Chapter one

It had to have been a month at best since the events that transpired on the Fore-Runner World called Genesis. Though the UNSC Spartan Fire-Team Osiris was able to delay Cortana's plans to use the Fore-Runner Guardians to—as Cortana put it—, "bring a permanent peace across the galaxy". Though her plans delayed she was able to locate the UNSC Infinity via a Guardian. In response to this, Infinity fled via slip-space. They had no way of fighting the Cortana and her Guardians. And seeing how Cortana's Guardians cut power to the colony they fled Infinity couldn't handle that. Until they found a way of fighting they used slip-space to travel into deep uncharted space for the time being. And since then the transpired events had brought two unlikely teams together. The team that had the only surviving Spartan IIs; Blue Team lead by the legendary Spartan Master Chief John-117 and a Spartan IVs team; Osiris lead by Spartan Jameson Locke. They had meet because Blue Team had gone AWOL and Osiris was ordered to track them down and bring them home.

Captain Thomas Lasky stood on the bridge hunched over the holo-table thinking of their next move. They had been good to avoid Cortana. They doubted that she wasn't tracking them. Cortana wasn't stopping until she got her hands on the Master Chief.

"Captain." Said the ship's AI Roland.

Roland was one of very few AIs that remained to help the humans. No one knew why he stayed but was glad and thankful that he did.

"Yes Roland?"

"I'm picking up a UNSC distress signal from an unknown planet." Roland explains.

Lasky looked at Roland the moment he heard "UNSC distress signal". There was another UNSC ship out here? Lasky wasn't sure if that was good or bad.

"Any chance it's a hoax?"

"Hard to say. I highly doubt that Cortana or the other AIs would fake a UNSC distress signal that is farer than anywhere we have been." Roland said.

"Fair point. Anything else on the ship?"

"Its name is UNSC Dream Calling." Replied the AI. "And Fun Fact? The UNSC Dream Calling is one of the ships that was declared KIA during the Fall of Reach because it was never found."

"Any chance of Covenant or the Prometheans being on this planet?" Asked Commander Sarah Palmer.

She had been listening to the conversation attentively while also trying to help Lasky come up with ideas to fight Cortana. She was brought out of her thoughts hearing Roland had discovered the distress signal.

"From my scans, I'm going to say no. But we should be open to the fact that is subject to change." Roland said honestly.

"Okay. Palmer call Blue Team and Osiris for debrief. I want them deployed in the hour." Lasky orders looking at Palmer.

Palmer nods.

Meanwhile Spartan Edward Buck of Fire-Team Osiris sat in his room looking at a picture. He would look at his picture when he was stressed and needed something to anchor him down.

"You okay Buck?" Asked his sparring partner, Fred-104.

"Yeah, just stressed." Buck admitted.

Fred placed a hand on Buck's shoulder looking at the picture and asked him about it. Buck was talking when Locke and Chief came in.

"Oh…and look who decided to grace us with their presence. Locke and the legendary Master Chief." Buck joked getting a smile out of Fred.

Locke rolls his eyes at Buck with a playful smirk. Chief shakes his head. The two leaders asked Buck and Fred for a sparring match. The two agreed. Buck vs. Chief and Locke vs. Fred. The Spartans hear Palmer's voice via the intercom.

"Blue Team and Fire-Team Osiris report to the bridge for debrief. I repeat: Blue Team and Fire-Team Osiris report to the bridge for debrief."

"Finally, we get off this damn ship." Said Buck.

A few minutes later the Spartans arrive on the bridge fully outfitted in her their armor. They stand shoulder to shoulder awaiting Captain Lasky's orders.

"Alright Spartans, we have received a distress signal from a UNSC ship that was declared KIA. After running through all the probabilities possible we have concluded that the distress signal is real. We've tracked the ship called the Dawn Calling to an unknown planet that doesn't seem to have any Covenant or the Prometheans. But keep in mind that might change. If needed the Infinity will catch up with you to build a base there if you find something. Your mission is to use ODST drop pods and investigate the wreckage. Understood?"

"Yes sir!" Said the Spartans in agreement.

Soon the Spartans where dismissed and went to prep themselves. Buck made the comment about Locke and Chief getting into a random fight during the mission. Tanaka and Vale agreed making Locke give them a playful glare. Sometime after Blue Team met up with Osiris by the drop pods.

"Everyone ready?" Asked Chief.

"Ready." Said Osiris.

Everyone walked to their pod and stepped in. This brought back nostalgia for Buck remembering is ODST days. It also brought back memories of Alpha 9. Good times. For Blue Team didn't bring a lot of good memories. It brought memories of being paired up with other Spartans and losing them.

"Combat drop in 10…9…8…7…4…3…2…1… go!" They heard Roland shout.

"What happened to 6 and 5!?" Shouted Buck as their pods dropped.

The pods flew with a great amount of accelerated force like a car on too much nitrous. As the pods flew they saw the planet come into view. It reminded the Spartans of Earth. When the pods entered the atmosphere, the scanners picked up all kinds of things. Mainly human signatures heading to the Calling and a large amount of non-human signatures already around and inside the crash site.

"Are you all getting the same readings?" Asked Tanaka concerned.

"Yeah, that's a lot of possible not friendlies." Said Buck talking about the non-human readings.

"I'm getting human readings heading to the crash site." Said Locke.

"Any UNSC?" Asked Chief.

"Negative." Locke replied.

"What about the non-human signatures? Chances of them being Covenant or Prometheans? Because holy shit that is a lot of them." Asked Buck.

"They might be. But your scanners would have told us if they were." Said Tanaka.

"I'm getting another reading. It's high power. Possible getting unstable." Said Vale. "It's coming from the Calling."

"Covenant and Prometheans don't go tinkering with the ships reactors." Said Locke.

"It's not coming from the end of the ship. It's coming from the center of the ship. Looks like a few meters below." Explained Vale.

"On another note…Anyone take a look at the landscape? Because I have to admit it's pretty." Said Kelly.

"Yeah with this view I can see you living here Kelly." Said Fred.

"Looks like the Calling had an okay looking crash." Said Linda having a visual on the Calling as her pod got closer to the ground.

From the looks of it, the Calling had landed with its front buried into the ground. And the ship did look mostly intact. Not a bad crash landing.

"She's right." Said Vale. "Someone had to survive. When was the ship reported KIA. Do we know?"

"According to the file, it was reported MIA after it fled Reach. When it didn't show up they then declared the ship was KIA." Explained Tanaka.

"Approaching the ground." Called Chief.

"Brace for impact!" Added Locke.

One by one the pods landed in close proximity to one another. Expect for Buck. Buck's pod landed in river with a strong current. The pod was taken down the current to a waterfall that gave him a direct very clear path to the Calling. As the pod fell down and stuck a landing directly under the waterfall it stopped moving. But Buck dared not get out of his pod. There was a huge two-legged giant walking around. And the pod made a loud sound when it landed which pissed off the giant. It walked around near the pod roaring as if trying to drag the pod out. It had something glowing in its chest. With another roar what looked like a plasma beam came out of the giant's chest. After that the giant walked away. Once the footsteps for farer and farer Buck let go a breath he was holding. As he got out he could hear Locke shouting in his coms.

"Buck report! Buck do you copy?"

"Sorry… I'm still alive." Buck breathed.

"You okay?" Asked Tanaka concerned.

"Yeah, give me a minute. Crap I'm old." Buck gave a half laugh.

"Don't talk like that," began Kelly, "You're only a year older than me, Linda, Fred, and Chief."

"Thanks Kelly. And to explain what happened to me, I crashed my pod into a river somehow. The current took me to a waterfall which I fell down. Then the sound my pod made completely pissed off a giant—yes there are giants here—that released a plasma from its chest. And from my location I have clear path and sight of the Calling." Buck explains.

"Alright everyone, regroup on Buck's position double time." Ordered Chief.

"I was thinking on scouting ahead and seeing what the non-humans have done with the Calling." Said Buck.

"Buck don't." Order Locke but for Buck all he could hear was static and words that Locke didn't say.

Buck smiled thinking he heard Locke give him the okay and started heading to the Calling.

"Okay thanks for permission!" Said Buck.

"Wait I didn't—," Buck hung up before Locke could finish. "say that…"

"He must be in a bad spot." Said Tanaka. "There something in that area messing with our coms. Might be that power reading from the Calling."

The Spartans soon find Buck's pod and follow his trail toward the Calling. They saw Buck crouched by a large rock. He tired using his scope on his gun to see the entrance he found.

"Buck!" Snapped Locke in a whisper.

"Hi." He said.

"I told you not you check out the Calling."

"I'm sorry if I heard the exact opposite through the static and coms." Buck snapped back.

"Okay nevermind, what have you found?" Asked Kelly.

"I've seen those things portal the area a little. They don't go anywhere near this rock." Said Buck.

"Linda use your scope. We need to see what is going on over there." Said Chief.

Linda pulled out her sniper using the scope. She spotted wooden and metal made platforms with same made wood and metal. And the non-humans weren't like anything they had never seen. Linda notice what looked like snipers and saw turrets. And where a lot of guards.

"Okay, there guards just about everywhere. A few snipers on the higher levels. And they have turrets."

"Turrets?" Asked the others making sure they heard that right.

"Yep. They have turrets." Linda confirmed taking another look.

"So, what's the plan?" Asked Tanaka.

"What about those human signatures? Did that ever come over head?" Asked Fred.

"I've got a signal. It's nearby." Said Vale.

That was when they saw something move at top speed. It moved with black streams floating in midair. They then see a massive rose red armored human slam down on the ground. Then another armored figure came it was floating and moving its hand which released lighting it was golden. Then missiles come down on the turrets, destroying them. It colors where blue. The large red one pulled out a shield getting a good running distance before running as fast as it can, ramming the gate open. The gold one flies in after. The black one looks at the blue one saying something before the follow the red and gold one in.

"Now what?" Asked Fred.

"We follow them in. But check your aim, they have human signatures." Chief ordered.

They nodded following the Chief. They inspected the damage the four armored humans caused. This was going to be interesting. That was clear. Now to figure out a way to approach the armored humans without getting into a fight. Just average day for a Spartan.

A/N: I have been waiting to do a Anthem crossover since the game came out. So this story has been sitting around for a while. I am working on chapter 2 right now. Well more like revising it.