My head hurt as I hit the ground on my side. My leg that was just getting better from the wrestle with the elite was hurting more than ever. "I swear when I find the scumbag covenant that did this I am going to kill him over and over again" I swore to myself.
I turned to look at the pelican I had arrived in before I jumped out to avoid burning to death. It was toast, completely burnt, dismantled and absolutely destroyed unless the inside had somehow survived. I picked up my helmet it was busted, Kat would not be happy if I asked her to help me fix it. I took a deep breath but it hurt I let out a groan when I did breathe.
I first checked that my copy of AI Auntie Dot was ok everything looked fine from what I could tell but I took her out of my helmet's AI core carrier and attached her to my tactical pad.
Then I took in my surroundings I was on the top of a hill on a battlefield that looked like it had been abandoned burnt turned upside down and destroyed.
Something moved from behind me, I was unarmed but I could still fight. An elite came out it was zealot class and it had shields on.
"DEMON! YOU SHALL DIE HERE!" the Elite screamed.
It ran at me and I flipped it with my weight it landed on the grounds. I jumped on top of it and began to wrestle it punching it repeatedly in the face.
"Not today I'm not" I yelled back taking my anger out on it.
It managed to roll us down a hill. My arm bent in the wrong position and I landed on the bottom with the Elite on top of me. I was losing this fight.
"Get off me you bastard!" I snarled at it.
Gunfire rang out through my ears I didn't have a gun so who fired the shot?
"Lady if you wanted that ugly thing off you, why didn't you run?" a voice called.
My saviour was a blonde man with goggles on top of his head he was wearing a type of armour I didn't recognise. Maybe it was a form of MJOLINIR armour that wasn't fully developed.
I got up and kicked the dead elite just to make sure it wouldn't get back up. I found my helmet had landed only a few feet away and was even more damaged than before.
"Lady, are you ok?" the man asked obviously he was stunned by my appearance as I was with him.
"Yeah just sore, I had a rough landing" I said. I tried walking to my helmet but stumbled and landed back on the ground.
"You can't walk like that, here lean on me and walk slowly" he offered. I nodded and he picked up my helmet and gave it to me I placed it on and he grabbed my arm and pulled it over his back to support me.
"I'm Baird. Who are you?" he asked as we hobbled along.
I was glad I didn't get to answer that question because we got interrupted by a new man who was tall and had dark black hair.
"Baird what took you so long we are late back… who is that?" he asked.
"Dom it is ok she was being attacked by… what was that thing? It called you a demon why?"
"It's an Elite they called me demon because it hates me and I killed many of its brethren for attacking and trying to destroying the human race." they gave me a blank look.
"You know elite, zealot class from the covenant; we have been at war with them for nearly thirty years. How can you not know that you're a solider?"
"Lady we don't know what you're talking about" Baird said
"What's covenant?" the one that was called Dom asked.
"Covenant, enemy of the human race" I said.
"Are you sure when you fell you didn't hit your head?" Baird asked
"No but if I did I wouldn't be delusional. What planet am I on?" I asked.
They gave me a blank look.
"Sera" they responded finally.
"What's the date?" I asked again.
"The thirteenth of March 2232"
"That can't be right" I said I turned and tried running back to the pelican I went inside the bad structure.
"Lady, Look I think…. Wow look at this" Baird said examining the pelican from the inside.
"Come on work! Please get me out of here" I said banging the console. The engine started and then stopped again.
"No! Come on! Don't do this I need to get back to Reach!" I kept banging my fists on the consoles. I slid under the console and pulled of the control devices.
"Dom, come inside it's safe. I think I am in love and I'm not kidding" I heard Baird say.
"What are you doing?" he turned his attention to me.
"Pelican is busted I have to get it to a repair post but the wings won't make it that far, so I am hot wiring it so it can fly low. Wow if Kat saw the condition of this she would kill me, but probably thank me on my intelligence level" I said.
"You're kidding this is it looking busted, it looks god damn beautiful" Baird remarked.
"Not if you see it when it's in perfect shape and I'm flying then it's a nightmare at the moment and the outside damage I did just by trying to land the damn thing. Come on work, almost got it" I said fiddling with the wires
"Wow, is this where you live?" Dom called as he entered the pelican.
"No this is my bird I fly it for missions. Ok I got it working now shut up, sit down or get out your choice but I have to take off or I lose the whole ship" I said.
They sat down near the end. I hopped in the pilot seat and start flying it low I couldn't get the back to close up probably so they could see the ground skimming underneath their feet.
I plugged in Dot and set the ship on autopilot letting her fly it. Then stood up and walked to the back of the ship where they were.
"So, any questions gentlemen?" I asked. Dom looked out the back, then at me and then at the ship I shrugged.
"Can I keep this ship?" Baird asked.
I laughed "I need this to get back to Reach so no now where can I land?"
"At least another twenty kilometres from here northeast in this direction" Baird said.
"Then that will be five minutes at the speed we are going" I calculated inside my head.
We lay silent for the rest of the trip. I saw a settlement ahead of us they had turrents on walls aimed at us they opened fire.
"Um guys… you might want to tell you friends to back off" I suggested frantically fiddling with the controls trying to get the shield to work.
Dom got on a radio strapped to his shoulder.
"Marcus tell the guards to stand down on the incoming ship we are on it"
"What the fuck did you just say? You are on that thing?" a voice came through.
"Yes, don't open fire. Let us land" Dom radioed in again.
"You can land this thing right?" Baird asked. "Sure just hold on tight" I said.
The landing was more of a falling and dropping on the ground Dom left and Baird stayed to help me keep the engine from dying permanently.
"Nice landing for the condition, I have to stay here and make sure this thing will still work as well as my armour can you make sure I don't get arrested please?" I asked he stood up and I started fixing.