A crazy fight continues raging on in Sword Base as Death Watch quickly make their escape while their ride, the covenant destroyer started to return back to the base with the Spirit of Fire giving chase. They deploy their fighters to deal damage to the Spirit of Fire as it continues giving chase and the other ship that is a Venator-class destroyer can be seen, making its way towards Sword Base and prepares to open fire when they are in range to fire, this is becoming a serious problem when rushing to Sword Base.

On the airfield outside of Sword Base there is a few air vehicles still on the ground while some got destroyed by the bombardment, the Dread Wolf and what is left of his whole team breaches through the door and started firing all out at the marines on the field, they got them by surprise and killed many of them while the rest quickly got into cover and started firing back.

Wolf takes out a grenade launcher and fired it towards a few marines by the barricades, killing three of them before looking back and signalling his men to advance. He runs forward loading his grenade launcher again then fired it towards a falcon that was about to get into airborne, he switches back to his assault rifle when a marine open fired at him, hitting his shields but only a bit before he got shot by a Death Watch member. Wolf continues running forward, seeing a nearby marine he lays a strong kick to him sending him flying back then takes his grenade that was on the ground, noticing a pelican about to get airborne so Wolf throws the grenade inside the pelican and takes out the driver before he runs to the last pelican on the air field, running inside and shooting the two pilots and a marine before securing the pelican.

"Everyone on board!" Wolf said firing his assault rifle at the marines until his men reach the pelican. "Darth Bhaal we have the package I repeat we have the package, were coming to you on a pelican so do not engage."

"Take off now Wolf before we lose our chance of escape."

As his men arrive to his location one of them will speak out "Sir what about team three, Savage Opress and his men are still in there…"

Wolf looks to the entrance seeing a warthog driving over there armed with a mounted machinegun and a couple of marines. "There's no time for them, they served their purpose."

"But sir –"

"We have to go now!" He turns back then places his assault rifle on his back before taking the pilot seat.

His men will stay in the pelican and two of them will stand by the hatch, firing at the marines when they tried to advance, taking two of them out before one would throw a grenade at them. Back inside the facility Savage Opress and six Death Watch members continues firing at the marines in the facility, stopping them from advancing however when Osiris comes running through they engage them and took out two Death Watch members before advancing forward.

Savage continues striking down one marine after another like a powerful brute but this time he's wielding a halberd, grabbing a marine then throws him across the room and smashes him against another marine. Osiris will focus on firing at him to remove his shields, he will charge towards them while they move backwards while firing, soon all the marines will fire on Savage until finally his shields broke but he got too close for Osiris and gives them a swing of his halberd at them, avoiding the swing he will look towards Buck who ran to the side of him, about to shoot his shotgun point blank but ran out of shells and took a punch across the face of his visor then a kick to his chest, sending him collapsing to the floor.

"Buck!"

"Take him out Osiris!" Locke would charge towards him taking out his combat knife.

Savage looks towards Locke and tries to swing his halberd down at him, Locke would use his booster to push Savage back and stop his swing, Locke would duck for Tanaka to jump over Locke and would do another booster hitting Savage with her knee then would jump over him, about to grab her handgun but she takes a hit from his arm pushing her back. Locke would charge towards Savage when he was focused on Tanaka and just when he looked back to Locke he ends up taking a stab through his left leg, Locke will dash past him then gets him from behind by striking the back of his body by his combat knife however this brute was still strong and uses the back of his halberd to hit Locke to the chest then another to the side of his helmet, preparing to strike him down however both Vale and Tanaka loaded their weapons and started firing all out at Savage, piercing through his body so many times he still wouldn't go down but he was taking serious damage but he would finally go down when Buck fired one last shell through the back of him, sending him down and finally killing.

"Nice job Osiris…" Locke said getting back up and looks out seeing the marines took care of the last Death Watch members. "Were out of time though…"

"Osiris this is Serena, we got contact that the enemy is fleeing back to the covenant destroyer from a pelican, the captain requires you all to return back to the ship immediately."

Osiris and the others finally made it outside however they are too late to stop them, they don't know just what pelican they went on but they will see a falcon landing down near them. The pilot will come out and shouts towards them. "Need a ride?!"

"Let's move Osiris!"

With them returning back to the covenant destroyer that returns flying over the place, they do notice that they are charging their ion plasma cannon at the bottom of the ship, ready to glass this whole area. The Spirit of Fire quickly got closer towards that ship then quickly fired their MAC gun at the front of their ship, firing a MAC round towards that ship and blasting a hole in the ship and triggered the cannon to be shut down because of that shot.

"Serena we have to fire every missile we got in our arsenal, fire all of it!" Cutter said

"Captain we have another problem…"

"Another problem?"

A couple of rockets comes flying across the sky above the Spirit of Fire, seeing eight anti-air missiles that was fired from a destroyer above them. These rockets hit hard on the top of the ship, causing the crew and the captain to feel those blasts, feeling turbulence for the moment when they made strong hits from above, destroying three of their weapons above the ship.

"Serena!"

"We lost three of our weapons, the main gun is disabled.'

"Damnit."

"Shall I fire with everything – Hold on… They are preparing to leave sir."

That destroyer started increasing their engines by disabling their weapons, they try to use the droids they have on board to help seal the hole on the ship while they lockdown all the doors in that vicinity. That ship started flying upwards while that Venator-destroyer pursues them and started firing upwards towards that ship, only damaging the side of it but they will go after them and so does the Spirit of Fire however that destroyer that was flying above them continues firing down at them.

"Sir if we continue to go after the enemy ship, we won't have the strength to destroy it. The enemy destroyer is damaging us, if we do not deal with the enemy ship above us then we will be in trouble later on."

"Damnit… Is Osiris on board?"

"They are redirecting their destination on their falcon. They are going on board of the other ship."

"Give me Colonel Holland now." Cutter walks towards Serena "And get that damn ship off of us."

Colonel Holland gets the message from Captain Cutter on his ship, both him and Windu are on board the bridge and soon Chief will arrive to the bridge as well to hear this. "The enemy has stolen ONI information, whatever it was looking for, they just found it." He started to move due to turbulence from the enemy ship "You have to go after it alone, we have to stay here but once we are done we will go after your ship."

"Understood." Holland said "We hear you and were pursuing them." He turns towards one of the personnel by the computer "I want all fighters on board now, we need all the power we can get."

"What's in Sword Base that the Legion would want?" Windu said looking to Holland

"There's a lot of information we can't get out." Holland looks back to him "If we have a shot then we have to take out that enemy ship, we need to go after them."

"What about Reach?" Chief said walking up to him

"Reach will still be here when we return, we have to stop them from using this information against us."

"So where exactly are they going then?" Mace asks

"One way to find out. Cortana let's get a move on."

Cortana appears behind them "Already ahead of you sir."

With the Spirit of Fire taking damage from the enemy ship, they go turn their attention towards that destroyer while Cortana takes their ship after that destroyer as it started leaving the planet, making its way back to space where the battle is still raging. The fight did slowly break off when more ships got destroyed, many of the UNSC/Republic ships did back off as some enemy ships got through and started attacking the surface, some went after them while the rest holds off against the rest of the legion ships which is seen retreating back with the assault carrier while Bhaal's ship, the super cruiser started moving away from the fleet and the enemy fleet the moment that destroyer comes flying out of orbit.

On the Infinity, Captain Laskey notices the two covenant ships retreating along with a Republic ship. "Sir, we got one ship leaving the planet…" He said looking at the console before looking back to the captain "Both covenant ships are preparing to jump."

"What are they doing?"

"Sir we got a message from the ship that's giving chase." One of the personnel's said "They said that covenant destroyer just stole ONI information, there going after them."

"They can't take on the both of them with one ship." Del Rio said walking forward "Get another Venator-class after them."

"Understood sir."

Back on the assault carrier one of the droids operating one of the consoles turns towards Darth Thanatos and Mordred. "Sir, it appears Darth Bhaal and his forces are leaving Reach."

"There doing what?" Thanatos started walking to the console seeing that destroyer retreating back with the other. "What is he doing?"

"That ship went down there for a reason sir." Mordred said walking up to Thanatos

Thanatos looks to Mordred then to the console "He's got his own mission…"

When the destroyer gets closer to the other one, that super cruiser will turn around so it can aim out in space with the other. Both Bhaal and Wolf stands on the bridge, Wolf will show Bhaal the data disk he took from Sword Base and places it inside a console so they can quickly try and find the co-ordinance however with an enemy ship approaching them and another on its way, they decided to make the jump out of here and go somewhere they can unlock the secrets.

"Prepare the jump now, we can't fight them here right now." Bhaal said looking to one of the personnel's

"Uhm sir we got Thanatos trying to contact us."

"I don't want to talk to him ri –"

Thanatos stood in a holographic display looking towards Darth Bhaal "What the hell do you think you're doing?"

Bhaal sighs when he saw him "Thanatos…."

"Get back in the fight now, I need those ships to take on the enemy."

"I have what I need to destroy the Republic. I am going to take my ships and leave the rest of the fight to you."

"Don't even think about it, whatever you found there it can wait. I need those ships to flank their position!"

"You have your job and so do I, if you survive then you will see the Republic and the UNSC fall to my new weapon."

"Don't you dare do this Bhaal…." He drew his lightsaber out and shows it to him "If you come back empty handed then I will –"

Bhaal turns off the signal then looks back "That guy can be a real prick sometimes…" He started walking off "Let me know when you found something."

"Yes sir." Wolf looks back "Prepare to jump."

"But where?"

"Anywhere!"

Back on the Assault Carrier Darth Thanatos just got madder and with the battle going not well on his end he had no choice but to retreat, ordering all ships to fall back after dealing heavy damage to his ship and thanks to Bhaal preparing to leave the site with two powerful ships, he had no choice but to flee by taking what is left of his fleet and prepare to return back to Kronos, giving the UNSC/Republic total victory on Reach but with certain losses.

Back on that Venator-class ship one of the personnel's just notice they are preparing to jump. "Sir there jumping."

"I need to know where there going." Holland said walking forward checking one of the consoles

"Don't worry sir I got them." Cortana said "I know where they will be going."

The two covenant vessels made the jump out of here while Thanatos and his fleet also started to make the jump elsewhere, the two ships that are going after the covenant vessels will also make the jump when they are clear while the rest of the fleet go deal with the other ships, seeing the other destroyers are still on the planet dealing much damage to them before they are either shot down or retreat. There were only four destroyers on the surface fighting against the whole fleet while the Infinity and his fleet stays in orbit, preparing to restore their position and waiting for any enemy ships to try to escape so they can take care of them in space.

Elsewhere the two covenant class ships are still through the wormhole before they could reach their destination, the two ships chasing after them are right behind them and while they are busy reaching to a destination, on the destroyer, Darth Bhaal is waiting for a response on the team working on the data disk they stole from Sword Base. He was force to wait for half an hour until finally they unlocked the treasure chest, giving Bhaal a lot of knowledge and power that he can use against the Republic and the UNSC.

"What do we have?" Bhaal walks up to the console, looking towards the techno droid.

"Sir, we believe we found the planet you are looking for. We have also discovered a few secrets hidden within the UNSC, something that could help you."

"Tell me everything, what type of folders do we have on that disk?"

"Locations of ONI bases, the Spartan-V program, the UNSC Atlantis, the Covenant, Earth, Forerunners, Argent, Guardians, Kamino, Iron Legion, the –"

"That's enough." He looks to the console "I just want to know where Shield World zero-four-five-nine."

"We have the co-ordinance sir."

"Then take us there." He turns back and walks back to his throne chair that was in the center of the bridge, sitting on it and looking out at the view.

Both the covenant ships made it out of slip space and are in neutral space, no planets or anywhere out there, just an empty space where they are. Both ships began charging their weapons and shields knowing they are about to get into a fight, just as both ships started turning away, turning towards the location where the two Venator-class ships are coming through, on the super cruiser the captain of that ship started getting contact of a very large ship in the vicinity, they manage to detect it and show a visual of the ship before it vanished.

The captain of that ship will contact Darth Bhaal about this. "Sir, we got contact of a large ship at the edge of our radar…. It's…"

"What is it?" He turns his head to the side "Spit it out."

"Sir… It's… It's huge."

He sighs "Show me the visual."

"Yes sir…" He would transfer the image to Darth Bhaal on the ship, showing a small picture of it but was able to get a look view of it.

Bhaal would stand up taking a good look at it. "But that's the assault carrier…"

"That's not an assault carrier sir… It's a –"

"Sir." One of the personnel turns towards Bhaal "The enemy ships have arrived!"

The image of that assault carrier gets removed on the screen and replaces with two Venator-class ships, getting Bhaal to sit back down and forget about that assault carrier for now. "Deploy all the fighters, were going to fight."