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Athena - Assault Gunner

Hades - Infiltrator

Apollo - Sniper

Hestia - Field Medic

Artemis - Tech

Hephaestus - Demolitionist

The Twins... Oh and Hades too


“Today, like every day aboard this vessel, is the next step toward progression. Whether you agree, disagree, love it, hate it, or if you don't even give a damn, you are a part of this movement. Our vessel, Olympus is on course to your first on the field objective, and I know you six are more than ready! Once you are out there, only you will be the deciding factor on whether or not we can continue to move forward and damn these traitors of the UNSC! No mistakes! No bullshit! No failure! You are the best of the best… So do me a favor and show remind me why!”

That speech from the Director could have echoed through Hades’ head for days. It wasn’t annoying though. He saw it as a way to motivate him a bit. Like the others that now sat in the cockpit of the Pelican, (an aircraft that was meant to hold just one small platoon), Hades had his helmet equip and didn’t whisper a word. Seated next to him was a rather large soldier; the man who had named himself the ‘Demo Man’ to the squad. He never liked using the code name given to him by the Director. Sure, the name fit, but Hephaestus was such an ugly name. It sounded like a venereal disease if anything. His armor was brown, which didn’t bring out the man’s outgoing mood. Across from Hades was a female soldier in a deep red colored armor. Hades didn’t know what to make of her. He didn’t know who was more hardcore between the ruby red Artemis and Athena. The Gold Spartan was seated on the other side of Hephaestus, so Hades wasn’t overwhelmed with the sight of extremely dominant females.

“Hades! Artemis! Apollo!” Hade looked up at the breaking of silence. It was the pilot who had shouted the three names. The three soldiers exchanged looks before the male pilot spoke again. “Alright kiddos! It looks like I get to drop you three off first. The Director says you’re the scouts.” The enthused pilot said from the front of the pelican. Apollo was the first to speak.

“So I’m babysitting my lil sis and her playmate.” Apollo teased as he rolled his neck.

“Shut your fuckin’ mouth.” Artemis said without even budging her armor. Hades just remained silent. He heard a soft chuckle come from Hephaestus, but other than that, there wasn’t another sound uttered. Hades didn’t believe the two were really siblings, but maybe they really were. They got along the least, but they did socialize the most if you count the teasing and bickering.

“Alright, I’m dropping my baby down low enough for you kids to hop off. Remember, it’s the twins and Hades!” The pilot repeated. The back of the pelican began to open up, readying the three soldiers’ exit.

“Alright, Artemis, try to keep up.” Hades finally spoke with a steady tone. Artemis sighed before jumping out first.

“You keep up!” She said before Hades followed. Apollo just looked at the others in the pelican.

“Can’t wait till you guys join in… Like seriously, Seeya!” Apollo said with a wave before jumping off and landing on a structure. He rolled upon impact and saw both Hades and Artemis scoping out some large metallic structure that was surrounded by a rocky terrain. “You two, ready?” Apollo asked as he looked at the two he was with.

“Yeah, just find yourself a nice spot to overlook the place. Artemis, let’s go. The others are going to take out an encampment of the Insurrection close by. That way we don’t have any reinforcements coming after us once screw something up.” Hades explained

“Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got it. Lead the way.” Artemis said with a bit of attitude. Hades activated his cloaking feature. His body slowly became invisible. The games were about to begin.

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This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!
The music blasted in the black and gold tinted Spartan’s ear, as she sat quietly amongst the rest of the squadron. The loud tunes were a means to get herself in the right mind set and pumped up for the mission at hand. In the line of work they were in there was no room for fuck ups, because one tiny error could be the end of you. Another reason why she had tunes playing was so that she didn’t have to listen to the nonsense that was coming out of the others’ mouth. She just assumed they were talking nonsense after all she couldn’t hear them over the music. Even if they were discussing ideas on how to tackle this particular mission, Athena wasn’t going to pay attention either way. She can be very stubborn at times, and so far, she believed that none of them have proven to be worthy of her time. Sure they might be a team but she wasn’t about to risk her ass to save any of them. If they couldn’t keep up than to hell with them. The thought made the corners of her lips slightly pull up in a smirk.

As the back of their ship began to open and the first three Spartans got ready to jump out, Athena switched the music off because it wouldn’t be long before she would be making her exit. Her attention was immediately drawn towards the blue Spartan known as Apollo as he spoke about not being able to wait for the rest of them to join in. Athena didn’t bother responding and the other two beside her seem to remain quiet as they watched their teammates jump out of the ship.

“Athena! Hestia! Hephaestus! Time to let all hell loose…” the pilot shouted from the cockpit as the remaining three Spartans rose to their feet and slowly moved towards the back of the pelican. “GO! GO! GO!” The pilot hollered as they approached the drop zone. One by one they leapt out. Hephaestus’ feet made first contact on the red dusted ground before Hestia landed next to him. The Medic s hit the ground a little harder than she had anticipated and found herself stumbling forward slightly from the impact. However, she managed to catch herself with her hands before her face made contact with the ground. Athena was the last to plant her feet and as soon as she did, her assault rifle was already drawn.

“Let’s move out,” she mumbled before signalling the other two and moving towards the small metal hunt a few metres ahead of where they had been dropped. She couldn’t help notice that even though Hephaestus was such a large man he seemed to move rather swiftly and silently. It was quiet astounding, but her attention was more focused on the medic as they moved. Athena didn’t really understand why the medic was out in the action. In her previous group missions the medic would usually be waiting and hiding away from the action and would only be called upon if a man or woman was down. She just hoped the girl knew how to use a gun before brushing the entire thought of as they approached the hut.

The three Spartans squatted with their backs up against one of the walls of the hut near the entrance. “Explosive breaching,” Athena uttered as she looked at the other two who just nodded in agreement. Hephaestus shuffle slowly towards the door as his arm reached out holding a black circle object. He gently slapped the breaching charge onto the door, making sure it was in the centre of the door. He then shuffled back towards the other two, giving Athena a quick nod before the charge detonated. This approach of breaching not only guarantees entry but also creates a stunning effect on the occupants in the room being breached. As soon as their point of entrance was open, the three Spartans made their move. Weapons fully loaded and drawn as Athena was the first to enter.

As her eyes trailed through the faint smoke as she entered the hut seeing her enemies stunned and disorientated from the explosive charge. It was almost like time had slowed down as her enemies seemed to all be moving at such a slow rate allowing her to aim and pull the trigger repeatedly without any hesitation. As fast as the bullets exit the barrels of weapons, as fast bodies began to drop left, right and centre.

After what left like a couple of minutes but was merely couple of seconds Athena’s hand raised up and the shooting began to stop. The smoke from the explosion had now cleared, allowing the three individuals to fully see the damaged they had made. “Objective One Complete. Infrastructure cleared. No survivors. No injury,” Athena radioed back to HQ and the rest of the time.

“That was fun,” Hestia uttered.

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While Hades and Artemis moved stealthily toward the metallic structure, Apollo hurried up toward a small hill. He wished he could have gotten a better perch, but he didn’t have much time on his hands. It wasn’t like he would be popping heads anyway. During the training exercises, he often hated teaming up with Hades. The guy made it impossible to help. How do you cover a guy who doesn’t need help? As sad as this seemed, Apollo was hoping Artemis would fuck up so he could do something besides be head of communications. With a twitch, he activated his helmet’s infrared vision. Taking a prone positioned, Apollo used his sniper rifle to zoom in on Hades and Artemis. They were moving pretty quickly.

“Hades. Artemis. Hephaestus. Athena. Hestia. Do you read me?” Apollo spoke through his helmet which patched through to every member of the team, including Athena, Hephaestus, and Hestia.

Hades and Artemis had been at the foot of the metallic structure before stopping.

“I read you.” Hades responded.

“I copy.” Artemis said with an annoyed tone. She obviously hated these procedures.

“Okay I got Alpha team.” Apollo said before letting a snicker slip. He would be the one to appoint his team as Alpha. “Hades and Artemis, advance.” Apollo said before listening in for the other group.

Meanwhile, up ahead, Artemis moved up the incline of the structure. She and the rest of the team had been briefed about this structure by the Director. The man had informed them that it was an unidentified structure that the Insurrection seemed to have taken a liking to. The Director believes this structure holds something of value or maybe a main stronghold of the treacherous bastards. She and Hades were told to go in and basically make things easier for the other jarheads when they basically raped this place with their bullets. That would only be after they got their shit done elsewhere. She was hesitant of going up the incline, especially since she couldn’t even see Hades. She was ready to just rush up the incline, but then she heard grunts and thuds.

“Alright, we’re clear up here.” Hades voice spoke from up ahead. Artemis hurried up the incline only to see three bodies littered on the floor in front of the entrance of the structure with Hades standing clearly over one of them. His combat knife was drawn with fresh blood dripping from it.

“You couldn’t save any for me?” Artemis asked.

“Bullets in your chest? No.” Hades said sounding a bit like a douche bag before wiping the blade along the leg of his armor. “You ready to open up this lock? It has your name written all over it.” Hades said as he pointed to the sealed door.

“Fuck you.” Artemis said before strutting to the door and taking a look at it. She placed her hand on it before moving over to the control panel beside it. “What the…”

“What’s up?” Hades said as he made his way over to the panel. “I know I’m not a computer wiz like you, but I’ve never seen anything like this.” Hades said as he looked at the strange symbols on the panel. “How do we get in?”

“I… Wait a second. The Insurrection had a tough time getting inside too. They used an encryption chip… It goes here.” Artemis said as she pointed to a small box shaped device that was attached to the panel. “Check the bodies.” Artemis ordered. Hades crouched down and searched one of the soldiers. “It’s small and shou-”

“Look like this?” Hades said as he walked up and inserted the chip into the device. Artemis rolled her eyes within her helmet before looking at the panel that now lit up with readable words. With a few taps on the panel, the door opened up in front of the two. “We’re in.” Hades said before entering. “Apollo, we’re entering the unknown structure. Let us know when Bravo is ready.

“Affirmative. And try to behave in there.” Apollo joked

“Shut the…” Artemis was cut off.

“We will Apollo.” Hades replied. Artemis pushed Hades ahead with a grunt. Hades just snickered along with Apollo as he walked through the dimly lit corridors of the structure. It was tight, but that was good since there were only two of them. It might give them an advantage.

“Just go, you dickhead.” Artemis said with an angered voice. Why did she have to be teamed up with these two? “My radar is picking up heat signatures up ahead. Hades nodded before going invisible and moving up ahead.

“Time for round two.” The infiltrator said as he silently drew his knife.

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Athena pulled out some more ammunition to reload her weapon, as she stood tall and smugly amongst the bullet sprayed corpses. Meanwhile, Hephaestus decided to rummage through some of the bodies in hope to find something useful or valuable. His actions seemed to disgust Hestia as she stood there hands crossed over her chest shaking her head, but the large demolition expert just smirked underneath his helmet and continued on searching. The three Spartans came to a halt in their tracks as they heard the sound of Apollo’s voice over the radio. He and the others seemed to have landed safely and where now on their way towards some strange metallic structure the Director wanted them to check out. Although Apollo was clearly just trying to ruffle some features with the whole alpha and bravo team calling, it didn’t seem to go down to well with Hephaestus. “Fuck you, we are alpha team…you guys are just the lame scouts….” Athena was about to brush it off, but Hephaestus had already voiced his opinion and so she decided to step in before he said something he would regret.

“Let them call themselves alpha – it’s just a name after all…and anyway they can claim to be the dominate leaders but at the end of the day the truth will show on the tally board…I just hope they can handle the truth…Bravo out,” the corner of her lips pulled up as she smirked before pumping fists with Hephaestus as he broke out in low chuckle. “Anyhow, let’s get this shit done.” Without another word being exchanged between the three they exit the hut in a light sprint before moving towards their next objective.

The sound of footsteps caused Athena to stop in her tracks, her hand raised up, and turned into a fist to signal the others to stop. The three crouched down behind some red dusted rock. Hephaestus gradually edged himself towards rim of the rock, and then slowly peaked his head forward to take a look. He quickly pulled his head back as he turned to the other two and held up two fingers showing the number of foes up ahead. Athena nodded before her mouth dropped open slightly from surprise as her eyes trailed passed Hephaestus head to the enemy soldier who was now standing less than a metre away from them. The soldier didn’t appear to have seen them as he rather casually twirled his two pistols around his index finger before aiming them at a rock in the distance. Athena pointed passed Hephaestus to show him and then ran her finger along her neck to inform the demolition man to take him out. She then turned to Hestia and decided to give the girl a chance to prove herself and signalled her to take out the other guy. The two nodded in agreement before Hephaestus without hesitation leapt out from behind the rock and tackled the soldier to the ground. Hestia simultaneously made her advancement and jumped over the rock. She came in from behind unnoticed grabbed the other foe around the neck and with one quick twist broke his neck.

Hephaestus decided to have a little fun with his victim first and literally just sat on top of the soldier as he struggled beneath the weight and strength of the huge man. “HELP!” He called out as Hephaestus just chuckled before he right hooked and then left hooked the guy. After a couple of more punches it looked as though Hephaestus had knocked the soldier out or maybe even killed him. It was hard to tell if he was still breathing underneath the cheap armour the individual was wearing. Either way Athena couldn’t be happier with her two team mates, it looked as though they were able to handle themselves. However, their attack hadn’t gone unnoticed. All of the sudden out of the darkness stepped another soldier holding what looked like a pot of boiling water. “What the fuck?” Although they were caught of guard, the soldier seemed to have been caught more off guard. Before he was able to draw his weapon, Athena outstretched her hand and using the special ability her suit of armour intact she pulled the kettle with the soldier still holding on towards her. The armour’s special ability allows her to attract and repel metallic objects in this case the kettle. As soon as the kettle was in her gripped she pulled back her free hand and punched the soldier in the face causing him to let go and fall back on the ground. Athena then pulls out her rifle and fires a few rounds into the individual’s body to finish off the job.

“Let’s find this communication tower,” she spoke rather casually like nothing had just happened.

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Hades hurried himself through the tight corridor. Invisible, he was like the Grim Reaper or Hades himself. No mortal could ever see either of those fabled spirits coming before they met their end. The change in the lighting showed that there was indeed an opening up ahead. A figure slowly trotted past the opening up ahead, but Hades kept up his momentum. To him, it was key to keep moving. A serious expression overtook his face as he grabbed his silenced magnum pistol. Silenced and Magnum didn’t seem to fit well, but new advancements in the alteration of weapons made it possible.

“Alright Hades, five in this room coming up. Two on the north and south side of the room and three having a circle jerk in the center. You copy?” Apollo said.

“Yeah, I got this. Give me info on the next area while clear this first room.” Hades whispered before exiting the corridor and grabbing the man who was pacing about. He kicked him in the back of the leg, and stabbed him in the throat. The three men in the center looked toward their killed companion, not understanding what was going on

“Alright there some guys beneath you. Look for a stairway or an elevator.” Apollo informed as Hades fired four shots. Two of the men went down, each receiving clean shots to the chest before a knife was thrown at the third guy’s face. The blade remarkably pierced straight through the soldier’s helmet. As his body fell, Hades fired two shots at the soldier on the far end of the room. “Damn…” Apollo said as he watched the heat signatures vanish from Hades area in just seconds. “You find an elevator?”

“Nah, but…” Hades paused as he spotted one of those odd looking terminals that was right beside some strange looking platform. “I think I found one.” Hades said as he made his way over. He wasn’t the team hacker/technician, but he knew a little bit about tech. He looked down at the holographic screen, and mentally face-palmed. The screen was littered with those unreadable scribbles. With a grunt, he banged his hand on the hologram which just blinked red in response. “Piece of shit.” Hades said as he walked to the center of the room and retrieved his knife that was lodged in the head of one of the soldier’s bodies. Undoing his cloaking ability, Hades searched the soldiers on the ground around him. Talk about getting blood on your hands.

“You find one of those chips?” Apollo inquired. Hades didn’t respond, which basically meant that he didn’t “Just hurry up if you want to keep Artemis happy. The others should be done soon. Then they’ll make their way over to…”

“Apollo, just let me do my shit.” Hades interrupted.

“Suit yourself.” Apollo said with a sigh. Hades didn’t like the idea of the person with biggest mouth being in charge of communications. It just go annoying after a while. Hades just needed to get past this obstacle before the others caught up. Improvising, he stripped the grenades off of one of the soldiers he had killed. He tossed three consecutive fragment grenades at the console and kept his distance. With three quick but loud explosions, the platform blew open and the terminal was lost. All that was left was a large gaping hole in the floor. Hades could already hear the echoes of voices down below. It meant the area was huge down there, but mostly empty. No doubt, the men down below were ready for anything.

“Artemis to Hades. Was that a fucking explosion?”

“Yeah.” Hades said as he cloaked himself and swapped his pistol for a unique looking grapple gun. It was shaped like any other handgun except for the blade protruding out of the butt of the gun. The blade easily matched the combat knife, making them a pair in Hades’ case. He did a few mock slashes to the air to get comfortable before hearing Artemis on the radio again.

“What the fuck do you mean ‘Yeah’? I thought you did things clean! I can’t trust any of you jarhead assholes.” Artemis bitched as she picked up the pace in scanning the walls. Hades took a breath before tossing a smoke grenade down the hole. As it fell from one level to the next, the soldiers took caution and backed away. The grenade didn’t look like it would do much until actually went off. The small handheld weapon exploded with large thick cloud of smoke that spread like wildfire.

“Shit!” A soldier shouted as he shielded his face with his arm. Luckily the smoke did nothing harmful. He couldn’t see at all though. All he heard was the click sound of Hades’ grapple gun. “Huh…” was the last thing the soldier got out before his death. Hades swung from the hole with his grapple gun before unhooking it and letting himself fly freely through the air. Then with a swift motion, Hades crossed his two blades at the throat of the soldier. He fell with a loud groan as Hades undid his invisibility. There was no need of wasting the ability if he didn’t need it. Running through the smoke, Hades made contact with his next target that he rapidly stabbed in the chest several times. This man didn’t even have the chance to make a sound.

“What’s going on?!” One soldier yelled before being grabbed behind and having his throat slit. He gurgled as he dropped to the ground.

“Fuck. Contact communi-” The man was kicked into the wall he had been hugging to “keep himself safe” before a knife was lodged up through his head from his throat.

“Communications?! Communications… Communications! We need back up! Do you copy?! Do you copy?!” The man yelled as he didn’t get a response. Instead and grappling hook caught onto his helmet. With a grin beneath his helmet, Hades pulled him forward, making him fall onto the ground. Lunging forward he stabbed both knives into the chest of his victim.

“Hades to Artemis. I’m on my way.” Artemis said over the radio.

“You better hurry up sis. Those heat signatures are vanishing fast.” Apollo commented as he opened the communications between the three of them instead of speaking to them individually. “Communications is open for Alpha. Hades, slow down.”

“You’re nuts.” Hades said as he ducked under a punch before going invisible and leaving the enemy soldier confused. Hades reappeared as he rammed both his blades into the soldier’s stomach. “I’m having way too much fun.”

“Too bad!” Artemis said as she dropped down with a combat roll. She didn’t like the look of all the smoke, but she could use her built in radar to guide her through it. Hades grunted as he hurried over to kill another guy. In a vibrant red flash, Artemis slid by Hades’ target with her shotgun in hand. “Boom.” She said softly before the shotgun blasted the man’s head away. She took a second to look at Hades before dashing away. She strapped her shotgun to her back as she attacked her next foe with a flurry of punches before Hades moved in to stab him.

“Why not just shoot?” Hades asked.

“Too messy.” She said. “The first one was for show.” She said as she punched a gun in the face before moving around him playfully. He didn’t know what hit him. Hades thought the kill was going to him until Artemis swiftly snapped his neck.

“Fuck you!” A soldier shouted as he threw a grenade at pair. Artemis made a run for the soldier, while Hades just tried to dive out of the way himself. The grenade was times well as Hades found himself getting hit by the shockwave. Artemis looked back once before grabbing her shotgun and pressing it against the soldier’s chest before he could even hold his assault rifle back up.

“Fuck you.” Artemis said before blasting him away. She didn’t even take the time to watch the man’s body hit the ground before turning around to see Hades getting himself up off the ground. “You alright?”

“What happened?” Apollo asked.

“I’m fine. This room is cleared.” Hades tried to play it off but he was hurting. Artemis shrugged and pointed at a terminal. “You want me to open it?” Hades joked. She just shook her head and jogged over to the terminal.

“No more explosions, you asshole. I’ll see if I can open this up.” Artemis said as she went to work with her hands.

“Watch yourselves. There are only five of them, but they positioned themselves just for you two. There’s also a big heat sig in there. It might be what these guys are here for.”

“They know we’re coming then? Great.” Hades said sarcastically as he swapped his grappling gun for his magnum.

"Alpha to Bravo! What's your status?" Apollo asked from his perch. He was honestly getting a bit bored from where he was.

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The three Spartans preached behind a pile of rocks as they observed the infrastructure which was located a few feet in front of them. Even though the communication tower soared over the rest of topography, the volume of it was considered to be small, which meant they would only be encountering one foe at maximum per square metre. These stats and also the lack of activity being portrayed on the heat vision devices in their helmets made Athena decide on having Hestia stay behind and be on look out, while Hephaestus and herself would enter the structure. Although the field medic would’ve loved to get some more actions, she knew this decision was for the better of the team. If all three went in guns blazing there would be no one watching their backs for any reinforcements that might approach. “Let’s get this shit rolling,” Hephaestus mumbled as he rose from the crouching position he was in and then moved towards the building. Athena gave a quick nod to Hestia as if to say ‘ready’ before she followed Hephaestus.

Hephaestus moved like a snake, slithering swiftly towards one of the guards standing out the front. He made sure to stick to the shadows as he made his approach and then like a lion pounced on his prey as he leapt out from the darkness and literally tackled the guard through the two large melt doors. Even though Hephaestus was already a rather larger and strong man, his armoured suit was designed to give him that little extra strength, hence the reason why he was capable of forcing the guard straight through the doors. Athena followed with haste with two submachine guns drawn. Hephaestus and the guard hit the ground with a loud thump causing a few crackers to appear on the concrete below them. His large hand grasped the guard’s head pulling him up towards himself before smashing the guard’s head back into the ground.

Athena leapt over the pair in a slight elegant manor, her arms immediately flung straight forward before they separated from each other moving off, one left and the other right as she let bullets spray across the room. She landed on her knee letting the empty cartridges fall to the ground as the room fell completely silent. Hephaestus rose to his feet once he finished off beating the guard’s head into the floor, “Did you even hit anyone?” He joked as he stared at Athena who rose to her feet eyeing down a few bodies on the floor.

“Five to be exact…” She smirked underneath her helmet as she tossed the two submachine guns to the ground, seeing no use for them now as she had run out of ammo. “Start placing the explosive while I clear the next floor.” She ordered bluntly taking charge of the situation as always. Hephaestus nodded in approval as he moved off to find a suitable location to place the first explosive device.

Athena noticed a shotgun on the floor next to one of the bodies and she picked it up before moving off up the staircase. Footsteps and shouting could be hear from the floor above as the Golden Spartan picked up her pace not wanting to give her enemies too much time to get themselves sorted. She approached the door with caution, coming to a halt right in front of it. Kick and smoke…or kick and wait. So far, she hadn’t been shoot at that much so she decided to not waste anymore of her grenades and go with the kick and wait option. With one quick thrust she kicked the door open and immediately stepped to the side up against the wall as the bullets began to fly towards the door. The corner of her lips rose slightly as she just watched round after round begin wasted. After a couple of seconds there was silence but Athena remained hidden as she lingered for the sound that assured her it would be safe to enter.

Click. Click. Click

As soon as she heard the sound of them reloading their weapons she strike. The Golden Spartan without hesitation stepped out into the doorway, left hand was gripped tightly around the pump handle and the right on the pistol grip of the Mossberg pump action shotgun. She had envisioned to step out and pull the trigger, however, she was caught a little off guard seeing her foes had flipped a couple of tables to use as shields to protect themselves. “Clever..” She mumbled under her breath as a new plan began to form in her mind. Although Athena could’ve quite easily still gone with her original plan with some slight adjustment; fire a couple of rounds into the tables, get them sweating in their suits, do a nice army roll to take cover in behind the table fort to the right, knock out/slice throat of enemy behind the fort, have a little shooting war before finishing off the other two. However, she just stood there, wide open, basically letting herself get caught.

“Drop your weapon!” One individual rose from beneath the table, he was quick to reload aiming the assault rifle right at her head. Athena was glad they couldn’t see her face because it would give her plans right away as her hands raised up in surrender. She let the shotgun drop to her feet as the other two individuals rose from behind the tables with their weapons drawn. “Kick it over and then get on your knees.” Her boot lightly tapped the gun, causing it to skid away from her and towards the three soldiers as they took a couple of small steps towards her. “ON YOUR KNEES BITCH!”

Athena didn’t have to be told twice and slowly bent down to get on her knees. She had barely made it down when the three were already a couple of more steps closer. One was about to reach towards her, but she was too quick. She swept her leg around sweeping one leg out from underneath the individual causing him to become off-balance and fall to the ground. In that same motion her hand reached to her hip as she unclipped a dagger before driving it in the small gap between the individual’s helmet and the rest of his suit. Blood spattered across the screen of her helmet and continued to sweep out but she had not time to clear her vision as the individual’s comrades began to fire at her. Athena felt the bullets spray across her armour as she grabbed the lifeless body off the ground and used it as a shield. Guess the mock surrender works better if I don’t drop my weapon. She tried her best to hide underneath the body but a few bullets still managed hit her. Let’s try this again. Athena laid completely flat as she waited for the shooting to stop.

It wasn’t long before they stopped, “Is he….or she dead?” One asked as the two slowly took a step closer. Athena gradually moved her hand out from underneath making sure not to move too much. Come on. The shotgun lightly trembled on the ground. “Pull him off…” They were about to take another step closer, however the vibration of the shotgun drew their attention away from her as they turned to look at it. “What the fuck?” Even though this wasn’t really her plan she decided to just go with the flow. Athena pushed the dead corpse of her body with all her might and forced the corpse into one of the soldiers as they had their backs turned. The other turned to face her but instead of looking at her face all he saw was a fist coming straight at him. She punched him straight in the face before planting another punch in the abdomen region. Athena watched as the soldier stumbled back, the shotgun had already made it to her hand as she gripped it with both hands and fired round at him. Athena pulled the pump handle towards herself and then pushed it back into place to chamber a new shell. She then turned just to see the other soldier trying to get the corpse off him before firing a shot at him. She pulled the pump handle back and forward again to reload. “Mock Surrender, how you like that?” Athena smirked but as quickly as it appeared it disappeared again seeing a rather large suited individual stepping forward from behind a door that seemed to lead into some other room.

“Shit…” She cursed underneath her breath as her eyes widening hearing the individual roar before sprinting towards her. “Holy crap…HEPHAESTUS DETONATE!!” Athena had no idea why she would even yell that seeing as they were both still inside the structure and blowing it up would kill them both. It was probably just the adrenaline and she was clearly caught of guard as she turned around to run out the door and hopefully back down the stairs. However, the enormous beast was too fast rammed straight into her. It felt as though a 20 ton coal truck collide with her as she plummeted to the ground hard. Athena cringed as she tried to get up but the beast had already scooped her back up and then lifted her above its own head like it was lifting a feather. The individual roared again as he hurled her through the door and down the staircase. All the Gold Spartan could do was curse as she hit the first load of stairs and then continued tumbling down the rest. She tried to reach out and stop herself but she couldn’t seem to get a solid grip.

Finally Athena landed face first on the ground floor again with a loud thud. Half the staircase seemed to have collapsed with her. She just laid there in agony feeling a sharp pain coming from her left shoulder, it felt like she might’ve dislocated it. Hephaestus came running towards her hearing all the commotion, “You alright? What the hell happened?” There was another loud roar coming from the floor above.

“That happened…” she managed to utter as she gently rolled herself to the side.

Meanwhile, Hestia sat patiently and slightly bored behind the pile of rocks, watching and waiting. It wasn’t long before Apollo checked back in with them. “All seems pretty good here,” Hestia replied unaware of the destruction that was going on inside the communication tower.

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“Well I guess you guys are lucky right now. These knuckleheads might have some trouble soon.” Apollo said before looking around and standing up. He was tied of just laying there and making small comments to people he couldn’t even see. With a step forward, Apollo dropped down from his perch and strapped his sniper to his back. “Bravo, I’m leaving prone position. I’m heading to your position.

“You serious, Apollo? It’s only five heat sigs.” Hades said as he twirled his magnum and knife in separate hands.

“Hey if I can help in any way with my rifle, it’ll be much better than lying on a dirt hill.” Apollo answered as he hurried across the rough reddish terrain of the planet they were on.

“Got you.” Hades said before walking up behind Artemis who was focused on the terminal. “You got this?”

“Mhm.” She let out as it looked like she was playing with holographic screen. Hades was sure it wasn’t fun at all though. “Just get your ass ready.” Artemis said with a soft voice that Hades was a stranger to.

“You alright?” Hades asked as his body slowly became transparent.

“There it goes… And I’m fine. Focus on the five we need to take out.” Artemis said as she jogged away from the terminal and stopped just a few meters away from Hades. There was no kind of cover from enemy fire in sight, so she just got into a running stance. Hades didn’t know what to expect once he felt the entire structure tremble. He looked to Artemis who kept her stance and gulped beneath her helmet. “We have to go fucking fast. I know they’re after…”

“What is it? A power source?” Hades guessed, but Artemis just shook her head.

“Weapons… and they’re in the vault.” Artemis said as the entire wall in front of them began to slide open from the center. Hades nodded his head, but was a little nervous about what might happen next.

“What kind?”

“They’re not conventional weapons at all. They use a different… shit!” Artemis said before diving to her left. She was still shot in her right leg. Hades threw down a smoke grenade, hiding Artemis in a thick fog of smoke. “Damn it! It burns!” Artemis cried as she held her leg.

“Ha! We got that asshole!” A voice said from one of the five guys that Hades could now clearly see. The weapons in their hands were indeed unique, but that didn’t make them invincible. “What’s up with the smoke?”

With haste, Hades grabbed Artemis from behind and dragged her from beneath her underarms. Her ruby red armor wouldn’t make hiding her easy.

“Hades, just kill them. Don’t worry… fuck!” She tried to say quietly.” A shot of some kind of energy whizzed past Hades, making his heart skip a beat. “Pass me my shotty.” Artemis requested as Hades helped get her shotgun from off her back and into her hands.

“I won’t let them kill you, ok?” Hades said before hearing Apollo over the radio.

“You better not let my sis die! I’m on my way, love birds!” Apollo roared on the radio before Hades sprinted through the smoke and entered the room. The five guys didn’t even see him coming… How could they? Hades didn’t even try to waste time. He shot a soldier in the head with his pistol before stabbing the closest one in the throat and firing two more shots at another soldier. The other two soldiers weren’t rocket scientists, but they made the educated guess to shoot where the shots were coming from.

“Fire!” One of the soldiers shouted before he and his partner shot in Hades’ direction. Hades shoulder and helmet received hits from the weapons that resembled rifles. The shots basically felt like Hades hadn’t been wearing an inch of armor on his body. With a yell, his invisibility ceased and his body fell to the ground.

“Hades!” Artemis shouted, giving away her position.

“So the other one is alive too?” One of the soldiers said as he looked to his dead comrades. He kicked Hades in the side who grunted in pain. “You thought you could just kill us?! You assholes can’t compare to the…”

POW! That’s all Hades heard next as the man who had kicked him whipped his head toward his buddy whose body dropped from a bullet wound to the head. Hades grunted in pain once more, but only because he forced himself to move. With his knife, he stabbed the last enemy in the shin. The soldier screamed as he looked down at Hades. He could have simply shot him, but he wanted this douche bag to see him as he shot him point blank in the face.

“Fucker.” Hades said before firing. With that, Hades sat himself up. There was nothing left, and he liked it that way. Apollo met with Artemis who had stood herself up, using her shotgun as sort of a crutch.

“They got you good… Take it easy, there’s no need to rush anymore.” Apollo assured as he headed into the next area where Hades sat in the cent of the five soldiers. His helmet and left shoulder were steaming from the shots fired. Apollo approached Hades from behind slowly, before watching Hades remove his steaming helmet and toss it to the ground. “You’re lucky you can even breathe here.” Apollo commented. He couldn’t see his fellow agent’s face, but he could see his jet black hair poking up.

“I’d already be dead.” Hades said as he pointed at his helmet. The face screen had been pierced. “Call for Hestia and a drop ship.”

“Alright boss… But they’re not done with their shit just yet.” Apollo said before radioing Alpha again. “Alpha to Bravo, Hades and Artemis need medical attention. Main objective is complete… We found some new toys to play with.” Apollo said as he walked past Hades and to a cache of hi tech weaponry.

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"How many more explosive devices do you still need to set up?" Athena grunted in pain as Hephaestus placed his arm around her to help her up.

"One more and then I will be done..." He uttered as he leaned the Golden Spartan up against a nearby wall. Her eyes trailed up the semi destroyed stairway seeing the humongous individual beginning to make he descend.

"Okay here's the deal you go finish off your stuff while I will keep the big boy busy.." She shuddered slightly knowing that she would probably get thrown around some more. But she didn't have much choice and so before her fellow spartan could respond she spoke again, "but before you go do your thing I need you to pop my shoulder back into place...just jam it right back in its slot."

"Say what?" Even though she couldn't see his face from the sound of his voice she knew he wasn't very comfortable with it. "Um...okay, so you just want me to pop it back in?...Can't be that hard," he gave a slight chuckle as if he was making a joke but as he grabbed hold of the semi dangling arm his face became serious. "Ready?" Athena exhaled deeply before bending her elbow to a 90 degrees angle. Hephaestus grip her elbow with one hand to apply traction and the other he place on her forearm. Athena inhaled and exhaled as Hephaestus slowly rotated the arm and shoulder inward and then steadily back outward making sure to keep the traction. Athena bite down so hard on her lower lip that it began to bleed. The pain was excruciating but after just one repeat of the rotation there was a soft pop sound as the ball of the humerus popped back in its socket.

"Fuck...thanks mate," she uttered as a sigh of relief escaped her lips before she moved her arm around, making sure it wouldn't fall back out. There was a loud roar coming from the staircase as the big guy had managed to get halfway down. She turned towards Hephaestus opening her mouth to say something but he had already beaten her to it.

"I'm on it...have fun," he smirked before running off into another room.

"Let's get this shit over and done with," Athena mumbled to herself as she moved towards the staircase. "HEY BIG BOY! Need some help getting down?" She mocked, her arms were now outstretch in front of her, palms open as she concentrated. The individual roared again, but stopped as the staircase started to shake. The screeching of metal rubbing together could be heard as the screws that were holding the structure together began to vibrate in their sockets. Then with one quick movement of her arms to the ground, the bolts and screws jolted from their sockets causing the entire remaining staircase to crumble to the ground including the big guy. She smirked, "And that's the end of that!"

Meanwhile, Hestia was still preached behind the rocks. It looked as though it was going to be a quiet one for her until Apollo called through asking for medical assistance."Bravo to Alpha, I'm on my way..." She rose from her position but not before contact Hephaestus and Athena. "Athena can you hear me?"

"Yep!"

"It looks like Alpha has run into some trouble and needs my assistance, continue with objective..." Hestia was too focused with getting her ass over to Alpha team than asking how the Bravo team was going. She cut off communication as she began to lightly jog before it turned into a sprint.

"Um...okay.." Is all Athena could utter as the connection dropped out. It didn't really bother her since something else had already caught her eye. A faint crackling sound could be heard from the rubble. Athena slowly took a step forward to investigate but stopped to pick up a rod which looked like it was part of the railing from the staircase. As she took another step towards the sound, the ground beneath her feet shook slightly. Before she could react properly the ground shook again and then from amongst the rubble rose the beast, with its usual loud roar. Her eyes widened as its fist came straight towards her. "Fuck..." She cursed receiving a right hook in the jaw and knocked to the floor. "Demolition Man please tell me you are finished?" She called out as she tried to get back onto her feet.

"ALMOST!"

Before Athena was able to get up the beast grabbed her around the neck and pinned her to the ground. Although his grip was tightening, the suit prevent him from fully crushing her windpipe but she still couldn't get enough air into her lungs and found herself gasping for it. Her eye widened as her mind began to race in a slight panic manner. A number of ideas came to mind, like a kick to the groin but they all appeared unsatisfactory to her. Feeling him put more pressure onto her made Athena clench her hands and that's when she realised she was still holding the rod. With her last remaining breath before she would've passed out she jerked her right arm up and jabbed the rod into the large individual's neck. "Eat shit!" He cried out in agony as the metal pierced through a weak spot in his suit and pierced his skin. His hands slowly loosened as he grunted in pain. Athena continued to wedge the jagged edge rod further into his neck. Blood slowly began to ooze out, running down the metal rod.

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“New toys? What makes you think we’re going to use weapons we can’t even take a hit from?!” Artemis argued as she limped on toward both Hades and Apollo. “I say we destroy them.

“I’d say the same, but I don’t think the Director will agree. Come on, look at us. We’re a sect of the UNSC that’s basically designed to use advanced tech… Even if it’s dangerous.” Hades inputted. His voice was much clearer than the others as he spoke without a helmet. He remained seated on the floor, with his head slightly tilted up as he gently touched the right side of his face. Those shots weren’t like bullets at all. The projectiles packed a lot of heat, and if it weren’t for his helmet and armor, Hades would have probably been out of service.

“I guess…” Artemis said as she moved past Apollo and around to see Hades’ face. She couldn’t help but be curious as to what he looked like after basically getting shot in the face. Hades wasn’t the pale gothic type of guy that his codename would imply. Sure his hair was really dark, but it was probably natural. His skin tone showed that he basically a human soup bowl of various ethnicities. His skin held a light tanned tone, his hazel eyes slanted just a bit over his petite nose and strong shaped jaw. You’d think he was a Native American Indian. “Hades… your face…” Artemis started to say.

“Come on, it doesn’t look that bad. You got yourself a cool looking battle scar, buddy!” Apollo said. “Does it still burn?”

“Just a little, but it’s fading.” Hades said before looking to Artemis who sighed. “You?”

“Still feels like hell.” Artemis admitted. “When is Hestia getting in? I have to do more scans.”

“She’s on her way; it’s a bit of a distance.” Apollo informed. “You wanna meet her halfway?” Apollo suggested as he pointed his thumb over his shoulder.

“What about the weapons cache?” Hades said as he got himself up using his left arm.

“I got this… Apollo to the Director. We found what the enemy was looking for.” Apollo said over the radio. Then it got quiet. “Apo-” He was cut off.

“And what did we find?” The Director said in a stern tone.

“It looks like we found an armory, but for unknown weapons. Hi tech shit too.” Apollo said as his sister looked at one of the guns on the ground.

“Director, I think the weapons are using plasma.” Artemis said as she analyzed the rifle.

“Plasma?” The Director was intrigued. “I’ll send a team down to collect the weapons. Over and out.”

Apollo and Artemis stared each other down. Apollo wasn’t too happy about his sister taking over the communication, and Artemis just never liked how laidback her brother was with this situation.

“Don’t even start.” Hades said as he grabbed his totaled helmet and walked away from the two. “Artemis, do you think you can relock this chamber. Make the password something you can remember.” Hades said as he took lead. The twins both grunted at the same time before following. Once out the chamber, Artemis headed toward the terminal that access the door. Hades held his helmet close to his face before speaking into it“Hades to Hestia, how many clicks away are you from the large structure.”

“Less than a click away! This body just ain’t for looks!” Hestia replied. Hades shook his head before continuing toward the broken lift.

“Apollo.” Hades said with a tired tone. Apollo looked up at the hole above them and then at Hades. The guy seemed to have a plan, but probably didn’t like it.

“What’s up chief?”

“No homo.” Hades said before wrapping his left arm around Apollo tightly before shooting his grapple gun up to the upper level.

“What the?!” Apollo shouted before the two were pulled up. Hades bit his tongue from the strain on his injured shoulder, but it was nothing compared to how uncomfortable Apollo felt. As soon as they reach the upper level, Hades let go of Apollo, unhooked his grapple and landed with finesse. Apollo just hit the floor. “That was so gay!” Apollo complained childishly as he picked himself up.

“Just come on. We have to meet Hestia.”

“YOU have to meet Hestia. I’m untouchable!” Apollo said as he brushed his shoulder off. Hades looked at Apollo with a scowl. The burn scar on Hades face made him look much more menacing. “Alright let’s go.”

“Hestia to Hades, I’m reaching the structure now!”

“We’re meeting up with you within the structure. Structure is clear of hostiles.” Hades informed as he stepped over a body.

“You know I can do all the talking, right?” Apollo said.

“I know.” Hades said with a smirk before chuckling to himself.

“What’s that suppose to mean?! Hey!”

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Athena forced the rod further into the big guy's throat, until his hands finally let go of her neck. She immediately gasped for air taking in as much as she could before exhaling. That was a little to close for comfort. Athena pushed the dead corpse off her own body just as Hephaestus made it back to her side.

"Finally the beast decided to go to sleep," he chuckled but the Golden Spartan wasn't in the mood to joke around, she was worn out and aching in pain.

"No thanks to you," she spoke coldly but Hephaestus just brushed it of as he assisted her to her feet. "Everything done?"

"Yep...time to blow this place into pieces," he laughed again but stopped seeing Athena's head lightly shake. The two packed up their gear and a few over goodies that could be useful before heading out the front door. "We need to be about 15metres away...this should do it," the demolition man smirked underneath his helmet as he pulled out the detonator. His eyes gleamed with excitement as he turned back towards the structure. Hephaestus' finger hesitated on the trigger as he turned his head towards Athena. "Don't you want to watch the fireworks," he chuckled again as Athena in a slight aggravated manner turned around to face the communication tower.

"Just blow the dam thing already."

"1....2....3," his finger pressed down on the trigger. There was a loud boom, as the ground beneath their shook rapidly like miniature earthquake. The entire structure engulfed itself in flames. The heat could be felt through their suits as both simultaneously took a step back admiring the now crumbling building.

After a couple of minutes of just standing there looking almost stunned the two snapped out of their little trance and began to head to the pick up zone. "Bravo to Alpha, objective complete, heading to pick up zone," Athena uttered over the radio.