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Subject: Insurrection (Machinima Turned Fanfic) Not a copy of the other fanfic!

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Posted by: x Foman123 x
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This was a machinima that I planned to make in the heyday of Halo 3, but lacked the resources to do so. It had a full framework of plot, and an at least believable plot. The idea was to look at the UNSC after the Covenant war and its problem with the organized Insurrection on one of the few surviving inner colonies, where rebel factions set up during the war after having nowhere else to go after the outer colonies fell.

As a machinima, it fell short, but I decided to write the first scene or two into an actual fanfic form an shoot it out here for you guys to see. It's incomplete, but tell me what you think).

So without further adieu, here's

Insurrection

The Covenant War is over. Master Chief is MIA as well as all the other Spartan II's and III's. The UNSC has recently been revisited by the organized human Insurrection, a group against a central government under Earth control. They have been attacking the UNSC in its weakened state, as well as its citizens. In response, the UNSC has started a new project, "SPARTAN-IV," a new generation of lightly trained SPARTANS dedicated specifically to stopping the Insurrectionists and protecting UNSC lives. Unlike the other Spartans, they are not perfectly trained from birth. They are a volunteer unit that has gone through advanced training and minor augmentations. They are not perfect, but they are better than anything the UNSC can currently muster.

The Insurrectionists have taken a large interest in Nesre III, a major UNSC fortress world, one of the few to survive the Covenant War. Three major leaders, Codenamed Tomcat, Bulldog, and Panther, control the terrorist cells on different parts of the planet. The three leaders meet in planning in an unknown location where every Insurrectionist operation is listed and located in and out of UNSC space. Recently, the Insurrectionists have been taking the offensive. Whole towns have been destroyed completely, and with them, their protectors, the SPARTAN-IV's. One team of three remains and has a lead on an informant who may know the location of the Insurrectionist base on Nesre III.

"A good leader must be ready to send the soldiers under his command to their deaths. You do this because your duty to the UNSC supersedes your duty to yourself or even your crew. It is acceptable to spend their lives if necessary. It is not acceptable, however, to waste those lives."

-Chief Petty Officer Mendez



Prologue: Tomcat Ostendo Sum

UNSC Informant Isaac Hosky fell to the floor with a crash and a grunt. Blood dripped from his mouth and nose. His strength was dwindling. He was struggling to raise his suddenly heavy body when he was raised up by the Insurrectionist guard and hurled back down again.

"Who did you tell?" the "Innie" guard demanded as he towered over Hosky.

"I don't-" he started before the powerful man punched him again.

"You do know what I'm talking about! I'm going to ask you one more time: Who. Did. You. Tell?!" The guard beat Hosky with each word.

As Hosky was about to repeat his supposed ignorance, and the guard was readying for another blow, a sniper shot rang out. Shortly after, the guard landed in a heap. The other guard, wielding a .30 caliber "confetti maker" machine gun, only managed a "What the-" before being eliminated as well. Hosky, too weak to raise his body from the floor, saw an armored boot step over the crumpled bodies of the guards, quickly but quietly approaching him.

Spartans. Didn't know I was this important, Hosky thought to himself as he grabbed the cybernetic soldier's gauntlet and pulled himself up.

Hosky was surprised when the Spartan spoke: "Isaac Hosky: As per UNSC informant directive nine zero three, I am hereby directed to extract you from this area for immediate evacuation and protection." The Spartan reached for his M6G sidearm and held it out to Hosky, butt first.

Hosky accepted the oversized sidearm, saying "Then what are we waiting for?"

As if to emphasize the necessity of speed, another sniper shot broke through the quiet morning, and shortly after, another Innie smashed against the concrete floor.

In Staff Sergeant Gregory Cohen's helmet, surrounded by bio-monitors, ammo displays, and nearly an inch of multilayered titanium alloy, a troubled expression flickered over his face. He activated his comm. unit and said, "We clear, Nicolas?"

Nearly a kilometer away, camouflaged in the jungle canopy, Sergeant Nicolas Andrews replied, "For now. Motion trackers and thermals show approximately twenty or so Innies coming in. Looks like most of them have standard 7.62 rifles, but I'm seeing signs of a mounted .50 cal machine gun on the route back. Recommend you let me move up and neutralize him."

"Negative. Get to the extraction point. I'll use the mongoose meet you with the package." He turned to Hosky. "Come on. I've got a mongoose ready to go."

"Great," Hosky retorted. "My bruises aren't gonna like this."

"If you'd prefer to stay..."

"Alright, fine." Hosky waved his hand in dismissal and started towards the parked ATV.

As he was doing this, an Insurrectionist guard ran through a door leading into the central structure of the base. "Contact!" Greg yelled. He opened fire, and with a single burst from his assault rifle, the guard tightened his grip on his SMG and crumpled to the ground. Ignoring his results, Greg focused on the other two Insurrectionists that had wheeled around the corner and were chipping away at his shields.

"I got this!" Hosky called, tossing a grenade into the midst of the guards. They had a split second to register shock before the high explosive device detonated with a bone-jarring bang, annihilating them.

"Yes!" Hosky managed to cheer before he was unceremoniously grabbed and set on the back of the mongoose.

"Hosky!" Greg yelled. "There are snipers all over the place; keep your head down!" The light vehicle groaned under the combined weight of the Spartan and the informant, but managed to get up to a high speed. Every guard in the compound was alert to the presence of the two intruders, and they sure weren't going to let Hosky and Greg go speeding off. Sniper fire and machine guns made the dirt explode all around the nimble mongoose.

To Greg, everything seemed to speed and slow calmly as he weaved in between the Insurrectionists' badly positioned lines of fire, and to Hosky, the world around him had gone to hell as he alternated between praying and swearing.

Enter the life of Johann Stein, an Insurrectionist sniper. He was renowned by his peers as the best shot on Nesre III. When word came down that a Spartan had come and removed a High Value Target from the area, Johann was quite eager to show his skill.

The way he saw it, there were only two ways to get in and out of the base, other than by air, and the UNSC wasn't going to risk an HVT by gunning it out the front gate. There they were now: The armored Spartan and the informant on the back of the mongoose. He knew he only had one shot; he briefly considered the Spartan, but saw it more rewarding and more plausible to take out the informant, especially considering what he knew. He raised his SRS99C-S2 sniper, and as the mongoose sped along the beaten dirt path, and he tightened his finger around the trigger, Johann smiled.

He was going to have the catch of the day.

Greg saw the exit: A narrow cave just big enough for the mongoose. He gunned the engine, and right as he let up and thought he was safe from the hail of bullets, a single round hit Hosky in the gut, causing him to let out a terrible scream. The mongoose lurched, but Greg couldn't risk stopping; he had to get to the rendezvous point.

Nicolas saw the incoming mongoose from his vantage point on the grassy hill and saw that Greg was lightly holding the informant in his arms. He set down his sniper and ran to Greg as he set the groaning Hosky on the ground. "What happened?" Nicolas demanded.

"Lucky .50 cal hit him right in the stomach. We don't have much time before he bleeds out."

"Then we've got to get all the info out of him ASAP." He kneeled by Hosky. "What have you learned?"

Hosky propped himself up, and managed to gasp, "I learned the location of Codename Tomcat." He slumped to the ground, taking irregular breaths.

"Come on, Hosky. Help us out. Where is he?"

His voice barely a whisper, Hosky choked as he said, "Where the ice caps meet the ocean, the-" He coughed, long and hard. He wiped blood off of his mouth. "The caves. Hurry."

Hosky fell back with a sigh. Nicolas went to pick him up, but Greg said. "Leave him. There's no space for him on Matt's hornet."

"I guess you're right." He shifted in his brown, camouflaged armor. "Where is Matt anyways?"

"I don't know-" Greg stopped, suddenly pointing off into the distance. "Nicolas! Warthogs."

Off in the distance, two warthogs raced to the Spartans' position. The hardy off-road vehicles mounted .50 caliber chain guns on their rears, making even Spartans pale in a direct fight. "I see them. Get down!" In an instant, they dove into the grass, camouflaging and momentarily tricking the warthogs' gunners. The trick didn't work for very long, and the .50 caliber rounds tore up the dirt and grass around the Spartans and made their energy shields flare. This, in turn, let the gunners see them much more easily. They tightened their fields of fire.

Greg wasn't going to let that happen. In an instant, he grabbed a pouch on his calf, ripped it open, and took out the bowling ball-sized bubble shield generator, primed it, and threw it on the ground.

[Edited on 10.03.2011 5:46 PM PDT]

  • 09.28.2011 12:19 AM PDT
Subject: Insurrection (Machinima Turned Fanfic)

Quod Erat Demonstrandum.

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Posted by: x Foman123 x
Speaking of chuckles, let's all lol at IonicPaul, who makes friends with bugs to make up for his lack of human contact.

A bubble shield generator was a miniature yet powerful source of protection; when it was activated, three pylons extended outward from the central sphere, locking it into position. Once this happened, the miniature cold fusion generator within spun up, releasing all of its energy in a bubble that would repel all small, high velocity items. In short, vehicles and people could pass through, but anything from a bullet to a rocket would be deflected. This effect, however, was short-lived. Even cold fusion produces heat, and the generator would eventually melt when not in a controlled, laboratory environment. To prevent radiological contamination, the scientists on Misrah Armories on Mars added a small, yet powerful bomb to the generator that would detonate when the generator had reached a level of heat where it could no longer function.

The pylons grasped the earth, the generator spun up, and two Spartans were saved from a withering hail of armor piercing rounds. The warthogs momentarily stopped firing, knowing that they were wasting rounds on the bubble shield.

"Greg," Nicolas said. "Get ready to toss a grenade as soon as the shield breaks."

"Got it." To his credit, Greg didn't mention anything about the grenade being useless against one warthog at long range, let alone two. Nevertheless, he nodded, took out a grenade, and pulled the pin, holding the grenade tightly so that it wouldn't explode in his hand. Being a Spartan, he had counted the time to the shield breaking, and there were seven seconds before the Spartans had to perform the impossible.

Five seconds now. Greg gripped the grenade. Nicolas lifted his sniper rifle, ready to take the best shot he could.

Four seconds. The LAAGs' barrels began to slowly spin up.

Three seconds. The shield generator began to emit an audible alarm.

Two. Nothing moved but the barrels of the LAAGs, spinning rapidly now.

One.



That's all I've got for now. Please let me know what you think, and thanks for reading!

[Edited on 09.28.2011 12:24 AM PDT]

  • 09.28.2011 12:21 AM PDT

Awesome! If you do ever turn it into Machinima, I'll be willing to help!

  • 09.28.2011 11:43 AM PDT
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"You are the last of your kind: bred for combat, built for war. You're the master of any weapon, pilot of any vehicle, and fear no enemy"

Interesting work, I'd like to see the final results.

  • 09.28.2011 12:35 PM PDT

Just so you know...

I'd go for a name change.

  • 09.28.2011 1:32 PM PDT

Quod Erat Demonstrandum.

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Posted by: x Foman123 x
Speaking of chuckles, let's all lol at IonicPaul, who makes friends with bugs to make up for his lack of human contact.


Posted by: steadman
Just so you know...

I'd go for a name change.

;_;

I was about to call it "Insurrection: Theta Team" but then the top thread "Pact" has a Theta Team, too. I'm thinking of some subtitle to distinguish it...

  • 09.28.2011 6:57 PM PDT

The tide is turning, brothers! Let us take our kingdom back!

Wicked stuff. I'll certainly be keeping a lookout for the next chapter.

Posted by: IonicPaul

Posted by: steadman
Just so you know...

I'd go for a name change.

;_;

I was about to call it "Insurrection: Theta Team" but then the top thread "Pact" has a Theta Team, too. I'm thinking of some subtitle to distinguish it...
:( sorry, bro. But, mind you, it doesn't look like you've announced the name of your team yet (well, apart from in the post I'm quoting). Perhaps it isn't too late for a name change? Then you could still have the "Insurrection: Team -insert name here-" title.

  • 09.29.2011 12:35 AM PDT

Quod Erat Demonstrandum.

If you're interested in Halo's music, check this out.

Posted by: x Foman123 x
Speaking of chuckles, let's all lol at IonicPaul, who makes friends with bugs to make up for his lack of human contact.

Posted by: OfTheBloodguard
:( sorry, bro. But, mind you, it doesn't look like you've announced the name of your team yet (well, apart from in the post I'm quoting). Perhaps it isn't too late for a name change? Then you could still have the "Insurrection: Team -insert name here-" title.

Well, the reason I wanted to call it Theta team is because one of my good friends has "Theta" in his name so I wanted it to be a shout out to him. Oh well. No harm done. I'll think of a name soon.

Also keep in mind that this is essentially the first half of the first chapter, because this part flows well. More will come soon, but that's still technically Chapter 1 :P

Actually, you've inspired me to write now. I may not finish today but a very good chunk of the next section will be written will be written, I assure you. Add that to procrastination with homework, and you should see something within the week.

  • 09.29.2011 7:58 AM PDT

The tide is turning, brothers! Let us take our kingdom back!


Posted by: IonicPaul
Posted by: OfTheBloodguard
:( sorry, bro. But, mind you, it doesn't look like you've announced the name of your team yet (well, apart from in the post I'm quoting). Perhaps it isn't too late for a name change? Then you could still have the "Insurrection: Team -insert name here-" title.

Well, the reason I wanted to call it Theta team is because one of my good friends has "Theta" in his name so I wanted it to be a shout out to him. Oh well. No harm done. I'll think of a name soon.
Ah, I see.
Also keep in mind that this is essentially the first half of the first chapter, because this part flows well. More will come soon, but that's still technically Chapter 1 :POh, right. How much more do you think there will be in the first chapter?

Actually, you've inspired me to write now. I may not finish today but a very good chunk of the next section will be written will be written, I assure you. Add that to procrastination with homework, and you should see something within the week.:D cool. It seems you've put a good deal of thought into this so far, and I can't wait to see where you plan on taking this.

  • 09.29.2011 11:08 PM PDT

Quod Erat Demonstrandum.

If you're interested in Halo's music, check this out.

Posted by: x Foman123 x
Speaking of chuckles, let's all lol at IonicPaul, who makes friends with bugs to make up for his lack of human contact.

Posted by: OfTheBloodguard
Oh, right. How much more do you think there will be in the first chapter?
About as much as has already been written. Maybe a bit more.

Posted by: OfTheBloodguard:D cool. It seems you've put a good deal of thought into this so far, and I can't wait to see where you plan on taking this.Thank you! The idea was to make a personal story of character development for the team leader (who actually hasn't been seen yet) because events soon to transpire in the story.

  • 09.29.2011 11:24 PM PDT

This is really well done. Love what you've got so far. Very intrigued, can't wait for more!

  • 09.30.2011 3:52 AM PDT

The tide is turning, brothers! Let us take our kingdom back!


Posted by: IonicPaul
Posted by: OfTheBloodguard
Oh, right. How much more do you think there will be in the first chapter?
About as much as has already been written. Maybe a bit more.
Cool. That adds up to a sizable first chapter, my man.

Posted by: IonicPaul
Posted by: OfTheBloodguard:D cool. It seems you've put a good deal of thought into this so far, and I can't wait to see where you plan on taking this.Thank you! The idea was to make a personal story of character development for the team leader (who actually hasn't been seen yet) because events soon to transpire in the story.
I like the sound of this. Please finish it soon!

  • 09.30.2011 3:32 PM PDT