The moment the escape pod launched carrying Melissa and David along with All Might. The symbol of peace finally deflated into a puff of smoke changing into his true form having a coughing fit as he collapsed onto his hands and knees.
Melissa gasped at the sight "Uncle Might!" David quickly rushed to his side to help him to his feet "You okay Toshi?"
"Yes thank you... Just a little tired from the days events... Not exactly how... how I expected this trip to turn out." Panted All Might tiredly as he leaned against David.
"Uncle Might whats happened to you? Do you need medical attention?" Asked Melissa in a panic. All Might chuckled quietly as he sat down on a near by seat.
"No need to be concerned about me young Melissa. I just need rest until we reach the UNSC ship. I ask that you keep this appearance of mine a secret til I can explain it to you at later time." Melissa furrowed her brows in confusion at this statement but sighed nodding in agreement. She'll wait for her answers.
The Shields and All Might were the last civilians and heros to board. Leaving only the Spartans fighting on the instillation the only humans left. Dr Halsey boarded a pod with some of the UA students accompanied with some of her Spartans. This lead to All Might finally being able to 'remove' his disguise even though it meant revealing it to his closest friends daughter.
Melissa glanced out the window seeing the other escape pods as well as I-Moon disappearing into the distance only to see the large covenant ship that was docked to it. In her mind one question stood out.
How the hell did it get there without them noticing?
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A jackal dropped to its knees and slumped over onto its side and began to pool out blood as its weapons tumbled on the ground. Izuku stepped over it as he looked around checking all his surroundings for a threat.
Once he, Kelly and Sam confirmed what they assumed was the covenants version of a docking bay was cleared they lowered their weapons. "Find us a route." He told the other before radioing in.
"This is Squad Leader to Delivery Team. What's your status over?"
"This is Delivery Team. The package is being armed and we're preparing to fallback to extraction. Over." Spoke Jerome over the comms
"Copy. We've successfully infiltrated the ship and are moving on with delivery. Squad Leader out."
"Copy that. Good Hunting."
Sam waved Izuku over to a door he discovered and soon was joined with Kelly. "Think I've found somewhere to go."
Izuku nodded and did a weapons check as well as a check on the nuke attached to his back armour plate. Whilst jamming in a fresh clip into his assualt rifle Kelly voiced a question.
"So say we do find the energy room to this planet sized ship. How do we escape when I-moon blows up along with the escape pods on it. We don't exactly have knowledge on covenant vehicles either."
"The Mjolnir's computer has an inbuilt emergency beacon. We blow our way out and float our way with jet pack assistance through the astroid field into open space activating it. The Commonwealth should pick up our signal and they'll send a Pelican to collect us." Replied Izuku.
Sam nodded "Okay then. Let's blow this place to hell."
"Kelly you take point. I'll cover the back." Ordered Izuku. The Spartans began moving through the strange maroon and purple coloured corridors of the ship hopeing to find the aliens engine room equivalent.
Izuku couldn't help but marvel at the architecture and technology of the covenant vessel. With the thought in mind he quickly spoke to the others "helmet cams on record. Someone at ONI would wanna see this. If not then then Halsey would."
"Already ahead of you." Answered Kelly as she pointed her shotgun around a corner before confirming it to be clear and to move forward.
"I'm picking up high radiation levels on the HUD." Reported Sam
Kelly spoke without taking her eyes off the direction she was walking towards "Sounds like a power source to me."
"Then that's where we'll plant the nuke." Stated Izuku as he followed them carefully watching their six for an ambush.
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Thon roared in frustration as he tossed a kig-yar into the wall of the ship's bridge. The Sangheili under his commands stood as still as statues in attempts of avoiding being part of his wrath. The Unggoy coward behind the bridges computer systems.
The kig-yar however ran over to their fallen kin to not aid him. But to instead scavenge his armour and weapons since they were certain he was dead from the savage blow.
Thon turned to his Sangheili commanders "Not only did we lose the Human queen. But we have lost control of their station! Have he even collected any useful information?"
"Due to our lack of knowledge on their technology we were unable to hack their systems Shipmaster." Answered a young Sangheili in blue armour
Another in maroon armour spoke up "All we have learned is that they seem to have unnatural gifts. Similar to what the holy forerunners before were believed to have had."
Thon quickly snarled at this and struck the one who spoke hard to the ground "BLASPHEMY!! These lowly creatures do not walk the path! How could possibly share the gifts same as the forerunners. They do not have gifts. They are instead cursed like the unholy scum the prophets say they are."
Thon turned his back to them and growled lowly as footage of the battles on the human facility continued on the bridges screens. Specifically ones where the green armoured humans fought.
"And these...Demons... that slaughter our numbers without mercy are the worst among them."
At that statement and scared Unggoy reported fearfully. "Shipmaster. Ship breached. Demons inside."
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The three Spartans continued on. Although they had the suits air filter systems. They couldn't help but notice the air was thick, heavy and oily. There wasn't any other way to describe it apart from the setting being unsettling. Especially since they were literally in the belly of the beast.
They entered a dark foggy room and instantly the three became unsettled and raised their weapons scanning the room. Sam checked his motion tracker "I got movement."
"But I don't see anything..." spoke Kelly as she tightened the grip on her shotgun.
Izuku watched the dark fog carefully and noticed it moved or drifted differently on an area and noticed a faint blue glow in the center of said area. The more he stared at it the more he noticed a faint shape around it.
Just as his mind began to make sense of what he was seeing an Elite materialised letting out a roar as it charged at them. The three Spartans opened fire only for their bullets to repealed but the elites energy shields. It responded to their attack by raising its plasma rifle and opening fire on them.
"IZUKU LOOK OUT!"
Shouted Sam as he dived to push Izuku out of the way of a plasma bolt only for it strike Sams chest plate. Sam hit the deck hard instantly grabbing at his chest in pain just as Izuku lands and drops his rifle out of reach.
Izuku quickly rolled onto his back to see the Elite stand over his best friend ready to give a fatal blow. "SAM!!!" In a panic to save him Izuku pulled out his pistol and fired at the elites head hopeing it'll have the same affect it did on the Hunter he killed.
But the bullets simply deflected off the energy shields. The Elite turned towards Izuku in an expression they could be described as annoyance and turned to fire at him. Only for a shotgun round to echo through the room and knock the elite down to ground laying dead on its face.
Izuku looked up from the dead elite to see Kelly pump another round into the aliens head for good measure. The two then turned their attention to Sam who was groaning as he sat up.
"I'm okay. Just Burns... a lot" he grunted as Kelly began applying first aid and bio foam.
Izuku clenched his fists as he looked at his wounded friend. "Y-you idiot... why did you do that!? I should've taken that hit... Not You!"
Sam looked up at Izuku and shrugged "You did the same thing for LeMillion during the Yakuza raid."
"That was completely different. Those were quirk erasing rounds. Not Plasma!" Retorted Izuku frustratedly.
"It doesn't matter now. What's done is done." Sam Answered as he got to his feet and grabbed his rifle to continue on with the mission.
"The foam should stop any infection or bleeding. But it won't seal up." Spoke Kelly giving a quick run down on his injury as she recollected her shotgun and walked off with Sam towards the radiation source. Izuku followed along behind shaking his head and continued covering the rear.
After a few more corridors they arrived at a large room that held the radiation source. "You think that's what powers the ship?" Asked Kelly
"Doesn't matter aslong as it goes bang when the nuke blows." Answered Sam as Izuku began arming the Nuke.
Suddenly a door slid open revealing elites and grunts armed to fight. An Elite in golden yellow armour growled at the sight of the Spartans and roared commanding the other covenant aliens to open fire.
Kelly ducked behind cover with Sam as they both begun giving covering fire to allow Izuku the time he needed to finish arming the nuke. "Grrr come on come on... got it." He mumbled
He shouldered his rifle and turned to the others "armed and ready to go."
Sam nodded "You two get going. I'll defend the Nuke."
Izuku and Kelly stared straight at him for a moment forgetting they were engaged with the enemy and instead looking at Sam like he had a quirk that gave him two heads.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Asked Kelly as a plasma bolt shot past and she replied by tossing a grenade at the grunts.
Izuku glanced at Sams chest plate as realisation began to take over letting his shoulders drop "He's suits breached..."
Kelly stared at Izuku then turned back to Sam "no... we're not leaving you behind... we DONT leave anyone behind!"
Sam unclipped his helmet and let it drop to his feet "I won't be able to survive the vacuum. And we don't have the time to find away to patch it up. Especially with no tools or equipment. At least if I stay behind. I can defend the Nuke and give you two a chance to get out."
Izuku fired a quarter of his clip at the door way before turning back to Sam. He hated this situation. He didn't wanna leave his friend behind. How could he. Until Chief Mendez's words echoed in his mind.
"Remember there's a difference between spending a life. And wasting one."
Izuku sighed. Even though in his heart he wanted to find away against the odds to some how save his friend. His military trained mind told him it was impossible. He had not other choice but to accept what Sam he nominated himself to do.
He pulled Sam into a hug for a brief moment before giving him his remains frag grenades "Give em hell Spartan."
Kelly then hugged Sam as well but said nothing. Until she pulled back "I hate this... I hope you know that. Even if it's our only option."
"I know" Said Sam as he pulled out his pistol and shoulder his rifle. "On my mark. Go." He quickly turned the corner around from cover and opened fire letting Izuku and Kelly get their chance to make a run and escape.
As the doors slowly closed behind them Izuku looked over his shoulder to get one final look at Sam as the Spartan stood his ground and fired his rifle non stop until it clicked empty then began firing his pistol as the door locked shut.
Izuku sprinted as hard as he could to keep up with Kelly but suddenly the ship shook violently making the two Spartans stumble. "What was that?" Kelly asked as she got back on her feet.
"I-Moon just blew up. The ships shields protected it from the nuke like we thought. We gotta move. Now!" Explained Izuku and began to run faster towards the docking pay.
As soon as they found their exit Kelly quickly opened the shield doors to the open of space and the too leaped out activating their jet packs trying to escape the blast radius whilst dodging the hundreds of astroids.
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Thon gripped his Energy sword tightly as approached the fallen Demon that laid before him coughing blood and gasping for air. He snarled in disgust that only one of these beings was able to defend his position for so long.
He gripped the human by the neck and lifted him off the floor and mentally noted he weighed more then the other humans he held like this in a similar fashion.
The demon grimaced under Thon's grip but the demons comfort level was the last thing on the Sangheili's mind. He wanted to him suffer. Especially after the embarrassment the demons have caused him. Thon would be lucky to face the Hirearchs... and keep his head after this.
Suddenly a high pitched beeping filled the room causing Thon to look down noticing a human contraption flashing red. The Demon began chuckling regaining his attention "Times up."
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The shock wave of the blast threw Kelly and Izuku violently enough that they crashed into the astroids and spun around violently into each other until they were out into open space. Their beacons automatically began sending a signal and Izuku took the chance to look back at where I-Moon and the covenant ship once were only to see hot burning debris amongst the floating space rocks.
"Now we know... We can hurt them." Spoke Izuku to himself.
(A/N: hope you all enjoyed that one. For the next chapter will be a time skip but I'm not entirely sure how far ahead I'll go or when I'll get to it.
But I am happy that I managed to give y'all another chapter sooner rather then months and months later.
Anyway PLUS ULTRA!!)