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Chapter 8: New Team
December 6, 2525, 1230 hours
Location: Ichinomiya system, Umagena, UNSC Paris-class Heavy frigate, Macron
Third Person POV
On the bridge of the Macron stood Tyler, wearing his Azure Blue Mjolnir MK IV EVA armor, Tyler stood at attention in front of him was a command table. On the other side stood the Captain of the Macron, Captain Rodriguez; on the command table was the holographic image of the Planet Umagena, the planet they had currently arrived in the orbit of.
"This is Umagena, it is an icy planet, population was only restricted to about ten thousand people because of it" Captain Rodriguez said. "On November 2, 2525 approximately at 0800 hours all contact with the planet was lost"
Tyler observed the holographic image of Umagena; it could be described as a ball of ice. It was either all white or dark blue which was probably the frozen rivers or ocean. If the planet had any in the first place
"On November 5, at 1100 hours the frigates, UNSC Rasputin and Rommel arrived in the orbit. They deployed about 2 battalions of marines accompanied by a vanguard force comprising of the 22nd shock trooper company" The Captain took a deep breath and continued. "The Rasputin was sadly destroyed while the Rommel crash on the planet. Before it crashed however, it sent through crucial information on the enemy, which comprised of only one ship"
The holographic image then shows that of the Covenant ship that had attacked the planet. It had a ridged structure while the metal it was made up of and looked the same as the one that was used to make the ship that attacked Chi ceti and Harvest. Tyler recognized it as a SDV Corvette.
Captain Rodriguez then looks at Tyler. "Spartan, your mission is to find any of the remaining marines that were deployed on the planet. Our pelicans were already shot down when they first tried to descent meaning the Covenant has set up Anti air defenses" he said and took another breath before continuing.
"Once you rendezvous with the marines down on the planet, you are to destroy the covenant Anti air defenses so that we can start evacuation. Am I clear?"
"Yes, sir" Tyler said.
"Good, get your equipments ready" the captain said. "You will dropped on the planet via SOIEV drop pod, dismissed"
Tyler salutes and exits the bridge heading towards the armory. While making his way towards the armory he noticed the marines onboard looking with awe or confusion.
'So this was how the marines first reacted when they first saw a Spartan' Tyler thought as he reached the entrance to the armory. As he entered the armory he headed towards one of the weapons racks, grabbing a M392 DMR.
'Turns out DMRs don't suck like they do in games' Tyler thought as he grabs ten mags for it. He then heads towards the other side where the lighters weapons like the M7 or the MA2Bs or the M6Ds are kept. Tyler grabs two M6Ds grabbing four mags for each. He picks up three frag grenades before finally heading out. He had already strapped his armor with a med kit beforehand so he did not require grabbing another.
He walked down the corridor of the ship after grabbing what he needed, making his way into the SOIEV launch bay. As he enters the SOIEV Drop bay, he enters the pod at the end of the bay and closes its hatch sealing himself in while strapping himself to the seat.
"Serria-071 to Captain Rodriguez, all strapped and ready to deploy" Tyler said through his COMs.
"Affirmative Spartan, Good luck" Captain Rodriguez said through COMs. Soon the drop pod was launched from the ship and Tyler saw himself entering the atmosphere of the Planet.
"Bloody hell, so this is how it feels dropping off a drop pod" Tyler said under his breath as he deployed the chute to slow down his descent. After a few seconds he drops the chute and his pod starts free falling towards the surface of the icy planet. "Hope I don't land in a frozen lake" Tyler said as he braced for impact.
As Tyler opened his eyes he found himself ok and fine. He kicked the hatch open and got out of the pod. "Pretty good for my first drop" He said under his breath. "Now then where do I find these marines" Tyler looked at the place where he landed. Surprisingly it was a forest although the leaves of the trees were covered in snow and some were even ice.
"Would you look at that, a forest" Tyler said to himself as he slowly traversed through the forest. As he continued onwards his DMR already drawn and ready to shoot, he saw smoke in front of him. As Tyler went to investigate he found a crashed pelican. 'Must be the one the Macron deployed' he thought as he checked the wreckage for any survivors.
All Tyler found was the charred bodies of the pilots. He sighed and decided to continue onwards, after a few minutes of walking Tyler heard some noise coming in front of him and he decided to check it out making sure to not make any noise in the process.
As he viewed through an opening he saw four Jackals patrolling, he saw their shields three of them had a blue shield while having plasma pistols, while the other had an orange shield while sporting a needler.
'One major and three minors' Tyler thought. 'Alright, time for my first kill on this planet' Tyler then aimed his DMR at the major's head and when the major presented itself in a perfect opening he fired two shots, both shots hitting the major on its head killing. The three minors immediately went on guard raising their shield while searching for the shooter.
Tyler fired two more shots hitting two jackals in the eye, making them stumble and lower their shields while the last one simply started firing randomly. Tyler saw another perfect opportunity and fired two more shots at the last jackal's head killing it.
As Tyler came out of his cover he took out his knife and put the other two Jackals who were shot in the eye with his knife putting them out of their misery.
'If Jackals are patrolling here that means the marines must be close by, the covenant always deploy them to take out the stragglers' Tyler said as he put his knife back and continued on once again heading inside the snowy forest. After about 10 minutes of walking he heard some plasma pistol going off in the distance in front of his.
'That should be them' Tyler thought and soon started rushing towards where the shoots were going off at. As Tyler reached the opening he saw about 7 Jackals, five of them being minors while two of them being majors, the minors were armed with plasma pistols while the majors were armed with needlers. They were currently suppressing what looked like a squad of ODSTs who were taking over behind a boulder.
'ODSTs' Tyler thought as he readied his DMR, once again preparing to take them out from his cover.
'But if I just use a frag that should save me my ammos. And even If I simply use my DMR the ODSTs may get slaughtered, and the two majors have neddlers….yeah frag, it is' Tyler thought as he then got a frag grenade out pulling it's pin and throwing it in the middle of the group of Jackals, as the frag went off it immediately killed five of the seven jackals while knocking down two of them which Tyler took care of with his DMR firing two shots each taking them out.
"Holy shit" he heard one of the ODSTs say.
As Tyler came out of the woods and headed towards the squad of ODSTs, one of them immediately pointed a gun at him which was a M7S.
"Now hang on there you big robot thing, I don't who you are or if you're even on our side so I suggest you turn the fuck around and leave" the ODSTs said, he had a sort of Hispanic accent, Mexican or south American at best.
"Calm down Martinez, if he wasn't on our side he wouldn't have helped us" another ODST said, he had a more refined accent, likely somewhere from the Middle East, or of that ethnicity. "So who are you exactly?"
"Senior Chief petty officer Tyler-071" Tyler said as he looked at the ODSTs, he noticed that there were only three of them.
All three of them saluted even though they didn't have to. "Sorry for the hostilities sir, it's been a bad day fighting these aliens" the same ODST said.
"At ease, what's your rank and file marine?" Tyler asked.
"Corporal Elijah, 22nd Shock trooper company, that over there is Lance corporal Elizabeth and this is Private First class Martinez" Elijah said as he first pointed toward the ODST that had a SRS99C and then to the one that had pointed a gun at him.
Tyler nodded. "Where is your squad leader?" he asked.
"Dead sir" Elizabeth said, she had a more British accent, English, like his would be had he spoke in his natural tongue, "Even the XO"
"The entire 22nd is KIA sir" Martinez said. "All of us got slaughtered as soon as we hit the ground; we only managed to survive because we crawled into a bush"
"It's a mess sir. These aliens blasted the entire company in mere minutes" Elijah said.
"And the marines" Tyler asked
"No idea, we haven't had any contact with them since we were dropped. All we know is that they were dropped some where south about one and a half clicks" Elijah answered.
Tyler nodded, "what's your ammo count?" he asked.
"I still have five mags for my sniper, sir" Elizabeth said.
"Six mags for my MA5B" Elijah said
"Six mags for my M7S, alongside three frag grenades, sir" Martinez said
"Good, we'll be heading south then" Tyler said as he looked at the southern direction which happened to be a vast frozen ocean by the looks of it.
"But sir, heading through that frozen lake would be suicide" Elijah warns. "We'll be vulnerable and easily spotted
"On foot that is" Tyler said as he noticed smoke coming out a few distance inside a forest. 'That's a Pelican for sure…perhaps there could be something useful there'
"If I may ask sir, why do we exactly need to head south?" Elizabeth asked.
"The UNSC Macron had just arrived above Umagena about a few hours ago, pelicans were already deployed for recon but were shot down by enemy anti air" Tyler explains.
"That explains all the smoke in the forest" Martinez said as he looked at the smoke coming out of the woods. "That could be one of the recon pelicans as well, sir" Martinez said as he pointed towards the smoke which Tyler had seen not moments ago.
"Exactly, that's why I was deployed here via drop pod to rendezvous with the marines and take out the enemy anti air so that we may proceed with evacuations" Tyler explains. "But it seems I dropped a bit too far away…I'll need your help for this, so are you in"
The three ODSTs look at each other. "We're in sir, if it means getting back at those aliens and avenging our company" Elijah said as he locked and loaded his MA5B followed by Elizabeth and Martinez.
"Good, now follow me" Tyler said as he started walking toward the crash pelican. "Elijah and Elizabeth take the flanks, Martinez you got the rear, and I'll take lead"
All three ODSTs nodded and took their positions and started moving alongside Tyler. As they reached the crash site, it was once again a Pelican this time however it had a warthog which was flipped over, around the crash side were crates of weapons and ammunitions.
"Must have been one of the initial landing pelicans" Elijah said as he observed the crashed site.
"Check for any survivors" Tyler said as he looked at the number of crates scattered around the crash site. 'Must have been a pelican carrying supplies' Tyler though as he picked up a MA5B that was on the ground.
"Both pilots are dead, sir" Elizabeth said as she comes out from inside of the pelican. "Must have been the one carrying the supplies for the original drop"
"At least we have an undamaged warthog, it would make our journey south easier" Martinez said pointing over at the flipped warthog.
"But it's flipped upside down" Elijah said as he picked up a Jackhammer or SPNKR, "Nice, some heavy weapons"
"Grab any extra ammunitions or grenades, we're gonna need it" Tyler said as he walked towards the Warthog while the ODSTs looked at him curiously as to what he was going to do.
Tyler after reaching the Warthog grabbed it and flipped it back up. "There, perfectly fine and new"
The ODSTs looked dumbfounded, flabbergasted and awestricken by his strength, but chose not to question it. As they grabbed whatever ammunitions they could, after that they regrouped at the warthog.
"I'll take the gun" Tyler said as he hopped on the turret. "Who's the best at driving here?"
"I am, sir" Elijah said as he hopped on the driver's seat, Martinez sat in the middle while Elizabeth took the seat at the edge.
'Damn never thought I'd see three at the front of the hog, only saw it in the movie Forward unto dawn' Tyler though as he locked and loaded the chain gun. "Let's go"
They had been driving for about 20 minutes now, the frozen sea or ocean was really making it hard for the Warthog to drive properly, with it skittering on the ice and it being hard to turn around.
"Damn, it is hard to drive here" Elijah said as he continued to keep the warthog moving straight.
"I see land or solid land instead of ice, one km in front" Elizabeth said keeping an eye through the scope of her sniper.
"Finally, I thought we would be riding the frozen ocean forever" Martinez said.
Tyler took a closer look at the landmass that was in front of them, it was clearly soil and not made of ice. But he noticed some movement there because of his enhanced vision. As he took a closer look he could make out some objects, it hovered above few centimeters above ground, its hull was purple and it had a mounted cannon on its rear which was more slopped, it also seemed to have a pair of fins…..a wraith.
"Elijah change course, NOW!" Tyler Ordered and Elijah freaked out a bit but managed to change course a bit to the right.
"What's the matter, sir?" Elijah asked as he stopped the warthog and looked at Tyler.
"Up front on that landmass, can you notice an object moving" Tyler asked as he continued looking at where the wraith was located.
Elizabeth looked at where he was looking through her sniper. "Yeah…it's like a purple floating thing, what is that?" she asked.
"That's an enemy tank" Tyler said. "One shot from that thing and we're all dead"
"Holy shit, thank God we stopped" Martinez said.
"So what now, sir? With that weird tank there we can't move forward" Elijah said.
"Not exactly" Tyler said as he looked at the Jackhammer that Elijah had. "How many rockets do you have for that?"
"About six more" Elijah said.
"Good, hand me that over" Tyler said.
Elijah was confused but complied, handing him the Jackhammer, passing it over to the back. "Sir even if we have six rockets hitting that thing from here would be impossible" he said.
"I won't be firing from here" Tyler said as he got off the turret. "Stay here, I'll be right back" He then started sprinting away toward the wraith eventually becoming a dot of the horizon.
"Damn he's fast" Martinez said as he stood up from his seat to get a better look, "What do you see Liz?"
"Weird purple thing is still hovering around it seems to be-" before she could finish the wraith got hit by two rockets and exploded into a blue ball of explosion. "Holy shit, he actually blew it up"
"Fuck, just what is he, a demigod of war or something" Martinez asked awed.
"We'll ask him after we get off this frozen waste land" Elijah said.
On the distant, Tyler could be seen running back towards them. Couple minutes later, he finally reached the warthog and handed the SPNKR over to Elijah who placed near his seat, "Path is cleared now" Tyler stated as he hopped back on the Turret and Elijah started the warthog as drove towards the landmass.
As they finally reached the landmass, the destroyed wraith was all for the ODSTs to see. "That thing is a tank?" Martinez said.
"It shoots plasma motors" Tyler said, "One hit from that, and we can kiss our lives goodbye"
"These aliens sure don't know how to design beautiful tanks, but at the same time deadly as well" Elijah said as he drove the warthog through a path as it looked like. As the path soon entered a forest again Tyler went on guard looking at both directions.
"Keep your eyes open, they could ambush us if anytime here" Tyler said and Elizabeth and Martinez readied their weapons. And Tyler was right as not a moment later a plasma grenade was thrown in front of the hog which Elijah managed to narrowly avoid. Soon Jackals could be seen trailing them through the woods.
"Contacts right side!" Tyler informed as he started firing the chain gun. While Elizabeth began firing her sniper, hitting all four of her shots, killing a jackal each. 'Damn she's a good sniper' Tyler thought as he continued suppressing the jackals.
"INFRONT!" Elijah shouted and Tyler immediately turned the turret to the front to be greeted by two ghosts who went past them on either flanks, they turned around and started chasing them from the back while firing their plasma cannons.
'Fuck, didn't expect ghosts to be around here as well' Tyler mentally cursed as he started firing the turret at the ghosts trailing them. He focused on one of the ghosts eventually destroying it, while the second one continued its chase. 'Bloody hell…the turret does not have enough bullets to destroy the other one' Tyler cursed. 'Unless….'
"Elizabeth" Tyler said to which Elizabeth turned back to lock at him. "Can you snipe the pilot of that vehicle" he pointed at the elite driving the ghost.
"I can try, sir" she said as she readied herself, her sniper aimed at the elite while it rested on the back of the passenger seat. She fired two shots; one took out its shields, while the other hit it in its head splattering it, the ghost soon crashed as the driver was killed.
"Bloody nice shot" Tyler commented, 'Damn she's good, might even give Linda a run for her money' he thought.
"We're exiting the forest" Elijah said as Tyler turned the turret back to the front. As soon as they exited the forest they were greeted by the crashed frigate the Rommel. "What the hell" Tyler heard Elijah mutter.
"That's the Rommel; reports said it crashed after the space battle" Tyler informed.
"That explains why we haven't had any COMs with them yet" Martinez commented.
"Take us to the crash site, there may be marines there" Tyler said, Elijah complied and drove the warthog towards the crashed frigate. As they arrive they noticed that the crashed ship had left quite the crater behind.
"Stop the hog here, we should move on foot to not alert the enemy forces" Tyler said and the warthog stopped. Tyler hopped out and reloaded his DMR; Elizabeth was the next to hop out followed by Elijah and Martinez who all had their weapons drawn.
"Contacts, down left" Elizabeth said as he looked through her sniper. "Four of those bird things again"
"I hate those things" Martinez commented. "Fucking, space dinosaurs"
"Can you take them out?" Tyler asked.
"Affirmative" she replied as she prepared to take aim.
"Take position behind that rock over there" Tyler pointed towards the rock, three meters to the right, "Wait for my signal" he instructed and aimed his DMR.
Tyler then signaled his hand for her to shoot; she fired two shots taking out two of them while Tyler took out the other two with his DMR.
"Move in" Tyler ordered as he moved down to the wreckage followed by Martinez and Elijah while Elizabeth stayed at her position to keep over watch.
As they approached the crash site they noticed a few more dead bodies, all jackals. "We're not alone here" Tyler said.
"Could be marines" Elijah suggested.
"Probably, but still keep your guard up; don't want to take any chances." Tyler said as he slowly approached the main crash site.
As Tyler came around a corner he was jumped by a marine which he easily grabbed a pinned to the ground, the said marine grunted as he was pinned, Elijah and Martinez also pointing their guns at the marine.
"Whoa whoa, chill out mates we're friendly, we're friendly" another marine hastily said approaching them.
"Identify yourself" Tyler ordered.
"Staff sergeant Wilson, 67th marine battalion" he introduced. "That down there is Corporal Henderson also 67th"
As Tyler released the marine from his grip he asked the sergeant. "Where is the rest of your platoon" he asked.
"Inside the ship or out scouting" Wilson said. "Now I'd assume you're UNSC, since you have two Helljumpers with you"
"Senior Chief Petty officer Tyler 071" Tyler said. "Who's in charge here?"
"I am" another voice said, Tyler turned to see who it was. The man looked around his late 20s.
"Sir" Tyler saluted as the Lieutenant approached…his uniforms was a bit dirtied but other than that, the only noticeable features were all the dirt on his face, this officer sure must have been getting his hands dirty as well.
"At ease" he said. "I am Lieutenant Sullivan Wellesley, flag officer of what used to be the Rommel" Wellesley looked at the crashed frigate. "So you must be our back up, what's the news"
"The UNSC Macron had just arrived into orbit a few hours ago, recon pelicans were deployed but it seems they were shot down, the captain suspects there might be enemy anti air emplacements around the area" Tyler explained.
"That sums it quite well" The Lieutenant sighs. "Well, you're not totally wrong"
"What do you mean sir?" Tyler asked.
"We did see your recon pelicans go down" he said. "Except it wasn't because of any anti air emplacements, but because of that alien ship"
'That explains why I haven't seen any anti air emplacement till now, I though they simply hid them well, guess I was wrong' Tyler thought.
"Before the Rommel went down we managed to disable its engines, that ship has been stuck on this planet ever since, not leaving while not allowing us to leave either" Wellesley explains
'Guess we'll have to board that thing and blow it up from the inside…the only real effective tactic at this point' Tyler thought. "How many marines are there left sir?" Tyler asked.
"About Two hundred and eighty marines of the original eight hundred that landed here" Wellesley answered. "Why do you ask?"
"One moment sir" Tyler said and he opens COMs. "Serria-071 to Captain Rodriguez do you copy"
"Roger Spartan we read you, what's your status over" Captain Rodriguez said over COMs
"I have regrouped with the survivors, but there is a slight problem sir" Tyler said.
"Explain" The captain said over COMs.
"The pelican's weren't shot down by any anti air emplacements but by the ship itself sir" Tyler explains. "We'll have to destroy it if we have any chance at evacuating the survivors"
"Affirmative, what's your plan Spartan" the captain asked through COMs
"We'll be boarding the ship sir" Tyler said, while everyone around him gave a look of disbelief.
"The decision is yours, do whatever you must, Good luck Spartan, the Macron will be able to support you once that ship is destroyed, Captain Rodriguez out" The COMs ended.
"I admire your determination to get us out, but how exactly do you plan on destroying that ship, more less boarding it?" Wellesley asked.
"Do you have a HAVOK nuke?" Tyler asked to which the lieutenant nods. "That should be enough"
"Man you're crazy" Sergeant Wilson commented.
"Well, you'll get used to it sarge" Elijah said. "So what's the plan sir?"
Tyler looked at the two ODSTs. "You don't have to join me on this" he said.
"Nah, you saved our asses back there, sir, it's only fair we stick with you till the end" Martinez said.
Tyler, although reluctant nodded, this felt something straight out of a Halo mission or atleast he felt like, Tyler looked over at the Lieutenant. "Where is the ship exactly at?" he asked.
"Over that hill" Wellesley pointed at the hill that was northeast from their current position.
One hour later
Tyler could be seen crawled in the snow, hidden, next to him was Elijah, Martinez and Elizabeth who had her sniper readied and aimed at the Covenant that guarded the gravlift to the ship.
"So, Covenant is what they are called" Elijah said. "Sounds religious if you asked me"
"Twenty hostiles on the gravlift. They seem to have some sort of stationary gun or something…small hunchback and dinosaurs as infantry support" Elizabeth said her sniper aimed at the stationary gun.
"Keep your eyes on that thing, don't let any of them get on that gun or else we're all dead" Tyler explained. "You have to Jackhammer ready?"
"Roger" Elijah said as he aimed his SPNKR at the place where most of them were gathered at.
"On my mark fire at will" Tyler instructed. "Mark!"
Soon Elijah fired his SPNKR both rockets hitting their targets taking a vast majority of them out. Elizabeth fired her sniper taking out the stationary gunner. While Tyler shot with his DMR picking off any stragglers and Martinez with his M7s moved in closer and took out a few grunts.
"All cleared" Elizabeth said over COMs
"Move in" Tyler said and soon all four of them met in the gravlift.
"So how do we get inside this thing" Martinez asked.
"No ide- Woah!" Elijah said as he was pulled up to the ship by the gravity. Soon Elizabeth went up followed by Martinez and finally Tyler.
As they entered the ship they noticed the area empty. "Looks like no one's home" Martinez said.
'Looks a lot like the one from reach' Tyler thought. "Follow me and stay close; we no longer have home field advantage"
The three ODSTs nod and follow Tyler, Martinez on the rear, while Elijah and Elizabeth were on the side with Tyler taking the lead. As they moved through countless doors they passed by some jackals who didn't seem to know they were here.
"Looks like they don't know we're here" Elijah whispered.
"Stay focused" Tyler whispered back. "Engine room should be right here" as Tyler said that the next door opened and it showed the engine's core.
"Alright then, let's blow this thing up" Martinez said
"Keep an eye on the doors, I'll be setting the timer" Tyler said as he went over to the engine and grabbed the nuke and started setting its timer. Elizabeth took position on a covenant crate that was nearby, getting on top of it, while Martinez and Elijah both kept an eye on the entrance.
Suddenly the door hissed opened but there was no one on the other side. "What?" Tyler heard Martinez said and immediately turned around and pulled out his magnum and fired three shots towards Elijah.
As the three bullets flew towards Elijah his eyes widened. He closed his eyes but to his surprise the bullets didn't hit him. instead he heard Elizabeth's gasp.
As Elijah opened his eyes he saw a dead Elite, its armor being colored sliver. "What the hell is this thing?" he asked spooked out by the Elite's appearance and size
"That's the one that usually commands the other ones" Tyler explained. "Let's go we have ten minutes till the nuke goes off".
All three ODSTs nod and follow Tyler in the same formation, as they make their way through same corridors on one of the turn as Tyler turns he gets peppered by multiple Plasma pistols which he luckily ducked back to cover. "Not good, that area's hot" he said. "We'll have to find another route"
"But that would take a long time" Elijah said. "The nuke may go off by that point"
"We have no choice, the covenant is swarming that area right now" Tyler said. 'Wait of course the shuttle bay'. "Follow me, I know another way" he said as he went back towards the hallway they had just came from, followed by the three ODSTs he made a right turn.
"Where exactly will this take us to sir?" Elizabeth asked
"Their version of a hanger bay" Tyler said as the door to the shuttle bay opened it showed the place empty. 'Damn, no phantoms or spirits' he thought.
"So, how do we-" Elizabeth was about to finish before felling something pierce her left thigh, "Gah!" she cried in pain.
Tyler immediately covered her and turned around his magnum drawn and fired his magnum taking out the three jackals that were on the deck above, while another three came around and prepared to ambush them.
Elijah and Martinez immediately moved to cover them, taking care of the Jackals, before forming a sort of defensive formation around the two. "Shit, they got Liz!" Martinez cursed.
Tyler looked at where she was hit…her left thigh was pierced by a needler, its purple needle shining. "We'll have to get out of the ship to treat her" Tyler said. 'Crap, this might be my most audacious move yet' Tyler thought.
"Elizabeth hold by neck" Tyler said to which she looked at him confused, he could tell she was confused even if her visor was de-polarized. "Just do it" she complied and held his neck from the front, keeping her sniper on her back. "Make sure you're tight". Tyler then went ahead and grabbed Martinez and Elijah from the back of their BDU as well.
"Sir, what are you-" Elijah was about to say before Tyler cut him off.
"Both of you as well. Hold on tight, we may break some bones here" Tyler said and soon ran towards the open shuttle bay and jumped off the ship.
"HOLY MOTHER OF SHIT!" Martinez screamed.
"HANG ON!" Tyler exclaimed as he activated his thrusters and soon flew away from the covenant ship, him holding Martinez and Elijah with both his hands each while Elizabeth held on to him by the neck.
'My thrusters are overpowered' Tyler thought. After reaching a safe distance he started landing, or slowing down...if there was one thing he regrets not testing, then it has to be his armor's thrusters and how to land with them.
'Fuck, this might hurt' Tyler mentally cursed. Soon he lowered to an altitude where he could safely drop the two that he was holding on with his hands; Tyler could hear Elijah praying as well. "Martinez, Elijah on my mark, I'll drop you so be ready to land" he informed.
"WHAT!?" Martinez shouted. But before he received an answer from Tyler he and Elijah were both dropped to ground both of them landing face first and their initial drop being stopped by the snow.
"When I became an ODST, I agreed to drop feet first into hell not face first" Martinez mumbled to which Elijah muffled a laughed, both of them got up rubbing their heads.
Meanwhile a few meters away Tyler landed turning around to so he would land on his back and so Elizabeth won't receive any of the impact.
As he landed on his back he made a crater. 'Bloody hell….that was stupid' he thought. As Tyler got up he laid Elizabeth on the snow and got up stretching his body to see if he broke any bones. 'No bones broken…nice' he though.
Few moments' later Martinez and Elijah joined the two. As they regrouped Tyler watched the covenant ship on the distance. And soon the ship blew up into a massive blue fire. "WOHOO that's right you bastards" Martinez screamed.
"That was one hell of a ride, sir" Elijah said looking at Tyler, who was busy treating Elizabeth. Tyler took out the needler to which Elizabeth groaned in pain and soon stitched the wound up and put some bio foam. "You're a medic as well?" Elijah asked amazed.
"Best way of saving lives, if you ask me" Tyler said casually. "There, that should be good enough, give it a few days and it will be healed"
"Thank you…sir" Elizabeth said.
"Serria-071 to Captain Rodriguez, do you copy" Tyler said over COMs
"We read you Spartan, was that explosion the ship?" the captain asked through COMs
"Affirmative, enemy ship has been eliminated, you may proceed with the evacuations" Tyler said.
"Roger that, and well done Spartan" the captain said before cutting the COMs.
"Now we just wait for our ride" Tyler said as he sat down beside Elizabeth who was still lying on the ground. "Well done everyone" he said. 'We made a really good team, maybe is should ask the Captain to assign them to me' he thought
About twenty minutes later a pelican came to pick them up and the four of them boarded the pelican, Tyler helped Elizabeth onto a seat while Elijah and Martinez sat opposite to the.
"So….what now" Martinez asked
"I'll probably be sent to another planet…you will be sent back to reach and be assigned to another company and get another squad leader……or-" Tyler said.
"You never really told us what you were, sir?" Elijah said. "Are you a-"
Suddenly Tyler took off his EVA helmet revealing his pale skin, blue eyes and brown hair. "A human? Yes" he said as he massaged his neck. "Damn that hurts"
The three ODSTs looked surprised yet again…Tyler although his height and skills still looked like a teenager. "How…how old are you?" Martinez asked.
"Unfortunately, that's classified" Tyler bluntly replied.
"Classic…ONI I assume" Elizabeth said as she also took off her helmet revealing a pale girl, no older than 19 by the looks of it, she had scarlet eyes and black hair.
"When has anything classified never been involved with ONI" Martinez said also taking off his helmet revealing a tanned skinned man, again no older than 19, he had brown eyes and brown hair, definitely Latino.
"So…what are you supposed to be sir?" Elijah asked also taking off his helmet, his skin being a mix of tan and brown, his eye being blue and him having natural white hair, which was strange.
"This is classified information….but if you can keep your mouth shut" Tyler said to which all three nodded. "A Spartan…A Spartan II"
"Quite the name to designate soldiers like you" Martinez said. "Spartans….nice…are there more of you?"
Tyler put his helmet back on and nodded. "Helmets back on gentlemen…we're entering the Macron, you three will be joining me for debrief" he said.
"Wait what" Elijah said as he too put his helmet back on followed by Elizabeth and Martinez
"Martinez, help Elizabeth walk, Elijah stick close to me" Tyler said and soon the ramp of the pelican opened and the four exited the pelican.
Inside the bridge of the Macron stood Tyler, behind him the ODST trio in front of him, Captain Rodriguez.
"Like I said before, well done Spartan" Rodriguez said as he shook Tyler's hand. "And these three also assisted you, you say?" the captain looks at the three ODST who stood at attention behind Tyler.
"Yes sir, they deserve equal credit as well, without them I may have not reached the marines or even destroyed the covenant ship" Tyler said to which the captain nodded.
"Command was extremely impressed at the fact that you were able to destroy and push the covenant forces with only a handful of marines" the Captain praised. "As per directives from Command, you are herby promoted to Master Chief Petty Officer"
'No way….how did I even…nevermind' Tyler thought, he stood at attention. "Yes, sir"
"Get some rest Spartan, you've earned it" the captain said.
"Another thing Captain" Tyler said as the captain looked at him, Tyler turned back the three ODSTs behind him and back to the captain. 'Let's see how this goes' Tyler thought. "I request that the three ODSTs that helped had helped me, be assigned under my command"
The three ODSTs behind him looked stunned at the request. The Captain simply raised an eyebrow. "May I ask why" he said.
"Sir, they make an excellent team under the right person" Tyler said. "I wish for them to be under my command till a proper squad leader has been found for them"
"What do you three say about this?" the captain asked the three ODSTs.
Elijah looks at the two besides him. "We accept, sir" he said as he saluted followed by Elizabeth and Martinez.
"Well it's settled" the captain said. "Spartan-071 you will be given command over…."
"Kilo-2, sir" Elizabeth added.
"You will be given command over Kilo-2" the Captain finished. "Dismissed"
"Thank you…sir" Tyler saluted and left the bridge with his new Team. 'Alright Tyler….time to lead your own bunch of ODSTs' he thought
Then Martinez walks up next to him. "So, where to next, Boss" he asked…Boss was a nice nickname.
Tyler smirked under his helmet. "Where we are needed" he said. 'This is where the fun begins' Tyler thought.
A/N: And that's chapter 8, as said before all halo characters belong to Microsoft and 343 industries…….Till next time……..