This is my first fan-fiction. Not story, but…yeah. Bungie owns this, not me and all that junk. Review and…Stuff, anyways, let's go.


Chapter 1: The Drop

A hard rain fell in the night sky. Thousands of drops hit the Pelican, and rolled off. The night was cold, but the air felt refreshing. Stars shined like a billion lights in the air. I looked over at my squad. Hart, with her "Reconnaissance Mark VII Armored Headgear," or, as we liked to call it, her Recon helmet. Rush, almost asleep, Jack, and Byrd. Of course, these were all codenames. Mine, no, not a cool name, like, Strong, or, AWESOME, no, mine is 'Rook' which, of course, is short for rookie.

I had been trained for many years, and finally graduated from the Marine Training school, whatever they called it. Anyways, not good enough for the SPARTAN Project, I landed a career as an ODST. Most of Earth has now been inhabited by the Covenant; aliens, who just woke up on the wrong side of the bed.

The pilot's voice came in through the intercom: "ODSTs, get into your drop-pods. We're getting ready to leave. Remember, Byrd and Jack, get to New Mombasa. Rush and Hart, you know where to go. And Rook, well, you go to Voi. Got it, everyone?" The door slid open, showing the small 'pod room.' The pod room held our pods, and when the time came, the floor opened up, and dropped our pods. We just have to put on the homing system, and bam. We're there.

After everyone was set up, his voice came again "Ok, 5! 4! 3!"

"Everyone, are you ready?" Hart asked. Her voice was sharp, but graceful. Before we got to answer, our pods dropped down. And that's when it happened.

Giant beams pierced the sky. Covenant ships flew over head, and started firing at things I could not see. Soon a voice—The pilot's voice, came into my speaker.

"Wh-What are you doing? NO! NO!" I heard a giant explosion, and the air start to shake. A Brute landed right on my pod.

"Demon! Your time ends now! I will not allow you to pass through!" he yelled. He held onto my pod, and crawled on top. That was where the emergency eject button was. It was put there so no one could get to it. I felt the button go down. My pod split open, and out I went. I could hear laughing, screams, but it was all a whirl. I just went down and down…And then my body met the ground.