The air crackles over a flat rock as a Ghost appears with her Guardian with a purple-yellow armor coloration. The Guardian lets out a cry of pain and falls to her knees.

"That was way too close," Raven said looking at her Guardian Lorena, who was on one knee and breathing hard. "You OK Lorena?"

"Yeah, just didn't expect the transmat to hurt so much," Lorena said in between breaths.

"You were hurt during transmat?" Raven asked worried, showing it with revolutions of her points.

Slowly, Lorena gets up to a standing position and looks at the remains of her ship. "Amanda's going to kill me once we get back."

Raven nods and suggests they get off the rock. Lorena agrees as Raven disappears leaving faint glimmerings of light and jumps off the rock. The hight of the rock to the ground was 25 feet high, which should not be a problem for Lorena; since she was injured in her last transmat, she didn't know how bad it was. In around the last 4 feet, she used her Blink ability and felt the ground beneath her.

A sharp pain formed in her gut, it felt like someone elbowed her with a needle. Lorena looked to where the pain was hoping that there weren't pieces of her missing. Thank God, Lorena thought as she saw that she was still in one piece. The pain was still there just dull, like she had been running and got a stich.

"Do you think you can contact the Vanguard?" Lorena called out. Her Ghost materialized and all of her points were pushed out as she tried the connection strength. While Lorena waited until Raven can find a connection, she looked at her surroundings.

Other than the smoldering pile of metal of her ship, it was a beautiful place. There were plants that she never seen before. Many plants had funnels, others were circles varrying in size. The rock formations seemed natural, yet not at the same time. Now that she thinks about it, the whole area seemed man-made, almost similar to a reservation for a park. Lorena started to see what's around the left side of the crash when Raven sent out an alarm.

"What is it?" Lorena asked whipping around to face her companion.

"Movement, four unknowns are coming this way. I suggest we prepare for battle, just in case," Raven said floating closer, "Here's your Free Will lll, it's loaded and ready."

Lorena felt the familiar weight of her hand cannon in her hands as she lifted it up to where the "enemies" might come, "Helmet," was all she said when her helmet appeared on her head and the "enemies" appeared as well.

Locke wondered why the Phaeton crashed, but he had to push that thought to the back of his mind and focus on finding the Master Chief. Once his team was stable and not falling off, he took point and started running to the base of the Guardian. Promethean Soldiers, humanoid robot-like creatures, and Crawlers, dogs with spikes and vice-like heads, begin appearing.

"Conserve ammo, shoot only when needed." Tanaka called over the team comm.

Locke switched to his side arm, an M6D Magnum, and fired a killing shot to a Crawler and it broke into pieces. He heard familiar cracks as more magnums were fired. Another Crawler went and a Soldier with combined hits. A few more shots and Osiris made it near the edge of the Guardian and saw the land below them. They leaped to clear the surrounding rock formations and then Locke ordered his team to activate their thrusters to slow their decent. Osiris made their decent to the ground when suddenly Vale's thrusters switched direction and she flew down too fast. If her thrusters died out, Locke would know she would be alright because of the Spartan augmentation, but Vale was picking up speed and so even her augmented bones won't be able to absorb the shock enough.

"Vale! Increase the gel layer and roll once you hit!" Buck yelled over the comms.

A light appears on everyone's HUD as Vale chins the copy button in her helmet. The rest of Osiris hits the ground and Vale limps forward to rejoin her team. Locke has Tanaka scan Vale just in case something internal broke or split. Tanaka reported that she had small fractures in her legs and hip, but can be set by increasing the pressure with the gel layer. They got working to get Vale set, Locke decided to take the time to try and contact Chief.

Locke switched to a wide comm channel and tried to contact Master Chief, his voice filled the speakers on in their helmets, "How the hell did you get here?"

"Doesn't matter, we're here to take you home." Locke replied, knowing his first attempt caused a little fight and he lost with his armor locked instead of Chief's.

"I'm not leaving until I get Cortana."

There was a space of static before Locke switched off the comms. He looked at his team, many thoughts running through his head. How can we complete our mission? What will happen when we find Cheif again? Locke blocked anymore thoughts from entering and pushed those that did into the backseat. He'll get to them later.

"Is Vale set?" Locke asked Tanaka.

"She should be fine. Just don't plan on going Guardian Jumping anytime soon." Tanaka replied gesturing to the Guardian they jumped from.

"Good," he turned to Vale, "How are you feeling?"

"I'll be alright. Let's continue on." she said as lifted up her SMG, holding it near her chest for a quick draw.

Locke nodded in response and took point, knowing his team would file in naturally. They walked only about a few feet when Vale called out an anomaly she detected.

"I found a strange signal being emitted just around the rock up ahead. It doesn't match up with Covenant or Promethean waves so we should be wary."

"Nice call Vale, glad we got someone on to monitor frequencies." Buck said nodding to the crimson Spartan.

Osiris all raised their guns and got into a battle formation that allowed them to seek cover when needed. They turned around the rock and saw a purple and yellow figure.