Raptor Squad Origins: Original

Chapter 1: Blade Raptor -92r

In the year 2517 the beginning of the Spartan II program is underway. The candidates of this program are put into teams based on personality including Team Zulu, Alpha Team, Red Team, Blue Team, Green Team, Grey Team, Black Team, and Team Raptor. Team Raptor led by Blade Raptor whose real name is unknown is the most outspoken of these trainees and can easily influence any discussion. Team Raptor was soon broken up due to most of its members washing out or being killed in action.

As Blade Raptor enters the pitch black training room his cold blue eyes quickly adjust to the darkness allowing him to see the training equipment in front of him. As he approaches the weights three O.N.I spooks clad in dark black ODST Recon armor appear behind him. Blade Raptor sighs as the O.N.I agents approach him.

"What do you want?" asks Blade Raptor as he stares into the visor of the lead O.N.I agent, "Whatever you want I know it is not good at all."

"We want you to accept the offer that we have been asking you about" replies the lead O.N.I agent in a rough voice as Blade Raptor equips an emerald green Mjolnir ODST helmet, "This time we are not asking, this time it is an order."

"Now that you have finally figured out that you only had to order me to accept your request I guess I can handle anything you assign to me," answers Blade Raptor as he finally equips the last of his Mjolnir ODST armor, "So what do you have in mind?"

"We want you to lead a team of ODSTs, train them, and be complete bad-asses about it," replies the lead O.N.I agent as Blade Raptor smirks beneath his helmet, "Now we know that Spartans and ODSTs do not have the best of relationships but we believe you are the right guy for the job considering your past relationship with them."

"Ok," responds Blade Raptor as the O.N.I. agents lead him through the grey halls of Castle Base to the hanger where a black O.N.I pelican is waiting for them, "I accept my mission and my new team."

As soon as the O.N.I pelican lifts off the hanger's roof open up like the dome of an indoor stadium that can switch between indoor and outdoor. The roar of the pelican's thrusters sound like an army of lions on the hunt as it flies off into the skies like a fat cheetah. The Golden gleam of the sun beaming through the white and blue of the sky above shine onto the O.N.I pelican causing the illusion that it is a star in the middle of the day.

Chapter 2: Hawk and Eagle

As Blade Raptor's pelican approaches the UNSC Prowler The long Arm of The Law he notices the three O.N.I spooks glaring at him as an A.I velociraptor appears. The holographic Velociraptor stalks Blade Raptor throughout the ship as Blade Raptor makes note of the emerald green color of the hologram. As soon as The holographic nods at Blade Raptor the lead O.N.I agent stands up and walks towards it.

"Blaze, are you sure this is a good idea?" asks the lead O.N.I agent as the velociraptor points to the A.I slot in the pelican's wall, "You are technically an O.N.I agent and you have higher clearance than the rest of us in this dropship."

"I am very sure it is a good idea agent Death," replies Blaze as he continues his holographic walk around the dropship, "Considering whose mind I was based on and considering that Blade Raptor was one of few Spartan candidates who were not brought through the usual means."

"That was cold," replies Blade Raptor as Death gets Blaze's A.I chip, "Maybe you should listen to your boss there."

"Hawk to special O.N.I team Bravo," announces a stern voice over the loudspeakers, "we are approaching the destination, once we get there you guys need to exit the dropship so I can perform the necessary modifications."

"DAMN IT HAWK!" yells Death as the loudspeaker goes quiet, "I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO BE QUIET!"

"I am sorry Death but I gave him the orders to announce our approach," replies Blaze as he appears in avatar form from his A.I chip, "I wanted to introduce Blade Raptor to his pilot and his co-pilot."

"I am guessing that Hawk is the pilot," replies Blade Raptor as a standard ODST in his black armor and blue visor opens the door and grabs a shot gun from the weapons compartment, "I am also guessing that Hawk is generally a loudmouth and that this guy is the co-pilot since he is remaining relatively quiet."

"You are correct," replies Blaze as the ODST returns to the pelican's cockpit, "Hawk is the pilot and is usually a loudmouth while Eagle who was just in here is the co-pilot and he is usually quiet, I am hoping that you will help Eagle get out of being the quiet one since he is usually the one who gets those gut feelings that something is wrong."

"Got that right Blaze," replies the same ODST as he returns to the rear of the dropship, "Hawk will be her in a few minutes, gotta put this bird on autopilot in order to land."

"Correction," replies the pilot, "autopilot prep complete, landing initiated."

The O.N.I pelican's landing gear are deployed as the auto landing sequence is activated. As soon as Blade Raptor grabs the A.I chip he places it in the back of his helmet. Blade Raptor then moves to the cockpit of the pelican only to see more pelicans similar to the one he is on headed to the UNSC prowler.

Chapter 3: Harpy

Sitting in the grey O.N.I prowler is a female ODST who watches the O.N.I dropship land in the hanger bay. Smaller than her male counterparts Harpy is still a fierce fighter and a loyal friend who will still kick your ass if you forget those facts. Her ODST helmet stands out from the rest of her squad of ODSTs due to the red stripe on the helmet.

"I wonder if that is the new guy" thinks Harpy as the pelicans rear loading door opens up to reveal the O.N.I spooks, two ODSTs, and a Spartan clad in emerald green ODST armor, "The new guy is a Spartan, I guess he will be a good teammate as long as he is a good fighter."

"Sargeant Harpy," announces Death as the group approaches, "Lieutenant Blade Raptor and he is the new commander of your squad, I expect you to listen to him."

"Death I do not think that was the best choice of words there," replies the disembodied voice of Blaze from within Blade Raptor's helmet, "I believe that you should not have ordered her to obey his commande but instead suggested that she obeys his commands."

"I can tell this is going to be a long deployment if Death is being attached to the unit too," answers Blade Raptor as Hawk and Eagle head back to the pelican in order to upgrade it, "SGT. Harpy, help Hawk and Eagle with the necessary upgrades to the pelican please."

"I am sorry Blade Raptor but she is not qualified to perform upgrades to vehicles," replies Blaze as Blade Raptor watches Hawk and Eagle work on the pelican, "Well she is but at the same time she is not, only the pilots of the air transport can work on their vehicles."

As Blade Raptor calls over his current team mates he prepares to remove his helmet but Blaze prevents him from doing so. After realizing the possible consequences of showing soldiers the face of someone who should be long gone Blade Raptor decides not to remove his helm. Looking around Blade Raptor notices at least three more ODSTs headed his way.

Chapter 4: Falcon, Utah, Osprey, Velo, and Vulture, and Energy Blade gauntlets

Three days after meeting the first five members of his team Raptor is taken to the ONI HQ where his arrival is announced by the O.N.I agents there. Among the Spartans greeting him are the Spartans of Kill Team Zulu. Being angered by the announcement Blade Raptor stomps off but is stopped quickly by a fellow Spartan in a Recon class helmet with highly modified red and blue armor, but stomps off in anger, huffing as he walks by, startling five ODSTs who watch him put his fist through a wall.

"O.N.I said that I would not have a big welcome," grunts Blade Raptor as the five ODSTs approach him, "But guess what? THEY LIED!" He yells.

Blade Raptor puts another hole into the wall as his squad approaches him followed by Death, who had just debriefed the other blue and red Spartan on a mission. Shaking his head in frustration Blade Raptor decides to cool off and not try to punch Death in the face at the moment.

"I am guessing that these other five ODSTs are my new recruits," says Blade Raptor as Death dismisses his squad and the other five ODSTs, "or did you bring me here for something else?"

"We have brought you here for something else," replies Death as Blade Raptor sighs in annoyance, "We have brought you here to give you a weapon that can make you live up to the name Blade Raptor."

Death lead's Blade Raptor down the white halls of the O.N.I HQ into a room filled with blue light. On the nearest table Blade Raptor spies a pair of Mjolnir gauntlets that seem to have upgrades done to them. As Blade Raptor equips the new gauntlets he realizes that they fit over his standard Mjolnir gauntlets as his face twists into that of anger.

"The Mjolnir armor is Halsey's design," notes Blade Raptor as he glares angrily at Death angrily, "Blaze, details on the five ODSTs from the hallway and details on this gauntlet, now."

"Affirmative," replies Blaze as Blade Raptor prepares to punch Death in the face, "UNSC Mjolnir Energy Blade Gauntlets, Halsey's design, you are the first to get them, they are based on Sangheili technology."

"Now the specs on my team" replies Blade Raptor as he inserts Blaze's A.I chip into the nearest computer, "I want to know my team."

"Gladly," replies Blaze as he begins to access the Raptor Squad files, "uploading files now."

>>>accessing
>>>>Warning classified information
>>>>>Would you like to open files [Y/N]?
>>>>>>Y
>>>>>>>Granted

Full name: Classified
Blood type: Classified
Rank: Sgt.
Call sign: Harpy
Gear: Heavy ODST when in combat, light ODST when awaiting missions
specialty: CQC
Personality: Harpy may seem mean but she is actually a kind soldier once you get to know her
Back Ground: Classified, Married to Hawk who is Eagle's brother. Harpy is the sister of classified.

Full name: classified
Blood type: classified
Rank: Sgt.
Call sign: Hawk
Gear: light ODST
Specialty: Pilot
Personality: polite, He is also a loudmouth
Background: classified, Husband of Harpy, his brother is Eagle and his brother-in-law is classified.

Full name: classified
Blood type: classified
rank: sgt.
call sign: Eagle
gear: light ODST
specialty: pilot
personality: polite and silent unless he needs to speak
background: classified, Harpy's brother-in-law and Hawk's brother

Full name: classified
blood type: classified
rank: sgt.
call sign: Osprey
gear: standard ODST
specialty: vehicles, mechanic
personality: easily pissed off if a vehicle is very damaged
background: classified

full name: classified
blood type: classified
rank: sgt.
call sign: Vulture
gear: standard ODST
specialty: grenadier
personality: cold blooded killer
background: Vulture once served three years in prison for fragging his previous commanding officer

full name: classified
blood type: classified
rank: sgt.
call sign: Velo
gear: heavy ODST
specialty: heavy weapons
personality: easily pissed off which is good for combat situations unless he is behind his teammates
background: classified

full name: classified
blood type: classified
rank: sgt.
call sign: Utah
gear: standard ODST
specialty: designated marksman
personality: laid back, hopefully classified will teach him a lesson
background: classified

full name: classified
blood type: classified
rank: sgt
call sign: Falcon
gear: standard ODST
specialty: tech expert
personality: questioning when it comes to understanding technology
background: classified

>>>transmission terminated
>>>>Connecting to security feed
>>>>>Have a good day Blaze

"One of your ODSTs just kicked Death's ass," notes Blaze as he reads Raptor Squad's mission files, "apparently we are supposed to link up with the guys at Jericho VII just in case they need back up."

Chapter 5: Briefing

>>>Accessing
>>>>Denied
>>>>>Oh shut up you stupid Dumb A.I
>>>>>>Keep it clean
>>>>>>>Open file again
>>>Accessing
>>>>Granted
>>>>>Open file [Y/N]?
>>>>>>Y
>>>>>>>Denied
>>>>>>>>Shut up and do my job Vergil
>>>>>>>>>Previous statement redacted, files opened

Mission: provide back up for L.E.M.O.N and UNSC teams as they extract a high value insurrectionist if they need it

primary objective: the extraction of high value target

secondary objective: Recon for potential suspicious activity

tertiary objective: if any threats are found eliminate them

Quadrary objective: Deploy Raptors if any of the teams need that back-up

>>>>>>>End briefing [Y/N]?
>>>>>>Y
>>>>>Granted, remember keep it clean
>>>>Shut up Vergil
>>>Connection terminated

"Raptor Squad," announces Raptor as the briefing ends, "You know the mission, now lets roll."

Chapter 6: Hunter taming

On board the UNSC Savannah Blade and his ODSTs enter their drop pods for the drop they have been waiting for. As Blade signals for the drop one of his squad members begins to hail him. This member of Raptor Squad happens to be Vulture who wears a set of dirt brown standard ODST BDU, and has a bad attitude.

"Time to blow -blam!- up right sir?" asks Vulture with his gruff voice as the drop pods begin their fall to the planet below.

"Yes it is time to blow -blam!- up Vulture," replies Blade in his usual calm tone as he checks on his teams weapons, "I see you have a grenade launcher, that is perfect for blowing -blam!- up."

"Agreed sir," answers Vulture as the drop pods finally enter Jericho VII's atmosphere, "the covenant picked the wrong day to piss of the wrong squad."

As Raptor Squad's drop pod parachutes deploy Blade checks the area his team is landing for hostiles. After Blade gives the all clear Harpy speaks up. Harpy who wears a set of midnight black Heavy ODST BDU is the team's close combat expert and her favorite weapon is the Shotgun.

"Radio silence from now till we exit the drop pod," announces Harpy in her soft voice as the pods enter their halfway point, "O.N.I also wants us to be wary of Hunters."

"Yeah they could have told us that before we dropped," sighs Blade as radio silence goes into effect, "Our drop zone is being patrolled by a couple of Hunters."

The Raptor Squad drop pods finally reach the ground as two lumbering cans of worms in blue armor with spikes on the back begin to approach. As the door to Blade's drop pod flies off it hits the nearest Hunter and slightly wounds it. Blade and his Squad step out onto the light yellow sand of the deserts of Jericho VII under its blue sky which reminds Blade of Earth.

"Heh," remarks Vulture as the Hunter pair prepare to fire, "this is going to be fun."

"Hell yeah it is," replies Blade as he picks up his drop pod and throws it at the Hunters, "damn, I missed but I have a new idea."

Blade smirks under his helmet as a stream of green flies past his head. Signalling to his squad Blade rushes the nearest hunter and hops onto its back. The Hunter begins to run in circles trying to get Blade off its back as Blade imitates a twentieth century rodeo competitor.

"What are you doing sir?" asks Vulture as the second hunter focuses its attention to Raptor Squad.

"If this thing wants a fight," grunts Blade as the hunter desperately tries to get him off, "I will give it one."

Blade and his personal fight with the Hunter continue for an hour as his squad keeps dodging the second Hunter's attacks. As soon as the first Hunter gets tired Blade dismounts and orders it to aim its weapon at its bond brother. In humility the first Hunter obeys Blade's command as Blade rushes the second Hunter in order to attempt the same thing.

"Yeah," announces Blade as he hops onto the back of the second Hunter, "I managed to tame your bond brother and I sure as hell will tame you."

"Damn the boss has balls," notes Velo who is wielding a rocket launcher, "and I mean he has balls."

Blade's mini rodeo continues for yet another hour until the second Hunter finally yields to him. After dismounting the second Hunter Blade spies a Scarab approaching on the horizon. Looking at his new strike team Blade smirks beneath his helmet.

Note: Come one, admit it, you guys love this chapter. Why do you love this chapter? Hunter rodeo, nuff said.

Chapter 7: We are sorry, we did not know it was impossible to hijack Scarabs

A few minutes after Raptor Squad sees the scarab on the horizon two Hunters approach it to be picked up by the Scarab. Behind the Hunter pair is the distortion of air of active camo. As the Hunters and the cloaked troops board the Scarab three blue armored, gorilla like, Brute minors descend the ramps leading to the top of the head.

"Clear," whispers Blade as his pet Hunters silently kill the Brute minors and push their bodies off of the Scarab, "good job you two."

Blade quietly snaps the neck of the two sleeping grunts on the lower level of the Scarab after picking up one of the brute shots that one of the two Brute minors dropped. After inserting Blaze's A.I chip into the Scarab's control system Blade walks up the ramp to the upper platform where he finds a red and black armored Brute Chieftan, with a helmet that resembles that of a triceratops head, wielding a gravity hammer. Deactivating his team's camo Blade begins to rush the chieftain in an attempt to grab its gravity hammer.

"Hey ugly," announces Blade as the Chieftain turns to confront Blade, "guess what I am going to do?"

"What are you going to do weak human?" snarls the Brute as Blade smirks under his helmet.

"First I am going to take your precious little toy," replies Blade as he prepares to fire a brute shot round at the chieftain, "then I will kick you off this big purple walking tank, and finally I will kill you using said big purple walking tank."

Blade fires off a shot of his brute shot as the chieftain chucks his gravity hammer at Blade. Tossing the empty brute shot aside Blade quickly grabs the gravity hammer and rushes the chieftain again. The Chieftain's angry look turns to surprise as Blade's metal boot hits his face sending him flying off of the Scarab.

"Are you ready Blaze?" asks Blade as the Scarab begins to target the chieftain.

"Affirmative sir," replies Blaze as the chieftain looks on with horror as his former Scarab begins to target him, "Harpy is at the wheel and the others are watching the whole thing from the viewing screen."

"HIJACKING A SCARAB?," roars the chieftain in anger as the Scarab prepares to fire, "THAT SHOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE!"

"I am sorry," replies Blade as the greenish beam of the Scarab's plasma cannon kills the chieftain and destroys its armor, "we did not know it was impossible to hijack a Scarab, everyone cloak, looks like we have a Super Carrier above us about to pick us up, thankfully Blaze made it look like nothing happened to the crew."

Chapter 8: unlikely allies

As the Super carrier above Raptor Squad's Scarab prepares its grav lift a cloaked pelican drops Death, Hawk, and Eagle onto the Scarab. as the three Raptor Squad members cloak themselves the Super carrier activates its grav lift in order to bring the Scarab into its hanger. As the Raptors get closer an explosion overhead gets their attention.

"That was not us," notes utah in his heavy English accent as he swaps his M392 Designated Marksman Rifle for his BR55HB SR Battle Rifle, "that came from within the ship."

"An internal conflict within the enemy's ranks?," asks Vulture as the Scarab is moved into position within the hanger, "never thought that would happen."

"Blaze what is going on here?" asks Blade Raptor as a spec ops Elite bursts into the hanger chased by Brutes, "looks like Elites fighting Brutes."

"This must be an uprising against a crew of Brutes by this ship's Elite crew," remarks Blaze as the Elite cloaks and slices one of the Brutes with his sword, "looks like we should help the Elites take this ship."

"A pissed off Elite is not an Elite you would want to fight," replies Blade as the Elite takes down the rest of the Brutes, "I hate Brutes just as much as the Elites do."

Blade smirks as his Scarab starts up and prepares to fire at yet another Brute pack that enters the hanger. The Elite turns around in surprise as Raptor Squad uncloaks behind him. Blade nods as his Scarab destroys the Brute pack.

"Thank you Demon," says the Elite as he prepares to walk away, "the prophets have angered my brothers and I by putting Brutes in charge of this ship, if you help us we will help you in your fight for survival."

"We accept," replies Blade as he picks up a Brute Shot off the ground, "now lets help your brothers."

The odd group cloaks as they rally other Elites to join them in their battle. Raptor Squad and the Elites storm the armory of the Super carrier as the Elite honor guards betray the minor prophet that they were charged to protect. Blaze destroys the enemy A.I as he purges any tracking beacons on the ship.

"Now we slay the Brutes," announces the spec ops Elite who had become the de facto leader of the Elites on the ship, "and we fight against those who put us on this ship with the Brutes."

"Keep up the good work boys," says Blade as he turns to see ten Elite Honor Guards surrounding Death, "he is gonna feel that for a while."

Raptor Squad and the Elites storm the ship until they are confronted by the Brute ship master. Unlike other Brute Chieftains that Blade has faced before this one has gold armor and its helmet is in the shape of a v with saw blade like spikes attached to it. As this chieftain prepares his gravity hammer Blade's elite ally tosses him a blood red energy sword.

"Ready to fight demon?," asks Blade's Elite ally as Blade activates his blood red energy sword, "I am Onmo 'Ehtutee."

Blade and Onmo 'Ehtutee rush the Chieftain as it roars in anger. Just as Blade gets close enough he feels the handle of the Chieftain's gravity hammer hit his gut and send him flying back as Onmo 'Ehtutee slices one of the horns off of the Brute's helmet. Blade gets up and rushes the Chieftain again as Onmo 'Ehtutee flies past him.

"You and that split lip fool shall die today," announces the Chieftain in anger as Blade is thrown into Onmo 'Ehtutee, "and I shall be the one to kill you two."

"New plan," says Blade as he and Onmo 'Ehtutee get back on their feet, "I call it plan split lip."

"You did not just say that," replies Onmo 'Ehtutee as Blade deactivates the energy sword that Onmo gave to him, "because if you did I am gonna be angry."

"I did not mean to insult you," answers Blade as he cloaks and activates his energy blade gauntlet, "lets just say this is a divide and conquer tactic that I designed as inspiration from the four mandibles of your species."

Blade motions for two more spec ops Elites to uncloak revealing their presence and their weapons. Onmo 'Ehtutee's eyes widen as he realizes that it will take more than just Blade and him to win. Blade, Onmo 'Ehtutee and the other two spec ops Elites rush the Chieftain as the rest of Raptor Squad, excluding Death, uncloak and begin to lay down cover fire for their allies. The battle lasts for three hours until the Brute Chieftain and the two spec ops Elites are dead.

"Go in peace my brothers," remarks Onmo 'Ehtutee as Blade pries the gravity hammer from the dead Brute's hands' "your deaths have been avenged."

"Harpy, Eagle, Hawk, set course for Reach," announces Blade with fear in his voice, "Fleet com has contacted us, Reach is under attack, we are lucky that this ship was on the way out of system when Jericho VII got glassed, we are even lucky that this ship was supposed to remain here until they got the call to join up with the others at Reach."

Wasn't this the remake of the original? I remember Allison being created sometime after the original was finished, and then being retconned into the remake...

Maybe my memory is bad. So far, of all your stories, I like this one the best.

Manny wrote:Wasn't this the remake of the original? I remember Allison being created sometime after the original was finished, and then being retconned into the remake...

Maybe my memory is bad. So far, of all your stories, I like this one the best.

I see no mention of Allison anywhere.

THIS is the original.

Be prepared for Raptors on the Horizon re-post tomorrow.

I also noticed an error. angrily stares at Death angrily. Try to find it.

Why do you like this one the best? The Hunter rodeo? Raptors on the Horizon has already been reposted.