Thar decided to take Lucas and Daniel with him. He left Barney back with Ace and Tridant, for obvious reasons. Like them waking up and freaking out.

As they were walking, Thar examined his surroundings. God, it was beautiful here. If only things weren't under such hard circumstances at the moment. Granit he saw no signs of danger what so ever. They still needed to get off this… ring. Yes, a ring, Thar thought.

The men kept walking forward, which they had been doing for a good thirty minutes, when Daniel suddenly stopped and pointed at something. Thar and Lucas looked forward. It was a grunt. A lone grunt, out here in the middle of nowhere? That is kind of strange.

"I'll take him". Lucas decided.

"No." Thar said.

"What? Why wouldn't I? What if he sees us and calls in for re enforcements?" Lucas questioned.

Daniel looked at Lucas like he was an idiot.

"What if it has a squad right behind it? Or an army? I don't think I am ready to take on a hundred hunters, elites, and grunts." Thar retorted. Okay, so maybe it was a bit over dramatic, but it could happen.

"You have that pistol though, don't you?" Lucas asked. "Never mind, sorry sir. What's our next move?"

"Let's follow him." Thar suggested.

Daniel nodded. They followed the grunt. The little alien seemed anxious, and scared. Did it know they were following it? Thar put his hand on his pistol just in case. Then the grunt did something unexpected. It entered a cave system. After entering a code on the side. He went in, and the door started to close. The three ODSTs ran up, and slid in before it closed. Thar fell. He would not make it in, when suddenly Lucas grabbed his hand and pulled him in just in time.

"It would be terrible if I got separated from my squad by a door." Thar thought.

They continued following the lone grunt, when he walked into another room. Thar and the others followed. It was not just a normal room. There were power generators, machines, and much more. What was this place?

Suddenly, the grunt turned around. He spotted them.

"Time to go in loud! Shoot to kill, people! Shoot to kill!" Thar ordered.

Everyone fired at the grunt. He didn't even have time to draw his weapon. Poor little thing hit the floor dead in seconds after he spotted the ODSTs.

"Well that was… surprising." Lucas said.

Daniel went up to the controls, and removed his helmet. He examined everything, and then stood still. He looked like he was in shock. He put his helmet back on, and sent Thar a couple of files. There was a team that had been working on teleporters, and they looked just like the machinery standing in front of them.

"Ohh my god… Daniel, do you think that this could be the other end of what Echo Team has been working on?" Echo team was the team who had been trying to get thing running for years. It was led by Stormray, a highly respected captain. He was always kind to his soldiers, never treated them like dirt. Storm was a good man.

Daniel took off his helmet, than shrugged. He had a look on his face that said "There's a fairly decent chance, but can't really say for certain". That's how Thar took it, anyway.

"Alright, Daniel try to get the communication systems back up in here. You know, with the outside world. Lucas, you contact the rest of the Hellhogs and see if they are up. If so, they need to get over here. Fast. Then meet me at the entrance, so we can get that door open for them." Thar ordered the soldiers.

"Yes, sir!" Said Lucas. Daniel nodded.

Ace woke up, breathing heavily. Very heavily. She must have had another nightmare. They were always the same. She was dying. How it was going about was different each time. She hated it. She had gone to therapy multiple times to try to get some help. They presumed war had done this too her. They were wrong.

At the age of eight, around fifteen years ago, she had started to have these weird dreams. She hated every second of them. They did not necessarily scare her, they just bothered her.

"Ohh, you're awake. That's good." It was the captain.

"Uhhg" she moans while sitting up and rubbing her eyes.

"You slept for a long time. It's been around thirty minutes since Thar went looking for some supplies. Or help. Which means you were out of it for at least an hour." Tridant said.

"I'm fine, now. Where do we need to go?" Ace asked.

"We just got word from Lucas that we need to head over to Thars team, but we must be cautious. Covenant are around." Tridant informed her.

"Understood." Ace replied. Her head felt like somebody was pounding against it. She tried to shrug it off.

"Good. Barney, get the equipment we have gathered up, and lets head out." Tridant ordered.

"Yes, sir." Barney acknowledged.

Around thirty minutes later, they had made it to where Thar told them to meet up.

"Thar, this is Tridant. Where the hell are you, son?" Tridant came in on Thars communicator.

"Sir, Lucas and I have been working to get this door open since we first contacted you. No luck. You may have to do something from the outside, that's the only way I see. Is there a control panel or something?" Thar asked. It was hell working on this door.

"Ace, give me a hand." Tridant said.

Around ten minutes later, they got the door open.

"What the hell was that? Why did it take so long?" Lucas asked, irritated.

"I would assume it was when we turned on the power to that machine Daniel was working on." Thar said, then froze. "Ohh no, we forgot about Daniel." He said. They sprinted to the room.

Approximately ten minutes prior to the team regrouping, Daniel finished working on the repairs to the machine. The young man was relieved. Now all he had to do was flip the switch to get the power on. Wait, he could not talk, so this could be bad that he had no way to communicate with them.

Well damn it. Losing his whole squad back on Harmony was rough. Why hadn't he died with them? Ohh well, didn't matter now. He had a mission to do. He flipped the switch.

Nothing happened. He waited. And waited. And waited. And waited. It was five minutes since he pulled the switch. Nothing happened. Absolutely nothing. Daniel was not surprised. His life had never been anything special. So why would things start going his way now?

That's when Daniels worst nightmare first appeared. The flood.

Well, finished chapter two. This was a very difficult chapter, because there was not too much action going on. Trust me though, next chapter is gonna start off cool, and even introduce a new character. :D If you have time, please leave a review. I would love to know what people think so I can know what to improve on and what not. :3