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Last time on The Fall.

The ODST captain of Eagle company was summoned by the captain of the 'Out of Time' and given the information on where their next deployment was,the cornerstone of the UNSC military,Reach.

- ODST Captain Gray Blackwood POV

"3…..2…..1….Launch!" was the last transmission i got from the A.I of the UNSC Frigate 'OUT OF TIME' when i felt my SOEIV being launched out of the drop bay and towards our target Reach.

As we were being lurched out of the drop bay of the ship I looked out into space and saw the incredibly big battle going on outside of the pod between The Covenant and the remaining forces of the reach defense fleet.

But as every other space battle of the war we were losing,badly. For every ship we took down they blew up two of our own. Looking away from the losing space battle I notice there's only 40 seconds before landfall.I turn on the com to inform the company of the most recent events of the landing zone. "Listen up! There seems to have been some developments on our landing zone. The place is currently crawling with covenant so we'll have to go in guns blazing and try to stop them before they destroy the facility." after I finish up I feel the pod,shaking violently as it is hit by turbulence.

After a few seconds the pod hits the ground with a loud thunk,and the pod door opens. As I jump out of the pod I pull the trigger of my BR and pop two grunts that were right infront of me. As the battle continued I could clearly hear the loud thunks of the other pods hitting the ground around me.

A few grunts began to charge at my position at the orders of their elite masters but as they were 20 meters away they begun to run away in fear as the rest of my company came charging in behind me. "Clear out the remaining covenant and make a defensive perimeter around the building! We have to hold this position until reinforcements arive!" I say into the helmet coms. Without responding they go to do as I said.

I turn around to look for Myles to find him giving orders to a couple of soldiers. "Myles,I want you to take a team and build trenches,also get some satellite footage over the nearest covenant troop movements." With a simple nod he start to get to work.

I walk towards the generator facility were the impromptu HQ had been set up and nods in approval towards the men and women setting up defenses. After a couple of minutes I hear my helmet com beeping,I take it on and sees that it was Myles with a rapport.

"What you got for me?" I ask. "I got that satellite footage that you asked for,wait a sec and I'll send it over." After a few seconds I see that a package has been sent to my helmet and I open It. What I saw would make any grown man piss himself in fear because if this footage was accurate there were at least 10 phantoms carrying 5 wraiths and 10 ghosts,15 banshees and about a battalion of troops. They outnumber us 10 to one not counting the enemy armor. And they are just 10 minutes away.

I turn of the footage with a heavy 'sigh' and turn to the man handling communications . "Get the men briefed of what we're up against and get the sniper teams to hide in the snow and tell them to use silencers to cover their vapor trail."

"Yes,sir" The communications specialist answered back while carrying out said orders. After a few minutes I came out of the makeshift FOB and ran down to one of the trenches as covenant plasma fire had begun to whirl through the air. Once I get down in the trench I open up the com to begin giving orders "Riflemen open fire at will! Mortar team 1 and 2 fire at quadrant 2b! I want those wraiths taken out!" As I said that you could clearly hear the overbearing sound of about a hundred different assortments of weapons being fired at the advancing covenant forces.

As we continue to fire we can see grunts falling over left and right as they are killed as the elites and jackals are practically using them as meat shields. While being focused on not letting the infantry overwhelm our position I neglected the covenant air support for a few minutes and foolishly allowed them to land with their compliment of ghosts.

"Incoming ghosts! Left side!" One of the odsts next to me in the trench called out. Deciding quickly I called out "Use rockets! I want those ghosts out of my sight yesterday!" "Roger!" The heavy weapons squad leader called back as I could see eight rockets soaring through the sky on their way towards their targets who had all neatly lined up before they went on their attack run. The ghosts tried to get out of the way but they were too late as the rockets just seconds later made impact with them.

"Ghosts are taken down! Yeah!" Were one of the many comments I herd over the coms from the men who would have been in their line of fire. But in war every move has its cost and in this case it was the heavily armed saviors. Because as soon as they had revealed their location you could almost instantly see several green bombs of plasma being fired at their location. The area went up in a giant green explosion and we didn't hear from the HW squad ever again.

It was starting to fall apart. They outnumbered us,had both armor and air support as well as a giant assault carrier above us. We were losing men rapidly and we needed a solution,quickly.

I look out over the battlefield to see that they had now pushed past the point of where my sniper teams where located...in the heat of battle I had completely forgotten to order them to fire! and they hadn't noticed them yet. "Excellent!" I say out loud as the covenant is getting closer for every second. What either of us hadn't realized until now was that they had unknowingly played right into my hands.

I quickly opened a channel to them and said"Sniper teams 1 through 4! Begin to take coordinated shots at the enemy leadership,they'll never know what hit'em." Almost aggravated that they hadn't gotten any orders until now they confirmed. "Roger,beginning assault." As soon as they had gotten my orders the covie leadership started to fall like flies.

"This is our chance for a counter attack! All units fire at will!" As the covenant lines become confused as to why they are no longer getting any orders,my men become filled with new vigor and begin a vicious counter attack. After a few minutes of intense fighting an odst corporal exclaims "look they're pulling back!" And if you look hard enough you could clearly see the enemy forces were indeed pulling back.

But in a last ditch attempt to make some damage the remaining banshees came in an attack run towards our lines,though under heavy fire from several BR's and assault rifles they still managed to squeeze of at least one fuel rod shot each,and one was heading straight for me! As it went through the air everything stopped,it was as if nothing existed anymore, there was only the green blob of plasma and me,nothing else. A few seconds later I felt an extreme pain and my vision became black.

- Dellam Chuath POV, Elite shipmaster on the covenant assaullt carrier.

"Human filth!" I roared as I slammed my clenched fists into the armrests of my seats. These puny humans had managed but barely,to hold their lines against a battalion of troops,without any armored support!

I have to hand it to them,they've been resilient in their quest of defense. They have fought to the death and they have killed many of our brothers,but now their time has come to be cleansed of the face of the Galaxy!

"Minor! Bring the echat bomb ready for for firing. "Shipmaster! The echat has yet to be tested and has as of yet unknown effects and range, it could hit our own!" The elite tells me with a aggravated tone. I quickly ignite my energy sword as the humans call it and leap at the minor questioning my orders and hold the tip of the sword only inches away from his throat. "Your insolence shall be punished,minor... I do not require fools questioning orders. But now I have different matters to attend to. In the meantime,give him to the kig-yar if he doesn't get eaten he shall face proper punishment." As the minor was dragged away I came to think about what he was getting dragged to.

Ah yes the kig-yar,they are wile creatures. They eat allies as well as enemies on the battlefield.

Dishonorable,desecrating the dead. Those savages the humanas accurately named brutes doesn't care,hell they are even more known for eating the humans then the kig-yar is.

Well I can think about that later,right now we have some humans to cleanse. I turn my head towards one of the majors sitting at a console and give him his orders to get the echat ready for launch. "Yes shipmaster! It will take some time as the technology is experiment-" "yes,yes I am well aware just get it done" I interrupt him. "Yes shipmaster" he says with a nod and gets up from his console to execute his new orders.

Before this war the times were much simpler. I wasn't in the military and I got to spend time with my wife. My wife...I wonder if she is well. I think as my thoughts begin to wander farther and farther away.

- Captain Gray Blackwood POV/Orbital defnse generator facility/field hospital/

Beep...beep...beep was the sound coming from my heartbeat monitor. I was apparently incredibly lucky,coming out of the strafing run alive,even less without the need of surgery with only some major burns a bad concussion, some flesh wounds and major blood loss. The thing was,I didn't feel lucky. The reason I hadn't disintegrated in that attack was because the two ODST's closest to my position apparently threw themselves at me and took the brunt of the attack. They were the only reason I was alive as of now.

I sigh as Myles walks into the makeshift field hospital that was made inside of the facility.

"How many?" I ask as he sits down at the side of the beed. Myles had his helmet of so you could clearly see the scowl on his face as he was about to deliver the news.

"63 dead,10 wounded including you. Seven of them ain't gonna make it." As he continues on about what equipment we lost I feel more and more like I'm sinking. We had lost more than half of the company and if the reports I was getting were accurate,Sartini and his men were not coming with reinforcements anymore as they were dead along with the rest of the crew on the "Out of Time".

We were on our own without the ability of escape with a corvette on our asses that I don't know why hadn't blown us sky high yet. We were screwed. Wait...why hadn't they blown us up yet?to get the odp power grid down you just had to destroy it...unless...they wanted something.

I shot out of the hospital bed,eyes wide and started to run. At the back of the facility were one of many super computers that were in every generator facility to run it,but what they forgot is that this is a military facility and thus have the ability to connect to other military channels.

As I was running I started to notice that Myles was following me and yelling at me. " Gray,stop! Slow the fuck down and tell me what it is!" I wanted to tell him what it was but I had no time and the adrenalin I had produced when figuring out the plans of the covenant assault force where dissipating it took all the energy I had left just to keep running,much less talk and run at the same time.

When we got to the control room we were met by the bodies of four ODST's either cut in half or stabbed in the back by what looked like energy swords. "Fuck...fuck...fuck,fuck,fuckfuck!" I managed to somehow scream out as I slid down the wall of the room. They got it...everything,there were even fucking planetary coordinates were on that hard drive. Those stupid mother fuckers didn't ad generator computers to the cole protocol and now some clever bastard had figured it out. But there might be one way to stop them from getting away.

"Myles get the fucking facility door locked and sound the alarms." Myles looked at the bodies and nodes solemnly. He quickly got to work when he remembered the people outside and asked. "What about the men outside?" "Tell them that gsgt Jones is in charge until further notice."

With the pain not subsiding my body went into autopilot and it all became a huge garbled mess. We split the men inside of the facility into search parties and told them to look for possible stealth elites confirmed to be armed with at least an energy sword.

As my squad were searching one of the many hallways I noticed I had seemingly subconsciously acquired a shotgun. While I didn't remember ever picking up the shotgun I come to be thankful I did as we turn the corner and see nothing,well we would have seen nothing if it weren't for the seemingly floating hard drive.

Quickly realizing it's the elite intruders we open fire. The elites were caught with their pants down and didn't have enough time to shot back as the were swiftly mowed down. After the short battle we search the bodies to come up with nothing,this hard drive was empty. A moment later the ground shakes and the sounds of a fire fight could be heard in the distance. "I guess there were more of them...you,you and you" I say pointing at the ODST's in my team. "Go help the others,I'll hold my own"

"Yes sir!" They answered back as they began to sprint in the direction of the sounds of battle. As the pain was racing through my body I took deep breaths and trying to fight the pain,until I heard the regrettably familiar sharp hissing of an energy sword turning on,knowing I had just milli seconds until being impaled I threw myself to the side,but I still got knocked on my lower side and I were losing a lot of blood. If I didn't finish this up in the next minute I would surely die of bloodloss.

Deciding to do the stupidest thing I could imagine I charged right at the elite. And the Alien just stood there thinking he had just met the most stupid human of them all. But acting overconfident became his fall as many before him.

The elite tried to impale me in the stomach as I charged but I hit his hand with the shotgun making him pull it away in pain giving me the perfect opening. Somehow tackling the elite to the floor I pulled out one of my knifes and quickly stabbed him in the throat making blood gush out all over my visor.

Searching this elite I found what we were looking for. Radioing in that the the objective was secured I crushed it in the palm of my hand making it impossible for the covenant to extract any information. As the intruders were all felt with I unlocked the doors to the outside and was on my way to stumble over to the nearest medic,when a big five by five meter square purple cube sparkling with electricity landed only 15 meters away from our position and thought it to not be an immediate threat as there were nothing coming out of it.

That was until it started to pulse with electricity and begin to painfully electrocute everybody. It was so painful that it felt like being torn asunder and being put together again. As everybody had blacked out because of the pain they didn't realize that was exactly what happened.

So that was chapter 2! Please tell me your thoughts about it and don't forget to follow and favorite! So things have been going slow with the beginning of School and stuff like that but I feelt that I needed to get out chapter 2 as fast as possible,so there are probably gonna be some edits on this chapter at a later date,have a great day/night!

- Fire W0lf signing out!