Halo: Darkness Ascendant

Name: Adrian Sparkler
Known As: Rain
Age: 21
Race: human

Appearance: Short, messy Bright Green hair, Eyes are bright blue that appear as calm as the ocean (when it is Calm). He has suffered loss of those close to him, (his family was killed by the covenant and due to this he wears protective armour that keeps his emotions hidden, because of this he doesn't get close to other until they have earned his trust. About 5.7 and fast, strong and calm. Is an ODST. He carries dual pistols and an assault rifle, and often a combat shotgun aswell, he all ways has his combat knife handy.

Occupation: Helljumper

Rank: PFC

Personality: He is brave, strong and some would disapprove of his methods but he gets the job done. He keeps to himself but in the heat of battle he isn't afraid to give orders even if they contradict his superiors.

History: His parents were killed when he was 5 and after bouncing around between foster homes he ran are away and joined the marines to seek vengeance on the covenant that killed his family. Due to his fast learning of combat skills and unorthodox methods he was assigned to be a helljumper and soon became good friends with Smoke.

Other: enjoys using medieval weapons. He has often been reprimanded but due to the war between the marines and the covenant he is allowed to fight but is kept on a short leash by his commanding officer Smoke.

Name: Samuel Saish

Known As: Smoke

Age: 19

Race: Human

Appearance: He had brown hair, not messy nor particularly stylish. His eyes are a bright striking hazel, Hazel eyes, he is about six feet tall, and in very good shape. Of course he would have to be if he is an ODST. He always carries two Defender Magnums as his fall back weapons.

Occupation: Hell Jumper

Rank: Lance Corporal

Personality: He is a quiet and shy person, and hard to get to know because half of the time he his behind his visor anyway. However, once you do gain his trust and friendship he will be a very outgoing person. He suffers from a slight forgetfulness, which is why he doesn’t have his own command, but when it comes down to being a marine with a weapon, he is one of the best there is.

History: His father was also a marine for the UNSC, and was one of the first to enter the fight against the Covenant. He was killed in the line of duty, and so Samuel took up arms against the alien menace, to carry on the legacy in his father’s name. That is why he is so young, he joined the Corps at a young age, and worked harder than everyone else to be the best that he could be so he could be a valuable asset in the war, he showed exceptional performance, and was one of the best in his camp.

Other: He has a natural talent with a combat knife.

A second ship, the Razor's Kiss, warped into the system. The Captain immediately hailed the Iron Fist. "Captain, this is Jonathan Ford of the Razor's Kiss. We were coming back from deep space and we caught your distress call, were a battle ready Punisher. We will assist both ground and space ventures." Ford turned off the comm, and turned to one of his officers. "Launch our ODST, we will be in orbit soon. I want all twelve pods down there."

"Aye-aye sir." The officer started tapping buttons, “Lieutenant, you and your Hell Jumper friends are going down, ASAP, you should be ready by now, move it.”

“Sir! Yes sir!” The Lieutenant shouted into his comm., “Ok boys and girls, time to shine. Into the pods now.” The Lieutenant slapped his helmet and on and stepped into his own pod. “We drop in two minutes.”

Two minutes later, twelve ODST drop pods broke the atmosphere and lit up into bright shooting stars. Descending down towards the planet’s surface, they would land outside the town, on the opposite side of the Covenant, the plan was to move to the human controlled buildings and act as reinforcement until the pelicans came. But the Covenant would attack before that. It was going to be a bloody fire fight. The Lieutenant turned in his com again, “Impact in ten seconds.” There was a series of loud concussions, and a scene of shattered pavement, then twelve pods blew open, and their occupants stepped out under the blazing sun of Diagona. The Lieutenant hopped out first, “Who’s here?” He asked, and waited for his men to respond.

Equipping his battle rifle and two magnums, He said "Samuel Saish reporting sir" quickly grabbing some extra ammo from the pod and his favourite combat knife. He scanned his surroundings seeing some vantage point on top of a building. But he waited for the others to respond before suggesting them.

Switching the saftey on his assualt rifle to off " Pfc officer Rain" Rain spoke firmly, in a voice that demanded respect.

"Your a PFC, not an officer Rain." The Lieutenant looked around, "Well we all made it down, stay alert, our allies are right there." He pointed to a tall half destroyed building five streets over. "And we need to get there, Rain, Sam, you two have point." He pulled out his Battle Rifle in exchange for his assault rifle, and grabbed some ammo, "Any questions?"

"what does PFC stand for" asked Rain, As he strode towards the blown out building ready to give Smoke cover fire, should it be needed.

Glad that he didn't have to say anything about the building. He started a light run to a blown out building hiding behind the wall. He looked around the wall to check for any hostiles, he saw two grunts. Aiming his battle rifle he fired off two shots the first going off wide to the left the second going straight through the environment suite and the grunts chest. seeing that Rain had the second one in his sights he left it for him.

Rain felt his trigger finger tense as he leant round the corner, the rifle fired, 3 sharp snaps were heard as the bullets penitrated the grunts suit at the throat. The grunt fell dead. Rain stepped round the corner and crouched, his gun aimed straight ahead, marking the next corner 50 yards ahead."you're covered" he spoke in a confident vioce to Smoke. Smoke began to move the next corner across the street.

The Lieutenant told the squad to spread out, three to a street, and moved behind Smoke and Rain, "Good shoot you two." Just then the wall beside him exploded outward, as an Elite, shields flaring, roared it's warcry and swung at the LT's face. He ducked, and brought his gun around, but the Alien, which was covered in energy shields and could lift two tonnes, crushed the weapon in it's hand. The Lieutanent started to backpedal and drew his magnum, firing into the Elite's chest, but it's energy shields remained firm. "S**T!"

"F$#@ it" Rain swore ducking to his left, he could tell that the elite was not their only problem as close behind was a contingent of jackals, 4 in total. Rain dropped to his knee and loosing bullets at the new foes. The jackals, more intelligent that the grunts had been, were drawing there shields infront of themselves to defend against the hail of bullets. Rain wasn't scared, ducking behind cover he adjusted his aim. The Jackals might be protecting their body with that shield but not there feet he thought as he loosed more bullets at the front jackals feet. The efffect was almost instant as the jackals feet were torn to threads, causing it to fall to the ground, it's end was quick. Rain ducked back behind his cover, 15 yards away form the remaining jackals. He could hear the jackal screamed its last scream. Rain could see 3 more helljumpers coming to lend support.

Seeing the second grunt blood splatter across the ground Smoke started towards the next corner. Then upon hearing more shots being fired Smoke saw the lieutenant fighting off an elite. Bringing his battle rifle to bear he started unleashing bursts of fire into the elite, trying to help lieutenant. The elite fired off a burst of plasma fire ducking behind a wall Smoke felt the plasma blast hitting the wall. Smoke then saw that rain was battling 4 jackals "i need three down here, to get the jackals!" Smoke yelled. three other helljumpers ran down and crouched behind some debris firing off shots that either went wide or were wasted on their shields. Smoke checked to see the others were holding off the elite, so he worked his way around to the side of the jackals but there was a gap in the cover he started to run out but a jackal shot at him luckily missing him. Smoke saw the one that shot him fall down, he was now on a good angle to shoot them so he reloaded his battle rifle and shot a burst fire into one of their thighs bringing its shield around to defend itself one of the helljumpers shot it in the head bringing it down. He ducked behind some more wall being shot at by the jackals, seeing the elite die, he went back around the wall and starting shooting at the 3 jackals left.

116 (Rae) nodded, and holding both Plasma rifles were around the corner, letting lose a rain of plasma bots into the jackals, two of their shields failed quickly, and the Jackals pitched backwards. Rae’s own shields were flaring around her as they absorbed the impact from the Jackals shields. Three Jackals were left, she noticed the one behind the other two had no shield, but he was holding a Beam rifle. She fired still, taking that one in the face, just as her shield dropped. He jumped and rolled to the side, coming up in a kneeling position, one of the plasma rifles was on the ground beside her, and there was ping of a grenade. The Jackals disappeared behind an explosion, and Rae covered her face with here arms.

Ten fell forward onto his knees, the pulse had not been as bad as he’d thought. He reached up and pulled his helmet off half an inch, smoke and steam billowed out, and then he put the helmet back on. He was covered in some burns now, but his nanites would repair the damage. He grunted in pain as he rose, even his advanced training and endurance had trouble handling this, Spartan or not. ((He was the black one in the picture.)) He walked around the corner, Rae was standing over bodies, there was a black charred mark on the ground, and she was holding a Beam Rifle. He caught both plasma rifles out of the air as she tossed them to him, one in each hand, illuminating his arms and chest, and some of his face, making him look more shadowing. They both turned toward gun fire in the distance, then Ten turned on his radio. “Attention, this is Major Ten, what is your status?”

The Lieutenant shouted over some plasma that was spattering on the wall above him as he couched behind a ruined piece of wall. “This is Lieutenant Bass, were at this location, and are under fire, any help you could send would be nice.” He fired a burst over the wall, taking out a grunt, the cases fell to the ground beside him. “I don’t know about the rest of my squad, but some of us are pinned down in this area, the other half I think is moving, there’s to much chaos right now.”

“Understood Lieutenant, I’m on my way.” Ten gripped the Plasma Rifles tightly, and the turned to 116. “Are you operational? No injuries?” He looked her up and down quickly, seeing for himself.

”Yessir, I’m fine.” Rae said, looking at the other Spartan, what was he doing here? Who was he? “What about YOU? Are YOU ok?”

Ten looked down at the ground for a second before responding, “Yes, I’m good to go. Just part of what it means to be my type of Spartan. Let’s go.” He said, already running towards the other ODST. He came around a few more corners and saw them down the street, a glint caught his eyes, there was a Jackal on one of the roofs, he turned back to Rae, but she had already fired.

The Jackal fell off the roof, landing in front of the Lieutenant, who jumped back, then looked at the two Spartans. Rae, the Spartan III, and Ten, the jet black NANO-TECH.
“What the hell?!”

[]Finally some reinforcements and some more fightin 😄[]

Huon heard the distress call and told his men to hold tight while huon when out to find some marines.He exited the building and kept near the walls.He ducked from peices of rubble.He saw a grunt but he didnt know if any enemies were around so he quietly sneaked past the grunt.Then he came to a destroyed banshee.Probably one that was shot down.Huon found that a plasma rifle had dropped nearby.Huon was already carrying 2 plasma pistols,a battle rifle and a plasma rifle.He picked up the plasma rifle and stuck it to his back too.He pulled down his battle rifle and quickly proceeded down the street.Then he saw the ODST's firing out.

Sneaking closer to the distracted Jackals, that were currently distracted by the cover fire provided by Smoke, Rain had crept low through the surrounding cover, Just far enough to get a clen shot at th jackals now 2 yards to his right. This shot has to be just right he thought as change to his dual pistol and ready the shot, hoping to kill both as he lined up simultaneous head shots. Suddenly Smokes magnum clipped the wrist of one the jackals, shattering it. As the shot hit into the wrist of the jackal, it turned towards Rain, Forceing Rain to take his shot, 2 deafening shots rung out as both jackals dropped to the ground their brains splattered across the roof above them. Suddenly all was silent, but how long for, moving quickly he stepped up copses and grabbed the 4 plasma grenades that now lay on the blood coated ground and tossed 2 over to Smoke and attached the other 2 to his belt, as he moved back to his cover point close to Smoke. He waited, ready for the fire to start up again at a moments notice, the silence remained.

Seeing that rain was sneaking around the jackals smoke started firing at the jackals so they wouldn't see him. emptying a clip he switched to dual magnums firing them off simultaneosly smoke injured it in the hand. reloading both of the pistols he heard two short blasts killling the remaining jackalsm, seeing they were dead he said "Good job rain!". putting his weapons away, rain threw two plasma grenades Smoke caught them and put them in his grenade belt. Smoke weaved his way through the debris getting back through the broken wall. walking out of the broken wall Smoke asked the lieutanant "What now sir?"

Ten turned to Rae, "Get back to the base, they will need the cover. I have these marines." Still holding both plasma rifles, Ten walked towards the ODST, catching smokes last line. "Now...I take command of this squad." He nodded towards the Lieutenant, "Either you do a good job, you have very good men, or both. I'm impressed." He side stepped so they could se the one visible building under human control. "We have to make it there, and there are no more Covenant left. They are massing on the far side of this town for an assault, that building is fortified, and well defended, so thats where we go." He ignored the looks some of the marines gave him, it came with being a Spartan, "Do you have any questions before we move?"

((Gtg, btw dont just Role Play by yourselvse, you have to wait for everyone else, there are at least three or four others now that are behind.))

Huon saw them shooting into a building and he ran over and pulled out a plasma rifle and started firing into the building as well.He took cover behind a Honda truck.He had the same thign at home.minus the dents and burning seat.He saw a beam touch the ground nearby and huon crouched to the side of the vehicle.He shot up from where the shot came from.He saw a jackal fall to the ground.

((GTG))

The trio move quickly through the building, davaran running up stairs to reach the rooftop marines. after a quick brief on what the charges looked like (since I stated he brought the disarmed one with him) the majority of marines frantically searches for more... keroth yells.. "I have found another!" davaran turns to see shxzalor reaching behind a rather large broken door, pulling out the charge with the tips of his three fingers.. Keroth looks about.. "there couldn't be many more than this, the satchel may have held five to six..."

Shxzalor looked down at his charge and he froze, two minutes were left. The other was not as well hidden, it was misleading. This building was going to go up in flames, "EVERYONE OUT OF NOW!" He said, running to the nearest building and hurling the charge as far as he could, "Keroth, grab your armor, I can help carry it." He said, already some of the marines were running down the stairs, "This building is going to up in blue flame soon, we need to get out."

And far away, on the other side of the city, the rest of the Covenant troops arrived, and soon they would begin their assault.