[Happy early Thanksgiving and how better to celebrate it than with a new chapter of the adventures of Noble Six. I hope you enjoy this one as it will wrap up the first half of this story.]
Previous conflict: Battle of Earth
Current Conflict: The battle of Installation00
Next Conflict: still developing
"Nothing truly comes to an end."
Chapter 22 Final Run
"Where are we heading now?" Jun asked as he walked into the cockpit of there damaged pelican.
"We are going to the arks firing chamber to destroy this hell hole." Six replied not taking his hands off of the pelicans controls.
"Wait I thought that if we fire the arks main cannons we would wipe out all life in the galaxy, including ourselves." Jun stated puzzled.
"Normally it would but considering how far our distance from the galaxy is we can safely fire the rings and wipe out the flood menace. The only catch is that once we activate the rings the time period between us firing the rings and escaping is slim, meaning that at any minute this place could explode." Cortana elaborated on this plan.
"Wait your telling me that we could all die as soon as the ring is activated." Jun asked shocked.
"If we must give up our lives to save the galaxy, then it will be a worthy sacrifice indeed." Arbiter now entered the conversation, somewhat disgusted by Jun's cowardice.
"Send me and only me." Six answered ordering Cortana to go into autopilot.
"What are you thinking Six? We all have to go, we can't leave you here." Cortana now chimed in her concern for Six making her rampancy visible.
"Look Cortana calm down. If anybody is going to go down there make it me. There is still enough fuel to take you to the shadow of intent and once I activate the rings, I'll double time it to the UNSC Forward unto Dawn and make my way back to Earth. This way if anything goes wrong I'll be the only one to get hurt. My time on this world ended eight months ago back on Reach. If I die my sacrifice will be well lived. Tell Johnson to take Keyes and get aboard the Shadow of intent and that I'll take things from here." Six spoke more this one time than his whole trip to the Ark.
"What about Luna, huh what do I tell her if you don't make it?" Jun asked still in disbelief at Six's bravery.
"Give her my dog tags and tell her that she was right, I'm not a Spartan but a warrior. Until next time everyone. Cortana upload the index into Dot's programming." Six ordered before grabbing a Spartan laser and hopping out of the back of the pelican landing in the snowy hills before.
"Oh that idiot, he won't survive fighting alone like that, I'm going down with him." Jun told everyone before Chief blocked his path his words grave.
"Six knows what he's doing, leave him be." Chief explained to everyone.
"Spartans never die…" The same words Hasley told Chief many years ago echoed through his head. "If only that was true." Chief told himself as Cortana began to fly to the Shadow of Intent.
Back with Six
"Dot upload the coordinates to Installation 00 firing chamber, lets make this quick." Six said abstractly.
"Alright love you should see a heads up display on your HUD now!" Dot exclaimed through Six's internal speakers.
As the two walked Six couldn't help but notice the beautiful scenery. The hills were covered in light snow while the misty air created an almost surreal atmosphere. This side of the ark unlike the other areas Six had seen which were mostly trees contained no greenery at all. Six couldn't believe that the forerunners had built all of these amazing synthetic worlds but could not wipe out a parasitic life form. This was a testament to where the forerunners mind set had been. Focusing on art, while war was of the essence until it was too late. Once Six was in distance of the Installation 00 firing chamber the hundreds of flood forms began to crash from the sky, what survived rushed at Six.
Six pulled out his battle rifle popping the flood pods out the chest of his dead adversaries but they were fast on approach. When Six ran out of battle rifle ammo, he threw the useless gun at an on rushing brute form and annihilated it with a barrage of deadly rapid punches. Still many were coming his way. Six crushed the skulls of two more flood forms before grabbing its energy sword. Six sliced his ways through hordes of flood forms but they still swarmed him. Six soon found himself using every last martial art he knew to stay alive. He used front flips to keep from being grabbed by the oncoming flood forms. Six even countered a marine flood form that tried to jump on his back by slamming and crushing it on the snowy blood stained floor below. Even his most deadly martial art Wing Chung on slowed down the on coming flood form. He sliced and diced the flood form a sea of there bodies surrounding him but an oceans worth more rushing him and then he cracked. Desperation and anger gripped Six's heart and a dark energy took hold of him. Six jumped into the air and emitted a large cry that disintegrated all of the flood forms below him. All that remained were there ashes.
"What the hell did I just do?" Six looked around at the smoldering bodies surrounding him.
"No time for that Six, hurry before more come." Dot reasoned as she once again updated his HUD.
Six then ran up the ramps leading up to installation firing his magnums at approaching flood forms but soon was backed into a corner when he found that the Arks firing chamber was sealed by a large metal door.
"Any chance you could do what you did down their." Dot asked Six frantically.
"I don't know how I did that in the first place so I don't think so." Six yelled as he fired his last magnum bullets.
"Fear not reclaimer for I 343 Guilty Spark am here to assist you." A round metal robot came from the top off the ark and teleported Six inside the building.
"What did you do?" Six looked around as he saw himself in a large room with a single bridge leading to a computer console and a holographic map of the ark appeared. Six noted that there appeared to be a thousand foot drop off the bridge meaning that he was a lot higher than he initially perceived.
"Why reclaimer I teleported you to this installations primary firing chamber so we may wait out the flood infestation until the ark is ready for firing." Guilty Spark explained as he went to humming and sputtering about how he is a genius.
"Ok so what are we waiting for, from what master Chief told me we should just insert the index, fire this thing up and get out." Six reasoned
"Oh no reclaimer we must wait three days for the Ark to finish its construction, premature firing would lead to destruction of this facility." Guilty Spark reasoned to Six as he ran a diagnostics test on the Ark to show Six proof of it not being ready.
"See we are only at 70% completion and since you know who I am you can't expect me to allow the firing of this ring. You do know who I am right?" Spark asked causing Six to lose his patience.
"Yeah I know who you are; you're the one who nearly killed Master Chief and Cortana back on Installation 04 six months ago. Stand down so I can activate this ring and leave this trash heap."
"But but… this is my installation and it will be destroyed…" Guilty spark pleaded as Six began to insert Dot into the installations computer console.
"NO!" Guilty spark yelled as he shot Six in the back with an unknown energy blast depleting Six's shields.
"Spark what are you doing?" Six groaned as he was knocked back by another blast from guilty spark.
"You are reclaimer, you are forerunner but this is my installation." Spark yelled hysterically as his eye changed from a bright blue to a bright red.
"He's gone rampant… I'm going to have to kill him then." Six sighed as he pulled his Spartan laser out.
Sparks energy field kept Six at a distance and normal fire arms wouldn't cut it so Six stayed back and hammered guilty Spark with a barrage of laser shots effectively piercing his armor blowing him to smithereens.
"Dot are you ok?" Six yelled as he saw Dot's avatar appear from his data chip.
"I'm alright love just a little shaken is all. Come let's activate this ring and escape this horrible place." Dot explained shaking her head dizzily.
Six then inserted Dot into the ring's computer console and within a few seconds the ring began to tremble and shake and a giant beam of light began to fill the room.
"Ok Six pull me and lets get out of here. I'll update your hud on where we need to go next. Based on the info I retrieved from the Ark we have about twenty minutes until this place explodes creating a heat of over one million degrees. Don't be here when that happens." Dot explained as Six already began to run as fast as he could out of the installation.
The two found that the door that they had been corned by was now open and that the sentinels were now engaging the flood in fierce combat. Six decided to grab a sentinel beam weapon from one of the destroyed sentinels and grabbed a plasma rifle from the dead flood forms. Six then ran up an ice slope to what appeared to be a synthetic cave structure leading toward the Forward unto Dawn. Six didn't stop he atomized flood forms with his sentinel beam while, killing sentinels with his plasma rifle a weapon that proved highly effective against their weak combat shields. As he made his way out of the cave he found a damaged yet still functioning warthog and hurriedly began to drive through the now collapsing forerunner structure. Six mowed down oncoming flood forms and evaded sentinel beam fire. Made sharp turns using ramps to speed his way along the metal frames that were now his road. Within minutes Six was within eye sight of the Forward Unto Dawn and was he relieved.
"Five minutes Six make this jump so we can get out of here." Dot now yelled.
Six put his foot down on the warthog's accelerator and narrowly made in into the Dawn's cargo bay. Six inserted Dot into the cargo bay may computer console getting the engines to begin to start. Once the engines were on and the hangar bay closed, Six yanked Dot before trying to hurry to the Dawn's bridge but was abruptly cut off. The dawn was ripped in half by the now closing slip space portal that led to the Ark. Effectively cut off from the forward half of the Dawn Six and Dot were lost in space.
Back on Earth
As the Covenant forces rallied together in order to return back to their respective home worlds Arbiter was one of the last few Elites that remained on Earth. His reason was simple, he wished to say goodbye to the friends he had formed and the lives that had been lost. He stood silently watching as Lord Hood gave a speech on the lives that had been lost and the sacrifices that had been made. To commemorate the end of the war Human Covenant war a pelican wing had the names of marines and Spartans that had lost their lives during the fighting. Countless platoons had been lost in the hundreds of battle waged against the Covenant and each one of those marines either had their names engraved on it or where included in the section of the wing's tip which read "Dedicated To Any Other Marine Or UNSC Personnel That Lost Their Lives In The Line Of Duty." Soon after the ceremonial firing of battle rifle roundsLord Hood approached Arbiter for a final farewell.
"I can't forgive your people for what you did to mine but, I can thank you." Lord Hood explained as he held his hand out for the Arbiter to shake. "Do you really think he's dead."
"Were it so easy." Was all the Arbiter replied before solemnly walking away.
Meanwhile Luna took the news not as gravely as everybody expected her to or at least how bad it could have been. Luna held on to a belief that Six was not dead and that he was out there somewhere. Sadly though she expected to be standing next to him when the fighting was over. Though her grieving was met short by a transmission from Lord Hood telling her to come to him immediately and that it regarded Six. Instinctively she rushed to Lord Hood.
"Luna I have some rather inspiring news that you may want to hear. Six may very well be alive. We just received a distress signal from the forward half of the Forward Unto Dawn. Hopefully we will be able to save him." Lord Hood explained only for Luna to shrug grimly.
"I fail to see how this incorporates me." Luna said staring at the floor.
"You come in because you know how Six works, what he would do in a situation like this. I want you to hand pick a team of those you believe can help you find Six. I'll supply you, Master Chief, and Jun with a UNSC infinity class warship and crew for piloting. You have two years to decide who you're going to take and train for the trip and etc. Lastly I have taken the liberty to choose three men who will work as a special ops force for you." Lord Hood explained as three armored Spartans appeared, one wearing silver and orange armor, another wearing green and white armor, and finally the same Spartan Luna had talked to back on the Shadow of Intent who was still wearing his blue and red armor.
"I present to you the Galactic Knights they may not look like much but they will serve you well. Knights you are going to be placed under the command of Lunara for the duration of this mission. You are to give her the same respect you give me do I make myself clear?" Hood clarified.
"Yes Sir!" The Spartans yelled.
"Good now if I were you I'd take the time to get to know your commander because, your going to be with her for probably more than two years." Lord Hood added.
"Hello Luna good to see you again. You know I would appreciate it if you called me Tugh or Black knight" Counselor B replied.
"Hello Black Knight." Luna replied back.
"Good evening madam. You can call me the Silver Knight or Milo." Milo greeted.
"Nice to meet you Milo." Luna responded.
"I'm the Green knight but you can call me Jesael." Jesael greeted.
"Hi Jesael." Luna responded shaking his hand.
"Well with the greetings out the way rest up you have a busy day tomorrow." Lord Hood replied walking away.
In Space with Six
"We did it Six we did it. The covenant is gone, the flood eradicated, and the galaxy is a safe for all." Dot reassured Six as he stepped into a cryo freezing tube for cryo sleep.
"No we're just getting started. Wake me up when you need me. Good night Dot." Six said as the Cryotube began to slow down his heart rate causing him to slip out of consciousness.
"Good night love and sleep well you deserve it." Dot replied as she began to get to work updating Six's firmware for his armor.
Chapter over First half of story complete
[Well there you have the first half of the adventures of Noble Six . I hope you've enjoyed everything that I have done with this story so far. I want to know what you thought of this story thus far and what you want to see happen next. Well here is the new timeline set up as a bonus. Until next time Happy Thanksgiving warriors. Also I wish to ask this off you. Should this become a cross over fanfic. If so please respond. Also this is an excerpt of what will happen next if I do decide to make this a cross over. Edit: Instead of making this story a cross over I have made a part 2 called the new adventures of Noble Six which is a halo starwars cross over.
One year later
"Six wake up I need you." Dot ordered urgently
"Dot whats going on did the UNSC find us?" Six asked as he broke free from the cryo tubes restraints placing Dot in his helmet and grabbing two shot guns, a battle rifle and a Saw gun from the Dawn's gun rack.
"No but we are in orbit of an unidentified jungle planet and are being boarded by an unknown party most likely hostile.
"Well lets go check it out maybe they know where the UNSC is." Six explained excitedly.
"Just be careful ok… I don't want to lose you, your all I got." Dot explained.
"Remember its me." Six winked as he got to moving.
When Six moved through the Dawns damaged halls he came across five men in white combat armor and big white bulky helmets behind them was a man in a dark black suit that dwarfed Six by at least a full foot and had a very commanding yet evil aire about him.
"Hello I come in piece don't fire." Six told the men.
"Kill him." The man in Black commanded letting out a heavy asthmatic cough.
"Yes Lord Vader." The men replied as they began to fire bright red laser shots at Six taking only one to pierce his shields.
"Well diplomacy is out then." Six yelled as he unloaded a full clip of Saw gun fire into one of the men in white only slowing down his walking pace.
"Who are they, how can they shrug a full clip of bullets like that." Six reasoned as he slammed his saw gun onto the top of one of the troops head crushing his skull. "Well at least they aren't augmented like I am.
Six grabbed the dead man's rifle quickly blasting the trooper with well placed shots to there heads all that remained was this "Lord Vader". Six charged at Vader firing laser shots that were easily deflected from Vader's glowing red blade. Six evaded the glowing red blade but was soon lifted into the air, Six's own hands began to apply to throat despite how hard he tried to fight this invisible force.
"Tell me where the rebel base is rebel and I will make your death painless." Vader offered.
"What are you talking about I'm Noble Six of the United Nations Space Command. I don't know who you are or where I am." Six reasoned for Vader to lose his temper.
"You lie prepare to feel the power of the Dark side of the force!" Vader yelled as he slammed Six against the walls of the dawn halls and flung him into the void of space sending him crashing into the orbit of the unidentified planet.
"Sir should we send a team after him." A trooper asked patiently over Vader's com link.
"No he can't survive a fall like that. When I make back on board the star destroyer blow this trash away then set a course to reroute with the Super Death star." Vader ordered back through Comlink as he watched Six fall into the planet below.
"That one was strong in the force…" Vader thought to himself.
Six watched as he hurtled down the many different layers of the planet until he collided full force with the planets muddy surface. The force made Six lose sway in and out of consciousness and his legs wouldn't move. Six lost complete consciousness once a green alien no bigger than the lower half of his leg appeared in his front of him.
"A great fall have you had?" The green alien asked an unconsciousness Six
Chapter over First half of story complete
Previous conflict: Battle of Installation 00
Outcome: Complete annihilation of the flood menace and disbanding of the Covenant alliance
Next Conflict: The second battle of Jabiim
Con current conflict: The Galactic Civil war