Needing somewhere to hide out, Noble team fled to a cave.
"Our foe is more devious than we imagined" Colonel Urban Holland explained to Noble team over the comms. "That Spire was indeed a teleporter linked to a cloaked Covenant Supercarrier; a grave threat. Thankfully, help is imminent. Sixty percent of the UNSC fleet is en route to Reach from existing deployments. The first battle group should arrive within forty-eight hours."
"Forty-eight hours?" Jun asked in disbelief, "That's imminent?"
Caboose had no idea what they were talking about so he let his head wander around the cave and he saw Carter and Catherine debating and sighed. These are as romantic as Church and Tex!
Too bad Caboose was wrong.
"That thing's crushing us and we're waiting for backup? They'll be backing up a grave!" Catherine protested.
"All our nukes are either out-system or went down with the ships that carried them. You're preaching to the converted." Carter answered.
"How converted?" Catherine asked.
Carter glared at her. "I know that look, Cat."
"Don't you want to hear what I want to say?" Catherine asked in a sweet voice.
Carter was probably going to regret his next few words. "Fine, I'll hear it."
"Remember that accident a couple years back? Colony ship en route to Cygnus. Seven hundred dead?" Catherine reminded him.
"Vaguely" Carter thought for a few seconds. "A slipspace drive malfunction, right?"
"Actually, it worked fine. The drive was mounted improperly after a service haul-out. When it fired, it teleported half the ship to oblivion." Catherine explained.
Carter wanted to sigh exasperatingly. "And this is relevant, how?"
"A certain Covenant Supercarrier could, maybe, with some assistance, suffer the same unfortunate accident...?" Catherine teased.
Carter realized what she was saying. "Even for you, Kat, that's-"
"Inspired?" Catherine asked.
"Well that's not the word I would use." Carter said.
The other members of Noble team had noticed they were talking and approached them. "What's going on?" Jorge asked.
Catherine explained that by infiltrating a small Covenant corvette with a makeshift bomb and set the corvette on a docking course with the Supercarrier, and save Reach.
"You're scary; do you know that?" Emile commented once Catherine finished explaining her plan.
"All we need now is a green light from Holland, sir" Catherine explained.
Carter sighed. "Oh, there's no way in hell he's gonna go for this..."