Hey guys. It's been a while since I uploaded anything, but this story got five reviews and so here I am! I actually have a few complete fanfictions just sitting in my documents right now, cause that's what I've been doing all this time. Writing but not uploading. Anyway, give me another five reviews and the next chappie is all yours!

The pelican touched down on the hangar floor with a quiet thunk. Percy floated to the rear compartment and firmly pressed the release on the rear door. It descended with a quiet hiss and Percy stepped out onto the dull titanium-A floor with a heavy step.

"Odd, this hangar should be swarming with crew." Beth commented, her green avatar glowed on the inside of his visor happily. The entire ship groaned and jolted.

"Did we just jump to slipspace?" Percy asked her,

"Yes, but I can't tell why." The AI responded. Percy headed for the nearest doorway. A few drops of blue and purple blood littered the hanger deck along his path. He grimaced and flicked his wrist, a glowing purple blade extended instantly from the emitter on his forearm. He forced the door open and found a pile of eviscerated marines lying in a large puddle of blood. He jumped over the pile and came face to face with an elite. The four jawed creature howled and Percy could hear reinforcements closing in. He lunged forward and separated its head from its hunched shoulders soundlessly. The triangular armor of a grunt appeared and Percy kicked the smallish creature square in its mask, breaking the breathing device and sending the enemy flying backward. The deck shook with the stomping of the incoming forces and Percy sliced through the lights before extinguishing the glowing blade. The corridor was shrouded in darkness as he put his back to the wall and waited with his assault rifle raised, his finger waiting on the trigger. Two elites burst through the bulkhead door with energy swords raised, they were met with a hail of bullets and a fragmentation grenade. The grunts and jackals behind them screamed as the grenade went off, the elites dying grunts were almost pitiful. Percy stepped through the door the elites had come from and sprayed the remaining covenant before reloading. The ship suddenly shook and Percy was thrown into the wall. The ship groaned loudly as the hull's integrity failed.

"We dropped out of slipspace!" Beth told him, Percy stumbling to his feet in time to see the corridor only ten meters away implode, the vacuum of space ripping at the inside of the ship. Percy ran. He made it to the hangar and managed to grab onto the hull of his pelican before the hangar doors crumpled and were sucked out to space. The pelican was sucked out with Percy gripping the side tightly.

"How far are we from the nearest UNSC base?" Percy asked. There was a moment of silence.

"Too far. They modified the slipspace drive, we went much farther than we should've gone. And we went way off course, I have no idea where we are right now." The AI answered. Percy pressed the release on the pelican's rear door before pulling himself inside and closing it again. He made his way to the cockpit and started the engines, directly in front of him was a massive metal orb.

Percy struggled to keep the pelican from dropping out of the air. He could see smoke billowing from the port engine even from the cockpit, trees licked at the belly of his pelican as it steadily fell lower and lower in the sky. Finally a particularly large tree impacted the starboard stabilizer and the pelican dropped, spinning. Percy punched the canopy above him until it shattered and he could climb out. He was met by a nine foot tall glowing metal figure. He froze and watched the figure carefully as it watched him.

"The glyphs on its back are forerunner…" Beth observed in amazement.

"How do I communicate with it?" Percy asked,

"That's a bit harder." Beth mused. Percy would have rolled his eyes but they were trained on the figure standing just a few meters away, glaring at him. Suddenly it gestured with an arm for Percy to follow.

"Guess it communicated for us." Percy muttered, following the metal warrior through the dense foliage.

The massive structure defied gravity. The building the forerunner figure had led Percy to was floating above the ground, and it rose so high even he couldn't see the top. The metal warrior led him to a ramp and ushered him up it hurriedly. Percy followed his guide deep into the building, until he came to a large chamber, his guide vanished. Ahead of him a circle of iridescent blue appeared, a woman slowly growing from the center.

"Welcome Destroyer." She intoned, her voice calm and soothing but also metallic.

"What did you call me?" Percy asked,

"You are a Destroyer, most humans are classified as Reclaimers. But not you, no… Not one with power such as you wield. You are a Destroyer." The woman's feet touched down lightly on the glowing circle and she began walking slowly toward him.

"What does that mean?" Percy asked, readying himself for a fight.

"It means, that it is time you awoke. It is time you took your place in this universe as a guardian of the mantel." The woman smiled fondly at him and blue light erupted beneath his feet. His armor melted into glowing blue particles at the same time Beth's green avatar appeared beside him, her form solid and only slightly tinged green. The blue light burned his skin, eating at the cells and changing them. Pain flowed through his mind like an unstoppable flood. Memories followed. He screamed and fell to his knees, he could dimly hear Beth shouting something at the woman in front of them. The blue light dissipated and Percy's armor covered his form once more, assembling from the very light around them. He stood and offered Beth his hand, she took it and vanished, returning to his armor.

"You have my thanks Librarian." Percy rumbled. The air crackled as the woman smirked, then Percy was gone.

Oooooh, plot. I wonder what'll happen next, and I honestly don't know for sure. I don't have a plan or anything for this story. Anyway, nice to finally be back. Keep reviewing and I'll get the next chapter out as soon as I have another five on this story.