Authors note: Hey guys this is the first chapter of my first fic so if your going to comment please make it constructive. It took me two days to write. AI talking is in italics. So is thinking.

Reach, Epsilon Eridani System, Groundside.

Theta two's POV

"This war is over" thought Spartan 3 A936, as he was traveling across the desolate terrain in a falcon.

"Hey Spartan" said an ODST officer, who was with him in the transport. We'll be at the evacuation zone in 15 minutes. What's the matter?" The marine asked.

"Its fine' the soldier replied, "just got a bad feeling about this."

"Contacts!" Shouted the pilot as 2 banshees appeared in front of the aircraft. The pilot fired the chin-mounted gun on the front of the falcon. He took one out but the other swooped past for another pass. The banshee then did a sharp turn and opened fire with its plasma cannon, doing a pass around the front of the falcon. The pilot then tried to hit it on its second pass but the banshee did a flip to avoid the gunfire and ended up behind them, firing its fuel rod gun at the right rotor, destroying it and causing the falcon to end up spiraling toward the cliff-side road. The Spartan then quickly grabbed a jet pack, grabbed the officer and jumped out of the side of the aircraft, activating the pack to slow his fall. The Spartan then landed on the road, dropped the Helljumper, and turned around firing his sniper rifle at the banshee damaging it. He reloaded and the ODST stood up and fired his dmr at it as well. It then started firing its plasma cannon at them. They both dive rolled away and firing when they stood up. As it went in for another pass the Spartan switched to his magnum to conserve ammo and fired three shots at it. As it was then going to shoot him with its fuel rod cannon, it got hit by a barrage of 50 cal. rounds destroying it. The ODST then hopped off the warthog turret and smirked at the Spartan. "We're even now, you saved my life, so I saved yours. The Spartan inwardly sighed as he got in the driver's seat of the warthog. The ODST got in the turret and they started driving.

They then notice a covenant CCS battlecruiser as they drove around the bend. They saw a bright flash of light, and the energy projector fired. They then drove on in silence as they saw it glassing an area 15 miles north of their location. They were heading to an evacuation zone for the surviving unsc forces. A936 then heard his AI speak inside his helmet, "I'm detecting covenant forces ahead" she said as they rushed towards the evac zone. They then saw a covenant patrol on the highway. The warthog was then fired on by two ghosts as the Revenant went back to warn more covenant. The Helljumper shot at one of the ghosts with the turret while A936 rammed the other with the hog. They were chasing the revenant when the Spartan used an abandoned car as a jump to catch up with the revenant. The turret opened fire on the Revenant , damaging it while the Spartan stayed behind the revenant so that it can't fire back. The revenant then exploded, leaving them to stay driving on the empty highway with silence.

After a while the AI spoke, "we're getting a call" she said. "Put it through" the Spartan said. "Hey does anyone read me, if so, please respond" A marine announced on the radio. "We read you, "this is Spartan A936, of Spartan fire team Theta." "Wow a Spartan?" the voice asks. "Affirmative" he answers. The voice then continues. "We are in a canyon a half of a kilometer west of the Cliffside highway. We were planning to evacuate in a half an hour, but we hit a snag. Can you get there?" "On it' A936 responds before the connection cuts out. "That's 4 minutes away, plotting course there now" She adds.

Corporal Adams POV

"Dammit, get some fire on that sniper!" He yells as another marine is shot down by a jackal sniper. It then dies as the 50 cal. mounted turret in the back door to the pelican fires a hail of lead at him. "Good shot!" He yells, before the marine manning the turret is shot in the leg by a needle rifle round taking him out. Adams then fires a burst of fire from his assault rifle, turning the offending jackal out. He then ducks as a hail of needler rounds hits the rock he's hiding behind. Private Riley then hurls one of her grenades at the grunts sending them running, she then follows up with seven precise shots with her DMR, killing the remaining grunts. Everyone then hears an engine approaching fast. A warthog then flies over a rock, crashing to the ground in the middle of the fighting, crushing a jackal. The turret then opens up, tearing into the surviving covenant. The three surviving elites then duck behind boulders as lead flies toward them. The Spartan then gets out of the warthog, runs behind the boulders, and proceeds to kill two elite minors. The Major then fires his plasma rifle at him, dropping his shields to a third. He then switches to his sniper rifle and fires it at close range, decimating the Elites shields. He then follows to stab the elite in the eye with his combat knife, killing it.

He walks over to the marines and asks Adams "what's the problem corporal?"

He then replies with "there's covenant anti-aircraft cannon about four hundred meters east, we can't take off with it there. Oh and we also sent a group of two ODST's to take it out, if you can find them it would be much appreciated. We'll have one of our two pelicans leave immediately after you take out the AA gun and fly to the frigate in orbit and the other one to head to your location and pick you guys up there."

"Consider it done marine." The Spartan replies to Adams as him and the ODST sergeant get in the warthog.

"Good luck Spartan." Adams says to himself as the warthog drives away.

"We got more of them!" a marine yells as two covenant phantoms lands just behind a few rocks so that they can't be shot by the marines. "Here we go again." He mumbles as he reloads his Assault Rifle

Theta two's POV

As they are driving to the covenant anti-aircraft gun the AI inside A936s helmet is trying to find the friendly IFFs of the two ODSTs. When she finds them she then alerts the Spartan to this development. "I have located the missing troopers, they are at the covenant gun and are pinned down by two shade turrets and several jackal snipers."

"Thanks for the Intel Artemis." Theta two replies.

"You're welcome, now let's help some marines.

They then go around a corner and see the troopers being pinned down. He drives the hog up behind them and gets out, letting the sergeant to fire with the turret on the covenant forces. He then starts firing at the jackals with his magnum, hitting them every time with a headshot. When they kill both the jackals and the shades, The Spartan then dashes towards the Tyrant class AA gun. He rushes inside and punches the shield guarding the core, disabling it. He then chucks a grenade into the core.

He then sees a red dot on his motion tracker, he ducks just as a plasma sword nearly decapitates him. He turns and shots the elite Ultra in the wrist with his magnum, making him drop the sword. They then both hear a whining noise as the gun was about to explode. Theta two then jumped out of the gun and fired his jetpack, carrying him away from the explosion of the gun. After the gun exploded he walked back in and took the energy sword from the dead elite.

He then walked away and saw the pelican land by the hog and the ODSTs. Corporal Adams and Private Riley were already waiting for them and everyone got on the pelican and flew away to the ship in orbit.