Chapter one

Six's POV

Six rushed at a group of grunts and elites. The covenant forces had been slowly tiring him out as he fought for survival among the ruins of the UNSC ship breaking yards; he had just turned down his last hope for survival, the UNSC Pillar of Autumn. He had gotten the package to Keyes when Emile was slaughtered by elite zealots. The elites had paid dearly for it, but the Spartan was left on the smoldering pile of rock that had once been Reach.

Six was alone and fighting a huge army of Covenant ground troops. The Aliens seemed to have unlimited forces and Six slowly began to tire. Six dove for cover as a spray of pink shards came flying at him as grunts tried to kill him. Plasma ate away at the piece of wreckage as Six tried to form a plan.

He charged the covenant hordes that had come to defeat him. Plasma and bullets were flying around as enemies fell and Six's Shields drained. But as Six fought the elites, brutes, grunts and jackals, he began to tire. Eventually he made the mistake of forgetting to watch for artillery. As he fought the mob of covenant he didn't notice an arcing ball of plasma smash into the ground next to him.

BOOM! An explosion rocked the ground as a wraith mortar blast landed. Noble Six was flung two meters and landed hard on his back. He got up and Six reached for his rifle as Covenant forces closed around him.

His visor was cracked as shrapnel was thrown into it. His HUD flickered and died as an elite zealot slowly came forward to finish the lone wolf off. Raising his energy sword he prepared to impale the Spartan on the blue blade of plasma. Noble six raised his assault rifle and hit the Sanghelli in the mandibles. The Sanghelli roared and slashed at the Spartan's head. Six ducked and weaved around the Elites' blows.

An elite thrust his sword at Six, but the Spartan dove to the side as more elites approached. Cries, screams and gunfire were heard as the Lone Wolf fought as ferociously as he could to escape. Elites and covenant fell as bullets sprayed into them. Eventually an Elite got off a slash to Six's chest, the elites then left feeling that their job was finished.

As Six lie there, his world faded to black, but just before he succumbed to unconsciousness he spotted a spherical machine saying "This does not look well for the reclaimers."