A/N: Well, it looks like my guess for Halo: 5 was wrong (although I hear that the Arbiter's coming back, so I don't care). Admittedly, I could make a case for Parisa Lavine being Locke. I got the armour colours right, she was at least a semi-important character, and Locke is an obvious code name for a SPARTAN whose last name starts with L. Locke being a "him" is just a SamusIsAGirl reveal. (Obligatory TVTropes Link: tvtropes. /Main/SamusIsAGirl) [Warning: TVTropesWillRuinYourLife: tvtropes . /Main/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife].

If the Arbiter is a playable character, then I suppose that I'll need to start this up again with a few Arbiter levels. If you wish that, let me know.

First though, a short teaser from Jorge.

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Rebirth


Unknown Time Since Detonation

A pair of cat's eyes opened as a hiss heralded the time syncing of the Covenant stasis pod. Technically, the eyes weren't a cat's. Technically, the stasis pod wasn't the Covenant's. Both belonged to Jorge.

And no one was going to challenge Jorge. Not tonight. For starters, only a portion of the ship had come through. Furthermore, Noble Six had killed most of the aliens in the portion that had arrived. Also, the third thing Jorge owned was a heavy machine gun. Like everything else that Jorge owned, it didn't have a name. The two Unggoy still alive called it Deathspitter the Eternal anyway.

At the moment the stasis pod was rejoining the local flow of time however, Kipyip and Wikwok were nowhere to be seen. They, like most of their brethren, weren't stupid. They'd just been a bit luckier, surviving the first attack by virtue of being at the food nipple. From there, they'd timed the Demon and figured out when it would wake up and which routes it took to get to the radio room, and how long it tried contacting the BattleNet. Kipyip thought that the BattleNet was down because the slipspace bomb had dropped them out of the Universe or something similarly eldritch. (He'd said spooky, but he meant eldritch.) Wikwok thought the BattleNet was down because the war was over. (He meant in the sense that the almighty Covenant had been defeated, but that would mean that there would never be rescue, and he didn't want to say that.) Neither knew what the Demon thought, and neither wanted to ask. But they had fun guessing. Besides, there was nothing else to do; recreation and crew quarters had been in a different part of the ship.

Jorge didn't know that either of them existed, but, while checking the radio room, Jorge did learn that he wasn't alone. A singular dot on lidar sat coolly, approaching at a relatively low speed. Not even Jorge's augmented eyes could make out the object from the ship's windows, but the unknown's Friend or Foe tag identified it as a friend, which meant it was Jorge's foe.

Oh well. It probably had a slipspace drive. Jorge could steal it, and he'd only have a couple hundred evil aliens to kill. The BattleNet (when it had been active) had informed him that the Covenant had glassed Reach, and part of Africa. He didn't quite understand some of it. Floods and Noah's Ark and angel hats and betrayal, but he understood the bit about glassing his home. Jorge was angry, and here was a delivery of evil aliens to brutally mutilate and maybe even kill for revenge. Jorge grinned and headed back to his stasis pod to grab his heavy machine gun, his eyes guiding him around the dark and decrepit ship.


A/N: Yes, it's short. Also, I was checking my chapters for the first time in a long time and I realised that FF ate chapter eleven. If anyone has it saved somewhere, or knows how to get it back, please please please talk to me.

To those of you totally confused, chapter eleven was when the Arbiter found MC and rescued him, since they were looking for Long Night of Solace, since they received a distress call from the ship and it was a super carrier and the Sangheili are short on ships and they have no clue where it disappeared to over Reach.

I could write a reasonable facsimile of the chapter, but if someone has a better way to recover it, please do let me know. Thanks.

EDIT: Chapter rewritten.