Almost 5 weeks after the planet reach fell in the hands of the covenant, the last glassing cruiser finished glassing the last ordered location and slowly drifted away from the partially glassed planet. What wasn't glassed was swallowed up by the enormous plume of ash and fiery dust.

In the planet all is quiet with the hot ashes floating in the poisonous wind, the only thing that can be seen is a single spartan helmet within earth. Suddenly the roar of a UNSC pelican can be heard in the distance. Inside are 15 surviving UNSC marines and 3 Spartan 3's, One among them is Jun who is in the pilot bay with Dr. Halsey sitting in the passenger seat and a marine pilot. Jun looks over the Dr's seat. " found anything?" Jun asked. Dr. Halsey shakes her head. " no, it looks like everything has been…..wait I'm picking up something!"

The pelican Lowers itself and land's down blowing dust and ash as its hach opens. All the soldiers pile

out with the marines wearing Gas masks so they can breathe. Jun runs out with the other 2 Spartans close behind. Jun started ordering the soldiers to look for any survivors while he and the 2 Spartans searching the other side. The soldiers walked through the dark ashy graveyard searching for survivors or at the very least dog tags. Jun and his group checked around the wasteland but found nothing. And then Jun saw it. The single helmet wedged in the ground. Jun slowly walked over to it until he was standing 1 foot away. Jun stood there looking at what was left of his friend. He looked around and noticed scattered across the wasteland elite armor, he counted 1,856 let helmets scattered across the battleground along with a few weapons. Jun laughed for the first time in almost a month and shook his head. " I knew you wouldn't go down without a fight."

The other Spartans ran over to Jun, one of them talked first. " hey we heard you-...wait isn't that-" the other Spartan hit the Spartans chest plate and gestured to Jun. " oh shit I'm sorry sir. Were you close?".