The pillar of autumn is seen coming out of hyperspace "Cortana all I need to know is did we lose them" captain keys ask the on bored A.I
"I think we both know the answer to that"
Keys sighs "we made a blind jump how did they"
"Get here first" the A.I says "covenant ships have always been faster as for tracking us from reach my maneuvering capabilities were limited"
Keys starts to pace around clearly on edge due to the fact they were about to come under attack "we were running dark yes"
"Until we decelerated pretty sure know missed the giant hole we tore through hyperspace" the Ai then started glowing "they were waiting of us on the far side of the planet"
Keys looked down and turned to face Cortana "bring the ship back to combat level alpha. I want everyone at their stations"
"Everyone" the A.I asks
"Everyone" keys then turns around "and Cortana "
Her avatar appears "hmm?"
"Let's give our old friend a warm welcome"
"I've already begun"
Six and rex were walking down to the lunch corridor when the intercom blared up "attention all combat personnel please report to your combat stations
"They found us already "rex then turns to six "Sir we need to get to the bridge" Six nods they start running to the bridge
Emile was doing better he was standing up and ready to go kick some alien scum he walks out of the medical room
Meanwhile in cryo room
"Alright lets thaw him out" they begin to start pressing buttons" okay bringing suit level online" the machine starts to glow " he's hot blowing pins in five"
The pod opens to revel the master chief he gets up out of his cryo pod and walks down to great the crewmen
"Sorry for the quick thaw chief things are pretty hectic right now" he turns to the crewmen above "bring his energy shields
John stands there as his energy shields flare up and begin to stir
"Shields read normal showing green across the board"
"Captain Keys to cryo 2 send the chief to the bridge immediately"
"But sir we will have to skip the weapons diagnostic"
"On the double crewmen"
He then turns to look at the chief "the skipper seems jumpy we'd better get moving we'll get you weapons later "
"I'll leave the test running "then banging is heard at the door "oh god there trying to get through the door "an elite major then bust threw the door and shoots him down
"Sam" the crewman yelled "c'mon we got to get out of here" they both run to the door and it opens the run down a hallway and the crew man attempts to open the door it blows up killing him
Chief then stops and goes different path on the way he sees crewmen being attacked by covenant forces he comes up to one room and sees another Spartan fighting an elite minor
The Spartan grabs him and put his combat knife in his throat killing it he then turns to see chief "you're not the Spartan I'm looking for"
"How many Spartans are on this ship?"
"Don't know "
"We need to get to the bridge" he says as he walks out
"Right behind you"
They make their way to the bridge and they come across six and rex
"Six good to see you're okay" he walks up to him and hits him on the shoulder "who's this "he points to rex
"This is rex he helped me save you on reach" he turns to rex" and this is Emile my teammate from noble team
'Nice to meet you "the door then opens and the four Spartans enter the bridge and find keys waiting for them
Keys greets the Spartans "it's good to see you all "
"What's the situation? "They ask
"The covenant followed us from reach "Cortana says as she pops up she turns to john" sleep well
"No thanks to your driving" he retorts
"So you did miss me" she then turns to six " I want to thank you for getting me here sorry about your commander he sounded like a good man"
"He was but I didn't let his sacrifice be in vain"
keyes then turns to chief "we need you to get Cortana of the ship"
"While you do what go down with the ship no offence sir but this war has enough dead hero's" Cortana looks at six after she says this
"In a manner the objet we found I'm going to land the autumn on it"
Cortana disappears for a second then pops up again "the ship will continue evasive maneuvers tell you take Manuel control" she turns to chief "yank me"
Keys then presses several buttons and pulls her out and hands her to chief "if Cortana falls into enemy hand they'll learn everything ship deployments" he pauses "earth"
"I understand" chief answers
Keyes turns to the other Spartans "as for the rest of you you're going to assist the chief in getting of the ship"
"All due respect sir I work better alone"
"No you are the only Spartans on this vessel and we need all fire power we need if we want to beat the covenant "
"The four of you are our last and only hope now "the Spartans look at each other
"Good luck Spartans "he gives chief a pistol "I don't keep it loaded you're going to have to find ammo yourself"
The Spartans leave the bridge "come on I know where the weapons locker is follow me "Rex Starts running they run across Johnson and a group of marines
Six pulls out his energy sword and attacks the covenant he cuts through the elite and throws a grenade at the grunts
"well that's aa nice toy to have" chief stats as the Spartans run of the reach the weapons locker and pick up as much guns as they can
They leave out and see marinas under fire "they could use some help do what you do best "the four Spartans attack the troops
The ships bums over "there using our life boat airlocks to attach there boarding craft we go out and they come in clever bastards"
The Spartans keep running and they see three marines pinned down by fire "we can't get past this" six says
"Yeah we can" rex pulls out a heavy turret and shoots all the covies in the area "keep going I got your back"
They pass a window and see lifeboats fly out the third one to fly out is shot down "there shooting down are escape pods
The Spartans take passenger threw small accesses ways they find a door that is damaged "that door's control mechanism is gone I'm going to have to"
Emile then walks up the door and bashes it open
They pass through the cryo bay six looks down to see the elites "looks like they wanted to catch you napping"
"There's one life boat left hurry up and catch it" the Spartans run two the life boat and see a marine thrown on the ground
Chief picks him up an throws him in
"Punch it"
"Aye aye sir" she then hits the switch and the ship flies of
"Are we going to make sir" asked the frighten marine
Six looks at him and responds "don't worry about it"
"The autumn is accelerating keys is going in manually" the autumn goes for the ring "you boy's going to sit down"
"We'll be fine "chief responds
"If I still had fingers they'd be crossed" Cortana says as they enter orbit