As I'm walking through the city towards the smoke towers I pass through several battle zones, what surprised me was that the dead consisted mostly of Elites but the strange thing was that they were killed by plasma rounds not bullets and whenever I come across a battle with grunts I would always find a brute with them instead of an Elite.
'Ok this is starting to get strange.'
As I'm walking through the rubble I see the first drop pod but what I saw was something I wasn't prepared for. The pod had several brutes around it with a few grunts but what really caught my attention was the fact that the chieftain was laughing at an injured Elite Minor.
"You are not going to see the light of day sangheili because the prophets have ordered your race to be cleansed."
I couldn't hear a response but I could tell that the elite was in a lot of pain since it had a spike round in its leg.
"Now you shall die worm!"
As the chieftain brought up his weapon, I don't know why I did this, I stepped out of the shadows with my mini-gun spinning as I shouted, "Hey uglies."
Instantly all of the brutes looked at me but as soon as a few saw what my weapon was they took a step back in fright. Before any of them could react or bring their weapons up I opened fire and cut through the mass of brutes and grunts. Their shields were not prepared for the large number of projectiles that was heading their way so the shields failed instantly with the mini-gun cutting through them with ease well all except for the chieftain who was somehow smart enough to take cover. After only a minute or two all of the brutes and grunts were dead but before I could move forward the chieftain fired a plasma pistol at me. He had a triumphed smile on his face as the glob of plasma headed straight towards me. I just smirked as my advanced shields that could probably rival a Spartan's shield just absorbed the round. The chieftain stared with his mouth open in disbelief but that was all the time I needed to line up my mini-gun and burst a few rounds into him killing him. As soon as he was down I walked towards the drop pod with my mini-gun cooling down. As I neared the drop pod the Elite just glared at me while it was still wincing in pain from the spike round pinning it to the wall.
"Go ahead and kill me you filthy human. I have no honor anymore and nowhere to go anymore."
The feminine voice took me by surprise and caused me to stumble over one of the corpse but I quickly righted myself and I could of sworn I heard the elite laugh lightly. When I looked closer at the elite I saw the characteristics of a female. I was snapped out of my blank stare when the elite tried to get off the spike and caused her to roar in pain.
"woah. Hold on don't move. Let me help you."
I dropped the mini-gun to my side and took a step towards her to help her but as soon as I took a step closer she flared her mandibles at me and shouted, "Stay away from me Human. I may not have anymore honor among the covenant but I still have my own honor."
"Forget your pride and honor for a second because if that spike isn't taken out of you soon then you are going to die from blood loss."
At my reasoning she stayed quiet and watched as I slowly approached with my combat knife out and watched as I used my knife to cut the top of the spike off. Once the top was off I gently pulled the spike out. Once it was out I tossed it to the side and brought out my medkit and used a little bit of gauze to clean the wound then I brought out a needle and thread and sewed the hole closed. The entire time I was doing this she just watched me with millions of questions going through her brain. One of these questions she asked out loud when I finished, "Why did you help me? I'm your enemy. I could have killed you while you were tending to my wounds or vice versa?"
I just smiled at her and depolarized my helmet as I said, "have you ever heard the phrase 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend'?"
"yes I have heard such a phrase but I don't see how that implies to this situ...oh!"
Her eyes widen when she realizes that this was just the same situation. She didn't stay frozen for long as her leg gave her pain when she accidentally shifted weight onto it. I caught her when her leg gave out on her.
"woah. Your not going anywhere with that injury."
"I am perfectly capable of walking human and I will also let you know that we sangheili heal faster than you humans."
"I have a name you know and it's Delac but my squad calls me Devi which is short for devastation."
"well Devi my name is Rechèl Vadamee cousin to the Arbiter Thel Vadam."
"If your cousin is the Arbiter then why are you fighting here instead of being part of his squad?"
"he is not aware that I am family to him."
For a second she had a distant look in her eyes but she quickly went back to her hostile mood.
"Why do you even care?"
"Just curious plus most of us humans try to make our allies happy."
We just stood there in silence until the silent air was broken by the sound of an Elite roaring in pain. When the sound reached Rechèl's ears her eyes shrunk as she remembered that she wasn't the only one to escape the slaughter on the ship.
"Where did that other pod land at!?"
"It should be down this road and around that corner. Let's go save your friend."
As I started to run towards the second drop pod I caught a glimpse of Rechèl grabbing a laser sniper rifle from one of the dead kig-yar and checking the charge. She tried to keep up with me but her injuries prevented her from going too fast and when I slowed down to let her catch up she glared at me and shouted, "Don't wait for me! Go help the sangheili in the drop pod."
"Roger."
As soon as I said that I sped off and rounded the corner with my mini-gun primed and rolling. What I saw when I rounded the corner made me want to turn around and pretend I didn't see anything.

(AN)Cliff-Hanger! Always wanted to say that. well see you guys next time for the next installment of New Allies.