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Acts of Courage; Gears and Blaine take on the Fall of Reach. Language Warning! Sequel to Valiance
Topic Started: Feb 14 2011, 07:38 PM (296 Views)
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So, about this story; Gears and Blaine leave the portal that leads from Gears' dimension to Blaine's, and are now drifting through space, meanwhile Joshua has hi-jacked Breaking the Ice.

Notice: This story has language and Imagery that I would advise is not suitable for members under 15, but read at your own risk!
It contains a lot of Spoilers to Halo: Reach, so if you ever want to play that game, I'd advise you keep this on your to read list until you do! Noble 6 from Halo: Reach will not make an appearance in this game, as he technically is Blaine. So, without further ado, I present;


Acts of Courage: The Story of Gears, Blaine, and Noble Team.

Chapter 1: Darkness in the Void.

" This is the UNSC Frigate Breaking the Ice Reporting for Battle! We aren't going anywhere!" Reported Lieutenant Joshua Durgan.

" Welcome Lt. Durgan, this is Ancher 9 of the RODC *Reach Orbital Defense Core*. You are currently having a background check, and it would appear that a Spartan II named Cpt. Blaine- 007 is the current commander of your vessel, would you like to explain why he isn't hailing me?" Replied the Communication officer.

" Lets just say he decided to stay behind... We haven't had contact from him in two hours." Lied Josh.

" Darn... another missing Spartan. Alright Lieutenant, you are cleared for repair."

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Coming out of the portal leading to Blaine's dimension, Gears and Blaine sat in the front seat of the LongSword, sending out a distress signal in hopes of being found. Blaine took this time to teach Gears how to pilot a LongSword, saying that it was the exact same as a Pelican and Falcon. So while they floated through space Gears practiced maneuvers and control of the deadly vehicle. Blaine found himself falling asleep as his eyes felt heavy.

" UNSC LongSword, you are being hailed by the UNSC Frigate Waterloo . My name is Colonel Holland. Please report your Status!" Commanded the leader of the ship.

Gears nudged Blaine, but when he didn't waken he took the mic from the dash and stated.

" UNSC Waterloo this is UNSC Breaking the Ice LongSword 5. My name is Cpt. ... Captain Turner of the Spartan II program, second in command to Captain Blaine of the Spartan II program." Gears lied.

" Ok, Captain Turner... your not on our records, are you perhaps ONI Section three?" Replied Holland curtly.

"Yes Captain, I was on board the Ice for a mandatory inspection of the crew before we were attacked by a cruiser." Gears felt that he was lucky to have learned these terms from Blaine in the previous battle.

" Alright son, would you like a lift?" Holland asked respectively.

"Affirmative sir!" Gears said.

"Welcome aboard Spartans!"

Gears carefully navigated into the Waterloo. Gears woke Blaine up and told him the situation they were in.

"Colonel Holland eh? Section 3 Spartans? Don't worry Gears, I'll get you into our records as yourself, that way you don't go around as Turner. Let's head up to the bridge to meet up with Holland. Then we can request you be put in our records until I return you home."

Heading through the hallways of the Waterloo, Gears started feeling a hole in his stomach. He felt something bad was going to happen, or it was homesickness. They entered the elevator to the bridge.

"Here's the thing though Gears, it's advised that you stay outside of the Bridge, just to make sure that you don't get shot by his guards."

Gears looked at Blaine and nodded, when the elevator stopped they got out. Gears leaned up against the wall near the door, as Blaine walked through.

"Oh, you must be Captain Blaine, welcome Spartan."

"Thank you sir. I must apologize for my friend that contacted you. You see... he is a fox and... he wants to help the UNSC fight the Covenant for a maximum of two weeks." Blaine said as he was trained.

" Why would he lie to me like that Captain?!?" Said Holland, who was getting upset now.

" I'm sorry Colonel, we had a run in with a Cruiser on our way to Reach, and I feel asleep after we escaped. He was nervous. about talking to you sir. "

" Fine, he's in the UNSC database until his term with us is done. In fact my ship is currently transporting a team of Spartan 3's and one other Spartan two to Reach. I think it might be for you two's best interest in joining Noble Team.

" We accept Colonel, and again I do apologize for that.

" See to it that it doesn't happen again and we'll be fine Captain.

Blaine exited the Bridge, sighing as he did so. He lead Gears into the elevator to the Armory, where they would meet these members of Noble team.
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Chapter 2: New Friends, Old Problems.

When the Elevator reached the floor that contained the armory Blaine took a deep breath. He concentrated, after all it had been quite a while since he was with other Spartans. It would also be the first time he actually took orders from someone else for a change. Looking over at Gears he could tell that he was also nervous to meet their new team.

Walking slowly into the armory Blaine looked at all of the Spartans in the room. One of them, a man wearing dark blue armor with a crew cut hair style and gentle blue eyes reached into his locker, pulling out a DMR and his Helmet. Placing it on his head he gave his weapon a quick run over before clipping in on his back. Another one that was sitting not even five feet away from the first one, wearing light blue armor reached into her locker.

She had short dirty blonde hair, and green eyes. Where her right arm should be was a robotic one, it had a gyrating mechanic in the middle that kept it operating with optimal performance. She pulled out a pistol and clipped it to her hip before placing her helmet on her head.

One towards the back was busy loading a sniper clip with high caliber rounds. On his head was no hair whatsoever, and he had a tattoo running along the back of his bald head. He had some vigor in his eyes as he carefully placed the bullets in the magazine. He clipped the sniper rifle onto his back, reached into his locker and pulled out his helmet, which he put on, his armor was an olive green.

A massive Spartan was in the back, he had a mini-gun on the bench beside him, and it appeared he was shaving in front of the mirror, leaving nothing but a gruff, yet gentle looking face with a little stubble staring back at Gears and Blaine. He acted like they didn't exist as he pulled on his helmet, which had a deep red tint on it, his armor looked like it was three different colors, some red, yellow, and green.

He looked over to them, beckoning them closer, this got the attention of the final Spartan, who was busy sharpening his Kukri knife in the corner. Gears was frightened by this Spartan, because on his helmet's visor was a skull that appeared to be laughing carved into the glass. He laughed at the new additions to the crew before going back to sharpening the blade, he was wearing a grey looking armor all around, besides his shoulders which were red. Gears was frightened these Humans who were clearly double his size. Blaine only had a size competition with the large Spartan who had called them over.

" So... your our replacements eh?" Asked the Dark Blue armor Clad Spartan.

" Yes, we are Commander." Said Blaine proudly.

" Are you by any chance a Spartan II?" Asked the Large Spartan with the mini-gun.

" Spartan Captain Blaine-007 reporting for duty!" Said Blaine.

" Small world, A Nevum Jorge... if you remember me from training.." Said Jorge calmly.

" Doesn't strike a bell..." Replied Blaine.

" Anyways Spartans, I am Carter; Leader of Noble Team." He said bluntly. "That in the light blue is Kat or Noble 2. The green Spartan in the corner is Jun our marksman or Noble 3. The grey Spartan sharpening his knife is Emile or Noble 4. Lastly but not least we have Jorge or Noble 5. Welcome to Noble you two."

Carter walked over to Gears, who all this time had his helmet and armor on. Noticing how little he was compared to the Spartan, Gears kind of cowered back, Blaine held a hand out to stop Carter's advancement.

"I am Captain Blaine, I run the UNSC frigate Breaking the Ice which was actually jacked from me by one of my closest friends. This little fella beside me is Gears-"

"GEARS? What kind of a name is THAT!" Laughed the figure with a Skull on his helmet.

" I got the nickname from all the inventing and other gadgetry I do." Retorted Gears.

" Not as good as me I bet." Huffed Kat.

" We'll see..." Mumbled Gears.

" That reminds me Spartan... why are you so short? You look neither III nor II? Perhaps a failed experiment?" Asked Carter.

Gears sighed and took off his Helmet, revealing that he was a fox. The eyes of the Spartans widened as they realized they were just talking to a fox in a Spartan suit.

" B-but your a fox!" Stammered Jun.

" Indeed he is Jun... I had the same reaction you guys did when I met him on his planet. We had faced the Covenant there, and they were torching his planet, I couldn't just say no to assisting someone. He may not have our agility, nor does he have our strength, but by god he's got the right Darn Spartan attitude!" Said Blaine.

" Is that right? I think we might just have hit the jackpot guys!" Stated Jorge enthusiastically.

Blaine and Gears sat down and discussed all that had happened on Mobius. Everytime the Spartans heard something unbelievable they would widen their eyes in shock.

"Let me get this straight fox... You actually JUMPED out of a one hundred foot fall and SURVIVED with barely a scratch!?!? Fox... you alright!" Said Emile behind his skull helmet.

"Holland to Noble, Holland to Noble!" Holland said on the Team's comm.

"Below us is Reach, and the Visegrad relay outpost is below... it went offline a few days ago, and although ONI hates the idea, we are sending Noble in to bring that Relay back online. So Spartans I hope you got nice and friendly with each other, because this is your first Noble mission!"

The Spartans all grabbed their weapons; Kat grabbed and loaded her pistol, Jun grabbed his Sniper Rifle, Emile loaded and attached his Shotgun to his back, Carter clipped his DMR, and Blaine and Gears both grabbed Assault Rifles. They also grabbed pistols as the the team piled into the loading bay, where two Falcons were waiting to be run. Gears got into one with Carter, Jun and Blaine, while Jorge, Kat and Emile got into the other.

The propellers roared to life as the transport units flew them down onto the beautiful Planet of Reach. Gears looked at the amazing landscape, but couldn't get over the fact that he felt something bad was going to happen.

* This is all I got for now, but I promise to keep it updated regularly... so look out for my next post!
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Chapter 3: Winter Contingency.

The Falcon's engines whirred in Gears' helmet as it slowly lowered to the surface. The two Falcons made their way around a huge mountain side towards Visegrad, the mountain side held spinning windmills, used to power the farm houses that were built into the Mountain wall. The rotors of both Falcons made it especially difficult for Blaine and Gears to pay full attention to Carter, who was attempting to make contact with Holland once more, but failed to do so.

"Listen up Noble team," said Carter "We're looking at a down relay outpost fifty klicks from Visegrad. We're gonna introduce ourselves to whoever took it out, and then Kat's going to get it back online-"

"Just get me under the hood Commander." Kat said excitement rose in her voice.

"Sir, why would rebels want to cut of Reach from the rest of the colonies?" asked Jorge.
"Dunno, You get a chance maybe you can ask them Jorge."

"Commander, we just lost signal with HQ-"

"Back-up channels?"

"Searching....nada, can't say whats jamming us."

"You heard her, dead zone confirmed, Command will not be keeping us company during this trip."

"I'm lonely already" Said Emile sarcastically.

The Falcons finally made their way around the mountain side, the pilot aknowledged a distress beacon from below. The Falcons circled the area, looking for any sign of human life. Gears finally broke himself from his distraction and looked below, seeing a slight shimmer of what appeared to be an invisible being, his heart stopped.

No.... not Reach... not now! he thought to himself. He turned to tell what he saw to Blaine, but stared horrifically as Carter and Jun gave him strange looks.

After the Falcons finished their circles, Carter ordered them to land up by a cabbage patch. Gears didn't hesitate to jump out, he un-clipped the Assualt Rifle from the magnetic clip on his Mjolnir armor and sprinted down the farmland, hopeful in seeing the invisible creature once more. Blaine chased after him.

However, by the time he got to the distress beacon, where the being had just been, it was gone.

"I found the beacon!" Stated Emile, who tossed it to Kat, she caught it lightning quick. She examined the beacon, and stated that it was indeed UNSC in origin.

"So where are the troopers?!" Said Jorge over the comm.

After searching the Area, Carter said.

"Alright we're clear, I see a path leading around the mountain side, maybe if we find some natives they can tell us whats going on! Gears, seeings how your so eager to go first, you take point. Lets move Noble!"

Gears nervously lead the small portion of the Team around the trail, as three ostrich-like things ran by, obviously spooked by something. He pulled his assault rifle to bare, but the same robotic arm from earlier stopped his aim.

"Those are called Moa's, their a native species of Reach." Said Kat. "Completely harmless!"
Around the path was a building, he walked in quietly, the small team behind him. He held up his fist, indicating they should halt. He turned on his VISR unit, which turned his entire HUD green, hostiles outlined red, and friendlies outlined green. It also doubled as night-vision.

On the other side of the building, he saw Jorge jump from his Falcon, and walk to meet the rest of the team. Jun waved from the hovering Falcon as it took off once more, providing cover if needed.

To his left was a farmhouse, and in it were Civvies. One opened the door, eager to talk with the Spartans, he spoke in Hungarian, but was not understood, except by Jorge. Emile however pulled out his shotgun and said,

"YOU! On your knees NOW!" The Reachian obliged, frightened by Emile. Jorge spoke in Hungarian to the Reachian, who replied to him in the same tongue. Sweat drizzled down the man's dirt covered face.

"It's ok, he's a civilian, he said something attacked last night, killed his son in one of the fields."

"Something...?" Carter questioned.

"SIR, I'm reading multiple hostile heat sigs in the structure ahead!" Announced Jun.

"Lets move Noble, Double time, Jorge tell them to go back inside!"

After speaking once more, the man cautiously got up, and ran inside. The others inside gave the Spartans a look of disgust, but they were used to it. Running up a steep grade towards the building with the heat sigs, Gears and Blaine both disengaged their VISR, cautiously searching the building, nothing.

Noble's motion trackers did pick up a hostile, but it was in the vents, which were made out of an extremely tough alloy, whatever was in there got to live another day. Heading outside was a building in ruin. Noble team headed through, when they thought they heard barking, not like that of a dog though, something they wished they would never have to hear on Reach. It was also something that Gears and Blaine never would have wanted to hear again. The barking emnated from a Skirmisher, a breed of Jackal, one of the infantry units of the Covenant, it was also on the second lowest Caste in the covenant, so it and it's cousins, along with the cannon-fodder Grunts, were sent in on the front lines, because they were so pathetically easy to terminate.

They moved cautiously into the building of Ruin, Gears peered out the window to see that their theory was correct, the Covenant was on Reach. The Skirmisher looked birdlike, but had arms, and legs the bent opposite of a humans, it appeared to have a mane around it's neck, much like that of a lion. Blaine pulled out his scoped pistol, and lined up it's head in the sight, he pulled the trigger, and the Skirmisher fell to the ground dead. Grunts and Jackals, along with three other Skirmishers looked around for the source of the killer. The Grunts appeared as small little creatures, short and stout, with Methane packs attached to their backs. Gears now pulled his trigger three times, watching as two jackals and a skirmisher fell to the ground.

The rest of the alien squad finally noticed the attackers, and assualted up to his level using plasma weapons, that glanced off of Gears and Blaine's energy shields. The shield health was at seventy-five percent, and falling with each plasma bolt, he picked up some grenades from his left, and tossed them down, watching as the Grunts and remaining Jackal attempted pathetically to run away, the blast blowing them to pieces. Blaine descended the nearby stair case, pulling out his combat knife, he pulled the remaining Skirmisher's mane back, exposing its ugly neck, where he pinned it's neck into the ground. Gears stayed up the stairs to provide cover, along with Kat.
Blaine pulled out his knife from the neck, and pulled out his assualt rifle.

Above, they could hear the wailing of a Covenant air assault vehicle, known as a Banshee, named for the sound they make. It attempted to shoot Noble with it's dual plasma cannons, but a railgun fired its three round shot into it, making it swerve, looking for the opposition. One of the Team's Falcons quickly dispatched the vehicle, after having fired two more salvos of bullets. Gears watched as a Spirit class Covenant heavy transport aircraft hovered above the ground, dropping two squads of Grunts and a fireteam of Skirmishers. He pointed to it and shouted it's location. The Falcon acknowledged as Noble team sprang into action.

Jorge dispatched the Skirmishers with his heavy handheld Machine Gun turret. Carter used his Designated Marksman Rifle, or DMR, to blow the Methane masks off of a small group of Grunts. Kat pegged the small team of Jackals that now fell from the dropship with her scoped pistol, the Jackals were dead before they hit the ground.

Emile was busy taunting the Grunts that were left, that attempted to run from his shotgun's barrel. Blaine sprinted ahead, grabbed a Grunt's head from behind, and snapped its puny brittle neck in two without hardly breaking a sweat. It was good to be back with Spartans.

"Hold your fire, Contacts neutralised-" Ordered Carter.

"CONTACTS!? ITS THE Darn COVENANT!" Said Jorge ferociously, Jorge, being a Spartan II (a more durable, stronger version of a Spartan III) was born and raised on Reach. Blaine felt his pain too.
"Cheer up big man, this whole valley, just became a free fire zone!" Said Emile. Gears, Blaine and Jorge couldn't help but shoot Emile a glance, now was not the time to celebrate the ability to fire weapons without court martial.

Noble Team carefully walked down the farmland, crossing a river in their path. On the other side they could see more Moa, grazing in the field, round bales of hay, which would provide perfect cover, should the need arise.

As they moved onto the Hay field, blue streaks of plasma shot at the team, which could only mean one thing... Elites. Elites were the main attack force of the Covenant army, strong like a Spartan at birth, these mean warriors meant business. They had the same bent legs as a Skirmisher, but appeared as 6' 4'' height, and with four mandibles that formed their jaws. There were three of them, all clad in white armor, Ultras, by the look of it.

Gears fired his pistol, on his last clip, into the beast in front of him, the bullets shimmered off of the Elite's energy shielding. After a good amount of the clip was gone, the shields popped, meaning it was vulnerable, it raised it's arms in anger, and charged towards Gears, who pulled out his knife.

When the Elite arrived, it towered over the fox, laughing at the puny Kitsune, when it was shot in the leg by Carter's DMR, it turned to face Carter, Gears took this chance to climb up the beast's back, and stab it right into it's purple juggular. Purple blood was painted onto the knife he now pulled out of its neck. It was dead at last. Blaine sneaked up behind one that was pre-occupied with Kat, he killed the thing's knees, they buckled up and it fell, he grabbed the back of it's neck and thrust his blade into its cranium.
When the coast was clear, Carter ordered a Falcon to land, it picked up Kat, and Emile.

"Kat, I want you at that Relay outpost now, Emile, you protect her."

"Yes sir!"
The Falcon lifted off the ground, and flew off in the direction of Visegrad Relay outpost.
"Fox, Blain, Jorge.... lets see if we can clear this sector of the covenant."

"Sir, I see a truck not far from here that you can take for a faster route."

Blaine looked at the tiny cliff the Truck was down, he slide down the side, Carter and Jorge, and Gears behind him.
Once 6's boots touched the ground, he sprinted towards the truck, as Jorge and Carter, and Gears tried to keep up. Blaine jumped into the driver seat of the flatbed truck, as Carter grabbed the passenger seat, and situated himself to be able to shoot as they drove. Jorge climbed onto the back, the weight of his gun and armor caused the truck to tip back, then forward as he situated his gatling gun on the top of the truck in a steady stance. The once civilian truck now resembled that of a make-shift Warthog. Gears, confused on where to get on, called for a Jun's Falcon to pick him up. It hesitated, but did as requested, Jun handed Gears a Sniper rifle.

"Bet I can snipe better than you!" The Rifleman teased cockily.

"Your on Jun!" Said Gears, who accepted the challenge.

"If you win, I'll give you that Sniper, if you lose you give me one of your weapons."

"Deal" They shook hands as it took off to scout for the Spartans below.
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Blaine stomped on the gas, and was flung back in his seat with the intense inertia that took place, the rocks kicking up under the spokes. As the vehicle traveled down the hill, Blaine watched as three Skirmishers ran up the hill in front of them, plasma pistols overcharging. He stomped on the clutch, and shifted into neutral, the truck's engines screamed at the sudden change of gear. The truck fish tailed as it turned, the side facing the Skirmishers as it continued to slide. The side of the truck collided with the Skirmishers, who died under the crushing weight of the vehicle.

"Nice moves Blaine!" Said Jorge, whose turret began to spin as he fired upon the last remaining Skirmisher, which fell to the ground, a pool of purple blood began to form around the corpse. Just then, a whole herd of Moa ran down the hill. Blaine cautiously drove down the hill with them, they crossed a bridge, the water from the river below splashed up as the current got stronger. Along their path was a outpost with three more Skirmisher's taking watch.

Blaine unclipped his pistol, stuck his arm out of the window, and pulled the trigger, unleashing an entire clip, he watched as the Skirmishers clutched their wounds, and fell to the ground, dead. The path was split, left or right. So Blaine decided to go left. There, he saw a building, which he decided to check for life. As he passed, an Elite, and a squad of grunts welcomed them with a barrage of plasma bolts, Green and Blue. Jorge's gun spun up as it fired upon the Elite, the bullets glanced off of the shield, but was useless against the endless onslaught of bullets. The Elite grasped all over itself as it was slowly reduced to shreds. The grunts ran helplessly away as Carter filled them full of DMR rounds. Blaine reloaded his pistol and re-clipped it to his thigh before pulling through the gate ahead.

Blaine continued downhill with the truck, to meet with a squad of Grunts at the bottom of the hill, but were easily dispatched by Gears in the Falcon.

"Thats 6 so far! How many you got human? 3?" Joked Gears.

"Shaddup!" Replied Jun frustratedly.

The terrain here was different. In front of them was a lake, and on the other side was a building complex. Blaine looked for a bridge across the small lake, and took the nearest one he could. When he got there his truck was greeted with a plasma grenade to the front tire, flipping the vehicle over, Blaine tried to re cooperate from the crash, only to be picked up by the massive golden elite there in front of him. The thing's eyes locked with the ones inside his visor. Without hesitation Blaine pulled out his pistol, and rammed it right in between the creature's four mandibles, before unloading an entire clip into it's brain.

He collected himself finally, watching Jorge, Carter, and the sniping of Gears finish off the rest of the Elite squadron. Blaine approached the truck, the front right tire was gone completely, and it was no more of use to the Spartans. Nearby was a Warthog.

Once he got into the Warthog, Carter and Jorge took up the same positions from earlier, Jorge of course stored his gun in front of the turret.

"This is Charlie Victor 3, we need assistance, we have wounded, and the covenant is on Reach... I REPEAT THE COVENANT IS ON REACH!" It was a real distress call, so Blaine peeled out in the direction of the beacon. It was another up hill ride, where they met little resistance.

When they reached the top, it was a battlefield, Elites fighting puny Marines, and Marines shooting puny Grunts. They hopped out of the Warthog, and assisted with the fighting.Gears snagged a few kills from above, along with Jun.

As the Spartans and Marines fought, a whining sound was emanating from the sky above, a Phantom dropped from the sky and dropped even more troops down. Two elite majors, clad in golden armor.

Blaine dropped his magnum, which had become empty. He picked up a plasma pistol from the corpse of a Grunt. He held the trigger as it overcharged, he aimed at a nearby Elite, and released the blob of Green Plasma, it EMP'd the Elite's shield, as it was pegged in the face by a sniper from above, he looked up to see that Gears had fired the shot.

"Twenty to ten?" Gears teased again

"Watch it Fox." Jun replied curtly.

"Naw... Fox got your tongue?" Blaine said.

"Do you two mind? We're fighting ALIENS down here!" Carter stated boldly.

After the wave of Covenant was finally down, the two Falcons landed again. One was to evac the Marines, the other was to transport Jun, Jorge, Carter, Blaine, and Gears to Visegrad, and rendezvous with Kat and Emile. Blaine jumped into the passenger seat next to Gears. They flew around the mountain side once more, revealing a large building.

It was the Visegrad relay outpost. It also was being overrun with covenant. Kat was in the doorway attempting to hack into the system, and Emile was busy blasting Jackals with his shotgun. In front of the door attacking Kat, was a group of at least six or seven Jackals, their personal shields, like that of an old swordsman, were activated. Blaine chucked a plasma grenade at the group, it landed at the middle of the pack, and effectively killed them all. The group of Grunts beside him chucked a few plasma grenades at Gears, who sprinted away, the explosion sending him crashing into a wall.

Alarms went off in Gear's head, indicating that his energy shields were down. He tasted copper in his mouth, and tried not to gag. He ran inside of the building with Kat and Emile. Carter and Jorge and Blaine came inside, holding off the endless onslaught of the genocidal creatures.

Gears grabbed a can of biofoam from a nearby health pack, and injected it into a special opening in his suit. The suit automatically assessed the area that needed it most, and applied it. The copper taste was finally gone. He picked a pistol up from a dead marine's corpse, seeings as the sniper would do him no good. He joined the others in the battle.

While they had been busy, Phantoms, and Spirits kept on coming down in an attempt to overwhelm the Spartan team with it's troops. But to no success. Gears, deciding that it was to much for so little ammo, went over to help Kat.

"You need to cross the Green and Blue wires!" Said Gears.

"I don't need your.... oh wait, duh!" She said reluctantly,
"Thanks Spartan... er Fox."

"Its Gears people!" Replied Gears with venom.

"Yeah Kat.... listen to my man here!" Said Emile playfully.

"Shut up... men and their joking." She mumbled.

With Gears' help Kat hacked into Visegrad, and the door started to shut, Noble team backed off from the door, as two banshees attempted a plasma bombing run. But the doors had already shut.

Noble team finally turned, and the door leading further into the facility opened up. Blaine and Gears engaged their VISR units once more, for the power was out. Blaine lead the team through the hall, when they noticed a corpse laying on the ground in front of a terminal, a pool of blood formed around it.

"Fox, check that body" Said Kat behind Blaine.

Gears gave her a death stare as he squatted down over the figure, gently moving it a side.

"Where's the rest of your unit?" Asked Carter, who had found a lone marine.

"We got split. I don't think they... it sounded bad on the comms."

"Don't worry, we'll get you a combat surgeon."

Gears continued to search the body. He found a chip on the ground, but looked up when Kat said,
"Darn, Plasma damage." She was busy attempting to fix the terminal.

Gears picked up the chip, and said,

"Found somethin-" Before he could finish, Kat turned around and grabbed it from him,

"I'll take that... not your domain."

"*cough* Kinda is *cough*" He replied

"I got a live one over here!" Said Jorge, who was holding a strugling woman about the age of eighteen. She yelled in illegable tongue. Jorge of course knew it was hungarian.

"Come on... out you come!" He said, attempting to calm her down. "It's alright, we're not here to harm you... Keep still, and I'll release you-"

"Meg itt vannak!" She said, just as a Red/blue armor clad Elite fell from the ceiling. It was a Zealot class data scavenger Elite. This Elite swung its sword at Jorge as two more jumped down behind it. The leader charged at Kat, and swung, but Carter saved her by throwing her to the ground. Meanwhile, Blaine shot the monstrocity, it turned at him when it's shields popped, it pushed him over, and ran away.

Another one picked him up, and attempted to stab him with an Energy shard, but Blaine punched it in the face, It growled, drool covering his visor. Gears shot it while Carter kicked the Elite in the side, and unleashed a clip of his pistol into it's shielded side. The Elite scrambled away, Carter threw an assault rifle at Blaine, who graciously took it, and got up.

Just in time to see the two remaining Zealots grab the Marine, and drag him through a door, the marine fought, but couldn't win. Blaine, Gears and Jorge advanced on the door, reloading their weapons. Blaine pushed Gears back in as Carter closed the door behind him and Jorge.

"Son of a bitch!" Yelled Gears, "I will not have my only friend on this planet be killed!"

" I feel hurt.." Said Emile mock sadly.

"But you will do as I say." Warned Carter, Kat snickered.
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Blaine threw a grenade at the only Zealot in sight. He unloaded his Assault Rifle into it, as it died slowly. The leader was nowhere to be seen. Blaine turned a corner in the narrow hallway, to see a group of grunts and Jackals advancing. Jorge easily dispatched the Peons.

"So... another Spartan two assigned to Noble team... so good to not be the only true Spartan on the team!" Said Jorge excitedly.

"You have no idea what it feels like to be the only Spartan on that planet with Gears... their were quite a few times I nearly died, which could of been avoided if Gears had Spartan strength."

"Hmm... quite a catch that one." Said Jorge, "He's got the spirit alright. But he could be a bit more disciplined. Must be a Darn good fighter."

"You have no idea." Said Blaine. Jorge laughed at the remark.

They ran through the hallway, entering a data hive, with a Zealot attempting to hack data, and the other as protection. Blaine grabbed a nearby DMR off of the wall, and fired an entire clip into the body guard. It fell, dead.
The other Zealot turned, growled, and activated an energy sword. Blaine unloaded another clip of the DMR into the charging Zealot, but missed a few shots. It was on top of him, attempting to stab him with the sword. He grasped the hilt, and fought the strong Elite. He decided to risk it, and punched the Elite, giving him time to stab it in the juggular with his knife, but it wasn't done yet... it attempted to stab him one more time, but was weak, Blaine grabbed the sword from its hand, and kicked it in the chest. It charged one last time, unarmed, as he drove the sword down into it's cranium.
He pressed a nearby button, that would reactivate a junction box. When him and Jorge returned to the room with the others, Kat tried to fix it again, but no success.

"Whats your name?" Questioned Jorge to the girl. "Do you live around here?" He took off his helmet.

"A nevum Jorge" he said.

"Sara." she said.

"Sara.... Szep hatarozzi nev... your accent sounds familiar, Sopron?"

"Tengeri" She replied, depressed. He looked over at the old man's corpse and asked,

"Friend of yours?"

"Father..."

"Sajanalom, I'm sorry."

"Why would you be!" She said sternly.

"The big man forgets what he is sometimes-" Said Emile.

Jorge walked by, and thrusted menacingally toward Emile.

"She just lost her father." He said angrilly. "She needs a full psychiatric work u-"

"SHE'S not the only one..." Said Emile.

Seeing the argument, Carter stated,

"Lock it up... both of you. Get her on her feet, the body stays here."

"Thank you sir." He said, before getting up in Emile's face one last time. He helped her up, as Kat gave a transceiver to Carter. Noble team, except for Carter, headed out. Gears thought this team was not only going to be a pain in his side for the entire stay, but that he was going to witness many more horrors in the future.

" I'm barely getting you. Whats your situation, over?" said Colonel Holland

"Colonel, this is Noble 1, there are no rebels! The covenant are on Reach, acknowledge?"

" Come again Noble 1... did you say COVENANT?!?" he demanded.

"Affirmative. It's the Winter Contingency!"

"May god help us all..."


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Chapter 4: Sword Base.

The team's Falcons flew over the ice and glacier covered ocean leading to Sword Base, the secondary base of operations on Reach. Looking down at the courtyard Gears watched as Grunts, Jackals, and Elites attempted to gain access to the vital facility. The building itself appeared to resemble a cube. In the air, Gears watched as Falcons and Banshees fought each other, he also watched some free Falcons attempt to assault a Covenant Corvette.

Kat and Blaine jumped out of the Falcon, Gears shortly behind them. Carter contacted them over the comm.

"Kat, Blaine, Fox, push back the attack on Sword Base, find out what their doing here!"

"Rodger we're your Strike team!" Replied Kat.

Seeing the path split in three directions, the left and right flanks both going up ramps, Gears took the right ramp, Kat took the left, and Blaine went straight through the center.
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Gears cautiously walked up the ramp on the right flank. He was greeted by an Elite, who had a lust for killing the puny animal. It raised it's left arm and howled out a war cry before charging at the demi-Spartan. Gears started to fire his Assault Rifle at the Elite, as it's shields slowly ebbed away. Once they popped it growled and kicked him square in the chest.

The kick sent Gears flying down the ramp, and into a fork-lift. Kat, who had dispatched the Jackals on her Flank, waltzed over to mock the fox. Little did she know that Gears had become very impatient with the alien he was fighting, and he became very angry. He yelled out a blood thirsty cry as he lifted the Fork-Lift and chucked it at the unsuspecting Elite.

Gears watched with blood lust rage as one of the spikes on the Lift's fronts pierced the aliens chest as it gagged from breath. With a last garbled sounding breath the Elite finally suffocated.

Kat opened her mouth to speak from the other side of her helmet, but decided it was best if she just kept it shut. Despite the fact that normally she was ten times stronger than him, she really appreciated his want to destroy the aliens that took her family from her. That was what urged her to undergo the enhancements that made her a Spartan... for revenge.
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Blaine shot his pistol at the squads of Grunts and Elites in front of him. They returned fire with vivid blue and green plasma bolts that glanced off of his shields with each hit. He pulled out his DMR and fired at the unshielded opponents, such as the Grunts or Jackals. He watched as the alien numbers slowly depleted, before the Elites started throwing their own grenades.

The Elites grenades resembled that of a child's small rubber ball, with a deadly blue aura when activated. When armed it could stick to Vehicles, Personnel, or anything other than walls. As they landed next to Blaine he struck his fist down into the ground, his shields overcharged and negated the explosive effects. Throwing his own frags out, he popped both of the Elites' shields. He then charged from cover, throwing his knife at the nearest one, it caught it right in the windpipe, and as it slowly asphyxiated he kicked the other one into a cart filled with explosive fusion coils. The Elite major yelled out in it's alien tongue as Blaine shot the Explosives.

Turning around, he saw hide nor tail of Gears or Kat. He walked up Gear's exit ramp, only to discover an Elite with fork-lift prongs protruding from its chest and a very pissed looking Fox inhaling deeply as he calmed himself down. Blaine had witnessed this fox's Adrenaline Mode when he first met Gears. He was truly a force to be reckoned with when he was this angry.

Calling them over Blaine led them down the war-torn path he had taken. At the bottom of the Courtyard laid a security checkpoint. Inside held Armor Lock armor abilities, and a Target Locator.
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The Target locator was used to paint enemies with a beam, and then an airstrike would be called in to killed anything in the blast radius. Gears picked up the Locator and an Armor Lock unit. He attached the unit to his back, now allowing him to do as Blaine had done a few minutes ago. Listening to a distress call being transmitted from a few yards ahead of them, Gears watched a troop transport Warthog attempted to escape two Wraith heavy mortar tanks. Both of the tanks fired, and Gears watched in pure horror as the two big blue blobs of explosive plasma detonated the Warthog, effectively killing everyone of the nine marines inside.

Gears painted the Wraiths with the Locator, and watched as three Long Sword fighter jets dropped the bombs onto the tanks. He had a satisfied feeling of revenge for those nine lost marines. A pelican dropship approached the mini squad and dropped off a Gauss-Hog, which was very similar to the normal Warthogs, except instead of a machine gun it now sported a Gauss Cannon on the back. Gears climbed into the back and strapped his feet in. Blaine took the driver seat as Kat got in the passenger seat.

They drove off down the hill to the left, where they saw the Icy ocean they had flown over quite a few minutes earlier. On the shoreline lied a new red vehicle. It was definitely Covenant in origin, as it fired a Red explosive blob of plasma right at the team. Gears countered with a few Gauss shots, and watched as the Revenant exploded. Continuing on, the team came across a communique outpost, so Gears and Blaine got out of the Warthog and activated the power, turning on Planet-Wide communications with Sword Base.

They got back into the vehicle and continued to drive down the road, where they met up with an Anti-Air gun. Next to the gun was a building that controlled it, and on the roof was a Elite Captain, sporting Gold armor as it taunted them. Gears and Blaine got out of the vehicle and made their way up the stairs while Kat took out the team of Elites on the ground.

Turning to face it's new opposition, the golden Elite clacked it's four mandibles together in a sign of disrespect to the two Spartans before it took out two energy swords and activated them. It started to flail at them, when Blaine caught one of it's arms and wrestled to get one. Gears walked behind the Elite while it was distracted and pulled out his wrench. He slammed it into the back of its legs and he ran around to the other side of it and tackled it, ramming his knife into it's mouth.

When it was no more, Blaine turned on the AA gun and they returned to the Warthog. As they hitched in they watched as Kat used her robotic arm to rip an Elite's throat out. Tossing the carcass aside she hopped back into the passenger seat. Blaine drove them back the way they came towards the security outpost. When they arrived they were greeted by a squadron of Grunts and lead by a single Elite. This squad was no match for the Spartans, however and they moved on.

Inside the entrance of Sword base lied two Hunters, massive creatures covered in a insanely tough alloy. Gears had seen these things on Mobius, but he had never been this close. He ignited one of the swords he had taken from the Elite and swung it into the exposed back of the Hunter. It cried out in pain as it fell to the floor, limp. It's partner turned, and it's arm cannon glowed a brilliant green, indicating it was about to fire. Gears slammed his fist into the ground as his shields overcharged, negating the effects of the dangerous plasma.

Blaine grabbed a shotgun from a dead Marine and used it to blow the last Hunter away. Walking through the door they found an Elevator that would take them to rendezvous with the rest of Noble. Waiting for the elevator to reach their destination felt like it had taken forever.

On the Comm. Gears heard Carter state,

"Fox, Emile requests your assistance in shooting down some banshees. Take the Elevator another floor up, Kat and Blaine, meet with Jun, Jorge, and I on this floor." As the elevator made its stop, Blaine and Kat walked out as Gears continued up. When the doors opened he was greeted by the laughing Skull on Emile's visor once more. Emile handed a Rocket Launcher to Gears, who accepted it heartily. They aimed at swirling Banshees, and took them out of the sky. Gears could see the Corvette in the distance and was surprised it hadn't been taken out yet. Thats when a Phantom attacked, Emile and Gears both aimed on it, sending four rounds of heavy duty tungsten flying at the troop transport.

Gears smiled a smile of victory as he watched the vehicle explode, knowing him and Emile had successfully killed all of the Covenant in it.

"Thats how a Spartan does it!" Exclaimed Emile. Gears smiled as he was finally accepted by a member of the team other than Blaine.

"This is Sword Base Tengo-Niner saying Fire Bird is in effect! Hold on to your panties!" Said one of the two Longswords that passed over head. Gears watched as they followed the fleeing Corvette, before tagging it with a tracker. They diverted as a MAC round fell from the atmosphere, obliterating the ship as it slowly sank into the ocean.

"Beautiful ain't it? Someone should take a picture... Nice work by the way." Said Jorge from behind Gears, who firmly, yet gently laid a hand on his new friend's shoulder.

"I do aim to please!" Replied Gears enthusiastically.

"Jorge, Gears get down to the science wing, Dr. Halsey wants a de-briefing and Command says we're all here-" Stated Carter.

"Repeat... sounded like you said Halsey?" Questioned Jorge

"I did!"

" Copy that, on our way! Don't need Command to tell me, been all her's half me life!" He said as him and Gears walked back into the base.

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Walking into the room Gears saw that all of Noble, minus Emile, had taken off their Helmets and he followed suit. He heard a feminine voice say,

"I requested your assistance Commander, and do not need a report on events that occur on my own doorstep; what I do require is a detailed report on your previous engagement... Jorge, it's been to long." She said as she noticed her Spartan II's walk into the room.

"Mom." Jorge replied politely. That is what all Spartan II's called her, because she was the one that supervised the Orion project that had made them Spartans. She had liked that, even though it was professional.

"What have you done to my armor?!" She requested.

"Just some... modifications I've made." He replied with a smile.

" Indeed... Visegrad Relay, it's data center was home to one of my Xenoarchiologists; Professor Lazlo Sorvad. Perhaps you could shed some light on his death?" She questioned.

"If he was a civilian male in his mid sixties, then he died with a Covenant Energy Sword through his abdomin." Replied Carter.

"Elites then?"

"They engaged us as well... it was just um... after we found your scientist's daughter mom. She was hiding-" Jorge started.

"Irrelevant, the Elites, tell me more about them."

"Three... Zealot Class. One got by us, the Leader by the looks."

"Zealots, your certain?" She asked horrified.

"Their armor configuration matched-" Jorge said.

"Shield Strength too Ma'am!" finished Blaine.

"I gave the order not to pursue, our Primary objective was to get the relay back online." Said Carter proudly.

" Your primary objective?! Commander, are you a PUPPET or a SPARTAN!?" She said infuriatedly.

"Ma'am?!"

"We at ONI, myself included, believe that the Covenant dispatch Elite advanced teams to hunt down artifacts important to their religion. Survivor accounts suggests such teams are small, nimble and almost always Zealot Class, no doubt they came to the outpost for the ubundance of ONI excavation data stored there, and you let them get away."

"Data retrieval was not a Command Directive, and even had we known we had more important matters to attend to."

"Like warning the Planet." Stated Kat.

"Professor Sorvad's final entry in his field notes made reference to a Latchkey discovery, Latchkey, not a term he would use lightly, so lets hope the data module your Lt. Commander stole, contains it!" She said sourly.

"Kat?"

"Before you ask, I was alerted at the moment you tried to access it's contents, as I am with any other unauthorized tap. That is classified tier one, I could send you to the brig for interfereing with my work."

"Maybe you would like to join her?!"

"Excuse me?"

"We're currently under emergency planetary directive; Winter Contingency, I'm sure you are aware of the consequences of civilian interference with the Spartan Deployment."

"Are you threatening me Commander?" She challenged.

"Just giving a suggestion ma'am, lets move Noble Team." He stated.

Gears, Emile, Jun, Kat, and Carter all walked out as they placed their helmets back on.

Jorge and Blaine approached the glass before saying,

"Mom..."

"That will be all Spartans."

Blaine then grew a certain hatred for Carter, how dare he speak to Halsey that way. The II's were under her care, and he could easily have beaten the Commander for his disrespect, but Holland was already upset with Blaine and Gears, so he had decided it would be best if he ignored it. So he saluted the women he missed most in life, and walked out of the room with Jorge.
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Chapter 5: Tip of the Spear.

Jun, Blaine, and Gears had spent the previous night scouting the riverside in search of a disturbance in the grid. Something had been jamming the UNSC's planet-side visual center, cutting off the power in the nearby Power House. Jun, Blaine, and Gears had discovered a secret that made all the Spartans on the team shudder...
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Jun, Blaine and Gears had finally dispatched all of the Covenant outside of the Power House. Their comm. crackled to life as Kat announced,

"You three are now entering the dark zone. Look around and see if you can locate the cause."

"Rodger that Kat, on our way," Jun said as Kat turned off the comm. "Spunky one she is... you guys will get used to her."

Heading through a gate leading east, the Recon team watched as a Phantom lowered itself to drop off troops.

Gears shot the front turret off of the ship, while Blaine and Jun sniped the troops as they dropped out of the troop bay. Gears' suit's alarm went off as a nearby Shade turret fired on them. They took cover behind some rocks, alternatively firing on the Turret while Blaine flanked it. Blaine crept beside it, before arming a plasma grenade. He pulled back the grunt's head and pulled off the mask, it gasping for breath as Blaine shoved the grenade down its throat.

He watched as the plasma film burned the walls of the Grunts neck. He kicked it in the chest towards a group of Jackal snipers, who had previously been firing at Jun and Gears. The grenade inside the Grunt detonated taking its life along with the Jackals.

Continuing along, taking out Elites, Grunts, and Jackals as they went, the team watched as Banshees wailed overhead.

"We must be getting closer... come on." Jun said.

The team met up with a group of Grunts and a Elite Major. Gears threw a frag Grenade in, blowing three of the five grunts to bits. The other two Jun killed easily with his pistol. Blaine tackled the Elite from the side, it attempted to stab him with a Energy Dagger, which he broke out of the elite's hand, and stabbed it in the side of the neck. It yelped out in a blood lust roar, before finally dieing.

"I kill the enemy, but do not hate them." Said Jun remorsefully as he passed Blaine.

"Are you STUPID!!!" Yelled Gears.

"No, I am not, I just don't hate everything that does as it is told."

"I may not be a fucking Spartan like you... but I can tell you that these THINGS don't deserve anything less than death!" Gears stated curtly.

"Why would that be?" Jun replied calmly.

"Because they nearly DESTROYED my planet! They slaughtered the people of my Planet without hesitation, and I witnessed the deaths of many of the people in MY village. I have reason to hate them, and I have reason to KILL them!" He retorted as he stormed off.

Blaine shook his head at Jun, who just stood there, as he followed Gears. The path Gears had left was pretty easy to follow, as dead bodies littered the way. Blaine finally caught up to Gears, who was busy pointing over a cliff edge. Blaine looked over the edge, to see something that made him shiver.

Over the cliff lied a Covenant Invasion Fleet, one hundred times larger than the one they had faced on Mobius. Jun finally caught up and reported the team's findings to Kat.

"Alright team, get some sleep.. because tomorrow will be a very busy day."
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Down the dusty plateau a UNSC attack force approached the site of the Covenant's relay outpost; The Spire. Warthogs, Mongeese, Falcons, and Scorpions approached the site as Banshees fired at them with Plasma cannons and Plasma Bombs. One of the bombs connected with a Mongoose, as it exploded, killing both of the passengers. Blaine and Gears where in a Warthog, with Kat as the driver. Gears fired his turret at a Banshee, which veered left, taking out another with it.

The other banshees noticed this and fired upon Noble's warthog, Kat swerved to the right in an attempt to escape. In front of them was a broken bridge leading to the Spire. Kat warned them about the jump as they took it. The warthog landed hood first and flipped, ejecting all three of them.

Gears shook his head as he picked himself up, only to look right and see another warthog attempt to make the jump, however this one wasn't quite as lucky. The marines inside screamed as they fell down the endless abyss, when Gears heard an explosion.

Blaine picked himself up as well, firing his grenade launcher at a Banshee, which was EMP'd by the Explosion, and dropped to the ground. Blaine ripped open the hatch and pulled out the dead Elite inside. He beckoned Gears to take command of it. Gears got inside, and hovered around as he got used to the controls. Blaine pulled out his DMR and fired on the grunts and Elites that charged at them, while Kat took them out with her pistol.

A pelican dropped down, giving the team a Rocket-Hog. Instead of a regular Warthog, this one had a rocket launcher attached to the back. Blaine hopped onto the turret while Kat drove again. They turned a corner, just as Gears fired a plasma bomb at a group of Skirmishers approaching the Rocket Hog. The blast erradicated the Skirmishers.

Blaine started firing on a Covenant Anti-Air gun, which if left untouched had a chance to shoot down the UNSC Grafton, the ship that they would use to destroy the Spire. After three or so shots of his six-shot rocket launcher, the AA gun self destructed.

The Warthog and Banshee pair continued on, as they were met with a Revenant and Wraith. Blaine fired upon the Wraith, while Gears focused his Banshee bombs on the Revenant. The Revenant fired on Gears, which took out his right side engine. He jumped out after sending it hurtling towards the two assault vehicles.

Landing very harshly, Gears yelped in pain as a piece of shrapnel from the Banshee's explosion collided with his shoulder. He ripped it out of his temporary suit, before injecting a Biofoam canister into the wound and sealing it up temporarily.

Gears hopped into the passenger seat, as it was driven down a winding tunnel. On the other side lied another AA gun, this one was shielded, so they would need to approach on foot. Gears and Blaine killed all of the grunts, Jackals, and Skirmishers that guarded the outside with their DMR and Rockets. When two giant blue armor clad Hunter's stumbled out of the Spire. Blaine shot twelve rockets at the creatures, sending them hurtling. Blaine and Gears exited the Warthog, entering the AA gun's shields, when Gears was kicked in the chest by an Elite. This one looked oddly familiar to that of one of the Elite's they had encountered at Visegrad. It wasn't the Field Marshall, it was a Zealot.

Blaine grabbed the Elite in a head lock, while Gears took his pistol and shot it mercilessly into the Zealot's mouth. Gears and Blaines both tossed grenades into the AA gun's main battery. It started to overload as the Fox and Spartan sprinted for the exit. Blaine grabbed Gears by the back of his suit and tossed him out as it exploded.

"NOOO!" yelled Gears again as he watched the gun burn. Stepping out of the entrance was a shadow. The shadow brushed it's shoulders as it approached Gears and helped him up.

When the dust settled he saw Blaine, who looked completely unharmed, but Gears then realized Blaine had an Armor Lock component in his Armor, while Gears had active camo still. Kat waved to them as a Pelican dropped down to take her to another place where she was needed. A Falcon dropped down, and inside was Jorge. On the sides where two grenade launcher turrets, which Gears and Blaine both manned. Jorge handed Gears an Armor Lock unit.

"We're going to be the only ones assaulting the Spire." Said Jorge.

"Did our entire Army all get destroyed?" Asked Gears.

"Just about... the only remaining UNSC in this battle are holding off any Reinforcements to the Spire." He replied.

The Falcon took off and navigated through a narrow valley, any Covenant Gears or Blaine saw were immediately destroyed by their grenade launchers. The Falcon drew closer to the Shielded Spire.

"Looks like the only way in is forward, hang on to your helmets Spartans!!" Stated the pilot, who pushed the Falcon through the shield, only to be emp'd as it dropped out of the sky.

"Lock your armor Spartans!!!!" Yelled Jorge.

Gears and Blaine both activated their Armor Lock units as the Falcon crashed onto the earth. Waking up from the brief stun they all got up. Gears and Blaine found some ammo crates that were on the Falcon and re-stocked their ammo. The three jogged towards the Spire. Jorge's mini-gun dispatching any and all opposition in their way.

Blaine and Gears left Jorge where he was for a pickup, while they jumped into the Grav-Lift rose them to the very top of the fifty-story Spire. Gears took out his Assault Rifle, while Blaine pulled out his DMR. They both split up, one going left and the other going right.
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Blaine walked down the left passage, only to be greeted by a group of Spec-Ops Grunts, who sported helmets and Fuel Rod guns. He quietly crept up to them, snapping the closest one's neck. The other two snapped to attention and fired on Blaine, who had Armor Locked, bouncing the explosive blobs of plasma back to the midget aliens.

Blaine continued on, only to meet up with a locked door. He turned around, hoping Gears wouldn't have gotten into too much trouble.
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Gears crept silently down his hallway, meeting up with Grunts, which he took out effectively with his Pistol. At the sound of the pistol firing, the Jackals and Skirmishers in the hallway all turned and fired. He took out his AR *Assault Rifle* and fired at the mini bird-like creatures.

When they all dropped dead, Gears pushed on, only to meet a door. He opened it, as an Elite with an Energy Sword clasped him by the throat, he gasped for breath as it slowly choked the life out of him. His vision turned red as he got angry by the fact he wouldn't have his revenge. His eyes teared up as he re-lived the Fight for Mobius, the mobians dieing by Covenant Elites. He opened his eyes again, this time with blind fury. He kicked it in the chest, the Elite released its grip as he edged closer to the warrior.

He pulled out his knife as he stuck it into the Elite's arm, the purple blood leaking out of the wound. He shot his pistol into both of it's legs. It attempted to crawl away as it realized it's legs were paralyzed. It begged for mercy as he pulled out the knife from its arm.

"Mercy? You guys obviously don't know what that means. Allow me to show you what your kind has done to my people!" He said sadistically as he sat done behind it, proping it's head up into his lap. He just looked forward as he drove the knife into the Elite's stomach and pulled upwards, laughing insanely as the blood splurted upwards as it screamed in pain.

Before the Elite finally died, Gears thought he had heard a voice in his head.

" Your angry... good. That rage you feel right now, is what got me to become a super soldier such as I am now. You see, the aliens had orphaned me when I was a small child, and from there I used the anger as a catalyst to gain revenge, but I never let my anger get ahead of me, because that could lead to my men getting killed, and I can't do that... Use that anger, and those memories your having... let them guide you along the warzone, but do NOT let them overpower you, because that can cause you to hurt the ones you love. " He heard Blaine say, as he watched the Elite grasp at it's wound trailing up from the stomach.

Snapping out of his Hyper Adrenaline mode, Gears took his pistol and finished the Elite's suffering.

"I kill the Enemy, but do not hate them. "

"I hate them, and I will kill them... but my god, I've become one of them." He said as he cried, the dead Elite still in his lap.
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Blaine walked through the war torn hallway of Gears, only to see the fox sitting on the ground crying with a dead Elite in his lap. Blaine's jaw dropped as he saw the Elite's torso, a cut trailing up from the stomach.

"Oh Gears... what have you done?" He said.

"Made the biggest mistake of my life... thats what." He replied coldly.

"At least you ended it's suffering... c'mon, we have to shut down the shields of the Spire for the others-"

"No Blaine, you go outside and flag down the Falcon, I'll shut down the Shields, and then get picked up."

Blaine knew that Gears was going to be stubborn about it, so he popped a flair and walked outside.
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Hedgehogs being disembowled, Foxes being burnt to crisps, Birds of Prey being beheaded. Gears needed to show these Covenant who was the Boss. It would be Humanity and the Mobians who would be victorious!

He stood up and walked over to the terminal to shut down the shields. He activated it, and sprinted for the exit. The Falcon hovered there, Carter, Jorge, and Blaine were all inside. He jumped, as Blaine and Jorge grasped his arms and pulled him up.

In front of his seat laid the Spire, behind him approached the UNSC Grafton.

"Control, this is Noble One, Spire one is Green and you're free to engage. Have a nice day!" Said Carter

"Copy that Noble one, be advised ground units, Frigate UNSC Grafton inbound, and MAC rounds have been authorized!"

"MAC rounds?! In atmosphere?" Jorge asked.

"One way to get their attention... hold on to your teeth people." Carter said as the Grafton launched a single MAC round at the Spire. It crumbled to dust on top of any and all Covenant around it.

Gears felt a heat wave as a giant glassing beam struck down on the Grafton, exploding it.

"No, no... tell me this isn't happening!" Said Jorge.

"UNSC Frigate Grafton, what is your status?"

"GRAFTON IS DUST, LETS GET OUT OF HERE!!!!" Yelled Carter.

In the sky above laid a single Covenant Super carrier, which was about one hundred times the size of the Corvette Gears encountered on Mobius, and it seemed to take up the entire sky.

This Fight for Reach had just barely begun, and Gears and Blaine knew it.

*I think this is the longest chapter I have typed, as it took me 3 hours to type it. I hope you enjoyed, and expect an update sometime tomorrow, because I've still got a lot of ground to cover...* gonnamissyouJorge:(
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Chapter 6: Long night of Solace.

The last day had a tiring effect on the team of Spartans. Gears, who was not entirely a Spartan was in worse condition than the others. The team had decided to hide in a cave as a Scarab UberUnit dropped down from the sky. No doubt it came from the super carrier.

"That Super Carrier is going to be a pain in the **** to deal with." Said Carter.

"I have a plan Carter... Emile, your knife please."

"Don't hurt-"

"Myself? I'm not that stupid."

"I was talking to my knife..." He replied.

"..." She shook her head as she drew out the plan in the dirt, all of Noble team gathered around to see it.

"A few years back when we did that op in Harvest, Thom had used that Slip Space generator to cut that Carrier clear in half. If that same freak "accident" happened again... Reach would win this fight once and for all!"

"How do you plan on getting the bomb on board? Just wish it that way?" Asked Emile as Gears snickered.

"No... it just so happens that Fox-Boy over there has a knack for flying aircraft, and not even a Klick from here they have a Top-Secret Sabre launch site. If Gears, Blaine, and Jorge all go up and board the bomb on one of the corvette's in orbit... and send it on a Refueling run, then we can kill many birds with one bombs. In and out... simple enough?"

"Question... How will we get BACK to the Planet?" Asked Gears mockingly.

"With Re-Entry Packs. Which will be in the Sabre units."

"Holland will never go through with this..." Said Carter as he walked backwards into the cave to tell Holland the plan.

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"I spoke too fucking soon...." Carter repeated for the millionth time as the Falcon transporting the team to the Sabre launch site landed. Jorge jumped out, along with Kat, Carter, Gears, and Blaine.

"Couldn't have gotten any closer sir?" Jorge asked.

"Area ahead was to hot to land, move up the Beach Noble!"

The small squad sprinted down the beach, leaving poor Gears to pathetically attempt to keep up. Looking up in the skies discouraged Blaine and Jorge, as hundreds of Phantoms and Spirits, along with some Seraphs. Seraphs were Covenant counter-parts to Sabres.

The team watched as hundreds of Elite drop pods fell from the sky and popped open. Five Elite Minors hopped out, sporting weak Blue armor harnesses. The team threw their grenades at the reptilian bastards, while Blaine when around behind them with his knife, finishing them all quickly and efficiently.

A chain gun on top of the building fired as Seraph units flew over. One unlucky Seraph was hit, but in an act of desperation committed Kamikaze and took the gun with it. Grunts and Jackals ahead cheered as the gun was destroyed. They did not celebrate long though, as Gears had taken this opportunity to bash their skulls in with his wrench. They entered the facility, watching as Marines scrambled all over the place, assisting others in fighting the Covenant, when one brought two Rocket launchers to Kat and Carter.

"Please, we have a HUGE wraith problem, there are six of them out there!!!!" The Marine said exasperatedly. Gears looked at his blood and dirt covered face as he lead the Team's two leaders to the Wraiths.

"Lets keep going Noble!" Said Jorge proudly.

The team worked their way through the many halls of the Facility, when an Elite Officer walked through the door, carrying a Marine on his Energy Sword like it was some sick kind of Shis-Ke-Bhab. Gears tackled it from behind, and was extremely lucky that when it fell that the Sword went through it's head and not the chest Gears was laying on.

Blaine walked up to Gears and slapped him on the Helmet as a sign of "Smarten Up". Continuing down the hall they were greeted by a war room, with large windows towards the back. That when they approached opened to unveil a gun ship. When Gears looked at it, it kind of reminded him of a spaceship. They worked their way into the room, climbing the numerous stairs up to the Cock-Pit. Marines saluted them as they went, saying things like;

"Do us proud Gears!"

"You've got this!"

"I've got money on you, saying you'll succeed, SO DON'T FAIL!"

Gears just saluted back as he got in the driver seat, Blaine got in the seat behind him as a back-up pilot. Jorge got into the way back seat as the Weapons pilot on the Sabre.

"Launch in.... 5.... 4.... 3.... 2..... 1 We have Ignition... do us proud Noble." Said an announcer, warning all the Marines to get out of the room.

Once the thrusters started Gears knew his stomach would churn. The inertia he was experience was horrible, and he felt he would barely be able to control the ship. But he pressed some buttons, detaching the un-needed back part on the back of the ship.

He turned the ship upside down, before doing a single flip. He spent some time getting used to the controls before boosting towards Anchor 9, there they would meet the UNSC Savannah, which would assist them to fight the Corvette.

Flying around, Gears pointed something to Blaine. In the distance they saw a UNSC Frigate, but it wasn't the Savannah, it was the Ice , the ship that bastard Durgan had taken from them. Gears got worried when he heard his friend start to breath angrily.

"Another time Blaine... we have to destroy that Super Carrier first." Said Jorge. "Then you can have your revenge.

"Sabre teams, this is Lt. Durgan of the UNSC Frigate, Breaking the Ice, we will be assisting you and the Savannah today."

"This is Sabre 6, Cpt. Blaine on board to say that if you so much as fucking scratch a MAC cannon... I will shove that helmet of yours so far up you **** you won't remember what was is UP!!" He curtly replied.

"Ah Blaine, I had wondered if you had made it off of that hell hole!" Josh said harshly.

"You listen here you no good piece of ****! You will give Blaine his ship back!!!!" Replied Gears.

"Ahh... so the Fox is also here. Planet get destroyed without our help? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" He mocked.

"You no good chicken ****!!! That was MY planet you're talking about, and I DO have the ability to do to you what I did to your Brother!!!!!"

"Take that back you mongruel, and grow a pair!!!"

"As soon as you do Bro!" He said as he cut the line. Blaine shook his head, Gears knew he had gone too far, but Josh deserved no less.

After the mini fight was over, Anchor 9 hailed all of the available ships.

"This is Anchor 9 to Sabre teams.... our defenses are down, buy us some time!!!"

With a few deafening bangs Gears watched as Banshees appeared out of nowhere.

"Space-Banshees... thats new." Said Jorge, who started to fire on them with the chain gun on the front.

After the first wave was done, a new group appeared, this time followed by groups of Seraphs. Gears attempted to out maneuver them while Blaine and Jorge simultaneously fired at the Covenant ships. Gears had a Seraph dead on their tail, and no matter how much he tried to shake, it wasn't going anywhere.

Finally the Ice fired a MAC round, which pierced the Seraph, detonating it.

"Oh goodie, you nearly hit us moron!" Yelled Gears.

"Your lucky Blaine and Jorge are on board Fox... or I wouldn't have missed!" He hissed before blanking out.

"A bloody fucking accident and he can't forgive me... besides, I wasn't the one that killed him... it was that tough **** Elite." Gears started to ramble as the ship shook.

"As a very wise Cartoonist once said... Keep Moving Forward!!!!" Said Jorge. "I'd rather hear this story tomorrow, when Reach is saved!!!!"

"This is Anchor 9, defenses back online. Be warned though, we are picking up Space Phantoms on hot approach to our turret systems!"

The bangs rang out in the void of Space again when more Banshees, Seraphs, and now six Phantoms all appeared out of the dark. Gears and the other Sabre's shot down what they could. Jorge firing his lock on rockets at the phantoms. Once everything was destroyed, Gears brought the Sabre to dock at Anchor 9.

Jorge made sure all of their helmets were secured before opening the hatch. He looked down at his beautiful planet. Then he jumped out, floating straight towards a pelican holding the bomb. On his way he said,

"Ez Megszakad a szívem. *This is breaking my Heart*"

"Noble 5... please repeat." said the team's AI

"Pull up surface grid 19 by 22."

"Certainly, ONI Sword Base: Sector 18G-"

"Thermal enhance..."

"Noble 5... your pulse is elevated, there is nothing you can do for Halsey or the others in Sword base." The AI said as Jorge watched his planet get bombed by the Carrier. An Explosion rippled on the surface below him.

"Noble 5?"

"I know..." He said as he grasped onto the Pelican, awaiting the ride to the Corvette.

Gears closed the hatch, and followed the Savannah and the Ice towards the Corvette. When they arrived, the Savannah started firing on the Corvette's main engines, preventing it from running away temporarily. Gears took out the Seraphs and Banshee's around them. Just when they were about to land, more Seraphs appeared and started attacking the Ice. It retaliated, disintegrating the space vehicles.

When they landed, Gears could hear nothing. He was nervous, because this was his first Space Op ever, and if he made a mistake he would float infinitely forever. Just out of the shielded access panel jumped out a Flight Elite. This elite was silver with a helmet for Space Ops. It kicked Gears, sending him flying out, when Blaine grabbed his boot and pulled him back.

Gears shot a single pistol round at the Elite's helmet, it punctured the seal, and he watched as the air was sucked out of it and slowly compress by the intense pressure of the mini vacuum. Jumping in, Gears pulled out his Shotgun, which was lent to him by Emile, and shot the other Elite inside in the back of the head.

Followed by the rest of the soldiers Gears and Blaine led the small army into the docking bay. Inside were three Elite Majors, six Spec-Ops Grunts, and a pinkish purple blob in the air.

"Engineer, take that thing out first... it gives shields to ALL of the Covenant around it."

Gears primed a Plasma grenade and chucked it at the Engineer. Normally it would have arched, but thanks to the zero g's in the room it flew straight, melting itself to the creature before exploding. The Covenant in the room all attacked at once. Gears three a few more Plasma Grenades, which made contact with explosive Plasma Batteries, exploding the Grunts and popping the shields of one of the Elites.

Blaine went in for the kill with his DMR, Killing the Elite and weakening the others. Suddenly the room re-pressurized, and Gears felt the artificial gravity kick in. He walked up to what appeared to be a control panel when Jorge said,

"I need in fellas!"

Gears activated the switch, which he had guessed was the button. One of the shields leading into the bay opened up, and the Pelican flew in, making a large amount of noise as it did. Blaine and Gears and the remaining Marines all approached Jorge who hopped out of the back.

"Holland to Blaine, Lead your team of Marines and get the Corvette on a fueling run, Jorge, Gears, protect the bomb!"

"Yes sir!" Said Gears.

"Maybe I made the right decision Captain Gears."

"I aim to please sir!"

"You hear that Blaine, me and Gears are going to be all alone out here... make it quick wouldya?" He said.
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Blaine nodded as he turned and left with the other Marines, one of the doors leading to the Bridge opened, and out came some grunts, which with the help of the Marines they finished quickly. Heading through Blaine met little resistance, until he made it to the gun control room. The Elite manning the guns locked them into firing modes as he turned and opened a Sword.

"Why is it always the Darn Swords!" A Marine yelled as the Elite slashed him with it.

Blaine ran up behind it and kicked it in the back of the knees, it dropped to the floor, and expected death. Keeping his death grip on the Elite's neck, Blaine looked out the window to see the Savannah get shot by the Plasma, causing the Fusion Core running the Frigate to explode, destroying the ship. The loose piece of the Savannah that broke off crashed into the Ice, which too exploded.

"NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!" Yelled Blaine as he watched his prized ship, along with one of his old Harvest buddies, perish in a sea of fire. Although Josh had gone rogue, Blaine still respected and trusted him. Now that both his ship and friends from Harvest were all gone, he looked down at the Elite responsible, which laughed in Alien tongues at Blaine.

The Marines in the room either hid their vision or cheered as they watched Blaine rip the Elite literally limb from limb. When his revenge was satisfied, he walked through the next door, where some Spec-Ops Elites and Grunts, along with an Elite General awaited them. The Elites and Grunts his Marines dealt with. Although they had struggles, he knew this General was not going to go down easily. He pulled out the Energy Sword from the Elite he had just encountered in the other room and ignited it.

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"Blaine really seems to like you. He thinks your more of a Spartan then those III's planetside. I think that you are too, considering you actually have the balls to come up here and not those sissies. Halsey was right about Carter... being a Puppet. He's a Puppet, but you're a Spartan. The only other one that even comes close to it is Emile. Jun never shuts up, and doesn't know when to hate, and Kat is too nerdy. Carter is a strong leader, but would rather send others to die instead of himself." Said Jorge.

"I bet." Gears replied.

"Reach... heh... How I love this place. I was born on this Planet you know... but Halsey took me from my parents. But before you say anything... they weren't the best parents ever, it was always work work work, and no time was spent with me, so I willingly went with her. Most Spartans came from other planets... trained here, and are all fighting Planetside. Hopefully John can lead them to victory."

"John?"

"Oh, he's the Leader of the Spartan II's, in other words, if I was a Captain like you, even though he's a Petty Officer Master Chief.... He would still have jurisdiction over me."

"Wow... I hope he doesn't abuse such power."

"Him?! A hyper lethal vector like that just can't abuse power.... Hell, I'd be surprised if he hasn't killed all of the Covenant down there by himself already, while the other Spartans watched."

"Ha ha ha! He sounds like a good soldier."

"Oh heck yeah he is! Boy... you should definitely meet him someday!"

"I hope I do!"

They stopped the chat when a bang erupted from nearby, and Covenant poured into the room. Gears and Blaine fired their weapons at the large amount of Covenant there. Their plasma grenades and bolts smearing all over the Pelican.

"Blaine! Hurry, our bird is taking a beating!!!" Said Jorge as he finished off a small group of Jackals.
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The General ignited it's Sword once it noticed that all of the Marines and Elites had died off. Blaine and it circled around, no-one's eyes were leaving the others. The Elite charged, and Blaine anticipated the kick that would follow. The Elite's feet were sweeped out from underneath as Blaine ducked and turned in a fast motion.

"Aww... did I stop the poor Bruce Lee wannabe? Hey I rhymed!!!!" He said enthusiastically.

The Elite tried again, but Blaine countered by lopping off one of it's legs and beating it in the face with it. It grabbed for his legs and pulled him down, before punching him in the stomach. He cringed in pain as it brought the sword close to his face. Regaining a little strength he kicked it forward, where it crashed into a control panel, where the team's AI stated,

"Re-fueling run in process, two minutes till arrival."

The General couldn't budge, as it was tangled into a large group of electrical wires. One wrong move and it would make the shocking realization that it would be roasted *cheesy I know*. Blaine made his way back into the bay. When he entered it was Chaos, but luckily Gears and Jorge had dwindled the enemy's numbers. Blaine shot down the remaining Grunts, when Jorge called him over.

"Your Fox makes a good mechanic. He's attempting to repair the bird now." Jorge said.

The two Spartans walked behind the Pelican, Jorge heading over to the bomb to prepare it.

"Distance is closing on this vessel's refueling run with the Carrier, seventy six seconds to enter point."

Jorge pressed some buttons, but they failed. He tried again, no luck.

"Darn it... so... It's going to be like that!" He slapped the machine. "I've got good news and bad news, our Bird has taken fire and our thruster gimble is toast, so the only way off this slag heap is gravity."

"And the good news?" Asked Gears as he walked over.

"That WAS the good news."

"At current velocity, fifty seconds to enter poin-"

"Yeah Yeah Yeah..." He said angrily as he took off his helmet to shut the AI up.

"Bad news is... Timers fried, I'm going to have to fire it manuall-"

"Thats a one way trip!" Stated Blaine.

"We all make it sooner or later, better get going Spartans... their going to need you down there!"

"AND you too Darn it!!!" Sobbed Blaine.

"Listen, Reach... has been good to us... time to return the favor, don't deny me this." He said as he snapped off his dog tags and handed them to Blaine, when their hands clasped he locked his grip and picked up Blaine, then Gears. He carried them over to the shield doors, before activating their Re-Entry Packs.

"Listen Blaine... your the only Spartan II on this team now, make them proud... and tell em' to make it count! Gears, you are a true Spartan at heart, and don't let anything tell you differently!!" He said as he looked at them one last time before throwing them down to the Planet below.

Gears and Blaine fell in a free fall for quite a ways as they watched the Corvette get closer to the Carrier. Gears noticed a spark through his teary eyes as he watched Blaine's and his friend detonate the bomb, which was a giant blue sphere that enveloped half of the Carrier and the entire Corvette.

The sphere imploded, sending blue particles flying in all directions, emping a nearby satelite.

"Slipspace rupture detected." Said the AI continually as Blaine and Gears looked to their right. Horrifically thousands upon thousands of Carriers appeared out of the void of space. Gears and Blaine knew the battle was now lost... there was no hope for Reach.

"Gamma station control reading multiple pings below the orbital grid."

"Yeah.. we're picking up anomolies too!"

"This can't be happening."

"Are you seeing this!!! Its the whole Darn COVENANT FLEET!" Said Holland.

Then an illegible scream was all that was heard when the lines where cut. Gears and Blaine's re-entry packs activated to slow their descent to the surface. They landed, Blaine harder than Gears, Blaine stood up before putting his arm back into socket with a pop. He silently walked over to his pack and pulled out a pistol, before turning back and looking at the mountains in front of them, where the Carrier was now landing and exploding. He saluted the debris, and walked off.

"I lost my ship, two of the best soldier's I've ever known, and and.... Reach is DOOMED!!!" He yelled as he rampaged through the woods. Gears hung back... if he thought his adrenaline mode was bad... than Blaine pissed would be worse.
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Chapter 8: The Package.

Blaine and Gears entered the Aircraft Communications outpost in New Alexandria. Inside the control room was Carter, who was looking out the window at the burning city, Kat was sitting in a corner messing around with a comm. system so Carter could talk to Holland. Jun was looking out the window with a pair of Binoculars, while Emile sharpened his Kukri Knife.

"Look at this place... used to be the crowned jewel." Said Jun as he greeted the newest arrivals. "Hey! You made it."

"Yes, It's a regular Family Reunion!" Replied Emile sarcastically. Blaine pulled out Jorge's dog tags, and offered them to Emile.

"You keep them, after all he was a closer friend to you than anyone. I'll honor him my own way."

"Jorge did always say he would never leave Reach-" Started Jun.

"Heh heh heh... well, the big man was sentimental."

"He just gave his life thinking he saved the entire Planet, we would all be so lucky. I need that link to Sat-Com Kat!" He said.

"Chasing it, but this console has more shrapnel in it than the transceiver... you still haven't answered my question!"

"Want to know if we're losing-"

"I know we're losing, I want to know if we've lost!"

Suddenly the comm. thing crackled to life.

"Colonel Holland is hailing us! What is he doing on an open channel?!"

"Lets hear it!" Stated Carter.

"-Southwest Region quadron of the city over! Sierra 259, if you are hearing this, I am granting override of security protocols to link with this channel."

"How long until it's secure?"

"I can't promise security anymore."

"Well can they hack it?"

"I could... make it brief." She said as he took the mic.

"Carter here... yes sir."

"We've got movement, Covenant dropships, and their fleeing from something in a hurry." Stated Jun.

"How often do you see these bastards running away?" Asked Emile

"Radiation flare!! It's big!" Said Kat

"I lost Holland, whats going on!"

"Atomic excitement scrambled the signal."

"Location?"

"Airborne"

"How close?" Asked Blaine.

Out of the nearby window the team watched as a glassing beam struck down hard directly near the building. All of the shields in the room popped as the team scrambled to the elevators. Blaine, Gears, and Kat got in one, while the others piled into the others.

"THAT close!" yelled Gears

"First glassing? It is for me." She said as the Elevator went down. "Our best bet is a Fallout bunker on Sub level two.... we get orders from Holland sir?"

"We're being re-deployed to Sword Base."

"SWORD?! Covenant own it now!!!" Said Jun.

"That's why Command wants us for a Torch and Burn op. Keep Halsey's data from falling into enemy hands."

"If it hasn't already."

"Maybe, but according to Holland the Covvies are still searching for something."

They said as they exited the elevators and sprinted towards the the bunker.

"Where does he get off calling a Demolition a priority one-" She started as a single pink needle shot down into her helmet. Gears grabbed her pistol and shot at the assailant, while Carter, Emile, and Jun shot their AR's at it. The sniper was the Field Marshall from Visegrad. Gears unloaded all of his bullets into it as it flew away.

Blaine dragged Kat by the shoulders into the bunker as the doors closed. Her right foot twitched as she took her last breath. The team jumped out the other side, Carter carrying Kat out as Jun pulled out a Blue flare, calling for a pelican. Blaine, Gears and Emile all hung their heads as they waited for the ride.

"Mother-Fucker!" Yelled Gears as he watched the pelican arrive.

"All those things I said..." Blaine said solemnly.

Carter just cried, while Jun and Emile loaded her into the back, as they all climbed in.
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A pelican flew overhead as Gears and Blaine jumped over the rocky cliff, after returning from scouting. Behind them were three ODST's, because Blaine was the highest rank of the mini squad, he held up his fist before waving his fingers forward as a way of saying move up. It was back to Blaine and Gears alone again, much like it had been for Mobius too, except they weren't losing on Mobius.

The comm. outpost from when they were here earlier was completely destroyed, and all that was left of the ruins was a covenant Shade turret. On the beach nearby was two other turrets, along with a ghost and a squad of Grunts. Blaine sent Gears after the lone turret, which he would kill the gunner and provide cover for the ODST's and Blaine. Gears climbed silently up the stairs, his knife at the ready. He grabbed the grunt by the neck, before plunging the knife into it's eye socket.

Gears climbed into the turret, taking out the squad of Grunts while he watched Blaine and the ODST's take out the ghost's driver, one of the Marines took control and rammed into one of the turrets. Gears rigged his own with a remote control bomb. Continuing up the hill, Gears saw a Scorpion tank in perfect condition just waiting for the taking, so he contacted Blaine over the comm. Blaine and the ODST's caught up in a hurry, Gears took the machine gun attached to the front while Blaine drove. The ODST's all piled onto the tread seats on the side, as Blaine took out a Sniper's nest.

Turning a corner, Blaine saw three ghosts, a Revenant, and an Elite General. Gears fired his machine gun at one of the Ghosts, turning it to scrap metal in an instant. He fired on the General, as he filled the alien with holes the Revenant got a lucky shot in, killing one of the ODST's on the tank. The man yelled as his body was thrown in the rear treads. Blaine shot the Revenant, which fortunately took out another Ghost. One of the ODST's lobbed a frag, which exploded the last Ghost, and they continued on.

Over the next hill layed two Covenant Anti-Air guns where the UNSC AA gun had been. Blaine stayed back as he unleashed shell after shell into the first one while Gears and the ODST's dealt with the attackers around the tank. After ten or more shells piercing the gun it blew up, killing all inside effectively.

He then turned his attention to the other one. Little did Gears know that an Elite had boarded, as it ripped him out of the turret. It started to punch his face, breaking his nose, and making his jaw crack quite a few times. Angered by this, Gears grabbed it by the throat, and lifted it with a strength he never had used quite before, he started to run towards a giant boulder nearby, the Elite helpless to his speed. The angrier he got, the faster he ran. Finally Gears hit the giant rock, smashing the Elite into it. There he pulled out his knife and finished it off before running back to the tank.

While Gears had been busy with the Elite, Blaine had finished off the other gun, and continued on towards Sword Base once again. On the way they met with a few Revenants, a Wraith, and two Fuel Rod Turrets. Blaine took these out quickly. When the tank rolled towards the door, Blaine and Gears got out while one of the ODST's took control of the Tank, saluting the two Captains as they left.

Heading into the courtyard of Sword, Gears heard a Shotgun and two DMR's going off nearby. As they turned the corner they watched Carter, Emile, and Jun kill a pair of Hunters. Heading inside the base, they realized the Elevator was no good, so they found a way around. Inside their shortcut was a group of Skirmishers, which Gears' DMR was delighted to kill. Once they all died, Gears reloaded and led the team through the catacombs of ONI research. It lead to a room with an Engineer in the back, with a General and a few Spec-Ops Elites. Gears took out the engineer, while Emile, Carter, and Jun focused on the invisible Elites.

Blaine charged at the General, which attempted to kick him, but he grabbed it, twisted it and swung the Elite around in a circle, throwing him mid swing. The Elite landed painfully as it was impaled by the Statue of a man called George Washington's sword in the middle of the room. Moving on, the team encountered a dead end.

"Looks like they got cornered." Said Jun.

"Or committed to their location."

"I'm gonna go with cornered... theres nothing here." Said Emile.

"Sir... if we're supposed to blow this place... this isn't the place to do it from."

"Dot, check your vector."

"Vector confirmed, We are precisely where ONI has directed, apologizes, Coordinates revised."

"Revised?!"

"By an AI of unknown origin, who's clearance is well above mine own."

"Well, it's pointing us a Klick and a half east and two thousand feet underground-"

"I didn't bring my shovel commander." Said Emile and Gears simultaneously.

"Told you he was aight!"

"Sir, I say we go AI free on this one, these Coordinates are junk and the longer we go chasing-"

Suddenly a secret door hissed open.

"What is this dot?"

"Our revised route sir!"

Carter ordered them to continue on, as the door shut behind them. The tunnel was a fairly long one, and Gears was tired enough as it was, fighting day in and out for about two weeks straight now. Nearing the end, they saw a gondola, which they entered, when suddenly the doors shut and a visual popped up.

"Apologizes for the unusual security measures Commander, but the Stakes demand it."

"Doctor Halsey, casualty reports had you listed as-"

"Yes, well as they say, news of my death have been greatly exaggerated. I wish the said could be said about the rest of Noble."

"We all do ma'am."

"You'll be happy to know that Data Module Noble 2 found contained exactly what my scientist had promised, a "Latchkey" discovery, it has unlocked the secrets of this excavation."

"Not sure I understand."

"Your orders were a pretext to bring you to me, and have been overridden. You are here Noble to ensure the delivery of this vital data to a secure location."

"Ma'am our orders-"

"Others will handle the demolition."

"I'll need to contact Command about this directive change-"

"Holland will be briefed, you belong to ONI now. What you now see in front of you is an Alien artifact neither Human, nor Covenant in origin, it is Advanced beyond our comprehension. Thanks to Kat the decryption is nearly complete."

"Whatever we're doing down here, we'd better do it quick."

"Have it done when we reach you, or else it's going to be buried!" Stated Carter.

"You bury any of it and you bury Humanity's best chance at survival, you wonder what your Spartans died for? They died for this!" She said as she ending the transmission.

"Peachy." Said Gears sarcastically as he watched a Phantom drop out of a hole in the cold cave's roof.

The team approached Halsey's door, as the Phantom dropped off units for them to fight. Gears and Jun used their snipers to kill the onslaught, while Emile and Blaine did the close quarters stuff. Carter used his DMR, and assisted anyone in the team when needed. The fight seemed to rage for hours, Brutes with hammers, Elites with Swords, Grunts with Fuel Rods. Gears ran out of sniper, so he grabbed a shotgun off of a dead marine on the ground and approached an Elite.

However, exhaustion became too much as it picked him up and snarled in his face, before igniting a Sword. Gears attempted to get angry, but couldn't seem to find it anywhere. The Elite pulled it's sword back as it prepared to plunge it into his navel. Gears looked over to Blaine, and watched his friend tirelessly take on three Brutes, when one of them ripped off Jorge's dog tags and threw them over by the door. Gears was infuriated by the Brutes lack of respect for the dead. Gears looked back at the Elite as he head butt it.

It released his grip as he pulled out his knife and thrust it into the Elite's neck. He dove at one of the Brutes, using the hammer to beat it to a pulp. He pulled out his shotgun and blew the nearest one's head clean off with it, while Blaine took a hammer and used the blade on the back to stick into the last one's spine.

"Door is opened now Noble team!" Said Halsey as the team walked down the narrow hall leading to the lab. Gears with his new vitality raced the Spartans down the hall to Halsey, who was busy punching away at one of her computers.

"What is this stuff?" Asked Emile.

"Knowledge... a birthright from an ancient civilization. This AI is it's custodian, and she has chosen you as here carriers."

"Chosen, by an AI?" Asked Emile once more.

"By this one... yes. Her measure of you weighs as much as mine own, maybe more. You are to take her to a UNSC ship breaking yard in Azod. There you'll find a Halcyon class cruiser waiting to get her off planet."

"I understand." Said Carter.

"Do you? Mankind is outmatched, and when Reach falls, and fall it will, our annihilation is all but certain, unless we find a game changer from this artifact?"

"And what if we can't?!" Asked Blaine.

"An excellent question, if there were somewhere else to place our hope... there is not." She said as the pink AI she was talking about stood up, before being transfered to a chip in a special glass container. Halsey walked over gently to the Spartans. She walked over to Gears, who's spine tingled as she handed it out to him.

"She has chosen you... Fox. Please take it."

"I'm not so sure I should."

"She see's your success, she has chosen no other, please take it." Carter nodded to the fox, who reached out and lightly siezed the hefty container.

"Do you have it?" Halsey asked.

"Yes-"

"Say the words..."

"I have it." Said Gears reluctantly as he hitched the container to his back. Heading outside again with the team, there were two pelicans waiting out a hidden exit.

"Doctor Halsey, Noble 3 will escort you to castle base."

"I require no escort commander-"

"Jun, make sure NOTHING falls into enemy hands."

"Aye sir, and good luck sir!"

"You too Rifleman!" He said, as Carter, Blaine, Gears, and Emile all entered the other Pelican. They watched as Jun and Halsey rode off towards Castle base. Knowing they may never see him again. Carter got in the pilot seat, and asked for directions, while Emile changed picked up a grenade launcher.
"The path we are taking is infested with Covenant sir." Said Auntie Dot the AI.

"Wouldn't be a Noble mission if it were easy." Said Carter.

"UNSC Frigate Pillar of Autumn is awaiting the package!"

Gears, Blaine, and Emile watched out the back as the cave they were just in exploded. Blaine and Gears sat down in two of the seats, hoping this final mission would be successful.


*Two more chapters left. But I hope you've enjoyed the story thus far! John that Jorge mentioned will make an appearance in the next chapter. Thanks again for reading and expect an Update on Friday!*
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Chapter 9: The Pillar of Autumn

As much as Gears liked being with Blaine, his best friend and him both new that the Pillar of Autumn would be the last mission they had together, once aboard Gears would take a Longsword fighter and fly through the portal while Blaine stayed with the ship.

But that won't happen if we don't survive. Thought Gears as he watched two banshees and a Phantom chase after their Pelican. The first banshee fired the super heated plasma from it's front cannons, the plasma trailed through the troop bay of the Pelican and pierced Carter's heart.

Carter lurched forward in pain as the plasma burned his already broken heart. He felt as blood sprayed out of his nose and mouth into his helmet, while Dot kept repeating,

"Noble Leader, seek immediate attention. Noble Leader, please respond." In her flat,emotionless voice.

Gears approached the cock pit as Carter fumbled his helmet off, it clanging to the floor. The banshee's fired again, the shots bouncing off of Gears' shields. Emile used his grenade launcher to emp the first banshee, that swerved into the second one. The two banshees crashed to the ground, exploding as they impacted.

"Sierra-259 respond, you're alarming me." Dot said again.

"Not sure how long she's gonna stay together. The skies are gummed up anyways, gotta get you off her fox."

"Sir-"

"Don't wanna hear it. Get the package to the autumn."

"Done-"

"Not yet, Emile, Blaine, go with him, it's a ground op now." The leader stated.

"Affirmative, It's been an honor sir!" Said Emile sadly.

"Like-wise, I'll try to draw their fire." He said.

Blaine, Gears and Emile made their way to the open troop bay, where Gears handed Blaine the package, the shimmering AI shocked Blaine as he handed it back to Gears.

"Listen, that AI chose you, it made the right choice Gears." The leader said kindly as he smiled.

Blaine held Emile and Gears close as Gears clung onto the package.

"On my mark.." He said as he lifted three fingers, each one going down per second, after three he exclaimed, "MARK!"

Gears felt as Emile and Blaine pulled him down. With a fairly hard slam Gears slid down the cliffside below, before rolling five times. When he finally stopped moving, he checked the package, which miraculously was unharmed. He clipped it to his back as he cringed in pain. His tired body had taken quite a few beatings during this battle for Reach, and he hadn't gotten the medical treatments he would require.

Fighting through the immense pain, he walked over to Emile and Blaine, who were peeking over a cliff, where they watched Carter's pelican get chased by three banshees. In the background, Gears could see the giant frigate get prepared for takeoff.

"Sir-" Started Emile, who was attempting to warn Carter of the banshees.

"Stay low, let me draw the heat."

Blaine and Emile worked their way around the cliffside, attacking a Grunt squad on the ground level, Gears backed up as he jumped over the cliff, aiming for the Elite he pulled out his knife. He landed on the Elite's back, the inertia pushing the Elite to the ground, Gears jumped, and slammed both of his boots into the Elite's head.

"I knew I liked you!" Said Emile as he finished off a grunt with his shotgun.

The squad worked their way down the unfinished road in front of them until they reached a checkpoint building. Inside they found health packs galore, and even Rocket launchers.

Gears and Emile both swapped their pistol/Grenade launcher for a Rocket Launcher. Outside they saw a Mongoose and a Warthog. Gears got in the passenger seat while Blaine took the driver seat. Emile got on the gun, although he ripped the turret off and made a make shift Rocket-Hog out of it.

Blaine took off towards the waypoint his suit placed on the Pillar. Gears looked at the sky, seeing at least twenty Banshee's in the sky. Him and Emile locked their Rockets on as they fired. The two Spartans cheered as six of the aircraft exploded. The warthog they were in was guided through the narrow pass, as they came into a clearing. Blaine followed the winding dirt road to their destination, as they watched Scarab tanks land in front of them, narrowly missing the vehicle.

The ground shuddered they giant tanks landed. All three of the deadly vehicles took up the entire plateau, and Gears shook in his seat as he watched the Scarab's Head glowed green, before firing a green beam of explosive plasma into a nearby Pelican. The beam struck, melting the pelican into nothing.

Blaine just navigated through their legs as Elite and Grunt drop pods fell from the sky. When they cleared the giant field, they were left with one challenge, a jump had been created from a broken bridge ahead. Blaine punched it to maximum speed as they took the jump, it landed on the back wheels, which were still moving, causing the jeep to flip backwards. Gears, Blaine and Emile scrambled out as the warthog fell into the crevice.

The squad moved on foot towards a destroyed building, where they healed their wounds from the last little battle. Gears pulled up his health monitoring function on the suit. He had three cracked rips, a broken one, the wound on his back from Mobius was open. Blaine noticed Gears' health monitoring and said,

"Thankfully when we get to the Autumn, they'll heal you up nicely."

The team continued down the road, when Carter opened a comm and said,

"Road ahead is guarded by hostiles."

Passing through another nearby building, Emile took notice on a Wraith, and a bunch of Brutes guarding the pass into a nearby cave. Gears pulled out his Rocket Launcher and shot two rockets at the Wraith. He reloaded as Emile and Blaine kept the Brutes nearby busy. Then he fired once more, exploding the Wraith tank. Gears pulled out his shotgun, before assisting the others in fending off the ape-like beasts.

Out of the entrance of the cave came Jackal snipers with Needle Rifles, but also Skirmishers, and Suicide Grunts. Blaine used his DMR to dispatch the Skirmishers and Suicide Grunts, while Emile and Gears used their shotguns to assault the Jackals. They jumped down into the cave, where they crept through it quietly. When they reached the end Carter opened the comm. and said,

"Noble... you've got a... situation." The leader said horsely.

Gears, Blaine and Emile watched as a Scarab tank fell onto the rocky cliff in front of them. It aimed it's giant explosive beam at them, as the front became green.

"Mother Fucker! We can get past it sir!" Said Emile.

"No you can't, not without help." Said Carter as he fired the front turrets of the ship into the Scarab. The tank stopped the charge as it looked at the annoying little pelican above it, before turning it's attention at the three easy Demons before it.

"Sir, you don't have the firepower-"

"I've got the mass.." Said Noble Leader as he came to the conclusion that this was the end.

The pelican fired once more as it flew over, making an arch around while Emile said,

"Solid copy, hit 'em hard boss!"

"You're on your own Noble... Carter out!" Said the Leader as he fired the turret and crashed his pelican head first into the Scarab's main gun. The tank malfunctioned as mini explosions rippled over it. The tank fell down the rocky cliff as it exploded.

"Crevice to the east... let's go." Said Emile.

"Goodbye Noble leader." Said Gears and Blaine as they nodded when they passed the cliff.

The squad solemnly made their way through another cave, this one filled with Drones. Annoying buggers who flew around at high speeds. They were hard to hit, but with every head-shot the team made, they exploded into chunks of exoskeleton and bone. On the other side of this death filled cave lied the ship breaking yard. The biggest thing seen by the team was the Frigate, that was in the middle of repairs.

"Spartans, this is Captain Keyes of the Pillar of Autumn. We are tracking you Noble and have begun our Launch sequence. Proceed to dry dock 5:14. I will be arriving myself to receive the package."

Blaine, Gears and Emile looked below to see Marines fighting a squad of Elites, run by an Elite General, who wore a golden harness, with a horn on top that resembled that of a Unicorn. Gears couldn't help but laugh, and the Elite must have heard it, because it charged up the hill with a sword, while the Spec-Ops Elites fought the Marines below.

Blaine shot his DMR at it, lowering it's tough shields, while Emile used Rockets. It was unbelievable that this General could take so much fire power and still have shields. Gears pulled out his knife to charge, as Emile ran ahead with his Kukri knife out, and slashed it's throat. He wiped the blood off of it as he placed it back into it's sheath.

The team assisted the Marines with the rest of the Elites as they made their way into the dry docks. Inside was a reactor, filled with some sort of molten metal. At the top of the catwalk near the Reactor lied a Zealot, this one also was at Visegrad, it was this one and three others that still remained. Gears charged up the catwalk, knowing that Jorge would be proud if he killed one by himself. As he ran, he got angry at the thought of Jorge, he killed a Spec ops Elite that charged at him with an Energy sword.

Gears used his shotgun to kill it without even thinking, he picked up the Sword, and watched as the Zealot pulled out it's own. Gears charged as the Elite did, they both swung their Swords with a bang as they clashed. Gears and the Elite struggled to overpower the other, when the Elite kicked, Gears sideswiped, taking the Zealot's legs from underneath.

While it was on the ground he ran around behind it as it stood to face him, it's back to the molten metal. Gears thought of Kat, Jorge, Jun, and Carter as he kicked the Zealot with all of his might into the reactor. He watched as it slowly burned.

The team caught up to the fox, and congratulated him on his solo kill of one tough Elite. They pushed on, as they turned a corner they were greeted by two Hunters. Blaine and Gears charged at the first one while Emile took on the other one. Gears used his new sword to slice an opening into it's exposed back, where he primed a plasma grenade and stuck it into the wound. The worms that made up the beast screeched in pain as the plasma burnt the flesh.

Emile fired six of his twelve shells into the other one, toppling the gargantuan. When the two Hunters were down, the Spartans moved into the next building, which looked like any normal office building, but instead was painted with both Alien and Human blood. Working their way through the offices they finally found the dry dock. On a platform above, Blaine saw a MAC cannon. Emile and Gears walked up to the MAC cannon as Blaine stayed on the dock.

Gears picked up a Spartan Laser as Emile climbed into the control station on the cannon. Blaine stayed below to fend off the Covenant.

"Noble to Keyes, we're at the pad." Said Emile.

"Copy Noble, my Pelican's ready, clear the LZ, I'll meet you there."

"Will do sir!" Said Gears.

"Aight Spartans, this is it." Said Emile as he fired at Phantoms and Banshee's approaching the Frigate that was right next to them.

A few got through, and dropped troops down. Blaine got to work, drilling through the ranks of the Brutes and Grunts with his DMR. Gears fired his laser at the Phantoms incoming, but when he realized it wasn't doing anything, he fired at the troops below instead. Luckily for Gears there were three of them here, so he wouldn't have to worry about wasting ammo.

After the enemy were down for a while, Emile confirmed it was safe for Keyes, who had begun his descent. Blaine walked up to the pad, but realized that Gears had the package. He started to say something when he heard.

"This is Keyes on hot approach to platform delta." The pelican turned around, and the troop bay opened to reveal an old man standing in the back, fumbling with his cobb pipe. The man exited the Pelican to approach Blaine.

"Good to see you Spartan, Halsey assured me I could count on you."

"Not just me sir-" Started Gears up on the Platform.

"They'll be remembered, now please get down he-" He started to say to Gears as he noticed a Covenant Cruiser approaching his ship.

"Cruiser, adjusting heading for the Autumn."

"You'll have your window sir!" Said Emile. One of the two pelicans nearby was shot down by a Phantom, as Keyes was protected by Blaine. The Phantom made it's way up to the Platform, where Blaine attempted to fire his DMR at it, but the front turret kept him in cover with Keyes.

Emile made a roar as a Zealot dropped down, which he punched, flipping it over the side of the ladder. It looked into his Skull visor as he finished it with a headshot.

"Who's NEXT!" yelled Emile as another Zealot from Visegrad came up behind him, impaling him with the sword before pulling it out. He turned and pulled out his Kukri Knife, before entering it into the Zealot's neck.

"I'm ready!! How bout chu?!" He stated as they both fell out of the cannon, partially dead. Gears sprinted over to Emile, who pulled the Knife out of the Elite's neck, and gave it to Gears.

"Cut em' up... Gears." He said as he died. Gears started to cry, but realizing that Keyes and Blaine would die too, Gears hopped over the fence and over to the Pelican, handing the package to Keyes, who took it. One of the Marines inside offered a hand to Keyes, who climbed in. The same Marine offered again saying,

"Spartans get aboard!! We've got to get the hell out of here!"

"Negative, we have the gun-" Started Gears, who felt himself being lifted and tossed into the Pelican. Attached to his neck were both Blaine's, Jorge's, Emile's, and his own Dog tags.

"NOO!"Yelled Gears, who fought back tears.

"No, I have the gun, good luck sir. Good bye Gears." Said Blaine who saluted them both, and walked off towards the gun.

"Good luck to you Spartan." Said Gears solemnly as he watched his best friend walk towards the gun. Keyes shook his head and made his way to the cock pit as the troop bay closed.
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Blaine charged ahead, having taken the Sword from Gears. He ran up the stairs, where a group of Grunts and one of the last Zealots attacked. Blaine took his sidearm in his left hand, blowing the grunts away while he used his right hand to slash the Elite, before kicking it over the railing into the abyss below.

He continued in, where he saw the last Zealot, along with their leader the Field Marshall, waiting for him right before the gun. Blaine clipped the pistol to his hip again, as he picked up another Sword on the ground. He wielded one in each hand as he sprinted towards them. The Zealot ran towards him as it swung, he blocked with his left sword and be-headed it with his right. The Field Marshall was angered by his team officially dieing, and pulled out a sword of his own. Blaine cast his left one aside, before waving his fingers at the Elite in a sign of Come and get me.

"I'm the last in your collection right? Well... come and get me you Dino BASTARD!"

It laughed in Alien tongue as it circled him, then lunged, he parried the blow before punching it in the stomach. The Marshall flinched as the pain erupted from the stomach, he swung again, nearly getting Blaine in the neck. Blaine kicked it's feet out from underneath it, before kicking it's sword away. It shivered in fear as it said,

"Mercy?" As it cowered.

"Mercy huh? Tell that to Jorge," As he cut off an arm.

"Kat!" As he cut off the other.

"Carter!" He cut off a leg.

"Emile!" He cut off the other leg.

"Jun!" He cut off an mandable.

"AND ALL OF THE OTHER SPARTANS ON REACH!!!" As he cut off it's head, kicking it over the cliff-side.

He passed Emile's body and nodded, before climbing the ladder into the cannon. He fired at the phantoms approaching him, as the Cruiser got closer to the ship, charging it's glassing beam. Blaine fired right at the charge, blowing up the ship in mid air.
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"Good guns Spartans. All stations brace for cast off!" Said Keyes as the Pelican entered the Frigate.

The Frigate fired up its engines as Gears and the crew exited the Pelican. Sitting there in front of a cryo tube, was someone in a full Olive green Mjolnir combat suit. It was a Spartan II. Keyes pointed to Gears a LongSword that he would take to the portal. On board was a slip space rupture sealer, which would prevent the Covenant from going back to Mobius. Gears stumbled as the ship shook as it lifted off of the ground. He approached the Spartan.

"So... you are the Hyper Lethal Fox... My name is Master Chief John-117." He said as he offered a hand.

"Captain Gears sir."

"You sure did Reach proud, I can't believe all my Spartans are just about dead... but I'm needed by Halsey elsewhere. Blaine was one good Spartan."

"He... THEY still are... remember, Spartans don't die..."

"They just go missing in action... I know." Finished the Spartan as he climbed into the Cryo Tube. Gears walked over to the LongSword, and fired up the engines, while waiting for Keye's direction.
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Blaine climbed out of the cannon, looking at the Ship similar to the one he lost earlier. Gears was weakened in this fight, and wouldn't have lasted much longer, Blaine would have gone with him, but Reach is where he was staying.

He watched as the starting engines detached, allowing the main engines to propel it forward in a flash. He teared up as he watched the two blue lights that symbolized his exit leaving disappear.

"This is the Pillar of Autumn, we are away, and the package is with us." He said.

Blaine walked out over the cliff-side, holding his DMR in his left hand, he walked over to the deserted field in front of him, covered with destroyed vehicles and buildings. Reach had fallen, and he was going to take as many of these assholes as he could with him.
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Gears opened a video link with Blaine, to see what his friend could see.
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Blaine-007 looked out over the red horizon, as he watched Banshee's and Phantoms litter the atmosphere of his home planet. He took deep breaths as he watched three banshees pass over him. He tightened his grasp on the DMR in his hand as he looked over to a Phantom dropping troops.

He walked over, shooting his Magnum into the cranium of the Grunts that landed, along with firing his DMR at it, killing it instantly. More Grunts approached as he shot them with his precious rifle. More Phantoms piled down as they dropped higher ranking aliens. He had to take shelter inside one of the destroyed buildings as the Dropships' turrets rained explosive blasts of plasma on his position.

Inside the building the Elites piled in, firing their Plasma Rifles and Plasma Repeaters at his, barring his shields down. He took down three of them with his rifle as he ran outside once more, he shields screaming in his ears to recharge. His health read in the yellow, he was still healthy enough to fight.

He threw grenades at the Elite Majors, their tough shields taking most of the damage, but stayed strong. Blaine kept firing on them, until another two fell to his feet. His helmet cracked as a plasma bolt struck it directly, inside his HUD was taken up completely by the crack. His strength was slowly disappearing, and he knew this was it.

He pulled off his prized Recon class helmet, and tossed it to the ground, he limped over to an assault rifle laying on the ground in front of him, and graciously picked it up. While a Elite Major continued to fire on him, he crouched laying an entire clip into the beast. An Elite Captain approached from behind with a sword ignited, Blaine heard this and slammed the gun into the Alien's jaw, taking out it's shield and knocking it to the ground. Blaine pulled out his pistol in his left hand and fired a single shot into it's face.

Gears watched through his helmet as another Elite off screen shot at his helmetless friend. The man's short black hair and Blue eyes nearly drained of life stared angrily at the opposition. The Elite had another partner shoot at the Spartan, who shot the first one with his assault rifle, and the other with his pistol. Both of the Major's fell to his relentless bullets as an Ultra pushed him over with a muffled grunt.

The Ultra jumped on top of the Spartan with an Energy Dagger engaged, Blaine kicked it in the chest, sending it stumbling away momentarily, as a Field Marshall came in with a Sword. Blaine blocked it with his arm, before punching it, popping it's shields as it shook it's head an let them recharge. The Ultra jumped again with a sword, but was dodged by Blaine, and took an elbow to the face. The Marshall approached again, and stabbed Blaine mid dodge with his Dagger right in the throat.

Blaine attempted to swallow, but in his pain he watched the Field Marshall laugh in his face, knowing it had just killed a demon.

Not yet you haven't he thought as he grabbed the Ultra's sword and killed the Marshall. The Elites nearby knew that the Demon was dead, so they walked away, to check the area for more Humans to kill.

Blaine looked to the beautiful sky one last time, as his vision slowly turned to black, death was creeping up on him, and although he wanted nothing more than to be with his fox friend, he didn't even fight his demise. He had gotten revenge successfully for Noble, and he would die just like the other Spartan II's had on this Planet. He lost complete vision as his hearing slowly went, and eventually his heart stopped beating, as he passed away.
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Gears stopped the transmission as he watched his friend die in front of him.

"Keyes to Gears, you are now clear for take off." Gears ignited the engines, and flew out of the bay towards the portal. He looked back towards the burning planet, nodded, and continued through. On his way through, the sealant activated, closing the Portal tightly.
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Closing the transmission for the millionth time since they crash landed on the Shield World, Halsey spoke to the monitor.

"It didn't take long for Reach to fall... our enemies' were ruthless... efficient, but they weren't nearly fast enough, for you had passed the torch. It was because of you that we found Halo, discovered it's secrets, and shattered our enemy's resolve.

Our victory, your victory was so close, I wish you could have lived to see it, but you belonged to Reach. Your body, your armor, all burned and turned to glass... All except you Courage... THAT you gave to us, and with it... we can rebuild." She said as she turned to the other survivors of Reach who were stranded here. Fred, Kelley, Linda, and CPO Mendez. Who all hung their heads as they thought of the Spartan III's and II's of Noble team.

"Whatever did happen to that Spartan who escorted you mom?" Asked Linda.

"Well, when we arrived at Castle base, we were attacked by a pair of Hunters, and he had taken one out with his sniper, but the other hit him in the abdomin. He smashed into a wall, and primed a plasma grenade before charging into the beast. Him and the Hunter were both enveloped in the explosion, and I made my way inside." Said Halsey, shaken by the memory.

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Gears watched the transmission again, but he knew this is what that Spartan had wanted, and Gears would never forget the Spartan of Mobius, who never abandoned him, and stood by him through thick in thin. As his fighter Jet landed, he was approached by Sonic and Tails, and all the remainder of his villagers in Knotwood.

He walked through them all as he reconstructed the statue in the middle of the town, it now resembled the team of Spartans all ready for battle, with the words;

Blaine, Jorge, Kat, Carter, Jun, Emile of Noble Team will always be remembered. Carved into the Plague at the bottom.

While the animals all stared at the heart breaking statue, Gears walked into his Garage. He was confused though, he thought that Eggman's machine had destroyed it, but Sonic approached him, and smiled as he presented a new Garage to the fox, that the animals of Mobius had built for him.

"Thank you all...." He said as he went inside. Everything was there, the workbench, his makeshift bed in the corner, but he knew he was missing something. He approached the bench, and placed all of the Dog Tags he had on the suit, and hung them on a board, then covered them with glass. On the frame he etched in: Noble Team.
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Months after the fall of Reach, Gears woke one morning, to see Blaine standing there, but he knew it was just a ghost. He still stood up, and saluted the ghost. It saluted back before pointing to the Desk. Gears approached, and saw a typewriter and lots of Paper sitting there.

Gears knew what the Spartan had wanted, he wanted the fox to tell the story, so that all of Mobius knew what had befallen the Planet Reach.

So Gears sat down, and started typing furiously. He stopped to look at his work, he shifted his head to make sure it sounded good.

The Fall of Reach: The Story of Gears, Blaine and the Spartans of Noble Team.

Typed By
Gears the fox

Dedicated to Blaine, Jun, Kat, Carter, Jorge, and Emile of Noble team. For your Acts of Courage.


The ghost behind the fox smiled as it placed it's transparent hand on his shoulder, before saying,

"Good bye Gears, the Last Spartan of Noble!" Said Blaine's ghost as he disappeared forever.

* Thank you for reading Acts of Courage: The Story of Gears, Blaine and the Spartans of Noble Team. I hope you enjoyed the ride, cause I know I did. I have many other ideas for FanFictions, but I promise not crossovers... for a while anyways. If you have any question, feel free to ask. Yes I am sad that I killed off Blaine, but where was he going to go? Reach was where he was born, like Jorge, and he was going to die there. So critique, and I will see you all star-side!

-Gears *
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