"Hanging!" Yelled Hazram Namir.

"Fire!" Ordered Sergeant Carver. The rocket whistled and an explosion was heard in the distance.

"73.5 Charge zero!" Said Charmer.

"Damn it, Namir!" Carver exclaimed angrily."Charmer! Hurry! Come on, I'm waiting on you! Today!"

Namir and Charmer kept working on the mortar as Carver kept yelling at them."Hurry!" Their sergeant shouted.

They fired the mortar...and hit a friendly dummy."Crap." Namir muttered.

"What happened, Namir?" Carver asked as they walked to the friendly dummy named Bob."You find out Bob was having sex with your girlfriend?"

"Oh, uh, sorry about that, sir." Namir apologized."I thought you said "Drop 2-5," sir."

"Oh, you thought? By the stars, if you don't know, you ask. It's simple, you idiot!" Carver shouted at his face.

"Wait," Charmer interrupted. Charmer, his actual name was Pol Andrissus, was a Rebel Alliance soldier for the 61st Mobile Infantry like Namir."Is Bob really having sex with Namir's girlfriend?"

"Shut up, Charmer!" Carver yelled, annoyed. He sighed."Let's try this again."

"Well, there were no Covenant soldiers on the island the first day," Grif said as he put down a box he had been carrying. Grif and Simmons were setting up camp for tonight along with the other Marines. They were on a new island that was also filled with Covenant soldiers."So...we're probably gonna die."

"Okay, soldiers," Said Frank Woods."Just because some of you guys are on mortars, that doesn't mean you can skip patrols. Sarge needs everyone to lend a hand. Understand?"

They all nodded."Yes, sir."

Frank Woods then turned and walked away.

Later, James Rake and the other Marines quietly patrolled the territory. James was in the rear of the line of Marines, making sure that there would be no attacks behind them. He stopped moving when he heard voices. He crouched under a log while the marines just kept walking.

James felt his heart racing. He heard enemy footsteps coming closer. He quickly stood up and fired his MA5C assault rifle. Bullets quickly killed four short Unggoy soldiers.

It was all done in only a few seconds. James reloaded his gun and ran in the direction where the other marines were going.

When it became night, it was raining hard. Some Marines were out in the open as rain hit them. James laid in his tent as it poured. He sighed.

"The Covenant! They're coming!" Yelled a Marine.

James got out of his tent as Marines grabbed their weapons and got into defensive positions. He then heard the Covenant soldier scream. Laser fire went through the forest as lightning from the storm showed some light.

"James, go to the Intelligence tent!" Sarge yelled. He then handed him a grenade."If we get overrun, burn it! I would send Grif to do this but I can't find him right now." Sarge cocked his shotgun and ran to help the Marines.

James stared at the grenade for a moment before he shook his head to focus. He ran into the Intelligence tent and stood there as gunfire continued.

In the morning, James walked through the camp. He saw the corpses of Marines he had known. He also saw the dead bodies of Sangheili soldiers.

"I hear the Covenant are retreating. They might even surrender to us." Said Simmons."We may as well just kill them all anyway."

"We shouldn't do that!" Twilight Sparkle said."We should heal them and show them that friendship is magic! Everybody deserves a second chance."

"Wait, didn't Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and Discord imprison Chrysalis, Cozy Glow, and Tirek in stone?" Grif pointed out.

Twilight sighed."Not everyone can be saved."

James looked at a dead Sangheili warrior laying on the ground. The Sangheili's eyes were still opened.

"Yeah," James agreed."Not everyone can be saved."