HALO: Identity
Chapter 12: Into the Dark
Date: 31st October 2563
Time:0710
"What! You're pregnant! How, when, why" Lenard look at Miranda and then back at summers.
"It happen on earth when we were on leave" she looked into Jack's eyes, "it's yours jack."
Leonard fell onto his bed and laid back. "It's a lot to take in at once" Leonard said as he sat up and he felt the ground begin shake.
"Jake we've got a problem; I'm picking up a covenant slip space signature, we'll cover you need to fly your pod into the daggers port landing bay and then were going to have to run…. It's just like old times!" summer smiled, as he order the dagger of fate into attack poison.
Then a slip space rupture opened and a covenant supper carrier shot into view. But in steed of firing it stood still and then stared hail Leonard and summer ship.
Summer's opened the channel, "This is Thel 'Vadam (ee) of thee Sangheili High Council we here you humans look like you're in a spot of trouble and we are ready to assist you" summer's look at Leonard.
"Arbiter is that you?" Leonard smiled "I'm glad that you remember me human as I have been gone for a very long time" the arbiter looked to his pilot who was guiding the ship into alignment with the UNSC Dagger of Fate.
Date: 4th November 2552
Location: Planet REACH check point 2
Time:1250 hours
"We're going to die, aren't we Sarg" Privet Edwards yelled his face filled with horror.
"Son today is a good day to die" Sargent baker barked as they hopped into the warthog that just pulled up.
"Sir if I'm going to die, well sir it's been an honour to have served with you!" Corporal Jones shouted hopping into to the driver's seat.
"Likewise Corporal, I might, maybe, even miss you Edd's." Baker said hopping into the gunner seat, Privet Edwards just simply nodded in reply.
The small group of warthog began to move east would and began picking up speed…..
Date: 4th November 2552
Location: Mack gun platform in orbit over planet Reach
Time:1300 hours
"Damn it, the fleet has almost been completely destroyed." Pilot Jed's said as she began to pepper her bird for take-off.
"It looks like hell down there; I hope the civilians got out ok, what's the mission again?" pilot Gibbons said as he turned to look at Jed's.
"How many times must I tell you Gibb's, we're going to try and save as many marines as we can, before those cubby basters get them, Now! Have you got it through your thick skull yet?" she chuckled and continued to work on her pelicans engines.
"So let me get this straight, command wants us, to fly into the middle of a war sown, to try and save people who will be under heavy fire… it's a good I'm the best pilot this side of Sigma"Gibb's Began almost mocking Jed's.
"OH really so who save who, when someone decided to fly low level over rocky terrain, and then crash straight into abandoned covenant base then. Hum, I wonder? Gibb's your Way too full of you self" Jed's said as she continued working, there was a smile on her face.
"I meant to do that you know, I mean who else would risk there life by flying into a cubby base, even if it was abandoned, for all we knew it could have been occupied" Gibb turned and continued with his own work.
Date: 5th November 2552
Location: Planet Reach!
Time:1300
"This is ODST team Charlie, is anyone reading me, I repeat any UNSC personal please respond" Captain Harper barked over the com.
"God damn it" he cut the signal.
"Anything Cap" LT Bobby asked. Captain Harper lowered his head.
But then a signal began to get though.
"This Spartan team Blue, we read you seeding coordinates for our rendezvous now" Kelly yelled over the com.
"Roger that, were one our way" Captain Harper said as he leapt in to his Hogs divers seat.
LT Bobby Hooped into the Hogs Gun and then loaded it.
"Let's ride" bobby said as the hog drove off "WOOHOO!"
As the two ODST's drove to the rendezvous point, thoughts shot though Harper's mind he thought of his team and Sarah, if only he told her that he loved her, maybe he wouldn't hurt now.
"Anna, are you getting anything from the rendezvous site?" asked as Harper he inserted the 2 year old AI into the warthog's navigational computer.
"Yes there is a large pocket of UNSC personal, weapons and Air-crafted most of the people are marines but I'm picking up two Spartans…. Petty Officer Second Class Kelly-087 and Lieutenant, Junior Grade Frederic-104" there was a tone of excitement in her voice witch Harper wasn't happy about. As an ODST he had an instinct and bitter rivalry with Spartans and wasn't happy about working with them. Harper had always fancied join the navy as a captain but he could never get high enough grades and so he just suck to the marines.
Date: 5th November 2552
Location: Planet reach check point 2
Time:1310 hours
The convoy of warthogs had become a true fight force. What started as a group of 4 warthogs had now become a huge group off 13 warthogs, 5 Scorpions, 2 ghost, 1 banshee's and 4 Falcons. The force moved across the burning Planet with corrosion. As they had already, lost the long sward, Air-support.
"Sir, we have Pelicans on route for dust off, Sir I am sorry" Sargent baker turned to Corporal Jones.
"You know what I miss most about her, was the way she would always buy cloths that she didn't need we're them for a day and then never we're them again. And the thing I most regret is that I never saw her last Christmas because I was out at the front." baker lowered his head and then went on this time he wasn't the strong man he usually was.
"Oh god why the hell, did you take my little girl away from me?" Corporal Jones watched as the man who he had always respected as a friend and as his commanding officer collapsed into a sobbing heap.
They Kelly walked into the room a teenage girl by her side but still in the shadow of the huge Spartan.
"Sargent I found this girl, when I was scouting the area I found her in that building that we saw get destroyed , she said that you're her father" Kelly informed him as the Sargent got up off his knees and walked towards the Spartan as the teenager came out of the shadows. The teenager had burns all over her body and was unrecognizable unless you know what you're looking for and straight away baker knew who it was after all the building she was found was his home.
"Oh jess, how I've missed you my sweat little girl" baker said and he held his arms opened his arms and jess ran into her father's arms Corporal Jones was prowled to sever under such a caring leader.
Date: 6th November 2552
Location: Reach!
Time: 0001
"Stop son!" Sergeant Baker barked climbing down the ramp of a Pelican drop ship, his eyes scanning the area; searching for private Edwards who had slipped away into the night.
"God damn it," he thought as he climbed back into the Pelican.
"Should we go after him Sarg?" a Corporal Jones asked.
"No son, no point," baker frowned. "I want everyone back to their stations and working at one hundred percent. Do you get me Marines?" baker yelled.
"We get you Sir." Corporal Jones and pilot Jed's yelled over the com, though Kelly and fed just sat silently and though about their brother and sister who had been burned into nothing and they swore they would get there revenge.
The Pelican shook as it took off and baker could feel the stress on the hull.
And tripped over lieutenant Hacket "Sorry Sir" baker said trying to get his breath back
"Carry on sergeant" Hacket smiled
"Sir, the main gun is off line we won't be able to engage the covenant, if we get chased we're not going to survive, so you boys better get started on repairing them or- Were cooked" Pilot Jed's announced as she took off from reach as it began to burn she turned to Jed's and they both feel silent.
Baker interrupted "We need more altitude."
"Don't tell me how to fly my girl and I won't tell you how to run your unit," Jed's yelled though her head set.
Baker smiled and turned to the others in the Pelican. "Listen up ladies, our job is to get Hacket back home in one piece and make it the new UNSC vessel that ONI Brought before it leave." Before he could finish Jed's voice interrupted.
"Sir…you'd better come and look at this!" There was shock in her voice.
Baker moved through the cabin and made it to the cockpit.
"What is it? ... Oh God those poor souls," he murmured as he watched the vessel which had been carrying the surviving Marines explode. "Change of plan" he frowned pulled a cigar out of his pocket stuck it in his mouth chewed it for a second and then lit it.
"Looks like, we're on our own."