a park on his back. She then cleared her throat and said,
"I'm ready."
Speaking through poor quality speakers he responded,
"Here, you'll need this." It said tossing her a .50 Dessert Eagle
"Thanks."
"Let's go get your armor." He said, leading her out and towards the armory.
Once there he was trying to hack into the computer to get them in when two pirates came running down the hallway. Nicole leveled the pistol and fired twice, killing the Pirates. Then the door opened and the two entered. The silver clad warrior the shut it behind them and removed his helmet. She got a good look at him, because he was in fact male, his face was scared with shrapnel wounds and, she realized to her horror, that he had only one eye. Then he spoke,
"Thanks for covering my back out there Nicole." He said in a strikingly familiar voice.
"Butch?!?" she exclaimed
"Hi Nicole." He said
She walked up to him, like she was in a dream, and ran her fingers along a one of the many scars crisscrossing his face,
"What… what happened?" she asked
"There'll be time to explain later, but we have to meet Samus on the bridge, so grab your armor and let's go." Ha said, slipping on his helmet
"Oh, right" she said blushing slightly at the awkwardness of the situation. She quickly got on her armor and Butch handed her the battle rifle and ammo,
"Where'd you find this?" she asked
"Samus' ship." He replied simply, "Hurry."
Suddenly her armor came alive,
"Activating scan mode," said a disembodied female voice, "scanning subject." It said, locked on to Butch, "scan complete, please wait accessing inner-armor files and databases, ETC 20 min." shaking of the malfunction she followed Butch out.
They began to make their way up to the bridge. Nicole decided to try something,
"Bet'cha I can get more kills by the time we get to the bridge." She said and she was surprised when Butch replied,
"You're on!"
That seemed to loosen him up. So from then on they counted their kills till they were at the bridge door.
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Samus made her way from the hangar to the corridors outside the bridge, that's when the shit hit the fan. There were several guards on patrol whom immediately sounded the alarm when they saw her.
'Damn them' she thought as she fired a super missile into the group, killing them. But the damage was done, and Pirates started flooding the hallway. Samus switched to plasma beam and cut loose with a salvo of charged shots that cut down several ranks of pirates. She then switched to missiles and let loose three before switching back to plasma beam and firing more charged shots. She wanted to keep them guessing on what weapon she was using so that they couldn't defend adequately against her. To really mess with them, she spontaneously launched into a screw attack that cut right though their ranks. She then finished off the remainder with a pair of super missiles. She then entered the bridge and subdued the resistance there easily enough then she heard commotion outside she walked out the door gun raised but lowered when she saw who it was. Nicole and Butch were casually walking up to the door. Nicole had her weapon at standard position of rest, pointed down at a slight angle, while Butch's assault rifle was up over his right shoulder. Nicole radiated a short of cool-under-fire calm, while Butch had air of, not quite cockiness, but confidence it himself and his team. When the two women saw one another they came together in a friendly embrace.
"It's good to finally see a friendly face." Said Nicole breaking the embrace seeing the confused face Samus gave her she continued "his ugly mug looks like it will bite me." She said gesturingto Butch
"Hey! I got those saving your ass for what was it? Oh yeah, the THIRD time!"
"Calm down Butch."
"That hurt my feelings." he said fake pouting.
"That mug of yours hurt my eyes!" said Nicole smirking
"Damn, set myself up for that didn't I?"
"Guys, Focus! We've got work to do." Said Samus, ending the jokes
"What do you need us to do?" asked Nicole
"I need You," she said, indicating Nicole, "to help with the controls and You," indicating Butch, "to keep watch. Come on Nicole." She said
She and Nicole went to work getting the autopilot ready, when suddenly multiple objects started appearing around the ship.
"Shit!" said Nicole
"What is it?" asked Butch
"We got company coming in through Hangar 4."
"Where's that?" he asked
"Down that hall." She said pointing down the hall to his left
"I'll take care of it." he said sprinting down the hall
Nicole was about to follow when her scan mode activated,
"Search complete," chimed the disembodied voice, "Subject; Cpt. Relsirc, Johnson C., Commander of The 1st Phalanx Regiment." It said then there was a file photo of Butch and the two parallel silver bars representing his captain rank and a banner that read 'Aliit ori'shya tl'in bal verd ori'shya beskar'gam, "Age:16, Numerical Designation: Butch-521. Subject commissioned under The Hoplite Initiative of U.S. Military Project 21564, Codename: Project Athens, and the Ares Initiative of U.S. Military Project 21565, Codename: Project Olympus. Background information: Classified, Biological Enhancements/Improvements: Classified. Mechanical Enhancements/Improvements: Classified. Armor Type: Modified Trojan Full Body Armor Mk. VIII. Modifications: Classified/Unknown. Weapons: Modified Talon assault rifle Mk. IV, Type 47 Mk. V six chamber 40mm grenade launcher, V-642 Mk.3 Mobile Vulcan Machine Gun, .50 sniper rifle; type unknown, Unknown, Unknown. Will there be anything else?"
"No there won't." said Nicole, 'Damn' she thought, 'that bastard outranks me.'
Samus snapped her out of her daze,
"The autopilot is ready, let's go help Butch."
They both sprinted towards the hangar.
Along the way the saw scores of pirates, well, what was left of them anyways. They seemed to have been killed it a fashion that even Samus considered brutal, they'd simply been cut to pieces.
They then reached the hangar and found a war zone.
Butch was on a catwalk above the hangar raining death down with his MVMG and grenade launcher. The Pirates were dying in droves un able to escape the fire of the MVMG. Just when it looked like they'd won, the MVMG fell silent.
It was out off ammo.
Butch detached the feeder from his pack and laid the MVMG down. He put the launcher in its slot and attacked using his assault rifle. He took down 10 Pirates with bursts from the gun before it went empty. Unable to reload, he simply flipped it around and activated the plasma blade and began hacking away at the pirates. He show no compassion, no regret, he moved like a man possessed. Samus And Nicole came in from the side and broke the pirate flanks.
They left no Pirate alive.
But that's when he came.
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'That has got to be the ugliest looking thing I've ever seen in my life.' Thought Butch as the Pirate general came into view.
He was a roughly 20 ft. tall with a 40 ft. wing span.
'He looks like fuckin' a mutant pterodactyl' thought Butch
Suddenly an object came flying from the general.
"EMP charge detected." Chimed his computer
"Commence emergency shut down!" he yelled
Instantly his HUD blackened, the armor felt heavier and his left arm went limp. The EMP went off and sent a strange tingling sensation.
"Commence startup." He said
The armor began to respond again and the HUD reactivated
TROJAN ARMOR Mk. VIII Startup begun…
Checking Life-support… Status: Green
Checking Targeting… Status: Green
Checking for external damage … Status: Green
Armor Status: Green
Startup complete
His targeting ridicule reappeared and everything was back on line. He looked over to Samus and Nicole, they were both frozen stiff. Their suits had locked up in the blast. The General noticed that Butch was moving and reacted quickly by taking a swipe at Butch with his tale. Without ever thinking he grabbed the tail and held on. He was now behind the General, he activated his plasma blade and ran up the tail and up the general's back, dragging the blade along the general's spine the whole time. When he reached the base of Ridley's neck he made two swipes at the neck then jumped to the top of his head and was about to strike the final blow when The General's tail sent him flying
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Samus panicked.
Her armor had spontaneously shut down. Then she realized it,
"An EMP, that son of a bitch"
She then saw Butch get thrown off of Ridley and she saw that Ridley was headed for Nicole and Butch wasn't moving. She had to move fast.
Struggling against the recalcitrant joints, she raised her left arm to the auxiliary controls on the side of her cannon, pressed the first and third buttons and clenched her right hand. The beep and whir that echoed in her helmet just might have been the sweetest sound she'd ever heard, as the familiar boot messages began scrolling down her HUD.
Chozo Battle Suit
Ver. SA1-4468-VM6-P
System check initiated...
ALERT: One or more system files damaged or corrupted. Restoring last known stable configuration...
ALERT: The following system files have been removed.
.
.
System Diagnostics: OK
She got up and attacked
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Butch looked up to see Ridley headed for Nicole. He tried to stand but immediately felt pain lance through his chest and torso.
'Damn, he broke my ribs again' he thought, 'I'm gonna rip his goddamn spine out of his goddamn body'
He tried three times before he managed to get the Mk. V out of its slot. He looked over and saw Ridley laughing at the girls; Samus had gotten up but was beat down quickly in her weakened state. Her plasma beams were just bouncing off his armor. Just seeing that face and that look of triumph drove butch over the edge,
"Let's see how armored your jaw is!" he said, and emptied all six chamber right into the General's Maw.
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Samus thought it was over.
Ridley was standing over them and she was to weakened from the blast to resist. She just needed to get to that damn center plate. Then as if answering her prayer, Ridley's mouth exploded. He immediately shot strait up, screaming as another granade hit him, she switched to Wavebuster and fired into the plate, empting an energy tank into the bastard, who fell sizzling to the floor with a crunching noise. Samus then made her way back to Nicole and unlocked her armor.
"Did we get'em?" was the first thing Nicole asked.
"Ya, We got the bastard." Said Samus
"Where's Butch?" asked Nicole
"Shit, Butch!" Samus said running over to him, only to find him slowly reloading the Mk. V
"You ok?" she asked
"Yeah, I'll live." He said, "Bastard broke those ribs again, though."
"Owch, that's gotta hurt"
"You've got no idea."
"Let's get back to the bridge and radio for back-up"
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Once they got back to the bridge they called for reinforcements. Then they just took a big step back and sort of reflected.
Butch was stranded 800 years in the future, was now parentless, and seen his first real combat.
Samus hadn't really under gone any change, but she was finally free of Ridley, seeing as they'd tossed his body into space and had let Adam use it for target practice.
Nicole had actually felt scared for the first time in that damn medical room, and the person who'd saved her was some goofy kid.
Butch broke the silence by reciting a chant they'd made as a sort of theme of the regiment,
"Kandosii sa ka'rta, Vode an.
Coruscanta a'den mhi, Vode an.
Bal kote, darasuum kote,
Jorso'ran kando a tome.
Sa kyr'am nau tracyn kad, Vode an.
Motir ca'tra nau tracinya.
Gra'tua cuun hett su dralshy'a.
Aruetyc runi cet slarycina solus cet o'r.
Sa kyr'am nau tracyn kad, Vode an!"
END
Aaannnddd… CUT! Take five people that's a rap.
MAN this took a lot out of me. But if you've enjoyed reading this half as much as I've enjoyed writing it, then I've enjoyed it twice as much as you so HA! I got more out of this. I've decided there will be a sequel so don't worry, all your questions will be answered in due time. To hear the chant Butch was doing, go here: .com/watch?v=ao1HQAPRSwo
And that's it so see you next time!