A/N: Nothing here this time.

Chapter 2: The Capture of the Rising Ascension

"Noble Prophet of Truth, I humbly present myself before you in all of you're mercy" said Tarflus, the first son of Tartarus. Truth raised his hand is signal for him to get up.

"Although the Demon is here upon our ship, defiling its Holy presence with his filthy footsteps, he has still managed to take down four of our scout teams sent to check on his position. That of which is an unfortunate turn of events on itself, I will now have you bear the responsibility of defending the Rising Ascension from his desecration. As for Hartio's failure, he will be punished most severely."

"Yes, Excellency, I will do my best" Tarflus walked away with his eyes lowered in a sign of respect to the Prophet, and continued to leave the Prophet's Sermon Room.

Once out of the room, he thought to himself "Hartio, why did you have to fail? Now I have to take responsibility for the treachery" Although Tarflus wanted to have the glory of taking the Demon down, if he failed, he would be executed for his incompetence, and his death would be humiliating, and publicly announced.

The Chief just took two more patrols down, with a little trap from plasma grenades set as distractions for Truth. He was very close, as he knew that the Covenant ships mimicked the Forerunner designs. That and he was running into patrols almost routinely now, about every 3 minutes he counted.

"I need to find an armory, or at least get some more plasma grenades" thought the Chief. He opened a comm. channel to Admiral Hood and said "Admiral, this is Spartan 117, I need some drop ships over here for support, troops, and ammo, over"

"This is Lord Hood, Master Chief the supplies and soldiers you requested will be sent once you can confirm that that ship's shields are down"

"Admiral, from the schematics I have here, it says that the landing bays don't have shields, they just have extra strong hull armor"

"Well Master Chief, I will send those boys over to you in a minute, meet them in our designated landing bay" A nav point appeared over the Spartan's HUD "Roger that sir, 117 out. Master Chief walked down the hall that he had previously covered in blood form a killing spree a couple minutes ago, and continued through the hallway, soon he saw four pelicans unload 12 Hell Jumpers each, along with ammo crates, and they then left as soon as they had come.

A Captain by the name of Wellow showed up on his CNI Transponder approached him, "we are all ready to go when you are Chief, just get you're gear you wanted and we'll all move out under you're command." The Chief nodded, and made his way to the ammo and gun crates. Inside he found that there was some of the old MA5B's, a couple BR55's, and a few M90's. He also saw a few weapons he hadn't before so he said "Captain, what are these?" as he held up one of the new rifles.

"Oh, I forgot we had that in here, that is the new MA8B Tactical Rifle, it fires an 80 round clip, and has three basic firing styles, if you hadn't noticed before, most of the ODST's here are using them. Master Chief looked at the troopers, and found to disbelief that most of the soldiers were using them, he must be getting tired since he didn't notice. So the Chief went to take each of the assault rifles, and he saw the new one has a scope like the BR55's,

"I hope these things will get the job done like the MA5B" he thought as he took ten clips for each gun, as well as 8 frags, as he had no plasma grenades. "Everyone, start building a permiter as they will surely send out an attack force. MG's up front, everyone else dig in!" Master Chief said.

"Noble Hierarch, we have found out that the Humans have discovered the weakness in our landing bays. They appear to have landed a platton sized force if my information is correct, plus supplies, and have established a temporary HQ" Tarflus said.

"Do to these events; I will have to evacuate this ship once the Humans get to close, in order to conserve what remains of the Hierarchs." Truth said. "You must defend this command deck Tarflus! Make an attack on the Humans, and if that fails get you're remaining trops back here. Do NOT have this ship tainted anymore by the Human filth!" "Yes, Noble Prophet of Truth, I will carry out you're orders without flaw."

Tarflus bowed his head and eyes in respect, and backed out of Truth's private quarters. He hurredly went to his barracks, which happens to be the ship's galley. He gave a quick snarl, and his subordinates woke up and listened to what he had to say. After he gave his motivational speech, a series of roars were heard in approval. "Come, brothers, and we shall slay these vermin without hesitation!" And so began the Jiralhanea attack consisting of about 50 soldiers.

The Chief heard them coming, and told everyone over the comm. to try and get headshots. It's a good thing that they also brought in some Jackhammers for the brutes, otherwise this defensive might fail. The Spartan set 3 grenade traps, that when activated, will kill about 5 brutes per grenade placed, and he put 2 grenades in each trap and got more from the supply crates.

Then they came. The Brutes tripped all three traps at the same time, and killed 20 of them. Then the MG's opened up, and so did the luanchers, after the luanchers fired their volley, about a dozen more brutes lay with their guts hanging out, and various body parts littered the floor. After the volley, the troopers opened up with their own rifles depending on what that soldier personally chose for the mission.

They had also brought in a new A.I., named Patton, after the famous General in World War 2. He was busy hacking into the Covenant ship's data and found out that the name of the ship was called the Rising Ascension, and that they're base they set up is only 13 hallways acroos from the command room, but it was heavily guarded. After about 5 minutes, all that was left of the brute attack was remains of Brutes, ranging from disconnected torsos, some of which were still somehow alive, to dismembered body parts, scattered about the room. 5 or so brutes managed to escape the carnage, and went back to their own lines.

But sadly, they lost 17 ODST's from Brute Shots and Brute Plasma Rifles. "Admiral, we may need some more weapons and ammunition if we meet another large scale attack like this."

"OK Master Chief, we are sending in another platoon and more munitions to the same landing bay, we are also sending in some barrels containing instacrete."

"Understood sir, but why instacrete?"

"Because Patton sent in a video feed to let me know whats going on over there, and you need a defendable postion incase you can't luanch an offensive quick enough."

"Yes sir, Spartan 117 over and out" Master Chief cut his comm. link and he and the ODST's waited for the Pelicans to arrive with their troops and cargo.

A/N: So how do you like this so far? The battle with Truth is up next, and I may introduce The Arbiter in the next chapter. Please read and review!

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