Title: New Blood of a Lost Age
A Halo HTTYD Crossover
What's up everyone I'm back with the new chapter here. This story is going so well and my thanks go to WoolfOushen for following and favouriting the story and ShootingKill for also doing that AND following and favouriting me! Well any rate, here's the next chapter for you to enjoy.
"Wait wait wait, Davis rewind that clip by ten seconds. I saw something strange there, what was it?" Captain Thomas J. Lasky was standing in front of the four foot display screen on the Bridge of the UNSC experimental vessel Indigo Terra. He was watching the footage from the closest camera to the unusual attackers back over and over again with a confused frown on his face. There was something...he couldn't quite place it but it looked like these creatures had people on their backs. "Pause there", he walked up to the screen and took a close look at the person on the black...thing.
"Cortana, what do you make of this little guy?" he turned towards the Chief who was standing there facing forwards, not moving.
The voice of Cortana broadcast out from the Chief. "I don't know, it's strange really. His clothes resemble something similar to the historical Viking tribes, but, that can't be the answer as it's completely illogical. However, it looks like this is indeed a child."
"Sir" Lieutenant Commander Gerald Davis chimed in "Our date scan suggests that we are somewhere never charted before. The stars are in a different arrangement in the sky which could mean that we may have gone back in time. The last time the stars were in this configuration was, well... a really long time ago and our history does show of a Viking village that did have dragons of which there are paintings. We've ah, ran a scan for resemblance on these paintings with a still captured from the footage of the attackers."
"And?" Lasky turned towards him with an inquisitive look on his face.
"Well sir...ahem...it...appears that...we have indeed...uh...travelled back in time." the officer spoke.
"That's preposterous, not to mention completely impossible!" Lasky frowned. How could they travel in time? All it was they were doing was testing out a new possible travelling speed. They hadn't even touched the universal speed constant and yet...here they are. In a long forgotten time.
"Captain, do you remember a few months back?" the Chief questioned. "Weren't the Covenant remnants working on the same project?"
"Yes" Cortana replied before Lasky could. "The BattleNet has one particular file with an experiment report stating circumstances similar to our own. Unfortunately it is entirely possible that they were sent here as well."
"Hm. Is it possible that if we tried to get to the maximum speed, we could jump back to where we stared from?" Lasky inquired.
Lieutenant Commander Davis looked up from his monitor and spoke "Sir, it could be possible but... we don't have enough power to run life support as well. Also we would need to recreate the exact conditions down to the millionth of the detail, if not, we might never get home."
"Okay here's the plan. Get all our gurus working on getting the power back up properly. Any non essential staff have been confined to habitation until further notice. I want all Spartan teams fully equipped and posted at certain intervals along the ship with Falcons and all other vehicles ready in case of another attack. Get all the outer defences operational as well. Oh and one other thing, I don't like killing inquisitive people but these dragon riders could become a nuisance and a threat to what we're doing. If they show up, chase them off. But if a larger force appears then by the power vested in me from the United Nations I authorise you to assume Defence Protocol 1."
"Protocol 1?" Lieutenant Commander Davis replied. "My apologies sir but I am not familiar with that code."
"Cortana?" Lasky asked, this time inviting her to answer.
"UNSC Ship-in-Distress Defence Protocol One. Assuming locals are hostile, all sightings are to be reported immediately and... forces are authorised for... shoot to kill." Cortana stuttered at the end of the sentence. It was clear that she wasn't too keen on killing children whether they are hostile or not.
"Aye sir, all Spartan teams this is Lieutenant Commander Gerald Davis. Assume action stations along the ship hull immediately and wait for further instructions" he spoke into his comm.
Lasky sighed. It was going to be a long ordeal.
"Hiccup... Is he going to be alright?" Astrid asked standing over the boy's left shoulder. Hiccup was standing over his dragon, Toothless, who was currently occupying they Viking boy's bed, dozing softly.
Hiccup turned. "The healers said he should be fine in a couple days. They said all he really needed was to be left alone to sleep. No one else was hit so we don't know what pain he is in."
"Hiccup. Come on let him rest. It's like you said, we don't know so we should let him recover." Astrid replied. Although it was true only Toothless was hit, she knew that it had emotionally damaged Hiccup as well. She really didn't understand the connection between the two of them, but wasn't going to stick her nose in to find out.
"No, no no no. I think... I think I'll just stay here next to him. I don't want him to be alone when he wakes up." It was clear that not even Stoick the Vast was going to move him, no matter how much shouting he did.
"Come on guys" Astrid sighed, the five teenagers slowly left Hiccup's room quietly. When they went downstairs the healers were cleaning their tools on Stoick's large wooden table while he was out. There was something else on the table as well. The 5 teenagers walked over and crowded around it. There, sat on the rag that was drenched in Toothless' blood was an arrow shaped chunk of what looked like copper, only an inch long.
"That? THAT is what made a massive hole in Toothless?" Ruffnut looked skeptical, then gestured to Tuffnut as she spoke "Now that is more like the size of your..." Astrid cut her off with the butt of her signature battle axe. Everyone else sniggered while Tuffnut seemed unfazed.
"Well, I think we need to find Stoick. Because that large grey lump of metal that fires tiny arrows is still out there and without Hiccup to figure things out we'll need to get our soldiers ready for anything." Astrid spoke with a tone of authority.
"Don't worry beautiful, I'll make sure those things don't get you" Snotlout said, trying to sound like a hero.
Astrid rolled her eyes before walking off towards Berk's great hall, she was going to have to talk to Stoick the Vast.