Project Britannia: Fellowship

Summary
After the leader of Alpha Helljumpers is killed during an insurrectionist raid, a new member is suddenly introduced and pushed into command of the squad.

Prologue
A Solitary ODST, clad in what appeared to be more lightweight, yet weakened blue and gold CQB armour, stood upon a cliff, sniper rifle in hand. A female ODST, clad in an aqua and teal variation on the Military Police armour, stepped up to him. "Our squad have scanned the area, there are no points where they could snipe us," she reported. The male ODST looked at her and nodded. "I've got a plan. You, Manchester, Liverpool and Antrim will raid the base. Birmingham, Halifax, Armagh and I will flank them," he replied. She nodded.

She was Lanera Young and she was a member of the Alpha Helljumpers, commanded by 'London'. Her codename was Newtownabbey. Her attitude normally switched between laid back and anxious on a regular basis, although when on a mission her personality seemed to completely change to a serious, determined and competitive form, setting herself personal targets and goals. London himself was always in mission mode, never raising his mouth for a smile. Lanera was irritated by the fact that he would be commanding even off of the battlefield, seeming almost stuck-up. Little did she know that this would be the last time she would have to deal with this.

After rallying her squad, sending the flankers over to London to deal with, she wielded her battle rifle and looked at the base. There were two snipers, stood atop their camping spots. She put her foot down and began to run towards the base, her ODSTs quickly catching on and following. The snipers quickly noticed and zoomed in, preparing to snipe. Lanera quickly raised her battle rifle and shot both of them down, the bodies dropping to the sides of the base as she ran through the open gate, running straight towards a large hangar, where two warthogs were located. The insurrectionists had quickly scrambled into red alert, two jumping into the warthog and driving forwards quickly. the four assaulters jumping to cover, quickly chucking frag grenades in the direction of the vehicle. It was flipped over, the front plate flying off and hitting against the hangar wall, the Insurrectionists, stumbling out. Before they could react, bullets barraged their heads as they slowly fell back down to the ground permanently. Ten more insurrectionists rushed up to the team, guns raised in a circle. One spoke, "Put down your guns and surrender now," when all of a sudden, a sniper shot came out of nowhere and killed three of them with one bullet. The other four members were stood upon the cliff they were initially stationed, Lanera's team shooting down the rest of the Insurrectionists. They quickly rushed into the base, shooting down enemies on their threes, pushing their way into the base. Inside, two turrets were raised. Lanera murmured, "god damnit," before quickly rushing in between the two turrets, which were both aimed and firing at her, narrowly missing her. She dropped her second frag grenade at her feet and blew both the turrets to the side, shooting down the two Insurrectionists who had deployed them before they could react to their turrets going sky high. A squad of Insurrectionists ran in, but Lanera had the advantage, already having her weapons raised and her finger on the trigger, blasting them all down with her team cooperating. They rushed into the next room, where two more Insurrectionists were positioned, although they went down as easily as the last. Suddenly, Alpha heard a turret rev up, looking at the doorway in front of them and seeing a musclebound insurrectionist ready to fire a constant wave of bullets. before they could shoot him, they were forced to dive for cover, Lanera swearing under her breath and noticing something even worse-two more machine gun weilders had walked in, now covering the narrow room in all angles.

Two insurrections stood guard at the back entrance, looking at eachother, unaware of what was about to hit them. Two bullets went through their heads, London sliding down a sloped part of the cliff, his team following. He kicked open the door, striding in and filling the room with bullets from his assault rifle, killing the Insurrectionists in the room easily. His team followed, Opening the next room door and chucking two grenades in, causing a smoke shield to appear. Once again, bullets filled the room, London stepping out of the smoke and reloading. The next room door was open, three Insurrectionists standing there with machine gun bullets filling the room. The members of the team, minus Halifax, silently snuck up and drew their knives, each stabbing the Insurrectionists in the back of the neck at the same time. Lanera, on the other side, pointed behind the flanking team, who turned around and seen another ten insurrectionists rush in. They started to blast their magnums, shooting down their enemies easily and turning back, Lanera and her team running over to join the flankers. Suddenly, the room the invading team were in previously was filled with enemies. London looked at Lanera. "Get your team out of here," he stated, the latter reluctantly rushing out of the room. London went into armour lock as grenades, bullets and rockets were tossed at him, turning ineffective almost immediately. He stayed in armour lock, surrounded by Insurrectionists ready to shoot him once he came out, but they were suddenly caught in a frag grenade blast-London had dropped a grenade below himself right before going into lock, expecting exactly this. As soon as he went out of armour lock, he rushed into the room, frag grenades tossed and bullets mowing down enemies. He got into the middle and went into armour lock once more, rockets being fired at him once again-however, the insurrectionists didn't realise that the rockets would be deflected and ended up blowing up a great portion of their team easily. However, more of them kept on rushing in, until eventually London was far too exhausted to fight them off anymore. With two frag grenades in hand, he ran up to the rocket soldier and stuffed the grenades in the launcher, gripping the Insurrectionist's hand tight as to make sure he didn't dispose of it. The grenades went off, detonating the rockets around them and causing destruction in the room. London's limp body collapsed to the ground, his chestplate leaking blood and shards of his visor covering his pale face.

Lanera, in the lower levels of the base, took out C4 charges and filled a control room with them, dead bodies surrounding her. She pulled out the detonator, ready to blow it whenever the room was filled with London's killers. The six other ODSTs began to fire, holding them off. She pulled out a bubble shield, tossing it to the ground and activating it. She let off the detonator. The C4 charges blew, sending the entire base sky high. The insurrectionists were all obliterated, rubble flying everywhere. The smoke from the detonation faded away, The team walking from their cover whenever they spotted a dim golden shimmer. She ran over to it... London? She quickly removed his helmet, looking down at his body. Taking a second to mourn him silently, she took his dog tags and put them above her own, picking up his body. she activated her comm channel. "A-Alpha squad to U-UNSC Athenian, we have complete the mission, t-the Insurrectionists are down. I repeat, the insurrectionists are down," she said in a trembling voice.