Harvest (Conflicted)

Location: Harvest orbit

Military operations: Harvest campaign.

Year: 2526

Date: March 5th

Time: 09:28AM

Jaune didn't know what to expect from Harvest, from reports he'd gotten along with the other Spartans it was meant to be a lush world, brilliant forests, lovely cities and great weather, Halsey had once called it a nice vacation resort since she'd been there on holiday. But now…

''The covenant really messed this place up...'' Jaune mutters.

Jaune was looking out of the cockpit at the glassed planet, it's once lush forests were gone, replaced by a layer of dark obsidian like glass burned into the landscape, under the glass layer you could see the planet surface was still hot, angry red hot lines moved around the planets surface, all spreading out from much larger circular burned points that dotted the world's surface. To make matters worse the planet was currently under going a nuclear winter, the effects of the glassing causing catastrophic damage to the ecosystem and the worlds atmosphere, shrouding the world's O-zone layer in a thin layer of ash and dust that blocked out of stars heat leaving the planet deadly levels of cold.

All and all it was a mess.

''Damn right, the covvie's burned every square inch of the place with plasma.'' The pilot replies as they enter the dust layer, immediately they're bombarded by a hail of snow, ash and dust but the pilot just flicked a switch that used filtered air to blow the debris from the window allowing him to see again.

''Don't worry about the effects on the ground, reports are there's just light snow, it's only really bad up here.'' The pilot says, answering the question before Jaune could even think of it never mind say it. ''But I'd suggest getting into your seat and strapping in, it might get a bit bumpy.''

Following the pilots advice Jaune moved out of the cockpit and closed the door before making a B-line for his seat and dropping onto it, pulling the safety guard over himself and waiting for the pilot to reach the destination.

''Nervous?'' Jorge asks suddenly, looking over at Jaune with a lopsided smirk.

''A little, It's my first mission.'' Jaune admits, looking back with a sheepish grin on his face.

''Don't sweat it. we'll be deploying to reinforce some marines to take back Charlie base.'' Mike-120 of grey team explains. ''So we'll have some reinforcements to help us.''

''Good to know.'' Alice says with a collective nod from Red team.

''How did we lose a base so fast though?'' Cal asks, looking at Mike who shrugged not knowing the answer, before he could voice his lack of knowledge the pilot suddenly spoke.

''We'll be arriving at the drop point in a few seconds, prepare to get out, LZ's hot!'' The pilot shouts back prompting the Spartans to do a last second check of there weapons to ensure they all worked properly.

''We're here!'' The pilot says, brining the pelican to a halt and lowering it down letting the Spartans jump out and break for cover while the alien's focused on the Pelican that moved off when all the spartans were out.

''That went smoother than I thought it would.'' Jaune admits as he takes a seat between Jorge and Cal who had moved behind a semi-destroyed wall covered in bullet holes and plasma burns.

Rather than reply Jorge hefted his gatlin gun up and onto the wall and began to lay down supressive fire on the alien's who'd stopped firing as the hail of bullets pelted there cover, seeing it as an opening to get closer Jaune sent a nod of thanks to Jorge before he moved across the open ground and joined Red team who were the closest to the alien group at around forty meters away.

''Nice of you to join us J.'' Douglas greets dismissivly, more focused on reloading his assult rifle.

''Hm, nice to be here.'' Jaune says before looking over the cover and looking at the highlighted alien's with cross hairs over them, they were marked courtesy of Cal using her sniper rifles marking feature to tag enemies rather than take pot shots of them while they were in cover.

''There's a group of three large aliens behind the cover there, twenty meters from us, just to the right.'' Jaune calls out for Alice who moves her assult rifle's sights on the spot and starts laying down fire on an alien who'd looked over, protected by it's shield the alien dives back down seeing and feeling that it'd been spotted.

''Hmph, damn shields.'' Alice huffs out in annoyance, moving back into cover seeing a hail of purple spikes being fired at her.

''Use a frag to draw them out and focus fire on them, there shields won't last forever.'' Jerome chimes in prompting Jaune to take one of his frags and pull the pin as he stands up, spotting the markers over the cover Jaune throws the frag at the cover, smirking as it lands just over the cover and in front of the aliens who do the smart thing and jump out of there cover.

Seeing the aliens were out of cover Alive and Jerome immediately got to work, firing a hail of bullets at the retreating aliens and knocking there sheilds down leaving them exposed to Jaune and Douglas who finished them off with a few well placed rounds with there more accurate weapons.

''If it continues like this we'll be here all day, we need a way to draw them out somehow.'' Alice says, looking over at Jaune who raised a brow under his helmet.

''Why're you looking at me?'' Jaune asks.

''Because, you're a strategist, think of something.'' Alice explains getting an 'oh' from Jaune who starts to try and put a plan together. After a few minutes of thinking an idea pops in Jaune's head and without second guessing himself he stands up and turns on his helmets loud speaker, ignoring Alice and Jerome trying to pull him back under.

''YOUR GODS SUCK!''

Silence. Pure silence filled the battlefield, the marines and spartan's paused there fire in confusion, looking at Jaune like he was crazy for suddenly shouting something so random. The Alien's on the other hand had a more...hands on approach to Jaune's speech.

''Kill the blasphemer!'' An order shouted from an alien in cover and immediately the alien's were on the offensive, moving out of cover in a reckless manner to get to Jaune who ducked down behind cover to avoid the hail of weapon fire the was aimed at him.

''Don't just gawk! shoot!'' Jaune shouts, breaking the marines and spartans out of there shock prompting them to start firing on the approaching aliens, picking them off as they tried to cross forty meters of mostly uncovered ground.

By the time the first alien made it to Jaune's cover there was only seven of the original twenty left. Seeing seven angry alien's with swords in there hand's close Jaune broke cover, avoiding a sword slash that glanced over his chest plate leaving a small cut in the metal. Stumbling over a rock Jaune rolled backwards onto his knees and took out his shotgun in one motion and aimed at the closest alien that was lowering it's sword in a stabbing position towards his head.

Pulling the trigger Jaune watched satisfied as the slug hit the alien square in the chest knocking it off it's feet and breaking it's shield with a 'pop' leaving small arcs of electrical energy to dance over the alien's armour. Pumping the shotgun Jaune stood up and firing another slug into the alien's unshielded chest blasting through the lightly armoured area with ease and punching a hole in the alien's chest that bubbled with purple blood, the alien taking it's last breath before death.

Pumping his shotgun again Jaune aimed up jump in time to be greeted with the ugly mandibled face of another alien with it's arm reared back to impale him on it's sword. Not having a proper shot on the alien Jaune moves the shotgun to act as a bat and strikes the alien's head knocking it off balance allowing the sword to pass by his face harmlessly, just missing contact with his visor as Jaune moved his head to the side as well. Grabbing hold of the stunned alien's sword arm and twisting it, Jaune lifted his other arm and used his elbow to stike the alien's stiffened arm with a sicken crack as Jaune's arm smashes through the alien's bone breaking it with ease causing the alien to cry out in pain before it's head was blown off by Douglas' shotgun covering Jaune's helmet in alien brains.

''You cut it close there, Jaune.'' Douglas says with a sigh, watching him push the alien off of himself and onto the ground where it twitched.

''Thanks to you I'll be smelling like alien brains for a weak.'' Jaune says flattly, brushing the blood, bone and brain matter of the alien off his visor and staring at Douglas with a look to match his voice getting a low laugh from the other Spartan.

''You'll be fine, besides, purple suits you.'' Douglas jokes, patting Jaune's shoulder before he checked on his team who'd dispatched the other aliens who'd jumped over there cover.

''What were you thinking! That plan was reckless and could have gotten you killed!'' Cal shouts, marching up to Jaune who takes a step back as an armoured finger gets shoved into his visor.

''Well!..Uh, It worked, right?'' Jaune says, only further angering the silver haired Spartan who huffs angrily and gives him a push making him stumble backwards.

''Come on Cal, give him a break, he was thinking on the fly.'' Jorge says coming to Jaunes defence.

''Fine, but don't do anything stupid like that again! we've already lost to many of us as is.'' Cal says, hesitantly giving Jaune his 'break'.

''Fine, fine.'' Jaune says with a sigh, looking over the other spartans who were in turn giving him disapproving stares under there helmets for his brash action. Before he could further defend his actions a heavy footstep suddenly got his attention prompting him to turn around to see a shimmer in the light behind him.

''Look out!'' Jaune shouts, grabbing hold of Cal's chest plate and throwing her to the side as he himself moved back, avoiding a death by impalement by a group of aliens that suddenly faded into existence, deactivating there active camo showing themselves to be dotted around the group of spartan's with there weapons ready.

''Hostiles!'' Jerome shouts, ducking under a slash from the a spartan and ramming into the alien taking them to the ground into a fist fight while Alice was able to use her arm to stop the alien from slashing her and kicked it's side. Douglas bent back, avoiding a slash aimed at his neck and used the opening to fire his assault rifle as the alien forcing it to retreat while he fell on the ground.

Seeing an alien ready to bring it's sword down on him Jaune raised an arm in a fruitless attempt to grab the alien's arm, thankfully he wouldn't need to as Jorge unloaded on the distracted alien knocking it off balance causing it to stumble into fall onto Jaune who grunted at the impact.

''Invisibility?! Now that is bullshit right there!'' Andriana-111 shouts as he pulls the alien who'd attacked her into a headlock and started to choke it out while the other members of grey team were in fist fights with the aliens who'd decided to attack them.

Pushing the alien off him and mounting the it Jaune grabbed his combat knife and drove it down int othe alien's mouth and out of the back of it's neck, killing the alien with the fatal blow.

''Thanks.'' Jaune thanks, giving Jorge a thumbs up as the gatlin gun wielding Spartan kicked one of the alien's who'd attacked them.

''No problem, slippery bastards. I'm surprised you noticed them before they attacked, saved Cal's life.'' Jorge says, looking at Jaune as he stood himself up, brushing the blood off his knife before putting it back into it's sheath.

''I heard it's footstep behind me and took a look, the air was shimmering so I acted like there was enemies around us.'' Jaune explains, watching with a nod as the last alien was dispatched with no casualties on there side.

''Marines! You good?'' Jaune shouts, looking to the marines who's commanding officer nodded, sending them a thanks for the help.

''Alright people, let's move up, check to make sure no enemies ambush us again, you should be able to see them when they move, the air shimmers around them.'' Jaune says, explaining how to see the invisible aliens before he began to move towards Charlie base, the other Spartans and marines moving behind him and falling into a convoy line.

''This place is a mess...'' Jaune comments, looking over the remains of the base with the others.

When the arrived they were greeted with no resistance, not a single hostile in sight, they'd all left for a reason that Jaune wasn't going to be to picky about, they'd retaken the location and were currently looking for survivors while the marines kept a perimeter around the base secure with the help of Red team.

''Maybe the alien's realized you were coming and decided to leave before they had to see that ugly mug of yours?'' Jorge 'suggests' playfully getting a huff of laughter from Jaune and Cal.

''Yeah yeah, i'm sure they'd run in pure fear if I took my helmet off.'' Jaune says dramatically, playing along with Jorges banter as they searched the rubble.

Seeing there were no survivors in the base Jaune turned on his radio and spoke. ''Nothing here, anything on your side grey?''

''Nothing, not even bodies. They either left or the aliens took there bodies for some reason.'' Jai-006 replies, confused by the lack of bodies in the base. As much as they hated to admit it but there should at least be a few dead bodies from the attack, it was impossible for every marine to have escaped the base. Neither human nor covenant remains were present even though there were signs of battle everywhere. Bullet holes, plasma marks, explosion craters, destroyed human and alien vehicles, Blood. It was all there.

''Maybe they eat human's?'' Jorge suggested putting a rather graphic image in Jaune's head.

''Thanks for the image, Jorge.'' Both Jaune and Jai says aloud to Jorge who only whistles innocently, looking off to the side as if he'd done nothing.

''Sir! We have contacts approaching from the east, they're heading to the entrance of the base!'' One of the marines calls into the radio prompting Jaune to drop the shard of metal in his hand and make his way out of the base with Cal and Jorge following behind him. When they reached the courtyard they seen the marines garrisoning behind cover with Grey team, ready to fight the approaching aliens.

''Red team won't make it by the time the enemy reaches our location, we'll have to hold until they arrive with the rest of the marines guarding the perimeter.'' Jai shouts noticing Jaune's team moving into the cover and joining the defence force.

''You! With the long range radio! Call your Zeus and ask for some sort of re-enforcements! Hell tell them to drop a turret for all I care!'' Jaune orders, pointing at the Marine with the radio kit on his back getting him to start connecting to there Zeus.

''Any idea what we're against then?'' Jaune asks, looking at Jai who just shrugged.

''Didn't explain it, just said a big enemy force.'' Jai replies, reloading his B555 Heavy Barrel Surface Rifle and setting it's sights on the entrance, hearing the approaching alien force near the entrance.

''Tank!'' The sniper calls, looking down at the marines who ready themselves, two marines readying rocket lunchers to take out the heavy armour.

''Wait...don't open fire yet.'' Jaune says, holding up a hand preventing the marines from firing, even when the first tank entered the base, moving in and slowly approaching the group with a large force of ape like aliens being lead by a larger alien wielding a large hammer. When the second tank passed the gate Jaune lowered his arm suddenly, a hail of gun fire from the UNSC force following after.

Immediately the first tank was disabled, hit by two missiles knocking out the cockpit, several aliens were killed by small arms fire and a sniper shot. Unable to react in time to the gunfire, by the time the alien's shock wore-off the marines were ready to fire and began to fire again as the alien's made a break for cover, taking down two more.

''Get those rockets on the second tank!'' Jaune calls, prompting the marines the fire the second rocket at the tank, one striking the tank's right side knocking out it's floating capability causing it to drop down onto the ground letting the second missile hit the tank's cannon setting off a chain reaction blowing the rest of the tank up with it's own ammunition.

''Snipers pick them off in there cover, marines use grenades to draw them out!'' Jaune orders, pulling his own grenade, unpinning it and throwing it towards the alien's cover, several following after. The explosion of alien body parts and purple blood was magnificent.

''I'm surprised some of them didn't try to run.'' Jorge comments, mowing down an alien that had decided to try it's luck.

''I think those are the stupid ones.'' Jaune says, looking at an alien get out of cover and shoot a pistol sized weapon that sprayed out like a shotgun and had it's head blown off by a sniper shot from Cal. ''Yeah they aren't to smart...''

''Ones charging!'' A marine shouts, firing at the large alien rushing them with it's hammer, closing the distance at an impossibly high speed for it's size. Before he could get away the marine was hit by the hammer and knocked away like a rag-doll. The marines closest to the alien started to run, breaking cover to get away from the alien leaving them open to be hit in the back by the same hammer that'd taken his friends life.

''Focus fire on the big guy!'' Jaune shouts, aiming at the alien and firing his shotgun, grunting in annouance as the round hits the aliens shield, breaking it with a loud 'pop' but bouncing off the alien's armour harmlessly, only causing the Alien to stagger before it set it's sights on Jaune with a blood thirsty glare.

''I probably shouldn't have done that...'' Jaune says, receiving his answer in the form of being throw from his feet. Flipping several times in the air before landing awkwardly on his left arm by the glancing blow of the alien's hammer against his chest plate, tearing the lower half If it apart leaving jagged shards.

'Yep...Bad idea...'

Sitting himself up Jaune groaned, feeling his arm protesting to being moved but pushed on, pulling himself back to his feet before inspecting his armour, giving it a quick one over. Setting his eyes back on the hammer wielding alien Jaune's eyes widen seeing a hammer approaching his head, leaping to the side he avoids being crushed by is pushed away by the explosion of force send out by the attack.

'Right don't get hit by the hammer and you'll be good.'

Leaping to his feet Jaune grabs his pistol and aims at the alien who'd hefted his hammer from the ground and turned wards him. Firing several shots Jaune grunts as the alien's shield kicks in, blocking the first four before 'popping' letting the last three hit the alien's armour, only digging into it but not much else. Seeing the alien rushing with it's hammer raised Jaune disregards his pistol and ducks, allowing the hammer to glide over his back and slam into the ground near him. Feeling the explosive force rocking him Jaune grunts as he digs his feet into the ground to hold him in place.

Moving into action Jaune moves into the alien's guard and strikes the alien with an uppercut, following it up with a swift punch to the stunned Alien's face causing it to bend back slighty. Suddenly grinning the alien sends a blood thirsty grin Jaune's way causing him to hesitate allowing the alien to wrap a hand around his helmet and slam his head into the wall to there side and begin to drag him along it, cracking his visor and tearing the green paint from the right side of his helmet.

Jamming his feet into the ground Jaune brings them to a stop Jaune uses the moment of confusion to palm strike the alien in the face, denting the helmet inwards with a crunching sound. Feeling the hand around his helmet loosen he grabs the arm and tears it away from his head allowing him to spin on his heel and strike the Alien as it turned it's head back to face him, knocking a sharp tooth out with a glob of purple blood and spittle. As the alien stumbled backwards Jaune pulled his M5A assult rifle from his back and mag dumped the alien who quickly pulled it's arms in front of it' face.

Disgarding the empty gun to the side Jaune sprints towards the distracted alien, closing the distance in less than a second and performs a leg swipe, knocking the alien off it's feet with some resistance. Readying to lift his leg to cave in the alien's skull Jaune feels a hand wrapping around his ankle stopping his foot from coming down. Foot and hand struggled for dominance, both limbs shaking as the foot was slowly lowered closer to the alien's face.

Hearing heavy footsteps rapidly approaching Jaune looks up in time to see the ape like alien an inch from him, feeling the air being knocked out of his lungs Jaune gags as he's tackled by the second alien, pushing him into and through the wall he'd been dragged across previously. Without time to prepare Jaune lurches forwards, a fist driving into his gut threatening to make him vomit into his helmet.

Not letting it get the better of him Jaune rears a fist back and strikes the alien's face, striking it's jaw causing it to break from the force, without even time to scream in pain Jaune brings his hands up and wraps them around the alien's head and jerks it to the side violently, snapping the alien's neck and killing it, allowing Jaune to throw the alien off him with a groan.

Sitting himself up with a struggle Jaune looks at the spot the alien leader was and blinked seeing it still laying on the ground, not having moved from it's spot. It should have, it had enough strength left to slow his leg down enough to buy time for an underling to tackle him, so why hadn't it moved?

He got his answer in the form of a sniper bullet hitting the alien's body causing it lurch for a moment before going still again.

''Thanks Cal...'' Jaune says with a cough, sending a thumbs up to the sniper of there team who was situated on the nearby roof of the barracks. Trying to stand himself up Jaune suddenly falls onto his back, blotches of black entering his vision as his visor's flashing suddenly comes to his attention. Looking at the warning Jaune grimaces seeing that suit was saying he was fatality injured. His liver had ruptured.

'The damn alien destroyed my liver with that punch…' Was the last thing Jaune managed to say to himself before blacking out.

'Can I really be a huntsman grandfather?'

'That depends? Do you want to?'

'Of course I do!'

That voice...who did it belong to? I think I remember it...

'Then of course you can! To become a huntsman one only needs the drive to do so!'

Grandfather…?

'So you'll train me?!'

'Well...I'm far to old for that. I'm sure if you asked your father he'd do it.'

'You're not that old, grandfather!'

'He is.'

Another voice? Female...I recognise this one...It's my mothers from the dreams I have.

'Bah, you're to hash Juniper.'

'Of course I am, I'm your daughter after all.'

He tried to focus on her face, but all he could see was shadowed features and blond hair, she was tall, but that was all he could really make out…No he could see them, two emerald eyes filled with concern.

'Jaune...please come back, we miss you.'

I can't...they need me...humanity needs me. They need me to save them...

'Jaune...please...'

'We need you...'

I'm sorry but...

''I can't...''

''Looks like someone's finally awake.'' Jaune's eyes snapped open to find Li-008 looking down at him. The spartan's visor peering into his eyes, but he could tell behind the orange visor were eyes filled with concern for his well being.

''Li…?'' Jaune asks, groaning feeling his side hurting like a bitch getting him to look down to see he was wasn't in his armour, he was instead topless with a pair of loose tracksuits covering his lower body from view, but that wasn't what he was most concerned about at the moment, what he was most concerned about what the huge purple fist shaped indentation in his skin that was held closed by stitches.

''What happened?'' Jaune asks, looking at Li for an answer, the Spartan shook his head before answering..

''Your liver exploded. they replaced it with a flash clone but the damage was done to the skin and muscle before they could fix it, so congratulations Jaune, you have a scar that looks like a tattoo.'' Li explains before congratulating him, even going as far as to pat his shoulder.

''Hurts like hell.'' Jaune comments flatly at the congratulation getting a shrug from Li

''Think of it as punishment for fighting something almost double your height and mass.'' Li replies sassily before making his leave, leaving Jaune alone in the medical bay with the single nurse who was making herself busy with paper work, most likely nervous from being in the same room as an iron giant.

''Hey...'' Jaune calls, getting the nurse to turn and face him. ''How long was I out for?''

''You've been unconscious for the last three hours.'' The nurse explains getting Jaune to let out a low whistle, that long? Hopefully the others were doing better than him, and they probably were if Li hadn't brought it up so he didn't need to worry.

He signed as he dropped back into the medical bed, savouring how comfy it was compared to what he was used to, it was a little weird if he was honest, he had to shift himself a few times before finally he didn't feel weird in the bed as he lay down. How long would he be like this? His side still hurt whenever he moved, not as badly of course but it was still pretty bad.

''I wouldn't move around to much sir, you might open the stitches.'' The nurses voice brings him back to his senses, she was trying and failing to hold him down, apparently he'd been squirming to get comfortable while in thought. He'd have blushed from embarrassment if he remembered how to but it was a bit hard to do when you had drugs in your system that actively stopped that sort of thing.

Made him feel a little more man than machine than he'd like to have admit.

Suddenly brough from his thoughts by something shaking him rather violently Jaune's eyes cast onto the Nurse who'd fallen onto him, he opened his mouth to question what she was doing when suddenly the ship jerked again, throwing him off his bed with the Nurse on top of him who cried out of shock.

''That's not good.'' Jaune mummers, and is immediately answered when the cruisers boarding alarm turns on, alerting him and the many other members of staff on the ship that there was intruders.

''S-sir you can't fight in this condition!'' The nurse says as Jaune stands them up, his previous pain ignored as a serious looked was etched onto his face, he ignored her and her pleas, he had more important things to deal with now than some wound. He had to make sure the ship didn't fall into the enemies hands because if it did? They'd be dead.

''That's not an option.'' Jaune replies to the nurses concern as he walks out of the room to find many other confused marines and even a few ODST's looking around, peaking outside there medical wards to investigate what was going on just as he did.

''Is there an armoury in the medical ward?'' Jaune asks. He knew there was, all cruisers medical wards had them in the case a boarding did happen so the injured could defend themselves. He was just looking to know where it was.

The nurse nodded with a gulp, pointing to the end of the hallway leading Jaune's vision to the locked door system.

''Good.'' Jaune says before walking towards it, ignoring the Nurse trying to pull him back. He couldn't rest now, even with his injury making him limp he would be damned if he let the covenant take the bridge. If they took the bridge it would be all over, they would have the co-ordinates to major strong hold worlds such as reach. If they captured this ship it would mean they had access to earth and that couldn't happen, even if it meant blowing the ship up with him inside.

''All marines, ODST's and medical staff who can fight, take a weapon.'' Jaune calls as the alarm shuts off, opening the armoury with his ID card, the armoury was a standard one for the medical bay, dozens of M6A and M6B grade handguns. A single cabinet sit behind the sole desk in the room, four M7/Caseless sub-machine guns inside.

He stepped inside the armoury and walked to the cabinet, opening it up and took one of the submachine guns in hand, quickly reloading it in just over a second he turned back to the door to see a small crowd of marines and ODST's looking at him.

''We're going to take back this ship. If we fail the enemy will learn the location of Earth and they'll send everything they have to destroy it.'' Jaune explains while grabbing a second submachine gun and tossing it towards one of the ODST's who clumsily catches it.

''But we're all injured! How do you expect us to defend a medical cruiser? The only other armed forces on board are standard security forces!'' A marine shouts, looking at Jaune with fearful eyes.

''Because it's our job.'' Jaune replies calmly, walking up to the marine and showing a pistol into his hands.

''We're taking back this ship, even if it means we all die in the process. Is that clear?'' Jaune asks, looking at the unsure marines and ODST's who share looks of concern, unsure of what to do. Jaune was ready to just forget about them and do it on his own when suddenly one ODST pushes his way forwards and stops infront of Jaune with a determined look on his face. He saluted before speaking.

''Sargent James Allsup reporting to kick alien ass!'' The ODST identifies himself, looking into Jaune's blue eyes with his brown ones. Nodding Jaune moves to the said.

''Take a submachine gun.'' Jaune orders prompting the Sargent to walk past him and take the submachine gun and reload it, attaching the spare mag to his belt.

He looked back at the crowd who sharped a few looks before nodding collectivity, moving into the armoury and taking there weapons and some spare ammunition.

Thirty six, he had thirty six people armed mostly with civilians weapons to take back a ship from an advanced alien race with shields and weapons that could melt ship armour without much of a problem. The odds were against him but he was sure he'd be able to do it.

Because he had to.

''Alright boys! let's take us back a ship!''

''OORAH!''

Sorry for the wait on the chapter, I was meant to post it on the 19th but in my infinite wisdom I accidentally overwrote the file with a blank document and deleted the 7k word chapter and I had to re-write it as best I could. Sadly this ones shorter but it'll have to do. So sorry if this seems rushed but I wrote it over a period of 4 days, in the future i'll probably re-write the chapter better but until then this is what you've got.

Until next time.