John was asleep dreaming of when he was a child when he met Kelly, Sam and Linda for the first time. He also dreamt seeing Dr. Catherine Halsey for the first time winning that coin 117 was in deep sleep when a familiar voice awoke him from slumber.
"John get up it's 0520" Cortana spoke loudly through the ships speaker system. John who was a heap of MJOLNIR on the floor started to move and got to his feet. As soon as he got up he griped his near by pistol.
"What's wrong, we're alone there's nothing near us" Cortana seemed a little twitchy seeing him like this. John said nothing as he picked up the weapons he gathered the night before and equipped them . John yanked the AI placed her in his armour and moved out scanning the grey walls of the dawn , a sentinel identical to the ones on the Ark and rings burst in front of him through the door the Spartan put it down with the butt of his assault rifle and fired a burst into it destroying it.
"OK how the hell did you know that was there" Cortana asked, "Motion sensors went off, are there any means of transport to get out of this place" John asked seeming nervous, which made Cortana nervous. "No the Hangar probably emptied it's self in space but we can try, I'll mark a point on your HUD" Cortana replied. John made his way to the hangar successfully finding a big metal box he walked over to it and pushed the button on the console to release the door with a large grinding sound the container opened revealing a perfect full tank passenger Warthog.
"Wow I guess you are lucky" Cortana said impressed how this could stay on the ship the way it did. John kept looking around and found a weapons locker which was locked and he flipped it with ease the shutters were down and 117 realised it was locked so he slammed his fist through the locker and and ripped the shutters off he found a M7/ SMG and climbed in to the Warthog and started it's engine and drove out the remains of the Dawn.
"Cortana are you picking anything up unusual like any high energy spikes or something, I don't feel right I feel as if I'm being watched" John told his companion as he sped through the remains of an ancient city that reminded him of what happened in New Mombasa when the ship jumped leaving nothing but devastation in it's wake.
"No not really I have had some things strange but nothing to be worried about and what do you mean watched" she asked, "Nothing forget it it's just I feel very vulnerable but I'm adapting or I'd die" he replied. They drove for a few more hours until John seemed to notice something very familiar and very strange. He stopped the Warthog and gathered his weapons and started walking toward a craft, he looked up and seen an Elite ship destroyed in two huge parts decaying bodies of Elites were laying all over the ground in a huge crater vehicles were scatted about also destroyed, with large Wraith plasma mortars in the ground it looked like a battle happened here and a recent one at that.
"What do you think happened here" Cortana asked, "A battle and a big one by the looks of it, what ever happened these guys didn't stand a chance and it was quick too, the bodies are all in clusters they were mown down quick, I'm checking this out" John told Cortana and walked up to the ship keeping an eye out for any unwanted attention, there were to many bodies on the floor he was standing on blood and corpses he finally got up close to the craft and found an opening and jumped on the the destroyed ship. After a good few minutes looking about on the ship he seen something on his radar and spun around nothing, this made John a little uneasy as he continued to explore the ship he came to a large room it's lights were turned off 117 turned his helmet lights on and surveyed the area and walked to the centre of the room.
"This doesn't feel right, it's like are being expected" Cortana said uneasy. All of a sudden the lights turned on and the Spartan was surrounded by hundreds and hundreds of Elites. Everything was silent and an Elite warrior walked in through the centre doors and all the elites started to shout battle cries. The Elite walked up to 117 and stopped looking square it to his orange reflective visor. John silently put out his hand in a friendly gesture and the Elite activated his Energy Sword and slashed his assault rifle in half then kicked John to the floor with great force, the Elites cheered in unison.
"What, why did he do that we are allies that bastard, John try and reason with him" Cortana pleaded to him but John growled, he was pissed. The Elite charged at 117 with his sword and John dove out the way putting the one and only clip of the M7 SMG in to it bringing down it's shields but it continued to charge 117 threw the gun off the Elite and it stumbled John stood still and grabbed the Elites arm as it got to him and threw it on the ground dazing the thing he ran up to it and kicked it in the chest sliding it across the floor, the crowd of Elites were silent as the warrior got to it's feet and ran at John again an idea hit him he had seven grenades and Elites had wide open mouths, John liked stupid Covenant.
"I have an idea" John smirked, as the Elite was in range he pulled a pin on a grenade and rammed it in to it's mouth and threw it against a weakened wall of the ship as it detonated it blew up the wall and sprayed the room full of remains. John ran through the hole as he was bombarded with plasma rifles he found sight of his Warthog again he seen a few Covenant fusion coils and stacked them next to the hole in the hull of the ship and ran back to his Warthog and got into it and started the engine and waited.
"What are you doing" the AI asked sceptically, Elites started to pore out of the hole John grabbed his pistol aimed and fired one shot it hit the coils and detonated sending debris and bodies sky high.
"Step on it" Cortana shouted and John obeyed he flew back it to the city at full speed and started to get away from the ship.
Back at the Covenant ship an Elite in Golden armour stepped over his comrades bodies looking at the trail of smoke in the trail of the Warthog, "V'las, how many banshees do we have left" the Elite in familiar armour turned around and seen a another one of his kind in all flight armour all of it gold. "We have fourteen commander seven in perfect condition, the others can be repaired by our engineers" his voice deep and experienced. "Get them repaired now I want to know where that Demon has gone" his voice full of rage and anger, V'las started to leave and said "By your word Arbiter"
OMG CLIFFHANGAR = O lol R&R plz