Truth and reconciliation

Ruby looked out of the bay doors of the Pelican Dropship as they flew over the Mesa. She was strapped on one of the many seats in Echo 419's Pelican, each of them taken by a heavily armed Marine. The Chief stood at the edge of the bay itself, His left arm holding a handrail from the ceiling, while the other hand held his Sniper Rifle. Cortana was also present, inside the Chief's helmet.

Ruby was a little nervous since this is the first time she's doing a rescue mission, worried that she might mess something up somehow in one way or another. She held up her new weapon, an SRS 99C Anti-Matériel, it will take her a while to get used to. It was solely a sniper rifle so she would have to avoid swinging it like her Crescent Rose, but it will do for now.

Before they left Alpha Base, one of the Marines had given Ruby a few extra pouches to carry more ammo to which she was thankful. The rounds for her new Sniper rifle were nearly a third larger than then the Dust rounds she usually uses. Instead, they were of really dense metal that she didn't know the name of till she was told it. Something she found a bit funny called 'Tungsten.' Apparently, when shot correctly you can blow up a aliens head at 2,000 meters, that made Ruby's eyes go wide with wonder. She could only imagine taking out Ursa's at that range without having to get in close again.

With nothing to do for the foreseeable future till they land. Ruby got up from her seat and made her way over to the Spartan and looked out from the night sky.

"Still can't believe something like this place exists out here in the galaxy," Ruby said. Gaining the Chief's attention. John just gives a simple nod to the small redhead but felt the need for his curiosity of this unknown child to be sedated. Cortana told him that she was a complete mystery as the 'smart' A.I. had access to everyone's fie on the Autumn's personal and Ruby wasn't in there. His training had taught him to be aware of unknown dangers, and Ruby is notably a big unknown.

"Ruby," the Spartan said catching the girl's attention. "What's with the cloak?" He had noticed it before but had yet commented on it. The crimson red cloak that the teen wore that hun off her was very noticeable and reminded him a bit of the red capes of the ancient Greek Spartans.

"Oh! This is my huntress cloak. It's...one of the few things I had left that my mom gave me before she died. I keep it with me as a reminder of why I want to protect people," Ruby explained.

John nodded in approval of her explanation. On wanting to keep something like that. Not many knew this, not even Cortana or his fellow Spartans. In one of the many pockets on his suit held the same coin he got from Dr. Halsey all those years ago when he first met her as a boy. So he can sympathize that with the young youth on sentimental value.

"Aww, that so sweet of you Ruby. I like it, plus I think you look great with it!" Cortana charmed in.

"Thirty seconds to dirt!", Foehammer announced over the interior radio. "Make sure you get the Old Man back and leave those basterds dead on the floor."

"So how do we get inside the ship if it's in the air?" Ruby heard one of the Maries said from behind. "The corps issued me a rifle, not wings."

"The ships gravity lift takes troops and supplies between the ship and the surface. That's our way in." Said the Sargent of the group.

"Go, Go, Go!" and all the marines, the Chief and Ruby leaped out of the dropship, landing on the smooth dirt and dust. Ruby noticed that it was really dark. It was in the middle of the night, and barely any light other than that coming from the strange work lights littered around the place. Though her helmets eyepiece had night vision, so that helped her see in the dark.

After depositing the marines, the Pelican closed the doors and flew off into the distance. Soon after, the Chief crept along a rocky footpath to the right, with Ruby following close behind. It rapidly rose to a two-meter high embarkment, with clusters of rock providing plenty of places to hide behind.

"Warning," Cortana said on the comm freq, "Covenant Stationary Guns are guarding that pass. I recommend using your sniper rifles to take out the gunners while I call upon the Marines for support."

"Will be ready to advance when you give the word Cortona," replied one of the Marines.

Looking over her cover at the footpath ahead. Ruby could make out the shapes of Grunts, Jackals, a few Elites, and two purple, hovering seats which had a weapon attached to them set up on converging line of sights. Both of the chairs had a grunt sitting in them.

The Chief found a patch of cover next to a large stone and motioned for Ruby to move to the next rock. She complied and waited as the Chief raised his rifle. After a moment of nothing but waiting for any sign of attacked, Ruby turned back to the Chief and witnessed him practicing moving his rifle to aim from one of the armed seats to the other as fast as he could. Ruby, seeing what the Chief wanted her to do, she did the same and set her gun sites on one of the gun turrets while the Chief aimed at the other.

Ruby steeled herself at what she was about to do and waited for the Spartan to fire first. Ruby didn't have to wait long as moments later the Chief pulled the trigger and the rifle kicked against his shoulder as a loud bark was heard. The Grunt in the first Shade had his head blown off, sending blood everywhere. Ruby then fired her sniper rifle, the kick surprising her as the kick was more then what she was used to, but her shot flew true as the Grunt was sent flying out of its chair.

Ruby saw that they started their first firefight and began started shooting any enemy alien she saw.


At the truth and reconciliation the elite Shipmaster Lat 'Ravamee was in the command area of the ship right now he was not happy since tight now the humans that survived the attack really were causing him and his forces more trouble then he thought.

"Shipmaster." One of the ships Major's said." The damage we have taken from that human ship appears to have bine worse then we've precisely thought. it will take longer than previous predictions to where the ship is at full readiness."

"Very well..." The Shipmaster says annoyed. "No matter once we gain control of halo, all of this effort will be worth it for as long as the great journey will begin."

The elite nodded. "Indeed Shipmaster, indeed." He says agreeing with his leader.

As he was about to leave, the Shipmaster said one last thing.

"Oh, and when you get the human captain to speak and has given us all that he knows...execute him since he will no longer have any more use to us." The Shipmaster says in a serious tone.

The Elite Major nodded to the order and leaves he was going to do his job as he gets a device ready to have a talk with the prisoners.


Back with the Rescue Team, they lost many on their way to the Enemy ship. Each time that one of the Marines had fallen made Ruby felt like a piece of herself was dying at the failure of not protecting them.

After fighting many two more passes filled with enemy troops, they soon reached the grave lift and secured it the area around it. But came at a high cost as there were only two marines left out of the dozen that came with Ruby and the Chief. Now they were under the ship and saw the vessels gravity lift straight ahead.

"Damn...that was hard well at least we're here." The Marine said as he moves a dead Grunt out the way as he began to walk towards the gravity lift.

Ruby looked at the gravity lift and was curious about it since yet again like everything else from her world it was something to behold as manipulating gravity like what the Covenant have done seemed impossible. Even with the gravity Dust, she uses from Remnant couldn't bring this level of strict control to proper function.

But then Ruby saw something coming down the gravity lift. She saw two massive spiky armored that was blue, they had a shield on their arm along with a giant green cannon on the other arm. Overall the two monster aliens reminded the young huntress much of an armored Ursa.

"What are those?" Ruby asked a marine.

"Hunters! Take cover!" The marine yells then as he and the others get out the way of as incoming green plasma beam.

Their weapons glowed green until they fired at the marines, making a 'whoop' sound. The green blasts hit one of the two Marines, causing him to literally melt before their eye's.

Ruby looked back at the Hunter and fired her sniper rifle at it. But her rounds just bounced off its armor like she was shooting a BB gun. "Wow! These things have tuff armor!"

Ruby's bullets may not have hurt the hunter, but it did attract it's attention to her. One of the Hunters jumped off of the disk and charged straight at her. Though they looked bulky in nature, the Hunters were remarkably swift as it runs right at her while trying to slam her with it's massive shield. But Ruby was a Huntress and had fought bigger opponents than these guys she pushed her aura into her legs and jumped over the massive alien soldier. When she landed, she was about to fire the Hunter again, this time into its back. The hunter swings around and strikes Ruby, sending her flying and banging against the wall making her drop her sniper.

The hit hurt Ruby but felt that her aura had taken most of the impact. She was about to try to get her sniper back but then saw the hunter raised one of its feet and steps on it, destroying it under its foot.

"OH COME ON!" Ruby wined this was the second weapon she lost in the last twenty-four hours.

The Hunter was about to fire at Ruby...But gunfire was shot at the Hunter, and it turns to the last living Marine that was shooting at it, so the Hunter fired at the marine instead killing the Marine instantly with the heat of its massive plasma beam.

Ruby looked at the dead Marine with wide eyes as he sacrificed himself to try to save her. This only made her angrier as she then uses her Semblance and rushed around and she jumps on the Hunter. The hunter then wanted to shake her off, but Ruby held on tighter to the Hunters back, she than spots several exposed pieces of armor on the Hunters backside. Seeing the weakness, seeing that Ruby pulls out her M6D pistol and starts firing at the unarmored sections, making the Hunter roar in anger and in pain while throwing Ruby off its back.

Ruby lands hard on her shoulder on the ground. Looking around for anything that can help her she spots a frag Grenade by one of the Marines that died earlier. Seeing that an Idea had formed up in her head and as she grabs it and rushes back at the Hunter.

Using her speed, Ruby jumps to the side when Hunter raises its arm to hit her again. Quickly getting behind it, she then pulls the pin and stuffed it into the Hunters exposed back before jumping away as the Hunter orange exploded.

"Well...Glad that worked." Ruby says as she then looks to see several small worms from the hunter wiggling on her." Ew!Ew!Ew!" She screamed as she tries to throw them all off her.

As for Master Chief, he jumped into a nearby shade turret and proceeded to pelt the Hunter in a barrage of plasma. This mad it made its armor week allowing the Spartan to get in close and finishing it off by focusing fire on it's exposed back. Its weak spots were easily found as he has had lots of experience with these things in the past. After shredding its insides with his bullets, it eventually dropped down dead. It was then that he heard a grenade go off and saw the other hunter was taken care of by none other than Ruby much to both the super soldier and the A.I surprise and amusement as they saw her panic by being covered in Hunter worms.

"Good work you two, I'm going to contact Echo 419 to bring in Reinforcements," Cortana says as she began to call Echo 419.

Soon the pelican arrived and out came six marines all prepared as they run up to both Ruby and Chief.

One of the Marines sees that Ruby had lost her primary weapon, He motions for her to follow him to the Pelican and towards some pods that carried the extra supplies for the mission. Ruby see the guns and grabs herself a new Sniper rifle to replace the one she lost and an Assault rifle she placed under her huntress cloak. They then all gathered around the Gravity Lift on top of the platform.

"Well...hopefully I can help save this Keys fella," Ruby says to herself as herself before taking a deep breath then.

"Looks like we made it," a Marine said just as an invisible hand plucked him off the surface to pull him up to the Ship.

Ruby could only stare before giving a surprised 'yelp' as she was lifted off of the ground, her legs temporarily waving in the air as she struggled to control her anxiety from it, and was pulled up like the others. Cortana took this moment to comment about her plan. "I can home in on to the Captain's Neural Interface once we're in the ship, and will use that to lead us to him, though he will most likely be placed in the ship's brig, or at the very least near it.

"Glad to hear it," John dryly remarked in reply, before he felt the beam pull him up towards the ship. Within moments, every Marine, Huntress, and Spartan was flying towards the Ship. The Chief tightened the grip on his rifle. Things were about to get hectic.


Note: So here's the next chap! Also I had Help from Helljumper206 he's 's great Help.