Halo Reach Machinima – Defiant Team – Episode 9
Seeds of Defiance
The camera opens up inside the Command building on Highlands
Ackers – the mission details will be briefed to you on the way to the simulation base
The camera looks over Josh’s shoulder and shows Yuna again
The camera opens up on the Grifball court again
Announcer – and that wraps up the scores at 4 a piece, who ever make’s the next point will win the game and take their place at the top of the league
Announcer 2 – yes and the looser will go second
Announcer – right you are, now it’s the break before the last round, the teams have gone into their respective changing rooms
The camera goes inside the red teams changing rooms
Ben – you guys are doing brilliant
Billy – thanks coach
Alman01 – apparently not good enough, they’re equalizing after every point we score
Alman01 – what?
Ben – he said “we have the heart to win, there fore we will”
Billy – oh, I get him
Alman01 – you do?
Billy – yeah, its so obvious, if they keep equalizing that means they can’t get ahead because all they can do is equalize
Ben and Alman01 look at each other
Ben – that makes sense…
Alman01 – no it doesn’t!
SFX – ringing
Announcer – and the teams are being summoned back to the court now, no more time for tactics, time to Grifball!
Alman01 – brilliant
The team walks out the changing room and back towards the court
The camera goes back with maiden and Paz inside there sabers flying towards the covenant corvette
The 2 sabers fly past the camera
*annoying idea but*
The camera follows the sabers through space eventually revealing the corvette and then pulling away
Paz – ok, get ready to board the ship
Maiden – im ready
The sabers fly towards the corvette
The camera changes to a custom game on zealot, so we can film on top the corvette without stupid marines and what not
Jarvis – autopilot activated, override of cockpit controls initiated
Paz and maiden drop down onto the top of corvette
Maiden – stuck the landing
Paz – brilliant, Jarvis do they know we’re here?
Jarvis – negative, the ships stealth runs are working as thought
Paz – good, c’mon James
The 2 Spartans walk towards the edge of the entrance to the ship
Paz – ok, absolute stealth, only attack if we have to
PPE – the camera shakes
SFX – engines powering up
Maiden – what the hell was that?
Paz – the ships moving, it must be going to refuel
Maiden – so…
Paz – so we’ve got even less time than we thought we did
The camera goes back to the Grifball court looking at the score board with the time remaining displayed 2:45 seconds left
Gideon has the Grifball on the reds side of the court; Santiago
Announcer – im sure its only a matter of time before the league has a new leader, Alman01 is holding off the Epsilons but they’re incredibly outnumbered
Announcer 2 – yes there is more of them than them
Alman01 swings his hammer at the epsilon attackers while Gideon stands behind him
Billy – uhh, Alman01 do something!
Alman01 – im trying, its not as easy as it looks
Alman01 manages to take out one of the Epsilons and narrowly avoids the other attackers strike
Announcer – that’s an improvement for the Deltas, its still a mountain of odds
Alman01 runs forwards allowing Gideon to run down the side of the pitch gaining some ground to the midway part of the pitch
The epsilon runner joins the blockers stopping Gideon from running forwards any further
The camera looks at the score board again showing the time ( 1: 20 )
Announcer – with just short of a minute left, Gideon will have to make a move on the goal
Announcer 2 – yes time sure is running out
The camera goes onto Long Night of Solace with Maiden and Paz
Paz and Maiden sneak down the corridor reaching the doorway, which opens and reveals a group of Elites and grunts (happens in game no matter what)
Maiden and Paz shoot the elites and grunts
Paz -- c’mon, we don’t have long before they find the bodies
Maiden – right
Paz and maiden run down the corridor eventually coming into the zealot map
Paz and maiden walk down onto the lower part of the map
Maiden – where’s the elites?
Paz – I don’t know, but, im not complaining
The 2 Spartans walk down into the lowest part of the map by the elevators
The 2 Spartans face the camera
Paz – that’s what where here for
Maiden – huh
The camera goes back to highlands showing Andriarno and Yuna walking over towards the falcon on the helicopter pad
Andriarno – so, urm, how’d you like my armor
Yuna – its all right, I guess
Andriarno – you know, I heard they’re making a new Mark V helmet, the prototype looks pretty cool
Yuna – yeah, I guess so
The camera looks at Andriarno’s helmet
Billy – *in Andriarno’s head* I find the most attractive part of the woman is the boobies
Andriarno – I find the most attractive part of the woman is the boobies
Yuna turns and stares at Josh
Yuna – excuse me!?
Josh looks around and then turns back to Yuna
Andriarno – urm… I would like to gain access to your base. Shall I enter from the front or the rear?
Yuna keeps staring at Josh
Andriarno – urm… is my auto aim malfunctioning, its stuck on you…
Yuna turns away from Josh and walks to the falcon
Yuna – its not the only thing that’s supposedly malfunctioning
Josh and Yuna get on the falcon and fly off towards the distance over the combat grounds; we can’t go over the building cause the Covenant Super Carriers glassing the planet.
The camera then goes back to the covenant corvette
Maiden – what is that?
Paz – its something the UNSC will need to win the war
Paz walks forwards to the artifact
The camera shows Paz’s shadow as he approaches the artifact
SFX – ominous noise
SPOILER ALERT ONCE YOU READ IT YOU CAN’T UNREAD IT!
NO GOING BACK NOW
The artifact is a forerunner monitor, as im writing this I don’t know what to call it yet. Rough ideas though, so the kind of noise epsilon makes in RVB or Guilty Sparks in Halo
Concept names for the Monitor:
Fallen Destiny Sentinel Omicron
Discarded Fawkes Optimus Prime
Disgraced Honor Origin Omega
The camera looks at the shadow and then goes back to the Grifball court
The camera shows the score board
“30 seconds left”
Alman01 – 30 seconds left!
Gideon runs the ball forwards towards the epsilons punching over one of the players making the game equal
Gideon quickly steps backwards allowing Alman01 to take his position as a blocker
Alman01 hits another Epsilon blocker leaving only Emily left for Epsilon
The camera shows the score board’s timer again
Now showing 25 seconds left, even though that last sequence probably took 15 seconds
Emily hits Alaman01 removing him from the game, leaving only Gideon and Emily on the court
Gideon tries jumping around her but she manages to block him keeping him a quarter of the pitch away from the score point
Billy – I don’t want to hurt you girl
Emily – you won’t
Gideon tries to make another pass but she blocks him again
The camera shows the scoreboard again showing 15 seconds
Gideon takes a few steps backwards from Emily
Gideon then runs to the left of her, making her follow him, he then ducks backwards trying to circle past her
She manages to block Gideon off again
Billy – god damn it girl, you’re beaten all ready, lemme score
Emily – no way, Gigen *deliberately taking the Mick out of his name*
Billy – my, name. is Gideon
Gideon jumps up into the air *increased jump height*
The camera shows the score board, time remaining 10 seconds
Slow motion of Gideon coming in to land
Time remaining 9 seconds
Slow motion of Gideon falling
This sequence continues until the time remaining is 1 second
Gideon then lands on the goal planting the bomb
Announcer 2 – he’s scored the goal, Gideon has scored
Gideon, crouching on the score post, turns slightly and turns to the camera behind him
PPE – special titles come over the snap shot of Gideon, like sport sponsors and his name and crap in Gideon’s colors
Announcer 1 – Gideon’s goal tally now reaches the 120 mark in his 5 seasons as a Delta player, he’s now pushed the Dominators 6 points ahead of at the top of the league
Gideon turns to Emily, who is now walking away from him
Billy – hey, Emily
Emily turns slightly looking behind her
Billy – re-match soon yeah?
The camera shows Emily’s helmet in a close up
Emily nods and then starts walking away again
The camera goes to reflection with Josh and Yuna
The 2 characters walk round the corner and into the camera shot
Yuna – it must be difficult having being taken in to the Spartan program
Andriarno – I try not to think about it…
Yuna – yeah, I mean, not being able to visit the places you like or… do the things you like?
Andriarno – or be with the people that I love?
Yuna – I thought you weren’t allowed to love, something about it interfering with battle strategies
Andriarno – Spartans are designed as war machines, to keep the peace and protect humanity, so I guess we’re encouraged to love technically
Yuna – *laughs slightly to herself*
The two characters walk past the camera
Then the camera changes zealot again with Paz and Maiden looking into the room
Note – origin omega is kept off screen or partially covered as to not reveal it’s a monitor, even though it speaks and what not
Origin Omega – ah, reclaimers, I did hope that one day you would return
Maiden – its… an AI ball
Origin Omega – oh no, I am Origin Omega 216
Paz – well, what ever you are your coming with us now
Origin Omega – yes reclaimers, only, those guys might want to stop you
Maiden – what guys?
Maiden and paz turn the way that Omega is looking
The camera shows lots of elites looking at the 2 Spartans and Omega
Paz – oh, hi there, urm we’re just urm… fuck
The camera goes back to Yuna and Josh on reflection, now on the balcony looking over the rest of the map
Yuna – so, do you remember anything about your life before they…
Andriarno – before they took me?
Yuna – yeah, I mean, do you remember where you lived or your parents or anything?
Andriarno – a little, I remember that I used to live on Mars, New Paris I think
Yuna – how can you be sure?
Josh looks downwards at the ground
Andriarno – I remember, something’s about my past, at least I think I do.
Yuna – how’d you mean?
Andriarno – well, ive got this vision, in my head, but I don’t know if it’s real though, but at the same time, I don’t know whether I wanna know if it’s real… or just something I thought up. For all I know I could have been born on any planet
Yuna – that must be difficult
Josh turns away from Yuna slightly
Andriarno – its worse *sounding slightly agitated*
Yuna turns and steps closer to Josh
Andriarno – how could they do that to us? They took away everything and everyone I ever loved! *shouting to himself*
Yuna steps backwards slightly
Andriarno – and my family probably thinks Im dead! Imagine what they must of gone through once I was taken *still shouting but eventually becoming more docile*
Yuna pauses for a second then steps back closer to Josh
Yuna – to care is to be human
Josh turns back slightly to Yuna
Andriarno – I’m not human, im… im a Spartan
Josh looks down again away from Yuna
The camera moves slightly to take Josh off the screen showing only Yuna
Yuna moves off screen with Josh
SFX – helmet being taken off
SFX – kissing *or* some other way of projecting the kiss on screen*
Ideas I have so far –
à Digitally insert shadows of the characters in front of the camera showing the kiss
à Alman01’s anime drawings… although this was planned only for season 2 onwards
à Referred to in dialogue in episode 10 “Scars of War”
à Pornographic music
The camera goes to zealot showing the elites looking at the Spartans and Omega
Elite 1 – they must not defile the relic!
The elites draw there swords
Maiden turns to paz
Maiden – urm… run?
Paz – do ya think?
The 2 Spartan’s set off running
Omega – hey, get your hands off me, ahhh help me!
Paz – just be quiet bowling ball
(Note untested theory but what can we film this in assault mode with the bomb, as if paz is carrying the monitor? Otherwise I have a secondary ending idea)
Paz and maiden quickly use the elevators and manage to get onto the outer rim of the map
The elites follow up the elevator but one runs to the upper middle part of the map to the keyboards
Maiden runs round the edge of the map and then see’s the elite approaching the computer tablet
Maiden – he’s gunna alert the whole ship!
Paz – then get him already
Maiden starts running towards the elite
Just as the elite reaches the table maiden an alarm starts going off
Maiden manages to assassinate the elite just as the alarm goes off
Maiden stands back up again
Maiden – oh god, no fuck, what do I do
The camera shows the covenant table
The camera shows paz and Omega taking cover behind a wall shooting at the elites
Paz – just turn it off!
Omega – if I might interject
Paz – just shut up cue ball
The camera goes back to maiden panicking around the controls
The camera cuts to black
Credits
Oh my god this flashback sequence was only meant to be 2 episodes haha
Here’s to a third!
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