Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Fight or Death. Enjoy the 500- word chapter. I don't own Halo, 343 and Microsoft do.

Nick fired his Br-85 into the Elite as he stepped over its corpse as dozens of marines rushed past the Spartan, MB5s blasting away at Covenant soldiers as 2 D77 pelicans from Spirt of Fire landed near him. Nick walked back to alpha base as a monitor turned on.

"Nick." Lord Hood said as the Spartan turned to speak to the monitor.

"Sir." The Admiral cleared his throat to speak to the Spartan.

"I have a new position that me and the council made up. I know you don't like to be called Admiral and considering we need an officer that can answer directly to highcom, we are promoting you the rank of supreme commander. I will have full details when you are back on Gargantuan, you have full command of all UNSC forces in the system unless we say so, Admiral Hood out." The Spartan slipped on his helmet and marched out into the snow as a G79 pelican from Gargantuan landed and the Spartan got in as the dropship lifted off.

"Samantha, I need an update, Spirit's forces just pushed into the cavern. Any sign of Covenant naval forces yet?"

"No, I am not picking up anything, I do have news however from UNSC Tribute to Glory. They have reported that the rest of our fleet is coming but a lot are being rerouted to Arcadia, I do however, have news that Blue team is inbound from another assignment." Nick looked at the Gargantuan as Samantha spoke up.

"It's been two years since I have been near S2s, blue team…. It's been even longer, Sam." The dropship touched down in a hanger bay on the Infinity class- supercarrier as Nick stepped up onto a lift as it took him to the flagship's bridge.

"Commander on deck!" The crew saluted as Nick sighed and walked past the crew to the holotable, Samantha and 2 Navy Lieutenants stood by the table as it flared to life.

"Something tells me the Covenant are here to just glass the place, they wouldn't take interest in something unless it means it's from one of their 'gods.' Continue to scan the area, we could have missed something and I'm not too keen on taking risks unless we have all our cards on the table." The Lieutenants nodded as Samantha spoke up, Nick removed his armor as the Ai spoke.

"Transmission from Spirt of Fire, they found coordinates that led to Arcadia. They just talked to Admiral Cole for permission to investigate." Nick turned to speak.

"Blue team as well?"

"Yes, sir," The Ai chirped as Nick pondered this.

"Recall our ground forces and set a course for Arcadia. Tell the fleet to stay at the edge of the system when we jump, we and the Spirt are going to be the first ones in."

"Roger, sir." Nick walked past a picture of him, fireteam Wolfpack and Blue team on a mission.

Author notes

Ok, I just wanted to make another chapter so this story is out of the way for next week, I will post another chapter on next Sunday if I can. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!