Koskate's reactions and training kicked in. He side stepped, not noticing the sword slicing par of his arm. He grabbed the elite's arm, then broke it. The elite came round for a powerful blow with it's other arm. Koskate slid down narrowly avoiding the blow. While the elite's momentum kept it going forward, Koskate stood up, then elbowed it into the back. The elite's shield shimmered. Koskate hit the elite again. The shield remained strong. Koskate hit it once again, thought the shield flickered, the winked out, never to be seen again. Koskate then grabbed the elite's plasma sword, then ran the elite through. Koskate watched the lifeless body, lost in thoughts of guilt, when boiling plasma from a plasma pistol missed his head by inches, jerked him out of thought. Koskate's mind suddenly put two things together: that the covenant is attacking New Harvest, and that no one has sounded the alarm. Koskate rushed the group of grunts, as a flurry of needles and plasma rushed toward Koskate. Koskate felt the heat raise by his body, and he also felt some of the needle's minuet air streams. Koskate leaped and slew one of the grunts, then turned to his left and slashed 2 more. The other three grunts ran for their lives. Koskate then walked to the red and black bordered glass box then smashed it with his free hand. Satisfied with the ringing, he went onto his next priority.
Ayami was resting from her recent sparring session. More like her own exercise, since no one else provided a challenge in close combat. After reading a bit from a leisure book, she began thinking about her family, and how her brother was faring. Then something interrupted her thoughts, a dull thump right outside her door, and then the alarm went off.
"Crap!" she said as she went towards the door, but it wouldn't open. She tried to open the door via computer right beside the door, but to no avail. As she prepared to open the door with a blunt object, found in all rooms as an extra weapon. When she lodged the object into the crevice, a sizzling sound as heard, then the point of a plasma sword was sticking thought the door