CHAPTER 1: THE ESCAPE.

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UNSC INFINITY

MAY 26,2560

Captain Lasky was on the bridge of humanity's most powerful ship yet he was unable to defeat even a single along with chief were the one who kept up the hope among his crew that humanity will prevail again.

Lasky asked " Roland, we need to find the artefact present on there any way by which we can enter Reach without getting detected?"

Roland replied" Sir there is no conventional way we can get past Guardians sensor

Lasky asked again" What about our prowlers?"

Roland replied" Sir guardian's forerunner sensors are capable of detecting even forerunner stealth ships. Our prowlers will be detected easily."

Lasky was pondering on how to go to Reach when suddenly red lights started blaring across the bridge.

Lasky frantically asked" Roland status report!"

Roland replied "Sir it's Cortana. She found us."

Lasky was dumbfounded he has just came back from a battle with the guardian. And she was back again.

Even with Infinity's advanced drives it needed a cool down of about an hour.

Lasky knew that MACS won't work against it as they can move their ship's parts.

"Roland fire all the starboard deck guns and mini macs. And prepare the slipspace drives for emergency jump.

"Sir the guardian is charging up the EMP."

Lasky said" forget about guns divert all powers to engines"

"sir EMP discharge from Guardian."

Lasky said" engage slipspace drives now."

As soon as he said this the bluish portal of slipspace opened pushed it's sublight engines to maximum and pushed forward with EMP closing in fast. Infinity entered the slipspace but when it was about to fully submerge in it the EMP impacted on the infinity's engineering section and disabled it. However due to infinity's slipspace drives being forerunner it did not affect the engines however they were damaged. Lasky was thrown off ground from the explosion. He groaned in pain as blood came out from his nose.

Even being injured Lasky managed to ask Roland" How is the crew holding up?"

Roland replied" Sir the engineering crew is severly injured. All the other ship personnel's health vary from light injuries to organ ruptures. The medical crew are doing their best to help them."

Soon a medic came running towards Lasky and treated him. Roland alarmed Lasky" Sir I am detecting some malfunctions in drive along with an anomaly in slipspace.

Lasky ordered" On screen now."

Lasky was shocked to see a huge black wall coming in front of him which was unusual in slipspace as it was only blue and black lines.

Lasky said again"Roland get us out of here now"

Roland replied" I can't sir drives are not responding."

Lasky waited for the wall to hit. He can now only hope that Infinity survives this because she was the last hope of humanity.

The wall hit infinity and Lasky again fell to ground and this time even harder.

Before passing out Lasky only heard Roland's voice saying" SIR, SIR, SIR!"

And then he passed out.

Unkown to him or even Roland however a battle was raging on just a few light years away which was about to change the fate of galaxy in which they ended up. A GALAXY FAR FAR AWAY…..

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Hi guys again so I know you guys must be wondering about the artefact and some might even find the start a little abrupt but I request you to be patient because all of the loose ends will be explained in upcoming chapters. Apart from that I will answer your reviews in next chapter. Thank you.