History Fanfic / EnemyOfMyEnemy

* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:The UNSC and the Separatists win, but over half the colony and less than a dozen Elites survive. Horizon itself is no longer economically viable and is eventually abandoned. No mention is made of whether a new colony was built on Crassus.]]
** [[spoiler:A spam email in the semi-sequel makes mention of an "exciting new investment opportunity on some backwater colony called Crassus." Evidently someone still lives on Crassus in the future.]]
** [[spoiler:I actually intended this as something of an in-joke; I was poking fun at those "I am an exiled member of the [Insert Third World Country] Royal Family. Send me $200 dollars today, and you will earn $1 million dollars when I return to power!" spam emails that crop up now and again - Katsuhiro]]

* AcePilot: Zuka, Perry, Santos.
* [[spoiler:[[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs All Your Super-Scarab Are Belong To Us]] - at the end]].

* AnyoneCanDie

* BadassBiker: The ''Jiral'han'' Brute siege-breakers.

* BigBad: Brute High-Chieftain Torikus.
* BigGood: Two of them: Administrator Jennings and Shipmaster Arume.

* BoisterousBruiser: Zuka 'Ornon.

* ColdSniper: The Kig-Yar Yik, for the Brutes and the Sangheili Zerat Omdolo.

* EnemyMine: Obviously.

* FireForgedFriends: On a grand scale, between the Humans and the Elite-led forces.

* HopelessWar: For the vast majority of the story.

* TheSiege: Pretty much the entire story.

* WarIsHell: This one should be rather clear by the end.

* DropTheHammer: There are several Brute Chieftains; it's to be expected.

* SimpleStaff: Rukth shows himself to be at his most effective when wielding a spike/blade-tipped staff [[spoiler:made from the hilt of Brute Chieftain Malwrekus' gravity hammer]].

* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Staff Sergeant Raymond Howard.

* RealityEnsues: How the [[spoiler:YouShallNotPass ultimately ends. As the story puts it: "And yet war is a fickle thing, and all too rarely does it show mercy. The Elites fought courageously, but heroism can only last for so long in the face of unstoppable brute force."]]

* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:Rukth: "Then avenge us, brother. Avenge us all."]]

* [[HopelessWar Hopeless Campaign]]: For the vast majority of the story.

* [[spoiler:InfantImmortality: Despite countless close calls, Sarah makes it out of the campaign unscathed, and gets the last line of dialogue.]]

Now has a sequel of sorts (though it only features cameos from ''Enemy of my Enemy'' characters): ''FanFic/HaloChimeraRising''.

'''Examples'''

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Traxus Terraforming director Michael Cauldwell. Scared in compliance [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome AWESOMELY]] by 2LT Brambley.

** The whole thing reads like Necropolis, about the Siege of Vervunhive. But despite that, it deviates quite a bit: the walls are to prevent sand storms, the citizens are trained by the [=ODSTs=] instead of just plain fighting back, and there is a MAC cannon hardmounted inside the city. Dan Abnett never used jump pack equipped infiltrators, or bloodthirsty bikers, or an orbiting spaceship that could easily obliterate the city. But even with these variations, it is still very reminiscent of Necropolis and other Gaunts Ghosts novels. The Scarabs replacing the crab-walker-tank-things from Necropolis, Yik the Man-Slayer replacing the Sniper from Sabbat Martyr, Rukth mixing Mkoll and Mkvenner, and other things. One notable deviation is that there is no arrogant Nobles trying to take control (well, at least after [[CrowningMomentofFunny Brambley convinced them otherwise...]] ) and no real enemy on the inside. The whole city is devoted to surviving. While this doesn't detract from the reading, it does kind of take out that extra edge.

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** [[spoiler:Rukth's]] LastStand and his statue at the North Gate is VERY reminiscent to a certain [[VerbalIrony Spartan]] [[ThreeHundred King]]

* {{Badass}}: ''Damn near everyone''. Particular notice goes to ODST Staff Sergeant Murphy, who escapes pretty much every attempt made by fate to kill him, and Rukth Kilkaree, who is perhaps ''the'' most badass Elite in all of Halo fiction.
** BadassBiker: The ''Jiral'han'' Brute siege-breakers.
** BadassNormal: The [=ODSTs=] are frightfully effective despite being mere humans compared to the superhumanly-tough Brutes.

* ShoutOut: The author has read more than a little of GauntsGhosts. In particular, Charlie Platoon's last stand, and Tactical Response 23.

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Now has a sequel of sorts (so far there have only been cameos from Enemy of my Enemy characters) [[FanFic/HaloChimeraRising Halo: Chimera Rising]].

** One of the [=ODSTs=] in Chapter 25 is named Mendoza, after the unfortunate Pvt. Manuel Mendoza from ''[[HaloCombatEvolved Halo: Combat Evolved]].

** A hologram of the Prophet of Truth is playing on the bridge of the ''Ubiquitous Triumph'' in "End Game", saying lines from ''Halo2''.

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4305125/1/ The Enemy of My Enemy]]'' is a {{Halo}} fanfiction written by Katsuhiro.

** The phrase "Were it so easy". Used in Chapters 16 and 28, the Arbiter says it in ''[[{{Halo3}} Halo 3's]]'' [[{{Bookends}} beginning and end.]]

* ItHasBeenAnHonour: Last words of [[spoiler: Commander Song.]]

** The phrase "Were it so easy". Used in Chapters 16 and 28, the Arbiter says it in ''[[{{Halo3}} Halo 3's]]'' beginning and end.

* RammingAlwaysWorks: The opening space battle, where the Duty gets a face-full of the ''Sanghelios''' engines.

** [[spoiler:A spam email in the semi-sequel makes mention of an "exciting new investment opportunity on soome backwater colony called Crassus." Evidently someone still lives on Crassus in the future.]]

Now has a sequel of sorts (so far there have only been cameos from Enemy of my Enemy characters) [[FanFic/HaloChimeraRising Halo: Chimera Rising]]

Now has a sequel of sorts (so far there have only been cameos from Enemy of my Enemy characters) [[FanFic/HaloChimeraRising]]

Now has a sequel of sorts (so far there have only been cameos from Enemy of my Enemy characters) [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6595977/1 Halo: Chimera Rising]]

* ClickHello: [[spoiler: NotQuiteDead Ferikus does this.]]

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Asked (Why not just glass the colony from orbit?) and answered; pride and a lust for glory