1500 hours, February 06, 2531 (military calendar)

Planet Arcadia

Road to Covenant Excavation Site

To avoid the look the Catherine was still giving him, he had decided to move up front to behind the driver seat. It did avoid her being in his sight but now he could feel her eyes one him. If feels like she is even doing this intentionally. Something that he wasn't going to call out to save his pride.

"Sir!" called the driver gaining his attention. Tap a touch screen pad it showed an allied signal above the ground being pursed by three flying enemy aircraft. Tapping the screen himself it showed a pelican trailing smoke as it was being fired upon by three pursing banshees.

"Put us on an intercepting path with them" he ordered stepping back and climbing up the hatch. With the hatch popped opened he stepped outside to stand upon the roof of the driving mastodon. Looking on he tried to make a plan of action as aircraft within the battlegroup pealed off to shoot down the banshees.

He was a primary offensive and defensive warrior. He did not have much in his arsenal that could save a pelican. Even less when the pelican taking another hit and started nosediving for the ground as the other aircraft picked off the banshees. He had to improvise which was what he did when he through out his hands to shoot off chains of charka. The chains wrapped around the pelican but due to the difference in location he did not have the strength to stop or lift it up. Doing the next best thing was forcibility changed the direction of the pelican pulling it from a nosedive to crashing on its stomach.

The pelican slammed down on the ground with a loud thud before sliding to a stop. Pulling the vehicles to a stop next to the pelican. The crews of marines of Spartans walked up to the crashed pelican. With the doors in, it was impossible to open the doors normally. Naruto stepping forward with Ralph were getting ready to pull the doors apart when hands from the other side started pulling it.

With a slam the doors four visors to stare at visors. Walking forward and out of the pelican where a total of six Spartans clad in their green armor. "Spartan Team Omega" reported the one in front to which they assumed was lead. Recognizing the number 011 Naomi spoke up saying "Leon".

"What is your orders, Leon?" spoke Catherine giving them all a quick glance over.

Leon immediately recognized her and answered "To report to the nearest UNSC base to help defend Arcadia, mam"

"Well change of orders. Your assistance would be much needed with us. All the bases have been cleared in the city except for ours which would be momentarily happening" to which he nodded

"Orders?"

"Come with me and I'll fill you in" she answered leading the way as the team followed.

Naruto looking to Naomi asked the question that had been on a few of their minds. "Did we just recruit six more Spartan's?" to which she nodded yes before following after them.

With the crew recovered they were on the way to catch up to the Spirit of Fire forces. It was unfortunate that they were quite ahead of them. Something Catherine never failed to remind him. Pulling their forces to a nearby air control tower they saw that it was abandoned along with a nearby firebase. They could see wreckage from both UNSC forces and Covenant. There was a battle here and from the looks of things, it seems like the UNSC had assaulted something ahead of them.

Ordering his troops to spread out and search the area, they looked for any information or something useful. Walking to the edge of a large drop Naruto could see a forest below with ruins of some kind. Pulling out his battle rifle he looked through the scope to see what was down there in detail.

He could see more remains of battle from both forces as well as a firebase. The firebase was hiding behind some sort of old wall. It seemed like the wall has token a massive amount of damage. 'Looks like plasma damage' he thought before moving his sights to see where it came from. Looking over to where it came from, he saw the remains of what seems to be some large covenant machine.

"There" said Naruto lowering his rifle for the approaching Catherine to look through the scope. She could see just behind the ruined Covenant machine a entrance to a new location.

"Well while they don't have better gear and tech then us the Spirit of Fire always seem to be ahead of us" she said

"They just have more forces, and they are better trained overall. Some of the best the UNSC has to offer" answered Leon walking up to the two.

"Then we need to change tactics so we can be right there with them. What's the Elemental's Guardian status?" she asked to a marine crouching down by a radio

Elemental's Guardian Bridge

Admiral Hiruzen was seeing to the last of his forces boarding the ship with the few Herons from the abandoned city. With Precious Justice scans he could say without a shadow of a doubt that he rescued every surviving human left. He could even say he had evacuated the areas around the city leaving nobody for the Covenant to pick off. The other continents have been left alone but were already finishing up their evacuations.

He could see on the monitors of the ship the Herons were inside the ship now landing on a platform. Troops and civilians were coming out of it once done so to be properly sorted out. It made him happy that he was able to make so much of a difference, but this worries him. The ship is massive and a very attractive target. It is also the biggest ship from humanity. A ship capable of fighting the Covenant ships are even grounds or even more favorable positions. Why haven't they pulled all-out assault on them. They were avoiding them it seems.

"Admiral, we have an emergency message from Captain Cutter!" called out a officer making him move back to his command chair to sit down.

"Put it through" he answered a video call came through showing Captain Cutter's face. "Captain, go ahead"

"Admiral, we have a situation. An elite has captured our lead scientist Doctor Ellen Anders. She has a significant amount of information and poses a security breach. We are going after her" he explained as he nodded in agreement

"Understood. We have your signal. We will pull our forces and follow you. Good luck" he finished as the call was ended. Looking to the side he didn't even need to bark out orders as the A.I and officers were already dispatching forces to pick up the pursing force while moving the ship closer. He wanted this to be done fast. He as well was tired of playing catch up.

With the call of returning to base being called, a convoy of pelicans came swooping down to pick up all forces and assets to return to the ship. Knowing the urgency of the situation it was within an hour that the last pelican touched down on the ship.

"Put us in the air away from inland" he ordered as the ship lifted away from the area and into the skies over the ocean. Once seeing that were a good distance away from the continent, he gave his next order that shocked many.

"Make the jump from here" he started gaining wide eyes. "We have nothing to worry about with damaging the surrounding area and the ship has the capabilities to do the jump from here" he finished as the crew understood what was asked and prepared the jump.

The Elemental's Guardian slipspace drive charged up with enough energy before forming a portal in front of it. With the portal fully formed it moved forward going through it as it closed behind them causing a massive shockwave in the area behind it.

Bay

Naruto, both Spartan teams, and Catherine were staying in the loading bay but this time on the platform of a condor. One of the very few that they had. It was best to be on standby here so they could take off immediately instead of rushing. You could see some of the supply crews moving back and forth to the aircraft, loading up whatever they requested. Catherine was looking on her pad trying to keep up to date with the situation as Naruto choose this time to get familiarize with Spartan Team Omega.

Team Omega was talking with Team Kilo as they explained the situation of the ship and crew as well as the creation of the elemental Spartan. It seemed hard to 'understand' or accept the idea of a new spartan but with reports from Kilo it was easier to do so. The man is an outstanding leader that continues to grow while caring for his crew like family. It also helped that he was extremely deadly in combat.

Walking up to the group started off by getting their names or designations from what he heard from them. Robert -025, Leon -011, August -099, Kirk -018, Sheila-065, and Li-008. With Leon being the leader of the group they each had their own thing they specialize in. With the four Spartans from Kilo and the six from this one, it was a very intimidating sight to see. This does not happen too often so Naruto could see that they were enjoying each other's presence for as long as they could.

One thing that he started to notice after being with Spartan Team Kilo for a bit and now Team Omega. Their interaction with Catherine. Omega had no issues with Catherine and seem to be fine with her around. The members of Kilo besides Naomi showed something different. They kept their distance from her as they were longer ordered to guard her. It looks like they had a grudge against her.

'Well, she was responsible for them being in the Spartan program. Maybe that is the reason why and they fully know about the reason they are in it. Got to keep that in mind but Catherine sure made a lot of enemies and grudges. Could be a reason why they were okay with making her my problem' thought Naruto sitting down on a crate waiting for the next set of events to happen.

Planet Unknown

The Spirit of Fire arriving at the orbit of the planet first was followed by Elemental's Guardian a few seconds later. This goes to show that they had a much more advance slipspace drive. Seeing the strange planet both ships ran their own scans of it. The planet was quite large have a tan like color showing that there was plenty of deserts and rocky areas.

EG Bridge

"Kora" called out Hiruzen looking at the planet in confusion making the A.I. appear on the holo table.

"Sir, the planet appears to be able to sustain life but I'm getting strange readings from it that I don't understand" she replied placing her hand on the side of her head trying to concentrate. Appearing next to her Precious Justice looked over the data before flinching and clutching her head gaining everyone's attention.

"Precious Justice" called our Admiral Hiruzen in worry looking at her kneeling form

"I know what this is, and I know why it is locked up. The unknown readings you are receiving is known as the Flood, but I don't know how they are still alive" she finished in shock

So, I was able to get in the mail the books Halo Encyclopedia, Halo War fleet, and Halo Mythos so I can add new characters, things, and make things more lore accurate and precise. Just a lot to go through and read.

Alright here are the ideas for the two upcoming stories:

Story 1:

This takes place in this storyline. An elemental recently graduating Elemental school and marine bootcamp was offered the choice to join the Maelstrom Company. This is her story as she navigates the events that happen during Universal Vortex. I will be keeping her last name secret for most of the story as I don't want to spoil anything. She is gennin level, so she won't be strong to start. This storyline will go much slower as this will navigate the scenes behind the main events and from time to time intersect between them.

Story 2:

Naruto is born on planet Reach. He caught Dr. Halsey eye once seeing his amazing athletic and strategic abilities in the playground and in school. Deciding she wanted him for the Spartan project she kidnaps him and makes him a Spartan with the others. Performing so well as a Spartan he was eventually designated as the first wolf. As time goes on, he runs into people from his past. From fellow Spartans to old childhood friends. Each having their own connection that tries to break through his lone wolf mission like personality.

So, there is no chakra in this and only thing besides Naruto coming to the story is other Naruto characters. That is all from that. I will take certain things from the Halo TV show that has interest me. I will add the three members of silver team and Dr. Halsey personality a bit. That is all I'm taking from that. Maybe Makee as a character but not her role in the Covenant. It goes against so much of the lore that it hurts to see.

Final Note:

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