A/N: I'm back after a long hiatus, I've been planning on how I want this chapter to play out for a while, and I'm happy with the planning so I decided to come back from a hiatus with this story, so here you go, enjoy (Remember that I'm using the enemy designs from reach and that Chyler is watching the whole mission)

Chapter 3

An elite zealot armed with an energy sword, 2 ultras armed with plasma rifles, 4 spec ops armed with needle rifles, 2 rangers with plasma repeaters and 4 minors with needlers and plasma rifles leading a squad of Grunts and Jackals stood before the ODSTs

"Shit, we better get hazard pay for this" Null muttered as he and the other troops lept out of the way as a hail of needles and plasma rounds hurtled towards them

"Troopers, return fire, focus on the big guy with the fucking sword, first one to put a round through him gets to keep the sword" Gunny yelled

"Hell fucking yeah!" Demo yelled as he unleashed a hail of fire towards the zealot,

The zealot strode towards the ODSTs blocking the bullets with the sword while growling something in it's own language, it raised it's sword and began to swing down at Lasky, he raised his smg to block it and it was cleaved in two, he threw the useless weapon away and recovered a shotgun from a dead marine, the zealot threw it from his hands throwing him to the floor

"Lasky!" Null yelled as he continued to hold off the other elites

The rangers took off using their jetpacks, firing their repeaters laying down a volley of rounds while landing on rooftops on the sides of the street, the minors took cover at the opposite end of the street with the remaining grunts and jackals along with the ultras, the spec ops cloaked while the zealot continued to advance on lasky who was scrabbling away on the floor at this point grabbed a pistol from the ground, but it jammed, he then grabbed his pistol from it's holster and his combat knife, striking the zealot with the blade he jammed the pistol between the mandibles of the elite and fired a magazine into it, the shielding around the elite shattered and purple blood spattered everywhere, lasky grabbed the sword and attached it to his belt

(Pillar of Absolution Medbay at start of encounter)

Chyler shivered as she saw what they were facing, she heard 3 sharp knocks on the door and removed the earpiece,

"Come in" She called

A familiar figure entered the room, clad in dark green armour, with the number "117" On his shoulder

"Chief?" Chyler questioned

"Thought I'd come check on you." Chief replied

"thanks," she replied

"Watching old mission files?" Chief asked

"Uh… no… this is live from the planet" Chyler replied

"Oh no…" Chief murmured

There was a juddering crash and alarms started blaring

"Alert… Alert! Covenant boarding craft have latched to the vessel prepare to repel boarders" The PA rang out

"I'll be right back" Chief said as he ran out of the room,

Chyler sat shuddering In her bed as chief was away, he returned after 2 minutes with two pistols, an assault rifle and a shotgun, he set 6 clips down on the side table and handed a pistol to Chyler

"That's all the ammo I can spare" Chief said

"ok" Chyler replied, arming the pistol

"Keep yourself safe if you need me use your earpiece, channel 118.4" Chief said, putting a hand on her shoulder then pumping the shotgun

He left the room and sealed the door and then the lights went out, chyler activated the pistol light and grabbed the earpiece

"Lasky come in!" Chyler yelled down the earpiece

"Chyler?" He replied

"The ship is under attack! They're boarding!" she cried back

"Shit!" he yelled

(Colony)

"What!?" Gunny yelled over the hail of plasma

"Covenant are boarding the ship, it was an ambush!" lasky yelled

"Sons of bitches" Null groaned

"Why are you complaining and not scanning the inventory of the ONI base for anything we can use to get back to the ship?" gunny asked

"On it sir, if I don't die on the way" he said as he got up and sprinted to the ONI building

"keep fighting, until he finds something"

After a few minutes with very few retaliating shots fired null came up with something

"Got it, a slightly damaged GA-TL1 Longsword-class Interceptor in the airfield connected behind the building, I could take it off, but landing would be rough" Null radioed in

"Great, everyone over the fence!" Gunny yelled

Not needing to be told twice everyone leapt over the fence null exited the building on the other side, they all boarded the longsword and took off, null and gunny in the seats, everyone else standing after reaching the pillar they found the power disabled and the hangar open, then covenant banshee's shot out the stabilisers on approach

"Brace for impact!" gunny yelled

The longsword flipped and landed upside down, the bay door was ripped off upon impact and everyone was thrown to the ground

A/N: Cliffhanger again, I would write more but I'm exhausted, it's 4am here and I need sleep too (Although it's overrated), please leave a review, hope you enjoyed