Elite's battle log: Planet Earth

Southern Pole

? Hours

As the grunts and jackals were scouting around the area, one of them just looked up into the sky.

"What's with you?" said a grunt poking the jackal. But all the jackal did was continue to look in the sky. So just out of curiosity, the grunt looked up into the sky too, but saw nothing.

"Lazy bum," muttered the grunt as he walked off.

"The area is all clear, we better hurry up if we want to catch up with the others," said one elite to the other. "Very well, let's move out,"

As they were walk, one of the black armored elites stopped and held his hand up. "What's wrong?" asked the grunt.

"Do you hear that?" the elite responded. Then one of the grunts looked up and shouted, "Humans!" but just as he said it, one of the hell jumper pods landed right on him. And soon enough about a dozen more came down as well.

The Master Chief kicked the pod door, open and gave out a grenade to one of the black armored elites, blowing its head to several pieces.

Johnson caught one of the Wraiths backing out to get some range. So he picked up a plasma grenade from the grunt his pod landed on, and blew the driver straight out of the vehicle. "Yes!" shouted Johnson with glee, the vehicle was still usable. However, just before he got in, he saw how the seat and controls were all covered in blood. "Great," he muttered to himself.

Meanwhile, the Master Chief was seeking cover behind another broken down Wraith as several jackals were trying to blast him (luckily they had no grenades). Just as the Chief peeked to see how many were there, they all began to fire, which drained his shields. "There's six," Cortana said in sort of a harsh tone. "I can count you know," responded the Chief as he readied a grenade. But before he was about to throw it, he caught glimpse of another Covenant drop ship about to land. Luckily, two of the hell jumpers were able to stall it with their rocket launchers.

"What are you waiting for? Toss the grenade!" Cortana screamed. After he tossed it, he turned to see the outcome, but was sprayed with jackal blood all over his visor.

An elite saw the Chief wiping his visor and gave a great roar as he was about to charge with his laser sword.

But was fed by Sergeant Johnson's sniper rifle straight through the mouth. Blood sprayed from his mouth as he stumbled to the ground. "He asked for it," Johnson chuckled.

And finally, the drop ship which the hell jumpers were facing, ended with a large explosion. Ending with a bunch of Covenant bodies falling from the sky.

"I thought there would be more." said Johnson. "It's likely the rest of them are more up ahead, we better hurry," responded Cortana.

"Is the plan progressing well?" asked the Prophet of Truth to Eryee.

"Yes, we are-,". "Then why haven't we gotten any reports?" scolded the Prophet of Regret.

"We haven't received any contact from our infiltration teams," the elite responded as he quickly bowed to his knees.

"Do you know where we are?" the Prophet of Mercy asked as he moved his hand around the room. "We are with the tombs of the Arbiters," responded Eryee.

"You have been the Arbiter for the longest time, and you have not lived up to your standards," the Prophet of Truth said looking at the elite with a disappointing look.

"If you do not complete this mission, you will not be buried here with the others," the Prophet of Mercy said. "But you will be left on Earth," added Regret. "With the rest of the incompetent trash on that planet,"

Eryee looked up at the Prophets in utter silence. Truth pointed to the door, "Now go, and live up to your name,".

Eryee left the room and was greeted by a blue armored elite, "What are your orders sir?". Eryee responded, "Ready a drop ship, with two covert elites, grunts, and jackals."

As the two elites walked together, they were met by another elite but with black armor. "What's the matter Arbiter? Are the Hierarchs unpleased of your work again?" he teased.

"Silence Zergone, last time I checked I wasn't the one who had one of my limbs broken by the demon," Eryee responded with disgust. All Zergone did was grunt, and left to talk with the Hierarchs.

"I don't trust him," said the blue armored elite. Eryee looked back at the elite and then at Zergone, "Neither do I…,"

"Chief! You might want to come see this," said Johnson looking into a ditch. Once the whole group got together, they all looked in the ditch and stood in awe. For in the ditch was a huge hole that never seemed to end. "It seems to bee in a perfect 90 degree angle," Cortana muttered to herself. How long would it take for us to get down there?" asked the Chief.

"It's difficult to say with out the proper equipment. But how did this whole get here? There's no way the Covenant could make something like this in a short amount of time." Cortana muttered to herself again. "What at least one things clear," said Johnson. Everybody turned to him. "The Covenant are down there," he said with a smile.

As everybody looked around, they found several Covenant vehicles. such as ghosts, wraiths, shadows, seraphs, and several drop ships.

"There's no way we're going to get passed the Covenant down there with just six hell jumpers and a Spartan." said Cortana. "Of coarse not," Johnson interrupted, "That's why you have me," there was silence for a moment, then Cortana spoke. "I'll call for backup, but it's gonna be awhile. I'm sure you can wait right?"

"Just do it," The Chief replied.