3. Disagree to Disagree.

Hanger 4-B

CT, Arizona, South, and Carolina walked into the hanger with their helmets in their hands and weapons on their backs. CT had a MA5B Assault Rifle and Magnum, Arizona a DMR and SRS99D-S2 AM Sniper Rifle on her back, South held a M45E Tactical Shotgun in her hands and had a Battle Rifle on her back, and Carolina had twin Plasma Rifles on her hips and Battle Rifle on her back. They walked over to a UH-144 Falcon getting prepped for the mission.

A male pilot in grey armor and helmet with a green visor and giant yellow and red eye painted on it's forehead walked over to them. "Okay ladies, just give us a minute or so to finish fueling and for the ship to lower into orbit and we're good to go," he told them.

"Good, continue with your work," Arizona told him. He nodded at her and returned to the Falcon. Carolina put her helmet down on a crate and motioned the others around her.

"Okay this is the plan," she started, pulling out a holographic projector, projecting the image of a military base in front of them. "The key is located in the center of the base, surrounded by a high end security system. To shut it off though we have to enter the control tower, which is heavily guarded. This makes it almost impossible to enter. So me and CT are going to enter through the roof and drop a small EMP grenade into the room to short out the computers and distract the guards long enough so we can take them out. While we do this though South and Arizona is going to head down to the key, making sure no enters the room. Once we take the system out we'll join you and take the key. We then sneak back out of the base and return to the Falcon."

"That's not going to work," Arizona spoke up. Carolina frowned at her words.

"It's the only way we could get the key. We have to split up like this." 'Plus I want to keep you away from Connie,' the redhead thought to herself.

"Well there's the difference between us, I don't need any of you to take out the system," Arizona stated. This caused Carolina to fume with anger. The pilot gave them wave, indicating the ship was ready. Arizona was the first to get up, putting her helmet on, she started over to the Falcon. Carolina got up, glaring at the back of her head before putting her helmet on and following her. South and CT looked at each other, having seen the glare the redhead gave the blonde, before following the two's lead.

"What's up with Carolina?" South asked.

"Not sure," CT answered. 'But man she can be cute when she's angry-FUCK.'

The Mother of Invention started to enter the atmosphere of a grey and white planet. Once they entered, they hid behind some clouds and one of the hangers opened up, letting the Falcon out of it and fly off to the mountains.

"This is 343, we're coming in on the LZ right now, all clear," the pilot said over the radio. "Copy that, proceed."

The Falcon landed and let the four Freelancers out of the ship. "Okay, I'll be here for your return. Just call if anything changes," pilot 343 told them with a small salute.

"Will do. Now let's move," Carolina told them.

They walked for around 2 miles through grey snow until they found Mercury base. They sneaked up to the outer wall, staying behind rocks so not to be noticed. Once they reached the wall, they each grabbed a hook from their belts and threw them up; hooking onto the wall and a unfortunate guard who happened to have been passing by. The four climbed up the wall. After they got over, they unhooked from the wall, tossed the body over and started to cross the courtyard. They made it to one of the complexes and looked up, to one of the towers.

"Okay, now we split up and get the security system off line-."

"Don't even bother, I'll take it out myself," Arizona interrupted Carolina, starting to walk over to the tower.

"No, we're sticking with the plan. We have to work as a team," Carolina said, grabbing her arm.

Arizona stopped at turned to look at her. "I don't have a team. So I don't need one." She then ran off towards the tower. CT started to go after her but South stopped her. "We can at least follow the split part of the plan, I'll go after her." South then started to sprint after her, leaving a confused CT and mildly angry Carolina.

South couldn't catch up with Arizona but she followed her to the best she could. She came up to a pair of elevators, noticing one was open but the car was gone. She heard a ding come from the other. The door opened and a figure in Insurrection armor pushing a janitor cart came out, music and singing coming from his helmet. South hid in the other doorway as he passed, not noticing her or what happened to the other elevator. She then snuck into the car before the door closed and pressed the button for the top floor. The car moved up and she checked over her guns, ready for the guards on top.

The elevator stopped and the doors opened. South rushed out but stopped at what she saw. Just like down stairs, the other elevator was open without the car but a cut wire was seen flaying around. The hallway itself was shot up and covered in blood. Bodies lined the walls; some missing body parts either being blasted off or cut off by something. South looked at one head, holding a look of pure terror behind its cracked visor.

"Wow, she's really badass," South said aloud. 'Kind of hot.' She shook her head at that thought and continued on.

She then reached the control room's door, or what was left of it. It was shot up more then the walls, with two bodies on it, having tried to escape the monster they were facing. South walked into the room to find Arizona at one panel, a pile of bodies in a corner, and one body hanged from the celling from a bunch of wires.

"Figures one of you would follow me here," Arizona told her without turning around. South walked over to her, looking at the panel. Files were being downloaded, each one popping up on screen for a second.

"Carolina thinks the location of the other key is with the key, but it's in these files, which would have been erased if we went with her plans," she then explains.

"What about the security system? We still need to deactivate that and I'm pretty sure we'll get caught stealing these files."

"Don't worry; they're all being taken care of."

South then noticed light coming from two other screens, one deactivating security system for the key and the other deactivating the alarms. This surprised the purple armored Freelancer. "How are you-?"

"Not important right now," Arizona told her. South came back over just as the files were done downloading and the last file came up. South could only stop and stare at the file.

On the file, was a picture, of CT.

So another chapter for you to enjoy. Notice the reference to Halo with 343, if not that's okay.

Carolina can be very jealous no?

See more of how Arizona/Lucy is a badass with a give no shit attitude.

And what are these thoughts South has well you'll find out soon.