(Flashback- Battle of Spring- 00:35,Beta rendezvous point, 3 rd person)

All the units that were scheduled to meet at the Beta Rendezvous point were at said point and the ICRs were going around checking everyone in to see how many didn't make it to the meeting point while the ATLs were in a command crawler discussing the the best point of action around a holo table with a map of the surrounding area on it.

"So... what you are saying that this is a death trap waiting to happen? Surely Inquisitor Wolf would have seen this." a ATL that was wearing a cloak pointed out, then a ATL whose heavy type armor that was covered in scars spoke,

"Would certainly seem like it. Inquisitor Fox?"

"Hmm?"

"The plan seems like a death trap... Sir." an ATL said from the shadows. And at this Fox rose and looked around setting a blanket of silence until he spoke,

"I have faith that this was carefully constructed by my fellow Inquisitor, if I have faith... so should you all. Now Logos... How long till we move out?" And a green hologram of a person in jeans and a hoodie appeared on the table.

and right after that report a ICER walked in and reported with a salute,

"Sir, we have the amount of units that were lost in the report!"

"Report then." an ATL off to the side said.

"Yes sir, we lost 6487 marines, 28 jeeps, 12 tanks, 7 helis, and 472 stormtroopers, Sir!"

"... and Alpha?"

"No casualties to report for them."

"... dismissed." and with that the ICER backed up and left the crawler and walked out of camp and pulled out a holo disk and a figure in a cloak appeared.

"Sir there are 118 ATLs Beta point along with all of team Foxtrot, me and my ICRs are ready for action, Sir."

"Good, do you have that knife I gave you?"

"Yes sir."

"Good, now that is a special knife infused with a special metal that can make an ATL suffer from a normal wound, I need you to assassinate members of Foxtrot starting with the Inquisitor. Start tonight and be quiet about it. You have you're orders."

"And my team, Sir?"

"Have them make a distraction for you."

"If it is your will." and at this the Figure in the holo disk ended the transmission on his side, but unknown for the ICER, the ATL that was in the shadows was on top of a nearby tree with his sniper trained on the traitor. Without making a sound the ATL jumped from tree top to tree top until he arrived at the camp and walked into his unit's assigned vehicle with his unit's leader sitting on a bunk cleaning his railgun.

"Shade, report." He said without looking up.

"It was as we suspected sir, (walks over to his own bunk and and starts to disassemble his rifle) the ICER is the traitor and Alpha point had no causalities while we got all of the bad luck... oh and he talked to someone via holo disk saying that they had a knife that was infused with a special metal that could make us bleed like normals" and this made the Squad leader stop for a second before continuing,

"Who was it?"

"Don't know sir, they were wearing a cloak, but their voice sounded familiar that I can't pin it to."

"Hmm... well try to remember, oh and while we are traveling, kill the traitor."

"Yes sir anyth-" Shade said before being interrupted by an announcement all over Beta.

"... Well Shade this you're chance, I'll alert the Inquisitor."

"Yes sir" and with that Shade climbed to the top of his unit's vehicle as the convoy started to move as shade activated his active camo looking around and ten seconds of searching finding the traitors convoy vehicle with three helis in the air. "Alright then" and like his name. He was nothing more than shade as he jumped from vehicle to vehicle until he was on his target. jumping back and grabbing the handrail on the side of the door he accessed the door and stepped inside for an empty dark hallway, "This isn't good"

"Sir?" said an ICR at the end of the hallway holding his 'Devils Breath' (minigun), "You need to leave."

"Sorry was that an order?" Shade said as he started to walk towards the ICR.

"Yes sir, (aims 'Devils Breath') leave." and Shade pulls up his rifle only to be forced into a room by the gun fire with a different colored ICR who rushes him with a knife. Thinking fast Shade pulls his pistol, but rolls backwards at the last second and kicks him into the hallway.

"Okay, how to deal with this?" Shade said to himself before noticing a grenade launcher on the ex-ICR's bed, "Idea."

(Few seconds later)

Shade was walking to the end of the corridor until he saw a sign that said 'Engine Room', Shade smiled as he said walking into the Engine room "Perfect." As Shade walked inside it looked empty to the normal eye. "Hey Furtum, mind looking around a little?" As a olive green hologram of a Ghillie suit appeared.

"...Perfect." Shade then fell into the room with his pistol and knife out as he stabbed the one on the right side of the door as he tried to shoot at the other one on the lest who was hiding behind the main reactor. "Really using an explosive object as cover? Really?" as soon as he said this the firing stopped and shade looked around the corner only to lean back at a knife swing but had his pistol stuck in the ICR's knife which was in the boiler that he was using as cover. Then the ICR took his knife out of the boiler causing steam to shoot out of the broiler and cover the room in a layer of smoke with an active camo ICR stalking him. Walking around trying to find a acsess pannel he hear the Vehicles system say,

"SHIT, Furtum wheres the wall?"

and suddenly Shade's visor had the nearest wall highlighted, so he ran to the wall and placed an timed explosive and armed it when suddenly he was pinned against the wall by the ICR.

"Think you would get rid of me that easily?"

"No, just needed a cushion." Shade then grabbed the ICR and pinned him against the wall with his back against the explosive.

"S-Sir wait I w-was Ju-" BOOM and there was no wall as Shade backed up and took a running start to a carrier across the twenty foot gap, the core explosion pushing him to the carrier as it pulled away from the doomed ICR Vehicle. Latching on with one hand he started to climb to the top only to have his eye stabbed by a knife, blinding him. Shade then looked up with his spare eye and saw the Traitor ICER holding the special knife in his hand leaning down with no doubt a smile behind his helmet.

"Well well well, I'm impressed, no ATL would have thought to stop an assassin with AN EXPLOSIVE! (mock claps) Good job sir. Good job... Well any last words... (no response) Well than... more fun for me. (raises knife) Goodbye AT- UGGG" then the ICER fell forward dropping the knife which Shade caught, as he fell Shade noticed two stab wounds coming from his back. Only to have a hand come down offering to pull him up which Shade accepted and when he came up he laid on his back with his legs dangling off the edge as the stranger sat next to him

"Long day?" The stranger said to have Shade look at him, he had a mechanical right arm and leg with heavy assault class armor, which had blue highlights, and a long claw turned into a knife. Then noticing his stare the stranger looked over and held out his hand, "Hey there Stranger, name's Talon."

Reaching his own hand over to shake "Shade... if you don't mind me asking... how did you know?" Talon then laughed and said,

"Well I saw him jump from his transport onto mine so I went up and saw him ready to kill ya so I stabbed him after hearing him for a bit."

"...Well better get going, nice to meet you... wait were you in the final part of the trials?"

"Yeah I was in fourth, you?"

"Second." Shade then got up and started to jump back to his transport.

(3 hours later, Spring- Capitols plains, 3 rd person)

The Beta company was waiting in the tree line for Alpha's signal so they could move forward and everyone was running around getting prepared for combat while all the ATLs were in the crawler and two scouts were on the tree line under some bushes,

"Hey."

"Yeah?"

"You ever wond-" just then their radios exploded by an EMP blast and everyone was was panicking until the Inquisitor was on- top of the command crawler,

"Listen up people, (everyone stops) get prepared because the schedule has been moved up, we are assaulting the capitol in one minute, so get moving." and everyone rushed to get their respective weapons and gear and were lined up in rows ready to fight.

"... Logos, time?"

Logos said appearing on the Inquisitors shoulder.

"Good, Give the order to move out... and are you okay?" just then an ATL came running up to the Inquisitor and handed him a knife,

"Sir, my unit leader told me to give this to you." Inspecting the knife the Inquisitor chuckled,

"Good job, (Holds out the knife) take it."

"Sir?"

"Already got one" The Inquisitor said as he patted his side where his knife was.

"Thank you sir."

"And the ones without an AI?"

<We are worKing on that sir."

"...So what happened with the broken speech?"

"Good, (turns to Beta company) MOVE OUT!"

(6 months later, Spring- Capitol supply tunnels, 3 rd person)

Shade and his company was moving through the sewage to try and blow one of the main supply tunnels that was supplying the RAU army. that was until they had been discovered halfway in with the outside gate closing and an alarm blaring. Quickly the Company leader made a choice,

"Arrow Company, all explosives on the gate, NOW!" and any marine or storm trooper that had an explosive hurried to the gate an placed their explosives,

"Charges set, Sir!"

"Blow it up!"

BOOM

(??? amount of time later, Spring- Capitol supply tunnels)

Shade was alone, he knew. his suit's heat and heartbeat systems picked up nothing and his AI chip was out and cracked, killing Furtum. Picking himself up, Shade... no Arrow limped down the tunnel where the gate was blown open and behind him the collapsed tunnel. Once Arrow got outside, he picked a combat bike and rode it back to Beta site.

(Two and a half years later, Spring- Capitol plains, 3 rd person)

There had been over 746,000 ACSC causalities and it had been raining for the past year now because of the amount of energy, plasma, and smoke had caused a rain storm. Almost all of the ATLs were in the trenches helping the fighting while the Inqisitor was in the crawler having been imprisoned to his quarters by the medics for him staying awake for three weeks at a time with only five hours of sleep in that period. Now he was sitting on his bunk watching the rain patter against his window until one of the medics had opened his door and stood there,

"Sir you are relived of your hiatus, sir." and the medic stood there for a second until he walked away. The Inquisitor then looked down and said in almost a whisper,

"Logos... What is the percentage of the shield?"

Logos then looks worried,

"... I'm fine... call in the bombardment." then he gets up and walks out of the crawler straight to the aircraft carrier, "and tell our two best pilots to get a transport prepared and call twenty ATLs to the transport."

"Good."

(Five minutes later)

The transport was out in the rain with the pilots and gunners in the circle with the ATLs, and said twenty one ATLs were in a huddle with Fox at the center.

"Okay listen up are to gun it into the city, to the capitols private hanger because that is where the Chairman will likely most be and once we get there we will arrive the same time as Inquisitor Wolf and his Wolf Pack. After that we are to break in and take the chairman prisoner ending this war... now load up."

(1 minute later, Spring- Capitol city, 3 rd person)

Once the Shield went down the transport flew through the quiet city.

"Umm... Sir its quiet." the Co- pilot said.

"Yeah, quiet." a ATL said

"Keep on path, full speed." the Inquisitor said.

"Yes sir... Sir we're being locked onto." the pilot said. Just then the ship rocked and started to fall. "Sir we can get you to the front gate of the hangar, but this ship will be trashed."

"Understood bring us in, (turns to ATLs) brace for a gravel landing."

"SIR YES SIR!" The ship flew over the gate only for the ship to start flipping once it hit the ground and stopped against the wall on its side, and when they got out they saw Alphas ship parked outside with its gunners and pilots shot dead.

"Beta, Move in!" and what they saw was that Wolf pack was escorting the Chairman while sixteen ATLs were scattered around on the floor bleeding. Seeing their brothers and sisters close to death they had moved forward with guns poised to open fire, but Fox raised his hand.

"...Wolf why... why are you helping him."

Wolf then leans to his nearest ATL and nods and two Wold Pack ATLs escort the Chairman to his ship. Seeing the Chairman safe in his ship Wolf turns to Fox and says,

"Because you were so easy to fool, you were like a child... all of you were, and the Chairman had created us, he is OUR father. Fox put down your gun, lets talk about thi-" then one of Fox'es ATLs turned around and pulled out a knife and swiping behind him only for an Wolf ATL to appear holding the knife and inch away from his neck. And Fox turns to Wolf and pulls out his sword and knife,

"You're a traitor Inquisitor Wolf."

"I know... brother." Wolf said as he pulled out his own sword "Wolf Pack, forward."

(Twenty minutes later)

Two of Fox'es ATLs had fallen nursing their wounds but he and Wolf were flowing through the battle fighting their own brothers. that was until all of the ACSC had arrived. "Wolf Pack, fall out now!" Then Wolf and his pack fell back to the only remaining ship and as it took off, Wolf appeared at the window and waved down at them with no doubt a smile behind his helmet.

(1 week later, Spring- orbit- on board 'The High Order', 3 rd person)

Fox was on board 'The High Order' and being the only Inquisitor in the ACSC gave him access to almost any thing while him and Wolf had to share and were never allowed on 'The High Order"s bridge. But now he was on the bridge looking down at the planet after have ordered a full retreat order from the planet and everyone was now off the planet except for the loyal RAU troopers who were not taken prisoner or dead. A bridge officer rushed up behind him to report,

"Sir, all ACSC units have been withdrawn from the planet, and we have taken 58 prisoners and one being an Wolf ATL. The RAU have suffered 3,340,000 causalities,while we took 947.000 causalities. Any thing else?"

"Yes, do we have 'Demolishers'?"

"Yes sir, if you don't mind me asking, why do we need them?"

"... Tell them to open fire onto the planet, don't stop until there isn't an inch of dirt." and Fox walked away with that order being known as 'His Famous Order' and also with Fox being killed... and replaced with the Inquisitor.

Author's Note

Boom, Done, finally.

Next chapter "Settling dust."

Editor still needed. PM if interested.