Halo:battle for Equis
Spartan rescue and upgrade
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Chrysalis’ Hive, Badlands
Two hours after the attack of Alpha base.
The now refugees of the destruction of Alpha base were recovering from the attack, but with a price. Over four thousands lie dead, most were civilians, and two thousand wounded.
"My Queen, what are we to do with the human survivors?" asked one of the drones
Chrysalis looked around as UNSC medics and changeling doctors ran around, trying to save as many lives as possible.
"Send drones to the nearest cities and take any medical supplies," Chrysalis said as the drone left to give the orders.
Meanwhile in Canterlot
The Royal Guard were happy that they were able to knock the UNSC down a couple of pegs.
Spartan 626 could only glare murderously at his captors, having been stripped of his weapons and armor, he now was clad in the remains of his under-suit. "I'll kill you," he said in a hushed whisper which soon grew into a horrifying screaming chant.
Viper knew why they were there, but couldn't do anything until A) they break out or B) ONI's new 'pet’ shows itself. Until then, he trying to stay calm, calm being a loose term.
Viper was looking at the guard and noticed one thing that stuck out from the rest. The Guards would let Rusty to rant on and not do a thing, but this one poked him to see his reaction and the guard made a mistake, he has a wound on his hind leg, but he saw a metal piece sticking out before it healed like it wasn't there.
"Not so tough now, are you Monkey?!" the guard tormented as he jabbed at the Spartan two a few times. Rusty continued to try and lunge at his tormentors, but to no avail, was still unable to move and defend himself from the torture.
Before the Guard could do it again, he saw a flash of light behind him. He turned around, only to be stabbed by Viper. Hell jumper toothpick, a 12" blade made out of diamonds and obsidian glass, that was kept in his leg, thanks to a little room in the under-suit.
Viper then decided to cut the dead Guard to see what he was, only to make a disturbing discovery, the guard’s bones were metal and had wires in his spine and through his limbs, like a Spartan 2.
Rusty hung there, staring at the corpse of the dead guard. "What. The. Fuck!?" he said, still staring.
Viper opened Rusty’s cell and removed the chains and metal cuffs
He then heard the door open and turned to see six more 'Spartan' ponies.
"You have no idea what kind of trouble you're in, hehehe," the leader said as Viper used what's left of his magic to summon their melee weapons.
Rusty wasn't afraid of his own death, especially at the hands of these primitive xeno equines called ponies. He feared being forgotten and not being remembered.
The six augmented ponies ran towards them as the two Spartans did as well. Since they never had an actual war in their time, they couldn't predict their movement, but compensated with their magic.
The Spartan III dodged the first pony as his fellow Spartan II followed up with a powerful bone crushing clothesline to the first stallion, easily killing the pony.
Two unicorns summoned their new swords made out of titanium and attacked Viper. Unfortunately for them, he received training with knives by Fred-104 and training with his katana by a former samurai, before his mentor was killed, so Viper made short work of them.
As Viper cut the head off the last one, he and Rusty ran to where their armor and weapons were, but as they turned a corner, he saw an agent that made him smile.
"Hello, agent Carolina," Viper said as Carolina walked towards him.
"Hello, agent Arizona. It's been a long time," she said
"Yeah, it's been," Viper said as Rusty cleared his throat.
"Right, we need to leave," Viper said.
"Follow me, then," Carolina said.
"How did you find us?" Rusty asked.
"Easy. Just follow the obvious tracks of dragged Spartan armor," Carolina said as they stopped in a room.
"Your armor is in there, you might want to get suited up," Carolina said as she radioed the frigate that they had 'taken', the Mother of Invention, for a pick up.
Ten minutes later
Viper and Rusty were armored up and had their weapons ready. As Viper and Rusty got their weapons ready, Carolina said to them, "I called for extraction. We have five minutes to get to the edge of the city," Carolina said as she pulled out two smgs.
As soon as Viper kicked the door, all three shot at any Royal Guards between them and their EZ.
Carolina was hitting them in the chest, leaving small holes in their chest, while Rusty smashed any ponies that got in their way. Viper was cutting anything that wasn't human as they made it halfway to the extraction zone.
As they were halfway, the Royal Guards set up barricades to slow down the three so they miss their way out. Rusty solved that problem by charging his gravity hammer until they reached the barricades and hitting them, killing all behind it.
"Dammit Wyoming, where the hell are you guys?!" Carolina screamed over the comms as they were close to the EZ.
"We're almost there, just give us a minute," Wyoming said.
"You got thirty seconds," Carolina said.
As they reached the extraction point, they were trapped by hundreds of Guards.
"Drop your weapons or we will open fire!" one of them said.
The three put their weapons back on as they all jumped off the edge. The Royal Guards looked over the edge with shock on their face, but was soon replaced with anger as a pelican floated in front of them, with Carolina, Viper, and Rusty in the back.
The pelican immediately high tailed it to orbit, where nopony could get them.
Four hours later, Chrysalis’ hive
After being released from the Summer Solstice, since the technicians wanted to make sure that the armor wasn't exposed, they head back to the temporary base. Once they got there, it was a mess.
Most of the civilians were crying or comforting others. Medics working nonstop, trying to save all the lives that were injured, and soldiers with anger sketched on their faces.
Viper was able to meet his team in one of the rooms near the entrance.
"Can't believe they did that to us," Callie said as she looked out the door.
"I say we go and do the same," Luke said as the others looked at him.
"Are you insane? Right now we should stay here, just in case if those fucktards come back," Blake said. As they all were talking, they heard a knock on the door and saw Dr. Anders standing there.
"Hello, Dr. Anders, what brought you here?" Brandon said as Anders entered the room.
"I need you all to come with me," Anders said as she left and made them confused, but listened anyway. Once they followed her, the ten noticed something familiar about the room.
"Wait a minute, this is the augmentation room, but what do you need us to do?" Andrew asked as he looked at the needles with a bit of fear.
"Because, yesterday we found a way to give Spartan three augmentation to have the strength, speed and reflex of three Spartan twos," Anders said as they all looked at her, shocked.
"What?!" They all yelled.
After some more information about how they achieved them, via forerunner technology, which they dubbed Project: Olympus, they started to strip to their undergarments until Anders told them one more thing.
"Also, you need to choose new armor, since your original armor won't handle your new augmentation."
They all looked at each other with worry, since they had the armor on for eight years. But eventually, they choose their new armor.
Viper chose a Venator with a collapsible helmet, hidden blades in the wrist, an enhancer in the gauntlet to increase his magic so he could use it in firefights and a grappling hook.
Marcus has the FOTUS armor with hidden blades and an auto sentry, with makes a small drone that defends an area until it dies or the user loses energy.
Brandon picked the Hazop armor with a jump kit and thruster pack, which helps him get to hard to reach places.
Callie has her old armor, but upgraded and has a healing bubble that produces nanomites to repair injuries and a poison blade.
Blake’s armor is the Infiltrator with cloak, since he is the team spy, and grappling hook to grab unfortunate enemies or for distraction.
Jaeden’s armor is the Scanner with Promethean vision and jet pack, helping him if they are in a low visibility area.
Alex uses a Commando armor with improved energy shield and armor lock, since he is the team’s main demolition man.
Ryan chose the Scout armor, along with a hologram and a faster shield regeneration, so he doesn't risk getting hurt.
Luke had the E.O.D with improved shields, and hardlight shield, so he could help a teammate out.
Andrew chose an Orbital armor, and has an explosive dart gun in his wrist, so that any armored personnel are killed instantly.
Rusty, who arrived a little late, received the Mk.VII armor, with plasma wrist blades, claws on the gauntlets, built-in bear mace dispenser in the side of the helmet and standard jet pack.
They found out that Rusty, after augmentation, will be strong as six Spartan twos. Once their armor was ordered, with each one having an exo suit in it, they started to put themselves on the table where their Spartan career began.
They had oxygen masks put on them so they don't die from lack of air. They all heard the drilling noise of the needles spinning as it punctured their skin and then their body started to feel the effects of the augmentation. Even though it felt like hours, it only lasted ten minutes, but the amount of pain they felt was unbearable. It felt like the first time they received their augmentation
After that, they all stood up, only to make a shocking discovery, they were as tall as Spartan twos, except for Viper and Rusty, who were three inches taller.
After that, they were told to take it easy, since the augmentations were still taking effect.
"God dammit this hurts," Luke said as he walked into the room and plopped onto a chair.
"You got that right," Andrew said as he used the wall to support himself.
Most of the team were in their room as Viper went to talk to some old friends.
"Hey, Wyoming, North and South, York, Wash," Viper said as he sat on a bench.
"What the hell happened here? I mean you’ve done stupid things, but this takes the cake," North said. Viper started to tell them what happened, from start to finish. Once he was done, they gave him all different looks.
"So this place basically came from a girl TV show five hundred years ago?" North asked. Viper nodded.
"And you're a former slave?" Carolina asked. Viper nodded again.
"Guess you aren't lying," Wash said as Delta popped up.
"Sorry to interrupt, but he has unknown material in his body, most likely from augmentation," Delta said as Viper spoke.
"It's actually magic, see?" Viper said as he summoned his katana from thin air. The six all went into a state of shock and awe. Until theta came out.
"Uhh, guys, who is he?"
"He was one of us, until the Director had him removed from the program," Wyoming said.
"Why are you guys here?" Viper asked.
"We're looking for Agent Maine and Texas. We killed them a while back, but they somehow escaped death and hid from us," York said. Viper got a text from his team via tablet.
"Hold on, I need to go see my team. Give me a bit if time," Viper said as he went to his team.
"Hey guys, what did you n..." Viper didn't finish as he grabbed his pistol and pointed at the unknown figure.
"Who the hell are you?!" Viper asked the unknown figure.
"Who am I? I'm Discord, God of Chaos!" the figure said.
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