Halo: Darkness Ascendant

[okay i dropped the equipment (being only 1 tank since they needed none really at all to take the outpost) at the outskirts of the outpost, and the marines got gun and/or sliced down by the elites, I am now on my way to the garage with the five of them hot on my tail, plus these are 4 red armor elites with their Commander!!! Okay since no one going to safe me I'll have to fancy something up.]

Nuron saw two of them approaching fast, he would not make it, he jumped through a broken window of a house, placed a grenade right next to the window, one elite was right next to it, Boom, the window and the elite go into rubble, he ran upstairs, another window, no way to the roof. He fired his pistols across the ally to break the second window, he jumped, the elites made for the second building, Nuron climbed to the roof, from the window, he ran over another two structures, then the third building was too unstable to cross, he took out his Sniper rifle, Bang just around the corner of fourth building his took down the second Elite, on climbed onto the roof, Bang, Bang, Bang, switch to SMGs, down he went, he took the Elites plasma grenades, and plasma pistols. He saw the others cloak, Nuron didn't feel like chasing a red armoured elite and commander (knowing he would be unsucessful), he was starting to show age, even with the advancements in his body.

Nuron had his eyes Dark-ocean blue all the way back to the garage, "How our situation? Do you know were those two headed off to or are they waiting for some extra support?"

OOC: Nola, remember that people are not on at the same time as you, adding on to that the likely possibility of different time zones, and how much ammo does your SR hold? The outpost is like a small town, and he Covenant, right now, control this area, so lets get ready for some street to street fighting.

SHXZALOR

Shxzalor went back down into the building with Ten. “You still cant just slap on a turret, you wont have the same circuitry. Nor will you have a power source just happening to be right there ready to connect the turret to, do you know how much power it would require? But…the zeal of you humans as impressed me before, although this seems all but impossible, I’m sure you could do something.” He moved to his two Elites and three grunts, watch the drop ship for now, I shall call you when you are needed.” The Elites paid their respect and left, impressively all of the grunts hefted their Fuel Rod Guns in one arm and did some type of Covenant salute.

TEN

Ten nodded after Shxzalor spoke, “OK, Sierra Squad your with us, we take out the Covenant supply, Garrison will come with, I know he’s only a pilot but he’s better than nothing.” He went to the pelicans and grabbed a weapon, a Battle Rifle with six clips, and a pistol side arm. “Sergeant, your squad is already armed and armored, we move out as soon as we get this organized.”

IRON FIST

The Iron Fist arced around the mass shadow of Angel Moon, “The Covenant are falling behind slightly, one of them broke off to meet us on the other side of the moon when we swing around.”

“It’s 2d thinking Flores, we can stay out of their guns.”

OOC: From now on post your ammo count at the bottom of your posts in this format as we seem to find it hard to keep an accurate track on this.

Battle Rifle: 6 clips
Magnum: 4 clips

[ok]

Garrison noticed his pelican was full with Sierra squad and Ten. He engaged the contorls for the doors. once they opened, he pushed on the thrusters. Kilo-619 flew out of the garage and towards the Covenant re-supply base. He yelled to Ten.

"Okay Spartan, We've got a couple choices. We can set down away from the Base, but then we will have to make it past their Wriaths, or we could gain altitude and paradrop onto the hill behind their base, or I can do some strafing runs on the base directly and deploy you and your men inot the middle of the base. Your choice."

Ten shouted over the noise, "Drop me over the base, I can handle that, after Im down land a piece from this base and make your way on foot. Strafe their base when you fly over for me to go, stay low as you can without getting shot or crashing." He looked out of the back before looking back at the cockpit, "I can cause enough of a distraction to get you easy access, we dont to para drop, we'll get shot on the way down, me and my suit can handle the fall. The chief dropped from something around ten thousand feet, this is no problem."

"Copy that. Get ready to jump when i give you the green light. Ok, we're approaching the base now."

Garrison flew in low and fast, waiting untill the forward guard caught sight of him to open fire. he fired off his 50-cals at the guard towers, and fired the rocket launchers at the barracks. it hit an explosive crate, setting the building a flame. A large group of grunts ran out of the building, their hunchs engulfed in flame. they were followed by a Hunter, waving madly and rubbing his eyes. he tramped around and finally collapsed onto the ground, crushing a jackal in the process. Garrison tipped his wing to the left, so that it was only a foot of the ground. he knocked over a plasma turret. He was towards the far side of the base, near the hill he would deploy Sierra squad. He pressed a button, and the green light came on. ( dramatic halo music with native american chanting in the background plays) he yelled

"GO NOW SPARTAN!"

Ten jumped out of the pelican, rolling into the impact he unfurled and slammed into, and nearly through an elite, the impact jarring his senses, he ran and ducked behind cover and returned fire, spraying a burst towards the startled troops, he tossed one of his frags and ran into a building, using his shoulder to completely blow through one of the doors. It was a small set up, two rooms for storage, he shot the two grunts and moved to cover the door with his weapon, and clear his head. He was still dizzy.

Garrison flew up and landed on the hill. the marines jumped out and deployed their 50 cals and sniper rifles, taking advantage of the high ground. Garrison landed behind the hill and ran up it. he took a SMG and put it on his belt, and found a stray battle rifle. He tightened his body armor vest, and put his helmet visor down. He zoomed in and shot an elite in the head. he silently proceded to going down the hill into the compound.

[ok w/e LF sry but I thought u coulda saved my ass in that situation instead of going a semi-god performance after all u guys were on the roof, but i guess i was too eager to wait for your response, any way]

Nuron now went back and got the equipment -with a couple of new marines- he had left at the outskirts, "Curcuitry, power source, hehe, that's what I'm here for to find out about all this stuff," he said to himself, "Well, well it is a little different, forerunner eh? Hmmmm..... all the more to work through, beside I think my brain could use something problematic for a change." Nuron turned around again with the look of a watch dog, "Not again..." Nuron sighed, "This is Nuron to garage, get the marines ready for action we will have company in, 5.....*hears spectre* better make that 2 minutes." Nuron picked up his pace with the heavy artillery.

Pistols: 2 1/2 clips each
Plasma Pistols: Half battery each
Sniper Rifle: 2 clips
SMGs: 3 clips each
Covenant heavy guns: Inoperable (lol sorry had to add it)

Garrison took another head shot at the elite and then threw down the Battle rifle. he ran inside the building and kneeled down next to Ten. he reloaded his SMG (6 clips)

"Sierra is on the hill with 50's and sniper rifles. we gotta find the contorl room or whatever. I'll follow you"

Nuron had set up the communications hardware in the garage, he sent the obvious distress call to the Military, but told that help was going to be too late and just to put us on the list as Casualties of war, also Nuron sent several hidden messages through the system to Psycore... [I'll have em made up soon]

After his work was done and sent the reports, he told the others in the garage that he told of the situation to their supiors and said that survival was slim and not to bother coming. Mixed reactions from the marines, "Well, it was nice knowing you guys..." "You told them not to come!?!?! You Idiot!!!" "No, NO, NOOOO!!!! Mommy!!!!" "Okay we are going to get off this rock, even by one of their ships if necessary." Nuron didn't care about the comments though it was amuzing to watch them chatter away.

Nuron was now sitting at the garage's workbench taking apart one of the turrets, "Hmmmm...." Nuron's brain was going through calculations and theories, "So this must be the hybrid part that uses Forerunner technology..... Oh so it use twice the power, and quadrupiles the efficency.... so if I...." Nuron was talking to himself, and then out of the blue, "Marines get out on the roof, and scan the perimiter, and seal off all doors execpt the main garage door." "Sir, yes Sir!!!" replied the now hurring marines. Nuron continued his anlyisis of the weapons.

[k here we are, remeber this is only my report to psycore non of you see this information]

Report 000-000-020-209 of Psycore Officer Nuron
RANK: Unknown
SECURITY CLEARANCE: All
SUPERIOR OFFICER: Unknown
STATUS: On Duty, Excellent Condition
OBJECTIVE: Survey test subjects and report self-status with reports.

This is Nuron sending report 000-000-020-209, The Iron Fist is two days from the out lying colony, TEN not noticed me aboard the ship so far, though I regret this being such a small, outpost, ship and mission I doubt once operations commence that I will be able to seclude myself for any length of time. I am on constant alert as it is in my nature, though over the pass two years I can now say that the more social contact I have with people the more social I am becoming, of course I will never be humane per say ever again, but natural instincts of protecting humans, and being with a group of people has actually come more easily to me and people (some not all) are not as negative towards me as at one point. TEN has become more powerful than ever, as his skills with controlling the Nanites at lower levels of strength he can do things with more grace instead of just using the full force of the advancements, example, he can lift ultra heavy objects with grace instead of having to pulse every time. This ship seems to be getting to end of it’s prime and therefore the crew is experienced and lacks the skills that they had when they first cam aboard, and little problems are everywhere on the vessel, I intend to go down to the engine room tomorrow and show them some proper conduct of work, or at least observer them doing some.

I believe TEN should be put on the Predator along with FOUR and ELEVEN, and perhaps his chats with other Spartans will be reduced and they can depend on each other, knowing that they all have the same background, emotional needs will be met for TEN and eliminate anymore possibilities of TEN having emotional barriers fall.

Report 000-000-020-210 of Psycore Officer Nuron
RANK: Unknown
SECURITY CLEARANCE: All
SUPERIOR OFFICER: Unknown
STATUS: On Duty, Excellent Condition
OBJECTIVE: Survey test subjects and report self-status with reports.

This is Nuron sending report 000-000-020-210, Operations have begun, TEN knows of my presence I therefore am going to be working side by side him on the mission, I intend to confront TEN about changing to working with the others above Earth, Mission difficulty is extremely low, a routine communications repair, though the travel time was very consuming. Report for mission will come after completion.

Report 000-000-020-211 of Psycore Officer Nuron
RANK: Unknown
SECURITY CLEARANCE: All
SUPERIOR OFFICER: Unknown
STATUS: On Duty, Excellent Condition
OBJECTIVE: Survey test subjects and report self-status with reports.

This is Nuron sending report 000-000-020-211; I have sent this transmission through encryption due to the extreme problems. The Iron Fist is under siege for two Covenant Battle cruisers, we have gained a handful of Covenant Stowaways allies, they seem to be fighting the Prophets, but not there brethren, though if their brethren attempt to kill us they will protect us, I am looking into the situation, also The prototype Tanks that have been sent out here require an evacuation along with some Covenant weapons that have been retrieved, though they are only the first built prototypes and have many flaws the work that the planet’s engineer’s have done seems to improve several systems more than we have been able to do, plus by the time our Psycore ships arrive I will probably have done something with the Covenant weapons and their seems to be Forerunner technology inside the Covenant machines. Remember to use scramblers, and stealth tactic to retrieve the equipment, as Covenant will be patrolling this sector for a couple of weeks after leaving (being that we are all killed or taken away, though plans to take a Covenant Cruiser is possible if the new allies can get me and TEN aboard one, but if by some miracle happens that the Iron Fist lives, then I will take the tanks with us then back to Earth and then transport them safely back to HQ). In four days when you arrive and we are still here (though doubtful) I will then contact Earth and get a rescue team out here for the survivors and TEN and I will go back to the HQ with the Psycore Teams. I am also turning on my tracking beacon so that if we are captured I hope that the Psycore Stealth teams can follow behind the Covenant (even if they are faster I am requesting a pursuit). TEN is out attempting to slow down Covenant operations on the ground, and therefore buying the Iron Fist some sort of distraction. I hope that this is not my last report, as well if I do return to HQ I will need a recalibration as my abilities seem to be weakening with my body getting as old as it is, 53 years old I am going to be this coming fall.

Davaran continues to repurpose the wiring of a wraith tank pulse laser.. realizing that thier circuits are not quite as advanced as a covenant one he attempts to use a hybrid derived from the wraith tanks hes worked with before... he stands back with a simple controler and presses a button. the turret moved right, he presses another button and it quickly moves left then up then down.. he thought to himself.. "Now if that nuron can figure out the firing mechanism, we'll be set.. guess my earth borne phd in engineering and physics pays off today!" His chief engineer walks up with a piece of hardware.. "I've programmed this with.. a sort of.. Basic friend or foe.. the guns wont fire at anyone with a marine transponder when turned on.. so civilians will be at risk as well as.. our new allies if we dont figure out a more advanced way to program this thing.. Davaran sighs, "Quite a problem indeed.. why not... hmmm If the Iron fists AI is still intact... we could perhaps duplicate it and repurpose it for our tanks, assuming the iron fist doesn't get ravaged."

Out side a patrolling marine sees a odd distortion behind a tree.. he goes over to check it out, no one has seen him since.

"Ha, now that was too easy..." Nuron said as he got the energy grid of the turret to look something like the adapter fot their prototype tank, problem was that tank was definetly not going to run very long with two new turrets aside the main gun, Nuron sigh thinking this over in his head, "Now see Davaran, it was just the main circuit runs along side the secondary power so when I switched to one line I was really...." Nuron explained how he did the whole thing as he reassembled the first turret, he could see Davaran was lost after the explination of converters, "I guess I'll get started on the second one but.... we will drain the power out of this girl like jugging a nice beer, unless we can find a few good Covenant batteries I doubt we have anything else to suffice for power on this rock." Nuron turned around "Are we missing anyone?" A marine replies "One patrol hasn't returned yet." Nuron responded with "Well, don't expect him back because I know there has got to be more than just one patrol put in those streets....." he went to the roof, "Oh......" his eyes went blue, "Marines throw a grenade at each corner." they did so, Boom, boom, boom, "There due east, fire 2 rockets," Whoosh, whoosh one elite's sheild went down, he looked at himself then roared vigiously, Nuron then heard many swords, and saw many elites decloalk, "Marines, you are to nutralize the enemy at all cost..."

Davaran Appeared to even though his facial expression had changed, he appeared to understand fully how the process was done, he had been working with covenant weapons for over two years and had a very very good understanding of how they worked.. he also had alot of schooling in advanced engineering and physics (in other words, what my guy lacks in combat skills, he makes up for in brains.. so dont try and take that away from him)

Davaran quickly devised a way to incorporate his turret controller into the power mechanism to give it instead of the continuous bursts like on a wraith tank, a solid fire of 20 shots then a 2 second cool down, thus giving the capacitors time to recharge.. ingenius one might say.. but for him this was just another thing, the only challenge was to make the tank, since he had accomplished this the only things on his mind now were revenge upon the ones who took his family.. revenge for his home.. reach.

A few minutes later he moves to nuron, "Can you do me one HUGE favor?" nuron looks at him.. then davaran continues.. "Can you.. instead of work on those turrets, find a way to duplicate marine transponder signals and make a device capable and give them to our allies, those little auto turrets wont fire at anyone carrying a marine transponder, thus meaning those elites wont be able to hide behind trees or their active camo any longer as it will detect power from the swords and guns.."

Ten spotted some fuel rod guns, he glanced at the door and moved, picking two up, one hefted one each of his shoulders.

30 seconds later...

A hunter smashed through the doors of the building, it turned to see a demon braced, fuel rod guns held in each arm. "Surprise..." The explosion sent the hunter flying back through the door. Ten ran out, each gun aimed to both sides, he fired to the left taking out the second hunter, a quad of elites opened fire, he spun and fired again, both impacts taking out all of them. He turned and back peddalled towards another bulding, firing of shots, he dropped the guns, which had overheated, and smashed through a door into a small room, weapons lined on the walls. He smiled and reached for one of the farther ones.

The elite turned to see the door smark and explode towards him, he caught a flash of black armor, and the flash oftwo plasma swords before he was cut down.

Garrison was taken aback by the Spartan's tactics, but covered him nevertheless. He fired his SMG at any Grunts that were about to throw their plasma grenade at Ten, and took down any Jackal Snipers the M arines on the hill hadn't taken care of. He was back to back with Ten

"What now sir?"

"Did you bring demo charges." Ten asked, sliced bodies lay across the floor, they were safe for the moment, Sierra squad was now defending the pellican from a few groups of jackals. He could tell by the expression he handn't, "No matter, the fuel rod guns will do, we need to take a few of those and blow these storage places up, imsure something in all of these will explode."

Huon started to shoot his battle rifle and he shot down a grunt but he was scorched by a plasma bolt and he staggered for a second before falling to the ground nearly dead....

Nuron brought the Wounded man back down to the office of the garage and left to the care of the medic, Nuron ran upstairs again, "Shxzalor! Where are you!?" he yelled, then began throwing the remaining adhisive grenades he had at the nearest Covenant.

Marines had several Turrets set up but the Jackels were killing their gunners to easily, Nuron took 10 clips of sniper rounds from the weapons piled on the roof by the marines (thats 12 clips total, ie 48 rounds). Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, reloads, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, reloads, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, reloads, 5 snipers down on the eastern blocks, several more grunts, and the Elites Nuron left for the Turrets, he moved to the other sides and began the same process, "Any word from TEN or the Iron Fist?!" Nuron yelled...