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David Kilgore Excerpt
David Kigore parked the Necros Nemesis LRV he arrived on and walked across the runway of a Necros airfield. The Warrior Forms guarding the base paid him no attention, for David had hacked the Necros' IFF codes. The Necros thought he was an Agressor. But David was no mindless half-cybernetic killing machine, he was a Revenant, the product of a failed conversion. True he was a killing machine, but David did not kill humans, he killed Necros, and he was far from mindless. David was on a highly dangerous mission to infiltrate a Necros airfield and capture a Necros Adversary fighter. To do this, David had to replace the Necros AI in the fighter, which was basically a high end UAV, with a UNSC AI. David appeared to be alone, but connected to his neural interface, there was another, the UNSC AI Gungnir. David walked over to the nearest Adversary and, after making sure there were no Necros guards in the area, David opened the dome containing the AI on the fighter, located where the cockpit would have been on most aircraft. David removed the computer chip containing the Necros AI and crushed it in his titanium hands. David that loaded Gungnir's chip into the AI port. The AI's Avatar, a blood red hologram of the Norse god Odin stood in the AI dome. "I'll keep in radio contact", David said, "Cover me if the Necros realize my true identity. Keep covering until I reach the extraction point, then land this thing at the carrier", David said. At that, the dome covering the AI closed and the Adversary took off. At once, several Necros Warriors started firng at David. David returned fire with the pulse carbine in his arm, shooting back as he ran for a Nemesis LRV he had parked near the side of the building. David got on the vehicle and sped off along the runway as a pair Necros Shrieker Interceptors began strafing his vehicle. Pulse rounds whizzed by his head. Suddenly, David heard a loud whizzing sound and an even louder explosion. He look back to see a missile impact each of the Necros interceptors, followed by an Adversary fighter, which flew overhead as more Adversaries taxied down the runway. "Gungnir", David turned on his radio and said, "Crater the runway, use the anti-capital ship missiles if you don't have any bombs" Two anti-capital ship missiles slammed into the runway. "Ha ha ha! Now begins Ragnarök!", Gungnir's voice boomed through the radio as the missile exploded behind David. A squad of Necros Warriors lead by a Sergeant ran into David's path, one of them pointing a Vindicator Missile at him. David squeezed the triggers on the handlebars of the Nemesis LRV. The twin rotary pulse cannons spat a hail of plasma slugs that perforated the Necros squad as David sped off, the Adversary controlled by Gungnir above and behind him, strafing the surviving grounded Necros aircraft and shooting down a pair of Carrions that managed to take off. David turned the Nemesis onto the road David would have to follow for a few miles to reach his extraction point, where a Pelican Dropship would pick his. Two more Nemesises and a Fury APC drove towards David's Nemesis LRV. David fired the pulse cannons and managed to fill one of the LRVs with holes. The alien LRV missed the burst it attempted to fire at him and overshot him. The Warrior form riding the Nemesis raised a Pulse Pistol, but David was too fast. He pointed his right arm at the driver and fired the pulse carbine hidden within the mechanical arm. The driver of the Nemesis flew off his vehicle and slid along the ground as his vehicle spun out of control. Gungnir's fighter strafed the Fury as the AI exclaimed "I love APCs, so crunchy!!!". Up ahead, another danger loomed, dozens of Necros vehicles: Fury APCs, Butcher IFV, Annihilator AFVs, Compound tanks, Eviscerator light tanks, and even an Eradicator heavy tank. "Gungnir", David yelled into his radio, "Take out those tanks!!!". Lasers and plasma bolts rained from the skies at Necros armor. Tanks caught fire left and right as they were hit by the hail of heavy energy weapons fire. "BURN!!!!!!", Gungnir yelled as the tanks became their own funeral pyre. As David weaved the Nemesis through the wreckage, he couldn't help thinking that Gungnir liked blowing stuff up a little too much. Beyond the the wreckage, David could see the Pelican Dropship sent to pick him up flying in. The craft landed and David left his Nemesis behind and climbed aboard the craft. The Pelican returned to an orbiting carrier, Gungnir and the Adversary by it's side. Both aircraft landed aboard the UNSC craft.

Operation: SUPERNOVA
Ross East Jr. stood at the briefing room, to the right of a holographic display. "Pilots of the Third Spec. Op. Squadron, you are about to embark on one of the most dangerous missions in this war. Tomorrow we strike at the heart of Necros war machine." Holo-display displayed a map of the Galaxy, before zooming in to the Necros-controlled area, then an individual system, before finally stopping on a gas giant with a large orbital installation, larger even than High Charity, the Covenant "holy city"-space station. The installation obsidian black, and bristling with guns. Docked at the station were hundreds of Necros vessels, ranging from countless Legion-class Frigates to a few massive Jehovah-class Super Dreadnoughts. Periodically hatches would open in side of the base would open and yet another vessel would emerge from the base. "This is Necros shipyard installation, filmed from an ONI Prowler operating in the area. This installation contains full automated assembly line for any vessel in the Necros fleet, it an produce even the largest vessels in a matter of months and, with all of it's twelve frigate assembly lines active, can churn out a dozen Legion-class Frigates in a few days. The installation is armed with thousands of defensive weapons and has a shield that can shrug off a meteor impact. But don't think that's going to stop us from blowing it up." One of Ross' squadronmates, John Archer, asked, "But Sir, how are we going to attack that and get out alive? Last time I checked this wasn't a kamikaze unit!" Some officers would have reprimanded Archer, but Ross was known for being tolerant with his subordinates and, besides, he had a point. "I'm assuming you are familiar with actions of Admiral Preston Cole during the Battle of Psi Serpentis", Ross replied, "We're going to do exactly what he did. But we are going to use CATACLYSM Antimatter Missiles, 100 time the power of an H-bomb in a one pound warhead, so only the eight of us should be able to temporarily turn that gas giant into a brown dwarf. The fireball should be violent enough to sweep aside the shield of that installation and incinerate the damn thing, and hundreds of Necros ships along with it! We'll fly off from the Warrior in I-660s and make a slipspace jump at 17:00 hours. We'll exit slipspace here." As Ross said this, a miniature slipspace rupture appeared on the holographic image, from which emerged eight small I-660 Spear Bombers. "As you can see, we will be exiting on the other side of the planet. Now, it's simple matter of launching our ordnance into the core of the gas giant and jumping out of there ASAP. The exit location should be far enough away for you to survive the blast, but the Necros will undoubtedly send reinforcements after losing contact with one of their shipyards, so it is paramount that you make the return jump as soon as your missiles are clear of your aircraft."

Another Excerpt
David Kilgore sat at the controls of an M-1050 Brown Bear Anti-Heavy Walker Vehicle, along with the rest of his old unit, the Sixth Armored Division. It was the first time he had driven his old vehicle since he had become a Revenant. David's AHWV was parked on top a mesa in a desert area on (planet pending), along with the rest of his old unit. They were supposed to intercept a Despot Conversion Super Walker, eliminate it's escorts, cripple the Necros walker and board it to rescue any survivors. To the west, David heard the sounds of the footfalls of the massive Necros Walkers. He looked into the valley below him to see the Necros Super Walker, as well as a pair Gravedigger Ultra Heavy Assault Platforms, formidable Necros equivalents to the Scarab, as well as four Stalker Assault Walkers and dozens of Necros tanks and APCs. David locked his first missile on to one of the Necros Gravediggers and said into his radio, "Half of my unit, fire on the Despot, desheild it and disable it's legs and gun systems, but do not destroy it, the rest of you, help me take out the other walkers. Fire NOW!!!", David said. David's neural interface fired all eight of the Brown Bear's missiles with a single thought. Several of David's missiles slammed into one of the Gravediggers and completely annihilated the rear of the walker as other anti-walker missiles destroyed the second Gravedigger walker and four remaining stalkers, and crippled the Despot. A wide variety of UNSC tanks opened up on the Necros Compound and Eviscerator Tanks and Fury APCs. The cannons of Scorpions, Foxes, Coyotes, and Tigers, the missiles of Cobras, the Gauss guns of Monitors and the lasers of Komodos opened at the at the Necros armor, setting tanks ablaze left and right. Before long, all the Necros forces were eradicated by the UNSC ambush. It was then that David got the radio message ordering him to come down from the mesa and join the entry team. As a Revenant, a failed attempt by the Necros to turn him into an Aggressor, David had an invaluable knowledge of Necros technology, not to mention the increased strength of his Necros-made cybernetic limbs. Still, even with all his strength, David was apprehensive about return to a facility similar to the one in which he had all four of his limbs replaced with machine parts, where he was almost transformed into a mindless killing machine.

Upon reaching the crippled walker, he was met by about a dozen IBSTs, who piled out of Camel, Kangaroo, and Groundhog APCs. The IBSTs all carried shotguns and submachine guns and wore grav-packs on their back. David himself carried an M12 Submachine Gun and had a grav-pack of his own. "IBSTs, join on me", David said "I know your used to working in ships, but HIGHCOM thinks your the best men for the job. We're to get into the walker through that entrance up there, free any prisoners, and get out." "And now", David said "We march into hell!". David turned off the safety of his SMG and used his grav-pack jump up to the large door in the walker that had been blown open by the UNSC tanks. The large open hatch in the walker seemed to be a loading dock of sorts. "Raveners, left side", David's AI, Gungnir said, "kill them all". David fired his SMG at a pair of unalert Raveners, busy regurgitating the ground up flesh of their victims for production into proteins for synthetic muscle. Both of the snake like cyborgs fell to the ground as the IBSTs were launched by grav-pack one-by-one. "Clear!", David yelled, "Stack up on that door, Open and clear. David ran in and saw several Necros Aggressor forms loading unconcious victims onto a conveyer belt. David knew only too well where it lead. The Aggresors dropped their victims and took aim at David and the IBSTs with arm mounted pulse carbines or charged them with wrist blades or titanium fists that hid artificial gravity generators. David fired his M12 at a pair of Aggressors as they raised their arm mounted pulse carbines. The micro-rifle rounds from David's SMG sliced through the Necros' bodies, a horrific combination of reanimated flesh, titanium machinery and artificial muscle. The two Aggressors fell to the floor, as did several others, perforated by SMG rounds and buckshot from the IBST's weapons. The last Aggressor, however, got close enough to use it's wrist blade. The slice of the blade missed David, but sliced his M12 SMG in two. The Necros took a second slice at David, but he grabbed the Necros' arm below the blade in his right hand and punched the Necros hard in the face with his left. The artificial gravity generator in David's robotic arm activated as he slammed his titanium fist into the Necros Aggressor with such force that it shattered the Necros' skull. The Necros' head exploded under the force. The headless Necros Aggressor dropped to the floor as David said "You three", he pointed to three ISBTs, "get those unconcious survivors out of here, the rest of you, stay with me". "But you don't have anything but your sidearm, that Aggressor destroyed your SMG", an IBST said. "You", David responded "seem to have forgotten that I am a Revenant." David pointed the retracted his robotic right hand to reveal a Necros pulse carbine as he spoke. David used his gravity-fist to knock down the door to the processing facility and entered, firing the pulse carbine in his right arm. The SMGs and shotguns of the IBST took out several Necros Aggressors next to the conversion facility's main conveyor belt. Plasma blasts from David's pulse carbine melted holes through a pair of Necros Warriors on catwalks above the conversion line, as well as several pieces of conversion machinery, rendering the conversion line useless, saving many prisoners of the Necros from transformation into mindless killing machines. A Necros Sergeant and several Warriors fired pulse rifles from the conveyor control room overlooking the main "killing floor". David dove out of the way of the enemy fire, and took cover behind a piece of destroyed conversion machinery. David drew his M6L pistol as fired a 12.7mm HE magnum slug at one of the Necros Warrior's heads. The round exploded inside the alien machine and took out it's AI core, destroying it instantly. David fired his second shot at the Necros Sergeant when suddenly, the whole control room exploded. David looked around, puzzled. He looked behind him to find the cause of the explosion, one of the prisoners he had rescued, a hispanic-looking female in a UNSC uniform. She still had the legs she was born with, though the Necros had replaced her arms with mechanical arms. She the Necros had also attached a pair of anti-gravity "wings" to her back. The female Revenant was holding Necros grenade launcher she had found off one of the dead Aggressors on the floor. "Sgt Maria Angeles", the revenant said to David, "ODST". "Nice meeting you", David said, "but now is not the time for formalities, we've still got to blow up this walker and get out of here." "Half the squad, escort the prisoners out of the walker. The rest of you are coming with me, David said, as he seized a Necros Shatterer Gravity Gun from a dead Necros Warrior. David blasted down the door into the hallway with the Shatterer and opened fire on a couple of surprised Warrior forms and shot them with the Shatterer at a range of about ten feet. The Necros infantry's artificial muscle and mechanical limbs flew throughout the corridor as their titanium bodies were crushed by the blast of artificial gravity. David looked at the Necros writing on the wall. David look at the text and said to the IBST: "This Necros writing on the wall says the core is this way, follow me. David lead the IBSTs to another door. Now that there were no more Necros prisoners to rescue, David ordered one of the squad to toss a fragmentation grenade into this door after he knocked it down with the Shatterer. The grenade landed in the middle of a large room that turned out to be the walker's control room. The grenade landed next to a Necros computer terminal. The explosion destroyed the terminal and several Necros Warriors and Aggressors operating the machine. The Necros Captain in command of the walker, however, was well shielded and survived the blast. David held the Shatterer in his left hand and fired the pulse carbine built into his right. The recoil control system in David's mechanical arms made it possible for him to dual wield even large weapons like the Shatterer. The gravity blasts and plasma bolts David fired at the alien machine, along with the hail of lead from the IBSTs submachine guns and shotguns quickly pierced the remainder of the Necros Captain's energy shielding. The Necros commander's body fell to the floor in a heap of mangled artificial muscle and twisted metal.

To be continued...

More David Kilgore
David Kilgore of the 3rd Armored division down a highway into the city of (Location pending), about to liberate one of the last pockets of Necros resistance in the city. Kilgore was driving his Polar Bear ASWV, "Fury from the North", Suddenly, a pair of skyscrapers collapsed in a flash of fire. A Necros Tyrant Assault Super Walker emerged from the cloud of dust. The super heavy walker was accompanied by a dozen compound tanks, two Gravediggers UHAPs, and four Eradicator HBTs, as well as about 25 Reaver LAPCs and Nemesis LRVs. David immediately turned his tank's turret towards the Super walker. David heard the lock tone as the the walker fired it's plasma lance cannons, knocking out several tanks in the 3rd Armored. David squeezed the trigger. An AWM-3 INFECTION missile flew at the enemy walker. The missile's EMP warhead impacted the walker's shields, creating a gap, which the missile's penetrator rod flew through. The rod cut through several decks of the walker before it exploded in the vehicle's core. The Necros Tyrant exploded, the entire top of the walker engulfed in flames. "Sic Semper Tyrannus!", David yelled, "Thus always to tyrants" in Latin. The machine that had once the terror of UNSC forces had met it's match in the scaled-down Archer missile known as the INFECTION and the Polar Bear Anti-Walker Vehicle.

Operation: PRIVATEER
David Kilgore sat in the driver's seat of his M1055 Polar Bear ASWV, "Fury of the North", part of a massive UNSC Armored column, headed to the last pocket of Necros resistance. It seem like deja vu, Kilgore had experienced this many times before as a UNSC tank commander. This time, however, was different, This time, he was not a member of the Third Armored Division, but the commander of the 134th Special Forces Operational Detachment, and now he was a Revenant, the product of a failed conversion, with a human mind and free will, but with Necros parts attached to his body, most notably his arms and legs, all of which were replaced with mechanical parts. Now, Kilgore, along with fellow Revenant Mattias Eriksson, in a Tiger HBT, escorted his squad, in a Tortoise HIFV, through the vast plains (location pending), towards a Necros frigate that hovered in the distance, N-FFG-341. Kilgore and the rest of there were going there with one mission, break through the Necros lines and captured the vessel with the help of a squad of EVATs. Suddenly, three Necros Tyrant Assault Super Walkers appeared over the horizon, ready to open fire on the column. Ahead of him, Kilgore witnessed the power of UNSC Air Force. The skies having been cleared of Necros fighters beforehand, Hornets, Sparrowhawks, Axes, Knives, Katanas, Claymores, and countless other aircraft were free to unleash cannons, lasers, missiles, and bombs upon the enemy. "We might actually win this war yet", Kilgore thought of the impressive display of firepower. The radio in David's ASWV cracked to life, "Enemy super walkers sighted, engage at will!". Thanks to Kilgore's neural interface, he could turn his tank's missile launcher turret simply by turning his head. David squeezed the trigger on the steering bars (used in a similar manner to motorcycle handlebars) of his tank. An INFECTION Anti-Super Walker Missile flew from the launch tube and slammed into the behemoth of an alien war machine. The first Tyrant exploded in a ball of fire. It felt good to take out a Necros Super Walker, after not doing it for so long, Kilgore thought. Another Polar Bear ASWV, one from the 3rd Armored, took out the second alien war machine. The final tyrant was struck down when an F/I-905 Claymore fired a TALON missile, a weapon originally intended to kill capital ships, at the walker and took it down. After the Tyrants were finished, a dozen Necros walkers, five Gravediggers, two Dominators, an five Stalkers, and about 100 tanks of various classes, survivors of the UNSC air strike, rolled in, supported by Nemesis LRVs and infantry in Butcher IFVs and Fury APC. Kilgore zoomed in on a Nemesis LRV and took aim with co-axial M11 Autocannon on his tank and fired a short burst. Several high explosive shells shattered the alien hover-cycle. Meanwhile Mattias Eriksson's Tiger and the other Scorpions, Monitors, Komodos, and Tigers picked off Necros Compound and Eradicator tanks with their cannons and TITAN lasers, Brown Bear Anti-Walker Vehicles picked off Gravediggers, Dominators and Stalkers as Kilgore fired the M41 ATGW mounted as a secondary weapon, taking out a Necros Eviscerator Light Tank that somehow escaped the wrath of Eriksson's Tiger HBT and the other UNSC tanks. In mere minutes of battle, the Necros forces were routed, crushed by UNSC armor or annihilated by air strikes, burning tanks and walkers littered the battlefield, most of them alien vehicles. Dozens of Groundhog APC mounted with HOPE orbital drop pod launcher parked themselves behind the UNSC armored forces. "134th, on me, pick a pod and pile in!", Kilgore said as he exited the vehicle and entered the nearest orbital launch pod. "And you guys!", the group of UNSC tank crew men sent to return "Fury From the North" and the other vehicles used by the 134th to the UNSC Nighthawk recoiled slightly at his intimidating appearance when they were addressed by the Revenant, "Make damn sure they get back to the Nighthawk in one piece!" The lead tanker saluted Kilgore as the rest of the 134th SFOD, Mohammed Nasir Ibn La'Ahad, Mattias Eriksson, Michael Price, James Randall, Tanya Pavlichenko, Tricia Buck, Kazuya Bando, Michael Edwards, Angelina Triela, Kouta Hirano, and Saeko Ryougi piled into their pods. The doors to Kilgore's HOPE pod closed, and seconds later the rocket boosters on the bottom of the Kilgore's pod fired, David strained against the G-forces as the drop pod, along with those holding the rest of the 134th rocketed into the sky with a deafening roar. David watched as the UNSC tanks below him shrunk rapidly from sight. He could see whole cities, then regions, the entire continent, before, finally, Kilgore was facing an entire hemisphere. For a few seconds the pod was in low orbit, before yet more rockets fired, GPS guidance system aiming it towards the Necros frigate. The pod then began its descent, falling in a streak of fire as the pod entered the atmosphere. "So this is what it feels like to be an ICBM", Kilgore thought as he looked out the window of his drop pod, and saw all eleven of his sqaudmates's pods, and countless others containing Internal Boarding Shock Troopers, raining down to the planetary surface like a meteor shower. The cities and roads became visible as Kilgore descended, as well as a seemingly small black object. But in truth, that object was far from small. It was a Necros Legion-class Frigate, a spacecraft over 400 meters long. As the vessel grew closer, Kilgore began to see it for what it was, an obsidian black behemoth looming below him, its design was frequently described reminiscent of both a gothic cathederal and a giant black insect, but David always thought of it as more of some great "doom fortress", a fitting dwelling of an of an evil overlord, like something out of Lord of the Rings. The retro rockets fired as black dots, the UNSC tanks he had been among mere minutes ago again became visible, before a parachute deployed, slowing the pod to a slow drop as the pod passed through the gap where the vessels' energy shield once was, before coming to a stop on as it struck the vessel's titanium hull. Within seconds, the pods of the 134th and the IBSTs landed on the top of the vessel, not one missing, testament to UNSC GPS technology.

David Kilgore exited his pod, shortly followed by the rest of the 134th and the IBSTs. "All right", Kilgore said, "We need to get into the bridge and de-activate the AA guns. Then we go down to the hangers and open the doors so reinforcements can be brought in by Pelican. Triela, take a rope up to the top of the bridge with your jump pack, Edwards, Ryougi, Hirano, Ibn La'Ahad, Buck, and half the IBSTs, you're going up on the rope. Everyone else, come with me." Angelina Triela used her anti-gravity apparatus attached to her back to jump to the top of the bridge and fasten a rope and harness, which half the 134th and IBST proceeded to climb up. "Everyone in position?", Kilgore asked through his radio. "Ready to breach on your signal", Michael Edwards replied. "All right", David said, "Bando, Edwards, blow the door in on my mark....NOW!", Kilgore exclaimed as both airlocks were blown aside.

David Kilgore's Route
Kilgore and Mattias Eriksson turned to the side, into the door and stepped over a dead Necros Aggressor killed by the breaching charge. David fired a long burst from his M81C ULMG into squad of disoriented Necros Warriors, cutting them down as Eriksson fired his M43C Full Auto Shotgun, chewing up a group of Aggressors and Warriors on the other side of the room. Michael Price chewed up yet more Necros Infantry with his BR09 set to full auto fire as James Randall and Tanya Pavlichenko ran in, rifles a blazing. More Necros poured in, with Slayers, Guards, and Berserkers accompanying the Warriors. Bullets and Plasma slugs flew everywhere as Necros and IBSTs fell left and right. David Kilgore fired his ULMG until the belt ran out and then held it in one hand as he fired the pulse carbine in his right mechanical arm, cutting down a Necros Guard and several Warriors. "Cover me, reloading!", Kilgore yelled as he ducked behind a Necros mainframe and changed a the ammo belt in his LMG. The IBSTs and David's three comrades sprayed lead in the direction of the Necros. David finally changed his ULMG's belt, sidestepping out from cover and firing the M026 Grenade Launcher under the barrel of his ULMG. The 25mm grenade impacted a Necros Slayer in the chest and blew the alien cyborg to pieces, as well as taking out several Aggressors, a Berserker, and another Guard. "CLEAR!", Kilgore yelled, "Next floor, Eriksson, take point!" Mattias loaded another ammo belt into his M43 and slowly turned the corner and walked up the stairs, followed by the rest of the squad. He climbed up to of the staircase and stood to one side of the door to the next level, James Randall standing on the other side, MX4 LSW at the ready. "Frag and clear", Kilgore whispered through his radio. Eriksson removed fragmentation grenade from his belt and tossed it through the door. The grenade detonated inside the room threw lethal fragments all over the room, killing several Necros and damaging or disorienting most of the others. Eriksson and Randall turned the corner and ran into the door, opening fire with their weapons. Eriksson cut down several Necros Shocktroopers with a hail of incendiary flechettes and rifled slugs from his shotgun, the white phosphorous of the flechettes burning through the Necros' artificial flesh or even setting a few of them on fire as the titanium slugs blew straight through shielding and armor. Randall, meanwhile, concentrated the plasma fire from his MX4 at a pair of Necros Black Guards. The glowing blue bolts of superheated plasma quickly overloaded the shields of the chain-blade wielding alien cyborgs and melted through their titanium bodies. Eriksson switched to his dual M7 SMGs as the ammo belt for his M43 ran out. At the same time, Eriksson deployed the rotary pulse cannon from his shoulder, a Necros weapon added to his body during a failed Necros attempt to turn him into an Aggressor. Now the Revenant unleashed a hail of bullets and Necros plasma slugs that tore apart the surviving Warrior and Aggressor Necros in the room. The massive firepower unleashed by Eriksson, Randall, and the others cleared the room in a matter of seconds.

Michael Edwards' Route
Edwards pressed the button on the detonator. The C12 Charge immediately blew a hole into the roof of the Frigate's bridge. "Get some frags into that hole!", Mohammed Nasir Ibn La'Ahad yelled as he removed an M9 Fragmentation Grenade from his belt. Mohammed's grenade was joined by several others, all of which detonated in the hole. "Everyone, fall in!" Mohammed yelled as he fast-roped into the hole, M12 SMG is one hand. The room was strewn with destroyed computer equipment and dead Necros. Mohammed spotted three Necros Warriors that had survived the C12 blast and the grenades. He fired a burst from his M12 and easily disposed of this threat. Behind him, Mohammed heard Angelina Triela and Saeko Ryougi's shotguns and Hirano, Edwards, and Buck's assault rifles and SMGs blazing. Any surviving Necros were cut down by the fire of the squad, which shot in a ring of lead out from the six Spec ops soldiers, cutting down any Necros in the room. Saeko Ryougi finished off a couple of downed but not completely dead Necros with her M13 machete and bayoneted shotgun before Mohammed yelled "CLEAR!".

Unnamed Mission
Lt. Michael Price sat in the rearmost seat of an active camophlaged Cormorant dropship/gunship, M99C Staunchion Gauss Sniper Rifle pointed out the rear door. The Cormorant currently hovered over the Asian District of (location pending). Price took scanned the traditional Japanese-style high school that stood below him, consisting of a highly fenestrated five story edifice, two inner courtyards, an open roof with a small square structure extending above the fifth floor. The classroom structure was connected to the smaller gymnasium building by a multilevel skybridge on the second, third and fourth floor. A Necros Warrior form armed with a Vindicator missile launcher patrolled the roof of the classroom building, with a second Vindicator gunner on the gym building. Price set his rifle to subsonic mode. With no sonic boom, and no chemical propellant, this shot would be totally silent. Price placed his crosshairs over the first Necros Warrior and squeezed the trigger. Silently, the electromagnetic coils in his rifle activated, launching a 5.4mm ferric tungsten slug into the CPU of the robotic Necros soldier, destroying it instantly. Within a second, Price picked off the second Necros missile gunner and turned his attention to a Necros sniper and a plasma pulse cannon turret. Both hostiles were silently disposed of, before Price picked off the remaining Necros Warriors and Aggressors on the roof and the courtyards. The door of the Cormorant closed and did not reopen until it got to about 20 feet above the roof. "Alright ODSTs", Price said as the door opened, "Pile out". Price exited first and fast-roped down from the Cormorant. To any observers, it would appear that a squad of ODSTs appeared out of thin air, the active camo rendered the Cormorant almost completely invisible. "Winters, Get a charge on that door", Price ordered, "The rest of you, stack up". Winters, an ODST specializing in demolitions, placed a breaching charge on the roof access door, before he stood back to the wall next to the door and pressed the button on the detonator. The doorway was blown off it's hinges, into the face of an unsuspecting Necros Aggressor. The Aggressor was killed instantly as a Necros Warrior turned the corner of the staircase. Winters turned and fired a burst from his M12 SMG and took it down. The squad filed into the room as two more Aggressors turned the corner. Sgt. Sarah East fired her M81C ULMG and mowed them both down. Price turned the corner of the stairs, BR09 Battle Rifle at the ready. Nothing. He cautiously walked up the fourth floor landing. He turned his BR09 around the corner, the image of a hallway with multiple room entrances, classrooms, probably. Price then looked to the other direction, two Necros Warriors rounded the corner, pulse rifles at the ready. Price set his rifle to full auto and squeezed the trigger. Both of the cybernetic soldiers were filled with holes. "CLEAR!" Price yelled, before he lead the rest of the squad into hallway. "East, Winters, Jackson, cross that skybridge into the second building, everyone else, your with me!", Price commanded.

Michael Price's Route
Price walked into the hallway, immediately followed by a Cpl Rika Minami, a Japanese woman who grew up in this region and knew the area, along with a Cpl. Peters, L.Cpl Wilson and Pvt. Smith. Price walked up to the first classroom and took out a small "snake camera" and slid it under the door. Inside stood eight Necros Warriors lead by a Sergeant, taking cover behind the desks. "Eight hostiles inside.", Price whispered, "Stack up, Frag and clear. Corporal Peters readied a fragmentation grenade as Price opened the door a crack. Peters tossed the grenade into the room. The grenade landed near a Warrior, which tried to get out of the vay, but, too late, the grenade detonated and blew the Necros soldier to pieces. Seconds later, the squad rushed in, guns blazing, cutting down Necros left and right. "CLEAR!", Price yelled, "Next room, lets go, ODSTs!". Lance Corporal Wilson took point and walked into the hall, bayoneted M10 SMG in hand. Suddenly the doors to the other three classrooms in the hall were blown off their hinges. Twenty Necros Warriors ran into the hallway. Wilson took aim at a couple of the alien cyborgs and fired a long burst. Two of the Necros crumpled to the floor, but more kept coming, Wilson was overrun, and he knew it. Rounds loaded with magnetically compressed plasma flew from the Necros' rifles, seven of the slugs impacted Wilson's chest, blasting through his armor and blowing a hole in his chest. As he lay on the floor, bleeding to death, Wilson summoned the last of his strength as he pulled the pins off all four of his grenades. The Necros horde trampled his body as a loud bang filled Wilson's ears, a searing pain filled his body, and then, everything went black. Price exited the room as soon as they heard the explosion and sidestepped into the hall. The disoriented Necros that survived the blast were cut down by a hail of lead from Price's weapon. "CLEAR!", Lieutenant Price yelled, before he lead the rest of his squad towards a corner. Price used the "WATCHER" rifle mounted camera to look around the corner. Price spotted a Necros Warrior running down the hallway, leading four Aggressors. Price prepared to fire on the unsuspecting Necros, but before he could take them out, a classroom door burst open. Out of the door flew a hail of 3mm plasma-filled slugs. The "SCYTHE" plasma slugs impacted the Warrior first and downed its shield before exploding in balls of superheated plasma inside the Necros' body, melting titanium and burning artificial muscle. The Necros cyborg fell to the ground, before more plasma slugs struck down an Aggressor. Price heard the click of an empty chamber, the survivor's pulse pistol was empty. Price again prepared to fire on the Aggressors as they turned to face the door. However, Price was once again cut off from firing when the survivor in the room revealed herself to be a tall Asian girl wielding a katana. The girl made a diagonal cut into the first Aggressor and cut off it's head, half its torso, and one arm. The girl then proceded to slice a second Aggressor in half, before thrusting the katana between the mandibles of an Aggressor that had once been a Sangheilli. Price turned the corner, yelling "UNSC, Identify yourself!!". "Ryougi Saeko... I mean Saeko Ryougi", The girl said in accented English. "Minami", Price said, "Take this girl and a get her to to the roof. Wait for evac. And Ryougi...." Ryougi paused in the middle of reloading the her Necros pulse machine pistol, surprised at being addressed by the shock trooper, "The rooftops should be clear, but just in case, you might want to take this.", As he said this, Price handed Saeko a pulse carbine and a few magazines "The safety and mag release are in the same place as that pulse pistol your holding." "You get all that?", Price added as an afterthought. Saeko nodded as she went off with Minami.

Sarah East's Route
Sarah East walked across the skybridge first, followed by Winters and Jackson. The hallway opened into a sort of open walkway, like a long balcony looking out over the gymnasium, before ending in yet another door. Jackson looked over the top of the wall. "Bunch a bodies down there, several kids, couple Necros too. Looks like they went down trying to fight.", Jackson commented. "If there's dead Necros there, there's probably a helluva lot more of 'em that are still alive.", East replied as they stacked up on the doorway to the next room, "Look sharp, ODSTs". The three shock troopers entered the next room and scanned high and low for enemy forces, however, they found none. The room was another balcony-like walkway, this one of over a swimming pool. It was still and deathly silent. "I don't like this", Sarah said, "It feels like we're walking into an ambush". Out of the silence, Winters said "Did you hear that?, sound like footsteps on the roof." "I hear it too", Sarah said, "Keep an eye on the doors, one of them must be roof access. Suddenly, the deafening roar of an explosion filled the room. All the windows shattered instantly as two sections of ceiling, one on either side of East, Winters, and Jackson, caved in. Out of the dust on each side marched a Necros Demolisher, leading three Warriors and a Sapper each. The ODSTs were surrounded on both sides. Almost impulsively, Sarah made a jump for the only way out she could see. East dove off the balcony, down four stories into the pool below. Sarah landed with a great splash of water and dropped straight to the bottom of the pool, taking all ten feet of water to break her fall. Seconds later, two other ODSTs splashed down into the swimming pool. Sarah and the others swam to the other side of the pool as fast as possible, plasma bolts impacting the water around them, flash vaporizing the water, filling the room with steam. Obscured by the steam, Winters reached the shallow end of the pool, he grabbed the M23 grenade launcher from his back and fired first one, then two grenades in the general direction the enemy fire was coming from. He saw the flash of both grenade rounds go off as he squeezed the trigger three more times. Four floors above, the HE-DP grenade rounds began to hit home. The first Necros Demolisher was wrent apart by the force of the blast as the shrapnel riddled remains of a pair of Necros Warriors were thrown from the balcony. The second, third, and fourth grenades caused similar carnage, with the fifth round directly impacting a Necros Sapper, setting off a massive explosion the annihilated the surviving Necros, as well as much of the fourth floor walkway and the wall behind it. "Nice shot" Sarah said, before leading the three ODSTs towards the entrances of two locker rooms, one women's and one men's. The women's room was rendered impassable by a heap of rubble, so the three ODSTs entered the men's room. Winters went first, scanning the area with the thermal camera on his rifle. Winters gave the hand signal to halt. "What is it?", East asked, "Necros?" "Yeah, looks two Aggressors, waiting to ambush us in the toilet stalls, I'll handle 'em", Winters whispered as he grabbed a grenade from his belt and removed the pin. Winters tossed the grenade over the top of the stall. The grenade exploded in a flash of fire and water, leaking pipes spewing water everywhere as stall, toilet, and Necros were all blown to pieces. Jackson and Winters turned the corner into the locker room as three more Aggressors emerged from behind a set of lockers. Jackson shot two with his M108 full auto shotgun as a Winters cut down the final Aggressor. "CLEAR", Winters yelled as Sarah East took point again, leading the squad into the gym. "Looks clear to me, move up", Sarah said, "There's those bodies we saw earlier" Sarah examined the seven bodies, five were human, three females and two males, all Asian, probably Japanese judging from the local population. All of them seemed to be armed, though all of them carried melee weapons, worthless against the Necros. One of the girls wielded a broomhandle with a nail sticking out of the end, a crude spear, the other carried a battery-powered drill, probably hoping to use it as a "mechanical dagger". The two dead boys held a baseball bat and a fire extinguisher respectively. "Hey Sergeant, check this out", Winters said, pointing out the two dead Necros Aggressors. "These Aggressors look like they were killed with a nailgun." "A Spiker? Here?", Sarah asked. "No, not a Brute Spiker, a literal nailgun, as in the thing you use to nail piece of wood togther!", Winters replied. "I don't see a body with a nailgun", Jackson said, "and one of those Necros bodies has a pulse rifle by it, but the other does not, I think the guy who killed it might have taken the weapon". Jackson examined the pulse rifle more closely. "No mags, either, looks like the guy who killed them took their ammo, too." "Move out", East said, "They might still be alive!" Suddenly, the door of a supply closet at the side of the gym was knocked violently off it's hinges. A four-legged cybernetic monstrosity with razor sharp claws jumped through the downed doorway. "Vampire!", Winters yelled. The three ODSTs opened fire, Sarah's M81C ULMG, Winter's M12 SMG, and Jackson M108 full auto shotgun spat fire and lead, but the Vamp stayed one step ahead of their aim. The Necros Vampire leaped into the air, pushing off one of the walls before jumping in among the steel beams that supported the roof. The three ODSTs tried to take it out, but they couldn't get a fix on the fast moving Necros. The Vampire dove from the rafters and landed on top of Jackson, pushing him to the ground. Jackson stared into the red eyes of the alien cyborg as it raised it's arm, ready to strike, to tear him to shreds. Suddenly, the Vamp's head and upper body exploded in a blast of blueish flames and the black, tar-like "blood" the Necros use to sustain their artificially grown muscles. Jackson look around for his savior. His eyes fell upon a slightly overweight Asian male of about seventeen, holding a Necros plasma pulse rifle. "Well.... who'd have thought I would owe my life to a teenager with a pulse carbine?", Jackson said, "Anyway, nice shot, kid." Sarah East looked up at the kid and said "Stay there, we're coming up there!". "O.K.", he said. A couple minutes later the ODSTs were on the second floor of the walkway. The Asian teenager was a few feet from where he had been when he shot the Necros Vampire, still holding his pulse rifle at his shoulders. "I am Sgt Sarah East, UNSC ODST", Sarah said, "These two are Cpl. James Winters and Pvt. Paul Jackson." "Kouta Hirano". "Are there any other survivors?", East asked. "I...don't think so", the Japanese high school student said in perfect English,".... Takashi, Rei, all dead, the Necros killed them all....Saya...though....I don't know what happened to her". Suddenly, a door ahead of Hirano and the ODSTs opened. A lone Necros Agressor walked through. "Tay....Tayashi Saya?...", Kouta asked as the ODSTs raised their weapons. "No", Hirano replied as he raised his pulse rifle, "She's my friend, I'll do it." The Necros-Saya spoke in Japanese to Kouta. After a few seconds, Hirano whispered "Gomenasai" pulled the trigger on his pulse rifle. A single "SCYTHE" plasma slug flew towards the head of the Aggressor that just a couple days ago had been his hopeless crush. Saya's head exploded in a flash of plasma and blood before she fell to the floor. Sarah walked forward to Kouta and put her hand on his shoulder. "I'm sorry for your loss, you loved her, didn't you?", Sarah said. "Yeah....", Hirano replied, "never loved me back, said I was just a friend...." "That thing she said in Japanese", Sarah said, "she told you allow yourself to be converted so you could be with her forever, right?" "How did you know?", Kouta asked. "Necros psychological warfare", East replied, "Seen it too many times not to recognize it. But I don't think she... Saya was it?.....wanted you to become one of them... I think she'd rather die than live as a mindless killing machine." After a long silence, Hirano said stoically "I guess you're right". "All right", Sarah said, "Hirano, let the three of us go ahead, you follow behind, and keep that pulse carbine ready." East, Winters, and Jackson climbed up the stairs to the third and fourth floor walkways. They met no resistance, save a couple of disorganized Aggressors, which were easily dispatched with a single short burst from East's M81C.

The three ODSTs and the survivors then exited the gymnasium building and prepared to enter the lobby of the main building. "Wait!", Kouta Hirano whispered to Sarah, "That place has rows of lockers, a balcony overlooking it from the third floor, and a second floor skybridge, it'll become a deathtrap in there, come on, I know a better way." Kouta lead the three ODSTs back up to the third floor and across the skybridge, into the third floor of the main building. "Alright", take the lead", Kouta said, "It should be straight down this hallway." The three of them turned the corner and caught sight of two Necros on the balcony, a sniper and a Warrior manning a rotary pulse cannon. Before any of the ODSTs could fire on the Necros, a burst of fire from a BR09 took down both Necros soldiers. Michael Price and two other ODSTs walked onto the balcony as East yelled "Friendlies, left side". Sarah, Winters, and Jackson ran into the balcony, with Hirano taking cover around a corner.

Exit
"More Necros incoming!", Price yelled as he fired the a burst from from his BR at a Necros gun crew and sniper on a second floor skybridge below them. Price then yelled "Necros on the first floor by those lockers, everyone, use frags or GLs!", as he fired his M026 25mm grenade launcher at a group of Necros amidst a bunch of lockers. The grenade exploded and annihilated the Necros along with two rows of lockers as Winters vaporized dozens of Necros with a relentless barrage of 40mm grenade rounds from his M23 grenades launcher. The rest of the squad threw fragmentation grenades into the lobby below. Even Hirano contributed to the barrage, taking a Necros pulse grenade he captured from the Necros three days earlier out of his pocket. Pulse rounds flew past his head as Hirano leaned out from cover. He armed the device and hurled it of the balcony. The pulse grenade landed near a couple of Necros Aggressors. Hirano leaned back into cover before, seconds later, he heard his grenade and several explode and engulf the Necros forces in cloud of fire and shrapnel. "Sir, what's the situation?", Sarah asked. "We've got seven ODSTs, two armed civvies, and about an hour or so 'till reinforcement.", Price replied, "The Necros have at least 70 infantry, a few tanks, and possible air support. Still, I like the sound of those odds".

East lead Winters, Jackson, and Hirano back up to the roof. On top of the roof, Cpl. Rika Minami stood, mounted up on a captured Necros rotary plasma cannon turret, blazing away at the horde of Necros, sending plasma slugs flying into the horde of alien cyborgs, blasting them apart as the plasma rounds exploded in their bodies. A girl of about Hirano's age, also Asian ancestry, stood at a second Necros pulse cannon, a few feet from Cpl. Minami, firing wildly at the Necros as enemy pulse rounds flew over her head, with a pulse machine pistol and what looked like a katana at her side. "East!", Minami yelled, "We need somebody to take the place of that civy on the gun. She's a brave one, but she's no SPARTAN!". "Got it!", Jackson responded as motioned for the civilian girl to get down from the turret, before mounting up on the gun himself. The girl picked up a pulse carbine off the ground and took cover next to Hirano. "So", Hirano asked the girl, "What's your name?". "Saeko Ryougi", she responded". "Nice to meet you, my name's Kouta Hirano", Kouta replied.

Suddenly, a large caliber pulse round slammed into the side of the building, blowing away the corner opposite the Hirano, Ryougi and the ODSTs. "Tank!", Jackson yelled. Sarah East put down her M81C LMG and removed an M899 LAAW missile launcher. Sarah raised the launcher and took aim at the tank. The lock tone filled Sarah's ears as she pulled the trigger. The Sabre ATGW flew out from the M899 with a deafening roar, flying up, into the air before diving straight down onto the roof of Necros Compound Tank, sending it up in flames. "Hostile armor neutralized!", East said as she picked up her LMG again and resumed firing at the enemy as Winters fired off all six rounds from his M23 Grenade Launcher, all of the grenades landing amongst the alien horde with explosive effect, each 40mm grenade round blowing apart several enemies. Suddenly, the roar of a Necros aircraft engine filled the air. Four Necros Corrupter light dropships flew in from the west in a diamond formation. "Hostile dropships loaded for bear, coming from our six!", Winters yelled, "I'm grabbing that Lasher!". Winters siezed a Necros Lasher missile launcher lying on the roof and took aim at the first of the four dropships. Winters heard the lock tone and let loose the first of three "mini-missiles" in the launcher. The missile was ejected the from the launcher with a thunderous roar. The first shot flew straight at the Corrupter dropships engines. The plasma charge warhead detonated in a flash of fire and sent to the first alien aircraft into to a death spiral. The enemy dropship fell to the ground and exploded as it struck a building across the street. Winters fired the second missile and struck down the second Necros dropship, then proceeded to shoot down the third. After the fourth shot, however, Winters had fired off all three missiles in the launcher. The fourth Necros dropship flew in practically unopposed.

The final Necros dropship hovered over the roof of the school. It began to spin up its rotary pulse cannon, preparing to unleash a hail of plasma slugs on the building. "It's preparing to fire,TAKE COVER!!", Sarah East yelled as she dove for a concrete wall on the edge of the roof. On the other side of the building, Kouta Hirano and Saeko Ryougi both dove behind cover. "Shit!", Winters yelled, "That dropship's got us pinned down". Kouta, meanwhile, had grabbed hold of a Necros grenade launcher lying on the ground, a weapon nicknamed the "Thumper" after the sound it makes when fired. Kouta turned out from cover to take aim the Necros dropship. "What do you think your doing?" Saeko asked. "Helping the ODSTs", Kouta said simply. As Kouta aimed the grenade launcher above the dropship, several Necros began to drop out of the aircraft onto the roof. Kouta depressed what he hoped was the safety and squeezed the trigger. The first grenade round went high, flying over the top of the dropship. The plasma grenade round landed across the street, obliterating an empty storefront. The dropship began to turn towards Kouta and Saeko as more Necros poured out, about 15 were on the roof now. Kouta fired the grenade launcher just as the Necros aircraft aimed his gun at him. The second plasma grenade flew in an arc, reaching the apex of its climb before descending slightly, over the dome holding the AI controlling the aircraft and slamming into the right rear engine of the dropship. The grenade exploded in a flash of plasma as it blew off the aircraft's engines. The Corruptor dropship went down in a fiery death spiral, before impacting the street and turning into a great ball of flames.

As the dropship crashed to the ground, Kouta dropped the grenade launcher and took aim at the group of Necros that had landed on the roof with his pulse carbine. The Necros were distracted by the ODSTs, both sides being covered by a chest-high wall that lined a four-story drop into a courtyard that split the roof in half. The Necros and ODSTs were on the right side of the rooftop, with Kouta and Saeko and on the left, with a clear shot at the flanks of the Necros. Kouta fired his Necros-made weapon. The rifle spat SCYTHE plasma slugs at high speed, striking down several of the very beings that created the weapon. The Necros soldiers looked around, desperately trying to find their second attacker. A Necros Sergeant sighted Kouta and Saeko and pointed at the two Japanese teenagers and gave several Necros Warriors the order to fire. The Necros Sergeant and the surviving Warriors, however, never got the chance to fire, a hail of lead from Sarah East's M81C LMG and two 40mm grenades from Winter's grenade launcher struck down the remaining Necros, riddling them with bullets and shrapnel or blowing them apart with the force of the grenade blasts.

"You two", Corporal Rika Minami yelled to Kouta and Saeko, "Over here!". Minami, however, was interupted by Jackson, who pointed his MA5B skyward and yelled, "We've got Azreal's incoming!". Jackson, East, Winters, and Minami opened fire on the anti-gravity-equipped alien cyborgs that flew up over the crest of the building. Several of the Azreals were shot out of the sky, but four landed on the roof behind Kouta and Saeko. Kouta dove to the ground, pushing Saeko with him, just in time to avoid a hail of machine gun fire from East's M81C, which cut down all four of the Necros behind them.

"More Azreals and Quetzalcoatls, Incoming, 12:00", Winters yelled. Six Azreals and two Quetzalcoatls flew in with their anti gravity "wings". Sarah East sprayed the lead Azreal with her M81C, shooting it out of the air. The "winged" Necros fired back with pulse rifles blazing, a pulse round flying mere inches from Saeko Ryougi's head. Saeko shot back with her own pulse rifle, killing one of the Azreals as a Necros Quetzalcoatl landed on the roof, feet from Private Jackson. The snake-like alien cyborg prepared to carve up Jackson with the two chainsaw blades on the two armlike structures near its head and the twin circular saws on its tail. Jackson raised his M108C auto shotgun and greeted the alien cyborg with a rifled slug right in the faceplate before turning to a Necros Azreal, which he blew apart with a burst of three slugs.

Meanwhile, three Azreals and a Quetzalcoatl landed on the roof near Kouta and Saeko. Adrenaline rushed through Saeko Ryougi's as she drew her pulse machine pistol and katana as Kouta shot one of the Azreals in the face, killing it instantly. A Necros Azreal ran at Saeko with its energy wrist blade at the ready. The alien cyborg took a wide, sweeping slash at Saeko with it's wrist blade, but Saeko ducked the blow. As Saeko ducked the blow, she swung her katana at the Necros' leg, the blade slicing through the alien's leg, the sword going through the Necros' knee, slicing through artificial muscle, going between the the titanium leg "bones" of the Azreal. The alien fell to the ground, legless, but even still, it tried to fight, raising it's pulse carbine at Saeko. Saeko, however, was too quick for the alien and thrust her sword through the alien's eye, striking it's AI core, killing it instantly. Saeko then turned her attention to Necros Quetzalcoatl. She pointed the her pulse machine pistol at the alien and fired several rounds into the sawblades in the creature's "mouth". The Quetzalcoatl's face was reduced to a mess of molten metal and black Necros "blood" as it fell to the ground, dead. "Saeko, behind you", Kouta Hirano yelled. Saeko rolled out of the way in time to avoid a burst of pulse rounds fired by the alien. The plasma slugs kept going, one of them narrowly missing Kouta. Hirano fired his pulse rifle at the Necros that now threatened his new ally. He fired a burst of pulse rounds at the alien, the rounds exploding in a burst of plasma inside the alien's body and blowing away huge chunks of the Necros's body.

After disposing of the last of the Necros on the roof, Saeko and Kohta ran towards the ODSTs, taking cover next to them. Suddenly, A pair of heavy plasma pulse rounds impacted the other side of the building, blowing away massive amounts of material as several Necros Tanks advanced on the building. Sarah East's radio crackled to life, Michael Price spoke from the other end, "East, we have several Compound tanks, an Eradicator, and other vehicles moving in on this structure and there are reports of a squadron of Dervish attack aircraft inbound on our position. Fortunately for us, I got word from the Ultra Carrier UNSC Nimitz that several squadrons of Katanas and Axes are inbound along with armored and infantry forces aboard the UNSC Ra." The shapes of a dozen Necros Dervish attack planes flew in omonously from the west. Suddenly, several streaks of fire flew across the sky from the East. Seven of the Dervishes exploded in balls of flames. Seconds later, an number of F-406 Katana fighters flew over head and moved in to finish off the Necros aircraft. A squadron of F/A-110s roared in, sending swarms of missiles and hail of cannon shells at the Necros tanks outside the school. Within seconds, all the Necros tanks in the area were burning. "Awesome.... simply awesome", Kouta commented.

After the fighters, a large, square spacecraft flew in from behind them. "Ra-class Assault Ship", Kouta commented, "Humanity's answer to the Necros Gorgon-class Assault Ship, armed four 400mm cannons, Marksman Cruise Missiles, Archer anti-ship missiles, 200mm Hailstorm Naval Support MACs, and point defense weapons. Designed to spearhead a UNSC assault." The ODSTs looked at Kouta, surprised at his knowledge of UNSC warships.

Seconds later, the 400mm cannons of the UNSC Ra roared, pounding a target somewhere near the central city as several Marksman cruise missiles streaked off towards more distant targets. Dozens of dropships flew out from the Ra, delivering infantry and armor to an LZ in a nearby park as a Pelican Dropship flew in, hovering above the roof of the school.

A squad of UNSC infantry fasted roped out of the aircraft, before the crew chief let down a rope ladder, motioning for Hirano and Ryougi to get on board.

Kouta walked over Sarah East and bowed in the traditional Japanese custom, stating, "Thank you for saving my life, It is an honor to have fought alongside you."

"We're just doing out jobs", Sarah said, before adding, "Good luck, Kouta".

Kouta walked over to Pelican and joined Saeko in the interior of the aircraft as it lifted off.

Saeko Ryougi and Kouta Hirano vs Codename:TOXIN
Shinjuku Gyoen Park, Shinjuku, central Tokyo, 9:45 PM local time, April 22, 26xx

Saeko Ryougi and Kouta Hirano walked slowly along the a path winding through a forested area in Shinjuku Gyoen Park, taking the path through the park as a shortcut between (location pending) and their shared apartment. The park was dark and silent, the only light coming from the flashlights Hirano and Ryougi carried with them, the only sound, apart from their footsteps on the gravel path, was the sound of the wind blowing through the trees. It had been about a year since they escaped the attack on their former homeworld (location pending), the lone survivors, all of friends and relatives massacred by the evil the came in from the black depths of space, The Necros. For the past six months, Saeko and Kouta, however, had tried to concentrated on rebuilding their shattered lives. However, their memories of what happened would never leave them, resurfacing in the form of despair at the loss of their loved ones, or, tonight, abject terror, for tonight, though they did not know it, Kouta Hirano and Saeko Ryougi would again meet the Necros face to face.

Kouta and Saeko turned a corner in the path, onto a particularly dark stretch of the path, lined with trees that cast eerie shadows in the light of their flashlights. Saeko involuntarily jumped as she heard the sound of something rustling through the bushes. "What was that?!", Saeko said, sounding alarmed. "Relax", Kouta said calmly, "It's probably a stray cat or something, there's no way the Necros could be here". As Kouta said this, he had no idea that just around the next bend in the path, he would discover just how wrong he was.

Around the corner of the next path, Saeko's flashlight illuminated a scene straight out horror film. A pile of dead bodies lay next a low wall, in the middle of a pool of blood. The bodies had all been mutilated in horrific manners, decapitated, eviscerated, or dismembered. Saeko ran over to Kouta and clung on to him tightly. A girl of a about Kouta and Saeko's age walked out of the darkness, into Saeko and Kouta's flashlight beams. The girl's clothes were covered in blood and she carried a bloody hunting knife in her hands.

The girl turned to Kouta and Saeko and raised her hunting knife and slowly advanced towards her next victims. Kouta jumped in front of Saeko, attempting to shield her from the psychotic girl's blade. The girl with the knife charged at Kouta as fast as she could run. She was about fifteen feet away... ten feet... eight feet....six....five...four feet.... three feet.... As the knife-wielding girl raised her blade to strike, Kouta aimed a kick at her. Kouta's foot connected with the girl's stomach, knocking her off balance and launching her knife several feet away. Kouta lunged at his downed attacker slamming his fist into her face. "Sorry, but I don't die that easily!", Kouta yelled.

Suddenly, Kouta heard the sound of some kind of mechanical device activating. Kouta looked at the hand of his assailant to see that the palm had opened two reveal the barrel of a Necros pulse machine pistol. Kouta now realized why this girl had attacked them, she was a Necros Synthetic, sent to spread chaos behind UNSC lines.

The Necros Synthetic laughed maniacally as she pointed the weapon in her hand straight at Kouta's face. In a rush of adrenaline, Kouta grabbed hold of the alien cyborg's hands and pushed them up, into the air. The alien weapon discharged, missing Kouta and sending 3mm plasma-filled slugs flying into the air, the exploding bright blue flames of plasma in midair like deadly fireworks.

"I see, you certainly are one of them, I guess...", Saeko Ryougi's voice said from behind Kouta, "I'LL HAVE TO KILL YOU!!". At that, Saeko grabbed the Necros Synthetic from behind and the alien's own knife in hand. Saeko thrust the blade into the alien's "eye", cutting through it's optics and into it's AI core and twisted the blade around, killing it instantly. The black "blood" that Necros use to sustain their organic parts flowed out of the wound, along with bits of computer chips and wiring from the alien's cybernetic core suspended in the blood.

Saeko turned away from the dead alien and yelled "Kouta!, are you Okay?!", as she, ran over to Kouta, holding out her hand to help him up. \\

"I'm fine", Kouta replied, as he took her hand and got up.

Moar Kouta Hirano/Saeko Ryougi
"W...Where am I?", Kouta Hirano asked.

His vision was clouded, and could see little more than a blur of gunmetal grey. He seemed to be lying on his back. Kouta tried to get up, and but discovered he appeared to be restrained somehow.

"Is anyone here?, Saeko?", he shouted the name of his longtime friend, Saeko Ryougi, into the blur, "I could use some help here...."

"Kouta?", Saeko's voice responded from Kouta's right.

"Saeko, can you get me out of here? I can't move?", Kouta asked.

"No", Saeko said simply, "I've been restrained too."

Kouta turned to his right, he could make out a blurry figure of a woman. He blinked several times, the image of Saeko Ryougi came into focus, restrained onto some sort of conveyor belt. Kouta then looked in front of him, a similar metal restrain held him to the conveyor belt by his chest. He knew immediately where he was.

"Tell me this is a nightmare...", Kouta said.

Several seconds passed, Kouta did not wake up. He was still there, bound to a conveyor belt in the deep in the bowels of a Necros Slaughterhouse-class Conversion Ship. Suddenly, the conveyor belt began to move. Kouta looked at Saeko. Tears welled up in her eyes, though she like Kouta himself, was too terrified to say anything.

Kouta moved his hand towards Saeko and grabbed hold of her hand, in spite of the metal restraint holding him to the conveyor belt. Kouta could hear her pulse in her hand, her heart pounding away, as though it too knew it did not have long left.

The conveyor halted, and a machine mounted on the roof came to life. A rotating sawblade came to life and, seemingly in slow motion, made it's way down towards them. Kouta and Saeko's screams filled the room as the blade sliced through both their arms. Kouta and Saeko's hands fell to the floor, still held tightly together as a second machine grafted robotic limbs onto their bodies

The maddening torture continued as Kouta and Saeko advanced down the conveyor belt. Blades and drills tore into their flesh and bone, installing machine parts, turning them into a grisly amalgamation of human and Necros.

Finally, Kouta and Saeko came to what was surely the end of the line. A drill came down from the roof, aimed straight at Kouta's forehead. This was surely it, the Necros were going to destroy his brain and replace it with on of their own AIs. He was about to be put under their control.

Suddenly, a flash of bright light filled the room. The conveyor belt and the drill both stopped moving, emitting sparks from their fried circuitry.

"Was that an EMP grenade?", Kouta said to the room at large.

Seconds later, a burst of automatic weapons fire cut down a pair of Necros Warrior Forms operating the conversion machinery.

More gunfire rang out, cutting down several other Necros personnel in the conversion ship. When the guns fell silent, Kouta and Saeko both turned to the right. Several men in M7 Body Armor stood in the room. The lead soldier in the group, a man with a nametag reading "Kilgore" walked over to Kouta and Saeko and removed the metal restraint.

"Am...... I..... still alive?", Kouta asked.

"Yes, you are very much among the living, what's your name and rank, soldier?", the armored soldier, Kilgore, replied.

"Corporal Kouta Hirano", Kouta replied, shortly followed by "Corporal Saeko Ryougi" and several other survivors.

"I am Major David Kilgore of the 134th Special Forces Operational Detachment", Kilgore said, "As you probably have noticed, you have been, to some degree or another, partially Necrosified. In other words, all of you are now Revenants."

The whole crowd went silent at this pronouncement.

"As", Kilgore said as he removed the glove of his armor to reveal a mechanical hand, "am I, but we cannot go into detail at this moment. We have rigged this vessel with a portable nuclear device, set to go off in a half hour. Fortunately for us, we should all be aboard a UNSC stealth vessel and heading into slipspace in by then."

As soon as he finished speaking, Kilgore and the other special forces through the hallways of the Necros conversion ship, often passing the remains of fallen Warriors or Aggressors, but never encountering any live Necros.

At last, they made it to the hanger, where a pair of UNSC Pelicans both still with pilots still in the cockpit stood waiting, guarded by more men of the 134 SFOD.

"Everyone, climb aboard a Pelican", motioning to the two spacecraft. The survivors boarded the vessels first, followed by the Special Forces.

After checking for stragglers and finding none, Kilgore spoke to the pilots of the both Pelicans via his radio.

"All right, all survivors and personnel are on board, seal the rear hatches."

The rear doors to the Pelicans sealed shut, in preparation for their flight into the vacuum of space.

"Gungnir", Kilgore said to AI connected to his neural interface, "The doors are sealed, open hanger airlock"

The doors to hanger bay of the Slaughterhouse-class Conversion Ship opened and the Pelicans lifted off, into the black expanse of space. a After a flight of about five minutes, the two Pelicans approached a watery outline of what turned out to be a stealthed Odin-class Carrier. The hanger doors on the UNSC vessel opened. Within a few minutes, both dropships had safely landed. The hanger doors were sealed again the hanger was refilled with air. The Pelican doors opened and both passengers and pilots piled out.

"Attention all survivors rescued from the conversion ship", Kilgore said, "You are required to attend a briefing about your Necros modifcation and opportunities for Revenants in the UNSC military in briefing room A at 1400 hours. That is all, you are now dismissed."

As the survivors of the conversion ship exited the hanger, a message the ship's intercom stated that the vessel they were aboard, UNSC Nighthawk, would now be transitioning to slipspace with the rest of the battlegroup.

Battlegroup Warrior

 * UNSC Warrior- Quetzalcoatl-class Ultra Carrier
 * UNSC Warspite- Bishamonten-class Large Cruiser
 * UNSC Warbringer- Thor-class Cruiser
 * UNSC Indestructible- Baal-class Destroyer
 * UNSC Primo Victoria- Baal-class Destroyer
 * UNSC Call of Duty- Baal-class Destroyer
 * UNSC Final Charge- Baal-class Destroyer
 * UNSC Utah- Heimdall-class Frigate
 * UNSC Omaha-Heimdall-class Frigate
 * UNSC Juno -Heimdall-class Frigate
 * UNSC Golden Sword - Heimdall-class Frigate
 * UNSC Point Du Hoc- Heimdall-class Frigate
 * UNSC Silent Assassin- Minerva-class Prowler

Battlegroup Ghost of Dieppe

 * UNSC Ghost of Dieppe-Quetzalcoatl-class Ultra Carrier
 * UNSC Talvisota- Bishamonten-class Large Cruiser
 * UNSC Ardennes- Thor-class Cruiser
 * UNSC -Baal-class Destroyer
 * UNSC -Baal-class Destroyer
 * UNSC -Baal-class Destroyer
 * UNSC -Baal-class Destroyer
 * UNSC Themistocles -Heimdall-class Frigate
 * UNSC Lysander -Heimdall-class Frigate
 * UNSC Yi Sun Shin -Heimdall-class Frigate
 * UNSC Nelson -Heimdall-class Frigate
 * UNSC William Halsey -Heimdall-class Frigate
 * UNSC -Minerva-class Prowler

Other Vessels

 * UNSC Flakvierling- Raijin-class Cruiser
 * UNSC Shilka- Raijin-class-Cruiser
 * UNSC Skyguard- Raijin-class Cruiser
 * UNSC Deathstalker- Raijin-class Cruiser

Battlegroup Nighthawk

 * UNSC Nighthawk- Stealthed Odin-class Carrier
 * UNSC- stealthed Thor-class Cruiser.
 * UNSC Trojan Horse (formerly N-FFG 341)- Captured Necros Legion-class Frigate
 * UNSC - Loki-class Stealth Frigate
 * UNSC - Loki-class Stealth Frigate
 * UNSC- Loki-class Stealth Frigate
 * UNSC- Loki-class Stealth Frigate
 * UNSC- Loki-class Stealth Frigate
 * UNSC Return Engagement-Stealthed Baal-class Destroyer
 * UNSC In At The Death-Stealthed Baal-class Destroyer
 * UNSC Blood and Iron-Stealthed Tereus-class Destroyer
 * UNSC Victorious Opposition-Stealthed Tereus-class Destroyer
 * UNSC Hashashim- Cydonia-class Super-Heavy Prowler
 * UNSC Assassin's Creed- Nike-class Strike Prowler
 * UNSC Blade in the Crowd- Atryone-class Attack Prowler
 * UNSC Kara No Kyōkai- Minerva-class Prowler
 * UNSC Hinamizawa- Minerva-class Prowler

=Necros Ship Spam=

New Ship classes

 * Jörmungandr-class Battle Cruiser- Named for the Norse "Serpent of Midgard"
 * Chullachaqui-class Stealth Frigate- Named for a Native American demon said to attack people in the woods in various disguises
 * Shinigami-class Stealth Frigate- other option for the stealth frigate, named for a Japanese minor god of death
 * Samael-class Stealth Destroyer-named for one of the names use to refer to the Judeo-Christian personificantion of death

The Thing That Should Not Be

 * Jehovah-class Super Dreadnaught
 * Destroyed dozens of AUR ships, including a dreadnaught
 * Destroyed by APOCALYPSE Antimatter Missiles fired by Ross East's and the rest of his squadron's I-660 Spears during Operation:THUNDERBOLT, sent on a special mission the destroy the Thing That Should Not Be, in a 26 century paralell to the German Battleships Bismarck and Tipitz.

Necros Era Navy Prefixes

 * UNSC- United Nations Space Command (i.e UNSC Warrior, UNSC Ragnarök)
 * USR- United Sangheili Republic (i.e USR Sangheilios, USR Arbiter)
 * VIN- Vorenus Imperial Navy (i.e. VIN Consul, VIN Invictus)
 * MFN- Machina Federation (i.e. MFN Nemesis)
 * PT- Plainfierian Tribes
 * YH- Yanme'e Hives
 * KYU- Kig-Yar Union
 * JA-Jiralhanae Alliance (i.e. JA Dosiac, JA Apocalypse)
 * UDF- Unggoy Defense Force (i.e. UDF Balaho)

Retribution-class Battlecruisers

 * USR Retaliation
 * USR Sword Of Vengeance
 * USR Payback
 * USR For The Fallen
 * USR Divine Fury
 * USR Wrath of the Gods
 * USR Blade of the Guardians

Reverence-class Grand Cruisers

 * USR Spear of Judgement
 * USR Harbinger
 * USR Faith and Misery

Weapons

 * Plasma Pistol
 * Plasma Rifle
 * Needler
 * Plasma Assault Rifle
 * Nail Gun
 * Fuel Rod Gun
 * Needler Cannon (rare)
 * Needler Shotgun (rare)
 * Beam Rifle
 * Fuel Rod Burster (rare)
 * Plasma Cannon
 * Light Plasma Cannon
 * Plasma Mortar
 * Zero Rifle (rare)
 * Grenade Launcher (rare)
 * Plasma Grenade
 * Fusion Grenade
 * Electricity Grenade

Vehicles
All UDF vehicles are modified use by Grunts
 * Ghost (~1500)
 * Spectre (~700)
 * Wraith (~150, both varieties)
 * Poltergiest (20)
 * Geist (20)
 * Shadow (200)
 * Revenant (20)
 * Goblin (20)
 * Gremlin (15)
 * Locust (10)
 * Scarab (only five in inventory, one being the personal vehicle of Dadak Yayip)
 * Grendal (20)
 * Vampire (10)
 * Banshee (~300)
 * Yurei (30)
 * Spirit (100)
 * Phantom (50)
 * Seraph (100)
 * Cherub (40)
 * Ophan (25)
 * Angel (25)

Ships

 * Rebel-class Gunboat (Total: 25)
 * UDF Rebel
 * UDF Strength In Numbers
 * UDF Mehmep
 * UDF Tukduk
 * Guerilla-class Frigate (Total 14)
 * UDF Guerilla
 * UDF Flame of Freedom
 * UDF Cower No More
 * UDF Buwan
 * UDF Padpad
 * UDF Jitji
 * UDF Yayap
 * Insurrectionist-class Destroyer (Total: 7)
 * UDF Insurrectionist
 * UDF Broken Chains
 * UDF We Will Rise
 * Secessionist-class Light Cruiser (Total: 5)
 * UDF Secessionist
 * UDF Emancipation
 * UDF Covenant Broken
 * UDF Divide
 * UDF Forever Free
 * Insurgent-class Cruiser (Total: 4)
 * UDF Insurgent
 * UDF Tala
 * UDF Unggoy Arbiter
 * UDF Resistance
 * Liberator-class Battlecruiser (Total: 3
 * UDF Liberator
 * UDF Annihilation
 * UDF Gabgab Yayip
 * Revolutionary-class Carrier (Total: 2)
 * UDF Revolutionary
 * UDF H'ck
 * Balaho-class Assault Carrier (Total: 1)
 * UDF Balaho
 * Total Vessels: 61

Dadak Yayip Excerpt
Battle of H'ck, Necros War

Dadak Yayip stood at the command of his Scarab, one of only five in the Unngoy Defense Force, all of them Covenant Remnant Relics, and one of only two of them on H'ck, the others were on Balaho. Along with the Scarab, Dadak personally lead a force of two hundred thousand Unggoy infantry, 250 Ghost and Spectres, 100 Wraiths, 5 Locusts and about 5 Poltergeists and five Revenants. To the right and left of his forces, five hundred thousand Sangheilli, thousands of Sangheilli tanks and dozens of walkers also rolled out meet the Necros. Above hundreds of fighters dueled with Necros aircraft, most of them USR aircraft, though among them, there were a few members of the small UDF Air Force in Banshee and Seraphs. In front of them stood at least a million Necros infanty, ten thousand Necros Tanks, Compounds, Eviscerators, and Eradicators, as well as dozens of a Gravedigger UHAPs, and a pair of Tyrant Assault Super Walkers. Plasma shells from Necros Torrent artillery fell onto the advancing USR-UDF forces, shattering tanks and mangling infantry. "Press on!", Dadak yelled into the radio of his Scarab, "We are not the cannon fodder we once were! We will cower no more!" The USR Wraiths and Gremlins opened up on the Necros. "All Wraiths open fire!" The Unngoy Defense Force's hundred or so Wraiths added weight of their plasma mortars to the bombardment. Balls of blue fire landed in the midst of both sides, incinerating all they engulf. The Necros Forces grew closer, undetered by the plasma barrage. "They're in range", Dadak yelled "Open Fire!!" The gunner of Yayip's Scarab squeezed the trigger that fired the main plasma stream gun. The beam swept across the Necros tanks, sending them up in balls of fire. USR and UDF tanks and infantry traded fire with the Necros forces, vehicles on both sides went up in flames. A Necros Eradcator Heavy tank was knocked out by the main gun of a UDF Revenant AVP as the particle beams and plasma mortars of UDF and USR Poltergeist and Wraiths knocked out multiple hostile vehicles. A UDF Poltergeist took out two Eviscerators before being struck down by a Necros Vindicator Missile. Several more Vindicators flew at a UDF Locust and destroyed the Walker. Dadak looked to see where the missiles had come from. "Gravedigger, right side, take it out!" The gunner of the scarab again opened up with the main gun. The plasma stream cannon charged up before finally unleashing a beam of plasma. The armor of the Gravedigger held up for a few seconds before the plasma beam melted through the alien walker's armor. The Gravediggers' core and remaining missile supply detonated in a brilliant flash of fire as cheers were heard throughout the Scarab. The UDF were so far, proving that, at least in tanks, Grunts could be dangerous. Another Gravedigger and countless Necros tanks and light walkers fell before the UDF forces. Suddenly, the radio crackled to life. "Tell the Unggoy to take heed", a Sangheilian voice said through the radio, "One of the Necros Tyrants is making a run at their forces". "Stand firm!", Dadak said, "We will prevail!". A pair of Sangheilli A-70 Nephilim Attack aircraft dropped plasma charges and fired fuel rod at the Tyrant, dropping it's shields as it took aim at the other Scarab under the control of the UDF. The Necros Super Walker fired it's main gun, a lighter version of the Armageddon Cannon carried on Necros Warships. The target Scarab was instantly vaporized. "All units!" Dadak yelled "Open Fire! AVENGE OUR BROTHERS!" The gunner of Dakak's Scarab fired it's main gun yet again. The Scarab's plasma stream struck the Armageddon cannon of the Tyrant as a as a plasma streams from Locusts and Revenants, particle beams from Poltergeist, and Plasma mortars from Wraiths all pounded the Necros Walker. The enemy walker fell to the ground as on of it's legs was blown off by a UDF Revenant's plasma beam. The Tyrant's Dirge cannons, Decimator, and Rotary Pulse Guns kept firing even as the the walker lay on it's side, cutting down UDF infantry and knocking out tank. As a Necros Dirge cannon's plasma lance was stopped by the Scarab's heavy armor, Dadak gave the order to finish off the Tyrant. The gunner of Dadak Yiyip's Scarab fired the main plasma cannon. The Tyrant ASW was struck by the beam and exploded, launching flaming chunks of metal across the battlefield. The second Tyrant was overwhelmed by USR air power, pounded with plasma charges by Nephilim and Angel bombers. "Grand Marshall Yayip", the Grunt operating the anti-air plasma cannons of the Scarab said, "I am engaging multiple Necros Azreals" The air defense plasma cannons blazed. Several Necros Azraels were vaporized by plasma guns, but before long, several of the alien airborne soldier had landed on top of the Scarab. They quickly killed those Unngoy that were on top of the deck with their pulse rifles and energy blades. "All right, Unggoy, It's time we met the Necros face to face!" Dadak said as he pulled a plasma rifle from his side. This was no ordinary plasma rifle, this one was Annihilation, the only Guardian Weapon given to the Unngoy, and the only ranged Guardian weapon. Annihilation was a replica of the weapon said to have been wielded by Gabgab Yayip, Dadak's ancestor, and the Unggoy who came so close to freeing the Unngoy from the Covenant during the Grunt Rebellion. The rifle itself was said to have had the power of a Scarab's main gun. While the replica Dadak held was nowhere near as powerful as a Scarab's main gun, it could still crack open the armor of a Necros tank. Dadak and a squad of fifteen Unggoy walked up the ramp out onto the deck of the Scarab. Standing on the opposite side of the deck was a Necros Azreal, leading about 15 others. which attempted to charge at him with it's energy blade. Dadak pointed Annihilation at the Necros soldier and fired. A lance of plasma flew from Annihilation and struck the Necros, causing it to explode violently. The beam of plasma continued, burning a second Necros soldier in half. The other Grunts in the squad opened fire with plasma rifles, Needlers, and in the case of two of them, A Needler Shotgun and a Plasma Flamethrower. The Unngoy with a Needler Shotgun fired off two shots at the Necros forces, sticking several crystalline spikes into a pair of Necros Azreals that were wrent apart as the needles exploded. Unngoy and Necros alike fell around Dadak, as plasma flew back and forth. A group of three Unggoy were blown apart by a pulse grenade. An Unngoy retaliated, sticking a plasma grenade to a Necros Azreal, reducing it and another beside it to twisted, half-molten metal. Dadak himself has incinerated several Necros with Annihilation as several more were burned by a stream of blue flames from an Unngoy with a plasma flamethrower. A hail of Rotary pulse cannon fire hit the Unngoy with the plasma thrower seconds later, sending him to a fiery fate as his plasma tanks exploded. Dadak looked to his right to see a Necros Compound Tank below the walker firing up at the deck with it's secondary armament. Dadak took aim with Annihilation, and sent a plasma beam it's way. The tank exploded as the beam from Annihilation struck it's plasma core. There were only five Necros Azraels left on the Scarab deck, pinned down by a Grunt who had grabbed one of the now dismounted Type 52 light plasma cannons and was using it like an LMG, firing from the hip. Dadak fired Annihilation and shattered four of the Necros soldiers. The final Necros soldier looked to the right just in time to see Dadak fire another shot from Annihilation, literally vaporizing the Azrael's entire head. As the UDF Scarab repelled it's boarders, the USR-UDF forces had gained the upper hand. Dadak and the rest of the crew went back into the Scarab's cockpit and drove the massive war machine forward, main cannon blazing, cutting down great swathes of Necros forces. They had won......but the war was far from over, and Dadak was yet to the true horror that was the Necros.

Enclave Ship Name Spam (Assuming were still using the Mythological Heroes idea

 * Sigurõr-class
 * Theseus-class
 * Perseus-class
 * Hercules/Herakles-class
 * Beowulf-class

Ross East Jr., Space Battle (Above the Assembly?)
"It's all coming down to this", Ross thought as he looked towards the Necros fleet, lead by two Jehovah-class Super Dreadnoughts silloetted against the Assembly, the last remaining Necros stronghold. Ross heard the lock tone to fill his I-660 Spear's cockpit. "All right", Ross said through his radio, "Skyler, Robiechaud, and I will attack the first Jehovah, Merton, Baron, Ditto, and Archer will target the second". Ross turned his aircraft towards the first of the two dreadnoughts, with Brittni Skyler and Jean Robiechaud following a short ways behind. All three pilots fired their ordnance, a single ARMAGEDDON antimatter missile at the Jehovah-class. Seconds later, the two dreadnoughts exploded in massive flash of flame, which dissapated to reveal a field of glowing debris. Ross' radio crackled to life. "This is the UNSC Prowler Silent Assassin, Two Jehovah-class Super Dreadnaughts confimed killed. Congratulations, 3rd Squadron.", the Prowler's crew said. "Wait!", the voice on the radio said, "I see five Jehovah-class Super Dreadnoughts and what looks like..... HOLY SHIT  over 100 other Necros ships incoming, thousands of fighters. Quick, lay the nuclear mines and fire up the slipspace drive!" "Third Squadron", Ross said over the radio, "Get to the UNSC Warrior double time, we need our Claymores to repel this assault."

Thirty minutes later, Ross and the rest of the Third Squadron flew out of the hanger of the UNSC Warrior, having exchanged their I-660 Spear Interdictors for the other aircraft used by the squadron, F/I-905 Claymore Heavy Fighters. "I have the first elements of the enemy squadron on radar", Ross said, "Fire your HORN missiles once you get a good lock". As Ross heard the lock tone fill his cockpit, he squeezed the trigger. Eight AIM-34 HORN missiles from his aircraft joined countless others that flew out of sight. On the radar, Ross saw the HORN missiles of his and countless other's squadrons hit the radar blips that were the first wave of Necros fighters. But the Necros firces were far from finished, mere minutes later, a pair of Necros Shrieker interceptors blazed past his aircraft, on a course straight for several UNSC I-550 Broadsword Interdictors. Ross sped up after them. Ross locked on and fired a pair of AIM-11 CLAW missiles, scoring direct hits on both targets, leaving a small field of debris where the enemy interceptors once were. But the two Necros Interceptors were quickly replaced hundreds more hostile fighters, both Shriekers and the larger Adversary Fighters, flying in a massive formation that looked like a swarm of locusts. Several UNSC fighters, Claymores, Katanas, and Knives, fell to Necros laser and missile fire, though none from Ross' sqaudron. "All right ladies and gentlemen, lock on and launch a few missiles into that fighter constellation", Ross said as he squeeze the trigger. Eight missile flew off of Ross' Claymore, sending eight of the hostile aircraft up in short-lived fireballs, before they dissapated, the flames deprived of oxygen in the vacuum of space. The rest of Ross' squadron and several other UNSC squadrons made short work of the Necros fighters, blowing them to pieces with their independently targetable AIM-11 CLAW missiles. That, however, was but the first wave of the Necros forces. A pair Cerberus-class Gunboats flew into a formation of Katana fighters, lasers and missiles struck down dozens of the UNSC fighters that had swept through the first wave so easily. A UNSC Terminus-class Gunboat fired a pair of Archer missiles at the opposing Necros Gunboat. The Gunboat shot down both missiles and replied with a Disruptor Cannon shot to the bow of the Terminus. The other Necros Gunboat joined in with the assault on it's UNSC counterpart. Ross seized the opportunity to get behind the Necros Gunboats as and fire three AIM-11 CLAW missiles into one of the Necros gunboat's engines and a single TALON anti-ship missile into the other. Both gunboats exploded as more Necros spacecraft approached, both fighters and capital ships.

A squadron of Necros Intimidators approached a Convoy of UNSC troop transports, but were stuck down by the Firestorm lasers, M45 Flak Guns and Firestorm missiles of the four escorting Raijin-class Destroyers, the UNSC Shilka, UNSC Flakvierling, UNSC Deathstalker, and UNSC Bofors. A Jormungandr-class Battle Cruiser and dozens of Legion class frigates headed towards the Odin-class Carrier Advent Children, the first UNSC vessel to do battle with a Necros vessel. Seconds after Ross caught sight of the Necros crusier, a Three heavy MAC slugs, a basic MAC slug, Several Archer missiles and a dozen plasma torpedoes and a Super MAC slug flew from various ships in the AUR fleet towards the enemy cruiser. Missiles, MAC slugs, lasers, and plasma flew in both directions as ships from both sides exploded in the blur of fire and death. Ross caught sight of a Squadron of Necros Intimidator bombers and Adversary fighters, headed straight for a pair of Freya-class Support Carriers. "We can't let them take out our fuel supply, engage enemy aircraft, and try to save you missiles for fighters.", Ross said" We'll attack the Necros squadron in two groups, I'll take Skyler, Archer, and Baron right, Everyone else go left with Robiechaud, try and split the Necros into two groups." Ross turned sharply towards one of the Necros Adversary fighters and destroyed it with a missile. The Necros fighters broke form the Intimidators, flying in two groups, one of them at Ross' group and another at Jean's. "Outnumbered ten to one", Ross said, "I like the odds" Ross locked onto another enemy fighter, another kill. Baron and Skyler had also also brought down three Necros between them. Ross and the others each picked of several more fighers, like flying missile snipers. But after they had lost a few of their number to Ross' missiles, the Adversary Fighters, now down to six, released countermeasures, the last of Ross' missiles missed. He was down to his guns now. The Necros fighters then fired their missiles. Red lights blazed in Ross' cockpit as an alarm screamed. Ross pushed a button on the side of his stick. DECEPTION countermeasures flew from the rear of Ross' Claymore. The Vindicator missiles flew off, away from Ross and his squadronmates. Ross pulled the throttle to the max. His Claymore flew towards the Necros Fighters, the distant stars became streaks in the cockpit window as pulse cannon shots flew past. Ross squeezed the trigger, his Claymore's 50mm rotary cannons blazed. one of the Necros Fighters stopped flying and drifted off into space, perforated by 50mm shells. Ross pulled the stick upwards as the AI controlled 20mm autocannon perforated a Necros fighter behind him. Ross strained against the G-forces as he performed a looping manuver called an Immelman Turn. Looking down, Ross saw a pair of Necros Fighters, ripe for the kill. Ross dove down and perforated both Necros fighters with his fighter's rotary cannons. Suddenly, Ross' radio crackled to life, "Help me" Brittni Skyler's voices said in a panicked tone, "Bandits on my six". Ross looked off his 3:00. He saw two Necros Adversary fighters chasing a single Claymore fighter. Ross made a sharp turn to get his aircraft into line with the Necros fighter. The first enemy aircraft filled Ross' gunsight. He squeezed the trigger. In a split second, over 200 rounds filled the Necros fighter. Ross barrel rolled to avoid the debris field of the downed Necros Fighter and blazed away at the second, blowing it's wing off in a hail of 50mm shells.

"Colonel East, the second wave of the enemy fighters are down, and the navy boys handled the interdictors", Jean Robiechaud said through Ross' radio, "But we've got dozens of Necros capital ships incoming. Jean was right, UNSC, USR, Guardian, Enclave, and the few Machina, Jiralhanae, Vorenus, Kig-Yar, Yanme'e, and Plainsfier vessels in the battle group opened fire. MAC slugs, missiles, plasma lances, and energy projectors, flew towards the Necros fleet. Several UNSC antimatter missiles were the first to strike, a Jehovah-class super dreadnaught, Behemoth-class dreadnaught, several carriers and several smaller ships were annihilated instantly. The Super MAC of the UNSC Warrior shattered a Fenrir-class Light Cruiser, as it's four secondary MACs claimed a pair of Necros Frigates. The UNSC Our Own Wars, an experimental modification of a Ragnarok-class dreadnaught armed with a THOR laser fired it's main armament. The beam vaporized a pair of Hydra-class destroyers on the way to it's main target, an Abbadon-class Battleship. The Abbadon-class exploded violently as the beam melted through it's hull to it's central core. A Guardian Mantle-class Super Dreadnaught, a vessel similar to the Forerunner vessel used by the Covenant Prophet of Truth in the Human-Covenant War fired it's main gun, a laser similar to a giant Sentinel Beam at one of the Necros super dreadnaughts. The shot deshielded the vessel. The Necros ship fired it's main Super Heavy Armageddon Cannon at the Guardian Vessel. The blow glanced off the Guardian ship, which returned fire with a barrage of missiles that struck the Jehovah-class. The Necros Super Dreadnaught was wrent apart by the series of explosions running down it's structure. A barrage of nuclear missiles from the UNSC fleet and several squadrons od Broadsword Interdictors destroyed several of ships in a Necros supercarrier battlegroup and de-shielded many others with their EMP blast. MAC slugs, Plasma lances, pulse lasers, and Archer missiles tore at the hulls of the now shieldless surviving vessels, four Necros frigates and a destroyer, a Jormungandr-class battlecruiser and the Leviathan-class supercarrier it's self. Ross watched as the last of the Necros carrier group was destroyed. It was then that an oppurtunity to strike arose with his remaining missile arose. The UNSC frigate

A Sudden Interruption
On top of a high peak of mountain in the mountainous core of one of Linna's three continents, Ross East Sr., the retired hero of the Human-Covenant War lay on the ground next to his wife of fifty years, Lindsey, next to their wilderness. Both of them were over eighty years old at the time, but neither showed it, thanks to that fact that they had both spent a significant portion of their military careers in cryostasis, and still were regualarly frozen, as Ross and his wife went on various trips to other planets throughout their lifetime, because of this, Ross and Lindsey were physically only in their late thirties. Ross and Lindsey both looked up into the starry night sky sky above them. "It's beautiful", Lindsey said, "So vast, makes you realize how small you really are in the universe". "I know" Ross said "But as small as you are in the cosmos, you are the brightest light in my life." Lindsey took Ross in her arms and kissed him. Suddenly, the screaming of spacecraft engine disrupted the romantic moment. "What is the UNSC Air Force doing here?", Ross asked "There's no air base anywhere near here!" A pair of black wings displaying a blood red insignia niether Ross nor Lindsey had ever seen before. That was no UNSC aircraft. The aircraft quickly disappeared into blackness before it reappeared over a large fire that had recently started, right where a town was in the next valley. Thousands of objects fell towards the town. One of the objects, however, went of course and landed within feet of Ross and Lindsey. Upon closer inspection, the object appeared to be a drop pod, "Like the one I used when i was an ODST", Lindsey commented. The door to the pod opened, a humanoid amalgamation of machine and living tissue walked out of the pod, some sort of alien rifle raised at Ross. Before the cyborg could react, however, Lindsey plunged her survival knife into the slit in the cyborgs head. The alien machine's controlling AI was destroyed as it's synthesized muscles went limp and it feel the the ground. Lindsey seized the alien's rifle and picked up an alien pistol and four alien grenades, as well as a pair of flashlights from their camping supplies. Lindsey handed Ross the pistol, a flash light, and two grenades. Lindsey took a roll of duct tape and attached her flashlight to the alien rifle she had captured. "We need to get out of here", Ross said, "If we keep following the trail ahead, we should be able to reach the town of Mountain View by dawn, it'll be quicker than going back". Ross and Lindsey walked down the path on the side of the mountain, flashlight and weapons held in front of them. Suddenly, the sound of chainsaws pierced the silent night. "This is a Wildlife Preserve", Ross said, "What the hell are they logging in here for?" "Ross", Lindsey said, "Who in there right mind would still be cutting lumber after alien fighters and drop pods showed up and started shooting shit up? It must be....something else...." As though to punctuated Lindsey's sentence, several snake-like cyborgs crossed the beam of Ross and Lindsey's flashlights. These snake-like beings had two arms attached, each one ending in what looked like a chainsaw and two circular saws where there mouths should have been. Ross fired several shots from the alien pistol. The gun fired a bolt of plasma that seemed to explode inside the target like and M6 pistol slug, The first chainsaw snake was struck in the the head and fell to the ground instantly. Lindsey and Ross opened fire on the rest of the chainsaw snakes. One by one the alien cyborgs fell to the hail of plasma, very quickly, they were all dead. "Why do these aliens deploy such useless soldiers, I mean, chainsaw-snake thingys, is that the best they can do?" Lindsey asked. "I doubt we've seen anything close to their deadliest weapons", Ross said, "Those things are for inspiring fear....can you imagine the terror that snakes with chainsaw blades hacking apart unarmed civilians could cause? I think that fighter and that humanoid we saw earlier were the more like enemy's main combat forces"

Journey into Hell
Several hours passed, Ross and Lindsey met no more of the mysterious alien enemy, though their aircraft flew overhead constantly. "There's the end of the trail", Lindsey said. She was right, they walked out into the dilapidated town of Mountain View. The town was once a bustling ski resort, now, buildings were reduced to rubble and ashes, bodies stood in the streets. Suddenly, a rocket flew over Ross' head, missing him narrowly. Lindsey turned to the side to see another humanoid alien cyborg with some sort of rocket launcher leading three others with standard plasma rifles. Lindsey pulled Ross behind a large chunk of concrete as a hail of plasma screamed their way. Lindsey took one of the alien grenades she had found that night and pressed what she hoped was the arming switch. Lindsey threw the grenade at the squad of alien cyborgs. The grenade detonated in a flash of blue flames, like a Covenant plasma grenade, but more power, the ground shook as the grenade detonated. The hail of plasma stopped, leaving the devastated street silent and deserted except for Ross and Lindsey. Ross walked over to the broken, shattered remnants of the alien hostiles, now a twisted mass of metal and synthetically grown tissue. A tar-like substance flowed from the organic parts of the aliens, "Blood, alien blood", Ross realized suddenly. Ross look at some of the alien weapons. Ross picked up an alien missile launcher lying beside a "dead" cyborg, it looked to be in working order. Suddenly, the building down the road from Ross and Lindsey was pushed over, a spiked roller emerged from the rubble, followed by a tank with a quad-barreled cannon. Ross looked down the sights of the missile launcher. The weapon emitted a loud beeping sound. "I hope that's a lock tone", Ross said. As the tank inched closer, the vehicle opened fire with it's four main guns. Each of the shots went high, blowing a storefront some 100 yards down the road behind Ross and Lindsey. Ross squeezed the trigger of the alien weapon. An anti-tank missile flew at the enemy tank, blasting through it's armor and detonating it's plasma core. The turret was blown into the air in massive fireball. Ross tossed the alien rocket launcher aside as the ball of flames that engulfed the tank fizzled out, revealing the burning wreck of the tank. Seven alien fighters flew overhead, Ross followed the enemy aircraft as they flew towards a squadron of UNSC Pelicans escorted by five F-778 Knife fighters. Four of the Knives fell from the sky in trails of fire, hit by some sort of missile fired by the alien fighters. The final Knife broke off from the squadron, pulling a manuver impossible in most aircraft, only possible in the Knife because of the anti-gravity field surrounding the pilot. The F-778 fired a pair of AIM-11 CLAW missiles, one of the missiles was downed by an alien point defense system, but the second hit home, sending an alien fighter down in flames. The F-778, unfortunately, was overcome by the rest of the alien squadron. The alien fighters shot down the Pelicans one by one with missiles and laser and plasma cannons. A pelican that had been hit by laser and plasma fire from the alien fighters, fell from the sky, flying straight at Ross and Lindsey. The Pelican hit the ground and on the ground, stopping just short of the pile of rubble Lindsey and Ross hid behind. Ross took a look at the open rear door of the Pelican. Suddenly, Ross heard the sound of several explosions above him. Ross looked up, all six alien fighters had been shot down by missiles seemed to have come from nowhere.Suddenly, a several alien missiles flew from the ground mere block from where Ross and Lindsey stood. The SAMs hit an active camoed UNSC spacecraft, a War Scythe stealth fighter, revealed by it's missile fire. Ross entered the rear door of the downed Pelican, there were no survivors. Suddenly, the radio crackled to life, "This is Reaper 2, Echo 458, respond, are there any survivors?". Ross picked up the radio "No survivors of the crash, only an ex-pilot and a former ODST, this is retired Brigadier General Ross East, I was taking cover here when this Pelican crashed." "Ross East? The Ross East, the hero of the Human-Covenant War?", The pilot asked. "The very same", Ross responded, "I have another survivor here, my wife, Lindsey". "Lindsey.." the pilot said "You married Lindsey Williamson, that crazy ODST that got into an energy sword fight with an elite, didn't you". "Yeah", Ross said, "Can you cover our escape for this town, take out any hostiles in our way?". "Afraid not", the pilot said, "Can't reveal myself again until somebody deals with those SAMs, you saw what happened to my squadronmate. You'll have to wait for our ground reinforcements or, you could take them out yourselves, I believe there is an M-41 missile launcher and an SRS 40 AMR in there." "Lindsey", Ross asked, "what do you think, you have more ground combat experience then I do". "Lets do this!", Lindsey said as she loaded a 64mm shell into a massive SRS-40 Anti-armor rifle. Ross grabbed an M-41 rocket launcher and some rockets and SABRE AT missiles. "Good thing this M41 was here", Ross thought, "I don't know it I could have figured out how to reload that alien rocket launcher." Ross also grabbed an MA6A Assault Rifle with an M026 Grenade Launcher and Lindsey took an M81C Ultra Light Machine Gun, as well as a portable radio to contact the second War Scythe pilot. Ross and Lindsey used the wings of the downed Pelican as a ramp to get to the top of a building. From the roof, Ross and Lindsey could see two SAM vehicles of clearly alien origin" We've got a clean shot from here", Lindsey said. Ross folded out the LCD screen on the side of his rocket launcher and took aim at one of the hostile AA tanks. Ross saw a red circle appear around the tank inside the LCD screen. Ross squeezed the trigger and fired a SABRE ATGW at the enemy tank. It exploded in a massive ball of flames as Lindsey destroyed the second tank. An alien tank rolled towards the destroyed AA tanks. The alien tank took dead aim at the building that Ross and Lindsey stood on top of. Ross fired his second SABRE ATGW and sent the tank to join the two SAM vehicles in their fiery fate. Three more alien tanks approach, two of the main battle tanks like the one Ross had destroyed and one that appeared to be a heavy tank rolled towards the two survivors. All three of the tanks took aim with their plasma lance cannons. Ross had no ammunition left in his his missile launcher, so the threw the weapon aside and picked up the portable radio. Lindsey fired her last two shots with the SRS-40, taking out two of the tanks, but the heavy alien tank remained. "This is Ross East, we are under attack by a hostile heavy tank and need immediate assistance", Ross said into the radio. Suddenly, out of the sky, an AGM-64 BARB missile flew, slamming into the top of the alien tank. The vehicle exploded in a ball of flames, clearing a path for Ross and Lindsey to continue. "Thanks for the assist, Reaper 2", Ross said into the radio before he picked up his missile launcher and loaded it with a pair of MANDIBLE laser guided missiles.

Second Battle of Linna
Ross flew the I-660 Spear out of the atmosphere of Linna, entering the vaccuum of space, but he was not alone, a dozen alien vessels, centered around what was probably a carrier, Ross could not be sure, the IFF on his HUD simply as "Unknown Vessel" in red text. "Ross", Lindsey said from the back seat of the I-660, pointing at a slipspace rupture to the right of their spacecraft. A dozen UNSC vessels exited the rupture. The IFF labeled the lead vessel as the Odin-class Carrier UNSC Advent Children, followed by the Ares-class Battlecruiser UNSC Dirge of Cerberus and the Thor-class Cruiser UNSC Barret. The carrier and cruisers were escorted by the Baal-class Destroyers UNSC Crisis Core, UNSC Before Crisis, UNSC Shinra, and UNSC Final Heaven, as well as the Heimdall-class Frigates UNSC Strife, UNSC Sefirosu, UNSC Nanaki, UNSC Last Order, and UNSC Aeris. The radio crackled to life, "This is the carrier UNSC Advent Children, unknown spacecraft, please identify yourself. "Retired Brigadier General Ross East and Retired ODST Sergeant Lindsey Williamson, Ross said. "Ross East?", The radioman on the Advent Children said, "What are you doing here?". "I was on vacation", Ross said, "Until the unknown hostiles showed up." Suddenly, the radio changed frequencies, "I AM WAR, PAIN, DEATH, AND DOOM", an unknown voice said, "I WILL SOW YOUR FIELDS WITH SALT, LEAVE NO STONE ON TOP OF THE OTHER." Five of the unknown hostile vessels turned towards the lead frigate of the battlegroup, the UNSC Aeris. A voice said over the radio, "Five unknown hostiles ma'am, on a intercept course with our lead frigate". A female voice responded, "Change course, bring our MACs to bear, charge capacitors, bring up Archer locks." The Aeris and the other two lead frigates manuvered to engage the unknown hostile frigates as the larger warships, the Barret and Dirge of Cerberus moved in to protect the Advent Children as it launched fighters and interdictors. The alien vessels turned broadsides to the UNSC fleet, as the radio sent another message from the Advent Children, "They just turned to broadside, energy cascades across their decks, brace for impact!" The alien carrier launched it's spacecraft. A pair of alien fighters turned towards Ross's interdictor and fired a missile each, Ross pressed a button on the side of his aircraft's joystick, releasing DECEPTION countermeasures as he rolled away from the missile. Both alien missiles failed to hit their mark, but the enemy fighters were now closer. Ross fired his cannons as his aircraft blazed past the enemy. Ross' cannon shells perforated the alien spacecraft. "Looks like you've still got", Lindsey said as Ross performed a Split-S manuver, turning 180 degrees so he was now on the tail of the enemy fighter. The alien spacecraft was trying to fly toward the safety of one of the alien frigates. As a MAC round slammed into side of the frigate, downing it's shields. Ross shot down the alien fighter as the alien frigate was struck by multiple Archer missiles and crippled. Ross then turned to his next target of oppurtunity. Ross's aircraft was an I-660 Spear Interdictor, armed with several TALON anti-ship missiles, the perfect weapon to finish off the crippled frigate

Note to self
Possibility of renaming CATACLYSM Antimatter missile to the FIMBULVETR Antimatter missile after the Fimbul winter marking the beginning of Ragnarök in Norse Mythology.


 * Design Machina Aquatic Vessels built by LOMI's Ratag Lineage.

Ross East at Gundark
Ross East returned to the his hotel room in (city pending), on the UNSC planet Gundark. Ross, formerly an aviation engineer and later a fighter pilot flying an F/A 712 Scimitar against the Covenant, Ross was now a five star General, commander of the UNSC Air Force, had been in and out of meetings on the defense of Gundark from the rapidly encroaching Necros threat all day. Ross walked into the presidential suite of the hotel. "Yes, rank did have it's priviliges", Ross thought as he walked through the door, into the spacious interior of the suite. "Lindsey?", Ross asked, "You there?" Lindsey was his Ross' wife, an ex-ODST and, like Ross, a veteran of the Human-Covenant War. "Yeah", Lindsey said, in the bedroom". Chronologically, Ross and Lindsey were both almost eighty, however, because both of them had spent literally years in cryostasis during long space flights, they looked closer to their mid thirties. Ross entered the seperate bedroom of the suite. Lindsey sat on the double bed. She stood up and kissed Ross on the lips. "How was your day, Ross?", Lindsey asked. "My day", Ross said, "Well, Lindsey", Ross whispered, "Technically, I'm not supposed to tell you this.... might cause public panic..... but Necros forces were seen massing on the outer rim of their territory earlier this week, and now, their approaching fast, approaching....." "Here! they're coming here!" Lindsey asked, sounding alarmed. "I'm afraid so", Ross said. "Oh my God", Lindsey said, emotion in her voice Ross heard there before, fear. However, Ross thought, if anything could strike terror into the heart of an ex-ODST, it would be the Necros. As Lindsey said those word, she clung to her husband. "Lindsey", Ross said as he put his arm around her, "I'm scared too, but we should be able to get evacuated before that happens, we can leave the day after tomorrow if you want, and even if we are stuck here, we've got reinforcements: thousands of Marines, SPARTANs, ODSTs, tanks, fighters, ships, and both Ross Jr. and Sarah." "I guess we have to depend on our children....", Lindsey said, "But I never expected them to face this, something worse then the Covenant, worse then the Flood even." "Try not to dwell on it too much", Ross said.

A Rude Interruption
"I guess your right, now, what do you say I do something to relieve that stress of yours", Lindsey said with as she winked at him. Within a moment, Lindsey and Ross were both laying the the bed, completely nude, kissing passionately and touching each other in a most intimate....and enjoyable manner... Lindsey got on top of Ross and mounted him, the two of them still kissing passionately as Lindsey moaned in pleasure. All of the sudden....an explosion shook the entire building, shaking Lindsey off of Ross. Ross stood up, his fear at least initially overcome by frustration. "Great, fucking great, the Necros had to show up now!", he said as he and Lindsey quickly got dressed. Ross seized his M6L pistol and said, "Nobody c**kblocks me and gets away with it", as he pulled back the slide and chambered a round.

Hotel Foxtrot
Lindsey and Ross exited the hotel room and ran down the hall. Ross heard movement coming from around the hall and raised his pistol, but it wasn't a Necros soldier, it was two UNSC Marines, one armed with a MA6B assault rifle with an attached M026 Grenade Launcher and the other wielding a M108 Shotgun. "We're supposed to get you and your wife out of here, Sir, the Necros have attacked, but i gather you know that, judging from the pistol in your hands. UNSC forces are retreating from this town and moving to (base pending) in the mount....AAAAAAHHHGGHGH!", the marine with the assault rifle yelled as something pulled at him from behind and began to claw at his flesh, in seconds, the thing had ripped his chests open, tearing out his organs, sending blood everywhere before turning it's attention to the other soldier. The second marine fired at the Necros Vampire with his shotgun, but the Vampire was to quick, grabbing on to his neck and twisting it until it broke. The Necros kept twisting the soldier's neck beyond breaking, ripping his head clean off. Ross took aim at the Vampire and prepared to fire as Lindsey pulled out the old Sangheilli energy sword she kept as a Human-Covenant war trophy. The Necros Vampire lunged at Lindsey, too fast for Ross to track it. Suddenly Ross heard the sound of an amalgamation of flesh and metal coming into contact with plasma. Ross looked to the right and saw the Necros creature impaled on a Lindsey's blade. "Ha!", Lindsey said, "The dumbass jumped right on to my blade". Lindsey de-activated the sword and the dead Necros fell to the ground. "Figures", Ross said "Vamps are strong, fast and deadly, but far from intelligent, they use 'em like attack dogs". Ross picked up the dead UNSC Marines' weapons, taking the MA6B with the grenade launcher for himself and handing Lindsey the M108 auto shotgun to Lindsey. Ross picked up several clips of ammo and a dozen 25mm grenades as Lindsey said "Nice!", as she held up a box of HE-10 explosive shotgun slugs. Ross and Lindsey continued down the hall towards the stairwell, until the roof collapsed about three meters front of them, revealing a Necros Berserker that had fallen in from the floor above. The Necros close combat specialist charged at Ross and Lindsey with it's chain-sword. Ross and Lindsey raised their weapons at the Necros Berserker and opened fire. Buckshot and 7.62mm bullets glanced off it's thick frontal armor as it closed in for the kill. Ross and Lindsey both rolled out of the way as the Berserker swung it's massive blade at them, cutting down the walls of the two rooms on either side. Lindsey ducked behind a piece of debris as she loaded her shotgun with tungsten rifled slugs. She has gotten two into the M108 before the berserker got to her and prepared to take a swing with it's six-foot chain-blade. Lindsey did another roll and dodged the attack as she struck back with her shotgun, firing a slug that hit the Berserker's chain-sword, shattering the motor and stopping the spin of the blades. The Berserker still tried to attack, using the destroyed chain blade as a blunt object, smashing holes into the wall as Lindsey ducked. The Berserker turned it's attention to Ross, bring it's chain sword down on the spot where Ross would have been had he not rolled out of the way the second before the Necros soldier struck the floor with it's weapon. Ross pulled out his M6 pistol and too aim at the Necros soldier's "eyes", hoping that he could penetrate the alien machine's AI core or at least disable it's optics, leaving it blind. But before Ross could pull the trigger, several rifled shotgun slugs shot straight through the armored Necros, shattering it's power source and AI core. Lindsey stood over the downed Necros, shotgun in hand, barrel still smoking as she reloaded the weapon. "Nice one", Ross said, "You've still got it". Ross reload his MA6B, making sure to use armor piercing ammo this time. Ross and Lindsey ran down the hall as glass shattered from the windows as Necros bombs landed uncomfortably close. Ross and Lindsey turned a corner and looked down the stairwell, before walking along the next wall and turning the second corner, finally making it down to the first floor. Ross turned the corner into the hotel lobby and saw a pair of Necros Warriors enter the building. Ross squeezed the trigger on his MA6B as he cut down the two Necros soldiers. Lindsey turned the corner as Ross jumped behind the large fountain in lobby. Necros pulse rifle rounds slammed into the fountain, sending chunks of marble flying and causing water to spray everywhere. Lindsey fired her shotgun on full auto and sent a hail of flechettes into a group of Necros Warriors and Aggressors. As the last Aggressor fell to the floor, a Necros Demolisher smashed through the door and fired it's Disruptor Laser at the fountain Ross was taking cover behind. Ross rolled out of the way, coming to rest behind an upturned table as the fountain was shattered into thousands of fragments. Water gushed from the remains of the fountain as the Demolisher took a shot at Lindsey, missing her by inches and instead setting fire to the check-in desk. Ross flipped a mode selector switch on his MA6B, connecting the trigger not to the rifle but to the M026 25mm grenade launcher. Ross looked up over the table and took aim at the Necros Demolisher and squeezed the trigger, hoping the Demolisher was far enough away not to catch him or Lindsey in the blast. A 25mm grenade flew from the launcher under the barrel of Ross' rifle and slammed into the Necros Demolisher and exploded. As the grenade detonated, it launched parts of the Necros soldier across the room, though none of them hit Ross or Lindsey. Lindsey picked up the dead Demolisher's laser weapon, now blown from it's hand. "Hmm....This'll be useful", she said, "looks like if I cross these two wires and flip this switch..." The Necros Laser weapon fired a beam that blew another hole in the wall of the hotel lobby.

Urban Decay
Ross and Lindsey exited through the hole in the wall, onto the street in front of the hotel, but it was unrecognizable as the street Ross and Lindsey had stood on when they entered the hotel the day before. The the street was covered in rubble, burning vehicles, bomb craters, and dead bodies. The hotels, skyscrapers, stores and office buildings of the downtown are of (city pending) were all partially or completely destroyed. In front of the hotel stood what remained of a Caracal APC, the Transport that was supposed to get Ross out of the city before the Necros arrived. All too clearly, they had failed. "Ross", Lindsey said, "We have some weapons here.....unfortunately we also have a couple more dead marines." Lindsey picked up a M187 LMG and an M33 Revolver before handing Ross an M899 LAAW and an M8 Ballistic Knife. As Ross attached the knife to his belt, a a Necros coilgun slug smashed a nearby chunk of concrete. "Sniper!", Lindsey said as she pushed Ross behind the remnants of the APC. A second coilgun slug shot straight through the APC, missing Ross by inches as Lindsey removed the shells from her shotgun and replaced one of them with a HE-10. Lindsey looked up, narrowly avoiding a third coilgun shot as she located the Necros sniper in a ruined structure. Lindsey fired the HE-10. The round flew through the window and struck the Necros sniper, blowing the alien cyborg to several pieces. "Got the bastard!", Lindsey said as the enemy sniper exploded. Seconds after the sniper was eliminated, another threat, this one in the form of a Necros Scavenger light tank pushed it's way through the wall of a building about 200 meters down the road. Ross removed the LAAW from his back and took aim at the Necros tank. The vehicle seemed not to have spotted them amongst the ruins. Ross hear the lock tone and saw a crosshair appear around the tank in the launcher's sight. Ross squeezed the trigger on the M899, sending a SABRE ATGW flying up into the air. The missile flew about 100 feet into the air and dove down, straight on top of the enemy tank, sending it up in flames. The burning remains of the Necros tank were immediately pushed away by another Necros vehicle, a Compound medium tank. The tank turned it's turret to face Ross and Lindsey as Ross prepared to dive for cover, but before he could act, a streak of fire flew at the Necros tank. The enemy vehicle exploded as the missile impacted. Ross looked to see where the missile came from, and saw Lindsey manning the FANG ATGW turret on the remains of the Caracal. "Come on", Lindsey said, "Help me reload, there could be more of them". Ross climbed into the APC and helped his wife reload the missile turret as a second Compound tank drove through a wall about 100 meters away, followed by a squad of Warriors lead by a Sergeant. Lindsey turned the ATGW on the third Necros tank and fired, setting the vehicle ablaze as the missile struck the side armor. Meanwhile, Ross got behind the machine gun, still intact in spite of the destruction of the Caracal and took aim at the Necros infantry, spraying the enemy with 7.62mm rounds as they attempted in vain to shoot back, their shots flying widely off course. A Necros Fury APC, followed by two Nemesis LRVs sped down the road towards them, spraying plasma from it's top-mounted turret. Lindsey got off the now empty ATGW turret and grabbed the Disruptor laser she had picked up from the Demolisher in the hotel. She took aim with the laser and pressed the trigger button. The laser fired, sending a ray of red light towards the enemy APC. The armor was melted through in less then a second as a sheet of flame engulfed the APC, turning it into it's own funeral pyre.

Air Superiority

 * A couple days after Necros Attack, skies over (city pending), Gundark.

Ross pulled the throttle of the F/1-905 Claymore forward as the aircraft rose higher above the UNSCAF base. The Claymore accelerated towards a squadron of Necros fighters on the radar. A lock tone filled the cockpit as Ross pressed the launch button on the top of his aircraft's stick. A dozen AIM-34 HORN missiles flew at a squadron of Necros Adversary fighers. The missiles flew out beyond Ross's line of sight. Half of the smaller radar blips that represented his missiles collided with the radar signatures of the alien aircraft and both radar contacts disappeared from the screen, confirmed kills. "Hold on, Lindsey", Ross said, "The remaining Necros fighters have just launched their own missiles, I'm going evasive". Several smaller radar blips closed in on Ross and the other UNSC aircraft flying alongside him. Ross saw a pair of alien missiles blazing towards. Ross pulled back on the throttle and turned the stick, making his F/I-905 do a sharp turn, known as a J-turn, a manuver that brought the aircraft close to a stall as it turned. Ross gunned the engine before he stalled out. He was now headed in the opposite direction. "Lindsey" Ross asked "Can you get a fix on the missiles with the rear laser." "Got it!", Lindsey said as a computerized voice announced "rear laser target tracking active". Lindsey squeezed the trigger, firing the twin SPARTAN Lasers in the rear of the aircraft at the first missile, then locked onto the second and fired as the computer tracked her target. Ross did Immelman turn, and flew back towards the Necros fighters, he now saw were the escorts for a squadron. Ross flipped a switch and changed his weapon to AIM-11 CLAW missiles. Ross fired his air to air missiles at the a pair of Necros fighters, blowing both of the out of the sky before speeding off into the distance, going into a second Immmelman turn and shooting two more fighters with his missiles. With the two immidiate threats down, Ross returned to to his course towards the UNSC Command Center. As he flew away from the city, Ross caught sight of a large Necros force, a large, black, roughly cross-shaped vessel with many spire-like directed energy guns and communications equipment, a Necros Gorgon-class Assault Ship. As Ross got closer, he was able to make out the vessel's escorts, a ten Necros Adversary Fighters and Several Carrion Gunships the vessel was deploying from hangers in the side of the vessel. "Lindsey", Ross said, "Hold on, I'm going into some high speed manuvers", Ross said as he gunned the engine of the fighter. The speedometer went past Mach 1, then Mach 2, Ross and Lindsey strained against the G-forces pushing them back into their seats. Mach 3, Ross strained hard against the G-forces as he locked onto the assault ship and fired a pair of TALON missiles, which flew through a gap in the ships shields and set the hangers on one side ablaze. Ross turned away from the Necros ship as Plasma pulse bolts screamed their way. Ross gunned the engine again, full afterburner, and swerved back into range of the enemy ship, fired a couple missiles and perfomed a high-G "J-Turn". Ross was staying in range just log enough to fire before zig-zagging out of enemy AA range, manuver based on a similar tactic used by Admiral Horatio Nelson at Trafalgar. Ross repeated the manuver four more times, the missiles struck home, the last pair sending the engines of the Necros ship up in a sheet of flame. The flaming enemy ship fell to the ground as it's engines were disabled.

David Kilgore Meets Kimberly Ivy Blackburn: A Necros-Vector Crossover
David Kilgore stood alone, hiding in the shadows of a Necros structure, as a Necros patrol passed. He was deep behind Necros lines, on a Necros Fortress World in the Jaguar expanse, on a mission to assassinate a Necros General. David was no ordinary soldier, even by special operations standard. He was a Revenant, product of a failed Necros Conversion attempt, he still had a human brain, but a Necros-enhanced nervous system and mechanical limbs of Necros origin.

Kimberly Ivy Blackburn stood at a table in a laboratory at Harvard University, staring down into a microscope. It was five years into a new beginning for Kim Blackburn, who, until then, lived a life she had not chosen. Her mind and body were under the control of Flood DNA and a cocktail of drugs and hormones forcibly injected into her before she was even born, she was truly psychotic, used by ONI as an assassin. When she was not a slave to the dark side of human nature, she was its victim, being abused physically, psychologically, and sexually by ONI operatives. But now, she was free, having been recovered from the horrors of her past, now looking towards a bright future as a nuero-biologist, on the cutting edge of human biotechnology. Little did she know, the horrors in her life were far from over. Suddenly, bright light flashed behind her, she was sucked into a bright tunnel of light. "What is happening to me?", she thought. By the time that thought was through her head, she was on solid ground again. She stood inside a building with gunmetal walls, surrounded by what looked like humanoid cyborgs, an amalgamation of metal and living tissue, presumably artificially grown. One of the cyborgs, which looked like the leader of the squad, raised a large, light machine gun-like weapon at Kim. With her enhanced reflexes, Kim dived out of the way of hail of plasma from alien's LMG. The alien's plasma fire instead hit a machine, possibly the one that had somehow transported Kim to... wherever she was. Kim lunged at the alien cyborg and kicked the alien in the face, slamming it to the ground and stomping the downed alien cyborg, crushing its metal head with her genetically enhanced strength. A second alien ran at Kim with a chainsaw-like sword. Kim siezed the alien by the arm not holding the chain blade and tossed it over her shoulder. The chain-sword flew from the alien's hand as it slammed into a wall. Kim took the plasma LMG from other alien she had killed and opened fire on the the alien cyborg horde, cutting them to pieces with a spray of bolts of plasma that seemed to exploded as they pieced their target, like an M6 pistol slug.

David suddenly heard a the sounds of smashing metal and gunfire from inside the building behind him as the Necros patrol turned towards the door of the alien structure. A Necros Warrior Form armed with a Vindicator missile launcher and blasted down the door. Most of the Necros started firing into the building, but a Demolisher and four Aggressors turned to face him David. David reacted instinctively, with the reflexes of his cybernetically enhanced body, David raised his MA2B Carbine and fired a the M026 Grenade launcher under the barrel. A 25mm "smart" grenade detonated right above the head of the Necros Demolsiher, sending deadly chunks of shrapnel through the Necros' mechanical bodies, tearing through artificial and cybernetically reanimated flesh, blasting through metal, and shattering the AI cores of the enemy cyborgs. David rolled to the right and pumped the action of the M026 and fired a second grenade, blasting away several more Necros before a hail of plasma pulse shots cut down the remainder of the Necros soldiers. Out of the building ran an uncommonly attractive, physically well built woman in her 30s wearing a lab coat and wielding a Necros Light Rotary Pulse Cannon. "Who are you?", David asked "And what's a civilian doing in a place like this?"

"Who are you?", said a voice to the right of Kim Blackburn "And what's a civilian doing in a place like this?" Kim turned to see where the voice had come from. The speaker was a man who had mechanical limbs similar to those "things" she was fighting, wielding an MA2 Carbine with a grenade launcher of a model Kim did not recognize. "Strange", she thought "I thought I knew the specifics of every UNSC weapon." "ex- Chief Petty Officer Kimberly Ivy Blackburn", Kim said, "I don't know how I got her, one moment I was looking down a microscope in a lab at Harvard and next moment I was right there" Kim pointed to the destroyed alien machine in the building. "But, anyway, who are you?, And what are those things", Kim pointed at one of the alien cyborgs.

"What?", David asked, "How could you not know about the Necros? We have been fighting them since 2615!" "2615?!" Kim asked, "But it's only 2589....Isn't it". "No", David said, "It's 26xx.... Wait a sec, Ms. Blackburn, You said you entered by a Necros teleporter. I know this sounds crazy to you, Ms. Blackburn, and to be honest, I sounds crazy to me too, but it seems that the Necros teleportation device must have somehow created a rift between two dimensions, and you were sucked through." After a short pause, David said, "Oh, yeah, I forgot to introduce myself. I am First Lieutenant David Kilgore."

Suddenly, David the screaming of the engines of three Necros Nemesis LRVs. David quickly turned and fired his M026 Grenade Launcher and blasted the first Nemesis LRV to a mass of burning twisted metal before he turned to the second Nemesis LRV, which remove of it's driver with a well aimed burst from his carbine. David mounted the now driverless Nemesis. "Ms. Blackburn", sit behind me and hold on!" "Lieutenant Kilgore", Kim said "Please stop calling me Ms. Blackburn, It's Kim" "Sorry, and I guess you can call me David if you want, or Dave, don't care which, might as well, considering I have a feel we'll be getting to know each other pretty well over the next little while", David said. "Alright David, where are we headed?", Kim asked. "To the edge of a forested mountainous area, only place the Necros haven't strip mined yet. Then it's on foot to a site in the woods, that's where I've been hiding for the past few weeks."

Zombies Project Vehicle Ideas

 * CH-47 Chinook Helicopter
 * Modified Armament Includes:
 * 1x Mk 19 Grenade Launcher Left Front Turret
 * 1x M-134 Minigun Right Front Turret
 * 8x FN MAG/M240 Machine Guns In Windows
 * 1X FN MAG Machine Gun Rear Door
 * Pipe Bombs, Grenades, IEDs etc- Dropped from Rear door or windows
 * Crew
 * Pilot: Rot
 * Left Gunner: SPARTAN 119
 * Right Gunner:
 * Rear Gunner:
 * Passengers:20, 8 manning window guns

Necros Hurricane-class Aquatic Battleship


The Hurricane-class is basically the equivalent of a floating super walker, armed with fourteen heavy dirge cannons in seven twin turrets, a rotary pulse cannon, eighteen Vindicator Lasher missile silos and a single light Armageddon cannon. The Hurricane-class is more than capable of engaging and destroying multiple UNSC Leviathan-class battleships, however, the Hurricane-class has the same weaknesses as any battleship, is vulnerable to air attack and can be attacked easily from underwater by a Tigershark-class submarine, using torpedos from close range or sea launched missiles to attack from over the horizon.

Ratag-Benvora Patrol Boat-31
A lightweight hydrofoil with equivalent armament to the UNSC Shark, with modular front, side, and rear turrets.

Modular Sections

 * Front Turret
 * 30mm rotary cannon: For destroying light boats and aircraft, burns through ammuntion extremely fast
 * Dual Plasma Lance: For attacking heavier targets
 * Quad machine gun: Similar to rotary cannon, less damage but can hold more ammunition
 * Claw Hammer Missile Battery: Anti-air missiles
 * Side Mounts
 * Machine Gun turret
 * Fusion Cannon: Light, short range weapon for attacking heavier targets
 * Twin Torpedo tubes: Forward firing torpedo tubes for taking out large vessels such Necros Hurricane-class Battleship, mounted on deck, two per side (maximum of four), replaces side turrets.
 * Rear Turret
 * 30mm rotary cannon: For destroying light boats and aircraft, burns through ammuntion extremely fast
 * Dual Plasma Lance: For attacking heavier targets
 * Quad machine gun: Similar to rotary cannon, less damage but can hold more ammunition
 * Claw Hammer Missile Battery: Anti-air missiles
 * Hull Sides
 * Hull Armor: Kriegor made armor plates

Ratag-Gaust Landing Hovercraft-23
A hovercraft with a deck capable of holding even the largest Machina vehicles, used in a similar manner to the UNSC Whale LCP/V.

Modular Sections

 * Turret
 * 40mm autocannon: for shooting at light vehicles and infantry ashore.
 * 20mm rotary cannon: a rapid fire rotary cannon, burns through ammo quickly, but tears up infantry and light armor, can also shoot low flying aircraft.
 * Quad machine gun: Four machine guns for similar uses to the previous, less powerful, but carries more ammo.
 * War Hammer Rocket Battery: Multiple launch rocket battery for heavy shore bombardment, allows the vehicle to play a similar role to the UNSC Orca LSC.
 * Sledge Hammer Missile Battery: Artillery missiles capable of accurately knocking out priority targets ashore.
 * Claw Hammer Missile Battery: Surface to air missiles for shooting down hostile aircraft, useful for defending a landing force from enemy gunships.
 * Hull
 * Hull Armor- Kriegor-made armor plates

Ratag-Kriegor Battleship-12
The Ratag-Kriegor Battleship-12 is a heavy gun and missile launch platform with four primary turrets and twenty secondary turrets.

Modular Sections

 * Main Turrets
 * 3x Super Heavy Plasma Lance- Jastenon-made heavy lance weapons for piercing heavy armor
 * 3x 500mm Cannon- Fondera-made heavy artillery, able to pound any target into submission
 * 5x 200mm Rail Guns-Gaust- designed railguns. Efficient multi-purpose weapons.
 * Oversized Sledge Hammer missile Battery- Argenta-designed 30-shot Sledge Hammer missile battery for striking at distant targets.
 * Secondary turrets
 * twin 20mm rotary cannon: two rapid fire rotary cannons, burns through ammo quickly, but tears up low flying aircraft.
 * twin plasma lances: two plasma lances for short range ship to ship combat.
 * 2x 200mm Rail Guns-Gaust- designed railguns. Efficient multi-purpose weapons.
 * Sledge Hammer Missile Battery: Ten artillery missiles capable of accurately knocking out priority targets ashore.
 * Claw Hammer Missile Battery: Twenty surface to air missiles for shooting down hostile aircraft, useful for defending the ship from enemy gunships.
 * Quad Torpedo tubes: four side-firing torpedoes to strike ships below the waterline.

Ratag-Gaust Aircraft Carrier-23
An aircraft carrier similar to the UNSC's Megalodon, can carry a varied load of aircraft and 20 defensive turrets throughout the ship.

Modular Sections

 * Defensive turrets
 * twin 20mm rotary cannon: two rapid fire rotary cannons, burns through ammo quickly, but tears up low flying aircraft.
 * twin plasma lances: two plasma lances for short range ship to ship combat.
 * 2x 200mm Rail Guns-Gaust- designed railguns. Efficient multi-purpose weapons.
 * Sledge Hammer Missile Battery: Ten artillery missiles capable of accurately knocking out priority targets ashore.
 * Claw Hammer Missile Battery: Twenty surface to air missiles for shooting down hostile aircraft, useful for defending the ship from enemy gunships.

Ratag-Argenta Ballistic Missile Submarine-1
A Ballistic Missile Submarine made with the help of the Argenta Clan, is very similar to the UNSC Tigershark, has few modular sections, but a varied missile armament. Also carries six forward torpedo tubes and two rear.

Modular Sections

 * Missile Launch tubes may launch any of the following:
 * Sledge Hammer Cruise Missiles
 * Foe Hammer Cruise Missiles
 * Claw Hammer SAMs
 * anti-capital ship missiles
 * nuclear missiles

=Revenants Idea Spam= These my ideas for Revenants for the 134th Special Forces Operational Detachment, many of the based on video game and anime characters. And no, I do not want comments in the discussion saying that one of the games or anime I chose sucks!

Mohammed Nasir Ibn-La'Ahad
A UNSC Marine of Arabic ancestry, captured and partially Necrosified shortly after David Kilgore. Designed as a stealth/assassination model of the Necros Agressor form, Mohammed looks identical a normal human, through his arm and leg bones have been replaced with a titanium skeleton. Mohammed also has a Necros-modified optical and nervous system giving him inhuman vision and reaction time. The Necros implanted a hidden energy wrist blade in his right wrist, a folding coilgun sniper rifle in his right shoulder and a pulse machine pistol in his right wrist. Mohammed typically carries a sniper rifle of some sort, usually an silenced M1091 or HBR-11 for stealth missions and an SRS99, SRS40, or M99 for anti-materiel work. He also carries a silenced M57 pistol and an M10 PDW with a SUROG and a bayonet. Like all Revenants, he also has an unusually good understanding of Necros technology and can proficiently use any Necros weapons or vehicles he captures.

Trivia
Mohammed is based on Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, the main character in the game Assassin's Creed.

Mattias Eriksson
An former UNSC ODST of Swedish ancestry who after partial Necrosification, intended to become a heavy weapons Agressor with a Light rotary pulse cannon in his right shoulder, and a pulse machine pistol in his right wrist and a chain blade in his left. He also carries an M389 GPMG and an anti-vehicle weapon of some sort, usually an M41 Missile Launcher, M66 RPG, or SPARTAN Laser, as well as a pair of M7 SMGs, which he uses in leiu of pistols. Eriksson has also been known to use an M705 or M44 flamethrower, the member of the 134th Special Operations Detachment to use such a weapon Enjoys using heavy weapons and explosives and causing general destruction. Claims to be descended from a Viking Berserker, often makes references to Norse mythology. Like all Revenants, he also has an unusually good understanding of Necros technology and can proficiently use any Necros weapons or vehicles he captures.

Trivia
Named for and based on Mattias Nilsson of the video game Mercenaries 2: World in Flames.

Angelina "Angel of Death" Triela
Female Revenant of Italian ancestry, previously a civilian until she joined the UNSC after her partial Necrosification. Angelina was intended to become a Necros Agressor equipped with anti-gravity equipment to allow limited flight capabilities similar to an anti-gravity Jump Pack, as well as pulse carbine in one of her wrists and a chain blade in the other. She is particular skilled at close combat and likes to use a pair of ECQB Shotguns equipped with a red dot sight and bayonet, as well as an M12 SMG and an M33 Revolver. Like all Revenants, she also has an unusually good understanding of Necros technology and can proficiently use any Necros weapons or vehicles she captures.

Trivia
Angelina Triela is a very loose composite of two cybernetic child soldiers in the anime Gunslinger Girl, Angelica and Triela, combined with a heavy dose of original features such as the anti-gravity equipment and the "Angel of Death" nickname.

Kazuya Bando
A former ODST of Japanese ancestry, Bando was captured and partially Necrosified during (battle Pending). The Revenant Bando has a pulse carbine in his right arm and an artificial gravity generator in his right hand, a built in weapons loadout similar to that of David Kilgore. He also carries an M23 Grenade Launcher, an M73 Carbine, and a pair of M6L pistols, several grenades, mostly frags, plasma, and thermite as well as a several charges of a C-12 and Gertex. Like all Revenants, he also has an unusually good understanding of Necros technology and can proficiently use any Necros weapons or vehicles he captures.

Trivia
Based off a character from the anime Elfen Lied of the same last name, and supposedly the same first name according to a source of questionable reliability. The original Bando also has body parts replaced with robotic prosthetics, though in a very different manner to a Revenant, being medical enhancements.

Saeko Ryougi
Japanese ex-marine, skilled at CQB, with a definite blade fetish. When Saeko was rescued from the Necros Conversion facility, she had one of her original biological arms and one Necros mechanical arm with an energy wrist blade. First met the Necros before she joined the marines, when her homeworld was attacked, found in the same highschool as Kouta Hirano, though on the opposite side of the building. She carries an MA6A Assault Rifle with bayonet, a M90 Shotgun, and a variety of bladed weapons, typically a M7B Combat Knife with a tanto style blade and an M17 Ballistic Knife. Also owns a katana and a tanto, though she rarely uses these in combat.

Trivia
Saeko is based off Shiki Ryougi of the anime Kara No Kyoukai and Saeko Busujima from the manga Highschool of the dead

Excerpt
The Revanants of the 134th SFOD lay hidden in the jungles on the very edge of the outskirts of (location pending). Saeko Ryougi scanned the jungle with her thermal goggles. "Necros patrol, seven hostiles ahead", Saeko said, I'll handle them." Saeko slung her MA6A Assault rifle over her shoulder and ran from to cover to cover, jumping between the trees of the dense jungle. Saeko raised her M13 Machete and swung the blade at a Necros Aggressor, beheading it, before impaling a Warrior with machete. Two Necros, a Warrior and an Aggressor approached from Saeko's other side. Saeko, however, was too quick for them. She pulled her M17 Ballistic Knife and stuck the blade into the Warrior's eye. The blade pentrated the straight to the "brain" of the Necros and killed it instantly. Saeko kicked the Necros off the blade and pointed the knife at the Aggressor, some 15 feet away, and pressed the firing button on the side of the handle. The M-17's blade flew at the Necros Aggressor and stuck in it's face. The Aggressor slumped over and fell to the ground as Saeko drew her suppressed M57 pistol and took aim at a Necros Sergeant. Saeko fired three rounds into a Necros Sergeant, one of the rounds shattering the cyborg's AI core, before she shot two more Necros, Warriors this time. Kara then retrieved the blade of the ballistic knife from the Necros Aggressor and whispered "CLEAR" into her radio.

=Unnamed story= Angelina Triela opened her eyes. The metal ceiling of the the room stared coldly back at her as she lay on her back, pinned to a conveyor belt by bars of titanium. Angelina's entire mind was consumed by the feeling of dread as she felt the time she had left in the universe flowing away. Her hourglass was almost out of sand. "So is this what it feels be comdemned, to be due to die?", she asked herself. She looked back on the barely eighteen years of her life, trying to hold on to memory of her family her friends, the good times in her life. Angelina saw it all flash before her eyes before it faded back to the inside of the Necros conversion facility. "Please, let this be a nightmare", Angelina said, "Let me wake up, safe, at home." But this one nightmare that there would be no awakening from. The conveyor belt started to move, sending Angelina slowly towards the first of the Necros machines. Angelica heard the sound like a revving chainsaw and saw to her horror, that the sound as just that. She screamed in pain as the machine cut off both her arms and legs. Blood sprayed everywhere as she screamed her lungs out, though she knew no one would hear her. "Is this it?", Angelina asked herself, "Was my whole life only leading up this? Nothing but a barely eighteen year old girl bleeding to death on conveyor?". Angelina passed through more machines, blades and drills that tore at her flesh, implanting machine parts into her body, an injection device that filled her bloodstream with a black, tar-like fluid. Angelina closed her eyes as a drill cut into her neck... "This is it.", she thought. But even after receiving a Necros neural implant, she was still Angelina Triela, not a mindless killing machine. As she neared the final machine on the Necros conveyor belt, she realized why she was still concious: "The Necros purposely kept me concious, they take pleasure in my pain, but now..." Angelina stared into the drill that would cut through her skull and destroy her brain. "Oh God help me", she cried, her face stained with tears. Suddenly Angelina hear the sound of automatic weapons fire, a sound she never thought she'd ever be so pleased to hear. At the same time, the drill that would have ended her life was struck by several rounds, shattering the machine and sending pieces of metal flying everywhere, but thankfully, none of the shrapnel hit her.

=Necros War Characters (in development, not in any way written in stone)=

"Kenny"
Minor Character, infantryman dies at hands of Necros somewhere near David Kilgore's vehicles. David learns of death from shout of "Those bastards killed Kenny"

Trivia
Reference to South Park Kenny McCormick, known from the phrase "Oh my god, they killed Kenny! You Bastards!", shouted after his death in almost every South Park episode up to the 5th season.

=Necros Synthetics=

Necros Synthetic #112132523145 (AKA Lucy Wade)
Description: An "innocent" looking Synth disguised as a girl of about eight. Sent to cause chaos behind UNSC lines and spread fear amongst civilians. Equipped with a chain wrist blade in her left wrist and an immolator flamethrower in right arm, as well as a shatterer gravity weapon in one shoulder. She is killed by David Kilgore (or maybe Sarah East, not sure) after he finds her covered in blood at the scene of a massacre of of about 50 civilians on a city street. When David (Sarah?) attempts to approach her, Lucy announces she is going to "slaughter him like the rest of [his] worthless species" and proceeds to attempt to kill him with her flamethrower. She fails, and is killed when David (Sarah?) shoots her in the fuel supply for her flamethrower, incinerating her instantly.

Trivia

 * Name is a reference to Alma Wade of the video game F.E.A.R. and "Lucy" from the anime Elfen Lied, both of them can be described as girls with supernatural powers and a vendetta against the human race who enjoy slaughtering random bystanders in overly bloody and painful manners (i.e dismemberment, decapitation, immolation etc.).
 * Her Necros serial number,112132523145, corresponds to the letters of the alphabet in her name 11=L, 21=U, 3=C, 25=Y, 23=W, 1=A, 4=D, 5=E

Unnamed "False Revenant"
Description:An young adult male of roughly 20, poses as a member of David Kilgore's "Revenant Unit", until he is killed by David after a failed assassination attempt. Armed with a wrist mounted pulse carbine, a wrist blade, and coilgun in one shoulder.

Description
A Necros Synth disguised as a Japanese girl of about 15, used as a terror weapon in disguise. Shion enjoys killing using a variety of weapons, including a machete, a meat cleaver, a hunting knife, a baseball bat, a metal pipe, an axe, a katana, a chainsaw, a molotov cocktail, a pipe bomb, and an M57 pistol that she stole of a police officer after she killed him. She is also armed with a built-in pulse machine pistol and a chain wrist blade. In total, she is estimated to have killed between 50 -100 civilians before being killed by Kouta Hirano and Saeko Ryougi, at that time in their senior year of highschool, having escaped the Necros before the previous year. Ryuguu attempted to kill both Hirano and Ryougi with a hunting knife, but was successfully overpowered by the Hirano and stabbed with her own knife by Ryougi.

Trivia

 * Shion Ryuguu is a composite of two characters from Higurashi No Naku Koro, an extremely violent anime, Shion Sonozaki and Rena Ryuguu.

=Revenant: A Necros-Era Metal Band= Revenant was a heavy metal band founded in 26xx during the Necros War by (members names pending). There names is a reference to the term Revenant, someone such as Ajax 013 or David Kilgore, who survived a failed Necros conversion and returned, still alive and retaining their free will, but with many of their parts replaced with Necros-made machines. The band is a favorite of David Kilgore's.

Songs

 * Revenant
 * Slaughterhouse

Revenant
(modification of "Back form the Dead" by Dream Evil, modified in a similar manner to LOMI'S AUR Anthem (modified from Blow Me Away off the Halo soundtrack)
 * Back from the Furious, Slaughter and Pain
 * Scourge of the Universe, they drove him insane
 * No thought but for vengeance
 * Inside his head
 * He's going to make them pay


 * He's Back From the Dead
 * Straight Back From Hell


 * He has a new mission in life
 * To avenge his pain
 * Dispensing retribution
 * With a round to the brain
 * Taking his vengeance
 * With Fire and lead
 * The one that the Necros fear


 * He's Back from the Dead
 * Straight Back from hell

(instrumental bridge)

(spoken):

(Necros voice): "We have come to finish what we failed to do two years ago"

(female voice): "Just try it!"

(various male voices) "I am neither Human, SPARTAN or Necros, I am not the first, or the last. But I am Ajax, the thirteenth SPARTAN and I hold the key to your salvation, and their destruction."

"When they failed to convert me, the Necros made the biggest mistake of their pathetic lives"

"It's about time I got some payback"

(end spoken section)


 * He's back from the Dead
 * Straight Back from Hell

(Repeat several times)

Slaughterhouse
(Same instrumentals a "Into the Fire" by Sabaton, Based on the experience of a soldier captured by the Necros and partially converted in a Necros Slaughterhouse-class Conversion Ship.)
 * From the depths of space they came
 * A threat from the unknown
 * Necros landed in the city
 * Killed anything alive
 * Sundown
 * Darkness falls
 * Dig in for the night


 * Out of the darkness they come
 * I prepare to fire
 * I feel
 * The fire starts to burn
 * The heat
 * Controlling my mind
 * Berserk
 * A savage running wild
 * Within me the beast starts to roar


 * Now i'm ready to strike
 * A creature of the night
 * Into the fire
 * The flame of plasma strike


 * Necros tanks advance
 * As the Reaper comes for me
 * Overrun and taken captive
 * To the Slaughterhouse
 * Strapped to a Conveyer belt
 * To become one with my foe
 * Blades tear off my limbs
 * No one hears my screams


 * The pain
 * It's driving me insane
 * My limbs
 * Replaced with cold steel
 * My fate
 * I will not live to tell
 * Did I live just to end up in Hell?


 * My eyes lose their light
 * Into the endless night
 * It's my time to die
 * I feel the chain-blade's bite


 * Inside the Conversion ship gunfire rings out
 * Bullets strike the Necros down,
 * Conversion machines destroyed
 * I'm saved from conversion
 * But my limbs are mechanized


 * Black blood
 * Now flows in my vein
 * Weapons
 * Grafted to my arms
 * Now I live as machine for war


 * Now I'm back in the fight
 * Take my revenge tonight
 * Kill them in fire
 * The Necros in my sights

Battle of Fort Sill
(same instrumentals as Panzerkampf by Sabaton)


 * Across the Southern Plains
 * The alien army marched


 * At Fort Sill Army Base, fall 2552
 * Men face the deadliest foe that mankind ever knew
 * Ready for the onslaught
 * Ready for the fight
 * Waiting for the Covenant to march into a trap
 * Guns are placed in darkness
 * Attack planes take flight
 * Ready to strike at the enemy
 * When the time is right
 * Bombers strike the Covenant
 * Aerial attack
 * Alien armor burning
 * UNSC strikes back


 * Mankind shall not end today
 * This field we shall defend
 * Mankind will not end today
 * It's time to fight back!


 * Across the Central Plains the alien army marched
 * Soldiers stand side by side to stop the Covenant charge
 * Scarabs on Terran soil, a thunder in the west
 * Sixty thousand aliens dead
 * The Covenant failed the test!


 * Bombers and artillery
 * Make the Scarabs burn
 * Decimate the alien armor
 * The tide begins to turn.
 * Driving back the aliens
 * They fall before our guns
 * Hunt them off the planet
 * Back from whence they came
 * Reinforce the front line
 * Force the Covenant to retreat
 * Sending all our armor
 * Securing their defeat
 * Guns and missiles fired
 * Wraiths and Scarabs fell
 * Ruins of an army
 * Covenant rest in hell!


 * Mankind shall not end today
 * This field we shall defend
 * Mankind will not end today
 * It's time to fight back!


 * Across the Central Plains the alien army marched
 * Soldiers stand side by side to stop the Covenant charge
 * Scarabs on Terran soil, a thunder in the west
 * Sixty thousand aliens dead
 * The Covenant failed the test!

(Instrumental Bridge with various radio transmissions from UNSC forces in the battle in the background)


 * Mankind shall not end today
 * This field we shall defend
 * Mankind will not end today
 * It's time to fight back!


 * Across the Central Plains the alien army marched
 * Soldiers stand side by side to stop the Covenant charge
 * Scarabs on Terran soil, a thunder in the west
 * Sixty thousand aliens dead
 * The Covenant failed the test!

A Revenant's War
(Same instrumentals as "Shogun" by Trivium)


 * Walk silent as specter
 * They took all I love from me
 * They left me in the darkness
 * This half-life that I now live
 * The beasts will soon assemble
 * A mass of cold steel and putrid flesh
 * Their hearts don't beat desire
 * They pump violence and poison


 * Flesh blown open, Blood is spilling
 * Flesh blown open, Blood is spilling
 * Death embracing, all is ending
 * Death embracing, All is ending


 * Time will not heal
 * The pain you caused me
 * I cannot wait
 * For my chance to strike you
 * DOWN


 * The monsters walk among us
 * Leeching the blood out from what's good
 * Infecting and Transmitting
 * swallowing innocence from life


 * Our time has come to stand now
 * Greet them with our guns blazing
 * Behold the loathsome demons
 * Send them to hell
 * from whence they came!


 * Flesh blown open, Blood is spilling
 * Flesh blown open, Blood is spilling
 * Death embracing, all is ending
 * Death embracing, All is ending


 * Time will not heal
 * The pain you caused me
 * I cannot wait
 * For my rounds to come flying
 * Into your face
 * Blowing your brains out
 * This fight I'll win
 * Tonight your end begins!


 * My pulse is now quickening
 * Quickly, it's painstaking
 * look within and see the storm
 * raging inside my form
 * There's no turning back


 * Now I'm a witness
 * To these changes


 * I care not what I must sacrifice
 * For I have lost much more
 * If I succeed in this battle
 * I still have lost much more


 * Time has come to face all evil (x4)


 * From the darkness
 * Come the Necros horde
 * Casting flames upon the world
 * As they threaten all that is light
 * I stand against them to death I shall
 * FIGHT!!!


 * Time will not heal
 * The pain you caused me
 * I cannot wait
 * For my chance to strike you
 * DOWN!!!


 * Time will not heal
 * The pain you caused me
 * I cannot wait
 * For my fist to come crashing
 * Into your face
 * Smashing your skull in
 * This fight I'll win
 * Tonight your end begins!

=Ross East Alternate Universe= In the Alternate Universe, Ross East's parents fled their hometown of Toronto for Reach shortly before the humans were assimilated into the Covenant. Ross goes on to Command the Human Rebel Air Force during the Battle of Reach. Leading from the frontlines, Ross was often seen flying his personal I-45 Phoenix Interceptor on high-risk aerial special operations.

Battle of Reach
General Ross East stood a hanger, along with Human Rebel Navy commander Jacob Keyes and General Payton Smith, commanding the Human Rebel Army. "This, Admiral Keyes and General Smith, is the secret weapon that the HRAF has been working on these past few years", Ross said, pointing to a pair of missiles with large cables running through a door with a radiation symbol on the side. "A Shiva?", asked Keyes. "This isn't your average Shiva", Ross said. "Thid one has an antimatter-warhead designed from a reverse-engineered Covenant antimatter charge. A small one pound orb of antimatter is held suspended in a vaccuum by an electromagnetic field, powered by a nuclear reactor", Ross said, motioning to the door with the radioactive symbol through which the cables connected to the warhead ran, "and a battery with a life of 24 hours. Once that battery runs down or is destroyed by say, impact with a Covenant warship, the magnetic field will dissapate and the orb of antimatter will fall to the bottom of the vaccuum-chamber it is suspended in and will explode with force of 100 hydrogen bombs. With this kind of firepower, we may be able to again the upper hand on the Covenant. The first missile is to be fired at the Covenant flagship of inevitable invasion of this planet.", Ross concluded. "And the second?...", asked General Smith. "That, General Smith, is bound for High Charity."

Destruction of the Divine Vengeance (alternate)
Ross East had left out one important detail at the meeting with the other heads of the Human Rebel military. That he was going to personally fire the Antimatter-Tipped Shiva Missile at the Covenant flagship, a Super Battleship called the Basilisk. Ross saw dozens of large shapes apppear on the radar of his I-45 Phoenix Fighter, along with hundreds of smaller radar blips, the Covenant invasion fleet. Ross waited for the Covenant ships to come in missile range as the radio in his cockpit crackled to life. "Those who reject salvation embrace annihilation. Repent heretics, or be purged in flames", said the voice of the Prophet of Truth. "I am giving you one last chance to return to the path of righteousness, before I unleash the wrath of the Precursors upon thee". Ross changed the channel, Commander Keyes's voice said ''"So you decided to deliver the package yourself, General East, I should have known." "Than I'm assuming were not taking the offer of the testicle-chinned space llama"'', Ross said. "Of course not, I also thought you knew me better than that, Keyes out". As Keyes's message ended, Ross realized he was within missile range. He had a lock on the large ship in center of the Covenant fleet's arrowhead formation, this one must be the Basilisk. Ross pressed the missile-launch button on top of the joystick. The Antimatter-Tipped Shiva Missile flew at the Covenant spacecraft, but, little did Ross know, it was not the Basilisk, but the Assault Carrier Divine Vengeance. The Divine Vengeance was struck by the missile and exploded in a massive fireball. Even Ross, who was several thousand kilometers away, saw the blinding flash of the antimatter warhead. The Divine Vengeance was lost with all hands, including a Prophet Councilor, the Prophet of Hostility, but in the rest of the Covenant fleet, including the Basilisk flew on. "You have chosen oblivion", Ross heard the voice of the Prophet of Truth say over the radio, "Your destruction is the will of the gods, and I am their instrument". Struck by a sudden impulse, Ross did something very brazen, he picked up the mouthpiece of the radio and said, "Hey ball-chin-ian, I thought I just reduced you to radioactive dust!". To his great surprise, the Prophet responded. "Did you think I would be foolish enough to place my flagship at the front of the formation!? Now pay for your sins human scum!"

The Dogfight
At once, a dozen Seraphs flew at Ross's lone I-45, which had only six of the usual 24 ASGM-10 missiles because it was all he could fit with the Antimatter Shiva taking up most of the ordinance bay. Ross got a radar lock on the first to Seraphs and pressed the launch button on top of his joystick. "Fox One!". he yelled, before firing a missile at the second Seraph, yelling "Fox Two!". Both missiles sent their intended targets up in a ball of flames. But there were still ten other Seraphs, closing fast. Ross could not fight them all, at least, not in space. Seraphs, though, were supposed to be more clumsy in planetary atmospheres. Ross performed a manuver called a Split-S, in which his Phoenix performed a half-loop and changed direction. Ross pulled the throttle forward, and felt the increased G-forces push him back into his seat. Ross' Phoenix thundered towards Reach, closely followed by the enemy Seraphs. The outside of the Phoenix glowed red-hot as it entered Reach's atmosphere. Finally Ross leveled out his Phoenix in Reach's troposphere, about 20000 feet above a mountainous region. Ross looked around for about a minute before he saw a glint of metallic purple below him at his 2:00. Four Seraphs flew in formation about 16 kilometers away, having apparently lost him in the dive into Reach's atmosphere, the perfect target for a missile kill. Ross acquired a radar lock and fired his aircraft's four remaining ASGM-10s. The four Seraphs exploded and fell to Reach's surface in flaming chunks. Seemingly out of nowhere, a stream of plasma bolts flew past his Phoenix's left wing. He had six Seraphs on his tail. Ross performed a looping manuver known as an Immelman Turn, which enabled him to get on the tail of two of the Seraphs. The radar assisted gunsight placed itself slightly ahead of the first Seraph. Ross squeezed the trigger. The 180mm Gauss autocannons spat tungsten slugs at the alien fighter, whose shield held them off for a second before the enemy fighter's tail erupted in flames. The second Seraph met a similar fate. Ross had only four Seraphs left to kill, but where were they? That question was answered as a stream of plasma bolts struck Ross's Phoenix's wing. The plasma melted several small holes in the Phoenix, but the Phoenix kept flying. Red lights flashed as the sound of an alarm filled the cockpit of Ross' Phoenix. The Phoenix couldn't take much more of this. One of the Seraphs began to charge it's deadly pulse laser, one shot of which could send Ross to a fiery end. Suddenly, a streak of fire flew at each of the Seraphs. The missiles each slammed into the targets as fourteen Phoenix Interceptors flew past him. Ross' radio crackled to life "You look like you need some help!", a male voice said through the radio, "Yeah", Ross said, "This is Human Rebel Air Force General Ross East, I'm shot up pretty bad, I need an escort back to the nearest allied base." "Roger, General East, Commander Joe Harrison of the Dragon Squadron at your service"'', the male voice on the radio said. "This is Dragon 09, five enemy radar contacts, closing fast, look like Covie-Human Longswords.", a female voice said, just after Joe Harrison was finished speaking. ''"Missiles Incoming!", yelled another voice, also female. Mere seconds later, Ross felt something impact his Phoenix.

Behind Enemy Lines
Ross pulled the ejection lever as flames erupted around him. Ross was launched from his seat. Ross pulled the string on his parachute and began his slow descent to the surface of Reach. four other Phoenix fighters fell from the sky, all four of their pilots, thankfully, had ejected. Ross landed in a tree in a forested valley surrounded by snowcapped mountains. Ross drew his combat knife from its sheath and cut himself free. Ross fell about ten feet, but landed without any visible injury. Ross drew his M6D pistol and slid back the slider, chambering a 12.7mm HE round. Ross walked about ten feet before he heard a female voice yell "Stop, identify yourself!". "General Ross East, Human Rebel Air Force", Ross replied. "Good, I thought you were a Covie.", said another female voice as two women in HR Navy flight suits emerged from the bushes. "Name's June Della, by the way, said the first female pilot. "And I'm Erika Black, both of us are with the Dragon Squadron. Anyway, we just managed to get away, the Covies took Andrew and my sister... Andrew Peters and Brittany Black, the other two that went down.", the second pilot, Erika said. "Well, ladies," Ross said "We are going to get them back, which way did the Covies go?". "That way", June Della said, pointing east, along a path in the forest. After ten minutes of walking eastward, Erika Black motioned for the two of them kneel down next to her, hidden in a bush. Two Human Rebel Navy Pilots stood, bound, guarded by two Covenant-Humans, four Grunts, and an Elite. "Tell us!", a Covie-Human yelled at the two captives, where is Admiral Keyes!?" "I'll take the Split-Lip. Black, Della, you each take down one of the two traitors. After that, the Midgets should offer little resistance", Ross whispered. As the three human rebels in the bush planned their attack, Andrew Peters and Brittany Black both refused to give any information. "Enough, they are both useless", said the Elite "you two", the Elite pointed at the Covie-Humans, "deal with the captives as you wish, just be sure they end up dead." The two humans turned to Brittany Black, BR-55 battle rifles raised. "You're gonna die, sweetheart", the first Covie-human said, as Brittany Black struggled against the energy-shackles that bound her. "But first", the Covie-human said, "we're going to have a little fun with you". "Erika Black took aim at the Covie human preparing to violate her sister as Ross and June took aim at their respective targets. Erika fired her M6 pistol. The 12.7mm HE slug shattered the skull of her sister's would-be attacker. June Della also struck down her target with the first shot. Ross fired four rounds into his target, the elite. The first three pierced the shield of the Sangheilli as the fourth explosive-filled bullet detonated in the chest of the Elite. As the Sangheilli fell to the gound, a hole ten inches in diameter blown in it's chest, the four Unggoy fled the scene. Ross entered the clearing the forest where the two captives were held, bound by oversized energy shackles to a tree. Are you two O.K.?, Ross asked. "Yeah, we're fine, get us down from here", Andrew Peters responded. Ross unplugged the energy shackles from the plasma battery that powered them and rolled the battery into the woods before shooting it with his M6 pistol and detonating plasma battery. "you're Black and Peters, right?", Ross asked. "Just call me Brittany" Brittany Black said, "it will avoid confusion between me and my sister." "And you can call me Erika", Erika Black said. "Might as well let you use my first name to, we all of the members of our squadron do, and, until we get out of here, you're one of us.", Andrew Peters said. "I suppose you can call me Ross" Ross said. Ross examined the dead bodies of the Covenant soldiers that had so recently held them captive. One of the Covie-humans held a BR-55 Battle Rifle, and the other, an MA5B assault rifle, both held three frag grenades and three plasma grenades the elite dual wielded two plasma rifles, with an energy sword at it's side, as well as six plasma grenades. Ross grabbed the BR and the Elite's sword, and handed the MA5B to Brittany Black and one of the Plasma Rifles to Erika. Ross gave Andrew Peters the other Plasma Rifle and a handed June Della his pistol. Ross divide the grenades up as evenly as he could. After spreading out the firepower amongst his comrades, Ross lead the group down the path in the woods. After a couple hours, Ross and the downed Dragon Squadron were making there way up side of one of the mountains that surrounded the valley they crashed in. The sun was going down, and dark clouds loomed over the sky, omonously. Ross directed the group into a cave in the side of a cliff. "We'll take shelter here for the night, every four hours, we'll rotate watch duty, the Covies'll be looking for us. Ross awoke to the crash of thunder and the sound of rain pounding on the ground outside. He was lying next to the two Black sisters, huddled together to keep warm. In spite of his current situation, Ross privately thought he still had some shred of luck left to be this close to two very attractive women. Ross was distracted from this thought by the sound of the voice of Andrew Peters, who was keeping watch. "Who's there?", asked Andrew Peters to the darkness and pouring rain. "Suddenly, the night responded to him: "Hostile's, in the cave!", a voice yell, as a flashlight shone into the cave entrance. Andrew dove out of the way just in time to avoid a hail of 7.62 mm bullets. Ross seized his BR-55 and Energy Sword as June Della and the Black sisters awoke from their sleep. "What's going on", asked Brittany, "Is it the Covies?". Ross took aim with his Battle Rifle and fired a burst at one of the flashlights. The light fell to the ground as Ross heard someone scream. Ross fired again, taking down another Covie-human and an Unggoy thatt walked infront of the fallen Covie-human's flashlight. Another Covie-human was cut down, this one by a plasma bolt from Brittany's plasma rifle, as another plasma bolt from Erika's rifle hit an Unggoy's methane tank, creating an explosion that killed several other Grunts and de-shielded a Sangheili. Ross's battle rifle delivered a fatal headshot to the Elite, which crumpled to the ground. In spite of the downpour, the flames from the sprouted from the fallen Grunt's methane tank from the kept burning, fueled by more methane released by bullet holes in the tanks of more dead Grunts, perforated by Ross, June, and Brittany's rifles and pistols. The light of the fire revealed a second Elite, two more Covie-humans, four Jackals, and about a dozen more Unggoy. Ross threw a plasma grenade at the Elite. The grenade stuck to the Elite and exploded in a ball of blue flames and charred Elite-remains. Andrew shot a Jackal sniper with his plasma rifle as Brittany took down the Covie-human that ran for the dead Jackal's beam rifle. A fragmentation grenade tossed by June Della disposed of the last three Kig-Yar and the final human traitor. As the guns of the battle fell silent, the rain at last put out the flames of the burning methane tanks of the dead Unggoy. "Let's get back to sleep", Ross said, "I have a feeling tomorrow is going to be a busy day".

Operation: TURNING POINT
In 26xx, a massive fleet of Necros Warships attacked the Earth itself. Launching a first strike was Ross Jr. and his 3rd Canadian Squadron. Ross Jr., Brittni Skyler, Jean Robiechaud, and John Archer flying modified I-660 Spears with the slipspace drive removed so that they could be armed with a single ARMAGEDDON Antimatter Multi-Warhead Missile in their aircraft's ordinance bay, while Dillon Merton, Allie "Ditto" Allison, and Leslie Baron's flew Claymores armed with a full load of AIM-11 and TALON missiles to escort the strike aricraft. The Claymores and Spears were deployed from a UNSC Air Force Base on Pluto to engage the Necros Fleet as it entered the Kuiper Belt. About 2000 kilometers from the main body of the Necros fleet, Allie Allison sighted the Necros advance guard. "We have a Legion-class frigate, two Cerberus-class gunboats, and five Necros Interceptors, looks like Necros pickets, permission to engage.", Allie said over the radio. "Roger, permission granted, Dillion, Leslie, and "Ditto", fire TALONs.", Ross said. Dozens of TALON anti-space craft missiles struck the frigate. The ship was wrent apart by the explosions running up and down it's side. The two Cerberus-class gunboats fired a missile each at the Ross' Claymore. Both missiles were foiled by the chaff Ross' aircraft released into space. Dillon Merton fired fied a pair of AIM-11 CLAW AAMs at the first Cerberus-class. The first gunboat exploded. Leslie Baron and Allie "Ditto" Allison made short work of the Necros intercepters with their fighter's AIM-11s and cannons. "A little help here!!!", a voice on the radio yelled. it was Brittni Skyler. She had the second Cerberus-class gunboat on her tail. "Hang on there, Ross said, getting into position behind the gunboat. He had no AIM-11s, all the space in his ordinace bay taken up by the ARMAGEDDON missile, but he had to down the gunboat, but Ross had to take down the gunboat. If he didnt, and the Cerberus-class destroyed Brittni's fighter, the antimatter warhead of her ARMAGEDDON missile would explode, and Brit, Ross and all of the other squadron members would be dead. The Cerberus fired it's laser at Brit Skyler's aircraft, and barely missed. Ross fired his aircraft's 20mm autocannons into the engine of the Necros spacecraft. The Cerberus-class' engine exploded. The blackened remnants of the Cerberus drifted off into space. "Thanks Ross, I owe you one", Brit said through the radio, "Take me now!!!", giggling like a schoolgirl as she spoke the last three words. "I would", Ross said, "But we've got a Necros fleet to assault" The 3rd Canadian flew on to the launch point and Ross, Brittni Sklyer, Jean Robiechaud, and Dillon Merton fired their ARMAGEDDON missiles. The missiles flew away in streaks of fire. At 500 kilometers, the missiles split into 16 different antimatter warheads, four from each missile and each slammed into the side of a different Necros ship and created a massive explosion. Ross and his comrades saw several of bright flashes of light in the distance. Ross's antimatter missile is known to have destroyed two Abbadon-class Battleships, One Bahamut-class Assault Carrier, One Leviathan-class Supercarrier, and the Jehovah-class Super Dreadnought known to UNSC forces as "The Fourth Horseman. In total the Necros also lost two other supercarriers, four battleships, and another super dreadnought as well as countless smaller ships from being hit by Ross' squadronmate's missiles. The battle would later be termed the "Great Kuiper Belt Turkey Shoot", but the Necros force that Ross and his squadronmates destroyed was itself merely a vanguard of a massive Necros fleet of hundreds of ships that continued on to Earth in spite of the heavy losses.

CH-1 Excerpt
Operation ORPHEUS was a mission to rescue wounded UNSC and other AUR prisonors from a Necros Slaughterhouse-class Conversion Ship. After the UNSCAF 3rd Canadian Volunteer Squadron, a unit of F/I-905 Claymore Fighters lead by Major Ross East Jr. eliminated the Slaughterhouse-class's escorts and air defenses,The Cyberneticized Humans Kirk and Rene, along with several IBSTs boarded the Necros vessel. Kirk, Rene and the IBSTs entered via the ship's hanger. Kirk cleared the room of Necros infantry with his shoulder mounted LMG. A EABT set a breaching charge on the rear door of the hanger, before he charged into the next room, M108 shotgun in hand and two of his SMG-armed allies burst into the next room,  guns blazing. The sound of several Necros falling to the floor was heard. Seconds later, the sound of burst lasers and screams of pain were heard. All three IBSTs were dead. Kirk fired a 102mm SPINE rocket from his frame's shoulder mounted launcher, blasting a ten-foot hole in the wall next to door the now fallen ISBTs went through and killing the Necros inside that survived the now-dead IBSTs onslaught. Kirk, Rene and the surviving IBSTs walked through the door and into a corridor running along the the length of the alien vessel. "You four", Kirk said, pointing to a group of four IBSTs, "Come with me, we're going right, everyone else go left with Rene". Kirk and the IBSTs stacked up by the door at the right end of the hall. Kirk punched the door down with the titanium fist of his frame. One of the IBSTs tossed a flashbang grenade into the room, which looked an assembly line in a factory. The first IBST shot two Necros on the catwalk with a BR-09 Heavy Battle Rifle. The second man shot a group of stunned Necros with his M-12 SMG. The Number Three IBST, armed with an M7057 Flamethrower burned another group of Necros before yelling "Clear!". Upon closer inspection of the assembly line, Kirk and the others noticed that blood covered the machinery. Kirk and the IBSTs continued pastthe assembly line and stacked up by the rear door. Kirk again smashed the door down with his titanium fist, but this time, instead of stacking up, Kirk yelled "keep clear of the door". Kirk fired his 7.62mm LMG at a lone Necros in the room. The agonized screams of a Necros seconds away form death were heard. The EABTs entered the room. One Necros lay dead in the room, killed by Kirk's LMG, along with dozens of dead bodies, humans, Sangheili, Jirilhanae, Unggoy, Kig-Yar, Plainsferians, Vorenus, even Machina and Mgalekgolo were piled against one wall, next to a conveyor belt. "Of course", one of the IBSTs said, "ONI informed us that the Slaughterhouse-class has two "assembly lines", but they didn't know why. This one must be for "Necrosifying dead bodies, meaning that the prisoners must be on Rene's side. "Willard, burn those bodies with your flamethrower, make sure they don't become Necros", Kirk said, "and you, Smith, toss a frag grenade into that door after I knock it down." Private Willard, the IBST flamethrower operator began to burn the bodies in the room as Kirk knocked down the door with his titanium fist. Corporal Smith tossed an M9 Fragmentation Grenade into the broken doorway. The grenade bounced off a small wall and landed next to a group of patrolling Necros. The grenade exploded. The closest Necros were reduced to chunks of flesh and machine parts, while those that were further from the blast were perforated with metal fragments. The room, now devoid of Necros, turned out to be a hallway running down the center of the Slaughterhouse-class. Four Necros "Warrior Forms" ran into the room. Before Kirk could react, the sound of several busrt lasers was heard. The Necros infantry were cut down by two men in Marine uniforms, wielding Necros laser rifles. Prisoners and, if it werent for Rene,they'd have been Necros by now., Kirk realized. Rene and the EABTs Kirk sent with her followed them into the room. "Rene, you, your men, and the prisoners and get those prisoners back to the boarding craft.", Kirk said, "My squad, were heading for the ship's power core. Smith, you still got those C-14s?" "Yes, sir", Cpl Smith said. "Follow me, we're gonna blow this this joint." Compared to the rest of the ship, the engine core was cakewalk. Kirk took down most of the Necros operating the machinery, most armed only with pistols with a quick burst from his shoulder mounted LMG. Smith managed to place the explosive charges by the engine core and the EABT and the CH ran back through the Necros vessel straight to the hanger and the waiting boarding craft with Rene and the other IBSTs. The boarding craft flew off towards a UNSC Heimdall-class Frigate as the C-14 charges set by Cpl. Smith detonated and caused a destabilization of the ship's core. The Necros Slaughterhouse-class went up in a ball of flames, but the fireball quicky dissapated after it had burned up all the oxygen in the ship. The second Necros Slaughterhouse-class also exploded as a second boarding craft flew away from it. "Well", Kirk said, "looks like Fhajad's team also made it".

Kraken-class Battleship: Remanant/USR/JA/UDF Aquatic Battleship:
During the Human-Covenant War, the Covenant had little use for "wet" naval vessels, as they mostly engaged in space warfare, glassing planets from orbit rather than engaging in surface combat. When they did engage in surface combat, such as in Harvest, Reach, and Earth, they primarily took out human aquatic vessels with orbital bombardment and air strikes. Because of this, the Covenant Aquatic battleship model saw little use until the Remnants War, where the remaining Covenant forces were put on the defensive, and need a vessel to defend their planets against AUR forces. This marked some of the first use of the old Kraken-class Battleships since before the Human-Covenant War. The Kraken class carries a massive main armament of one Plasma Stream "Scarab Gun" in a forward turret with very limited traverse, eight heavy plasma mortars, twenty particle beam cannons, and six fuel rod AA guns. This heavy armament allowed the vessel to slug it out with UNSC Leviathan-class at close ranges, but were vulnerable to air, long range missile, and submarine attack.

Those Krakens that were left on Sangheilios, Dosiac, Balaho, or other AUR-controlled planets were upgraded by the USR and JA, with such features as heavy Needler AA replacing the old fuel rod cannons, and a more advanced navigation, communications, and targetting systems.

CH-2 Excerpt
Operation ORPHEUS was a mission to rescue wounded UNSC and other AUR prisonors from a Necros Slaughterhouse-class Conversion Ship. After the UNSCAF 3rd Canadian Volunteer Squadron, a unit of F/I-905 Claymore Fighters lead by Lieutenant Colonel Ross East Jr. eliminated the Slaughterhouse-class's escorts and air defenses,The Cyberneticized Humans Kirk and Rene, along with several IBSTs boarded the Necros vessel. Kirk, Rene and the IBSTs entered via the ship's hanger. Kirk cleared the room of Necros infantry with his shoulder mounted LMG. A EABT set a breaching charge on the rear door of the hanger, before he charged into the next room, M108 shotgun in hand and two of his SMG-armed allies burst into the next room, guns blazing. The sound of several Necros falling to the floor was heard. Seconds later, the sound of burst lasers and screams of pain were heard. All three IBSTs were dead. Kirk fired a 102mm BITE rocket from his frame's shoulder mounted launcher, blasting a ten-foot hole in the wall next to door the now fallen IBSTs went through and killing the Necros inside that survived the now-dead IBSTs onslaught. Kirk, Rene and the surviving IBSTs walked through the door and into a corridor running along the the length of the alien vessel. "You four", Kirk said, pointing to a group of four IBSTs, "Come with me, we're going right, everyone else go left with Rene". Rene and the other five IBSTs went to the left, entering the second "production line" on the Necros conversion ship through a door Rene punched down with her Machina designed frame's titanium fist. Two IBSTs ran in, firing M7S submachine guns and M108 shotguns, clearing Necros warrior forms from the lower floors as the Rene fired her frame's shoulder-mounted M-556 grenade launcher at two Necros Aggressors on a catwalk above the conversion line. The grenade blasted the two cyberneticized corpses to pieces. suddenly, the conveyor belt on the structure that looked like an assembly line started moving. Bound captives of the Necros moved towards the first machine in the Necros producton line, a sawblade designed to cut off the soon to be Necros's arms and legs and replace them with mechanized limbs. The first captive already had his arms and legs replaced with machine parts, and was approaching a device designed to lobotomize his brain and replace it with a Necros computer chip. Rene fired her arm-mounted M10 submachinegun at the lobotomizing and saw mechanisms and destroyed it, quickly followed by the other machines. Rene ran into the next room and kicked down the door. She took aim at three Necros Aggressor forms operating the conveyor belt, and fired a burst from the M43 full-auto shotgun on her left shoulder. The three Necros' bodies were perforated by six shotgun shells, over a hundred individual pellets, and fell to the ground, dead for the second time. Rene then proceded to thrust the blade hidden in her left wrist into the eye of one of the Necros. The machine's vision camera and CPU was broken in two. The Necros' body fell to the floor to join it's comrades. Rene deactivated the conveyor belt and the energy shackles binding the prisoners. "Thanks", a freed captive in the remnants of a UNSC Marine Corps uniform said. "You one of those humans in Machina frames?", another liberated prisoner asked. "Yeah, but we've got to go, how many of you are there?", Rene asked. "A dozen", said one of the freed UNSC soldiers. "We've got to make our way to the other squad before exfiltrating", said Rene, "We have to go through this door. "I'll go first", said the survivor with the machine legs, known as a Revenant, who had picked up a Necros pulse rifle. "It's about time I got some payback, after what they did to me" The Revenant ran into the next room before Rene could protest and opend fire with his pulse rifle. Three Necros were cut down before he yelled "Clear!!!!".