Spirit of the Fox
(Spirit of Fire - Bridge)
The Spirit of Fire was a hive of activity as the battle preparations were being made, nine hundred onboard marines were preparing for combat against any naval docking craft. Captain Cutter heard a technician pipe up "Sir! Nine hundred thousand kilometers and closing! The Covenant have begun launching Seraphs and Spirit dropships!"
Cutter hmmed as he pondered for a moment. Serena piped up "Sir, incoming fighter squadrons. Bearing a mark of eight hundred thousand, arrival? Ten Minutes" she analyzed as Cutter looked at her, his eyes as sharp as a sword "Charge up the MAC cannon, same goes for the Contingency and the Field of Hope. We'll take down the Super Carriers first" he concluded as she nodded.
"Will do sir" she vanished as Cutter looked to the tech crews "Get the Railgun system's ready, turret pilots should stay yellow light" he got ndos as orders and communication was rapid and precise.
Cutter brought up a hologram on the holo-table, detailing the two opposite forces formation, the thee super carriers were moving in first with the CCS class cruisers below them, a bit behind but there.
He scratched his chin nervously for a few moments before looking to the tech crew behind him "Get our Longswords deployed in a formation, relay to the other ships!"
(UNSC Contingency)
A cigar lit the darkened visage of a man looking stocky yet strong. He had a scar going down his left eye and had a Captain's uniform, he tugged down the cap lightly before observing the glass screen of the bridge, he had to admit, he liked this ship.
Love was a more appropriate word.
Astraeus Class ships were armed with Four MAC cannons, which by the gods was overkill. And a DEAD Laser, which was a scaled up version of the Spartan Laser, as a result this was due to be one of the top ships in UNSC history. The DEAD Laser had only a limited range, but the MACs more then made up for it.
John Preston was the current Captain of the Contingency, he was doubtful at first when ONI representatives had told him about an offer to command a new ship in the fleet. While it seemed like any other offer, he was given a tour of the twelve thousand manned ship, over one thousand Marines and ODST included.
The engines and shielding was nothing short of amazing including the fact that the metal itself could take a few hits from plasma torpedoes. John was an American-German descendany of the old tanker crews back during WW2. His family was known to be in the military tracing back to the Vietnam War.
John let a smirk show on his features of a late twenties man. This was going to be a hell of a battle.
(Spirit of Fire – Ten Minutes Later)
"Sir, incoming Seraphs. Bearing a mark of three o clock and eight o clock" piped up Serena, breaking Cutter of his overview of the ships and fighters in this battle "Contact in Thirty seconds, orders?"
"Link up with the first squad leader" Cutter ordered, drawing a nod as a radio cackled for a few moments "Sir, this is Echo-1 we have a lot of bogies, incoming".
"I can see that, Senior Airman" the old captain replied, pausing momentarily "Focus fire on the Dropships first, the Railguns will handle the ones that get by us" he responded, Echo-1 responded "Understood, Echo-1. Out"
Cutter made his way to the observation glass and watched as the Longswords engaged the Seraphs, dodging and occasional tricks to outmaneuver their foes, Cutter eyed the bolts of yellow energy passing by, firing at the Corvettes as well at the Seraphs that were around the ship, the Railguns were a scaled down version of the MAC gun, while not possessing enough power to punch a hole through a Covenant space ship, it was enough to take down their Dropships and Corvettes, from what he knew, ONI Section I was working on ones for Tanks as well too. He shivered a little, while he knew Naruto was extremely smart, even his curiosity in technology frightened him.
Shaking his head of his thoughts, he eyed the Covenant ships that came closer "…Come on..do that just for us.." he smiled a bit, despite the closeness of the Seraphs and Longswords fighting.
(Helos IV – New Rome – Fifteen Minutes after Six AM )
Naruto's slit blue eyes scanned the Anti Air weapons, they were M41 Light Anti Aircraft Guns, set up at specific points at the city. Including ones that were hidden among different areas, he perked up when Jerome relayed through the radio "Third Class, we have hostiles in coming, get ready" Naruto only flickered his green light twice, indicating that he was ready as he had his daito sealed away and had a MA37 in his hands as the early morning as the sound of Banshee's reached their ears.
"Contact! We have contact!" yelled an ODST before opening fire, all across the city the Anti Air defenses began with a thunderous roar of guns as Plasma screeched through the air, slowly cutting into the Banshees as Dropships came down, looking like they had been through hell.
Naruto slipped on a black bandana that tied down his hair, leaving the tufts exposed, and slipped on his helmet. It was time. His red eyes glowed before he took up M41 SSR MAV/AW and fired it at a Banshee, briefly wondering how Red Team was handling the situation.
(Red Team – Economic Section)
With blinding speed, Douglas slammed his fist into an Elite's stomach, lurching as the alien went flying and slammed through a building leaving a hole and debris that was sent crashing to the city floor. The Spartan grinned for the first time in a long while, Naruto's enhancements on the suit were everything they practically dreamed of, because now they were twice as deadly on the battlefield with less weight on them.
"Don't get cocky Douglas" Jerome's cool toned voice cut through the radio as the squad leader broke the neck of a grunt, finishing off a patrol that had jumped off a spirit from what Douglas could see from a building top. "We still have an entire invasion force to deal with" he reminded before firing his DMR several times against three Elites, he dashed forward and got into a CQC stance, preparing for hand to hand (Think Old Snake, Act 4 Cutscene).
Douglas only shrugged before he glanced and saw a Banshee coming down at him, he ran into a full on sprint and jumped off, clamping a hand down on the tail ending of it, he created holes in the bAnshee as it tried shaking him off, he propped it open and pushed a M6D pistol into the mouth of an Elite.
"Happy landings" he remarked before firing three times, killing the Elite instantly. He pushed the corpse out and let it fall to the ground. Piloting the thing from his experience back on Arcadia. The radio cackled with a squad distress "This is Charlie Team, we are pinned down by Hunters in the Navi Company Building, taking heavy casualties!"
Douglas paused and smirked before directing the Banshee through the buildings, he spotted the team just as he fired, killing Several Elites, who were unexpected at the attack, thinking that Heresy was involved. Spartan 052 hit the thrusters and it slammed into the Hunters as he jumped out and rolled just as a sickening crunch of flesh echoed out before the explosion of shrapnel and fire consumed the two walking tanks.
Douglas rolled and stopped at debris that was from a sign of a company buildings when a failed Spirit crashed through a building "Spartan! Glad you're here!" Paul Lopez voiced, skidding as he hit his back against eh cover and fired at a squad of grunts suppored by Elites "We took out their first patrols, some Squads are still taking them out in the eastern section of New Rome" he reported as his squadmates came up.
Douglas nodded before taking a M41 Shotgun off his back and fired, piercing an Elite's chest as it fell over dead. "Ha ha! Were winning!" Micheal Sanders grinned, firing several bursts of his MA37, Paul shook his head "Not yet we aren't" he shot back, reloading his DMR, with a click combined suppressing fire pushed the Covenant group behind the wreckage of a Wraith as they returned fire with bolts of plasma.
Douglas vaulted over the debris as he spotted two Hunters entering from the alley way, not at least 10 to fifteen feet away, taking off a M319 Individual Grenade Launcher at the back of his hip before firing it between the two Hunters, it exploded and dazed the two Hunters as he jumped with incredible ease over the hunters and took his M41 Shotgun off his back and fired it once in the air and twice more as he skid on his back as he hit the ground, killing the first Hunter as it's orange flesh splattered the ground.
Tossing a Plasma grenade, it stuck on the Hunters back and exploded a second after contact. Douglas grinned, he could get used to this. He cocked his M41 Shotgun with a loud click, readying to kill the now lone Hunter.
(Helos VI Defensive Line – Covenant Fleet)
The Flagship of the Covenant spearhead was a large ship that was a light purple sheen, slim yet intimidating looking. The name was Exalted Valiance, which was a Covenant Super Carrier.
The shipmaster idly watched with amusement glimmering in his eyes at the weak defense that was put up against their mighty fleet. So many times he had watched as each world fell, all the ones in the "Outer Colonies" as they were referred to as by the humans.
The Elite's name was Rha' Mantakreaee donned in General Zealot armor, chosen to spearhead an invasion force that would allow them more access into the Outer Colonies, thus they could shorten their invasion by a few years and get into the Inner Colonies earlier than expected.
"Shipmaster, we are coming up upon the human ships" Rha arched a brow, or their version of it as he saw the new ships, quite simply larger than the Marathon class he had seen before. He shook his head mentally, a new line of ships was not going to do much against their massive ships.
"Focus fire on the large ones first, then move onto the smaller human ships" Rha ordered calmly, he watched as the weapons officer prepared to fire Plasma Torpedoes, they were finally in range of the enemy ships.
Somehow, he had this deep dark feeling that something was going to go horribly wrong…
(Spirit of Fire)
"Sir, enemy Two hundred thousand kilometers away, they are charging Plasma Torpedoes" Serena reported, Cutter looked over his shoulder and turned his attention to one of the moniters near the window section of the bridge, tapping the speaker he said into the microphone "All hands, this is Captain James Gregory Cutter. Brace for impact, we have incoming enemy fire" the klaxon went off as weapons officers began to get frantic.
"Move the Spirit of Fire along with the Contingency and Field of Hope forward, the Halycon's are to split up in a pincer maneuver!" barked Cutter, getting the game started against the enemy.
"Relaying orders, sir" Serena responded with a witty smirk, she really was going to have to thank Naruto for the leaps and bounds in UNSC technology.
The Halycons broke off, two to the left and one to the right as the Spirit of Fire lead the center line, the true battle was about to begin. The Plasma torpedoes approached, the first two just skimmed off the bow of the ship as at the last second , the first three impacted a golden shield as it shimmered against the attack.
At this, silence impended the ship before a few cheers broke out. The shields were successful. He ordered the ships to move forward as the battle progressed.
(Exalted Valiance)
Rha's stared in shock, one of the human ships had shields! This had never happened before as they had slaughtered the humans in a straight on space battle. Where were these ships coming from? That was his main thought before he broke of his thoughts.
"Sir! Enemy ships have…shields?" one of the Elites voiced confused, about as much as he was. Rha's growled, getting out of his hover chair and made his way to the observation holograms, he loked at them and clicked his mandibles "Focus on the large ships as well as the ones in the middle the other three can be dealt with later" he remarked, drawing a nod from his weapons officer.
He frowned inwardly, this new development would not sit well with the Heirarchs. He watched as they returned fire, only for his eyes to widen at the fact Four had been shot from the one with bold letters on it's side "UNSC: Contingency".
(Helos VI – Northern Section)
Naruto flipped over a Elite, dodging it's Energy sword as it swing behind itself, it was blind but nearly there as he felt it hum an inch over his head, he kicked at the back of it's knees before getting up and burying a combat knife in it's thrat, he dragged and tore it out in a swift movement as the Minor Elite fell down dead with purple blood gushing onto the ground.
He flicked the blood off as he looked over the dead Covenant Patrol. He had to admit, the defense was holding out a lot better than he had earlier anticpated, sheathing the combat knife at his collar bone, the former shinobi felt as though he would make a major change in this war.
Shaking his head, he took his MA37 off his back and dashed forward with a burst of chakra, jumping up to a fire escape, he climbed up to a Covenant Turret postion that was firing on down a group of Marines.
A Grunt yelped as it heard something rustle near the edge, making its way towards the edge, it saw nothing with the Plasma Pistol being aimed down the sights, a hand shot out from the window below and threw the Grunt down the alley way, Naruto flipped himself up, and landed on the ground, attracting two Elite's attention.
They appeared to be Ultra's which made the blond grimace slightly as they fired their Plasma Rifles at the cybernetic shinobi, Naruto dodged their shots before pointing at one as he rolled to the side "Raiton: Byakurai" he murmured softly, a blast of jagged lightning exited the tip of his fingers and pierced effortlessly through the first Ultra's head.
The other was in complete shock at such an attack, this was a threat to the Covenant. Perhaps a new soldier that the demon's were? Before he could answer, a frag grenade ladned near his feet, eyes widened as he was flung back by the explosion, his shields just barely able to save him.
The Minor Elite that was firing the Plasma Turret, sharply tunred with a Fuel Rod Gun "Well…" he uttered as the first bolt of green plasma streaked at him, he bent back (Matrix Style) and let the plasma pass over him before he flung his weight and looked down, firing at the Minor Elite, it's shields were cut down to half before Naruto landed in a roll, flnging something metal at the the Ultra that was downed next to him, just starting to get up.
A kunai pierced it's temple and throat, making it gurgle before falling off of the building, the Marines, looking confused at what had just happened.
The other Ultra fired two more times before drawing his Energy Sword just in time as Naruto collided into the Elite, firing his MA37 and point-blank range. It felt pain pierce through it's ribs and lungs before falling over dead.
Naruto wiped the blood off of the MA37 before glancing down at the Marines from the edge of the building, he noted them looking down at an Elite, who clearly had blades imbedded into it's body. With his enhanced hearing, he could hear them talking about some new solider. Naruto shrugged, not his problem.
As Naruto was about to leave, he paused. He felt something…familiar…almost as if it were something long lost. He glanced at the sky which showed Longswords from nearby airfields battling against Seraphs, shaking his head, he moved to the next area to clear another turret position.
(Exalted Valiance - 10 Minutes Later)
Rha's felt the ship shake and a small explostion near the hanger. He growled, not anticipating such strong ships. Taking a deep breath, he reined in his emotions before focusing on the situation, the MAC rounds were shearing past them , not enough damage but enough to rupture shields, how was this possible? This didn't happen during the First Harvest Campaign back in 2525.
Rha's thought for a moment before ordering something, he was cut off when a massive explsion shockwave was felt, and his eyes turned, shocked that one of the Super Carriers that was brought for the invasion, destroyed when the two larger ships had done a combined attack, consisting of Three MAC cannon rounds colliding on it's shields and piercing through the metal like it was paper.
He looked on the status of the battle and frowned, one of the "Halycon" Class Cruisers was destroyed, another disabled along with the third, firing at the Right flank of the Fleet, the other Two Newer ships were closing in on the CCS class cruisers that were desperate to stop the Two shielded ships that showed no sign of stopping.
He sighed softly "Order the "Last Transcendence" Ship into effect" he said quietly, a silent gasp came from the Elite Communications Officer. Wordlessly nodding to his order, the officer pressed a few keys which sent off a coded message to a ship.
Below the battle, a CCS Class Cruiser that had a stealth shield equipped, sliently slipped past the battle. Deep in the brig, a teen lay with silky blond hair, looking dirty, even wounded, having one thought on mind…
`Naruto-kun…'
Author's Note
Hey Everyone, it's been awhile. I know, sorry, I hit a Writer's Block for a bit before trying to brainstorm. Now, what's this? A new development? Wait for the next exciting chapter of "Spirit of the Fox".
I'm sorry if the battle is getting confusing for you all, this is my first time writing a space battle. The next chapter will deal with the fight from Alice's and Jerome's perspective. I have a few plans in mind right now, so please enjoy.
Also, if any of you know of any Halo Events that happen before 2552, please inform me, I am looking for new ideas to place Naruto's involvement in, I'd like to get a better understanding of how I can integrate Naruto into the Halo universe.
Review and Enjoy, I know you all have been waiting for this for a long time.
Also, the new ships may seem op'd but remember, this is the first time the Covenant have encountered shields on UNSC ships.