Title: New Blood of a Lost Age
A Halo/HTTYD Crossover
Well then, here we are again. The third chapter in two days. I think we're getting good again now.
JgdPanther: Nah don't worry I haven't gicen up at all... or given up either. I have had some studies to be getting on with and there probably won't be another chapter until later next week as I have an exam. But fear not, I'll be back...
Captain Lasky was once again stood on the bridge of the UNSC Indigo Terra scratching his chin, he had absolutely no idea how Hiccup managed to breach the security of the most advanced system ever. Neither had he worked out how the boy and his dragon had slipped past security and were now pressing buttons on the radar panel. Of course, all he was really doing was moving a camera on the outside hull, looking around to where they were in the ocean, but if he believed he was helping in some way then his boundless inquisitiveness for a little while then there wouldn't be any problems. He pondered for a minute.
"Maybe...No...Really?" Everyone who wasn't doing something on the bridge looked over to him as he began circling the room. "Maybe...Someone led him to the computer... Perhaps..." he looked over to Hiccup and Toothless, who in return looked up at him. "The computer in your room..." Hiccup stared at him blankly as he spoke. "The-the thing in your room that we found you using did you turn it on? What did you do before we arrived? Tell me, quick!"
"Uh-uh..." Hiccup looked to Toothless. No-uh we went to get some fish and when we got there it had some numbers. We thought it was one of you guys. What, does it mean something?"
"Hmm... No one's aloud to enter the quarters of someone else without their permission, except for me." Lasky wasn't sure about what was going on. But someone definitely set this whole thing up. "Tanner, get on that radio and call the Master Chief. Tell him we will meet him at level 5." Lasky pointed to Staff Sergeant Wilfred Tanner who immediately got to work. Lasky turned to Hiccup "you two, come with me now, we're going to the archives, immediately."
When they arrived outside the archives, the Master Chief was already there, waiting at the bulkhead door. Like the one on Toothless' cell this door was very thick and heavy, but it can be opened from either side. Lasky punched in some numbers on the pad ext to it, and after a moment it slowly swung open on armoured hinges. Once the door stopped moving the four of them walked into a large room, it was lined with locked drawers on every wall. It was like a maze with drawers stacked in neat rows along the walls and light strips in the floor which illuminated as you walked along.
Hiccup looked around, wide eyed. "What is this place?" he asked.
Lasky walked around the walls of the room as he spoke. "This is the ship's archive. It's used as a safe way to store information that we don't want falling into the wrong hands, it's mostly security footage." He walked over to a freestanding computer which lit up when he got near to it. After a little bit of thinking and then button pushing he found the thing he was looking for. The soft blue light in the floor glowed red around the base of the cabinet he was looking for and the door to the drawer was flashing. He pulled a key out of his pocket and inserted it in the lock of the drawer. Pulling it out he picked up the object which turned out to be a spool of retro looking film. "This is an audio recording from earlier today, it might not be much but it's all we have to go on. It's stored in this film because the Covenant won't have the equipment to play it and it can be kept more safely in here behind that big door." Hiccup glanced at it, it was pretty massive.
A podium rose from the centre of the floor and a tray opened. Lasky walked over and inserted the reel. The tray clicked back into place and the spool began to turn. The audio started playing. "Footsteps. It's just, heavy boots walking around."
"Captain I don't like the sound of these footsteps. Metal dragging along the floor means there's probably a lot of leg armour. It's not big enough to be Hunters, we'd have noticed them. That means..." Cortana was analysing the sound as it played.
"Elites" Lasky answered. They had been invaded, secretly. "That means they set it up, the computer. They switched on the computer in Hiccup's room and got through the primary setup. They must've done it... but why? It doesn't make sense. Think think think James think! There's got to be something... Oh yes! What if they needed Hiccup to get full access to the system. They could sneak into his room while he was out but they don't have the power to get into our computers from their ship without being detected. Not that we can do much anyway but, oh that's clever."
Toothless bunted Hiccup's shoulder with his nose. Hiccup looked over his shoulder to see a worried expression on his best friend's face. Hiccup stopped for a moment and just thought. There, he's noticed it too. Clever Toothless for seeing that. He tried to get Lasky's attention but he just shushed him. Hiccup waited patiently for a moment, but it was clear Lasky was in the middle of his conversation.
"Hey!" he shouted. His shout echoed around the room, the Chief and Lasky looked down to him, even Toothless was taken back slightly by Hiccup of all people shouting. "What's that?" he asked.
Lasky stopped and looked around. He couldn't see anything unusual, the tape was still playing, he could hear heavy footsteps. But, there was a faint clicking, it was pretty quick too.
"I hear it too. What is that?" the Master Chief had noticed the unusually fast clicking.
"It's the end of the tape. It finished playing about thirty seconds ago. That clicking...is the end of the tape. So, what's making those footsteps?" Lasky spoke slowly and calmly. "Everyone, move slowly towards the door. Chief, it's probably using camouflage , do you have your promethean vision?"
"Yes" John replied.
"Well, you can take care of it then. Toothless, if you see something shimmer, just out of the corner of your eye, you give of the biggest fireball you can. Don't worry about damage, no incendiary attack can get through those drawers believe me I've tried."
The Master Chief readied his weapon and slowly walked down one of the aisles all the while keeping an eye on his movement sensor for the telltale cloud of targets that signals active camouflage is in use. Just as he was moving forward he caught sight of the shimmer created by the camouflage. It seemed the Elite hadn't seen him because it was moving slowly forward towards the Captain and his Viking friends! He swiftly moved along the aisle and switched his armour ability to camo mode. The Elite was gaining slowly but the battery for the camo module ran out of charge and faded back into view. Toothless started building up a fire ball but just as he did the Elite was lifted off its feet and a deep cut appeared in its throat. It coughed up some purple blood and then gargled its last, before slumping onto the floor. Hiccup didn't know what just happened, until the Master Chief dissolved into view, holding a knife whose blade was coated in purple blood.
"Okay, that's the place we attacked earlier. If we want to get in, do as they say and don't make any sudden movements." Astrid was with the other teens, Stoick the Vast and Gobber. They weren't entirely convinced the plan was going to work, but they overheard some of the soldiers talking about another attack by something called the Covenant. And they were setting up heavy defences which means it's all the more important to make sure Hiccup was ok.
"Do we have a plan b?" Snotlout asked with a worried expression, which was unusual for him.
"Err..." Gobber looked over to Stoick. "We were counting on Toothless being able to take them out if we need to get away."
"Okay everyone, let's go" Stoick whispered. They slowly emerged from behind the rocks they took cover with in their last encounter. They walked forwards making sure they had their hand in front of them so they wouldn't look like they were hiding something. Less than a minute passed before an alarm rang out and a squad of twenty marines surrounded them, shouting to put their hands on their heads. The Vikings did as they were told for once and were taken inside. They were escorted down some corridors and into a small room with two benches running along the wall. Stoick and Gobber sat opposite each other while the teenagers were forced to sit on the floor. It was about 30 minutes before anything else happened. The door of their holding cell opened and they were instructed to walk out single file and were moved into a Pelican transport ship. Their flight took about ten minutes, they sat in silence the whole way through, mostly because they wouldn't be heard over the sheer amount of noise generated by the engines.
When they landed and the door opened down into a ramp more weapons were trained on them, they walked out with their hands on their heads and were taken to a room. Inside it was nicely furnished, large black leather chairs sat around an underside illuminating glass table that was very neat, the room was designed clearly to light up those sat around the table as it was darker around the outside.. In one corner of the room stood a tall plant and diagonally opposite to that stood the Master Chief, his weapon primed and ready for action in case someone decided to chance it. Opposite to the door where the Vikings filed in through towered Captain Lasky. He smiled politely to the Vikings and gestured for them to take a seat, Stoick and Gobber sat in the centre seats and the teenagers filled the others. Lasky picked up a pen, opened his notebook and write down some things. He then opened up the files and spread the papers about in front of him. He looked back and forth through them, frowning at some and just looking bewildered at the amount of writing he was presented with. He made some more notes before placing down his pen and looking up at the Vikings.
"First, I'm Captain Thomas James Lasky but please, just call me Captain Lasky. That man over there in the corner is the Master Chief." Lasky introduced.
"This is Gobber, Astrid, Snotlout, Ruffnut, Tuffnut and Fishlegs." Stoick gestured to all the Vikings sat next to him as he said their names.
Lasky shook hands from across the table with all of the Vikings. "Right, we need to get down to business."
That's my longest chapter yet and I think it went really well! Took most of the day to write but we got there. Afraid there won't be any more until after tuesday which is when my exam is, so enjoy the chapter and don't worry if I haven't posted for a little while because I will be back.
Until the Next Time...