An: Hey ya'll its me Dante So just a quick heads up I changed Six's name to Corey because I thought it would be cool to name Six after one of the members of Slipknot considering he's pretty much a Slipknot addict. anyway enjoy.

Kat rushed through the hallways of the Pillar of Autumn attempting to get past the hoards of frantic marines rushing to the armory which was where she had just been in. She finally made it to Jason's room and banged frantically at the door.

"Jason come on we're being boarded" No response was given. Kat turned the door handle and to her surprise the door opened. When she got into the room it was pitch black, she turned on the light only to find Jason sprawled on his bed practically passed out. Kat was not in the mood for this so she kicked his trash can across the room, making a loud thud upon landing, this was more than enough to wake Jason up who sprung out of bed quicker than a new recruit on his first day of basic training, after adjusting his vision to the bright light, Jason looked to see who woke him up. His groggy gaze was met by Kat's and finally snapped back into reality.

"Oh hey if it isn't my sister in law coming to wake me up, how are you Kat? how has my bro been treating you?" Jason teased as he got up and began packing all of his personal belongings into a UNSC backpack.

"This isn't the time for jokes Jason and besides me and your brother aren't even married we only admitted our love for each other quite recently" Kat said attempting to speed up Jason as he was taking his sweet time.

"Yeah yeah that's great and all but why did you wake me up?" Kat looked at him with a furious stare, she enjoyed being in the company of Corey's brother as she found him to be a really cool guy, however she was boiling with anger, how 'did he not hear the intercoms?' Kat thought to herself She finally raised her voice.

"We're being boarded for fucks sake! How did you not hear all of the alarms?" Jason finally realized what was going on and began putting his armor on. "Sorry Kat, a lot of alcohol in my system makes me sleep really hard, I guess I neglected to hear the alarm on the account of me being asleep". Kat couldn't help but laugh at that, Marcus had to practically carry Jason back to his room last night he was that badly shitfaced. "Okay fine I'll give you that one, everyone reacts differently to a lot of alcohol in their system". Kat tossed a BR55 to Jason and they rushed out to the bridge where Corey and Gavin were.

Meanwhile on the bridge.

Corey and Gavin ran into the bridge looking for captain Keyes alarm sirens went off and sailors were attempting to get to their stations. They spotted Keyes at the front of the bridge talking to another spartan in green MKV armor.

I didn't see any other Spartans on the ship. Corey thought to himself but then his HUD Identification showed up over the spartan. It showed John 117.

"Oh my God, its him" Gavin said in awe. Keyes saw the two Spartan 3s and gestured for them to come over to him. Master Chief turned his head and looked at the other two spartans.

"B312 , A172 good to see you boys" Said Keyes, "I'm sure both of you are familiar with Master Chief". Chief nodded his head and spoke up.

"Good to see some other spartans on board, and it's especially good to see you B312 I look forward to working with you" Corey nodded his head and shook Chief's hand. Keyes looked at the Spartan 3s and proceeded to inform them on their objectives. "Listen up Spartans, when we are being boarded Cortana is going to wipe most of the data on the bridge and then Master Chief is going to get her off the ship." Adam, Marcus, Emile, Kat and Jason then walked into the bridge. Keyes then looked at the other spartans and briefed them on their objectives. "Spartans, seeing as you are the surviving members of both Gauntlet and Noble teams I am forming you into one fireteam, this new fireteam will be called Crusader" His head turned towards Gavin. "A172 considering you are the most senior spartan 3 here you will be the leader of Crusader" Gavin was lost for words but he accepted the promotion.

"Thank you sir, I won't let my Spartans down" Gavin said back to Keyes. Keye's typed a few command codes into the monitor and then turned back to face the newly formed Fireteam Crusader.

"Listen up I have your objective here, I want you to wipe all data from the server room in the west hallway, Cortana wiped as much data as she could however for the server room on the west hallway is still using the older Cerberus 01 model of processor which requires the servers to be wiped manually. After you wipe the servers you will get off this ship and land on that ring below via a lifepod am I understood?"

"Sir yes sir" Crusader said in unison and then they left the bridge and began to make their way to the west hallway. The walk was mostly uneventful with most of the combat taking place on the other side of the ship. They had just cleared the 7th corridor and were about to get onto the 8th when their motion trackers started going off.

"Movement, 150 meters ahead" Adam said as he raised his smg down the hall and prepared for any covenant to come through the door, everyone else did the same.

"100 meters" Adam said again, then silence plagued the hallway until Adam spoke again

"50 meters"

"25 meters"

"15 meters"

"10 meters"

"5 meters" Then the movement stopped , the door that separated the Spartans from the next hallway was blown open and then plasma fire rained down upon them. They all made it to cover and returned fire. Six elite ultras began charging at the team while four grunts provided covering fire, Jason broke from cover and aggressively charged at the Elites. He shoulder bashed one which disabled it's shields and then gave it a burst to the face with his Battle Rifle killing it instantly, he then dispatched the grunts in quick succession. Emile blasted an elite in the gut, blowing it's insides out all over the hallway. Adam fired his smg into an elite that was charging at him. The elite crashed into him and knocked Adam off his feet.

"Fuck fuck fuck fuck" Adam repeatedly said as he tried to reach for his smg. The elite was about to fire on Adam but Marcus killed it just in time using his combat knife. Adam got on his feet.

"That's twice you owe me for saving your butt Adam" Taunted Marcus as he wiped the purple blood off his knife.

"Just one time Marcus, that time in New Alexandria doesn't count" Replied Adam. The Spartans began making their way towards the server room, killing more covenant forces as they went through the hallways. They finally made it to the Server Room where a squad of marines were holding a choke point against some grunts.

"Spartans the captain told us you guys were coming, we tried to get into the server room but we can't get the door open" Said the sergeant of the marines.

"Kat get the door open" Ordered Gavin, Kat walked past the marines and plugged her data pad into the door and began to override the mechanisms. One marine approached Corey and tapped him on the shoulder. Corey turned around to see Daniel standing behind him.

"Hey lieutenant" Daniel said.

"Hey private" Corey said back as he patted Daniel on the shoulder.

"Almost,...got it" Kat said as the doors swung open revealing an almost pitch black room. Kat switched on the lights and then took a seat at the main monitor and began wiping all of the records held in the data files in the room.

"Lieutenant this is Captain Keyes" Keyes' voice boomed over Corey's helmet radio.

"Go ahead captain" Corey said back to Keyes.

"The Master Chief has gotten Cortana off the Autumn, I'm going to crash manually I advise you get your squad off the ship as soon as you can."

"Understood Captain" Keyes broke the connection with Corey. Corey turned towards Kat.

"Kat how much longer" Kat looked up to Corey.

"Its done, all of the files have been wiped" Kat said as she powered down the computer and grabbed her Assault rifle from the table. Gavin came into the server room.

"There is one life pod near us, 3 corridors down." Gavin said, the spartans and marines then proceeded to leave the server room and go to the life pod. Upon arriving at the life pod they saw an ODST carrying another one of his wounded comrades to the pod, Kat stopped to help the wounded trooper in and then the Spartans and marines boarded the pod.

"Lieutenant hit it" Emile said as he strapped himself in. The pilot turned back to face everyone.

"Aye sir" the pilot said and then the doors to the pod closed and within seconds they were flying away from the Autumn and towards the strange ring that they found.

"Hold on everyone this is going to be a rough landing" Said the pilot as they made their descent into the ring's atmosphere.