Sorry it took so long for this chapter: I had a lot of homework to do. Enjoy!

Marine Log: Planet Earth

Southern Pole

0620 HOURS

It took two hours for backup to arrive, and the hell jumpers were freezing. Backup came down with at least a dozen pelicans. "Don't you think this is a little to much?" asked the Chief to Cortana. "It's fine," she replied.

"Well, the more the better I guess," said Johnson scratching the back of his head. Then an admiral came up to the group, "Sorry it took so long, we came as soon as we got your message Cortana," he said.

"We're grateful you're here," said the AI. "So what do we have here?" asked the admiral looking into the big hole. "We're not sure," answered the Chief. "But wherever it goes, it'll lead us to the Covenant,"

"The Covenant made this?" the admiral asked in disbelief. "I don't think so. I think this was here way before the Covenant had gotten here," said Cortana.

It took a few hours to get all the equipment ready, along with gearing up for the huge Covenant shootout that was about take place down below. "Amazing," said one of the marines as he peered down the hole. "Yep, sure is," replied Johnson as he walked by.

Then another marine came to stare at the hole as well. "I don't see how the Covenant could of made this hole," said the marine to the other.

"Cortana said the Covenant didn't make it, but it was here way before hand". Responded the marine.

"Just look at it, its perfectly circular, its in a 90ยบ degree angle. This had to of been made by someone,"

"Hey you two!" shouted the Sergeant. "Get your asses over here for debriefing,". Both the marines looked back at the hole, then headed toward the debriefing.

Elite infiltration log: Planet Earth

Southern Pole, underground region

? Hours

"What is this place?" said a grunt in amazement. "Its some kind of ancient human pyramid." responded an elite.

"Look here!" shouted another grunt pointing to something in the center of the room. In the center of the room was a large sarcophagus. One of the red armored elites examined it.

"This is an ancient sarcophagus, the humans of old buried their kings here." said the elite.

Another red armored elite commented, "Human history is appalling,"

As the red elite was examining the sarcophagus, a grunt came up and wanted to see it as well. "What's this?" said the grunt as he pointed to the abnormal symbols on the surface. "What's what?" responded the elite. "This thing here, it looks different than the other markings here,"

The elite examined it by touching it, and as he touched it moved. "They appear to be dials," said a black armored covert elite. The red elite looked at the others, "If there are dials here, it possibly means that there is something of importance inside," the elites all in unison looked at the two hunters.

The hunters nodded in response, and aimed their fuel rod guns at the sarcophagus. All the grunts and jackals hid behind the hunters to shield themselves from the debris.

"What are you waiting for?" said the covert elite. Then a grunt whispered, "Do you here that?". The elite finally began to hear a faint screeching noise. "Forget the noise!" ordered the another covert elite, "Just fire!".

The hunters nodded again, and blew the sarcophagus to bits. Debris went every where, then an abnormal piece of rock flew in the air and fell hard on a grunts head. "What was that!" shouted the grunt as he rubbed his head. One of the elites picked it up and examined it.

"Look at this," said the red armored elite to the covert one. "Is this what was in that sarcophagus?" asked the covert elite. "Guess so," nodded the red armored elite. "Look! One more!" shouted a grunt pointing to the sarcophagus. There was another of the unusual objects barley hanging on to a clamp in the sarcophagus. "Take it," ordered a covert elite.

Just as the grunt took it, the place began to shake, and the door to the entrance began to close. The closest of the Covenant group to the door were three grunts. The three grunts made a run for the entrance. The first one slid just in time and got passed, the second grunt tried sliding too. However, as he slid it was too late, for just as barley he was halfway he was at the other side of the entrance, the door smashed his whole body, and his blood splashed all over the door. The third grunt just ran into the door and fell unconscious. Meanwhile, this left the rest of the Covenant team locked inside.

"Now how are going to get out?" asked a grunt to the covert elite. In response the covert elite just smacked him in the back of the head with his plasma rifle.

"Okay marines!" shouted Johnson standing on top of a broken down wraith to his squadron. "This is it! We are about to embark on a great journey through blood and a lot of broken bones! The Covenant has reached our planet in hope of accomplishing something, we don't know what it is, but I know as a fact that their not here in hope of a plan for victory!". At this the marines cheered. Then Sergeant Johnson continued, "Since they reached Earth, it is our job to give them the biggest welcoming party ever!". The marines cheered at this to.

Meanwhile, the Chief was talking to the admiral, "So you're absolutely sure its fine to set a base camp here?". The admiral simply replied, "Of course Chief, we've set several MAC guns around the perimeter. If any of those Covenant jockeys even think of dropping anymore of their guys here we'll blast them to hell."

The Chief was unsure of this plan, but where else could they have gone for a camp site. Besides, he had no control over the matter. By the time the Chief was done was with his chat with the admirable, so was Johnson with the marines.

"We'll all set," said Johnson to the Chief. The Chief nodded at Johnson and turned to salute the admiral. "Good luck Chief," said the admiral as he saluted back.

The marines and hell jumpers were wiring themselves up for the dissension. Just ass the Master Chief was wiring himself, Cortana spoke. "It's probably better if you go last," she suggested.

The Chief nodded, them handed the wire to Johnson. "You ready to blow the crap out those Covies?" asked Johnson with a smile. The Chief picked up his shotgun and cocked it, "Already,"