It only took five weeks. Humanity's fortress among the stars, a proud and prosperous colony appropriately named Reach, lay in hearbreaking ruins. All her defenses had been overcome, cities half reduced to rubble, yet the Covenant was not finished. Even as he surveyed his locale several alien warships rained shafts of super-heated plasma upon the planet, no doubt leaving nasty scars to be visible from orbit.
Aszod ship yard. Sitting in the seat of a Mark 2488 Magnetic Accelerator Cannon, alone Spartan watched the last UNSC ship leave surface of the doom planet .
Spartan B312, during the final weeks before Reach's eventual glassing, Noble Six partook in multiple operations against Covenant forces on Reach along with the rest of Noble Team.
However those battles came at a cost, as each member of the team died one by one in the protection of Reach.
Now his objective achieved. The package was aboard the UNSC Pillar of Autumn the ship safely launched into space. Reach was in ruins and the UNSC was on its knees, but his mission was accomplished. Deep down Noble-Six didn't feel like celebrating, however. He knew what was going to happen - hell, anyone knew what was going to happen. Six had been condemned to death the moment he chose to stay behind to operate the coil-gun, but someone had to keep a path open for Captain Keyes and the Pillar of Autumn. The Covenant would be relentless in their search for any survivors and make sure every last human on the planet was dead. The chances of finding a ship that could make orbit was going to be anywhere from slim to damn near impossible. As he slid out of the control cradle of the coil-gun, Six looked down at his fallen comrade.
Six kneeled down beside his fallen comrade and six placed his hand on the dead spartan shoulder.
Emile died fending off two Elite Zealots when they dropped in to silence the coil-gun. Had Emile survived the encounter he would have stayed to cover the Autumn and Six would have been aboard it.
Behind his visor Noble-Six gave a silent prayer for his fallen comrade As he bowed his head to him in respect, hoping Emile's soul would rest in peace. Six hated losing comrades, be they Spartan or other UNSC military personnel. That was the reason why he always preferred to work alone - he didn't have to get attached to anybody, despite not having any real problem working in teams. He was actually only added to Noble team to fill the roster. Now Reach was in ruins...
They were losses he would have to live with. Now it was just him. One of two surviving members of Noble team, the other being Jun who was escorting with Dr. Halsey. Six hoped they got off world.
once six was done paying his respects to Emile, getting back on his feet Six turned his head toward the vast desert that lied ahead of him. Before six left, six saw one of the zealots that killed his squad mate and saw Emile's knife sticking out of its neck. To pay one last respect to Emile Six yank the knife out of its neck and placed it in Emile's hands back to its rightful owner.
Six made sure he had plenty of ammunition - guns locked, loaded and ready for combat, taking weapons and ammo from fallen nearby UNSC's soldiers and some nearby weapon crates.
Taking whatever he needed to survive, taking one last look at Emile,"Rest In Peace Bother," Six slowly walked away into the vast desert.
Hours later...
SPARTAN-B312 was among the few surviving UNSC forces left fighting the Covenant on the ground, resisting the inevitable, Stranded on the occupied glassed planet.
Six managed to escaped the Azod ship-breaking yards on foot, and moved toward nearby hill country.
Noble six stood on a platform watching covenant forces moving into the hills, completely surrounded by the enemy. Noble six knowing there was nowhere to escape to, excepts his fate and was fully prepared to die, before he went he was going to take as many of these alien bastards with him as possible before he went.
Six took his rifle, as he saw an incoming patrol heading his way. He aimed and fired.
For hours Six held off an entire army of Covenant single-handedly taking on wave upon wave of enemies, including Wraith tanks and air support. Using everything he could get his hands on to fight the invading aliens - UNSC and Covenant weapons, a knife and his bare hands.
The Covenant as predicted were relentless and after countless hours of constant battle the exhausted Spartan was eventually injured by plasma fire. During the battle his helmet took damage, forcing him to take it off to clear his vision. A stone-throw away the battle mirrored on the cracked visor.
After triumphantly taking on multiple Ultra and Zealot-class Sangheili in hand-to-hand combat, the Spartan was finally overwhelmed, disarmed and forced to the ground. Badly wounded, Six still tried to put up a fight among the pile of slain enemies around him.
They physically pinned him down. Above him stood a high-ranking Sangheili, with it's energy sword ready to deliver the final blow.
However something happened...
Bang!
The Elites head popped like a balloon when a high-power round struck. It fell to the ground dead.
The other Elites were in a state of shock for a moment, trying to find where that sniper round came from as several more shots were fired, killing several of them. They never got a chance to act if they did spot the shooter, for more shots cracked the air and shattered bone.
Six took a moment to process as the last Elite fell. He had thought he finished, however it looked like he had been saved at the last moment.
As he picked himself up off the ground and scanned the area with bare eyes, he saw a Spartan II commando clad in the classic green mark five armor with a golden visor and cradling a sniper rifle in his arms. Six saw the number 047 in white on the chest plate.
The Spartan II turned his head to look down at Six on the ground. The sniper quickly offered a first-aid kit and stood guard as Six administered the contained stimulant through his armor and bio-foam to his wounds. Six could feel the drug take affect in seconds as the pain began to fade.
"Looks clear!" The Spartan II advised and extended his hand to help Six get back up on his feet. "Lets move before more show up!" Number 047 shouted.
"Yes, Sir!" Six took his hand and the Spartan II helped him back on his feet.
"Follow me, I know a safe place where we can hide!." 047 informed the Spartan III.
Six nodded "Affirmative!"
With that said number 47 started to lead the way, Six quickly retrieved his damage helmet and followed spartan 047 to refuge.
Time was against them. Reach had all but fallen and being exposed to radiation from the plasma beams would kill them if the Covenant didn't find them first.
"We're not far from a safe house. It's right at the bottom of the mountain." 047 advised, and gestured to the mountain in front of them.
"Good. The sooner we're out of the open, the better our chances of survival." Six nodded
"You can say that again." Spoke a unknown female voice through Six's Spartan Neural Interface. He didn't respond, his mind was full of other thoughts at that moment: like staying alive. Once they were in a safe place he would have the opportunity to question the unknown female voice.
However as they were making their way to the safe house, what none of the two Spartans knew was that a Jackal scout watched them from a nearby cliff. The keen-eyed Kig-Yar stayed out of range from their motion trackers so none of them pick him up. It took the opportunity to follow the Spartans, hopeful they would lead the him to more Human resistance.
Six followed his rescuer to the base of the mountain. After a couple minutes of running from cover to cover and avoiding drop ships they finally made it to the base of the mountain. A few yards away Six saw they were coming up on an abandoned house right at the foot of the mountain. The house was a two-story hand-craft structure rather than pre-fabricated, and looked more than a little run-down if once noticed the rusted metal-work and cracked plaster.
"That's our safe house straight ahead." Spartan 047 told Six.
Six gave a quick nod of acknowledgement. Anyone would think this would be the worst place to shelter during planetary-wide plasma bombardment from the Covenant. However, Six knew buildings like this could be a front for secret bunkers and underground bases for ONI operations.
Both Spartans entered the house with 047 leading him down into the basement. Six got a good look at the surroundings in the basement. It didn't look all that different from a normal basement you will see in a house or any kind of apartment complex - very cheep, old furniture here and there - however what caught his attention is this huge 6 foot rectangle mirror in the middle of the room.
Spartan 047 approached the huge mirror and stared in front of it and he said something that sounded like a code "9142010" (Halo Reach's release date), the mirror then started to slide away revealing what looked to be an elevator door. The doors opened up and 047 walked inside with Six right behind him. Once inside 047 triggered the door-close and soon Six could feel the elevator moving down.
After riding down the elevator for several minutes, Six felt the elevator come to a stop. The doors slid open and 047 walked through. Six followed as the lights turned on to reveal they were in some kind of laboratory with a ring in the center of the room. Six walked up to the ring and as he was in the middle of the room he turned to the Spartan II and asked simple "What the hell is this?"
047 turned to six and said "Because you used to work with ONI, I assume you know what was beneath Sword Base correct?"
Six nodded and asked how he knew about that, when he heard 047's AI companion through the comms in his helmet "That would be because of me. Before 047 saved you he was trying to find a way off-world, but instead of finding the Pillar of Autumn we found you. I hacked into ONI's database and pulled up your file." 047 then looked back at the ring.
Six looked at the ring as well as 047 continued "When ONI was studying the ruins underneath Sword Base we discovered a map within - or at least what we thought was a map - that showed several locations on this planet, and even some locations off-world." 047 looked back at the lone wolf and added "One of the locations on was here, and when the spooks of Naval Intelligence decided to investigate the site they found this thing."
Six continued looking at it. "So what is it?"
047 sighed. "Unfortunately before they could do an research, your team discovered Covenant forces had secretly landed on Reach so most of our resources were dedicated to defending the planet." 047 walked up to six and said "And from where I see it we were just delaying the inevitable." Six wanted to ask how he knew about this place, until he remembered the AI 047 had with him. With the way things were it wasn't as if ONI was monitoring for any form of hacking into their systems as anything deemed important should have already destroyed.
Six figured since the UNSC had no idea what this thing was and it was deemed to be a much lower priority compared to the security of Earth. Six moved toward a wall and leaned against it "Since you have a handle on the situation, what's next?"
047 took a seat and fixed him with a blank stare. "We'll wait out the glassing of Reach. Once those alien bastards are done burning the planet we will go in search of any other survivors to re-group."
Six nodded at 047 and added "After the glassing there might still be some Covenant on the planet."
"We might be able to steal one of their landing-craft and use it to sneak aboard a enemy ship."
"We might be able to hijack a smaller ship and travel out of the system and warn Earth of what happened here." Six nodded as he moved up to 047 and said "We're going to get of this rock together along with anyone else still on the surface."
047 shook Six's hand. Behind his cracked visor the lone-wolf smiled a little now that at least they had a basic plan.
Unknown to them the same time the Jackal tailing them saw the building they went into and reported back to his squad
"Are you sure about this, Kig-Yar? Are you absolutely sure you saw two of the demons traveling to this structure?"
The Jackal nodded and said "Kig-Yar tells truth. Saw two Humans traveling to a building, hoping to survive the glassing of the world."
The Elite then heard from another of his Sanghelli that the Supreme Commander has ordered their forces back into orbit to chase a fleeing Human ship. The right thing would've been to obey the orders of the Supreme Commander however the Kig-Yar's report made the leading Elite second guess - if there were two demons in the building, by all means they should destroy them before leaving this world. He made his decision.
"If there are two demons inside by our gods we'll make sure they never leave this planet alive!" The Elite General roared, activating his energy sword and ordering his warriors to follow him as they entered the house.
The Covenant searched the house thoroughly - every floor and room, turning over furniture tearing down walls in their hunt for the two demons. Only minutes later they made their way into the basement.
Searching the basement they found nothing. "There seems to be no trace of the demons here. Maybe they moved to another location." Said an Elite Major since they haven't found the demons.
"Keep looking. There's something here we're not seeing." The golden armored Elite insisted, not convinced that the demons have left the structure. The Kig-Yar had been watching the house ever since the demons entered it. It said he never saw the demons leave.
"Yes, General." The Elite Major conceeded, continuing his search with the rest.
The golden-armored Elite stood in the middle of the basement wondering where the demons had gone. His subordinates had searched every part of this structure and found nothing. The General watched his brothers searching the basement , realizing there was something 'more' that they were just not seeing. Out of the corner of his eye the General saw this huge mirror in the middle of the wall. The Elite scowled at the mirror as his suspicions mounted. There was just something about it that seemed out of place.
Spartan 047 lead Six to an armory on the far side of the lab. At two thick metal doors 047 typed in a code and they automatically opened up to reveal large stock piles of weapons and ammunition and even Spartan armour-modules along with Mjolnir repair kits. Six grabbed a new Mark V[B] helmet visor and swapped out the damaged one. The golden finish he could live with until returning to the UNSC. After checking the seal Six had 047's AI partner run diagnostics to ensure his HUD.
Following the lead of 047, he started stocking up on weapons and ammunition. Noble-Six put fresh magazines into his assault rifle, pistol, and grabbed a couple of grenades. Six then grabbed a shotgun and topped-off its capacity. After he stuffed as many magazines on his person as he could Six attached to his armor the only active-camouflage module, figuring it would be the most useful. Not to say the other ones weren't useful, but this one better served his skills and the situation.
047 had stocked up on ammo for his sniper rifle, assault rifle and pistol. He also grabbed grenades aplenty and even a C 12 charge just in case.
The Spartans were fully locked and loaded, ready for another round with the Covenant. So now the only thing they could do was wait until the Covenant were done glassing the surface of Reach, head topside out of the bunker and hopefully find other survivors, and steal a covenant ship to get off Reach.
The alarms started going off "Intruder Alert, Intruder Alert!" Repeated automatic female voice of the alarm system.
"What the hell!? Six complained, a tight grip on his assault rifle..
" Don't ask me!" 047 snapped back. He went towards a computer and had the AI check what was going on. "How many?"
As the AI checked every camera in the building she answered with "I count one, two, three...5 Covenant Elite squads (30 Elites), along with 3 Jackal squads (24 Jackals), and 10 grunts."
047 looked at the screens of the computer terminal "How did they find us?"
Six walked towards his ally and grunted. "We must have been followed. If I had to guess, a Jackal scout spotted us at some point and actually used its brain. I can only assume they're here for the artifact or for us. Either way is not good"
"Lucky us." 047 growled.
Six then called on the AI and asked "What kind of defenses does this place have?" The AI returned as a hologram looking like a warrior goddess brought to life in digital form.
Six studied the AI in front of him taking in every detail, he saw the image of a young beautiful woman with red hair and vivid green eyes, wearing a white ancient greek shirt and skirt glowing with a bright white glow, she wore armor made out of gold, wearing a decorated gold armor plates, a decorated golden Helmet and a french braid ponytail.
"I'm looking through the systems of this place and the only thing I see are some automated M247H machine guns."
Six asked "How many...?"
The AI looked at Six while going over the data "My name is Athena, sir, and to answer your question I'm counting 7. Why?"
Six smiled under his helmet and turned to 047 and asked "Do we have any flashbangs?"
047 nodded, getting an idea of Six's plan.
The Covenant forces found the hidden elevator to the basement and used plasma grenades to blow them open. They then began to descend into the depths below. When they reached the bottom two Elite Minors opened the elevator door to a basement room swallowed by near-complete darkness. The gold-clad leader of the group walked through the doorway and asked "Well, anything?"
The Elite on his left said "No sir, we can't seem to see any trace of the demons down here. There's..."
The Golden Elite turned towards where his warrior was staring at and saw something divine.
It was some ancient metal circle in the middle of the room that seemed to resemble the Sacred Rings of their faith but that wasn't the only thing about this artifact that drew their attention. Within the center of the ring was a reflective liquid like surface rippling calmly, like a gentle pond. the liquid appeared to be some form of plasma mixed with with metal.
"I can't believe it... instead of demons we find one of the sacred artifacts of our gods." The Sanghelli smiled as best a Elite can do and turned toward his men and said "This is a glorious day brothers; not only have we eradicated the human heretics, but we have also found a divine Forerunner relic. Truly to day is a joyous day for all of us who walk the path of the Great Journey."
The soldiers cheered joyfully for the recovery of another sacred artifact of their gods, liberating it from the hands of the filthy humans before they could desecrated further.
As they were cheering, Six in his hiding spot pulled out the flash bangs. He looked over to Spartan 047 in his hiding spot to see if he was ready. At 047's nod Six replied in kind. He pulled the pins out and tossed the grenades into the open. The cheering of the covenant warriors got interrupted when the flash bangs landed right in front of the group.
"What in the name of…"
The golden elite didn't finish, for the flash bangs went off blinding him and his Warriors They all screamed from the blinding light painfully hurting their eyes.
Six and 047 emerged from their hiding spaces with their assault rifles ready and opened fire on the Covenant troops. Both Spartans were able to kill rapidly - 8 Grunts, 14 Jackals and 6 Elites. As the effects of the Flashbangs began to wear off the Golden Elite was enraged at the trickery of the demons and pulled out an energy sword.
"Noble warriors of the Covenant! Drive these demons back to Hell where they and their heretical race belong!"
The remaining warriors were able to rally and began opening fire on the two Spartans.
Six and 047 returned to cover.
"Looks like we got their attention." Six murmured over the comm-link. "Time for phase two of the plan."
047 nodded and brought up the AI Athena. "Okay Athena you know what to do."
Athena's thumbnail on their HUDs smiled as she replied. "Already on it." and she snapped her fingers.
As the Elites were firing on the Spartans and ordered the last of the Jackals and Grunts into position, suddenly all 7 machine gun turrets were deployed either out of the ground or the ceiling.
"Oh carp! Run awa….!" A grunt tried to say take cover only for him not to finish his sentence as he was mowed down by machine gun fire. Like him the rest of his fellow Grunts were mowed down by the hail of bullets. As their bodies got ripped apart with alien blood, guts and limbs littered the turrets field of view, some Jackals were able to take cover behind some steel crates that protect them from the bullets. One of the Elites armed a plasma grenade, popped out of cover and threw it at one of the turrets only for one of the machines guns to gun him down right before his plasma grenade stuck.
"Damn it! They got one of the Turrets!" Athena exclaimed. "It's only a matter of time before the Covenant break our defenses."
"If they break through the automatic turrets, I have this as a last resort." Spartan 047 said referring to the C 12 charge attached to his armor.
"If you use it you blow us all up!" Athena exclaimed.
"I know, however I can't let the Covenant get their hands on the relic." 047 replied. "Who knows what they'll do with it."
Athena signed in understanding realizing her partner was right. She didn't want to begin to imagine with the object almost entirely unknown to man-kind.
Six looked over the battleground littered with bullet holes, corpses and bullet shells. The Spartan III saw that the plan was working, the Grunts were killed and the last of the Jackals held up their shields to protect themselves as they moved back. Unfortunately for them even the energy shields began to struggle with the sustained fire of the machine gun turrets and the shields eventually popped, so the Jackals too were cut down.
The golden armored Elite looked at what was left of his warriors - only 10 Elites left. The leader then told his warriors to use their active-camo to try and take out the turrets. Thankfully 4 of his Elites were armed with the Type-52 Plasma Launchers. Those 4 Elites used their camo and went to work unharried as the last 6 Elites used their Plasma rifles to draw both the turrets and the attention of the Spartans on them.
Six and 047 returned fire at the few remaining Covenant forces. Six was armed with both an assault rife and a shotgun while 047 still had both his assault and sniper rifles. Just then they heard another explosion as another turret was destroyed.
047 brought up Athena. "Status report?"
Athena appeared on their HUDs once more. "It seems the Elites have not just active camo but were also armed with Plasma Launchers. I can't see the Elites taking out our turrets." Just then they heard two more explosions taking the Machine Guns from 5 to three left. "Of the ten Elites left their are only six that are visible on the monitors." Athena finished.
Six then told 047 to use his Sniper Rifle to provide cover as Six put away his assault rife to use his shotgun, then proceeded to activate his own active-camo.
"Athena, turn on all the lights." Six asked as he made it to the middle of the killing field.
"Why would..." Athena didn't finish her thought, as she realised what Six's idea was.
Six saw one blast from a plasma launcher take out another turret so the lone wolf rushed to where it came from and fired his shotgun. The first blast of buckshot knocked down the shields while the second blast obliterated the Elite's head sending brain matter and mandibles everywhere.
As the lights within the facility turned on full, blinding the Elites for several seconds before their eyesight adjusted, 047 through the scope saw three shimmering outlines in the shape of Elites and with rapid precision took out two of the invisible Elites with well placed headshots. Blood splattered onto a third cloaked Elite, and a few moments later the Elite shimmered into existence revealing golden armor. The General's eyes adjusted to the bright lights and noticed the warriors next to him were dead - their heads blown off and his armor covered in their blood. At the same time he noticed he was uncloaked and right across from him he saw one of the demons in green armor aim it's sniper rifle right him. Time stood stood still for the elite quickly thinking how to dodge the incoming bullet. Around him he didn't see any nearby cover to quickly ducked behind, thinking that this was his last moments and soon he was about to join his brothers in the great journey, right before plasma fire suppress the Spartan making him take cover.
Some of the gold elite warriors recovered from the bright lights and quickly put suppressing fire on 047 before he could fire.
Six who was still cloaked took out a frag grenade and tossed it over to some Elites using a computer console as cover. One of the Elites tossed a Plasma grenade toward one of the remaining turrets and got back into cover quickly as he felt a sniper round graze his helmet. But when he looked down he saw the grenade that six threw. Though he began to call out the danger the Elite couldn't finish the thought as the grenade exploded, killing him and breaking the shields of the two with him. Six then moved on them and just as his active-camo dissipated he shot the two Elites in the chest at close range with his shotgun, killing them before they could respond.
Six then felt something tackle him from behind and saw a blue-clad Elite with an energy sword growling at the Spartan in rage of the loss of his comrades. Six dodged the stab of the sword and used the butt of his shotgun to hit the Elite in the gut as hard as he could, hoping he knocked the wind out of his lungs. As Six began to stand from his crouch and used the shotgun for a second melee hit to the Elite's head which brought down the shields and broke the mandibles on the left side. As the Elite screamed in rage and tried to slash at the Spartan to take his head, Six dodged the attack again circled around the Elite, and before the alien could turn to bisect him Six fired his shotgun in the torso. The Elite was blasted to the ground, dead.
The golden armored Elite took shelter behind a bank of consols with the last of his subordinates - 4 elites left including himself. One of the Elites was able to pick up the plasma launcher from his fallen comrade and shot a blast at the last turret, destroyed it and then aimed the launcher at 047 and fired several projectiles. The blast destroyed the cover the Spartan was using and so 047 sprinted towards some more cover at incredible speed as he dodged the plasma rounds. Some of them hit several computer terminals causing a surge of power as red flashing lights began to turn on with a machine voice crying out warnings over and over again. Six looked towards 047 as he too ran towards cover and saw that the destruction the Elites caused on the machinery in the basement was starting to have an affect on the relic - as the calm living metal like substance began to bubble up like water in a pot over a stove. The General also saw this and with his energy sword decapitated the Elite with the Plasma Launcher.
"Careful, you fools! While the deaths of the demons are important do not cause even more harm to the holy relic!"
The last three Elites knew that they had the upper-hand as the machine gun turrets were destroyed, so they began to move from cover in a hunt for the Spartans.
047 moved from cover with his assault rifle the same time as Six and attacked the remaining Elites. One of the Elites moved to 047 and fired his plasma rifle at the human who was dodging the plasma fire and his shields blocked most of them. Once he was within range the Elite pulled out his Energy Sword and made a swipe at the Spartan who jumped over the attack in a front flip and aimed his assault rifle at the Elites head knocking out his shields. As 047 landed behind the Elite he used his left leg to sweep the Elite's legs out from under him and as the Sanghelli warrior fell to the ground 047 put his right foot on the chest of the Elite and open fire at his head killing him. Six also rushed at an Elite as fast as he could as Plasma splashed across his shields. When he was close instead of shooting Six tackled the Elite using his super strength to lift the Elite of the ground and kept on sprinting. The Elite hit the Spartan on the back and back of the head multiple times with its fists, in anger even knocked the demon's shields out, but before he could strike again the Elite crashed into a wall hard. Air exploded from the Elite as well as a nasty sound of snapping bone, and the beast fell limp.
Six then thrusted the shotgun into the Elite's neck as he was falling to the ground and opened fire killing it. As Six turned around he saw the Elite General almost upon on him performing a horizontal slash. Six acting quickly used his Shotgun to slow the attack though his weapon was cut in two. The gold-clad Elite then tried to impale Six on his sword. Six rolled out of the way and brought up his Assault Rife, only for the alien to grab Six by the throat and toss him a couple feet towards the ring-globe relic. The Golden Elite then charged at the downed Spartan, but he was soon under fire from 047. Enraged he tossed a plasma grenade at the Spartan which stuck to 047's Assault rifle. The Spartan tossed the weapon toward the Elite and took out his sniper rifle and charged. The golden Elite rolled out of the way as the assault rifle with the grenade exploded in a flare of plasma. When he got to his feet the Elite saw the Spartan charge him firing several shots with his sniper rifle. The golden Elite dodge as best he could as he moved towards 047 but one of the rounds struck him in the left shoulder piercing through.
047 smiled and went to fire again only to hear the click of his rifle telling him it was out of ammo. The Golden Elite continued his charge and 047 decided to use the rifle as a club to try and beat the Elite to death, but the Energy sword cut through the rifle like a hot knife through butter. 047 thrust with the severed barrel to try and disarm the beast, but the Elite brought up his leg and delivered a good kick to the stomach and knocked 047 to the ground. Before 047 could get back up the golden Elite stabbed the Spartan in the chest with his Energy blade. As 047 coughed up blood in his helmet both parties heard a loud war cry as Six came up and bashed the Elite in the face getting it to withdraw his blade from 047 chest and turn to his next opponent and try to decapitate him. Six ducked and rolled under the strike towards one of the dead Elites and took that Elite's Energy sword and started at the Elite. The Golden Elite looked around, all his men were dead and one demon was dying behind him while the other was in front of him wielding a Energy sword.
The Elite smiled and said as best he could in the human's tongue "You have fought well humans. You killed my men and killed many of us while we destroyed your world. Its almost a shame that the Prophets ordered your kinds extinction, perhaps if things were different your kind would have been allowed to join our Covenant and you would make a strong ally along side the Sanghelli and other." the smile faded and the Elite said "Sadly it was not meant to be. All I can do now is give you a warrior's death and hope the gods allow you to join with the rest of your kind in the great beyond."
Six looked at the Elite and said "If you want my life you're going to have to take it, and trust me when I say I will make it difficult for you."
The Elite smiled and roared "As it should be! Come, demon, let this final battle between us begin! Hold nothing back and die well!"
Both combatants charged into sword range.
The two combatants locked blades with each other and plasma arcs jumped off the blades like a miniature lightning storm. Breaking the lock the Elite pressed the attack with multiple attacks that Six blocked and soon the Spartan jumped back from his enemy to have more room to move. The Elite smiled and charged again the two trading blow after blow, the Elite tried to stab the Spartan only for Six to block the attack with his Energy Sword and he rushed forward to slice into the Elite's Chest. The Elite saw this and jumped back and the combatants stared at each other as the Elite felt pain in his chest. He checked the wound he found that his armor was cut through bleeding, but it wasn't significant. The golden armored Elite looked at the Spartan and smiled before charging again.
While those two were having their sword fight 047 moved towards the ring-globe relic in the middle of the basement and took out his C-12 and attached it to the ring just incase.
Six blocked and dodged the Elite's attacks and as they continued their duel. The Elite tried stabbing the Spartan again only for Six to move to parry it. Six was surprised when stab proved to be a feint and instead turned into a diagonal downward slash. Six dodged the strike, but the Elite closed the distance and succeeded in cutting off some of the Spartan's shoulder armor. Six tried to stab the Elite in the neck, but the gold-clad Elite dodged the attack and headbutted the Spartan, dizzying Six for a second before the Elite grabbed Six's sword arm and tossed him towards a wall with all the strength he could muster. Six hit the wall and slid down, but he wasn't allowed to rest as the Elite charge at him with a war cry. Six rolled out of the way of the Elites kick and stopped in a crouching position on the Elites left. The golden Elite turned to decapitate the Spartan only for the kneeling six to block the arc of the Elite's blade and counter with an upward slash while standing up giving the attack more speed and was able to cut off two right mandibles as well as scoring across its right eye. The alien screamed in pain and began to wildly slash at the Spartan who dodged some attacks and quickly backed up. The Elite calmed down and charged again only for Six to move back as he blocked and deflected the Elites blows with his Energy Sword. Six then pulled out his combat knife and when he Caught the Elite's blade with his own tried to stab the Elite in the neck with his combat knife.
But Six wasn't fast enough as the golden Elite raised his bad arm and was stabbed through the hand instead, all the way to the hilt. The Elite then grabbed Six's knife wielding hand with his impaled fist and brought the Spartan towards him as he side stepped and kneed Six in the stomach, which knocked the air from his lungs and he fell towards the ground. The Elite stomped on the demon's back multiple times before kicking Six in the ribs and sending the Spartan skidding across the floor. Six coughed a bit of blood up but was able to quickly stand back up. While he was down the Elite pulled the combat knife from his mangled hand and threw it at Six as the Elite charged. Six brought his free arm up to block the knife and felt the blade sink into his arm. He bit back a yelp of pain and charged the Elite as well. The Elite tried an overhead strike while Six went for a low horizontal slash towards the gut. The Elite was able to sidestep the attack as he felt the Energy Sword burn his skin. The two combatants and the backs against each other and quickly turned to face each other each aiming to impale the other on their swords.
The moved so fast that to 047 it look almost instantaneous as the dying Spartan heard the sound of a plasma blade sinking into flesh and saw the two of the combatants suddenly stand still. Both Six and the Elite were so close to each other it look like they were trying to hug each other. The Elite looked down at Six and grinned with his remaining mandibles as part of his Energy blade stabbed Six in the gut right under the left ribcage, only for the Elite to cough up purple blood as he looked at Six's sword and saw it was dug all the way to the hilt into the center of his torso. Six backed away from the Elite as the enemy's Energy Sword slid out of his wound he brought his free hand up to put pressure on his wound. The Elite looked at Six with what the Spartan could only assume was rage and yet the Elite looked at his enemy with something else in his glazing eye. Six realized that the Elite was looking at him with respect from one warrior to another, the Elite coughed up more purple blood as his body fell to the ground lifeless.
Six felt his suit add the bio-foam to his wound to seal up the wounds as he made his way towards 047 and knelt beside his comrade.
047 looked up and asked "You think that's the last of them?"
Six heard for another sound either in the room or above them and heard nothing. "Yeah I think we're alone here."
Just then the relic changed shape. The liquid material in the center of the ring burst forth like an active volcano before settling down and what both Spartans saw shocked them. In the center of the ring was one of the last planets the UNSC had left - their home, Earth.
Six stared and asked "What the hell is going on?"
Athena then appeared on a console next to them and explained "While I was helping out with the defense I read some of the files that were made regarding this ring. They believed that this thing acted like a teleporter or a portal as a way to travel to other locations, but they were never able to test out their theory thanks to the invasion."
047 began coughing again as Six put a hand on his shoulder and said "Don't worry you're going to make it."
047 shook his head and said "You and I both know that is not going to happen. I want you to listen to me Six." 047 took a breath before continuing "We've lost Reach there is no denying that. UNSC command needs to know what happened here you have to get back to Earth."
Six looked at the portal and said "Alright but we're going together."
047 shook his head "That split lipped bastard severed my lower spine with that sword, I can't feel my legs. The Armory has patches for your suit so that the pressure seal is fixed. Take whatever weapons you have and go." 047 then looked at Athena and said "Be sure to take her with you, Athena has some very valuable intel that can't be lost here."
Six nodded and stood up and went to the Armory.
Six took some more ammo for his assault rifle and took another shotgun with him still hold the Energy Sword his suit said it had 69% of power left. "Good Enough" Six said to himself as he deactivated the sword and put it on his hip. After taking some more frag grenades and some plasma grenades from the fallen Covenant soldiers, Six walked up to the console Athena was in and ejected the data crystal chip that housed the smart AI and injected it into the back of his helmet. Almost immediately Six got the feeling Athena integrated.
Six then moved back to 047 once everything was complete and was about to pick the Spartan up when 047 waved him off.
"No I'm staying. Someone has to deny enemy access to this thing, and I have the detonator."
Six wanted to argue but he knew 047 wouldn't change his mind so Six moved to one of the Elite corpses and picked up a plasma rifle and moved back to the downed Spartan "Take it, the rifle has a charge of 82% so it should last."
047 took the rifle and looked at Noble Six and said "Alright. Go now. I bet that there are more hostiles coming towards us. Probably checking to see what happened." Six nodded and before running into the portal 047 looked at Six and said "It was an honor fight by your side."
Six looked at 047 and said "The honor was mine, 047"
047 then said "Keiichi...my name is Keiichi 047."
Six nodded and said "I won't forget you Keiichi." and ran towards the portal jumping into it.
At that moment 047 saw more Covenant coming through the door. Keiichi smiled and brought the Plasma Rifle up and began to fire at the enemy while at the same time in his left hand he pressed the detonator. Keiichi took several hits from a Needler as he closed his eyes and as Keiichi felt the explosion on his chest from the Needler shards he also felt his body become a washed with heat and shrapnel as the C-12 on the ring behind him exploded and started caving in the entire basement crushing all of them under the weight. With this final act of defiance Keiichi 047 completed his mission, scuttled the portal-relic and found an nice grave to lie in all in one move.
Notes:
Also I like to give a big thanks and full credit to The Son of Sparda 343 he helped me with this chapter and he gets full credit for the battle scene between the Spartans and the covenant since I had a rough time trying to create this fire fight and all of that is in his writing, the writing in the chapter is a mix between his and mine.
Six will not be replacing Minato,he will still have matsu, kuruse, musubi and kusano. while six since this is a sekirei story there will be a harem ,his will be kind of a combination of sekireis from minato, Higa and Mikogami and a few others.
I'm thinking about giving six about 8 or 10 sekireis and I am looking towards: #3. kazehana, #4. Karasuba ,#6. homura (female), #7. akitsu,#9. tsukiumi, #10. uzume #16. toyotama , #62. Kaie, #65. Taki , #87. Kaho.
Also don't worry about chiho I got her covered. So that's all the spoilers for now.
other notes that I should've mentioned when I first published this: The portal six went through if any of you don't know the idea of it came from Stargate SG1, if none of you are not familiar with stargate go check it out it's a really great show!
Athena my OC AI believe it or not is based off of pyrrha from RWBY, my notes : like her name suggests :Athena, in Greek Mythology is the Greek Goddess of War and Wisdom, so yeah. As I mentioned her apperance is of a warrior Goddess . Like Pyrrha, she is kind, but also has a fiery temper, unlike Pyrrha. She's wise, so she knows strategies and tactics, information on history, language, the like. Of course know espionage, like hacking into secure systems and what-not.
Six's armor: I went with the Mark V[B], his default armor at the start of the game. I really didn't do anything special with the armor, I haven't played Reach in years and I don't have an Xbox 360 anymore so I just went with something simple for the armor.
other than that reasons for making the story, I'll be honest after reading some of the other halo/sekirei crossovers like Halo: Of Wolves And Wagtails by dmandog056, Self-Determination by SoTaWoB, Sekirei Legends by SpartanPrime101 and Wings of the Chief by schmida, I kinda wanted to do my own halo crossover with sekirei involving Noble six and his Journey in the Sekirei universe .