He was dead wrong.
He'd begin to reach his destination.
"R2, exit hyperspace in three." He'd say to the astromech.
It beeps in reply, and after three seconds, it exits hyperspace.
Instead of the arrival he expected, he was greeted by a large scaled battle. From what he could gather, two different races were battling eachother.
Their technological difference was stunning, however, what caught him as strange was the ring of stations around the planet.
He couldn't identify their purpose, untill one shot a yellow energy beam from its sMAC, the beam would rip through the nearest ship, cutting it in two.
"Alright.. R2, see if you can contact leia." Skywalker would say as he ponders his options.
R2 would beep.
"Of course we cant reach her from here.. Hmm.. Maybe one of those stations will provide us with what we need?" Luke would say as his X-wing flew into the heart of battle.
Human forces would not fire upon him, his ship design was definently not covenant, so he was no perceived as a threat. He would begin approaching the station.
"Unidentified spaceship, redirect your course or you'll be fired upon." A voice would say over his commlink.
"R2, full speed into that hangar."
R2 would beep. The x-wing's engines would light up, it flinging straight into the station.
Luke would jump out. "Guard the ship, r2." He'd say as he ran to the elevator.
He'd sneak around the middle level of the station, finding his way to another elevator. He'd embark it, arriving on the upper levels.
He'd take out his commlink.
"R2, is everything ok?" He'd ask.
R2 would beep.
"Good." He'd say, before turning it off.
Luke would locate a doorsign stating "Comms room". He'd enter this room, seeing about 5 individuals working on a series of terminals.
He'd enter, using the force to pile them up in a corner.
"I'll be using your transmissions array." He'd say.
He walks over to a large terminal, in which was clearly the comms array's direct control point. He would input a series of code used by the new republic to signal an SOS, and at the end, he put his initials.
Suddenly, alarms went off everywhere. One of the comms officers had pulled an emergency switch while he wasn't looking at them.
"R2, get the x-wing ready for lift off!" He'd yell into his commlink as he heard the footsteps of marines.
He'd run out of the comms room, using the force to push all the marines onto the floor. He ran past them into the elevator, and he'd send it down.
He'd arrive on the middle level, clearly the most heavily armed and well guarded. He'd force sprint through the hallways towards the next elevator.
He'd locate it, but a nearby marine saw him, quickly shooting the elevator's motor, diabling it.
Luke would throw his lightsaber, cutting the marine in half, before jumping onto the elevator, and using the force to make it descend.
R2 would open the cockpit as luke ran out into the hangar. He'd hop in franticly before taking off at almost full speed.
"I got the signal out, r2, any replies?" Luke would say.
R2 beeped, he'd quickly run the reply through his decryption software before playing it.
"Luke, your current location is extremely far away. I doubt we'd make it in time to help you, however we'll send what we can." Leia would say before the transmission ends.
"What do you think they have in mind?" Luke asked r2.
R2 would beep.
"I hope its something good too." Luke said as they flew away from the field of battle.
Suddenly, as if awoken from a deep sleep, the x-wing rumbled.
"Systems check, r2." Luke would yell as he looked out the window behind him. He was being persued by two purple craft.
"We are going to have to evade them, R2, I dont think we have the firepower to take them on. Luke would say.
He'd turn the x-wing towards the battle. He'd activate reserve thrusters, the x-wing reaching full throttle, however the craft were not as slow as he anticipated.
"We cant shake them.. Lets get our friends to destroy them." He'd say as he flew towards a large carrier-like ship.
Suddenly, he'd notice something about this ship.. It had a name printed on the side.
"Spirit of Fire".
"Thats our target R2, head to the hangar." He'd say.
R2 would beep.
Alice's POV.
Despite the battle raging on outside, anders was still attempting to lecture alice about the device she had given to anders.
"Professor, I am needed outside in the battle.." Alice would say, obviously extremely bored.
Anders would sigh.
"How much do you spartans complain?" She'd ask.
Alice would groan before leaving the room, not saying a word.
She'd approach jerome and douglas.
"Whats our job?" She'd ask.
Jerome would look at douglas. "Was hoping you'd tell us." He'd say.
The sound of screeching could be heard from the hangar bay, which was down the hallway through an open door.
"Might as well go check that out, nothing else to do." Douglas would say as he and jerome stood up.
They'd enter the hangar bay, hoping that the covenant had boarded them so that they could finally have some action, but no. There was a lone fighter aircraft sitting in the hangar.
"Damn it." Douglas would say.
Jerome would walk over.
"Look at this thing." He'd say as he'd tap R2's Head.
R2 would zap him.
Jerome would quickly grab r2's zapper, ripping it off. R2 would display as much pain and emotion that a droid that communicated through beeps could.
It was more like a never ending scream to the three.
"God damn it.." Alice would say. "Cheated out of a fight with the covies by some dome headed scrap heap.".
"Yeah, but theres no pilot. Means he's somewhere on the ship." Jerome would say.
"True, lets go inform the captain." Said douglas as the three exited the hangar bay.
Luke's POV.
Luke would exit from cover behind a few crates. "R2, I dont want to hang around with you screaming like that." He'd say.
R2 would shut up, but that didn't change luke's mind about leaving, no doubt the whole damn ship had probably heard him.
"Lets go." Luke would say as the X-wing lifts off, flying out of the hangar. Just as he did so, he received a standard transmission.
R2 beeped.
"This is a standard transmission.. The new republic must be here.." Luke would say, breathing a sigh of relief.
Though he didn't anticipate they'd bring what they did.
A fleet of CR-90 Corellian Corvettes, X-wings, A-Wings, Y-wings and B-wings, and a few scattered Nebulon B2 Frigates.
"Thats small." He'd say.
Suddenly, more ships would pull from hyperspace behind them. They were three ISD IIs, obviously stolen during the Civil War.
"Thats better."
The fleet approached the battle.
Jerome's POV.
"Captain, so-" He'd be cut short by the voice of Lord Terrance Hood.
"A flood ship has crashed in voi.. The master chief is fighting his way out, but he'll need support." He'd say, taking a brief pause.
"Send your spartans down to assist." He would say before the transmission would end.
"You heard him," Cutter would say to the spartans over his shoulder.
The spartans would comply, boarding a pelican and flying down to the surface.
As soon as they had left, both the UNSC and the Covenant picked up the signatures given by the approaching fleet.
"Unidentified fleet, turn away now. This is a war zone."
There'd be a short pause. No answer.
The fleet continued its rapid movement towards them. The covenant would halt its fire against them, more curious than agressive, which was rarely seen in the Covenant.
The fleet would begin emiting laser beams towards both the UNSC and the Covenant. The beams would do damage to the ships they fired on, however the Covenant's shielding prevented major damage.
The covenant's ships would turn to face the approaching fleet, firing all weaponry at them.
An ISD II would down a ship's shields after a lengthy engagement. The ship would go full speed ahead towards the ISD II. It'd position itself above them.
Its glassing beam would be charged, and then fired, going right through the ship and crushing it like it were an ant.
The UNSC could see the covenant were, by theirselves, equal to this new threat. The UNSC had to eliminate one of them in order to survive. Meanwhile, both sides, the covenant and the new republic, would relay for all available ships to arrive in the system.
Lord Terrance Hood's POV.
"Are you suggesting we make an alliance with the covenant?" He'd ask to two deck officers standing before him.
"Yes sir.. We face a common enemy." He'd say with a trembling voice.
"It would be worth a shot, but I wouldn't put money on it. More likely they'll no-" He is cut off.
The monitors in the room begin to show the face of the Prophet of Truth.
"Vermin.." He'd start, soon he'd be going on about how humanity was going to die, and the great journey ETC. "But that will have to be.. Later."
"Despite my better judgement," Truth would say "It is impossible to start the great journey if these new.. worms capture your disgusting pit you call earth."
The screens would turn off.
"I believe your request is accepted." Hood would say. "After we deal with this new threat, we'll mop up the covenant." He'd say. The battle would begin to get larger as the UNSC entered the fray under direct orders of lord hood to assist the covenant. Most ship captains were utterly confused or down right annoyed, but they obeyed.
Jerome's POV.
Jerome would watch from the cockpit of the pelican as it dodged incoming X and A-Wings.
"Get to voi sooner than later, alice." He'd say.
Alice would make the pelican speed up as much as she could as it entered the atmosphere.
The X-wings and A-wings pulled off.
"Why did they pull off?" Alice would ask, looking to jerome.
"Look where your flying!" He'd yell as the ground rapidly approached them.
Alice would stop the pelican in time to prevent a direct collision with the ground, but the pelican soon crashed into the side of the factory, getting wedged.
The three would jump out the back of the pelican.
They'd see numerous flood forms running towards them.
"Open fire!" Alice would yell, the team of spartans holding their ground Master Chief would exit through a door behind them. He'd throw a grenade at a group of approaching flood forms, blowing them to bits.
Suddenly, A Assault Carrier would fly over them.
"Covenant!" Jerome would yell.
Drop pods cashed into the surface, elites exiting.
Jerome and the other two would spray their guns at the elites.
"Stop it." Chief would say to them.
They'd stop firing. The elites that were fired upon looked annoyed.
Jerome and the two would walk up to chief.
"What now?" Alice would ask.
Chief would blankly point to a broken piece of the ship in the far distance.
"Ah. We'll meet you there." She'd say, the two spartans would follow her as she ran towards the side of the factory.
She'd climb up, and so would the other two. Flood forms would begin climbing onto the roof from inside of the facility.
"We've got contacts" Jerome would say.
They'd run towards the flood forms, firing everything they had at them, gunning most of them down.
A form would jump at jerome, who in turn would slide his fist right through the form's chest. He'd rip it out, his arm being stained orange from it.
The three would run along the roof, hearing plasma fire from inside and outside of the factory.
They'd be halted by more flood forms jumping onto the roof from the courtyard.
"Stand your ground!" Douglas would yell as the forms rapidly approached, starting to overrun them.
In spaaaaaaaceee
The UNSC would line their MAC-Capable ships in a neat row before firing their MACs at a singular target. The target would be eradicated faster than any covenant ship.
"Their shielding technology cant withstand MAC rounds as well as the covenants can. Use this to our advantage." Cutter would tell his deck officers.
A swarm of CR-90 Corvettes began swatting down longswords. The frigates would respond by firing volleys of archers at the CR-90s. The archer missiles being more than they could withstand.
The New Republic would begin attempting to retreat. The Covenant would send a boarding team aboard an ISD II, in which they'd plant a series of trackers.
The team would retreat from the ship as it entered hyperspace. They had won.
Voi
The team of spartans were forced to jump off the roof as the flood closed in on them. They'd run across the platforms opposite the chief as they approached the wreck.
"Chief, The elites and us will protect you while you enter. Be quick." Douglas would say to Chief.
Chief would nod his head, and he'd blanky say "Yes sir.".
Chief would jump down into the ship.
Meanwhile, the stragglers who hadn't heard the evacuation order initiated by the new republic would begin approaching voi. "Chief.. You might want to hurry." Douglas would say.