Intro: Dark times
Suddenly I was awakened from my deep sleep. I looked to my left and saw Earth and the ships that were heading for it. I looked at the soldier who woke me from my slumber and screamed "What the hell is going you bastard." The soldier cried out "Don't be angry at me we need you to help us beat the covenant again, here are your weapons." Then he ran off and took the last available escaped pod. I whipped out my energy sword and made my way to the air hatch because that was my only means of escape. I was running down the hall when a elite challenged me to a duel. We put our swords together and took a step back. We both counted to ten in our heads and we striked. I dodged his attack and swung at him and severed his head off. The alien fell limp to the floor and blood spewed from its head. I continue to run the hall but I stop to look out the window. I realized that the ship was closer to earth than I thought. Realizing that I might not make it off of this ship alive I ran down the hall faster than and harder than I was before. I made it to the hatch and pulled the switch opening the way to outer space. From here I had two options either die in the explosion from the crash or jump out and catch a ride on a covenant drop ship. Of course I took the second option. I leaped out into space and tumbled down. I landed on top of the covenant drop ship and we landed on earth or what I though was earth.
Chapter 2: The death bringers
Xero was watching the blue armored figure take out the landing covenant from on top of the ship. Xero screamed "Alright boys the chief is here let's give him a warm welcome." I run over to my partner and best friend and say "How you been holding up." Xero says "We've been doing fine chief." I say to Xero "It's been a while since we've done a mission together so are you partner." And he says "Yeah Darth of course I'm ready because we are going to kick some covenant butt." Then a marine ran over to us and said "the covenant are here we're all going to die." Xero an I walk to the fron of the marines and I say "Looks like the calvary has arrived Xero, are you ready." Xero loads up his shotgun and says "Of course." And he runs toward them and screams "Charge!" The marines ran behind Xero taking out the covenant in their wake. I say to myself "Still as brave as you were in the first covenant war when they nearly killed me." I ran down the hill with my SMG in hand blasting away at the enemy. But I was distracted by the memories that flooded into my mind. Scenes of the previous war came back to me the gruesome reality that I would be dead if it weren't for the Spartan project. The memory of Xero standing above my limb and bleeding body defending me even if it meant his life would be taken in the process. The memory of running through the ravaged and destroyed city and the sound of my men dying and begging me to keep them alive. A bullet hit me and i snapped back into reality. Xero screamed "Darth get down!" Xero and his men killed the rest of the covenant and walked to me. Xero said "Are you ok?" I say "The memories of the first covenant war kinda paralyzed me for a few moments." Xero says "Same thing happened to me." I say "How I don't remember you being in the spartan project." Xero says "The project became availible to me after they awarded you your medals while you where in the cryofreezer." I say "So you were brought in to the program almost right after me." Xero says "Yeah." Suddenly our radio's turn on and we hear someone say "This is echo-419 is the the chief and his group of marines?" I say "Yeah Foe Hammer this is Darth, what's going on." The pilot says "We have heard chatter on the covenant broadcasts they have the captain on one of their ships." Xero says "Which one?" The pilot says the Truth and Reconciliation." I say "Are you coming to pick us up because I don't plan on walking." The pilot says "Don't worry chief I'm on my way.
Chapter 3: Halo?
"We're closing in on the ship's location." the pilot said. Xero looks over at me and notices that I've blanked out. Xero walks over to me but he realizes that the shocking memories have taken over again. Let's take a look at what happened in the previous covenant war. "Alright boys this is the fight that will prove we're the best of the best let's say hello to the covenant the marine way." I shouted. Xero responds "You mean shoot them right Staff Sargeant." I say "Yes Pfc.Pack." (yes that's his real name and Joeseph Pack is my best friend) Xero responds "It's just that I've never said hello to anyone like you could've just said shoot them." I say "Alright then smartass your with me." Xero walks over and stands next to his commanding Sargeant with pride not knowing that he would nearly die that day. I say "Alright I want the rest of you to hold the line and make sure no one gets through." The marines say "Sir yes Sir!" Me and Xero run off to fight the covenant at their homefront. The city looked more like a barren wasteland than anything else. You could hear the sounds of marines dying and the covenant laughing at the sight of their limb opponents. We continued to run through the city until a grenad landed in front of me. Barely noticing the blue fuzz ball in time I jump out of the way narrowly avoiding death. I look around for the enemy that threw the grenade at us. I spot him and take a shot at him with my sniper rifle. The bullet hits him right in between his eyes. The elite falls over and blood spills all over the ground. Xero and I continue to run toward the enmy line to help the few marines that have manage to survive. We make to see that the marines that should be there are all dead. I say "Xero you stay here and cover me, I only want you to come out shouldI take a really bad blow." Xero says "But sir." "Just follow the order Private." I scream. I run out and fire my assault rifle taking out the covenant where they stood. Xero satyed back with sniper rifle to cover me. A grunt fired a few needles at me. They hit me hard and sunk into my chest. Xero called in on the radio "Get down Sarge!" I fire a few more shots and the needles explode. "Ahhh!" I scream and then the covenant realizing i was open for attack fired everything they had at me besides tanks and grenades. The plasma bullets and needles hit me and I fall down on the ground bleeding. Xero runs out screaming "Darth no!" he runs out taking needles and plasma bullets and crouches down next to my bleeding body. He fires at the covenant killing them and making sure they didn't get back up as well. Suddenly the battle field HQ calls in on both of our radios "SSG.Thomas and Pfc.Pack you've done a great thing today you have broken the covenant line our armor reinforcment is on it's way." Xero screams "Darth has been hit real bad send a medic team down here too." HQ says "It will be done." Xero stood there fighting to keep me alive andI couldn't say anything beacuse blood was filling up in my throat. All Xero got as thanks was a gurgle but he understood what I was trying to say. The tanks arrived and took at the covenant that din't get a chance to retreat. The medic team ran over and said "Don't worry Xero your Sargeant is going to be fine we're going to teleport him to the pillar of aurumn so he can be put into the Spartan project. I black out and then i snap back to reality. Xero asks "What memory popped up this time." I said this time the whole war to the point whereI was teleported played." Xero says "When they woke me up they said that they removed some of my memories." The pilot says "Alright boys go show them what two Spartans and a handful of marines can do." We hop out of the pelican and run in to the area. the covenant fire a few needles and the marines fire back taking out the idiot who shot at me. We run through the rest of the canyon and we finally get to the ship. Then the unthinkable happens two hunters come down from the Grav-lift. A marine screams out "Shit we're going to die!" I say "Calm down marine." Xero says "Darth you want to use our method for taking out hunters back before we were turned into the beautiful mixture of man and machine we are today." I say "Let's do it." Xero pulls out his rifle and I run toward the hunters. One runs toward me but i dodge him leaving his vital spot open for Xero. Xero pulls the trigger and blasts him. The marines say "1 hunter down and 1 to go." The second hunter shoots a fuel rod blast at me . I barely jump over the blast and took a shot at him hitting him right in between the eyes. The hunter fell over and died. We all walked onto the grav-lift and looked up. Xero says "It looks kinda like a butthole doesn't it." I say "Like I'd let myself float into a giant butthole." We float into the covenant ship to a weird surprise.
Inside the Truth and Reconciliation
We make it inside to see the captain was free and waiting on us. The captain says "One of the elites was stupid enough to enter my cell and talk to me, soI killed him." Xero says "Come on captain lets go." I say "Wait something's not right, I propose a test." The captain says "What kind of test?" I say "I'm going to shoot you in the arm if you bleed purple I'm going to kill you if you bleed red We'll get you off this ship." The captain says "Fire away." I pull out my pistol and shoot him in the arm. "ARGH!" he screams but his blood came out red so we use the grav-lift and call for evac. Echo-419 picks us up and the captain says "Take us to the control center of halo." Me and Xero say "Halo what the hell is halo we're on Earth!" The captain says "Halo looks like Earth but it's a ring world the covenant think of it as a religous totem that gives them the power to control the universe." Xero says "So in other words it's a weapon and you want us to stop them." The captain says "Yes you smartass." I say "Well then drop us of at the control center we'll stop them."
Chapter 4: Assault on the control room
"Alright Xero this is not a sneakign mission we're going in with everything we've got, if any of those covenant bastards make it out alive it better be because they were lucky." Xero nods his head and we run in killing all the covenant that crossed our path. Those that made it out alive called us ghosts some called us demons hell some of them thought wewere gods. But one thing was for sure we got there first. I put Cortana into Halo's central computer and she gave us some shocking information. Halo is meant to destroy all life forms so that a parasite called the flood can't survive. I say "Looks like we'll be blowing this thing up."
Chapter 5: In a distant past
"Just how are we going to do that?" Xero asks. I say "I've set up a bunch of bombs in all the areas we've been so it should be enough to take this thing apart." Xero says "But we'll never get of this ring in time." I respond "Don't worry i'll make a teleporter to get us outta here." I set the teleporter and as we walk through you can hear the explosion. We popped up in someone's ship and when the person noticed us he walked over to us and says "How the heck did two people get on my ship." We explain to him how we made the teleporter and how we ended up in his ship. He looks at us and says "You two look strangely familiar." The man looks at an object behind him and says "You two are supposed to be sleep." We give him a look from behind our helmets that he couldn't see. Xero says "Who are you? " The man responds "I'm Arclite." I ask him what year it is and he says "2009 sir why do you ask." Xero says "Darth I should kill you for this."
Sorry guys this is the first book that i had to retype this is not the original because it had to many grmatical errors and i added some things to it that was not in the original.