"I lost everything, my home, my family, my life. So I joined the marines, and then became a shock trooper. Now my team is my family, and we'll going to get revenge for every single person those damn covies killed!" -Unknown ODST
Be Hybrid
Chapter 7: Harvest Campaign I
LOCATION: Orbit above Harvest. DATE: 02/04/2531. Military Time: 07:26
In the orbit above the burned and nearly glassed world that is Harvest, several UNSC ships slowly hovered over it's atmosphere. One such ship, more than two kilometers wide, was the UNSC Spirit of Fire. On this ship, Captain Cutter looked down on the planet from the bridge.
"Serina Status." The Captain spoke.
A nearby AI holocron table lit up with a flash of blue as a blue female women in her twenties wearing a white dressed and having long dark blue hair appeared forth. Saying in perfect sync to her appearance, "Standard Obit achieved, all systems normal."
"Prep for pod launches, bring weapon systems online." He commanded, turning around and walking toward the projection table built in the middle of his observation room.
"Expecting trouble captain?" The AI questioned.
"Harvest may be ours again, but I don't think the Covenant appreciate that yet." Cutter then went to the communication screen, it flicked on with a marine within a warthog vehicle, snow falling in the background.
"Sergeant Forge, report." The Captain said to the marine on screen
"Definitely plenty of bad guys down here Captain, and they found something in the ice." Forge reported as he drove the vehicle he rode in.
At this moment, a young women in a scientist coat walked into the room, right when Captain Cutter said, "Damnit, that complicates our mission… Anders what do you got?"
The young women smiled, and started speaking as she circled the projection table and it lit up with a hologram of an geographical scan,"Captain, scans of the northern polar region show signs of interesting covenant activity; there's some sort of structure down there."
Serina questioned curiously, "What do you think they're looking for?"
"That's what we're here to find out. We're to bring Alpha base to operational status and take control of that sight." Captain Cutter says with authority.
"I'll get my equipment ready." Anders stated as she started going away.
"Lady there's no way you're coming down here on the first bird." Forge spoke loudly, she rolled her eyes and continued on.
"Sergeant Forge pull back to Alpha base, I'm sending you some backup." The Spirit of Fire's Captain commanded.
"Roger that, Forge out." The screen flicked off.
"So nothing too difficult then?" The AI smirked.
Cutter sighed as he made his way to the windows overlooking the planet, "It may be the key to this whole war Serina, it's worth the risk."
LOCATION: Harvest, near Alpha Base. DATE: 02/04/2531. Military Time: 08:02
A frozen wasteland, a result of not only being in the north polar region, but also the devastation caused by the Covenant glassing on the rest of the planet. In the midst of this snowy hell, the once human fortification of Alpha base was under siege by numerous covenant.
Sergeant Forge activated the communicator on his wrist, "Alpha base is toast, we got everyone retreating over here."
Serina's voice replied, "A squad of Saiyan Warriors should around your immediate area, I'm tracking their position due northwest of your location."
"Right, Forge out." The Sergeant put the pedal to the wheel, the Gauss Warthog he drove speeding up and going over a cliffside before roughly landing on hard ice below. A group of marines were seperated from their velicle, held down by two battilons of alien grunts and Elites.
Forge and his two marine on his Gauss Warthog, charged in ablazing with highly-gas powered shots of kickass destruction. The zenos never stood a chance, pinned down so quickly they had no chance to retreat.
Forge looked to the marines that were previously pinned, "You boys from Alpha?"
One replied, "We were the first ones out sir!"
"Good, get to your warthog and follow me! We're taking Alpha back!"
The now duo of UNSC Warthogs continued their warpath, rescuing another two groups of marines just ahead, and outright slaughtering countless numbers of grunts and Covenant boogies. Continuing their way, their vehicles bounced down from a destroyed angled bridge, and met with another pinned down groups of UNSC forces.
A plasma turret fired continuous shots upon them, before being spontaneously blown apart by four separate balls of solid blue energy. With that gone, it was easy for the human forces to take care of the rest.
"Christmas came early, I sure do hope the Covenant enjoyed their afterlife present." A deep voice rang out, laughter following its wake. A somewhat dark skinned saiyan with spiky black hair dressed in UNSC/SSA standard-issue armor slid down a steep hill, three other saiyan warriors following him.
"Turles, long time no see!" Sergeant Forge yelled.
"We can have eggnog and hot cocoa after we retake Alpha, Forge." Turles sarcastically said.
"You're still the same man I see." Forge said, before starting to drive his Warthog. "Everyone follow my lead, we're almost there!"
The UNSC and SSA force moved like a single mass of units toward their target location. When arriving at the entrance of Alpha base, the titanium gate was shielded with plasma technology. Any Covenant forces outside with the attacking marines didn't stand much of a chance when the cavalry arrived. They were prompted decimated seconds later.
"They are trying to keep us out of our own base." Serina joked from the communicator.
Turles smirked, "We'll see about that, Ki blast on three!" Turles and his saiyan warriors raised their gloved palms at the shield. "One, two, three!" He shouted, four blue balls of Ki firing out of their palms and impacting against the shielding technology, which simmered but didn't go out.
"Guess we have to charge in, infantry only." Forge stated, the grounded marines groaned slightly but headed into the covenant shielding anyhow. A few grenades here and there on the generator while under fire, and the shield collapsed.
"Alright, let's take this base back!" The UNSC/SSA Force cheered and charged in guns ablazing, Ki blast exploding, and warthog turrets barraging.
A Wraith tank fired a huge ball of plasma at them, a group of unlucky marines were melted as the plasma impacted onto them, their screams of agony heard over the gunfire and streaking bolts of plasma fire.
"Aerial Support inbound, they'll take care of that armour." Captain Cutter voiced through their communication.
Right on time, an aerial assault took place as explosions racked the area where the Wrath tank was placed, which was utterly destroyed along with any covenant troops in the assault's pathway.
"Keep pressuring them! Keep pressuring them!" Forge shouted as the troops around them keep pressing their fire on the enemy, wanting to never give them any time to counter strongly.
"They're running away! The cowards!" Turles yelled as he emptied his Assault Rifle and began to replace the cartridge.
"Ki Wave inbound!" One of his saiyan warriors yelled, a wave of blue Ki leaving his hands and destroying two covenant Ghost.
"Hey, careful now! Waves cost a large amount of Ki!" Another saiyan yelled as his companion.
"Yeah," He began breathing heavily, "Should've remembered that."
"Spirit, this is Forge, Alpha is ours again." The Sergeant voiced through his communicator.
"Roger that Forge, while I send down more troops. Check the perimeter." Captain Cutter replied.
LOCATION: Harvest, Cliffside over ruins. DATE: 02/04/2531. Military Time: 14:30
Sergeant Forge, alongside Saiyan Warrior, Turles, crawled through the snow and stopped just short of cliffside edge. Looking down upon the Covenant below and a strange wall of metal that they were prodding with strange alien instruments.
"Let's have a look see shall we?" Forge said, handing Turles a spare binoculars and began watching the Covenant's activity.
The two binoculars zoomed in on the Covenant activity, two massive Elites chatting with their strange language, one seeming threatening the other. With a commanding presence emitting from the one clad in silver armor, it appeared to order the surrounding aliens. Suddenly, the wall of metal opened up.
"Well, well, open sesame." He commented.
"Wonder what's inside that's so important." Turles rhetorically questioned.
"Doesn't matter, that's for the science peps to discover." Forge replied, "Let's go."
The two slid down the cliffside, unknowingly leaving at the exact time the silver armored Elite looked up to the cliffside, only to find nothing there.
Turles activated his communicator, "Hey Captain, this is Warrior Turles, the covenant just opened some sort of structure."
"Roger that, return to Alpha base and prepare a assault. We're going to take it from them." Captain Cutter ordered.
"Roger that, Turles and Forge out." Turles said, cutting the communication.
Twenty minutes later...
The UNSC AI, Serina, voiced the situation, "Multiple pelicans inbound with Armor support."
Six human dropships hovered over the ground level, dropping squads of marines while also unloading their vehicle cargo. Consisting of four Warthogs and one mean green badass Scorpion Tank machine. The platoon of marines lined up in order, ready to beat down on their covenant adversaries.
Sergeant Forge looked at the Scorpion Tank with gleeful expression, "Now that's what I'm talking about! I can't wait to shove its rounds right up their alien asses!" He turned to the marines, "Alright let's move! Double time! I want that structure taken by the end of the day!"
"Sir yes sir!" The marines shouted in unison.
The UNSC forces entered their vehicles, caught rides along the Scorpion's large form, and jogged their way toward the enemy forces. It taken take long after leaving the safety of Alpha base, the Covenant forces meet them head on in a barrage of plasma fire.
"Agh, it burns! Oh God!" A marine yelled in agony as he clutched a plasma wound that shot right into his shoulder.
"Take this you bastards!" Another yelled as he fired his Assault Rifle from his position on the Tank.
The head of the Scorpion Tank rotated around, aiming at two incoming covenant Ghost, before firing it's highly powered round, completely destroying the advanced alien vehicles in a large blue and yellowish explosion.
"Wraith Tank! Take it down, take it down!" Forge yelled, as he drove his Gauss Warthog alongside the others, circling around the Covenant Tank that tried to fire slow bolts of heated plasma on them. The warthogs' guns firing their bullets and powerful shots into the hull of the Tank; Bits and pieces coming off before a well-placed shot ended the Wraith with a boom.
"No, Jimmy's dead! They killed Jimmy- AGH!" Was all that was heard before that marine fell to his death by shot from a Jackal sniper.
"Here come the waves!" Three saiyan warriors shouted, as their three light blue Ki waves shot from their hands and fused. The massive Ki wave destroying a Covenant Wraith along with a dozen infantry.
"Hell yeah, can't handle saiy-" The saiyan warrior dropped dead from a sniper headshot.
"Damn it! Get that sniper! It's going to pin us down!" His comrade yelled as he snatched the dead saiyan's dogtags and got to cover.
The Tank's head rotated into the direction of the Jackal roost, and finished the snipers off with a loud human-style explosion of shrapnel and death. The marines cheered, and continued pressing the covenant forces back, edging closer toward the strange structure just ahead.
"Holy shit, that's one huge entrance." A marine commented from the back of a warthog, eyeing the grand mountainside entrance of the great alien structure ahead of them.
"Become awestruck after you gun down the covvies, Elites at two!" The driver shouted, before screaming in sheer terror.
"What is it?!" The gunner yelled before catching the appearance of three plasma grenades struck on the Warthog's front. "Fu-!" The warthog exploded in a mass of red yellow flames and blue plasma, the mass of remains flipping forward and crashing into the snowy ground; flames present within its remnants.
Sergeant Forge shouted over the battle, "Keep your attention focused!" He combat rolled to the left, avoiding a plasma grenade thrown at him. Forge brought his shotgun up to arms and decimated the torso of an Elite with a spray of bullets, blood gushing everywhere.
Serina's voice came to his communicator, "Destroy the bombs before they collapse the entrance! We can risk them doing that!"
"Mass grenades!" Forge yelled, causing the marines to reach for them, and throw them at the glowing covenant bomb just ahead.
"Give them a hand!" Turles shouted, he and the remainder of his warriors firing Ki blasts towards the covenant device.
The device exploded, signaling the end of the campaign against the covenant to take over the unknown structure. The remainder of the forces were pinned down by the UNSC, before the marines started to fortify the entrance with barricades and spotlights.
"This is Sergeant Forge, the structure is ours." Forge said through the comlink.
"Great work, I'll have Anders down there momentarily to investigate." Captain Cutter replied.
Today, was a good victory for Humanity, yet the start of discovery of a terrifying secret.
Hey guys! Boyzilla here! Sorry for the (very) late update! I just had a hard time getting through the chapter without doing a ridiculous copy of Halo Wars' mission. Not to mention figuring out how if to include the UNSC and Covenant base construction. But I decided not too, as that would be unrealistic to the franchise. So I opted to do it just like the FPS games do, with pelicans delivering troops and armour. (I'm American, but I tend to use 'Armor' for worn, and 'Armour' for military vehicles.)
Anyhow, we entered the Harvest campaign from Halo Wars! After the Halo Wars story I'm deciding whether or not to skip to Reach, or continue doing historical battles and how they can differ from the original timeline with the saiyan influence. Don't worry about that influence btw, you'll see with the Halo Wars campaign how saiyans change factors. Anyhow, I guess that's what I have fans like you for!
So what do you think? Continue doing historical battles between the UNSC and Covenant after Halo Wars, or skip right to the next Halo game/book. (Which I will include some of the Book events, or at least try to.)