Chapter 1: Spartan Rising.

Disclaimer: I do not own a MOLECULE of anything you recognize as canon

A/N: Hi, this Fanfiction is basically my way of saying "F*** Canon" and including my own characters, and over all f***ing up the Halo Universe in any way I can, except for firing the Halo rings, and wiping out all sentient life, so, yeah… enjoy "Legend of Phoenix Team"!

Epsilon Indi System: Reach, August 19, 2552, 1300.

I wake up, activating my MJOLNIR Armor and grabbing my M6C Magnums and my MA5B Assault Rifle, as soon as the boots of my armor touched the floor, I see Jace-147, the Omega Team Leader, getting up.

While I was checking my weapons for jams, and making sure all the clips for my weapons were full, his armor had activated and covered him in the 3 seconds it took me to do this. He was obviously still tired, all of the team leaders having to meet last night at 2400 until 200 hours, naval time, meanwhile, a Marine burst into the room, apparently not realizing that there were six fully armed Spartan-IIs in the room, said, "Commander wants everyone in Falcons ASAP!"

Then, he seemed to realize that there were six, again, fully armed, Spartan-IIs, staring at him, then moving toward the door, which he was blocking, he fell back, out of the way, and the rest of Omega Team continued toward the hangar, however, I held back long enough to pull him to his feet and say, "sorry about that."

He, meanwhile, stared at me, as if his mind couldn't wrap around the thought that a Spartan, not only that, but a Spartan-II, had apologized to him, a mere Marine… Private... Private Wallace A. Jenkins, I saluted him, and showed my rank, then, as the insignia of a Lieutenant flashed on his helmet's eyepiece, his jaw dropped, and in the space of a half second he had snapped to attention, and a second later, I was jogging after the rest of my team, hoping they had waited, I reached the hangar and saw, instead of the UH-144 Falcons, I, and apparently the rest of Omega Team, had been told would be there, two D77-TC Pelicans, with a M12 Warthog already in each cargo bay, were waiting for us.

The pilots told us that there had been a mix-up with logistics, and that we were needed for a ground assault on a Covenant position. Jace said, "Alright then, Omega, let's move out!" Once, we had boarded the Pelicans and were in the air, Jace told us our missions:

Jace: "Drayden, Sadie, and Kane, you three will be in the Warthog, attacking with the rest of our forces."

Drayden, Kane, and Sadie: "Understood, sir!"

Jace: "Michael and Aria, you're with me! We're going to fly over the enemy base, hot-drop in, and kill every Covenant inside." Aria and I shout, "Understood, sir!" Aria-107, readies her M90 Shotgun and her BR55 Battle Rifle, while I ready my Magnums, and Jace readies his M392 DMR and M319 Grenade Launcher.

As we drop the Warthog with the others inside, Drayden in the driver seat, Sadie riding shotgun with her M6 Spartan Laser, and Kane on the M41 LAAG, I see that two UH-144 Falcons have joined us, then, I see Wraith shots hit the other Pelican, sending it careening into the ground, a secondary explosion as its Warthog exploded.

Then, I see something that makes me worry, three enemy Banshees, however, luckily, one of them were destroyed by the machine gun fire from below, the other heavily damaged. However, then, the less damaged one managed to stay in the air, accelerate past our Pelican, past the two Falcons, do a U-turn, and crash into our Warthog. Drayden and Sadie were killed instantly, Kane managed to jump off, into the air, only to be impaled by the very M41 he had been manning a second before.

Then the last Banshee accelerated, crashing into our Pelican, the pilot started shouting, "We are going down, I repeat, we are going down!" Then we crashed… when I came to, Phantoms had appeared, dropping Brutes, Jackals and a Chieftain on our location, I started to head-shot the Jackals, while they returned fire with their Plasma Pistols and Needlers.

I saw Jace, fighting the Chieftain one-on-one, then, it pulled out a Spiker, emptied the clip into his chest and stomach, then slammed its Gravity Hammer into Jace's stomach, sending the spikes out of his back, he collapsed onto his knees, I ran toward him, but before I reached him, it switched to the blade of its Gravity Hammer… and, in one strike, decapitated him.

My vision went red, and before I knew what I was doing, I had pulled out my Magnums, run up its back, shot it in the back twice with each Magnum, shot it in the back of the head twice, then, I flipped over its head and shot it in the chin, again, twice with each Magnum, finally killing it.

I checked my HUD before looking around… four bullets left. Then, for some reason, the Brutes started pointing their Spikers at the Jackals and forcing them to surrender, I hear Aria and the Falcon pilots on the comms, saying "what, the, hell?" Meanwhile, I take the opportunity to reload my Magnums. I went over to the Warthog, and took the turret from Kane's stomach, then, I go to the Chieftain, and break the blade from its Gravity Hammer, when I do that, I look and see Banshees, 3 of them, fly in, with a Phantom behind them, however, they don't fire at us, or the Falcons.

Instead, they land, the pilots being revealed as more Brutes, who knelt to me before saying, "You are Chieftain now, even if you are a human." Then, I hear the voice of Omega Team's Combat AI, Darkstar, who told me, "Omega 6, I am analyzing known Jiralhanae customs, and it seems that they have a pack mentality, they will follow any order given by their Chieftain, and Chieftains are decided by whoever kills the previous one in mortal combat." Then, he paused, before saying, "Sir, I believe that they accepted YOU as their Chieftain…" I, meanwhile, ask the Brutes near me, "Are your allies in the base also Jiralhanae, and are they in this pack?" It seems to struggle for a second, before saying, in English, "Yes, Chieftain, they are, and they are also in our pack."

I think for a second before saying to myself, "So that's why they stopped shooting…" To the Brute, "all right, take us to your base, and notify them that are is a new Chieftain." The Brute says, "Yes, Chieftain." He walks away, speaking into some comm unit hidden in his armor.

Then, I say to the Brutes, "all right, get ready to move, but make sure to disarm them, and keep them from escaping… and don't kill them or rip their arms off." The Brutes let out a series of yells, which I took as assent.

Then, when I board the first Falcon, I see Banshees coming at us, a lot of Banshees that did not look friendly, they started shooting their plasma cannons at the Falcons and Phantom, I yell to the gunner, "Fire on those banshees!" I order the Phantom to start firing on the enemy Banshees. Then I see shots from the Jiralhanae base hit the Banshees and destroy them. Then, we flew toward the base, and Aria and I contacted Command to inform them that the mission was a success.