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Fanfic: Final Frontier, Halo/KanColle crossover WIP
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Richard Scepton:
[Darkness...sleep. Peace.
UNSC Providence. Artermis-class battlecruiser. Flagship. Battlegroup Liberation.
Stirring...something calling for her.
The screams. The shouts. The triple bangs distinctive to MACs. The hiss of plasma torpedoes. The screech of energy bangs of naval coilguns. The roar of Archer missiles. The thunder of Stoski cruise missiles. The thumps of Harpoon short-range missiles.
Return...we need your aid.
Civilian transports destroyed. Ships destroyed. The proud Eagle, Globe, Banner of the UNSC. In shambles. Civillians, brutally murdered. Planets, destroyed, their surfaces hot, marred glass. Entire continents, afire.
Please...return to aid us...
The Eagle never fell. It never gave up. Through decades of war, it persisted. It never withdrew. It struck back a thousand times harder than anyone thought possible. Through it all, It advanced, without falter.
Return! We need your aid!
I have sworn an oath. To preserve, defend, and uphold humanity to the very end. No one can stop me. I shall keep on, shall soldier on, until my dying breath to the void that saw my demise. My loyalties are to my creators, To Humanity I stand.
Please, come back to us, proud warrior of the ocean!
I shall. UNSC Providence, Artermis-class battlecruiser, reporting for action. Where humanity is, I am.
And I shall advance without falter.
Combat Stations.
"Oh man, what the hell?"
The first thing she felt was pain. And sure it hurt. Her head hurt like a damn f**ker. And she didn't know exactly why.
F***, that hurt.
Groaning, she got up from her prone position on the water before trying to stand upright. A jolt of pain caused her to wince slightly, and press her hand to the left side of her head. Feeling the blood dripping down from a nasty gash on her left arm, she let out an audible sigh.
Running a complete systems self-check, she also checked herself manually from top to bottom. Contrany to her earlier expectations, she herself was mostly a-okay, with the only serious injuries being on her upper left thigh, the gash on her arm, and a still-bleeding wound on her left temple that throbbed as if it was caused by a sledgehammer. It was mostly concealed by her officer's hat, but it still throbbed nonetheless.
The same can't be said about her rig.
Most of the armor plating was bent or scorched, with gaping holes torn in some areas and others turned to complete slag. The whole sensor array was bent and twisted out of shape, with some places destroyed completely.
As reports flooded into her bridge(s) and CIC, she coudn't help but sigh. Her long-range FTL sensors were completely gone, and so was her FTL comms array. The maser was offline, and her primary sensors were mostly blown to bits. Most of her situational awareness was liited to auxulliary radar and rangfinder crews on her bridges. She would have to send out a CAP flight soon in short order, one way or the other. Communication was also an issue, with the FTL array gone, she was limited now to old-school radio. Although, she could've easily crafted one herself out of random bits and scraps her fairies could dig up. That, or they could make one themselves.
A ping to her engineering section returned more bad news, the slipspace drive was ruptured and coudn't be started without risking enveloping the whole place in slipspace portal fury. Most of her point-defenses were blown to bits, and her ECM systems had only eleven out of twenty-two emitters functional. The fire control systems for her MAC was offline, though the ranging equipment and auxulliary targeting computers still worked, but her Archer pods and Stoski VLS tubes were both functional and running. So was twelve out of her twenty-two M910 Rampart point-defense guns. A twin-gun close-in weapon system armed with two rotary cannons, it could send a hailstorm of 50mm rounds at anything that got too close with flak rounds at 3,000rpm from each barrel.
Pulling her double MACs out from their mounts on her back, she eyed them curiously. They took a peluciar look compared to the firearms she'd often see. The design itself was a double-barreled rifle similar in design to the ARC-920 light anti-tank coilgun she had in her armories, however it lacked a slot to fit the 25mm rounds and instead lit up at the prongs with a distinct glow, along with a glowing '66' greeting her at the ammo counter.
"Haizz,' sh sighed. "Hal, where are we?"
"Dunno," answered her companion AI. "Best guess is 'in the middle of the ocean'. Not much else. Although, this planet seems to have a breatheable atmosphere and trace signs of industrialization. In terms of mass this planet is quite similar to Earth, with a gravitational force og 0.9975g. Atmospheric composition is–"
"Cut the s**t, Hal. Exactly where are we?"
"Dunno. I could triangulate our position from nearby stars if I'm lucky, but there's no star outta there that is charted. We could be in another galaxy for all I know."
"S**t."
"Though, fretting gets us nowhere. Let's just asses the situation. Once that is done, we can make plans and proceed."
"And find out who mashed my damn head with a sledgehammer," she responded dryly. "It hurts like a motherf****r you know."
Activating the HUD on her eyeglasses, she game mentally the 'go' code for a squandron of F-86B Sabres to launch. The glowing vectored-thrust nozzles screamed as the STOVL craft swung themselves out of the enclosed flight deck, visibly armed with AAM-150 anti-air missiles. The fighters then split up into four trios and went off in the four ways of the compass.
Now free of things to do, she resigned herself to the wait. Lighting a cigaratte with a Zippo lighter, she took a drag, before exhaling. Letting the smoke escape her lungs ans she stared at the direction where one of the fighter wings went, she raised her hand to silehoutte it against the setting sun.
"Damn," she mumured to herself. "That's beautiful."
A ping and a blip on her HUD brought her attention back to reality. The wing sent eastward reported six contacts moving in formation, roughly six miles out from her position. While their course at first glance might seem random, closer examination of their peculiar zigzagging course showed a direct beeline towards her position. Whoever they were, they had clearly saw her and were moving in to investigate.
Strange, she thought.
Based on the blurry onboard camera footage, the leading two contacts were distinctly humanoid, with weapon emplacements scattered here and their like a fleetgirl's rigging, but had a distinctly 'alien' design flair to them. As to top it all off, four of the contacts running a vanguard line bore a distinct resemblance to a shark.
The f**k?
"You f**king serious bro," she mumured, narrowing her eyes at the camera feed. She zoomed in on places, out on others, checked, and double-checked the feed several times, even going as far as to completely reboot her monitor in order to make sure that she wasn't looking at some computer software malfunction. But regardless of whatever she did, the images stayed the same.
"Seriously?" she said to herself. Having given up by now and accepted things as they were, she pressed a button on the side of her eyeglasses.
"Hal?"
"Ja."
"Reboot the comms."
"What for?"
"I see for 'sharks' in the distance. And worse, they have torpedo tubes. They're beelining for us as I speak."
"Get your eyes checked."
"I have you donut."
"Get your eyes checked again."
"No clinic."
"Then what about your monitor?"
"Done. Same result. Still there."
"Shichirigahama beach isin't seven shaku long though."
"Boring."
"So what? It's written that way. Whatdaya do?"
"Kujuukurihama ain't ninety-nine shaku long though, as well."
"You seem to know a lot of boring stuff, don't you?"
"You started it, not me."
"Setting that aside," said Halifax, "What shall we do with these 'sharks'? Make some shark fin soup"
"I'll give you a million if you can make shark fin soup out of a torpedo."
"Mmmm. Shark fin soup. Explosives flavor. Dosen't sound that all bad."
"If you mention that one food again I'll throw your AI chip overboard. Start being serious and quit talking on random things for God's sake."
"You started it."
"No, you started it." she said. "I'm throttling up. Hold on to something."
"Why didn't you tell me sooner?"
"Didn't ask."
A distinct whirring sound enamenated from below as her operational thrusters ignited, blue flames kicking large plumes of steam in the distance as she lunged forward at a steady thirty-three knots. The contacts, having apparently detected her movement, had clearly known that she'd detected them. They had abandoned the zigzagging course they'd been following earlier and instead beelined straight dead at her location.
Let's see how this goes, she thought.
As it turned out, the plan to strike up a relationship with the locals went out the window as soon as she got the chance to try it. She had approached with open arms–or rather, the space equivalent to it. But it did not matter much anyways, for the leading one, upon sighting her, had opened fire with neither warning nor provocation. She cursed internally as she dodged a salvo of fire from the now-confirmed hostiles, a plume of water thrown up from the impact drenching her in saltwater that left her uniform soaked and her wounds screaming in salted agony.
Verdammt, she thought. How are we supposed to negotiate with this kind of escalation?
Nodding at no one in particular, she drew her energy sword, and promptly sliced apart three artillery shells in quick sucession. A burst of fire from her operational point-defense guns eliminated a salvo of torpedoes headed her way. Adopting a defensive stance, she raised her hand.
"Fire Control, get me a firing solution. Nail them with an Archer barrage, and bring the coilguns around." she ordered. "Fire away, don't hold back."
A clicking sound made itself audible, soon followed by a distinct whirring sound as the four Mark 11 Spree naval coilguns located on her sides rapidly rotated and began tracking the hostiles, the triple 283cm guns angled directly at the enemy. Despite being a strictly secondary weapon for Artemis-class battlecruisers like her, the M26 Spree was by no means weak. Firing garguantuan 110-inch shield-and-armor-piercing high-explosive shells at nearly half the speed of light, the coilgun could easily pierce both the shields and the armor of a CPV-class destroyer and shred it outright. The M58 Archer dual-purpose missile was more of a triple-a-d type of missile, but it was still an incredibly potent missile. Apart from shooting down plasma torpedoes and Seraphs, they still remained capable in an anti-ship role. A swarm of Archers could easily cripple an unshielded CCS-class cruiser outright, or even tear apart an SDV-class corvette, shield and all.
As the fire from the hostiles drew nearer, the blast doors on the missile pods opened up to reveal the armed missiles within, ready to send trails of firey doom at their assigned targets.
A series of red blips appeared on her HUD as the missiles locked onto their targets and the coilguns transversed into position. It was all she needed, as a grin split her face in half, her scary expression directed towards the hostiles. If only her eyes glowed, the scene would be complete.
One swipe of her energy sword accompained her order.
"Fire."
An earsplitting series of relavistic cracks resounded throughout the area as her four triple Mark 11 Spree naval coilguns cracked off their salvo of 283cm shield-and-armor-piercing high-explosive shells, twelve bright golden tracers lighting up the twilight sky as they thundered at their target at four-tenths the speed of light. A heartbeat later, the M58 Archer missiles fired from their pods as well, six hundred trails of rocket exhaust and fire arced over the sea, intent on destroying anything that was dumb enough to challenge their master.
The coilgun salvo hit home.
If the muzzle flash from the hostile's initial salvo was blinding, the electro-magnetoplasma blast from the coilguns made them look like a mere toy. The leading alien was vaporized outright, it's armor providing virtually nonexistent effectivenes against a shield-and-armor-piercing high-explosive shell still trailing the plasma from the electro-plasma coils used to fire it at relavistic speeds. It's companion fared no better than it, a glancing blow pulverising it to the core.
The 'sharks' (as Halifax called them) were obliterated outright, the disruptor-explosive warheads covering them in gravitic shockwaves from spatial disortions as each and every warhead went off, generating large portals similar to black-holes before collapsing, sending shockwaves in every direction. They stood little chance against such overwhelming firepower, especially from warheads meant to defeat Covenant armor and shielding.
It was over as soon as it began.
Lighting a new cigaratte with her Zippo lighter, she moved over towards the last known location of the hostiles. Picking up a fragment of one of the pulverised hostiles, she eyed it curiously.
"Did I go too far?" she mumured.
Most, if not all UNSC ships relied on Titanium-A battleplate, and later, Titanium-A3 battleplate as their primary armor material. Even though it proved to be of limited effectiveness against Covenant plasma weapons, it was still by no means obsolete. A Paris-class heavy frigate could take several plasma torpedo hits and expect to survive, and a Marathon-class heavy cruiser sould withstand dozens. These ships might've as well used wet toilet paper for armor, given their virtually nonexistent armor effectiveness.
A ping on her HUD brought her eyes to it, she clicked the button to bring up the camera feed.
A naval battle unfolded in front of her eyes.
"Goddammit Hal, what am I looking at?" she demanded.
"Dunno. Some kind of surface engagement maybe?"
"Probable. But question is, should we intervene?"
"Your call. But..."
"But what?"
"Active sensors have finished relaying home the general shape and profile of one of the two opposing sides. They match with the ones who tried to attack us earlier." Halifax said, displaying images and sensor data on Providence's HUD. "The other side, I have no idea–though they seem to be of a rather old make. I've complied all the data on their weapon emplacements, they seem to match with the Type 96 light anti-aircraft gun, dual and triple mounts."
This was huge news. On one end, she had figured out that the planet was inhabitated, but she didn't know by whom. The first engagement and the new devenlopments that indicated that there were two opposing sides fighting each other also raised another set of eyebrows–she would have to pick sides carefully if she had to intervene. That the scans indicated that the smaller guns were the Type 96 25mm light anti-aircraft commonly used by Japan for anti-aircraft during World War II, of all times, wasn't helping.
"Halifax, assign targeting data to contacts on sensors, mark them alphabetically and numerically, standard code. Get an Archer lock on each and every of them, try to cover all our bases here. If push comes to shove and we have to engage them all, wire up the missiles to all fire simutaneously." she ordered. Not that she was trying to communicate (she really wanted to), but if the scans were correct and that they were out of date roughly six centuries, she won't even bother, since WWII communications technology was limited to direct line-of-sight only, and even then, nine times out of ten you would have to be in literally pistol range to talk.
"Roger." Halifax responded. "Assigning targeting data, classifying by apparent affilation. Earlier hostiles are marked A-1 through 16, others are marked B-1 through 11. Also, you should see this."
As Halifax spoke, she relayed a series of images to Providence's HUD, which indicated that multiple smaller contacts had emerged from one of the larger. She then proceeded to overlay one of the contacts with any databank entry in her computers, and much to her surprise, came up with a match: Mitsubitshi A6M Zeroes.
The f**k?
As if that was already enough for one day, one of the sixteen hostile craft launched three smaller craft, all making a dead beeline for her. Further imagery examination indicated that they either carried bombs or anti-ship missiles, either of which was bad. Halifax had assigned targeting data to them too, which meant that she could now destroy them at will.
She had initially decided to stay neutral, only fire unless fired upon, but as they entered rage of her point-defense, she switched channels to her bridges and CIC.
"Fire Control, launch the Archers. Target contacts A-1 through 16, AA-1 through 3."
Placing her energy sword back in it's holster, she gave the order.
"Fire."
Richard Scepton:
Chapter 2: Providence
Having finally settled herself down to a position that guaranteed safety, Providence finally had time to check on her sensors.
The contacts were closing in at a rather slow speed. Average speed being at twenty knots. Her missile pods were tracking them as the Longswords crossed by for a visual. The imagery they sent back was... quite interesting. Girls, skating across water, some kind of mech suit strapped to them. She herself was no stranger to kanmusu. After all, the UNSC established the Naval Auxiliary Forces late in 2546 after the Marathon-class heavy cruiser Never Back Down had returned from the abyss with her Battlegroup after the fleet had been obliterated over Harvest. But their design caught her eye. UNSC kanmusus typically wore navy uniforms that doubled as armor, for some wierd reason. It was guessed that their clothes were seemingly cloth, but at the molecular level weaved fibers of Titanium-A or the later byzanium-enhanced Titanium-F. Their rigs would be their old hull split lengthwise and suspended from two arms attached to a backpack-like object on their back, and their MAC taking the form of a rifle. She had seen a Halcyon-class light cruiser bash a CCS-class battlecruiser with her MAC shaped like a Stanchion, and hers took the shape of an ARC-920. Examination of the front, however, revealed that her two FMJ-X-2556 Super-Heavy Coil MACs, the kind installed on ODPs, were actually located in the prongs. Not that they would be of much use to her right now, seeing that the fire control system for them was offline and she didn't want to bust the planet she was on right now.
Their rigs, on the other hand, were of a curiously old design, as if someone split a sea-going ship apart and taped them to their limbs. Their gun batteries resembled the Bismark naval coilguns seen on the larger Warlock-class battlecruisers, but lacked the magnetic coils from what her Longswords could scan. But they revealed the existence of chemical propellants on them, further heightening her suspicions. Who would bother to summon a centuries-old ship to work in an environment where they'd be a pile of scrap when they could summon a fresh-from-the-dock cruiser with MACs, coilguns, missiles, and nukes?
That the scans indicated that the smaller guns were the Bofors 40mm guns commonly used for anti-aircraft during World War II, of all times, wasn't helping.
So her missiles continued to lock and her coilguns remained ready. Not that she was trying to communicate, if the scans were correct and that they were out of date six centuries, she won't even bother, since WWII communications technology was limited to direct line-of-sight only, and even then, nine times out of ten you would have to be in literally pistol range to talk.
And so she kept monitoring the HUD, which indicated that multiple smaller contacts had emerged from one of the larger. Her active sensors were scanning them, and came up with a match: Mitsubitshi A6M Zeroes.
The f**k?
As if that was already enough for one day...
"Alright. According to our best sources, we are at the origin of the sound, actually, some distance away." Kaga noted.
The entire patrol group was cruising along the way, their eyes glued to their radar, which displayed a single unidentifiable object. It showed no visible IFF, no signature, nothing. Like a radar relfector.
As they entered visual range, three things greeted them: smoke rising in the sky, a lone figure standing a few feet nearby, and a Ru-class, or to be exact whatever remained of a Ru-class, which was half a gun turret. The rest was simply gone. She couldn't fathom what had caused this devastation. The figure was a kanmusu, but unlike any other. In height she easily dwarfed Yamato, standing at a full six feet, six inches tall. A pair of eyeglasses with rounded square lenses projected an eerie green glow from one side, prompting her to guess that it was a HUD of some sort. She wore a uniform consisting of a collared shirt, black necktie, and an olive green jacket combined with a matching short skirt. An olive beret completed the picture, along with steel gray eyes and auburn short hair. She projected an aura of power and strength around her, which sent a chill up and down Kaga's spine.
Her rig was futuristic, and she held a double-barreled rifle in her hands. An ungodly amount of turrets lined her side, and they all were tracking them, their barrels glowing menacingly as if they were ready to fire at any moment. The proud symbol of an eagle could be seen displayed clearly on the rig for all to see, an eagle with its wings spread over a globe. A banner flowed across the globe with the letters "UNSC" written on it.
The UN Security Council?
The awkward silence that followed was broken by the form of an Abyssal Ru-class battleship shattering the ocean surface.
Followed by dozens of more battleships.
Followed by dozens of Wo-class carriers.
Followed by hundreds of cruisers.
And thousands of destroyers.
Oh, we're so f**ked. Fubuki thought.
The newcomer reacted immediately, her triple batteries switching from her and her comrades and began tracking the demons as they all fired in unison. The deafening thunder echoed throughout the area, and the shockwave sending everyone backpedaling as the blinding muzzle flash caused everyone to close their eyes and shield them with their hands, all save for the newcomer. Fubuki guessed that her eyeglasses must've polarized.
Then the newcomer returned the favor.
If the muzzle flashbang from the Abyssals were deafening and blinding, the resounding thundercrack of the newcomer's retaliation made them seem like a hand grenade compared to a nuke. Fubuki opened her eyes to see the hat of a Wo-class carrier, the entire demon itself, put simply, gone. The battleships suffered the same fate as the salvo went straight through them like a bullet through air, and the cruisers and destroyers were sent flying several hundred feet away as the newcomer's rig suddenly opened up with the smoke of rocket exhaust as thousands of screaming missiles launched from their pods. The missiles obliterated the demons where they hit, leaving nothing save a few gun barrels here and there. The air was filled with the odor of vaporized rocket propellant as the newcomer's anti-aircraft batteries engaged the fighters the Wo-class carriers launched. Fubuki and Amatsukaze added their own AAA to the mayhem, and Kaga proceeded to send a pack of Zeroes at the demon fighters as the newcomer simply stiched apart the fighters with insane accuracy and popping open the fighters like a balloon. So obsessed was she with the newcomer that she didn't see the abyssal Ru-class battleship until it was too late.
She suddenly felt the air being slammed out of her as the full-on force of a Ru-class battleship rammed into her on full speed. Before she could get up, she saw the barrels of a Ru-class battleship aiming at her, with its eyes behind them glowing with pleasure.
Oh, I'm going to die. f**k this.
Before said battleship was bisected by a glowing sword.
Staring at where the demon battleship used to occupy moments ago, she stared at its smoking remains, now a molten slag of metal and...
"You ok, little missy?" said a Kansai voice.
Looking up, she saw the face of the newcomer, staring at her with her hardened expression. But her eyes betrayed obvious concern and as if that wasn't enough, her hand was extended. Taking it, the newcomer helped her to her feet, before Fubuki felt her legs become extremely numb, and suddenly collapsed, and the newcomer catched her before she fell completely and kept Fubuki leaning on her side for support.
After that, Kaga began to approach her, rather timidly. The newcomer's turrets were rotated into a defensive position, but not pointed at anyone in particular. In fact, they seemed to be aiming skyward.
"Sorry but... Who are you?" she asked.
The response came in a strange language Fubuki couldn't understand, but the best she could make out was that her name was a "Yoo Ann Ess See Pra Vee Den Ce", followed by a string of numbers and god-knows-what.
Kaga seemed not to understand, but brushed it aside.
"I see. Would you come to our base? I think we could discuss things better there."
"I see," said the newcomer in a Kansai dialect.
After that, the only sound was the lapping of the waves, as the fleet slowly made the journey towards Yokosuka.
The main theme of this story is Final Frontier by Thomas Bergenson.
Anyways, bis zum nächsten Mal!
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