Disclaimer: I do not own Halo, but almost all the characters are mine.

Halo: Memories A Blank

Chapter 3: I Wish, I Wish

P.O.V: Maria's

I wish, I wish I could help my brother right now... I thought as the soldier escorted me to a life pod. I looked at the woman and then back at the halls, "My brother cares for you a lot you know?" I stated as I ran down the halls with her.

Linda looked back at me, "I'm sure he does, but we need to get you out of here," She stated. I sighed, I wonder just how much Tony actually cares for her? I asked myself.

We reached a hole in the wall. Linda looked at me, "Get in here and wait for a pilot to get here, ok?" She asked. I nodded as Linda left to take care of other problems. I sat down on one of the seats. As I waited I heard heavy footsteps head down the halls, my heart rate began to pick up when it began to speak in a foreign language. Just when I thought my heart was going to explode an alien walked up to the door and pointed a smooth and blue gun at me.

I gulped as I began to back up terrified, "Pl-please, don't h-hurt me," I said quietly as the creature made a crude grin with it's four mandibles. It then lunged and hit me square on the head and picked me up. It slung me over the soldier in my dazed state as everything began to darken, but I only had one question to myself, What does it want with me? I asked myself. My vision finally faded as a man ran after the monster to help me.

I coughed as I began to wake up, I was soon welcomed by a human voice, "Hey? You awake over there?" It was a man's voice, I looked up over at him and nodded, he continued, "Ok, but we need to get out of here. They need us to do something about their religion, but if we get out of here, then I need to warn the rest that they found one, you understand?" He asked again, I only answered with another nod, "Good, what's your name?" He asked finally.

I took a breathe as I then realized I was in a cage with an odd glowing wall at the exit, "Maria Locklear. Where are we?" I asked.

He looked around the cage and sighed, "My guess an Agricultural Support Ship, probably taking us back to their Assault Carrier. By the way I'm Alex Durette" He said.

I nodded as I looked at a small creature that walked over to my cell, "The holy prophet wishes to speak with you," I was a little confused, Prophet? After a few seconds an old looking creature floated over here in a chair. It looked at me, "Ah, a female human, it is rare that we capture your kind, especially one that is not in your army. But nothing to cared much about. The Great Journey is waiting and you will help me." He said.

I gulped as I began to hide back in the holding cell, "What are you going to do to me after?" I asked terrified.

This 'prophet' pondered a second before he answered, "Well if the holy light doesn't kill you then you would be abandoned in an empty universe," My hope in survival was practically shot right in the heart. He then looked at Alex, "And if you don't do it then we'll just torture your friend here until you do," But the prophet's threat didn't seem to scare him.

But it did make me worry a bit. Alex stood up and began to glare at the prophet, "You cocky bastards think that your actually gonna win this war? Well think again! Your gonna loose and your shity Covenant is going to fall apart!" He declared.

The prophet glared back, "Blasphemy! Your pathetic species of Heretics will all die!" But before Alex could argue he left.

Alex sighed and slumped up against the purple wall, "Dammit, I'd guess we'd be lucky to get off of this god damned place after all..." He said defeated. But as soon as he said it the ship rumbled as it was hit by something. Alex sighed and pulled a small box off the inside of his left arm's shirt, "I just hope that was them," he then hit a button on the side of it, "this is Alex of fire team Zulu, does anybody read?" He said.

A few seconds passed without a response, "I read you Alex, this Devon, I'm happy to say that we can get you off but I'm not sure when and how at the moment," Alex nodded, "Ok, I have a civilian with me, if you can get to us within the half hour then we should still have a chance. But watch yourself, there may not be a lot of elites or brutes here but there are a hell of a lot of grunts at work, so be careful." Another moment passed, "Understood Alex, over and out."

Alex smiled this time as sat down crossed legged, "Now as long as they can get to us before reinforcements do then we'll be fine." He said as I nodded quietly.

A rough twenty minutes passed before the main door opened and along with it was green firery bolts and the sounds of automatic guns. As some men began to pass through it one was hit by a bolt. He fell over as one began to pull him away from the door.

It closed as they got far enough away. One was coughing a bit before he looked up at me. I smiled in an attempt to be kind. He looked away and looked at Alex, "Told ya I'd get here in time," He joked.

Alex sighed, "Not now Devon." He stated, "Lets get out of here while we still have the chance," Alex said impatiently.

Devon laughed a bit, "Ok, ok I'm working on it." He said as he knelt over and pulled off what I presumed to be a control panel. As he worked on that one, another marine came over here and began to work on mine.

He looked up at me, "Hello there, I'm Greg. What's your name miss?" He asked kindly as he began to work on the panel some more.

"Maria, nice to meet you Greg. Are you survivors of what happened to that ship?" I questioned. He nodded and I continued, "Have you seen my brother then? He has brown hair and bright blue eyes." I asked again but he shook his head as he continued his work.

I looked over at the door to see that it was now red on some parts that were glowing. Along with it was a small box. Then suddenly the shield like door disappeared "Got it!" Yelled out Greg as he smiled in his victory.

I got out of the cage and looked over at the soldiers. I rubbed my forehead realizing just how much it hurt. Two of the soldiers then stood up one with some bandages over his shoulder. One looked at me and I recognized him as Devon, "Here, take my magnum. It'll do for now." He said as he handed me the pistol. I only nodded hoping I wouldn't have to use it.

They turned to another door readied their rifles as they opened it. Nothing was there, fortunately. I began to walk behind them, not sure of what to do when out of nowhere an odd shaped glowing sword shot out of thin air and cut down a marine. But as soon as it happened they all opened fire upon it. It fell over showing itself as a large four jawed alien. Alex then dashed to the wounded marine who I recognized as Greg. Alex looked at the wound "Shit! Greg, hold in there man!" Alex shouted.

Greg coughed up blood, "Damn, I'm not getting out of here Alex." He pulled off his dog-tag and put it in Alex's hand, "Tell her," He coughed up more blood and tried again, "tell Sara I love her." He let go as his head began to go backwards.

Alex shook his head, "Damnit Greg! Don't die on me man!" But I could see his efforts were vain. Greg was gone.

I didn't get it though, why was he trying so hard? Devon walked over to me, "Poor guy, he was one of the first of us along with Alex there. They knew each other from the start." He stated.

I looked at Devon, now seeing how handsome he was, and asked, "Start of what? This war?"

Devon laughed a bit, "No were not from this time sweetie, ONI's been doing their best to keep us a secret after we refused to give them info on the war." He said.

I was confused a bit though, "Not of this time? As in the about the twenty-first century?" I asked.

He looked at me, "Bingo. I guess I wasn't the last to get through then," He said as he laughed a bit before he told the other men about me. But I pondered not paying attention, So this is the future the? I guess it was only a matter of time until this happened... I guess.

Devon walked over to Alex and put a hand on his shoulder, "Come on man we gotta go, besides we both know that Greg would want to go out..." He took a breathe and sighed, "Go out with a bang," He pulled out what I presumed to be a bomb of some sort.

He placed it down on top of Greg and set in a time and one he pushed a red button the counter began to go down. He looked back at us and sighed once more before he pulled his rifle from over his back, "Lets go." He said simply as he began to walk down the hall.

I followed behind Devon closely in fear of the fact the enemy stalked the halls closely. Eventually some small creatures walked around the corner but they quickly shot down these aliens. As we rounded that corner awaiting us were some more of those four jawed monsters from earlier. We all opened fire, I even shot a couple rounds myself. But I ran behind a wall only to be faced by another alien, he grabbed me but before he could use me as a shield, Devon had thrown a knife into his forehead.

He fell with a large thud, Devon looked over at me, "Grab his gun!" He cried over the gunshots. I grabbed it and began to lift it up only too see just how heavy it was. I did my best to keep it steady as I pointed it around the corner and began to fire it. I felt it gradually getting hotter and hotter until it reached the point that I couldn't fire it and some exhaust pieces opened as blue fire and heat poured out of it.

I turned back around the corner and dropped the gun as my hand burned. As I held my hand I noticed my skin was fine, maybe I was lucky, or maybe it doesn't have the power to burn my skin? I shook it off as best as I could, although my brother could cut his finger off and just say it's nothing. I picked up the blue gun as soon as it stopped hissing and began to fire it around the walls smooth corner.

Once one of them called it clear Devon went over to me, "Hey you ok?" He asked I nodded as I tossed the heavy alien gun to the side, "Good cause were almost at the hanger, but were gonna expect some heavy weighted fights on the other side, ok?" I only nodded again as he began to make our way there.

But once we got to the hanger it was empty, I was about to breath a sigh of relief, Devon went over to the one who had called it clear from earlier, "Anything on the radar Derek?" He asked as Derek checked with a long range radar.

Derek nodded as he sighed, "Lot's of em, surrounding us at that," He said before he dropped the radar and grabbed his shotgun. He shot at what seemed to be just air, but blood flew against the ground and a large alien fell to the ground. The alien this time was wearing a purple black kind of color, Derek's eyes widened as he then cried out, "Spec ops!" He then jumped to the side as blue bolts flew through the air. Everyone turn and ran in the direction of where the first creature fell.

But as we ran in hopes of finding a dropship, one after one of us fell down from plasma blots in the back. Derek who was running beside me ate on in the leg, I looked back as he fell and turned around, he was going to die. At least not as long as I could do something, so I turned ran over to him sliding down to avoid some bolts and looked at him, "Come on! We have to go!" I cried out over the gunfire. He nodded as we then helped each other up and rushed our way over to the corner.

Once we turned the corner we were greeted with an odd purple slope that lead up to some odd seats were everyone was waiting, Devon then called out, "Come on!" I nodded as two other people ran over to get Derek, who nodded to me and mouthed, 'Thanks miss' He then blacked out as I got up onto it and the door closed. The small dropship then turned to an odd looking panel and fired at it with its turret. I walked over to the cockpit just in time to see this, then the purple shield disappeared and the driver smiled, "Were getting out of here!" He said as he left the hanger.

Devon walked over to the cockpit and sighed, "Derek went unconscious, he should be fine but without a flash cloner I'm not sure about what we can do for his leg." He admitted before his eyes flared up. He was staring at a single picture on screen for a while, "Hey Ben? Set us up for a route to the ring..." He murmured as he stared at it.

A/N: Sorry about the wait my laptop crashed so I had to resort to using my craptacular back up computer, But this is all in Maria's PoV and explains some things but the next chapter will be back in Tony's PoV