Amber- is a UNSC AI for their ships
UNSC- is the United Nations Space Command
Slip-space- is a worm hole to travel to different star systems
ODST-are orbit drop shock troopers
Warthog-is the UNSC's armor all terrain vehicle
Pelican- is the UNSC's dropship
Flood- a creature that is plant-like and takes over bodies
Banshee- is a Covenant plane
Covenant- the Covenant is an alien race that worships ancient technology
Jackal- an alien that uses a shield or a rifle
I do not own halo or anything with it, it belongs to bungie and 343
This is my own story same names different people if you don't like it don't review.
My story starts out as, me John, a fifteen year old boy on Earth. The year is 2652. I'm one in a handful of survivors in colonies spread throughout the remnants of Earth. I'm from the U.S.A. My family and I came to a colony in Moscow named Hope after the UNSC Colony Last Resort in New York was attacked and destroyed by the Covenant.
Amongst the chaos, my family fled to a high speed bullet train that goes under the Atlantic Ocean. We were the last ones on the train because the station was hit with a plasma shell as the train pulled away from the station. The explosion cracked the tunnel's walls and the vibrations from the train started to make the walls leak. We just pulled into the station when the tunnel collapsed. They had to close the water tight doors. The colony Hope was underground, inside a mountain unlike the Colony Last Resort which was out in the open.
Hope was a top-of-the-line UNSC colony. It had two big armories, two hangers that hold 12 Pelicans each, four supply bays and two communication and computer rooms. Hope also has two fusion reactors for power. The whole base is surrounded by rock and concrete for defense.
The UNSC has been at war with the Covenant since the twenty-second century.
It's has been a year since the Covenant attacked Earth. I was now sixteen. Now my mom and dad live and work in the Colony. My mom is a nurse for the military and my dad is a mechanic. He works on the military vehicles and is a pilot but he hasn't flown in over five years. I've made some new friends. Their names are Kelly, who is sixteen, and Sam, who is fifteen. But little did I know that would be the last time I'd see Kelly and Sam for a wile.
A month later, I was drafted into the military. When I went for training, I excelled in all of the fields. Then, I was put in a special program called the Spartans. The Spartans had harder training than any other program in the military. They gave us drugs to make bones denser, muscles stronger, and eyes better. Not a lot of people survived the process though. When I went to go get my orders, I saw Kelly and Sam. We were being sent on a recon mission to scout out a Covenant base that was going to be attacked. I'm a weapons expert, Kelly's an explosive expert and Sam's a technology expert. We'll be flown halfway to the base by Pelican and then go the rest of the way on foot.
When we landed the Pelican dropped off a Warthog for a fast getaway. First we hid a Warthog under a camouflage tarp and headed in towards the Covenant base. I spotted a Covenant patrol outside the main gate but we had to hide as two Covenant Banshees flew overhead. There were two Elites, four Grunts by the gate and two Jackals with beam rifles up on the wall surrounding the base.
I had to pick and choose my targets because I only had twenty rounds for my sniper rifle and a battle rifle with a hundred and eight rounds. Kelly only had six rockets and as much C-12 as her satchel bag could hold. Sam only had a pistol with forty eight rounds and a laptop for communications.
I was waiting for Sam to jam the Covenant's communications in the base. I pulled the trigger on my sniper rifle and the first Jackal dropped. The two Elites opened fire on us. The two Banshees flew back towards us. Kelly shot her rockets and one of them hit a Banshee. It exploded in the air. I switched to my battle rifle and started to shoot. I hit and killed two Grunts. I turned around to grab Sam who was temporarily blinded by a plasma grenade that went off by him. When Kelly was hit in the left arm, she dropped her rocket launcher and grabbed Sam's pistol and started to shoot as we fell back to the Warthog. I pulled the camouflage off the Warthog. I put Sam in the passenger seat. Kelly got in the driver's seat and I got on the gun mounted on the back of the Warthog. I started to shoot at the Banshee. I hit it and it crashed into the front gate. As soon as we were out of the enemy's firing range we stopped and I called for pickup. I grabbed the med kit from the Warthog, patched Kelly's arm and took a look at Sam's eyes. When the Pelican came, I gave Sam and Kelly a sedative for the flight back to base. When we landed in the hanger, they had a stretchers waiting for Sam and Kelly to take them to the hospital at the base where my mom works. She would take extra care of them.
Later that week Kelly and I went to get Sam for a mission but on our way to the briefing room we heard something in the air vents. Sam drew his pistol and we ran to the nearest guard station. Kelly grabbed two SMG's and I grabbed a shotgun. We ran into a storage room. Suddenly, there was an explosion. When I woke up, Sam and Kelly were laying on the floor. The door was jammed. I went over and woke up Sam and Kelly. We searched the storage room for another way out. Sam found an access tunnel that led to the hanger. We grabbed some supplies and made our way to the hanger. When we got there most of the Pelicans were gone but two which where destroyed. Sam found one Pelican intact. I told Sam to get it ready.
Kelly and I will go look for survivors and get some weapons. Kelly and I went to the hospital to look for some survivors but I found my Mom and Dad on the floor stabbed by an energy sword now I was angry Kelly came up next to me and put her arm on my shoulder I got up and we left the hospital. After that Kelly and I split up. Kelly went to the Armory and I went to go find a vehicle. I found a Warthog in the vehicle bay I drove it to the Armory then Kelly and I started to loaded up the Warthog with as many weapons and ammo as the Warthog could hold after that we drove back to the Pelican when we got there Sam was still going over preflight checks so Kelly and I started to unload the Warthog when a Jackal came walking around the corner I pulled out my knife and threw it at the Jackal. Hitting it in the chest and pinned it to the wall blood dripped down from where the knife hit.
We finished loading the Pelican. Sam turned on the magnetic clamps and they grabbed the Warthog and we took off. We flew out of the hanger and into space. When we got into space we saw most of the home fleet was destroyed. We saw an abandoned heavy cruiser floating in orbit so we flew over it and landed in the hanger. We setup shop onboard the ship. Sam got to work fixing the bridge while Kelly and I unloaded the Pelican and stocked the Armory. We were on the ship for three months fixing the ship up. We were ready to make the trip to Reach.
On our way to Reach we found a ring orbiting a gas giant plant. When we passed it, we detected a UNSC "May Day." We went down to investigate and we found a crashed UNSC light cruiser call the Pillar of Autumn. She was heavily damaged. I told Sam to bring us in and prep the Pelican Kelly and I will get some weapons from the Armory and meet you at the Pelican. We flew down to the ship and flew inside the hanger there were tons of vehicles, weapons and supplies. We spent a week transferring everything to our ship. I was loading the last of the supplies when a hologram of a girl appeared on a holopad for the ship's AI. I ran over to take a look at her. She told me her name was Amber. I radioed Sam to come here. Sam came running up next to me. I asked Sam if we could transfer her to our ship. Sam said that we could but we would have to go to the bridge to get her so we ran to the bridge where she appeared again. She said that if we removed her we would have five minutes to get off the ship before the ship explodes. I told Sam that I would go and get the Pelican ready to go. Sam radioed when he was going to remove her. He pulled her out and started to run for the Pelican. When he got on board I pushed the thrusters to the max and got the heck out of there. We radioed Kelly to get the ship out of here. We landed on the ship skidding across the hanger as Kelly closed the hanger door and pushed the ship to max thrust to get us out of the blast radius we just made it as the Pillar of Autumn's fusion reactor exploded destroying the ring with it. Sam put Amber into the ship's AI port and she scanned the ship for damage.
Amber did most of the driving while we were in cryosleep. It took us another three months to get to Reach because our slipspace drive was damaged. Amber woke us up just as we pulled into one of Three Hundred Defense and Repair station where we met Lord Hood. We got a crew and a new slip-space drive and Lord Hood told us we were to take back Earth from the Covenant.
Suddenly, we were attacked by the Covenant. They must have followed us here. I told Sam to get back to the ship and get to the rest of the fleet. Kelly and I would defend the station. Lord Hood told us that the Covenant had placed a bomb in Hanger Twelve Kelly and I killed the Covenant guarding the bomb and we dragged the bomb to the elevator. I asked Lord Hood permission to leave the station he said "for what purposes John" I said "to give the Covenant back their bomb." When we got to the lower hanger I dragged the bomb to the middle of the hanger while Kelly prepped a Pelican to follow me.
I pulled a lever and the hanger's doors opened pulling the bomb out and I jumped out after it. Kelly followed me in a Pelican. I landed on a Covenant ship and planted the bomb and jumped away from the ship as it exploded. Kelly flew up next to me and opened the bay door and I climbed in and we flew off to our ship. When we landed Sam told us to gear up were taking the fight to the surface.
Sam kept the ship hovering above the city. We took three Pelicans into the city. I was in one and Kelly was in another. We were halfway there when we started taking fire from the enemy. One of the Pelicans got hit by a plasma shell and exploded. Kelly's Pelican got hit and crashed into a skyscraper. My Pelican took a hit in the nose, flipped over and smashed into a building. I was the only one to survive the crash. I grabbed a battle rifle and headed for Kelly's crash site. I encountered a Covenant patrol and waited for them to pass. When I got to the crash site, the building was unstable. I went to the floor where the Pelican crashed it was filled with smoke so I turned on my thermal imaging. I found Kelly lying on the floor. Her left leg was broken. I grabbed her and carried her downstairs and outside to radio for evac.
When the Pelican arrived I put Kelly in a seat and we went back to the ship. When we got onboard I took Kelly to the med lab where the medics fixed her leg after that I went to the bridge. When I got there Amber appeared on her holopad and said that the enemy ship was going to jump inside the city. Sam told Amber to get us close we're not losing that ship! We got underneath the Covenant ship and jumped with it. The explosion from the slip-space jump damaged the whole city. When we came out of slipspace, we saw another ring. The enemy ship stopped above ring.
Sam told me, "Take a squad and secure a landing zone, and to Kelly load up two flights of Pelicans and follow them in". I dropped in with a squad of ODST's and we secured a landing zone and radioed that it was safe so Kelly could land and dropped off a Warthog and then went to do some recon. I hopped into the Warthog and drove off. I saw a structure in the distance and I went to go check it out. It looked like a good base. While I was doing that, Kelly was doing some recon of the Covenant positions. Then, she came and picked me up and we went back to the ship to talk with Sam about why the Covenant came to Reach and then came here. Sam said, "We need to do some more recon to find out why the Covenant came here and what they're looking for. Sam said that, we have to find whatever they are looking for before they do".
Sam told Amber to launch a slip-space probe so that we can communicate with Lord Hood. Kelly and I will go into a Covenant base and plant an uplink so Amber can monitor the Covenant, the battle net, and try to find out what the Covenant are looking for. We made it into the base and planted the uplink. We were half-way out when we triggered the alarm. We managed to get out and back to our Warthog, we drove back to the base.
We radioed Sam but Amber answered. We asked where Sam was. She said that we found what the Covenant were looking for and Sam went with a squad to go get it but Amber said that what Sam was looking for was not real and that we had to stop him before he finds whatever the Covenant are scared of.
We took a Pelican to where Sam's ship lost contact with the Amber. We found Sam's Pelican. It was trashed. There was a message playing over and over again. It said that Sam had been captured by some new kind of enemy. I asked Amber, "Are you" getting this? Amber said from what I hear is that the Covenant calls it the Flood. The Covenant was ordered to leave when they found the Flood but the Flood overwhelmed a ship and disabled it. The Covenant sent in a strike force to destroy the Flood and repair the ship for departure.
I told Amber to get everyone off the ring. Kelly and I will go get Sam and bring him back. Amber said "that Sam was on that ship and found a way to get us inside the ship without using any ships Amber sent me and Kelly inside the ship." When we got inside of the ship we found that we were upside down Kelly and I looked at each other and fell to the floor. We looked around and found that the ship was trashed and on fire and there were holes everywhere. Sam radioed for us to leave him. Kelly said "that he sounds like he's in pain." When we got to Sam there were no life signs. Kelly said that Sam was one of them. Kelly and I were both sad that we had lost a best friend. Kelly and I could remember the day we all met. Now Kelly and I were mad at the Flood for killing our best friend. I asked Kelly if she had any C-12 she said yes. I told her we're going to detonate the ship's engines and destroy the ring. We made our way to the ships engine room and planted the C-12 and ran to the hanger jumped into a Covenant dropship and flew out of there and into space as the ship exploded. When we landed on our ship, Amber asked us where Sam was and Kelly said he was gone takin by the flood and there was nothing we could have done and later that day, we held a service for Sam.