Part 10- The Wreckage

Date: 9/6/54

Time: 12:32 PM

Location: Sanghelios-Vadam State-Somewhere in The Vadam Plains

(Brit POV)

"Are you tired?" Mishike finally asked Brit after an hour of silence of Brit carrying Mishike across battle scared terrain. Brit shook his head in response to Mishike's question. Before he was carrying Mishike over one shoulder now he was carrying her in both hands.

"I'm fine…I won't rest until I know you are safe from harm." Brit's mind froze along with his facial expression what did I just say? Brit mentally questioned himself. I'd admit it there is something about her personality but I'm human…well she may think otherwise but either way I'm human and she is an sangheili…two species who have suffered a lot of crap within the past 25 years. One side was almost brought to extinction while the other lost a lot of warriors and almost suffered the same fate the other side did…thank you prophet regret for being the biggest twat in the universe he almost chuckled at the last part. It won't work…yes I am a little negative at times and besides she probably has some…never mind. He thought after he remembered Hudsa's death. Well at least I've ceased the bleeding in her left leg but how do I fix her arm…well there is the other option

Brit had managed to remove Mishike's armour and ripped the black skin suit around her left leg. The damage was great with the three spikes from a Brute sub machine gun known as a spiker but that didn't mean she couldn't live. Brit didn't have a med kit or any bio foam on his person which came down to his missing armour pieces around his right arm along with a part of his shirt. He had torn part of his black shirt he wore under his armour and dressed her wounds with three stripes tied around each cut. Two of which were below her knee hitting her shin and the third hit the centre of her knee.

"Are you sure you have used almost all of your energy to carry me for at least more than sixty minutes…however I still do not know if I can trust you." Mishike said with a glance of discomfort. "Hey miss I have saved your life like…twice or three times or something now"

Her mandibles rubbed together in an annoyed way "Twice…the second time you saved me I wasn't so sure if-" Just before Brit had walked passed a crashed Covenant phantom imbedded into the side of a ruined burning building. The sound of fragile object fell to the ground creating a smashing sound.

Soon some kind of squawk made its self present followed by another squawk "Kig-Yar?"

"Shhhhhhhhhhh" Brit placed a finger on the right side of Mishike's face ceasing her ability to speak any further. "Let me think for a moment" he whispered.

After a few seconds he spoke what he planned "I'm going to leave you here for a minute". Carefully he placed the elite against the base of a large piece of phantom debris. As he got back to standing up straight he unsheathed another bayonet from his right leg Always great to keep a spare he happily thought.

Brit turned and hugged the wall of the building behind the phantom debris where mishike sat with the weapon in his right hand ready to strike if anything is to reveal itself to show harm.

(Mishike POV)

He shortly disappeared out of sight through a opening of the burning crashed ship. Mishike looked out to the plain of battle surrounding them both. Bodies as well as ruins, craters, flames, vehicles either broken down or destroyed from the ongoing invasion.

The sky was black, filled with smoke from wild plasmatic fires escaping wreckages of crashed ships. A sudden alarmed squawk blared out from behind a the wall. The wall shock suddenly with a cracking sound as if an egg was hatching. Mishike turned her head towards the wall. It shock again violently this time with another crack as if something was hit agasint it with a large amount of force.

Suddenly the part the cracking came from suddenly exploded like a wreaking ball had smashed through it. The body of a Kig-Yar flew through the air after breaching the brick wall. It skidded along the ground with a blood trail behind it. The deceased corpse had a stab wound of some kind in its neck.

There was another squawk that sounded more alarmed than the last one "Huma-" the other jackles speech was cut short by the sound of a knife piecing some flesh. Mishike carefully rose from her rock to investigate further behind the cause of death for these mutated birds.

She carefully placed one hoof in front of the other thinking every move she made could be her last. Through the hole in the wall was once was a fairly small room. The human was kneeling over a laid out corpse of a recently deceased Kig-Yar trooper. The humans short blade called a combat knife had been shoved into the side of its jaw. Brit had a hand around the handle of the small weapon that was buried into the head of the flightless bird. He twisted it making a gut wrenching crack before withdrawing the blade from the hole that spewed the blood of the bird onto the floor. He stood up from the corpse and turned to Mishike with a mixture of sangheili, Jiralhanae and Kig-Yar blood covered down his front from head to toe. "We're in the clear." He said sheathing the blade in a slot wrapped around his left leg. She withered forward towards him causing her to slip forward onto him.

"Woah there" he said in a surprised tone while catching Mishike from falling by using his hands to hold up her up right on her breast plate. He pulled her forward before helping her onto what was left of a table made from a type of wood. He crouched beside her and looked down at the twisted arm. "Hmm" he mumbled as he inspected the limb. "It appears to be as if the bone itself is twisted."

"Is there anything you can do?" She asked him in a worried tone. "No." He said closing his eyes. It was obvious he was thinking of something "There is one thing though" her hopes started to rise. He opened his eyes and glanced at his right hand covered in brute blood, moved his hand so it is facing up right, he removed the glove that covered his hand to reveal his pale skin, scars from knives were dotted across his hand and fingers and thumb. He faced it down and stretched out his fingers before curling up his fingers. "Mishike." The ODST said to make sure she was focused "What I'm about to do or going to do isn't going to be like anything you have seen before and I need to have your word for it." The paleness in his hand started to slowly turn to an odd bright yellow godly glow. She had her eyes fixed on his hand and carefully listened to the humans words. She slowly nodded after going through what he said in her mind.

"Please do not tell anyone about what I have done today." He warned her in which she responded with another nod. At this point his hand was entirely covered in a yellow godly glow. His hand began to shake violently as stretched out his arm over the end of Mishike's twisted arm. He opened it.

A yellow beam shot out of his hand and into Mishike's shoulder. She closed her eyes to prevent blinding herself from the blinding beam of light, she felt a warmth along her arm at where the small beam was where she last saw it. She felt Brit moving the beam down her arm sending a warmth touch throughout her body from Brits warmth touch.

He finished after he got to her hand with the beam. She moved her arm a little without opening her eyes and moved her hand towards her face. She could feel her breath along her fingers. She opened her eyes to see her fingers, thumbs and hand again before it was broken. She lowered her arm onto her chest to look towards her healer. "Brit….what are you?" She asked the man in torn ODST armour who now sat agasint the wall next to her "….Human." He awnsered as the glow in his hand began to vanish. "You are not a spartan or a marine or any human I have heard of before….you are something…more than that." She studded thinking that she could anger the human that has willingly thrown himself into the thick of it death itself to protect her using her mouth. "…A weapon…created by-" his vision became blurred for a second with the memories of a killing spree he has hidden in his memories. He quickly held his head with a hand to suppress the pain in his head.

(Brit POV)

"Who are you?" She asked him again after a five minute silence.

"I…." He said before removing his hand to look at the woman who he has just help recover from her wound "Don't know" he said blankly.

"I see it in your eyes a man who is trying to hide from those who wish to discover and expose what actual damage he can do…I have seen how you fight without a weapon in your hand nothing like the veterans from the war have told my people. You are no spartan or marine." She continued to look into the humans eyes and wondered what different thoughts passed through his mind about who he was. "I hide from everyone because I don't want to expose my true power and abilities." He told her in a calm voice. "And if I do then I fear I may become what animal you saw who I was back at the temple…and….and kill them." He felt his throat begin to ache and tears swirl up in his eyes. Mishike's is the first person he has talked to and has protected using his destructive abilities, he didn't want her to be afraid of him for who he was. She turned to sit up straight and placed a hand on his shoulder and gently squeezed. He felt calm by her touch "I'm saying that I don't want to harm anyone who I meet and fear I may kill them for knowing too much….and-"

"I'm not dead already for knowing too much about what you can do?" Mishike's question completely took Brit of guard "…I…yes…you are not" he nodded. "And yes you are human but a gifted one at that." She sounded half calm half anxious about what he has exposed to her. "I wasn't gifted but I know what mean." He said with a much more calmed tone.

"Do you mind telling me what happened and how you obtained your…abilities?" Mishike asked "It was on mars…the fourth planet to orbit the sun in the sol system...I don't remember what time it was but it was the same day the great schism ended as well as the war" He began to tell Mishike every piece of his origin of his powers and how he came to be greater than he was before he woke on a bed in a lab on the red planet.

((Sorry this piece took so long to make college work and work in general caught up to me so I had to put a pause on this story sadly. The next chapter won't be out for another week or two so just bare that in mind if you are reading this. Any way as always please leave a review about how this chapter went aswell as the story itself))- The author