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The covenant drop ship goes down for landing, together with nine others. The scenery for now is a beatiful bay surrounded by high mountains and ocean. The drop ship lands and open their side hatches. Forty elites, fifty grunts and a couple of jackals step down in the sand, together with Master Chief. MC's eyes carefully study the bay. There is nothing remarkable here, sand, larger rocks, trees and a few large piles of stones. The mountains a few hundred meters away are covered with thick forest.

The grunt Karcarak speaks:
"Where are our enemies?"

Awacar: "This place should be swarming with enemies by now but both forerunners and the Blood Faction have got technical problems. Cortana?"

Cortana: "The human forces have started to understand the size of the threat. They made a little stop to change tactics, but they should be here by now.

Five minutes passes...

A jackal speaks:
"Awacar, where is the resistance? We aren't here to enjoy the... view, are we?"

Awacar: "No, Scica'al, certainly not. I've too started to think these ways but this is, after all Installation 02. We must keep our guard up, for soon hell will be all over us."

Karcarak: "I don't like the way you speak of hell, Awacar. Are you sure that we won't be smacked like flies?"

Awacar: "I can't be sure of anything in this war, but we'll have to come out of this battle alive, for all of our races. Our mission here is to keep the bay clean for a strike team to land. It will pick up the survivors and fight their way through the forests. We landed here because we can sneak up the mountains where a safe ride to the control room awaits."

Scicha'al waves Master Chief to him and says:
"You do now that the short name for Blood Faction members is "betrayers", don't you?"

MC: "No, I didn't know that, thanks."

Cortana: "I'm picking up some signals here, is it the forerunners?"

Awacar: "Probably. For how long do we need to hold them off?"

Cortana: "I'm calculating for 89.3 seconds, add or withdraw a quarter of a second."

Awacar gets something empty in his face, looking extremely frightened. He starts to speak slowly:
"Ninety seconds, the longest ninety seconds of my life."

Awacar hasty switches to faster, commanding talk:
"You grunts with fuel rod guns, report!"

Twelve grunts approaches Awacar in a line and says:
"We're ready!"

Awacar: "Good, your mission will be to focus all of your firepower at the forerunner drop ships. If we're going to survive you'll have to do the same. You jackals, you wil have to keep these grunts alive at all costs! Understood?"

Jackals: "Yes, great Awacar!"

Awacar: "Good. Elites, we won't be able to give the forerunners a warm welcome, but we'll give them some action when they reach the sand. Chief?"

MC: "I haven't been threatened for a week and I need some heat so I'll join you."

Cortana: "Red alert! The forerunners are coming in!"

Three giant discs approach the bay. When they got within firing distance, a cascade of fuel rod gun shots arose, and every single shot hitted its target.

Awacar: "Grunts, keep on going! The rest, take cover until the forerunners show us their ugly faces, then, it's fire at will!"

Despite the massive hail of green shots two of the drop ships make it to the ground, and the third lands in shallow water. Three types of creatures emerge from the drop ships. One is a skinny and thin creature armed with a plasma sniper rifle. Another is sitting in a hovercraft and holds something that is proven to be a grenade launcher. This enemy looks almost like an elite. The last beast is looking like a very musculus velociraptor covered with thick armor and holding a huge, three-barreled weapon. The only thing that combines the forerunners is that they're all under heavy fire and immmediately fire back.

MC: "What kind of rounds is it in the three-barreled weapons that some forerunners have?"

Awacar: "You don't want to find out."

Awacar activates his com-channel:
"Thunder team, units 1-8, drop your morgawrs!"

Eight of the drop ships return to the bay while the battle begins. Then they drop a Jet Ski vehicle each in the water. The battle intensifies and the forerunners start to lob grenades over the rocks that give the covenant protection. This causes great regroupings and a few losses among the covenant.

Awacar: "Master Chief, wait a minute! Do you see?"

MC continues to fire his assault rifle and says:
"I won't wait, but what is it that I'm not seeing?"

Awacar: "The snipers and the engineers (the ones in the hovercrafts) are heading for the water. That leaves me with the bio-tanks."

MC: "You?"

Awacar doesn't take notice and instead screams out:
"I need seven volunteers for the morgawrs! The last one is yours, Chief. Bur first, move to my rock."

MC: "It's fifteen meters away from mine and it's further into the land!"

Awacar: "Do you prefer to die next to yours?"

These words convinces MC and he starts to run, but when he's almost there his previous rock is blasted apart and the chock-wave throws MC to Awacars rock. The collision causes MC's shields to go off and makes him lose half of his health.

MC: "What was that?"

Awacar: "The first barrel, keep close to the rock!"

A swarm of blue shots comes around the rock and homes in at MC and Awacar, who are forced to sidestep to avoid them.

Awacar: "Now quickly, move!"

Master Chief starts to run towards the Jet Skis and reaches them without any trouble, but he has to evade a lot of fire on his way to the sea battle. Now the water war has started.

Cortana: "Watch out, if you don't turn you're going to be hit by a torpedo!"

MC then turns the morgawr very quick, simultaneously with hitting a smaller wave. The special conditions cause the morgawr to make a corkscrew roll and land perfectly in the water.

Cortana: "Whoa! Where did you learn that?"

MC: "I haven't learned that."

Chief now fires a torpedo at a nearby engineer who evades the projectile. MC fires one more, hitting this time but not killing the creature. The forerunner fires a stream of plasma shots against MC, who was hit by several of them. The Chiefs counter-attack, a launched "blob" of plasma finally takes down the engineer. Though, Master Chief didn't come out of battle undamaged; the got his shields taken down and the morgawr was smoking.

Awacar: "Chief, get out of there now, quicker than immediately, on the double or whatever you humans say. The betrayers have launced a new project, called Carybdis, which is a giant, floating battleship armed with super-cavity torpedoes."

MC takes ground near the rest of the friendly forces. The looks back towards the ocean and sees two giant ships, around 30 dropships and 25 dactyls. The battleships quickly sink a couple of engineers and chases the rest of the forerunners to land.

MC: "We must have held out for more than ninety seconds."

Cortana: "Calculations tell me that our tactics would have enabled us to hold out for two and a half minute, the timer shows two."

Awacar: "Don't make this tempo a bad habit. The forerunners are sending reinforcements and the humans are flying in."

The battle with the forerunners aren't that intense now when the betrayers have joined, and the humans are on their way. The humans have one problem: the dactyls have decided to bury the pelicans at the ocean floor. They succeed, and the surviving humans starts to swim towards the land. Chief runs out in the water to shoot them with AR and SMG shots.

Awacar: "Don't waste your ammo, they won't make it anyway."

MC sees four missiles fly in a bow and land near the humans. Four six-meter deep and twelve-meter wide craters are blown in the water. The explosives instantly kills the marines that was in the craters, and the powerful streams created when the water fills the gaps drown the rest of the marines.

Cortana: "Don't worry, there'll be more. Now, get going!"

The forerunners are landing more troops, approximately 75 creatures carried in five drop ships.

MC: "I thought that there would be more!"

Awacar: "Me to, there must be more troops near, but for now, entertain the ones that are here."

The bio-tanks have started to group, and their leader points at Awacar, orders his troops to fire and starts to run towards his enemy.

Awacar: "Eat this, creep!" He starts to run too and picks up a plasma grenade that he activates. When they get dangerously close the forerunner roars and begins to turn its body, in order to swing the heavy tail into Awacar. Instead, Awacar throws his grenade, which "silences" the bio-tank before it has twisted 90 degrees. The thrower dive-jumps to evade the tail and lands side down in the sand. He stopped in the right moment to, with pleasure, listen to the detonation.

Awacar: "Go on Chief, the arena is yours! Here, take this, I'll cover you!"

Awacar throws another grenade that makes a plasma pistol fly and land next to MC when it explodes.

MC: "Thanks."

Master Chief begins to run towards the betrayers that have landed. He kills an elite with the plasma pistol, switches his SMG for the elites needler and kills five grunts with it. Chief now throws a grenade at a lesser wall of jackals, taking out every member. MC now feels the pounding heat of plasma rifle shots in his back, reallizing that his shields are down. Chief turns around, fires two needler shots against the attacking elite and then sees a ray of plasma penetrate the elites chest. Master Chief looks to the right, towards Awacar who lies in the sand, holding a smoking plasma sniper.

Awacar: "Said that I'd cover you!"

Cortana: "Thanks, now listen carefully. The humans are landing warthogs to assist the infantry."

Awacar: "I don't know what a "warthog" is. What does this mean for the battle?"

Cortana: "It means..."

MC: "... that we have the advantage."

The human pelicans go down for landing in the forerunner-controled area of the bay. This time, they succeed in landing twenty pelicans unnoticed. They now have close to hundred marines and four warthogs in the battle.
The Chief and Awacar goes on "as usual", taking out a lot of grunts and jackals, a couple of elites and a few brutes together with a few forerunners.

Cortana: "Watch out Chief!"

A warthog is coming to fishtail MC, who jumps up, kicks out the gunner and puts the driver and passenger to sleep. Just a second thereafter Master Chief discovers a plasma grenade attached to the vehicle. He jumps out of the warthog but is still tossed further away. He lands behind a tree and sees Awacar take cover behind the vehicle he just jumped out of.

Now they're very close and Awacar starts to talk:
"Status?"

MC: "Wouldn't say no to an over shield."

Awacar: "Well then, take this." Awacar throws an over shield over to MC who says:
"If I drive the warthog and you go in the side seat you'll need these." while unloading his needler magazine and giving the three remaining to Awacar, and goes on saying:
"Your sword?"

Awacar: "35,72 %."

MC: "Good enough for me."

Awacar: "Do you see that the betrayers take cover behind the pile of stones over there?" He then throws his sword over. The Chief turns his head, looks and nods.

Awacar: "I know that it is a long distance but if you could..." Awacar looks at MC who again nods and makes Awacar smile. Master Chief then throws a remote grenade into the stone pile.

Awacar: "Await my signal!" He then screams out:
"Take cover!" and after that lets three seconds pass.

Awacar: "Now Chief!" The grenade explodes, shatters the stones and throws the sharp fragments away in all directions.

MC: "Cortana, the rate of fatality?"

Cortana: "85.4 %, 100 % of the remaining betrayers in that area are wounded."

MC takes control of the warthog and Awacar gets into the side seat. Now they're driving towards the betrayers with Awacar firing needles.

Awacar: "Look upwards!"

MC: "Damn!"

The cause of their reactions is a dactyl that have decided to mix human and elite flesh in one bite. MC turns the warthog just in time to evade the majestic creatures attack.

Awacar: "Amazing. If you drive and evade I'll fire at it."

MC: "You don't have any idea about what I can do with a 'hog, do you?"

The flying beast approaches them again and the Chief starts to drive in a wide circle which he makes small turns within. When he sees that the dactyl attacks he makes a quick turn towards the centre of the circle. The dactyl bashes its head into the ground and the moment after, the Chief makes a turn outwards so quick that the jeep slide turns 270 degrees, beating the back of the vehicle into the creatures skull, crushing it.

Awacar: "Extraordinary, but we're not through yet. When I've cleaned the area of Blood Faction members I'll need a new weapon."

MC: "Okay, unload!" The Chief gives Awacar a chance to pull the needler-trigger. A few seconds later the opposition is undone and the needler empty.

Awacar: "Drive towards the foreunner group!"

MC looks at Awacar, surprised about the brave order but obeys without question. Awacar switches to a plasma rifle and when they get really close he starts to throw grenades.

Awacar: "Out of grenades!"

MC: "Take mine!"

Awacar: "Thanks."

Awacar goes on throwing, thinning the forerunner line out. MC then, under rapid bio-tank fire (second barrel), kills the remaining forerunners with the warthog. Though, there is one left.

MC: "He's yours!"

Awacar starts firing his plasma rifle at the lonely engineer. When the rifle is nearly overheated Chief follows the given order; to drive closer to the forerunner. They get very close and Awacar overheats his weapon, draws his arm back and says:
"For my friends, bastard!" Afterwards he melee-attacks the forerunner in the throat with the hot rifle. Master Chief stops the warthog and lets Awacar get out and pick up the fallen engineers grenade launcher.

MC: "Hurry on, we've got a bird on our necks!"

Awacar gets in and says:
"Roll, I'm going to cut its wings!"

The dactyl roars and starts hunting the warthog while Awacar shoots a grenade and misses. The beast starts to fire his rod gun.

Cortana: "You didn't kill it, you made it more mad!"

Awacar: "Chief, drive straight, I can't shoot!"

MC: "Okay, but you will only get a second!"

The dactyl rises in the air and prepares to dive-attack its prey. Awacar shoots two grenades, each hitting where the wings combine with the body. The grenades detonate and paralyze the dactyl, causing it to crash from approximately 50 meters height. When it reaches the ground a great cloud of sand and dust is created.

Awacar: "It is dead now, nothing but dead..."

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