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1100 hours, February 07, 2531 (military calendar)

Planet Unknown

Command Center, Covenant Base

"Bring it" was his answer assuming a wide combat stance at the charging brute. Ducking underneath his swing he landed a few blows to his unprotected stomach which the brute just tanked, and shoulder charge him. Sliding back from the charge he twisted his body to avoid the second swing but learned this time. Stabbing his knife into his thigh he followed it up with a kick to his ankle dropping him to his knee in pain.

The brute roared at him in anger and pain allowed for Naruto to grab his pistol and ram it into his mouth. A few trigger squeezes and the brute rolled to his side dead. With the brute dead he placed his pistol to the side and picked up his battle rifle to look at the floating aliens staring at him in fright.

"Don't Naruto!" yelled Catherine into his mic causing him to pause in any further actions. "We heard reports about these species of aliens. They are completely harmless and pose no threats. Recorded events have them perform the role of engineers of the army hence why we call them engineers. Capture them and you have made it up to me for everything you have done recently" she finished

"Understood". "Fireteam Kilo on me. We have a special package for delivery. Fireteam Omega, full assault. Wipe all enemy resistant" he ordered getting roger from the group.

With the mission now adding capture them to it, he couldn't blow up the citadel. Yet. "Come over here" he ordered pointing down in front of him. He watches as they shook a little until one brave enough floated over to where he designated in front of him.

"It seems you understand me perfectly fine. So, understand this, follow my orders and no harm will come to you" he explained as the engineer gave him a nod. He watched it signal to the others to come to its location which they followed. Seeing them in place he formed a hand seal summoning up a few clones to clear the rest of the building while he walked over to the computer console.

Entering Kora into the device he watched from the corner of his vision, one of the engineers floated to a clone standing guard and touched him lightly. It seemed it was completely fascinated with his abilities of an Elemental.

"What do you have Kora?" he asked to see her being projected on the console and going over the data from it.

"Hmm. It seems they have no means to defend against the flood except to avoid it, sacrifice others to it, distract it with a better target, or through bodies at it until they beat it back or got what they needed. Not good ideas we should try" she answered to which was agreed to

"Collect all the information you can from the console while we clean-up" he ordered before standing guard near the door hearing the explosions outside slowly start to die down. He heard one final loud explosion before it died down completely. From his radar he could see friendly approaching his position from outside allowing him to open the door.

"Area clear. No casualties" reported in Naomi with Kilo Team. "Good work. The aliens behind me are what we are bringing with us. Have the condor swing around-"

"Delay that order! We are bringing the ship in" Admiral Hiruzen radio into his comms as they felt the ground rumble. Walking to the console he grabbed Kora's chip and inserted her back into his helmet and walked outside to see the Elemental's Guardian lowering from the sky.

Around the base he saw a lot of dead Covenant and partially destroyed buildings. He also something that put a smile on his face. "Spartans we are bringing more than just the engineers behind me" he said seeing the side wall of an armory blown open to reveal Covenant arms.

"Scavenge everything we can from the armory, motor pool, and air staging field. The ship will beam it up" he said as everyone get the idea. They could use these to improve their own armory while finding weaknesses.

Moving quickly, they started piling and moving everything they could into a circle as the ship stopped above them. Activating its gravity well Spartan Team Kilo went first up with the engineers and the gear and vehicles already collected. With the use of shadow clones, he and Omega continued piling more things into the gravity well that were sent off until they heard weapons on the ship going off.

"Spartans pull back! A heavy amount of Flood forces is approaching your location" was radio into their comms.

"Omega Team, fall back! I will cover" he yelled making shadow clones pick up nearby Covenant weapons and vehicles that weren't sent up to fight the upcoming flood. He himself waited by the gravity well until he had accountability of all personal on the ship before jumping into the well himself. Moving through the air he could see the glassing beam charging up before he was onboard as well.

The Elemental's Guardian was expelling massive amounts of rounds and ammunition in order to keep the Flood back as the beam charged. The circle on the bottom was fully spinning when it finally unleashed a devastating beam destroying the base below it making waves a hot plasma travel around the detonation area. The plasma waves continued on to consume the incoming flood as the ship pulled away.

It was under Admiral Hiruzen orders to move away from the area because of not just the flood but of the reports that the planet surface was shifting around the Spirit of Fire's location. With the ship moving for the other ship's location, they saw a massive entrance open up underneath it that the ship followed into. The entrance kept on expanding in size allowing for a ship of their size to fit if they choose to.

"Sir, the installations protocol is forcing the ship inside for multiple reasons but with my capabilities I had prevented it from happening. I'm not sure about the A.I. and technicians aboard the Spirit of Fire preventing it" spoke up Precious Justice

"Follow after them. We can't let them face this threat alone. Also, while doing so, so if we can use the path, they used to try to force us in to get information on this place" ordered Hiruzen as PJ gave a salute and disappeared. He just continued to watch on behind the Spirit of Fire at the wide and massive structure around them. He even saw sentinels scanning the bridge and the ship that were not from his ship.

Bay

Tenten and Dr. Halsey looked at the massive pile in front of them that was being watched by the Spartan's. This was something that they never accomplished fully before. Laid down on the platform were gear, aircraft, and vehicles belonging to the Covenant as well as 7 floating engines. They could see weapons and armor of the Covenant that were looking brand new and scattered around. Vehicles they recognized and designated ghosts, choppers, wraiths, and locusts. Nearby were banshees and vampires.

"This is quite the hall you Spartans gave us" spoke up Tenten looking around

"It seems you also recovered seven Huragok" said PJ appearing from a nearby console next to Catherine. "You know what they are?" she asked as she nodded yes

"They are creations of my creator. They are very harmless and only seek to build and repair things. No threat to you or anyone. But very helpful to everyone" she explained as Catherine nodded and walked up to them gaining their attention.

"Welcome aboard. I'm not sure what living conditions you lived in before, but I can tell it wasn't so good going by the bruises and few cuts I can see on your bodies. Join with us and I can promise you that no one aboard this ship will ever harm you and will welcome you as a part of the crew. As you can see around, we are quite advanced and still advancing. We are not all humans, but we all get along and help each other. Will you join us and help us as well?" asked Catherine making several Huragok look around at the surrounding area and the different personal working.

"We will also put in an effort to rescue any Huragok we come across to join you" added Naruto walking up to them. It was with that final statement that the Huragok gave a nod in acceptance.

"Great, let's get you set up with a new home that would suit all of you and then learn from each other. Oh, and Naruto this makes up for everything. See me later" finished Catherine walking off with them and a few nearby scientists.

Off to the side Tenten could be seen organizing parties to carefully and quickly move everything to the lab wanting to get to work on things quickly and secured. It looks like she will be busy for quite some time. Now its just a waiting game again.

Inside Forerunner Structure

"Is this her?" questioned the Prophet of Regret who is a San'Shyuum sitting in a highly advanced chair moving towards a woman hovering in a chamber by electric plasma cuffs of some kind.

"This is one of them. The other woman is on the large human vessel under the protection of multiple demons and one demon different then the others" stated a large elite known as the Arbiter making prophet frown.

"That ship needs to be destroyed but we have other pressing matters. But this one. Such a frail thing. You would hardly deem them a threat"

"I demand to know why I'm being held!"

"Demand?" questioned the Arbiter glaring down at her as another elite walked up to him.

"Arbiter, two human ships have arrived and is closing in on the entrance portal" he stated for a enrage Arbiter to smack him into the ground.

"Get the Hierarch to High Charity! Intercept the human ships and destroy it at once" he ordered as the Prophet moved away to head for his ship. "Arbiter, I want that abomination destroyed. I know that you will accomplish this" he spoke while leaving.

Entrance

The Spirit of Fire exited first to see a destroyer in the front and a group of ships approach from all angles heading for them.

"Hard to starboard!" yelled Cutter trying to avoid ramming into the nearby destroyer.

"Hard starboard, aye!" answered Serina the ship's A.I. moving the ship. Even with the orders given it was too late to avoid the ship completely as the sides ram into each other causing damage to them both.

"Captain they are charging weapons!" yelled Serina

"Battle stations! Bring weapons online. Tell Forge he's not done out there yet Swing us about to get help from the Elemental's Guardian"

"Alerting the Sergeant and moving us – aye sir" she stated placing her hand on her head to relay the information. "So…am I the only one freaked out by the fact we're inside the planet?" she finished as the two ships traded gun fire to each other while deploying aircraft.

The Elemental's Guardian pulled out next to see the large battle taking place in front of them. The Spirit of Fire was pulling to the side as multiple ships were closing in from all sides.

"Battle stations! Arm all weapons! Launch fighters! Fire at that destroyer ahead and draw all focus to us and away from the Spirit of Fire. Tell Captain Cutter to focus on getting to the surface. We will hold them off here" orders the Admiral Hiruzen as the laser cannons aimed at the destroyer first and fired at its hull causing significant damage. By the time the shipmaster of the ship disengaged off the Spirit of Fire a salvo of rounds and missiles was heading straight for him. In a series of explosions, the destroyer started falling to the ground as the other Covenant vessels closed in from all angles.

"Crew, Precious Justice, Kora. Pick your targets"

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