Hey random people! I actually managed to FINALLY get onto a good computer and start typing. So now the first chapter is the REAL first chapter, the second one edited, and now chapter three is out! I'M SO AWESOME, aren't I? So yah. Check those out, then read on! By the way, thanks everyone for helping me out on this story, especially since some people sent negative comments(you suck, those people. I know that I'll see you in hell as I pass on my way to Fan Fiction heaven!). Thanks everyone else!

Chapter 3

I woke up in the morning in my mini sleeping bag that Billy Anderson had given to each of us. He slept in the "Sky Scraper". I realized that it was pretty early, but decided to get up anyways. I slowly slid out of my sleeping bag from its position next to Mike(who was snoring) and walked over to a small fire that Billy was making. I sat down across from him, but he made no move to start talking, so I did.

"So, I heard that you lost a rank because you did something to save lives. What was it?" I asked him. He looked up, glared at me, then stared back down at the fire. I waited five minutes before asking again.

"Seriously, I ought to know if you did something wrong or right. How else can I know to trust you?" I asked him again. He finally looked up at me, a slightly softened frown on his face.

"It was seven years ago. I was on a mission with another group of pilots. We all had falcons or hornets for an attack mission on an insurrectionist base near by. On Harvest, before the covenant came… so we were almost there when flak started hitting my buddies birds from the ground. One went down, and the others were forced to crash land in a field. Command ordered me to keep moving and attack the base and leave the others. I disobeyed, shooting a couple missiles in the general direction of the base, then flew down to the ground and picked up the other pilots that had survived. We got back to base, where I was arrested and sent to the court martial to be judged. I later learned that those missiles had penetrated and hit the gas tank, causing the base to be set on fire. It wasn't completely destroyed though, and that's what mattered to the high ranks, so I was lowered down to a regular private, and that was the end of it." He finished his story with a grimace before standing up to go work on the radio. I got up too and put a hand on his shoulder.

"Then I believe you did the right thing, whatever command thinks." I said to him. He looked up at me, gave a slight grin, then went back to work on the radio.

I also got up and decided to scout the area around us. Heck, maybe place some booby traps, just to be safe. I pulled out my shotgun and set down the icy slope. I wandered around the area for about twenty minutes before I found a weird object. A huge bolder was just sitting in a small cave near us. I walked up to the cave, did a quick look around, then sneaked into the room. I found a small fire and some weapons. I looked down on them, gulped, then looked back up at the "boulder". Only now did I realize that it was a huge Elite, curled up in sleep. From what I'd read from the Halo books, I knew that they slept lightly. I slowly edged out of the cave, ready to start firing like crazy if the Elite woke up. When it didn't, I started to run back to our base… but after about five seconds, I was fired upon from the tree tops. A needle rifle. I sprinted to the nearest rock. When I was sprinting, I thought about my armor ability. Wasn't that sprint? I started to assume that sprint was useless here… before I sped up to about 100 MPH. I'm not even kidding. I just felt a strange tingling in my legs and BAM! I was at the "Base" (as I liked to call it) in about three seconds.

"Everyone," I yelled when I hit the perimeter "get up! The covenant are coming!" Immediately, Mike rose from his seat by the fire and grabbed his machine gun. Boy, did he look like Jorge when he did that! Then a sniper popped out from the tent, moved around, and then Ellie came out, followed by Sophia.

"No way!" David said as he lazily got out of the tent "They wouldn't. We're Spartans. Stupid aliens…". I just shook my head before looking back down the hill. I didn't see anything for a moment, but then a swarm of grunts started running up the hill at us from the small forest down the mountain. I decided that the shotgun would be okay in this fight, but not as good as my little, well, big friend the gravity hammer, so I threw my shotgun to Sophia before sprinting back down the hill. Luckily, because we were Spartans, she could hold that AND her plasma rifle. At this point, I started to sprint down the hill.

I hit the covenant horde pretty quickly, and I was ready. I jumped and brought my gravity hammer down in ever destroying move that killed in every halo game. The ground erupted in a huge tremor as the grunt's bodies split apart and flew in every direction. I stopped as I realized that I had just killed a living being. I slowly lowered my weapon and looked around me at all the body parts. Disgusting. But these things had killed so many humans, even if this WAS a game… so I decided to keep fighting.

I literally HIT the tree tops, flying into them after jumping while using sprint. As I crashed through the canopy, I noticed that my shields were still charging back up, but I couldn't wait, because as I hit the ground, twenty jackal faces turned to look at me from the edge of the forest. At that exact minute, Amanda crashed through the forest edge, knocking down ten, one's body stuck on her energy sword. I ducked down behind a rock, took out my shotgun, and poked my head out. Amanda was already slashing her way through every single alien around, so I did the same. I jumped out and blasted one in the face. His head exploded, and I stood stock still. Even more blood and guts… but I was starting to get used to it, so I shook it off and went crazy.

The next few minutes were hectic as all the other Spartans came down to help. Mike mowed down the tree's with his machine gun, while Ellie sniped anything that she could see. David just started firing randomly with his needler, hoping for it to lock on and hit something. Sophia sat in the back with a jackal energy shield, fiddling around with it. Not surprising. Towards the end however, we all stopped as we heard a sound. A weird rumbling sound, and it seemed to be crashing

"What the?" Ellie said as she picked her needle rifle from the her weapon holder on her back.

"I don't know, but how about we go hide in the trees… well, the remaining tree's that is." I said. Every gave the thumbs up, and we all actually hopped into the tree tops. Now, this wasn't a regular forest. It's trees were slightly different, more like the one's you'd see in the mountains. As soon as I got up, I jumped onto the point of the tree and looked around. Nothing much to see. I scanned the horizon, saw nothing… but then I saw a big blob of purple moving towards us. Then three smaller blobs of purple came hurtling even faster towards us! As I watched the faster ones come towards us, I knew they were on the tip of my tongue, but I couldn't quiet remember… until they got within fifty yards of Us. Then I realized just what these were.

"MIKE, SHOOT THE GROUND AND MAKE A HOLE BIG ENOUGH FOR ALL OF US! EVERYONE, FOLLOW HIM! WRAITHS ARE COMING!" I screamed through the mike. Mike took no time listening to my order, and he jumped strait into the hole he had made. Everyone followed him, and I dove out of the tree at the last second to hear a loud explosion and a huge CRUNCH as the tree broke into twenty pieces. I hit the ground running, and dove into the hole as a wraith shot landed right were I had been a second ago. Now I realized what the purple things were. The big blob was probably three wraith tanks, and the fast things were the wraith shots. As I looked down from were I was, I saw that everyone was already preparing for a long stay, digging small indentations in the walls of our new little tunnel, so I did the same. Only when I started did I realize that we had forgotten Billy Anderson.

"Guys...And girls, I have to go. Now. I have to get Billy from that hill, because if I don't, he's screwed." I started climbing out of the hole when I felt a tug on my helmet.

"You can't go. YOU'D be screwed to if you did that. In fact, you'll probably get killed the moment you step out. Can't you feel the wraith shots still pounding around us? You'll be killed!" Mike said. I shook him off and shook my head.

"I don't care. I've got to go. See yah!" I said as I hopped out of the hole. I started sprinting as wraith shots pounded around me. But eerily, the shots slowly started to die out. I didn't care, because the main point of this mission(for me) was to save Anderson. I tried doing the extra sprint thing, and boy did it work! I started going even faster then I was, and I hit camp right as shots rang out on me. Human shots. I realized that Billy probably thought we were dead. I looked around for were the shots came from, and I finally found the gun, poking out from behind a rock, so I started calling out to Billy Anderson as I walked.

"Yo Billy, your really hurting me right now!" I joked, getting even closer to the rock. As I turned around, though, I saw a horrible sight. Billy was lying on the ground, half dead most likely, with blood pouring out of his hip. Even as he was slowly dying, Billy wouldn't go down without a fight. I kneeled down next to him, and tried to find something to heal him with. Billy slowly managed to look at me, and he groaned.

"Back pocket. Spray in wound. Might help." He croaked. I slowly turned him over and pulled out a can from a pocket. I quickly sprayed it into his wound, and I slowly realized what it was. The spray stuff from the halo books that hardened once sprayed, helping to stop the bleeding. I watched as it did just that, but I knew it wasn't much help. I also knew the only way to keep him alive was surgery. So I did the only thing I could. I started to run. Full on sprint, with everything I had, towards the main base. I sent a message through my mike to Mike, hoping he would get it, but I kept sprinting. Anderson slowly fell in and out of consciences as we swept through along the earth. I knew I was going the right direction, but I had no idea how long how long it might take. As I sprinted along, I realized that the Sky Scraper was probably going to be destroyed. As I thought about that, I realized that I hadn't really left my friends in a safe position, in a open hole with almost no protection if found. I told my self that I would get them later, but I was still freaked.

We soon came over the next horizon, and I saw it. Sword Base. I started to radically try to contact it through my radio, asking for an air transport for me and my friends. As I hit the first hill, I got a answer.

"Already sending. Get ready for transport, but keep running." George said over the radio. I then continued onto my next thing.

"Yah, that, and the covenant are here. There are no insurrectionists here, just the stupid aliens." There was silence on the other line. I just kept running, but I knew he was contemplating whether I was crazy or not. Finally, he seemed to make up his mind.

"Do you have any proof of it? No one's going to believe you without it." He said. I shook my head wearily.

"I don't have any HERE, but at the other rescue zone, they're probably going to come in hot. Last time I was there, three wraiths were swarming the place of an assault of ground troops. The rest of my team stayed, and, because I was fastest, I took Billy back." I said over the line. More silence. Then slowly, George said,

"Did you just say Wraiths?" He asked, very slowly. I hit the yes button on my screen(well, more like selected it), and just continued running.

"THEN WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME BEFORE!" He shouted. I selected the question mark, getting slightly tired of talking.

"Great! Now all those pilots are probably screwed! We might have guns, but not big enough for wraiths!" He continued shouting. While he was saying this, I realized what he meant. Wraiths have huge guns, while falcons have only machine guns. Hornets aren't much better, although they have rockets. I finally came up with an idea.

"Those birds that I told you to send to the other landing zone? Tell them to pick me up first. Billy can be evaced by the other group, hopefully at the same time." I said over the radio. More silence, then a yes sign came up on my radio. I grinned then started to run a little slower. Soon it became more like a jog. After five minutes, falcons started heading down from the air. I waved my hand a couple times, just so they wouldn't squash me. I stopped as they started to land, then jumped up ten feet to get up into the plane.

"Sir, the other group of falcons aren't available right now, so Billy will just come back in one of ours. Once he's loaded, we can hit the sky and go." Said the pilot. I nodded, then looked over at him, and saw that Anthony Pozzeti was in the co-pilot seat, assault rifle in one hand, and a magazine in the other. I slightly shook his shoulder, and he looked over with a frown.

"What do yo-" He started to say, when he saw who I was. "Sir!". I grinned in my visor, then shook his hand.

"Nice to see you too, Pozzeti. What do you know about this mission, both of you?" I asked the pilot and marine. They looked at each other, then back at me.

"Well, all we really know was that our original plan was to hit a slightly hot spot and rescue some VERY important people, the head back. Right after we took off, our plan was changed. George sent a message saying we had to pick up some help from the foothills on our way here, special help, because the hot spot was getting even hotter." Pozzeti said. The pilot nodded in agreement, and I slowly nodded too.

"Well, I guess I'm going to tell you more. As you can see, the help your picking up is me, and the very important people are the rest of my team. Also, I think you should know that the enemy is not insurrectionists. It's Covenant." I said. The two stared at me like I was crazy, but I didn't get a chance to explain, because another falcon flew up next to us.

"Billy?" The pilot of the other falcon said over the radio. I nodded, and slowly set him into the other falcon. The pilot started at Billy's unconconssis body, then slowly, smiled back at me.

"Thank you. I'm one of the pilots that Billy Anderson here saved. I wouldn't be here without him." He said. I gaped at him from behind my mask, then nodded to him before getting back into my bird.

"Lets go!" I said to the pilot, and off we went.

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