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Temporal Rift - A HALO / DYSON Crossover fic. by Alexander_Valient
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Temporal Rift PART I: SPARTAIN II REDUX
Date: 28 September 2003, 12:18 AM
(Dont diss me just because the on-sight name I chose is from one of the characters in DYSON. AND don`t kill me for using two short clips from ["The Fall of Reach"- by Eric Nylund] I know all about the evils of plagarism.
Thank You.
PART I: SPARTAIN II REDUX
0600 Hours, Aug 30, 2552 (Military Calander) /
UNSC Pillar of Autumn, Epsilon Eridani System
The Master Cheif stood before the Spartain II`s
"Linda and James," he said. "You`re with me. Fred, you`re Red Team Leader. You`ll have tactical command of the ground operation.
"Sir!" Fred shouted. "Yes, sir."
"Now make ready," He had said. "We don`t have much time left."
The Master Cheif`s words couldnt have been more true.
They had launched in their Pelican dropship from the Pillar of Autumn while she was still at one third of full speed. They had then initiated a burn to bring them in towards Reach.
Red Team cleared a landing zone for their Pelican using the dropship`s cannon and HE missiles then had charged out into the malstrom of invading Covanant troops. Their combined fire mowing down swaths of enemy troops the Spartain II`s mannaged to push bach the initial invasion elements and begin to secure the Reactors that powered the Orbital Super MAC`s.
Just as it looked like they might have enough time to prepare more defenses, the main Covie attack wave reached the Reactor complex. The Spartain II`s eventually began to be pushed back and over whelmed by sheer numbers. Finally Fred made the call back up to the pillar of Autumn.
"Reactor complex seven has been compromised. We`re falling back. Might be able to save number three. Set off those charges now!" One of the spartains detonated a cluster of Lotus mines taking out three Wraith tanks and their surrounding troops. "Be advised Pillar of Autumn, groundside reactors are being taken. Orbital guns at risk. Nothing we can do. Too many. We have to use the nukes-"
A fuel rod shot landed near Fred throwing him off his feet for a moment. Before he could realise what was happening Kelly was at his side hoisting him up and pulling him in the direction of Reactor complex number three. Three seconds later a Wraith mortar shot landed where he had fallen.
"Thanks for the assist. EVERYONE RETREATE TO REACTOR NUMBER THREE!!
The remaining Spartain II`s quickily made their way to the last reactor complex that haden`t been taken .
A group of determined Marines manned Minigunns and rocket launchers, that had been setup behind whatever cover was available. The spartains took up positions around the complex pouring fire into the living sea of enimies that now surrounded them.
"Joshua!" shouted Fred over their tac net frequency. "Set the nukes hidden at the other complexes to detonate in one minute, starting now!"
The heads up display of all the spartains left on the ground showed a timer counting down. 59.......58......57............ Fred shouted over to one of the remaining Marines who was ducking down to reload. "Corpral Hemmingway! I want you to get inside and make sure all of the blast doors are secure. Some nukes will be going off soon. "
All that he heard in response was "JESUS!!!!!" before the Corpral dissapeared inside.
Kelly turned to Fred and Joshua in between Reloads. "Well we might as well see what dammage we can to to these Covie Basterds before we go right sir?"
"Sounds good" voiced Joshua.
"Alright on three" They all readied their remaining Jackhammer rounds. 35.......34........33..........
"GO!. " Some marines timed their own firing of Jackhammers to coincide with the spartains sending five projectiles into the mass before them followed by 12 frag grenades. Their entire quarter of the complex was covered in flame from the repeated explosions. Then the three spartainII`s charged out, Assault rifles blazing flanked by four marines firing Shotguns, Pistols and their own assault rifles.
25..........24..........23..........22................ dosens of covanant fell before them but hundreds more lay in their path. A group of jackels tried to form a wall to stop the charge but Kelly whipped her jackhammer back out at lightning speed and blew the entire group away before they had a chance to fire a shot. They were now moving inbetween the covanant. A red elite fell to before Joshua as he used his rifle butt to crush the alien`s skull.
18.............17........................16 Time seemed to slowdown and seconds took an eternity to pass. A tear of pure white light appeared in the air before the ragged group of humans. Several bursts of Covanant plasma fire intersected the tear causing it to grow outwards and expand almost at the speed of sound. Suddenly it was as if a great wind was pulling at them and anyone within thirty meters of the tear was almost instantly pulled towads it as it grew. And as it grew it absorbed more plasma fire growing larger creating a massive vortex of wind.
A small tornado formmed arround it blowing covanent troops in every direction. Smashing them against vehicles and debris and each other.
Such an event would not have gone un-noticed normally, but at that moment the Havok class tactical Nukes hidden in the surrounding reactor complexes exploded erasing any trace that such a thing had happened.
Temporal Rift PART II: SLAVER SLASHING - A GOOD PARTTIME JOB
Date: 29 September 2003, 12:16 PM
PART II: SLAVER SLASHING - A GOOD PARTTIME JOB
0900 Hours, June 5, 4463 Teran Year
NPFS Mary Rose, New Port Colony Free Trade Zone
Two figures stood looking out the forward viewport of the topside bridge of the Battlecruiser Mary Rose. At nearly a kilometer in length and threehundred meters across, she would have been a sight to tremble before in it`s glory days. Those days were long since past. The ship was one of millions of outdated relics of a bygone age that still had life in them. Parts of the cruisers superstructure were more than seven hundred years old but had been built so sturdily that the rest of the ship had been destroyed and rebuilt more than a dozen times. The Terran Excalibur class Battlecruiser design had been in service since 2860 ad and every attempt at finding a replacement design had failed miseraly. Durring the slaughter of The Twenty Years War the Alliance had commisioned the Terran government to retrive as many cruisers as could be found from their scrapyards and make them opperational. One of these ships had been the Mary Rose whose command crew was almost wiped out in her second mission, allowing an inexperienced Lutennant Rima Tharen the opportunity to take command. While Tharen had gone on to fame and glory over the course of her career, the cruiser had eventually dissapeared into the sea of time.
And now it had been found again. Her first starship to command.
"So what do you think Rima?" asked Alexander Valient. "It looks like she`s still in one piece."
"I already talked to Griffith, he`s the engineer who`s been working on restoring the Rose for the past ten years."
Rima began walking toward the high speed lift at the back of the bridge, Alex followed just behind and to her left.
"He says that we could take her out on combat duty by tomorrow if we need to."
"We may need to sooner than that if our intel. reports are any indication. A preventor cruiser is supposed to be making some sort of cargo transfer with a Rovinar civilian transport about four hours out from here."
They stepped onto the lift and the doors automatically closed behind them.
'Please State Destination'
"Main Bridge." Alex and Rima both said in unison.
"How long do we have until the rendevous?" Asked Rima.
"Fourteen hours. Do you think we can make it?"
"With this ship? ha! Not a problem." she paused for a moment. what could be a problem is loading supplies in eleven hours. At least with the jump 120 drives we can get an extra hour of loading time."
The lift stopped and the doors slid open. The pair walked out and to the right headding down the hallway towards the main bridge.
"We can transfer the 4th Attack bomber squadron over here from the Revalation along with some landing craft and boarding crews. Another repair and maintinance crew and some gunners are all the rest that we would need. "
"Ok I`ll see to it that everything gets sent over here. You had better get the bridge of your new ship."
"You mean old ship." responded Rima with a smirk.
"Whatever. I`ll see you on the bridge before we reach the target. " With that Alex walked off towards the launch bays.
2300 Hours, June 5, 4463 Teran Year
NPFS Mary Rose, En-route to intercept co-ordinates
"It`s not my fault it took that long to get the boarding troops over here!"
"Alex make yourself usefull or get off my bridge." was Rima`s terse response.
That was all Alex needed to hear before he slid into an epty operations console and started to check ship systems status.
Near the back of the bridge Ian Valient,a six foot tall Nekonian barely in his twentys, stood shaking his head over the whole exchange. He then took a seat next to Alex.
"How is it that you two always mannage to get into these arguments if youve been friends for so long?"
"Kid it`s more complicated than that."
"You two act like a married couple. It cant be that complicated. "
Alex sighed then glared at the at him. "Ok kid, her and I have been alive for more than three hundred years. And since as long as i`ve known her, even when she was married, we always had arguments like this. ok?"
"Alright Old man I know your my great, great, great, great, great grandfather or whatever, but it seems like you almost should have married her" nodding his head in Rima`s direction . "Instead. "
"Ok ya fuzzball we can talk abou this later if you want. but not now. "
"SIR!" yelled one of the crewman. "I have the the target ships on sensors."
"Time to intercept?"
He glanced back at his screens. "Ten more minutes at current jump drive speed."
"Bridge to engineering. Griffith pick up dammit!"
'this is engineering, I could almost hear you without the com line commander Tharen. ' Griffith`s thick polish accent was easily descernabe through the com unit.
"Griffith we need more speed from the jump engines."
'We are already at jump 120, that is the maximum speed for these engines.'
"Try pushing them to jump 128. we should only need them that fast for one minute."
'OK! Redlining the jumpdrives!'
"Speed has increased to jump 125...............127.............128............128.4 speed is holding constant. "
"Helm plot our course to arrive within onehundred kilometers of the target ships. All hands Combat alert Alpha. "
"aye!"
One minute later the Mary Rose ended her jump nintey kilometers from the target ships and slowed to sublight speeds.
"We have targets, one Republic Battlecruiser with Preventor markings and one Rovinar civilian transport. "
"Life signs for both of those ships. "
"The Preventor ship has sevenhundred humantype lifesigns. and the civilian transport has fivehundred Rovinar lifesigns, thirty seven human, four Kavarian, and two hundred and fifty three Nekonians. "
Ian jumped up from his seat. "They have to be slavers if they have that many Nekonians aboard!"
"At ease Ensign Valient." said Rima over her shoulder. "We`ll deal with this whole situation soon enough." She turned back to the helmsman.
"Helm, I want you to buzz them. Sixhundred meters should get the message across."
The Rose`s four Fusion drives lit up pushing the ship ahead at bewildering speed. The anchient cruiser swung around the two ships even closer than Rima had wanted, nearly grazing shields against shields.
"I think that got the message across. Open a channel to both ships. "
The com officer presed some the holo controls at her station. "Channel open."
"This is commander Tharen of the Starship Mary Rose. You are both under arrest for slavery, stand down and prepare to be boarded. If you do not comply you WILL be fired upon. "
"This is the Rovinar cruiser Saraith do you have any Idea what you have just interupted here?!?!?! We are in the middle of a prisoner exchange!! We still have to send a group of polital prisoners over to the Preventor ship in exchance for these freed Nekonians."
"I appologise Captain, you can simply hand the Nekonian Refugees over to us then and resume transfer of the political prisoners to the Preventor ship. "
"I am quite sorry commander Tharen but that is quite impossible. These 'Refugees' will be relocated to Rovinar space. The majority of them will eventually be set free several years from now but untill then I `m afraid any transfer can not be allowed. Good bye Commander. "
With that the captain signed off.
"Uh.....Um ........commander!.........t-the Rovinar ship and the Republic Cruiser are both charging weapons!. "
"Well that`s it then. Helm stand by evasive manuvers, weapons lock energy weapons and prepare to fire."
"Republic cruiser charging main Plasma Cannon."
"OPEN FIRE!!"
The Rose`s engines engaged taking them between the two enemy ships, dodging the plasma cannon shot. But almost all of the rapid fire phase cannon shots struk the Rose`s shields. The rovinar cruiser added the fire of its three slightly more powerfull phase cannons to the mix.
The Rose spead away all eight of her own phase cannon having little effect on the shields of either ship.
"Both ships are persuing us."
"Dammit we cant use our S.P. Torpedos on those ships especially if they have prisoners aboard, and we can`t call for help because that would only draw more preventor ships here."
"Incoming Disruptor fire!"
"BRACE!!"
the bridge crew was almost thrown forward out of their seats by the force of the blast.
"Dammage report!"
"Shields down to seventy percent, minor hull dammage where the disruptor broke throught the shields."
"Rima! I have something on sensors. " yelled Alex across to din of alarms. "It`s some sort of Temporal Rift according to the computer. "
"Well it`s worth a shot. Helm bring us around to the other side of that rift. I want you to keep that rift between us and the Republic cruiser. "
"I gotcha ."
The Rose swung arround the Rift which looked like a small white tear. Every now and then it looked like lightning would arc out of the tear a short distance. The Republic ship went to Starboard and the Rovina ship went to port of the rift, both keeping a safe distance. Just as ordered the helmsman kept the rift between the rose and the Republic ship.
"Weapons try and take down the Rovinar ship`s shields. If we are luckey that might be enought to make them re-consider handing over those prisoners. "
Phase cannon fire flashed back and forth between the two ships. Punctuated by the occasional disruptor beam shot. The Republic Cruiser continued it`s attempts to manuver arround the rift and get a clear line of fire.
"Shield down to fifty percent but the shield on the rovinar ship are down to thirty percent. "
"Bridge to Launch bays standby boarding parties. Make sure the pilots are ready for some action because they may come under fire. "
"Sir! Republic cruiser is charging main Plasma Cannon again. " shouted the sensors operator.
"I think they`ve given up trying to fire arround it!"
A blue plasma bolt three kilometers long streaked out from the Republic ship but it intersected the tear causing it to imediatly expand outwards increasing in speed. All three cruisers were pulled into the rift which then just as mysteriously reversed its expansion and disappeared.
Temporal Rift PART III: LOST IN SPACE
Date: 1 November 2003, 4:15 AM
This series is will make very little sense if you haven`t read the first two chapters.
(even less if you only read chapter 2.)
PART III: LOST IN SPACE
???? Hours, ?? , 2552 (Military Calander) /
Exact location unknown, Deep Space
Kelly started to wake up. She remembered leaving the Pillar of Autumn aboard a dropship and heading down to the Fortress world of Reach. The SpartainII`s had pushed back the first wave of Covanant troops without any trouble but then they had been overun minutes later and pushed back to the last remaining power reactor complex. Joshua had set the nukes at the other reactors to detonate in one minute, then Fred Joshua and herself had charged out into the sea of enemies to take down as many as possible before the Nukes detonated. Some sort of tear made up of pure white light had appeared before them and that was the last thing she remembered until now.
It felt as if she were falling so she opened here eyes to see what fate greated her, But all that she could see through her visor were stars stretching on into infinity. She was somewhere in deep space obviously.
Looking arround the first thing that came into view was a dead Jackel with something behind it.
An Elite pulled itself around the dead Jackel and pushed off of it hurling itself towards Kelly. As it reached for her helmet to tear it off, she grabbed it by the wrists then kicked as hard and fast as possible at its midsection throwing them away from each other.
Reaching for her holster and finding a pistol still there, she pulled out the weapon and unloaded the clip into the Elite as it drifted away. With the last shot the Elite`s shields went out, depriving it of the little protection from vaccume that it did have. Globules of blood poured out of its mouth as the Elite`s innards were pulled apart by the emptyness of space.
Then Freds voice came in over the communications frequency. "If there are any other Spartain II`s out there please respond."
"Joshua here I think some Covies are still alive."
"Kelly here. I just took down an Elite. "
"Copy that, I just shot a couple of Grunts. " Responded Fred.
No one talked for a moment.
Finally Fred spoke "Everyone set your suits to minimum oxygen use we might me able to last two or three hours that way. If we get really luckey a Covanant ship might detect these bodies we`re floating with and then we can board it. "
All of them knew that wasn`t going to happen. They were all going to die out here in the depths of space.
They waited in silence for what seemed like an eternity, waiting for their air to slowly run out.
A bright flash of light caught all of their attention.
"What was that?" yelled Joshua.
The light slowly faded away but what was left behind defied explanation.
"It`s a space cruiser!" yelled Kelly.
"And here I thought Fred was just trying to keep our moral above board."
"I was dammit, but this thing dosen`t look like it`s Covanant or UNSC. Who`s is it?"
"Sir." siad Kelly. "I think it`s dead in space. The ship is spinning on it`s axis. I see .......three, four...........About eight dome like objects on the outer hull, a couple of ball turrets housing cannons on the leading edge of the forward half of the ship. There are also openings that appear to be missile and shuttle launch bays. "
"Ok listen up. Try to find something, anything, to push off of and propell yourself towards that ship. The first one to land on the hull is to find an entrance and replenish their air then see to they can help get the other two aboard. Got it? Go. "
With that they each pushed off of a nearby Covanant body and began slowly drifting towards the mysterious ship.
***
Rima Tharen wokeup with a ringing headache and the familiar smell of burning Holo controll systems
filling the air. Caughing from the smoke she hauled herself to her feet.
'ouch......did anyone get the licence of that grav truck that must have hit my head. " she said more to herself.
"Rima!" called Alex from the side of the bridge. He was pulling some extinguishers from an emergency kit. "here take one! I`ll deal with this side of the bridge. "
The two of them worked their way around the bridge in opposite directions putting out all of the fires and the smoking remains of controll systems. Ian was unconsious from hitting the wall he had been leaning against. All of the rest of the bridge crew were slightly burned and scraped, except, that is, for the weapons officer.
Alex walked over to where Rima was crouched trying to hotwire the door. "Patrick is dead. When his control pannel exploded a piece of shattered Aluglass got him in the heart."
"Shit. He was my weapons officer on the LimaVII. The best shot with S.P. Torpedos i`ve ever seen. Any chance an Alliance fleet Hospital could get him back?"
"Dosen`t look like it but i`ll put him in a stasis chambre as soon as you get the doors open. "
Just then the doors both slid open to reveal Griffith standing on the other side getting ready to use a laser torch to cut the door open.
"Ah so you do remember how to hotwire de doors! Good! I was just getting ready to cut through them, after I realised dat you can only hotwire de doors from the inside on dese ships. "
Has Griffith`s accent gotten even thicker since the few hours ago that i saw him? thought Alex.
"Whatever. Griffith I want you to get the backup systems online as fast as possible."
"Dat`s what I came up here to do! Out of my vay. "
***
After half an hour of drifting towards the unknown ship Kelly was the closest to touching down on hull. It only made sense after all, since she was the fastest spartian, that she get there first.
Now she was only a few hundred meters away from the front of the ship and needed to figure out a way to get inside. On the topside of the ship was what appeared to be the bridge or at the very least some sort of lookout, if it was the bridge the glass would be heavily armoured. On the under side of the ship were what appeared to be two launch bay doors but both of them were closed at the moment.
She decided to make for the launch bays.
If they do send out any fighters of dropships to get us it will be easier to get inside the ship from here.
She touched down on the hull and stood up.
This ship must have artificial gravity if it`s holding me to the hull.
She started walking along the hull towards the launch bays.
***
"We have internal communications back on line. " said the slightly charred opperations officer.
"Good!" exclaimed Grifith as he slaped his hands together. "I will be heading back to engineering if you need me. I think dat I had best take a look at the jump engine core. "
"Griffith." called Rima at the last minute. "I want you to send out a repair team or two in shuttles to inspect the hull and repair any breaches. "
"I vill get right on dat, goodbye for now." With that Grifith charged off aft.
Ian had woken up by then. "Ow my head. What happened? "
"The ship was pulled into some kinda vortex and then your skull got a little too friendly with that bulkhead over there kid. We`re trying to fix up the ship right now."
"Which wall did I hit?" he asked as he rubbed the sore spot on the side of his head.
"Over there." Alex pointed. "The one with the dent in it."
"Right.......You want me to go check the cargo bays for you? See if everything is still tied down? I need the exercise."
Alex shruged. "Fine kid just make sure to call in if you see anything out of place."
With that Ian sprinted away into the corridors.
"Rima. I still don`t know how Nekonians can take injuries like that. A human would have been dead from a hit like that."
"Alex stop thinking and work!"
***
Kelly had made it to the entrance of the landing bay and was waiting. The doors were made up of two large plates that would slide apart to allow ships in and out, but they were closed at the moment and she could find no other access doors.
Just as she was beginning to contemplate heading for the windows on the top side of the ship, a sharp clank resonated through the hull she stood on. The launch bay doors began to retract revealing a dark interior. When the doors had opened completley a ship dropped down -or from her point of view, up- out of the launch bay then turned and headed towards the back of the ship.
It hadn`t noticed her.
Peering over the edge into the bay all that could be seen was darknes and what looked like a ceiling. Pulling herself over the edge and into the launch bay she noticed a recess that ran arround the entire launch bay opening. Inside the recess was a glowing line which seemed to be creating a field that held the atmosphere inside the launch bay but allowed solid objects to pass through it freely.
"I wonder if the Covanant have stuff like this." Kelly said to herself.
After pulling herself past another two meters of armour plate she reached what had to be the main deck of the landing bay. It was roughly thirty meters wide by sixty meters long and was arround eight meters high, two large lifts were at the very back of the bay and atleast eight of what looked like dropships sat in recessed bays at the sides. The landing bay on the Pillar of Autumn was larger than this.
None of the ships lights in the bay were turned on at the moment as figures with flashlights ran back and forth around the bay attempting to move powered down dropships.
Some of the figures looked human, but now wasn`t the time to dwell on that, she had to help out her fellow Spartains.
When none of the bay workers were in her vicinity Kelly pulled herself onto the main deck then darted behind a dropship and began looking for what she needed. It didnt take long before she found a bundle of what looked like steel cable. Better than nothing which was about all else that was available. Too bad The Cheif wasn`t here. This was the sort of thing Cortana had been designed for, 'ship boarding action'.
Hooking the cable to an attachment point in the decking as close to the bay door as possible she dropped back out into space without anyone noticing.
'This is Kelly i`ve got an entrance into the ship. Head for my location. "
"Roger that" came Fred`s voice over the headset. " I just touched down on the hull."
"Joshua here I think i`m going to drift past you. "
Not good. "Hang on there I`m tossing a cable into your path. just catch it and pull youself in."
Taking her empty pistol and hooking the end of the cable onto it to add weight she threw it in the direction that Joshua was drifting.
"He`s not going to make it." Came Fred`s voice. "Josh if you have any ammo left use it to propel yourself towards the ship."
"Understood." Pulling out his M6D he fired his last three remaining rounds into space away from the ship. The shots changed his trajectory enough that he was able to reach out and grab the end of the cable Kelly had thrown out.
Fred arrived at the launch bay shortly therafter and the two of them pulled in the steel cable.
"Follow me." said Kelly. "and don`t get spotted."
The three Spartains made their way back into the still dark landing bay and behind the same dropship. There was a door in each corner at the back of the small side bay the dropship was in. As they made their way through Joshua noticed that the door was setup to act as a backup airlock when necessary but was turned off at the moment. They now found themselves in a room probably ment to act as an equipment and weapons locker.
"There`s alot of stuff in here. Guns, ammo, space suits....." started Kelly.
"But none of it is standard. " interupted Joshua "This looks like assault Rifle ammo but it`s some kind of 5.56mm variation. All of the pistol ammo is 9mm."
"Over here" motioned Fred. "I just found some fifty Cal pistol ammo for you two, though it isn't the UNSC HE pistol ammo. I`m going to keep with my AR for now I still have three Mags for it. "
"Lets get out of this part of the ship. We need to find the bridge and figure out if these people are with or against the UNSC. If they arn`t we`ll have to convince them to take us back to Reach. Or if they have the location in their databanks mabey we could go to the Covie Homeworld and kidnap a Prophet. "
"Lets just get to the bridge Fred. "
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