The Phantom of Equis

by dracoking of memes

The Multiverse awaits my freinds

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The Multiverse awaits my freinds

Kronos had found himself walking up to a small hut not too far along the outskirts of the dazzling city of Canterlot. Taking a look inside the hutt, he laid eyes upon an old zebra. She wore several gold bands on her neck and was garbed in a white robe.

“Enter, Crescendo...” The zebra said sagely.

Kronos did as he was told, rather put off by this old mare’s insight. “So old mare, what do you want with me?”

“You are not finished in this world… not yet. There is a man, an ancient warrior fallen from grace... You will find him in the wastelands. He shall teach you that which will be imperative to you're survival,” The zebra said, solid eyes of the purest white seemingly staring into his soul.

“Fine, but I do have a question for you,” Kronos said looking at her with a blank stare.

“Speak my child,” The zebra replied, already knowing of his question.


-The Wasteland-

Kronos walked the desert in silence, the answer to his question circulating in his head the same way the harsh winds spun and danced around him.

“Honestly what was I expecting,” He cursed under his breath, pulling his cloak higher so as to shield his face from a rather vicious oncoming sandstorm.

He trudged onward as the torrential sands whirled around him. Senses dulled and flayed, he perservered and kept his path. He knew full well that he couldn’t sense his targets ki seeing as he had already tried, so his only choice was to look for him the old fashion way.

For hours he traced the wastes, the sandstorm already having past. It was then he saw a the blurred visage of a man leaning on a walking stick, covered in a tattered cloak that hid only the bare minimum of his features. Though, truth be told, he wasn’t quite sure it was a ‘he’.

“Crescendo, or do you prefer Kronos?” The man mocked, “I have kept watch for hours as you have struggled to find me. For what purpose do you seek me? Do you actually think you can endure my training?”

“I’ve endured more than any simple training,” Kronos replied confidently.

“We shall see, that pesky dragon Xisis has already asked me to train you, but know that if you fall behind, the deal is off. I have no time to waste with talentless weaklings, now come!” Upon the man’s proclamation, a set of ornate double doors appeared behind him, the duo entering as they opened.

Once inside, Kronos found himself within what seemed to be an aged temple.

“What is this place?” Kronos asked taking it all in.

“This is my home, my “hammerspace” if you will,” The man replied, removing his tattered cloak revealing that he was an anthro turtle.

“I see, so what do you have in mind for my training?” Kronos asked.

“I suppose we should start with strengthening that pudgy meat bag you call a body,” The old man replied as he hobbled forward, leaning heavily onto his walking stick as he made his way forward.

They walked into a small, cave like, room with the barest of light filtering from above and a pillar of stone rising from the room’s centerfold.

“Stand on the pilliar,” The turtle instructed.

Kronos compiled and suddenly was forced to catch a huge block of metal.

“How...is this...so…heavy?” Kronos huffed.

“The metal is enchanted to double its weight every thirty seconds, it starts with the weight of four hundred tons,”

Stroking his chin, the turtle snapped his fingers. “Let us see… ah I'll let you sit there for two minutes,” The turtle said before sitting down and watching Kronos, a wide smirk forming on his face.

Once his two minutes were over, Kronos was very close to being crushed under the weight of the metal square, gasping for air as it suddenly disappeared.

“Come, let us go to the meditation room,” The turtle said.

Over the next few years, Kronos’ power and skill was built up until the turtle, who Kronos now knew as Tekea, deemed it satisfactory.

“I see that now it is time for the next step of your your training,” The turtle said as he locked eyes with Kronos. “You must learn the art of the destroyer.” Eyes cold and emotionless, Tekea’s stoic gaze was almost unnerving.

“The what?” Kronos asked in confusion.

“The art of a God of Destruction, or at least as much as Im allowed to teach you... that, being giving you god ki and the basic hakai,” Tekea said with a sigh, “I used to hold this power long ago, but I was defeated by a younger warrior and stripped of my title, I am not allowed to teach you the full range of a destroyer’s abilities, but a simple hakai should be fine.”
He slammed the bottom of his cane upon the floor. “Make no mistake, this will be the hardest technique you will ever learn,in fact it will be impossible without first gaining god ki. Should you fail, you will never be strong enough to survive the opponents that you have yet to face...”

And so, for the next several years, Kronos was pushed to his limits. Desperately trying to gain and grasp the knowledge of this power. It was a painful process, his master had to slowly insert god ki into Kronos’s body bit by bit, and each instance he did so, Kronos was rendered paralyzed for a full day by the intense pain of the overwhelming power from being added to his own.

Through this cycle, he eventually gained a form he named Saiyan God, a form that gave him red hair and a flaming orange aura. With this form now unlocked, he was finally able to learn the hakai technique, albeit with the offset of massive energy consumption.

“You have a long way to go if you wish to become a God of destruction, as you are now, even the weakest of my former peers would crush you in an instant, but you are finally ready for the next step of your journey, I am forbidden from teaching you any further as only an Angel can do so,” Tekea said sadly,

“I will miss you my student…” Tekea looked away, a forlorn gaze upon his face. “It was nice to finally have some company,perhaps you could stay, if only for one more year so I may teach you to create your own hammerspace, of course you will have to build it yourself. I will only teach you to make the dimension itself,”

“Sure it’d be nice to have a place like this,” Kronos said with a smile.

A year later in the wastelands

Kronos walked out of the hammerspace and flew off to a bar he used to frequent before his training journey, he then got flat out drunk, as was customary. What Kronos barely noticed in his intoxicated state however, was that a familiar face had come into the pub looking for him.

“Pup, I am so saddened, Why do you make such a fool of yourself.” The voice said with a sigh.

“Mama? Why... You are your here!?” He asked in inebriated surprise. “Ah, It don’t matter... come have drinks with me! This stuff is great!” Kronos said giggling drunkenly.

“My pup, you need to stop this.” Eris picks up Kronos and takes him home with her. “Drinking is bad for you.”

“Says you,” Kronos said flaying one of his arms.

With a silver glow on his eyes, Eris shows kronos the results of his drinking on his body. “Your hurting yourself by drinking so much,”

“Hmph,” Kronos grunted, his hair glowing red for a second before healing completely from the effect of the drink.

“Just because you can heal, doesn’t make it ok.” Eris frowned.

“Helps drown the memories so it's ok in my book,” Kronos replied with a shrug.

“Please pup, let momma help you.” Eris begged.

“Look mom, I’m a grown woman and or man... I can handle myself! Besides, if what that orcales says is true, looks like I'm going to get the ending all saiyans wish for,” Kronos said with a sigh.

“Death in battle? I'm sorry I was hardly there for you.” Eris started to cry.

“What are you talking about? if it wasn’t for you I’d be some sex slave, I’m grateful, but I need to forge my own path now,” Kronos said looking bit disheartened.

“Alright pup, just make sure you remember I’m here for you if you need me.” Eris left with a heavy heart.

“Thanks mom… for everything,” Kronos said as he was enveloped in a portal of blue light.

In a forest in another universe.

Kronos suddenly appeared… in the air above a lake, before plunging into the lake.

“AGH!” He screamed flying out of the water in a panic.

“Whoa! You can fly, that’s cool mister!” a young cheerful voice said from behind him.

Kronos turned to see a young boy with spiky black hair and wearing a blueish purple gi, a red pole in a holster on his back. The boy was leaning forward, looking at him with wonder.

“Um, yeah I guess it is,so what’s your name little guy?” Kronos said flying down to the boy and giving him a smile.

“My name’s Goku! What’s your name mister?” Goku asked excitedly.

“Kronos, now what’s a little guy like you doing out here by yourself?” Kronos asked looking around for the kids parents.

“My Grandpa was killed by a monster so I'm all by myself,” Goku said.

“Oh… Man Im sorry kid…” Kronos said his smile falling of his face.

“It's fine, It happened a long time ago,” Goku said not skipping a beat.

“Sheesh, your pretty upbeat aintcha?” Kronos said a bit taken back by his optimism.

“Yea I don’t let stuff like that get me down, I've gotta focus on getting strong,” Goku said suddenly getting excited, “Hey mister you look super strong wanna fight?”

Kronos laughed, “Ah no thanks kid, I’m not about to pick on a five year old,”

“I’m not five, I'm twelve!” Goku said puffing up his cheeks as he pouted.

“Oh, my bad... sorry,” Kronos said scratching the back of his head.

“Whoa you do that too?” Goku asked in amazement.

“Oh yea, sometimes,” Kronos shrugged.

“You have a tail too!” Goku said pointing at his tail.

“Um yeah I do, wait that means you might be…. No that’s crazy, those guys are much too cruel for you to be a part of them.” Kronos said thinking for a bit.

“Are you my big brother?” Goku asked.

“What? No,” Kronos said in shock.

“Oh ok… It’s just I always wanted a big brother,” Goku said with getting those sad puppy dog eyes.

Damn it, so cute!” Kronos thought, taken aback by this. “Hey if you want to pretend I’m your big bro, I won’t mind. Come on, let’s go get something to eat?”

Goku jumped up in excitement, “Food? Yay! Lets go!”

Kronos laughed, “Alright let's go see what… hey were you expecting company?”

“No why?” Goku asked.

“Hmm, come here I'll pick you up so we can go check it out,” Kronos said before Goku raised his arms up preparing to be picked up.

Kronos cradled Goku as he flew off to their visitor. What they found was a blue haired girl who was walking out of a Chinese style house with a giddy smile.

“Hehe, I got the four star ball, I wasn’t expecting it to be so easy!” The blue haired girl said, smirking as she brought up an orange sphere with four red stars on it.

“GRANDPA!!!” Goku said jumping out of Kronos’s grasp and charging the young girl.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold up little buddy.” Krono said grabbing Goku by the neck of his gi before he punched the girl.

The blue girl screamed and took out an assault rifle and unloaded a entire clip onto Kronos, not doing a scratch of damage.

“Put the gun down,we’re not gonna hurt you,” Kronos said.

“Speak for yourself,” Goku growled.

“Ok, I won’t hurt you, now please just calm down and tell us why you want his… your grandpa is a crystal ball?” Kronos said looking at Goku in confusion.

“No that’s my grandpa’s most treasured possession,” Goku said, “I use it to talk to Grandpa, he doesn’t talk back but I know he hears me!”

“Oh I didn’t know it was so important to you, sorry… but I need it so I have all seven. Its so I can wish for the perfect boyfriend! Or a lifetime supply of strawberries,I haven’t decided yet...” The blue haired girl said.

“Why not wish for more wishes?” Kronos asked.

“Are you kidding? I'm not going to risk angering a wish granting dragon!” The girl said, giving Kronos a sharp look.

“Eh, good point I guess,better safe than sorry,” Kronos shrugged.

“Yep, exactly! Anyway if you don’t mind I'll be on my way,” the girl said.

“Wait! Take me with you! I wanna meet the dragon!” Goku said squirming out of Kronos’ grasp.

“Um, sure... why not I guess, I mean this is your dragon ball. By the way, I'm Bulma what’s your name?” Bulma asked.

“Im Goku and this is my big bro, Krenas!” Goku said happily.

“Kronos,” Kronos corrected.

“Oh right, sorry,” Goku laughed,

“Well It would be nice to have someone to protect me while I'm looking for the dragon balls,” Bulma said thinking quickly.

“Alright!” Goku said happily.

“Well I gotta go do my own thing, here tap this part of your arm if you need me to help you fight something, or something like that” Kronos said touching Goku’s arm causing a japanese character to flash on it for a second before disappearing.

“Oh, do you really have to go?” Goku asked sadly.

“Yea sorry little guy, I got a lot stuff to do, and there aren't any evil guys out there stronger than you, so you should be fine as long as you keep training,” Kronos said before walking into a newly created portal,” Later Goku, I'll come check up on you sometime ok?”

“Okay! Bye Kronos!” Goku said waving.

“Have a safe trip, when you get back you've gotta tell me how you made an interdimensional portal!” Bulma said waving.

“Bye,” He said walking through the portal as it disappeared.

A few minutes on a rather green planet near a small military camp.

Kronos stepped out of the portal only to be surrounded by six people in power armour and a bunch of marines in standard military equipment. All of them were aiming their rifles at Kronos,one of them had a mini gun.

“Hold it! You are currently on the grounds of an UNSC encampment, vacate the premises immediately or you will leave us no choice but to use lethal force,” The one in dark blue armor commanded.

Kronos laughed, “Yeah no, thanks this place is interesting, I'm gonna take look around,”

“Open fire!” The man said as he and his allies fired their weapons. The bullets bounced off him harmlessly.

“W-what are you?” The blue armoured man said, shaken but holding his ground. His comrades doing the same.

“Hmm that’s… complicated I suppose a Saiyan should do,” Kronos said looking around the camp curiously.

“Sir, what are we going to do, our weapons didn’t do anything to this man,” Another in light blue armour said keeping her cool.

“He doesn’t seem to be with the covenant, he’s just curious I guess, for now we keep an eye on him, and hope he doesn’t decided to turn on us,” The dark blue armoured soldier said grimly.

“You guys gotta lotta intristen’ stuff,” Kronos said messing with one of the main computers in the main tent.

“Hey! Don’t mess with that!” The man said angrily.

Kronos rolled his eyes,” Fine sheesh, someone’s up tight ,eh soldier boy?”

“We don’t have time for this, Noble Team we’re moving out,” The man said going up to a pair of green helicopter like flying vehicles as the rest of his team split up. Half the team going to one, and the other half to the other.

“Six, I read your report, Impressive but we’re a team, that lone wolf stuff? You leave that behind,” The man said.

“Yes sir,” Six ,a purple armoured soldier with red accents, nodded.

“Hey wait for me!” Kronos said as they took off.

“We’ll deal with you later, right now we have a mission!” The commanding officer said as they took of into sky.

“Oh hell no, I gotta see this!” Kronos grinned flying into the air.

The soldiers were shocked.

“He can fly too? I really hope that guy doesn't decide to turn on us,” One of the power armour clad warriors with a skull on his orange visor said.

“He seems harmless, well as far as he hasn’t tried anything yet, he’s just curious, Emile,” A large yellow and black armoured soldier said.

“Yeah, guess your right Jorge, but Im still gonna keep an eye on him. It might be a trick, he did try and mess with our computers after all,” Emile said.

“What do you think Kat?” Jorge asked the armour clad woman.

“He seems harmless enough, but I think Emile has the right idea, we don’t know anything about him other than he has superhuman abilities and therefore he is threat, we should try and keep him friendly as there is no knowing what he could do if we tick him off,” Kat replied calmly.

“Makes sense to me,” A man in green power armour nodded.

“Alright Noble, we’re looking at a downed relay outpost fifty klicks from Visegrad. We’re going to introduce ourselves to whoever took it out, and then Kat is gonna get it back online,” the man in dark blue armour said.

“Sir, why would rebel’s want to cut off communications with the rest of the colonies?” Jorge asked.

“You get a chance, maybe you can ask them, Jorge” the commander replied.

“Commander, we just lost communications with HQ,” Kat said over the comms.

“Back up channels?” Caratar asked.

“Checking… Nada. Can’t say what’s jamming us,” Kat said.

“You heard her, Dead zone confirmed, command will not be keeping us company this trip,”

“Im lonely already,” Emile quipped.

A few minutes later they were hovering above a their target area.

“Shootdown attempts likely, so keep your distance,” Carter said referring to the pilot.

“Yes sir,” The pilot responded.

“Let’s stay focused, watch you sectors!” Carter commanded as a large compound came into sight.

“There’s the communications outpost,” Jorge said looking the compound up and down.

“Reading a distress beacon,” Kat said over the comms.

“Could be missing troopers, put us down on the bluff,” Carter said, “Jun, I want your eyes in the sky,”

“Sir,” A green armoured man nodded,

“Let’s go six,” Carter said as they prepared to jump off the flying vehicle.

“Alright Noble team, spread out,watch the approach… That goes for you too newbie,” Carter said pointing at Kronos.

As most of the team and Kronos ran down the hill, Emile climbed a rock and checked a nearby structure.

“Structure point Three-four looks clear from this angle,” Emile said though his comm before jumping down, his energy shield flickering for a second before re-energizing and becoming invisible once again.

“Distress beacon is coming from just south of here, we’re close,” Kat said as they moved down the path.

“Roger that, eyes peeled,” Carter said.

“Wow just look at this mess,” Kronos said when they found the end of the path where a still burning truck was flipped on its top.

“You got that right,” Six said looking around.

Emile flipped the truck over to get to a small device that was hidden below it.

“I found the beacon,” Emile said giving the device to Kat who looked it over,while SIx and Kronos looked around the area.

“Any ID?” Carter asked.

“Negative, but it’s military,” Kat replied before dropping the device on the ground.

“So where are the troopers?” Jorge asked over the comms.

“And why are we not seeing explosive residue?” Kat asked.

“Noble Three, can you confirm any EX residue in the area?” Carter asked.

“Hmm… negative, sir,” Jun replied over the comms.

“Plasma maybe?” Emile asked.

“Can’t be, not on Reach,” Jorge said in disbelief.

“There’s a lot of blood on the ground,” Emile noted.

“Which would point against it being Plasma, as it burns instead of causing you to bleed,” Kronos said.

“Alright, Noble, and whoever you are, looks like there’s nothing here,let’s move on,”

“Smoke in the next structure, boss,” Jun said over the coms.

“Alright, let's move out,” Carter said as they jogged over to said structures.

“Six, move into the house right behind you,” Six nodded and walked inside giving Carter the chance to turn to Kronos.

“Okay, I want to make this one hundred percent clear, If you want to run with us, you follow my orders, we’re a team, and this is MY team, and I'm not gonna let you get them killed by doing something stupid, from now on your code name is Noble Seven, er what’s your name again?” Carter said.

“Kronos,” The warrior replied.

“Alright, Kronos do we understand ourselves?” Carter said getting up in Kronos face.

“Yes, sir,” Kronos said with a nod.

“Good, alright let's move out,” Carter said as they walked after Six.

“Noble leader, heat-sigs in the structure ahead!” Jun said over the comms.

The team runs through the building towards the next structure as the flying vehicle flew down long enough to drop off Jorge.

“En nem csinaltam semmit!” a man said coming out of the house, his friends behind him still in the house.

“On your knees, now!” Emile shouted, aiming his rifle at the man.

“No lojon! Ne lojon!” The man said panicking.

“Their not rebels, look at them their farmers,” Jorge said calming his friend.

“Ask them what their doing here,” Carter said.

“Mit keresteck itt,” The man said cowering and rambling on in his language.

“Nos, akkor talan fegyveres katonan valo kazvetlan futas nem a legjobb olet,” Kronos snorted.

“Shut up Seven, Hiding sir,Neighbors were attacked last night, He heard gunfire… screams, it stopped around sunrise,” Jorge said glaring at Kronos for a second.

The man then said, “Rendban,igaza volt, hoggy meggondoltan volt tolem,” The man said giving a nod to Kronos, before saying, “Valami megolte a fiamat,” pointing at the feilds sadly.

“Something in the fields, killed his son,” Jorge said.

“Something?” Carter asked now on guard.

“Commander, be advised I'm reading heat-sigs in the structure directly east of your position,over,” Jun said over the comms.

“Copy that,get them back inside,” Carter said to Jorge.

Jorge compiled and the rest of the team made their way to the structure.

They opened the door to find bodies of several civilians piled on the left side of the room.

“Looks like we found where those troopers went,” Kronos said grimacing when he saw them hanging by meat hooks on the north wall.

“Damn,” Carter said shaking his head.

“Fill me in commander, what do you see, Over” Jun asked over the comms.

“We’ve got military casualties, looks like they were interrogated… it’s messy,” Carter said.

“Let's go, we’ll send a clean team to deal with this once the long range coms are back up,” Kronos said.

“He’s right, let’s go and watch your movement trackers” Carter said as they ran out of the room and up a flight of stairs that lead to a platform that had a open window on the left and a door on the right. The ceiling shook under the weight something as it ran across the roof.

“What the hell was that?” Emile asked.

“Jun, you see anything?” Carter asked.

“Negative, thermals clean,” Jun replied.

“Some kind of lizard thing, judging by its ki signature,” Kronos said as they ran to the next building, and as they ran by one of the open windows, a bipedal lizard bird thing spotted and started squawking as it raised the alarm.

“Looks like our new friend was spot on eh?” Jorge said as most of them ran out side. Kronos staying behind to blow a hole in the lizard’s head before jumping out of the window and activating his sharingan, creating a large legless samurai esc giant made of black energy. The Giant stood firm blocking all of the oncoming waves of short dwarves with weird packs and lizardmen firing their weapons.

“What the hell...” Jorge said in bewilderment.

“Go ahead ‘n shoot, this big boi can take a shit ton of damage,” Kronos said, smirking at the enemies before the giant formed it’s scythe and cut through the aliens with ease.

“Shit, Well I guess that kinda solidifies him being on our side,” Emile said.

“Alright Six, Jorge, the new guy, and I, will take care of the contacts in this valley and recover the marines, Emile, Kat regroup with Jun and continue onto the objective,” Carter ordered.

“Yes sir,” Kat said as she and Emile ran back to the building to wait for Jun and the pelican.

“Noble! Banshees and dropships inbound, Falcon moving to assist,” Jun said over the comms. As the falcon took out flying vehicles dubbed as ‘banshees’, one of the mentioned dropships tried to fly away, only for Kronos to blast it apart with a ki blast.

“Stand down, Noble, stand down... contacts neutralized,” Carter said.

“Contacts? It's the damn covenant,” Jorge growled.

“Cheer up big man, this whole valley just became a free fire zone,” Emile said walking up obviously happy with the turn of events.

“Alright then, welcome to the team, um what’s your name again?” Jorge said walking up to Kronos.

“Kronos,” The warrior said with a smile.

“Well then Kronos, I look forward to fighting beside you,” Jorge said giving Kronos a pat on the back making him stagger forward a bit.

“Alright, enough chit chat, let’s move out, Kronos you’re with Jorge, Six and me,” Carter said sternly.

“Yes sir,” Kronos said with a nod.

“Excellent, Kat we need to warn Holland, I need you at that outpost now!” Carter said turning to Kat.

“Boss, I’m showing more activity to the east!” Jun said over the comms.

“Copy that, six you’ve go point,” Carter said as they ran up the hill.

Three large lizardmen in white armour charged them with a bunch of short guys in armour. Only for Kronos to blast them all into oblivion.

“Hey newbie, save some for me!” Emile said slapping Kronos upside his head.

“Ow! Sheesh, try and help someone out,” Kronos said glaring at Emile.

“Commander, I’m seeing more hostile activity to the northeast,” Jun said over the coms.

“Emile, Seven, you’re with Kat. Six, Jorge and I will run interference on the ground, we’ll meet you at the outpost,”

“Noble three, requesting air-lift, Over,” Kat said.

One of the flying vehicles landed and Kat and co. jumped on board. Later Noble regrouped in the air and touched down at the outpost, they were greeted by a large group of covenant warriors.

“Put us down pilot,” Carter said.

“The LZ’s still hot sir!” the pilot protested.

“Not for much longer, Seven clear them out,” Carter ordered

“With pleasure!” Kronos said with a grin, unsheathing his blade and disappeared for a split second before the covenant troop all hit the ground, blood gushing from wounds that appeared out of nowhere, and Kronos re-appearing at the entrance of the compound.

“I'm starting to like having him around,” Jorge chuckled.

“Naw he’s stealing all the good kills,” Emile laughed, jumping down from the vehicle and heading over to Kronos.

“Alright Kat, break though that-” Carter began before Kronos blew the blast door to smithereens.

“God dammit, Kronos I needed that!” Carter yelled.

“But I thought you wanted-” Kronos began.

“Yea I also wanted to close it so the enemy can’t chase us inside!” Carter scolded.

“Oh yea… that makes much more sense,” Kronos said with a blush.

“Whatever, lets just get inside,” Carter said in annoyance.

Once inside, they went through another heavy door locking it behind them.

“We need to find the control room. From there, Kat can get the relay back online. Emile, post up here, if we flush any hostiles, they’re yours,” Carter ordered as they headed into a dark room.

“Don’t worry seven, I'll save some for you, just like you did for me buddy,” Emile said grinning under his helmet at Kronos.

“Fuck you too ,Emile,” Kronos laughed as he followed the rest of the team inside.

“Can’t see anything, turn on you night vision,” Carter ordered.

“Oh man I’m regretting not packing my nightvison eyeballs now,” Kronos said sarcastically.

“Quit whining, I’ll get the lights on quickly,” Kat said walking up to a control panel in the control room and flicking the lights on. Now revealing several corpses around the ground.

“Six search that body for ID,” Kat said as she searched one of the dead scientist.

It was then Carter found an injured trooper, “Where’s the rest of your unit,” He asked.

“We got split up, I don't think they...it sounded bad on the comms,” the trooper coughed.

“Alright, Corporel, stay put, we’ll get you a combat surgeon,” Carter said as Kat continued to look the controls over as Six grabbed something off one of the scientists.

“Damn, plasma damage,” Kat said in annoyance.

“Found something,” Six said raising it up.

“I'll take that, not your domain ,Six,” Kat said.

“Hey we’ve got a live one,” Kronos said coming to a view pulling a young teenage girl with him, who was cursing him in her language and hitting him repeatedly.

“Hey lemme deal with this,” Jorge said dropping his weapon and grabbing her hand, “We’re not going to hurt you,”

“Jorge…” Carter said getting up.

“I’ve got her,” Jorge said waving his hand, “I'll release you,”

“Meg… Itt vaanak,” She whimpered.

“Who’s still here?” Kronos asked before three large covent warriors in maroon armour charged through one of them, taking Six to the ground, prompting Kronos to vaporize him with a ki blast.

“What’s your status, Over?” Emile asked over the comms.

“We’ve been engaged!” Carter replied as one of the aliens grabbed the injured trooper and pressed a dagger to his neck as he backed towards the exit of the room.

Kronos suddenly disappeared again and the two aliens dropped dead, their blood spewing on the ground as Kronos repressed sitting down and cleaning his sword.

“Nicely done, Seven,” Carter said.

“I try,” Kronos said with a smile.

Jorge gave Kronos a nod of respect before kneeling down to the girl as Emile clambered in and saw the mess before looking at Kronos.

“Really dude? You couldn’t even leave one?” Emile asked with a scoff.

“Nope,” Kronos grinned evilly.

“Okay I see how it is, well just you wait, when this is all over I'll have more kills then you!” Emile said.

“Loser buy the winner a drink,” Kronos said with a smirk.

“Deal,” Emile laughed.

The girl had her back turned to Jorge, who then gently tapped her shoulder only for his hand to be swatted away, causing Emile to chuckle a bit.

“What’s your name, do you live around here?” Jorge asked.

The girl said nothing. So Jorge took of his helmet, and said “A Nevem Jorge,”

The girl turned to him and reluctantly said, “Sara,”

“Sara… szep hatarozott nev, Your accent sounds familiar, sopron?” He asked.

“Tengari,” She replied looking at one of the corpse of the scientist solemnly.

“Friend of yours?” Jorge asked.

“Father,” She said tearing up a bit.

“Sajnalom, Im sorry,” Jorge said shaking his head.

“Why would you be?” She asked bitterly.

“Big man forgets what he is sometimes,” Emile chuckled.

“She just lost her father,” Jorge said glaring at Emile, before turning to Carter, “She is going to need a full psychiatric workup,”

“She’s not the only one,” Emile snarked causing Jorge to jump in anger and Kronos to grab Emile by the neck in rage.

“Lock it down all of you!” Carter pulling Kronos of Emile.

“You better watch your mouth ,Emile,” Kronos said menacingly.

“Sheesh what I do to piss you off?” Emile asked backing off a bit.

“Oh I don't know, maybe it was when you made light of a young girl losing her father, glad to see some of us have hearts,” Jorge said, giving Kronos a grateful pat on his back, before shooting a glare at Emile and helping Sara up.

“Commander, the signal’s up, its patchy but it'll work,” Kat said.

“I'll take it,” Carter said walking up to the panel.

“...I’m barely getting you what’s your situation?” the man on the other end asked.

“Colonel? This is Noble One, There are no rebels, the Covenant are on Reach, acknowledge?”

“Come again Noble One? Did you say Covenant,” the colonel asked in shock.

“Arrimative, its the winter contingency,” Carter said.

“May God help us all…” the colonel said.

Carter turned to Kronos who was talking with Jorge and said, “I think he sent us some back up sir,”

“Explain Spartan,” The colonel demanded. It was then Carter knew it was gonna be a long work week.

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