The Clones kept their weapons trained on the large green armored monstrosity. "Everyone stand down now!" Elizabeth ordered as she walked to each Clone and forced their guns down. "He is one of us".

Ahsoka sized up the green man. He looked to be about 8ft tall and the cuts on his armor signaled that this man had been through a lot.

After Elizabeth made sure all of the Clones had stopped aiming their weapons, she walked towards the most respected and bravest man in the UNSC. She stopped short and saluted the man "Chief it's so good to see you alive".

"I'm looking for the Sergeant Major? Have you seen him?" the chief asked.

Elizabeth was going to answer when she heard more feet behind the Chief. She took a quick glance to see the Arbiter coming out of his invisibility.

"I have found him." he said quickly to the point and walked to the edge where Elizabeth was just standing. The Chief followed quickly behind and conversed with the Elite on how to attack the compound the prisoners were being held in.

After a minute Chief walked over to Elizabeth seeing how she was currently the highest in command. "Alright here is the plan so far Staff Sgt. First things first that bridge needs to be ours after that the plan should go smoothly."

"I want your new friends and the Mam with the orange skin to protect the bridge with the Arbiter. Seeing how there is no space for Phantoms to land the troops bottom of the compound with the prisoners, there is only one place they can-"

"On the bridge" Elizabeth finished his sentence

"Exactly. While they watch our backs me and you" Chief said. "Will free the prisoners. I called a Pelican and by the time we freed the prisoners the evac should be here and we're home free."

Elizabeth admitted the plan was alright but there could always be a problem. Elizabeth told Samantha to stay on top of the ridge and keep them some covering fire. She agreed and wished her luck.

"Alright let's do this" Chief said and jumped down the hill followed by his allies.

(*8*)

Rick's eyes slowly opened seeing a worn down ceiling. He felt pain in his head and he felt dehydrated. 'Man do I need some leave time. Hawaii sounds nice to me' Rick thought.

He groaned in pain and that caught someone's attention. It was a Marine he had never seen before he had a bald head and deep brown eyes. "Hey he's awake" the Marine called out.

In no time Rick's vision was filled by the Sergeant Major and the woman from the Pelican, which Rick remembered hearing Sergeant Johnson saying her last name was Temple.

"Good to see you back in the land of living son" Johnson said. He chuckled a little bit. That was the second time today he said that line to someone. The Sergeant Major was hoping to be rescued by that man soon enough.

"I managed to stop the bleeding for now with some medical wrap, but the doctors back at base are going toned to take a look at that". Temple said.

Rick didn't respond. He nodded his head at Temple and despite the pain stood to his feet. Looking around he saw there were in an abandoned building. They were specifically in the back of the room with a plasma shield blocking their way of escape. The only thing they could do was wait for someone to rescue them.

An explosion rang in the air, along with screams.

And it looked like rescue was here.

(*8*)

Plasma fire and laser fire filled the air as the battle raged on. Three Clones were shot and killed, while a fourth didn't listen to Elizabeth's warning. The Clones arms were ripped off and the Brute through the screaming man into the rushing rapids of the river.

That set off the rest of the Clones though as they rushed forward taking more and more of the bridge, hell-bent on revenge for their fallen brothers.

Master Chief was impressed with the fighting style of the look-a-like soldiers. They were a little timid at first, but like himself whenever a brother would fall he would have a fire in his stomach to avenge the fallen.

It only took another minute for the bridge to be cleared. They set up on the other side of the bridge the Covenant used to be on and waited for evac to come.

"Follow me" the Chief said.

Elizabeth obliged and walked down into the abandoned building.

(*8*)

Rick almost immediately made eye contact with Elizabeth. He smiled at her and she returned the smirk with her own. Rick then looked to see someone he thought he would never see in his life. There standing there covered in alien blood was Master Chief.

"Good to see you Chief, now would you be so kindly as to shut off the plasma shield" Sergeant Johnson said stretching his limbs out ready for another battle.

The Chief shut the wall down and all four Marines walked out of the prison, picking up Covenant weapons.

Rick bent down to pick up a Carbine but another hand grabbed it. He looked up to see Elizabeth holding it with a smirk on her face. She handed it to him which he gladly accepted.

"It's good to see you alive Rick. You had me, Samantha and Ahsoka worried. We thought you were going to be killed after we saw you go into the Phantom."

Rick chuckled "After all the crap I've been through its like death himself doesn't want me to be with him."

"That's good for us. The more Marines the better".

Rick couldn't help but laugh at that statement as everyone walked out of the building. "Zulu 219 what is your E.T.A" Sergeant Johnson asked over the comm line.

"E.T.A 3 minutes Sergeant Major" a female called back.

The group got back to a bridge as two phantoms stopped over the bridge, releasing the passengers. A firefight started immediately, but with Ahsoka the only one standing out in cover with the ability to block the shots.

Rick watched her with extreme interest. She was quite the woman.

Ahsoka sprinted forward at two small life forms, which Elizabeth told her were called Grunts and sliced their tanks in two. She then used the force push and sent them back into a few Brutes. As soon as they made contact the Grunts exploded causing the Brutes to get caught in the flame killing them.

The gunfire killed down as the only things left were the Phantoms.

"This is Zulu 219 ready for evac".

Everyone looked down on the other side of the river to see the inbound Pelican. "Heads up Zulu you got two Phantoms". Johnson informed.

"I see them" the pilot relied arming her missiles. "Going loud" she said and fired the missiles at the first one taking it out easily, showing the blue colors of the explosion. The second Phantom did the same thing as it was now all clear.

The Pelican hovered over the edge as it prepared to evac the Marines and Clone troopers.

Ahsoka contacted Eight ball and told him to return to the UNSC base, seeing how it was too dangerous to have him on the ground and not in the air. He told her that he picked up Samantha before he left leaving some more room in the Pelican.

Everyone piled on except for the Chief, Arbiter, Elizabeth and Rick. Elizabeth was walking towards the Pelican followed by Rick when a single shot filled the air hitting the target perfectly.

Rick couldn't believe what was happening. In front of her Elizabeth's body dropped to the floor as fast as lightning.

"Sniper!" Rick heard someone call out as the Clones returned fire on its position. But Rick didn't care about anything else at the moment. He dropped his carbine and fell to his knees looking at the body of his longtime friend.

He flipped the body over onto her back and saw what he had been fearing for years. Her eyes were wide and there was a plasma hole in her body, which directly hit her heart killing her instantly. It was official he was broken and there was little chance that he would ever be fixed.

Rick felt someone tugging on his shoulder and turned slowly to see Ahsoka standing there. "We have to go there are too many".

Rick looked behind Ahsoka to see about a dozen or so Brutes with almost doubling in Jackals. He still didn't care as he looked back down to Elizabeth's body feeling the rage brew within him.

Ahsoka could feel the hatred in his body and it was easy to tell why. All she knew at the moment was she needed to calm Rick down before he did something extremely stupid.

"Rick please we have to go before everyone was killed".

Rick didn't seem fazed at all by what she said and knew she had to play a little dirty on this one. "Rick I'm sure Elizabeth would want you to get these men home safely and right now they need your help to get back".

That seemed to get his attention as he slowly turned again and saw the Brutes were slowly getting closer to the men in the Pelican. He had made his choice, but only for Elizabeth's stake.

Rick picked up the body of Elizabeth and slung her over his shoulder. He let Chief and Arbiter get on first followed by Ahsoka, with last but not least Rick carrying the corpse.

He looked at towards the sniper nest and quickly got an idea. Quickly he reached into Elizabeth's right boot immediately feeling for the thing he needed. He pulled out her backup magnum and took aim before firing off one round.

He watched as the ramp to the Pelican closed the body of the sniper take the bullet in the forehead. The body fell into the river dead.

It gave him little joy to see the killer of his best friend dead, but he shouldn't even have to get a revenge kill for Elizabeth. All he had left was his sister and Ahsoka and he be damned to let anything happen to those two.

Ahsoka looked at Rick. He was staring down at the body of Elizabeth in his lap. Ahsoka knew that this man that had been through so much was on the edge of snapping. 'I will not allow that to happen to Rick, no matter what' Ahsoka thought to herself as the Pelican headed back to the Crow's nest.

(*8*)

OMG. Yes that's right Elizabeth is gone. Now I don't usually kill people off in my stories but you know shit can happen in Halo and this moment is one of those coincidences.

Next episode more shit will be real. Stay tuned.