Halo: Mercy Ch: 24 Title: Operation Get Out Leader Back

Sorry I have not posted for a while but when I read the new Halo book First Strike it kind of put me in a writers block. So like TheKiwiSpartan said in his review yes now you are going to have to see this story as alternate universe since the new book kind of proves this story wrong. And to the Nameless reviewer that keeps reviewing my Story thanks I did not notice my ODST error but now on ill fix it. Hey maybe one day ill updates all the chapters with corrections

Hope you enjoyed the last chapter I hope none of you anticipated the Master Chief to become a POW goes to show you that I still got tricks up my sleeve so none of you would get bored. Hey I know I'm not a perfect writer so I make mistakes especially when it comes to grammar. When I get going I cant stop and once I'm finished I get excited and when I proof read the story I skip many mistakes that can be easily fixed. Any way enough bitching by me here is the next chapter.

Dream world:

Darkness all over the place. Nothing to be seen and nothing to be heard. It felt cold and lonely. Zero stood in darkness looking all over the place but nothing was to be seen.

"Hello!" He yelled out but got no response.

He knew he was alone but he was be bugged by his senses that it was a lie. He felt something out there but nothing was to be seen heard or even smelled.

He heard footsteps behind him. So he turned around. Walking toward him was Chief Mendez. He looked a lot younger the same age that he was when he trained him and the Spartan II's

Zero saluted; when he brought up his arm to salute he noticed his undeveloped arms. He looked down and in shock he saw himself as himself when he was 7 years old.

"What's wrong trainee?" Mendez asked loudly

"Nothing sir!" Zero responded lying

"Good, Now trainee what are you and what is your purpose?" Mendez asked

"Sir I am a trainee sir and my purpose is to follow your orders sir!" Zero answered

"Wrong. You are a Spartan and your purpose is to defend all human life. Have you been doing you job?" Mendez asked

"Yes I am sir!" Zero answered

"Wrong again, if you where doing your job you would get off your ass and get to work." Mendez said

With those words Zero began to feel that he was waking up.

Zero opened his eyes and saw the ceiling of a room. He looked around to see some medical equipment.

He saw a woman next to him he finally recognized who she was. It was Dr. Halsey.

"Am I dreaming again?" Zero said out loud

Halsey walked closer to Zero.

"Glad you are awake. You where pretty banged up. And no you are not dreaming." She said

Zero sat up from his bed and stood back up feeling his legs kind of weak. He stood up to his full height and stood over two heads higher than Dr. Halsey.

"How long have I been out?" Zero asked

"Five days. Most of your wounds have heeled thanks to your enhancements but your Ribs need some more time to heal they have been fixed but you are still soar in that area." Halsey said

"I feel fine." Zero said but he lied. He felt the discomfort on his chest.

Halsey smiled.

"You Spartans are well trained by Chief Mendez but he never trained you all how to lie." Halsey said

"Um mam if you are here does that mean something is wrong?" Zero asked

"Zero I hate to be the person to bring the bad news. Ok here it goes." Halsey said taking a deep breath

"Zero you are in command of the Spartans tell further notice. We have lost contact of John and suspect that he is currently being held as a POW by the Covenant. Your mission well be explained shortly but your main priority is to rescue John and Cortana from the Covenant." She said

Zero took a couple of seconds to let the news sink in. The first thing that came to mind was a direct assault but that was just being stupid. He was just proven that he was not immortal and he did not want to risk getting him self or his team hurt or even worse killed.

"I understand mam I promise that me and the Spartans well do everything we can do to get John and Cortana back. We owe them that for saving our butts so many times." Zero said

"Thanks Zero, your armor was damaged but has been fixed. So follow me to suit you up and then we well debrief you about the mission." Halsey said

Zero nodded and followed Halsey out of the room.

"Chief wake up!" Cortana said

John heard her voice but chose to ignore it his head felt like it had gotten hit several times by Warthog.

He finally decided to answer Cortana's call.

"Please don't talk so loud Cortana my head hurts like hell." John said

John slowly got up from a cold metal floor his vision was blurry. He knew he was in some kind of holding cell like Captain Keyes had been held back on Halo.

"Where are we Cortana?" John said

"I have no idea chief there is something blocking me from doing any kind of outside transmission. If I would have to put a wager I say we are in the Covenant base that we had seen earlier. Plus the suit is not in good condition. We have no shields and we are running at 35%power. We wont be able to last long in battle." Cortana said

John took a minute to think and remembered the base that was built like a fortress. Where ever he is there had to be some reason he was kept alive.

"Cortana I want you to keep your self deletion program ready if something happens. We are alive for a reason and what ever it might be and I don't believe its good. Make sure you do the same for me if I die I want to take them with me. Keep the self destruct process ready" John said

The are was equipped with a self destruct unit that I capable of killing anything 200ft from the armors location.

"Understood Chief. Lets just hope it does not come down to that. I would rather appreciate that we don't go down today or any time soon." Cortana said

Cortana even if she knew that she was not alive there was still some kind of self preservation emotion in her. But she knew that if things came to worse she would sacrifice her self for the better of the mankind. She also knew John would do the same but would rather take out a few Covenant with him.

John went over to some kind of shield that stopped him from walking out side the holding cell. He took a few swings at the shields to check how solid they where. His fist did not even make them flicker.

"I guess strength wont get us out. Any ideas?" John asked

But was interrupted with the sound of doors opening and the sounds of heavely armed Covenant walking toward his cell.

He noticed the shield starting to vanish John took this as his chance he got up ready to tackle anything on the other side. The shield vanish revealing the least thing John would of wanted. Six heavily built Hunters stood in his way. He had a second thought. He expected them to open fire on him but instead they grabbed him and secured him from any way of moving. John was strong but he was no match for six of these behemoths. Two of them held him in place. A golden Elite walked in and laughed at john. He slowly walked over to him. John received a front kick in to the gut by the Elite- making john gasp for air.

John cursed his armor for being damaged and not having shields.

The Elite straitened up and began speaking English.

"There is someone who wishes to speak to you human. If you try anything ill order these hunter to tare you apart limb to limb." The golden Elite said.

With that came a powerful blow to the back of his head knocking him out once again.

Once again darkness took over...

To be continued