The Hardest Rescue
By: Caboosefan101
Prologue
!2'oclock, Sunday afternoon. Alex was leaving church with his wife and two children. Alex was a 32 year old man and worked down at the local UNSC recruiting office in town. His wife, Samantha, was 30 and was a stay at home mom. Alex's two kids were named Matt and Sarah, both only six years of age. Alex and his family lived on the outskirts of what today we know as New York city. Going to church wasn't a regular thing for Alex and his family, but today was Easter. Alex only thought it was the right time to go.
On the way home Samantha started to flip through the stations on the radio. Soon she came to a song she liked. Samantha had always liked the old stuff, stuff from the early two thousands and such. Alex didn't mind it but it definitely wasn't his favorite. His wife and kids were singing along to the song when it was abruptly interrupted.
" We are sorry to interrupt your program for a important news flash." a voice on the radio said.
Alex knew the voice. It was the voice of his boss down at the recruiting station. Alex's boss was normally a very cool headed man, but Alex could sense the uneasiness in his voice.
"An unidentified fleet of ships have entered our atmosphere. These ships have no known markings of any sort. For your protection, please evacuate to the nearest fall out bunker. This is not a test!" the voice said.
Alex knew something was up. How could ships, of any kind, get this close to Earth with out being spotted? Then Alex heard an explosion from above. Alex stopped the car and looked up through his sun roof. A large fire ball erupted in the sky.
"What the hell?" Alex said to himself.
People all around the streets stopped and stared at the fire ball.
"They got one of the defense stations!" some one yelled.
Then Alex's eyes widened. The man was right. Did those ships really just destroy a defense station that easily? Soon Alex would have his answer. Alex put the pedal to the medal and sped towards the city. All around people were in a panic. They to had herd the report and seen the fireball. Suddenly a massive ship appeared over the city. Alex pealed his car to a halt. His wife and children looked amazed at the ship. Then Alex saw a large ball of light form under the ship. It was red a reddish orange color and it was growing bigger and bigger. Alex knew exactly what that was. Alex clenched his wife's hand and then looked around the car at the people inside. Then he stopped at his son's face. Tears welded up in his eyes.
"I'm sorry Matt," Alex started "We won't be going to your game today."
He then looked at his daughter and wife.
"I love you all," Alex said crying.
Alex didn't cry to much. So when Samantha saw her husband she was amazed.
"What are you talking about?" she asked frantically.
But before she could get her answer the ships orb of a light turned into a beam, and everything went white.
Meanwhile…
Earth was in a panic. Her and her inner most colonies were under attack from these strange new ships. These ships entered the atmosphere undetected, or seen, and reeked havoc on every major city. But as strangely as these ships had come, they left. Leaving no sign of their existence but millions of burning cities. The weapon they used to do this? A particle cannon. A highly illegal weapon amongst Earth and her colonies. A weapon so devastating, it rivaled that of the UNSC's own MAC cannon. It even stood up to the old conveniences own plasma cannons. But this wasn't an attack from the Covenant. This story takes place eighty years after all the Halos were destroyed. Eighty years after the great Halo conquest. Ten years after the last Halo's destruction the UNSC and the Old Covenant joined forces together. Know humans and aliens lived side by side in peace. And about four years ago, the UNSC and the New Covenant came together in a joint operation and successfully destroyed the flood completely. Not with out heavy looses though. The biggest and bloodiest battle to destroy the flood was at a small town known as El Teryano (el terry-annoe). A battle of which took almost an entire year. A place where our hero of this book met his biggest challenge. Now, four years later, our hero will once again find himself faced with another impossible challenge. That of which will be known as, The Hardest Rescue.
