It was a Phantom. It's guns are pointed at the door the sentinals are passing through. The door crumbles by the Phantom's cannons. It starts to glow as though the sentinals are about to break through. Miranda and Johnson are startaled by the fact they float aboard the Phantom from the gravity lift. Miranda looks around the room in the Phantom. She sees two more Elites in the corner of the room. They look to be in pain. The door to the Phantom's control room opens.
"Hello Arbiter" says the silver Elite. He has damaged Mandables and green eyes. The Arbiter rose and nodded his head with respect. "Friends of yours Arbiter"? The silver Elite said. The Arbiter looked over at the two beings, which belonged to the race he was fighting, and said "... yes". Johnson stood up and said "The name's Sergeant Johnson she's Miranda" he said pointing to Miranda. Johnson leveled his arm toward the silver elite. The elite hesitated and put his hand on his sword. "Hey what are yah doin, I just wanted to shake your hand" said Johnson his smile turning to a frown. The silver Elite met hands with Johnson and shook his arm up and down. "Well now that we're all one big happy family lets get out of this area, we aren't exactly hidden in a giant floating purple roach". Miranda walked towards the silver elite and said you know our names what is yours? As the silver Elite walked back into the cockpit to provide his pilot with directions he turned his head toward her and said "call me captain. We'll be arriving at a safe point that a few of our allies made during our first landing on the ring.
The Phantom sped off over the hills to the "safe point". The view from the damaged back of the Phantom showed many fallen elites and a few brutes fighting over weapons. The next Hill they passed had corpses galore, broken vehicles, blood of all sorts of color. A few brutes were riding creatures known as blind wolves. They looked like reptiles with only hind legs no arms. They are blind and use sonar as there eyes like an earth bat. The brutes saw the ship overhead and fired there fuel rode cannons. The Phantom shot all off the brutes after one pass and left a burning trench. It Passed another battle field that had a broken Scarab. The Phantom slowed down into a canyon that had covenant vehicles all in it. The Phantom parked.
The elites and the two humans walked out of there Phantom. "Wait here" the Arbiter said to Miranda and Johnson. The Arbiter went to the other higher elites that were gathered around a big rock half way in the ground and half surfaced to the top. The 2 humans stood and observed there surrondings. They saw that the canyon had hills and lot's of water falls leading into a huge water fall that went off the edge. They looked at all the Elite soldiers. Alot off them were badly wounded, some were missing arms. There was about 90 elites but only about 40 percent of them looked to be in good shape. There were Elites that were being tended to by medical Elites (black armored elites with red outlining on there armor plates). There were trees with elite scouts (green elites) that had alien binoculars. Four Phantoms were parked and around the two exits of the canyons were about 6 ghosts 4 spectres and there was only one wraith that was gaurding a dug out cave into the wall. There were alot of caverns that had a different purpose than the others. Some held vehicles while some were armories and food shelters. grunts were plentiful about 200 and 40 hunters were scatterd around for protection. "Are you hungry"? said a grunt. Johnson looked at Miranda and then at the grunt "I guess, what kind of food do you have"? "The finest Blind wolf meat ever" said the grunt "well I guess I'll go" said Johnson " See you later Miranda" "Bye Johnson don't get into any fights okay"? Johnson laughed and walked away with the grunt.
The Arbiter came back to Miranda and said "I told the elites of your presence we will not harm you". The captain stood on the rock that was planted in the ground "attention warriors, we can not stay here for long there are still elites, grunts, and hunters doing battle against the Brutes. The humans have sided with us to form a rebellion against the Brute menace". The alien soldiers roared with confidence. For now we rest for the upcoming battles that lie ahead. Every one report to a den in tunnels U through Z. We must go before nightfall our Spec ops elites will have gaurd duties come night fall. Squads 1-5 for 2hours, squads 6-8 for 1 and 1/2 hours and my squad for the remainder. I'll brief you all in the morning. Everyone with the acception of squads 1-5 and any medical officers with weak to aid go to a den. Eveyone started toward a den. The captain ran to the 2 humans and said " you may sleep in my den along with the Arbiter if you wish. Miranda looked at Johnson
and said" sure we will, thank you". A cold breeze passed by.