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Please note, this second part is based off of the Halo CE Map Extinction, very very far away from the place in the first chapter.

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The Covenant Cruiser fired it's volley of Plasma Torpedoes into the back end of the UNSC Genocide, causing it to fall towards the plateau below it. As it hurtled to the ground, Tex ran to the weapons control and fired a single, well aimed MAC round into it's engines. The ship hit the ground and he blacked out.

"Tex! Get up!" He heard, and Tex sat up. A Spartan in blue armor held out his hand to help Tex up. As he stood, he realized he was in the experimental part of the ship, with no doors, but a teleporter on each side.

"What's going on?" Tex asked the Spartan.

"We're under attack by Covenant ground troops, and we can't establish contact with anything that isn't on this ship already. Follow me, I'll take you to the armory."

"Why are we in the experimental section of the ship?" Tex looked at the blue-greenish vortex that lay on the other end of the hall.

"The whole ship went into this stage when we crashed. You got thrown into a teleporter right when it was activated," The Spartan pointed to the teleporter, "That one will take us to the hangar, and from there I'll show you how to navigate the ship."

The blue Spartan walked through the vortex and Tex hesitantly followed. Tex was new to all this teleporter and energy weapons stuff that was just being employed by the UNSC, and was very skeptical about it's use. He had heard one guy got split in half while going through a teleporter because it's power source died while he was testing it.

They suddenly appeared in a hangar that had many Marines and Spartans running about, loading into the old T51 jets and the new, Longsword fighters the UNSC was finally letting the Marine Corp use. The blue Spartan led Tex to a teleporter underneath the Longsword landing pad, and they found themselves in an armory. Tex picked out a Nitrogen operated variant of the M6C, and an SRS97, a variant of the SRS99 that the UNSC used as a Anti-Infantry weapon. The SRS97 was an Anti-Everything weapon, and it was more of a long range Rocket Launcher that had an effective range of over 20 miles. He walked out of the armory through the teleporter and met the blue Spartan near a pelican.

"Tex, we need you for an important mission involving the Covenant ship that shot us down."

"Isn't it gone?"

"No, the round you fired disabled it's engines, and it's not going anywhere. However, it has been sighted dropping off ground and in-orbit air units to attack us."

Tex nodded and climbed into the back of the pelican as the blue Spartan directed, along with two other Spartans. The pilot lifted off and closed the back hatch on the bird.

"What is your name?" Tex asked the blue Spartan whom had guided him through so far.

"I'm Mark. My team has been assigned to hit the Covenant ship through several teleporters they've set up around their downed ship. It got caught between to large rocks, so their gravity lift is still operational. We're here to stop that."

"What about me?" Tex asked.

"You were assigned to make a distraction. Use whatever you can to make sure they don't get in behind us."

The pilot opened the hatch and they saw a small platform which was used for a sniper nest. It had a large purple-ish teleporter on the side facing the cliff it was built into. As they hovered closer, a Jackal came around the corner and was shot by the Spartan sitting next to him. They all got out, except for Tex, who stayed in the bay.

"Circle around to the other platform and set him off there!" Mark called to the Pelican's pilot, who flew him off to the other sniper platform where another teleporter lay.

Tex hopped off the Pelican, and then moved up near the teleporter, pistol drawn. He scanned behind him, and saw battle going on between the Genocide's troops and the Covenant. Plasma rounds flew into the air, and a Longsword dropped in a missile to take out an approaching vehicle. A pair of Seraphs came and shot it down shortly after.

He heard footsteps behind him, and spun around to see nothing. There was a glare of the light, and Tex knew there was an Elite in front of him when the sword flashed to life. Wasting no time, Tex dove for the Elite's legs and took it to the ground. It swung the sword near his head, but it lodged itself into the floor after he missed. Tex punched the Elite's head a few times as it attempted to pull it's weapon from the ground. He took out his pistol and aimed his it at it's head, but before he could pull the trigger, a 50 caliber round flew straight through it's skull. Mark had beat him to the kill, from a mile away.

Tex tossed the alien's body off the edge of the platform, letting it plummet to the ground. Upon entering the teleporter, he found himself in a room, a control room most likely. There was an elevated floor, with a ramp leading to it and a terminal which wrapped around the railing on the platform. It was a weird design, but it seemed to work for the Elites. As he approached the terminal, he noticed several other teleporters in the room. He decided to take one, as his mission was to create a distraction. He found himself floating downwards, with a Seraph and a red colored Ghost below him. They were unmanned, and as he reached the bottom he realized there were several dead bodies around the ships. Covenant bodies.

"Does anyone read us? This is Pelican Foxtrot 029 requesting support! We're..." the transmission in Tex's helmet cut off. Shortly after a Pelican with a damaged wing and a Seraph behind it came flying over his head. Time to test out his Anti-Everything rifle. He lay down and put the Seraph under his sights, and fired. The Seraph exploded on impact and crashed into the ground. Damn good weapon.. Tex smiled. No, wait, not the ground, something worse. Tex's smile disappeared.

A Scarab... Tex thought as the behemoth planted one of its legs into the wreckage of the destroyed ship, and a green burst of energy erupted from it's main cannon and obliterated the Pelican.

Tex's radio had started buzzing with UNSC chatter.

"Whoa! What the Hell is that?"

"Recon Bravo, we have reports of a Scarab on the ground."

"Charlie two, evasive maneuvers! I repeat! Evas-.."

"Get out of there, Lieutenant! Move-"

"Keep firing! Hit it's- "

"Charlie two, report, Charlie two?"

There was static, followed by a single, completely clear message, from command. Tex's head went fuzzy as an image of a woman appeared in his mind.

"There's nothing we can do, all forces fall back to the Genocide immediately. Godspeed to you all."

Tex fell to the ground, and he saw something. Something white, and had the shape of a Spartan, but just wasn't. It wasn't a friggin' Elite for sure.

Tex, Mark, and the SRS 97 belong to me. Everything else belongs to someone else.