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"I sent a signal to the mansion to prep the med bay" said Ironman as the Heroes and the UNSC crewmembers ran to the crater where a huge cloud of dust formed from the impact of Master Chief hitting the ground.
"That will not be necessary; he has been through far worse than that" Said Keyes as she looked at Master Chief's vital signs on her HUD. Thor landed nearby causing the dust to blown away reveling the large crater.
The heroes looked at the crater and saw Master Chief stand up from the crater and step towards the heroes. Walking over to where his and Cortana's HEV pod had impacted the ground he grabbed the doors which had been blown off after landing. He reattached the doors then grabbed a pod in each arm and moved it under the pelican. He then attached the two pods to the underside of the pelican with the magnetic clamps used for carrying cargo.
Once he attached the pods he walked over and stood next to Commander Keyes giving her a salute which she returned the salute immediately. Her voice then crackled over the private com channel that they were all using.
"Good work Chief, we are moving out as soon as possible don't answer any of their questions" she said. They then turned around and started to walk towards the pelican.
"Wait, who are you people" asked Ironman as he attempted to scan their armor but he was not able to because he was getting interference. What he didn't know was that it was a small module that Cortana had added to their armor.
"We will let you know when we are ready to and not a moment before" said Keyes. They then continued on and boarded the pelican. The rear doors closed and the engines powered up before the pelican lifted into the air the engines give a powerful roar as they propelled the transport away.
But before it flew away ironman raised his arm and a small round disk was launched from a launcher that came out of the top of his gauntlet.
"What was that?" asked Antman.
"That was a tracker so that we can find their base of operations and get some answers" said Ironman as he checked to make sure that the beacon was active. "Alright everyone back into the Jet we are going to try and follow them" said Ironman as they moved towards the jet.
The heroes all crowded around a monitor Ironman pulled a cable from a panel on his arm and plugged it into the monitor bringing up a map of the globe. He looked at the location of the tracker he had placed on the dropship. It said that it was outside of the ship he then unplugged the cable and he walked down the ramp bringing up a map of the area surrounding the jet.
Ironman looked around and he walked over to the side of the jet and looked around with his scanners and his eyes until he saw a small black dot on the armor of the jet. He then realized what happened; they had somehow found his tracker even though it was smaller than an ant. He then boarded the jet and told the others what had happened with that they headed off towards avengers mansion.
As soon as they were out of sight of the Avengers the members of the UNSC crew cloaked the pelican using photo reflective panels that they had installed onto two of their pelicans. They then used the enhanced sensors that they had installed along with the Photo reflective panels to find the bug and then they dropped it onto the Avengers Jet.
They then flew back to the Forward onto Dawn they took off all of their armor and stored all their gear and they then went back to their base they started to work on a job that they had been about to start when they had gone out to get supplies then they had to deal with the alien robot had attacked.
They finished the job after a few hours of work from all of them they then all stopped to have lunch as they were finishing up their meal they decided to watch the news to see what was happening around the city as soon as they turned on the TV they saw a burning building.
"And in case you just joined us there is a fire in downtown New York that is raging in an apartment building and we are hearing now that the fire has become too hot for firefighters to enter and there is still at least one person trapped inside" said the reporter that was on site.
"John I think that this would be a good time to play hero and gain some credibility with the hero community" said Cortana after hearing this he nodded his head and then looked at Keyes who gave him a nod with that both Cortana and John then stood up and soon both disappeared in a flash of light.
They appeared in the armory of the Forward onto Dawn they quickly suited up and grabbed a rucksack but instead of putting weapons they then loaded the rucksacks full of medical supplies that would help with any burns or smoke inhalation.
They then teleported back to Earth with a transport variant of the warthog they threw their rucksacks in the back of the warthog and then Master Chief got into the driver seat. Once Cortana hopped into the passenger seat he set of at full speed towards the burning building. In a matter of minutes they drive up to the same block as the fire they then parked the warthog next to a dumpster in an ally so it was out of site from the street.
They grabbed their rucksacks and headed towards the fire running as fast as their legs could carry them. They got to the building in two minutes quickly passing the police line and charging into the building.
"John we should split up according to thermal images from the Dawn there are still two people trapped in the building" said Cortana whose chip was in his helmet. Then two nav markers appeared on his HUD.
"I will get that person out" said Chief as he indicated which one he was going after he then started to sprint towards the location as the building was getting more and more in danger of collapsing. Chief was halfway to his target when Cortana told him.
"Chief you need to hurry I have my target and I'm almost out of the building the support beams are almost gone by my estimates you have about….." she then paused as if distracted by something "There is a gas line that is going to explode soon chief you have about 4 minutes" she said with urgency in her voice.
With that Chief ran as fast as he could as soon as he got to the person he noticed that she was unconscious he lifted her up and wrapped her up in a special heat retardant blanket that he had attached to his thigh. He then started to sprint back the way he had come from with the woman in his arms.
Cortana was standing outside looking at the entrance after handing the man he had saved to the paramedics that were on scene she also refused to talk to the police or the reporters. She saw on her motion sensor a yellow dot that showed the Master Chief he burst out of the door just as the countdown on both their HUDs hit zero there was a large explosion that sent large fireballs out of all the windows and the doors.
Chief disappeared in a ball of fire that caused everyone to take a few steps back except for Cortana who started to move to where she had last seen Master Chief. After a few seconds the fireball subsided and there crouching on the ground was Master Chief who was standing in a position that shielded the fireball from getting to her.
He stood up and handed the women to the paramedics then he walked over to Cortana before he could say anything the reporters on scene all started to throw questions at them both to which they didn't answer. Then John told Cortana,
"We should leave as soon as possible" to that Cortana agreed. John and Cortana then both ran and Jumped up to the fifth story of the building next to the burning one they then climbed the other two stories via the fire escape all of this happened so fast the reporters didn't even realize that they had moved until they had started climbing.
They quickly ran across the rooftops until they reached the warthog. They got into the warthog and quickly started the engine making their way out of the city before going into a dark alley and soon teleported back to their base of operations.
They stored their gear and their armor then they left the secure storage area that they had made under their shop home it was insulated against all conventional types of scanners as well as the hatch to get to the storage area was covered in photo reflective plating making it invisible to the naked eye. And even if the hatch was found it would take a considerable long time to get into it since the hatch was two centimeters of titanium-A armor plating.
They came out of the storage area and walked upstairs to the table where Curtis and Miranda where sitting in the same spots as they had been before they had left. As they sat down the same news program that they had first heard about the fire from came back from a commercial break.
"If you are just joining us there was a fire at an apartment building in downtown New York. It was not looking good their where two people still trapped in the building but the fire had become too hazardous for the fire department to enter the building. But just as the family members of the people who were still trapped inside lost hope these two people came onto the scene" it went to a video from a camera that was on scene showing John and Cortana charging headlong into the burning building.
"One of these two people came out with one of the two people still trapped inside handing the man to the EMTs on scene. Then about one minute later the person's partner came out of the building but just after he exited the building a gas line inside of the building exploded and engulfed the entire area where he was in fire," This time it showed a video of John being engulfed in a massive fireball that then died away after three seconds and the crowd was shocked to see him just crouching over the person he had in his arms, "He somehow was uninjured and then he handed the women to the EMTs and then they both left the scene"
"Well John I say congratulations on your first act as a hero in this new world" said Miranda as the news broadcast ended.
At the Avengers mansion the heroes were all watching the same news broadcast about the fire in downtown New York.
"Well it seems our new friends get around" said Captain America as they looked at the clip that Ironman and ant man were looking at. They began talking amongst each other when Cap interrupted them.
"What is that" he exclaimed pointing to the spot in the clip just as the fireball engulfed one of the two people in armor.
"Jarvis zoom in around the figure that is being engulfed in flames and slow down the clip" said Ironman. The projection focused on the man in the flames and started to play in slow motion. Then they saw what the Captain had seen, just before he disappeared he was engulfed in a golden shimmering that covered his entire body.
"Is it possible that man in armor actually has portable energy shields?" asked Hank disbelief in his voice. He knew that there had indeed been attempts to make energy shields but they could not be perfected to be human sized because of the power requirements. Even Tony was not able to make working shields for his armor because even the arc reactor was not able to meet the power output required to make the system work and to power the armor.
"I don't know how that's possible even I don't have that level of technology, the power source for that suit must be extremely powerful to be able to power the shield system as well as to power the suit as well."
"We need to keep an eye out for these people and I'm sure you two would want to take a look at his tech" said Captain America to Tony and Hank. Then the two started discussing the tech that would go into making that armor. The others left the room as the two continued talking about the science involved the words seemed to only make sense to the two of them.
The others decided to go find their own things to do Captain America decided to go for a walk. As he walked down the street some people started to stare at him but he was used to getting stared at so it didn't bother him much as he decided to go to central park to walk around in the fresh air that was generated by the trees there.
When he entered the park he smiled slightly at the sight of the children and their parents playing. He then heard a heavy footstep next to him to see that Hulk had followed him and he was also watching the people.
Back on the Forward onto Dawn all the members of the UNSC crew were onboard the ship doing some training as well as some routine maintenance on their gear. Cortana was on the bridge doing a routine scan of the space around the ship when she noticed something. It was a weak signal that she almost missed as she scanned the area.
She then locked onto the signal and saw it was a distress call but what surprised her was that it was forerunner coding but it was encrypted with a song password. Before Cortana started to try and crack the code she sent a message to the others telling them to report to the bridge. As she was analyzing the coding she noticed something familiar about the coding she searched her "memory" and she then realized it was similar to the code that covered her avatar.
Just then the others walked onto the bridge.
"What do you have Cortana?" asked John as he took off his helmet and stood next to the others who were all standing around the main holoprojector that was located in the center of the bridge.
"I detected a signal that has a sound password and it is addressed to you John" Said Cortana. Chief gave a nod and then Cortana played the sound that was the hint to the password. As soon as he heard it he stood stiffer then he had been a moment ago. The tune that played was oly oly oxen free He then walked over to the mike on the table and repeated the tune phrase that only him, the Spartans, Doctor Hasley, and CPO Mendez knew.
The message opened and Cortana quickly read it.
"I don't believe it it's a message from Doctor Hasley, CPO Mendez, Fred, Kelly, and Linda. The message says they are trapped in a micro dyson sphere at Onyx and that they have found a way out but they don't have a ship to escape on. They have also disabled the large number of sentinels that had been guarding the sphere's exit."
"Cortana we need to go there now, how old is that message?" Asked John with a small amount of hope in his voice that some of his brothers and sisters as well as his "Mother" were still alive and this gave him a little bit of hope as he had thought that they had all died.
"According to the timestamp on the message it is three days old" Said Cortana. John looked at Keyes not needing to say any words as she knew what he was asking. She gave a nod and Cortana sent a signal to their warehouse locking it down until they returned.
Once that was out of the way Cortana positioned the ship out of range of any Earth sensors. They then jumped into slipspace quickly soaring towards Onyx it would take then at least three days to reach the system so they opted to not go into cryo so instead they just trained and practiced keeping their skills up to par.
John and Cortana spent their time practicing their hand to hand combat as well as practicing their driving by racing through the corridors of the ship that were used to transport troops and supplies around the ship. The rest of the time they spent cleaning their armor and gear as for Curtis he slept and exercised for the entire ride.
Keyes on the other hand did simulations of combat as well as trying to beat Cortana in some of the simulations but Cortana always won without even having to use a 16th of her processing power. Keyes also did a small exercise routine that she did everyday to help kept her fit for combat at a moment's notice.
They all stood on the bridge of the Forward onto Dawn as it came out of Slipspace they saw a portal open up in front of them as they entered real space. What they saw made them tense up because surrounding them were millions of sentinels.
"Cortana Give Core a call we need him on the bridge" said Keyes who was still visibly tense at the amount of sentinels that surrounded her ship. A minute later Core floated onto the bridge.
"How may I be of assistance Reclaimers?" he asked as he floated next to them.
"We have some friends that are trapped inside a Micro Dyson Sphere can you help us get them out?"
"In the shipyard that we built the ship around there is a modified teleportation grid that can connect to the exit grid for the Micro Dyson Sphere"
"Alright can you get us into the Dyson Sphere?"
"Yes I can if you please follow me we can teleport their right now if you would like"
"Can you maintain communications with them from the ship once they enter the sphere?"
"Yes I should be able to do that"
"Alright Chief, Cortana I want you to go and get them back we will be here on the ship"
"Commander why don't you want to come get them with us?" asked Cortana who was curious as to the reason why would Keyes not want to come with them to save the others.
"Curtis and I are going to be looking over that ship" said Keyes pointing out of one of the large windows of the bridge. Outside was a UNSC Corvette it was heavily damaged from plasma fire and was drifting in space.
"Alright good luck" said Cortana as Chief and her ran to get weapons just in case they encountered hostiles when they entered the Sphere. Keyes and Curtis both went to the armory and put on their armor as well as grabbing a battle rifle and an SMG before they ran towards the hanger. They jumped into one of the pelicans and soon left the ship under the control of Core who was instructed to hold the ship in the position by Keyes.
She jumped into the pilots chair and powered up the engines raising the pelican off of the ground. She flipped the switch that controlled the rear doors then as soon as the cargo bay was pressurized they left the hanger and flew towards the UNSC Corvette that they had seen in the distance.
John and Cortana quickly grabbed their gear that comprised of an assault rifle and a magnum as well as two combat knifes each. They then headed to the part of the ship that was the forerunner shipyard. They saw Core floating next to an arch that looked like it held a miniature Slipspace portal except glowed a vibrant green instead of the bright blue that it usually was.
"Just step through the portal and you will be transported into the Micro Dyson Sphere it cannot remain open for extended periods of time due to the immense amount of power that the system requires to operate. So once you find them come back to the place where you enter and send me a signal to open the portal again."
"Alright let's go" said John as they jumped through the portal and after a second they stepped out onto a plain. They looked around and they saw a structure off in the distance they then started to run towards it. As they were running Chief saw a sight he thought he would never have gotten to see again. His Spartans at least some of them were still alive he saw them and then opened the com and said the code known only by the Spartans, Doctor Hasley, and CPO Mendez.
Fred, Kelly, and Linda heard a sound that they thought they wouldn't get to hear ever again over the COM Oly Oly Oxen Free. They immediately stopped what they were doing and replied with the code that was the immediate reply.
"All is free all is clear" they resounded as one. Then over the COM came a voice that they were not expecting to hear.
"This is Spartan-117 does anyone copy, reply over" was the voice that came over the COM.
"Spatan-087 reporting sir"
"Spartan-058 reporting in sir"
"Spartan-104 reporting in and boy is it good thing to be hearing your voice sir"
"It is good to hear that there are three less of us missing, Is Doctor Hasley and CPO Mendez with you as well?"
"Roger that sir we can get them for you if you follow us to this location" said Fred as he dropped a waypoint on the building that they had used as a base of operations since arriving inside of the shield world. It was on the end of a plane on top of a hill so that it was a very defendable position except they had to go and find food in the nearby forest that had a large number of animals and plants that were edible.
John and Cortana saw the marker appear on their HUD and saw that the building that they needed to head to was the one they were already running towards. After three minutes of running they arrived at the building to see the other three Spartans standing next to Doctor Hasley and Chief Petty Officer Mendez.
"Hello John" said Doctor Hasley looking at John as he and Cortana took off their helmets. "Now who are you" asked Hasley not knowing who the other Spartan was because she could tell all of her Spartans were even when they were in their armor.
"It's Me Cortana" said Cortana as she waited to see her "mothers" reaction.
"Cortana how do you have a human body?"
"Well that is kind of a long story but we will explain everything that has happened since you've gone missing once we get back to the ship but we need to return soon so we can return to Earth as soon as possible."
"Alright we will gather our supplies and then we will be ready to go" said Doctor Hasley as the Spartans soon loaded their supplies into a few metal crates. The Spartans each took a crate and they all started to walk towards the area were the portal would open to allow them to get out of the Micro Dyson Sphere.
"Core open the portal we are coming back through" said John into the COM as they got back to the portal. It opened soon afterwards and they stepped through the portal and a moment later they were stepping onto the floor of the freight.
Back on the pelican Curtis was slightly nervous as Keyes flew the pelican towards the damaged ship not sure of what they were going to find on the other ship. They flew towards the ship soon entering the hanger the pelican landed. As far as they could tell the ship was damaged by covenant plasma fire since a large part of the ship was burned away. And there was also a large number of melted armor as well.
Once the bay repressurized they both put on their helmets and grabbed their weapons checking to make sure that they were loaded and working properly. They clicked off the safeties and hit the door release entering the bay. They clicked on the VISR vision mode on their helmets and looked around the hanger making sure to look over every inch of the hanger.
They then moved throughout the ship first going to the bridge and finding the room had taken a direct hit from a plasma torpedo so they couldn't even enter the room without having the hallway they were in explosively decompress. They were now on their way towards the Cryo bay looking for any survivors that were able to get to the pods.
They entered the third bay and after seeing none of the pods were active. They saw with relief that there were two pods in the bay that were active. Keyes walked over to the console and accessed the two trooper's bios, one of them was male and the other was female, and they saw that both of them had strong heartbeats and they would both be able to come out of cryo smoothly without any problems.
She then pressed the button that started the thawing process and after three minutes the pods seal's broke sending the gases that were in the pod spilling out of the seams as the pod door started to swing outwards.
The two occupants in the pods groaned as they started to wake up. They slowly sat up in their pods and then they stepped out of their pods.
"Who are you people…" asked the male trooper but he stopped mid sentence when he saw Curtis's face through his unpolarized visor. "Curtis is that you?"
"Kyle?" asked Curtis upon seeing his long time friend.
"Ya it's been a long time since we last saw each other was just before the last battles of the war." Said Kyle as he and the other cryo occupant started to put on their armor after they stretched their limbs to get out any stiffness from being "thawed out" from cryo.
After they got their armor on their armor gave a powerful hum as their shields powered up.
"They added shields to the ODST BDU?" asked Keyes
"Yes they have added shield as well as a number of other features as well in the last decade since the war ended"
"It's been ten years since the Human Covenant war?" asked Keyes
"Yes mama humanity has recovered from the majority of the damages that happened to the remaining colonies and the eggheads back at the Office of Naval Intelligence had even found out how to reverse the effects of the energy projectors. In fact we already have reclaimed Reach and it has been returned to its former glory and better. The UNSC is now in control of 50 worlds and that number is expected to grow."
"The fleet also has gotten a major upgrade all ships are now equipped with energy shields and a small amount of plasma turrets. We are now in an alliance with the brutes, the jackals, the grunts, the hunters, the drones, and the Elites. We are all allies since the end of the war but there are still a few groups of loyalist Brutes and Jackals that are trying to cause problems."
"Our ship was damaged by a group of Brutes that attacked our battle group. We were just about to enter slipspace when they attacked us so our shields weren't at full power since most of the power was going to the slipspace drive. But they were able to hit the bridge with a guided plasma torpedo. Guess once the ship started to drift from the decompression of most of the levels they decided that we were as good as dead and left to attack the rest of the battle group. But by that time they had already jumped."
"We were wearing our armor at the time so we were able to breathe once the ship decompressed. But sadly many of our friends weren't so lucky they either didn't have their helmets on or they got sucked into the vacuum" Said Sam who was the other trooper that was in the pods.
"Troopers I think it's time to get you some rest but then we need to explain to you the situation we have here. Are you the only survivors?" said Keyes.
"Yes sadly we are the only ones who lived we spent at least five hours scouring this ship looking for anyone else but we couldn't find anyone" Said Kyle with a sad look on his face as he remembered looking for survivors and only finding the bodies of many of his friends and fellow soldiers.
They then all went to the hanger and boarded the pelican Keyes got into the cockpit and closed the back door. Curtis, Kyle, and Sam sat in the troop bay and talked about old times together before the war as well as the few times that they had gotten shore leave during the war.
Once the pelican entered the hanger of the Dawn they saw that the Spartans were already back. Curtis, Kyle, and Sam all walked towards the troop quarters with the few personal affects that they had brought with them. They got to their rooms and they stored their affects and their gear.
Keyes on the other hand walked towards the Spartans, Doctor Hasley, and MCPO Mendez. The Spartans and Mendez sensing the two wanted to be alone all left the room and went in the direction of the mess hall.
"Hey mom" said Keyes just before Doctor Hasley embraced her in a tight hug. She returned the hug and they both smiled as they saw that the other one had lived through the most brutal war ever recorded in human history.
They started to talk to one another as they walked towards the bridge because there was something that Keyes needed to do. As the two entered the bridge of the ship they saw Cortana sitting at one of the stations her helmet was off and they saw that her eyes were partially glazed over. Meaning she was using more of her processing power to run the ship and less on moving around with her body.
"Cortana" said Keyes to her body but instead of replying through her body the holoprojector in the middle of the bridge came online. Her avatar soon appeared and turned to face them.
"Yes I'm here what do you need?" asked Cortana as she looked to her side as if reading something.
"Can you maneuver the ship over to the Two For Flinching and engage the docking tubes?"
"Yes after reviewing your helmet logs I maneuvered the ship closer so that we could at least savage the gear onboard is that what you had in mind?"
"Not exactly I want you to contact Core and tell him I want the ship to be rebuilt as soon as possible once we get back to Earth, I want it to get the same upgrades as the Dawn currently has."
"Alright moving into position, initiating handshake protocols, connected giving a burst of the maneuvering thrusters to match our speed and pitch," they felt I slight thud rumble throughout the ship," The ships are attached preparing to open the hatches, opening, sending robotic rovers to retrieve the ODST BDU MK IIs and anything else we can use, and I sent a message to Core and he said that he is already sending constructors into the ship to seal the breaches in the hull as well as start to upgrade the internal components."
"Alright good work Cortana can you please send a transmission to Kyle, Sam, Mendez, and the Spartans telling them to report to briefing room 05 we should fill them in on the situation that we have here so that once we get back they know what they are getting into."
"Alright Commander would you like me present when you explain everything?"
"Yes Cortana and if you could would you please compile a folder with all known major heroes and villains so that after the meeting they can review any of them if we have to fight them at some point in time."
"Alright compiling it will be complete in three minutes" with that all three departed from the bridge and soon entered the conference room. It took three hours for them to tell the others what was the situation they were in and by the time they were finished the ship was ready to go to slipspace, all the ODSTs and Keyes now had a set of ODST BDU MK II calibrated for them.
The ODST BDU MK II has built in shields that were the strength of 1/8 the Spartan's MJOLNIR armor. It also had a square shield emitter on the right arm similar to the ones used by the Jackals it had its own independent power system but it can get power from the suits reactor if needed but that makes the full body shield weaker. They can also divert the arm shield's power to the main suit if needed. The air filtration system also got an upgrade that made it possible to breath in deep space or underwater for an hour and a half. The armor also got a small active camouflage system courtesy of the UNSC's alliance with the Elites. It can run for one minute with a three minute cool down. On the left arm was a grappling hook with a 6 meter cable that can lift 250 pounds. The piece on the gauntlet can be taken off and attached to a surface and remotely activated via a magnetic plate on the bottom. The COM system also got a major overhaul giving the COM three times the range of the MK I. Two vision modes were also added, Night Vision and Thermal. They also added magnetic plates to the hands and feet to allow troopers to easily scale buildings or other metal structures. It also had some reactive circuits in the armor that made the wearer stronger as well as having his or her reaction times enhanced by a fourth.
Once the meeting was over the ships were soon jumping into slipspace and over the next three days. Keyes, Curtis, and even Doctor Hasley all got used to their ODST BDU MK II armor. Although the Doctor wore her lab coat over armor and her armor had enhanced sensors that were more precise and covered a large range of variables.
After learning how to use her armor Keyes continued to train in simulated battles with Cortana and she also spend part of one of the days talking to her mother. Then to finish of each day she would do a small amount of exercise to stay in peak physical condition to be ready for any situation that might come up.
Doctor Hasley spent time with her daughter and she also gave each of her Spartans a thorough medical examination as well as making small talk with them which she could tell that they appreciated. She also worked on a few projects that she was working on. The items in question had been in the crates they had brought with them from the Micro Dyson Sphere.
The Spartans spent all their time together training, sparring, and cleaning their gear. They did take some time making small talk among themselves and Doctor Hasley.
Chief Petty Officer Mendez spent his time watching the Spartans train as well as doing some training of his own. He also decided to go to the mess hall where the ODSTs were celebrating.
The ODSTs decided that they should celebrate that they were all together and alive. But since it was still a military vessel there wasn't any alcohol onboard save for the small flask each once kept with their personal supplies. They also were able to have a feast of sorts since they were one of the few people on the ship so they didn't need to ration the food. After the part that they agreed to continue once they got back to Earth they trained, spared, and joked.
Everyone also took time to look over their New IDs and their new life's that they would be using for the duration of their stay on this Earth. They all got to use their real names as
In no time at all the three days had passed and they were going to be exiting slipspace in a matter of minutes. They all stood in the bridge of the ship as it exited slipspace the Spartans all wearing their helmets and stood by the elevator as the glowing blue that was slipspace was gone in an instant.
"Ah it's good to be back even if that's not our Earth" Said Curtis as he looked out the window.
"Hold on there is something happening in Central Park" said Cortana as she accessed the small number of Black Widows that they had deployed in orbit around the planet so they could monitor events that were going on planet side as well as being able to give them real time data when in the field.
"Ok I see the Avengers, X-men, and the Fantastic Four but I don't see who they are fighting….. wait it's the hulk he is going crazy, We need to get down there now" Exclaimed Cortana.
"Alright we are all going down there everyone gear up" said Keyes as they all ran to grab their gear. The ODSTs each grabbed a battle rifle, a Magnum, and a Rocket launcher with one extra set of rockets. They also grabbed four frag grenades each once they secured all of their ammo in their rucksacks and attached their gear to their armor they then ran towards the hanger to the waiting pelican.
Keyes boarded the pelican after getting the same gear as the ODSTs. She sat at the pilot's seat and started the diagnostics on the pelican to make sure it was battle ready. Kyle sat down in the Copilot's seat and started the weapon diagnostics. Both diagnostics came back without any problems in the systems of the pelican.
The Spartans boarded the pelican a moment later. John had an assault rifle and a plasma rifle on his left thigh along with four plasma, five fragmentation grenades, and two brute spike grenades. Kelly was armed with dual plasma rifles and she had an assault rifle on her back. Linda was armed with her custom sniper rifle in her hands and she had a Spartan laser on her back. Fred was armed with an assault rifle in his arms and he had a rocket launcher with two extra ammo cases he also had an energy sword that he had taken from one of the elites he had defeated. On his shoulders he also had two laser sharpened combat knifes one on each shoulder. Cortana had an assault rifle and a magnum.
Doctor Hasley soon boarded the pelican with a rucksack that had a number of clips for battle rifles and for magnums. She handed each ODST two clips one for their battle rifles and one for their magnums. She also handed Linda one clip for her sniper rifle they all looked at the bullets in the clips and saw that they looked like the standard casings but the actual bullet was replaced with what looked like a spike like the ones launched from the brute spiker.
"The spikes are identical to the ones used in the brute spiker. As the gunpowder ignites it ignites the chemicals covered the spikes causing them to be superheated them as they launch out of the barrel." The door to the pelican closed and Keyes powered up the engines and they were soon flying out of the hanger towards central park.
"Commander, permission to have tactical command of this mission" asked John as he and the others prepared for the soon to come mission.
"Permission granted Chief" Replied Keyes over the speaker mounted in the troop bay.
"Alright here is the plan Kelly, Fred, and I will be Red team we will attack the hulk head on. Fire team Charley will be comprised of Curtis, Kyle, and Sam will give Red team fire support when we need it and you will also have to make sure that no civilians are hurt by the fighting. Linda, you and Cortana are going to protect the Doctor. Linda, you will also be our contingency if it appears that the hulk is going to get into the city you are to end the threat of the hulk….permanently." Everyone gave a nod as they all agreed with the plan and their parts in it.
In central park there was a fierce battle going on as the Avengers and a number of X-men were trying to stop the hulk they weren't sure why the hulk was attacking but all the avengers and the fantastic four where present and of the x-men there was; Professor-X, Cyclops, Wolverine, Jean Grey, and Storm.
Professor-X and Jean where both using their telepathy to try and calm the hulk but to no avail. It didn't help that the others had to keep attacking the hulk to keep him contained to central park. Even with everyone attacking the Hulk they were still unable to keep him down. The heroes were all getting extremely tired form the duration of the fight and hulk had more energy than he did when the fight started. As they were fighting everyone heard a powerful roar and they looked up and saw the same transport as before.
The Back opened and five of the figures in green armor jumped out and landed with a thud leaving indents in the ground. And then four people wearing the black armor came down on wires that came from their wrists. One of the troopers was wearing a lab coat and carried no weapons.
Two of the soldiers in green armor went over to the one in the lab coat and the three of them moved to a nearby bench and they set up two small handheld computers as well as setting down a crate with a number of supplies in it. The rest of the green armored soldiers moved towards the hulk and started to shoot.
Kyle then gave Curtis and Sam a quick hand signal to advance towards the Hulk and to spread out as they moved forward and spread out as they advance through the trees. Red team quickly charged the hulk and began firing giving the heroes a brief respite as the Hulk was distracted by the new threat. The hulk raised his arms to block the onslaught of bullets, and then Red team ran around the hulk shooting the entire time. They all leapt back from the Hulk and Keyes who was still in the pelican fired at the Hulk with the chin mounted chain guns. The rounds hit the Hulk and they penetrated his skin but since he was so enraged they only went in about two centimeters but the wounds only made him angrier.
Kyle moved towards the heroes and quickly informed them,
"We are here to help stop the Hulk, but our orders are if the hulk is about to leave the park or if he hurts a single civilian then we are to stop the threat of the Hulk permanently"
"You mean kill him? He is just an innocent victim in all of this" exclaimed Wasp who was shocked that they planned to kill the Hulk. Would it even be possible to kill the Hulk she and many of the other heroes wondered.
"We have our orders" said Kyle and with that he moved back into position with the rest Fire team Charley. They all moved behind the trees not engaging the Hulk until they requested fire support. Kyle peered around the tree and saw that the Spartans were able to at least hurt the Hulk with the normal weapons but they were not any closer to slowing him down.
Master Chief dived to the left to dodge one of the Hulk's large hands. He shot a long burst from his assault rifle just then the clip ran dry he thumbed the clip release as he rolled again to dodge another sweep from the Hulk. He slid a new clip home and pulled back the slide chambering the first round. He then reached into his rucksack and grabbed a Fragmentation grenade. He shot at the Hulk's face expecting him to try and smash him again he rolled to the side but he armed the Frag grenade and left it where he had been moments before.
The Hulk smashed his fists down on either side of the grenade. It exploded a moment later slightly burning his chest as well as his face and sending a large amount of superheated shrapnel into him as well. But the only thing this caused was him to become more enraged. The Spartans were starting to run low on ammo as well so they pulled back ever so slightly.
"Fire team Charley give us cover fire" said Chief into the squad com.
"You heard The Master Chief, Marines let's play some mind games with the Jolly Green Giant. Start shooting then activate your active camouflage and move to another position" Curtis was the first to shoot he pulled the trigger twice his rifle barking out two bursts of three bullets. He then turned on his active camouflage and moved to another location. Next Sam fired at the hulk from the left side he shot two bursts as well. He then turned on the active camouflage and moved to his next position. Once he was safely behind the tree he turned off his active camouflage. Kyle then shot at the hulk from the right side and then he activated his active camouflage and ran to his next position.
The plan was starting to work as the Hulk was confused by being shot from different sides by what looked like one man. Curtis this time hefted his SPNKR Launcher and fired both rockets before turning on his active camouflage and moving. Then Sam and Kyle did the same thing. The heroes who had gotten their second wind now reentered the fight. Ironman, The Human Torch, and Storm took flight and started to attack the Hulk from above. Then the rest of the heroes came in and attacked. The hulk was able to send Wolverine, The Thing, and Mr. Fantastic flying with a swipe of his hand. Then the sky filled with clouds that were formed by Storm and soon bolts of lightning burst from the clouds striking the Hulk and making him roar out in pain.
The Hulk then clapped his hands hard enough to make a sonic boom that knocked all the heroes out of the sky the Hulk then leapt over to Storm who had been the one to strike him with lightning. Curtis saw this and fired at the Hulk as he was about smash Storm who was still dazed from the sonic boom. The rounds hit the Hulk in the back of the head causing him to spin around and glare at Curtis.
Curtis turned on his active camouflage but it had been used to much so it only turned on for a second before it overheated and turned off causing Curtis to be visible again. Hulk let out a roar and leapt towards Curtis with his arms raised above his head. Curtis rolled to the left and Hulk smashed the ground where he was only two seconds ago. Curtis started to run as fast as he could away from Hulk shooting as fast as possible.
Kyle reloaded his battle rifle with the custom rounds that Doctor Hasley. He pulled back the slide chambering the first rounds. He then fired at Hulk's back the spikes flew through the air and impacted Hulks back going halfway in and since they were superheated they caused the Hulk a great deal of pain as they burned him.
Hulk turned to the newest person to cause him pain and seeing another one of the troopers. He barreled down upon the trooper who fired as the Hulk got closer and closer to him. Kyle new that if he tried to run he wouldn't be able to outrun the Hulk so he did the next best thing he fired his rifle as fast as he could aimed at the Hulk's chest. The spikes hit him causing him more pain then before since there where now about 12 of the superheated spikes sticking from his chest.
The Hulk soon leapt into the air and tried to bring both of his fists down on Kyle. He rolled to the left and was able to evade the smash but he lost his battle rifle and a loud crunch told him that he wouldn't be using it again. He hit the switch on the interior of his helmet that activated the portable energy shield on his wrist. He then sent all the power to the wrist shield he raised his arm just in time to block a punch from the Hulk.
There was a cracking sound that told him his arm was broken even before he felt the wave of pain hit him like a freight train. He would have been in more pain but his armor automatically injected him with morphine, although the version used by the UNSC was a synthetic version of the drug that had no adverse effects on the body as well as it being non-addictive, the drug was dispensed from the small med pack that was on the armor and help a small number of medical supplies a trooper could use to patch themselves up in the middle of a battle.
But a broken arm was the least of his worries as the Hulk quickly rushed at him and grabbed him in his massive hand. He then raised him up and started to crush him in his hands, Kyle groaned as he felt like he was getting crushed under a ton of bricks form every side at once. He used his other arm and grabbed the magnum that was on his hip. He lifted it up and shot the Hulk directly in the face as he continued to squeeze him. He pulled the trigger as fast as he could till the magazine ran dry. The Hulk then pulled back his arm and threw Kyle towards a stone wall in the middle of the park.
As he was flying through the air Kyle raised his arm and was able to line up the grappling hook with a tree. He fired the hook and it stuck into the trunk of the tree. As soon as he got to the end of the rope the rope went taught. The sudden stop would've broken or dislocated the arm if the specially designed shock absorbers hadn't kicked in reducing the force of the sudden stop enough so that it just pulled his arm not enough to dislocate it but enough to cause it to hurt.
Just then the Spartans reentered the fight, after getting more ammo from the pelican via the supply pods it dropped, along with the heroes who had recovered. They all started to attack the Hulk and where able to slowly push him towards the middle of the park.
As everyone was fighting Jean Grey and Professor-X used their telepathy to look at the emotions of the soldiers that had appeared to help them fight Hulk. And what they felt was surprising from the soldiers in green armor they didn't feel anything but calm even as the Hulk tried to kill them. It was as if this was what they did every day since usually there was a combination of emotions that went along with battles even more so stressful situations.
And even the other soldiers wearing the advanced looking black body armor still had no fear in them as if the y had been through far worse. The two telepaths wondered what type of battles they would have had to participate in the have no fear when facing the Hulk in battle. But that could wait as they then went back to trying to calm down the Hulk even though their efforts where having little to no effect on him.
As soon as the Hulk was being pushed back Curtis and Sam rushed over to where Kyle was laying. Sam brought up Kyle's biometers on his HUD and what he saw made him worry for his commander as well as his friend. He had his arm broken as well as a number of cracked ribs and one rib had broken and it had punctured one of his lungs. Sam ran up to him and he then pulled a can of biofoam from his pack he then injected some of the foam into his chest cavity as well as making his armor on his left arm lock up so that it acted like a cast. Once he had done this he ran held Kyle's good arm and moved him towards where Doctor Hasley was.
Once he got there he took off the top half of Kyle's armor and he then took one of the medical kits that were in the crate they had brought with them. He opened the kit and then made a small cauterized incision in Kyle's broken arm. He then injected a special bone knitting polymer into the wound to increase the rate of healing for his broken bones. He repeated this process on his broken rib he also used a laser scalpel to repair the damage his broken rib caused to his lungs. Once Sam was done he wrapped Kyle's Chest in bandages and then he put his armor back on and Kyle was soon on his feet.
He felt like he was just ran over by a fully loaded warthog but he was still alive so that was a good thing in his mind. He could already feel his bones starting to mend although it would take around five minutes for it to fully mend and then around two more minutes to be able to use is arm as if nothing had happened. He looked over and saw that the heroes and the Spartans weren't making much headway.
Kelly ducked under one of the Hulk's arms and then quick as a flash she ran to the other side of the Hulk and shoved the barrel of her assault rifle into his side and held down the trigger. The Hulk roared in rage and tried to grab her but he had no chance to catch her. She was a green blur as she ran to the Hulk's backside and opened fire. More bullets peppered his back and this only caused him to be more enraged. Kelly then quickly pulled out a fragmentation grenade and priming it. She counted to three and threw the grenade just as Hulk turned around, she threw it with pinpoint accuracy and it hit Hulk in the face just as it exploded.
He roared out as he had white hot shrapnel sent into his face as well as the explosion itself burned his face. He stumbled backwards but this still barely slowed the raging giant who got back up and looked at the Spartans. He moved forwards at an incredible speed the heroes had a hard time following him but to the Spartans he might as well have been walking as they easily followed his movements.
They opened fire as they moved to the sides but the bullets had little to no effect on the Hulk. He continued his charge running into a tree causing it to fall down he picked up the tree and threw it at the Spartans. They leapt to the side to dodge the flying tree but it continued flying through the air straight towards Doctor Hasley, Cortana, and Linda. Linda and Cortana leapt in front of the Doctor raising their arms to block the tree. The tree impacted their arms causing the tree to explode into a large number of wood shards. One such shard flew between the two and buried itself into Doctor Hasley's arm. It was able to penetrate the armor she was wearing.
The Spartans saw this and all of them were soon fully enraged at seeing Doctor Hasley being wounded. The Spartans usually kept their emotions in check but there was two major exceptions one was if one of their fellow Spartans was wounded or if someone threatened or hurt Doctor Hasley. This had earned them the name of Demon from the Covenant as there was nothing that could stop a Spartan when they became fully enraged. Not even the might of the great Covenant Empire.
Professor X and Jean Gray recoiled at the feeling of so much anger coming from the green armored soldiers. They realized with some amount of shock that the anger from one of the soldiers was dwarfing the level of anger that the Hulk had. And all of them were just as angry as the first.
The Spartans and the Hulk stared each other down for what seemed like hours. The Spartans as one charged forward attacking the Hulk more brutally then before. John held his assault rifle in one hand and held a plasma rifle in the other firing both at once towards the Hulk's face.
The Hulk roared as he was temporarily blinded by the bullets and superheated plasma. Fred ran up and pulled out his two combat knifes from their sheaths. He ran towards Hulk as fast as he could and leapt into the air. He flew past the Hulk and stabbed the blades into his left arm with enough force to make the blades go to the hilt in his arm.
Hulk swung his other arm towards the Spartan but he dodged it by leaping to the side still holding the combat Knifes in each hand causing them to cut down his arm. Fred pulled out both knifes and dropped to his knee three meters behind the Hulk. Kelly then sprinted as fast as she could towards the Hulk leaping into the air and putting both her feet together. Fred did the same from the other side as he sprinted towards the Hulk's back. Kelly hit him square in the chest as Fred hit him in the back of the knees causing him to fall onto his back.
John then leapt onto his chest as he was lying on the ground and pulled back his fist and began to pound the Hulk with a number of quick unrestrained punches each one having the power to reduce bones to dust. Yet the Hulk only got his nose broken and a number of bruises formed on his face. He was soon beat into unconsciousness by more punches from The Chief and the fight was soon over with that as an ending note the Spartans all ran towards Doctor Hasley.
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Batty02: I do intend to have the Spartans and The ODSTs fight the CIS and I already have an idea as to what will happen but let's just say the clone troopers will be shocked to say the least
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