SIX WAS DREAMING, DREAMING OF THE OTHER DAY. HE WAS ALL ALONE; EMILE'S BODY LAY DEAD BEHIND HIM. THE AUTUM IN THE DISTANCE. ALONE SURROUNDED BY COVENANT, WELL I'LL TAKE A FEW WITH ME, SIX THOUGHT. THE DREAM FADED. WHEN THE DREAM CAME BACK, HE WAS SURROUNDED BY ELITES HIS HELMET CRACKED. HE WOULDN'T LAST ANY LONGER HE KNEW THAT. AN ELITE PUSHED HIM TO THE GROUND THEY CORNERED AROUND HIM ALL PULLING OUT THERE SWORDS. THEY SLASHED AND SLASHED BUT HE DODGED AND POUNDED AT THEIR KNEES. ONE LUNGED AT HIS CHEST BUT HE GRABBED ITS WRISTS AND PULLED HIM DOWN. HE FINALLY HAD A CHANCE TO
GET UP. HE GRABBED HIS MAGNUM AND GUNNED DOWN THE ELITES. THAT'S WHEN JUN FOUND
HIM.

A RIFLE BLAST WENT OFF THAN SIX WOKE WITH AN ELITE'S BODY LYING AT HIS FEET. ETHAN STOOD NEXT TO IT RIFLE IN HAND."THANKS" SIX SAID. "NO PROB-"AN ELITE KNOCKED ETHAN DOWN HIS BLADE BROKE THROUGH HIS SHIELDS. SUDEENLY BRIAN JUMPED
DOWN FROM THE THIRD FLOOR HIS SHIELDS BURST INSTANTLY WHEN HE LANDED. BRIAN JUMPED ON THE ELITE'S BACK AND DUG HIS KNIFE INTO ITS BACK, PULLED HIM TO THE GROUND. THE ELITE TRIED TO FIGHT BACK BUT BRIAN STOOD ON TOP OF IT PINNING IT
DOWN. THE ELITE REACHED FOR ITS SWORD, BUT WITHIN THE NEXT SECOND IT LAY STILL, BRIAN'S SHOTGUN SMOKING FROM THE BARREL. "JUN SPOTTED MORE GET READY FOR BATTLE SPARTANS!" BRIAN EXCLAIMED. EVERYONE LOADED THEIR WEAPONS AND GOT TO THEIR
POSITIONS. "ETHAN," GRIFFON SAID, "GO WITH JUN ON THE ROOF. BRIAN, CHRIS YOU TAKE THE FRONT GATES SINCE YOU'RE OUR CLOSE QUARTERS. SIX, DAX, HELP THE ODSTS. KRYSTAL YOU AND-"HE WAS INTERUPTED BY A LOUD EXPLOSION ELITES FLOODED THE ROOM.
EVERY ONE OPENED FIRE; THE ELITES DIDN'T STAND A CHANCE. "WE SHOULD LEAVE COMMANDER" KRYSTAL REMARKED. THERE WAS A LOUD HISS A SPEC-OPS ELITE LUNGED AT KRYSTAL. JUST THEN ANDERS CAME IN. "SIR THEY'VE BREACHED THE BASE!" ANDERS
EXCLAIMED. THE ELITE PUT HIS BLADE THROUGH ANDERS EASILY AND TOSSED HIM ASIDE.

CHRIS FIRED HIS GRENADE LAUNCHER, THE BLAST HIT THE ELITE DIRECTLY IN THE CHEST, AND IT CRUMPLED TO THE FLOOR. "POSITIONS NOW!" GRIFFON YELLED. "THEY'RE SENDING IN BRUTES AND 'S A WHOLE COVENANT FLEET. WE'RE BEING
INVADED!" JUN INFORMED. GRIFFON WENT WITH SIX AND DAX TO HELP THE ODSTS AND MARINES. SIX AND DAX TOOK THE FIRST FLOOR WHILE GRIFFON AND KRYSTAL WE'RE ON THE SECOND FLOOR PROVIDING FIRE WITH THEIR DMRS. "BANSHEES!" A MARINE YELLED.
WILSON GRABBED HIS ROCKET LAUNCHER "I GOT 'EM". THE COVENANT FORCES WE'RE COMING NON STOP. "IT'S BEEN AN HOUR DAMMIT COMMANDER WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING!" KRYSTAL EXCLAIMED. "SHIT HUNTERS!" THOMPSON INFORMED. A NEDDLE RIFLE WENT OFF
AND HE DROPPED DEAD, CRYSTAL BETWEEN HIS EYES. "SNIPERS!" A MARINE EXCLAIMED. "BRIAN YOU AND CHRIS STOP THOSE HUNTERS." GRIFFON ORDERED. "SIR!" ON THE FIRST FLOOR MARINES AND ODST BODIES LAY EVERYWHERE. FOR EVERY FIVE DEAD BODIES THERE
WAS ONE COVENANT BODY. THEY WERE BEING OVER RUN. THOUGH KURIK AND HIS MEN WERE HOLDING THEIR GROUND. "GRIFFON I SEE GHOSTS AND WRAITHS IN EVERY DIRECTION WE CAN'T TAKE THEM ALL DOWN." "GET SOME SCORPIONS OUT THER AND MAN THOSE TURRENTS
MEN!" GRIFFON COMMANDED. "COMMANDER WATCH OUT!" KRYSTAL WARNED. SHE PUSHED HIM OUT OF THE WAY AS BANSHEE BLAST LANDED WHERE HE, NOW KRYSTAL, STOOD. THE BLAST SENT HER FLYING AND GRIFFON WAS STUNNED. A ZEALOT APPEARED BEHIND HIM; SHE
TACKLED IT DOWN AND SHOVED A BULLET DOWN ITS THROAT. "THANKS" GRIFFON SAID. ANOTHER ZEALOT APPEARED AND WITH ONE SWIPE KRYSTALS HELMET ROLLED TO THE GROUND.

"NO!" GRIFFON YELLED. KRYSTAL FELL TO THE GROUND HEADLESS. GRIFFON
TACKLED THE ELITE PULLED OUT A GRENADE AND SHOVED IT IN ITS MOUTH. "EAT THIS YOU SONOVA BITCH." GRIFFN SAID FULL OF RAGE. HE TURNED AND GRABBED HER HELMET, JUST THEN AN EXPLOSION WENT OFF. GRIFFON TOOK KRYSTALS HELMET AND PUT IT NEXT
TO HER. "IM SORRY" HE WHISPERED. "DAX! SIX," THEY LOOKED UP "GRAB A PELICAN AND GET OUTA HERE. LOOK FOR ANOTHER BASE OR SOME WHERE SAFE TO HIDE." GRIFFON ORDERED. "BRIAN, CHRIS, GO WITH THEM." "SIR YOU CAN'T HOLD THIS BASE ALONE."
BRIAN SAID "I'VE GOT SNIPER SUPPORT" GRIFFON SHOT BACK. THEY HEADED TOWARD SIX AND DAX WHEN, THE 'LIVING DEAD' CAME IN. "DAMMIT NOT NOW!" GRIFFON EXCLAIMED. THEN, THE WEIRDEST THING HAPPENED. THE COVENANT ALL TURNED AND ATTACKED THE
INFECTED. GRIFFON WAS SURPRISED, RELIEVED AND JOYFUL ALL AT THE SAME TIME. A FIELD MARSHALL TURNED TO GRIFFON AND SAID "WE TEAM UP, FOR NOW".