Hey everyone, sorry for the long wait, I've had stuff going on and haven't been able to work on this as much as I'd like, but I'm back now, and will try to push out updates more frequently.
Disclaimer: I don't own Halo or Space Battleship Yamato.
Chapter II: Unexpected Meeting
As the Gamilan Recon fleet arrived at Saturn's Moon of Enceladus, they closed in on the the Unknown Distress Beacon. The Destoria's Captain opened up Comm channels with the other ships in his group and spoke.
"This is Captain Ziel of the 'Deresol'' We've arrived at the source of the Unknown Distress Signal, and have obtained visual, please confirm." The Captain requested to the ships in his company.
"Captain Aiel of the 'Karsos' confirming visual on the Unknown." came from one of the Destroyer Captains.
"Captain Orus of the 'Zalom' also confirms visual." chimed another
"Captain Yalem of the 'Nargrem' confirms visual aswell." stated the last.
"Excellent, whatever we found, it certainly has seen better days." Captain Ziel comments.
"Affirmative, look, it looks like it's been precisely cleaved." Caprain Orus points out.
"Even if it's just half of a ship, its almost the size of our destroyers." Captain Aiel states.
"Its definitely unsightly though, and primitive in design, look at it, blocky and rugged, it looks like something the Terrans or Gatlantians would've made." Captain Yalem says.
"Whatever the case, we were told to investigate, prepare boarding parties, let's see if we can figure out where it came from and who it belongs to." Captain Ziel gave the order and watched the object from the viewport of the bridge.
Forward Unto Dawn
Cryo Bay
With a groggy groan Chief opened his eyes as he awoke from his Slumber, but his fight or flight response immediately kicked in after his armors systems gave him an slight adrenaline boost with a wake up stim. Chief pushed against the closed Tube and tried to get open it, but stopped when he heard a familiar voice.
"Chief, easy, you've been out for a while." Came from his digital friend Cortana as she watched him from her pedestal.
"Where are we?" Chief asked as he set eyes on her position.
"Still adrift on the Dawn." She responded.
"Why did you wake me?" He asked, getting straight to the point.
"Hold on, bringing your suits Systems online." She informed as Chief watched his HUD flash to life, his Shield level, motion tracker, compass, and ammo display.
"Spinning up Grav Generators and initializing Systems Diagnostics." She continued as Artificial Gravity Generators started up, and random debris floating around the room dropped like rocks.
"Look up Chief, you need to pull the Manual Release." She informed, and he did just that.
Once out of the pod, he grabbed his Assault Rifle from the rack and approached her.
"Seems like old times." Cortana said with a smile, hand on her hip.
"Ready to get back to work?" Chief asked in response.
"Thought you'd never ask, gladly, pull me and let's get out of here." She said.
Chief pulled out her AI Chip and inserted it into the back of his Helmet, letting her merge with his Nueral Interface.
"We've got Intrusion Alerts on multiple decks." Cortana informs him of the situation as something loud rattled through the ship, "Our best bet to figure out who's boarding us is the observation deck, four floors up." She directed.
"Think it could be a Rescue Team?" Chief asked, the ship rumbling loudly as if something violently hit it.
"Wouldn't bet on it." Cortana asked honestly.
Chief then approached a Console and checked the ships systems and compartments,
Weapons Systems: Online
Gravity Control: Online
Ship Propulsion: Offline
Life Support: Offline
Communications Array: Offline
Vehicle Bay:
x2 M808b Scorpion Main Battle Tank
x2 M12G1 Warthog Light Reconnaissance Vehicles
x4 M12 Warthog Light Reconnaissance Vehicles
x3M813 Warthog Transport Vehicles
x8 M274 Ultra Light All Terrain Vehicles
x2 D77H-TCI Pelican Dropships.
"Not bad, your luck is still holding out on you." Cortana chimed in
"Hopefully we have a favorable situation where we can use them rather then abandon them." Chief replied as he made his way through the ships interior.
As he walked through the halls, Cortana's distress signal came through the ships intercom and echoed off the empty metal hallway walls.
"How long was I out?" Chief finally asked.
"Seven months, Eighteen days." Cortana answered
"Somebody should've found us by now." Chief stated.
After abit more walking they came to the ships Galactic Positioning System Display, but due to power levels, it refused to work.
"How close are we to the Observation Deck?" Chief asked
"It's directly above us." Cortana replied.
Chief then approached an Elevator door and using his strength began to pry it open.
"Chief be careful.." Cortana began to warn, but as the doors were forced open, the compartment they were in went under a violent decompression event ahd sucked large boxes out, which slammed into chief, and him into the wall of the Elevator Shaft.
"Because some areas might've lost pressure!" she finished her interrupted warning.
"Right.." Chief mentally cursed himself as he climbed up the Shaft, dodging items that came were being sucked out.
Once Chief reached the observation level, he climbed through the doorway, but was met with multiple figures that were Humanoid in shape.
"Maybe it was a Rescue Team." Chief pointed out, and went to step closer.
"Wait!" Cortana urged
The Humanoids then turned looked upon the Armored Behemoth, startled by his sudden appearence drew weapons on him, which caused Chief to draw his in return. He then spoke through his helmets speakers.
"Unknown Boarders, you are trespassing on a United Nations Space Command Vessel, leave immediately, or else I am authorized to use Deadly Force." Chief warned.
The three humanoids stood their ground and spoke to eachother in an unknown language which Cortana attempted to analyze and translate.
Corporal Dessim stood with his two soldiers as they explored the interior of the vessel.
"It's creepy, no one in these halls, I thought it said there were survivors aboard?" Private Ayem said.
"That's what it said, but it looks like we're the only ones here, who knows how long this thing has been abandoned?" Private Beval replied.
"Cut the chatter. Our job is to find out who this ship belonged to. This UNSC is unfamiliar to us, hhopefully we can find the information, and if we find survivors, we can bring them back for questioning. Then we can move on the Terran ship that's here too." The Corporal told the two Privates.
As the Corporal went to continue the walk with the Privates, something caught his attention and he turned around, the Privates doing the same. What they saw shocked them, it looked like a giant robot, clad in green with a single golden eye that stood atleast 2 feet taller then themselves. Their shock causing them to draw their weapons. Almost firing when the giant did the same.
"W-What do we do Corporal?!" Private Ayem asked, shaking lightly in intimidation as he gripped his weapon.
Corporal Dessim went to speak but the giant beat him to it.
"Unknown Boarders, you are trespassing on a United Nations Space Command Vessel, leave immediately, or else I am authorized to use Deadly Force." Came from the Behemoth.
"I-It's speaking Tarren, this thing is Terran!" Private Beval pointed out in exclamtion.
"Quiet! I heard!" Dessim replied before patching into Comms, "This is Corporal Dessim of boarding Team Esh. We've come across what looks like an Android and its speaking Tarren, what should we do?"
The voice of Captain Ziel came back through the Comms, "Terran? If that's the case, destroy it, bring it back to the ship, we can take it back to the base and examine it, figure out what happened."
"Yes, Sir." Corporal Dessim replied, "All teams converge on my coordinates." Dessim instructed before looking to the other two Soldiers in his company and following his orders, pulling the trigger.
Chief continued his stare down with the humanoids, getting a good look through their transparent visors and noticing the blue skin they had. His concentration was interrupted when the middle one opened fire. The first shots took him by surprise, but thankfully his energy shields absorbed the shots. He noticed they used energy weapons, which did a decent number on his shields, but not enough to break them before his reflexes kicked in. With quick, precise shots, he dropped the three targets with ease, noting that they had no personal protection like himself, or previous enemies such as Elites or Brutes. After killing the opponents, he went to examine them, noticing that the blood from their wounds leaked Purple, similar to Elites. Chief then knelt down and removed one of the helmets from the dead soldiers, he'd dismantle it later with Cortana and analyze it, to get a better idea of what they're up against.
"Definitely not a rescue team." Cortana stated, "They may be Humanoid, but definitely not human. They probably aren't alone either, we should be careful." She heeded.
"Agreed." Chief stated with a small frown, as they proceeded to the observation deck.
"I'm updating your motion tracker, all Unknowns should now be identified as Hostiles." Cortana informed him, to which Chief nodded in acknowledgment as they reached the observation deck.
Upon entering the observation deck, Chief took note of atleast ten Hostiles in the room, one upon the over look, four to the right, five to the left. He began doing some tactical thinking before putting together a plan before engaging. He'd silently approach the one on the overlook who he assumed to be the Commander, using his specialized, laser sharpened SPARTAN Grade combat knife to silently dispatch him, putting the blade to his neck and effortlessly cutting open his throat, giving him no opportunity to scream as he choked on his own blood. He then caught the rest off guard, using his advantage on the high ground, he'd pick off a few with precise shots with his M6G Magnum Sidearm, the glass visors of their helmets shattering as the .50 caliber round entered their cranium and put them down swiftly, and mopping up the rest with a few quick bursts of his MA5C Assault Rifle.
"Whoever these guys are, compared to the Covenant, they're hardly even a challenge, they're definitely Military though, hopefully we've just come across a lone Scout Ship." Cortana suggested in a hopeful tone. But as the shutters opened and they were finally given a view, there were atleast four ships of unknown make holding position around the ship. "Or we could've been found by a small fleet.." she said in a defeated tone.
"Come again?!" Captain Ziel shouted in disbelief in what he had just heard,
"All of Boarding Group Esh has been wiped out, all other groups are proceeding to their last known location." One of the Bridge Officers repeated as he looked at the life signals of Boarding Group Esh, all of which have flat lined.
"One Terran Android has done that to superior Gamilan pureblood soldiers?! unacceptable, I want that Android destroyed so we can take it apart back at base, if the Terrans can make something with that kind of performance, we need to have it analyzed. Send more boarding teams!" Captain Ziel ordered as he looked out the Bridge windows at the derelict vessel.
"Chief! Behind you!" Cortana called out as the Motion Tracker lit up with multiple Hostiles coming in through the doorway, taking action Chief swiftly took cover and returned fire, dropping enemies with short controlled bursts.
"We have to destroy those ships before they can send more boarding parties!" Cortana informed.
"Didnt the ships sensors say Weapons Stations are online?" Chief recollected as he dropped another boarder.
"Only the Hyperion Missiles, and since the ship was torn in half, we can't access the Weapons Stations, we have to fire them manually from the outer hull!" Cortana informed him.
Once Chief dropped the last immediate Hostile, Cortana spoke up, "We need to get to the Airlock, head for the Elevator Banks!" she then pinged their location with a waypoint.
As Chief fought his way to the airlock, easily dispatching the foes he came across, they reached a small window that looked over the Missile bays, that still had a view of the Hostile Ships.
"Chief, after scanning those ships, I just discovered something, none of them have any shields! Assuming they don't break formation, the Nuclear Payload from the Missile could destroy all four of them at once, or at the very least, disable them." Cortana informed as they soon reached the airlocks. "The auxiliary launch station should be to your left out of the airlocks. you'll have to prime the launch for ignition." She told him as the airlock depressurized and they were exposed to the vacuum of Space.
"Right." Chief nodded subtly as the airlock door opened and he made his way out.
Chief noticed more boarders, looking for a way in, using his advantage in range and stealth, he picked off the targets from a distance, watching as the dead ones ones float off. They eventually took notice and returned fire as Chief continued to fight his way to the launch station. As the Skirmish continued, Cortana points something out.
"Chief, judging by the positioning of the Stars, and the familiarity of the nearby Gas Giant, it's possible we're in the Sol System, possibly by Saturn, we're close to Earth!" Cortana exclaimed
"How is that possible? To be so close to Earth, but have not been found by the UNSC?" Chief asked as he continued to drop targets.
"I don't know, I'll keep going over my data, just get to the launch Station." Cortana replied.
Chief eventually reaches the Missile controls, sets the center ship as the primary target, and preps a Missile for launch. But unfortunately, the launch mechanism jams.
"Great, the blast door is jammed, the Missile won't fire until it's cleared!" Cortana informed.
Chief then heads to the Primer, kicking it into position with his superior strength, allowing the Missile to fire. Chief watches as the Missile takes flight and makes its way towards its destination.
Alarms went off in the 'Deresol' as what looked like a Missile headed straight towards them.
"Captain! We have a confirmed launch from the Unknown ship, readings suggest a Heavy Payload!" one of the Bridge Officers shouted over the blaring alarm.
"Impossible! Take evasive action!" Ziel ordered as he watched the object hurl itself towards his ship through the viewport.
"It's too late it's coming in too fast!" The Bridge Officer called out.
There was a Flash, and all of it was over.
Chief watched from the hull of the ship as the Missile impacted directly onto the enemy ships hull and erupted into a blinding flash that formed. The flash grew and engulfed the other ships surrounding it, and let out a shockwave that Chief could feel from the Hull of the Dawn. As it died down, the only thing that remained was a smoking debris field if pieces that made up the Alien ships that drifted aimlessly through the vacuum.
"Someone should take a picture." Cortana joked
"Yeah." Chief replied as he turned back towards the Airlocks.
"Let's head to the Comms room, let's see if we can get a transmission out." Cortana suggested.
"I thought Communications were disabled?" Chief asked.
"Long Range, yes, but hopefully, we can send out a local Transmission that can be heard from within the system and possibly reach Earth." Cortana said as they entered the Airlock and Repressurized.
Chief made his way to the Comms room, dispatching any stragglers still on the ship. When they arrived, Chief looked around for a working Terminal and plugged Cortana in and her Avatar materialized.
"Let's hope this works." Cortana prays before she was interrupted by the Comms crackling to life.
"Ship down, we are under attack and require immediate assistance!" came an Unknown female voice the comms.
"That doesn't sound good." Cortana stated the obvious
"This is the Yamato, we are under attack by an enemy armored unit, please Standby!" came a Males voice.
"Well, I guess I know where we're going next." Cortana looked at Chief with an all knowing grin.
"Prep a Pelican and one of the Tanks, they need help, and we're going to give it." Chief stated as he pulled her from the terminal and put her back in his helmet.