Miranda awoke before any one else did and walked outside. She needed some time to think.I wonder whats going to happen she looked up and saw a sunrise appear above the hill.I wonder if my father would be proud of me right now. I've sided with what he tried to kill... although if peace comes out of it it won't matter right? She paused and looked over the horizon. It started to rain, the sound of thunder could be heard. Just then a lightning bolt stabbed the ground lighting up a hill. She saw thousands of figures flying into view. The sound of Drones came closer giving themselves away.
The Captain marched out with his squad to take his shift. Miranda ran to him and said" I saw an army of drones coming over the horizon". A bolt of lightning hit the groun causing a fire. " It looked like at least 1000 drones". Another bolt revealed the drones presence. "We are out numbered!", the captain said. He looked at his team and said "wake every one up, except you Ning help me ready a bomb, we'll blow them up while we escape but we must buy some time so wake up everyone." Miranda was given a plasmarifle and a magnum (that the elites salvaged) by a squad of grunts. The drones filled the canyon walls and plasma fire filled the canyon. Aliens swarmed out to buy time. Even the wounded fought and were slaughtered by the drones on slaught. Even hunters fell sguashing a few grunts. Blood leaked through the water tainting it with a feeling of death. One grunt was carried away by a drone. The silver elite came back 10 minutes later, after Miranda killed 3 drones and helped a group of grunts aboard a Phantom. "Miranda," the captain said "follow me into the phantom the bombs have been planted in each side of the canyon, it will crumble along with the drones. Miranda started to run to the ship when 5 drones blocked her path. She shot one in the head with the magnum killing it. The drones swarmed her and bit her causing her to drop the magnum. She elbowed one in the face, pinned one to the ground with her foot on it's skull and burnt the remaining drones wings off with her plamarifle. She stomped through the drone's skull and was then scratched by 1 of the 2 drones. Her forhead started to bleed. An elite shot one of the drones in the head. The elite was badly injured and had purple blood all over it. The drone paniced and ran into a squad of grunts. The grunts tackled the drone and beat it to death. Miranda looked at the elite that helped her and said "Thank you". The elite didn't speak but instead it toppled over. A team of grunts came to pick up the fallen elite. There was gunfire and noises of peril everywhere. Miranda made it into the phantom with the captain.
The captain talked to every soldier from his link to there helmet "Every one get into a Phantom,Seraph,or Banshee in side caverns "F" trough "K" detonation time is estimated two minutes".
Johnson was already in a cavern where he had eaten alien food which was actually better than some human food. An elite saw Johnson and said "detonation for the bombs is two minutes, my bomb pilot died to the drones would you accopany me"? "I guess but, you can't get mad if I'm not good at it". The two ran past the drones that had tunneled through the rocks in the cave. Johnson saw a grunt who was being attacked by a drone. "Wait one of your buddies is going to be left behind" said Johnson The Elite glared at Johnson and said " I will not waste my ammo on such an inferior creature". Johnson Pulled the elites carbine off it's belt and shot one of the drones in the head. Johnson was then smacked in the face by the Seraph elite pilot. "You heard me don't waste my ammo". Johnson punched the elite in the the neck, wrestled it to the ground, and knocked it out. Johnson ran to help the grunt and twisted the drones neck. Tannish blood poured out of the drone's head. "Thank... you..." The grunt struggled to say. Johnson helped the grunt to it's feet. "You... your one ... of the...hum...ans" said the grunt. The grunt heard in it's helmet that there was a thirty second warning. Johnson picked up the elite he had knoked out and guided the grunt into the seraph. "Twenty second warning" the seraph computer control said. "Dammit how do you fly this thing"? said Johnson. The grunt flipped a switch an held down a button.The ship sarted to float. "okay so how does it move"? "Use the two levers, one makes you turn right, one makes you turn left". select speed... better ...press 5. Johnson pressed 5 and the seraph went straight out of the cavern and right before the seraph hit the wall on the cliff side the elite was awake again and stepped in. It turned to speed 10, ran into about 20 drones and caught up with every one else.
On one of the screens it showed the canyon crumbling. "good job did any body miss a ride?" the captain said over the speaker. "Only the ones who died and a wounded Hunter did not make it aboard" said the Scout who patrolled the caverns. "Not bad but we can't waste any time I already have been to the Cruiser. It's parked in the forrunner city by the frozen waste lands. Flood are swarming the ice land and it seems to affect them in many ways making them more deadly. A hologram appeared and showed a human flood with spikes coming out of it's back and a tail twice as big as it's body. "Their tail works like an earth scorpion's tail. We'll need to strengthen our army. Our goal is to rescue any elites, grunts, hunters, or humans we can find and salvage any food our weaponry. We have to get to the Cruiser before the brutes get it. That's our only ticket off this ring. If the brutes are as strong as estimated than we may fall to their wrath. We are going to split up and search the continents for allies. Captain out".