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The Derek Hicks chronicles: Rampant

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Derek Hicks

Anthony Brown

Fernando Mata-Alan

Morgan Mason

Mandi Samborn

Tom Fortnell

The Mane 6

Azure Ops

Purple Team

And

The crew of the UNSC Infinity-IV

Chapter one: In remembrance
UNSC Infinity in orbit around Earth
September 1st 2728

It took about a month to get the Infinity out of service and back into dry-dock for repairs.

A lot of the circuitry was offline due to Discord's drain the shield trick. Computers had to be replaced and Hicks ordered everything into shield systems.
They'd most likely encounter worse things than the entity of Chaos while zooming through the galaxy. So now everything is getting refitted.

There adding another 7 feet to the outer hull, 20 more plasma turrets, and another shield coating. Basically they make the invincible ship more invincible. If that wasn't enough they are adding another hanger just for the new MKIV Seraphs.

Well Hicks and the crew offloaded for a vacation. In the short month they've been attacked by rebel fleets, travelled to 3 different worlds, stopped Discord from ahem chaosing Reach, blasted 2 people with the elements of Harmony, and lost there captain. Overall it was a good run. Hicks's personal job was to choose a new captain. One who won't abuse there power, one who will listen to orders, and one who won't destroy everything with the super powered vessel.

Morgan's funeral was scheduled in a few weeks; enough time to build a memorial.
Most of the crew chose to stay onboard but the Mane six decided they wanted to see the
home world of the people who almost destroyed there's. So guess who got stuck with that job?

Earth, Rio de Janeiro

"Goddamit!" Church yelled.

Church and Simmons were assigned tour duty to show the new 'immigrants' around Earth's capital city. Church was driving a cerulean civilian warthog around Rio. The largest structure in town was the Space elevator. It towered over the city going into space. It transported weapons to the orbital platforms for ship construction.
Rio was known for its deck guns and plasma repeaters.

The warthog drove onto the highway that circled Alpha base. Alpha base was the primary UNSC facility on Earth. It also served as the capital building.
Simmons explained all of this to the mane six.

Factories lined from the commercial district to the Christo redentor. These were refineries for recycled metal, construction for ship parts, and technology factories for phones, laptops, weapons, etc. On the coast was the shipyards. The shipyards constructed starships such as the iconic UNSC frigates and destroyers that make up the fleet. All of these structures ran off of a combination of Solar, wind, and nuclear fusion energy.
About 2 miles from the east side of the city was the Blu bird sanctuary. The UNSC heavily fortified it with 2 walls and about 40 Mass drivers.

Residential areas were in the north part of Rio. That includes stores such as Blu macaw books and some restaurants. Wall-mart and Meijer. Most of the residential area was apartment complexes. A small 1X3 mile area is reserved for VIPs who have actual houses. Hicks owns a house.

The warthog pulled off of the highway and went into the museum area.
Just by Alpha base and under the many highway systems is the natural and historical
museums. Most monuments on Earth are displayed in Alpha's courtyard.

"Well here's a museum. Enjoy." Church said unenthusiastically.

The mane six were escorted by Simmons into the museum of Natural history.

UNSC Alpha base

Hicks had a mountain of paper work on his computer. Most of it was informing him that some of the Infinity crew was getting moved. Karen his stepmom and helmsmen was getting moved to the destroyer the Ravage. Logan got his old job back and was working on some sort of improvement on the universe traveling device. Anthony was possibly getting court marshaled for the drugs he smuggled out of the fallout universe. Not many people had the right experience to be on the Infinity so they were moved. Azure is reporting that they are staying aboard. Tom is remaining the armory officer. But the bridge crew was all gone. Everyone was reassigned. Purple is also staying aboard. Samborn is giving up the military and moving into an apartment in downtown Rio.

Now it was Hicks' job to get a new bridge crew together. He had interviewed 20 captains of 20 different high level ships but none had the experience for the Infinity. Hell Morgan didn't have the experience and Hicks had pulled a few strings to get her to be the captain.

Yet he still couldn't find anyone. He wished that the brilliant tactician Jacob Keyes was still alive. Hicks would have been honored just to have met the man who single handedly destroyed 3 covenant ships at the battle of Sigma Octanus-IV.
He even tried a few Spartans... Kelly, Fred they were experienced troops not naval captains.

Good news is he found a communications officer. Elizabeth Johnson. She was the comms officer for the UNSC destroyer Memory is the Key. At least before it had its accident. Memory is the Key suffered an AI failure and the AI known as Moses went Rampant and crashes the ship into a nearby asteroid. Half the crew including the captain was killed. Elizabeth took control of the survivors and used a plasma pistol to fry Moses's chip. This act got her a colonial cross: the most prestigious medal in the fleet.

He had also gotten a Science officer. A sangheli named Shar De' Yeh. He had been on the frigate Hasta la Vista Baby when it engaged the rebel ship Twilight Darkness. He turned the tide of the battle by inserting RSN into the plasma torpedoes. Twilight Darkness didn't know what hit it.

A helmsman had also been assigned. Ensign Royce O'Brian. He had served with Hicks during the Covenant war. On the Cruiser Sword in the stone. The ensign had saved the entire crew from a Covenant Destroyer.

The destroyer was bearing down on the Sword in the stone her hull boiling away from plasma hits.

"HULL BREACH REACTOR READ LINING!" The head engineer yelled.

The view screen was cracked the Destroyer filled the screen. It's massive glassing port was charging.

Blood trickled down the captain's head.

"Sir, I have a solution!" O'Brian yelled.

"DO IT!" The captain's voice echoed through the bridge.

"MAC NOW! TARGET THE GLASSING PORT!"

"MAC is offline."

"Fire everything!"

Archer missiles and Nukes streaked towards the glowing spot on the prow of the destroyer. It impacted and the port exploded with fire and energy. The destroyer was destroyed.

The whole bridge erupted in cheer.

"Quick thinking O'Brian."

He saluted. "Yes sir!"
Hicks looked through the logs.

"Damn I'm old!" He said.

Yet no one good enough to be captain.

UNSC Memorial field
Planet Reach
September 28, 2728

(Halo wars theme)

"We gather here today in the remembrance of Captain Morgan Mason of the UNSC Infinity." Hicks started off. "Of all the people in the world... Hell in the universe. She was the one. And Discord had to take her away from me."

A tear fell from his face.

Memorial field. A place for great people. A memorial for the Keyes family, Hood was buried here, the Spartans that had died, Johnson, and in the very center was a huge marble statue of Earth on the engraving it said 'For those who fought to save her and those who lost there lives and those who sacrificed everything for her.'

The second monument commemorating the war.
The ponies, Aqua and Purple teams, Azure ops, John, Samborn, Nacho, and the entire
active crew of the UNSC Infinity stood around the newest addition to memorial field. Every captain, Admiral, General and hero ended up in memorial field.

"She was a good woman but not just that. She had a fighting spirit. She was stubborn and she would never give up without a fight! Remember humanity is not invincible. We may live until we are killed. We may be the uniting force in the galaxy. But we are not impervious to death."

Hicks walked over to the marble tombstone. UNSC standard tombstones could open up to put things into for remembrance. He opened it up. He slid his hand into his pocket and pulled out a Nuka Cola bottle cap and placed it in the tombstone.

Hicks nodded to Aqua and Azure who stood on either side of the crowd holding DMRs.

"Present arms!" Sierra ordered.

In unison both groups fired off the DMRs.

(Song end)