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Please note, this is a work based on the Halo CE map Sanctuary Final. If you haven't played it or know anything about it, it may help to know things about the map.

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Alpha Down-

Kuri ran. He ran until he was out of breath.

"Zan!" He shouted, to his companion who was hitting a few buttons on a panel, "what's our status?"

"Almost dead. We can't hold out on our own against these guys!" he said, running for a door.

"We can't just sit here and let them kill us…" Kuri replied.

The two soldiers were stranded on the moon of Callisto, which was a former mining base. Now, it was just a barren base covered in snow. The Covenant had attacked the moon and had cleared all the structures around it. Kuri and Zan were on a mission to recover some information that was crucial to the war, and was left at the base site. They were shot down by a Covenant Phantom as their Pelican made its way in.

"I'm radioing in for backup," Kuri was about to touch the coms device on when he got a signal from it.

The signal was choppy. "Does…. anyon… read me.. I've crash lan… d by a base lik…. buildin… An…ne..Pl….z..respon…"

"You hear that? Someone is alive out there." Kuri switched on the com, "Yes, I read you, are you there?"

"Yes… nk..God!... I'm…live, but ther…Covies….comin… invasion force.."

"Come again? The connection is staticy."

The radio was starting to clear up, "I'm closing ..ur position, …..bout a half a klick away. The Covies have an invasion force. To retrieve this intel that you're trying to get."

"How do you know about our mission?"

"I know more than you think."

"Could you help us out? There's a Covenant fireteam outside this base, and we need some help out here."

"I can see you, but I've got some on me too."

Kuri could see a Spartan with pure white armor on sprinting towards the doors that Kuri and Zan were at. Zan ducked behind a barricade as a plasma bolt flew by his head. He pulled the pin on a frag grenade and threw it over his head. He heard the reassuring sound of a Jackal shield dissipating as the explosive went off. Raising is MA5B Assault rifle over the barricade, he fired into an Elite's shielding systems, and he retreated when they went out.

Several Grunts were closing in on the doors, and Kuri took them all out with two shots from his CAWS shotgun. The other Spartan was close to them by the time the Covenant reinforcements arrived. The Spartan drew his pistol and fired at the Elite who was falling back towards his allies, and he fell to the ground, where another Elite was helping him back up.

"Spartan!" Zan called to the new Spartan, "Take this, you might need it." He handed the Spartan his rifle, drawing his Sub-Machine gun and running to a panel. Zan hit a button, and a blast door closed, and several explosions were heard on the other side.

"What's going on here?" The Spartan asked the other two.

"We're looking for info down here, apparently the Covenant are too. We're trying to find some data from these panels in this building." Kuri lead him up a ladder and through a hallway where they came to a room with a window revealing the attacking Covenant, and three terminals.

"This terminal here," Kuri gestured to a terminal to the right, "contains data logs from a former residence here. From those logs we got the security code for this terminal," he pointed to a terminal on a platform above the door they came in through, "but that code is encrypted. And we can't decipher it. We've been trying to for a while now…"

"Allow me to try," The Spartan said, with a respectful tone in his voice, "I'm with… the tech crew. I have extensive knowledge with this kind of stuff."

"Sure, have a shot," Kuri said, letting him to the terminal.

"Okay," The Spartan tapped a few buttons, "Okay, I've got the code. It's… EDITOR 797."

"How'd you…." Zan started, but stopped talking as the Spartan walked to the central terminal and tapped the code in.

"Okay, so there's some coordinates here, to a panel to some weapon's control systems."

"Thanks… How'd you do that so quickly?"

"I'm good with this stuff." The Spartan gave Kuri a datapad containing the information.

"Thanks, again. I'm Kuri. You are?"

"I'm not supposed to tell you my name, but you can call me Alpha."

"Secrecy is fine with me," Kuri said, "That's Zan. He's the only other survivor from the crash. We need your help, do you think you could help us with this mission?"

"I was sent down here to assist you. I was shot down on the way down here though," Alpha said.

"Wait, you were sent here to assist us? By who?" Zan asked.

"Well, a whole team was sent, but I was the only one who actually landed. I was sent down here by an orbiting UNSC Vessel. It's gone now though. We're on our own."

There was a crash, and a Plasma cannon round crashed into the side of the building. There was a rumbling noise, and the sound of metal slamming into the ground.

"The blast doors…." Kuri pointed to a door on the other side of the room, "Get through that door!"

Zan put down a timed charge on the entrance. Then he followed Alpha and Kuri down the hallway the other door lead through. A blast door opened up and a garage of Warthog LRVs was revealed. The three got in a hog and drove down the ramp to the exit. A few moments after the blast doors shut and the three were on their way out of the tunnels. Covenant forces had already entered the room the three Spartans were once in. Snow spilled out onto the Warthog as it drove through the exit, but it flew off as it turned around the corner hastily.

As an Elite entered the main room of the structure, a nearby Grunt pointed out a small explosive device set on one of the walls. He attempted to run and warn his allies, but it blew the base to pieces before he could.

"There's bound to be more where that came from," Alpha said, turning another corner.

"Where are you taking us?" Zan asked him.

Alpha had no time to reply as a Covenant drop pod came crashing through the sky in front of the Warthog. He turned to avoid, and hog flipped over, ejecting it's riders. Zan flew off the gun, and landed face down in the snow. Kuri was almost crushed by the hog, but Alpha has caught it and thrown it at their oppressors. A Grunt jumped out of the way of the flying vehicle, but his Elite Officer wasn't as lucky as it came crashing down on his body. As Kuri looked up, he saw Zan stumbling to his feet as well. Alpha shouted something to him but his head was fuzzy, and he couldn't make it out. He suddenly felt himself being moved, and something heavy pressing down on him and throwing him, and looked up to see Zan get crushed by another drop pod.

This was happening too fast for him. He tried his best to react fast, and looked over his shoulder to see a pod come crashing down where he was standing. That's what he was trying to tell me.. he thought.

He realized Alpha was on top of him, and then was adjusting him to carry him over his shoulder. Everything blurred, and Kuri blacked out when he felt a burning in his side.

"Dammit, we already lost Zan, don't die on me..." Kuri heard.

Kuri, Alpha, and Zan are the only characters that belong to me, but everything else isn't mine.