If All Else Fails

As the Broadsword was boosting toward the opening into space, Eva caught sight of an incoming Seraph bomber, one that was speeding toward the opening she was about to exit along with her pilot. She struggled to get her comm unit to work as Dolly was unaware of the pending doom. Eva tried banging on the top of the Broadsword to warn Dolly, but was too late as the Seraph got closer to her. As Eva stood up to prepare to die, another Spartan quickly grabbed her before the two flying vehicles collided. Flames flew into the Infinity as parts of both ships sprayed the loading bay. The two Spartans dropped onto the ground, landing below the vacuum that was still being seen to. Eva was breathing heavily as she looked at her saviour:

"Leo?" She said as her vision was coming back.

"Sorry to disappoint ma'am but my name aint Leo." Finally she could see, a maroon coloured Spartan with yellow stripes here and there. His whole armour set was that of War Master topped with a yellow/gold visor. Maroon armour. He must have been part of Fireteam Dawn.

Eventually the two Spartans rose and placed themselves against the large wall below the now broken panels that was currently a very strong suction into space. While Eva was looking around for some way to move, the maroon Spartan was already signaling the nearby cargo-loading Mantis for help. The robot stepped into the stream of wind and immediately latches on its 'feet' activated, anchoring it to the floor. With each step, the latches would come undone on one foot but strengthen on the other to keep the machine on the floor. So, slowly it got over toward Eva and the other Spartan as a voice then bellowed out its speakers:

"Hey Viktor, need a hand?" A shrieking girl's voice said as the Mantis put out a 'hand' toward the maroon Spartan. He waved it away and pointed toward Eva, while he then began climbing up the wall that was behind him and that was in need of repair.

Funny enough while Eva was on her own little adventure, she managed to look toward Lux, who was letting a few rounds off as enemy infantry was entering through the doorway Zealot originally had entered. She then glimpsed toward Militus and the heavy artillery crew who were taking out smaller flying craft before they could enter the Infinity's loading bay.

Then realising she was still stranded, Eva jumped onto the outstretched 'hand' of the Mantis. Its fingers took grip of her, not too tight, but enough strength to keep her in place going through the slipstream. While passing through the stream, she noticed a few Covenant ships leaving Requiem, not even taking notice of Infinity and at the same time noticed that enemy air craft reinforcements were nowhere to be seen.

Once to the other side of the slip stream and away from danger, Umbra finished with the cutting of a sheet of metal and jumped down to talk to Eva. As he jumped, she noticed two things; one was that his Energy Sword was flashing every now and again, meaning it was low on energy and two, as he made contact with the loading bay floor, he limped for a moment before regaining his posture. She decided to walk toward him and ask him what was what:

"Umbra is everything okay?" She said as she gave him and up and down glance, noticing his hand by his side. Eva moved his hand as his head turned away, and to her surprise a portion of his side had been cut through. She immediately popped her comms on to Lux and got him down from his perch. Running toward his brother, Umbra fell to the floor as the cuts effects began to sink in.

As everything was starting to look better, the panels being repaired, the enemy crafts now dissipating and the announcement that Infinity was to be leaving Requiem orbit, Zealot team seemed to be the only ones with a problem. Militus approached in his Mantis as Fireteam Dawn and Rhino were seeing to Umbra.

"Amare. Report." He said sternly, which made Eva very uncomfortable.

"Sir, Dolly and I were about to teach the Covies a thing or two before..." She was stopped.

"I see that, and an unfortunate thing that that happened. I'm talking about Umbra." He said, showing signs of concern. Eva's nerves passed as she took on tougher persona:

"Sir, as a member of Fireteam Dawn was saving me..." Saying saving with a sharp tone. "..There were parts of both ships being thrown about, and unfortunately Umbra was caught by one shard. He will be fine as he is being seen to by Fireteams Dawn and Rhino." Militus looked toward Umbra amongst the colours and spotted Lux beside him as the group made its way to the infirmary. Eva just saluted and walked off in anger. Cursing her leader as she exited the loading bay.