To the reviewer ODSTHelljumpers: thank you for the review and to answer your question you have to submit your work to the document. Then afterwards you click new story and enter the info, by the end of entering your info it will ask to enter the document. You simply click on it and voila.

To the reviewer Halo4ever:Thank you for the review and yes I like to use flashbacks in my writing. I feel it can give the story a nice vibe to it.

To the reviewer The Consensus:Don't worry the plot will show itself soon enough and about the Halo and Mass Effect crossover I would like to help out with anything you need. I am a big fan of the Mass Effect series but I know a lot more about the Halo verse then the Mass Effect verse. Thanks for the review.

Anyway, we continue on.

Day 1.

He felt nothing at that moment. He thought, nothing came to him. He tried to speak, nothing was spoken. He fought to open his eyes, his eyelids stayed shut. Where was he? Why couldn't he say anything or speak.

Was he dead? Luke had no idea but the thought was driving him utterly crazy. He couldn't be dead, he could barely remembered what had happened to get him in this position in the first place. Was it all a dream?

No that couldn't be it either and Just as he was about to have another theory a pain more intense than a thousand suns was felt on his lower abdomen. The man wanted to scream in pain so badly yet again his voice was not present. The pain was intense, Luke didn't understand why he was being hurt. Did he get captured by the Covenant? Was he being tortured?

If that was true he needed to figure out a way to get the hell out of there. He concentrated and tried to shake a part of his body, which to his surprise worked. It felt as though his arm was moving ferociously maybe he would do something to stop the Covenant bastards. Rather than anything happen it felt like more weight was applied to his arms and they stopped moving.

"The pain…"

Luke was able to hear that. It sounded a lot like Alexis! So maybe he wasn't captured by the Covenant. He wished he was able to hear the female ODST finish her sentence maybe it would cause him to remember what in the hell happened.

"I…Stitch… stomach…wound"

Rick had never heard that voice before but something clicked in his head when he heard the words stomach and wound. Just like that everything that happened to Luke had played like a movie in his mind. Luke remembered the Dragon Born being boarded by the enemy. Him and the 4 other crewmen defending the bridge successfully and letting the other techs escape. Then he had the showdown against the Shipmaster. Luke got beat, he got beat bad. He remembered all the punches he received and the plasma shot to his stomach. Alexis had come back and saved him from being killed, they talked and Luke handed him the AI chip after that everything went black and he came into this so called 'world' he was in.

He needed to wake up. He needed to wake up now and tell Alexis that everything was fine, tell her that he loved her with every fiber in his bones. Hug her and plant a much needed kiss to her lovely lips. She must have been going through an incredibly tough time right now.

A sudden shockwave scared the shit out of John as he picked up more bits and pieces of the squads conversation. "Banshees…hit…pod 134…day"

What the hell was going on? "Brace…"

Brace? Brace for what? The answer hit him like a ton of bricks, literally. Another sudden shockwave was felt but this time Luke felt intense pain in his head and soon after he felt himself slipping back into the dark void. 'No, no, no I can't fall backwards into the darkness again. I have to wake up…up…up'. The last words he said before falling back into the void.

(*8*)

Luke's eyes opened slowly taking in the new environment he was in. small raindrops hit his face, the part of the ceiling he was under had small scratches allowing the water to drip through. First before he sat up he did a quick check of his health, he had pain in his stomach from the plasma wound. He slowly moved his right hand to his face noticing that his limb was soar. Luke touched his nose and immediately regretted it. Taking the process slower he pressed his index finger to his nose and felt medical gauze on it, his nose was definitely broken and he probably had a few bruises that Elite could definitely hit.

Everything else was fine, his breathing was normal. Luke sat up and noticed that he was in the cockpit of an escape pod, the door leading to the back of the pod was closed. Luke looked at himself and saw that he still had his officers uniform on, venturing further he rolled the front of his shirt up and took a glance at the wound. It was definitely cleaned and stitched but that didn't mean it still didn't hurt like a mother fucker. Everything seemed normal that is until Luke noticed the dead pilot sitting in his chair. The pilots visor was cracked allowing Luke to see the man's dead, soulless face and the dried blood that originated from his mouth.

Luke simply bowed his head in respect and reached around the pilot's neck, grabbing the cool chain and giving it a yank to get the dog tags. Luke read the writing, "Lieutenant James Gregorson". He placed the tag in his pocket and patted James' shoulders before turning to the door.

He wondered where Alexis and her squad was. If anything he thought they would be there when he woke up but so far nothing, not even a sign if they were alive. Now that he thought about it how long was he out for? Could it be possible that he unconscious for too long and the Covenant had taken over the planet and everyone else retreated back to Earth? Or maybe it was the opposite and Alexis along with her teammates left to go get help and would be back surely. Either way he needed to get out and get some answers.

He pressed the open button expecting the door to open but it didn't. Confused utterly the Captain pressed the button a few more times before he mumbled a few curses about technology never working. Luke removed the button panel taking a good luck at the wires he didn't know much about engineering but he got the jidst when it came to doors.

"That's weird" Luke mumbled to himself as he noticed something out of the usual. Two wires that were supposed to be connected were separated or in other words sabotaged. 'Maybe it was to keep something out' Luke thought 'or to keep me in'.

Luke took the two wires and connected them, the door sliding open almost instantly. He walked through the door and examined the walls of the pod. They were not in great shape at all, some parts of the wall were missing while other parts were sticking out just waiting for some idiot to walk into them and cut themselves.

The pod came to its end with yet another door closed and in his way. Pressing the open button he wasn't surprised to find it didn't work. Shaking his head in annoyance the Captain took the panel off and was shocked to find all the wires missing, like they were ripped out. There was no opening this door with technology he needed to use brute force.

He walked backwards and lined himself up with the door. Luke ran at the door and rammed his shoulder into it making a rather large hole in it. The metal was definitely damaged so it wasn't going to be impossible to open the door this way.

He rammed again and again and again until finally on the seventh try the door split open. Luke exhaled deeply and walked out the exit only for him to stop in his tracks. There were bodies everywhere, at least over 200 hundred bodies laid in the street before him. Most of the bodies were Human which caused the Captain's anger to rise substantially.

Stepping down from the pods ledge he walked slowly through the bodies, weaving through the empty spots on the street making sure he didn't step on any of his dead comrades. Looking back at the pod he noticed that they crashed into the ground floor of a large skyscraper. Luke looked down the street he was on both right and left.

He spotted nothing everything else looked rather clean except for this one mark of death. His theory of Alexis and her squad leaving to get help was gone from his mind and now it looked more like she was dead or they retreated from this position. Luke was hoping for the 2nd theory.

Whatever their plan was he needed to find weapons and armor to protect himself. He wouldn't last a minute with just his officer's uniform and a regular old pistol.

Luke looked around for anything he could use and so far he found a dead Marine Sgt with a loaded Shotgun. The older African American male Sergeant was laying against some debris with several plasma wounds on his chest. Around his body were three dead Elites covered in blue armor, shotgun blasts on the Aliens chests. Luke guessed that these three Elites flanked the older Human and the Sergeant was hit several times but didn't go down until he took the ugly bastards with him. Luke kneeled down grabbing the man's weapon from his hands the Captain also took his dog tags from around his neck and read them aloud as well, "Sergeant Jeff Taylor".

Luke continued his small scavage and this time he moved a little farther away from the middle of the fight. He came to a Warthog, its engine block on fire. There were no bodies in the driver or passenger's seat but there was an unbelievable amount of blood splattered on the seats. Moving to the gunner turret there was a body slumped over the 50 cal turret and Luke noticed an unharmed Assault rifle which would definitely come in handy. Climbing up the side of the warthog he grabbed the weapon which was slinged around the back. He grabbed the weapon and jumped back off.

Something shined on the bumper getting his attention, taking a look there were some words covered by dust. Wiping it off the words read "New Alexandria Police". At least he knew where he was. He had been stationed off world in the orbit of Reach for a decent amount time. He would always hear other crewmen talk about how beautiful this city was. Luke wished he took the time to visit the city because now the sky was grey with most of the buildings destroyed or painted in blood.

He took a quick look around for some armor to improve his defense and that is when he spotted it. Laying down against a wall of a back alley was what he assumed to be a dead ODST, he or she's armor seemed to be completely intact no breaches in the suit or anything. Luke got down on one knee in front of the Elite soldier. He was in full armor so he was expecting the fight.

Luke took the helmet off to reveal a rather young man with blonde hair and grey eyes. No scars were present on his face and he looked to be clean as in he wasn't in the war for long at all. Luke examined the body and saw bruising on the man's neck signaling that he was choked to death, probably by an Elite. Finding pity in the boy, that's what he was pretty much he looked to be just about 18; Luke closed the open kid's eyes.

He knew what he was about to do was incredibly wrong but he needed the protection and he wasn't going to find another dead ODST with intact armor. Luke first took the kids tags and read his aloud as well, "Private Miles Decker". He started to take off Miles armor and put it on him. It took him a little over 15 minutes to put the heavier armor on.

Miles Decker sat there in his black endoskin as his only means of clothing. The last piece of the armor was the helmet. Luke looked at it like it had a disease, he didn't want to wear the armor it was bad luck. 'Come on Luke when was the last time you believed in shit like that?' Luke thought to himself as he placed the helmet on his head. The HUD came online immediately, it showed the suits integrity was at 95 percent which was the best he was going to get. His shields recharged which was the most important part.

He moved his arms and legs around making sure his limbs were getting used to the extra weight from the armor. He did admit that it was going to get a little difficult to get used to the armor but he could get over it soon enough.

Luke put his shotgun on his back along with his new sniper rifle that was in the hands of the ODST and held the Assault rifle in his hands. Taking one last look at Miles he noticed that both of his fists were clutched. Opening the right hand first he found a small package of C4 and he wasn't surprised when he found a detonator in his left hand. Taking both assets he placed it on his hip and walked out of the alleyway.

The night was starting to set in and Luke knew he had to find shelter soon. Walking again through the mob of bodies he decided to head towards the explosions hopefully a large platoon of Marines would be there and they would be alive. Luke heard a noise coming from the corner of the street about 200 yards ahead of him, he knew that sound but he had nowhere to run and hide they would see him trying to run back into the alley.

He decided quickly and laid down on his stomach pretending to be part of the dead around him. It wasn't a heroic choice but it was his only chance of surviving of what he knew was coming around the corner.

A few seconds later Luke spotted the Wraith float around the corner slowly making sure the 4 Elites sitting on top of the tank didn't fall off. It of course headed for him and the esteemed Captain started to second guess his plan when the tank was about 100 yards away. Maybe he should have just ran for it and take the chance. If he was caught here there was no chance he would outrun the tank or the Elites sitting on the metal monstrosity. It didn't matter now because the tank was only a few yards away and he was scared shitless when the tank stopped directly above him, blocking his view from anything. Hopefully the driver didn't get out because the tank would drop and land on top of him.

Hearing feet landing he looked around the Wraith and saw 4 pairs of feet slowly walking through the Human bodies. They were looking for survivors, kicking bodies, stabbing bodies with their energy swords to make sure they were dead. One of the Elites branched off a little and walked to the outskirts of the pile. The alien seemed to trip over something making him stumble a little and as soon as that happened a new pair of feet, human feet got off the ground quickly and made a mad dash for it. Unfortunately whoever it was didn't make it far because the Elite recovered and fired off several shots from his Carbine nailing the man and sending him back to the ground.

Luke cursed that Alien and himself partially for not noticing someone alive on the ground he could have saved him and told him to maybe lay down next to him. He decided it was time to get some payback.

Luke planted the C4 on the bottom of the Wraith and connected it to the detonator, all he needed to do now was wait for the Wraith to move again. 5 minutes later after finding another few alive Humans and putting them down the Elites all climbed back on the tank and started to float away. Luke counted to 30 and turned to watch the Wraith as he pressed the button blowing the tank to kingdom come.

Luke started to laugh. He stood from the spot he 'died' and watched the Wraith burn for another minute savoring the revenge he claimed. The Captain knew that it was going to be a little while before he found help or the other way around. He was going to have to fight a little dirty, Guerrilla warfare. Traps, bombs and anything else that would help him in this fight.

The night came as he stood there and he looked up to the sky. He was always fond of the stars as a kid they represented freedom to him. These pure lights that he would love to watch even to this day. His star gazing was unfortunately cut off as a Covenant Destroyer flew over his head, heading towards the opposite side of the city. Something in his gut told him that the Covenant already controlled this part of the city, he was behind enemy lines with no backup.

He couldn't travel far right now because he definitely did not want to get ambushed. So he decided to go into the building his escape pod crashed into. Walking up the flight of stairs leading to the entrance he prayed this building wasn't filled with Covenant.

Luke opened the glass door slowly, the darkness in the building was insane. He fiddled with his helmet and when he found the button he was looking for he pressed it, activating his night vision. Instantly the HUD light up letting him see the large lobby. In the middle was a counter which he guessed was the security checkpoint.

Continuing to walk forward he kept his finger on the trigger ready for anything. He passed the waiting room of the lobby where a pile of bodies were thrown about on top of the coffee table. There was an unbearable smell that hit Luke's nose as he passed the pile, these bodies were burned and they were burned recently.

He kept moving and this time he came to a dead end hallway with elevators lining both walls. There were letters on top of the Elevator and he got a laugh when he read Forge Hotel. Luke then noticed a glimmer at the end of the hallway and on closer inspection it was a door. He merely peeked through and saw it was the stairway.

'It would be a better idea to get to higher ground'

Luke went with his instincts and started to walk up the stairs. Floor after floor he walked, listening for any sign that Covenant inhabited this building. He looked for blood trails, listened for their language to be spoken. So far it was nothing and when he reached the 17th floor something interesting caught his eye. All of the floors he checked had their numbers on the door and a handle.

This door's number were gone they were spray-painted over and replaced with the UNSC symbol and the handle was missing. Seeing as how he hadn't met a lot of friendlies yet he had to assume this position was overrun and kept his finger on the trigger as he slowly pushed the door opened, his weapon trained in front of him.

It was a little brighter up here but Luke still kept his night vision on just in case. It didn't seem to be a large floor, a big thanks to the multiple bags and carts blocking the passage, it would take him days to clear out the way and that was something he definitely didn't have time to do.

So he took a look around and found only 4 doors were not behind the crap barricade. He searched the 3 rooms closest to the stairs and found nothing. The last door was in the far corner and following what he did with the last 3 doors he opened the door slowly and peeked through the door, gun ready to go off at a moment's notice.

There were no enemies so he walked into the room and saw multiple items on the floor. There were multiple heavy class weapons including a Jackhammer Rocket Launcher along with a few SMG's and a whole lot of clips which upon further inspection were full. Then there was a small woodpile in a circle with a pot above it. He touched the wood and felt it was still a little warm.

Luke's favorite part of the whole thing was the large hole in the corner of the hallway which gave him the opportunity to see across the city and see the carnage that went on through the night. Fires blazed almost everywhere and all he could feel was horror. So many people were dying from the Covenant and sometimes it felt like a huge waste of time to fight back, it's close to impossible to stop the Covenant in their tracks and if Reach falls then so does Earth.

The esteemed Captain decided it was time to get some shut eye. He didn't have time to check the other 40 floors for the Covenant so he placed a Cabinet in front of the door and if someone tried to knock it down he would hear it.

He placed his Sniper rifle and Assault rifle down on the floor but he had the idea to sleep with his shotgun. Another wonderful part about this room was there was a bed. He laid down on the comfy bed and heard a creak from the bed, he would rather sleep with his armor on so the bed was taking the extra weight.

It took a while Luke to calm his mind before falling into a dreamless sleep, hoping that this was all a dream and he would wake up in his cot on the Dragon Born, Alexis asleep in his arms.

If it was real then he hoped he would survive this onslaught.

A/N: hope you enjoyed