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PART ONE: NOVA TEAM
THE SPARTAN PICKED UP HIS HELMET, BATTERED AND CRACKED FROM HIS BATTLE. ''RUINED," HE SAID TO HIMSELF AND PUT THE HELMET BACK DOWN. HE IS WOUNDED BUT NOT SEVERLY. WITH NO WHERE TO GO, HE TRAVELS. AFTER THREE HOURS, HE COMES UPON A FAMILIAR SIGHT, IN THE DISTANCE A UNSC PELICAN LAYS IN RUINS NEXT TO A SCARAB. HE CHECKS THE PELICAN, JUST AS HE THOUGHT THIS WAS THE SAME PELICAN HIS FORMER COMMANDER CARTER, HAD DIED IN. HE WANTS TO BURRY HIM,BUT HE REMEMBERS WHAT THEY TOLD HIM IN TRAINING, WHEN A SPARTAN DIES YOU DON'T BURY THEM, YOU LEAVE THEM WHERE THEY DIED. IT TELLS THE STORY OF THEIR DEATH, THEY SAID. THEN, HE JUMPED BACK JUST IN TIME TO DODGE A NEEDLE RIFLE BLAST. THREE ELITES APPEARED, BUT HIGH CLASS ELITES. THE SPARTAN KNEW THEM WELL, ONE A FIELD MARSHALL AND THE OTHERS ZEALOTS. HE PULLED OUT HIS SIDE ARM CLICK, EMPTY, "GREAT" HE SAID. JUST AS THE ELITES LUNGED AT HIM GUNSHOTS WENT OFF. THE FIRST FELL, DEAD. MORE GUNFIRE THE SECOND FELL DEAD. THE ONLY ONE LEFT WAS THE LEADER, HE DREW HIS ENERGY SWORD, THE SPARTAN WAS READY FOR CLOSE COMBAT. THEY RAN AT EACH OTHER WHEN A RIFLE WENT OFF. THE BULLET MISSED THE ELITE'S HEAD; HE TURNED, BUT TOO LATE, ANOTHER BLAST WHENT RIGHT THROUGH HIS HEAD.
"MISSED ME?" A VOICE ASKED. "GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN, JUN" THE SPARTAN ANSWERED. IN FRONT OF HIM WAS A FALCON, AND INSIDE WAS JUN A FRIEND OF HIS FROM NOBLE TEAM. HE AND JUN WERE THE ONLY ONES LEFT ON THEIR SQUAD. "HELLO AGAIN SPARTAN" "DOCTOR HALSEY, YOUR WOUNDED" THE SPARTAN REPLIED. "SIX, WE NEED TO LEAVE GET ABOARD, WE NEED TO GET HER MEDICAL ATTENTION A.S.A.P" SAID JUN. "WHAT HAPPENED?" SIX QUESTIONED. "WE WERE AMBUSHED AROUND THE SAME TIME YOU GUYS WERE. THE PELICAN TOOK A LOT OF DAMAGE, SO WE GOT ON A FALCON AND TOOK OFF. A FEW BANSHEES FOLLOWED US; THE DOCTOR TOOK SOME BANSHEE FIRE." THE REST OF THE RIDE WAS SILENT FOR A WHILE. THE NEXT MORNING SIX WOKE UP; IN THE DISTANCE A MILITARY BASE WAS STRAIGHT AHEAD. SIX DECIDED TO EAT SOME RATIONS HE KEPT WITH HIM. JUN GROANED, "YOURE UP EARLY SIX, DOCTOR WERE ALMOST THERE". JUN SHOOK HER LIGHTLY. "DOCTOR, DOCTOR. NO… NO… NO! SHE CAN'T BE… SHE CAN'T BE." JUN SAID. "JUN" SIX SAID. "THERE WAS NOTHING YOU COULD'VE-" "SAVE IT SIX" JUN SAID. THEY RODE TO THE BASE IN SILENCE. SIX WONDERED WHAT THEY WERE GOING TO DO, HE KNEW THE COVANENT WERE GOING TO GLASS REACH, THEY HAD TO GET OUT HERE FAST. HOWEVER A BIGGER PROBLEM WOULD ARISE THAT WOULD LAST FOR YEARS TO COME, THIS WAS ONLY IT'S BEGINNING.