"It has begun, the end of all things" The voice echoed throughout the entire cockpit, capturing the rest of the crew with a sense of awe and wonder; but also fear on what was to come and how it was all too finally end and rest.
Admiral Drafter felt a tear roll down her face as she looked upon the many faces of her loyal crew, the operators who had been to hell and back to live with and furthermore the existence of humanity as well as the UNSC. All of the original fleet had been eradicated, leaving behind only one Battle Cruiser to fulfil the wishes of every dying man and women of the human vessels as well as the innocent lives of those on Genesis II. Then finally she turned heel and looked out to the large shield world in front of them all, its southern column completely opened and allowing the covenant vessels known as the Thunder to enter for once and for all.
"Get us in that shield world, prepare all canisters for immense radiational dosage as soon as we enter eye sight and detection of those covies!" Drafter thundered quickly, snapping straight into action and allowing her words to carry the fate of hundreds of lives.
A large dosage of power quickly surged through the back-burning engines of the Battle Cruiser, letting them shine blue with immense propulsion as it finally steamed forward and ploughed through the cosmos of space, breaking through the thick atmosphere of the shield world and not stopping until it quickly descended straight to the empty column that allowed entrance.
Without pause, the large heavy UNSC vessel aimed straight down and cruised into the large triangular hole; safely passing through the heavy forerunner metal outer-structure. Large red monitor systems passing alongside them as they all finally erupted out of the dark chasm of the outside world into the Utopia of the inner world.
A large glare of golden light blinded all forces inside the human battle cruiser, revealing a rather small but still ferocious sun that was situated perfectly in the middle of this interior planet; successfully giving all flora and fauna in the Utopia aspects of life and prosperity.
Strange monotonous green plumages of forestation covered most sectors of the interior world, their appearance somehow contrasting to the usual imagery of fauna. Small flutters and movement based orientation displayed the existence of native herds that quickly traversed the strange overgrowth in family groups. Large white pillars broke through the usual foliage of green forestation, blue lights sparking upwards from the forerunner installations that combed every quadrant of the large Utopian interior.
And above it all, on the right side of the massive yellow orb in the sky; a collection of two Assault Carrier's, three Corvette's and one huge Supreme Carrier were slowly traveling deeper into the interior world; purple engines traversing them forwards quickly closer to the sun as they maintained a look out inside the entire shield world.
"Prepare the radiation canister's to be unleashed outside into the atmosphere, I don't want any of those covenant ships noticing that we may have followed them inside" Admiral Drafter commanded to the operator's quickly, she knew that if a spillage of radiation could conceal their imprint then the Thunder would not detect them on their long range scanners.
"Yes ma'am" An operator spoke up quickly, his voice in awe over the events that had happened and how far they had really come. With a harmonious pause, the pilot reached down and activated a short control function to release the radiational spill into the nearby atmosphere. Then he took a took a breath in and hoped to any gods that may have been listening; he just hoped that this would truly work.
Meanwhile
"Check again soldier, I want to get this right in my head." She demanded roughly and without true care over how terrifying she might appear, tightening her fists in anger over the bad news as she listened to the marine attempt to relay the message across to her.
The UNSC marine stuttered for a second, gulping nervously as he screwed his helmet on tighter and spoke again, "We have no knowledge on the Spartan IV known as South but we have confirmed North as KIA; his heart rate plummeted a while back and hasn't gone up on our scanners."
The female Spartan IV known as 'West' looked down at her boots, wishing to just violently unleash the rage and sympathy that was crisscrossing across her mind; but it wasn't the marine's fault of such terrible news, it was the fault of the Covenant.
And so she nodded to the marine, letting him leave her presence as she started closing her eyes in sadness, attempting to understand the overindulgence of emotions that cascaded her well-being. Finally as she fell to her knees, she looked down at the shiny reflection of her golden visor, she understood the true realisation.
She was the last one left, the last of her squad just like Gabriel and Robert; they were all the final members of this three way team of Spartan's and ODST's. Every single soldier of their squad had been hunted down and eradicated violently by the Thunder, if they were either ONI or UNSC didn't matter anymore; they had all become the left out jigsaw pieces.
They had become the perfect in-perfections.