Phase 1: Fireteam Omega
Spartan B312 aka Alisa is in her bunk bed within one of the two Infinity Class ships called Eternity where she is station to be having dreams of her daring escape from Reach over 5 years ago.
-Flashback Begins-
Within hours of Noble 6 aka Alisa Seung's mission to give Cortana to Captain Keyes. The last of the doomed Noble Team is en route to a nearby city being deeply under siege by the Covenant trying to safeguard the last citizens trying to escape but all their ships are getting shot down by plasma shots.
Alisa is wielding an M7S-suppressed SMG with a Plasma Pistol on her left leg. Alisa is not feeling good about her odds at this rate. "Shit, I did what I could do. I need to find a ship and head back to Earth. Reach is lost and hopefully, many people got out of here alive," Noble 6 thought as she spotted a Brutes rushing at her with a Spiker in hand.
She fires a ton of armor-pricing rounds to cut into the charging ape alien's body but it doesn't stop him.
Alice does a combat roll to avoid getting her head caved in by the Spiker's blades. the Brute tosses a Plasma grenade to stick onto the ground nearby. The explosion flared up and disabled the shields on her armor.
The Brute kicks her through a window in a nearby building. She crashes a few floors down to fall onto the basement. "Oh gee, that smarts," Alisa said as she took off her helmet for its visor was cracked but still usable.
"Damnit, I need to find a way off this rock and get back to Earth. Warn my superiors," Alisa said as she grabbed her SMG to pump rounds into the head of the Brute to take him out leaving his body lifeless.
"Time to go," she keeps going to an old hanger covered with Drones and Jackals. "Hate these things," she thought, using her helmet zoom to see Jackel Snipers and Drone wielding Plasma Rifles. She sees a parked Longsword there in the middle of the hangar.
"I need to be quick," she drops the magazine to insert a new one on the side of the sun. She leaps onto a ledge to break the neck of a Jackal sniper. She fires a charged shot from her Plasma Pistol to disable a shielded Drone Captain leaving them exposed to a burst of suppressed gunfire and takes it down.
She felt the beam of energy cut at her shielding to disable it leaving her exposed. She rolls away so as not to get hit by another headshot to the skull. She drops her Plasma pistol to the Beam Rifle to snipe at the remaining Jackal snipers to clear out the room.
"Good, get away from these bugs," she thought to take out more flying bugs to get inside the ship to begin preparing to take off. "Going to jump just when I leave the surface," she said as they sped into the sky and into space to see a large fleet of ships blasting down onto the surface. "They are going to pay for this," she said as she entered into slip space to exit the star system to escape her fate to fight another day.
-Flashback Ends-
Alisa gets up from her bunk bed to remember those dreadful days on Reach's doomed days while she tries to escape where she fought until the war was over.
"K Pop, you alight?" Rose asked as the brunette came in with a warm smile.
"Just dreams Rose," Alisa said as Rosenda patted her on the shoulder.
"Just dream huh, still having nightmares about Reach,
"Its get better hopefully," Alisa said as she got onto her feet to spread out her back. "Oh I needed that," she said only wearing a t-shirt and sweatpants.
"Well, you are in the present now. No need to worry until we see actions," Rose said as she was wearing a tank top and shorts.
"Man, I need a shower. Let's hit the showers and clean up before going to the mess hall," Alisa said.
"Yeah, I need to fresh up before getting stuffed in the face," Rose said as the two headed off with the screens talking about the various new feeds about the alliances between Humanity and the Swords of Sanghelios are going well fighting together to defeat the Storm, Banished and Promethean factions.
"What a trip, all these bad guys all over the galaxy. Like shooting fish in a barrel," Alisa said as they went into the shower room to begin stripping out of their nightwear to be in their underwear to look in the mirror nearby.
Alisa is a 6'9 tall Korean/Russian 27-year-old female Spartan 3 showing off her pale skin covered in various scars on her cheek, stomach, and thighs. She has short blond hair and striking blue eyes. She has a strong yet well-rounded frame fitted to her sports bra and blue panties.
"Looking good there, I bet you can bag someone," Rose teased him.
"Quit it, my scars are not attractive," Alisa said as Rosada giggled at this
Rosenda is a 6'8 white 28-year-old female Spartan 3 showing peach-colored skin. She has short brown hair and bold green eyes along with freckles on her face. She has a lean slender figure fitted by a white sports bra and grey boy shorts.
"Come on, guys like women with scars. It's pretty badass," Rose said as they took off their underwear to let the water hit their bodies feeling refreshed.
"Well Cortez was staring at me sometimes," Alisa said.
"Gee I wonder why, you bending over shows off the full moon early," Rose teased.
"Quit it," Alisa feels her cheeks heating up with Rosenda only playing with her. Breaking her stoic mood making her adorable despite being a killing machine.
"So much fun to tease you," Rose said as Alisa sighs at this. She puts soap into her hair to rinse it out.
"Any who, you heard from Jun lately?" Alisa asked.
"Oh yeah, we meet on planet Veil. He has been busy training the next-generation Spartan 4s. Leaving us old dogs behind," Rose said lightly.
"We got experiences on our side and the scars to prove it," Alisa said as she glided her hands along her long shapely body feeling her scars.
"Indeed," Rose can see a burn mark on her left butt cheeks. She pokes her on the butt to make her jump. "So soft yet firm," she teased.
"You don't let up do you?" Alisa said as she felt lightness from Rose rubbing her trying to hold back a pout.
"No, come on. Let's get something to eat," she said as they finished cleaning up to put on a new pair of underwear to slip on their undersuit feeling like a second skin. The two friends handed off into the mess hall to see all the soldiers relaxing and chatting among themselves.
"Yo guys, over here," Olympia calls them over to the table to see who is in her under-armor suit as well.
"What's up Olympia," Rose said as they joined their friend and teammate.
Olympia is a 6'4 tall White 21-year-old female Spartan 4 showing light-colored skin. She has short brown hair and cool brown eyes. She has a long lean figure fitted by an under-armor suit.
"They got chicken and waffles in the vendor machines," Olympia said.
"That is a treat right there," Rosenda said as she went off to grab her food.
"What are you looking at?" Alisa questioned.
"I am looking at the news report about the Prophets disappearing into the ether while the swords are trying to hunt and wipe them out," Olympia said.
"Oh yeah, they disappeared after High Charity got destroyed by the Flood. Hiding in the shadows like cowards," Alisa said.
"Do you hunt in the shadows, what does that make you one too?" Olympia asked.
"It's different," Alisa said as Rose came back with bottles of green tea, chicken and waffles, and butter biscuits.
"So good, warm right out of the microwave," she said.
"Oh they got pizza sticks, I like those," Alisa said as she went off to grab her food.
"What's up Rose?" a tall, big guy said along with a tall lean man beside him.
"Oh hey there Cortez and Yuri, got a good rest," Rose said as the two men joined them at the team.
Cortez is a 7'2 tall Purtro Rican 29-year-old male Spartan 4 having a tan skin tone. He is a bald man and red cybernetic eyes. He has a well-built frame clad in the undersuit.
"Like a baby," Cortez said.
"Yeah I had to cover my ears with your snoozes," Yuri said as Cortez had a goofy smile.
Yuri is a 7'0 tall Russian 29-year-old male Spartan 4 having a light skin tone. He is a bald man and red cybernetic eyes. He has a lean frame clad in the under suit.
"Come on, I was worn out mentally. I needed to catch some sleep," Cortez said.
"Sure, you did almost get killed by a tank turret by some rebel assholes," Yuri said.
"That was so lucky," Cortez said as they got their food to enjoy it. Their hyperkiller gal has come back to the table with her tray filled with food for her to consume.
"Doing okay, Rosa mentioned about you still having nightmares," Cortez looking concerned at her wellbeing.
"I am fine Cortez but thanks for the concern," he said.
"Hey, you are badass but you are not Supergirl. You are not alone within this team, we all got your back," Cortez said to place his hand on her thigh to gently rub it trying to comfort her.
"Thanks, I appreciate it. Always been a sweetheart," Alisa said returning this by placing her hand on top of his own. Ever since she joined Fireteam Omega Rosa and Cortez had been so nice to her. The two are her best friends with Rosa being like a big sister and Cortez being a loyal partner to her and maybe something more.
"With a pretty lady like you, it's hard not wanting to see you smile," Cortez flirted as Alisa felt sheepish about his sweet words.
"Yeah right, my smile huh?" she asked dismissing her smile being pretty as the others looked with Rose cheering this on with Vale and Yuri looking on with silent nods.
"Come on, you have a genuine smile. Makes me feel warm inside," Cortez said.
"Oh, how cute," Rose teases him.
"Shut it," Alisa said holding back a blush from the others laughing at the duo's embarrassment. The two laugh along with their time.
"Anyway, you heard from Seala yet?" Cortez asked as Alisa got close to a female Elite soldier who was part of her own Elte's team from the Swords.
"Not yet, she talked about hunting down the Prophets," Alisa said.
"So we got ourselves a mission. We are going to attack an abandoned town on a nearby planet containing rebels from the United Rebel Front or URF. We need to clear them out," Rosenda said.
"Those fuckers are backed by the Banished with weapons and gear. Just to screw with us," Yuri said.
"Yep Innies got what coming to them," Alisa said as they finished their meals to get to the armor bay to put on their suits on the armor stations.
"Time to suit up," Cortez said as the five got into their armors swiftly to be enclosed in their Gen2 suits. Alisa's dark blue Mark V/B Gen2 is heavily based on the original suit she wore on Reach and after during the Human-Covenant War.
Rose got a green and yellow Mark V/2 GEN2 suit as well, Olympia got herself a red Copperhead GEN2 suit, Cortez is wearing a black Helljumper GEN2 suit which brings him back to his ODST times in the past war and Yuri is in his white Recon GEN2 suit fitting his sniper role.
All five have powerful Over Shield built into their systems to give them three times the shield strength to fit their full assault role. They go into the hanger of Eternity to see they arrived at the planet of Mira with lots of rebel activity taking place.
"Okay Spartans, we got word of an abandoned town in the mountains filled with rebels. I need you to wipe them out and find intel on their activities within the planet," the captain said.
"Yes sir," all five said in unison with them wielding their weapons. Alisa has an Assault Carbine and a Bulldog shotgun.
"Time to crack some skulls," Cortez said to wield a Battle Rifle and a Sidekick.
"I will be covering you from the hills," Yuri said to check the scope of his SRS99-S5 AM Sniper Rifle along with an M6G magnum pistol.
"This is going to be simple. I hope," Rosenda said wielding a SAW LMG along with a M45E shotgun.
"I hope I can see some nice flora here," Olympia said using a M20 SMG with an M319 Grenade Launcher. The Pelican is going to touch down into the mountains to see the lonely town within the forests.
"Touching down, good luck," the pilot said to leave them at the landing zone. Making sure not to get hit with rockets with the five Spartans going ahead to the town. Yuri spread out to get onto the hills to hide among the trees and bushes to set up his sniper rifle.
"I am in a position, Preparing to scout," Yuri said on the radio.
"Good, I need a sitrep on this place," Rosenda said as Yuri looked at the rebels who were entrenched within the town.
"Of course," Yuri said as he spotted a pile of corpses on the side. "No civilians, they were all dead," he said with sadness.
"Bastards, always have been," Alisa said as she jumped on top of a building to begin using her Assault carbine to pepper enemies with bullets to tear into their bodies to drop them.
"Fuck, Spartans. Kill these freaks," the commander ordered as the rebels went on the defensive with Yuri popping the heads of the URF turning into red mist.
Rose uses her machine gun to let the explosive rounds blast apart the enemies scattering their bones and flesh all over the grass. Olympia tosses a Flashbang to blind the human targets to fire quick bursts from her SMG to take them down.
Cortez busts through a door to use his knife to crave into the neck of the rebel to toss it into the skull of another rebel to rip off his head. He tosses the severed skull into another rebel to stun him to follows up with his Sidekick to pop her in the head to strike her down.
"Flashbang coming out," Cortez tossed a grenade into a room to blind them to fire his Battle Rifle to score shots in the head. He can see Yuri sniping targets with his rifle to see their heads go missing in bursts of red. "Nice shot," he said as he looked over to see a rebel wielding a Plasma Rifle to pepper his shields draining them.
"Looks like the rebels got Covenant weapons," Yuri said to put the rebel down with a single shot. Cortez switched out his pistol for the Plasma Rifle to keep clearing the buildings.
"Banished, got to be," Alisa said as she heard her gun click empty to replace it with a fresh magazine filled with 54 rounds of 6.5mm to tear into the rebel bustards. She tackles a rebel into a wall to crush his skull on impact reducing it to red mash.
She uses her Bulldog to blast holes into the rebels leaving behind broken bodies in her wake. Olympia lobs flame grenades to burn out groups of rebels to hear the horrible screams while they are burning alive.
She gets hit by a grenade with her shields taking a hit as she returns fire with a well-placed shot from her sub gun and puts her down. Then more rebels are using Forerunner Suppressors peppering her shots weakening them further. "Forerunner weapons as well," Olympia said.
"Banished been spreading these things on the black markets making it easy for these smug bags to get their hands on it," Yuri said to keep sniping targets to see something moving in a big building. "We got trouble," he said on the radio seeing the door explode to see a huge Grizzly tank coming with two-gun cannons on the turret blasting at Yuri's position. The blast knocks him on his rear with his shields knocked out.
"Hey Yuri, you okay buddy?" Cortez asked on the radio.
"Yea. I am a bit winded. I am repositioning," Yuri said as he drew out his magnum pistol to pop the incoming rebels in the head to run to a different place.
"This went tits up. Alisa, are you in position?" Cortez asked on the radio as she was snapping the neck of a rebel.
"Of course, I need to get behind that thing. Blast it to bits," Alisa said as she grabbed onto a M57 PAW to head outside. The rebels are trying to get ahead of the Spartans but they fight back wiping out a group of rebels with explosions and bullets.
She rolls into the open to use her rocket launcher to blast the back of the tank to destroy its engine causing it to explode.
"Good work Alisa," Cortez giving her praise making her heart flutter from his sweet words.
"Thanks, nothing to it," she said as they wiped out the rest of the rebels to clear out the abandoned town.
"Bridge, we managed to clear up the rebels," Rose said on the radio.
"Copy that, good work out there. Burning cities and getting Banished backup. These fuckers deserve this," the ship captain said.
"Damn straight, we will be back shortly," Rose said.
"Hey guys, remember we used to just fight aliens. Now there are like four groups trying to kill us now," Cortez said lightly.
"Yep, it's not so simple anymore," Yuri said as Alisa looked over at the dead rebels to take support from the Banished.
"Age of strange bedfellows," Alisa thought as they got into a Pelican to head back to the Eternity for this five-way warfare across the galaxy is going to be more complex than before.
Elsewhere Didact along with his new allies like powerful Forerunner AIs who are in a custom Armiger commander models ruling over the Didact's new army of Armiger Soldiers, Snipers, and Officers along his vast army of Promethean units.
"The Galaxy is in chaos," Didact said as the Warden Eternity appeared beside the Didact being his second in command of his forces.
"Indeed sir. Multiple factions are trying to regain control of the arm of the galaxy. Such chaos, so bothersome," Warden said.
"In time we will tame this galaxy and regain the Forerunners their proper place in the galaxy as the true rulers of it. All species will submit or die trying. We need to search for the Guardians and activate them to shift the balance of power to us," Didact said as he was within his new Composer along with a large fleet of Forerunner vessels deep in uncharted space allowing him to continue his plans to reshape the galaxy to his image.