RWBY: Relcaimer

Chapter 7: Reville

0230 HOURS, AUGUST 9, 2557 (MILITARY CALENDAR) / ABOARD UNSC PROWLER SILENT MAIDEN, GEOSYNCHRONOUS ORBIT, PLANET VALORIA, ALPHA-ALBI SYSTEM

Within the Silent Maiden's hanger bay, John sat within the blood tray of Pelican Hotel-209—callsign: Recovery-One—inspecting his MA5D assault rifle for the third time. He had done this numerous times before an operation, it was a habit he and his fellow Spartans had gotten into shortly after Sam's death during their first operation against the Covenant . . . which was thirty-two years ago. It felt like a lifetime ago when he thought about it.

Operation: REVILLE was an ONI Section Three recovery operation of all UNSC and ONI personnel and equipment that began in 2532. The operation was thought to have been disbanded after 2553—after the Human-Covenant War—due to there no longer being any slipspace anomalies popping up in UNSC dominated space, that was until now.

John looked around the Pelican's bay, seeing the four members of Green Team, who had been pulled from Operation: SCORPIO—an Anti-Insurrectionist operation on the colony of New Fumirole, one of the seventeen colonies within UNSC space if you exclude the dozen or so asteroid colonies and colonies residing on some of the planets' moons.

Kurt-051, Green Team's leader, sat on John's left, while Daisy-023, Will-043, and Keiichi-047 sat across from them, each inspecting their individual weapons. It still felt weird seeing his "dead" Spartans once more, though he didn't show it, it also helped that he was getting used to being with his formerly dead comrades-in-arms—his family.

The Master Chief felt a nudge from his left, he turned to Kurt. "Sir?"

"Everything alright, Chief?" Kurt asked. He had been given control over the mission due to his rank as Lieutenant Commander, and is the leader of Green Team.

"Yes, sir." John said, which wasn't technically a lie.

Kurt remained silent for a moment, then gave a nod before turning to the rest of Green Team, knowing full well that John had recently been pulled from Operation: GRIMM HIDE and had worked alongside Noble Team and two ODST squads without issue.

The Pelican's bay door slowly lifted and closed, sealing the five Spartans within the dropship completely now. The engines whined before roaring to life, forcing the dropship to ascend a few feet into the air before flying out of the Silent Maiden and into the cold, quiet vacuum of space.

———

John's Visual Intelligence System Reconnaissance illuminated the nearly pitch-black desert, tracing green lines on him and the rest of Green Team and their equipment. He had been refitted with the Remnant-born MJOLNIR Mark V—which was a slightly improved version of the Generation-I MJOLNIR Mark V—after Operation: GRIMM HIDE, allowing ONI's Materials Group to dissect the Generation-II MJOLNIR the UNSC Infinity had refitted him with shortly after repelling the joint Storm Covenant-Promethean assault on the Forerunner Shield World of Requiem.

The suit's VISR systems had replaced both Night Vision and Infrared systems, acting as a hybrid of the two like it originally had for the SPARTAN-IIIs and ODSTs during the later stages of the Human-Covenant War.

The crater was an entire mile away from Green Team's position but, from their distance, they couldn't confirm whether or not there was a body.

Once the Spartans had reached the crater, John immediately tensed at what laid within. The body of the Ur-Didact.

Kurt motioned them around the crater. Will took position in the crater's rear, Keiichi took up the right flank and Daisy took up the left. Finally, John had taken position next to the Lieutenant Commander.