Chapter 2: Battle For Earth

As the battle begins, James rushed to his Airlock as Covenant troops attacked. "We need to get to our ships and help or lose them" Miranda says as she fires her SMG, James nods and put his gun away. He then charges at them, slicing a Grunt's head off. He then pulls out a pistol and shot a Jackal in the skull, killing it quickly. He then turns to her, "We are clea-" he was interrupted by an angry Hunter as it charges him.

He gets up and looks at the angry beast as it roars, as Avery and Miranda took cover. James smiles beneath his helmet, he then runs at it as it charges him. But before the creature struck him, James jumps and stuffs a grenade into the head of it. The hunter stops as it soon blows up, splashing orange goo all over. Soon Avery walks up, "I can see why the Spartans like you" he says as they continue down the hall.

Once they arrived at the UNSC In Amber Clad, Miranda notices a squad of Grunts led by an Elite coming. As they fired, something in James began to burn him. He stops his attack, distracted by the sensation. Soon, his eyes turn red as he began to ignore it. James then began walking as he pulls out his dual pistols, firing them rapidly. One by one, the attackers fell. As the Elite pulls out his sword and charged James, he jumps and side kicked the Elite. Breaking his skull and neck, leaving the enemy dead.

James went back to normal as he looks around the room, "What happened?" he asked. "Something that Halsey wanted" James heard as John walks up to him.

As they walked to the bomb, John explains. "Halsey hasn't told you why you're in the Program, right" he asked. James shook his head, John can hear Cortana sigh.

"Well, by the files I have on you, Capt. Forgo. You were experimented on" She said. James stops as he takes it in, "What do you mean?" He asked.

"You hold something that was more powerful than argumentation, more powerful than our modern prosthetics" John says. James shook it off, "It can wait, we need to get rid of this bomb and save this station" he says. John nods as the two brothers ran to the docking station.

As they arrived, several Elites pulled out various weapons. They soon attacked the two soldiers, forcing them to dodge the coming fire. John looks at James as he passes a Shotgun, his brother nods as they attack them.

After clearing them off, James gets a call. "Capt. Forgo here" he says, "Sir, we need your help, the Covenant Cruisers are knocking everyone out" his co-officer says. James looks at his brother as he pulled the bomb towards the Airlock. "I'm on my way" James says as John walks up to him, "You're needed?" he asked. James nods as the Airlocks open, "Well soldier boy, good luck" Cortana says as James soon flew out.

As he directs himself to his ship, several Longswords flew past him as his Frigate swooped in and got him. The ship that got him was the leading ship of her class, UNSC Paris. As he enters the Bridge, he sees the SuperCarrier explodes as his ship follows another Frigate down to Earth.

Inside the bridge was his Co-Captain, Lieutenant Richard Lucas as he greets him. "What happened?" he asked, "Thank my Spartan Brother" he says as he sat in his chair. "I want this ship planetside, we are going after that Carrier" he says

A Few Hours Later:

After James arrived at the Scarab's location, he noticed something that was buried. He digs it out and studies it, soon his eyes turn red as it studies the artifact.

He began to visualize all the events that will happen once the Paris jumps, he then sees a green-colored girl. As he tries to look into it, it stops and ends with him waking up.

"James! JAMES!" Richard yells, James press his communicator. "What is it?" he asked, "It's the SuperCarrier, it's making a jump, INSIDE THE CITY!" Richard says. James looks up at the Covenant ship as it opens a portal, "What are our orders?" Richard asked. "Get me a Pelican, once we are inside, we are going after it" James says.

Once the Pelican arrives, he jumps aboard and hanged on as it zoomed to the Frigate. Once it lands, the UNSC Paris' engines was soon on full power, chasing the Carrier as it and In Amber Clad jumps into the portal.

As it chases it, James notices that the ship has passed both the Frigate and the SuperCarrier. "Richard, stop the SlipSpace drive" he ordered, Richard tries to turn it off. Soon the panel blew a circuit, making it difficult to turn it off. Soon the ship began to go brighter as James was soon knocked out cold.

In the Medical Station over Ansion:

Commander Barriss Offee was a Jedi Knight, even though she showed great skills. She was tasked with defending a planet, several lightyears away from the Frontlines.

She sighs as her friend comes in, "This is just great, we are stuck in a Medical Station while our masters are having fun" her Orange friend says.

"Ahsoka, I don't think of war as a game. But I don't know how you do" Barriss says as she studies her holopad. "You know that they are just Droids, right?" Ahsoka asked, "Besides that Trandoshan you killed? Or the Prison warden, back when you defy orders to stay behind. Or those Mandalo-" Ahsoka placed her hand over Barriss' mouth.

"I thought we won't bring that up" she says, Barriss shook her hand off. "At least you got the point" she says, soon the Station shook. "What is going on?" Barriss asked, Ahsoka notices something. "Barriss?" she says, Barriss looks to where her friend is looking at.

Both girls look outside to see a ship appear from the portal as it drifts away, "Ship seems intact, want to check it out?" Ahsoka asked.