Disclaimer: I don't own Halo, it's characters or Bungie.
A/N: Sorry for the wait. I went on a trip to Singapore.
Chapter 2: Meet The Captain and The Escape From Reach
"Was that your girl? Hot!" said the guy seated beside me.
I didn't answer. I pretended to be asleep.
"Huh?"
A few hours later we were on Reach.
"Hey! All you boys wake up, we're here!" Johnson yelled.
Immediately everyone woke up and unbuckled. We walked out the ship and into the hangar.
"Line up! Three rows!" Johnson ordered, he then walked up to a man with gray hair. They started a conversation.
Everyone lined up and stood straight. Johnson and the man walked towards us.
"You boys are lucky, y'all boarding the Pillar Of Autumn." Johnson said, when suddenly the ground moved.
'What the?' I thought, I looked around and saw a weird shape over us.
"Covenant! Get in the truck!" Johnson said.
We all climbed in. We were introduced to the gray-haired man named Keyes.
"You all will from now on call me Captain and when you answer always end it with a sir. Understood?" he said.
"Yes, sir." We said.
The truck took us to a titanic spaceship.
The Captain punched in a code and then the door opened.
"Get in!" he said.
After we all got inside he and Johnson also got in.
"Sergeant, show them their cabins, after that report to the bridge." The Captain said, walking to the Bridge.
"Yes, sir. Follow me boys." Johnson said as he motioned us to follow him.
When we were close to the entrance Johnson showed us a map of the ship.
"Get familiar with the routes, those are your cabins." He said, running to the Bridge.
After I got used to the routes I felt the ship tremble. We were taking off. But as we were taking off something hit us hard.
"A damn, what was that?" a guy named Mendoza said.
"I dunno." I replied, also a little bit curious.
"We are boarded by a squadron of Covenant, four Elites and eight Grunts, take 'em out." A female voice said through the intercom.
"Ah, damn it, we just arrived and they want us to fight already?" Mendoza exclaimed.
"There are some other Marines that are aboard this ship, some experienced ones." A guy named Jenkins said.
"I want the newly recruited to fight that squadron, if you won't survive against that squadron, you're not going to survive the others." Captain Keyes said through the intercom.
"Waaaaaaaa!" Jenkins screamed.
'Hopefully a quick death…' I thought to myself.
Then the door beside Mendoza opened, we all jumped in surprise.
"Are you guys, gay?" the female Marine said.
"Are you a tomboy?" Mendoza said, nudging some other guy I don't know yet.
"Hmph, follow me to the Armory." The female marine said.
We followed her out the door, into a corridor and into the Armory.
"You guys get some weapons and ammo." She said.
Mendoza, Jenkins and the others got some weapons and ammo. One funny thing, some of the others didn't know how to put a release an empty magazine. I picked up an Assault Rifle, but I didn't get some extra ammunition, you know why. We also put some armor on. The female Marine told us to follow her to the ship's main entrance. When we neared the entrance, one marine peeked over the door and got hit by a plasma bolt at the face.
"Agh!" he said, falling down.
"C'mon!" the female marine said, going thru the door and hid behind one of the plasma shields.
Mendoza came after her and open-fired like crazy, quickly followed by the rest. It was crazy. I hid behind a pillar and whispered to the picture in the locket as I adored it.
"I'm sorry…"
I ran towards the squadron, someone behind me followed, it was the female marine. As we neared an Elite, it spotted us both. I was going to wait for the jolt of pain but suddenly… I saw that I was not it's target, but the female marine. It was about to crush her skull.
"Damn it!" I shouted as I tackled the marine and unloaded a whole clip to the Elite's chest, it roared in pain and fell.
I looked at the woman I just saved, she had shock in her eyes.
"Are you OK?" I asked.
She nodded. Heck, I don't know why, but the wanting to die left me. I took some clips from her belt and looked at her face, the look of shock was gone. I helped her to stand up. When she was standing she looked around and said:
"DUCK!"
We ducked or she did as she pulled me down.
I opened fire, both of us did. The Elite and two grunts who were a few seconds ago near us lied down, blood on their armor. The battle ended. We walked over to Mendoza's position and saw that one Marine was wounded and three were dead.
"They're even more dangerous than my gang." Mendoza said.
By now the ship was in space. The female marine sighed looking at the dead. She walked over to me.
"I haven't thanked you yet for saving my head, my name's Ashley." She said, kissing me on the cheek and ran out the door while untying her hair.
"She's beautiful…" I said as I stared at the door blankly, forgetting about Leighe.
"Good job boys, your next assignment is to clean up the mess you made." Captain Keyes said through the intercom.
"Aww man!" Mendoza said.