0925 hours, November 11, 2528 (military calendar)

Meeting Room

Desert, Planet Harvest

Hiruzen and Naruto were alone in the room looking over a major issue now. There has been no opening in the battle, and they were low on basic supplies. They needed to resupply somewhere which brought up the mission they were talking about. An abandoned base near an empty city had the supplies they needed but it was occupied by the Covenant. Attacking outright would not be a good idea at the moment so they had to do things differently. The old school Elemental way.

"We will have pelicans drop your team off at the forest nearby. Sneak into the city eliminate all anti air guns and forces near the base. 'Sakura's Mirage' will be on standby to land on the base to grab the supplies" stated Hiruzen

"Understood. I will be taking Zabuza, Shikamaru, Chouji, Kiba, Sai, Shino, and 60 other Elemental's with me. We will strike them at night which will be our advantage"

"Good. It must be done quietly and quickly, or reinforcements would be summoned. I trust you shouldn't have an issue with this mission?"

"Come on. You trained me after all. This should be easy"

"It's because I trained you, the reason why I'm worried. You are very….let's say destructive at times. You do have a bunch of females and babies to come home to" he warned as Naruto scratched his head in embarrassment. He did like to go overboard at times. He will not accept blame and will say it was the Kyuubi's fault.

But last month was quite the month. They had all give birth different times but all in his birthday month. It felt like a sign from God that this was meant to be. His kids will be his legacy once he is gone from this world. He is now the proud father of 3 from before plus the 14 from last month. He thanked God for the creation of clones. He wanted to give all the love attention to his 17 kids equally. He just had to make sure he never confused the names of them. He had renovated a large room to be transferred into a daycare for them. Something that Tsunami and his clone's toke full control of.

Evening

With it being late into the evening Naruto and his teams could be seen outside near pelicans that were lined up but were on standby. The teams were dressed in black marine armor and fatigues waiting for the mission start. They have been already briefed on everything and were waiting on Naruto's go. Listening in to his comms he waited for a few more minutes before hearing 'proceed'. Signaling the teams, they quickly moved into the pelicans that were powering up. With him looking around to see everyone is onboard he climbed in as well as the pelicans took off into the sky and headed off.

With the 5 pelicans moving through the sky at a moderate paste they kept low to the ground to avoid as much detection as possible. Reaching the tree line, they slowed down to a hover allowing the back door to open up. Taking the lead, Naruto leaped out into the trees from the high attitude and towards the nearby city as the teams followed behind him. With this speed they will reach the edge of the city by nightfall.

Edge of City

With the night in full effect and the moon shining bright into the landscape Naruto could be seen standing on a tree branch. Signaling out to his side he ordered a group lead by Zabuza to head down into the city and begin taking out patrols. Another signal had Sai lead a group to target their comms towers. A signal to the left had Shikamaru lead a team to take out any overwatches. With the teams dispersed he toke half the remainder to take out the anti-air guns while Chouji toke the rest to secure the abandoned base.

Along the quiet streets of the city small covenant patrols could be seen taking place as a mist slowly came along. Thinking nothing of it they continued on moving through the mist not knowing lookouts above them were being token down in brutal and quick efficiency. It was when they were fully covered in the mist with their lights being only able to barely help that strange things began to take place.

A ghost that was trailing behind the group slowly powered down and drop to the ground as the driver went missing. Hearing the thud of the dropped vehicle the group turned around to face it not seeing a shadow dragging an elite into the mist for a silent kill. With the clatter of a weapon falling to the ground the group turned to face it not hearing a swishing sound of a large blade coming from the side until it was too late.

From the advantage of a roof a jackal was looking around at the mist rolling through covering the ground from its sight. It soon became too thick to even see the lights of the patrols below. Squinting its eyes to get a better vision it did not notice a pair of hands reach out from the shadow. With a quick grab and snap the neck was broken and the body came crumbling to the ground.

All around the city became the enemy to the patrolling covenant was they were killed without any retaliation. With the take downs Chouji's team was able to get to the base and secured it. Sai had no issues securing their comm towers with his ink birds. The last target was the air gun.

Placed upon a wide building the air gun was active and searching for targets. All around its different Covenant species walked around and patrolled it. Naruto's group ran underneath the guard tower of an elite using the shadow as cover and formed up.

Seeing everyone was in position he gave a nod to the female in front of him causing her to take a step back and leap high into the air. Landing behind the elite without a sound she pulled out ninja wire charged with her chakra and wrapped it around its neck. With a quick tug his head was falling to the ground before he could give a startle cry.

With the guard down the rest jumped into the area and spread out to wipe everything out. Naruto focusing on his main target headed straight to the anti-air gun. Going up the lift he was greeted to a few grunts working on the systems as elites watched from behind. With a tug of his combat knife, he jumped forward and slammed it deep into a elite's neck while slamming his chakra boosted boot into the head of the other. As the elite gurgled on his blood the other elite was slammed and held hard into the wall. Like a puppet with its strings cut the elite stayed into the wall not moving.

Hearing the two dropped bodies the grunts turned around in a startled cry to see Naruto looking down at them like prey. "Your fucked" he smirked jumping at them as they cried in panic while Kyuubi laughed in joy at their deaths.

With the squad wiped out Naruto comm in 'Sakura's Mirage' to begin her approach and for all teams to regroup at the base looting all enemy bodies as well. Making sure to truly disable the gun he left with the others to see the frigate arrive from the clouds and land at the base. When the base was fully ransacked, it would be a mission complete. 'And with no casualties' he thought entering the base with the others to see troopers racing in and out with the others hurrying to get everything onboard.

They needed to make sure this was quick before the Covenant catch wind to what happened. With the crews onboard and the extra given to the ship for the mission they had everything onboard within a few hours.

Temporary Base

With the much-needed supplies relief came to the company. With this they would be able to last longer while they waited for their opening, and it was not much longer when it came but at a cost.

In space

Explosions ranged off as the sounds of battle took place. While the group found a way off planet the Covenant had tracked them down and sent a few ships after them. Sustaining heavy damage all around the fleet was in full retreat as the enemy pursued them. The fleet couldn't even jump due to the enemy stopping or following them through. They were running out of options.

The fleet had the smaller ships out in front with the larger ships to the rear in order to soak up most of the damage but there was a certain limit that they could take. Naruto was watching from his command console as damage reports were coming in from the fleet. Running away constantly would cause them to be picked off one by one. Fighting would be even worst as with their size fleet, fire power, and damage they wouldn't even last half an hour.

:This is Kumo's Reckoning. We are in route to your location. Maintain course:

"Commander, according to my calculations, by the time that they reach us we will lose 75 percent or more of the fleet. Another course of action is highly" spoke up Kora from his console as Precious Justice appeared next to her.

"I concur with her estimates. Another suggestion is required. Might I suggest a recommendation" she added as the ship rocketed from the side due to a nearby explosion.

"Go for it! Anything that can get us out of this"

"Allow me to have control over all our ships. I can combine our systems and powers to create what is known as a slipspace bridge. We will escape from the battle, but we will sustain massive damage as the fleet ships are not able to handle it"

"We will escape them, correct?". "Yes, you would be correct"

"Do it. Direct personal to the safest part of the ships so the chances of death are neutralized. Warn all captains of what is taking place Kora as Precious Justice performs the jump" ordered Naruto as the A.I.'s nodded and got to work.

All over the ships crew and personnel were rushing to the designated safe areas as Precious Justice moved the fleet into a much tighter formation. With the fleets closer small arcs of electrical power came off the ships as all of their slipspace drives charged to their maximum power. With the ships in link Precious Justice activated the slipspace causing a massive blue swirling portal to appear in front of the fleet.

"Brace yourself" warned the A.I. as the ships moved through the portal and shutting it down when all the ships went through.

Sparks and explosions were sounding off at once as the ships raced through the slipspace. They were going faster than they were ever expected to go. "Kora ship status!" yelled out Naruto

"We are barely holding but that is becoming less likely the more we are in this"

"We will be out in a few more minutes" announced Precious Justice as more sparks came off the consoles. "Will we even make it a few more minutes?" he asked seeing flames on his and other ships as some of their armor started to melt off.

"Affirmative"

"What about the Covenant? Are they following us, or can they even track us? With the damages we are receiving we will last not even a second now"

"With the slipspace bridge I created they would be unable to track or follow us. Any trackers they placed on the hulls of the ship were instantly destroyed entering the slipspace"

It was few minutes later when damage levels were reaching critical that Precious Justice announced, "Exiting in 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, brace yourself everyone". With a hug thud the fleet exited the jump to a close-up view of a large, beautiful planet. A planet like Earth but much bluer and greener. It seems so pure and larger than Earth. And getting a closer by the looks of it.

"Fuck we are being pulled in by the planet's gravity!" yelled out Naruto

"The fleet has lost power to sustain position! The slipspace bridge fried most of our systems and engines. We can't resist the pull" yelled Kora

"All hands brace for impact! We are crashing!" called out Naruto before strange readings came from the consoles that were active. Multiple unknown signals were approaching the fleet fast.

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