"SIX GET UP!" HEARD JUN YELL. SIX GOT UP STILL DAZED. JUST AS HE GOT UP HE LOOKED TO SEE THE SECOND FALCON CRASHING DOWN. SIX JUMPED TO THE SIDE AND JUST BARELY MISSED THE FALCON. HE GRABBED AN ASSAULT RIFLE HE FOUND ON THE FLOOR. HE LOOKED UP, THE BANSHEES WERE GONE, CHRIS HAD TAKEN CARE OF THEM. GRIFFON WAS FIGHTING THE COVENANT ON HIS OWN, LUCKILY CHRIS JOINED THEM. SIX JOINED THEM AS WELL. "BASE IS ONLY A HOUR FROM HERE" GRIFFON SAID TO SIX. "SO WHATS THE PLAN" SIX ASKED. "WE FIGHT THE COVENANT AND FALL BACK AT THE SAME TIME ONCE WE GET TO THE BASE WE'RE SAFE" GRIFFON REPLIED. JUST THEN, THE FLOOD CAME OUT OF NO WHERE. "GRIFFON WE GOT A PROBLEM" CHRIS SAID. THE SPARTAN INFECTED WERE APROACHING AS WELL. A FEW ZEALOTS ATTACKED THEM BUT THEY WERE NO MATCH FOR THE SPARTANS. A GRENADE WENT FLYING AT ONE OF THEM THE BLAST SENT THE SPARTAN BACKWARDS. THE SPARTANS TURNED TO SEE CHRIS STANDING IN FRONT OF THEM. CHRIS PUMPED HIS SHOTGUN. THE SPARTANS CHARGED, CHRIS KNOCKED ONE TO THE SIDE, AND FIRED AT THE SECOND. THE BLAST DID DAMAGE BUT NOT ENOUGH. THE SECOND SPARTAN GOT BACK ON HIS FEET TO SEE GRIFFON. GRIFFON SWUNG AT THE SPARTAN WITH HIS KNIFE, THE SPARTAN DODGED AND FIRED HIS GRENADE LAUNCHER GRIFFON SHIELDS BURST ON THE IMPACT OF THE SHELL, THE BLAST MADE GRIFFON TUMBLE DOWN. THE SPARTAN TACKLED ONTO GRIFFON, GRIFFON THREW HIM OFF. GRIFFON GOT BACK ON HIS FEET AND BEGAN TO FIRE AT THE SPARTAN AS HE RECOVERED. A SHOT THROUGH THE HELMET FINISHED THE SPARTAN OFF. GRIFFON TURNED TO SEE CHRIS HOLDING THE SPARTAN A FOOT OFF THE GROUND, KNIFE DUG DEEP IN HIS CHEST. CHRIS PULLED THE KNIFE OUT AND LET THE SPARTAN DROP, CHRIS CLEANED HIS KNIFE. THE FLOOD AND COVENANT WERE BATTLING EACHOTHER BUT STILL FOCUSED ON THE SPARTANS. JUN AND SIX WERE HANDLING MOST OF THEM. GRIFFON AND CHRIS GOT BACK INTO THE FIGHT. MORE FLOOD APPEARED, AND MORE. SUDDENLY, THE COVENANT COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT THE SPARTANS AND ONLY FOCUSED ON THE FLOOD.
"NOW'S ARE CHANCE MOVE OUT!" GRIFFON SAID. SIX AND THE OTHERS TOOK OFF. SOON THEY WERE CLOSE TO THE BASE. SIX AND JUN RAN TO THE BASE AND CHECKED INSIDE. "GRIFFON, THEY AREN'T ANY LONG SWORDS HERE" SIX SAID. THERE WAS SILENCE AND THEN GRIFFON RESPONDED "WE'LL MEN, IT'S BEEN AN HONOR" HE SAID ALL HOPE GONE FROM HIS VOICE. "BUT THERE ARE CRYO CHAMBERS" JUN SAID. "CRYO CHAMBERS," CHRIS SAID "THOSE WON'T BE ANY HELP NO ONE IS ON REACH NO ONE WOULD FIND US" CHRIS EXPLAINED. "A.I, COULD YOU SEND A DISTRESS SIGNAL" GRIFFON ASKED. "I'M AFRAID NOT COMMANDER. I KNEW THERE WERE NO VEHICLES FOR ESCAPE HERE. YOU SEEM TO BE UNFORTUNATE, BEFORE YOUR SPARTAN FOUND ME I WAS CORRUPTED BY THE COVENANT, AND YOU FELL RIGHT INTO THEIR TRAP. THE BIGGEST ARMY OF COVENANT IS HEADED YOUR WAY." THE A.I SAID. SIX AND JUN RAN BACK TO CHRIS AND GRIFFON TO SEE GRIFFON STOMP DOWN ON THE A.I CHIP. IN THE DISTANCE THEY COULD ALL SEE TWO ARMIES WORTH OF COVENANT HEADING THEIR WAY. "ORDERS SIR" CHRIS ASKED. "TAKE AS MANY AS YOU CAN" GRIFFON SAID. THIS WAS IT, SIX THOUGHT, THEY ALL KNEW THEY WOULD NEVER MAKE IT OFF REACH. MIGHT AS WELL GO OUT WITH A BANG, SIX THOUGHT. THE COVENANT WAS STILL HEADING TOWARD THEM.
"I GRABBED WHAT AMMUNITION WAS IN THE BASE" SIX SAID. HE HANDED THEM ALL AMMUNITION. "I'LL TAKE AS MANY AS I CAN WHILE I APPROACH" JUN SAID. JUN BEGAN FIRING AT THE COVENANT WHILE THE OTHERS PREPARED FOR THE FIGHT. THE COVENANT GOT CLOSER, SIX HANDED JUN A DMR. "IN CASE YOU GET INTO CLOSE COMBAT" SIX SAID. THE COVENANT ARMY STOPPED. BOTH SIDES STARED AT THE OTHER. THEN SUDDENLY BRUTES AND ELITES FROM THE FIRST ROW ATTACKED. "KEEP YOUR POSITION, THEY'RE GOING TO TRY AND SPLIT US UP" GRIFFON SAID. THE ELITES AND BRUTES SWUNG THEIR SWORDS AND HAMMERS. SIX AND THE OTHERS MANAGED TO EVADE THEIR ATTACKS. AN ELITE SWUNG AT GRIFFON, HE DUCKED AND FIRED THREE SHOTS UP THE ELITES JAW. A BRUTE APPEARED FROM BEHIND HIM, A SHOT THROUGH THE MOUTH STOPPED IT IN ITS TRACKS. TWO BRUTES SWUNG THEIR HAMMERS AT CHRIS HE ROLLED TO THE SIDE AND THE BRUTES HAD KILLED EACH OTHER. THE FIRST WAVE SURROUNDED THEM IN A CIRCLE. THERE WERE STILL ABOUT A HUNDRED TROOPS; THEY ALL CHARGED. SIX AND THE OTHERS DODGED THEIR ATTACKS AND GUN THEM DOWN. SOON, ONLY THIRTY TROOPS REMAINED. A FIELD MARSHALL ROARED AND THE REST OF THE TROOPS CHARGED. CHRIS PULLED OUT HIS GRENADE LAUNCHER AND TOOK COVENANT TROOPS OUT IN BIG GROUPS. JUN STAYED BACK AND FIRED AT THE ENEMIES IN THEIR BLIND SPOTS. THEY FOUGHT AND FOUGHT. THOUGH IT SEEMED THEY'RE WERE STILL MANY TROOPS LEFT. "WE'RE GETTING LOW ON AMMO" SIX SAID. "WE CAN'T RUN AWAY, IF WE TRIED WE WOULD ALL DIE." GRIFFON RESPONDED. "YOU ALL GO" JUN SAID. "YOU CAN'T TAKE THEM ALL, JUN" SIX SAID. "I GOT YOUR BACKS, I JUST NEED TO GET TO HIGH GROUND; THEN YOU ALL MAKE A RUN FOR IT" JUN SAID IGNORING SIX'S COMMENT. JUN FOUND A LARGE ROCK HE WAS ABLE TO STAND ON. THE OTHERS BEGAN TO RUN. IMMEDIATLEY PLASMA SHOT AT THEM. JUN BEGAN FIRING. HE THREW HIS GRENADES INTO THE CROWD. MANY BODIES WENT FLYING. THE COVENANT WERE TO BUSY WITH THE OTHERS TO FIRE AT JUN. CHRIS FIRED HIS GRENADE LAUNCHER INTO THEIR RANKS. MORE BODIES DROPPED. "SAVE YOUR AMMO" SIX SAID. THEY THREW THE REST OF THEIR GRENADES BACK AT THE COVENANT TO KILL WHAT THEY COULD. JUN WAS DOING WELL. THE COVENANT WEREN'T CATCHING UP WITH THEM. MANY COVENANT WERE STILL ALIVE BUT ONCE THEY GET TO THE BASE, THEY COULD MANAGE. THEN SIX HEARD AN ENERGY SWORD SLASH AGAINST ARMOR, THEN ANOTHER, THEN ANOTHER. JUN GROANED. THE SOUND A TWO MORE SWORDS, THEN SILENCE. THEY REACHED THE BASE, SIX WENT IN AND GRABBED THE REST OF THE AMMO JUST AS THE COVENANT BEGAN TO ATTACK AGAIN. AN ELITE SPOKE UP. "PUNY SPARTANS, YOU WILL NOT LAST LONG. ATTACK!" THE ELITE SAID. THE COVENANT CHARGED. THE GRUNTS AND JACKALS WERE DYING THE MOST. ONCE THE COVENANT SAW THEY WERE DOING NO GOOD, THE ELITES AND BRUTES STEPPED IN. CHRIS TOOK OUT GROUPS WITH HIS GRENADE LAUNHER. SIX WAS MAINLY IN HAND TO HAND COMBAT. GRIFFON USED HIS DMR WHICH WASN'T THAT EFFECTIVE ANYMORE, SO HE SWITCHED TO CLOSE COMBAT. A GENERAL CHARGED AT GRIFFON, SIX SHOVED A GRENADE DOWN ITS THROAT AND ENDED THAT. GRIFFON WAS BEING BACKED UP TOWARDS A CLIFF. SIX RAN TO HELP HIM OUT. HE PUSHED THE COVENANT BACK GIVING GRIFFON MORE ROOM TO FIGHT BACK. HE WAS STILL NEAR THE CLIFF THOUGH. A ZEALOT CHARGED, GRIFFON KICKED IT TO THE GROUND. WHILE THE ZEALOT GOT UP GRIFFON JUMPED ON ITS BACK, THE ZEALOT STRUGGLED TO GET HIM OFF.
A ZEALOT APPROACHED FROM BEHIND HIM. CHRIS SAW GRIFFON WAS IN DANGER, HE SHOT HIS GRENANDE LAUNCHER, BUT IT WAS EMPTY. HE RAN TOWARDS THE ELITE AND PULLED OUT HIS KNIFE. GRIFFON FINNALY MANNAGED TO PIN THE ELITE DOWN AND DUG HIS KNIFE INTO ITS NECK. CHRIS SAW ANOTHER ELITE WITH A FUELROD TAKE AIM AT GRIFFON. CHRIS RAN TOWARDS THE FIRST ELITE. IT TURNED IN TIME TO STAB CHRIS IN THE STOMACH. CHRIS WRAPPED HIS ARM AROUND THE ELITE STABBED IT IN THE SIDE AND GROANED. GRIFFON TURNED AROUND TO SEE. CHRIS JUMP OFF THE CLIFF WITH THE ELITE, AND DRAG THE ONE WITH THE FUEL ROD, DOWN AS WELL. "GET TO THE BASE" WAS THE LAST THING HE SAID. GRIFFON HEARD THE SLASH OF A SWORD, CHRIS GRUNT AND THE SOUND OF A SIDE ARM FIRING. GRIFFON YELLED TO SIX "WE GOTTA GET TO THE BASE." SIX BEGAN TO RUN WITH GRIFFON THE COVENANT RIGHT BEHIND THEM. SIX OUTRAN GRIFFON. SIX OPENED THE DOOR, IT WAS STILL OPENING AS HE WAITED FOR GRIFFON. GRIFFON WAS RIGHT BEHIND SIX. PLASMA FIRED THROUGH GRIFFON'S SIDE, HE STUBLED. HE TOOK MORE PLAMA DAMAGE IN THE ARMS AND LEGS, BUT HE STILL RAN TOWARDS THE DOOR. FINALLY GRIFFON FELL TO HIS KNEES. HE SHOT AT THE CONTROL PAD, CLOSING THE DOOR. SIX GRABBED HIS HAND AND TRIED TO DRAG HIM IN. THE DOOR WAS CLOSE TO CLOSING, GRIFFON LET GO. "NO" SIX YELLED. THE DOOR SHUT AND SIX WAS ALL ALONE. HE WALKED INTO THE CRYO CHAMBER ROOM. HE ACTIVATED ONE. "THIS IS NOBLE SIX, OF NOBLE TEAM. I AM HERE ON REACH, SENDING MY LOCATION IN THIS MESSAGE. WHO EVER HEARS THIS, IF ANY ONE DOES, I'LL BE HERE WAITING." HE SENT THE MESSAGE TO UNSC SATALITES. HE STEPPED INTO THE CRYO CHAMBER, AND CLOSED HIS EYES AS THE DOOR CLOSED DOWN. AND HE WENT INTO A DEEP, DARK, LONG SLEEP.