Chapter 2: Arrival
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Halo are and they are property of Bungie
In this chapter at the parts from the Chief and arbiter's POV, I will have underlined words, these underlined words are words spoken in alien languages, and are not understood by the Chief, Arbiter, etc.
"Chief, Arbiter. Wake up, there's incoming drop ship. Just about everything about is unknown, but from what I can pick up from what's left of the Dawn's scanners, the have shielding that's three times as powerful as yours. So the two of you better get some of the heavy weaponry in the armory before the ship arrives, just in case they are hostiles." stated Cortana. The Arbiter and Master Chief both left for the armory, which was, luckily in the back of the ship. As they arrived in the armory, to which that they, to the Arbiter's relief, contained both Human and the Covenant weaponry that the Elites were used to.
The Chief attached two M7 SMGs to the magnetic plates of his sides, a rocket launcher to the magnetic plate on his back, and took a modified Battle Rifle with an automatic fire mode and the three round burst mode that the Battle Rifles normally used. The Arbiter took two Energy Swords and placed them on his side, then took a Needler and placed it on his other side, a Fuel Rod Cannon on his back, and last of all a Carbine.
"It seems that the ship is trying to land in the ship's vehicle bay, I suggest that you two keep a low profile while taking a look at our visitors." Cortana ordered the two. They quickly hurried to the vehicle bay and took cover behind a scorpion when they heard a strange sound. Then they say a strange drop ship that looks like someone took a metal turtle shell with airlocks and fused it to the front of a pelican. When the doors on the side opened up, a squad of twelve aliens jumped out. The Chief and the Arbiter quickly engaged active camouflage, remaining out of sight of the impending alien threat.
An alien with an ornate red and gold armor spoke something in a strange, raspy language, "There are two cloaked life forms here that are armed and are threats to our mission eliminate them. The two saw the squad getting into position and all aiming at the tank. Realizing that their cover was blown, the Arbiter and Chief quickly adapted to the situation. They jumped out behind their cover throwing a couple of plasma grenades that both stuck on to the same target. The explosion and EMP burst from the two grenades overloaded the soldier's shields and kill it. Then the two proceeded to roll behind different vehicles to use as cover while firing their heavy weapons. The squad responded to the explosives by firing back with their heavy plasma weaponry. The Arbiter then pulled a gauss turret off the Warthog that he was hiding behind and proceeded to use his improvised weapon. The rounds from the gauss turret going at extreme high speeds was an unexpected weapon and resulted in two more kills before it became a mangled wreck from the plasma fire. Then one of the few remaining aliens left pulled out a small rod of metal, then proceeded to activate his energy blade, the Arbiter unsheathed both his energy swords and roared a challenge at the warrior. Suddenly a mass of flaming metal crashed into the soldier, even though the shield was not taken down, the mass of the Warthog still made broke the alien's neck killing it. Then all that was left of the carnage was the ornately armored alien, the Arbiter, and the Chief, having took care of the soldiers pressing him with his rocket launcher, now out of ammo. Then the Arbiter charged the ornately clad alien with his two energy swords. The alien brought up his own blade and blocked the slash. The two proceeded to swordfight for the next few minutes until the Arbiter swung his sword at the alien's side, then spun fully around onto the alien's unprotected side, having taken the feint; put all his momentum behind the vicious chop, that beheaded his adversary. The Chief, having gone to retrieve Cortana, came back and jumped into the drop ship, only to find no one manning it. Cortana then states "The technology of this ship is simply amazing. But unfortunately there's not much I can access from this ship, nor can I pilot it. I suggest we take one of the few Bumblebees left in this wreck to that habitable planet nearby." The Chief inserted the chip containing Cortana in the back of his helmet. The quickly made way to the nearest escape pod, launched out of the remains of the Dawn, and saw two fleets about to converge upon each other. Then suddenly the horror of the thought of flying a measly pod through a space battle between two fleets converged upon the two, for there were infinitely many chances to die from a stray shot. But they accepted the challenge anyways. When they flown through the battle right when it began, they were lucky and didn't get hit at all.
Xion'sPOV______________________________________________________________
"Sir", reported one of higher ranked lieutenants" there is some kind of escape pod containing two life forms heading towards the planet, scanners show that they are afflicted to neither side."
"Deploy a squad of six Juggernaut Droids to contain them where ever they land until we can get there to investigate the appearance of a possible new hostile enemy, or a potential ally." ordered Xion.
Chief and Arbiter's POV
With a mind rattling thud the crash landed on the mysterious planet. Then with a boom, the door to escape pod flew out of its place and the chief lost sight of it during its flight through the air. Then the two newcomers to this world came out of the Bumblebee. When the duo got out, they inspected their surroundings. They saw that their landing made quite a crater; no wonder the door was jammed out of shape. "Incoming!" warned Cortana, "Look up."
The two looked up to see six fireballs streaking through the sky. "Any idea what they are, Construct, Spartan?" questioned the arbiter.
"Not sure, but the effect looks similar to the ones that an HEV makes during entry, on any guess, I would say they are some kind of alien version of ODSTs", replied Cortana.
"Well we better get away, because we are out in the open." the Chief stated.
"Then we better get moving" responded the Arbiter.
When the two got to the nearby hills for cover, the duo's motion sensor popped up with six grey dots.
"I marked unknowns with gray on your sensors", stated Cortana.
Then they saw another drop ship comedown, but this one looked different from the one they encountered earlier. Suddenly one side opened, and a large winged alien with a host of guards of similar aliens and other types walked out of the ship.
Xion's POV
"What are those things?" snarled Xion to the Valtian Sub-Commander as he caught sight of the green humanoid and the other one with mandibles instead of jaws clad in grey armor. The others know that it was a rhetorical question, remained silent. "Find out why they are here, and what are they." Xion ordered two of the Valtian soldiers.
The reason why Xion ordered Valtians to do the job was because, unlike other races, Valtians are telepathic, and can invade other minds, at the cost of great mental fatigue. Normally it takes practice to invade another's mind, because the first few attempts will are mostly resulting in failure, and many experienced at invading have been known to collapse from mental exhaustion. But it is easier to defend their minds from invasion than to invade another's. The two unknown entities reeled from the unexpected mental assault, but they were able to repel the Valtian's invasion, but after the two Valtians got the information they needed. They quickly informed Xion of what they have discovered. "Bring those two, they have a lot to learn, but if what you tell me is true, then we might be able to strike up a deal with them." ordered Xion. The elite alien force lowered their guns and motioned for the two aliens to go on the drop ship.
Chief and Arbiter's POV
"What choice do we have? And these guys seem to welcome us more than those aliens earlier." Analyzed Cortana as the duo followed these mysterious aliens aboard the drop ship.
This is the author speaking, I wish you all a merry Christmas. And just to warn you all beforehand, there will be a time skip between this chapter and the next chapter.