Halo:battle for Equis

The Weapons Factory pt.2

Same time, South side of the factory with the Centurions

As the 9 pods hit the ground and the doors burst open, the 9 Centurion ran as fast as they could to the factory. Thanks to the armor, they were able to get to the factory in little time.

By the time they all got there, Abraham heard gunfire and explosions coming from the North side.

"Looks like they got their attention," Abraham said.

"Doesn't matter. Right now we have to do our job," Samantha said as they went through the back, since the griffons went in the front to deal with the Spartans.

The team saw humans, along with ponies, making weapons and other things for the griffons.

"Oh god," Tanya said as she saw them being forced to do something or face death.

"Sarath and George," Samantha told the two snipers. "I want you to get up to a vantage point and give us sniper support. The rest of us are going to see how the hell they got so advanced in a small amount of time. Move out." The two snipers head towards any high point they could find as the rest of the team moves on. As the seven Centurion started to sweep the factory, Samantha asked Parker a question.

"How does Viper know you?" Samantha asked Parker.

"He's the Spartan that saved my squad after our pelican was shot down by banshees on Paris IV. He took on a covenant army to get to our position. By the time he got to us, he was covered in the covenants’ blood," Parker said as he grabbed a griffon and snapped its neck as Samantha grabbed one and slit its throat.

"How did you join the program?" Hiroyuki asked as he sliced a griffon in half with his katana.

"I was approached by the spooks during my return to Reach. They saw my combat records and was impressed by my kill count," Parker said as he stabbed one of the griffon with his bowie knife.

"Hey, where is Abraham, Tanya, and Faa Mei?" Parker asked.

"I don't know. Somewhere I guess," Hiroyuki said.

Meanwhile inside the explosive assembly room

The three Centurion were moving explosives, ranging from grenades to artillery rounds used for battleships, into a pile so when they leave, the place would get sent to kingdom come.

"Abraham, put those bombs over there," Faa mei told Abraham, who listened as he put the bombs into place.

"Why are we doing this?" Tanya asked in her cheerful attitude.

"Because the Colonel wants this place destroyed before they could produce enough weapons and vehicles for an invasion," Faa mei said as she went back to work wiring C-4 explosives near the stockpiles of bombs. Tanya just stared at her, but then shrugged it off and went back to helping Abraham with the explosives. By the time they were done, they had enough explosives to destroy a covenant corvette. They left and head back to the team, unaware that Abraham forgot to make sure the artillery shells were secured.

With Samantha, Parker, and Hiroyuki

The three were able to get to a records room, after killing 60 guards, and started to look for anything they could use.

"No... no… no... no," Parker said as he went through all sorts of files.

"Found anything yet?" Samantha asked as she went through a cabinet before going to the next one.

"Nothing yet, ma'am," Hiroyuki said as he just went through his 5th cabinet of files.

"No yet...hold on, I think I found something," Parker said as he pulled out a file that said ‘weapons and vehicle development’.

"What you find?" Samantha asked.

"See for yourself," Parker said as they went through the files.

"Jesus Christ, they've been developing and making weapons for nearly twenty years. How can they hide this from the rest of the world?" Hiroyuki asked as he saw the advancement in technology the griffons had.

"Before we showed up, they probably had these hidden from any ambassador they had, so that they looked like they haven't made or researched anything," Samantha said as she looked through the files.

"Look at this," Parker said as the others came to him. "Jet fighters and bombers, super tanks, V-2 rockets, designs for stronger naval vessels? God damn, it looks like they could destroy every country on this planet."

"We should take as much as we can and burn the rest. Don't give them anything more for them to work off of," Samantha said. The other two agreed as they started to grab anything that looks important and once they were done, they started to rip up the rest of the papers and documents. After ripping up the documents, Samantha grabbed a lighter and lit a piece of paper on fire, before putting it with the rest, causing the room to smoke up.

"Come on, we have to leave before anyone notices we're here," Hiroyuki said as they left to where the team snipers were at.

With George and Sarath

The two snipers were watching for any more griffons trying to enter the back. There was a pile of bodies in front of the door.

"God this is boring," George said as he sniped another griffon that tried to enter the building. "30."

"At least you're not trying to wait for one of these bastards to enter, no one go through that door that I'm watching," Sarath said as she waited for a griffon to go through. Before George could say anything they saw the rest of the team starting to come towards them.

"So how was the hunt for anything that could tell us how in the hell they could get so advanced that quickly?" Sarath asked. Parker started to tell them about everything they found.

"Wow, they're really that messed up that they are willing to work people to death to get their technology done?" George asked.

"Looks like it," Samantha said as she looked at Faa mei, Tanya, and Abraham." Where the hell you three go?"

"Well we thought that we could blow this place sky high, might as well use their explosives that they made," Abraham said as he scratched the back of his head.

"Well, that's covered, so what now?" Faa mei asked them.

"Now we radio the Spartans and tell them to get..." Samantha didn't finish as an explosion went off and they saw the building starting to collapse.

"Run!" Samantha yelled as they started to run to get out of the collapsing building.

"What the hell just happened!?!" Abraham yelled

"Maybe one of the artillery shells fell to the ground with the tip touching the floor and resulted in the explosion!" Faa mei said as they ran out of the factory before it collapsed on them. They were able to escape the factory before it fell on them. When they did, Samantha tried to radio the Spartans.

"Samantha to Callie, Marcus, Blake, anybody?!" she yelled. Samantha didn't get a response. She started to think of possibly where they are. When she narrowed it down, her worst fear came to pass.

"UNSC Spirit of Fire, do you read?" Samantha asked over the comm with the Colony ship.

"This is Serina. What happened down there?" Serina asked.

"We got a team of Spartans buried under a collapsed factory and civilians that need medical attention," Samantha said.

"Copy that, we have pelicans heading towards your location. Serina out," Serina said before disconnecting the line. Samantha ran towards the destroyed factory and started to move the rubble out of the way.  Her team started to help her remove the rubble where the Spartan teams last known location was at. After moving rubble and debris away, they heard moaning.

"Callie, Blake, anybody!?!" Samantha yelled.

"Jesus Christ, stop yelling and start getting us out of here." Rusty said as they were underneath them.

"How are you still alive?" Parker asked.

"We activated our suits’ armor lock and it took most of the impact," Brandon said as the Centurion were removing almost all of the debris out of the way. By the time they were done, they saw the first waves of pelicans, ranging from Reach police pelicans to the search and rescue.

The back door opened and medical teams, along with soldiers, went towards the large group of ponies and humans. The ponies started to move backwards from them. The doctors wonder why they were backing up, until they looked at the soldiers and told them to leave. The marines hesitated, but listened and left to the pelicans or watch if any griffons came back.

As the doctors started to treat the ponies and humans, Samantha and her team were able to drag the Spartans out of the debris they were buried in. Their armor was covered in dents and scrapes, but other than that, they were fine. They were conversing with each other, until they saw another wave of pelicans heading towards them. When they saw their name on the side, they noticed that the pelicans had names of cities from Paris IV, Arcadia, Jericho VII and other colonies’ police departments.

"I thought those pelicans were left on their colonies before they were glassed?" Marcus asked as he started to walk after being buried under debris for a while.

"I thought so too. Maybe we should ask the Colonel when we get back," Samantha said as her team and the Spartans started to head towards a pelican and board it. Once they were boarded they told the pilot to head towards base alpha in the Everfree forest.

"Okay, once we get back, I'm more than happy to let Viper take these kind of missions from now on," Blake said as the pelican flew off back to the base so they could relax and have their armor repaired.