Kyle regained conciseness slowly and when he opened his eyes slowly he was blinded by a bright white light. He tried to move his arm to shield his eyes when he realized that both his arms were bound above his head. Looking down he saw that his feet had been bound as well. Just as he was looking down he got a whiff of ozone he saw that the armor plating was melted. This told him that after he had been captured Cortana must have activated the failsafe in his armor to reduce it to slag so that it couldn't be analyzed.

He heard a door open and turned his head to the side and saw a Hydra trooper walk in followed by Baron Strucker who was followed by The Reaper.

"You will now tell us who you are as well as were your base of operations is located" Said Strucker. Kyle glared at him before he spoke.

"Staff Sergeant Gordon, Kyle Service Number 92547-14928-KG" Strucker who was calm despite not getting the answer that he wanted nodded to Reaper who then slashed at Kyle three times with his scythe. Kyle's under armor around his upper torso fell off, Strucker gave a nod to the Hydra trooper who then hit Kyle four times in the face with the butt of his rifle.

Kyle tasted blood in his mouth and spit out the glob of blood right into the troopers face. He trooper was about to let him have it but Strucker raised his hand stopping him.

"Now we will try this again, tell me where your base is located"

"Staff Sergeant Gordon, Kyle Service Number 92547-14928-KG." This would go on for the next hour leaving Kyle's face and body covered in small cuts and bruises. Each time they would ask him a question he would say the same thing over and over until they finally gave up on the beatings.

Kyle blacked out after they had left the room he woke up feeling his injuries. There was no one in the room at the time so he took some time to get accustomed to his surroundings he noticed that the shackles attached to his wrists and ankles were chained to the floor and looked brand new or well maintained. He was looking around for anything he could use to escape but seeing nothing he decided to wait. It had been about an hour or so he guessed since he had no way to judge the time. Since waking up he was feeling considerably better due to his augmented healing factor he figured that he would be able to withstand their tortures for a long time as it consisted of the beatings he had gotten.

But this assumption was short lived as Strucker reentered but this time he had three Hydra troopers follow him into the room. One had a large video camera and the other two were both carrying a large metal box with a dome shaped projector facing Kyle. They set it down in front of Kyle with the dome facing him.

"Since you have been uncooperative recently I had some of my less then desirable scientists think up a new way to persuade you to be more cooperative. This is your last chance to tell us where your base of operations is the easy way" said Strucker. Kyle remained silently glaring at each of the men in the room. Strucker gave a shrug of his shoulders and continued "Very well then the hard way it is." He gave a nod to the trooper with the camera and a moment later a red light came on next to the lens indicating that it was recording. A small screen on the wall turned on showing the Avengers gathered in their briefing room.

"Greetings Avengers as you may or may not know we captured your armored ally when you left him behind on our island. And up to this point he has been, uncooperative so tell your new allies that if they want to see their man alive then they need to give us their technology." Strucker then turned and gave a nod to one of the troopers to his left to hit a large red button on the machine. The dish on the top started to glow with light before Kyle was enveloped in tendrils of electricity that caused him great pain. As much as it hurt he was determined to not give the satisfaction of him crying out in pain.

This went on for around three more minutes with Kyle writhing in pain but never crying out. Kyle was thinking that after four minutes if continued electricity then he would have died if this had been normal electricity. This and the fact that he was still alive told him that it was not normal electricity and after five minutes they turned off the machine and the camera.

"Now you may have noticed that you are still alive, this is because this machine was made by AIM that we call the Nerve Zapper to cause extreme pain but not to kill whoever it was pointed at" said Strucker with a small smirk on his face as he walked out of the room they didn't bother to remove the camera or the Nerve Zapper from the room. This was a bad sign in Kyle's mind since it was practically a promise that there would be more pain. As Kyle was thinking of any possible way he could escape he felt his ears pop from a change in altitude. Normally one wouldn't know if this was from the plane ascending or descending. But after years of being an ODST and going through numerous high orbital drops he had grown accustomed to the sensation and was able to feel the slight differentiation. So I'm on a plane of some sort thought Kyle as he continued waiting and decided to go to sleep to try and recuperate from the ordeal with the Nerve Zapper.

In the Avengers Mansion all of the Avengers had been present in the mission briefing room having just discussed how Hawkeye had escaped, when a video from Hydra came through on the main monitor. They saw a man that was just over six feet tall with short dirty blond hair in a military cut and dark blue-green eyes. He had a number of small scares on his face one from his temple to his to the bridge of his nose and another from his upper lip to his ear. He looked to be around 35 years old.

Nick Fury had also been there interested at hearing any information on this new faction that had saved Hawkeye. And when they had gotten the message from Hydra they had each had different expressions on their faces. Fury, Natasha, and Hulk all kept a straight face during the entire thing. Captain America had a scowl on his as he had been tortured before and even though he had not known the mysterious soldier he still felt a level of respect for his since he had saved Hawkeye. Tony had a look of shock and then anger on his face as he watched him being tortured. Hawkeye felt a pang of regret knowing that that man had been captured saving him this was replaced by a cold fury silently swearing to repay the man for his sacrifices if he got the chance.

Thor had a look of shock on his face that was replaced by respect as the mysterious man was tortured he had not spoken a work. Many of the other Avengers also were inwardly thinking something along the same lines as Thor.

"Tony we need to do something can you trace this signal" asked Captain America as he looked away from the video not wanting to see it anymore.

"Jarvis locate the source of that signal" said Tony with a grime expression on his face as he continued to look at the video screen until a smaller image came up showing the progress of the tracking algorithm that Jarvis had created to trace the video's source. He clenched his hands into fists when the search came up empty.

"I'm sorry sir they appear to be bouncing the signal through a number of bases keeping us from being able to locate them" Said Jarvis to all of them. Captain America looked down at the floor after hearing this news.

"Tony is there any way we can get in contact with the group of people this man belongs to" asked Fury who had the same blank expression he always maintained. Tony shook his head since he was still having no luck finding anything out about them. Just as the video feed cut off a security breach alarm started flashing across the screen a moment later all of the soldiers that had helped them fight the Hulk except the one that was captured appeared on screen. Then one of the ones wearing black armor spoke in a feminine voice.

"We were monitoring the communications from Hydra and when they contacted you we were eavesdropping on the conversation. We are trying to locate our missing teammate and wanted to ask if you had any luck locating him?"

"I'm sorry but they were bouncing the signal through many if not all of their bases there is no way to track it" replied Tony with a depressed look on his face. Before they could ask them any questions one of the green armored soldiers walked towards a nearby terminal that the Avengers were able to see. The soldier leaned over quickly typing in a long series of numbers and letters. Tony glanced down at the algorithms that soon replaced Jarvis's in the tracking program and Tony was astounded they were at least twenty times more complex. Then a map of the world appeared on the screen and this time a line originating from Avengers mansion started to move all around the world stopping periodically to change course leaving a dot at each place it changed course.

"Wow" was all any of the Avengers said since they had rarely seen anyone show up Tony where computers and technology were concerned. Yet here it was the soldier in the green armor had just quickly typed in an algorithm by hand in a matter of seconds that was far more complex then what Tony had used. Fury and Natasha noted this but they also started to memorize all of the dots that symbolized Hydra bases across the world. The line continued until it was over the Pacific Ocean were it suddenly stopped not with a dot but with around five of them going to the north then stopping.

"The signal stops here they must have been on a boat or in a plane" said the one sitting at the terminal with a slight hint of frustration in her voice. The one that wore the black armor spoke up.

"Alright save all of the locations we will deal with them soon enough. Avengers thank you for your help now if you will excuse us we have a war to plan."

"Now hold on what do you mean by that? You aren't just going to go attack them by yourselves are you" asked Fury a shocked look on his face.

"That is exactly what we are going to do we will not leave our man to a fate of torture and death" with that the transmission ended. But before it ended a virus was loaded into the computer it quickly devoured the data and the algorithms that had been made. The virus then self destructed leaving no evidence of it or the data.

For the next day the UNSC crew planned out their attack plan for the killing every last Hydra base that they had located. Their plan was to send in the Spartans and if Kyle wasn't there then they would level the entire base with the three Longswords they had. Then they would repeat it until they found Kyle in which case they would get him out of the base then reduce it to rubble.

The next four days were a nightmare for Barron Strucker as his bases around the world were being annihilated. He didn't know if it was another terror organization or shield. He had had all bases enhance security but they would suddenly stop reporting and any scouts he sent to the bases all he found was craters and rubble.

Kyle had spent the last four days being tortured in longer and longer sessions with the Nerve Zapper. He had still yet to crack and give in and was able maintain his silence throughout the entire incident. He was currently in his cell looking at the ceiling were his restraints were bolted to. The one for his left arm was slightly loose. He pulled down as hard as he could with his left arm and saw the fixture start to mover ever so slightly he continued to pull on it until it was around halfway out of the ceiling when he heard footsteps right outside the door Kyle when completely limp, pretending to be asleep.

Strucker walked into the room and saw that he was asleep being angry already from hearing about his bases he walked behind the Nerve Zapper and turned it on its highest setting for pain. Kyle's head snapped up immediately as he writhed in pain the pain caused his adrenaline to start pumping into his veins. He pulled down hard with his left arm the adrenaline giving him the final edge he needed to rip the left bracket from the ceiling. Strucker was shocked when the bracket was ripped from the ceiling then it was wiped at him with pinpoint accuracy hitting the dish on top of the Nerve Zapper causing it to turn towards Strucker, it still being on its highest setting he was on the ground in an instant writhing in pain he was able to reach up and hit the off button before he blacked out from the pain.

Kyle reached towards his right shoulder plate that was the least damaged on his armor and after pushing down on a small rectangular button that you wouldn't have known was there had you not known about it. A knife that was made out of pure titanium popped out of the shoulder plate. Good thing I had Cortana add that knife to my armor. Kyle thought as he used the knife to break the simple lock that was holding his other arm to the chain.

He fell to the ground as his arm came free he quickly got the chain off of his other arm then his feet. He then bent down to free his left foot and then his right foot. He stretched his aching limbs as even the effort of freeing himself made him almost collapse from the exhaustion the only thing that kept him moving was the knowledge that this would be his only chance to escape. Knowing if he was caught he would not get a second chance to escape if they didn't just kill him on the spot.

Kyle went over to Strucker and no matter how tempting it was to cut his throat he knew that now was not the time. Even so he did make a number of small cuts that were non-fatal but they would be in pain for months, namely making a small cut on his Achilles tendon. He then heard feet outside the door and he silently moved into the shadow next to the door. The door opened and two troopers came into the room weapons drawn one more standing in the door frame.

The first one got a powerful kick to the chest that made a loud cracking sound as a number of his ribs were broken; Kyle stabbed the second one in the throat. Releasing his knife he grabbed the first one who had bent over in pain. Kyle grabbed him by the neck and quickly spun around right as the third trooper fired. The rounds tore into the first trooper shredding his chest spilling his blood onto the ground. Kyle threw the body forward knocking him back; he reached down and pulled his knife out of the second one throwing the knife right at the third one it entering into his neck.

Kyle took the knife and started to walk down the hall when five troopers rounded the corner opening fire. Kyle ran and dived around the corner but not before a lucky shot hit him in the stomach going through the armor and into his side before it came out of the back. He let out a cry of pain and surprise as he put a hand over the wound putting pressure on it as he limped away as fast as he could manage. Rounding another corner and through a door he found himself in a supply closet. He took his hand off the wound and looked at it had entered and missed all of his organs but there was still quite a bit of bleeding. He looked around and found what he was looking for, some paper towels and a roll of duck tap. Kyle folded up the paper towels until he had a fairly thick pad before attaching it on with then tape he also found a tool box and was able to grab three screwdrivers and a hammer. An expert knife thrower could use almost any object as a weapon but having his augmentations he could kill or at least severe wounds on a person.

He knew that he had a very small time frame to gather supplies this was reinforced by an alarm going off throughout the entire base. He looked around for anything he could use and was about to leave when he saw a number of cleaning supplies and something that he had been taught as a member of the Sharpened Sword project he had been given training in chemistry side parallel to demolitions. He quickly looked through the bottles and found three that he could use. He took a bottle of bleach and poured it out before mixing some of the other chemicals into it. He did this until he had two improvised grenades the bottle now was a mixture of half fluid and half powder. All he would have to is shake them mixing the contents together. He estimated he had around five seconds before they exploded into a large fireball.

He heard footsteps outside the door and he quickly grabbed the supplies he had before he started to shake both of the bottles causing their contents to mix and start to bubble. He raised his foot up to his chest before kicking the door causing it to fly outwards. Kyle threw the bottles to either side of the door and heard a shocked cry before a wall of fire covered the doorway and entered into the closet. The flames cause Kyle's arms to get hot but he was otherwise fine since he had jumped to the side of the doorframe and the flames only burned for a short time.

He poked his head out the doorway and saw that there had been around twelve troopers six on either side of the door. Now all of them were on the ground either never to get up again or slowly dying. Kyle then heard more feet from his left and started to run to his right. Holding a screwdriver in each hand he rounded the corner only to find two troopers standing side by side. Kyle hit each of them with a quick elbow strike that caused their heads to snap back leaving them on the ground dead.

He continued running when he rounded a corner and saw three troopers rounding the corner on the opposite end of the hallway. Kyle threw a screwdriver at each of them. They both clutched their necks were the screwdriver had entered. The third one opened fire getting off a number of shots but Kyle had dropped prone and the shots missed. Kyle took the hammer of his thigh and threw it at the troopers head. As he fell to the floor Kyle was already in motion running around the corner after collecting his weapons from the corpses. As he continued on he put his hand to his bandage looking at his hand it was covered in his own blood. He knew that if he did to much more strenuous activity then he would soon be too weak to go on.

But he had little choice as another patrol of six men came around the corner. He threw the three screwdrivers and the hammer leaving only two men still standing and him with his knife but just then the wall that was next to the two soldiers exploded leaving a large hole. The good thing about this was that Kyle could see he was indeed on a plane but the bad part was they were still at altitude causing the corpses with his weapons still stuck in them were sucked out of the hole. Kyle also got pulled towards the door but he was able to catch the edge of the hole and he was determined to hold onto the edge. Using what little energy he had left from the torture and the blood loss he made a final effort and pulled himself into the plane. He looked down to see with relief he still had his knife on his thigh but it was covered in blood. His blood was covering his leg from the exertion.

Kyle felt the plane suddenly descend and then the decompression slowed and then stopped all together. He heard footsteps and turned to face them as two troopers came round the corner he threw his knife right at the one on the left. The knife was lodged in his throat causing him to grab it as he slowly bled to death. His companion opened fire on Kyle getting off three rounds before he caught fire from the side. Two of the rounds bounced off of Kyle's armor who was slumped again the wall the third bullet however missed the plating and passed through Kyle's chest skimming one of his lunges causing the lung to deflate Kyle see black around the corners of his vision knowing his time had come he welcomed it after having so many brushes with death he finally welcomed it.

But before his eyes closed he heard footsteps and expected to see more troopers coming to finish him off when to his great surprise he saw Spartans. They rounded the corner moving slow at first but when they saw him they sprinted to where he was.

Cortana who was in the lead spoke to him after bending down and injecting biofoam into his chest. "Staff Sergeant, do you hear me" Said Cortana concern in her voice Kyle weakly bobbed his head in confirmation. "Stay awake don't you close your eyes, that's an order marine." Kyle did as she said but even then the darkness at the edge of his vision started to grow before he lost focus and he heard the engines of a pelican and as his head fell to the side he saw the pelican flying near the hole in the wall then his eyes closed and he only saw black.

The UNSC crew had finally found Hydra's mobile command center and they found the alarm was going off before they got there and then they attacked with the pelicans missile pods to blow a hole in the side of the ship to make it go down to a lower altitude. The Spartans had then boarded the plane and moved towards the detention areas they had rounded the corner and saw a pair of Hydra troopers but before the Spartans could fire a knife flew from the hallway they were aiming down catching one of them in the neck. They had quickly killed the remaining trooper when he opened fire in the same direction the knife came from. When they rounded the corner they saw Kyle on the floor in a pool of his own blood with a hole in his gut and one near his lung. Cortana moved up and started to administer medicine to keep him alive while Master Chief called in the pelican.

Keyes who was flying the pelican got the message and flew the pelican sideways towards the hole in the side of the ship near Kyle. The pelican approached the hole with the underside of the pelican touching the ship. Cortana picked up Kyle and leapt inside the pelican but since it was on its side she was standing on the left side wall. The others followed suit and were standing with her on the wall. The doors closed and Keyes gave them a warning before she started to roll the pelican causing it to be right-side up. They then all strapped into the seats before the pelican accelerated causing it to bounce and shift until they left the atmosphere. They started to float for a moment before the artificial gravity kicked in.

They quickly entered the Forward unto Dawn and as soon as they landed there was an automated gurney that they quickly put Kyle onto Curtis, Sam, Core, and Doctor Hasley were all waiting in the medical bay when they rushed the gurney in. The once pristine white gurney was now soaked with Kyle's blood that had managed to come through the bandages and the Biofoam. They quickly removed Kyle's armor and Doctor Hasley did a quick preliminary check to see how badly he was wounded. She had a grim look on her face when she had finished.

"He has lost so much blood and having only one lung has caused some of his internal organs to start to stop working and I'm not sure if we will be able to save him" She said with a grim expression on her face. They all looked grim even the Spartans until Core suddenly spoke up.

"There may be a way that I can help; before the array was fired My Makers had done experiments on your race Reclaimers. The experiments were designed to see if there could be any way to make your race immune to the Flood could be created to better your race should the flood return. The results were failure but they were able to make a serum that could give a Reclaimer a better chance to fight the Flood by enhancing their abilities, my instillation was the location of some of this research."

"What do you mean when you say it enhances their abilities? Are you talking about augmentations?" Asked Doctor Hasley clearly surprised by this.

"Indeed but not in the way you know them. It merely locates the subject's cells and makes them twice as effective. Natural abilities are effectively made better. I estimate with the serum the Reclaimer would have a 99.9% chance of surviving his injuries. It would also according to my estimates make him nearly equal to the Spartans due to it not only enhancing his natural abilities but also those of his previous augmentations as well."

"Alright give him the serum if it will help him" after hearing this the lens that was his "eye" slid upwards and a cylinder from the center of his head floated out suspended by an energy beam. Once Hasley grabbed the cylinder the beam disappeared and the lens moved back into place. She pushed a button on the side causing a needle to come out from the bottom of the container. He placed it into Kyle's left arm and it automatically injected the serum into his arm.

It was three days since they had rescued Kyle and he finally woke up. He went to rub his eyes and found his arms were restrained. Instantly his eyes snapped open and saw he was in a bed in the medial bay of the Forward Unto Dawn. A few seconds later everyone came into the room in the lead was Doctor Hasley.

"You gave us quite the scare Sarge" Said Curtis a smirk on his face.

"Well I'm going to assume I'm not dead because if I was then I don't think I would be in this much pain. So I'm guessing the Spartans I saw before I blacked out wasn't from the blood loss. Now does someone want to tell me why I feel so strange and why I'm restrained to the table?"

"Well after we got you back to the ship you were almost going to take an express HEV with no brakes" Said Sam with a small grin on his face as it was common for ODSTs to joke about going to hell.

"Well I wouldn't have put it that way but you were almost dead. You owe Core here one he gave us a special serum that would help you live. And as for the restraints we didn't want to you hurt us or yourself seeing as now you're on par with the Spartans" Said Hasley leaving Kyle with a surprised look on his face.

"So you're saying I'm a Spartan now?"

"No you are not a member of the Program you are still only an ODST and a member of Sharpened Sword but now you are falling just short of what you would expect from a Spartan."

"Ok well as long as I'm aloud to use it I can live with being "only" an ODST" he said with a grin on his face. Once they had finished explaining they had removed the restraints and he slowly stood up before taking two steps and then tripping and falling flat on his face.

"You are going to be spending the next two weeks with the Spartans on the ship learning how to control and how to hide your augmentations" said Keyes with a tone that left no room for argument. And sure enough Kyle spent the next two weeks in the ship training with the Spartans during the end of the second week we had started to spar with them out of their armor he wasn't able to beat them but he never did give up. He was able to walk without tripping over his own feet after the fourth day. By the end of the next week Hasley had recorded his performance during a number of tests and was able to conclude that Kyle did have the reaction times, the memory, and the eyesight that was seen of a Spartan II but he only had 75% of a Spartan's strength and pain tolerance.

He had gotten a new set of Armor from the armory and he had requested that Cortana add a hidden knife to the shoulder plate on this armor identical to the one he had lost when he had gotten captured. He had been getting used to his new abilities by trying to run across the entire ship down every hallway. It took him around five hours to cover the entire ship but what was more shocking was that he didn't feel exhausted at all. He had just finished when Commander Keyes had called him to the bridge. When he got there everyone was already there telling him there was something major going on.

"Glad you could join us Sergeant, Alright well this ship just arrived in system" said Keyes an image appearing on screen. The ship was sword shaped and had fin like structures near the "hilt". "Once this ship entered the system it moved into a geosynchronous orbit over New York. Cortana hacked into the Avengers Mansion to discreetly keep an eye on them and this is what we found." An image of a blue skinned man that was wearing a green colored armor, he then proclaimed that his name was Kang the Conqueror and he was from the distant year 4100 and he had come back in time to kill Captain America in order to save the timeline from certain destruction.

Kang then proceeded to fight with the Avengers and after he beat them down for a few minutes they were able to catch him off guard causing his suit to get ripped before he disappeared and in a flash of yellow partials.

"Well it would seem the Avengers are making new friends every day" said Kyle with a smirk on his face. Curtis and Sam both started smiling and trying to not laugh. Keyes did give a slight smirk but she had been taught by her father that when in a position of command you needed to not show more emotion then the situation required.

"Indeed, in any case we need to help the Avengers and, I think now could be a prime time to test out our new weapons. Kyle, you along with Sam, Curtis, and Brandon are going to be controlling the Unending Resistance. Can you do that" asked Keyes looking at each of them.

"Yes Ma'am" Said Kyle, Sam, and Curtis grabbing their helmets and moved to the door. Quickly moving through the door they put on their helmets so that they could continue listening to the briefing even as they moved towards the bridge.

"Alright for the time being we are going to be waiting in standby to see what their next move is. We will see what the Avengers are doing next. If what we found out about Kang is true then he will most likely have an invasion force onboard his ship. If that is the case the Resistance will engage troop transports if they appear, depending upon the size of each one you are only authorized to use the Archer Missiles pods and the two 50 millimeter auto cannons if you need to hit a bigger target call in for authorization before you use the MAC cannon or the two plasma turrets we were able to mount on the front of the ship." (A/N I was looking around and I couldn't find any good pictures of the Mako class Corvette so I decided that the Unending Resistance will be a Charon Class Frigate identical to the Forward Unto Dawn)

"Affirmative Commander, We are approaching the bridge and will be putting Coulter into the ships systems in a minute." Said Kyle as they just passed through a bulkhead and boarded the elevator that ran from the bottom decks to the upper decks. Once all three of them stepped into the elevator Kyle pressed a button and the elevator started to ascend to the bridge at high speed. The doors opened and they stepped onto the newly rebuild bridge. Walking into the center of the bridge Kyle reached around to the back of his helmet and removed Brandon's chip and slotted it into the central holoprojector in the center of the bridge. The dozen consoles on the bridge came to life as Brandon did a full systems test in preparation of starting the engines and the primary reactor since they had only been using the emergency power while the ship was being rebuilt.

Kyle took a seat in the Captain's chair and brought up communications hailing the Forward Unto Dawn. A moment later Keyes appeared on the secondary monitor Kyle pressed a button switching her image to the main monitor moving the schematic of the ships shakedown to a secondary monitor. "Commander reactor shakedown is at 78%" said Kyle glancing at the monitor to the left of the main screen.

"Alright well once it is finished let us know and we will begin preparations to disconnect the ships. Until then sit tight and listen to the rest of the briefing. The Spartans will be here on the ship and will be ready to board the ship once we engage them. I will stay on the ship with the Doctor and we will coordinate your actions on the ground and once we board the ship. And your goal once you are onboard is to disable but don't destroy it. Cortana can you give them a copy of yourself for infiltration, similar to what you did during operation FIRST STRIKE, since I need you here to help me drive the ship."

"Yes Commander I will be able to do that and in the time since then I have further refined the process giving my copies more operational time before they collapse in upon themselves. Chief the copies I'm creating will last for three hours. Then it self destructs before erasing all traces of itself from the system. It will be on a special statis field that will keep it from using its own operational time. When you board the ship open the file and it will come online." Chief pulled out Cortana's chip and slotted it into the central terminal he waited a moment until her Avatar appeared. A moment later a second figure of Cortana appeared next to the first one the second one then appeared to be sucked away. A moment later the chip ejected. John reached out and removed it from its slot before he slotted it into the back of his helmet.

Kyle was looking at the monitor with the shakedown timer going and he saw it was at 99 percent, once Cortana was finished coping herself the briefing came to a close just as the shakedown reached 100 percent.

"Commander the shakedown is complete, Cortana if you are ready we will disconnect on my mark. 3…2…1…Mark" Kyle felt a small thud go throughout the ship as it was pushed away from the Dawn by a number of airlocks opening releasing the air stored inside of the airlocks with explosive results as they decompressed. "Brandon bring the engines online at ten percent and then begin tests to make sure the ship is fully online. Commander we will proceed to slipspace in around ten minutes once engines are good to go."

"Copy that Sergeant go to slipspace and leave it right away then return…..Hold on there is something happening onboard the enemy ship." Looking at the monitor that showed the enemy ship it began to turn towards Earth. "Cortana find out were that ship is positioning itself in the direction of." Even as she asked the question she half knew what the answer was going to be.

"It would appear that it is aimed at New York more specifically Avengers Mansion" just then three bright beams if light burst from the front of the ship and descended onto the planet, right onto the Avengers Mansion.

"Cortana are those beams doing any damage?"

"No Ma'am they appear to only be target designators of some sort. That in itself is a large problem based on the size of the targeting beams will mean that the weapon itself is going to cause massive damage due to the fact that target designators are usually only around a fourth of the size of the weapon they are attached to and that ship has three massive targeting designators."

"Alright Cortana move us towards that ship, charge plasma turrets, and shunt some extra power from the rear shields to the superconductive coils. Bring us on a heading for that ship, Kyle move down into the atmosphere I'm sure that this attack will most likely be followed up with an invasion force." Kyle gave a nod of conformation as he instructed Brandon to reduce the power to the weapons and put the excess power into the engines and the shields. Both ships moved forward the Dawn moving towards Kang's warship and the Resistance moved towards New York. Moments after the Resistance entered the atmosphere the ship fired launching a massive projectile at the City. The cameras on the Resistance zoomed in when they saw motion above Avengers Mansion; it was Thor flying at the projectile hammer raised high.

Thor hit the projectile with such force that it launched it straight back into the ship. It caused a number of explosions to rip through the ship. To their disappointment the ship wasn't destroyed or severely damaged although it did appear that the ships main weapon system was disabled. Thor was nowhere to be seen. A moment later ant there was a large number of massive troop transports. They were disc shaped and had shoots that had a walker in it before the walker was shot to the ground and another one took its place. There was 20 of them in New York alone across the world at many more were deploying millions of walkers but the highest concentration was around New York more specifically the Avengers.

On the HeliCarrier Nick Fury grabbed onto the railing next to him as the HeliCarrier was rocked by explosions from the fighters that the trooper transports seemed to have an unlimited number of fighters and walkers.

"Director Fury we have lost engine two it has been disabled by the fighters. We are putting us over the water and getting to a lower altitude so that if we lose another one then we will not crash into New York City. Orders sir?"

"Launch all available fighters and transports; tell them to form a screen around the HeliCarrier and do their best to keep us in the air but tell them not to try anything against those troop transports." Fury Looked out the window and a sudden sinking feeling grew in the pit of his stomach as he saw around 60 enemy fighters approaching. The 25 fighters and 5 gunships that he had at his disposal and from the reports that he had gotten from other SHIELD installations across the world it would take two or three of his fighters to kill one of theirs. But these reports were from the standard pilots not the ones onboard the HeliCarrier who were the best of the best. Fury figured that his pilots could go one for one with the invaders but that still wouldn't be able to keep the HeliCarrier in the air.

He watched the scene unfold in front of him as his fighters and transports fought with the fighters but instead of taking the time to eliminate them, 30 of them peeled off from the main group but that still left 30 more to approach the HeliCarrier. He looked at the men around him and they all had the same grim expression on their faces that knew there was nothing they could do.

"General Fury we have a massive contact on the radar sir" said one of the men closest to Fury he was about to give an order to take evasive maneuvers when there was a flashing red light at the communications terminal.

"Sir communications has been hacked and we are getting a picture now." Fury glanced at the screen expecting to see Kang but instead he saw three of the black armored Soldiers sitting at terminals.

"Director Fury it looks like you are in a bit of a predicament we are here to help but you will owe us one." Just then Fury saw the contact come through the clouds and saw it was a massive warship that seemed to be built around a massive cannon. It opened fire and he saw a large amount of large caliber rounds came out of the two turrets on the sides of the ship. They engulfed the fighters with pinpoint accuracy.

Kyle, Sam, and Curtis were all smiling but it was hidden by their helmets at the look of shock on Fury's face at seeing the Resistance. Kyle saw one of the troop transports to the left side of the resistance so he changed course to put it in front of the ship as Sam, who was sitting at the weapons ops station, armed two of the Archer Missile pods launching a volley of missiles at the transport. To their disappointment once the smoke cleared there was a shield glowing from blocking the blast. Kyle scowled as he hit the com button bring Keyes' image on the screen to the right of the main viewport.

"Commander, the troop transports are able to withstand the Archer missile pods and the auto cannons, requesting permission to use the MAC cannon as well as the Plasma Turrets" Kyle said as he tightened the restraints holding him to his seat at the troop transports opened fire with a burst of crimson lasers that struck the Resistance in the portside shields causing them to glow gold for a second before it returned to being an invisible field that protected the ship from damage. Even though the attacks caused only a sliver of the shields to drop, not even a full percent, the ship was still rocked from the force of the attacks.

"You are permitted to use the MAC cannon as well as the Plasma turrets, but I want you to use the MAC cannon only if the wreckage will not fall causing civilian casualties. Use the Plasma turret calculations that Cortana is sending you now they refine the plasma turrets' systems compressing the plasma torpedo it and making it more efficient allowing it to be fired as a tracking torpedo such as the Covenant used it or as a high powered beam."

"Affirmative Commander, Good luck up there" Keyes gave a nod before the transmission was cut and Kyle typed into the command consol bringing up weapons ops on the main monitor showing the percentage of the MAC cannon's charge level as well as other relevant data. The ship rocked again from another blast just as the MAC cannon reached full power.

"Sam, load a single light round and turn down the cannon so it only fires one round not three consecutive rounds" A red light appeared next to the picture but it soon turned green once the round was loaded. A targeting reticule appeared on screen and centered over the troop transport as the Resistance adjusted its flight path to put the drop ship in its line of fire. With a tremendous thunder clap the round launched out of the frigate. Kyle, Sam, and Curtis were all launched forwards if it hadn't been for their harnesses they would have impacted the frontal bulkheads due to the sudden change in momentum from the cannon firing.

Nick Fury was looking intently out the window at the Ship that belonged to the Avengers mysterious allies. Just as he was looking at the large cannon that the ship seemed to be built around he heard a beeping sound coming from a console to his right. He looked down and saw a man looking up at him, Fury gave a nod the man quickly began talking.

"Director Fury that ship is putting off some massive magnetic force, from what we can tell it is coming from that large "Cannon" on their ship. It might be that they are about to" before he could finish is sentence he was interrupted by a massive thunderclap that sounded like a massive explosion but when Fury looked out the window and saw a no fire or other sign of an explosion but in an instant these was another sound as the alien transport exploded before flashing into nothingness. An image of Tony Stark appeared on a monitor in front of Fury he looked at Tony waiting for the other man to speak first.

"Fury I'm sorry we weren't able to help until now we had a problem with Kang engaging us after his little laser was blocked by Thor. What is the situation up there in the sky?"

"It was not going well until our mysteries allies arrived in their ship. I want you to conduct a full scan of their ship and weapons systems especially that massive cannon that just gave off a large amount of magnetic force before it killed one of the troop transports in one shot." Tony nodded as he took flight the other Avengers road in the Twin Jets. And once Tony was in the air he was astonished at the size of the ship that was flying over the City.

He flew towards it and began a scan that left him astonished as he read that the ship was powered by a sort of Fusion reactor which even he hadn't been able to make or even get through the calculations that were necessary for it to work or be even feasible. The large cannon was made up of a large number of electro magnets this also left him dumbfounded as he had experimented with rail guns and had little to no success due to their level of technology not as sophisticated as would need to be to make rail guns efficient but here on was and a massive one at that.

Just as he finished the analysis of the ship he got an incoming message. He accepted the message but there was no indication on who had sent it but he had a fairly good idea of who it was and this was confirmed when three of their mysterious allies appeared in the top left corner of his Heads Up Display.

"Did you find what you were looking for when you scanned our ship" Said the one sitting in the center of the screen. "Well I hope you did because we sure got enough when we ran five simultaneous scans on your armor. Now don't take that as a threat but a promise that is you try to copy our tech then we will mass produce yours." Tony was flabbergasted when detailed blueprints of his armor appeared through the video feed.

"Do not take this as a threat but merely a warning." There were no enemy transports to be seen so Kyle muted the video feed going to Ironman and sent a message to Commander Keyes asking for orders as well as informing her that the Avengers were on site.

The message he got back told him to get back into orbit to help them fight Kang's warship and if they would come then they should bring the Avengers with them. Kyle unmuted the video feed going to Ironman.

"We are going to Kang's base if you want to go with us get in the hanger if not then stay out of our way" As he said that Kyle opened the hanger bay doors wide enough for the Twin Jets to get in.

"Aright we will board but when this is over we need some major answers about whom you people are and where you got that ship." Ironman flew into the hanger and his jaw dropped as he saw the sheer amount of vehicles in the hanger. From the four tired Jeep with the machine gun on back to the large four treaded Tank with a massive cannon. And the air vehicles were just as impressive from the two turbine craft with one seat and two landing skids to the large winged fighter with two large intakes on the front of the ship.

On the bridge Sam was flying the ship while Kyle went to secure the heroes in the hanger. The ship was in a full lockdown except for route to the hanger from the bridge. Kyle entered the hanger moments after the Avengers took in all of the vehicles in the hanger. Kyle felt the ship shudder slightly as it passed through the atmosphere as he walked over to the Avengers.

"I will not answer any questions so if you please follow me to t…." he stopped mid sentence as he got an urgent message from Commander Keyes. He quickly sealed his helmet so that his voice was not heard on the outside by the heroes, "Go ahead Commander."

"Kyle the enemy warship was able to hit us with an electromagnetic pulse before we disabled it and it will take five minutes for the ship to come back online and worse the doors are all on an emergency lockdown from the EMP but the bridge had extra insulation from the blast so we have communications and Cortana is fine since we didn't lose power on the bridge. But the ship just launched 25 fighters on an attack run and we're sitting ducks up here I need you in a Longsword as soon as possible."

"Alright I'm in the hanger I was greeting our guests but I will be in the Longsword in one minute." Kyle ended the com and turned the external speakers back on so he could talk to the Avengers. "Change of plans Kang's warship used an EMP and took out our other ship I need to go help them so you need to stay here unless you want to come help me fly into certain death." Kyle said in a serious voice with a trickle of sarcasm entering his voice as he moved towards the Longsword.

The Avengers decided to help so they got back into the Twin jet except for Iron Man who was flying on his own. Kyle ran up the ramp and quickly jumped into the pilot seat. He hit the ignition button and clipped into the crash harness. The engines gave off a loud humming sound as they ignited. He pushed the throttle forward to twenty five percent and the engines gave off a loud roar as it accelerated out of the hanger the roar of the engines died as soon as it left the hanger and entered the vacuum of space.

The Avengers soon left the hanger as soon as Kyle had left the hanger. Kyle quickly informed Sam that he was going to help the Dawn and he should have Brandon move the ship into a position to cover the Dawn. He got a reply that the Commander had already informed them of the situation and they were already moving to cover the ship from anything that got passed him or the Avengers.

Kyle turned towards the mass of enemy fighters and he pushed the accelerator to one hundred percent and watched as the signals of the Avengers dropped away from the radar display. Kyle activated the weapons switching over to missiles and waited until he heard the sharp tone indicating a target lock for the missiles. He squeezed the trigger and two rockets flew from the ship.

They streaked towards the enemy fighters on a plume of fire that soon grew smaller and smaller as it got closer to the fighters. The missiles impacted the enemy fighters but they were flying in such a tight formation that had them all nearly touching the two missiles took out eight enemy fighters. Kyle was able to get another missile lock but the enemy pilots had realized their error and had spread out as well as juking their ships to the left and right causing the lock to break but it regained the lock taking out two more fighters. By that time they closed to their weapons range and sent a large volley of blue laser fire in his direction. He pushed the stick to the side rolling to the left to dodge most of the fire.

Five of the lasers were able to score a direct hit but they only slightly burned the reinforced titanium alloy. Kyle spun the ship up on the tip of the wing and held down the trigger letting loose a swarm of bullets. The bullets impacted the fighters causing three more fighters to explode. Kyle passed through the enemy formation coming out the others side after taking out two more fighters. The remaining fighters continued on towards the Dawn but Kyle wasn't able to pursue them due to 20 more fighters coming out of the enemy warship.

The 13 surviving enemy fighters that engaged Kyle pulled back to the other group. The 33 fighters rolled around onto a heading straight for Kyle but before they could fire on Kyle a large burst of Missiles flew out and destroyed all but 7 of the fighters. Kyle looked at the rear camera and saw the Dawn and the Resistance had both let loose a small volley of missiles. Both ships moved toward Kang's warship. Kyle flew back into the Resistance and quickly moved to the bridge were he found the Avengers on the bridge. He entered the bridge and saw Keyes on the main monitor she waited for him to sit in the captain's chair before she began speaking.

"We are going to fly on either side of his warship and launch boarding craft to neutralize Kang and his ship. Avengers, are you going to help us go after Kang?"

Tony stepped forwards closer to the camera, "Yes we will help you board his ship but I have to make a request, I talked with Nick Fury and he requested that once we neutralize Kang that he leave his ship intact so that Shield can set up on the ship."

"Alright Iron Man we will leave the ship intact as long as we can gain control over the ship with ease, Eagle squad move to the boarding pods I will stay on the Dawn the Spartans are in their pod we are going to launch when you are both ready." Kyle gave a nod and cut the transmission. He motioned to Sam and Curtis who got up from their seats and led the Avengers to the part of the ship where the boarding pods were located. Kyle stayed on the bridge until the Avengers were out of earshot before talking to Brandon.

"Get into contact with the Commander and listen to what she tells you" Kyle said as he walked out of the doors to the bridge. He walked quickly down the hallway to catch up to Sam and Curtis. By the time he got to the boarding pods the Avengers had already gotten into to pods Sam and Curtis helping them strap into the crash seats. The boarding pods looked almost identical to the Bumblebee Escape pod used by the UNSC. The main difference was that it was driven from the rear near the large engines that allowed it to be exceptionally fast that combined with maneuvering thrusters on the sides as well as the top and the bottom made it able to rapidly approach an enemy ship as well as able to dodge a large amount of anti fighter weaponry.

Kyle sat down in the pilot's seat and once he was sure everyone was secured in their seats he sealed the airlock that lead into the ship and then hit the button that pushed the pod away from the ship. He pivoted the ship using the maneuvering thrusters. The ship was pointed at Kang's warship when the ship started to fire anti-aircraft fire at the pod. Scarlet bolts of energy lanced towards their boarding pod.

Kyle threw the stick to the side rolling the ship to the side narrowly missing the fast moving energy projectiles. Kyle glanced to the corner of his helmet which had a specialized Heads Up Display (HUD). His helmet was connected to the pilot's chair through a small cord he had plugged in when he had sat down. This was necessary since the pod had no windows to make it stronger the front was armored and the ship was covered in cameras that allowed the pilot to have a complete 360 degree field of view. The HUD had readouts of all of the ships statistics as well as the radar in the bottom left of it.

He heard a beep in his ear and hit a button inside of his helmet accepting the incoming com transmission.

"Sergeant, according to the scans those bolts are not strong enough to kill you if they score a direct hit but multiple rounds could cause explosive decompression" said Keyes.

"Alright thanks for the heads up I will try not to get hit" with that Kyle cut the communication. He continued to roll and dive in a random pattern making it extremely hard for the ship to score a hit on the pod. Kyle saw a yellow blip on his radar that was the Spartans. He lifted the cover and flipped the switch that armed the thrusters used to slow the ship before it hits a ship.