Naruto: A New Beginning
Chapter 17
Disclaimer: I do not own Halo or Naruto; if I did I would make the best live-action series.
(Date: July 24, 2552. Location: Epsilon Eridani System, Planet Reach)
(Reach Surface Location: 1-click from Visegrad Relay Outpost)
At this very moment a pair of Falcons with a Pelican trailing its rear, were all cutting through the air toward a large communication satellite that was most likely downed by the Covenant forces on Reach.
As the trio of aircraft cut through the air, very close to the mountain face, they finally came upon the facility which was resting firmly on a clearing in between the mountain range. Outside the facility there were Covenant troops already aiming towards their position just waiting for the perfect chance to bring them down.
"Alright put us down pilot." Carter ordered the Falcons.
"Uhh sir the LZ is a little too hot." The pilot commented as he was cautious about the possibility of being shot down, right now they were in a decent distance where a good amount of Covenant infantry weaponry isn't as effective.
"Put her down Corporal, I need to get inside that building." Carter ordered the Corporal Pilot a second time.
"Yes sir." The pilot said in a resigned fashion and maneuvered the aerial vehicle to hover over the entrance ramp for ground vehicles. Luckily he was hovering behind a tall metal barricade that had ascended mechanically from the ground to prevent any more ground vehicles from entering; it can also be used as cover.
"Alright let's move out Team, focus on laying down some suppressing fire once we get out of this ramp, its not really a profitable position." Carter informed both teams.
"Read you loud and clear Commander." Jasper said this as he cocked back the bolt that was on the machine gun turret fused to the hatch of the Pelican.
The air cracked with every shot that Jasper started to release, soon he had the Covenant ground forces hiding behind barricades and vehicle's for cover while he continued to rain down on them a hail of fifty caliber full metal rounds.
"Good job Rookie 11, alright he opened a door for us and were gonna go through it, I need sharpshooters on this platform and I also need close quarter combat specialists to take point towards the forklift garage, get to it team we need to get inside that building as soon as possible!" Carter conveyed to his entire team.
"Alright!" Riley yelled out in enthusiasm.
"Let's do this!" Jasper yelled through the sound of the machine gun turret picking up speed.
"Don't even give em a chance to peak Jasper." Rob told Jasper.
"Yeah, you guys go on ahead, I'll keep em busy until I run out of ammo, then the sharpshooters can cover me until I get to their position." Jasper informed every one of his intentions.
"Let's get on with the show already." Naruto said impatiently.
"Okay, CQC specialists take point, we've got you're back." Jorge said as he straightened the aim of his hand held machine gun turret.
Without warning Naruto and Emile blasted off from behind the metal barriers while Jasper's gunfire was whizzing over their heads and keeping the enemy cautiously behind cover.
Emile split off from Naruto's path and into the forklift garage to the left while Naruto himself dived towards the midsection of a truck and glided under it for a brief second until he actually hit the floor and started sliding under the truck to surprise attack any enemies on the other side.
The inertia of his dive carried him to the other side where he noticed his first target, the blue armored legs of a low ranking Covenant Elite.
Without hesitation Naruto fired a blast of titanium shredder birdshot and ripped apart the Elites legs like a tomato in a blender.
Naruto showed the Elite a form of combat mercy in the way that once he shot the Elites legs and had taken out his shields, when Naruto fired that first shot he immediately placed his left hand down on the ground while still sliding and twisted it in a way that will allow him to continue to use the force of his momentum to kick up with his right leg, shooting him high up in the air while upside down, at this very moment Naruto pumped the shotgun for a second round and squeezed the trigger only for a shell of titanium birdshot to be ejected once again towards the helpless Elites face, mutilating it even after it had already died from the initial impact on it's cranium.
Once Naruto finished up there, he kicked slightly forward and created momentum to reposition his body back to its normal vertical stance and landed on his two feet. Two orange armored grunts watched the entire spectacle from their slightly turned heads, at first their attention was only directed at trying to find some way to get that human to stop shooting at them but then the commotion behind them had them turn their heads only to watch their squad leader get turned into a live example of what it looks like when your fucking face gets scrambled by a high powered shotgun.
Without any mercy Naruto had taken his M6G Magnum from its holster with inhuman speed and fired upon the heads of the two grunts that were staring at him in fear.
Naruto immediately turned around to check his six and disappeared from his position without even thinking about it as he had noticed a dangerous glowing blue ball headed towards him. When Naruto reappeared he was already in front of the red armored Elite warrior with his right arm cocked back, with speed he decked the Elite in the face hard enough to break it's shields and send it back flying, afterwards he simply shot the stunned Elite in the head when its flight path was cut off by a barricade. A second or two later the Plasma grenade had exploded and flash melted a large hole on the side of the trucks loading area.
Naruto performed another visual scan and didn't see any more Covenant forces in the immediate vicinity. He left the area and went closer to the entrance of the facility where he found a group of Jackals preparing another mobile cover set up with sharpshooter Jackals behind them.
Naruto was in no way about to let that happen as he picked up a grenade from one of its hooks on his suit and took off the safety pin, priming the grenade for detonation. Naruto aimed at a concrete barrier that was behind the jackal groups position and threw the grenade right at it's surface at the 1.5 second mark of a fragmentation grenades countdown timer. The grenade sped through the air and reached the first target of the cement barricades, only to ricochet upon impact thus changing its trajectory towards the rear position of the group of five Jackals.
After another two seconds making it a total of three point five seconds before grenade detonation, the fragmentation grenade had expanded from the inside and let out all the compressed force from that expansion towards the outside world, where the shell of the grenade would be used as a secondary weapon in the form of small speeding shards of metal that impaled all the backs of the Jackals, killing them instantly as many metal fragments had entered their heads and bounced around the confines of their brains making it turn into Jackal brain pudding.
No Jackal was spared from the explosion as the force propelled them over the barricade they were hiding behind and into the open in boneless heaps of alien flesh.
Without any sense of patience at the moment Naruto went towards the sound of more gunfire and noticed an intense fire fight between Emile and a small squad of Grunts and its red armored squad leader. Without a second thought Naruto had thrown a second grenade towards the covered position of the small Covenant squad, forcing them to get away from the forklifts they were hiding behind. During the altercation Emile fired some rounds from his shotgun killing two Grunts caught within the spreading wall of speeding birdshot, the killing blow for the squad in it's entirety was the explosion of the grenade creating a chain reaction with the explosion prone cover that they used in the form of natural gas powered forklifts. The fire from the blast was impressive as it had almost consumed Emile's choice of cover as well.
Chaos didn't just end there, Naruto had to shift towards the left as a Jackal sharpshooter was about to land on him, instead it landed on the hard concrete floor shattering more bones even though it was already dead judging by the high caliber hole on the side of its head.
Naruto looked towards the area the shot must have come from and noticed Camilla giving him a thumbs up from the higher platform she was on with most of the ODST's, now including Jasper who had to get of the Pelican since it had run out of ammo after Camilla's shot.
"Good shot Cammy." Naruto complimented through the communications radio.
"Heh, I got you're back Naruto." Camilla assured him.
Naruto nodded in acknowledgment only for his mood to change when he saw a Spirit Drop-Ship descending upon his teammates and friends position.
"EVERYONE BEHIND YOU!" Naruto said as he readied another Kunai with an explosive tag.
The Spirit Drop-Ship was now hovering over the ramp area the entire team had just landed prior.
Just as it was turning it's turret towards his teammates while opening it's troop compartment hatch, Naruto threw his explosive tag primed kunai towards the main gun of the Spirit Drop-Ship and released the sealing formula allowing it to instantly immerse itself in a destructive orb of force that had completely engulfed the cockpit of the Spirit Drop-Ship thus cutting it off from the two arms that contain it's troops. With the force created from the explosive tags both of the long purple hatches that contain Covenant forces were propelled towards the ground where all the infantry onboard met a crushing and burning defeat when it impacted a truck in the front entrance parking lot, consuming both mechanical objects and its inhabitants in a ball of earthly and un-earthly flames.
"Damn, did I ever mention how happy I am that you're on our team Naruto." Jasper commented in relief.
"I feel like this is the first I'm hearing it from you, heh." Naruto said sheepishly.
"Not to be a debby-downer mate, but if it was just us we would have been creamed already, any other squad of blokes would be having piss-poor odds at beating all the Covenant we came across so far." Riley said earnestly.
"Well I don't know about that, these aliens seem pretty weak if you ask me, now if it was a squad of those energy shielded bastards then I would literally start having a blast." Naruto replied to Riley's comment.
"(Snort) You're makin it sound like you can take on a squad of Elites by yourself." Emile commented through the radio.
"Oh shit, I forgot this thing was on, heh heh." Jasper laughed in an embarrassing manner.
"Kat, how long will it take to get through this door?" Carter asked Kat over the team linked radio.
"It's gonna take me some time, this is plasma fusion were talking about, I'm gonna need some time to get through this mess." Kat said as she picked up a metal object from hook on her suit.
"I need an estimate, about how much time are you talking?" Carter asked.
"My best estimate is less than five minutes and no more, I'm going to need you to cover me if more Covvy's decide to show up." Kat informed him as she immediately got to work on breaking open the metal fused door, with that she pressed a red button on her metal rod like object and from a previously obscured hole an intense blue flame combusted upon the ends of the metal object thus identifying it as an advanced portable blow-torch. Sparks were now flying everywhere as she started cutting through the exterior metal fusion of the door.
"Alright, I need all of Noble team and The Rookie Twelve to regroup on my position, DOUBLE TIME-IT WE DON'T KNOW WHEN THEY WILL ATTACK AGAIN!" Carter ordered everyone loudly through the radio.
"Yes sir!" All the ODST's responded at the same time while the Spartans that compromised Noble team verbalized their acknowledgement in their own way.
Every member of the Rookie twelve and Noble team was now standing guard in front of the Visegrad Relay Outpost back entrance awaiting orders.
"I need everyone to take positions nearby, we don't know when the Covenant will send reinforcements so we need to be ready once they get here." Carter ordered everyone
Camilla and Kate being the team snipers took positions closest to Kat and hid behind separate barricades respectively located on either side of Kat, Camilla being on the right while Kate took the left. Jorge decided to take a position in between them to act as a sentry gunner.
Naruto, Mathew, and Emile had all ran towards the center of the battlefield where they would be able to thin any Covenant troops that dared to land on the heightened platform or the vehicle entrance ramp.
Hunter, Misha and Julius had a picked high altitude points on a platform above Kat, they went through the forklift garage and went up the stairs that were located at the end of the garage, where they found themselves on a platform that will allow them to take out enemy's easier with their DMR's. They took cover behind metal crates and large blue containers that seemed to be filled with water.
Riley, Earl, Ice and Rob all took positions in between the close quarter combat specialists and the team snipers covering Kat as she worked. They spread out, covering themselves with a concrete barricade or already damaged vehicles that most likely wouldn't blow up again.
Meanwhile Carter and Noble Six had all moved towards the other side of the forklift garage where there was another flight of stairs that led to the platform that the ODST sharpshooter's had used when they first got to this relay outpost.
"Alright, if any Covenant decide to land I need my CQC specialists to do the distracting while sniper's and sharpshooters can pick out and direct them to any infantry, in addition Noble Six and I will be flanking them from our position, I know for a fact that they would immediately see this platform as an advantage so were gonna surprise em if they arrive." Carter informed every one of the makeshift plan.
He received blue winking lights within his helmet informing him of his Spartan team acknowledgement while the rookie ODST's had all verbalized their acknowledgement.
It didn't even take longer than a minute for someone to warn them of a hostile presence.
"Guy's, I see a weird looking Drop-Ship headed our way and it's being flanked on both sides by a pair of banshees." Kate informed everyone as she saw in the distance with the assistance of her sniper scope the hostile form of a T-52 TC-Phantom Drop-Ship.
"Rookies 6 and 7, concentrate you're fire on a single banshee and then move on to the other; it would be easier if you take them out at this distance." Carter ordered Kate and Camilla.
"Let's do this, Camilla go ahead and take first pick." Kate told Camilla with an excitable voice.
"Hmmmm, let's start with the one on the right, I don't like the way it's looking at me." Camilla joked as she shifted her Sniper Rifles sights to the Banshee on the right side of the Phantom that was closing in on them ahead of the Drop-Ship.
"Ready" Kate said in a way as if she was starting a race.
"Set" Camilla added on to the sequence.
"GO!" They yelled at the same time, two loud thunder cracks filled the air as armor piercing sniper rifle rounds broke the sound barrier and with a certain instantaneous effect they shattered the weak stabilizer wings of the Banshee to the right. It was quite a comical scene as the Banshee was now spinning out of control while staying afloat in the air, regardless Kate and Camilla weren't in the mood anymore and let off another two loud cracks that tore through the air and impacted the Banshee head on, it must of hit the main batteries of the aircraft since it instantly exploded in a ball of purple and blue plasma flames. The same thing that happened to the right Banshee also happened to the left albeit much quicker and with more efficiency as they had mentally recorded where they had to shoot to cause another explosion like that, the answer to that was just above the dual plasma cannons on the Banshees front.
"Good job Rookies, now get ready for the Phantom closing in on us, recent intelligence informed us that they can hold up to twenty five passengers and two vehicles so be ready for anything." Carter passed on to everyone.
After his brief statement everyone heard a snort over the communications radio, seeing that Naruto A.K.A Rookie Nine was the one that made that sound judging by the informative Heads up Display of every UNSC soldier in the current vicinity, they all looked towards his direction where he was standing away from his cover and had just finished putting an explosive tag inside one of his few remaining shuriken.
Without any hesitation Naruto flicked the shuriken using the modified stone skipping maneuver learned in the ninja academy, and watched using his higher visual perceptiveness as the shuriken spun rapidly through the air and towards the intended target of the front of the Phantom Drop-Ship.
Naruto didn't even let the shuriken touch the Phantom, using his ninja awareness he released the seal just as it was an inch away from the Phantoms nose.
(BOOOM!) The explosion was twice as large as any he and his teammates had ever seen so far on this excursion. The yellow ball of explosive force expanded instantly and created a shock wave from the sound and force it generated, as a plus the main reactors of the Phantom Drop-Ship created a chain reaction with the plasma core and added on to the force of the explosion with a small heat filled breeze. The explosion was pretty spectacular as it had seemingly darkened the area with an overwhelming blanket of light from the plasma detonation.
"I think I'm going to start requesting you're team whenever you're available, by far I have never worked with such skilled individuals outside of my Spartan team." Carter complimented the contributing Rookies.
"Heh heh, anytime you need us sir." Naruto said respectfully.
"Yeah what he said, besides I like working with you guys as well." Camilla said sincerely and also in agreement with Naruto.
"Likewise, and Rookie nine . . . I'm positive that I will request you're team again, count on it." Spartan Commander Carter said in a firm tone.
"Awesome, we get to work with Spartans again." Misha said through the radio.
"Oi, lass, you know were still all linked to the radio right?" Riley informed Misha.
"So, I didn't insult anyone." Misha retorted.
"It's not about that lass, it's about how many cupcakes you can eat while skydiving . . . . . . . . . . ." The radio was silent for one whole minute after Riley's excessively random comeback. Eventually Carter returned a sense of normalcy by breaking the awkward radio silence.
"Kat, how's the door looking?" Carter asked Kat on her progress with cutting through the door.
"Another minute and were set Commander." Kat informed him and in extension everyone else.
"Good, everyone retain you're position we don't know when more will decide to come." Carter readied everyone with his words.
After just a couple of seconds of radio silence Ice had decided to create a private link with Riley.
"Yo, Riley." Ice said through the connection so only Riley can hear him.
"Huh, oh, gotcha mate." Riley connected himself to the private link as well and now no one can hear their short conversation.
"Son, what the hell was the point of you saying that to Misha?" Ice said in a perplexed manner of speaking.
"Oh that, HAH! That was a tactic I saw my pops using against my mum, whenever they would start arguing over whatever senseless thing he would start shouting the most obscene and random things that had effectively shut up my mum, it was always fun to watch, I wish you could've seen it mate." Riley said while chuckling amusedly at the end.
"Damn nigga, that shit actually worked?" Ice asked for confirmation.
"What kinda question is that mate, did you see how confused everyone was when I ended the conversation with that, for a good thirty seconds I was cracking up with my radio off and my sound dampeners on." Riley reminded Ice of the radio silence after he said that to Misha.
"I think I'll give that tactic a shot one day." Ice said offhandedly.
"Aight mate, we should switch back to the team local channel, it seems that blue armored Spartan named Kat finished with the door." Riley informed Ice.
"Aight cool homie, we'll talk later." With that the private channel went silent and as soon as they switched to the team channel they heard a female voice informing the team about something.
" . . . still not out of the jungle yet team, I still need to hack both doors if we're going to get further inside." Since Kat had already separated the exterior door from its closed position she now had to hack the door closed again since they didn't want any more Covenant entering the outpost while they were in there. The other door she had to hack was the interior door in the back of the room they had just entered that led towards the control room. Everyone was now inside the room that seemed to be the security room and watched as Kat had gotten up from her crouching position on the floor where there was a mess of wires left behind that only she understood completely.
"Alright I'm done with this door." Kat said as she had closed the large metal door everyone had went through. "On to the next." Kat said this as she walked towards a control panel that was located at the back of the room next to the second door she had to open.
It took her less than thirty seconds to override the doors commands and without any resistance the door hissed open.
"CQC specialists you know the drill." Carter ordered.
"Sir." Emile acknowledged.
"Got it." Naruto went along as well with Mathew silently guarding his Sic o'clock and any missed corners.
The entire team followed the CQC specialist's through the metal hallway, without needing to be ordered they had all turned on night vision and were able to clearly see a break in the hallway that led to what seemed like a left turn into another room.
"Control room, go easy." Kat's verbal influence made everyone tense in preparation as they had made that left and found themselves in another hallway but with large metal boxes that seemed to be alighted from the inside, in reality these were technological pieces of software that worked in conjunction with the control room.
Within this hallway they had encountered another left turn, Emile took the left while Naruto and Mathew went on ahead as scouts.
"Got a body." Emile said in a detached form of speaking.
"Noble Six, search that body." Kat ordered as she walked over the body of an above middle aged man with grey hair, and straight towards the control centers console.
Noble Six followed her order and moved the body in preparation for search, he didn't have to try hard as the man seemed to be housing a data chip in his coats chest pocket that had loosely fallen out upon the sudden movement of his dead body. Noble Six took the data chip and informed Kat of his findings.
"Found something." Noble Six told her.
Kat turned around and immediately went to grab the data chip.
"I'll take that Six, not your domain." Kat told him curtly.
"I got a trooper here in need of medical attention." Carter informed everyone as he was steadying a marine into a sitting position, somehow the Marine wasn't that injured and was conscious enough to answer questions. "Where the rest of your unit?" Carter asked quickly.
"We got split, I don't think that they . . . it, it sounded bad on the Com's" The Marine trooper said in a week and dazed manner.
"Alright Corporal, stay put, we'll get you a combat surgeon." Carter informed the injured Marine.
"Damn it." Kat said in an exasperated manner as she was trying to use the console to no avail. "This is plasma damage, it's not gonna be easy to work around, that is if there is anything to work around." Kat informed the team as a whole.
Before anyone else could say anything Jorge interrupted the silence with his discovery.
"I've got a live one over here!" He informed, from under the stairs he found a young female hiding and decided to pick her up, she started struggling profusely while yelling out in her native tongue.
"NIET!" She yelled as she started to punch Jorge in an attempt to escape his one handed vice like grip on her right arm.
"Come on now." Jorge said in a soothing and unthreatening manner.
"Niet, menami men, NIET!" The young girl continued to struggle in his grip.
"Come on, I'm not gonna hurt you alright." Jorge continued to try and calm her down.
"Jorge." Carter grabbed his attention for another order but Jorge retorted quickly before he could let that get across.
"I got her." Jorge said firmly, he picked up the girl as she was trying to crawl away instinctually even though he was still holding her wrist with one hand, he grabbed her once more and firmly grabbed both her arms by her biceps firmly planting her in front of him a he tried to get his point across to her.
"Keep still, and I'll release you." He said this calmly as she was still struggling.
"Meten, itvanak." She said in a slightly more subdued tone of voice.
"GET AWAY FROM THERE!" Naruto yelled out suddenly as he had sensed something moving above them and closing in on their position.
It was to no avail as Jorge was to slow to comprehend what his warning meant.
Suddenly from an opening above Jorge and his innocent captive a maroon armored Sangheili warrior fell on top of the platform at the top of the stairs the young girl was hiding under. The first thing it did was quickly activate its energy sword and swing at Jorge, luckily Jorge was quick enough to duck and cover the girl in his crouched and armored embrace to protect her. The Sangheili warrior ignored Jorge for the short moment and directed his attention towards Kat's and Carter's postion, once he spotted them he growled curtly.
Two more Sangheili warriors fell from that opening and had also activated their energy swords. The leader of the small Covenant fire team charged Kat's position nearby the console and swung with all its might. Kat being the most nimble of the Spartans rolled out of the way allowing the Elite Zealot to cut through the Consoles screen without any resistance.
"Commander, what's you're status, Over." Jun said over the radio as Carter started peppering the Elite with assault rifle rounds.
"We've been engaged!" Carter yelled through his com's while he was still peppering the Elite with assault rifle rounds, Noble Six being closer to the Elite than Carter was, was charged by the Elite and tackled out of the way as the Elite continued running to seek cover after trampling over Noble Six.
Noble Six didn't even get a chance to get up as another Zealot class Sangheili warrior had jumped on top of him ready to impale him with his energy sword.
Emile wasn't about to let that happen though, before Noble Six could attempt to defend himself Emile fired his shotgun directly at the Elites side and pushed it off of Noble Six with the force of the close range shot.
Impressively the Elites shields hadn't broken and were still holding, as it was trying to back away on the floor though Mathew appeared from behind one of the technological metal boxes and shot the Elite in the head at almost blank range and watched with detached fascination as the Elites head exploded like a watermelon with dark purple gore strewn about the radius of the implosion.
Out of the three Elites only two remained and they were both walking out slowly threw the exit that was behind the Corporal where Commander Carter had first found him. One of the Elites shields recharged as they had no choice but to hold their fire as they slowly walked backwards with their Marine hostage protecting them from the Spartans and the ODST's line of fire.
"The Tango group has him, permission to pursue?" Emile asked over the Com's.
"Negative Noble four, stay on the entrance. Noble two, handle the girl. Noble five and Six and Rookie nine and one, clear the hole. Everyone else stay's here." Carter ordered everyone.
"We'll take the lead." Jorge said in a deep serious voice as he started walking cautiously towards the exit that the Elites had taken with their hostage, next to him was Noble Six that had reloaded his MA37 Assault rifle and had taken point to scout.
He went through the door first and continued side stepping as he scanned the expansive surrounding of what appeared to be a holding room for many metal crates and forklifts. Jorge immediately stepped through afterwards followed by Naruto and Mathew.
Jorge then stood in the middle of the room and aimed his turret skyward, from a small compartment on his modified portable turret, he shot out a red flare that bathed the entire area in a threatening red light.
"Contact!" Jorge yelled as he saw the first vestiges of the hostile presence in the form of a squad of Grunts and Jackals with no other Elite yet to be seen. Jorge started raining down suppressing fire on a group of Grunts that were steadily making their way to cover, not anymore though as they're bodies were being mutilated by the high rate of fire from Jorge's turret.
Six was also providing suppressing fire on the Jackals, insuring that they wouldn't be able to react to their presence.
Naruto and Mathew weren't just sitting idly by as this happened, oh no. They decided to each take a flanking position on the far right and left sides of the large room where the numerous crates will allow them to quickly and stealthily come upon the rest of the Hostile squads position.
Naruto got there first and instead of using his shotgun he took out his M6G pistol again and got a collateral shot on two unsuspecting Jackals that were firmly hiding behind their shields as the rounds from the UNSC weaponry being used bounced dangerously off their shields.
Regardless two down and three more to go, this is where Mathew decided to follow Naruto's example and had taken out his DMR from its magnetic clamp on his back and put his shotgun on his back instead. Since the Jackals were distracted away from his position he had easy headshots. He took out all three of them with three consecutive shots from his DMR with the after effect of three imploding Jackal craniums.
Afterwards they waited for Noble Five and Six to catch up and proceeded towards another corridor where one of the Elite Zealots was waiting for them at the end of it.
It growled loudly and started shooting magenta colored rounds from an unknown weapon, the plasma rounds he was firing were comparable to the main turret of a Spirit and Phantom Drop-Ship.
"OH SHIT!" Naruto yelled out as he rolled out of the way and covered himself behind a crate that was luckily within this corridor, when the rounds impacted the surface of the ground the exploded loudly and with a lot of kinetic force as they flash melted the grounded and created perfect molten craters. With luck on their side again the explosions radius wasn't more than half a foot.
Jorge started raining down pressure on the Elite and eventually the Covenant foot soldier had to leave or it's shields will dissipate. It ran further down the corridor making a left along the way and disappearing from sight.
"Never seen that weapon before." Noble Six commented offhandedly.
"Let's keep moving, we can't waste any more time." Jorge ordered.
"I can take point, Mathew you with me?" Naruto asked as he re-holstered his pistol and took out his shotgun.
"Damn straight." Mathew replied curtly and with confidence as he had also switched his DMR back to his Shotgun.
As they started moving down the corridor they suddenly encountered a surprise attack from a small fire team of grunts that were hiding at the next turn the Elite had disappeared through.
Due to the distance and without any real team effort both Naruto and Mathew fired their shotguns and watched as all of the Grunts that were charging them with Plasma grenades getting ready to be primed mid-charge were blown back from the force and spread of the Shotgun's rounds.
"Holy crap, they're suicidal little crappers aren't they." Naruto commented.
"Yeah, they usually do this when you kill they're squad leader, but it seems these cannon fodder were ordered to give up their lives for the cause." Jorge informed them.
"Let's keep moving guy's." Noble Six had reminded them.
"Right." Naruto and Mathew agreed.
"I'm actually going to pick some of these up." Naruto said offhandedly as he picked up the un-detonated plasma grenades the Grunts had failed to use against them. He was able to store four of the deadly blue spheres into his ninja pouch since their seemed to be more room due to the dwindling amount of Kunai and Shuriken he had stored in there. "Alright I'm set, let's crack some more skulls." Naruto said enthusiastically as he started walking over the bodies of the dead Grunts. "One of these wouldn't hurt either." Naruto said as he crouched and picked up a Plasma Pistol that seemed to have a good enough charge.
He attached the Plasma Pistol to a magnetic clamp on his left leg and continued to walk down the corridor again.
"I guess he's taking point again." Six commented on Naruto walking ahead of the pack.
Everyone else followed after him though when he made a left turn down the corridor, once they came upon his position they noted that this must be the data bank that housed all the information that this Relay receives on a daily basis. Each memory box was as large and tall as a Covenant Hunter. Each one would periodically surface from the ground and then descend back into it after it was done using the cooling systems.
"Alright, Noble Six, Rookie Nine, go ahead and take care of the hostiles, I'll stay elevated with Rookie one and support you with suppressing and accurate fire." Jorge ordered his temporary fire team.
Mathew automatically switched out to his DMR again after Jorge said accurate fire and aimed down the sights at a pair of Grunts peeking behind cover on the far side of the room behind the edge of a door frame that led to another control room for different purposes. Mathew initiated the firefight by shooting one of the Grunts in the head.
After that all hell broke loose as a large squad of Covenant forced poured into the memory bank from that room and started peppering their position with deadly blobs of plasma and pink needles of painful death.
Naruto and Six didn't waste any time as they stormed down the ramp quickly with M45 TS-Shotgun and MA37-Assault rifle respectively in each one's hands.
Naruto moved to hide behind an ascending data box and moved his Shotgun to a one handed grip on his left hand while his right hand searched the confines of his ninja pouch, from their he picked up two plasma grenades and primed them at the same damn time, he didn't waste any precious seconds as he swiftly maneuvered out of covered and into the line of fire of the enemy.
He threw both of the Plasma Grenades at the same time and didn't even wait to see where they would land as he had moved to another ascending pillar of data for cover. Regardless of that both Grenades bounced of the metal surface of the far side wall and landed in between a group of Jackals and Grunts that had completely exited the room from whence they came.
The grenades exploded and flash melted two grunts and two jackals while severely burning and even melting the faces and bodies of the five grunts and two other Jackals that had been very near to the dual blasts of plasma.
With stunned composures they were easy pickings for Mathews DMR and Jorge's M247H HMG-Machine Gun. With that out of the way, Noble Six had suddenly appeared in another spot where a small group of Grunts were hiding and Naruto had witnessed Noble Six assassinating them effortlessly as the Data pillar they were hiding behind slowly descended back into the ground. Noble Six had easily cracked one of the Grunts necks with his bare hands and then pistol whipped the other in the head killing it instantly as well and the last one was shot in the head.
The fire fight didn't stop there though as suddenly from the very same room all of these Covenant forces had come from, one of the Elite Zealots had appeared without warning and started spraying their position with what appeared to be a Plasma Rifle but with a higher rate of fire. Everyone had to hide as the RPM of the Elites weapon rivaled that of a warthogs fifty caliber turret.
Another Elite Zealot had appeared from the room and took this chance his comrade has given him by charging Naruto's position with an Energy Sword ready in hand.
Naruto being a Ninja already knew that his position was being targeted judging by how the sound was easily traveling in his direction.
As soon as the Elite with the Energy Sword had reached his position the other Elite with the high RPM plasma rifle had growled loudly in frustration as his weapon had over heated, Jorge took this chance to rain his own suppressing fire on that specific Elite, this all happened in complete simultaneity.
Just as the Elite with the Energy Sword was about to gracefully curve into Naruto's position with a 360 degree sword strike Naruto had lashed out without restraint. Naruto had let the Elite into his cover and while crouched he performed a harsh 180 degree sweep kick that damaged the Elites shields slightly and knocked it of its feet making it lose its grip on its energy sword in mid-air from utter shock as it fell on its side. Naruto didn't give the fucker time to recover as he had grabbed the energy sword by the handle flawlessly and without any mercy or hesitation he swung at the Elite starting from the crown of its head and through its bodies midsection, almost cutting the Sangheili warrior in half from the direction of his swing. Afterwards Naruto picked up his dropped shotgun and connected it to his back.
Naruto stood to his full height after that with Energy Sword still in hand and saw from a distance the last Zealot Rank Elite hiding behind cover with some body parts poking out.
Naruto grinned to himself evilly as he shifted the energy sword to his left hand and took out a Plasma grenade from his pouch with his right hand.
He primed it and threw with precision aim at the Elite Zealot's foot that was sticking out of cover, it sped through the air with the grace of thrown kunai and flawlessly stuck itself to the Elites foot. Honestly those shields can make anyone feel Cocky and powerful, it's a huge ego boost, but what isn't an ego boost for those generally cocky bastards is a primed plasma grenade that has fused and stuck with the armor they are wearing.
When the Elite felt the impact and noticed the blue orb, it took one step out of cover and screamed to the heavens.
"RAAAHHHHHHHHH!" (BOOM!) and the fire team of Elites was no more, only their mutilated corpses remained, and one disintegrated one.
"Clear." Noble Six said curtly after a visual scan, and baiting any possible remaining forces using himself.
"Noble Five reporting, all hostiles have been taken care of." Jorge informed Carter through the radio.
"Kat needs you to reset a junction, do it, then get back here." Carter ordered.
"Noble Six, go into that room and find the appropriate console." Jorge ordered Six since he was closest to that room.
"Sir." Six acknowledged.
He entered the room by himself and typed in some commands on the appropriate panel located at the end of the room. Once that was done he jogged out and met up with Naruto who was still admiring the Energy sword in his hand.
"Time to move." Six snapped Naruto out of his reverie and Naruto started following after Noble Six.
Eventually they swiftly walked up the ramp and met up with Mathew and Jorge who were waiting for them at the exit of the Data bank room.
Naruto eventually realized on the way back that the entire handle of the Energy sword was a button that needed to be pressed firmly by his entire hand to deactivate the sword, he figured it out accidently when he firmly gripped the sword and then loosened his grip allowing the sword to dissipate.
Within a minute, give or take a few seconds they had made their way back to everyone's original position in the control room.
When they entered the room again, each of them went on to stand and wait or observe or take it upon themselves to do something productive.
Naruto himself was watching Kat work on the damaged console, and listened to the dialogue in between Carter and Kat.
"How long?" Carter asked in a slightly impatient manner.
"Question of my life . . . if the question is when will the station be back online, two weeks earliest, this is plasma damage, all major uplinks and components are fried." Kat informed Carter of the situation.
"Damn, we obviously don't have that amount of time, even waiting two minutes is too long a wait." Carter said with impatience now evident in his voice.
"Good thing I'm splicing into the main overland bundle to get you a direct link to Colonel Holland . . . You're in my light Commander." Kat informed Carter, he respectively moved out of the way to let her work.
As Carter was stepping back he looked upon Jorge's position where he was about to try and talk to her.
"Find out what she knows." Carter ordered Jorge.
The Rookie Twelve were quietly hanging out in the sidelines watching the Spartan's interactions.
Jorge crouched down in front of the young girl while she hid her face with her arms and legs held close.
Jorge tried grabbing her attention by touching her arm, she simply refused his touch with a stubborn grunt and a shrug.
Meanwhile as Emile watched the interaction he laughed silently to himself.
"What's your name . . . do you live around here?" Jorge asked her, when he received no response he took off his helmet in an attempt to make her feel more compelled to talk to him. "I'm Evan Jorge." He introduced himself, through his efforts he finally received a reply.
"Sharra." She said curtly.
"Ahhhh Sharra, sepuctero dos ne, your . . accent sounds familiar, Chaprone?" Jorge conversed with her kindly.
"Tangari." She clarified.
Jorge looked towards the dead body that housed the data chip Noble Six found earlier.
"Friend of yours?" Jorge asked.
"Father." She clarified once more.
"Sharra, I'm sorry." Jorge said regrettably with his head down.
"Why would you be?" She snapped softly.
Jorge had nothing to say to that and got up, at that moment Emile directed his attention to Noble Six.
"Big man forgets what he is sometimes." Emile commented offhandedly.
Jorge hearing this walks upto Emile swiftly and directly faced him with a frown.
"She just lost her father." Jorge defended, he walked up to Carter to give him a report. "She needs a full psychiatric work up." He informed Carter.
"She's not the only one." Emile insulted.
"Lock it down both of you." Carter ordered his teammates who at the moment were acting like children. "Get her up, the body stay's here." Carter ordered Jorge.
"Thank you sir." Jorge said sincerely and then walked away while also purposefully bumping into Emile with a mean look on his face.
Jorge walked up to the girl named Sharra still sitting on the floor and held out his hand to help pick her up.
"I got a signal." Kat informed Carter.
"Alright I need everyone to wait for me outside, call in the air transport that was on standby, I'll be out in a minute." He ordered both teams.
"It's patchy but its there." She added.
"I'll take it." Carter told her as she also stepped out of the room while he himself was taking off his helmet for a face to face talk with Colonel Holland.
Just as Kat was about to leave she added one more thing.
"Its best not to touch anything, wouldn't want to ground this place." She informed him and then walked out behind Noble Six with the Rookie Twelve already out of sight and waiting for Kat to come by so she can open the front door again.
Meanwhile Commander Carter was waiting for the signal to fully get through, eventually it did.
"I'm barely reading you, what's your current situation over." Colonel Holland's voice filled bounced off the walls of the control room.
"Colonel this is Noble One, there are no rebels, the Covenant are on Reach, acknowledge." Commander Carter informed and asked for verification of his dread filled news.
"Come again Noble One, did you say Covenant?" Colonel Holland asked in a state of disbelief.
"Affirmative, it's the Winter Contingency." Commander Carter relayed to Colonel Holland.
"(Sigh) May gods help us all." Colonel Holland said with a resigned sigh in the beginning.
"Sir, Noble team and Sergeant Condor's team are fully accounted for, were going to send back his ODST candidates back to the academy to sort out any issues on their end, I request that you keep me in contact with them, they are a highly skilled and exceptional team of individuals. We also need to go into full planetary alert before the Covenant amass a full scale invasion." Carter continued to converse before the signal went out.
"I guess Devon was right about them huh, regardless I accept your request and I will trigger the full alert status for every damn military station we have on this fortress, we also can't take our sweet time with evacuating civilians, this needs to be done as fast as humanly possible." Colonel Holland agreed and accepted what Carter said.
"Alright sir, the connection should be going out any moment now, I'll contact you again when we get out of the dead zone." Carter was cutting short the conversation in case he was suddenly cut off.
"Agreed, Holland out." With that the communications system was replaced by static sound and Carter had put on his helmet and left the control room.
When Carter exited the facility itself he already saw the Pelican housing the ODST candidates hovering in the air, waiting.
A single Falcon was also hovering in the air with another one waiting for him to board on the ground. The Marine troopers they had saved were still there and he eventually joined them on the grounded Falcon with Kat and Six also their waiting for him.
Eventually Carter gave the signal to move out and the Falcons lead the way as the Pelican trailed lazily behind the pair.
By the end of the day the Rookie Twelve will already be back at the Montez Military Academy where they will have a nice conversation with their favorite Drill Sergeant and a debriefing about the current events outside of their mission. Drill Sergeant Condor most likely will start proclaiming his team as official after the entire first contact debacle with the Covenant. Slowly but surely the Covenant is making its presence on Reach known. In addition, Naruto will slowly and gradually be forced to use more of his strength and ninja abilities if him and his teammates are going to survive this ordeal. It won't be easy for him once the UNSC gets wind of his power, but hey . . . this is Naruto were talking about here.
Authors Note. I hope you all liked this chapter because I sure as hell enjoyed writing it. YOU KNOW WHAT IT BE FAMILY, IF YOU WANNA ME TO FEEL HAPPILY THAN DROP A REVIEW IT'S REAL EASY. Damn shit's just flash melting all over da place naaa what imma saiyan cuz I'mma supa randomness . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . .. . . . REVIEW PLEASE! PEACE OUT FAMILY!