I hope not, I have been talking with Emperor Inferno through PM so hopefully...I'll get in.

"Sir surely it would be easier, The way I see it, to split up instead of travelling as one big group less notacible that way. It would give us a greater chance of reaching our target Sir"
He says with a smart ass smirk across his face like hes outsmarted the Spartan.

"Split up? HA...we will need every soldier we can have in our squad. No wonder you humans been losing for so long. having soldiers thinking like that." He said out loud. "Were going in a shipyard...their would be tons of soldiers and workers their to hold us off.....We have to stick together, cover each other backs and move fast as lighting to get the job then." He growl at the soldier. "If we went with your idea, one of the squads could get over run and need back up..something we can not afford to do. The longer we stay there, the longer the mission will fall apart."

"agreed, this mission calls for one strong, precise strike. quick, clean and out before they realise what we did"

Logan again shook his head at the suggestion.

"Rolm is right. Resistance will be too intense. If we split up, we'll be picked off one by one, and it'll also leave me vulnerable. My movement will be encumbered by the bomb and the gear, and if they figure out what it is we're doing, they'll concentrate all efforts on me. If that happens, the mission will be scrapped."

An overhead speaker crackles to life.

"We have reached our destination. Coming out of slipspace in five...four...three...two..."

The ship shuddered and a bright flash filled the viewports as the ship tore a hole through the alternate planes and entered normal space. Logan looked out over the group of newly allied soldiers.

"We're here. Get your gear together and proceed to the dropship, on the double."

The various warriors filed out of the room. A stop by the armory for all, as well as a quick armor check for Rolm, Austin, Marius, Brutus, and Logan to make sure their armor systems checked out. Less than three minutes after the end of the debriefing, the dropship was full, packed to the brim with the entire group, Logan with what looked like a small black backpack on his back with straps across his chest, and a decent number of unggoy crowding all the remaining free space. All called out that they were set, and then, they were underway.

The approach went quite smoothly. Just as according to plan, the dropship made it's decent and reached the grav lift altitude before being hailed or fired on. Logan smiled to himself and opened another private com to Austin.

"Wow. We're about as lucky as John right now, aren't we? Hope it keeps up."

Then, something else happened that also reminded him of the Master Chief. Their luck ran out - almost. As they were gliding gently to the planet's surface, the dropship came under fire. It was destroyed just as the last of the unggoy, bringing up the rear, reached the surface. All but one managed to get out of the way of the hulking wreck as it crashed to the ground.

Logan came out of a roll, scanning for hostiles. The dropship had set them down in a relative clearing in a loosely packed forest of very thick trees. Well, those trees should provide sufficient cover to get inside, he thought. He brought his battle rifle around and drilled a three round burst into a jackal's face.

"Alright, Austin! Objective is marked in green on your HUD! Help me lead the others to it, they don't have HUD's! Motion tracker shows medium-level resistance! Let's move out!"

Logan made sure his pack, containing the Shiva, was secure. Then, he fell in side-by-side with Austin and Rolm on the point position, Marius and Brutus flanking them slightly behind.

Rolm scan the area, he had a carbine out and ready to be fire. His plasma sniper was on his back, fully charge and ready to fire. He fire at 3 unggoys coming at them, firing at the tanks, and blowing up one, killing the other two. " We shall protect you demon..." Rolm said as he follow Logan close, keeping him guarded from enemy fire as his shields absorb some of the blast. "For our lost brothers!" Yell Rolm as he return fire, and covering his teammates.

Jeff let the more armoured of his comrades take the lead and fired bursts with his battle rifle from behind, making sure nothing was trying to flank them. A quick burst from his battle rifle took down a jackal trying to do just that.

Jeff turned to Logan, "So where we headed?" He then primed a grenade and tossed it over his allies' heads and into a crowd of grunts. The blast killed the closest one and sent the others scattering with their hands over their heads. "Haha, crowd control."

Jak fired his beam rifle at the jiralhanae leader of a group of unggoy. Their leader dead the annoying creatures started to run around in a panic. they were quickly finished off by the rest of the group.

Hearing Jeff's comment Jak chuckled. "I like your style human."

Brutus took a plasma pistol bolt as soon as he stepped of the ship, it caught him high in the shoulder and spun him, causing him to drop his plasma cannon. His hand shot to the wound, it was just a glancing shot, probably from a lucky unggoy. He shrugged it off and picked the cannon back up of floor, he held the trigger down and sprayed it into a retreating group of unggoy, they gave high pitched wails of agony as the plasma burnt into their backs. Brutus felt bad about it, unggoy have no say in their lives, and most likely some pompous Sangheili ordered the charge. The fight appeared to be going well.

As I place a bullet through the back of the head of one of the fleeing jackels, Checking all round for any survivors.

"All clear!" checking round to see if anyone is looking, He puts his gun at his side and pulls out his knife which he scratches into his helmet, each scar counts for ten fraks he has killed, He has 13 on his helmet and 24 on his shoulder armour.

yusnak flew high and pulled out his carbine which he had taken from the armoury along with a custom sling to hold his beam rifle. Spotting a large group of unggoy heading in from the right lead by 3 jiralhanae, he picked off a few unggoy then switched to his beam rifle and dispatched the jiralhanae before they could fire a shot at his allies below.

yusnak chuckled
like they were never even there

then activates his active camo and moves so as not to be taken out by enemy snipers

Kopaka and Logara held a position in front of Logan and on each side of him. They protected from fire on the front corners and intentionally left room for the rest of the group to fire through the middle.

A group of Kig-Yar and Jiralhanae nearby started taking shots from under cover. The Lekgolo hid behind their shields as plasma and brute shots rained on them. Logara reached out and fired a sustained shot from his cannon to force them into cover. Kopaka then rammed his body into a tree trunk and muscled it down. The 30" thick tree groaned and snapped as it came down and crushed the group, as well as disoriented any nearby enemies.

Austin stood in front of Logan, using his battle rifle for precision fire.

A squad of four low-ranking Jiralhanae moved at him, backed up by ten grunts. He rolled a grenade into the midst of the grunts, and he looked down the scope of his battle rifle and gunned down one of the apelike aliens with several bursts. The grenade went off and took out eight grunts, as he brought down a second Jiralhanae. The grunts panicked and ran, and the two Jiralhanae dove behind a small boulder.

He sprinted forward, diving over the boulder and grabbing one of them by the head, crushing its skull. He raised the the barrel of his rifle, and fired the remains of his clip point blank through its face.

Reloading, he stood up and walked back to Logan, searching for targets.

Logan was incredibly quick, considering weighing over 1,300 pounds in his armor and being slowed by strapped on gear. He was still slower than he liked to be, and so gladly took advantage of Kopaka and Logara's cover. He fired three round bursts into groups of enemies between their hulking shoulders, shots only a person who had been trained their entire life could have pulled off without hitting the lekgolo themselves. Then, Logan spotted something he didn't like.

So far in this battle, he had not seen the jiralhanae commander in charge of this group. His motion tracker, however, showed a large hostile contact just in front of Logara and to his right. Logan reacted without thinking, jumping up to stand on the monstrous lekgolo's hips so that his torso was now above Logara's head. Sure enough, the commander that had been conspicuously absent was trying to sneak in a grenade from a brute shot, underneath Logara's shield. Less than half a second after jumping onto Logara's back, Logan drilled two perfect bursts into the commander's head. Just as quickly, Logara saw the jiralhanae, his attention drawn by Logan's fire. The two bursts had taken down it's energy shields and knocked off it's helmet, leaving the thing reeling. Before Logan could squeeze the trigger a third time, the living tank fired a searing stream of green plasma right into the commander's exposed face. It fell to the ground, it's head replaced by a smoldering stump.

Hopping down from Logara's back, Logan scanned for hostiles that might be standing still, fooling the motion trackers. He couldn't spot any.

"Alright, it looks like we're clear. The entrance is now ninety clicks off. Let's -"

But before logan could finish issuing the order, his motion tracker showed three heavy hostiles closing fast. Too fast to be on foot. The instant the large red dots showed up, fat plasma bolts rained down upon them.

"Banshees! We're getting strafed!"

Sure enough, when the group looked skyward, they saw three banshees flying just above the forest's canopy, firing on them in individual passes in such a way that there was never a single second in which they were not being fired upon. Great, Logan thought bitterly, and nobody brought a rocket launcher.

yusnak after hearing logan barly manages to dodge the plasma fire and fly clear of them. thankfully he was still in camo and handnt been spoted

banshees?! damn it. ok time to get creative.

yusnak flies in close to the first banshee, waits for it to slow for a second and then grabs onto a wing then clims on top,spits acid to burn a small hole through the light armour, primes a plasma grenade, drops it in and flies clear.

the explosion catches somthing critical and the whole banshee is engulfed in flame causing the other 2 to bank out of the way and letting him escape. however a peice of shrapnal catches him and knocks him out of the sky cracking some of his carapeice as he cries out in pain.

damn that hurts, well thats one down but looks like im not gunna be flying much for a while.

Marius looked up and saw the Banshees, one went down fairly quickly but the other two flew off and were heading back in for the kill. They came soaring in, shooting a plasma bomb as they soared over the heads of the group, no one was injured, but the tight group layout was no more. Marius began climbing a tree, he used his strong forearms to pull himself up, twigs and branches breaking beneath his feat. He waited for on of the Banshees to fly back again and he jumped on it, ripping the top plate of he looked at his fellow Jiralhanae. A moment of remorse came but was quickly rid of by an upcoming tree, Marius shot the Brute in the head and jumped out of the banshee, it crashed into the tree and Marius landed on the ground with a large thump.

The last Banshee zeroed in on Austin, its pilot planning on taking out a "demon" without having to approach the Hunter pair.

The Spartan sprinted, ducking and dodging as he approached a felled tree. He jumped and rolled over the tree, pushing it back the way he came with all his momentum.

The tree was launched into the air, and the surprised Banshee tried to turn, but its left wing was torn off and it tumbled to the ground.

Austin completed his roll, the Mark VIs advanced shielding systems protecting him from the evil rock that impeded his progress.

He stood up, shaking his head.

How did I miss that rock?

Sighing, he reported to his team.

"Banshees are down!"

Rolm saw the of the banshee go down. He growl at the others , "Let us move now before we are track down again!" He said as he got back information with the others. He kept the leader cover as he walk beside him. "How close are we...commander.." He said, not wasting time on hate as their mission was important.

yusnak using the momentery calm to use a med kit. stoping the bleeding, patching up the crack and taking some painkillers, could have been worse, alowing yusnak to continue mostly as normal, provided he doesnt get shot.

still kinda hurts.... and theres the painkillers, much better

then moves head to scout, using cover and staying low, no point in using his camo unit when the land has provied. he sets his translator to the com and gets ready to call out enemy possitions.

"Eighty-five kilometers," Logan responded as he continued to scan for hostiles. He called out over the team's com system. "Alright, team, we've got about eighty clicks to go! Kopaka, Logara, I like what you did earlier, maintain point position, Austin, Rolm, flank me just behind their position. I want all the others to fall in behind us. Marius and Brutus, since you two are fairly big, bring up the rear and watch our backs. Everyone stay in formation and stick to cover as best you can. Let's move out!"

Orders issued and the group in formation, they continued toward the shipyard. Just outside the forward command center, located just forward of one of the main docks, they spotted a formation of guards, two jiralhanae and three kig-yar, one of which was a sniper, the other two standard infantry, plasma pistols poking around energy shields.

Jeff spotted the guards and moved out beside one of the hunters to take a shot. He fired two three round bursts, the first going just wide of his target and the second bouncing harmlessly off one of the Jackels' shields.

Cursing Jeff tried to move back into cover behind the two behemoths. A purple beam hit the ground inches from his and the hunters' feet causing Jeff to roll the opposite way. Exposed, he looked around for cover. Finding a large rock nearby, he made a sprint for it firing with his battle rifle for some cover. He slid behind the rock, plasma spraying across it. Reloading his Battle Rifle, Jeff looked for the others.

Austin dropped to a knee, sighting up the kig-yar sniper.

"Enemy sniper!"

A pair of three round bursts put an end to the creatures life.

"Sniper down!"

A hail of spikes flew at the Spartan, and he had to dive for cover. He could hear the two Jiralhanae that had shot at him laugh as one turned its spiker against his squadmates, while the other kept him pinned.

"I'm pinned, need some help over here!"

yusnak hearing austin yell for help and having already moved to a good vantage point ahead of the group on a rocky outcrop using some near by bushes for cammouflage. takes aim and fired 2 shots at the first brute and killing him but over heating the gun.

he switches to the carbine and lays down some surpessive fire making the other run for cover

"i have you coverd demon"

Rolm takes cover behind the large hunter pair. Switching to his plasma rifle and aiming at a jackle, having a clear headshot he fire, taking off the Jackle head. "For the glory of the covenant!" He yelled, cont fire to give his team over ,as the guards took cover to.

Jak sat down his beam rifle and pulled out his needler and activate his shield. He walked out and ducked behind the shield. Several plasma shots hit but the shield just absorbed them and changed the color of the shield. Jak fired his needler and heard the satisfying scream of the last Kig-yar.

Logan takes aim at the one remaining guard, a low-ranking jiralhanae, once again aiming between the shoulders of the lekgolo on point. He was about to squeeze his battle rifle's trigger when he decided to have a little fun with this one. He quickly unslings a brute shot from his hip, having lifted it off the commander he had killed. Two grenades popped out in quick succession, sailing toward the guard.

The first simply missed, hitting the wall just above and behind the beast's head. The second would have done the job, but the first had sent the brute into a defensive roll. But Logan waould not miss number three.

The third shot was perfect, a marvel of steady aim and target leading. The jiralhanae stood up out of his roll, already returning fire with his spiker. As he drew himself up, his head met the third grenade, which blew it's helmet off and crushed it's skull. The apelike beast fell backward.

"That's the last of them, let's proceed to the first objective."

The team made it inside the building, which was used to coordinate docking, refueling, repairs, and launches. There were three jiralhanae inside, who had been going about their work until they heard the exchange of fire outside. Now they waited, armed and ready, for the attackers to enter. And enter they did. The team of humans and former Covenant made short work of the three technicians, about two seconds of gunfire from all and the three brutes lay dead, the team having sustained no injuries.

"Alright, let's hook up this hacking device and get going before they send in an entire platoon."

Austin was already on it, interfacing a small computer device from ONI onto one of the terminals. A short moment passed while the 'dumb AI' (an AI that does not think freely or have emotions) worked through the firewalls and found the needed schematics.

"Got it," Austin announced as the device beeped to indicate objective achieved. "Uploading primary objective onto Head's Up Displays. A second later, a large blue dot appeared in Austin's and Logan's HUD's.

"Alright, people, we have a fix on the target. Let's proceed to the primary objective."

Jeff followed the others as they headed deeper into the building. At first it seemed like they wouldn't encounter any resistance, but that was just wishful thinking on Jeff's part. Jeff spotted an assault group heading their way, probably responding to the skirmish near the entrance.

Jeff called to the others and opened fire on the lead Brute with his battle rifle. A few shots caught it in the midsection and it grunted in pain, bringing up its plasma rifle and opening fire on the group. Its comrades soon following suit.

The Lekgolo pair fired small shots into the assault group, but their bulk was too crowded in the hall to be very effective. They had to spread apart to give room to the rest of the team.

A hail of spikes flew towards Logara. He caught several on his shield, but was unable to move fast enough. A few landed on his chest but several passed through his torso and "head". The searing hot spikes drove into the congregated worms and flew out behind Logara, spraying orange blood and flesh. He ducked behind his shield while Kopaka charged, creating a bone shaking rumble as a roar. Heedless to the allies around he descended upon the Jiralhanae with his shield, throwing it into a wall then impaling it with the sharpened tip.

Austin and Logan dove out of the way of the rampaging Lekgolo.

Shifting to face the covenant group, he fired several bursts from his battle rifle, taking down a pair of carbine armed Kig-Yar. He came up with a plan to break through the enemy group and continue to the objective.

"ODSTs, provide cover fire! Rolm, prepare to charge on my signal! Marius and Brutus, charge behind us, we have shields!"

If all went according to plan, the enemy would be weakened by the ODSTs fire, allowing him and Rolm to charge in, backed up by Marius and Brutus.

Jak fired and dropped a couple of his own kind feeling no remorse. He only smiled as the soldiers around the two he killed, look around in confusion. Jak glanced at the charge on his beam rifle. Damn only a few shots left. He thought as he switched to his needler and shield.

Rolm smile, glad to be getting in a fight as he took cover behind a hunter and return fire. He heard the demon mention to charge as he nodded. Ready to die for his new team. Even if he hated them, he would serve the purpose of allying with them and this mission. "Yes sir..ready when you are." He return more shots, as he gets ready to charge forward.*