Unlikely Love (OC's x Reader)

Coming Home

Aya POV

It had been a day since me and Amy got back to The Vengeance, Marcus and the others still hadn't come back and I was beginning to worry. A lot of pelicans were coming in, all of them with injured, until I saw some stretchers that were being carried by Spartans who were upset, with a closer look I saw another dead Spartan 4. My eyes widen a bit at the wounds, like an animal had been let loose on them, the radio chatter picked up from my helmet so I ran over and put it on. I start to listen in. "This is Simon Westly of the 3rd Spartan Division, we're getting hammered here sir. DAVIS WATCH OUT." A shit ton of gunfire erupts from the other side of the radio. "Simon, this is Dylon Foster, where are you just now, my men got wiped out but I can still fight." The other voice said, then Simon spoke up. "Foster, we're in a full retreat, get back to the school." Simons comms then turned off, a sigh was heard from Dylan. "Yes sir." Then his comm line shut off. More started up, I kept listening in the hopes of hearing Marcus or one of the brothers. After 5 minutes my hopes and prayers were answered. "This is Redd 022 on all comm lines, we have to leave, if you aren't at the school in the next 10 minutes you're getting left behind." I smile a bit, knowing he's still alive. "Copy that Redd, team 3 and 4 are pulling back." I hear Alaska say. "The 3rd are pulling back sir, we'll be with you shortly." I hear Ryder speak down the comms. "Team 2 got wiped out Marcus, I'm pulling back." Aidan then says. "Ace report?" I hear Marcus say, then my stomach dropped. "Ace, Report, that's an order." Marcus says again. Suddenly the comms come to life and a deep rough and scratchy voice comes from the other side. "Your friend sadly won't be joining you and your little squad." In the background we can hear struggling then a helmet cam turns on and ace is getting held down by some flood infection forms. "GET OFF OF ME." Ace shouts still struggling, then the voice walks out in front of the camera, a Spartan who towers anyone I've ever seen, wearing Indomitable armour with a Fenrir helmet, their armour coloured as in a dark red as its primary and a dark green as its secondary, he must be about 15 or 16 feet tall and is carrying what looks like a modified Splinter Turret. "Now, you can either turn and come get your friend, or." He stops as he pulls out a sword, but compared to him it looks like a knife, the sword was like a bowie knife. "I skin him and let my friends here eat him alive while you run off." He says. In the background I see Ace slip out a knife and stab one of the flood infection forms, only to be kicked down by another Spartan, who wore Hellcat Onslaught armour and a Recon GEN1 helmet, she was about 5'11, the Spartan armour didn't seem real. When she takes off her helmet my stomach drops, April King. "Come on sweetheart, I would hate to hurt you." She says, her voice sounding like a mothers voice when trying to get their young child to sleep. "Fuck you, you crazy piece of shit!" Ace says, then the large Spartan kicks his helmet, smashing the visor completely and sending Ace flying into a wall. "You should learn manners, boy!" He snarls out, he sounded like a rabid animal. "I'm sorry Ace, I have to think of the others first." Marcus says, and my eyes widen. He just left his brother to die down there. Ace then coughs a bit. "Roger that Marcus, get me a drink when you get-." He gets cut off with the large Spartan stabbing him through the face. He then laughs a bit. "Good choice." He then turns to the helmet and he crouches down to get in front of it, now I see what he's done to the helmet, it isn't a normal helmet, the Fenrir was the base, but where the visor would be is now covered with metal and 2 cameras are in their place. The metal seems to be see through but you can't see his face due to the lighting. "I am Dam, and I'm the thing that controls the flood." He says then smashes the helmet destroying the camera.

I take my helmet off as the pelicans start landing, I rewatched everything that had April and Dam in it for the past 20 minutes. I look up and see Marcus, Aidan, Alaska, Hannah and a new guy walk out of the pelican. I run over to them all and I hug Marcus who quickly returns the hug. I hear that his breath is a bit shaky but he soon manages to control it. He then lets me go, and I let him go even though I don't want to. "Okay, everyone listen up! We have some new kids on the block, whoever the fuck that Dam guy is, they are a threat. A lot of good people died down there. A lot of friends, and maybe even family for some of you. But this threat will not be taken likely."

3rd POV

As Marcus gives his speech, Kris and Raven look at eachother in the tech room and nod a bit, working on their next breakthrough in Technology. "This is a threat to everyone, not just the TNR, but the UNSC, the Sangheili, the Ungoy, the Kig Yar, fuck, even the Jiralhanae." As Marcus was saying this, some new Spartans were nodding amongst themselves, one an explosive expert in all green, the other a sniper who likes to change their armour. "They wish not just to kill us, but to out out the fire in peoples hearts, to stop those ambitions from becoming a reality. They will not stop until they either succeed or die trying." To this, Nate, Pensilvania, Kody, Stacker, Sam, Rebecca and Ryan all look at eachother before running off to get their weapons and armour. Nate and Pensilvania once again agreeing to finish their arm wrestle later. "We have never fought anyone like this, so we will not take any chances, nor will we take prisoners. We will not waver, we will not stop, we are the TNR, and we're going to show them why we are the best!" Marcus says finishing his speech.

Aya's POV

I smile a bit under my helmet and I look at Marcus who is already going to the bridge, he had taken his helmet off once he had finished the speech. I quickly follow him, leaving Alaska and Aidan. When I walked into the bridge I saw Marcus bunch a wall. "FUCK!" He shouted while doing it. I stayed by the door for now, I hadn't seen him like this before. He kept punching the wall until he suddenly stopped and just rested his head against his left arm that was now against the wall. I walk over to him. "Marcus?" I ask him, he just shakes his head a bit. "I should have just sent the rest away and gone for him." His voice was the same as when he told me about Reach, so I take my helmet off and oull him over to a chair and set him down. "Marcus, you did what you could." I say. But he just shakes his head again. "I just left one of my fucking brothers to die down there Y/N. To die, he's dead because of my call." He says, his voice breaking a bit halfway through. I hug him quickly. "You would have died too if you went down there Marcus." I say and I kiss him on the cheek. He just sighs a bit and mumbles. "It never gets any easier."