Prologue

9th Age of Reclamation

New Mombasa, Kenya. 10.20.2552.

Immediately after drop

Through one of the many cameras scattered throughout the city of New Mombasa, the Superintendent watches curiously as it watches three of the original invaders stop at the entrance to one of the parks, firing their weapons at the new invaders. When the two new invaders fell, the three enter the park.

To say that the sangheili zealot, Nal 'Unamee, was angry was an understatement. He was furious! Immediately after the noble hierarch Regret has managed to escape this human world, the jiralhanae showed up and started to decimate his troops. The sangheili's rage grew as he remembers their chieftain's last words; he said that Truth himself has ordered the extermination of his entire race.

"Damn Truth and damn his mongrel brutes!" in his anger, the zealot smashes his fist into the concrete wall. One of the two unggoy, a major named Flipyap, jumps in shock at his superior's outburst. "What do we do now, excellency?" Nal turns to the other unggoy, a special ops unit named Yayap. The zealot was able to detect a small amount of fear in his voice, normally that's common for unggoy, but as long as he knew Yayap, he NEVER spoke with an ounce of fear in his voice, and that worried him.

"We stay here, and hold out as long as we can to hope for a sangheili controlled Phantom to arrive; and if one doesn't, we take out as many of those dishonorable as possible!" "They're coming!"

As soon as those words have left Flipyap's mouth, multiple jiralhanae storm into the park. Before they could fire their weapons, Yayap unloads his entire needler into four of the jiralhanae; the first was blown in half while the other three were entirely vaporized by the pink explosion. After eliminating another pair of the apes with a grenade, the one that was blown in half still had enough strength to fire a trio of shots from his spiker before dropping dead. Yayap was killed quickly as the spikes impaled his chest, shoulder and face. Flipyap has just killed one of the jiralhanae with his plasma rifle when he noticed Yayap getting killed. In anger at the death of his friend, the unggoy threw down his weapon and activated a pair of grenades before charging at five of them who were too busy to notice the suicidal unggoy before they roared in pain as they were immediately vaporized along with Flipyap, leaving nothing but a scorched crater. Nal roars in rage as his two remaining troops were slain before unleashing a barrage from his two rifles onto one of the two remaining jiralhanae. The zealot keeps firing at that one target until the ape was nothing more than charred remains and the rifles overheated. The sangheili draws his sword before hearing the roar of the last jiralhanae and sees it ready to smash his head in with its own rifle. Nal stabs into its chest just as the jiralhanae slammed its plasma rifle onto the top of his head. Both immediately go limp.

The Superintendent looks on in surprise at the remains of the battle before noticing slight movement coming from the golden invader and was immediately able to tell that it was still alive. As much as it would like to do something, the AI has noticed several black armored humans that have landed in the city moments ago and decides to focus on helping them. The Superintendent figured that it would be able to lead one of them over to the golden invader when they get close enough…..

A/N: I do not own Halo or anything related to it except for any OCs. The idea for the story came to existence while I was talking to one of my Xbox Live friends about the possibility of the Rookie meeting an Elite during his mission to regroup with the rest of his squad. Point out any mistakes you see and please review.