The next day...
Carter and the UNSC decided that the best way to take out the army, was to take it out with their own army. The Covenant army was huge: legions of fighter squadrons, hundreds of tanks and Ghosts and at least a million Covenant foot soldiers. The UNSC army consisted of: Noble team, Hundreds of Warthogs, a few "Mongoose" ATVs, several Scorpion tanks, Dozens of Falcons and a couple of Pelicans.
Carter, Jun, George and Emile were in a pelican, while Caboose and Catherine were in a Warthog. Catherine was driving, a random UNSC marine was in the passenger seat and Caboose was on the gun.
"Here they come!" Carter called over the radio, as the various vehicles of the covenant appeared over the horizon.
"Six, get ready to help us!" Catherine called out, not trusting Caboose to figure out he needed to do that already.
"OK!" Caboose replied and fired upon several of the warthogs, destroying them.
"What are you doing!?" Catherine asked, enraged.
"You said help them, and that's what I did!" Caboose replied.
"You two stop bickering! Their almost upon us!" Carter ordered, as the various vehicles of the covenant were almost in firing range.
Catherine then had an idea. "Hey six, help the vehicles coming towards us."
"OK!" Caboose replied and he started firing at the covenant, destroying a few ghosts.
"Good job!" George called over the radio.
The celebrations were short lived however, as the bridge the warthogs were crossing blew up.
"Hold on to something!" Catherine called out as the warthog jumped over the bridge.
Caboose decided it would be best to jump out of the warthog and did so, landing perfectly on his feet, while Cathrine rolled out of the warthog as it rolled into a tree, which killed the UNSC marine instantly.
"Kat, 6, what's your status?" Carter asked over the comms.
"We're pushing up the hill!" Catherine reported as multiple grunts and she started firing on them with her pistol. She turned to Caboose. "Come on Six, help them!"
Caboose nodded and started shooting the grunts with deadly precision.
This guy is good Cathrine thought. With some training and discipline, he could make a great soldier!
They moved up a hill, killing various grunts as they went along. Once they reached the top of the hill, they got a radio call from Carter.
"There's two massive AA guns and we can't provide air support because of them!" Carter revealed. "Their protected by a spire with a shield around it, which ONI suspects is a teleporter and where a majority of the Covenant army seem to be emerging from. We sent in a Falcon and it crashed as soon as it touched the shield."
"We'll destroy it." Catherine said with determination before turning to Caboose. "You get any of that?"
"What does AA mean?" Caboose asked.
Catherine sighed. "I'll try and explain on the way." She said as she received the coordinates to the spire from Carter and started to follow them.
After half an hour of running, walking and killing more grunts, they reached the shield.
"ohh, a shiny thing!" Caboose observed.
Cathrine had no interest in having any conversation with Caboose as she saw a small army of covenant forces charge at them.
"Come on!" She ordered and they went through the shield. She fired upon them and Caboose emptied an entire clip on the small army, killing all of them.
"That was fun!" Caboose said.
"If you want more fun, you should go use the gravity lift up the spire that has the two AA guns on it." Cathrine said.
Caboose just stared at her for a few seconds. "Yeah, I don't know what that means, so I'm just going to nod and say yes. Yes."
Cathrine just sighed. "Just go to the spire and you'll see what I mean."
"OK." Caboose said as he ran into the gravity lift and let out an excited squeal as he went up it and landed on the top of the spire. "That was fun! Can we do it again?"
"Focus on the mission!" Cathrine ordered as she landed next to Caboose. "We have to destroy the shield!"
Caboose noticed some Covenant and went off to kill them. Cathrine used this as an opportunity to go to the shield control room and deactivated the shield.
"Noble 1, we need evac now!" Cathrine said.
"Roger, we're on the way!" Carter said.
Cathrine went back to where she saw Caboose, and saw that he was fighting multiple Covenant and killing them easily.
He would make a great soldier, if only his mind wasn't such a mess. She thought.
Quickly, the Falcon arrived. Caboose and Cathrine climbed on-board as Carter ordered the pilot to pull out, and the helicopter turned away.
"Control, this is Noble 1." Carter announced over comms, "Spire One is green, and you're free to engage. Have a nice day."
"Copy that, Noble 1. Be advised, all ground units: Frigate Three-One-Eight heavy is inbound, and MAC rounds have been authorized." Control replied.
"MAC rounds? In atmosphere?" A concerned Jorge asked.
"One way to get their attention. Hold onto your teeth, people!", Carter replied.
Noble team watched as the UNSC Grafton soared past their Falcon and fired at the spire. Noble team watched as the Spire fell to the ground and generated a large cloud of dust.
Suddenly, an energy beam streak down from the sky, which hit the Grafton and destroyed the vessel instantly. Noble team watched all of this in horror, except Caboose, as he was distracted by the bright lights the beams emmitted.
"The Grafton is dust! We need to get out of here now!", Carter yelled. And the Falcon quickly removed itself from the area. Noble team looked up and saw what destroyed The Grafton: a Covenant Supercarrier.