"This is Spartan 117, Does anyone read me?"

"Chief? Mind telling me what you're doing on that ship?"

"Sir, finishing this fight."

The Cheif closed the COM channel. He braced himself as the ship he was on landed on a Covenant warship. The ship peirced the ship's hull, strange, it didn't have its shields on. The Chief kicked out the hatch of the ship he was on. He checked his ammo counter, it read 40. He had one clip left. The Chief was going to have to make every single shot count.

The Master Chief headed for the bridge. Encountering little resistance, he opend the bridge hatch and rolled to the side as a white hot blade of glowing energy sliced the air where he had been a moment earlier. He cursed as he almost lost his footing. He had been expecting an Elite to be holding the sword, but was surprised as he was met face to face with a Brute. The Chief quickly shouldered his Assault Rifle and fired a short, controlled burst into the Brute's face. Needless to say, the Brute fell to the deck, dead. As it fell, it lost its grip on the sword. The sword arced through the air and went straight into a control panel.

The Chief grabbed hold of the wall as the ship lurched downward. He crouched down to minimize injury as the ship collided with the ground.

"You sure can make an entrance, Chief."

"I try."

"I need you to go here," There was a pause as Hood uploaded a NAV marker,"and help Johnson and his team."

"On my way." the Chief clicked the COM off.

As the Chief climbed off of the grounded ship, he looked up as he heard the roaring engine of a Pelican dropship.

"Good to see you Master Chief," the pilot said,"climb aboard, I have a little surprise for you."

The Chief obeyed this request and seated himself on the Pelican's seat. They shortly arrived at an armory. The Chief nearl;y passed out when he saw a room full of Spartans beyond the doors.

"Ha ha. Surprised Chief? Mendez trained a lot more Spartans. It's almost as if he new when this would happen," a Marine said, indicating the Covenant attacking Earth." Coincedence or not, we just might win this battle."

The Chief slid his first two fingers across his visor, where his mouth would be, a Spartan's symbol for a smile. This gesture was almost instantly returned.

"Nice to meet you, Master Chief," a Spartan said. "Now that you're here we can get this party started."

"Can I ask who you are, Spartan?" the Chief asked.

"Bond, James Bond. Naw just fooling. I'm Sam."

The Chief's face stoned. His first and best friend was named Sam. Sam had been killed in battle. He was marked a MIA, to make the illusion that Spartans didn't die. To give people hope.

"How many new Spartans are there, Sam?" the Chief asked, trying to keep his voice smooth.

"Just over two hundred, Chief."

Mendez had been busy. The Chief was impressed. They just might have a chance at winning now. Might was the key word, though.

"With these Spartans and our new shield tech, Earth just might stand a chance." the Marine said.

"Hey, Chief!"

The Chief recgonized this voice. It was none other than Linda, Spartan 058.

"I thought you were dead," the Chief commented.

"Remember, Spartans aren't that easy to kill."

She had a point, the Chief had to admit. The Chief leveled his Assault Rifle when he saw a pair of Elites walk through a door behind Linda.

"Calm down, Chief!"

The Chief turned towards the voice. He was surprised to come face to face with Miranda Keyes.

"Get down!" the Chief yelled.

"It's alright, Chief. They decided to help defend Earth."

The Chief didn't like it. He had been taught that anything not human needed to die. After all, the Elites had played a major part in destroying Reach. Reach had been the UNSC's most important military base. Next to Earth, of course, it had been one of the vital things to help the human race survive.

The fight for Reach had been horrible. The Chief had thought he killed all the Spartans by sending them to defend the surface. He thought he had sent them on the easy mission. He later realized he had sent them to their deaths. It was true, most of them had died, the Chief felt a pang of regret at this, only a small group of the original Spartans were left. The Pillar of Autumn, a human ship, ran from the fight after figuring out that Reach was going to be destroyed.

After fleeing the battle, they discovered Halo. Halo was a super weapon, built by the strange Covenant Forerunners, had been blown up by the Master Chief.The Chief had rigged, with the help of Cortana, the Pillar of Autumn to explode, and create an explosion big enough to destroy Halo. The only problem was getting off of Halo before it blew up. The Chief found a Warthog and driven it to the docking bay where he found a Longsword fighter. He had made it off of Halo by the skin on his teeth.

Getting off wasn't easy, though. The Flood had made it extremely difficult to survive. The Flood. Captain Keyes, Miranda Keyes' father, had been lost to the Flood. The Chief felt as though he had killed the captain himself. In a way, this was true. The Chief had plunged his hand into the "captian's" skull to recieve a chip, to be able to blow the Pillar of Autumn up.

The Chief banished these thoughts for now. It was best to not dwell in the past.They needed to fight. To win.

"Follow me, Chief, so we can install your new shields," A technician said. The Chief followed him through several doors, all containing Spartans doing weapon checks.

After getting his shields installed, the Chief was riding a modified Ghost. This Ghost had energy shields that formed a protective bubble around the driver and itself. Sam pointed out the explosions dotting the horizon. They continued at full speed to where Johnson was in time to see a Hunter fall from six meters above the ground.

"Been busy haven't you, Sargeant?" the Chief joked.

"Never too busy to kick some alien arse!" Johnson replied.

He wasn't kidding. There were bodies littering the ground.

"Twelve o'clock!" a Marine shouted.

There was roughly three dozen Brutes, impacting into the ground after coming down the gravity lift.

"Oh sh-" the Marine couldn't finish his sentence as a dozen of plasma grenades rained down upon them. One lucky grenade landed on Johnson's Ghost. He quickly bailed out.

"RETURN FIRE!"

The Chief didn't have to be told twice. He unloaded a full clip from an Assault Rifle at a single Brute. The Brute doubled over as the Chief slammed a fresh clip into his gun. The unlucky Brute ended up stuck with a life-ending plasma grenade. Half the Brutes were mowed down as a Pelican opened fire with the miniguns. The last thing the rest of the Brutes saw was rockets. Lots and lots of rockets.

(A/N Sorry I took so long updating. I am really busy with school and everything.)