Chapter 7

New Allies New Enemies

Master Chief walked out of the portal and entered the soft ground of Earth once again.

"It's good to be home." The Chief said and the other marines followed behind him.

"No time to waste; let's find that guy Samus and figure out how to start this prophecy thing." Cortana urged him,

"I'm going." The group ran in the direction of their base and saw a huge fire fight. They hurried down a hill and joined the battle.

"The cavalry has arrived!" a soldier shouted as the ODST marines and Master Chief began to take out the Covenant troops.

On the other side of the complex, Private Fitzgerald and Samus and a handful of marines were taking on a horde of Covenant troops. Plasma fire seemed to rain down on their position. Fitzgerald ran forward and knocked a Grunt out with the butt of his gun. A Hunter jumped a few inches in front of him.

"I'll take you on you bastard!" Fitzgerald yelled having no idea what he was up against. He threw a grenade and it exploded on target but the Hunter continued to proceed. The Hunter was now within striking range and before Fitzgerald was battered with the large shield he whispered to himself, "Shit." And was flung a few meters across the battle field. As he hit the ground half the bones in his body broke. Amazingly he was still alive, and still conscious. He watched as the Hunter walked next to him and raised his large foot, but then a flash of yellow light blared in his eyes and when he looked again, the Hunter's head was gone and he was lying on the ground oozing thick, orange blood.

Samus came to Fitzgerald's side. "Don't worry." She said, "It'll be ok." But Fitzgerald knew it wasn't ok. His brother had said the same thing to his mom when they were attacked back on the planet Reach and he had told his brother that when he was at Death's door. He smiled. He was glad that he was able to hear those words. They comforted him in a strange, but good, way. He closed his eyes and drifted away into a deep sleep, which he never woke from.

Samus watched as the marine die in her arms. She laid him down on the ground and stood up. She was filled with anger. She screamed and she began firing her weapon like hell.

The Master Chief saw on the other side of the camp a flurry of missiles fly in different directions. "I have a hunch that that is Samus over there." He said to himself and ran over to check it out. He stopped when he saw Samus. She was surrounded by black, charred holes in the ground and dead bodies. Lots of dead bodies. I mean LOTS of dead bodies. She turned around and saw him.

"Hey that's a girl!" Cortana yelled in surprise,

"How do you know?" Master Chief asked while slowly walking towards Samus,

"It's a sixth sense you can call it." The A.I. replied and Samus and the Master Chief met for the first time.

"I presume you're the Master Chief." She said,

"You seem to know me. Haven't been fantasizing about me, have you Bounty Hunter?"

"You seem to know me as well. And you seem to know I'm a girl, how is that?"

"Let's just call it a sixth sense." The Master Chief replied.

The battle was over a few moments later and the soldiers regrouped. "So," Samus said, "according to you, the Galactic Federation was there looking for me to fulfill a prophecy?"

"That is correct." The Master Chief replied,

"And they say that you are the so called 'Reclaimer'."

"Indeed."

"So that means--" Samus was cut short when a marine yelled,

"Sir! We have a U.F.A. coming this way. They looked armed and dangerous!"

"U.F.A.?" The Master Chief asked,

"Unidentified foreign alien." Samus replied,

"Oh great, they just come up with better and better things to say don't they." The Master Chief and Samus walked up the hill towards the soldier and they saw something they both hadn't expected to see.

The Space Pirates ran along the grassy plains of the new world. There were a large group of Space Pirates and back in the dome shaped room were a larger number waiting for orders, along with many Phazon Space Pirates waiting as well. The leader of the pack yelled back, "The 'dark beings' had said a group of us must go and find another alien race called the Covenant. A few soldiers and I shall look for them. The rest of you, have some fun."

There was a roar of excitement and the leader, along with four other Space Pirates broke off the pack of Space Pirates.

"We're in deep shit." Master Chief said, "My soldiers, except the ODST's maybe, cannot stand up against the Space Pirates."

"There's nothing we can do, there already here." Samus said,

"Soldiers! Get ready to engage new enemy on sight!" Your really gonna have to give them hell!" the Master Chief called to the other marines and pulled put his assault rifle and got ready.

Samus fired a few missiles, and fired her plasma beam a few times as well. The Master Chief threw his three grenades and told the marines to man the Warthogs and tanks. A moment later, the Pirates were upon them. The marines had no chance. Few were ripped to shreds by the Space Pirates swords and some where smothered in plasma fire. The Warthogs did little to help for the monsters were too quick, but the tanks missiles were strong were enough to blow a few Pirates to pieces.

The battle was over a little while later. Dead soldiers laid everywhere. Only three marines were left. More Pirates would be coming, and if they didn't leave they would be dead.

"I still got HQ back a few kilometers from here." The Master Chief said, everyone nodded in agreement. They headed for HQ, retrieving some ammo from the dead soldiers and burying them before leaving. Hopefully, they'd make it.

The leader of the Space Pirates was inside a large ship along with his soldiers. He had heard this ship was called The Pathogen of Death. He was escorted into a large room buy three aliens known as Elites in gold armor. The Elites left to room and three skinny aliens appeared, sitting atop a large throne.

"Who are you." The alien in the middle said,

The leader knew it was a Prophet, the 'Dark Beings' had somehow learned of these creatures before. "Prophet, I am the leader of the Space Pirates! And I have a proposition to make with you."

The 'Dark Beings' sat in a dark room, in a dark tower. There were at least twenty of them, probably more somewhere. The largest 'dark being' looked at the headless body of the soldier 'the Recalimer' had killed. Although all 'dark beings' looked exactly the same, they somehow knew who was who. The large dark soldier sighed and said, "The prophecy is being fulfilled. Soon out soldiers will be in danger of being infected by the "race presumed dead"."

Another soldier continued to say, "We must continue on! Insure the death of 'The Bounty Hunter'."

"But is it really worth it?" the largest being said, "Having our people die for such a cause we do not even care of. 'The Bounty Hunter' had never known about us! But know that we have attacked 'the Recalimer' the hunter will surely know about us."

"We have to kill her to insure we have no interference from the hunter as we attack the light world to invoke our darkness!"

"Do as you wish! But I will not be here when we are near the brink of destruction by the new race!" The monster walked away and the rest of the beings began to bicker amongst them to see what was to be done.

A moment later the largest being came back as a verdict was concluded, "We shall continued as planned and send a group of soldiers to find the Space Pirates and Covenant. We shall give the group a map of coordinates of where to go on the new planet to reach their objectives."

The largest being sighed, shook his head, and the meeting was adjourned.

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Wow! Such excitement!

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