History FanFic / FinishingTheFight

* LargeHam: The Arbiter is as over the top as ever, as are [[spoiler:the rest of the Elites]]. Johnson however has toned it down.

* MundaneLuxury: The Chief's idea of "a little luxury R&R" is five hours of sleep, a hot meal, "and maybe even a shower"

* PragmaticHero: The Halo cast are all several steps closer to the cynical side of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism than the Forgotten Realms characters and it shows. However, the Forgotten Realms characters mostly come around to the pragmatic point of view. By the final battle, the only objection to genecide of the drow is the Gods insistence that they save some of the children, so that the drow race will live on even if the drow culture doesn't.

** In the beginning, he's utterly dumbfounded when he sees first a reindeer then a human on an alien world. His jaw actually drops over it.

* FeedItABomblet: Chief throws a plasma grenade at a half ogre's head, only for the creature to open its mouth and accidentally swallow the projectile. A few seconds later, none of the half-ogre exists anymore.

* The dark elf children, however, disappear after the scene where they ask Keyes what will happen to them. Who she will convince to adopt emotionally-abused children from a near-universally-despised race whom will take at least sixty years to mature is not addressed.

* AFatherToHisMen: Jarlaxle greatly values the lives of his soldiers, refuses to sacrifice them pointlessly, [[spoiler:and ultimately turns against Lolth out of disgust that his forces slaughtered]].

* [[BFG}}: The Rhino main cannon, Spartan Laser, and [[spoiler: All the Forerunner weapons]].

* BadassGrandpa: Sergeant Johnson is in his 80's and still kickin' ass
** Gazap the Grunt commander has been in the army for 30 years, and survived '''3''' engagements with Spartans (both are incredible achievements by Unggoy standards). He even states that he is considered "Ancient" by his kind.
** Mephasm. He's literally Neeshka's grandfather, and he's one of the more powerful pit fiends.

* CruelMercy: Flashback's reveal that after the Didact abandoned his post in a doomed effort to save his wife (dooming ''trillions'' in the process), the Council punished him by having him by the one to fire the Halos. Forcing him to live with with ''killing the galaxy'' turns out to be pretty horrifying punishment.

* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:Most of the Chief's initial attacks on Demogorgon really just make him angry. While he does eventually hurt the demon, those wounds heal quickly as well and now he's ''pissed.'' Finally killing Demogorgon nearly kills the Chief, and virtually destroys the suit.]]

** [[Mias Tarkimee]] chooses to hold off Triel so that his task force can retreat to safety. When his capture at her hands seems inevitable, he commits suicide by shooting himself in the brain, preventing her from using psychic powers to learn of the group's strengths and weaknesses (and more importantly, their mission inside Menzoberranzen).

* TheWorfBarrage: [[spoiler:During the Chief's fight with Demongorgon, the Chief narrates the what his weapons system could destroy (including a Covenant Super Carrier). That Demongorgon just ''keeps coming'' makes it clear how terrifying powerful he is]].

** Then we get to a serious aversion when MC runs into [[spoiler: Demogorgon]], who can take anything thrown at him - including possibly Forward Unto Dawn's MAC - and keeps coming.

* HeroKiller: Gromph Baenre who manages to kill [[spoiler: Revajik, Lady Alustriel, and the Hunter Denos]].

** Also, [[spoiler: Denos sacrifices himself to save Lotar, and a villainous example when Gromph chooses to save Triel Baenre instead of himself. She later wonders why he did so.]]
** Mias Tarkimee chooses to hold off Triel so that his task force can retreat to safety. When his capture at her hands seems inevitable, he commits suicide by shooting himself in the brain, preventing her from using psychic powers to learn of the group's strengths and weaknesses (and more importantly, their mission inside Menzoberranzen).

* IShallTauntYou: Johnson uses this on the drow when they assault Mithril Hall, working them to a frenzy. [[spoiler:Helm]] also uses this to great effect on Lolth, causing her attacks to become more crazed, and distracting her from the surface battle. The crowner though, is probably when [[spoiler: Mias Tarkimee]] insults Triel Baenre so that she focuses on him and his men can escape. "Turn and face me, you misbegotten servant of a spider bitch!"

* NotSoStoic: see the second TearJerker entry below.

--> '''Offensive Bias''' "My turn, Brother."

* TankGoodness: The Scorpion, and the new Rhino. The [[spoiler: New-Covenant are apparently terrified of the Rhino, having heard stories about them]].

* WhyWontYouDie: Lolth asks this of [[spoiler: Helm/Didact]] when they fight.

'''{{Franchise/Halo}}: Finishing the Fight''' is a crossover styled story taking place in an alternate ending to ''{{VideoGame/Halo 3}}'', where the remaining members of the ''Forward Unto Dawn's'' crew (The Master Chief, Cortana, Commander Keyes, Sergeant Major Johnson, and the Arbiter) escape the destruction of the Halo array with their lives, only to get sucked through a NegativeSpaceWedgie in the process, and wind up literally crash-landing into the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' universe (sometime between ''Literature/TheIcewindDaleTrilogy'' and the ''Literature/LegacyOfTheDrowSeries'').

''Halo: Finishing the Fight'' is, as the author put it, "the result of what started as a series of postulated "what ifs" among the author and his friends after a night spent consuming too much root beer while playing games, and listening to far too much Immediate Music to possibly be healthy." It has since grown to a 700+ page work of fanfiction involving (the author hopes at least) passable attempts at blending military science fiction with high fantasy, alternating between the two different elements trying to understand one another and [[ChunkySalsaRule Orcs and Dark Elves being shot in the face with 26th century assault weaponry]]. The story was completed on 19th of January, 2011, and is available on two major sites. The first is at the [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/aratechs-finishing-the-fight-now-uninterrupted.159198/ Creative Writing Forum]] of Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom with the full forty-six chapters, while a slightly more polished and proofread version can be found at [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4108390/1/Halo_Finishing_the_Fight Fanfiction.net]].

* ArmCannon: [[spoiler: The Golems created by Cortana]] have a 30mm cannon attached to the left forearm and a flamethrower on the right.

-->'''Johnson:''' "You will not trigger these things by banging, dropping, or otherwise manhandling them." He closed the second case. "Nevertheless, and I want everyone to hear me very carefully here, you treat this shit as if it were armed, and the slightest jostle could set it off. You treat it, as if the very second you stop respecting it for what it is, that it will kill you."

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Helm/Didact]]

* BattleInTheRain: '“Yeah, all we need is a torrential downpour and the trope is complete,” Cortana said.' Sure enough...

* [[BigFreakingGun BFG]]: The Rhino main cannon, Spartan Laser, and [[spoiler: All the Forerunner weapons]].

-->The Spartan's fist connected with the bronze codpiece that it wore, and a resounding 'gong' echoed through the room. The Tiefling's mouth dropped open as the piece of protective equipment crumpled inward and collapsed under the fury of the blow. The Glabrezu stumbled backwards, its eyes crossing slightly. It collapsed to its knees, its lower arms clutching at its wound. Then it howled in agony as its brain finally finished processing what had happened to it. It was a scream, Neeshka noted with a smirk, which was quite a few octaves higher than she believed the wolf demons were capable of. This was followed a by a moment of whimpering, before the Spartan turned his weapon upon the creature.

* MythologyGag: [[spoiler: Johnson making a joke about Miranda NOT trying to attack Truth on foot, which was what led to her death in canon.]]

** Johnson plays the Mjolnir Mix version of the Halo Theme over his speakers to ease pre-fight tension.
** Given his... well, ''alien'' appearance, the Arbiter is constantly mistaken for some form of demon... which the Chief finds funny, given that it wasn't all that long ago that the Arbiter was calling ''him'' that.

* GenreBlind: The UNSC characters meet various elves and dwarves, and not one of them ever thinks of LordOfTheRings or Santa Claus and his elf helpers.

* BringItOn: [[spoiler:After Mendicant Bias offers to let the Foreunner fleet surrender, Admiral Dulianus tells Offensive Bias to give their response: "I think I speak for us all, Sir, when I tell my brother than he and his 'Master' can both go to Oblivion, and rot in the endless void. Come, Mendicant, let us see if you and your master can triumph over us. We will not go quietly to our ends!]]

* BattleInTheRain: '“Yeah, all we need is a torrential downpour and [[OneOfUs the trope is complete]],” Cortana said.' Sure enough...

* OneOfUs: The title of the second chapter is "Observations, Plans, and a Xanatos Gambit".
** As noted above, Cortana muses: “Yeah, all we need is a torrential downpour and [[BattleInTheRain the trope is complete]]". Johnson also uses the word EldritchAbomination at one point.

''Halo: Finishing the Fight'' is, as the author put it, "the result of what started as a series of postulated "what ifs" among the author and his friends after a night spent consuming too much root beer while playing games, and listening to far too much Immediate Music to possibly be healthy." It has since grown to a 700+ page work of fanfiction involving (the author hopes at least) passable attempts at blending military science fiction with high fantasy, alternating between the two different elements trying to understand one another and [[ChunkySalsaRule Orcs and Dark Elves being shot in the face with 26th century assault weaponry]]. The story was completed on 19th of January, 2011, and is available on two major sites. The first is at the [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/aratechs-finishing-the-fight-now-uninterrupted.159198/ Creative Writing Forum]] of Main/{{Spacebattles}}.com with the full forty-six chapters, while a slightly more polished and proofread version can be found at [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4108390/1/Halo_Finishing_the_Fight Fanfiction.net]].

** Mephasm. He's literally Neeshka's grandfather, and he's one of the more powerful Balors.

** And the same occurs when UNSC/Covenant-style warfare is applied to Faerun. [[spoiler: The second battle of Mithril Hall is easily the bloodiest battle is Faerun's history, with nearly half a million slaughtered in a matter of hours.]]

''Halo: Finishing the Fight'' is, as the author put it, "the result of what started as a series of postulated "what ifs" among the author and his friends after a night spent consuming too much root beer while playing games, and listening to far too much Immediate Music to possibly be healthy." It has since grown to a 700+ page work of fanfiction involving (the author hopes at least) passable attempts at blending military science fiction with high fantasy, alternating between the two different elements trying to understand one another and [[ChunkySalsaRule Orcs and Dark Elves being shot in the face with 26th century assault weaponry]]. The story was completed on 19th of January, 2011, and is available on two major sites. The first is at the [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/aratechs-finishing-the-fight-now-uninterrupted.159198/ Creative Writing Forum]] of Main/{{Spacebattles}}.com with the full forty-six chapters, while a slightly more polished and proofread version can be found at [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4108390/1/Halo_Finishing_the_Fight Fanfiction.net]], which currently has forty-four chapters.

* PragmaticHero: The Halo cast are all several steps closer to the cynical side of the {{SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism}} than the Forgotten Realms characters and it shows. However, the Forgotten Realms characters mostly come around to the pragmatic point of view. By the final battle, the only objection to genecide of the drow is the Gods insistence that they save some of the children, so that the drow race will live on even if the drow culture doesn't.

''Halo: Finishing the Fight'' is, as the author put it, "the result of what started as a series of postulated "what ifs" among the author and his friends after a night spent consuming too much root beer while playing games, and listening to far too much Immediate Music to possibly be healthy." It has since grown to a 700+ page work of fanfiction involving (the author hopes at least) passable attempts at blending military science fiction with high fantasy, alternating between the two different elements trying to understand one another and [[ChunkySalsaRule Orcs and Dark Elves being shot in the face with 26th century assault weaponry]]. The story was completed on 19th of January, 2011, and is available on two major sites. The first is at the [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/aratechs-finishing-the-fight-now-uninterrupted.159198/ Creative Writing Forum]] of Main/{{Spacebattles}}.com with the full forty-six chapters, while a slightly more polished and proofread version can be found at [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4108390/1/Halo_Finishing_the_Fight Fanfiction.net]], which currently has forty-three chapters.

''Halo: Finishing the Fight'' is, as the author put it, "the result of what started as a series of postulated "what ifs" among the author and his friends after a night spent consuming too much root beer while playing games, and listening to far too much Immediate Music to possibly be healthy." It has since grown to a 700+ page work of fanfiction involving (the author hopes at least) passable attempts at blending military science fiction with high fantasy, alternating between the two different elements trying to understand one another and [[ChunkySalsaRule Orcs and Dark Elves being shot in the face with 26th century assault weaponry]]. The story was completed on 19th of January, 2011, and is available on two major sites. The first is at the [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/aratechs-finishing-the-fight-now-uninterrupted.159198/ Creative Writing Forum]] of Main/{{Spacebattles}}.com with the full forty-six chapters, while a slightly more polished and proofread version can be found at [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4108390/1/Halo_Finishing_the_Fight Fanfiction.net]], which currently has thirty-eight chapters.