The fight over the planet Reach is still going for a few hours as more ships gets taken out one by one as they all come moving against one another firing rounds, destroying one another and some would end up ramming against each other. The Infinity was flying through this fight, firing dual MAC rounds penetrating through a destroyer before moving off elsewhere, the assault carrier the Shadow of Intent was nearby but they slowly move away from one another so they won't get the chance to fight one another, the Shadow of Intent will end up firing a beam through a frigate that flew above them, breaking the ship in half while flying onward.
The super cruiser launches attacks against the fleet and manages to break through their defences, giving the covenant destroyer time to get through with Wolf and Bhaal on board with what they have. The covenant-class destroyer will head on through as they haven't deployed all of their fighters and forces yet, this will soon get the fleets attention when the Infinity notices them coming closer to orbit while the other covenant ship continues dealing with the other ships in the surrounding areas.
"Captain, that covenant ship has a shot to breach our defences." The personnel said looking at the monitor then looks back to the captain. "It's heading to the planet."
Captain Del Rio sighs. "Contact the Spirit of Fire and tell them we have an enemy ship inbound to the surface, I want to know where it's going."
"Yes sir."
The Dread Wolf, leader of Death Watch stays by Darth Bhaal's side when they approach the planet. "Deploy the fighters now; let them go on ahead to Sword Base."
"Remember what we are looking for Wolf." Bhaal said turning his head to him "I need the co-ordinance to Shield World zero-four-five-nine. After that we can leave, let Thanatos deal with the Republic and Reach."
"But if Thanatos gets killed in this attempt because of us –"
"It doesn't matter, he and his fleet can be acceptable losses if they lose, once we obtain the weapon we need to destroy the Jedi and remove the Republic."
"Yes sir."
"Are you ready to deal damage to your own kind?"
"Don't worry I won't hesitate to kill them, it's what I have to do to get the job done."
"When this is done we are one step closer to destroy the Republic and the Jedi."
On Reach in one of the places on the planet, the Spirit of Fire floats in the sky, not participating in the battle and instead it is just a patrol ship to deal with any enemy crafts that manage to get through their blockade. Serena will get the call from the Infinity about the situation and a warning, telling them that a covenant class destroyer is on its way to Reach.
"Serena… I need a track on that covenant ship, where is it going?" Captain Cutter said looking at Serena
"Understood sir." She waits for a moment trying to track down the ship "I have its location; location is at three-four-two-zero slash three-three-four-zero kilometres south." She will turn her head to the captain "Captain that ship is making its way to Sword Base."
"Sword Base? But why there?"
"I do not know sir, I am not the captain of the covenant ship, but I do believe they might be going after something important on Sword Base."
"Alright." He turns back and walks to his chair "Serena take us to Sword Base."
"Right away sir!"
"What are they up to?" He mumbles to himself when he leans forward.
The Spirit of Fire will prepare to embark on Sword Base and will also warn them on what's to come, giving them chance to get into lockdown and quickly prepare for battle against the covenant vessel. As they move towards Sword Base, Serena will contact the captain of the Infinity that the enemy ship is attacking one of their bases which will get his attention and will be curious for the moment.
On the Spirit of Fire, the Fireteam Osiris arm themselves for battle as they got stationed on the Spirit of Fire by Del Rio before the battle started, knowing they are no good in the sky so they told them to stay on the ground. Them and other Spartans are on board, the rest of the Spartans like Noble Team are stationed elsewhere, unable to help on the defence on Sword Base on time.
Buck was sitting on a crate loading his shotgun when he notices Captain Cutter coming towards them, he got off the crate and stands with the others before he would brief them on the mission. "Everyone on me!" The captain shouts to all the marines and Spartans, getting their attention and got them moving towards him.
"Listen up… We got a covenant vessel making its way to Sword Base. I don't know what they are targeting that place and how they know of its location, for all we know that ship contains a sith lord and maybe the Spartan who defected the UNSC."
The moment he said about the Spartan defecting the UNSC this got everyone whispering to one another, talking about the Spartan that they know well. Buck will lean closer to Locke who stands next to him, whispering to him. "Yo Locke… You think it's him?"
"Possibly."
"Now there is no way we can arrest him in this time of need, if you have a chance to apprehend him then try and do it but if not then shoot to kill. Kill the Spartan and his soldiers, then we will blow that cruiser out of the sky." He will turn to the side "Your moving out in twenty minutes."
They prepare to pack their things and prepare for battle but Cutter looks back to Osiris before they can disperse. "Osiris!"
Locke and the others looks back to him then started moving towards the captain. "Yes sir?"
"You know this Spartan? you have been tracking him down since Coruscant for what I remembered."
"Yes sir, he's the one bringing Death Watch back into the game and causing terrorist threats to the Republic."
"Well now he's branded a traitor to the UNSC and the Spartans. Whatever happens, you better take the chance to take him out before he causes more trouble." He turns back then walks off, returning back to his ship while Osiris stays where they are.
"I got a bad feeling about this Locke." Buck said standing by his side.
"I know…" He turns back then walks over to the crates to grab his helmet. "But we have no choice."
"Do you think Master Chief should know about this?" Tanaka said walking over to Locke to grab her helmet too
"He shouldn't know about this, if he finds out his brother is attacking UNSC soil…"
"I hope were doing the right thing sir."
"Same here." He puts on his helmet then looks to Tanaka then to Buck and Vale "This is our second chance, let's not fail this Osiris. We kill him or we capture him, I will deal with the Master Chief when it's time."
As the battle continues raging in space and some ships will end up going down to the planet, this will cause other ships to go down as well as they are force to fight in a ship battle to the surface. Master Chief will stay with the Jedi until he and the others prepare themselves in the hanger as they are preparing to move out, Obi-wan with Anakin and Ahsoka are force to say their goodbyes to Mace and the others, they are force to head to the planet to help the others while this ship is needed elsewhere.
"It's a shame we all can't go down there; we would be unstoppable." Ahsoka said standing with Anakin and Obi-wan behind a pelican.
"We will be alright snips; we can now continue our count with just three of us."
Obi-wan slightly laughs "Yes and let's see if I can win again."
"Oh yeah right."
Mace smiles "Have fun down there, may the force be with you."
"May the force be with us all." Obi-wan said before turning back and getting on that pelican.
Mace takes a few steps back then watches as they get on board, seeing the hanger doors opening up again and sending this pelican and a hundred fighters along with a few more pelicans will head on out of this destroyer. They make their way to the city of Alexander due to a destroyer making its way towards that location, with them gone it's up to Mace Windu and the Chief to work together on this with Holland still in command but with only one ship.
Mace will walk over to Chief seeing him checking his assault rifle. Just as he was about to say something, one of the Spartans who is Kelly will approach them. "Chief."
Chief will get up off the crate and looks to her. "Kelly… Where are the others?"
"Sorry Chief it's just me, they are needed elsewhere." She looks to Mace then lends her hand out for a handshake "Spartan Kelly, pleasure to meet you."
"Mace Windu." He shakes her hand "You're a Spartan two am I correct?"
"Yep." She looks to Chief "Were both Spartan twos."
"I always seen you Spartans on the frontlines, especially on the battle against the covenant."
"That battle involved all Spartan twos, pretty much all of us got iced in the pods until we are ready to come back out, since this war started it was only a couple of Spartans and now…." She looks to Chief
"It's a full deployment."
"I see." He looks behind her seeing Colonel Holland coming over "Colonel Holland."
"Master Windu, Spartan Kelly and Master Chief. We got orders to move to Sword Base to assist the Spirit of Fire from a covenant class vessel, their ship won't be able to damage it completely so were going in with our ship."
"Understood sir."
"If a covenant class vessel is here then that would mean that a powerful sith lord is on that ship."
"That is what I was thinking, you need to prepare for the worst and if this is a sith lord controlling that ship… Well that thing is going down." He turns back "Were reaching there in thirty minutes." He will walk back to the bridge.
Back to Sword Base, the UNSC prepares a lockdown as that giant destroyer floats there in the sky and began preparing bombardment with their fighters before they send in the dropships, deploying hundreds of Death Watch soldiers with the Dread Wolf leading the attack while Darth Bhaal stays behind to stay with the ship, leaving the campaign to the Death Watch. The UNSC will use a lot in order to stop the invaders but with Dread Wolf by their side and his knowledge to Sword Base, he will give the fighters a chance to target their anti-air weapons so they can cut a path through as he isn't playing around here anymore, he is really serious on fighting the UNSC now.
A Mass Driver attach to the roof of Sword Base continues firing rounds and destroying the fighters and drop ships, the drop ships couldn't land down there so they are force to stop for a moment then quickly deploy, using their jetpacks to fly the rest of the way down. Three teams of Death Watch will be deployed over Sword Base; one team of soldiers will defend the entrance outside the place while others will try to storm inside the compound while the rest leaded by Dread Wolf will land in the courtyard.
The Dread Wolf takes out his assault rifle when he lands in the courtyard with thirty of his comrades and thirty more will land soon, they quickly charge forward and engaged the defenders of the base, seeing them defending by the barricades and stopping them from proceeding forward but it wasn't going to be easy for them. The Dread Wolf runs forward firing his assault rifle at his own men, taking some out before getting into cover when his shields went down, his warriors will keep fighting and used their jetpacks to fly higher to shoot down at them but one of the marines mounted a machinegun nearby fires rapidly at the ones in the sky taking a lot of them out and sending the rest into cover if they don't take out that turret. Wolf will look over seeing that mounted machinegun giving them a hard time, he switches to his marksman rifle then comes out of cover and started firing a few times hitting him to the chest three times then signals the others to charge forward.
Two Death Watch members flew back up again and both threw grenades down at them, blasting four marines and sending the others to retreat. Wolf charges with them and jumps up on the high ground and started firing his assault rifle at them, killing more of them while they advance forward.
"Drive them back into the base!" Wolf shouts while reloading "We need to take the courtyard."
They continue pressing forward while the marines pull back but that is about to be a mistake as there's a large fuel tank behind them, getting the Death Watch to fire at it a few times before exploding. That blast removed the rest of the marines and gives the Death Watch full control over the courtyard; this also got them time to deploy more troops here so Wolf can advance inside the facility. He notices a dropship coming inbound and drops more Death Watch soldiers along with Savage Opress with them.
Before Wolf can advance into the facility, one of the personnel on the Covenant-class destroyer contacts Bhaal who stands on the bridge "Sir we have a situation up here."
"What is it now?" Bhaal responds
"We got an enemy ship coming towards Sword Base; they will be here in ten minutes."
"Damnit I don't have time to deal with reinforcements…" Bhaal said "Contact Wolf, tell him were moving."
"Understood sir."
With more men joining Wolf on the attack inside the facility, that covenant vessel will start to break off from the battlefield and leaves the area when the fighter's returns and so does the drop ships; Bhaal will take command of the situation for now and will leave the campaign on the ground to the Dread Wolf. The ship will take its course towards the Spirit of Fire to deal with it head on just to stall them time to get inside and hope it's enough.
"It won't be long before more enemy ships arrive here." Wolf said walking with the others "We need to get this quick."
The Spirit of Fire will soon make eye contact with the enemy ship heading towards them. Serena will warn Cutter even though he can see it. "Sir the enemy vessel is approaching us."
"I can see that, is our weapons and shields up?"
"Affirmative sir."
"Alright, tell the ground teams to suit up. They have to take the pelicans to arrive to Sword Base."
"Right away sir."
The Spirit of Fire began firing its railguns at the enemy ship when they are close enough to fire, the enemy ship will fire plasma shells hitting the front of the ship and both will continue moving to one another until they end up flying past each other, firing blasts at each other while the pelicans and falcons began to scramble and make their way towards Sword Base but they would have to deal with the enemy fighters that approaches them, they will try to take some of them down before targeting the ship.
"Sir we don't have the time to take out all of the dropships." One of the personnel said looking back to Bhaal.
Bhaal would sighs before responding back "Contact Wolf, tell him he's about to get company."
"Right away sir."
Later on the Dread Wolf continues his attack even though he heard the warning from the covenant ship, he turns to the side seeing his men advancing with Savage Opress leading them, he kept taking a few hits but it can be seen that he has a shield around his body which will soon break but he ends up striking down one marine after another before with his halberd, striking them down and securing the area for now.
"Sir this is team one, we have control of the control room but I need some help up here…" He stood by the side of the door looking out seeing two of his soldiers firing at the marines in the hallway but he will see a rocket blasting through them. "I need some help..."
"Alright… Team four I need you to fall back to the courtyard." Wolf said while running forward firing his assault rifle at the marines in cover.
"Affirmative sir."
The covenant vessel continues firing at the Spirit of Fire dealing more damage to them however they end up dealing with a barrage of rockets that fired from above the ship, hitting the top of the covenant ship. They end up having a hull breach thanks to those rockets but they continue firing while moving forward, flying away from that ship however they end up firing a plasma torpedo at them hitting a direct hit on the side of their ship, breaching through their ship and triggering a bit of chains of explosions from that torpedo.
"Sir we cannot deal with more of their attacks." Serena said "Our ship is no match to that destroyer."
"I am well aware of that Serena, just keep going until help arrives."
"Our allied ship will arrive in a few minutes; we will be able to see it coming over the mountain."
"Just keep going, turn the ship around. I don't want to lose the engines."
"Right sir."
Back on the covenant destroyer. "Sir we got contact." One of the personnel said on board. "We got another ship incoming."
"What type?"
"Venator-class…."
"Oh that's just great, there not joking around in this. Well I guess we have to fall back, keep firing at that ship then make our way back to the base."
"Understood sir."
The pelicans arrive at Sword Base; quickly the Fireteam Osiris got deployed by jumping out of their pelican and using their boosters to land perfectly to the ground. He and his Spartans will land in the courtyard and will be dealing with heavy forces in the area; their marines will end up landing elsewhere outside on the ground so they can all charge through so Osiris is alone right now.
"Let's move Osiris!" Locke said charging forward firing his battle rifle at Death Watch, jumping in the air and using a boost to send him crashing to the ground to send a blast to knock down three enemy soldiers before firing his battle rifle.
His team charges through while firing continues jumping and slamming to the ground to knock them back. Buck threw his grenade taking out only one while he continues firing his shotgun at the others, quickly rolling to the side to avoid a missile coming towards him then will fire when he is cleared. When the courtyard is secure, Osiris will move in while the marines will just have to catch up with them, preparing to take the elevator however it's down and are force to take the stairs and since there's no Death Watch sentries around they are in the clear to double time through.
"Locke do you have any idea to where they might be looking for?" Tanaka said while running with the others
"There probably in the control room." Locke responds "They must be looking for something, which we can't have them leaving with it."
"Any ideas to what that might be?" Buck asks
"We will know when we find them."
"True…"
The Dread Wolf and six of his soldiers walks with him to the control room while ten more will secure the inside of the facility with Savage to give him time to get the information, before he walked right in the control room he gets delayed when an injured female marine grabs his leg, stopping him for the moment. He turns towards her and aims his weapon at her, this triggered a flashback seeing a female Spartan in black armour and has a CQC helmet, seeing the visor of her helmet smashed through and seeing her face covered in blood.
"Sir?" One of the Death Watch members grabbed his shoulders to knock him out of the flashback that lasted for only a few seconds. "Are you alright?"
He shakes his head before looking back to her "It's fine…" He looks back down to the injured marine then shoots her before reloading, looking back to the others "Let's go."
The Dread Wolf walks right in and looks towards the one who got here first, already gotten the information and is waiting for it to upload completely before taking out the data disk and lending it to Wolf. "I have it sir."
"Good." He takes the data disk then places it through the back of his helmet "Were about to get some company." He looks back to the others "We have to get outside on the airfield, that's where we will get picked up."